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  • 121The Counterfeiters (novel) — infobox Book | name = The Counterfeiters title orig = Les faux monnayeurs translator = image caption = author = André Gide illustrator = cover artist = country = France language = French series = genre = Novel publisher = Nouvelle Revue Française …

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  • 122The Blue Afternoon — Infobox Book author= William Boyd name= The Blue Afternoon isbn= 067977260X release date= 1993 publisher= Vintage Press The Blue Afternoon (1993) is a novel by William Boyd. It won the Sunday Express Book of the Year in the year of its… …

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  • 123Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Gaza Strip) — The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is a group in the Gaza Strip responsible for enforcing Muslim codes of behavior.[1][2][3] According to journalist Khaled Abu Toameh and Middle East researcher Dr. Jonathan… …

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  • 124Contraception in the Republic of Ireland — The availability of contraception in the Republic of Ireland was illegal in the Irish Free State (later the Republic of Ireland) from 1935 until 1980, when it was legalized with strong restrictions, later loosened. This reflected Catholic… …

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  • 125The Gnome — Infobox Single Name = The Gnome Artist = Pink Floyd from Album = The Piper at the Gates of Dawn A side = Flaming Released = August 5, 1967 Recorded = March 1967 Genre = Psychedelic rock Length = 2:13 Writer = Syd Barrett Label = Columbia (EMI)… …

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  • 126pretext — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, alibi, allege, alternative, appearance, attitudinizing, avow, bluff, bluffing, camouflage, cheating, choice, claim, cloak, color, coloring, cover, cover story, deception, delusion, disguise,… …

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  • 127pretext — Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; false appearance, pretense. See false pretenses. In international law, a reason alleged as justificatory, but which is so only in appearance, or… …

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  • 128pretext — An ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive false appearance; pretense. State v Ball, 27 Neb 601, 604 …

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