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  • networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system. A digital library has a number of advantages and problems not found ...
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  • the administrative execution and enforcement of legal rules is socially organized ... ==Origin of the Concept== Bureaucracy is derived from the word bureau ...
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  • unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...
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  • event. Villaraigosa is a former director of the ACLU Southern California ... in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." The ...
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  • Phonetic Alphabet, is the central teaching of the Nyingma school of Tibetan ... Many Tibetan lamas, particularly of the Nyingma and Kagyu schools ...
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  • July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ... the modernizing, industrializing society of his own time — was a negative ...
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  • leader in colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate to the ... Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he was one of the most radical advocates ...
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  • Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 ... The most famous historic site in Hebron sits on the Cave of the Patriarchs ...
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  • The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...
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  • The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as ... The school considered itself the intellectual heirs of past figures ...
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  • The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States ... influenced their lifestyle both in terms of agriculture and art. The famous ...
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  • Psychology (from Greek, literally "study of the soul," from ... natural sciences it is also considered one of the behavioral sciences—a ...
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  • Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology covering ... Despite the apparent simplicity of this definition, nanotechnology ...
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  • all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, invisible, indestructible ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...
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  • Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, §3). ...
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  • 1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It was one of the most destructive and deadly ... in theodicy and in the philosophy of the sublime. As the first earthquake ...
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  • June 17, 2021) served as the first president of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991. ... economic policies. Eventually because of mounting international pressure ...
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  • The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...
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  • Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law ... textbook throughout Europe until the advent of investigative science. He also ...
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  • or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior. Government ... The history of competition law reaches back further than the Roman ...
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  • The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...
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  • ), the name of a film Indian musical comedy film directed by Rajkumar ... Gandhism under Munna Bhai's notion of Gandhigiri.Mridula Chunduri ...
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  • computer scientist, who originated the idea of a programmable computer. Parts ... Road, London. A blue plaque on the junction of Larcom Street and Walworth ...
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  • Parenting is the process of rearing children by promoting and supporting ... where the individual learns the meaning of life, develops one's “whole ...
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  • but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a ... true virtue. Virtue, which consisted of imitating God, could only be ...
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  • in Indian culture and based on teachings of the Vedas. Hinduism is the ... taught at universities results from the work of the theosophist, Annie Besant ...
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  • who lived during the most brilliant era of Roman public life. An academic ... For Cicero, politics took precedence over philosophy. Most of his ...
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  • in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...
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  • The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government ...
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  • The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... by the Sultan in 1878. However, the process of replacing existing institutions ...
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  • |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...
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  • Muslims in India's population as of 2007 (according to government ... Islam has become woven into the very fabric of Indian civilization and culture ...
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  • Hampshire. In addition to his literary body of work, Kingsley was a Protestant ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...
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  • to his or her disadvantage through the use of “soft” techniques such ... The origins of tai chi chuan are known only through legend and speculation ...
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  • ) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal composition. It begins ... century from several earlier types of contrapuntal compositions such ...
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  • the fourteenth century and mainly comprised of non-Muslim boys often captured ... major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople, the defeat ...
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  • :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...
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  • The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and ... believed to control the change and movement of the universe, and to provide ...
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  • Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... in 1626. He was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of ...
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  • Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...
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  • the United Kingdom as well as other areas of Europe and North America, and ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...
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  • Kenya (/ˈkɛnjə/; locally [ˈkɛɲa]), officially the Republic of ... Kenya's location on the eastern coast of Africa and central highlands ...
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  • was baptized on December 17, 1770. Children of that era were usually baptized ... counterpoint to his majestic compositions. Of irritable temperament and physically ...
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  • glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary ... In the early stages of his career, Agassiz made a name for himself ...
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  • that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...
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  • Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous ... Choe's religious teaching, and the rebellion that many followers ...
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  • estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually ... sense is done very often in the presence of a priestly figure who appeases ...
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  • States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review of Federal ... Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of the Peace in the District of ...
