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  • 41Reconquista — This article is about the retaking of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors. For other uses, see Reconquista (disambiguation). La rendición de Granada (1882) by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz …

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  • 42Bernhard Schmidt — Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (March 30, 1879 ndash; December 1, 1935) was an Estonian Swede optician who spent his adult life in Germany. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma …

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  • 43Dark-Hunters — The Dark Hunters are fictional immortal warriors in the Dark Hunter series who sold their souls to the Greek goddess Artemis for one single act of vengeance after being killed. Afterwards they are bound to protect mankind from the Daimons who… …

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  • 44Marjorie Dean — is the protagonist and eponymous character of series of books for girls, written by Josephine Chase under the pen name Pauline Lester. The fourteen books were published by A. L. Burt between 1917 and 1930. Chase wrote a number of series,… …

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  • 45Belgian Congo —    A enormous territory of the sub Saharan African interior conforming to the shape of the Congo River Basin and a Belgian colony from 1908 to 1960. It had hitherto been under the personal rule of the Belgian King, Leopold II (1835–1909), as the… …

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  • 46Consort Pan — This article is about the concubine of Emperor Wen of Liu Song. For the concubine of Southern Qi s emperor Xiao Baojuan, see Consort Pan Yunu. Consort Pan (潘淑妃, personal name unknown) (died 453) was an imperial consort during the Chinese dynasty… …

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  • 47Offa of Essex — Offa was King of Essex until 709, when he abdicated in order that he may take up life in a monastery in Rome along with Cenred, King of Mercia. He was the son of Sigeheard of Essex, and, according to some sources, St. Osyth, (though Bede, a… …

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  • 48Liu Jun — (劉濬) (429 453), courtesy name Xiuming (休明), nickname Hutou (虎頭), was an imperial prince of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song. He was a son of Emperor Wen, who in 453 conspired with his older brother Liu Shao the Crown Prince to assassinate their… …

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  • 49George Canning — For other people named George Canning, see George Canning (disambiguation). The Right Honourable George Canning Prime Minister of the United Kingdom …

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  • 50Shapeshifting — For other uses, see Shapeshifting (disambiguation). Shapeshifting is a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. It is also found in epic poems, science fiction literature, fantasy literature, children s literature, Shakespearean… …

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