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  • Myrtoan Sea

    Myrtoan Sea

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  • Joseph Boehm

    Joseph Boehm

    Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Baronet, RA (6 July 1834 – 12 December 1890) was an Austrian-born British medallist and sculptor, best known for the "Jubilee head" of Queen Victoria on coinage, and the

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  • Medieval epithet

    Medieval epithet

    It was customary in the European Middle Ages, more precisely in the period of scholasticism which extended into early modern times, to designate the more celebrated among the doctors of theology an

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  • Ben Zimmer

    Ben Zimmer

    Benjamin Zimmer (born 1971) is an American linguist, lexicographer, and language commentator. He is a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He was formerly a language columnist for The Wall Street

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  • Cretan Sea

    Cretan Sea

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  • Wilfrid Laurier

    Wilfrid Laurier

    Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier (November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister, his 15-year tenure re

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  • Thomas Bradwardine

    Thomas Bradwardine

    Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1300 – 26 August 1349) was an English cleric, scholar, mathematician, physicist, courtier and, very briefly, Archbishop of Canterbury. As a celebrated scholastic philosopher

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  • Antonin Dubost

    Antonin Dubost

    Antonin Dubost (6 April 1842 – 16 April 1921) was a French journalist, State Councillor and Senator. He served as President of the French Senate from 1906 to 1920. He was a member of the Republican

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  • Foochow Romanized

    Foochow Romanized

    Bàng-uâ-cê (abbr. BUC; Chinese: 平話字 ) or Fuzhou romanization (福州話羅馬字 ), is a Latin alphabet for the Fuzhou dialect of Eastern Min adopted in the middle of the 19th century by Western missionaries.

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  • Henry Dudeney

    Henry Dudeney

    Henry Ernest Dudeney (10 April 1857 – 23 April 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the foremost creators of

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