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111jackleg — /jak leg /, Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. adj. 1. unskilled or untrained for one s work; amateur: a jackleg electrician. 2. unscrupulous or without the accepted standards of one s profession: a jackleg lawyer. 3. makeshift; temporary. n …
112literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
113Marie de Médicis — /mann rddee deuh may dee sees / 1573 1642, queen of Henry IV of France: regent 1610 17. Italian, Maria de Medici. * * * Italian Maria de Medici born April 26, 1573, Florence died July 3, 1642, Cologne Queen consort of Henry IV of France. The… …
114Odysseus — /oh dis ee euhs, oh dis yoohs/, n. Class. Myth. king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War. Latin, Ulysses. * * * I Roman Ulysses Hero of Homer s …
115performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
116Plato — /play toh/, n. 1. 427 347 B.C., Greek philosopher. 2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon, having a dark floor: about 60 miles (96 km) in diameter. * * * orig. Aristocles born 428/427, Athens, or Aegina, Greece died… …
117Cao Cao — or Ts ao Ts ao born AD 155, Boxian, China died 220, Luoyang Chinese general who, at the end of the Han dynasty, assumed imperial prerogatives. Cao Cao rose to prominence when he suppressed the Yellow Turban rebellion in the last years of the Han …
118Fuentes, Carlos — born Nov. 11, 1928, Mexico City, Mex. Mexican writer and diplomat. The son of a career diplomat, he traveled widely before studying law and entering the diplomatic service. He is best known for his experimental novels. His first, Where the Air Is …
119Relics — • An object, notably part of the body or clothes, remaining as a memorial of a departed saint Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Relics Relics …
120Antipope John XXIII — John XXIII † Catholic Encyclopedia ► John XXIII Antipope of the Pisan party (1400 15), b. about 1370; d. 22 November, 1419. Cardinal Baldassare Cossa was one of the seven Cardinals who, in May, 1408, deserted …
