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  • most of the crinoid forms of the Paleozoic era died out, with a few surviving ... are also found in the rocks of the Paleozoic era. These extinct groups can ...
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  • Bronze was stronger than the era's iron. Quality steels were ... mechanical, and chemical properties. Some common examples are the high electrical ...
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  • specific period of jazz, known as the Swing Era (roughly the 1930s, especially ... the distinctive swing time rhythm that is common to many forms of jazz. ...
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  • that had its full place in the swing era. In the New Orleans style ... in ways similar to those of speech is common to many jazz musicians and ...
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  • Queen Victoria (1837–1901) and during the era which bears her name. It forms ... notably different from that at the start of the era. William Makepeace ...
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  • bird, similar to an ostrich, which were common in pre-historic China, similar ... and only to mark the beginning of a new era, hiding during times of trouble ...
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  • or form of works in the post-Baroque era. While modulation normally ... is determined by the number of notes in common between keys, which provides ...
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  • in a small bowl of raw, beaten egg. A common joke in Japanese comedy is ... contact with the West during the Meiji era popularized the consumption ...
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  • of the Vikrama Samvat or Vikrama's era had been created by the legendary ... had been a soothsayer of renown in his era, predicting the death of Vikramaditya’s ...
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  • uncovered. In a later Early Christian era, scrolls became quite valuable ... took place after third century before current era. ====Greece and Rome==== ...
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  • Robinson). Defining the beginning of the era is difficult, given the lack ... Common sacred genres were the mass, the motet, the madrigale spirituale ...
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  • This was the era in which photography was invented. The Camera Obscura ... photography, can be traced to Victorian era practitioners such as Julia ...
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  • organ accompaniments for choral works were common by the late sixteenth century ... becoming more significant during the Baroque era because of a new stylism in ...
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  • known as Civil law. For the area of law in common law countries governing relations ... civil law system is contrasted with the common law originating in England ...
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  • At the height of the swing era, Jones introduced a regular, lightly ... one of the premier jazz drummer of the swing era and the transitional figure ...
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  • original key. In the Baroque period it was common to repeat an entire phrase ... In common practice period compositions—and most of the Western popular ...
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  • and styles. Some specialize in playing common rhythm section instruments ... on numerous country and rock hits of the era, the two groups of musicians ...
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  • === The Patristic Era === of St. Augustine is known as the Patristic era of philosophy and theology ...
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  • for it, with humankind developing from a common origin guided from savagery ... A common principle of intelligence meets us in the savage, in the ...
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  • developed to regulate the process. A less common—but no less important—use ... * In feudal England, common people had no right to inherit property. ...
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  • composer and music theorist of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste ... present. For many composers of the Baroque era, the relationship of acoustic ...
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  • community world-wide in the early medieval era. The Geonim played a prominent ... Early in the Geonic era, the majority of the questions asked to them ...
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  • to many styles of rock music. There is a common misconception that these ... ===First era (1970s)=== In the 1970s, hard rock attained its identity ...
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  • of forms prior to the Classical music era. The term would take on increasing ... The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a variety of works, including ...
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  • Central Bank and accept the Euro as their common currency. ... removing the barrier of direct barter. In common usage, "currency" ...
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  • culture of Judaism at the turn of the Common Era, including information ... have been dated to the beginning of the Common Era, give or take several decades ...
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  • Like many intellectuals during his era, he began his career as a ... His theory was spawned during the industrial era and some critics have argued ...
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  • the age of 14. Later that year, the Japanese era name was changed to Meiji ... advance public good and promote common interests; always respect ...
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  • romances" which touched upon common life and were popular throughout ... During the Brezhnev era of stagnation in the history of the Soviet ...
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  • outlasted the now extinct trilobites, the common marine arthropod of the Cambrian ... all share similar attributes from a common lineage. ==Characteristics== ...
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  • groups; international marriages were common and were officially sanctioned ... 唐玄宗) (712–730), known as the Kaiyuan era (開元之治). The Shoku ...
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  • repession that would continue until the era of glasnost during the Mikhail ... a neologism for self-publishing, a common practice for literary works ...
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  • academies were built during the Chia-ching era (1522-1566 C.E.). ... called Shuyuan in Chinese. Despite the common name, these shuyuan are quite ...
