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  • respectability politics, whose respectabilities are established by them not abiding by the stereotypes within their own groups. Modern respectability...
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    town is a place where all or most of the stores and housing in the town are owned by the same company that is also the main employer. Company towns are...
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  • The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of...
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    Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist...
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    the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen. In his childhood, Kissinger enjoyed playing soccer. He played for the youth team of SpVgg Fürth, one of the nation's...
    261 KB (26,049 words) - 00:57, 20 November 2024
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    Slavery in Zanzibar (category Sultanate of Zanzibar)
    From Honor to Respectability. Storbritannien: Cambridge University Press. 50 The End of Slavery in Africa. (1988). USA: University of Wisconsin Press...
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    is a town in the western part of Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. It is a suburb of the nearby...
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    parties with a "favourite dish of toasted cheese and opium". The novella was written in the southern English seaside town of Bournemouth in Hampshire, where...
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    comedy depicting the tangled affairs of two young men about town who lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name Ernest...
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    selling a wide range of foodstuffs), and by other sellers who were not enrolled in any guild. Cheesemongers’ shops were situated at the town hall and were very...
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    Haiti (redirect from Republic of Haiti)
    symbols of Haiti and tourist attractions. Modern-day Léogâne, started as a French colonial town in the southwest, is beside the former capital of the caciquedom...
    265 KB (24,573 words) - 12:51, 23 November 2024
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    and separate the individual's lean years, his struggle to achieve respectability, from his subsequent political fashioning. — The Passions of Andrew Jackson...
    207 KB (22,840 words) - 05:30, 22 November 2024
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    Roundabout's The Pirates of Penzance Concert on Broadway", Playbill, 6 September 2022; and "Inside a Broadway Benefit Reading of The Pirates of Penzance", Town &...
    105 KB (12,490 words) - 08:05, 14 November 2024
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    and 1970s, it gained increased respectability within Jamaica and greater visibility abroad through the popularity of Rastafari-inspired reggae musicians...
    141 KB (18,403 words) - 15:42, 20 November 2024
  • a new town on the outskirts of London. Alf continued to work on the docks in London despite the long commute. In the TV series they remained the East End...
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    Egyptian power and influence in the Middle East, while bringing respectability to the new Iranian regime by association with the much more prestigious Egyptian...
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    framework for the National Party's policies, while also providing a veneer of intellectual respectability to the controversial policy of so-called baasskap...
    217 KB (25,696 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2024
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    halt [the PLO's] rise to political respectability" (strategic analyst Avner Yaniv); it should be called "the war to safeguard the occupation of the West...
    289 KB (31,829 words) - 19:12, 21 November 2024
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    Iliad (redirect from The Iliad of Homer)
    Judge, and his town Troy." Hera and Athena then continue to support the Achaean forces throughout the poem because Paris is part of the Trojans, while...
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    the movement's respectability in the eyes of the Puritan rulers because some considered Nayler (and not Fox, who was in jail at the time) to be the actual...
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