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  • 81navy — /nay vee/, n., pl. navies. 1. the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler. 2. (often cap.) the complete body of such warships together with their officers and enlisted personnel, equipment, yards, etc., constituting …

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  • 82Prussia — • The Kingdom of Prussia covers 134,616 square miles and includes about 64.8 per cent of the area of the German Empire. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Prussia     Prussia      …

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  • 83Bermuda Volunteer/Territorial Army Units 1895-1965 — The Volunteer (later, Territorial) Army units raised in Bermuda were created as part of an Imperial military garrison that existed primarily to protect the Royal Naval base, centred about the HM Dockyard on Ireland Island. The British Army… …

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  • 84Bhagat Jaidev — whose 2 hymns are found in the Guru Granth Sahib is the celebrated Sanskrit poet who wrote the Gitgovind . His father was Bhoidev, a Hindu Brahman, and his mother Bamdevi. He was born at Kenduli Sasan, a village near Puri in Orissa. Young… …

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  • 85corpse — [14] Latin corpus ‘body’ has two direct descendants in English: corpse, which came via Old French cors, and corps [18], which came via modern French corps. The former first entered English in the 13th century as cors, and during the 14th century… …

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  • 86Nathan Meeker — Nathanial C. Meeker Born July 12, 1817(1817 07 12) Euclid, Ohio Died September 30, 1879(1879 09 30) (aged 6 …

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  • 87Canada — This article is about the country. For other uses, see Canada (disambiguation). Canada …

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  • 88Battle of Xiapi — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Xiapi partof=the wars of the Three Kingdoms caption= date=Winter 198 place=Xiapi, Xuzhou (Present day Pizhou, Jiangsu) casus= territory= result=Cao Cao and Liu Bei victors combatant1=Cao Cao, Liu Bei… …

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  • 89Zouave — ouave (?; 277), n. [F., fr. Ar. Zouaoua a tribe of Kabyles living among the Jurjura mountains in Algeria.] (Mil.) (a) One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the …

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  • 90Zouave — noun a) One of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Kabyle, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Kabyle dress. b) Hence, one of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the zouaves in French… …

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