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  • 21UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, country in N. America. This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction Colonial Era, 1654–1776 Early National Period, 1776–1820 German Jewish Period, 1820–1880 East European Jewish Period,… …

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  • 22Vivien Leigh — Infobox Actor name = Vivien Leigh imagesize = 200px caption = from the film Fire Over England (1937) birthname = Vivian Mary Hartley birthdate = birth date|1913|11|5|df=y location = Darjeeling, West Bengal, India deathdate = death date and… …

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  • 23The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …

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  • 24United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 25List of Naruto characters — The major characters of the series as they appear in Part I The major characters of the series as they appear in Part II The …

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  • 26James O. Freedman — James Oliver Freedman (September 21, 1935 March 21, 2006) was a career academic administrator. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he would briefly serve as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; as the sixteenth… …

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  • 27Mars Hill Academy, Lexington — Mars Hill AcademyLexington, Kentucky *The graduating class of 2008 will be the ninth group of students to complete the full Mars Hill curriculum. The program began in 1995.*The education is classical. Students follow the Trivium of Latin, Logic… …

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  • 28Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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  • 29Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 5 — Promotional photograph of the c …

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  • 30Emulation — Em u*la tion, n. [L. aemulatio: cf. F. [ e]mulation.] 1. The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. [1913 Webster] A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.… …

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