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71Durrus and District History Modern — Durrus is an area of West Cork in Ireland. For earlier history, see Durrus and District History1900 2000 James Gilhooley M.P. and Elections 1910James Gilhooley MP (he had been a merchant in Bantry, and was jailed on a number of occaasions under… …
72Humanism — • The name given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, which aimed at basing every branch of learning on the literature and culture of classical antiquity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin …
73clever — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. adroit, skillful; talented, adept, gifted; smart, cute. See skill, cunning. Ant., dull, witless. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Mentally quick] Syn. smart, bright, intelligent, quick, shrewd, ingenious …
74wit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Cleverness Nouns 1. wit, wittiness; Atticism; salt; sense of humor, funny bone, esprit, point, fancy, whim, humor, drollery, pleasantry; comedy; jocularity, jocosity, jocoseness; levity, facetiousness;… …
75retort — I. verb Etymology: Latin retortus, past participle of retorquēre, literally, to twist back, hurl back, from re + torquēre to twist more at torture Date: circa 1557 transitive verb 1. to pay or hurl back ; return < retort an insult > …
76Henry More — This article is about the English philosopher. For the English Jesuit priest and church historian, see Henry More (Jesuit). For those of a similar name, see Henry Moore (disambiguation). Henry More …
77Henri Murger — (March 27 1822 Paris, January 28, 1861) was a French novelist and poet, born at Paris.He is chiefly distinguished as the author of Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, from his own experiences as a desperately poor writer living in a Parisian attic,… …
78Felix Aderca — Froim Zelig Aderca Zelicu Froim Adercu Born March 13, 1891(1891 03 13) Puieşti Died December 12, 1962(1962 12 12) (ag …
79Kludge — Part of the Miles Glacier Bridge, with a kludgy temporary fix to make the bridge usable after earthquake damage. This article is about the workaround. For the American music magazine, see Kludge (magazine). A kludge (or kluge) is a workaround, a… …
80John Vanbrugh — Sir John Vanbrugh (pronounced Van bru ) (24 January 1664? – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration… …
