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  • 21St. Clare of Assisi —     St. Clare of Assisi     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Clare of Assisi     Cofoundress of the Order of Poor Ladies, or Clares, and first Abbess of San Damiano; born at Assisi, 16 July, 1194; died there 11 August, 1253. She was the eldest… …

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  • 22Fall of Constantinople — This article is about the 1453 siege. For earlier attacks on the city, see List of sieges of Constantinople. Conquest of Constantinople Part of the Byzantine–Ottoman Wars and Ottoman wars in Europe …

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  • 23Tirso de Molina — (October, 1571? March 12, 1648) was a Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet.Originally Gabriel Téllez, he was born in Madrid. He studied at Alcalá de Henares, joined the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy on November 4 1600, and entered the… …

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  • 24Mishneh Torah — The Mishneh Torah (Hebrew: מִשְׁנֶה תּוֹרָה‎, Repetition of the Torah ) subtitled Sefer Yad ha Hazaka (ספר יד החזקה Book of the Strong Hand, ) is a code of Jewish religious law (Halakha) authored by Maimonides …

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  • 25John Manners, Marquess of Granby — Infobox Military Person name=John Manners, Marquess of Granby lived=2 January 1721 ndash; 18 October 1770 caption= John Manners, Marquess of Granby nickname= placeofbirth= placeofdeath= allegiance= branch= serviceyears= rank=General unit=… …

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  • 26Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven) — Ludwig van Beethoven s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58, was composed in 1805 ndash;1806, although no autograph copy survives. Musical forces and movementsThe work is scored for solo piano and an orchestra consisting of a flute, two oboes …

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  • 27George Petrie (artist) — George Petrie (1790 ndash; 1866), was an Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist of the Victorian era.Personal lifeGeorge Petrie was born in Dublin, Ireland, in January 1790, and grew up there. He was the son of the portrait and… …

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  • 28Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi — For other uses, see Harawi (disambiguation). Muhammad ibn Yusuf al Harawi (fl. 1492 1518 and died 1542) was a Persian late 15th century physician from Herat, now part of Afghanistan. In 1518 he composed, in Arabic, an alphabetical medical… …

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  • 29Franz Rosenthal — (August 31, 1914 – April 8, 2003) was the Louis M. Rabinowitz and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic, scholar of Arabic literature and Islam.Rosenthal was born in Berlin, Germany. He entered the University of Berlin in 1932, where he studied… …

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  • 30Abbey of Monte Cassino —     Abbey of Monte Cassino     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Abbey of Monte Cassino     An abbey nullius situated about eighty miles south of Rome, the cradle of the Benedictine Order.     About 529 St. Benedict left Subiaco, to e …

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