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  • Satan (meaning "accuser") represents the arch enemy of God ... The concept of an anthropomorpized demonic figure (or archetype) is ...
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  • Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer ... Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle ...
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  • [[Image:British Museum from NE.JPG|thumb|300 px|Main entrance of the ... The British Museum in London, England, is one of the world's ...
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  • At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...
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  • Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...
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  • during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders. It was ... revolutionary factions, with the passage of the Law of Suspects and the ...
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  • is the largest extant species (Alces alces) of deer (family Cervidae) in the ... Moose add to the wonder of nature for humans, with these giant animals ...
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  • Buddhism has been a major force in the creation of Korean culture ... One of the foremost Buddhist temples in South Korea, Haeinsa has housed ...
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  • is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...
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  • == Evolution of the glyph == J upside down. The main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs was ...
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  • feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. Emotions ... attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James ...
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  • Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies ... Mitsubishi was the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial ...
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  • take relationship with God in every moment of human life. Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...
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  • one’s decisions and actions. The interest of free will in philosophy primarily ... The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ...
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  • Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... In Judaism, blasphemy is the uttering of God's name and/or speaking ...
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  • [[Image:Epikur.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Bust of Epicurus]] an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one of the most ...
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  • #039;Oresme (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...
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  • any person anointed by a prophet or priest of God, especially a Davidic king ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...
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  • – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...
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  • ” Widely considered to be the father of modern management, his many ... Having experienced the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, observed ...
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  • general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...
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  • historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... His observations represented the excitement of sociological discovery, made ...
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  • organization based on common control of the means of production as ... is generally associated with the theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ...
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  • A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement ... as is habitual in civil law systems, as part of a general law of obligations ...
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  • study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of decay and damage. ... damage, preservation concerns the prevention of potential damages. ...
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  • into kinetic energy. The reverse task, that of converting kinetic energy into ... Correctly, the armature is that part of the motor across which the ...
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  • Setesh, Seteh) was originally the god of the desert, one of the two ... beliefs threatened by foreigners, that many of their myths, legends and religious ...
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  • ) is a range of traditional medical practices originating in China ... TCM theory asserts that processes of the human body are interrelated ...
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  • The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...
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  • Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... War in 1866. It was founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, with ...
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  • Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which ... While astronomy is the scientific study of astronomical objects and phenomena ...
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  • was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties ... and agnosticism that marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers ...
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  • Vinegar is a sour liquid produced from the fermentation of diluted ... the sugars are broken down in the absence of oxygen (i.e., fermented) by ...
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  • Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...
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  • Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief ... The four main highways of Zambia; the Great North Road to Tanzania ...
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  • |flag = [[Image:Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg|center|135px]] ... was a powerful and unique gathering of Native American tribes that ...
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  • German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...
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  • quot;) describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. The ... The outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two ...
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  • is accompanied by the release or absorption of energy. Iron and nickel nuclei ... called nucleosynthesis. Whereas the fusion of light elements in the stars ...
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  • , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ... between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia ...
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  • Ecotourism, or ecological tourism, is a type of tourism in which the ... by offering tourists insight into the impact of human beings on the environment ...
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  • Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and ... markets for consumer goods and services of all kinds tend to expand and ...
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  • Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution ... and biotic environment or as "the study of the structure and function ...
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  • quot;) are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...
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  • [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... and Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil, of the royal Hashemite family ...
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  • The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks ... hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). ...
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  • History is a word of multiple meanings, all related to the past. When ... ), "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that ...
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  • 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...
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  • descriptive sense to the economic effects of nations with large state sectors ... There has developed a diverse array of ideas that have been referred ...
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  • Minimum wage is the minimum amount of compensation an employee must ... The intent of minimum wage legislation is to to avoid exploitation ...
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  • 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was one of the most important leaders ... As a member of a privileged and wealthy family, he studied law in ...
