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  • 41adversity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Ill fortune Nouns 1. (difficulty) adversity, affliction; bad, ill, adverse, or hard luck or fortune, Weltschmerz; evil lot; force majeur, frowns of fortune; evil star or genius; ups and downs of life,… …

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  • 42Michael Tarchaniota Marullus — Michael Marullus Tarchaniota Μιχαήλ Μάρουλλος Ταρχανειώτης Portrait of Michael Marullus by Sandro Botticelli in about 1496.[1] Born 1458 Constantinople or Despotate of the Morea …

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  • 43Emperor Wu of Liang — (梁武帝) (464 549), personal name Xiao Yan (蕭衍), courtesy name Shuda (叔達), nickname Lian er (練兒), was the founding emperor of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty. His reign, until the end, was one of the most stable and prosperous during the Southern… …

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  • 44Guillaume de Machaut — Guillaume de Machaut, sometimes spelled Machault, (c. 1300 – April 1377), was an important Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the earliest composers for whom significant biographical information is available.Guillaume de Machaut was… …

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  • 45Xiao Tong — (蕭統) (501 531), courtesy name Deshi (德施), formally Crown Prince Zhaoming (昭明太子, literally the accomplished and understanding crown prince ), later further posthumously honored as Emperor Zhaoming (昭明皇帝), was a crown prince of the Chinese dynasty… …

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  • 46raw deal — Synonyms and related words: atrocity, bad fortune, bad luck, disservice, evil dispensation, evil fortune, evil star, frowns of fortune, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice, hard lines, hard luck, ill fortune, ill luck, ill wind, imposition,… …

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  • 47Kamma —    Kan in the Burmese (Myanmar) language, known as karma in English, which means (voluntary) action. A basic doctrine of Buddhism, which states that all voluntary actions accumulate merit or demerit (kutho, akutho) according to their moral status …

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  • 48misfortune — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. mishap, disaster, calamity, catastrophe; bad luck; adversity. See evil. Ant., good fortune. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Bad luck] Syn. back luck, ill fortune, ill luck, adversity, affliction, adverse… …

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  • 49Fortuna — For other uses, see Fortuna (disambiguation). Fortuna governs the circle of the four stages of life, the Wheel of Fortune, in a manuscript of Carmina Burana Fortuna (equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) was the goddess of fortune and… …

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  • 50Hope Diamond — French Blue redirects here. For the color, see French blue (color). Hope Diamond Hope Diamond in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Weight 45.52[1][2] …

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