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  • 21Torquato Tasso — Infobox writer name = Torquato Tasso |thumb|220px|right caption = birth date = birth date|1544|3|11|df=y birth place = Sorrento, Italy1 death date = death date and age|1595|4|25|1544|3|11|df=y death place = Rome, Italy occupation = Poet, Novelist …

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  • 22Wilhelm Steinitz — Infobox chess player playername = Wilhelm Steinitz caption= birthname = Wilhelm Steinitz country = flag|Austrian Empire USA datebirth = birth date|1836|5|17 placebirth = Prague, Bohemia datedeath = death date and age|1900|8|12|1836|5|7 placedeath …

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  • 23Hannah Adams — (October 2, 1755 ndash;December 15, 1831) was a Christian author, born in Medfield, Massachusetts and died in Brookline. She was the first woman in the United States who made literature a profession.She was the second of five children born to… …

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  • 24L. Hamilton McCormick — L. Hamilton McCormick, author, inventor and scientist, was born in Chicago, May 27 1859. He was the youngest of the family of four of Leander James and Henrietta Hamilton McCormick and the grandson of Robert Hall McCormick of Walnut Grove,… …

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  • 25moneymaker — /mun ee may keuhr/, n. 1. a person engaged in or successful at acquiring much money. 2. something that produces or yields much pecuniary profit. [1250 1300; ME; see MONEY, MAKER] * * * …

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  • 26Iowa — • One of the North Central States of the American Union, and is about midway between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Iowa     Iowa      …

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  • 27New Mexico — • A state of the United States Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. New Mexico     New Mexico     † …

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  • 28Superstition — • From supersisto, to stand in terror of the deity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Superstition     Superstition     † …

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  • 29Ecclesiastical Courts —     Ecclesiastical Courts     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Courts     I. JUDICIAL POWER IN THE CHURCH     In instituting the Church as a perfect society, distinct from the civil power and entirely independent of it, Christ gave her… …

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  • 30fraud — n [Latin fraud fraus] 1 a: any act, expression, omission, or concealment calculated to deceive another to his or her disadvantage; specif: a misrepresentation or concealment with reference to some fact material to a transaction that is made with… …

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