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  • 71Catholic Indian Missions of Canada —     Catholic Indian Missions of Canada     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Catholic Indian Missions of Canada     The French discoverers of Canada did not fail to impress the aborigines they met with a vague idea of the religion they professed. Thus,… …

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  • 72Francisco Pizarro —     Francisco Pizarro     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Francisco Pizarro     Born in Trujillo, Estremadura, Spain, probably in 1471; died at Lima, Peru, 26 June, 1541.     He was the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisca González, who… …

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  • 73Macaulay family of Lewis — The Macaulay family of Uig in Lewis, known in Scottish Gaelic as Clann mhic Amhlaigh,[1] were a small family located around Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. There is no connection between the Macaulays of Lewis and Clan …

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  • 74Wars of Alexander the Great — Alexander fighting Persian king Darius III. From Alexander Mosaic of Pompeii, Naples, Naples National Archaeol …

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  • 75Dark elves in fiction — Elves, a word from Germanic mythology, are frequently featured in Fantasy fiction. In modern fiction, particularly because of the influence from J. R. R. Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings, elves are modeled mostly after his original description:… …

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  • 76List of Star Wars species (P–T) — Contents 1 Pa lowick 2 Paaerduag 3 Pau an 4 Phlog …

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  • 77Maxims (Old English poems) — Maxims I and Maxims II Author(s) unknown Language Old English Date unknown Manuscript(s) Exeter Book (M …

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  • 78martial — adjective their martial exploits Syn: military, soldierly, soldier like, army, naval; warlike, fighting, combative, bellicose, hawkish, pugnacious, militaristic …

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  • 79HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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