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  • 101Naples Lazzaroni — The Naples Lazzaroni is used as a generic term to include various kinds of the lower class people in Naples, Italy. Described as street people under a chief , they were often depicted as beggars which some actually were, while others subsisted… …

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  • 102Battle of Mišar — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Mišar partof=First Serbian uprising date=12 15 August 1806 place=Mišar, Serbia casus= territory= result=Decisive Serbian victory combatant1=flagicon|Serbia|1882 Serbian revolutionaries… …

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  • 103Battle of Lanzareth ridge — Infobox military conflict conflict=Battle of Lanzareth Ridge date=16 December 1944 partof=Battle of the bulge, World War II place=Near Lanzareth, Belgium combatant1=flagicon|United States|1912 United States strength1=18 strength2=More than 500… …

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  • 104Ranger Assault Group — The Ranger Assault Group was a provisional regiment of U.S. Army Rangers that was formed for the D Day landings in Normandy, France, in World War II. Formation On April 2, 1944, two elite American units, the 2nd Ranger Battalion and the 5th… …

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  • 105Melody Jones (Home and Away) — Infobox soap character name = Melody Jones History = 2008 nickname = Mel gender = Female Parents = Christine Jones and Edward Jones siblings = Only Child Romances = Geoff Campbell age = 16 first = 19 March 2008 Episode 4598 colour=Television… …

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  • 106lance — lance1 lancelike, adj. /lans, lahns/, n., v., lanced, lancing. n. 1. a long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and cavalry soldiers in charging. 2. a cavalry soldier armed with such a weapon; lancer. 3. an… …

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  • 107Lance — /lans/, n. a male given name. * * * ▪ weapon       spear used by cavalry for mounted combat. It usually consisted of a long wooden shaft with a sharp metal point. Its employment can be traced to the ancient Assyrians and Egyptians, and it was… …

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  • 108Crécy, Battle of — (August 26, 1346) English victory in the first phase of the Hundred Years War against the French. At Crécy en Ponthieu, Edward III of England defeated Philip VI of France, even though the English forces were greatly outnumbered. The English… …

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  • 109Breitenfeld, Battle of — ▪ European history       (Sept. 17, 1631), the first major Protestant victory of the Thirty Years War, in which the army of the Roman Catholic Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II and the Catholic League, under Johan Isaclaes, Graf von Tilly (Tilly,… …

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  • 110Eisenstein, Sergey Mikhaylovich — ▪ Soviet film director Introduction born Jan. 23, 1898, Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire died Feb. 11, 1948, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.  Russian film director and theorist whose work includes the three film classics Potemkin (1925), Alexander Nevsky… …

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