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  • 101USS Tutuila (PR-4) — USS Tutuila (PG 44) was a gunboat in the service of the United States Navy from 1928 until her transfer to China under lend lease in 1942.Construction Tutuila was laid down on 17 October 1926 at the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works in Shanghai …

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  • 102David Komnenos — (Greek: Δαβίδ Κομνηνός) (c. 1184 – 1212) was one of the founders of the Empire of Trebizond and its joint ruler together with his brother Alexios until his death. Contents 1 Early life 2 Capture of Trebizond 3 Ancestry …

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  • 103Going Places (TV series) — Infobox Television show name = Going Places caption = genre = Sitcom starring = Alan Ruck Jerry Levine Heather Locklear Hallie Todd Holland Taylor (1990 Jan. 1991) Staci Keanan J.D. Daniels (1991) Steve Vinovich (1991) Philip Charles McKenzie… …

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  • 1041974 Brazilian Grand Prix — The 1974 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Interlagos on January 27, 1974. Race summary Emerson Fittipaldi took pole position for his home race from Carlos Reutemann. The start of the race was delayed as the track had to… …

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  • 105Joffre, Joseph-Jacques-Césaire — ▪ French general born Jan. 12, 1852, Rivesaltes, Fr. died Jan. 3, 1931, Paris  commander in chief (1914–16) of the French armies on the Western Front in World War I, who won fame as “the Victor of the Marne.”       After graduating from the École …

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  • 106surprise — vb 1 Surprise, waylay, ambush are comparable when they mean to attack unawares. Surprise is in military as well as in general use. As a technical term it implies strategy in the disposition and movement of troops and equipment and secrecy in the… …

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  • 107Jack o' Legs —    This Jack was a legendary *robber near Weston (Hertfordshire); he was tall enough to look in at the upstairs windows of large houses. Like *Robin Hood, he robbed the rich but fed the poor; according to the earliest account, in Nathaniel Salmon …

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  • 108short — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceort; akin to Old High German scurz short, Old Norse skortr lack Date: before 12th century 1. a. having little length b. not tall or high ; low 2. a. not extended in time …

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  • 109Black Hawk — 1767 1838, American Indian chief of the Sauk tribe: leader of Sauk and Fox Indians in the Black Hawk War. * * * born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Va. died Oct. 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa, U.S. Sauk Indian leader. Long antagonistic to… …

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  • 110Win Coates — Infobox Person | name = Win Coates other names = caption = Win Coates in India, c. 1985 birth date = birth date|1960|3|28|mf=y birth place = Long Island, New York death date = death date|1990|2|7|mf=y death place = New York City death cause =… …

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