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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed ...
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  • a government intent on remaining in power, and rebellions on several fronts. in 1960, Chad has suffered instability and violence, stemming mostly ...
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  • Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas ... as schools, churches, armies, industries and bureaucracies (organizational ...
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  • ) is an association founded by Sri Ramakrishna's chief disciple ... several times in both the United States and Europe, he expressed admiration ...
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  • was a Protestant social ethicist, preacher, and prolific writer who is best ... "an impossible possibility," and that it does not sufficiently ...
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  • to various historical events, experiences, and social, cultural phenomena ... functions to legitimize power, authority, and social customs. A grand narrative ...
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  • October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for ... ("having done great things together and wishing to do more"). ...
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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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  • 西泰 Xītài) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary who introduced ... from the West to enter the Forbidden City, and was granted permission to ...
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  • Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent political thinker ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...
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  • name, "The Union Islands," and until 1976 the official name ... Ocean approximately midway between Hawaii and New Zealand. They lie about ...
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  • social movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ... with reformers such as Richard T. Ely and Washington Gladden. The Social ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Freire, Paulo – May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian philosopher and educator, influenced by Marxist ...
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  • in consultation with the Cook Islands and at its request. The Cook Islands ... Pacific Ocean, about half-way between Hawaii and New Zealand, spread out over ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... to in sections of the Old Testament, and while a popular metaphor in ...
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  • mining town, he studied the German idealists and later taught at Harvard for ... town of Grass Valley, California, to Josiah and Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce ...
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  • The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership ... serving a wide spectrum of denominations and broadening students’ horizons ...
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  • The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential ... Catholic and Orthodox traditions regarding the Fathers of the Church ...
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  • 1, 1864) was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion ... In 1844, Hong and his follower Feng Yun-shan founded the "God ...
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  • Arc, the suppression of the Knights Templar, and the silencing and imprisonment ... The Inquisition is alien and excessive to the modern mindset. However ...
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  • #039;s sainthood is both theologically and practically significant, as ... Churches), by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and by the Oriental Orthodox Churches ...
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  • to a church whose patriarch is independent and does not report to any higher ... autocephaly by the Council of Ephesus and is ruled by the Archbishop ...
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  • eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather ... reason" against all revealed religions and their churches. This continental ...
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  • status began in 1905. Ahn was arrested and held in Japanese prison after ... ==Early life and education== An Jung-Geun was born in 1879 as the eldest ...
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  • Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou, and the Bailiwick of Jersey, which ... of Normandy that held sway in both France and England. They were the only ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... herding is a pivotal part of Nuer culture, and most aspects of daily life ...
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  • personality, his love of scholarship, and his missionary activity, though ... In 521 C.E., Colm Cille (the future Columba) was born to Fedlimid ...
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  • (354-430), Gregory the Great (c.540-604), and Jerome (c.342-419). In the beginning of his life, Ambrose embarked upon a career in law ...
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  • Korean and world experts have celebrated Jeong Yak-yong's contribution ... a consistently high level of comprehensive and careful scholarship, sophisticated ...
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  • our own. R. L. Poole (Studies in Chronology and History, 1934) put forward ... ===Background, youth, and exile=== Oswald's father, Aethelfrith ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... staple in the realms of legend, folklore, and fantasy. One of the most anthropomorphic ...
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  • associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. In addition ... novels Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), and Hereward the Wake (1866). ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... currently reside in northeastern Nebraska and western Iowa, United States ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law the witness has sworn to tell the truth and, for the credibility of the ...
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  • - April 1, 1872) was an English theologian and socialist recognized as one ... of his time, such as John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle. His interests ...
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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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  • B.C.E. by Zeno of Citium (334-262 B.C.E.) and further developed by his two ... The Stoic school flourished in Greece and Rome for almost five centuries ...
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  • also known as the Second Ecumenical Council and I Constantinople was a gathering ... it did not in fact create theological unity; and soon new issues surfaced, ...
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  • The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... king, just has He had given spiritual power and authority to the church, centering ...
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  • 244. Gordian was the son of Antonia Gordiana and his father was an unnamed ... cultural development of the European space and its debt to Rome, the Empire ...
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  • #039;s organization in the United States and worldwide. The women of Fredonia ... prostitution, public health, sanitation, and international peace. As the ...
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  • in the common vocabulary of the Middle East and adapted into the Arabic language ... gather an army of those he has deceived and lead them in a war against ...
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  • 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, considered to ... Little definitive is known of Sturluson's life, and much of what ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Plains, including the Wichita tribe proper and several independent bands ...
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  • Joseon dynasty, rose to the occasion. Born and raised in obscurity, Queen ... third king of the Joseon Dynasty, Taejong, and second, the wife of the 19th ...
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  • "Harefoot" was for his speed, and the skill of his huntsmanship. ... He was the son of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, Norway ...
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  • was also notable in that, for a period, he and another pope, known to history ... The consequence was his banishment to Thrace and the appointment of Felix as ...
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  • that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation ... theology (theology of people) in Korea and Dalit theology (theology of ...
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  • the start of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Concordat of 1801, forming ... of priests who refused were defrocked and exiled. Churches were ransacked ...
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  • as kathairein "to purify, purge," and adjective katharos "pure ... by Aristotle to describe the effect of music and tragic drama on an audience ...
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