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  • 41Chinese character — Chinese pic=Hanzi.svg!200px picc Traditional Chinese (hanzi, kanji, hanja, and hán tự) Right: Chinese character in Simplified Chinese s=汉字 t=漢字 kanji=漢字 p=Audio|zh han4zi4.ogg|Hànzì j=hon3 zi6 poj=Hàn jī teo=hang3 ri7 lmz=IPA| [høz] hiragana=かんじ… …

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  • 42Horace Annesley Vachell — (1861–1955) was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobigraphical works.Born in Sydenham, Kent on 30 October 1861, he was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a short period in the Rifle Brigade, he went to… …

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  • 43Pavel Necheporenko — is a virtuoso performer of the balalaika.Born Pavel Ivanovich Necheporenko (sometimes spelled Nechiporenko) on August 31, 1916, he graduated as a conductor from the Moscow Conservatory in 1949. He became the chief conductor of the Andreyev… …

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  • 44distinction — distinctionless, adj. /di stingk sheuhn/, n. 1. a marking off or distinguishing as different: His distinction of sounds is excellent. 2. the recognizing or noting of differences; discrimination: to make a distinction between right and wrong. 3. a …

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  • 45DARLEY, Sir Frederick Matthew (1830-1910) — chief justice of New South Wales son of Henry Darley, a member of the Irish bar, was born in Ireland on 18 September 1830. Educated at Dungannon College, where he had as a schoolfellow, George Higinbotham (q.v.), afterwards chief justice of… …

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  • 46Chinese characters — Unless otherwise specified Chinese text in this article is written in the format (Simplified Chinese / Traditional Chinese; Pinyin). In cases where the Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters are identical, the Chinese term is written only… …

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  • 47Thracian warfare — Thracian peltast, 5th to 4th century BC. Sica, the national weapon of the Thracians …

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  • 48distinction — dis•tinc•tion [[t]dɪˈstɪŋk ʃən[/t]] n. 1) a distinguishing as different 2) the recognizing of differences; discrimination: to make a distinction between right and wrong[/ex] 3) a discrimination made between things as different: Death comes to all …

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  • 49distinction — /dəsˈtɪŋkʃən / (say duhs tingkshuhn) noun 1. a marking off or distinguishing as different. 2. the recognising or noting of differences; discrimination. 3. a discrimination made between things as different. 4. the condition of being different; a… …

  • 50REEVES, JOHN SIMS —    distinguished singer, born at Shooter s Hill, Kent; made his first appearance at the age of 18 as a baritone at Newcastle, and then as a tenor, and the foremost in England at the time; performed first in opera and then as a ballad singer at… …

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