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  • 71Cook Islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific belonging to New Zealand. 21,317; 99 sq. mi. (256 sq. km). * * * Cook Islands Introduction Cook Islands Background: Named after Captain Cook, who sighted them in 1770, the islands became a British protectorate… …

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  • 72Fermanagh — /feuhr man euh/, n. 1. a county in SW Northern Ireland. 50,255; 653 sq. mi. (1691 sq. km). Co. seat: Enniskillen. 2. an administrative district including this county. 50,979; 715 sq. mi. (1851 sq. km). * * * District (pop., 2001: 57,527), extreme …

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  • 73Iceland — Icelander /uys lan deuhr, leuhn deuhr/, n. /uys leuhnd/, n. 1. a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km). 2. a republic including this island and several smaller islands: formerly Danish;… …

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  • 74Beat movement — American social and literary movement of the 1950s and 60s. It is associated with artists communities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. Its adherents expressed alienation from conventional society and advocated personal release and… …

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  • 75Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview        Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …

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  • 76Crowe, Russell — ▪ 2002       All hailed Russell Crowe in 2001 as the New Zealand born actor captured a best actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Maximus, a general turned gladiator in ancient Rome. His commanding performance, which combined brutal fight… …

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  • 77Sullivan, Barry — ▪ 1995       U.S. actor (b. Aug. 29, 1912, New York, N.Y. d. June 6, 1994, Sherman Oaks, Calif.), was a ruggedly handsome leading man who specialized in unsmiling roles, and his dour countenance was featured for more than four decades in… …

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  • 78Cattaraugus — ▪ county, New York, United States       county, southwestern New York state, U.S., consisting of a ruggedly hilly region bounded by Cattaraugus Creek to the north and Pennsylvania to the south. It is drained by the Allegheny River and Ischua and… …

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  • 79English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …

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  • 80Flynn, Errol — ▪ American actor in full  Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn  born June 20, 1909, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia died Oct. 14, 1959, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada       Australian actor, celebrated during his short but colourful lifetime as the screen …

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