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  2. Conquest (1937 film) - Wikipedia

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    Conquest (also called Marie Walewska) is a 1937 American historical-drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .

  3. Greta Garbo - Wikipedia

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    In 1925, Garbo, who was unable to speak English, was brought to Hollywood from Sweden at the request of Mayer. After a 10-day crossing on the SS Drottningholm [40] in July, Garbo and Stiller arrived in New York where they remained for more than six months without word from MGM. They decided to travel to Los Angeles on their own but another five ...

  4. Word family - Wikipedia

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    A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made with suffixes and prefixes [1] plus its cognates, i.e. all words that have a common etymological origin, some of which even native speakers don't recognize as being related (e.g. "wrought (iron)" and "work(ed)"). [2]

  5. Conquest (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Conquest, a film starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer; Conquest, directed by Lucio Fulci; Conquest, a British-Canadian film; Conquest (TV series), a History Channel series; Conquest, a 1950s CBS news program hosted by Eric Sevareid; Conquest, an abandoned Netflix television drama created by Carl Rinsch

  6. Paraluman - Wikipedia

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    Paraluman was born in Tayabas to Lothar von Giese, and Tecla de Torres, who was herself from Tayabas. [10] Educated at Assumption College, the young Paraluman herself was an avid movie fan.

  7. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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    Generally, words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated, or pretentious. However, there are exceptions: weep , groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry , brush and rock (from French).

  8. Garbo - Wikipedia

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    Gunnar Garbo (1924–2016), Norwegian journalist and politician; Ingvald Garbo (1891–1941), member of the Norwegian Resistance in WWII; Norman Garbo (1919–2017), American author, lecturer and painter; Raffaellino del Garbo (1466), Florentine painter; Juan Pujol García (1912–1988), codename "Garbo", Spanish double agent for the British

  9. Shakya - Wikipedia

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    This was an origin myth of the ruling status of the khattiya families of the Shakya clan, who had the right to be represented in the santhāgāra, were often related to each other, and possessed adjacent areas of land, thus establishing kinship, which itself helped form rights of landownership, and, therefore, of political authority.