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  • 81William Galison — is an American jazz musician, most famous as a harmonica player but also known as a multi instrumentalist, singer and composer. [ [http://www.jazzpolice.com/content/view/5027/2/ Jazz Police] ] Early life and rise to fameGalison was born and… …

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  • 82china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …

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  • 83China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …

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  • 84tortuosity — /tawr chooh os i tee/, n., pl. tortuosities. 1. the state of being tortuous; twisted form or course; crookedness. 2. a twist, bend, or crook. 3. a twisting or crooked part, passage, or thing. [1595 1605; < LL tortuositas. See TORTUOUS, ITY] * * * …

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  • 85Rupnarayan River — River, West Bengal state, northeastern India. It rises as the Dhaleshwari in the Chota Nagpur plateau foothills northeast of Purulia and follows a tortuous southeasterly course past the town of Bankura, where it is known as the Dwarkeswar. It&#8230; …

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  • 86Varix — An enlarged and convoluted vein, artery or lymphatic vessel. * * * 1. A dilated vein. 2. An enlarged and tortuous vein, artery, or lymphatic vessel. [L. v. (varic ), a dilated vein] v. anastomoticus SYN: aneurysmal v.. aneurysmal v. dilation and&#8230; …

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  • 87English words first attested in Chaucer — Contents 1 Etymology 2 List 2.1 Canterbury Tales General Prologue …

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  • 88Islamic fundamentalism in Iran — The history of fundamentalist Islam in Iran (or History of Principle ism) covers the history of Islamic revivalism and the rise of political Islam in modern Iran. Today, there are basically three types of Islam in Iran: traditionalism, modernism …

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  • 89List of Athena's Saints — Athena, accompanied by Bronze and Gold Saints. Screenshot from the anime. The following list comprises the characters that form the three ranks of the army of the greek goddess Athena, in the japanese manga Saint Seiya, written and illustrated by …

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  • 90circuitous — I adjective ambagious, anfractuous, anguilliform, anguine, circumfluent, circumambulating, circumfluous, circumlocutory, complicated, contorted, convoluted, convolution, crooked, curved, deviating, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, eel&#8230; …

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