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  • 41Seth Grahame-Smith — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Grahame. Seth Grahame Smith Nom de naissance Seth Jared Greenberg Activités Écrivain, scénariste, producteur Naissance 4 janvier …

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  • 42be at pains — • to take pains • be at pains (from Idioms in Speech) to take the trouble to get something or do something; to try to do something ... a queer, penetrating look mingled, too, with intelligent interest which, as our eyes met, he took pains to… …

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  • 43take pains — • to take pains • be at pains (from Idioms in Speech) to take the trouble to get something or do something; to try to do something ... a queer, penetrating look mingled, too, with intelligent interest which, as our eyes met, he took pains to… …

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  • 44literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 45Vision — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Vision >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vision vision sight optics eyesight GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 view view look espial glance ken coup d oeil Sgm: N 2 glimpse …

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  • 46china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …

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  • 47China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …

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  • 48arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 49BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …

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  • 50photography, history of — Introduction       method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used in the… …

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