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  • 51Bob Holmes — (born in Greenock, Scotland) is a British artist, Webby Awards winning web designer and digital art director.He is an alumnus of Dundee Art College and studied Printmaking at Chelsea School of Art in the late 80 s under Tim Mara (alumni include… …

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  • 52Financial history of the Dutch Republic — describes the history of the interrelated development of financial institutions in the Dutch Republic. The rapid economic development of the country after the Dutch Revolt in the years 1585 1620, described in Economic History of the Netherlands… …

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  • 53Gran Canal de China — El Gran Canal de China (chino tradicional: 大運河, chino simplificado: 大运河, pinyin: Dà Yùnhé), conocido también como Gran Canal Beijing Hangzhou (chino tradicional: 京杭大運河, chino simplificado: 京杭大运河, pinyin: Jīng Háng Dà Yùnhé) es …

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  • 54reinvigorator — See reinvigoration. * * * …

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  • 55fugue — fuguelike, adj. /fyoohg/, n. 1. Music. a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having… …

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  • 56John XXIII — (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli) 1881 1963, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1958 63. * * * orig. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli born Nov. 25, 1881, Sotto il Monte, Italy died June 3, 1963, Rome Pope (1958–63). He studied theology in Rome, was ordained a priest in …

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  • 57Sugar Act — Amer. Hist. a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. Cf. Navigation Act. * * * (1764) …

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  • 58United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 59Worth, Charles Frederick — born Oct. 13, 1825, Bourne, Lincolnshire, Eng. died March 10, 1895, Paris, France British born French fashion designer. In 1845 he left England, where he had been a bookkeeper, and worked in a Paris dress accessories shop. In 1858 he opened his… …

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  • 60Murray, Elizabeth — ▪ 2008  American artist born Sept. 6, 1940, Chicago, Ill. died Aug. 12, 2007, Granville, N.Y. created colour infused abstract canvases that blended elements of Surrealism and Cubism with cartoonish elements. Her intricately styled creations gave… …

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