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  • November 1, 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian ... Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ...
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  • of two eternal realities: Purusha (souls) and Prakriti (matter or nature ... consisting of two eternal realities: Purusha and Prakrti, it is therefore a ...
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  • was an American philosopher, historian and writer who popularized European ... Both in his books and on the lecture platform, Fiske endeavored to ...
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  • a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and economist. In light of the ... ==Life and Works== Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... A S Underwood, Arthur Keith, W P Pycraft, and Sir Ray Lankester.]] ...
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  • are estimated from as early as 106-115 and as late as 109-119 C.E. Tradition ... to be anachronistic by both Catholic and non-Catholic experts. It is ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Sociologists ... 21, 1929) was a British liberal sociologist and politician. He worked as an ...
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  • triumvirate—Sewall Wright, R. A. Fisher, and J. B. S. Haldane]—helped ... Sewall Wright was a Unitarian and after he retired in 1955 and moved ...
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  • emperor Domitian (81-96 C.E.). Both Jews and Christians were heavily persecuted ... did not yet rule at Rome at this time, and the office of pope is therefore ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... to the development of ethnography and anthropology as modern disciplines ...
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  • In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia ... to judge those who had committed crimes, and that he had created the stars ...
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  • the level it proceeded from, its brightness and perfection varying from its ... Emanationism devalues the material world, and is, thus, characteristic of ...
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  • during the reigns of Roman Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was Greek ... keeping of a seven-week Lent before Easter, and the singing of the Gloria ...
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  • zoologist best known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin ... a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many now ubiquitous ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... 25, 1887) was a Swiss anthropologist and sociologist, famous for his ...
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  • of expert Buddhist warriors in the Silla and Unified Silla dynasties who ... Arthur's Knights of the Round Table and the Knights Templar. The Hwarang ...
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  • Paleoanthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology and paleontology ... Of great interest to this field is the theory of human evolution, ...
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  • 1954) was a German Roman Catholic priest, and a famous linguist, anthropologist ... young man he had met Christian missionaries and dedicated his life to service ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Image wanted ... forbade the teaching of any theory of evolution in any state-funded educational ...
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  • ; also transliterated and Latinized as icthus, ichthus or ikhthus ... and now known colloquially as the "sign of the fish" or ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach, called ...
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  • with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. Although the ... Jewish scholarly works due to controversy and dispute particularly regarding ...
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  • division of theology into revealed theology and natural theology is derived ... The existence of God and the immortality of the soul are but a few ...
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  • Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with ... Neo-Hegelianism was prominent in Great Britain and in the United States ...
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  • Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work ... Hays was born in Rochester, New York. His father and mother, both ...
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  • views of the origin of the Earth and of living things. In a different ... into one.” But Darwin believed that the evolution of living things after ...
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  • speaker on the paramount issues of her time, and distinguished herself from ... New York, as the daughter of Joseph Brown and Abby Morse. After daring to ...
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  • Emil Brunner (December 23, 1889 – April 6, 1966) was an eminent ... After being educated in both Europe and the United States, Brunner ...
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  • metabolism, development, diseases, ecology, and evolution of plants. like" organisms, such as algae and fungi, but algae and fungi ...
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  • her father, King Donaut of Cornwall, Ursula and her companions set sail to ... legend about a British princess named Ursula and her companions, who were blown ...
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  • νεκρός (nekrós), "dead," and μαντεία (manteía) ... is separated by a thin line from demonology and conjuration. Necromancy is ...
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  • paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was ... change is "slow, steady, gradual and continuous."S.J. Gould ...
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  • 1 (one) is a number, numeral, and the glyph that represents the number ... that follows 0 and precedes 2. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...
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  • beginning dates ranging from 142 to 146 C.E. and ending dates ranging from ... century. His father was called Rufinus, and he was the brother of Hermas ...
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  • bodies: native Shintoist religious music and folk songs called saibara; ... Komagaku and togaku arrived in Japan during the Nara period (710-794 ...
