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  • philosophical ideas to philosophers of African origin, a distinction ... Surveys of the beliefs of hundreds of African peoples have shown that ...
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  • , also called the Brit Noah ("Covenant of Noah") refer to seven ... G-d's saving grace outside the realm of Judaism so that non-Jews will ...
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  • Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... rocky soil limits agriculture, and much of the nation's funds come ...
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  • Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...
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  • A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims (followers of Islam). Muslims ... The Arabic word masjid means place of worship and derives from the ...
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  • Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...
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  • community. The word literally means out of communion, or no longer in ... Excommunication is the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. ...
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  • to 1736, and which established Shi'a Islam as Iran's official religion ... Tati (Āzarī), an extinct Iranian dialect of the north closely related to ...
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  • 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... to quit the Congress. He then took charge of the Muslim League and proposed ...
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  • The River Gambia flows through the center of the country and empties into ... Like its neighbor, The Gambia relies heavily on the export of groundnuts ...
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  • dated to 1054, the Schism was the result of an extended period of tension ... The primary causes of the Great Schism were the dispute over the authority ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... Ajax (originally viewed as a triumph of covert action), is now regarded ...
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  • Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...
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  • strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...
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  • Silverius lived during the later stages of the Monophysite controversy ... Stripped of his episcopal dignity and degraded to the rank of a simple ...
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  • the Jewish term gentile, the Islamic notions of infidel and kafir, and the ... used to criticize and demonize the adherents of non-Christian faiths since ...
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  • Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which are volcanic in origin; ...
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  • |rels=Protestant Christian 69.14%, Roman Catholic 16.97%), Islam ... The Toraja (meaning "people of the uplands") are an ethnic ...
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  • Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... 1994 genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Since ...
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  • The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...
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