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  • is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh ... Tiberian Qərā’îm), meaning "Readers (of Scripture)," ...
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  • The Alhambra (Arabic: الحمراء—Al-Ħamrā'; literally ... Mohammed I, the first king of the Nasriden—a Moorish dynasty in ...
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  • The Battle of Granada was a siege of the city of Granada fought over ... Granada contains the beautiful Alhambra palace, a gem of Islamic architecture ...
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  • prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet ... The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic ...
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  • The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a famous New Testament parable ... ). It is one of the most frequently quoted of Jesus' parables. ...
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  • spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ... [[Image:Expulsion of the Jews in the Reign of the Emperor Hadrian ...
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  • Babylonia, named for its capital city of Babylon, was an ancient state ... In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the neo-Babylonian empire ruler ...
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  • The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest ... economic crises, leading to the expulsion of the Jews (who had lived in ...
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  • Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... Apostasy is distinguished from heresy in that the latter refers to ...
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  • August 10, 1843) was a German philosopher in the Kantian tradition. Unlike ... Fries was born at Barby in Saxony. He studied theology at the Academy ...
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  • , Isdud), located in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean ... The first documented settlement in Ashdod dates to the Canaanite culture ...
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  • Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins ... Ancient Jewish religion involved rites of priestly sacrifice of animal ...
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  • Castile issued General Edict on the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain and thousands ... Luther proposed the permanent oppression and/or expulsion of the Jews ...
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  • Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of ... between 1,600-foot-high hills that form the most southerly points of the ...
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  • The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...
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  • The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella ... ===The Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews=== Jews who continued ...
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  • cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain in general ... the discovery of America and the expulsion of the Jews, all of them in 1492. ...
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  • . Transliterated Grigorii Evseevich Zinov'ev according to the ... – August 25, 1936), known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich ...
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  • The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...
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  • [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], during the war, 1993. Photo by Mikhail ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...
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  • suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means out of ... Excommunication is the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. ...
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  • Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – August 16, 2003) was President of Uganda ... When he assumed power in 1971, Uganda had experienced a series of ...
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  • Martin Luther and subsequent failure to stem the Protestant Reformation, which ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...
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  • The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the ... destruction of the Temple and the expulsion of the Jews from Jerusalem in ...
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  • translated into Latin in 1150. His concept of the universality of matter ... the reconquest of Spain and the expulsion of the Jews, but were rediscovered ...
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  • safety in Islamic law in return for paying the capital tax. This status was ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...
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  • Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...
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  • from 117 C.E.–138 C.E., and a member of the plebian family gens Aelia ... Ulterior). He was a distant relative of his predecessor Trajan, being ...
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  • Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods ... thumb|200px|Right|Etching of the expulsion of the Jews from Frankfurt on ...
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  • The Gospel of John, (literally, According to John; Greek, Κατά ... Of the four gospels, John is the only one that presents a true christology ...
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  • The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...
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  • quot;) refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical doctrines about ... of the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 ...
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  • الحسيني). He was also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار ... of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004). Arafat ...
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  • ; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham and the ... The historicity of Isaac's story in the Bible has come under ...
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  • when they pass through a crystal, similar to the pattern light exhibits when ... near Koblenz, in what was then Prussia, the son of Julius von Laue, a ...
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  • New York Times, The The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City and distributed ...
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  • January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...
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  • PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... throughout prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in ...
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  • The Anschluss Until the German spelling reform of 1996, Anschluss was ... (German: connection, or political union), also known as the Anschluss ...
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  • The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... Established to preach the Gospel and to combat heresy, the order is ...
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  • Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet ... The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ...
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  • |order=5th Prime Minister of Israel |term_start =July 13, 1992 ... |birth_place =Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) ...
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  • German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...
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  • Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was the first ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...
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  • a Christian spiritual movement that arose in the later Middle Ages. The sect ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...
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  • Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Cyprus fell in 1571, and the Venetians retained Crete until 1670. ...
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  • brothers born in Thessaloniki in the ninth century, who became missionaries ... The two brothers, Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in ...
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  • Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...
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  • | birth_place = Dobzau, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria ... | education = University of Vienna (MD, 1922) | known_for ...
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  • The Gaza Strip (Arabic:Qita' Ghazzah; Hebrew:Retzu'at & ... Following the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands ...
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