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  • 71IHOS Music Theatre and Opera — Infobox Company name = IHOS Music Theatre and Opera type = Not for Profit genre = foundation = 1990 founder = Constantine Koukias with Werner Ihlenfeld location city = Hobart location country = Australia location = locations = area served = key… …

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  • 72superstitions —    Some recent folklorists shun the term superstition as being too pejorative, preferring the less value laden belief . This, however, is too broad a term and, for convenience, we have kept the older word, emboldened by the fact that it is… …

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  • 73daddock —  rotten wood, touch wood. Glouc …

    A glossary of provincial and local words used in England

  • 74knock — v. & n. v. 1 a tr. strike (a hard surface) with an audible sharp blow (knocked the table three times). b intr. strike, esp. a door to gain admittance (can you hear someone knocking?; knocked at the door). 2 tr. make (a hole, a dent, etc.) by… …

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  • 75Fomes — Fo mes (f[=o] m[=e]z), n.; pl. {Fomites} (f[o^]m [i^]*t[=e]z). [L. fomes, itis, touch wood, tinder.] (Med.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said …

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  • 76Fomites — Fomes Fo mes (f[=o] m[=e]z), n.; pl. {Fomites} (f[o^]m [i^]*t[=e]z). [L. fomes, itis, touch wood, tinder.] (Med.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes… …

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  • 77Gillian Armstrong — Infobox actor name = Gillian Armstrong birthname = Gillian May Armstrong birthdate = birth date and age|df=yes|1950|12|18 birthplace = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia deathdate = deathplace = occupation = film director afiawards = Best Direction… …

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  • 78Charles L. Grant — Charles Lewis Grant (September 12, 1942 – September 15, 2006) was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called dark fantasy and quiet horror. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake,… …

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  • 79Adoni — Infobox Indian Jurisdiction native name = Adoni | type = city | latd = 15.63 | longd = 77.28 locator position = right | state name = Andhra Pradesh district = Kurnool leader title = leader name = altitude = 435 population as of = 2001 population… …

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  • 80D. F. Lewis — (born January 18, 1948, Walton on Naze, Essex) is an English author[1] who has had approximately 1,500 short fictions published in print from 1986 to 2000, some in hard to find outlets, others in literary journals such as Stand, Iron, Orbis,… …

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