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  • 121choral music — ▪ vocal music Introduction       music sung by a choir with two or more voices assigned to each part. Choral music is necessarily polyphonal i.e., consisting of two or more autonomous vocal (vocal music) lines. It has a long history in European… …

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  • 122Hampton Court Conference — ▪ English history       meeting held at Hampton Court Palace, near London, in January 1604, in response to the Millenary Petition (q.v.), in which the Puritans set forth their demands for reform of the Church of England. The conference was… …

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  • 123Haugesund — ▪ Norway       town, southwestern Norway. A North Sea port, Haugesund is a shipbuilding and repair centre and has a 928 foot (283 metre) drydock that was the largest in Scandinavia at its completion in 1979. The town is the base for offshore oil… …

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  • 124Iványi Grünwald, Béla — ▪ Hungarian painter Hungarian form  Iványi Grünwald Béla  born May 6, 1867, Somogysom, Hung. died Sept. 24, 1940, Budapest       Hungarian painter, one of the founders of the Nagybánya artists colony.       Grünwald studied at the School of… …

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  • 125St. Leger — ▪ Table The St. Leger year horse 1776 Allabaculia 1777 Bourbon 1778 Hollandaise 1779 Tommy 1780 Ruler 1781 Serina 1782 Imperatrix 1783 Phenomenon 1784 Omphale 1785 Cowslip 1786 Paragon 1787 Spadille 1788 Young Flora 1789 Pewett 1790 Ambidexter… …

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  • 126Nonconformists — • Denotes those refusing to conform with the authorized formularies and rites of the Established Church of England. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Nonconformists     Nonconformists …

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  • 127Abbey of Einsiedeln —     Abbey of Einsiedeln     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Abbey of Einsiedeln     A Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, that title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation,… …

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  • 128St. Apollonia —     St. Apollonia     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Apollonia     A holy virgin who suffered martyrdom in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians previous to the persecution of Decius (end of 248, or beginning of 249). During… …

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