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  • 1Courtesy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Courtesy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 courtesy courtesy Sgm: N 1 respect respect &c. 928 Sgm: N 1 good manners good manners good behavior good breeding Sgm: N 1 manners manners Sgm: N 1 politeness …

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  • 2compliment — I. n. 1. Praise, commendation, encomium, laudation, good word. 2. Formal praise, hollow commendation, empty encomium, flattering remark, ceremonious phrase or flattery. II. v. a. 1. Praise, commend, flatter (by expressions of civility). 2.… …

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  • 3Canute the Great — Infobox British Royalty|Monarch name=Canute the Great title=King of England, Denmark, Norway and the Swedes imagesize= 200px reign=England: 1016 1035 Denmark: 1018 1035 Norway: 1028 1035 successor=Harold Harefoot (England) Harthacanute (Denmark)… …

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  • 4Cnut the Great — For other people named Canute of Denmark, see Canute of Denmark. Canute and Cnut redirect here. For other people of these names, see Knut. Cnut the Great Coin of Cnut the Great from the British Museum …

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  • 5Stone Temple Pilots — Datos generales Origen San Diego …

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  • 6Romance (love) — Romance is a general term that refers to a celebration of life often through art, music and the attempt to express love with words or deeds. [ Cambridge Advanced Learner s Dictionary; Love 101 : To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong… …

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  • 7Rhetoric — This article is about the art of rhetoric in general. For the work by Aristotle, see Rhetoric (Aristotle). Painting depicting a lecture in a knight academy, painted by Pieter Isaacsz or Reinhold Timm for Rosenborg Castle as part of a series of… …

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  • 8Mary of Bethany — Saint Mary of Bethany Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, Johannes Vermeer, before 1654 1655, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh) Mary is seated at the feet of Jesus Righteous Mary …

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  • 9Symposium (Plato) — The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine… …

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  • 10Augustan poetry — is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. This poetry was more explicitly political than the poetry that had preceded it, and it was… …

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