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  • 121throttlehold — noun Date: 1935 a vicious, strangling, or stultifying control …

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  • 122hanging — I. adjective Date: 12th century 1. situated or lying on steeply sloping ground 2. a. jutting out ; overhanging < a hanging rock > b. supported only by the wall on one side < a hanging staircase > 3. archa …

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  • 123Шустера миссия —         американская финансовая миссия в Иране (май 1911 январь 1912). Руководитель её М. Шустер (М. Shuster) чиновник американской колониальной администрации на Кубе (1899 1901) и на Филиппинах (1906 09). Предоставленные ему в июне 1911 иранским …

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  • 124Assassination — is the targeted murder of a high profile person. [ [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=assassin Assassin] (from Wordnet, Princeton University)] An added distinction between assassination and other forms of killing is that the assassin (one …

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  • 125History of Cuba — 1736 map by Herman Moll of the West Indies and Mexico, together comprising New Spain , with Cuba visible in the center. The known history of Cuba, the largest of the Caribbean islands, predates Christopher Columbus sighting of the island during&#8230; …

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  • 126Great Auk — Taxobox name = Great Auk status = EX extinct = 1852. The last specimen was sighted in Newfoundland. status system = iucn3.1 image width = 200px image caption = Breeding (standing) and nonbreeding (swimming) plumage. By John Gerrard Keulemans.&#8230; …

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  • 127Hippocrates — Infobox Person name =Hippocrates of Kos (Greek: polytonic|Ἱπποκράτης) image size = 240px caption = Engraving by Peter Paul Rubens, 1638, courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. [ Harvnb|National Library of Medicine|2006 ] birth date = ca.&#8230; …

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  • 128Justinian I — Infobox Emperor name =Justinian I full name =Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus title =Emperor of the Byzantine Empire caption =Justinian depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna reign =9 August 527 13 or 14&#8230; …

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