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  • Sufism (from Arabic (صوف), Suf meaning "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome of divine Love ...
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  • Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793– June 27, 1848), archbishop of Paris from 1840, was born at Saint Rome, in the department of Tarn. The Archbishop is ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout ...
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  • A clock (from the Latin word cloca, meaning "bell") is an instrument for measuring time. In its most common form, in use since at least the fourteenth ...
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  • Juvenal, an Anglicized form derived from the Latin (Decimus Iunius) Iuvenalis, was a Roman poet active in the late first century and early second century C.E ...
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  • The Six-Day War (Arabic: حرب الأيام الستة, ħarb al‑ayyam as‑sitta ; Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים, Milhemet Sheshet Ha‑Yamim), also ...
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  • Colitis (or colonitis) is inflammation of the colon (or more generally the large intestine). Various types of colitis have been identified, such as ulcerative ...
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  • Trout is the common name for several species of freshwater and anadromous fish in the family Salmonidae, whose members also include salmon, whitefish, char, ...
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  • Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is the common name for a species of burrowing, heavily built, insectivorous mammal found in Africa. Also known as antbear, the aardvark ...
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  • Category:Economists Clark, John Maurice John Maurice Clark (November 30, 1884 – June 27, 1963) was an American economist, the son of John Bates Clark. He was ...
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  • Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 — May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera. His nineteenth ...
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  • Category:Public Mu'tazilah (Arabic المعتزلة al-mu`tazilah) is a theological school of thought within Islam originating in the eighth century. It ...
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  • category:image wanted Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق Mīšīl `Aflāq) (1910 – June 23, 1989) was the ideological founder of Ba’athism, a form ...
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  • Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still being ...
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  • Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO3). It makes up about ten percent of the total volume of all ...
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  • Ayurveda (Devanāgarī: आयुर्वॆद, the 'science of life') is a system of traditional medicine native to India, and practiced in other ...
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  • Pope Lucius I was a mid-third century pope who reigned for slightly less than a year during the Novatianist schism. He was born in Rome at an unknown date, and ...
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  • The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Considered one of the Church's most important Bruce Wetterau, World History ...
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  • Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 – April 5, 1794) was a noted orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, and the first ...
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  • Scarlet fever or scarlatina is an acute, contagious infectious disease caused by an erythrogenic toxin producing strain of Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococci ...
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