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  • 31Aspasia — (ca. 470 BCD. Nails, The People of Plato , 58–59] [P. O Grady, [http://home.vicnet.net.au/ hwaa/artemis4.html Aspasia of Miletus] ] ndash;ca. 400 BC,A.E. Taylor, Plato: The Man and his Work , 41] Greek: Polytonic|Ἀσπασία) was a Milesian woman who …

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  • 32Édouard Manet — Manet redirects here. For other uses, see Manet (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Claude Monet, another painter of the same era. Édouard Manet portrait by Nadar, 1874 Birth name …

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  • 33Harry Paget Flashman — Brigadier General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE (5 May 1822 – 1915) is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser, but based on the character Flashman in Tom Brown s Schooldays , a semi autobiographical work by Thomas… …

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  • 34Mirza Ghalib — Urdu poet of Mughal era Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Born 27 December 1797(1797 12 27) Agra, Maratha Confederacy Died 15 February 1869(1869 02 15) (aged 72) Delhi, Punjab, British India Pen name …

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  • 35Neaira (hetaera) — Neaira Born 4th century BC Died 4th century BC Occupation Hetaera Neaira, or Neaera, (pronounced neh EYE ruh ) (Νέαιρα ) was a hetaera who lived in the 4th century BC in ancient Greece; there is no reliable data about the exact dates of her birth …

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  • 36literature — /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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  • 37Cousin Bette — La Cousine Bette   …

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  • 38ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …

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  • 39French literature — Introduction       the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the …

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  • 40Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …

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