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  2. The Play of Everyman - Wikipedia

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    From the standpoint of dramatic value and human interest it is[ ]much ahead of the old English version ... the new Everyman, in the beautiful, simple English of George Sterling, should prove a success from a popular as well as an artistic standpoint. ... Ordynski is the first man to introduce Los Angeles to the real possibilities of stage ...

  3. Great Hall of the People - Wikipedia

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    Ceiling of The Auditorium of Ten Thousand People. The Central Military Band of the People's Liberation Army of China at the Great Hall of the People. The band plays an important role in the ceremonial protocol that occurs in the hall. The Great Hall has been used for the state funerals and memorial services for several top leaders.

  4. The Nine Billion Names of God - Wikipedia

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    "The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards.

  5. Myriad - Wikipedia

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    The former might imply that it is a diverse group of people whereas the latter usually does not. Despite its usually meaning (a large, unspecified quantity), myriad is sometimes used in English to mean ten thousand although usually restricted to translation from other languages like ancient Greek and Chinese where quantities are grouped by ...

  6. Ten thousand years - Wikipedia

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    '[May] my Emperor [live and reign for] ten thousand years', 'ten thousand years', 'ten thousand of ten thousand years'). The foregoing phrase is best known to modern Chinese through televised films, but is not historically accurate; in the Ming dynasty , the only occasion during which 萬歲 is used is the great court, which was held one to ...

  7. Upper ten thousand - Wikipedia

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    Upper Ten Thousand, or simply, The Upper Ten, is a 19th-century phrase referring to the wealthiest 10,000 residents of New York City. The phrase was coined in 1844 by American poet and author Nathaniel Parker Willis. [1] Soon, the term came to be used to describe the upper circles not only of New York, but also those of other major cities. [2]

  8. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    Combinations of the unambiguous words such as ten, hundred, thousand and million. For example: one thousand million and one million million. [5] Scientific notation (for example 1 × 10 10), or its engineering notation variant (for example 10 × 10 9), or the computing variant E notation (for example 1e10). This is the most common practice ...

  9. Come, Ye Thankful People, Come - Wikipedia

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    Alford was a moderate who attempted to keep good relations between non-conformists and the High Church Anglicans in the Church of England: "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" is commonly found in evangelical hymn books, as are Alford's "Forward be our watchword" and "Ten thousand times ten thousand". [4]