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  • |region2 = United States (New York) |pop2 = 15,000 ... The Mohawk were one of the five core tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy ...
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  • a Russian emigre poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature ... ===In the Soviet Union=== Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in ...
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  • Fundamentalism refers to any sect or movement within a religion that ... Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ...
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  • The Athanasian Creed, also known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening ... Today, however, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western ...
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  • of Traditionalist Catholics which holds that the Papal See has been vacant ... The term "sedevacantism" is derived from the Latin phrase ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities ... and monotheistic faiths have apprehended the nature of divine being(s) ...
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  • political, and ecclesiological impulses of the Protestant Reformation. The ... Protestants generally may be divided among four basic groups: The ...
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  • Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy ... service, and diplomatic efforts within the duchy. Relics, such as the ...
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  • Scouts coming from various nations sing at the European Jamboree 2005]] A Boy Scout is a boy, usually a teenager, participating in the worldwide ...
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  • to as Middle Africa, defines a portion of the African continent south of ... *Democratic Republic of the Congo *Republic of Congo *Equatorial Guinea ...
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  • The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The organization faced controversy on several occasions over its discriminatory ...
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  • The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of ... Most of the biggest supporters in all countries have been women, often ...
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  • The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... result of war, famine, and disease caused by the conflict. Four million people ...
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  • Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th ... Pierce served in the House of Representatives and Senate as a Democrat ...
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  • political movement that originally supported the establishment of a homeland ... The term "Zionism" is derived from the word Zion (Hebrew: ...
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  • writer, and editor. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship ... Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of ...
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  • saint and martyr who died at Nicomedia in today's Turkey c. 306 ... Veneration of Saint Barbara was common from the ninth century until ...
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  • of Congress, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is closely ... In contrast to Eliot, who gave up his American citizenship to become ...
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  • Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...
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  • politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the Democratic ... Tweed left school at the age of 11 to learn his father’s trade of ...
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