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  • Ethical Culture is a nontheistic religion established by Felix Adler ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...
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  • educator, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Henry David Thoreau. Adler found ethics as the common ground for and at the ...
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  • The Nuer are a people located primarily in southern Sudan along the ... The Nuer today face the challenges common to all traditional cultures ...
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  • and politician and a founding father of the United States. He served as ... He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the ...
    11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
  • 1932), a Protestant, medical missionary from the United States, who later also ... Horace Newton Allen was born in Delaware, Ohio, on April 23, 1858 ...
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  • : This article is about Dr. William Ellery Channing, the Unitarian ... Dr. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was ...
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  • 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...
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  • and ethnographer, famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and ... Paul Radin was born on April 2, 1883, in Lodz, Russia (today Poland ...
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  • Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868), was a member ... Stevens was born in Danville, Vermont on April 4, 1792. He suffered ...
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  • Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, ... of white ranchers, Wovoka was well versed in both the English language and ...
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  • 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States Secretary of State ... Although Lincoln won the Republican presidential nomination over Seward ...
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  • Federalist No. 5, titled "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning ... Federalist No. 5 addresses the idea of states forming regional confederacies ...
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  • The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...
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  • and his brother, Allen W. Dulles, directed the C.I.A.. As Eisenhower's ... was what became known as brinkmanship, the ability to get to the brink ...
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  • Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues ... The family unit is not only the site of reproduction of the human ...
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  • songwriter, and fiddler, who was known as the "King of the Hillbillies ... Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee, the third of five children ...
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  • | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America ... | death_place = Covington, Louisiana, United States of America ...
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  • 30, 2016) was a religious studies scholar in the United States. He wrote ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...
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  • more than 26 years from 1944 until his death in 1971. His administration lasted ... Tubman was born in Harper, Liberia to the Reverend Alexander Tubman ...
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  • and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious ... Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain ...
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