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  • 92Opera seria — A caricature of a performance of Handel s Flavio, featuring three of the best known opera seria singers of their day: Senesino on the left, diva Francesca Cuzzoni in the centre, and art loving castrato Gaetano Berenstadt on the right. Opera seria …

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  • 93Elephantine papyri — The Elephantine Papyri are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts dating from the fifth century BCE. They come from a Jewish community at Elephantine, then called Yeb , the island in the Nile at the border of Nubia, which was probably founded …

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  • 94Commissioner — is in principle the title given to a member of a commission or to an individual who has been given a commission (official charge or authority to do something, the noun s second meaning). In practice, the title of commissioner has evolved to… …

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  • 95Oath of Supremacy — The Oath of Supremacy, originally imposed by King Henry VIII of England through the Act of Supremacy 1534, but repealed by his daughter, Queen Mary I of England and reinstated under Mary s sister, Queen Elizabeth I of England under the Act of… …

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  • 96Károly Kerényi — One of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, Károly (Carl, Karl) Kerényi (January 19, 1897 ndash; April 14 1973) was born in Temesvár , Hungary (now Timişoara, Romania), and then lived in Hungary. His was a family of some landed… …

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  • 97Chad of Mercia — For the 8th century bishop of Hereford, see Ceadda of Hereford. Chad Bishop of York Image of Chad in a stained glass window from Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, New York Diocese …

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  • 98Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan — Infobox Person name = Alexander Stewart other names = The Wolf of Badenoch, Alasdair Mór mac an Rígh (English: Great Alexander, son of the king ) caption = Stewart s sarcophagus effigy at Dunkeld Cathedral, where he was buried. birth date =… …

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  • 99Andrew Fletcher — of Saltoun (1653 September 1716) was a Scottish writer, politician and patriot. He was a Commissioner of the old Parliament of Scotland and opposed the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England.He was the son and heir of Sir Robert Fletcher… …

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  • 100Red Dutton — Dutton (left front) presents the Calder Memorial Trophy to Gus Bodnar as NHL president in 1944 …

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