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  • 71figure — n 1. number, numeral, cipher, digit. 2. sum, total, aggregate, amount, price, cost. 3. figures arithmetic, mathematics; statistics, Inf. stats., numerical data. 4. form, shape, outline, cast, cut; configuration, conformation, structure, frame,… …

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  • 72A More Perfect Union (speech) — This article is about the 2008 speech by Barack Obama. For other uses, see A More Perfect Union (disambiguation). A More Perfect Union was viewed on YouTube over 1.2 million times within the first 24 hours of its posting. A More Perfect Union [1] …

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  • 73Rivers of Blood speech — Enoch Powell (1912–1998) The Rivers of Blood speech was a speech criticising Commonwealth immigration, as well as proposed anti discrimination legislation in the United Kingdom made on 20 April 1968 by Enoch Powell (1912–1998), the Conservative… …

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  • 74Barack Obama Tucson memorial speech — President Obama speaks in honor of the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting. President of the United States Barack Obama delivered a speech at the Together We Thrive: Tucson and America memorial on January 12, 2011, held in the McKale Center on… …

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  • 75Gazimestan speech — The Gazimestan speech was a speech given on 28 June 1989 by Slobodan Milošević, then President of Serbia. It was the centrepiece of a day long event to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, in which the medieval Serbian kingdom had… …

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  • 76Resignation speech — A resignation speech is a speech made by a public figure upon resigning from office. Resigning speeches can have considerable political effect for a number of reasons: * The resignation of a senior politician is normally an important, sometimes… …

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  • 77Christ figure — A Christ figure is a literary technique that authors use to draw allusions between their characters and the biblical Jesus Christ. More loosely, the Christ Figure is a spiritual or prophetic character who parallels Jesus, or other spiritual or… …

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  • 78Ellipse (figure de style) — Ellipse (rhétorique) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Ellipse. L’ellipse (substantif féminin), du grec ἐλλείπω : elleipô ( laisser de côté, négliger , du fait que l’on considérait l’ellipse comme un cercle auquel il manquait quelque chose,… …

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  • 79Commencement speech — Kent Beck giving a commencement speech George H. W. Bush and …

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  • 80Alice Cook (figure skater) — Alice Cook is a former American figure skater. She competed in pair skating with William Fauver. In 1976, they won the silver medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and qualified to compete at the 1976 Winter Olympics, where they… …

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