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51Horse murders — The horse murders scandal was a form of insurance fraud in the United States in which expensive horses, many of them show jumpers, were insured against death, accident, or disease, and then killed to collect the insurance money. It is not known… …
52La rondine — ( The Swallow ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert. It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the Théâtre du… …
53Bob Grant (radio) — Infobox actor bgcolour = name = Bob Grant imagesize = caption = birthname = Robert Ciro Gigante birthdate = birth date and age|1929|03|14 location = flagicon|USAU.S. deathdate = deathplace = height = othername = homepage = Bob Grant, the on air… …
54Mary I of England — Mary I Queen Mary by Hans Eworth Queen of England and Ireland (more...) Reign …
55Catherine II of Russia — Infobox Russian Royalty|monarch name =Catherine II the Great title =Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias caption = reign =June 28, 1762 – November 17, 1796 25 December, 1761 – 28 June, 1762 reign type =Reign Consort coronation =September 12,… …
56Stefano Infessura — (c. 1435 ndash; c. 1500) was an Italian humanist historian and lawyer. He is remembered through his antipapal Diary of the City of Rome , a gossipy chronicle of events at Rome. He was in a position to hear everything that circulated in informed… …
57List of people and organisations frequently parodied by Private Eye — This is a list of some of the people and organisations most frequently or famously used as a source of humour or target of insult by the British satirical magazine Private Eye. The nicknames coined for them by the magazine have become part of the …
58Smedley Butler —   …
59Dwarfs (Discworld) — Dwarfs in Terry Pratchett s Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkien s Middle earth, to which they largely started out as a homage, and dwarves in other fantasy novels. They are short, stocky, bearded metal workers,… …
60Tiberius — /tuy bear ee euhs/, n. (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 B.C. A.D. 37, Roman emperor 14 37. * * * I in full Tiberius (Julius) Caesar Augustus orig. Tiberius Claudius Nero born Nov. 16, 42 BC died March 16, AD 37, Capreae, near Naples Second… …
