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41Confidential (magazine) — A cover of Confidential from 1954, featuring Lana Turner, Winston Churchill, Joe Louis, and Christine Jorgensen. Confidential was a periodical published quarterly from December 1952 to August 1953, and then bi monthly until 1978. It was founded… …
42Monty Python mediagraphy — The Monty Python comedy troupe branched off into a variety of different media after the success of their sketch comedy television series, Monty Python s Flying Circus. Contents 1 Television 1.1 Special programmes 1.2 Television series featuring… …
43Jerome Emser — Jerome (or Hieronymus) Emser (March 20, 1477 November 8, 1527), antagonist of Luther, was born of a good family at Ulm.He studied Greek at Tübingen and jurisprudence at Basel, and after acting for three years as chaplain and secretary to Raymond… …
44Robert Hewison — Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison (born 2 June 1943) [‘HEWISON, Prof. Robert Alwyn Petrie’, Who s Who 2008, A C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U19993 accessed 26 March… …
45Demosthenes' Funeral Oration — (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Λόγος) was delivered between August and September of 338 BC, just after the Battle of Chaeronea. It constitutes along with the Erotic Essay the two epideictic orations of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator, which are… …
46Sermonum liber primus — (also known as Satires I ), is a collection of ten satirical poems written by the Roman poet Horace. Composed in dactylic hexameters, Horace s Satires explore the secrets of human happiness and literary perfection. Published probably in 35 BCE… …
47Skurrilität — bezeichnet eine auffallend unkonventionelle oder seltsame Idee, Situation, Sache oder Verhaltensweise. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Etymologie 2 Heutige Bedeutung 3 Beispiele 4 Einzelnachweis …
48billingsgate — /bil ingz gayt / or, esp. Brit., / git/, n. coarsely or vulgarly abusive language. [1645 55; orig. the kind of speech often heard at Billingsgate, a London fish market at the gate of the same name] Syn. vituperation, vilification, invective,… …
49comedy — comedial /keuh mee dee euhl/, adj. /kom i dee/, n., pl. comedies. 1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,… …
50ribaldry — /rib euhl dree/; spelling pron. /ruy beuhl dree/, n. 1. ribald character, as of language; scurrility. 2. ribald speech. [1300 50; ME ribaudrie < OF. See RIBALD, RY] * * * …
