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  • 41Sex Pistols — Infobox musical artist | Name = Sex Pistols Img capt = The Sex Pistols in 1977. Left to right: Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten, and Steve Jones, with drummer Paul Cook in the background. The photo was taken during the video shoot for God Save the… …

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  • 42The Mysterious Mr. Quin —   …

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  • 43Chappaquiddick incident — Location Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Date July 18, 1969 (1969 07 18) Result Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of the ac …

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  • 44A Clockwork Orange —    1) (1960–1961)    ANTHONY BURGESS’s novella was written early in his literary career, in 1960 and 1961. At the time, Burgess had been told that he had less than a year to live, and Clockwork was only one of several novels that he produced… …

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  • 45glance — 1. v. & n. v. 1 intr. (often foll. by down, up, etc.) cast a momentary look (glanced up at the sky). 2 intr. (often foll. by off) (esp. of a weapon) glide or bounce (off an object). 3 intr. (usu. foll. by over, off, from) (of talk or a talker)… …

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  • 46skew — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, to escape, run obliquely, from Anglo French *eskiuer, eschiver to escape, avoid more at eschew Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. to take an oblique course 2. to look askance transitive verb 1. to make, set …

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  • 47Perspective (graphical) — Part of a series on …

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  • 48Aerial archaeology — is the study of archaeological remains by examining them from altitude.The advantages of gaining a good aerial view of the ground had been long appreciated by archaeologists as a high viewpoint permits a better appreciation of fine details and… …

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  • 49perciform — ▪ fish order Introduction       any member of the order Perciformes, a group of bony fishes with more than 6,000 species placed in about 150 families. The order is the largest group of fishes in the world today. Perciform fishes occur in… …

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  • 50askance — [16] The origins of askance remain obscure. When it first entered the language it meant literally ‘obliquely, sideways’ (‘He bid his angels turn askance the poles of Earth’, John Milton, Paradise Lost 1667), so a possible source is Italian a… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins