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  • 102Valkyrie (Marvel Comics) — Valkyrie is a fictional character and Marvel Comics superhero. An Asgardian demi goddess by birth, her real name is Brunnhilde. Among her other aliases are Barbara Denton Norriss, Samantha Parrington, and Sian Bowen who all were host bodies to… …

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  • 103Tippi Hedren — Infobox actor caption = Hedren in May 2006 birthname = Nathalie Kay Hedren birthdate = birth date and age|1930|1|19 birthplace = New Ulm, Minnesota spouse = Peter Griffith (1952 1961) Noel Marshall (1964 1982) Luis Barrenechea (1985 1995) Martin… …

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  • 104Heteroglossia — In linguistics, the term heteroglossia describes the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code. The term translates the Russian разноречие [raznorechie] (literally different speech ness ), which was introduced by the… …

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  • 105Roc (TV series) — infobox television show name = Roc caption = format = Comedy drama runtime = 30 min. creator = starring = Charles S. Dutton Ella Joyce Rocky Carroll Carl Gordon country = USA executive producer = Vic Kaplan network = FOX opentheme = God Bless the …

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  • 106Alfred C. Haynes — Alfred C. Al Haynes (born 1932 in Dallas, Texas) is a former airline pilot and a regular guest speaker at social events. Haynes gained international fame in 1989, when he, together with Dennis E. Fitch, a United DC 10 flight instructor who was a… …

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  • 107Porto, Sérgio — (1923–1968)    Brazilian humorist, journalist, and writer. Born in the Copacabana neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, where he lived all his life, Porto is regarded as one of the finest Brazilian humorists of the 20th century. In the late 1950s,… …

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  • 108Dickensian —    Charles Dickens (1812 1870) was one of the most popular English novelists, and the most popular of his lifetime. He became the recognized exponent of the English Victorian character. His conscience became the public voice of England, awakening …

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  • 109WCBS (AM) — Infobox Radio station name = WCBS city = New York City area = New York City area branding = WCBS Newsradio 880 slogan = airdate = September 20, 1924 (as WAHG) frequency = 880 kHz HD Radio 101.1 3 FM (HD Radio) format = Commercial; News power = 50 …

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  • 110Jim (Huckleberry Finn) — Jim is one of two major fictional characters in the classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The book chronicles the journey of Jim and Huckleberry Huck Finn down the Mississippi River in the antebellum Southern United States.… …

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