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  • 41Imola — • Diocese; suffragan of Bologna Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Imola     Imola     † Catho …

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  • 42Flavius Honorius —     Flavius Honorius     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Flavius Honorius     Roman Emperor, d. 25 August, 423. When his father, the Emperor Theodosius, divided up the government of the empire in the year 395, the western half was allotted to Honorius …

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  • 43Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim —     Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim     Born 14 September, 1486, at Cologne; died at Grenoble or Lyons in 1534 or 1535. One of the remarkable men of the Renaissance… …

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  • 44HOWITT, Alfred William (1830-1908) — explorer, geologist and anthropologist was born at Nottingham, England, on 17 April 1830. His father, William Howitt (1792 1879), wrote many volumes of poetry, history, fiction and miscellaneous writings, and was well known in his day. In 1852 he …

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  • 45Hussein (ibn-Talal) — (b. 1935)    Third king of Jordan. When King ABDULLAH of Jordan was assassinated in 1951 at the entrance to the El Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem, his sixteen year old grandson, Hussein, was at his side. The youth soon succeeded to the precarious… …

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  • 46malignance — n.; (also malignancy) 1. Malice, malignity, bitter enmity, extreme malevolence. 2. Unfavorableness, unpropitiousness. 3. Virulence, deadliness, malignity …

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  • 47Offa of Mercia — (d. 796)    One of the greatest and longest ruling kings of Anglo Saxon England, Offa (r. 757 796) is also the great king about whom the least is known. The only information about Offa and his reigns come from outside the kingdom of Mercia; it… …

    Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe

  • 48dagger — n. 1 a short stabbing weapon with a pointed and edged blade. 2 Printing = OBELUS. Phrases and idioms: at daggers drawn in bitter enmity. look daggers at glare angrily or venomously at. Etymology: ME, perh. f. obs. dag pierce, infl. by OF dague… …

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  • 49at daggers drawn — phrasal also at daggers drawing or at daggers : at the point of fighting : openly hostile * * * at daggers drawn In a state of hostility • • • Main Entry: ↑dagger at daggers drawn …

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  • 50United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

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