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  • 51Dominican Order — For the Caribbean nation, see Dominican people. Order of Preachers Ordo Praedicatorum Abbreviation OP, Dominicans, Blackfriars Motto …

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  • 52Percival Lowell — Born March 13, 1855(1855 …

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  • 53Chimalpopoca — For other people named Chimalpopoca, see Chimalpopoca (disambiguation). Chimalpopoca Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan Chimalpopoca dressed as a god Huitzilopochtli Born 1397 …

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  • 54Fort Maurepas — See also: Fort Maurepas (Canada) The settlement of Fort Maurepas or Old Biloxi, [1] in colonial French Louisiana (New France), began in April 1699 along the Gulf of Mexico (at present day Ocean Springs, MS).[1][2] Fort Maurepas was the capital of …

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  • 55altar — /awl teuhr/, n. 1. an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc. 2. Eccles. See communion table. 3. (cap.) Astron. the constellation Ara …

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  • 56BIMAH — (Heb. בִּימָה; elevated place ), platform in the synagogue on which stands the desk from which the Torah is read. Occasionally, the rabbi delivers his sermon from the bimah, and on Rosh Ha Shanah the shofar is blown there. In Sephardi synagogues …

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  • 57ELEAZAR BEN ARAKH — (second half of the first century C.E.), tanna. He was one of the most outstanding disciples of R. Johanan b. Zakkai , who described him as an overflowing spring, i.e., an inexhaustible source of innovative interpretation and insight into the… …

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  • 58Pew — Pew, n. [OE. pewe, OF. puie parapet, balustrade, balcony, fr. L. podium an elevated place, a jutty, balcony, a parapet or balcony in the circus, where the emperor and other distinguished persons sat, Gr. ?, dim. of ?, ?, foot; hence the Latin… …

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  • 59Pew opener — Pew Pew, n. [OE. pewe, OF. puie parapet, balustrade, balcony, fr. L. podium an elevated place, a jutty, balcony, a parapet or balcony in the circus, where the emperor and other distinguished persons sat, Gr. ?, dim. of ?, ?, foot; hence the Latin …

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  • 60slip — Pew Pew, n. [OE. pewe, OF. puie parapet, balustrade, balcony, fr. L. podium an elevated place, a jutty, balcony, a parapet or balcony in the circus, where the emperor and other distinguished persons sat, Gr. ?, dim. of ?, ?, foot; hence the Latin …

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