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  • 71Venetia Stanley — Venetia Anastasia Stanley Digby (December 1600 May 1 1633) was the third daughter of Sir Edward Stanley, a minor noble, and Lucy Percy Stanley (daughter and co heiress of the Earl of Northumberland who had lost his head over a Catholic plot… …

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  • 72Aloysia Weber — Maria Aloysia Louise Antonia Weber (c. 1760 ndash; 8 June 1839) was a German soprano, remembered primarily for her association with the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. BiographyBorn in either Zell im Wiesental or Mannheim, Aloysia Weber was one …

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  • 73What Child Is This? — is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865. At the age of twenty nine, writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep… …

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  • 74Mysterious Starling — Conservation status Extinct (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom …

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  • 75Charles Brookfield — Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield (19 May 1857 – 20 October 1913) was a British actor, author, playwright and journalist, including for The Saturday Review. His most famous work for the theatre was The Belle of Mayfair (1906). Brookfield achieved… …

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  • 76Antonia's Line (film) — Infobox Film name = Antonia s Line caption = German poster director = Marleen Gorris producer = Gerard Cornelisse Hans De Weers Hans de Wolf writer = Marleen Gorris starring = Willeke van Ammelrooy Els Dottermans Victor Löw| distributor = Asmik… …

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  • 77The Botanic Garden — (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants , by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation, scientific discovery and offers theories… …

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  • 78The Fan (1949 film) — Plot synopsisThe film opens in a post World War II London auction house, where an elderly woman is trying to acquire an attractive fan she claims was once hers. A flashback to the Victorian era of Wilde s play reveals she is the scandalous Mrs.… …

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  • 79Lao She — /low shu /, Pinyin, Wade Giles. (Shu Qingchun, Shu Ch ing ch un) 1899 1966, Chinese novelist. * * * orig. Shu Qingchun or Shu Sheyu born Feb. 3, 1899, Beijing, China died Aug. 24?, 1966, Beijing Chinese writer. He worked as an educator before… …

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  • 80Polo, Marco — born с 1254, Venice or Curzola, Venetian Dalmatia died Jan. 8, 1324, Venice Venetian merchant and traveler who journeyed from Europe to Asia (1271–95). Born into a Venetian merchant family, he joined his father and uncle on a journey to China,… …

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