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91Roger Peyrefitte — (August 17, 1907 ndash; November 5, 2000) was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and gossipy non fiction, and a defender of gay rights.Life and workBorn in Castres to a wealthy family, Peyrefitte went to Jesuit and Lazarist boarding… …
92Amores — is Ovid s first completed book, published in 16 BC. Amores was written in the elegiac distich. The book follows the model of the erotic elegy ndash;perhaps the most common theme of the time ndash;as treated before by Tibullus and Propertius, but… …
93Guy Noir — is a fictional private detective regularly featured on the public radio show A Prairie Home Companion . Played by Garrison Keillor, the character parodies the conventions of the pulp fiction novel and the film noir genre. Guy Noir works on the… …
94Bobby Ologun — birthdate=Birth date and age|1966|4|8 died= fightingfrom=flagicon|Japan Saitama, Japan hometown=flagicon|Nigeria Ibadan, Nigeria fightstyle= wins=2 losses=2 draws=0 nocontest= ko=0 submissions=0Bobby Ologun (born Alaji Karim Ologun on April 8,… …
95Oury Jalloh — Oury Jalloh, a 36 year old refugee from Sierra Leone died on 7 January 2005, in a police station in Dessau, tied with handcuffs to a fire proof mattress at his hands and feet. The cause of death was officially recorded as heat shock, the police… …
96Amores (Ovid) — Amores is Ovid s first completed book of poetry, written in Elegiac couplets. It was first published in 16 BC in 5 volumes of which 3 now survive. The book follows the popular model of the erotic elegy, as made famous by figures such as Tibullus… …
97Exaggeration — is a representation of something in an excessive manner. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle s discussion of the alazon: the boaster is regarded as one who pretends to have distinguished… …
98Stark (novel) — infobox Book | name = Stark title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Ben Elton illustrator = cover artist = David Scutt country = flagicon|UK United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Environmental Fiction,… …
99Boswell — , BOSWELLIZE James Boswell (1740 1795) has been regarded as the foremost biographer in English literature. His great masterpiece was The Life of Samuel Johnson, the great compiler of the English dictionary. Thomas Macaulay ranked the… …
100overdraw — /oh veuhr draw /, v., overdrew, overdrawn, overdrawing. v.t. 1. to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one s credit or at one s disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account. 2. to… …
