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  • that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... is lost; this does not necessarily mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing ...
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  • The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... The Kinneret is fed by underground springs, but its main source is ...
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  • Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...
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  • to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for ... mother was a Lutheran. In 1898, he attended the Akademisches Gymnasium. Between ...
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  • The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) identifies two classes of rabbinical ... The Great Sanhedrin was an assembly of Jewish judges who constituted ...
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  • The First Council of Constantinople (381), also known as the Second ... Although the council represented the triumph of Nicene orthodoxy over ...
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  • Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...
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  • The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world. ... The site was inhabited as far back as 3000 B.C.E., and by the year ...
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  • "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting ... Human ability to harness electricity is one of the keys for the establishment ...
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  • Taxila is an important archaeological site in Pakistan containing ... centre of learning from the sixth century B.C.E."History of Education ...
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  • consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical ... as well as having significant impact on the territory and its people being ...
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  • Typhoid fever (or enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium ... Once ingested, the bacteria are ingested by macrophages (cells in ...
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  • in a defined end-state. Informally, the concept of an algorithm is ... smaller sub-methods, which are built up to the program as a whole. In other ...
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  • in Parliament as well as his essays gave the followers of William Pitt ... of supporters who would become known as the Canningites. Conversely though ...
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  • The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Έλευσίνια Μυστήρια ... Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient Mediterranean world, these ...
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  • Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... The symbol of the Cross has been revered by Christians but controversial ...
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  • The Bosporus or Bosphorus, also known as the Istanbul Strait, ( ... ) is a strait that forms the boundary between the Thrace and Anatolian ...
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  • #039;s death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices ... Funeral rites can be traced back to the most primitive of societies ...
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  • to include related freedoms applied to the religious sphere, such as ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...
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  • The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... The Revolution restored the parliament, which had been suspended by ...
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