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  • 111Wine and food matching — A pairing of Vin jaune with walnuts and Comte cheese. Wine and food matching is the process of pairing food dishes with wine to enhance the dining experience. In many cultures, wine has had a long history of being a staple at the dinner table and …

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  • 112Neale Donald Walsch — Born September 10, 1943(1943 09 10) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Nationality …

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  • 113Spem in alium — is a forty part motet by Thomas Tallis, composed circa 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. Though composed in imitative style and occasionally homophonic, its individual vocal lines act quite freely within its fairly simple harmonic… …

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  • 114Oui (magazine) — For other uses, see OUI (disambiguation). Oui OUI magazine first cover (October 1972) Categories Pornographic magazine Frequency 12 / year First issue 1972 …

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  • 115Yazdânism — is a neologism (derived from Kurdish yazdān worthy of worship , a cognate of Avestan Yazata) introduced by Mehrdad Izady in 1992 to denote a group of native Kurdish monotheistic religions: Alevism, Yarsan and Yazidism.[1] The Yazdâni faiths were… …

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  • 116De nugis curialium — (Medieval Latin: Of courtier trifles ) is the major surviving work of the 12th century Latin author Walter Map. He was an English courtier of Welsh descent, probably born in Herefordshire, whose studies and employment took him to Canterbury,… …

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  • 117Clan Turnbull — Coat of arms of the Turnbull of Bedrule,[1] the last chief of clan Turnbull Turnbull is an English surname. Contents …

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  • 118Mohamed Atta's alleged Prague connection — The alleged Prague connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda came through an alleged meeting between September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and Iraqi consulate Ahmad Samir al Ani in April 2001. Czech counterintelligence service claimed that Mohamed Atta… …

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  • 119Lord Uxbridge's leg — Lord Uxbridge with both of his legs Lord Uxbridge s leg was shattered by a cannon shot at the Battle of Waterloo and removed by a surgeon.[1][2] The amputated limb went on to lead a somewhat macab …

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  • 120Dora Stock — Dora Stock: self portrait. Original hangs in the Kügelgenhaus in Dresden Dora (Doris, Dorothea) Stock (6 March 1760 – 30 March 1832) was an artist of the 18th and 19th centuries who specialized in portraiture. She was at the center of a highly… …

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