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  • 21Tristan Bernard — (September 7, 1866 – December 7, 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer.Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family in Besançon, Doubs, Franche Comté, France, the son of an architect. He left Besançon at the age of 14, moving… …

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  • 22The Avengers (TV series) — infobox Television show name = The Avengers caption = John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg in the tv series.) format = Spy fi runtime = 50 minutes creator = Sydney Newman starring = Patrick Macnee Ian Hendry Honor Blackman Diana… …

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  • 24Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon — Infobox British Royalty|majesty|consort name =Elizabeth Bowes Lyon title =Queen of the United Kingdom Empress of India imgw =200 caption =The Queen at the World s Fair, New York City, 1939. reign =11 December 1936 – 6 February 1952 coronation =12 …

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  • 25Dinnerladies — Complete Collection cover Format Sitcom Created by Victoria Wood …

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  • 26Immanuel the Roman — Born Immanuel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel 1261 (1261) Rome Died 1328 (aged 66–67) Fermo Occupation Poet Nationality Italian Immanuel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel of Rome …

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  • 27Johann Christian Günther — (April 8, 1695 March 15, 1723) was a German poet from Striegau in Lower Silesia. After attending the gymnasium at Schweidnitz, he was sent in 1715 by his father, a country doctor, to study medicine at Wittenberg; but he was idle and dissipated,… …

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  • 28Sundial — A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style (a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge) onto a flat surface marked with lines indicating… …

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  • 29James Abbott McNeill Whistler — Infobox Artist bgcolour = tan name = James Abbott McNeill Whistler imagesize = 200px caption = Self portrait (1872), Detroit Institute of Arts birthname = birthdate = birth date|mf=yes|1834|7|14 location = Lowell, Massachusetts deathdate = death… …

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  • 30Hierocles of Alexandria — was a Greek Neoplatonist writer who was active around AD 430.He studied under Plutarch (the Neoplatonist) at Athens in the early 5th century, and taught for some years in his native city. He seems to have been banished from Alexandria and to have …

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