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  • poet, critic, and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...
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  • The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691 ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...
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  • "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing ... Sufis believe that excessive rationalism blocks human understanding ...
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  • Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... he absorbed local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression ...
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  • Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...
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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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  • writer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest American writers ... Fitzgerald is considered to be the spokesman for the "Lost Generation ...
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  • and essayist who is best known for leading the scientific revolution. His ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...
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  • Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... Protestants generally may be divided among four basic groups: The ...
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  • historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... Tocqueville's insights into what made the United States successful ...
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  • Realism is a widely used term in the arts. In literature, it came ... popular art form, not only in France but the in rest of Europe as well ...
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  • A. A. Milne, was a prolific English author of books, plays, and poems. He ... Milne's generosity lives beyond him. Royalties from the Pooh ...
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  • died in Adyar, India where she was President of the Theosophical Society from ... more than satisfied if I could have touched the hem of [her] garment" ...
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  • The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which ... to 100,000 people escaped enslavement via the Underground Railroad, though ...
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  • 1889 (June 11, Old Style) - March 5, 1966) the pen name of Anna Andreevna ... Akhmatova's work ranges from her short lyric poems from the early ...
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  • John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous ... Protestantism at 16 and studied theology at the University of Glasgow. He ...
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  • She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet ... An eloquent writer and speaker, she used these talents to further ...
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  • The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...
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  • and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...
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  • Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai's school became known as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai ...
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