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  • Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador ... Quito is considered to have one of the oldest and best preserved colonial ...
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  • writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual ... not only among his immediate circle of friends and disciples (many ...
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  • The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra ... The aim of the Académie Royale de Danse was to reestablish the perfection ...
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  • #039; to spread Gnostic teachings. Author of over 60 books, Samael Aun Weor ... sexual practices as the highest form of religious devotion and articulated ...
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  • as a score—that is based on accomplishment of tasks set within the game. ... However, with the popular use of the term "video game," ...
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  • 1822 – December 10, 1909) was a war leader of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). ... One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States ...
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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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  • or Tengrianizm) was the major belief of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic ... The other deities were Umai (a life-giving deity), Erlik (god of the ...
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  • who created the McGuffey Readers, one of America's first textbook ... on religion and a belief in the value of education. In 1802, the family ...
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  • in the earliest-known religious system of the Han Chinese people. The ... seemingly understood as a composite ancestor of the ruling dynasty. From the ...
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  • Nichiren (日蓮), was a Buddhist monk of thirteenth century Japan. A ... Nichiren’s ideal of establishing a Buddhist ideal land on earth ...
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  • philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...
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  • )—a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 B.C ... The discovery of Mohenjo-daro led to tremendous excitement in the ...
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  • who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu philosophy. Dvaita is ... Little is known about the actual life of Shri Madhvacharya, save for ...
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  • the American Revolutionary War. Hale is best remembered for his "I ... Widely considered America's first spy, a copy of Frederick MacMonnies ...
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  • or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...
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  • born American Academy Award-winning actress of film and theater whose versatility ... World War II, Colbert embodied the ideal of the independent, resourceful ...
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  • on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound ... great-uncle's family in the small town of Villars, in Burgundy. There ...
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  • Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology to aid ... important technology within the scope of computer-aided technologies ...
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  • recognized it as an important component of art and aesthetics. However ... the highest value, which exist independently of and transcend the phenomenal ...
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