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  • 121Baan Boa Resort Phuket (Phuket) — Baan Boa Resort Phuket country: Thailand, city: Phuket (Patong Beach) Baan Boa Resort Phuket The Baan Boa Resort Phuket is a small luxury resort located at the quite end of Patong. It is only at a short walking distance from the shopping centres …

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  • 122Elizabeth I — (Elizabeth Tudor) 1533 1603, queen of England 1558 1603 (successor of Mary I; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn). * * * born Sept. 7, 1533, Greenwich, near London, Eng. died March 24, 1603, Richmond, Surrey Queen of England (1558–1603).… …

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  • 123gracious — graciously, adv. graciousness, graciosity /gray shee os i tee/, n. /gray sheuhs/, adj. 1. pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous. 2. characterized by good taste, comfort, ease, or luxury: gracious suburban living; a gracious home. 3.… …

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  • 124kingly — kingliness, n. /king lee/, adj., kinglier, kingliest, adv. adj. 1. stately or splendid, as resembling, suggesting, or befitting a king; regal: He strode into the room with a kingly air. 2. pertaining or proper to a king: kingly power. 3. having… …

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  • 125peaceful — peacefully, adv. peacefulness, n. /pees feuhl/, adj. 1. characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration. 2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a state or time of… …

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  • 126Musial, Stan(ley Frank) — born Nov. 21, 1920, Donora, Pa., U.S. U.S. baseball player. Musial played his entire career for the St. Louis Cardinals (1941–63), starting as a pitcher but switching to the outfield and ultimately to first base. A left handed batter, Stan the… …

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  • 127Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy — orig. Jacqueline Bouvier born July 28, 1929, Southampton, N.Y., U.S. died May 19, 1994, New York, N.Y. U.S. first lady, socialite, and editor. After graduating from George Washington University in 1951 she took a job as a reporter photographer at …

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  • 128Cervantes, Miguel de — ▪ Spanish writer Introduction in full  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra  born September 29?, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain died April 22, 1616, Madrid  Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most… …

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