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  • 71subterfuge — I noun artifice, camouflage, chicane, chicanery, concealment, counterfeit, deception, deverticulum, device, dodge, duplicity, elusion, evasion, excuse, fabrication, falsehood, fib, fiction, finesse, forgery, guise, imposture, jugglery, latebra,… …

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  • 72disguise — I noun artifice, camouflage, caricature, cloak, concealment counterfeit, cover, covering, deception, deceptive covering, dissimulation, facade, faking, false appearance, false colors, false copy, false front, guise, hiding, imitation, mask,… …

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  • 73pretense — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. show, pretension, affectation, sham, imitation, ostentation; makeshift, simulation, excuse, pretext, evasion. See falsehood, vanity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of pretending] Syn. affectation,… …

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  • 74apology — noun (plural gies) Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French apologie, from Late Latin apologia, from Greek, from apo + logos speech more at legend Date: 1533 1. a. a formal justification ; defense …

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  • 75Cyprus — This article is about the island sovereign state. For other uses, see Cyprus (disambiguation). Republic of Cyprus Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία (Greek) Kypriakí Dimokratía Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti (Turkish) …

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  • 76History of France — The History of France has been divided into a series of separate historical articles navigable through the list to the right. The chronological era articles (highlighted in blue) address broad French historical, cultural and sociological… …

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  • 77Joachim von Ribbentrop — Infobox Officeholder name = Joachim von Ribbentrop imagesize = small caption = order = Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs term start = February 4, 1938 term end = April 30, 1945 president = Adolf Hitler Führer chancellor = Adolf Hitler predecessor …

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  • 78Mary I of England — Mary I Queen Mary by Hans Eworth Queen of England and Ireland (more...) Reign …

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  • 79Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact — Treaty of Non Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union Molotov signs the German–Soviet non aggression pact. Behind him are Ribbentrop and Stalin. Signed August 23, 1939 Location Moscow, Russian SFSR …

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  • 80Ottoman Empire — دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet i Âliyye i Osmâniyye …

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