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  • 2Gil Vicente — (pronounced|ˈʒil viˈsentɨ) (1465 ndash; 1537), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the Portuguese Plautus [3] and… …

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  • 4Roy Webber — For the mayor of the US city of Roanoke, Virginia from 1968 to 1975, see Roy L. Webber. Roy Webber (died November 14, 1962 aged 48) was a British cricket scorer and statistician. After World War II, in which he served with the Royal Air Force, he …

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  • 5South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …

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  • 7Western sculpture — ▪ art Introduction       three dimensional artistic forms produced in what is now Europe and later in non European areas dominated by European culture (such as North America) from the Metal Ages (Europe, history of) to the present.       Like… …

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  • 8EDUCATION, JEWISH — This entry is arranged according to the following outline. Bibliography at the end of a section is indicated by (†). in the biblical period the nature of the sources historical survey the patriarchal period and the settlement the kingdom the… …

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  • 10Deus Ex — This article is about the 2000 video game. For the series, see Deus Ex (series). For other uses, see Deus ex machina (disambiguation). Deus Ex Developer(s) Ion Storm Inc …

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