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  • 101177 (video game) — Infobox VG title = 177 publisher = dB soft engine = released = 1986 genre = bishōjo game modes = Single player ratings = N/A platforms = NEC PC 8801 media = 1 floppy disks input = Joystick, Keyboard177 is a Bishōjo game for NEC PC 8801 released… …

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  • 102Crockford's — 50 St. James s Street, Crockford s first location. Crockford s was a London gentlemen s club, now dissolved, which was established in 1793 and which closed in 1845. It was one of London s older clubs, was centred around gambling, and maintained a …

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  • 103lady —    a prostitute    As in the oldest joke:     Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady. That was my wife.    A lady s college was a brothel where you might contract lady s fever, syphilis. Also as ladyboarder, lady of a… …

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  • 104reveler — n 1. merrymaker, carouser, roisterer, wassailer, rollicker, Inf. cut up; drinker, tippler, toper, bibber, bibbler, Obs., Rare. biberon; drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, tosspot, Inf. guzzler, Inf. swiller, Inf. sponge, Sl. boozer, Sl. lush, Sl.… …

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  • 105Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots — Baron de Cloots engraved by Levachez Jean Baptiste du Val de Grâce, baron de Cloots (June 24, 1755 – March 24, 1794), better known as Anacharsis Cloots (also spelled Clootz), was a Prussian nobleman who was a significant figure in the French… …

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  • 106Zophar — /zoh feuhr/, n. a friend of Job. Job 2:11. * * * ▪ biblical figure also spelled  Sophar,         in the Book of Job (2:11, 11:1, 20:1, 42:9), one of the three comforters of Job, a biblical archetype of the good man whose misfortunes are… …

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  • 107Morris, William — born March 24, 1834, Walthamstow, near London, Eng. died Oct. 3, 1896, Hammersmith British painter, designer, craftsman, poet, and social reformer, founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Born into a wealthy family, he studied medieval… …

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  • 108Robert Southwell (Jesuit) — For the diplomat, see Robert Southwell (diplomat) Saint Robert Southwell, S.J. (1561 1595). Line engraving by Matthaus Greuter (Greuther) or Paul Maupin, published 1608. Robert Southwell (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595), also Saint Robert Southwell,… …

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  • 109affair — (n.) c.1300, what one has to do, from Anglo French afere, O.Fr. afaire (12c., Mod.Fr. affaire) business, event; rank, estate, from the infinitive phrase à faire to do, from L. ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + facere to do, make (see FACTITIOUS …

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  • 110Pepys, Samuel — (1633 1703)    Diarist, s. of John P., a London tailor, but of good family and connected with Sir E. Montague, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, was ed. at St. Paul s School and at Camb. After leaving the Univ. he entered the household of Montagu, who …

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