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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The name of a battle in which Turkish seapower was destroyed by the Christian League in 1571.
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- noun Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope
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Laurie Lepanto is a member of the Second Creek Nitwitts, an unofficial club, along the lines of a garden/civic club, which donate time and money to causes in the little town.
Archive 2007-01-01 ____Maggie 2007
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Laurie Lepanto is a member of the Second Creek Nitwitts, an unofficial club, along the lines of a garden/civic club, which donate time and money to causes in the little town.
Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly (copy) ____Maggie 2007
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The name Lepanto is given to both the town and the gulf.]
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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Argile and Auchinbreac rode at our head -- his lordship on a black horse called Lepanto, a spirited beast that had been trained to active exercises and field-practice; Auchinbreac on a smaller animal, but of great spirit and beauty.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Naupaclus, now called Lepanto, lies more to the eaft than Patrae.
Maps, Plans, Views and Coins, Illustrative of the Travels of Anacharsis the ... Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Jean Denis Barbié du Bocage 1791
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Chestertons battle poems, such as Lepanto or The Ballad of Saint Barbara, make The Charge of the Light Brigade read like a pacifist tract: they are perhaps the most tawdry bits of bombast to be found in our language.
Notes on Nationalism 1945
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Scarcely less notable is the ringing "Lepanto" from his later _Poems_
Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931
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Scarcely less notable is the ringing "Lepanto" from his later Poems (1915) which, anticipating the banging, clanging verses of Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo," is one of the finest of modern chants.
Biographical Sketches Louis Untermeyer 1920
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1. Jasper Johns $80 million last year for "False Start", painted in 1959 2. Cy Twombly $20 million in 2002 for "Lepanto" painted in 2001 3. Robert Rauschenberg $12 million in 1999 for "Factum II" painted in 1957
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1. Jasper Johns $80 million last year for "False Start", painted in 1959 2. Cy Twombly $20 million in 2002 for "Lepanto" painted in 2001 3. Robert Rauschenberg $12 million in 1999 for "Factum II" painted in 1957
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