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Van Dine, S. S.

(Encyclopedia)Van Dine, S. S.: see Wright, Willard Huntington. ...

Brutus, in ancient Rome

(Encyclopedia)Brutus bro͞oˈtəs [key], in ancient Rome, a surname of the Junian gens. Lucius Junius Brutus, fl. 510 b.c., was the founder of the Roman republic. He feigned idiocy to escape death at the hands of L...
 

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