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  • under the latter. The Rabbis of the Mishnaic era, realized the danger of recording ... a literal interpretation runs counter to common sense. Maimonides is dismissive ...
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  • his yellow colored nightshirt ushered in the era of colored comic strips. Outcault ... the success of The Yellow Kid ushered in the era of the colorful comics in ...
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  • with gold or silver. However, in both common usage and modern scholarship ... responsible for their preservation in an era when barbarian hordes had ...
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  • chain, krill and copepods exemplify the common bi-level functionality of ... In common with other arthropods, crustaceans grow larger through the ...
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  • (肅愼) have been recorded in pre-Christian era geographical works like the ... A less common English transliteration is "Jurched." ...
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  • Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical ... Many musical terms and concepts from this era are still in use today. It ...
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  • of Athena from the head of Zeus. The most common variant states that Pegasus ... [[Image:Pegasus iran.jpg|right|thumb|Parthian era bronze plate with ...
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  • in gauge (12 gauge being by far the most common; other common gauges are ... shells (for a total of 250 rounds) are also common. Ammunition for ...
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  • fear of spiders, is one of the more common phobias), arachnids actually ... its fossil history goes back to the Devonian era. Most acarines are minute ...
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  • A common theme appearing in the Mahabharata is that of an Apsara sent ... temples of ancient Java dating from the era of the Sailendra dynasty to ...
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  • the modern period called the New Order era.Jaques Bertrand, Nationalism ... During the Dutch East Indies era, the number of Roman Catholicism ...
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  • of the most noted jazz musicians of the the era, including the Count Basie ... she took up with trumpeter Joe Guy as his common law wife. She finally divorced ...
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  • added a principle of individuation to the common nature of essence, “haecceitas” ... to one of the most famous thinkers of the medieval era. ...
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  • time of King Herod around the beginning of the Common Era (d. 10-20 C.E.). He is one of the most important figures in Jewish history, associated with ...
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  • mortar bridges were built after the Roman era, as the technology for cement ... century C.E.), while the enormous Roman era Trajan's Bridge (105 ...
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  • Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four ... on different plants (dioecious), or less common on the same plant (monoecious ...
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  • popular with artists in the modern and post-modern era. ... old. The name Villon appears to have been common slang in fifteenth-century ...
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  • mutually incomprehensible, but share a common writing system based on Mandarin. ... Warring States Period. This period was an era of major cultural and philosophical ...
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  • that they may in fact be derivative from a common origin, namely the ancient ... it is also possible that the Nix shares a common origin with both. Nymphs ...
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  • like fiberglass and aluminum, but the common skateboards were made of ... with high-liability costs. Also, during this era, the "freestyle" ...
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  • union only in 1569) is the reason for the common appellation "Poland ... of the dynasty compared to others of same era. After just four generations ...
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  • for, though the participants have common interests, there are several ... that his theory is contrary to common sense, but believed that ...
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  • 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key ... genre have clearly happy endings. Other common elements of the tradition ...
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  • in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions; ... Æsir (or Aesir), particularly through the common phrase "Æsir and the ...
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  • One of the more common technical terms--in use--for a Zoroastrian ... ritual precinct. It is significantly more common than the older atashkada ...
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  • period, it has continued to last even in the modern era. ... by Christian thinking. It had much in common with the Islamic thinking ...
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  • and finalized in the Second Temple Era, to strengthen the spirit ... within the group. For example, through common rituals and myths, people ...
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  • in the great fire of 1689 (=5449 Jewish era), is indicated by the words ... , "the major era"). The German and Polish editions omit ...
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  • greatest archaeological finds of the modern era, providing many unique insights ... of texts from around the turn of the Common Era, as he had suspected. ...
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  • tube to change pitches, although the less common valve trombone uses three ... its beginnings in Austria in the Classical Era where composers such as Leopold ...
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  • upon the city during the independence era, which began in 1809. The ... numerous small villages that date from the colonial era. ...
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  • == Stagnation and the Brezhnev era == [[File:Staatshoofden, portretten ... During the later years of the Brezhnev era, however, the Soviet economy ...
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  • In 684 (the sixth year of the Jōgan era) there was an eruption on ... The latest eruption, in 1707 (the fourth year of the Hōei era), was ...
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  • organic matter (France 2004). Most common are passive methods of capturing ... anthozoans are known from the Precambrian era more than 540 million years ...
