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  • 1Speak, Memory — (ISBN 0375405534) is an autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov.copeThe first twelve chapters describe Nabokov s remembrance of his youth in a quasi aristocratic family living in pre revolutionary Saint Petersburg and their country… …

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  • 2Speak Mandarin Campaign — The Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC; zh sp|s=讲华语运动|p=jiǎng huáyǔ yùndòng)is an initiative by the government of Singapore to encourage Singapore s Singaporean Chinese population to speak Mandarin, one of the four official languages of Singapore. The… …

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  • 3attempt — 01. He was killed while [attempting] to cross the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon. 02. Sony Corp. has begun an aggressive new marketing campaign in an [attempt] to become the number one seller of VCRs in North America. 03. The youth made an… …

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  • 4Speak (novel) — Infobox Book | name = Speak title orig = translator = image caption = Book cover of the first edition author = Laurie Halse Anderson illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Farrar …

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  • 5Speak (film) — Infobox Film name = Speak caption = Speak film poster director = Jessica Sharzer producer = Fred Berner Matthew Myers Annie Young Frisbie Jessica Sharzer writer = Laurie Halse Anderson (novel) Jessica Sharzer (screenplay) Annie Young Frisbie… …

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  • 6Grunge speak — was a hoax created by Megan Jasper, a sales representative for Sub Pop Records. Under pressure from a reporter for The New York Times who wanted to know if grunge fans had their own slang, Jasper, 25 at the time, told the reporter a set of made… …

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  • 7Eight Men Speak — is a Canadian play written in 1933 by a committee of Oscar Ryan, E. Cecil Smith, Frank Love and Mildred Goldberg. Although the play made only one performance in its initial run, the attempts by the authorities to suppress it backfired into a… …

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  • 8to speak with — idi or have a forked tongue, to speak deceitfully; attempt to deceive …

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  • 92004 putative Venezuelan coup d'état attempt — The putative Venezuelan coup of 2004 was a hypothesized plot to overthrow Hugo Chávez, who is the current President of Venezuela. According to Chávez and his supporters, the capture of several dozen individuals in May 2004 and other developments… …

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  • 10biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …

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