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  • sense of morality, Buck is also in important figure in the history of American literature due to her connections with the cultures of Asia, and China ...
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  • Charles Ammi Cutter (March 14, 1837 – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's most significant ...
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  • Mani presented himself as a savior figure and his religious teachings ... and evil and in the increasingly vivid figure of Satan. Augustine of Hippo ...
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  • kingship, with his left foot on the chest of a figure lying on his back before him. The prostrate figure is reputed to be the pretender Gaumata. Darius ...
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  • established himself as a public figure. He had been married a year ... authority.) He was a conspicuous figure in the siege of Paris, fought ...
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  • The Panchen Lama (Tibetan: པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ་; Chinese: 班禪喇嘛) is the second-highest-ranking religious figure (after ...
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  • hydrated, and consists of two subunits (Figure 1). One ribosomal subunit ... In Figure 4, both ribosomal subunits (small and large) assemble at ...
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  • ===Emphasis on the human figure=== The human figure is the primary subject matter for most African art ...
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  • of slavery, Equiano is also a notable figure in Pan-African literature ... dispute, Equiano is nonetheless a major figure both in the politics and ...
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  • Liberal Federation made him an influential figure in Liberal circles, albeit ... views. He was considered an influential figure in Liberal circles. ...
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  • that God is a deeply personal and loving figure rather than a cold, distant ... existence, as well as a anthropomorphic figure worthy of an individual& ...
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  • before World War I and a principal figure in the history of the Internationalist ... influence, he has been considered a lesser figure to his contemporaries in ...
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  • around the globe. The numbers in the figure are shown in parentheses ... correspond to the numbered hotspots in the figure on the right. ...
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  • The Gospel of Mark is an ancient koine Greek document that describes the life, persecution, and death of Jesus Christ, the central figure of ...
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  • for a short period, usually until the next figure is encountered. ... to be held, a line is drawn next to the figure or figures to indicate this: ...
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  • revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National ... after the suppression of the uprising. The figure ranges from around 3,000 ...
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  • movement can also be found in neon signs, where a figure or object appears to change position. ==Notes== ==References== *Chang, Freddy, Daniel ...
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  • long life, some considering him to be a figure of myth rather than history ... grandfather of Noah, Methuselah does not figure prominently in the rest of ...
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  • artisans never depicted Buddha as a human figure on those stone carvings. ... Image:SanchiBracketFigure.jpg|Sanchi Bracket Figure, British Museum ...
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  • are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother ... are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically mother-and-child ...
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  • short life, he is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the history and development ... in agreement that Wyatt was the principal figure in recognizing the formal ...
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  • century. He was a widely read, and popular figure of the era, and in his later ... of the already established literary figure, Washington Irving, who helped ...
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  • ===Heimdall as liminal figure=== Georges Dumézil, using examples from ... This view of Heimdall as a liminal figure helps to account for many ...
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  • of the corresponding central angle \theta (see Figure). ... (cf. the blue and green angles \psi in the Figure). Angles inscribed ...
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  • had established a reputation as a major figure in French musical circles ... the instrument, but he was a pioneering figure in developing new and inventive ...
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  • showing a detailed, twisted, and bloody figure of Christ on the cross in ... and became something of a cult figure, with the angst-laden expressionism ...
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  • King also argues in favor of naming Mary Magdalene as the central ... and also for her being the central figure of Christianity. Also, when ...
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  • movement in the city. Hume became a leading figure in the civil rights movement in the mid 1960s, having been prominent in the unsuccessful fight to have ...
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  • Two Men Standing, Man, and Seated Figure (Classic Male), while simultaneously ... related to landscape than to the human figure. These paintings, such as ...
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  • and mediums, he is considered a preeminent figure in American art. ... contrast of light and dark, and lively figure groupings—qualities that ...
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  • *Cantata Figure humaine for double-choir a cappella (1943), Premiere ... *Figure humaine (12 voices) (1943) *Un soir de neige (6 voices) (1944) ...
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  • In geometry, a polygon is a plane figure that is bounded by a closed path or circuit, composed of a finite sequence of straight line segments ...
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  • A key figure of early Post-minimalism in the United States and one ... out in December 1953. She then studied figure drawing at the Art Student ...
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  • [[image:chromosome.png|frame|Figure 1: Chromosome. (1) Chromatid. ... some of them grow breasts and develop a curvy figure. *Turner syndrome ...
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  • and street scenes as well as the nude figure. Like her fellow female Impressionist ... * Figure of a woman, 1875-76, (Before the Theater). * The Pscyhé, ...
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  • that featured a dark, bearded, Christ-like figure. It was soon replaced with ... early 1980s, with Saint Germain as a central figure. ===Who was Saint ...
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  • If a figure is both a rectangle (right angles) and a rhombus (equal edge lengths) then it is a square. == Other facts == *If a circle is circumscribed ...
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  • [[Image:Atomic_structure_of_olivine_1.png|left|thumbnail|Figure 1: ... There are three distinct oxygen sites (marked O1, O2, and O3 in figure ...
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  • She became the most important religious figure of her day, and her evocative ... #039;s oldest known author as well as a figure who evidences a significant ...
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  • the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure at the court in the 780s ... Alcuin is the most prominent figure of the Carolingian Renaissance ...
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  • Croce, portraying a very human Christ figure in a moment of the agony ... 1409-1411, he executed the colossal seated figure of Saint John the Evangelist ...
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  • are rigged with a virtual skeleton. For 2D figure animations, separate objects ... The starting point is often a stick figure in which the position of ...
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  • – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ... is how he was also represented in a marble figure in the Villa Albani in Rome ...
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  • These in his judgment:Justifies concluding that a figure between 700 and 800 is likely to be near the norm, and that variation in either direction is ...
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  • from events in the life of a historical figure. An account ascribed by the ... and Zeus, Saturn became an indispensable figure in Roman mythology and religion ...
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  • of Constantine made Sylvester a pivotal figure in medieval Christianity ... After his death, Sylvester became a major figure of legend. In a famous ...
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  • a road. Later, a priest saw the stricken figure and avoided him, presumably ... minority proves to be the truly righteous figure. Within the context of the ...
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  • the Second Temple era of Judaism and a key figure in the transition from Temple ... it is a historical fact that he was a key figure in the establishment of post ...
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  • depictions of a suffering messianic figure that seems to have influenced ... 039;s ways. God will soon send a messianic figure called "the Branch." ...
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  • of the poem, most controversially, a figure of Christ is seen in the ... Pushkin, whom he believed to be an iconic figure capable of uniting White ...
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