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  • The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian ... The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ...
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  • Tarkington's works often centered on life in the mid-west among everyday ... middle-class family in Indianapolis, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth ...
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  • and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...
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  • Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... than towards an uncertain future, than that of many of his contemporaries ...
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  • that was published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all ... childhood, it seems, was spent in the laps of Civil War veterans and of her ...
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  • work on urban sociology at the University of Chicago. He pioneered efforts ... == Life == Ernest Watson Burgess was born in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada ...
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  • November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early nineteenth century ... His famous home of Sunnyside just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in ...
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  • The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of ... The Book of Micah is also notable for its more hopeful passages, portraying ...
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  • Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was ... When the book took the name "Domesday" (Middle English spelling ...
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  • Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus) (ca. 262 B.C.E. – ca. 190 B.C.E. ... by which they are now known. The hypothesis of eccentric orbits, or deferent ...
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  • John of Patmos is the name given to the author of the Book of Revelation ... John of Patmos is traditionally identified with John the Apostle and ...
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  • " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...
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  • and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...
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  • Methuselah or Metushélach (מְתוּשָׁלַח - "Man of ... In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, Methuselah becomes a channel through ...
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  • and epistemology. His highly influential book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...
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  • March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, the ... assumes that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire ...
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  • ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizer persuasion and critic ... Belinsky was the first prominent literary critic of after the development ...
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  • the golden flower: the classic Chinese book of life. [San Francisco, Calif ... Secret of the golden flower, a Chinese book of life. New York: Harcourt, Brace ...
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  • analogy, an argument for the existence of God in his book Natural Theology ... Born in Peterborough, Paley was educated at Giggleswick School, of ...
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  • journalist who is now considered to be one of the most important writers ... In addition to his fiction, Crane was also the author of some of the ...
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  • Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...
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  • teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...
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  • philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...
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  • The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...
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  • to fiction, but as he became more critical of the Soviet regime, his work ... ==Early life and career== Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman in Berdichev ...
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  • The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...
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  • was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society, the unique ...
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  • in Islam as Jahannam. The powerful imagery of Gehenna originates from a ancient ... (גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley ...
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  • Josiah (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ, Yošiyyáhuv, "supported of ... reform that centralized the worship of the Hebrew God Yahweh in Jerusalem ...
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  • The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...
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  • The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Roman ... and beautiful widow. During the final stages of an Assyrian siege which has ...
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  • Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, the Book of Haggai ...
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  • Manna was miraculously produced food of the Israelites in the desert ... substances that may have been the source of the legend of manna from heaven ...
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  • he wrote De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of ... the Renaissance the work emerged as a source of inspiration for numerous scholars ...
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  • actor and playwright. At the age of 12 he attracted the attention ... the Noh theater, as well as Fūshi kaden, a book of instruction for Noh actors ...
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  • In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of ... figure who probably lived during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 B.C.E ...
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  • dogmatism in general, and the concept of an institutional church. He ... with individuals through the portion of the divine remaining in each ...
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  • a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the philosophers of Ionia ... inquired into the unchanging principle of being that can uniformly explain ...
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  • whose works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great ... Tindal was born in 1653 to the Rev. John Tindal, Rector of Beer Ferrers ...
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  • and Gulag survivor. Shalamov was a victim of Stalin's Great Purges ... ==Early life and first arrest== Varlam Shalamov was born in Vologda ...
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  • The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...
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  • † 443 B.C.E. in Argos), was one of the canonical nine poets of ... a poet that, although only a tiny fraction of his works have survived, what ...
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  • #039;akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...
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  • and influential African-American novelist of the first half of the twentieth ... also a political activist. He spent a number of years in his early career championing ...
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  • feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... ==Early life and Education== Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein ...
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  • an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...
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  • War II. After experiencing the excesses of Stalinism, he became a critic ... His novel, The Thaw, gave expression to many of the problems of Soviet ...
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  • February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the ... Palestrina was born in Palestrina, a town near Rome, then part of ...
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  • Krafft-Ebbing is famous for his book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) ... , and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. ...
