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  • 111Chicago Cubs franchise history — The following is a franchise history of the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball, a charter member of the National League who started play in the National Association in 1870. The Chicago N.L. franchise is the only team to play continuously in… …

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  • 112Cirrhigaleus australis — Conservation status Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification …

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  • 113reproductive drain — the theory that growth and reproduction in fishes are antagonistic. Females would grow less than males because of their greater investment in egg production compared to that required for sperm production in males. Generally not true as many fish… …

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  • 114Annals of the Four Masters —     Annals of the Four Masters     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Annals of the Four Masters     The most extensive of all the compilations of the ancient annals of Ireland. They commence, nominally at least, at A.M. 2242 and are continued down to A.D …

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  • 115Periodical Literature, Holland —     Periodical Literature Holland     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Periodical Literature (Holland)     Towards the end of the eighteenth century the grinding oppression, under which the Catholic Faith in the Northern Netherlands had laboured so long …

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  • 116Max Otte — (full name Matthias Otte; * 7 October 1964 in Plettenberg, North Rhine Westphalia) is professor for general and international business administration at the University of Applied Sciences Worms and head of the Cologne based IFVE Institut für… …

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  • 117Nelson Harding — (born October 31, 1879, New York City; died December 30, 1944), an editorial cartoonist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, was a two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, being honored in 1927 and 1928. To date (2011) he is the… …

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  • 118Prix Pulitzer du dessin de presse — Le Prix Pulitzer du dessin de presse (Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning) est un Prix Pulitzer créé en 1922. Il récompense l auteur d un dessin de presse ou d une série de dessins de presse dont l originalité, l efficacité et la qualité… …

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  • 119contract — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. compact, agreement, promise, bargain, covenant, stipulation, convention. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. agreement, legal agreement, covenant, compact, stipulation, contractual statement, contractual… …

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  • 120abate — (v.) put an end to (c.1300); to grow less, diminish in power or influence (early 14c.), from O.Fr. abattre beat down, cast down, from V.L. *abbatere, from L. ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + battuere to beat (see BATTER (Cf. batter) (v.)). Secondary… …

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