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  • 51Duck (cricket) — In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman s dismissal for a score of zero. Contents 1 Origin of the term 2 Significant ducks 3 Variations 4 Pair …

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  • 53Mankind — (ca. 1465)    With the exception of EVERYMAN,Mankind is probably the best known and most often studied late medieval MORALITY PLAY. A verse drama in 914 lines, Mankind is written in the East Midland dialect of MIDDLE ENGLISH, and is known to have …

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  • 54Summary of Decameron tales — This article contains summaries and commentaries of the 100 stories contained in Giovanni Boccaccio s The Decameron .Each story of the Decameron begins with a short heading explaining the plot of the story. The 1903 J. M. Rigg English translation …

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  • 55Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson — (Born December 11, 1954 in Reykjavík, Iceland), guitar player and engineer. He is a mathematician, an inventor, a practising polytechnic engineer, lecturer and the author of several scientific papers.Childhood: first contact with science and… …

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  • 56naught — /nɔt / (say nawt) noun 1. Archaic or Poetic nothing. 2. destruction, ruin, or complete failure: to bring to naught; to come to naught. 3. Chiefly US → nought (def. 1). –adjective Obsolete 4. worthless; useless. 5. lost; ruined. 6. morally bad;… …

  • 57Naught — (n[add]t), n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n[=a]wiht, n[=a]uht, n[=a]ht; ne not + [=a] ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See {No}, adv. {Whit}, and cf. {Aught}, {Not}.] 1. Nothing. [Written also {nought}.] [1913 Webster]… …

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  • 58Jackie Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher — Infobox Military Person name= The Lord Fisher of Kilverstone lived= 25 January 1841 ndash; 10 July 1920 placeofbirth= Ceylon placeofdeath= Kilverstone, Norfolk caption=Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Fisher (on right) with Churchill, December 1914… …

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  • 59The Girl Without Hands — or The Handless Maiden or The Girl With Silver Hands or The Armless Maiden is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 31. [Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales [http://www.pitt.edu/ dash/grimm031.html The Girl Without …

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  • 60naught — /nawt/, n. 1. nothing. 2. a cipher (0); zero. 3. come to naught, to come to nothing; be without result or fruition; fail. 4. set at naught, to regard or treat as of no importance; disdain: He entered a milieu that set his ideals at naught. adj. 5 …

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