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  • 1Dead Man's Chest — For other uses, see Dead Man s Chest (disambiguation). Dead Man s Chest (also known as Fifteen Men On The Dead Man s Chest or Derelict) is a fictional[1] sea song[2] originally from Robert Louis Stevenson s novel Treasure Island (1883). It was… …

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  • 2un´ro|man´ti|cal|ly — un|ro|man|tic «UHN roh MAN tihk», adjective. not romantic; prosaic; practical; commonplace. –un´ro|man´ti|cal|ly, adverb …

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  • 3un|ro|man|tic — «UHN roh MAN tihk», adjective. not romantic; prosaic; practical; commonplace. –un´ro|man´ti|cal|ly, adverb …

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  • 4philistine — n. Commonplace person, prosaic man, practical man, utilitarian, mediocre person, narrow minded man …

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  • 5"Панорама Москвы" — «ПАНОРАМА МОСКВЫ», сочинение юнкера Л. (1834), написанное по заданию преподавателя В.Т. Плаксина. Сохранилась лермонт. тетрадь с записью его лекций. Плаксин учил своих слушателей составлять описат. сочинения. Под пером Л. оно приобрело характер… …

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  • 6literature — /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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  • 7Russian literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in the late 10th century.       The unusual shape of Russian literary history has been the source of numerous… …

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  • 8Unidentified flying object — UFO redirects here. For other uses, see UFO (disambiguation). Photograph of alleged UFO, New Jersey, July 31, 1952 A term originally coined by …

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  • 9Tolstoy, Leo — Russian Lev Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy born Sept. 9, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire died Nov. 20, 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province Russian writer, one of the world s greatest novelists. The scion of prominent aristocrats,… …

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  • 10American literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States.       Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a… …

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