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  • 51La`ieikawai — In Hawaiian mythology, La ieikawai (Lā ie i ka wai) and her twin sister La ielohelohe were born in La ie, O ahu. They were seprarated and hidden away from their chiefly father who had all his daughters killed at birth, because he wanted a first… …

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  • 52Everything (Anna Vissi song) — Infobox Single Name = Everything Artist = Anna Vissi from Album = Nylon Euro Edition B side = Released = April 2006 Format = CD Single Recorded = 2006 Bi Kay Studios Genre = Pop, Rock Length = 3:00 (Original Version) Label = Sony BMG Greece… …

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  • 53Whalley Abbey — Coordinates: 53°49′13″N 2°24′37″W / 53.8202°N 2.4104°W / 53.8202; 2.4104 …

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  • 54S.C. Farense — Football club infobox clubname = SC Farense nickname = Os Leões do Algarve (Algarve Lion s) fullname = Sporting Clube Farense founded = 1910 ground = Estádio Algarve, Faro (Algarve Stadium) capacity = 30,000 chairman = flagicon|Portugal António… …

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  • 55Diego de San Pedro — (ca. 1437 ca. 1498) was a Castilian writer about whom no one knows very much other than what he says in his works. Scholars also rely on what they infer from the context in which he wrote them and the many nobles to whom he has been linked.… …

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  • 56War of Succession of Champagne — Date 1216 1222 Location County of Champagne and its environs; mostly concentrated in southeastern Champagne Result Loyalist victory, Theobald IV succeeds as Count, Countess Regent Blanche centralizes authority over …

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  • 57snakebit — ☆ snakebit [snāk′bit΄] adj. Informal having or characterized by bad luck; marked by a series of misfortunes, mistakes, etc.: occas. snakebitten [snāk′bit΄ən] * * * snake·bit (snākʹbĭt ) also snake·bit·ten ( bĭt n) adj. Experiencing a period of… …

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  • 58Bunyan, John — born November 1628, Elstow, Bedfordshire, Eng. died Aug. 31, 1688, London English minister and author. Bunyan encountered the seething religious life of various left wing sects while serving in Oliver Cromwell s army in the English Civil Wars. He …

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  • 59Godoy, Manuel de — born May 12, 1767, Castuera, Spain died Oct. 4, 1851, Paris, France Spanish politician. He entered the royal bodyguard in 1784 and soon became the lover of Maria Luisa, wife of the future Charles IV. On Charles s accession (1788) Godoy continued… …

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  • 60Ederle, Gertrude — ▪ American athlete in full  Gertrude Caroline Ederle  born , Oct. 23, 1906, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Nov. 30, 2003, Wyckoff, N.J.  first woman to swim the English Channel and one of the best known American sports personages of the 1920s.… …

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