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  • 1romantic — a. 1. Fanciful, imaginative, ideal, extravagant, fantastic, wild. 2. Fictitious, improbable, chimerical, imaginary, fantastic. 3. Wildly picturesque, fantastic …

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  • 2United 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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  • 3performing 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 …

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  • 4literature — /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.… …

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  • 5Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …

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  • 6Perthshire —    PERTHSHIRE, an inland and most extensive county, nearly in the centre of Scotland, bounded on the north and north west by Inverness shire; on the east by the county of Forfar; on the south east by the counties of Fife and Kinross; on the south …

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  • 7Alexander Thomson — Infobox Architect name=Alexander Greek Thomson mother=Elizabeth Cooper father=John Thomson nationality= Scottish birth date=birth date|1817|4|9 birth place= Balfron, Scotland death date=death date|1875|3|22 (age 57) death place= Glasgow, Scotland …

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  • 8Dunkeld and Dowally —    DUNKELD and DOWALLY, a parish, in the county of Perth, 15 miles (N. by W.) from Perth, and 55 (N. N. W.) from Edinburgh; comprising the ancient city of Dunkeld, partly within the parish of Caputh; for many years the seat of the primacy of the… …

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  • 9Olana State Historic Site — Frederic E. Church House (Olana) U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark …

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  • 10Tarn Hows — Infobox lake lake name = Tarn Hows image lake = Tarn hows view.jpg caption lake = image bathymetry = caption bathymetry = location = Lake District coords = coord|54|23|N|3|02|W|region:GB type:waterbody|display=inline,title type = artificial… …

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