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  2. Luncheon of the Boating Party - Wikipedia

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    In this painting Renoir has captured a great deal of light. The main focus of light is coming from the large opening in the balcony, beside the large singleted man in the hat. The singlets of both men in the foreground and the table-cloth all work together to reflect this light and send it through the whole composition.

  3. Carolyn Keene - Wikipedia

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    The Clue in the Crumbling Wall: 1945 1973 23 Mystery of the Tolling Bell: 1946 24 The Clue in the Old Album: 1947 1977 25 The Ghost of Blackwood Hall: 1948 1967 26 George Waller, Jr. The Clue of the Leaning Chimney: 1949 27 Margaret Scherf: The Secret of the Wooden Lady: 1950 28 Whilemina Rankin: The Clue of the Black Keys: 1951 1968 29 Alma Sasse

  4. List of Nancy Drew books - Wikipedia

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    The Clue of the Leaning Chimney: 1949/1967 27 The Secret of the Wooden Lady: 1950/1967 28 The Clue of the Black Keys: 1951/1968 29 The Mystery at the Ski Jump: 1952/1968 30 The Clue of the Velvet Mask: 1953/1969 31 The Ringmaster's Secret: 1953/1974 32 The Scarlet Slipper Mystery: 1954/1974 33 The Witch Tree Symbol: 1955/1975 34 The Hidden ...

  5. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  6. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...

  7. Leaning Temple of Huma - Wikipedia

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    The Leaning Temple of Huma in India is one of only a very few leaning temples in the world. [1] [2] It is located in Huma, a village situated on the bank of the Mahanadi, 23 km south of Sambalpur in the Indian state of Odisha. The temple is dedicated to the Hindu god Lord Bimaleshwar.

  8. The Clue of the Leaning Chimney - Wikipedia

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    The Clue of the Leaning Chimney is the twenty-sixth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1949 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene . [ 1 ] The actual authors were ghostwriters George Waller, Jr. and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams .

  9. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...