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  • 3Demosthenes — For other historical and fictional personages named Demosthenes, see Demosthenes (disambiguation). Demosthenes Bust of Demosthenes (Louvre, Paris, France) Born …

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  • 4C. N. Annadurai — சி. என். அண்ணாதுரை Chief Minister of Madras State(from August 1968 onwards, Tamil Nadu) In office February, 1967 – 3 February 1969 Prime Minister …

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  • 5Nuremberg Trials — For the 1947 Soviet film about the trials, see Nuremberg Trials (film). The Holocaust …

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  • 6Rousseau (Jean-Jacques) and Burke — Jean Jacques Rousseau and Burke Ian Harris Those who thought about the social and political order directed their attention to a new centre of interest towards the end of the seventeenth century. It was not that speculation about political… …

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  • 8John Henry Newman — John Henry Cardinal Newman, CO (February 21, 1801 ndash; August 11, 1890) was an Anglican who was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He was later made a cardinal and, in 1991, was proclaimed Venerable . In early life he was a major… …

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  • 9Jacques-Benigne Bossuet —     Jacques Benigne Bossuet     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jacques Benigne Bossuet     A celebrated French bishop and pulpit orator, born at Dijon, 27 September, 1627, died at Paris, 12 April, 1704. For more than a century his ancestors, both… …

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  • 10musical performance — Introduction       step in the musical process during which musical ideas are realized and transmitted to a listener. In Western music, performance is most commonly viewed as an interpretive art, though it is not always merely that. A performer… …

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