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  • 51Namita Shetty — Beauty pageant titleholder Born Namita Shetty Mumbai, India Hair color Brown Eye color Black Title(s) Miss Bunt 2007 Major com …

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  • 52Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy — Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Professor Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley Participants Resident Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Sgt. James Crowley Sgt. Leon Lashley Off. Carlos Figueroa Other unnamed offic …

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  • 53contemptuous — I adjective abasing, abject, abominable, abusive, accusatory, arbitrary, arrogant, base, brazen, bumptious, calumniating, calumniatory, calumnious, challenging, compromising, contemptible, contumelious, damaging, decrying, defamatory, defiant,… …

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  • 54AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, Heinrich Cornelius — (1486 1535) Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, a Neoplatonist with a penchant for mysticism, excelled in such wide ranging professions as university professor, soldier, physician, lawyer, astrologer, and occult philosopher. His many… …

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  • 55Remmele, Hermann — (1880 1939)    politician; served on the Zentrale of the KPD during 1921 1932. Born in Ziegelhausen am Neckar to a miller s family, he was among the generation that joined the labor movement and the SPD just as both were evolving into mass… …

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  • 56The Threepenny Opera — (Die Dreigroschenoper)    In 1928 the new intendant of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Ernst Josef Aufricht, chanced upon Elisabeth Hauptmann s translation of The Beggar s Opera. Originally writ ten in 1728 by John Gay, the work had recently… …

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  • 57Lanval —    by Marie de France (ca. 1170)    In her collection Lais,MARIE DE FRANCE, an Anglo Norman poet who obviously lived in England but originated from France, included the LAI Lanval. This verse narrative seems to be based on an oral Breton source,… …

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  • 58abuse — Synonyms and related words: abuse of office, addiction, afflict, aggrieve, assail, assailing, assault, atrocity, attack, bark at, batter, befoul, befoulment, belittle, berate, berating, betongue, betray, betrayal, bewitch, billingsgate, bitter… …

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  • 59abusive — Synonyms and related words: Rabelaisian, atrocious, back biting, backhand, backhanded, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, brutal, bulldozing, bullying, calumniatory, calumnious, catty,… …

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  • 60backbiting — Synonyms and related words: abuse, animadversion, backstabbing, belittlement, calumnious, calumny, defamation, defamatory, depreciation, detracting, disparagement, invective, maligning, obloquy, reflection, scandal, scandalous, slander,… …

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