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  • 41Montana State Capitol — General information Architectural style Neoclassical Town or city Helena …

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  • 42lyric — lyrically, adv. lyricalness, n. /lir ik/, adj. Also, lyrical. 1. (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and esp. the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet s own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and… …

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  • 43SEPTUAGINT —    a version, and the oldest of any known to us, of the Hebrew Scriptures in Greek, executed at Alexandria, in Egypt, by different translators at different periods, commencing with 280 B.C.; it is known as the Alexandria version, while the name… …

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  • 44NUMENIUS OF APAMEA° — (c. 150–200 C.E.), Greek philosopher, author of a lost work On the Good where he introduced the Jews to support his Platonic Pythagorean view of God as incorporeal. A quotation in Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 9:8, praises Moses; according to… …

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  • 45Purist — Pur ist, n. [Cf. F. puriste.] 1. One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language. [1913 Webster] He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. One who… …

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  • 46Heidelberg College — Infobox University name = Heidelberg College established = 1850 type = Private, Coeducational endowment = $35.5 million [cite web|title=America s Best Colleges 2008|publisher=U.S. News World Report|accessdate=2008 04 08|url=http://colleges.usnews …

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  • 47XENOPHON —    historian, philosopher, and military commander, born at Athens, son of an Athenian of good position; was a pupil and friend of Socrates; joined the expedition of Cyrus against his brother Artaxerxes, and on the failure of it conducted the ten… …

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  • 48Heliodorus of Emesa — ▪ Greek writer flourished 4th century AD, Emesa [now Ḥimṣ, Syria]       Greek writer, author of the Aethiopica, the longest and most readable of the extant ancient Greek novels.       The Aethiopica tells the story of an Ethiopian princess and a… …

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  • 49Speusippus — ▪ Greek philosopher died 339/338 BC       Greek philosopher who became head, or scholarch, of the Greek Academy after the death in 347 BC of Plato, who had founded it in 387. A nephew and disciple of Plato, Speusippus accompanied him on his… …

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  • 50Theotókis, Konstantínos — ▪ Greek author born May 1872, Corfu, Greece died July 1, 1923, Corfu       Greek novelist of the realist school, whose clear and pure Demotic Greek was flavoured by Corfiote idioms.       Born into an aristocratic family of Corfu, Theotókis was… …

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