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  • [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...
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  • :For Saint Bridgid of Sweden, see Bridget of Sweden. {{Infobox Saint ... Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (also: Brigit, Bridget ...
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  • He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque ... Although the place (or date) of his birth is not reliably documented ...
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  • A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, ... Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot ...
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  • century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...
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  • animal magnetism. He recognized the veracity of the phenomena but believed ... in 1795. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he finished ...
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  • April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years ... moved to Worcester when she was two years of age. Perkins' father opened ...
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  • The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary ... One component of the text that has received extensive scholarly attention ...
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  • poetry, marked by understatement, the use of plain (and at times vulgar ... from Oxford he was appointed to the position of librarian at Wellington, Shropshire ...
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  • thereby offering practical solutions to one of the many problems facing women ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...
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  • The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the ... Ezekiel taught that people of Judah must not resist the Babylonian ...
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  • artist, painter, wood engraver and maker of ukiyo-e, author of the 13-volume ... new images. His art was an important source of inspiration for many European ...
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  • and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental ... in philosophy in 1897. Following the advice of his mentor William James, Woodworth ...
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  • a leading scholastic theologian and bishop of the twelfth century. His philosophical ... Peter Lombard upheld the use of reason in interpreting dogma, while ...
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  • to be published in the United States. Her book Poems on Various Subjects ... to her personal circumstances or to issues of race. Rather her poems are ...
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  • is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging ... Karl Huysmans," using an approximation of the Dutch equivalent of his ...
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  • The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...
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  • authors. She is known for her depictions of life in the United States in ... The first two are part of the so-called "prairie trilogy," ...
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  • acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He founded and served ... Gallaudet was a Congregationalist preacher, and his faith guided his ...
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  • The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...
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  • She was both the daughter and the wife of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governors ... ==Early Life in England== Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in Northhampton ...
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  • German chemist who ushered in the age of biochemistry by clarifying ... Hermann Emil Fischer was born in Euskirchen, Germany, the son of Laurenz ...
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  • [[Image:Goldenlocks.jpg|thumb|250px|Twelfth century icon of Archangel ... or Jibril; Arabic: جبريل; "Hero of God") is a prominent angel ...
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  • and Northern Zhou (北周) Dynasties of northern China, and their successor ... also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death. Yan stressed ...
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  • mystical writings. He is known both as one of the "Scythian monks" ... by Christian struggles, and visited a number of monastic foundations. Later ...
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  • or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...
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  • specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent ... had their origins in the royal collections of the sovereign or some other ...
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  • American novelist, who is now considered one of the most important American ... As a result of his uniqueness, Gaddis was largely misunderstood by ...
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  • The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numerical ... As of January 1, 2007, International Standard Book Numbers have been ...
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  • in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...
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  • 1980) was a popular wildlife conservationist of the 1960s and an author, best ... as her own country, living on the shores of Lake Naivasha. It was with ...
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  • The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of ... The Kama Sutra is the most notable example of a group of texts known ...
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  • the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...
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  • who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers. He considered himself ... Henry Morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrhymny ...
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  • philosopher, and economist. In light of the ideological struggles in ... Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox priest in the ...
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  • The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the early chapters of the book, Hosea marries the unfaithful "woman ...
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  • ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ... In addition to the general importance of the text for Christian and ...
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  • artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...
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  • and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He attended ...
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  • a leading figure in the study of human fossils. A strong supporter ... 5, 1866 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the sixth of 10 children to John Keith and ...
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  • 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...
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  • 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists ... However, he believed that the main point of The Jungle was lost on ...
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  • the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated ... an illuminated manuscript was also a time of religious devotion and prayer; ...
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  • as a practicing physician his entire life. In his early writings, Williams ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...
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  • Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...
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  • The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely ... From its original Hebrew, The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into ...
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  • The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... The author of Chronicles, termed "the Chronicler," may also ...
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  • Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...
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  • poetry belonging to the confessional school of poets in the style of other ... and precise wording that covered a spectrum of feelings that many people can ...
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  • includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...
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  • interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...
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