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  • 71Syria — This article is about the modern state of Syria. For other uses, see Syria (disambiguation). Syrian Arab Republic الجمهورية العربية السورية Al Jumhūriyyah al ʿArabiyyah as Sūriyyah …

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  • 72Prig — A prig (IPAEng|ˈprɪg, sometimes spelled prigg) is someone who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety; especially where the prig has the ability to show his/her superior knowledge to those who don t know the… …

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  • 73Jean-Baptiste Pérès — (1752 1840) was a French physicist best known for his 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum a polemical satire, translated into many European languages, that attempted in the interest of conservative theology, to reduce to an absurdity the purely negative… …

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  • 74Richard III (1699 play) — HistoryFor almost 200 of the play’s 400 year history Shakespeare’s Richard III found its audience in the adaptation of the Colley Cibber, a noted theatre manager, actor and playwright (*6.11.1671 / +11.12.1757) attempted to stage for its first… …

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  • 75Francis Wright — THE WOMANA Brief Biography of Frances Wright, With Particular Emphasis on NashobaA Scottish (upper middle class) born radical free thinker who visited America in 1818 1820, became a passionate friend of Lafayette starting September 1821. Followed …

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  • 76Aztek Escobar — Infobox musical artist Name = Aztek Img size = Background = solo singer Birth name = Miguel Gomez Alias = Aztek Escobar, Tek Born = Died = Origin = Colombian Instrument = Genre = Southern Rap, Gangster Rap Occupation = Rapper Years active = Label …

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  • 77List of atheists (authors) — Authors * Douglas Adams (1952 ndash;2001): British radio and television writer and novelist, author of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy . [ I am a radical Atheist... Adams in an interview by American Atheists… …

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  • 78Russian neoclassical revival — was a trend in Russian culture, mostly pronounced in architecture, that briefly replaced eclecticism and Art Nouveau as the leading architectural style between the Revolution of 1905 and the outbreak of World War I, coexisting with the Silver Age …

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  • 79metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …

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  • 80Blake, William — born Nov. 28, 1757, London, Eng. died Aug. 12, 1827, London English poet, painter, engraver, and visionary. Though he did not attend school, he was trained as an engraver at the Royal Academy and opened a print shop in London in 1784. He… …

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