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  • 61Burning Man — is an annual event held in the Black Rock Desert, in Northern Nevada. The event starts on the Monday before, and ends on the day of, the American Labor Day holiday. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday… …

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  • 62Vernacular — For other uses, see Vernacular (disambiguation). A vernacular is the native language or native dialect of a specific population, as opposed to a language of wider communication that is not native to the population, such as a national language or… …

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  • 63Shrine — A shrine, from the Latin scrinium (‘box’; also used as a desk, like the French bureau ) was originally a container, usually made of precious materials, used especially for a relic and often a cult image. By extension it has come to mean a holy or …

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  • 64Classical Arabic — Spoken in Historically in the Middle East, now used as a liturgical language of Islam Language family Afro Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic …

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  • 65Linda McMahon — Member of the Connecticut State Board of Education In office February 27, 2009 – April 1, 2010 …

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  • 66Discworld gods — See also: Discworld (world)#Magic Some of the Discworld gods at Dunmanifestin. L R: Sessifet (off left),Offler, Flatulus (behind Offler), Fate, Urika, Blind Io, Libertina, The Lady, Bibulous, Patina (behind Bibulous), Topaxi (in front of… …

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  • 67Oklahoma Baptist University — Motto Eruditione Religioneque Veritas Established 1910 Type Private Endowment $93.7 million President David Wesley Whitlock …

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  • 68Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur — Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashami Pur is a Twelver Shi a Hojatoleslam cleric who was active in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and later became interior minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran [ [http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/09/c62a2fec …

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  • 69literature — /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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  • 70Napoleon Bonaparte —     Napoleon I (Bonaparte)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Napoleon I (Bonaparte)     Emperor of the French, second son of Charles Marie Bonaparte and Maria Lætitia Ramolino, b. at Ajaccio, in Corsica, 15 August, 1769; d. on the Island of St.… …

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