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The Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms) was a general assembly (a Diet ... The previous year, Pope Leo X had issued the papal bull Exsurge Domine ...

An Indulgence, in Roman Catholic theology, is the full or partial ... Prior to the modern period, indulgences could be obtained by offering ...

The Ninety-five Theses (95 Theses) or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum ...

political, and ecclesiological impulses of the Protestant Reformation. The ... Protestants generally may be divided among four basic groups: The ...

The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...

Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was the first ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...

Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... In its early history, one of the Church's earliest ecclesiological ...

Martin Luther and subsequent failure to stem the Protestant Reformation, which ... The remark "It has served us well, this myth of Christ" ...

Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... down, derived from custom or implied. In the United States and most continental ...

charter issued by a pope. It is named after the seal (bulla) that is appended ... reasons of public communication, but after the fifteenth century C.E., they ...

The English word "axiology" (Greek: axios = worth; logos ... The axiological movement emerges from the phenomenological method ...

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...

The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учред ... By the time it finally met, the Bolsheviks had already overthrown ...

in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1946. SNU, the first national university ... section view of Korea's history since the end of World War II. Korea ...

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... Salzburg was established around 696 C.E. when the missionary St. Rupert ...

The Peasants' War (in German, der Deutsche Bauernkrieg, literally ... The Protestant reformation, which began with Martin Luther in 1517 ...

evil, and, resultantly, that people require the positive influence of teachers ... Little is known of the historical Xunzi, save that he was born in ...

The Basilica of Saint Petrus, commonly called Saint Peter's Basilica ... Santa Maria Maggiore, and St. Paul outside the Walls), it is the most prominent ...

العربي ) Al-Adab Al-Arabi, is the writing produced, both prose ... Arabic literature emerged in the sixth century with only fragments ...

The papacy is the office of the pope (from Latin: "papa" ... The importance of the Roman bishop is largely derived from his role ...

was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...

one of his best-known works, and also one of the most-quoted writings in the ... Hamlet has been called "the first great tragedy Europe had produced ...

of woven or laminated fibers, protects the wearer's torso from projectiles ... spread its force over a larger portion of the vest fiber. A deformable handgun ...

The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great ... Most Armenians, Russians, and West Europeans believe that the massacres ...

Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ... reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late ninteenth and early twentieth ...

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... Germany was unified as a nation state amidst the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. ...