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  • 1literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 2Vlad III the Impaler — Infobox Monarch name = Vlad III the Impaler title = Prince of Wallachia caption = Earliest known portrait of Vlad the Impaler from c. 1560 date of birth = 1431 place of birth = Sighişoara, Transylvania date of death = December 1476 (age 45) place …

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  • 3List of Berserk characters — The Berserk manga and anime series features a cast of characters designed by Kentaro Miura. The series takes place in a fictional version of medieval Europe. It centers around the life of Guts, an orphaned mercenary warrior, and Griffith, the… …

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  • 4performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 5List of characters in Berserk — This is a listing of characters in the Berserk universe.All subsequent names should be taken from the Dark Horse Comics translation when the relevant volumes are available.The Hawks (Original) =Guts= anime voices|Nobutoshi Hayashi|Marc Diraison,… …

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  • 6German literature — Introduction       German literature comprises the written works of the German speaking peoples of central Europe. It has shared the fate of German politics and history: fragmentation and discontinuity. Germany did not become a modern nation… …

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  • 7venture — vb Venture, hazard, risk, chance, jeopardize, endanger, imperil can all mean to expose to the chance of being unsuccessful, lost, or injured. Venture implies a daring to stake something (as the success of an action or undertaking, one s life, or… …

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  • 8honor — 1. noun 1) a man of honor Syn: integrity, honesty, uprightness, ethics, morals, morality, principles, high principles, righteousness, high mindedness; virtue, goodness, decency, probity, character, good character, scru …

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  • 9France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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  • 10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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