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  • Very little was known about China by the Europeans during the ancient ... missionaries in China would look in the ancient texts for traces of primal ...
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  • thumb|right|200px|Trajan became emperor of Rome through adoption, a customary ... length and the practice of adoption in ancient Rome is well documented in ...
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  • the poetic and religious traditions of ancient Greece. Its roots may be ... Later in ancient Greece, the word "tragedy" meant any serious ...
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  • Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI ... philosophies, especially those of ancient Rome and Greece. The results ...
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  • and quotation, often from the Bible as well as ancient Greece and Rome. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that he delivered speeches "like a ...
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  • were written around 500 B.C.E. in ancient China, and reconnaissance ... *Gabriel, Richard A. and Karen S. Metz. 1991. From Summer to Rome; ...
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  • As a day of celebration the holiday has ancient origins and relates to many ... [[Image:Rome concert 1-5-2007 crowd.jpg|thumb|225 px|right|Approximately ...
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  • Ancient customs survived in the rural parts of Austria, Switzerland, Bavaria, Slovenia, western Croatia and Friul in the form of dance, art, ...
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  • Vatican-like style and was called the "Rome of the North." Its fame ... on his mother's side and educated in Rome, this great prince of the ...
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  • ==Other ancient sources== === Non-Christian sources === ... * 352—Pope Liberius, in Rome. * 12??—Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. ...
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  • in 1962 at the Incontro Romano della Cultura in Rome. In 1961, upon ... other contemporaries, he did not return to Ancient Greece or Byzantium for ...
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  • ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... ), and Diogenes Laertius (c.200-250 A.D.). Ancient Greek estimates are dependent ...
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  • and in 66 B.C.E. it was conquered for Rome by Pompey. In early Christian ... The Ancient City of Damascus was selected as UNESCO World Heritage ...
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  • and traditions, based on classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome, that was characteristic of his age. The never-married Pope's physical ...
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  • that the classical literature of Greece and Rome contained all that is needed ... Brier exhume the bodies of Italy's ancient first family and use the ...
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  • little evidence for this. It appears that the Ancient Romans made products of the haggis type.Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food (UK: Oxford ...
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  • From 1513 to 1516, Leonardo lived in Rome, where painters Raphael ... * Rome (1514) * Florence (1514) * Pavia, Bologna, Milan (1515) ...
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  • Hana-nim (하나님)). According to an ancient myth, Hwan-in had a son ... workers, not the official representatives of Rome. ===Use of the Korean ...
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  • or of a few people. On the other hand, an ancient dynasty such as Bagrationi ... The illustrious dynasty of the Bagrationi originated in the most ancient ...
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  • Apprenticeship was well known in ancient civilizations such as Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as in Asia. In Europe, the system of ...
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