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  • 61North v. Russell — Supreme Court of the United States Argued October 9, 1975 Decided June 28, 1976 …

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  • 62Octet (Stravinsky) — Stravinsky in 1921 The Octet for wind instruments is a chamber music composition by Igor Stravinsky, completed in 1923. Stravinsky’s Octet is scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass instruments: flute, clarinet in B …

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  • 63Open Christmas Letter — Emily Hobhouse authored the Open Christmas Letter and circulated it for signatures. The Open Christmas Letter was a public message for peace addressed To the Women of Germany and Austria ,[1] signed by a group of 101 British women suffragists …

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  • 64Holy Week —    The last week in Lent is so called and among the ancients was known also as The Great Week, because of the important events in the last week in our Lord s Life which it commemorates. It is a week of solemn and awful memories, a holy time of… …

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  • 65burlesque — bur•lesque [[t]bərˈlɛsk[/t]] n. adj. v. lesqued, lesquing 1) lit. a comic literary or dramatic piece that vulgarizes lofty material or elevates the ordinary 2) any ludicrous parody or grotesque caricature 3) sbz a stage show featuring comic, usu …

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  • 66GOD — IN THE BIBLE The Bible is not a single book, but a collection of volumes composed by different authors living in various countries over a period of more than a millennium. In these circumstances, divergencies of emphasis (cf. Kings with… …

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