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  • 21South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …

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  • 22Merlin Kaggs — Literary characters Name: Merlin Kaggs. Gender: Male. Height: 6 5. Relatives: Father, deceased. Age: unknown. Occupation …

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  • 23literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 24Tim Winton — Infobox Writer imagesize = 150px name = Tim Winton birthdate = 4 August 1960 birthplace = Perth, Western Australia occupation = Novelist nationality = Australian genre = Literature, Children s Literature, Non Fiction, Short StoryTimothy John… …

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  • 25motion picture, history of the — Introduction       history of the medium from the 19th century to the present. Early years, 1830–1910 Origins       The illusion of motion pictures is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first …

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  • 26Jonathan Wild — ( baptised 6 May 1683 – 24 May 1725) was perhaps the most famous criminal of London mdash; and possibly Great Britain mdash; during the 18th century, both because of his own actions and the uses novelists, playwrights, and political satirists… …

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  • 27A. J. Raffles — Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother in law to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes  he is a gentleman thief, living in… …

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  • 28performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 29ETHICAL LITERATURE — (Heb. סִפְרוּת הַמּוּסָר, sifrut ha musar). There is no specific ethical literature as such in the biblical and talmudic period insofar as a systematic formulation of Jewish ethics is concerned. Even the wisdom literature of the Bible, though… …

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  • 30Miguel Piñero — Not to be confused with Miguel Piñera. Miguel Piñero Born Miguel Antonio Gómez Piñero December 19, 1946(1946 12 19) Gurabo, Puerto Rico Died June 18, 1988(1988 06 18 …

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