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  • 111low — 1. adjective /ləʊ,loʊ/ a) In a position comparatively close to the ground. Generally, European men have lower voices than their Indian counterparts. b) Small in height. Now that was low even for you! Syn: blue …

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  • 112Medici Family —    Florentine mercantile and banking family that played a significant part in local politics and from 1434 dominated the political system of Florence through a combination of careful po litical alliances and outright corruption of the electoral… …

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  • 113Melanchthon, Philipp — (1497 1560)    German humanist, Reformation leader, and educational reformer. He was born at Bretten in the Rhenish Palatinate. His original German name was Schwarzerd, hellenized to create his classical surname. He was the great nephew of the… …

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  • 114Obrecht, Jacob — (ca. 1452 1505)    Flemish composer. Born at Bergen op Zoom and educated at the University of Louvain, he spent most of his career in the Netherlands but visited Italy, mainly the court of the duke of Ferrara, in 1487 1488. He returned to Fer… …

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  • 115Scholasticism —    Term used as a generic label for the various forms of philosophy and theology developed in western European univer sities from the late 11th or early 12th century. All of these scholas tic systems of thought were broadly Aristotelian. They… …

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  • 116Vergil, Polydor — (also Polidoro Virgilio, ca. 1470 1555)    Italian humanist and historian. A native of Urbino and a priest, he entered papal service and accompanied Cardinal Adriano Castellesi to En gland when the cardinal became collector of Peter s Pence in… …

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  • 117Linwood, Renfrewshire — This article is about the town in Scotland. For other uses, see Linwood (disambiguation). Coordinates: 55°50′49″N 4°30′07″W / 55.847°N 4.502°W …

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  • 118American pioneers to the Northwest Territory — Plaque commemorating the first permanent settlement of the new United States of America in the Northwest Territory Participants Pioneers and veterans of the American Revolutionary …

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  • 119Danièle Hervieu-Léger — Danièle Hervieu Leger (1947) is a French sociologist specialized in the sociology of religion. Contents 1 Biography 2 Publications 3 References 4 External links …

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  • 120Battle of Delville Wood — Part of the Battle of the Somme in the First World War …

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