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  • combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded ... and gradual improvement in their standard of living in the first few decades ...
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  • R.F. Outcault, he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip and ... yellow colored nightshirt ushered in the era of colored comic strips. Outcault ...
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  • Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ...
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  • or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in ... dust storms, forest and grassland fires, living vegetation, and sea spray ...
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  • All tape-based camcorders have removable media in the form of video ... eventually enabled the construction of portable video-cameras and ...
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  • Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos with infinite numbers ... shape, and size. The qualitative diversity of the world is reduced to and ...
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  • quot;) is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty ... Mahavira's later life was an example of rigorous asceticism. ...
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  • to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or into poor families ... At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million ...
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  • around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...
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  • which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...
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  • or running around," is a rite of passage during adolescence ... The Amish, a sub-sect of the Anabaptist Christian movement, intentionally ...
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  • Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen ... thereby dealing a serious blow to the theory of vitalism. ...
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  • Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... among the largest NIEs, boasting a standard of living comparable to industrialized ...
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  • Compleat Angler, a classic guide to the joys of fishing with over 300 new printings ... scholars. Until 1643, he lived in the parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne ...
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  • if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a ... In the philosophy of science, two theories are said to be incommensurable ...
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  • family known as the Liu clan. The history of this dynasty divides into two ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...
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  • The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... Hepatocytes (liver cells) comprise about 60 percent of liver tissue; ...
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  • or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior. Government ... use of capital, has kept our standard of living lower than would otherwise ...
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  • the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... in Nice, France, where his family was living at the time. His mother ...
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  • in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...
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  • |caption=Basketweaver of the Yurok people |poptime=5,000+ ... longest tributary, near the Pacific coast of Northern California. They are ...
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  • Fideism emphasizes the importance of faith over reason in understanding ... ==The “Rationale” of Fideism== Despite the fact that fideism is ...
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  • to mention the costs of bringing the standard of living to levels close to ... the neighboring islands, where the standard of living is lower. Ngazidja ...
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  • The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... are inadequate to provide the same standard of living for all. Moral decisions ...
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  • significance for many Christians because of its use in the biblical Book ... The spectrum of Christian theological views on the meaning of 144 ...
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  • Diogenes of Sinope (412 or 399 B.C.E. – 323 B.C.E.) was an ancient ... for information on Diogenes is the Lives of Eminent Philosophers written ...
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  • is commonly regarded as the fundamental unit of counting and measurement. For ... known as the "identity element" of multiplication (or multiplicative ...
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  • also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the ... The almanac is a natural byproduct of the calender and serves as ...
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  • from Austria and a giant in the history of economic thought. His work ... Joseph Alois Schumpeter was born in Třešť (then part of Austria ...
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  • Filial piety is the virtue of a child to his or her parents or parental ... ) is one of the virtues to be cultivated and denotes a love and respect ...
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  • bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a photon at a certain wavelength ... Fluorescence is named after the mineral fluorite, composed of calcium ...
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  • or biological chemistry) is the study of chemicals and chemical processes ... Biochemists have been able to artificially produce a variety of substances ...
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  • of climate, national tendencies or standard of living. He argued that a person’s ... acknowledged that an increase in the standard of living could cause population ...
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  • The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... dedicated to justice, outreach and youth. As of 2006, the Community of Christ ...
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  • their reactivity is different from that of ions of similar structure. ... == Clarification of terms == Historically, the term "radical" ...
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  • Marie began her career as a writer in 1839. She was a friend of female ... and leave men to the more public sphere of politics and religion. She ...
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  • Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until ...
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  • 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... work helped to usher in a higher standard of living in the United States ...
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  • hi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit]) Retrieved December ... In order to emphasize the degeneration of society, the standard of ...
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  • Siberia a land with a better standard of living, migrated there. As ... they had recovered their original standard of living.Lee, 2000, 141. The ...
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  • meaning, reason, proportions, principle, standard, or logic, among other things ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...
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  • is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... first used to refer to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan ...
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  • eschewing the more popular genres of opera and symphonic poems. ... Brahms was a a devout student of the Bible, if unconventional in his ...
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  • * Increases the average standard of living. * Creates incentive to ... mentions that they had a better standard of living under Communists. ...
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  • ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth ... Its issues with poverty and standard of living continued to be addressed. ...
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  • co-founded the New York Cosmos soccer team of the former North American Soccer ... The son of a distinguished Turkish diplomat, Ertegun co-founded Atlantic ...
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  • Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid ... On Earth, regolith is an important factor that supports living organisms ...
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  • The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...
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  • 29, 1947) was an American economist, one of the early American neoclassical ... social issues, and promoting healthy living and world peace, an early ...
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  • to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry.]] Anthropometry is the measurement of physical attributes of human beings ...
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