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  • was clouded with bouts of depression and he ended it with suicide. ... of Ludwig Georg Boltzmann, a tax official, and Katarina Pauernfeind of Salzburg ...
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  • religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam understand creation ... The modern-day creation-evolution controversy in the twentieth century ...
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  • in parts of present-day Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan after the break ... references to the "Blue Horde "and "White Horde," which ...
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  • of the places they had been enfeoffed and the suffix "zi." ... explanation of the origin of its people and nation. Korea has developed ...
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  • was enormously influential through the 1950s and well into the 1960s, particularly ... until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought to do so. Religion ...
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  • A is known to have certain characteristics, and if item or person or process ... refer to the relation between the source and the target themselves, which ...
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  • Constantinople, the First Council of Ephesus and the Second Council of Ephesus—and ... it is however, in the spirit of respect and honor for the Apostolic Throne ...
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  • churches around the fifth century C.E. and is still found in some Eastern ... history, theater heavily influenced painting and sculpture. Architects then ...
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  • - March 5, 1937) was an eminent theologian and religious scholar in the German ... the Gymnasium Adreanum in Hildesheim and studied at the universities ...
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  • Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 B.C.E. - 55 B.C.E.) was a Roman poet ... De Rerum Natura was an important influence on Virgil and later Roman ...
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  • best known for his utopian satire, Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The ... church in pursuit of his father's wish and expectation. His father was ...
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  • ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist. His work contributed ... common ancestors via Darwinian principles, and he provided the theoretical ...
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  • 6 (six) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 5 and precedes 7. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...
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  • renowned German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher. His ... Marx’s early “humanistic” thought—and in his philosophical work ...
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  • Golden Rule in recognition of its high value and importance in both ethical ... can readily be used in handling conflicts and promoting greater harmony ...
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  • the pair of treaties (the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück) ... right to determine their state's religion—thus, in law, Protestantism ...
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  • was an American pioneering psychologist and educator. His interests focused ... Hall was a strong believer in the scientific method and its application ...
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  • revelation—should form the basis of religion. In England and the American ... anti-Christian stance, opposing the "religion of reason" against ...
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  • Jewish religious humanist thinker, educator, and social reformer who founded ... Adler developed his thoughts based upon Kantian ethics and American ...
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  • among the Chinese school of Hua-Yen, and the Japanese schools of Kegon ... Derived largely from the teachings of the Mahavairocana Sutra and ...
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  • 1957) was a German-born, French ethnographer and folklorist, recognized as ... the formation of social groups is natural, and that the value of the individual ...
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  • " Forming like hoarfrost on the ground and either white or brownish in ... through the 40 years in the wilderness and ceased to appear when they ...
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  • in Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929). Process thought ... quot;Alfred North Whitehead. Process and Reality. (New York: Free Press ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... relativity, in-depth examination of context, and cross-cultural comparisons. ...
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  • have a single ruling bishop at this time, and the Roman church had not yet ... one another concerning Linus' dates and his position in the order ...
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  • to more complex developmental stages—and the spread of humanity from ... art, also became more sophisticated. Death and burial rites evolved. As hunting ...
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  • was an Australian-born British philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...
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  • to be the personification of compassion and kindness, and these traits ... as a beautiful, white-robed woman, and her role has been expanded ...
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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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  • constructed the temple complex between 1406 and 1420. Since that time the ... The Temple of Heaven, a Taoist temple, covers nearly three km² and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] ...
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  • of Emperor Justinian I exiled Pope Silverius and installed Vigilius in his ... ease tensions with the Monophysites of Syria and Egypt. The Three Chapters ...
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  • 2 (two) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 1 and precedes 3. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...
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  • inquires into the essence of human nature and the human condition. In making ... two questions: “What is a human being?” and “Who am I?” The former ...
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  • 5 (five) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 4 and precedes 6. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that ...
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  • February 8, 1923) was an English philosopher and an influential figure on matters ... Philosophical Theory of the State (1899), and The Value and Destiny of the ...
