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  • throughout his career. Although he was born in Canada and raised in America ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...
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  • English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation ... several medieval theater traditions, such as the mystery plays that formed ...
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  • art, inscriptions, and carvings. First used in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece ... Made of stone, these sarcophagi have endured through the centuries ...
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  • de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy ... Born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, she grew up in a devout family ...
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  • brothers born in Thessaloniki in the ninth century, who became missionaries ... The two brothers, Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in ...
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  • 17, 1796) was a Scottish poet, known as the "translator" of ... In 1761 Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject ...
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  • Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United ... In February 1926, Carter G. Woodson launched the celebration of "Negro ...
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  • norms of behavior run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day ... On the other hand, countercultures can be detrimental to society, ...
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  • an Irish mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion ... Hamilton was the fourth of nine children of Archibald Hamilton, a ...
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  • The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...
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  • The Akkadian Empire usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that ... civilization may have been derived from the Akkadians but the Empire was ...
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  • The Babylonian exile (or Babylonian captivity) is the name generally ... While the Jews in Babylon did not suffer greatly in the physical sense ...
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  • leader and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy ... He was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. He matriculated at Sidney ...
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  • :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... admission to a Christian church. Although the primary meaning of the Greek ...
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  • – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and Cyrus II of Persia ... In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ...
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  • is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve ... Swimming is consistently among the top public recreational activities ...
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  • 25, 1903 – September 22, 1979) founded the Jamaat-e-Islami (The Islamic ... The family had a long-standing tradition of spiritual leadership and ...
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  • critic of British children's literature in the eighteenth century. Her ... several Sunday schools and charity schools in her parish. To further these ...
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  • Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...
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  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...
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