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  • 91Sakura Park — Infobox park park=Sakura Park image size=220px caption= Looking downtown, the tower of Riverside Church dominates the skyline. type=Urban park location=Manhattan, New York City coordinates=coord|40|48|47.05|N|73|57|43.62|W size acre=2.067 size… …

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  • 92Vera Schwarcz — (born 1947 [cite linked authority file |id=n83 147806] ) is Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. Her BA was from Vassar College, with a MA from Yale, a MAA from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.… …

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  • 93idealism — /uy dee euh liz euhm/, n. 1. the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. 2. the practice of idealizing. 3. something idealized; an ideal representation. 4. Fine Arts. treatment of subject matter in a work of art… …

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  • 94Indonesia — /in deuh nee zheuh, sheuh, zee euh, doh /, n. 1. See East Indies (def. 1). 2. Republic of. Formerly, Netherlands East Indies, Dutch East Indies. a republic in the Malay Archipelago consisting of 13,677 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi,… …

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  • 95Mexico City — a city in and the capital of Mexico, in the central part. 8,906,000; ab. 7400 ft. (2255 m) above sea level. Official name, México, Distrito Federal /me hee kaw dees tree taw fe dhe rddahl /. * * * Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city,… …

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  • 96Douglas, William O. — ▪ United States jurist born , Oct. 16, 1898, Maine, Minn., U.S. died Jan. 19, 1980, Washington, D.C.  public official, legal educator, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court best known for his consistent and outspoken defense of civil… …

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  • 97economic systems — Introduction       the way in which humankind has arranged for its material provisioning. One would think that there would be a great variety of such systems, corresponding to the many cultural arrangements that have characterized human society.… …

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  • 98Woolf, Virginia — ▪ British writer Introduction original name in full  Adeline Virginia Stephen  born Jan. 25, 1882, London, Eng. died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex  English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a… …

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  • 99Luther, Martin — • Leader of the great religious revolt of the sixteenth century in Germany; born at Eisleben, 10 November, 1483; died at Eisleben, 18 February, 1546 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Luther, Martin      …

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  • 100Luther —     Martin Luther     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Martin Luther     Leader of the great religious revolt of the sixteenth century in Germany; born at Eisleben, 10 November, 1483; died at Eisleben, 18 February, 1546.     His father, Hans, was a… …

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