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  • 81bay|ard — «BAY uhrd», noun, adjective. Archaic. –n. 1. a bay horse. 2. a kind of mock heroic allusive name for any horse, especially for a proverbial horse who was both blind and bold. –adj. of a bay color; bay: »a bayard horse. ╂[< Old French baiard a… …

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  • 82Army of Darkness — Infobox Film name = Army of Darkness image size = caption = Theatrical poster director = Sam Raimi producer = Robert G. Tapert writer = Sam Raimi Ivan Raimi narrator = starring = Bruce Campbell Embeth Davidtz Marcus Gilbert music = Joseph LoDuca… …

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  • 83Samuel Butler (poet) — Samuel Butler (8 February, 1612 ndash; 25 September, 1680) was a poet and satirist. Born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February, 1613,he is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras …

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  • 84Margites — The Margites, a comic mock epic of Ancient Greece, is about an idiot named Margites (from ancient Greek μάργος margos, raving, mad; lustful ) who was so dense he did not know which parent had given birth to him.[1] His name gave rise to the… …

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  • 85The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — infobox Book | name = Tom Jones title orig = The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling translator = image caption = Title page from the 1749 edition author = Henry Fielding illustrator = cover artist = country = Britain language = English series =… …

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  • 86Reynard — Illumination from a manuscript of the Roman de Renart, end of the 13th century This article is about the anthropomorphic red fox. For the car manufacturer, see Reynard Motorsport. For the ships of the Royal Navy, see HMS Reynard. Reynard (French …

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  • 87William Drummond of Hawthornden — This article is about the Scottish poet William Drummond. For other individuals with the same name, see William Drummond (disambiguation). William Drummond of Hawthornden William Drummond (13 December 1585 – 4 December 1649), called of… …

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  • 88The Nun's Priest's Tale — Cicero, one of the authors in the cockerel s library The Nun s Priest s Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in the 1390s, the 626 line narrative poem is a beast fable and mock epic based on an …

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  • 89Electra (Euripides) — Infobox Play | name = Electra caption = Orestes, Electra and Hermes in front of Agamemnon s tomb by Choephoroi Painter writer = Euripides chorus = Argive women characters = Electra Orestes Clytemnestra Castor Electra s husband servants mute =… …

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  • 90Walter J. Ong — Father Walter Jackson Ong, Ph.D. (November 30, 1912 ndash; August 12, 2003), was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher. BiographyOng was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to a… …

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