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  • book superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular ... strips, and video games. With the success of his adventures, Superman helped ...
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  • Arguments or proofs for the Existence of God have been proposed by ... Being, Being-itself, the source and Creator of all beings, or in other similar ...
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  • outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the nineteenth century widely ... father was Dr. James Thomson, a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical ...
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  • from the word "gram," means "of the village." The bank ... The origin of Grameen Bank traces back to 1976. Muhammad Yunus, a ...
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  • Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the ... to 1877, but some historians include a phase of Presidential Reconstruction ...
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  • Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins ... First, philosophers of language inquire into the nature of meaning ...
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  • The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch ... ==Questions Addressed by Philosophy of Science== Philosophy of science ...
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  • author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian ... Holy Spirit was not the orthodox position of the Catholic Church. He also ...
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  • The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Tzu ("Master Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted ...
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  • 250px|Increasingly the world is thought of as a whole]] Globalization, as a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" ...
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  • Atlantic Provinces, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. The word Míkmaw is ... disease, although contemporary Micmac, many of whom have mixed blood, have ...
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  • and 1953, while he was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the ... Kaganovich. Although he tolerated the use of the term by associates and ...
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  • Vishnu as the all-pervading essence of all beings, the master of—and ... Vishnu is also venerated as Mukunda, Supreme God who is the giver ...
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  • (a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of ...
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  • of God's eternal principles of creation. == History== who formulated his results in his three laws of planetary motion based on Tycho ...
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  • Brotherhood. There he adopted the teachings of Sayyed Qutb, most significantly ... sent out fatwa to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, moving to Pakistan ...
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  • naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... Considered the "father of evolutionary theory," Darwin made ...
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  • combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded ... generations as utopian communities, most of today's kibbutzim are ...
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  • |caption=Seal of the Penobscot Indian Nation of Maine |poptime=3-4,000 ... The word "Penobscot" originates from a mispronunciation ...
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  • believes that the second coming (or Advent) of Jesus Christ is imminent. Seventh ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...
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  • means world conqueror), was the ruler of the Moghul Empire from 1658 ... he interpreted them—were the foundations of his reign. He backed up his ...
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  • quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...
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  • The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... dances and work ethic, as well as their eschewal of marriage. ...
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  • until the fourth century C.E. This period of Greek literature stretches ... Most of the epic poetry and tragedy has its roots in Ancient Greek ...
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  • ) are a Christian group of Russian origin. The Doukhobors were one of the sects—later defined as a religious ...
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  • |name = Columbia University inthe City of New York light shall we see the light) (a paraphrase of Psalm 35:10) ...
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  • [[Image:Paper 450x450.jpg|thumb|right|Sheet of paper]] Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibers ...
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  • The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... was already rich and essential in the period of antiquity called the pre-Chin ...
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  • Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...
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  • Social work is a discipline involving the application of social theory ... on advocacy and case work became part of social work practice. During ...
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  • it is the unequal access by some members of society to information and ... quot;) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a number of ...
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  • to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...
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  • A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter ... The quality of a vacuum is measured by how closely it approaches a ...
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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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  • There also are some other plants that utilize the term ginger as part ... Ginger is one of the world's more well-known and useful plants ...
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  • an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...
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  • Kulintang is a modern term for an instrumental form of music composed ... The main role of kulintang music in the community is as nonprofessional ...
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  • A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... America. The twentieth century saw the rise of fascist and communist dictatorships ...
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  • ) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary ... used in the People's Republic of China on Mainland China, Singapore ...
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  • Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...
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  • North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle (1996). ...
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  • movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...
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  • A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...
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  • the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Born into a prosperous ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...
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  • Hazing refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating ... Hazing is seen in many different types of social groups, including ...
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  • was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth ... also had their heroes from the long history of Irish revolt against the British ...
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  • In the popular imagination, the term robot evokes images of a mechanical ... processes, heartfelt feelings, and senses of responsibility—qualities ...
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