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  • them is usually played on one of the more common size instruments. The unmodified ... and less brilliant than that of the more common B♭ clarinet, though the ...
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  • is an official list of 2,928 characters in common use in Japan; it consists ... not studied Chinese. Major works of Heian era literature were written by ...
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  • thousand years ago, according to the most common calculation based on the ... in New Guinea the end of the prehistoric era is set much more recently ...
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  • origin--intrude into the everyday world. Common horror film archetypes include ... style. The most enduring horror film of that era was probably the first vampire—themed ...
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  • and evolved into yum cha. One of the most common breakfasts was congee with ... and structures in impressive manner for the era. Many European businessmen ...
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  • of leading literary critics of the Romantic era. Coleridge suffered chronic ... richest intellectual partnerships of the Romantic era. Beginning in ...
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  • reformed liturgy outlined in the Book of Common Prayer. Anglicans are predominantly ... Calvinist position. The first Book of Common Prayer dates from this period ...
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  • in the 1930s, and would be emulated by Bebop era musicians ten to twenty years ... and on other television shows from this era. Unfortunately, all of the ...
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  • (1489 or 1490–27 May 1525) was an early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during the Peasants' War and a leader of a radical ...
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  • or ethical relevance to the disillusioned common reader, weary of the 1920s ... *The Common Reader (1925) *On Being Ill (1930) *A Room of One's ...
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  • those of the great Eastern civilizations of the same era. ... and eighteen centuries before the common era. To put this in perspective ...
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  • parts of Karnataka. During the pre-Kadamba era the ruling families that controlled ... derives its name from the Kadamba tree common only to the South India region. ...
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  • that capitalists had no concern for the common person, other than what profit ... contributed to the yellow peril fears of the era claiming, in reference to ...
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  • Russian noble families. Their earliest common ancestor is Andrei Kobyla ... ==The era of dynastic crises== Mikhail was succeeded by his only son ...
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  • as a satirist is also important, with the common humorous device, the funny ... The poetry of Chaucer, along with other writers of the era, is credited ...
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  • Post, Partington, Ross, and McWay are common place names. Consistent with ... === Industrial era and gold rush === [[Image:Bixby landing2.jpg|thumb ...
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  • By far the most common type of timpani used today are pedal timpani ... There are three types of pedal mechanisms in common use today: ...
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  • The story takes place in the Sassanid era and begins with the Persian ... the historical caliph Harun al-Rashid is a common protagonist, as are his alleged ...
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  • biological fruitfulness) are relatively common archaeological finds in Egyptian ... rarely displaced the goddess's more common association with Ra. ...
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  • Olympics in 776 B.C.E. In the classical era, the Panhellenic Games were ... held throughout Europe in the classical era, including the Panhellenic ...
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  • of Mahavira, but share a great deal of common ground concerning his teachings. ... unique approach to the questions of his culture and era. ...
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  • Various types of RAM have been developed. The most common type of ... sometimes called shadowing, is fairly common in both computers and embedded ...
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  • a "cheery elf," rather than the common image of the austere, serious ... to bring people together, to find the common ground, to keep everyone ...
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  • military equipment and tactics during the era around 1100. It also includes ... In common with other embroidered hangings of the early medieval period ...
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  • in sexual immorality and idol worship, this era of Israelites lived in contradiction ... Israelites. The position of judge in that era carried more the role of a ...
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  • and South Africa during the Apartheid era. While no longer considered ... South Africa in the apartheid era and the United States—both during ...
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  • reforms during what was known as the Progressive Era. Commons served ... claimed, to bring laws that would protect common working people—to ensure ...
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  • including the ballistic range of common military weapons. Information ... of diplomatic solutions. It is also common for intelligence agencies ...
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  • In zoology, a mole is the common name for any of the small insectivorous ... moles is called a labour. Since at least the era of Early Modern English the ...
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  • now one of the most popular pets and are common all over the world. ... Pseudaelurus is believed to be the latest common ancestor of the two extant ...
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  • back to 1912, is the name of the Japanese era coinciding with his reign ... a broad dispute about whether he became a common citizen or retained a special ...
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  • ;Archaic Era - 8th millennium B.C.E. to 12th century B.C.E. (The original classification postulated a Basketmaker I Era which ...
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  • Many consider Mayan art of their Classic Era (200 to 900 C.E.) to ... of the Old World, hence the name bestowed on this era. We have only ...
