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  • 21Marie Lafarge — Marie Fortunée Lafarge, née Capelle (January 15, 1816 November 7, 1852) was a Frenchwoman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable, because it was one of the first trials to be followed by… …

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  • 22Strivers' Row — The term Strivers Row refers to three rows of townhouses in western Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan on West 138th and West 139th between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard. They were originally… …

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  • 23Parkman-Webster murder case — The Parkman Webster murder case was a highly publicized crime, investigation, and trial that shook the American city of Boston, Massachusetts to its core in 1849–1850, due to the crime s gruesome nature and the high social station of the victim… …

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  • 24rent — rent1 rentability, n. rentable, adj. /rent/, n. 1. a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property. 2. a payment or series of payments made by a lessee to …

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  • 25Vigny, Alfred-Victor, comte de — ▪ French author Introduction (count of ) born March 27, 1797, Loches, Fr. died Sept. 17, 1863, Paris  poet, dramatist, and novelist who was the most philosophical of the French Romantic writers. Youth and Romantic works.       Vigny was born into …

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  • 26Bribery — • The payment or the promise of money or other lucrative consideration to induce another, while under the obligation of acting without any view to private emolument, to act as the briber shall prescribe Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …

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  • 27Socialism — • A system of social and economic organization that would substitute state monopoly for private ownership of the sources of production and means of distribution Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Socialism     Socialism …

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  • 28Archdiocese of Santa Fe (New Mexico) —     Santa Fe     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Santa Fe     (SANCTAE FIDEI IN AMERICA).     Archdiocese in New Mexico, erected by Pius IX in 1850 and created an archbishopric in 1875. It comprised at first the three territories of …

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  • 29SYME, David (1827-1908) — newspaper proprietor, the father of protection in Australia was born on 2 October 1827 at North Berwick, Scotland, the youngest of the seven children of George Syme, a parish schoolmaster, and his wife, Jean Mitchell. His father s income was… …

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  • 30Parkman–Webster murder case — The Parkman Webster murder case was a highly publicized crime, investigation, and trial that shook the American city of Boston, Massachusetts to its core in 1849–1850, due to the crime s gruesome nature and the high social station of the victim… …

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