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  • 101United States embargo against Cuba — The United States embargo against Cuba (described in Cuba and Latin America as el bloqueo, Spanish for the blockade ) is a commercial, economic, and financial embargo partially imposed on Cuba in October 1960. It was enacted after Cuba… …

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  • 102Subterraneans, The — by Jack Kerouac (1958)    This novel is about interracial love, jack kerouac’s obsessive relationship with his mother, and his confrontation with his homosexual tendencies. Kerouac wrote it in three days while fueled by Benzedrine, and it is… …

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  • 103Abu Yasir Al Jaza'iri — The White House reports that they have captured a senior al Qaida leader named Abu Yasir Al Jaza iri.cite news url=http://www.defendamerica.mil/terrorism/waronterror.html title=Progress in the war on terror: White House Fact Sheet, July 1, 2003… …

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  • 104Marianas Trench Marine National Monument — President George W. Bush signs paperwork establishing the National Monument on January 6, 2009 The Marianas Trench Marine National Monument is a United States National Monument created by President George W. Bush by an executive order given on… …

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  • 105colorlessness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Absence of color Nouns 1. colorlessness, achromatism; decoloration, discoloration; pallor, pallidity; paleness, etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white; fading, dimming; bleaching. See… …

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  • 106ghastly — adj 1. frightful, dreadful, awful, terrible, horrid, horrible, horrendous, hideous, ugly, frightening, terrifying, Inf. scary; gruesome, grisly, gory, disgusting, repulsive, repugnant, revolting, sickening, Sl. gross. 2. drawn, haggard, worn, Inf …

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  • 107ghostly — adj 1. ghost like, spectral, phantom like; unreal, illusory, illusive, shadowy, phantasmal, phan tasmic, phantasmical, phantasmatic; supernatural, preternatural, unearthly, wierd, strange, uncanny, mysterious, frightening, Inf. scary, Inf. spooky …

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  • 108Compassionate conservatism — Part of a series on Conservatism …

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  • 109Fossil-fuel phase-out — A fossil fuel phase out are plans for transport electrification, decommissioning of operating fossil fuel fired power plants and prevention of the construction of new fossil fuel fired power stations. The purpose of this is to decrease the high… …

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  • 110Dmitri Shostakovich — Shostakovich redirects here. For the conductor and son of Dmitri Shostakovich, see Maxim Shostakovich. Dmitri Shostakovich in 1942 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich Russian pronunciation: [dmʲitrij ˌdmʲitrɪjevʲiʨ ʂɨstɐˈkɔvʲɪʨ] (Russian:… …

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