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  • Brahe, gave rise to the Invisible College, a precursor to the Royal Society formed during the seventeenth century. It was constituted by group of scientists ...
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  • The Vedic forms of belief are the precursor to modern Hinduism. Texts considered to date to the Vedic period are mainly the four Vedas, but the ...
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  • disks form, which are in essence the anlagen (precursor) for the entire adult body. Cells of the imaginal disks are set aside early on and they mature ...
    25 KB (3,676 words) - 09:54, 3 December 2023
  • *Federation for World Peace, inaugurated 1991, was the precursor to ... *Summit Council for World Peace, from 1987, was the precursor to the ...
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  • all of them) served in parliament, forming the precursor to House of Commons. The barons (and bishops), who were by right members of parliament, would ...
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  • network of 74 colleges on three continents. A precursor to liberal education, the Jesuit plan of studies incorporated the Classical teachings of Renaissance ...
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  • *"Precursor" (Early Eocene) - part of this apparent chimera seems to be of a pseudasturid or psittacid *Pulchrapollia (Early Eocene ...
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  • parallel group of reeded pipes, considered a precursor of the harmonica.|thumb]] Some argue that the harmonica has roots in the sheng, a mouth ...
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  • was to study the Schuman Plan, the precursor of the European Common Market. This was the origin of his interest in floating exchange rates, since ...
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  • history. Some modern scholars theorize that a precursor to Joshua had once been a sixth book of the Yahwistic epic, or "J Source" following ...
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  • Mohawk leader, Hiawatha (Ayonwenteh), was a precursor to the American Constitution. In the later centuries following the arrival of Europeans, Handsome ...
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  • words. Teasing with a sexual content may be a precursor to sexual harassment in later years. Bullying is distinguished from aggression in general: ...
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  • opened in 1693 and it closed in 1801, was a precursor to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded in 1938. ==Society and culture== ...
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  • Karl Benz founded the Benz Company, precursor of Daimler-Benz, Mercedes-Benz, and DaimlerChrysler. Before dying he would witness the explosion ...
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  • a characteristic that made Schmoller a precursor of “New Law and Economics” * Institutional analysis is always comparative and is an early ...
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  • English that is clearly recognizable as a direct precursor to the modern standard, and, above all, as one of the handful of works that established the ...
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  • Golden Age of Israelite history, a veritable precursor of the Messianic Age. "Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under ...
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  • school_tradition = Precursor to Existentialism | main_interests = Ethics ... Nietzsche is important as a precursor of twentieth-century existentialism ...
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  • a three-day event in Bedfordshire, the precursor of the present Britain Yearly Meeting system. Fox commissioned two Friends to travel around ...
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  • of unconditional love and forgiveness as a precursor to authoritarian control and misuse of power. Based on their study of various religions, they ...
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