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  • 101LEWIS, SAMUEL — (1838–1901), British moneylender and philanthropist. Lewis was born in Birmingham, the son of an impoverished dealer, and originally worked as a peddler. He eventually became a successful salesman in jewelry, and from the late 1860s lived in… …

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  • 102Johann Fust — (c.1400 October 30 1466), was an early German printer. Family background Fust belonged to a rich and respectable burgher family of Mainz, traceable back to 1423; members of the family held many civil and religious offices.The name was always… …

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  • 103Never Look Behind You — is an extremely short story (a single page) by Stephen King, published in People, Places and Things , an 18 page book of single page short stories written by him and Chris Chesley. Never Look Behind You is a simple story of a man who had spent… …

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  • 104Santhal rebellion — The Santhal rebellion (sometimes referred to as the Sonthal rebellion) was a native rebellion in what is now Jharkhand, in eastern India against both the British colonial authority and corrupt upper caste zamindari system by the Santal people. It …

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  • 105Le Juif errant — (The Wandering Jew) is an 1844 novel by Eugène Sue. Publication Le Juif errant was a serially published novel, which attained great popularity in Paris, and beyond. Its publication, and that of its predecessor Les Mystères de Paris , greatly… …

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  • 106Tenko characters — This is a list of characters from the British BBC drama Tenko that aired from 1981 to 1985. The British PoWs Marion JeffersonMarion was the main character of Tenko, the series starting as it did with her reluctance to stay in Singapore. Missing… …

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  • 107Marie Manning (murderer) — Marie Manning, an image from the contemporary popular press Marie Manning (1821–1849) was a Swiss domestic servant who was hanged outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol, England, on 13 November 1849, after she and her husband were convicted of the murder… …

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  • 108Pandi (film) — Infobox Film name = Pandi director = Mathuravan writer = Raghava Lawrence starring = Raghava Lawrence Sneha Namitha Nassar Saranya Ganja Karuppu producer = Hitesh Jabak music = Srikanth Deva distributor = released = May 23, 2008 runtime =… …

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  • 109Madambi — Infobox Film name = Madambi director = B Unnikrishnan producer = B C Joshi writer = B Unnikrishnan starring = Mohanlal, Jagathy, Kavya Madhavan editing = Manoj camera = Vijay Ulaganath music = M Jayachandran distributor = Vaisaka Release released …

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  • 110Ishar Singh (poet) — Ishar Singh ‘Ishar’ (1892 1966) was one of the most renowned Punjabi humorous poets of the 20th century. His poems centred around his comic creation ‘Bhaiya’, who was used as a vehicle for biting satirical comment on all aspects of Indian society …

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