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  • A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...
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  • ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area of ... pillar known as the "stone of witness." Shechem was ...
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  • civilization museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation ... for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People") ...
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  • for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...
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  • persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...
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  • Brautigan wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...
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  • "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in ... played an important role in the lineage of Jesus. Her story involves life ...
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  • Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval ... is integral to ancient Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict ...
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  • pot. Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty of China (c. 1700)]] archeology outside the United States) is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology ...
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  • Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire DBE ... is often cited, by the Guinness Book of World Records and others, as ...
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  • The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... During the Roman Empire, the cross was an instrument of capital punishment ...
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  • when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles George Gordon in the ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...
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  • The Council of Chalcedon, also known as the Fourth Ecumenical Council ... Following the lead of Pope Leo I, the council sought a middle path ...
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  • Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... #039;. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing ...
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  • and sociologist, famous for his theory of matriarchy and his work on ... the need to bring out the feminine aspect of God and human beings was real. ...
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  • plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature, human attributes while ... that they were handed down as an oral form of storytelling, sometimes recorded ...
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  • known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and ... the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael, in particular, had ...
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  • that is especially honored either because of its antiquity, association ... building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public ...
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  • embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant ... go much further back into history. A version of it is told in many cultures ...
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  • The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...
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