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  • The Gospel of Thomas is an important but long lost work of the New ... biblical gospels in that the resurrection of Jesus plays no part in it, ...
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  • Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was ... and Brooklyn-born Matilda Izzo, the daughter of a barber, whose parents had ...
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  • Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...
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  • , was a ninth-century B.C.E. prophet of the Hebrew Bible whose name ... Elijah is considered to be one of the great prophets of the Abrahamic ...
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  • ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the ... Due to the extraordinary talents of Michelangelo (1475-1564), the ...
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  • life was prodigious. When the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and ... given his intense spirituality. His statue of David is testimony to the beauty ...
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  • magic and the occult, he also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination ... Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as the two disciplines ...
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  • important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...
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  • Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...
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  • courtier and politician at the court of Louis XIV. Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the theory of political absolutism; ...
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  • The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... stories on these themes, such as the Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Parable ...
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  • The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... The book has two distinct parts: a series of six narratives (chapters ...
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  • Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...
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  • Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם Avraham "Father/Leader of ... the "Abrahamic religions" because of the role Abraham plays in their ...
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  • in Latin as Ambrosius, was successful bishop of Milan, who was later recognized ... In the beginning of his life, Ambrose embarked upon a career in law ...
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  • science, math, and the ethnic origins of man. He experimented with pitch ... Several of Messiaen's early works are especially notable in that ...
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  • Sports journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics ... Sports journalism is an essential element of any news media organization ...
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  • ; also known as a nimbus, glory, or gloriole) is a ring of light used ... The use of halos in art has been found in diverse religious traditions ...
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  • most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement and ... , an epic poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation ...
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  • as the Branch Davidians — were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church ... 28, 1993, when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms ...
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