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  • (1170 – August 6, 1221), was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly ... Witnessing the success of the Cathar movement in southern France, ...
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  • Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (c. 296 C.E. ... – May 2, 373 C.E.) was a Christian bishop—the Patriarch of Alexandria—in ...
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  • Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...
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  • The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ... Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a Web browser ...
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  • in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...
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  • his grandfather David. He was the third king of the House of David and, after ... Rehoboam's reign has been dated to roughly the last quarter of ...
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  • == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution5glyph.png The evolution of our modern glyph for five cannot be neatly traced ...
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  • Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space ... Cold is the absence of heat, hence in order to decrease a temperature ...
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  • Prize for non-fiction in 1974, for his The Denial of Death. The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...
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  • religious ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept ... Different theories on the origin of sin have been proposed by world ...
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  • The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes ... The VAT was first adopted in France in 1954. By the end of the twentieth ...
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  • Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ... As humankind becomes more aware of the need to recognize all people ...
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  • and Anaximenes, explored the origin of existing beings and developed ... Pythagoras approached the question of being from an angle that was ...
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  • thumb|right|300px|Albert Einstein, archetype of genius.]] intellectual capacity standing in a class of its own far above that possessed ...
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  • The standard of living lagged far behind that of West Germany. Food ... which aimed at improvement in the standard of living, stressed a shift in ...
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  • and later as Jackie Onassis, was the wife of President John F. Kennedy, ... #039;s gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's assassination ...
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  • purify”) is the Roman Catholic doctrine of an intermediary state between ... In considering the end of human life, mainstream Christianity accepts ...
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  • , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...
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  • Although best known as the structural units of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA ... The ubiquitous presence of nucleotides from viruses and bacteria to ...
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  • Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...
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