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51Rudin — infobox Book | name = Рудин title orig = Рудин in Russian, IPA2|rudin translator = Constance Garnett (1894), Richard Freeborn (1975) image caption = Penguin classics cover of Rudin author = Ivan Turgenev illustrator = cover artist = country =… …
52Ephraim Deinard — (1846 1930) was one of the greatest Hebrew bookmen of all time. He was a bookseller, bibliographer, publicist, polemicist, historian, memoirist, author, editor, and publisher, all rolled into one.Deinard produced some 70 volumes whose subjects… …
53John of Montson — (Juan de Monzón) (born at Monzón, Spain; date of birth c.1340, death after 1412) was an Aragonese Dominican theologian and controversialist.LifeHe joined the Dominicans probably in Valencia. In 1383 he was lecturing on theology at Valencia… …
54asperity — /euh sper i tee/, n., pl. asperities. 1. harshness or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; severity; acrimony: The cause of her anger did not warrant such asperity. 2. hardship; difficulty; rigor: the asperities of polar weather. 3. roughness of …
55Australia — /aw strayl yeuh/, n. 1. a continent SE of Asia, between the Indian and the Pacific oceans. 18,438,824; 2,948,366 sq. mi. (7,636,270 sq. km). 2. Commonwealth of, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and… …
56Heraclius — /her euh kluy euhs, hi rak lee euhs/, n. A.D. 575? 641, Byzantine emperor 610 641. * * * ▪ Byzantine emperor born c. 575, , Cappadocia died Feb. 11, 641, Constantinople Eastern Roman emperor (610–641) who reorganized and strengthened the… …
57venom — venomless, adj. /ven euhm/, n. 1. the poisonous fluid that some animals, as certain snakes and spiders, secrete and introduce into the bodies of their victims by biting, stinging, etc. 2. something resembling or suggesting poison in its effect;… …
58Parker, Dorothy — orig. Dorothy Rothschild born Aug. 22, 1893, West End, near Long Beach, N.J., U.S. died June 7, 1967, New York, N.Y. U.S. short story writer and poet. She grew up in affluence in New York City. She was a drama critic for Vanity Fair and wrote… …
59English literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …
60Macedo, José Agostinho de — ▪ Portuguese writer born Sept. 11, 1761, Beja, Port. died Oct. 2, 1831, Pedrouços Portuguese didactic poet, critic, and pamphleteer notable for his acerbity. Macedo took vows as an Augustinian in 1778. Because of his turbulent… …
