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  • 62Helicopter prison escapes — A helicopter prison escape is when a helicopter either plucks inmates from the prison or lands and picks up prisoners on prison grounds. Listed below are attempts and actual escapes by helicopter. The helicopter can be either hijacked or piloted… …

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  • 63Lord John Rossendale — (17? – 18 June 1815) is a minor protagonist in the Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell.Rossendale first appeared in 1813 in Sharpe s Regiment as a courtier to the Prince Regent ( Prinny ) in London. While Sharpe is on leave in England, the… …

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  • 64Contemplation (Kafka) — Contemplation, or Meditation (Betrachtung in German) is a sequence of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. Eight of these stories were published under the same title in the bimonthly Hyperion and were Kafka s first …

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  • 65Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings — 1st edition Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings is a collection of writings by Franz Kafka translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins with notes by Max Brod (Schocken Books, 1954). The title derives from Kafka s Letter to His Father,… …

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  • 66The Cares of a Family Man — ( Die Sorge des Hausvaters ) is a short story by Franz Kafka which deals mostly with a small creature called Odradek. The creature has drawn the attention of many philosophers and literary critics, who have all attempted to interpret its meaning …

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  • 67Killer Evans — James Winter, alias Morecroft, alias Killer Evans, is the fictional villain in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Adventure of the Three Garridebs.During the Adventure of the Three Garridebs, Evans is impersonating John Garrideb in order to… …

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  • 68folketymology — folk etymology n. Change in the form of a word or phrase resulting from a mistaken assumption about its composition or meaning, as in shamefaced for earlier shamfast, “bound by shame,” or cutlet from French côtelette, “little rib.” * * * …

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  • 69shamefacedly — See shamefaced. * * * …

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  • 70past- — Solid, firm. 1. a. fast1; shamefaced, steadfast, from Old English fæst, fixed, firm; b. avast, from Middle Dutch vast, firm, fast. Both a and b from Germanic *fastuz, firm, fast …

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