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  • includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...
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  • inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... worldwide. An thought provoking aspect of his literary legacy is that ...
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  • illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] Common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in ...
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  • Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived ... identified as wisdom literature, consists of a loosely-organized collection ...
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  • interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...
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  • The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ... represented a class of devotional manuals popular among medieval Catholic ...
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  • The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...
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  • accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows ... five years later, in 1834. Various forms of concertina are used for classical ...
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  • Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical ... Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. He was seemingly preordained ...
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  • The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, ... to be dated to "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from ...
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  • The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... The book has two distinct parts: a series of six narratives (chapters ...
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  • L. Kroeber with Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi tribe, (1911).]] was an influential figure in the development of modern American anthropology ...
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  • theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...
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  • Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely ... The Apostles' Creed was esteemed as an example of the apostles ...
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  • Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...
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  • Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, ... Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including ...
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  • period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...
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  • The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...
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  • Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...
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