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31The Sporting Times — (founded 1865, ceased publication 1932) was a weekly British newspaper devoted chiefly to sport, and in particular to horse racing. It was informally known as The Pink Un , as it was printed on pink paper.HistoryThe paper was founded in… …
32Charge of the Light Brigade — This article is about the cavalry charge. For the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, see The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem). For other uses, see Charge of the Light Brigade (disambiguation). Charge of the Light Brigade …
33Boris Johnson — Infobox Mayor honorific prefix = name = Boris Johnson honorific suffix = imagesize = office = Mayor of London term start = 4 May 2008 term end = deputy = Richard Barnes predecessor = Ken Livingstone successor = office2 = Shadow Minister of State… …
34metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …
35trenchant — trenchancy, n. trenchantly, adv. /tren cheuhnt/, adj. 1. incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit. 2. vigorous; effective; energetic: a trenchant policy of political reform. 3. clearly or sharply defined; clear… …
36Santayana, George — orig. Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santillana born Dec. 16, 1863, Madrid, Spain died Sept. 26, 1952, Rome, Italy Spanish born U.S. philosopher, poet, and humanist. Santayana moved to the U.S. as a boy in 1872. After graduating from Harvard, he… …
37Baker, Russell — ▪ American journalist and humorist in full Russell Wayne Baker born August 14, 1925, Loudoun county, Virginia, U.S. American newspaper columnist, author, humorist, and political satirist, who used good natured humour to comment slyly and… …
38Chesnutt, Charles W. — ▪ American writer in full Charles Waddell Chesnutt born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland first important black American novelist. Chesnutt was the son of free blacks who had left their native city… …
39Gillray, James — ▪ English caricaturist born Aug. 13, 1756, Chelsea, near London, Eng. died June 1, 1815, London English caricaturist chiefly remembered for lively political cartoons directed against George III of England and Napoleon I. Often scurrilous and… …
40Lenin, Vladimir Ilich — ▪ prime minister of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Introduction original name Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov born April 10 [April 22, New Style], 1870, Simbirsk, Russia died Jan. 21, 1924, Gorki [later Gorki Leninskiye], near Moscow founder of… …
