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  • Many ancient historians attest to the existence and supposed discovery ... Another ancient historian, Socrates Scholasticus (born c. 380), in ...
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  • It is said that Veronica later traveled to Rome to present the cloth to the ... accounts at different times of a visit to Rome that made direct reference ...
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  • Cranganore (believed to be the ancient Muziris of Pliny, and the ... In the ancient times it was called "Muziris" in Latin and ...
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  • to have brought the gospel to Greece and Rome, Thomas was said to have taken ... Saint Thomas is also associated with a collection of ancient documents ...
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  • of the first to resurrect the humanism of ancient Greek philosophy. He also ... Pico left for Rome, with the intention of publishing his 900 Theses ...
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  • paradigm shift that occurred in the Ancient Near East. Walter Burkert ... of Western civilization. Though the ancient Greek religions based upon ...
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  • Saqqarah, Saqqara or Sakkara (Arabic: سقارة) is a vast, ancient ... understanding of the civilization of Ancient Egypt, so significant in ...
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  • After Pope Gregory XI migrated to Rome, two "antipopes," ... written as Avennio or Avenio in the ancient texts and inscriptions, ...
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  • In 1803, James Christie II, an expert on ancient Greek and Italian ... In the late 1950s, the firm expanded, opening offices in Rome in 1958 ...
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  • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was born in Rome around 480 C.E ... taking place between the churches of Rome and Constantinople, and applied ...
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  • wrote both of these letters. However even in ancient times some believed that John the Presbyter was different to the Apostle John who wrote 1 John ...
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  • Isis was a goddess in ancient Egyptian mythology, often worshiped ... and Egyptologists to approach the ancient Egyptian tradition ...
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  • modern Tell Mardikh, Syria) was an ancient city about 55 km southwest ... Semitic and Sumerian influences, and many ancient biblical personal names ...
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  • 476 when there was no longer an emperor in Rome itself, and to end about 800 ... mainly the earlier centuries after the fall of Rome. ==Modern Academic Use== ...
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  • and the writings of later followers. In Rome, Titus Lucretius Carus (99 ... Empire. It never entered the mainstream of ancient political life, partly because ...
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  • Rabbi Shimeon bar Yochai.), was a famous ancient rabbi and one of the greatest ... and, according to legend, was sent to Rome as an envoy, where he exorcised ...
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  • Many figures in the ancient world used the phrase "Son of God ... by wonder-workers such as Dositheus in the ancient world. ...
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  • Many have believed that ancient China was the first to create factories. ... Although large mills and manufactories were established in ancient ...
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  • and seven months and four days, and died in Rome, after which there was a vacancy ... set down in the list of popes or bishops of Rome, because she was a woman who ...
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  • attributed the moral irresponsibility in Rome to the doctrine of divine ... and the Pelagians were expelled from Rome. Pelagianism continued in ...
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