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  • 21theatre — /thee euh teuhr, theeeu /, n. theater. * * * I Building or space in which performances are given before an audience. It contains an auditorium and stage. In ancient Greece, where Western theatre began (5th century BC), theatres were constructed… …

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  • 22Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …

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  • 23History of Christianity — Church history redirects here. For the journal, see American Society of Church History#Church History. For the magazine, see Christianity Today#Christian History. Church historian redirects here. For LDS official church historian, see Church… …

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  • 24jewelry — /jooh euhl ree/, n. 1. articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment. 2. any ornaments for personal adornment, as necklaces or cuff links, including those of base metals, glass, plastic, or the like. Also, esp. Brit.,… …

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  • 25Neo-Grec — Severe Greek Revival in the tomb of the German actor Bogumil Dawison, died 1872, Dresden Neo Grec is a term referring to late manifestations of Neoclassicism, early Neo Renaissance now called the Greek Revival style, which was popularized in… …

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  • 26Rowland Theater — The Rowland Theater (alternately spelled Theatre), located at 127 North Front St., Philipsburg, Centre County, PA, is an historic single screen movie theater, built in 1917 by Charles Hedding Rowland in the United States of America. It is listed… …

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  • 27ancestral halls/lineage temples — Ancestral halls are often the largest and most elaborate buildings in a Chinese village. With the initiation of economic liberalization in the early 1980s, ancestral halls began reclaiming their prerevolutionary significance as community centres …

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  • 28Bedizen — Be*diz en, v. t. To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. [1913 Webster] Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 29Antependium — An antependium (Latin: to hang before ; pl: antependia ), more commonly known as a hanging , or, when speaking specifically of the hanging for the altar, an altar frontal , is a decorative piece of material that can adorn a Christian altar,… …

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  • 30trick out — verb a) To dress or decorate in an especially fancy, elaborate, or excessive manner. We went down a flight of fifteen steps below the ground level, and stood in a small chapel tricked out with tapestry hangings, silver lamps, and oil paintings.… …

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