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  • 11Barlowe's Inferno — infobox Book | name = Barlowe s Inferno title orig = translator = image caption = author = Wayne Barlowe illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Fantasy publisher = Morpheus International pub date …

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  • 12Baroque (video game) — Infobox VG| title = Baroque developer = Sting Entertainment publisher = Sting Entertainment (Japan) Atlus (North America) Rising Star Games (Europe) designer = Daizo Harada (Game director) Takeshi Santo (Game producer) Shinichi Abe (Main Game… …

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  • 13Markus Schultze — (* 12. Dezember 1971 in Wolfenbüttel) war von 2000 bis 2006 ein Moderator bei MTV. Die Schule beendete Schultze mit dem Abitur, brach ein gerade begonnenes Studium ab und machte eine Schreinerlehre. Seine Leidenschaft war schon in jungen Jahren… …

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  • 14Sisyphus — Eine wahre Sisyphusarbeit nennen wir noch heute wie Properz (›Sisyphios labores‹, Lachm. III, 17, 7) eine besonders schwere und qualvolle Arbeit, die zur Erfolglosigkeit verdammt scheint und deshalb niemals zu einem Abschluß gebracht werden kann …

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  • 15Sisyphus — Sis|y|phus in ancient Greek stories, an evil king whose punishment after death was to roll a very large stone to the top of a steep hill. Each time he got near to the top of the hill, the stone rolled down to the bottom, and he had to start again …

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  • 16Sisyphusarbeit — Sf sinnlose, endlose Arbeit erw. bildg. (20. Jh.) Onomastische Bildung. So benannt nach der griechischen mythischen Gestalt Sisyphos, der wegen seiner Frevel dazu verurteilt war, einen Stein den Berg hinaufzurollen, der kurz vor Erreichen des… …

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  • 17Barack Obama presidential eligibility litigation — Main article: Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories#Legislation and litigation The Barack Obama presidential eligibility litigation is a group of lawsuits filed in various United States Courts by numerous individuals who believe in the… …

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  • 18international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …

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  • 19Difficulty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Difficulty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 difficulty difficulty Sgm: N 1 hardness hardness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 impracticability impracticability &c.(impossibility) 471 Sgm: N 1 tough work tough work hard work uphil …

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  • 20difficult — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Hard to achieve] Syn. laborious, hard, arduous, strenuous, demanding, exacting, hard won, stiff, heavy, painful, labored, trying, titanic, bothersome, troublesome, burdensome, backbreaking, not easy, wearisome, onerous,… …

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