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  2. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. 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 ...

  3. Champion - Wikipedia

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    "cempa" or "cempan" stood for 'warrior' in the ancient Anglo-Saxon texts. A champion (from the late Latin campio) is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition.There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional/provincial/state, national, continental and world championships, and even further (artificial) divisions at one or more of these levels, as in association ...

  4. Philippa Foot - Wikipedia

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    Philippa Ruth Foot FBA (née Bosanquet; 3 October 1920 – 3 October 2010) was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics.Her work was inspired by Aristotelian ethics.

  5. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Wikipedia

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    The word "expeditionary" was dropped soon after his appointment for security reasons. [failed verification] The campaign in North Africa was designated Operation Torch and was planned in the underground headquarters within the Rock of Gibraltar. Eisenhower was the first non-British person to command Gibraltar in 200 years. [84]

  6. Harold Macmillan - Wikipedia

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    He championed a Keynesian strategy of deficit spending to maintain demand and pursuit of corporatist policies to develop the domestic market as the engine of growth. Benefiting from favourable international conditions, [ 2 ] he presided over an age of affluence , marked by low unemployment and high—if uneven—growth.

  7. Secular Jewish music - Wikipedia

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    The claim of "fundamental Jewishness" was repeated, but with a completely opposite meaning, by 20th century Jews like Leonard Bernstein (regarding Mahler), who viewed that the dual Jewishness and success of the composers is something to be championed and celebrated. [33]

  8. The Easy Way to Stop Smoking - Wikipedia

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    Championed by many celebrities, there have now been several clinical studies that confirm the effectiveness of Carr's method [1] including two randomised controlled trials. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking in-person Live Group Seminars, on which the book is based, are now used by the National Health Service and Local Council ...

  9. Germanic heroic legend - Wikipedia

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    Hagen kills Siegfried while the Burgundian kings Gunther, Giselher, and Gernot watch. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1847.. Germanic heroic legend (German: germanische Heldensage) is the heroic literary tradition of the Germanic-speaking peoples, most of which originates or is set in the Migration Period (4th-6th centuries AD).