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  • 81ABRAHAMS, ISRAEL — (1903–1973), South African rabbi and scholar. Born in Vilna and educated at Jews College and London University, he was rabbi in London and Manchester before going to South Africa in 1937 as chief rabbi of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation. In… …

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  • 82BENSANCHI, MENTESH — (Mordecai; 1882–1943), Greek journalist and member of parliament. Born in Salonika, he worked as a journalist for the Judeo Spanish newspaper La Epoca, and the French newspaper Salonique. With the termination of La Epoca, in 1912 he was the… …

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  • 83BOROVOY, A. ALAN — (1932– ), Canadian lawyer, human rights activist. Borovoy was born in Toronto, and educated at the University of Toronto, where in 1956 he completed a degree in law. Active in campus Jewish life, he was vice president of the Hillel Foundation and …

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  • 84PRAGER, DENNIS — (1948– ), U.S. author, radio commentator. Prager was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1970. He did his graduate work as a Fellow at the Russian and Middle East Institutes of the Columbia University School of… …

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  • 85NICHOLSON, Sir Charles (1808-1903) — speaker first legislative council, New South Wales was born in England on 23 November 1808 the only son of Charles Nicholson. He was educated at Edinburgh university where he took the degree of M.D. in 1833. He came to Sydney in 1834, practised… …

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  • 86United 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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  • 87De Oratore — First page of a miniature of Cicero s De oratore, 15th century, Northern Italy, now at the British Museum De Oratore ( On the Orator ) is a dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BCE. It is set in 91 BCE, when Lucius Licinius Crassus dies, just before… …

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  • 88Rhetoric — This article is about the art of rhetoric in general. For the work by Aristotle, see Rhetoric (Aristotle). Painting depicting a lecture in a knight academy, painted by Pieter Isaacsz or Reinhold Timm for Rosenborg Castle as part of a series of… …

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  • 89English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …

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  • 90De doctrina christiana — Part of a series on …

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