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  • 11te|na´cious|ness — te|na|cious «tih NAY shuhs», adjective. 1. holding fast: »the tenacious jaws of a bulldog, a person tenacious of his rights. 2. Figurative. stubborn; persistent: »a tenacious salesman. SYNONYM(S): obstinate. 3. Figurative. able to remember: » …

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  • 12te|na´cious|ly — te|na|cious «tih NAY shuhs», adjective. 1. holding fast: »the tenacious jaws of a bulldog, a person tenacious of his rights. 2. Figurative. stubborn; persistent: »a tenacious salesman. SYNONYM(S): obstinate. 3. Figurative. able to remember: » …

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  • 13te|na|cious — «tih NAY shuhs», adjective. 1. holding fast: »the tenacious jaws of a bulldog, a person tenacious of his rights. 2. Figurative. stubborn; persistent: »a tenacious salesman. SYNONYM(S): obstinate. 3. Figurative. able to remember: » …

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  • 14recollective — adjective good at remembering a retentive mind tenacious memory • Syn: ↑retentive, ↑long, ↑tenacious • Ant: ↑unretentive (for: ↑ …

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  • 15Henry Burstow — (1826–1916) was a shoemaker and bellringer from Horsham, Sussex, best known for his vast repertoire of songs, many of which were collected in the folksong revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was also the author of… …

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  • 16Julius Caesar Scaliger — or Giulio Cesare della Scala (April 23, 1484 ndash; October 21, 1558), was an Italian scholar and physician spending a large part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Renaissance humanism to defend… …

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  • 17Quintus Hortensius — Hortalus (114 50 BC), was a Roman orator and advocate.At the age of nineteen he made his first speech at the bar, and shortly afterwards successfully defended Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, one of Rome s dependants in the East, who had been deprived… …

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  • 18Elizabeth III of Manticore — Queen Elizabeth III is a leading character, the reigning monarch of the Star Kingdom of Manticore, in the fictional Honorverse stories and novels originally by David Weber. A member of the House of Winton (the first and only royal house of… …

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  • 19Daniel Whitby — (1638–1726) was a controversial English theologian and biblical commentator. An Arminian priest in the Church of England, Whitby was known as strongly anti Calvinistic and later gave evidence of strong Arian and Unitarian tendencies. Engraving of …

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  • 20House of Winton — The House of Winton is a fictional royal family of David Weber s Honorverse series of science fiction novels.In the Honorverse, the House of Winton is the first and only royal dynasty in the history of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. The current… …

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