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  • 121Persecution of religion in ancient Rome — As the Roman Republic, and later the Roman empire, expanded, it came to include people from a variety of cultures, and religions. The worship of an ever increasing number of deities was tolerated and accepted. The government, and the Romans in… …

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  • 122Francis Urquhart — is a fictional character created by Michael Dobbs. He appeared in a trilogy of novels: House of Cards in 1989, To Play the King in 1992 and The Final Cut in 1995. He was portrayed in television versions by Ian Richardson. In the series Urquhart… …

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  • 123Jack MacDonald (Hamilton politician) — Infobox Officeholder name = Jack MacDonald caption = order = Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario term start = 1977 term end = 1980 deputy = predecessor = Vince Agro successor = William Powell birth date = 1927 birth place = London, Ontario death date =… …

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  • 124The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …

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  • 125Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir — Gulab Singh (Dogri: गुलाब सिंह) (1792–1857) was the founder and first Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, the second largest princely state in British India. After the defeat of the Sikhs in the First Anglo Sikh War, Gulab Singh …

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  • 126Fate/stay night scenarios — Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven s Feel are the three branching storylines found within the TYPE MOON visual novel Fate/stay night. The decisions of the player during the game determine which of the three scenarios will be played out.The… …

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  • 127Vedic civilization/EB 1911 — TOC (Encyclopedia Britannica 1911, s.v. Sanskrit) [http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tim Starling/ScanSet TIFF demo vol=24 page=ED4A170] [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/scans/EB1911 tiff/VOL24%20SAINTE… …

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  • 128Chrysaphius — (Greek: Χρυσάφιος) was a eunuch at the Eastern Roman court, who became the chief minister of Theodosius II (r. 408–450). Effectively the ruler of the empire during his ascendancy, he pursued a policy of appeasement towards the Huns, which cost… …

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