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  • 11Ellen Terry — Dame Ellen Terry Ellen Terry at the age of 16 years. Born Alice Ellen Terry 27 February 1847(1847 02 27) Coventry, England …

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  • 12Victor Papanek — (1927 – 1999) was a designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. He disapproved of manufactured products that were unsafe, showy,… …

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  • 13Jarlaxle — D D character fgcolor=#fff bgcolor=#000 caption=Jarlaxle, from the cover of R. A. Salvatore s novel Promise of the Witch King , illustrated by Todd Lockwood name=Jarlaxle home=Menzoberranzan gender=Male race=Drow Elf class= Rogue 4/Fighter 4/… …

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  • 14French opera — is one of Europe s most important operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Lully, Rameau, Berlioz, Bizet, Debussy,, Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen. Many foreign composers have also played a part in the French tradition;… …

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  • 15Enoch Hill Turnock — Infobox Architect name=Enock Hill Turnock mother= father= nationality=English birth date=birth date|1857|2|27 birth place= death date= death place= practice name= significant buildings=|Enock Hill Turnock (born 1857) was an American architect,… …

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  • 16education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …

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  • 17heredity — /heuh red i tee/, n., pl. heredities. Biol. 1. the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new… …

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  • 18japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …

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  • 19Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …

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  • 20farm management — ▪ agriculture Introduction       making (industrial engineering) and implementing of the decisions (agribusiness) involved in organizing and operating a farm for maximum production and profit. Farm management draws on agricultural economics for… …

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