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  • 111Repouss'e work — Repouss e Re*pous s[ e] (re p?? s? ), a. [F., p. p. of repousser to thrust back; pref re + pousser to push. See {Push}.] (a) Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal. (b) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the… …

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  • 112Graça Machel — Infobox Officeholder name = Graça Machel birth date = 17 October 1945 birth place = Incadine, Mozambique occupation = Teacher and then Education Minister order = First Lady of Mozambique 11 November 1975 to 19 October 1986 First Lady of South… …

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  • 113Will to power — For other uses, see Will to power (disambiguation). The will to power (German: der Wille zur Macht ) is widely seen as a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to… …

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  • 114Jon Kitna — Infobox NFLactive currentteam=Detroit Lions |caption= currentnumber=8 currentposition=Quarterback birthdate=birth date and age|1972|9|21 birthplace=Tacoma, Washington heightft=6 heightin=2 weight=217 debutyear=1997 debutteam=Seattle Seahawks… …

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  • 115Autrigones — [ ·Red: pre Indoeuropean tribes ·Blue: Celtic tribes] Autrigones were a tribe described by the Roman historian Orosius as neighbours of Gallaecia which is in the northwest of Hispania. Their historical territory now lies split between the… …

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  • 116Harry Haywood — (February 6, 1898 January 1985) was born in South Omaha, Nebraska to former slaves, Harriet and Haywood Hall. He was the youngest of three children. Named after his father at birth, Haywood Hall, Harry Haywood is a pseudonym adopted in 1925.… …

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  • 117Robert Hammond (English army officer) — Robert Hammond was an officer in the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War; he was originally from Chertsey, Surrey, the son of a physician.His first service to the Roundhead cause was as a captain in Massey s forces… …

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  • 118Strange Highways (story collection) — Infobox Book | name = Strange Highways author = Dean Koontz country = United States language = English genre = Horror, Suspense publisher = Cemetery Dance Publications, Warner release date = 1995 media type = Print (Hardback, Paperback)Strange… …

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  • 119Cimbri — Cimbrian, adj., n. Cimbric, adj. /sim bruy, bree, kim /, n. (used with a pl. v.) a Germanic or Celtic people, supposed to have originated in Jutland, who invaded Gaul and northern Italy, and were destroyed by the Romans in 101 B.C. * * * ▪ people …

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  • 120Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich — ▪ 2009       Russian novelist and historian born Dec. 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia died Aug. 3, 2008, Troitse Lykovo, near Moscow, Russia was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, but he declined to go to Stockholm to receive the prize… …

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