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  • of Thomas Hooker. Of her piety and almost nun-like love of God and belief in His personal love for her, Edwards had known when she was only thirteen ...
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  • way, the Buddhist figure is more the celibate monk or nun. The primary interest in Buddhism is not the family values or the elaboration of social institutions ...
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  • By his first wife Theodora of Wallachia (nun Teofana), a daughter of Basarab of Wallachia, Ivan Alexander had several children, including Ivan ...
    28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
  • Virginie Ghesquière, Marie-Jeanne Schelling and a nun, Sister Anne Biget. (The first recorded women's award is 1851, under Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.) ...
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  • of that year, the renegade monk Faqing married a nun and formed a sect in the Northern Wei province of Jizhou (in the southern part of today’s Hebei ...
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  • |image=[[Image:Kargil's Kun and Nun mountain.jpg|300px|]] |caption=Mountains Kun and Nun in the distance. In Kargil district ...
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  • Fassbinder's camera tracks the nun (played by his mother) who tells Elvira's story; she moves with a kind of military precision through ...
    50 KB (7,532 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
  • The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit, over which a black scapular ...
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  • for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offense of disturbing the King's peace was the first conviction ...
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  • Marie Goupil (born 1756), a 37-year-old former nun who had left convent life at the Sisters of Providence convent at rue Saint-Honoré. They married ...
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  • reported to have considered becoming a Buddhist nun but eventually chose not to, although she studied Buddhist Pali and Prakrit texts as part of her master ...
    33 KB (4,286 words) - 22:07, 30 October 2023
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Patriarchy (from Greek: Patria meaning father and arché meaning ...
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  • |Arabella FitzJames||1674||7 November 1704||Became a nun; no issue. |- |colspan=4|By Catherine Sedley |- |Catherine Darnley||c. 1681||13 March ...
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  • The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garden" [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Rosary "Rosary." Online Etymology ...
    35 KB (5,735 words) - 21:43, 16 April 2023
  • accused of conspiring with Elizabeth Barton, a nun who had prophesied against the king's divorce, but More was able to produce a letter in which ...
    28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
  • the 2006 film The Painted Veil where she played a nun, Manohla Dargis, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/movies/20veil.html A Plague Infects ...
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  • 1973). The ninth-century mystic Nubian Dhu al-Nun al-Misri clearly expressed what was to become the backbone of Sufi philosophy by saying, “Let ...
    29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
  • to satirize the experience of a chaste nun, but to embody in marble a complex truth about religious experience— that it is an experience that ...
    30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
  • * Barbara, who became a Benedictine nun * Katharina, who married businessman and city councilor Barthel Gertner In 1491, Copernicus enrolled at ...
    33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
  • of the Byzantine fleet of Sicily forced a nun to marry him. Emperor Michael II caught wind of the matter and ordered that general Constantine ...
    33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024

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