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  • Luksemburg) was a Polish revolutionary of Jewish ancestry. She rose up ... and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party ...
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  • Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional ... holding hands with others; a laying on of hands and others. Prayers ...
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  • Palm Sunday is a Christian feast day which falls on the Sunday before ... used to designate the day. The difficulty of procuring palms for that day ...
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  • fought between 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam ... with Martin Luther and attacked his position on predestination; it is an irony ...
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  • Isabella of Castile (April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504) was queen ... A pious Catholic, Isabella focused on converting the citizens of her ...
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  • author, poet, and actor. The author of several major country hits ... in other genres. Nelson also wrote a number of hits for other major stars ...
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  • in the late twelfth century as the Poor Men of Lyons, a band organized by ... the other members of the clergy, the laying-on of hands was the principal element; ...
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  • Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...
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  • spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ... Akiva set the standard of Judaism's strong yet flexible adherence ...
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  • Passover (Pesach, Pesakh)—also called the Festival of Unleavened ... or passing over) derives from the night of the Tenth Plague, when the ...
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  • Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous (egg-laying ... stay aloft for days at a time, even sleeping on the wing. The fastest living ...
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  • thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled ...
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  • :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands. Church members are ...
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  • are perhaps the most widely recognized form of hieroglyphic writing in the ... Egyptian hieroglyphs constitute one of the oldest known writing systems ...
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  • which male members predominate in positions of power. The term "patriarchy ... rite the liturgical office for the laying-on of hands for the deaconess is ...
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  • refers to ecstatic utterances, often as part of religious practices, commonly ... Holy Spirit, and the third with the laying on of hands by Paul the Apostle ...
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  • On Sunday January 30, 1972, in an incident since known as Bloody Sunday ... that those shot at were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...
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  • movement and is regarded as the father of Irish Republicans. Tone himself ... Tone was born in Dublin, the son of a Church of Ireland, Protestant ...
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  • The First Council of Nicaea was the earliest ecumenical council (meaning ... church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.Richard Kieckhefer ...
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  • as Gando, refers to northeastern parts of the People's Republic ... Today, most of the region resides in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture ...
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  • Debussy is considered the most original musical mind of the turn of ... Debussy was not only one of the most influential French composers ...
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  • Chopsticks are a pair of small even-length tapered sticks used as ... The widespread use in Asian restaurants of disposable chopsticks made ...
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  • for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the ... of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in ...
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  • Moai, or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved from rock on ... transport; not only would the actual carving of each statue require effort ...
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  • who could channel answers to questions on many spiritual topics, including ... he was a prophet pointing to hidden depths of, and new possibilities for ...
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  • and critical theory that were outcomes of twentieth-century French philosophy ... it can be broadly understood as a body of distinct reactions to structuralism ...
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  • order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...
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  • τινούπολη) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following ... The city has had many names throughout history. Depending on the background ...
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  • Snake is any of the numerous elongate, limbless, scaled, carnivorous ... The more than 2,900 species of snakes are spread across every continent ...
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  • Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of anarchism which focuses on the ... Anarcho-syndicalism remains a popular and active school of Anarchism ...
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  • The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...
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  • An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... as well as having significant impact on the territory and its people ...
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  • [[Image:Slc mormon tempel.jpg|thumb|right|345px|The Salt Lake Temple ... the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands by priesthood bearers ...
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  • The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied ... Allied land forces that saw combat in Normandy on D-Day itself came ...
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  • Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict ... that provide a context for the laying on of hands and anointing. For ...
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  • Frog is the common name for any of the members of the amphibian order ... rainforests. Overall, about 88 percent of amphibian species are frogs ...
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  • or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... simply by saying a few words, or laying on of hands, and at other times ...
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  • The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak ... Fourteen British and eleven German ships were sunk with great loss ...
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  • province, and the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, was one ... the second century B.C.E., around the fall of Gojoseon, an earlier kingdom ...
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  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... Rudolf Steiner was born on February 27, 1861 in Donji Kraljevec, Austria ...
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  • The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... patriarch to a church member. "Laying on of hands" is a popular ...
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  • an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was ... wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on large corporations ...
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  • 1565) was a Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; ... he lived out his life in the context of what many regarded as permanent ...
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  • Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...
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  • by the men's national soccer teams of the member nations of Fédération ... the World Cup Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 national ...
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  • well as for being a landmark in the timeline of colonialism in the region. ... One of the puzzles of the Anglo-Zulu war is that although the British ...
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  • Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – October 4, 1226) is for many people ... (the first order), the Poor Clares (founded on his advice by his friend, Saint ...
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  • gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...
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  • to both capitalism and Stalinism. Consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, ... In France in 1938, Trotsky and many of his supporters, having been ...
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