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  • 61Flagitiousness — Flagitious Fla*gi tious, a. [L. flagitiosus, fr. flagitium a shameful or disgraceful act, orig., a burning desire, heat of passion, from flagitare to demand hotly, fiercely; cf. flagrare to burn, E. flagrant.] 1. Disgracefully or shamefully… …

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  • 62Eva Perón — María Eva Duarte de Perón First Lady of Argentina In office 4 June 1946 – 26 July 1952 President Juan Perón Preceded by …

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  • 63Charlotte Turner Smith — Charlotte Smith by George Romney Charlotte Turner Smith (4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806) was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote… …

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  • 64The Winthrop Woman (novel) — First published in 1958, The Winthrop Woman is Anya Seton s historical novel about Elizabeth Fones, the niece and daughter in law of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.Plot summary The Winthrop Woman begins with… …

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  • 65The Roaring Girl — is a Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker ca. 1607 10.The play was first published in quarto in 1611, printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Thomas Archer. The title page of the first edition states… …

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  • 66Dream of the Red Chamber (1987 TV series) — Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼梦 紅樓夢 Starring Ouyang Fenqiang as Jia Baoyu Chen Xiaoxu as Lin Daiyu Zhang Li as Xue Baochai Deng Jie as Wang Xifeng Country of origin China No. of episodes …

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  • 67Agathoclea — (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγαθόκλεια) was a mistress of the profligate Ptolemy Philopator, King of Egypt, and sister of his no less profligate minister Agathocles.Citation | last = Mason | first = Charles Peter | author link = | contribution = Agathoclea |… …

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  • 68Pakistan — /pak euh stan , pah keuh stahn /, n. 1. Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947 71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).… …

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  • 69rake — rake1 rakable, rakeable, adj. raker, n. /rayk/, n., v., raked, raking. n. 1. an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground. 2. any of various implements having a …

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  • 70roué — /rooh ay , rooh ay/, n. a dissolute and licentious man; rake. [1790 1800; < F, n. use of ptp. of rouer to break on the wheel (deriv. of roue wheel L rota); name first applied to the profligate companions of the Duc d Orléans (c1720)] Syn.&#8230; …

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