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  • Most modern historians dismiss the notion that the era was a "Dark ... hopes, and fears. The ideal of a common world order, known earlier ...
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  • of American modernism, taking part in that era's upsurge of highly experimental ... It is a common mistake to perceive Williams' turn towards Americanism ...
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  • first centuries B.C.E.) and the early Common Era, but have faced severe ... ===The Common Era=== In the first part of the Common Era, Samaria was ...
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  • The term felony is a term used in common law systems for very serious ... The term felony is a term used in common law systems for very serious ...
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  • creating a repeating crossbow. The most common model, the Zhuge Nu (better ... === Interwar era and World War II=== During the interwar years, many ...
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  • go-go days gave rise to the golden era of Kansas City Jazz (now commemorated at the American Jazz Museum at Eighteenth and Vine) as well as a ...
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  • more than 3,947 square yards. Most of the common people lived in large apartment ... center until around the beginning of the common era. For many years, archaeologists ...
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  • for different applications. However, a common and well-accepted metric ... Many common active devices in transistor amplifiers are bipolar junction ...
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  • courtiers and other amateurs, apparently common in the early years of Elizabeth ... had individual differences; yet their common function necessitated a similar ...
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  • product of rural Ohio during the post-Civil War era. Denton True Young ... it looked like a cyclone had hit. The most common version of the myth is that ...
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  • and no harm, no foul that have become common basketball vernacular, and ... is all the more impressive because, in an era of specialization between ...
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  • Repetition of the nembutsu is a common feature of Jodo Shu, which ... shu/disciples/eras/4eras.html The 4 Era's of Honen's Disciples ...
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  • in medieval ages and even into the modern era as the value of people and ... A common opinion held in countries based on common law is that in ...
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  • Mediterranean states having much in common, and the northern Atlantic ... the politics of the United States that is common in Western Europe. ...
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  • pieces but most systems assume that some common feature characterizes an ... to anywhere in the world according to Common Era numbering, has a certain ...
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  • producing a unique depth of color, to common opals that have a blander ... red, yellow, green, brown, and black. Common opal is truly amorphous, ...
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  • signs are a type of folk art that became common in Pennsylvania Dutch country ... signs" dates back to the pre-Christian era in Europe, when symbols and ...
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  • level of popularity it had in the Baroque era, although most composers still ... in augmentation entering in the bass is common at the end of fugues). Sometimes ...
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  • "Dajjal" (compare to "Devil") is a common Arabic ... reality, for others what follows is an era of peace and justice on a ...
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  • the oboe's tessitura in the Classical era was somewhat broader than ... playing one half-step lower (B4). Classical-era composers who wrote concertos ...
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  • conveyed other grand Hindu concepts to the common people, including consciousness ... The founders of the Haridasa movement shared a common goal. They sought ...
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  • Jacques Rousseau, as were many French during that era, Marie Antoinette was seeking a more natural style; one that would appeal to the common people ...
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  • was a founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, and played an integral ... as a focal point for various proponents of common-sense philosophy (including ...
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  • assumed rather than constant. Wings, while common in Victorian artwork of fairies ... concerning the dead. This noted many common points of belief, such as ...
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  • to bronze, then steel during the Roman Era, to modern fabrics such as ... soon. The armor dates from the Mycenaean Era around 1400 B.C.E., some 200 ...
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  • rather than bona fide resurrections. Other common associations are the biblical ... to the Book of Acts. Following the apostolic era, many saints were known to ...
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  • in which professionals engage in a common task, in which individuals ... While the worker in the industrial era factory learned how to manipulate ...
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  • novel which attacks Victorian era hypocrisy. Written between ... can be found at all) unaffordable for the common reader. More easily available ...
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  • a judge for the Barnstable County Court of Common Pleas and later won election ... a poet and a historian of the Revolutionary era. However, all of her works ...
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  • Tulip is the common name for any member of the thousands of varieties ... peach aphids, Myzus persicae, an insect common in European gardens of the ...
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  • curve. The term "curve" is more common in vector calculus and differential ... as being required in complex analysis. The era of the space-filling curves ...
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  • The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...
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  • century Christians has made them the most common type of surviving Medieval ... In the ninth and tenth centuries of the Common Era, monastic piety ...
