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  • 91Gottfried von Strassburg — (died c. 1210) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan , which is regarded, alongside Wolfram von Eschenbach s Parzival and the Nibelungenlied , as one of the great narrative masterpieces of the German Middle Ages. He is… …

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  • 92Ludovic Halévy — He was of Jewish ancestry, however his father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth.BiographyLudovic Halévy was born in Paris. His father, Léon Halévy (1802 ndash;1883), was a civil servant and a clever and versatile writer, who tried… …

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  • 93Portuguese literature — This is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language (i.e. Vulgar Latin) spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents …

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  • 94Calormen — In C. S. Lewis s Chronicles of Narnia series of novels, Calormen (pronounced IPA| [ˈkaːlɔ(r)ˌmen] ) is a large country to the southeast of Narnia. Lewis derived its name from the Latin calor , meaning heat . When used as an adjective Lewis… …

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  • 95Manning Clark — in his study in about 1988 Charles Manning Hope Clark, AC (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991), an Australian historian, was the author of the best known general history of Australia, his six volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987 …

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  • 96Thomas Upington — (1844 1898) born in Cork, Ireland was a British administrator in South Africa. He was premier of Cape Colony between 1884 and 1886. The town of Upington in South Africa is named after him.Sir Thomas was born in Rathnee, near Mallow in 28th Oct.… …

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  • 97Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke (3 October 1554 ndash; 30 September 1628), known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman.LifeFulke… …

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  • 98The Return of the Native —   …

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  • 99List of books with the subtitle "Virtue Rewarded" — is a chronological compilation of books with the subtitle Virtue Rewarded .In books and other works, a subtitle is an explanatory or alternate title that usually offer a generalization or moral drawn from the work s plot. Subtitles were a common… …

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  • 100The Rehearsal (play) — The Rehearsal was a satirical play aimed specifically at John Dryden and generally at the sententious and overly ambitious theater of the Restoration tragedy. The play was staged in 1671 and published anonymously in 1672, but it is certainly by… …

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