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  • 71Pope St. Leo I (The Great) —     Pope St. Leo I (the Great)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pope St. Leo I (the Great)     (Reigned 440 61).     Place and date of birth unknown; died 10 November, 461. Leo s pontificate, next to that of St. Gregory I, is the most significant… …

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  • 72St. Basil the Great —     St. Basil the Great     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Basil the Great     Bishop of Caesarea, and one of the most distinguished Doctors of the Church. Born probably 329; died 1 January, 379. He ranks after Athanasius as a defender of the… …

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  • 73Socialist Party of Great Britain breakaway groups — The Socialist Party of Great Britain has weathered a number of internal disputes in its over 100 years of history, some of which have led to organisational breakaways.BackgroundSince its foundation in 1904, membership of the Socialist Party of… …

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  • 74Convent Schools (Great Britain) — • Convent education is treated here not historically but as it is at the present day (Article written in 1908.) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Convent Schools (Great Britain)     Convent Schools (Great Br …

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  • 75The Great Dictator — Le Dictateur Le Dictateur Charlie Chaplin et Paulette Goddard Titre original The Great D …

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  • 76sense of occasion — N SING If there is a sense of occasion when a planned event takes place, people feel that something special and important is happening. There is a great sense of occasion and a terrific standard of musicianship …

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  • 77Vytautas the Great — Lithuanian Vytautus Didysis born 1350, Lithuania died Oct. 27, 1430, Trakai, Lith. Lithuanian national leader. Continuing a family struggle for control of Lithuania, he fought his cousin Władysław II Jagiełło but made peace in 1384. His… …

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  • 78Volunteer Force (Great Britain) — The Volunteer Force was a citizen army of part time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a popular movement in 1859. Originally highly autonomous, the units of volunteers became increasingly integrated with the British Army, before… …

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  • 79Triumph of Venice, Hall of the Great Council, Doge's Palace, Venice — (c. 1585)    This work, created by Paolo Veronese for the ceiling of the Hall of the Great Council in the Doge s Palace, is sometimes also called The Apotheosis of Venice because it shows an allegorical representation of the city being taken up… …

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  • 80festive occasion — Synonyms and related words: Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, banquet, blowout, carnival, do, fair, feast, festival, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, gala, gala affair, gala day, great doings, high jinks, jamboree, kermis, party, picnic, waygoose,… …

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