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  • 81Fags, Mags and Bags — Infobox Radio Show show name = Fags, Mags and Bags imagesize = 130x130px caption = The picture of the cast other names = format = Comedy runtime = 30 minute episodes country = flagcountry|United Kingdom language = English home station = BBC Radio …

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  • 82Joseph Jacobs — (29 août 1854 – 30 janvier 1916) est un historien de la littérature et du judaïsme. Membre du comité éditorial de la Jewish Encyclopaedia, il fut aussi un folkloriste remarquable, qui créa plusieurs collections bien connues de contes de fées.… …

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  • 83essay — essayer, n. n. /es ay/ for 1, 2; /es ay, e say / for 3 5; v. /e say /, n. 1. a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. 2. anything resembling such a… …

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  • 84ibn Khaldun — /ib euhn khahl doohn /, n. Abd al Rahman /ahb dahl rddah mahn/, 1332 1406, Arab historian and philosopher. * * * orig. Abū Zayd ʽAbd al Raḥmān ibn Khaldūn born May 27, 1332, Tunis, Tun. died March 17, 1406, Cairo, Egypt Noted Arab historian. He… …

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  • 85Austen, Jane — born Dec. 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, Eng. died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire English novelist. The daughter of a rector, she lived in the circumscribed world of minor landed gentry and country clergy that she was to use in her… …

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  • 86Photius, Saint — born с 820, Constantinople died 10th century; feast day February 6 Patriarch of Constantinople (858–867, 877–886). A high ranking civil servant, he was promoted swiftly through the ecclesiastical orders to become patriarch after the deposition of …

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  • 87Motion Pictures — ▪ 1995 Introduction        Selected Film Awards 1994(For Selected Film Awards, see Table (Selected Film Awards 1994).)       The overall picture of world cinema in 1994, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of motion pictures, was one of national… …

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  • 88Campoamor y Campoosorio, Ramón de — ▪ Spanish author born Sept. 24, 1817, Navia, Spain died Feb. 12, 1901, Madrid       Spanish poet whose value lies in his expression of contemporary social attitudes.       After studying Latin and philosophy, he went to Madrid, in 1838, to pursue …

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  • 89Herbert, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron — ▪ British philosopher Baron Herbert Of Castle Island born March 3, 1583, Eyton on Severn, Shropshire, Eng. died Aug. 5, 1648, London  English courtier, soldier, diplomat, historian, metaphysical poet, and philosopher (“the father of English… …

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  • 90Rustaveli, Shota — ▪ Georgian poet born c. 1160 died after c. 1220       Georgian poet, author of Vepkhvistqaosani (The Knight in the Panther s Skin, or The Lord of the Panther Skin), the Georgian national epic.       Very little is known of Rustaveli, and what is… …

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