greatest
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When I recently interviewed Ken Burns and asked who was the greatest hero in his documentary “The American Revolution,” he said, “Oh, without a question, it’s George Washington. We don’t have a country without him.”
This league is one of the greatest of our times; impossible to call but oh so easy to enjoy.
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The list is hardly exhaustive, but it offers some of the greatest hits.
In 1803, the greatest painter of the day, Sir Henry Raeburn, was commissioned to create a new image of the greatest poet of the day, Robert Burns.
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The couple's Grade II-listed watermill house dates back almost 450 years and was the inspiration for a painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner - widely considered to be one of the UK's greatest artists.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.