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  • 21Lenten color — Lenten Lent en, a. [From OE. lenten lent. See {Lent}, n. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. [1913 Webster] She quenched her fury at the flood, And with a Lenten salad cooled her… …

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  • 22Biedermeier — adjective Etymology: after Gottlieb Biedermeier, satirical name for an uninspired German bourgeois Date: 1905 of a style of unostentatious furniture and interior decoration popular especially with the middle class in early 19th century Germany …

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  • 23Charles Dickens — Dickens redirects here. For other uses, see Dickens (disambiguation). Charles Dickens …

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  • 24Maria Callas — Callas redirects here. For other uses, see Callas (disambiguation). Maria Callas Maria Callas (Greek: Μαρία Κάλλας) (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the… …

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  • 25Umar — For other uses, see Omar (disambiguation). Umar ibn al Khattab Caliph Umar s empire at its peak, 644 Al Farooq Reign …

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  • 26Blenheim Palace — is a large and monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. It is the only non episcopal country house in England to hold the title palace . The Palace, one of England s largest houses, was built between 1705 and circa… …

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  • 27William Allingham — (March 19, 1824 or 1828 November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet.He was born in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Ireland, and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent. He obtained a post in the custom house… …

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  • 28Edwin Muir — (15 May 1887 ndash; 3 January, 1959) was an Orcadian [Edwin Muir, an Autobiography, Canongate Press, Edinburgh 1993, ISBN: 0862414237) ] [Paul Henderson Scott, Towards Independence, Edwin Muir was an Orkney man who never quite felt that he was… …

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  • 29Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin — Sidney Godolphin, first Earl of Godolphin (c. 1645 ndash; September 15, 1712), was a leading British politician of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.Family and early careerHe came from an ancient family of Cornwall. At the… …

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  • 30Ranasinghe Premadasa — Infobox President name =Ranasinghe Premadasa |80px imagesize =90px order =3rd President of Sri Lanka term start =January 2, 1989 term end =May 1, 1993 vicepresident = predecessor =Junius Richard Jayawardene successor =Dingiri Banda Wijetunga… …

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