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  • 101Género chico — (literally, little genre ) is a Spanish genre of short light musical plays. It is a subgenre of zarzuela , the Spanish operetta. It differs from zarzuela grande and most other opera forms both by being short and by aiming at a proletarian… …

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  • 102Twat — The word twat has various functions, its primary meaning being a vulgar synonym for the human vulva, vagina, or clitoris. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Twat Dictionary definition and etymology of twat ] ] It is also widely used as a… …

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  • 103Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan — (May 7, 1736 16 August 1803) was a French writer.BiographySon of Jean Sénac, physician to Louis XV, he was born in Versailles. He entered the civil service in 1762; two years later he bought the office of master of requests, and in 1766 further… …

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  • 104Jean Beaufret — (1907 ndash; 1982) was a French philosopher and Germanist tremendously influential in the reception of Martin Heidegger s work in France.After graduating from the École Normale Supérieure and completing military service Beaufret passed his… …

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  • 105Simon Forman — (30 December 1552 ndash; September, 1611) was a prominent English Elizabethan occultist, astrologist and herbalist active in London. LifeForman was born in Quidhampton near Salisbury, Wiltshire. After an abortive apprenticeship in Salisbury, he… …

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  • 106Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac — (1529 1584), French jurist and poet, was born at Toulouse to an old family of the magistracy. He studied law there with Jacques Cujas, and afterwards at Padua. In 1548 he was admitted to the bar at Toulouse, at once took high rank, and rose to be …

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  • 107Diego de Saavedra Fajardo — Portrait of Diego Saavedra Fajardo. Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (6 May 1584(1584 05 06) – 1648) was a Spanish diplomat and man of letters. Contents …

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  • 108Common One — Studio album by Van Morrison Released August, 1980 Reissued June 2008 Recorded …

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  • 109Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio — Ramón María de las Mercedes de Campoamor y Campoosorio (September 24, 1817 February 11, 1901), known as Ramón de Campoamor, Spanish realist poet and philosopher, was born at Navia (Asturias) on September 24, 1817. Abandoning his first intention… …

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  • 110Bouts-Rimés — Bouts Rimés, literally (from the French) rhymed ends , the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison, in the Spectator , as lists of words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another hand, and given to a poet, who was to make a… …

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