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  • 51Stornoway —    STORNOWAY, a burgh of barony, sea port, and parish, in the Island of Lewis, county of Ross and Cromarty, 120 miles (N. W. by W.) from Dingwall; containing, with the late quoad sacra parish of Knock or Uii, 6218 inhabitants, of whom 1354 are in …

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  • 52LEVINSOHN, ISAAC BAER — (1788–1860), Hebrew author, one of the founders of the haskalah in Russia. He also was known as Ribal (initials of Rabbi Isaac Baer Levinsohn). Levinsohn was born in Kremenets, Volhynia, Russia, into a wealthy family. Later he moved to Radzivilov …

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  • 53David Pryce-Jones — David Eugene Henry Pryce Jones FRSL (b. 15 February 1936 Vienna, Austria)[1] is a conservative British author and commentator. Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Bibliography …

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  • 54History of Bulgaria since 1989 — By the time the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev s reform program in the Soviet Union was felt in Bulgaria in the late 1980s, the Communists, like their leader, had grown too feeble to resist the demand for change for long. In November 1989… …

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  • 55Swift, Jonathan — born Nov. 30, 1667, Dublin, Ire. died Oct. 19, 1745, Dublin Irish author, the foremost prose satirist in English. He was a student at Dublin s Trinity College during the anti Catholic Revolution of 1688 in England. Irish Catholic reaction in… …

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  • 56Sardinia — • The second largest Italian island in the Mediterranean Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sardinia     Sardinia     † …

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  • 57Columbus —     Christopher Columbus     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Christopher Columbus     (Italian CRISTOFORO COLOMBO; Spanish CRISTOVAL COLON.)     Born at Genoa, or on Genoese territory, probably 1451; died at Valladolid, Spain, 20 May 1506.     His… …

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  • 58Christopher Columbus —     Christopher Columbus     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Christopher Columbus     (Italian CRISTOFORO COLOMBO; Spanish CRISTOVAL COLON.)     Born at Genoa, or on Genoese territory, probably 1451; died at Valladolid, Spain, 20 May 1506.     His… …

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  • 59Dr. Paul Shrivastava (Art and Sustainability) — Michcoop (talk) 14:13, 20 October 2011 (UTC)M. Ellen New article name goes here is Dr. Paul Shrivastava Contents 1 Biography 2 Work 3 Publications 4 References …

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  • 60IRELAND —    (5,175), an island rather more than half the size of and lying to the west of England and Wales, from which it is divided by the North Channel (13 m. wide), the Irish Sea (140 m.), and the St. George s Channel (50 m.). It consists of a large… …

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