tableau
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tab·leau
/ ˌtaˈblō/
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n.
(pl. tab·leaux
/ ˌtaˈblōz/ )
a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant.
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THE HIGH FLIER; Vladimir used to work as a coal miner in the Ukraine for pounds 39 a week. Now he is the world's richest trapeze artist.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 6/17/1998; ; 700+ words
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Vladimir, the grand price of Kiev.
Magazine article from: World and I; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
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Vladimir will keep you laughing
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/9/2002; ; 700+ words
; Vladimir will keep you laughing By DYLAN FOLEY...immigrants and gangsters. It is 1993, and Vladimir Grishkin is a 25-year-old Russian...Jews who came to America in the 1970s, Vladimir is alternately beaten up and smothered...
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Speak, matrimony Vera Nabokov's life with Vladimir was her career, and his good fortune
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/18/1999; ; 700+ words
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Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
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Theology and Spirituality in the Work of Vladimir Lossky.
Magazine article from: The Ecumenical Review; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 6/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Mountain News WHEAT RIDGE -- In 1987, Vladimir Artemev's Olympic dreams hit the wall...fitting: They're family. On Sunday, Vladimir and his son, Alexander Artemev, who...father. "I was national champion," Vladimir said. "I beat everyone, but they didn...
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Obituary: Vladimir Soloukhin
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/10/1997; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Bohemio News; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
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Vladimir I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Vladimir, St.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
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Vladimir
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Vladimir Evgenevich Jabotinsky
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Statute of Grand Prince Vladimir
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
STATUTE OF GRAND PRINCE VLADIMIR Allegedly authored by Grand Prince Vladimir (r. 980 – 1015), who is credited with...opening section the Statute reports that Grand Prince Vladimir accepted Christian baptism from Photius, Patriarch...
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