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  • ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of ... Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry are found ...
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  • The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...
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  • chain amino acid and it is an isomer of isoleucine. (Isomers are molecules ... In humans, the L-isomer of leucine is one of the 20 standard amino ...
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  • and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental ... in philosophy in 1897. Following the advice of his mentor William James, Woodworth ...
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  • The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of ... The Kama Sutra is the most notable example of a group of texts known ...
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  • Augustana), is the primary confession of faith used in the Lutheran ... The Augsburg Confession provides a succinct statement of 28 articles ...
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  • end, or purpose, and teleology is the study of goals, ends and purposes. A ... The two main types of theory brought under the rubric of teleological ...
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  • to use these measures to assess the standard of living and the welfare (or ... national welfare is well founded.The standard of living is a measure of economic ...
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  • guitarist best known as the creative pioneer of amplified blues harmonica playing. His revolutionary harmonica style set the standard for blues players to this ...
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  • proteins and, together with cysteine, is one of two sulfur-containing proteinogenic ... The L-isomer of methionine, which is the only form that is involved ...
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  • the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number ... Possibly, they would question the teaching of the Church and the authority ...
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  • to dignity, freedom and a decent standard of living. He was succeeded by ... to dignity, freedom and a decent standard of living. They root this tradition ...
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  • [[Image:Lincoln's coffin, replica.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A replica ... box used in the display and containment of deceased remains for burial ...
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  • Interoperability refers to the ability of diverse systems and organizations ... for system integration or collaboration of sub-systems. Today, system ...
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  • while attempting to improve the standard of living of his country, making ... #To quickly and substantially raise the standard of living for all ...
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  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are a group of mythical riders ... The vision of the Four Horsemen describes events related to the Last ...
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  • There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the speed of light in a vacuum c * the electric constant ε0, ...
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  • In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy ... Regular ("baryonic") matter, made of electrons and quarks; (b) dark ...
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  • In the cosmology of Hinduism, the term Yuga (meaning: "age" ... associated with a progressive deterioration of dharma (or "righteousness ...
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  • born in Abdera in Ancient Greece. He was one of the best known Sophists. Protagoras is best known for his dictum: "Man is the measure ...
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  • [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...
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  • for employees who are injured in the course of employment, in exchange for ... allow them to maintain a reasonable standard of living. Workers' compensation ...
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  • in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes ... Pennsylvania. His early life was of a typical farm boy, spent in ...
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  • although it has been criticized for its lack of structure. The strength of ... with Abraham Maslow, Rogers was the founder of the humanistic approach to ...
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  • In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living ... In contrast with herbivory, which involves the consumption of living ...
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  • Baleen whales comprise the Mysticeti, one of two suborders of the ... generally seen as gentle animals, a sighting of which adds to the wonder of ...
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  • social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work education movement ... 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of Issa Desha ...
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  • when released into air, due to refraction of light. At low concentrations ... (1790-1868) in 1812, by exposing a mixture of carbon monoxide and chlorine ...
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  • among white audiences during the blues revival of the 1960s. been called "the very personification of Texas blues" (Clayton 2005). ...
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  • The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово ... This work is a mixture of Christianity and that Slavic paganism that ...
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  • to improving the opportunities, and standard of living, of those otherwise ... did not improve their workers' standard of living, those workers would ...
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  • an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...
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  • 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...
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  • – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...
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  • Desert, encompasses 77,000 square miles of rolling sand dunes in eastern ... 039;s sand ridges. It is defined by a series of natural borders, including ...
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  • form involved in protein synthesis) is one of the twenty standard amino acids ... The intricate coordination of systems in the human body is seen in ...
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  • This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or ...
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  • the world. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion ... While there is a great deal of diversity in nature, the rarity of ...
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  • [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...
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  • scientific principles and Aristotelian logic of the twelfth century to scholars ... Neckam wrote religious works on a variety of subjects, most of which ...
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  • means “to practice and learn the way of the truth.” Xiuzhen combines ... Certain aspects of Xiushen, such as veneration of parents and elders ...
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  • Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist of the Song dynasty, who is credited ... and Zhu Xi, who honored Zhang as one of the founders of the Study of ...
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  • Party. Although superficially the standard of living in East Germany under ... during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of 192 Germans who tried to escape ...
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  • reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... this system would provide a minimum standard of living "below which no ...
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  • an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful ... led to higher wages and a better standard of living. Adam Smith and Thomas ...
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  • Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...
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  • economist who occupied the first chair of political economy in England ... Compton, Berkshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior ...
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  • religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist. The Buddhist ... delve into the Sutra Pitaka, gaining an ocean of knowledge. ...
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  • The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... With the steady improve of the standard of living in South Korea during ...
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  • government, to work, and to a decent standard of living and health care. It ... 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the ...
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