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  • Ravana (Sanskrit: meaning "of terrifying roar") is one of ... could be expected, he continues to endure as the archetypal villain in the ...
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  • was a Dominican tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order and a later ... around 1366, after which she began to attend the poor. She had visions which ...
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  • enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world and have sold over 400 ... series, including those featuring Noddy, the Famous Five, and the Secret ...
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  • In Judaism, the yetzer harah is the inclination or impulse to evil ... (Ḳid. 81a). It was to avoid the temptations of the yetzer harah ...
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  • The Arthashastra (more precisely Arthaśāstra) refers to a tradition ... While the Arthaśāstra tradition played a key role in the establishment ...
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  • genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans ... in the style of soul groups such as The Temptations and The O'Jays ...
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  • c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of ... to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. His works contain ...
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  • controversial Russian mystic who influenced the latter days of the Russian ... and his alleged intimate relationship with the Tsaritsa Alexandra, became ...
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  • Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... Taylor was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge, before attending ...
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  • friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the influential figures in what ... The play is a compelling account of the temptations of power, and Wallenstein ...
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  • Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal ... The Sanskrit word Sita literally means "the line made by the ...
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  • The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... monks" would never survive the temptations of the city. ...
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  • famous monastic Rule was adopted throughout the Western monastic tradition ... Benedict founded 12 monastic communities, the best known being Monte Cassino ...
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  • 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature ... with the modernization of society and the temptations of Western values. ...
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  • Saint Anthony the Great (251 - 356 C.E.), also known as Saint Anthony ... in Bishop Athanasius's Vita Antonii - the source of many tales of his ...
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  • Egoism is the concept of acting in one’s own self-interest, and ... true morality consists in resisting the temptations of self-sacrifice, sympathy ...
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  • greater spirituality. Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body ... The term "ascetic" derives from the ancient Greek word askēsis ...
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  • Brown, and Harriet Tubman, all who worked in the abolitionist cause, if not ... she pointed out the need to reject the temptations of drink and other weaknesses ...
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  • remembered primarily for three major works, the Speculum Meditantis, Vox Clamantis ... Gower was very popular in his own times, and his influence on the ...
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  • | Associated_acts = The Moonglows, Martha and the Vandellas, Tammi ... quot; (which featured backgrounds from The Temptations), "Baby Don't ...
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