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  • 101Sumgait pogrom — The Sumgait pogrom (also known as the Sumgait Massacre or February Events) was an Azeri led pogrom that targeted the Armenian population of the seaside town of Sumgait ( az. Sumqayıt) in Soviet Azerbaijan during February 1988. On February 27 1988 …

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  • 102Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story — (2005) is a film version of Giuseppe Verdi s opera Rigoletto (libretto by Francesco Maria Piave). Filmed in Siena in 2002 (Arturo Toscanini Foundation), it was directed by Gianfranco Fozzi and produced by David Guido Pietroni and Maurizio De… …

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  • 1032008 Summer Olympics torch relay — 2008 Summer Olympics Bid process Venues Marketing Concerns and controversies Torch relay (route) Opening ceremony (flag bearers) Medal table (medalists) Closing ceremony Event calendar …

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  • 104List of Di-Gata Defenders characters — This is the list of both known major and minor characters for the animated television series Di Gata Defenders.Main Six DefendersSeth (voiced by Noah Cappe):At the age of fourteen (age at Trouble in Paradise ) Seth is the leader of the Di Gata… …

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  • 105Crusades — a series of military expeditions between the 11th and 14th centuries, in which armies from the Christian countries of Europe tried to get back the Holy Land (= what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt) from the Muslims. The soldiers who… …

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  • 106bite — bitable, biteable, adj. /buyt/, v., bit, bitten or bit, biting, n. v.t. 1. to cut, wound, or tear with the teeth: She bit the apple greedily. The lion bit his trainer. 2. to grip or hold with the teeth: Stop biting your lip! …

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  • 107insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …

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  • 108lepidopteran — /lep i dop teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. lepidopterous. n. 2. a lepidopterous insect. [1850 55; LEPIDOPTER(A) + AN] * * * Any of the more than 100,000 species constituting the order Lepidoptera (Greek: scaly wing ): butterflies, moths, and skippers. The… …

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  • 109Maryland — Marylander, n. /mer euh leuhnd/, n. a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast. 4,216,446; 10,577 sq. mi. (27,395 sq. km). Cap.: Annapolis. Abbr.: MD (for use with zip code), Md. * * * State (pop., 2000: 5,296,486), eastern U.S. A… …

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  • 110passeriform — /pas euhr euh fawrm , peuh ser euh /, adj. of or pertaining to the order Passeriformes; passerine. [ < NL Passeriformes, equiv. to L passer sparrow + iformes IFORMES] * * * ▪ bird Introduction also called  passerine  or  perching bird     any&#8230; …

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