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  • Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various ...
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  • File:Expression of the Emotions Figure 15.png
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  • text=Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story originates from medieval times but who remains significant in popular ...
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  • Myles Standing was a key figure in the founding of the Plymouth Rock community. While not a member, he fought against native foes and help secure ...
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  • eras in which the leader was seen as a god-like figure. While these cults of personality invariably occur in dystopian states in which millions have ...
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  • ancient world. According to this theory, the figure of Jesus is a mythical composite character based on earlier belief systems or historical persons ...
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  • Supreme Court, he became not just the leading figure for textualist and originalist interpretations of the law, but arguably the outstanding legal mind ...
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  • De Lamartine was a key Republican figure. A moderate, he played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the death penalty in France. He was ...
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  • deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshiped. #:They built a shrine ...
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  • Madame Roland was an important figure during the French Revolution. Her husband, Jean-Marie, became interior minister and they both were important ...
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  • Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the Figure ... illusionworks.com/html/figure_ground.html Figure/ground.] Retrieved October ...
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  • # A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure. #: What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds? ...
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  • The Orbison figures most often involve a figure placed over a background ... may cause the perception of a distorted figure.Sara Bolouki and Roger Grosse ...
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  • meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth and most recent Tirthankara ("Crosser ...
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  • text=Lilith is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish folklore, associated with sexual temptation, storms, disease ...
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  • Tawfiq al-Hakim was an important Egyptian literary figure in the mid-twentieth century. Many of his plays addressed philosophical themes and ...
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  • of love for the Divine make him a figure of inter-religious understanding and harmony. }} ...
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  • existed, but was a purely symbolic or mythical figure syncretized from various non-Abrahamic deities and heroes. }} ...
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  • Roland soon established herself as a leading figure within the political group the Girondins. In June 1793, she was the first Girondin to be arrested ...
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  • March 3, 2023 was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced ...
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  • the Bolshevik party. Kollontai was a leading figure in the foundation of the Zhenotdel, the new women's department of the Central Committee ...
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  • to shut down a person, corporation or political figure with whom you disagree. The basis of cancel culture is the postmodern idea that some people are ...
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