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  • 11The Gin Game — Infobox Play name = The Gin Game image size = 150px caption = Original Broadway production poster writer = D.L. Coburn characters = Weller Martin Fonsia Dorsey setting = premiere = September 1976 place = American Theater Arts Hollywood,… …

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  • 12Regeneration (1997 film) — Infobox Film name = Regeneration image size = caption = director = Gillies MacKinnon producer = Allan Scott Peter R. Simpson writer = Pat Barker (novel) Allan Scott (screenplay) narrator = starring = Jonathan Pryce James Wilby Jonny Lee Miller… …

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  • 13pull —    1. to cause a horse to lose a race    Racing jargon, from the jockey s handling of the reins. To pull up means, in racing circles as in motoring, to cause to come to a standstill.    2. to seek to strike up an acquaintance with a member of the …

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  • 14frogger — /ˈfrɒgə/ (say froguh) noun a volunteer representative of Red Frogs Australia, an organisation established to provide protection and guidance to young people gathered together in social situations in which they may be at risk, in particular from… …

  • 15pirate — /ˈpaɪrət / (say puyruht) noun 1. someone who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea. 2. a vessel employed by such persons. 3. any plunderer. 4. someone who appropriates and reproduces, without authorisation, the… …

  • 16United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 17Bertrand Russell — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE image caption = Russell in 1907 image size = 150px name = Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell birth = birth date|df=yes|1872|5|18 Trellech …

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  • 18List of characters in Astro City — The world of Astro City has numerous heroes and villains in the cast, as well as normal, everyday civilians along with other, stranger entities. It is a rich, well textured array of characters, influenced from a broad spectrum of history, myths,… …

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  • 19Andrew Carnegie — Infobox Person name = Andrew Carnegie caption = birth date = birth date|1835|11|25 birth place = Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom death date = Death date and age|1919|8|11|1835|11|25 death place = Shadow Brook Lenox, Massachusetts, United States …

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  • 20Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossary — Infobox WoT detainees subject name = Jumah Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossari image size = image caption = | date of birth = place of birth = | date of arrest = place of arrest= | arresting authority= date of release = | place of release= date of… …

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