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  • The Septuagint (or simply "LXX") is the name commonly given in the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often ...
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  • The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera ...
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  • Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ...
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  • An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context. Historically, entheogens are derived ...
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  • Eastern Africa is a region of sub–Saharan Africa containing the easternmost region of the continent, composed of two distinct regions: ...
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  • "ASTRA" National Museum Complex ( Complexul Naţional Muzeal "ASTRA" ) is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers ...
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  • Category:Public Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather ...
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  • The Creative Commons (CC) is a U.S. non-profit corporation founded by Lawrence Lessig in 2001, devoted to expanding the range of creative works ...
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  • Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) (pronounced "Casey") was an American psychic who could channel answers to questions ...
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  • Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Economics Market research is the process of systematic gathering, recording ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :Arawak redirects here [[Image:Reconstruction of Taino village ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Tejon Serrano.jpg|thumb|200 px|A Tejon Serrano]] ...
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  • South America [[Image:LocationSouthAmerica.png|190px]] {| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; table-layout: auto; border-collapse: ...
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  • A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Mariette, Auguste [[Image:Auguste Mariette statue, Boulogne ...
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  • The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. They are ...
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  • The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American ...
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  • Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on ...
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  • The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the strongest sense. It can include or overlap with meanings implied by other ...
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  • The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh). It defines not just the books of the Jewish canon, but also the precise ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sir William Empson (September 27, 1906 – April 15, 1984) was an English critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest ...
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  • Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death is disputed) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Wallenberg ...
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  • The World Cup, sometimes called the FIFA World Cup, is an international soccer competition contested by the men's national soccer teams ...
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  • Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader ...
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  • The Rastafari movement (or "Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican religion that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia ...
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  • An air bag, also known as an Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS) or Supplemental Restraint System (SRS), is an automobile safety device that ...
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  • Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of enlightened rule”) (November 3, 1852 – July 30, 1912) was the 122nd imperial ...
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  • Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religious tradition that has been passed down for centuries in oral or ...
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  • Carrie Amelia Nation, later Carry A. Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ...
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  • In horticulture, cultivar refers to a group of plants of the same species that have been selected, maintained through cultivation, and given ...
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  • The Ten Years' War, (Guerra de los Diez Años) (also known as the Great War) began on October 10, 1868. On this date, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ...
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  • Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial arts. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring ...
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  • Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891) was a French painter and the founder of Neo-Impressionism. His large work Sunday ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Mills, C. Wright Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist. His writings addressed ...
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  • Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 - January 29, 1962) was an Austria-born American violinist and composer. Noted for his sweet tone and expressive ...
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  • Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Hebrew Elisheva, אֱלִישֶׁבַע—"An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist ...
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  • Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four species in the genus Cucurbita of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae: C. pepo ...
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  • The Meiji period (明治時代, Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in the Gregorian calendar, from October 23 ...
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  • Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings Originally "van Dijck," with the "IJ" digraph, in Dutch. Anthony is the English ...
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  • Shinbutsu shūgō (Japanese for the "fusion of kami and Buddhas") refers to a form of cultural-religious syncretism that arose in Japan ...
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  • Pulakesi II (Kannada: ಇಮ್ಮಡಿ ಪುಲಿಕೇಶಿ) (r. 610 - 642 C.E.) reigned over the Chalukyas of Badami an Indian royal dynasty ...
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  • A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together ...
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  • Snorri Sturluson (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, considered to be one of the most important poets ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Bates, Daisy Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – ...
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  • A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened ...
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  • Lake Huron, bounded on the west by Michigan, USA, and on the east by Ontario, Canada, is the third largest (by volume) of the the five Great ...
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  • Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” is a Sanskrit word meaning ...
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  • A wind instrument (or aerophone) is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set ...
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  • Category:Public Samsāra refers to the state of perpetual reincarnation or rebirth, in which all beings are ensnared, according to the Indian ...
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