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  • 1The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus — Infobox Book | name = The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = L. Frank Baum illustrator = Mary Cowles Clark cover artist = country = United States language = English series =… …

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  • 2Plead — Plead, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pleaded} (colloq. {Plead}or {Pled}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Pleading}.] [OE. pleden, plaiden, OF. plaidier, F. plaider, fr. LL. placitare, fr. placitum. See {Plea}.] 1. To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against… …

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  • 3Plead — Plead, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pleaded} (colloq. {Plead}or {Pled}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Pleading}.] [OE. pleden, plaiden, OF. plaidier, F. plaider, fr. LL. placitare, fr. placitum. See {Plea}.] 1. To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against… …

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  • 4The Night of the Meek — For the 1986 remake, see Night of the Meek (1986 The Twilight Zone episode). The Night of the Meek The Twilight Zone episode Art Carney …

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  • 5High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I — The High Court of Justice is the name given to the court established by the Rump Parliament to try King Charles I of England. This was an ad hoc tribunal created specifically for the purpose of trying the king, although the same name was used… …

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  • 6The Parliament of Love — is a late Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by Philip Massinger. The play was never printed in the seventeenth century, and survived only in a defective manuscript mdash; making it arguably the most problematical work in the Massinger… …

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  • 7Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West — This article is about the book. For the musical adaption, see Wicked (musical). Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West   …

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  • 8Responsibility for the Holocaust — Historians differ as to where the responsibility for the Holocaust lies. Intentionalist historians such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people from as early as 1918, and that he personally oversaw its… …

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  • 9The Laird o Logie — or The Laird Of Logie is Child ballad number 182.ynopsisYoung Logie (or Ochiltrie) is imprisoned, to hang. May Margaret comes to court to plead for his life. She is unable to win a pardon but steals some token or a forged pardon (and sometimes a… …

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  • 10The Darling of the gods —    David Belasco and John Luther Long scored a success with their collaboration on their one act Madame Butterfly (1900), leading Belasco to suggest they work together on a full length play with a Japanese setting. The resulting five act tragedy …

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