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  • 71Mexico — • Situated at the extreme point of the North American continent, bounded on the north by the United States, on the east by the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, British Honduras, and Guatemala, and on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean… …

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  • 72Predestinarianism — • A heresy which reduces the eternal salvation of the elect as well as the eternal damnation of the reprobate to one cause alone, namely to the sovereign will of God, and thereby excludes the free co operation of man as a secondary factor in… …

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  • 73Dreams of My Russian Summers —   Author(s) Andrei Mak …

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  • 74Dutch intervention in Bali (1906) — Dutch troops landing at Sanur, 1906 …

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  • 75Napoleon — For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). Napoleon I …

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  • 76clemency — clem·en·cy / kle mən sē/ n pl cies 1: willingness or ability to moderate the severity of a punishment (as a sentence) 2: an act or instance of mercy, compassion, or forgiveness see also amnesty, commute …

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  • 77acrimony — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. bitterness, rancor, acerbity, asperity, resentment, discourtesy, pungency.Ant., civility; goodwill, amiability. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bitterness, asperity, harshness, rancor; see anger , bitterness… …

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  • 78roughness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Quality of not being smooth or even Nouns 1. roughness, unevenness, ruggedness, asperity, rugosity, corrugation, nodosity, nodulation, hairiness, arborescence, tooth, grain, texture, ripple. 2. (hairlike …

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  • 79severity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Strictness Nouns 1. severity; strictness, harshness, rigor, stringency, austerity, straight face; ill treatment; inclemency, pitilessness, arrogance. See insolence, violence, authority. 2. (strict rule)… …

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  • 80acerbity — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Sourness] Syn. astringency, tartness, acidity; see bitterness 1 . 2. [Harshness] Syn. irritability, asperity, mordancy; see roughness 2 , rudeness , sarcasm . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. sourness bitterness,… …

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