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     109. Umineko When They Cry

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     111. International Mathematical Olympiad

     112. Doping in East Germany

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     117. Amanda Knox

     118. Edwin Thompson Jaynes

     119. Discovery of Neptune

     120. Pierre-Simon Laplace

     121. Of Miracles

     122. Second Seminole War  :

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     123. Emancipation of the British West Indies  :

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