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  • 11Harriet Lane — for|ships named Harriet Lane |USCGC Harriet LaneHarriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (May 9, 1830 ndash; July 3, 1903), niece of lifelong bachelor James Buchanan, acted as First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861.Harriet Lane s family was from… …

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  • 12The Painted Bird — Infobox Book name = The Painted Bird title orig = translator = image caption = author = Jerzy Kosiński illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = War novel publisher = Houghton Mifflin release date =… …

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  • 13Paul Gavarni — was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (born 1801 or 1804 in Paris; died November 23, 1866), a French caricaturist, born in Paris. He began life as an engineer s draughtsman, but soon turned his attention to his proper vocation as a… …

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  • 14Women in Pakistan — The status of women in Pakistan varies considerably across classes, regions, and the rural/urban divide due to uneven socioeconomic development and the impact of tribal, feudal, and capitalist social formations on women s lives. The Pakistani… …

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  • 15Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow — General Bülow, a highly capable Prussian corps commander who, in the campaign of 1813, defeated the French at Großbeeren and Dennewitz. He also played a prominent part at Waterloo in 1815. Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr[1] von Bülo …

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  • 16Bergdorf Blondes — Infobox Book name = Bergdorf Blondes title orig = translator = image caption = Penguin edition, 2005 author = Plum Sykes illustrator = cover artist = country = USA language = English series = subject = genre = chick lit publisher = Hyperion… …

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  • 17Ange Auguste Joseph de Laborde de Boutervilliers — Ange Auguste Joseph de Laborde de Marchainville (7 July 1766, Paris 13 July 1786, in the Baie des Français, Lituya, Alaska) was a French explorer.His father was the very rich court banker Jean Joseph de Laborde, fermier général from 1759 to 1768 …

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  • 18mustache — mustached, adj. /mus tash, meuh stash /, n. 1. the hair growing on the upper lip 2. such hair on men, allowed to grow without shaving, and often trimmed in any of various shapes. 3. hairs or bristles growing near the mouth of an animal. 4. a… …

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  • 19twist — twistable, adj. twistability, n. twistedly, adv. twistingly, adv. /twist/, v.t. 1. to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine. 2. to form by or as if by winding strands together: Several fibers were used to… …

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  • 20Clare, John — born July 13, 1793, Helpston, near Peterborough, Northamptonshire, Eng. died May 20, 1864, Northampton, Northamptonshire British poet. Clare grew up in extreme rural poverty, with little access to books, but he had a prodigious memory and… …

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