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  • 51Zera Pulsipher — (also Zerah) (1789 ndash;1872) was a leader and general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.Birth: 24 June 1789, Rockington, Windham County, Vermont, Son of John Pulsipher and Elizabeth Dutton.Death: 1 January 1872,… …

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  • 52Holy Jesus Hospital — The Holy Jesus Hospital is a museum and tourist attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in the care of the National Trust.The site of the building has had a 700 year history of helping the townspeople and this history is explained by the… …

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  • 53Nicephorus II Phocas — born 912, Cappadocia died Dec. 10/11, 969, Constantinople Byzantine emperor (963–969). A powerful military commander, he fought the Arabs in the east, liberated Crete from its Arab rulers (961), and gained control of the eastern Mediterranean.… …

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  • 54Warner, Sylvia Townsend — ▪ British author born Dec. 6, 1893, Harrow, Middlesex, Eng. died May 1, 1978, Maiden Newton, Dorset       English writer who began her self proclaimed “accidental career” as a poet after she was given paper with a “particularly tempting surface”… …

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  • 55Andrea Vanni —     Andrea Vanni     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Andrea Vanni     Painter and statesman, b. at Siena, 1320; d. 1414. He entered politics after the democratic overthrow of the government of the city. A letter written to him by St. Catherine, his… …

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  • 56Dominique Barrière — Dominique Barrière, a French painter and engraver, was born at Marseilles about the year 1622. He chiefly resided at Rome, where he engraved a considerable number of plates, in a very agreeable style, after Claude and other landscape painters, as …

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  • 57Glenelg —    GLENELG, a parish, in the county of Inverness, 188½ miles (N. W.) from Edinburgh; containing, with the island of Rassay, 2729 inhabitants. The name of this place, according to some, signifies the valley of hunting, and according to others, the …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 58ambergris — (n.) early 15c., from M.Fr. ambre gris gray amber (see AMBER (Cf. amber)), a wax like substance of ashy colour, found floating in tropical seas, and as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale. Used in perfumery, and formerly in… …

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  • 59the bottle —    1. an addiction to intoxicants    Bottles and intemperance have long gone together, especially if the preference is for wines and spirits:     The bottle was enjoyed by both as a launching pad for the missile of social grace. (Ustinov, 1971)… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 60delightful — a. Charming, enchanting, ravishing, very agreeable, highly pleasing, rapturous, enrapturing, transporting …

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