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  • 21Frederick Baltimore Calvert — Infobox Person name = Frederick Baltimore Calvert image size = caption = birth date = 1793Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain] birth place = Glossop Hall in Derbyshire death date = 1877 death place = Edinburgh education =… …

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  • 22Lyman Cobb — (1800 1864) was the leading competitor of Noah Webster as an author of spelling books. Cobb s speller, A Just Standard for Pronouncing the English Language... was originally published in 1821 when the author was a young teacher in upstate New… …

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  • 23Emil František Burian — (June 11, 1904 – August 9, 1959), was a Czech poet, journalist, singer, actor, musician, composer, dramatic adviser, playwright and director. He was also active in Czech Communist Party politics. Life Burian was born in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia,… …

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  • 24Miloš Kopecký — Born August 22, 1922(1922 08 22) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) Died February 16, 1996(1996 02 16) (aged 7 …

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  • 25Фонетика — (от греч. φωνητικός = звуковой, голосовой) отдел языкознания, занимающийся изучением звуковой стороны языка. Термин этот недостаточно точен и определенен. По своему этимологическому составу он должен бы означать учение о всяких звуках вообще, но… …

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  • 26elocutionist — See elocutionary. * * * …

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  • 27recitation — /res i tay sheuhn/, n. 1. an act of reciting. 2. a reciting or repeating of something from memory, esp. formally or publicly. 3. oral response by a pupil or pupils to a teacher on a prepared lesson. 4. a period of classroom instruction. 5. an… …

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  • 28arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 29dramatic literature — Introduction       the texts of plays that can be read, as distinct from being seen and heard in performance.       The term dramatic literature implies a contradiction in that literature originally meant something written and drama meant… …

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  • 30Jean-Baptiste Dumas —     Jean Baptiste Dumas     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jean Baptiste Dumas     Distinguished French chemist and senator, b. at Alais, department of Gard, 14 July, 1800; d. at Cannes, 10 April, 1884. Like many other distinguished chemists, Dumas… …

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