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  • 21List of The Boondocks characters — The following is a partial list of characters who have appeared in the animated television series The Boondocks. Contents 1 Main characters 1.1 The Freeman family 1.2 Other main characters 2 …

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  • 22Alex Birns — aka Shondor (February 21, 1907 – March 20, 1975) was a notorious Jewish American mobster and racketeer from Cleveland, Ohio who was once labeled as the city s Public Enemy No. 1 by the local newspapers. He was actively involved in a wide variety… …

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  • 23Anthony Eden — Infobox Officeholder honorific prefix = The Right Honourable name = Anthony Eden honorific suffix = The Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC imagesize = 230px order = Prime Minister of the United Kingdom term start = 7 April 1955 term end = 10 January 1957… …

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  • 24dissuasive — dissuasively, adv. dissuasiveness, n. /di sway siv/, adj. tending or liable to dissuade. [1600 10; DISSUAS(ION) + IVE] * * * …

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  • 25Hesiod — Hesiodic /hee see od ik, hes ee /, adj. /hee see euhd, hes ee /, n. fl. 8th century B.C., Greek poet. * * * flourished с 700 BC Greek poet. One of the earliest Greek poets, he is often called the father of Greek didactic poetry. A native of… …

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  • 26Becket, Saint Thomas — or Thomas à Becket born с 1118, Cheapside, London, Eng. died Dec. 29, 1170, Canterbury, Kent; canonized 1173; feast day December 29 Archbishop of Canterbury (1162–70). The son of a Norman merchant, he served as chancellor of England (1155–62)… …

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  • 27Order of Preachers —     Order of Preachers     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Order of Preachers     As the Order of the Friars Preachers is the principal part of the entire Order of St. Dominic, we shall include under this title the two other parts of the order: the… …

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  • 28Pierre-Antoine Berryer —     Pierre Antoine Berryer     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Pierre Antoine Berryer     French advocate, orator, and statesman, son of Pierre Nicolas Berryer, an advocate, b. at Paris, 4 January, 1790; d. at Augerville, 29 November, 1868. A pupil of… …

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  • 29The Church —     The Church     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church     The term church (Anglo Saxon, cirice, circe; Modern German, Kirche; Sw., Kyrka) is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which… …

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  • 30Shore, Elizabeth (Jane) — (d. 1527)    Through sexual liaisons with EDWARD IV and several prominent courtiers, Elizabeth Shore, better known as Jane Shore, became entangled in the political intrigues that led to the usurpation of RICHARD III and the revival of civil war… …

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