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  • 111Phan Dinh Phung — Infobox revolution biography name=Phan Đình Phùng lived=1847 ndash; January 21 1896 caption=Phan Đình Phùng, 19th century Vietnamese scholar and anti colonial revolutionary alternate name=Phan Dinh Phung dateofbirth= 1847 placeofbirth=Dong Thai,… …

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  • 112Basque witch trials — Francisco de Goya s Witches Sabbat, 1798 The Basque witch trials of the 17th century represent the most ambitious attempt at rooting out witchcraft ever undertaken by the Spanish Inquisition. The trial of the Basque witches at Logroño, near… …

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  • 113St. Oliver Plunket —     Blessed Oliver Plunket     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Oliver Plunket     [Editor s Note: St. Oliver Plunkett was canonized by Pope Paul VI on December 10, 1975.]     Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, born at Loughcrew… …

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  • 114NSPIRG — Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group Location Halifax, Nova Scotia Founded 1990 Field Environmental and Social Justice …

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  • 115elimination — Synonyms and related words: abolishment, abolition, abscission, amputation, annihilation, annulment, assassination, bloody murder, bumping off, castaway, castoff, choking, choking off, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, deep six, defecation,… …

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  • 116suppression — Synonyms and related words: Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abolishment, abolition, aloofness, annihilation, annulment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, backwardness, bamboo curtain, ban, barrier of secrecy, bashfulness,… …

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  • 117extirpation — early 15c., removal; 1520s, rooting out, eradication, from L. extirpationem/exstirpationem (nom. extirpatio/exstirpatio), noun of action from pp. stem of extirpare/exstirpare root out, from ex out (see EX (Cf. ex )) + stirps (gen …

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  • 118poke# — poke vb Poke, prod, nudge, jog are comparable when they mean, as verbs, to thrust something into so as to stir up, urge on, or attract attention and, as nouns, the act or an instance of such thrusting. Poke implies primarily the use of a body… …

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  • 119GIBEONITES AND NETHINIM — (Heb. גִּבְעֹנִים, נְתִינִים). The Gibeonites, residents of four important cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem, feared that they might share the fate of Jericho and Ai, which were destroyed by the Israelites, and tricked joshua into a treaty that …

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  • 120Extirpative — Ex tir*pa*tive, a. Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out. Cheyne. [1913 Webster] …

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