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  • 101Crown Hill Park — Crown Hill Park, overlooking the wildlife refuge and grasslands with the Rocky Mountains on the horizon. Crown Hill Park is a 242 acre (0.98 km2) recreation area operated by Jefferson County Open Space in unincorporated Jefferson County,… …

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  • 102Corliss P. Stone — was elected mayor of Seattle in 1872. Prior to election as mayor, Stone had served three terms as a city council member. The street, Stone Way, in Seattle s Wallingford neighborhood is named after Stone. The following biography appeared in a 1903 …

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  • 103Milice — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Milice (homonymie). Les milices sont des forces supplétives de l armée. Dans les pays de l ex Bloc soviétique, la milice est l organisation chargée du maintien de l ordre public, l équivalent de la police. Le nom …

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  • 104chamber of commerce — an association, primarily of people in business, to promote the commercial interests of an area. Abbr.: C of C [1780 90] * * * or commercial association Any of various voluntary organizations of business firms, public officials, professional… …

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  • 105Alberti, Leon Battista — born Feb. 14, 1404, Genoa died April 25, 1472, Rome Italian architect, art theorist, and humanist. After pursuing a literary career as papal secretary, in 1438 Alberti was encouraged to direct his talents toward the field of architecture. His… …

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  • 106Swift, Jonathan — born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire. died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English. He was a student at Dublin s Trinity College during the anti Catholic Revolution of 1688 in England. Irish Catholic reaction in… …

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  • 107COPPIN, George Selth (1819-1906) — actor and politician was born at Steyning, Sussex, England, on 8 April 1819. His grandfather had been a well known clergyman at Norwich. His father, George Selth Coppin (1794 1854), qualified for the medical profession but gave this up to go on… …

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  • 108SPENCE, Catherine Helen (1825-1910) — advocate of proportional representation, novelist, journalist and sociologist daughter of David Spence, writer to the signet, and Helen Brodie, was born at Melrose, Scotland, on 31 October 1825. Her schoolmistress, Miss Sarah Phin, was a born… …

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  • 109Malkapur, Buldhana — Malkapur City of Red Chilli/ Vidarbhache Praveshdwar   city   …

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  • 110Mitford Hospital, Dhaka — The hospital, originally named after the philanthropist Mr. Robert Mitford of the civil service, who served many years in Dhaka as collector and later, as judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal, was the most important medical institution, not… …

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