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  • 21meretriciousness — mer e*tri cious*ness n. 1. an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility. Syn: speciousness. [WordNet 1.5] 2. tasteless showiness. Syn: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, tawdriness, glitz. [WordNet 1.5] …

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  • 22tawdry — I. adjective (tawdrier; est) Etymology: tawdry lace a tie of lace for the neck, from Saint Audrey (Saint Etheldreda) died 679 queen of Northumbria Date: 1655 cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality; also ignoble < a tawdry attempt to smear his&#8230; …

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  • 23Tower Bridge — Infobox Bridge bridge name= Tower Bridge caption= Tower Bridge from the North Bank at dusk official name= also known as= carries= A100 Tower Bridge Road motor vehicles, pedestrians crosses= Thames locale= London maint= Bridge House Estates id=&#8230; …

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  • 24Briarcliffe Acres, South Carolina — Infobox Settlement official name = Briarcliffe Acres, South Carolina nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = 250x200px map caption = Location in South Carolina mapsize1 = map caption1 = subdivision type = Country&#8230; …

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  • 25Happy Days (play) — Happy Days is a play in two acts, written in English, by Samuel Beckett. He began the play on 8th October 1960 [Knowlson, J., Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), p 475] and it was completed on 14th May 1961.&#8230; …

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  • 26Jacques Copeau — (February 4 1879 ndash; October 20 1949) was an influential French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Before he founded his famous Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in Paris, he wrote theater reviews for several Parisian journals, worked&#8230; …

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  • 27Brummagem — Brummagem, (and historically also Bromichan, Bremicham and many similar variants, all essentially Bromwich·ham), is the local name for the city of Birmingham, England, and the dialect associated with it, (see, for example, Carl Chinn and Steve&#8230; …

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  • 28The Long Good Friday — Infobox Film name = The Long Good Friday amg id = 1:29922 imdb id = 0081070 director = John Mackenzie writer = Barrie Keeffe starring = Bob Hoskins Helen Mirren Dave King Bryan Marshall Pierce Brosnan Paul Freeman producer = Barry Hanson music =&#8230; …

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  • 29Chalga — ( Чалга in Bulgarian from Çalgı in Turkish) is a Bulgarian music genre. It is a blend of Turkish, Bulgarian, Arabic, Greek and Balkan influences, as well as motives from flamenco, filmi and klezmer music. It is known for repeating musical themes&#8230; …

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  • 30Peter Kennard — is a London based artist widely seen as the most accomplished photomontage artist of the second half of the 20th century. Currently, his widely praised installation and digital works are ubiquitous throughout the anti war and anti capitalist&#8230; …

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