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  • 81broadsides —    Flimsy sheets of paper, sold cheaply in the streets, at fairs, and wherever working people gathered. On them were printed songs, prose accounts of horrible crimes, scandals, newsworthy items, pictures, wonders, tales, religious tracts,… …

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  • 82Ship of the line — A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th century through the mid 19th century, to take part in the the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring… …

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  • 83The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — Infobox Album Name = The Freewheelin Bob Dylan Type = Album Artist = Bob Dylan Released = May 27, 1963 Recorded = April 241962 – April 241963 at Columbia Studios, New York City Genre = Folk Length = 50:08 Label = Columbia Producer = John H.… …

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  • 84Early British popular music — The diverse nations that now make up the United Kingdom were much more distinct from each other prior to modern times. There was little culturally uniting the varying Welsh, Scottish, English and Irish villages and regions until relatively… …

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  • 85Dahlgren gun — John A. Dahlgren standing next to a 50 pounder Dahlgren Rifle aboard the U.S.S. Pawnee, 1865 …

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  • 86Simon Byrne — (1806 ndash; 2 June 1833), nicknamed The Emerald Gem , was an Irish bare knuckle prize fighter. The heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, he was drawn to England by the larger sums of prize money and his hopes to become the heavyweight champion …

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  • 87Street literature — or broadsides began in the 16th century and continued until the mid 19th century as a type of printing of large printed sheets of paper, designed to be plastered onto walls. By the mid 19th century, the advent of newspapers and inexpensive novels …

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  • 88Audacious class battleship — The Audacious class battleships were designed by Sir Edward Reed at the request of the Board of Admiralty to serve as second class battleships on distant foreign stations.The principal motivation driving the Admiralty was the French policy,… …

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  • 89Wreckers (Transformers) — The Wreckers are a sub team of Autobots in the fictional Transformers Universe, functioning essentially as a commando unit. They were created by Marvel UK writer, Simon Furman in the story arc and appeared in many of Furman s subsequent stories,… …

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  • 90African-American Book Publishers in the United States, 1960-1980 — African American Book Publishers in the United States, 1960 1980While African American book publishers have been active in the United States since the second decade of the nineteenth century, the 1960’s and 1970’s saw a proliferation of… …

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