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  • of feudalism had been swept away, and a new era of democracy had begun. In ... In 1847, Goncharov's first novel, A Common Story, was published; ...
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  • for food. Interestingly, one of the most common artifacts found is garbage. ... of History, from Antiquity to the Modern Era, lists and pictures a variety ...
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  • will be born at the beginning of the third era of the next (ascending) half ... number of time cycles before our present era and there will be an infinite ...
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  • in the late sixteenth century ushered in an era of smaller West African states ... Ghana, and Nigeria throughout the colonial era. France also controlled extensive ...
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  • The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... trait among many great artists of the Romantic era. This attitude attributes ...
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  • shelled nautiloid during the Paleozoic era, likely from within the bactritoid ... The majority of ammonoid specimens, especially those of the Paleozoic ...
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  • voyage of 1488. Like many voyages of this era, this one changed the world. ... these voyages of exploration ushered in an era of exploitation. Many indigenous ...
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  • were highly influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly Calvinist ... Carlyle establishes that the bases for common belief and faith are empty ...
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  • fourth of 6 periods making up the Paleozoic era within the Phanerozoic eon ... during the period, and other lifeforms were more common. ...
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  • Watergate-era prosecutor Archibald Cox, famous for his firing during ... the peace in 1762, judge of the court of common pleas in 1765, and justice ...
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  • Sea urchin is the common name for various spiky echinoderms within ... term, sea urchin sometimes is used as the common name for all members of Echinoidea ...
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  • used, but pencils later became more common. Another distinguishing ... original Pitman's, Pitman's New Era, and Pitman's 2000. The ...
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  • times (pre-1500 C.E.). The first important era to mention here is the time ... pilgrims traveled in their company. In an era often labeled a dark age—quite ...
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  • It was in this era that formerly independent ancient Egyptian states ... to uphold justice, and to act for the common good. The basic moral principles ...
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  • America. There is only one species, the common or Virginia opossum, that ... in 1982, does not support this once-common belief. Rather, both main ...
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  • Bartering is traditionally common among people with no access to a ... As bartering lacks a common unit of exchange and standardization, ...
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  • rule, and theoretically ushering in a new era in which political power was ... were held throughout China for the common people, and more than four ...
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  • Initially political and common-law prisoners were housed together ... The particular character of the apartheid era prisoners, and their disciplined ...
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  • popular form of drama of the latter Jacobean era. Fletcher remains an important ... form or revised, were by far the most common fare on the English stage ...
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  • renamed Gorky in his honor during the Soviet era but restored to its original ... Its purpose was to elevate the common factory or agricultural worker ...
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  • the subject of heated debate. The most common historical account credits ... applies to modern players. Some think the era of gharānā has effectively ...
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  • Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden--"the era of great power") at the ... shallower infantry formations than were common in the pike and shot armies ...
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  • #039;s idea making solo improvisation a common practice of the genre. Also ... Famous Dixieland hits of this era included "Basin Street Blues ...
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  • but, like several other bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music ... As is typical of his era, James recorded a variety of material: blues ...
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  • The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi-jidai) is an era in the history ... Burial grounds were located near the villages. The mot common form ...
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  • During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ... Two great Pharisaic teachers emerged during early Common Era: Hillel ...
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  • and musicians (Arnold de Lantins). The era begins with the fall of the ... music of the time. At the start of the era, the notated music is presumed ...
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  • so that they have three strings in common—G, D, and A—and is one ... on higher tension metal strings. It is common to use one on the A-string ...
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  • === Imperial Era === [[Image:yin-yang-and-bagua-near-nanning.jpg|thumb ... === Modern era === During the Industrial and Modern Ages, Chinese philosophy ...
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  • mentality of the American Revolution era. For example, Otis favored ... became friends with Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense. ...
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  • By far the most common species of fox is the red fox (Vulpes vulpes ... in heat summoning dog-foxes. Contrary to common belief, however, it is also ...
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  • attacks on communists. During the McCarthy era trials, Helen Lynd was questioned ... in the nation, through the network of common social services. In 1923 ...
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  • with his gift for finding and showcasing the era's brightest new talent. ... having no personality. He is the commonest common denominator." Sullivan ...
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  • A common feature of lyric forms is the refrain, whether just one line ... number of syllables or on stress. The most common meters are: ...
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