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  • Saint Nicholas ( Νικόλαος his figure has been developed into more of a legend, and his persona has ...
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  • Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...
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  • Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy Face, is a Roman Catholic relic, which ... century, the Veil of Veronica became a central icon in the Roman Catholic ...
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  • signers of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina and, at the ... A delegate at both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental ...
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  • Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... many Christian clergymen were sent to Japan from Catholic, Protestant, and ...
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  • inside Vatican City. Its dome is also a dominant feature of the Roman ... it covers an area of 5.7 acres and has a capacity of over 60,000 people. ...
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  • An antipope (from Latin: meaning "rival-pope" or "counter ... is a person who makes a controversial, yet substantially accepted ...
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  • the center of the country, Ljubljana lies in a basin surrounded by peaks of ... of the name Ljubljana. It could derive from the ancient Slavic city called ...
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  • Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658) was ... Gracian wrote a number of literary works, including political commentary ...
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  • an astute politician, humanitarian and a successful military commander ... and the Soviet Union during World War II, at a time when Finland faced the ...
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  • Orders, worked for the papal curia and as a canon, but his greatest interest ... Alberti was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the ...
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  • Alexander exercised wide ranging powers. From 1918 until 1929 his power ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...
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  • combating the "heresy" to practice a more exemplary standard of ... #039;s role, if any, in the Inquisition is a subject of debate. His friend ...
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  • of the British monarch. The Palace is a setting for state occasions ... buildings and more than 50,000 people visit the palace each year as guests ...
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  • – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short ... Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ...
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  • fourth Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from October 16, 1978, until his ... John Paul II was pope during a period in which Catholicism's ...
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  • 6, 1812 – September 15, 1891, O.S.) was a Russian novelist best known ... Goncharov was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk); his father was a wealthy ...
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  • beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from January 22, 1901, until his ... Queen Victoria, he was largely excluded from wielding any political power ...
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  • – July 17, 1918), was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II ... Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess ...
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  • Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... to leave India intact. He later became a mentor to his great-nephew ...
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