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  • of Ionia (the first being Thales and the third Anaximenes). He ... that can uniformly explain all phenomena and identified it with “water ...
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  • is credited with having reorganized and re-invigorated the Roman church ... those who had lapsed. Outbreaks of serious and widespread violence soon disrupted ...
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  • traditions by remembering their legendary and mythical beginnings. Although ... from the extreme north of Subansiri and Siang areas following the ...
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  • 9 (nine) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 8 and precedes 10. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...
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  • Historicism is a position that holds that all knowledge and cognition ... Historicism also often challenged the concept of truth and the notion ...
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  • God's roles of creation, preservation and destruction, which are associated ... by other denominations, such as Saivism and Vaishnavism. ...
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  • the Absolute can take on innumerable forms and, therefore, the number of ... Due to the correspondences between the Hindu concept of avatar and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeology ... stone; most often it refers to markings and paintings on rocks made by ...
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  • Within Mendel, religion and science were harmonized. Living as a monk ... that by the laws of statistical variation and the linking of certain traits ...
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  • (created body), which appears in time and space; 2) the sambhogakaya ... as a mechanism to reconcile the various and potentially conflicting teachings ...
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  • tradition makes him a native of Dalmatia and a member of a noble family ... According to legend, Caius baptized the men and women who had been converted ...
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  • during the reign of Constantine I and the emergence of the Arian ... Christianity became the favored religion of the Roman emperor, after ...
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  • the treatise on rulership, economic policy and military strategy written ... empires, the Mauryan Empire, its calculating and unscrupulous teachings were ...
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  • 5, 1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International ... ===Early life and background=== Inayat Khan was born into a princely ...
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  • was a German philologist, mythographer, and Orientalist who virtually ... linguistics in his research methodology and focus on natural phenomena ...
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  • the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and the first philosopher to attempt ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists ... one of the pioneers of modern anthropology and is often called the "Father ...
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  • 039;s way of creating things. (See evolution and religion below.) ... ==Evolution and religion== [[Image:Darwin ape.jpg|right|thumb|A satirical ...
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  • American feminist, writer, lecturer, and social reformer during the ... ===Early life and first marriage=== Gilman was born Charlotte Anna ...
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  • species equipped with long, curved tusks, and in northern species, a covering ... Mammoths have captured the human imagination and added to the wonder ...
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  • Buddhism, Confucianism, Sikhism, Hinduism, and many others. Also, altruism ... Altruism can be distinguished from a feeling of loyalty and duty. ...
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  • in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William ... The Glorious Revolution also saw a partnership of husband and wife ...
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  • Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... while acknowledging the existence of others) and even emanational mystical ...
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  • the struggle between the Catholic Church and Novatianism, a schismatic ... restore amicable relations with the African and Eastern churches, which had ...
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  • statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist. He was described ... of an either-or dichotomy between evolution and belief in God—either ...
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  • its parts." Aristotle viewed the world and each being in the world as ... is seen in diverse intellectual, religious, and cultural traditions and diverse ...
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  • Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts ... omnipotence of God, the goodness of God, and the real existence of evil—by ...
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  • Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...
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  • Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history ... as “prehistory.” Most cultures and religions have myths and stories ...
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  • relations with the imperial government, and Fabian could thus bring back ... says that he divided Rome into deaconates and appointed secretaries to collect ...
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  • American author, theologian, historian, and political activist from the ... He worked to document treaty and sovereignty laws and developed arguments ...
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  • former Christians who had denied the faith and committed idolatry during ... administered by Novatianist clergy. Cyprian and other bishops of the Roman ...
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  • | religion = | footnotes = }} 21, 1988) was a Dutch ethologist, zoologist, and ornithologist. He shared the ...
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  • between the Israelite conquest of Canaan and the first king of Israel, ... with God sending an angel to intervene and spare Isaac at the last moment. ...