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  • Chrysippus wrote over 700 papyrus scrolls. As was apparently common with natives of Soli (Soloi in Turkey), his style of writing in Greek was ...
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  • shogunate) and beginning of the Meiji Era. Probably the most important ... Meiji Restoration. On October 23, 1868 the era was changed to “Meiji,” ...
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  • lend credibility to this claim. It was common for woodblock prints during ... Sasaya Kuniori), who wrote during the Kansei era in Ukiyo-e ruikô ("History ...
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  • around the beginning of the Christian era, or a short time before. The ... in a number of bodily postures. The most common is the tribhanga, a posture ...
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  • rabbis and Muslim imams. During the Lenin era, mass executions of religious ... East." Even after the end of the Stalin era, regimes such as Enver Hoxha ...
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  • and even daggers. However, these were more common in jousts that involved combat ... The two most common kinds of horse used for jousting were chargers ...
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  • One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ... Many musical terms and concepts from this era are still in use today. ...
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  • Festival. The festival dates to the Heian era when Japanese aristocrats ... as Susuki grass). Japanese pampas grass is common in Japan in autumn, and is ...
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  • and cultural ties, the main tie being the common use of Afro-Asiatic languages ... groups tend to share much of their culture in common. Natural resources ...
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  • and Beethoven in what is known as the common practice period. Beginning ... defining trait among many artists of the Romantic era. This attitude ...
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  • vehicles, particularly tanks. The most common anti-tank weapons systems ... power to puncture the thin armor of the tanks of that era. ...
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  • to their bodies. In the medieval Christian era, the tomb served as a representation ... use in the afterlife. Such barrows were common throughout Japan, known as ...
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  • to this global tendency, and predicted a new era of culture and values, which ... part of a community with which he shared a common experience of value. Many ...
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  • the social problems that face the common man. Fontane's most ... lives of the nobility as well as the "common man;" his achievement ...
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  • In fairness, it should be noted that the Grimms' method was common ... for the German people of the time was a common language. There was no significant ...
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  • and craftsmen. The Dwarf is also common in Germanic mythologies, ... which is needed to make bronze, was more common in the north. Being southerners ...
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  • Despite being called Rhode Island in common usage, most of the state ... to the state's many salt marshes are common. Such woodland mammals as ...
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  • in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also applied to later and modern revivals of these teachings. The term gnosticism comes from ...
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  • * "Communion" (from Latin communio, "sharing in common ... in the early centuries of the Christian era for the Sacrament of the Lord ...
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  • mozzetta, zucchetto, and biretta. For common or everyday clothing, a cardinal ... from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Twentieth Century. ...
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  • who created them. The theme of hubris is common to most golem tales, as with ... Another famous treatment from the same era is H. Leivick's 1921 ...
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  • trained by Korean artists during the Baekje era, when Japan freely assimilated ... by today's standards. During the Goryeo era, artists began the practice ...
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  • literally means “rebirth,” and the era is best known for the renewed ... the rapid population growth of the earlier era. The Hundred Years' War ...
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  • of intimacy unheard of in the Old Testament era. Thus, we see in early Christian ... Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost ...
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  • clergy, the aristocracy, and the common people (known as the Third ... it discusses the need to provide for the common defense and states some broad ...
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  • most well-remembered poets of the Victorian era. Browning lived in a time ... of narrative, sharing perhaps as much in common with John Milton, Geoffrey ...
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  • ) Rival claimants to the papacy were also common during the Western Schism ... ===Middle Ages and Avignon era (the "Babylonian captivity") === ...
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  • to have become even greater during the Majapahit era. The prosperity ... such as Prambanan from the ancient Mataram era, and Panataran (also Sukuh ...
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  • which revolve or oscillate. The most common applications of fans are ... to provide draft for a fire. It is also common to use electric fans as air ...
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  • be seen for example in the fact that the common type of shrine seen today ... Shinto, as a distinct religion, is a Meiji era invention of Japanese nationalist ...
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  • time. His human rights policies were also common to his ancestors and future ... an incorrect geographical assumption; a common one in that era, and repeated ...
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  • that developed in this region, in the modern era only the occasional wadi, ... derives from the name of a Yemeni tribe of that era.) The people of ...
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  • is to find the general principles common to all the sciences and to ... of Futures Studies: Human Science for a New Era: History, Purposes, Knowledge ...
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