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  • Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...
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  • Garuda (from the Sanskrit: Garuḍa myth, Garuda is a lesser divinity, usually the vehicle (or vahana) of Vishnu ...
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  • In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or Anti-Christ is a powerful ... Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek ...
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  • The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse ... The "curse of Ham" had been used by some members of Abrahamic ...
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  • The Book of Kells (less widely known as the Book of Columba) is an ... The Book of Kells is the high point of a group of manuscripts produced ...
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  • He was born around 735 C.E. and became the student of Egbert at York ... He was made abbot of the monastery of Saint Martin of Tours in 796 ...
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  • The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur ... or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ...
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  • served in India and Egypt and became one of the most well known colonial officials ... Lord Cromer was one of the most experienced and famous colonial administrators ...
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  • Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ... The Stoic school flourished in Greece and Rome for almost five centuries ...
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  • Pinyin: Huìnéng) (638 – 713) was one of the most important figures in ... Huineng is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment ...
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  • of text on a medium such as paper or cloth. The machine applies pressure to ... spread rapidly first across Europe and then the rest of the world. Books became ...
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  • philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...
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  • composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature ... The period from the fourteenth century up to the nineteenth is considered ...
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  • Lent" in Eastern Orthodxy) is the forty-day period prior to ... and spiritual preparation to commemorate the death and resurrection of ...
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  • Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...
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  • is a Chinese Philosophy founded by Mozi in the fifth century B.C.E.. It evolved ... Mohism presented a challenge to the dominant Confucian thought, emphasizing ...
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  • psychotherapist of Jewish descent. He coined the term "Gestalt Therapy ... At Gestalt Therapy's core is the promotion of awareness, the ...
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  • any strict criteria. Some geographers divide the world into six, five, or fewer ... The term "the Continent" (capitalized)—used predominantly ...
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  • Isaiah or Yeshayáhu (יְשַׁעְיָהוּ "Salvation is ... In his long career spanning the late eighth and early seventh century ...
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  • a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. The user, called an abacist, slides ... The abacus is a simple, inexpensive, yet powerful tool for calculation ...
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