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  • 92Ainulindalë — The Silmarillion Ainulindalë Valaquenta Quenta Silmarillion Akallabêth Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age The Ainulindalë[1] (Quenya, Music of the Ainur ) is the first par …

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  • 93Robert Edward Petre, 9th Baron Petre — (March 1742 Ingatestone Hall – 2 July 1801) was a British peer.Lord Petre was the son of Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre (1713 1742), a reknown horticulturist, and Lady Henrietta Anna Mary Barbara Radclyffe (1714 1760), daughter of the 3rd Earl of… …

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  • 94Latin literature — Introduction       the body of writings in Latin, primarily produced during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, when Latin was a spoken language. When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was …

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  • 95Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Mozart redirects here. For other uses, see Mozart (disambiguation). Mozart circa 1780, by Johann Nepomuk della Croce …

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  • 96sound reception — Introduction       response of an organism s aural mechanism, the ear, to a specific form of energy change, or sound waves. Sound waves can be transmitted through gases, liquids, or solids, but the hearing function of each species is particularly …

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  • 97Biblical Criticism (Higher) —     Biblical Criticism (Higher)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Biblical Criticism (Higher)     Biblical criticism in its fullest comprehension is the examination of the literary origins and historical values of the books composing the Bible, with… …

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  • 98Critical reputation of Arthur Sullivan — Main article: Arthur Sullivan Arthur Sullivan by John Everett Millais The critical reputation of the British composer Arthur Sullivan has fluctuated markedly in the 150 years since he came to prominence. At first, critics regarded him as a… …

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  • 99japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …

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  • 100Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …

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