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  • a German philosopher, political scientist, and sociologist in the tradition ... seminary, was involved in the Nazi regime, and encouraged his son to join ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Analytical psychology is the movement started by Carl Jung and his ...
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  • 8 (eight) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 7 and precedes 9. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...
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  • Anicetus also had to contend with Gnosticism and Marcionism, which were active ... that Jesus had been resurrected on a Sunday, and that this day should therefore ...
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  • teaches that only the members of one religion or sect will reach Heaven ... the former teachings of the Catholic Church and the current teachings of several ...
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  • of galaxies far beyond the Milky Way, and he found that these galaxies ... insurance executive in Marshfield, Missouri and Virginia Lee James Hubble ...
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  • unit, determining factors for the process, and the overall nature of history ... if any, determine the course of history, and the goal, destination, and ...
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  • Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Max Scheler, and Nicolai Hartmann. Their influence ... the extent to which it is through emotions and feelings that human beings ...
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  • is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the ... When Yam's rulership turned tyrannical and he possessed El's wife ...
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  • history between the sixteenth century B.C.E. and the eleventh century B.C.E ... Some of the most famous of all the Pharaohs, such as Ramesses II and ...
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  • neo-Marxist social theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...
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  • arts festival, a festival of local cuisine, and re-enactments of the battle. ... of the 1846–1848 Mexican–American War and the 1858–1861 Reform War ...
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  • by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and a bony beak without teeth ... flying speed of at least 124 mph (200 km/h) and perhaps 350 km/h (217 mph ...
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  • , writer, German-Protestant philosopher, and biographer whose use of dialectical ... between Jesus the historical figure and Jesus the subject of Christian ...
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  • By contrast, during most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the dominant ... has been changing toward a more inclusive and integrated view of geologic ...
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  • century movement in theater, film, art and literature that seeks to portray ... In theater, the naturalism movement developed in the late nineteenth ...
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  • vertebrate with gills throughout life, and limbs—if present—in the ... Agnatha, about 75 species including lampreys and hagfish), the cartilaginous ...
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  • The book was then translated into English and several other languages, and ... using poetic imagery that informs and confirms the experiences of ...
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  • explaining how the gods created humankind and an early flood account which ... gods tired of their labors on the canals and farms of Mesopotamia and instigated ...
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  • feathers, sharply hooked beaks, feathered and hooked talons, ears that can ... Earth except Antarctica, most of Greenland, and some remote islands. ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics ... system used by the ancient Egyptians, and are perhaps the most widely ...
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  • In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of ... Extinction has occurred throughout the history of living organisms ...
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  • fame as originator of the theory of evolution through natural selection. of enormous impact to the idea of evolution. First, Darwin marshaled ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology so that each individual participant and its groups struggle to maximize ...
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  • Jews be forced to attend Christian sermons, and eventually recommended that ... to authorize the confiscation of the Talmud and other Jewish works in several ...
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  • mystic whose writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced ... within God, the meaning of redemption and the importance of individual ...
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  • #039; (Sanskrit: dharmas) arise and to which they return after ... In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha explains that he has always and will always ...
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  • university department of sociology in 1895, and one of the first journals ... line of devout French Jews—both his father and grandfather were rabbis. His ...
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  • (mythos), meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning speech or argument ... meaning. Most myths are in narrative form, and stories such as Adam and Eve ...
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  • 2000) was a prominent American philosopher and theologian who is considered ... son of a minister, Francis Cope Hartshorne, and Marguerite Haughton. He had ...
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  • 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of ... ===Birth and education=== Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and ...
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  • Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910) was an American Christian philosopher ... within a Christian theistic context. Bowne and his students at Boston University ...
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  • school of Hindu philosophy, numbers with Dvaita and Viśishṭādvaita refers to the identity of the Self (Atman) and the Whole (Brahman). ...
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  • was an American writer, teacher, reformer, and briefly a politician who became ... of Felton's views on matters of race and religion were controversial ...
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  • 4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 3 and precedes 5. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...
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