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Saint Andrew (first century C.E.) (Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas ... The apocryphal “Acts of Andrew,” as well as a “Gospel of St ...

The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency ... During the beginning of his term, Jackson was forced to confront the ...

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...

The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... the United States following the end of the Civil War. Utilizing membership ...

In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus ... John the Baptist also had disciples, as did some of the Old Testament ...

The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...

Peter, and Cephas—original name Simeon son of Jonah—was one of the Twelve ... by Jesus, who reportedly gave him the keys of heaven and called him the ...

early Soviet period. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists ... family in 1902. He studied at the University of Novorossiya from 1916 to 1918 ...

The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...

Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating money or goods, or providing ... Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating extensive financial ...

by God to spread the "good news" of the Christian message to the ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...

The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based ... The Acts of John describes his journeys to Ephesus, filled with dramatic ...

Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; "Gift of Yahweh"—first century ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...

from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... war with Britain in 1812 and a vast program of internal improvements afterwards ...

In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...

The Gospel of Mary is an ancient Christian text rediscovered by scholars ... Two Greek fragments of the Gospel of Mary were discovered (Papyrus ...

refers to ecstatic utterances, often as part of religious practices, commonly ... The origin of the modern Christian concept of speaking in tongues ...

Ka'bah holds a place analogous to that of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem ... == Physical attributes and location of the Ka'bah == ...

Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions ... Vedānta tradition has his own understanding of the precise meanings of the ...

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to the English military occupation of Scotland during significant ... To the Scottish people, Wallace was the exemplification of undying ...

Revolutionary War began, and is seen as one of the first examples of African ... to her personal circumstances or to issues of race. Rather her poems are ...

Carnegie, Andrew Category:Public [[Image:Andrew-carnegie-portrait-pd.png|thumb|Andrew Carnegie]] ...

The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... the Acts of Paul (and Thecla), the Acts of Andrew, and the Acts of John. ...

This chemical is used mostly as an intermediate in the production ... A minor but significant use of ethylene oxide is for the sterilization ...

The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was ... Rome, it continued to enjoy a high degree of autonomy as a client-state ...

officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office ...

The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...

(the Dialogist) in Eastern Orthodoxy because of the Dialogues he wrote. Gregory ... A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ...

Gregory of Nyssa (Latin:Gregorius Nyssenus, Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος ... and Roman Catholic Christianity, all of which celebrate his memory ...

The Red Terror in Soviet Russia was the campaign of mass arrests and ... in reply to White Terror. The stated purpose of this campaign was struggle ...

The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... Party effectively moribund, the eight years of Monroe's administration ...

religious teachings were an eclectic blend of various traditions including ... The teachings of Mani were once widely circulated in the ancient world ...

countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The son of Agrippa I ... the right to name the important post of high priest of Jerusalem. Agrippa ...

logician, cryptographer and one of the originators of modern computer ... codebreaking center, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible ...

yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...

Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name ... by having an external shell and two pair of gills rather than one (Vecchione ...

is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...

January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for ... in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration ...

Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but ... made opera, a typically dense and epic form of entertainment, available to ...

Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...

Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions." Carey ... Among those who assisted in the task of Bible translation was Ram ...

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organized the National Colonization Society of America and the American Colonization ... The society held close control over the development of Liberia until ...

The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent ... Sometimes exceptions are made to some of these duties in exceptional ...

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is the Islamic rite of pilgrimage in Mecca, the city in Saudi Arabia ... It is the most overt demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim ...

Saint Agnes (291–304 C.E.) was a virgin martyr and saint of the ... Traditionally, Agnes was martyred for her faith during the persecution ...

The Gospel of Thomas is an important but long lost work of the New ... biblical gospels in that the resurrection of Jesus plays no part in it, ...

) (967 – August 15, 1038) was Grand Prince of the Magyars (997-1000/1001 ... internal peace in his kingdom. Based on his acts, he is generally considered ...

An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... but more aggressively pursued by President Andrew Jackson after the passage ...

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...

Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the ... to 1877, but some historians include a phase of Presidential Reconstruction ...

Catholic) who want union with the Republic of Ireland to re-unite the whole ... Former British Prime Minister John Major had laid some of the groundwork ...

[[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...

The Church of Scotland (known informally as The Kirk) is the national ... The church adheres to the Bible and the Westminster Confession of ...

The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors ... 1805, Austria and France signed the Treaty of Pressburg, which took the former ...

was an Irish playwright who, at the height of his fame, won the Nobel Prize ... his life, disdaining the commercialism of capitalism and believing that ...

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient ... Originally, it contained the whole of both Testaments. The Greek Old ...

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Public libraries exist in most nations of the world and are often ... well as educational and nonfiction materials of interest to the general public; ...

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The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... dedicated to justice, outreach and youth. As of 2006, the Community of Christ ...

In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is ... Gospel narratives, Judas is still somewhat of an ambivalent figure in Christian ...

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penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment, by means of ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...

| order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... | date of birth=October 4, 1822 | place of birth=Delaware, Ohio ...

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Crucifixion was an ancient method of execution practiced in the Roman ... The purpose of crucifixion was to provide a gruesome public way to ...

remains are buried, usually with some form of marker to establish their identity ... A cemetery is generally a place of respect for the dead where the ...

date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...

Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. She is considered by ... Mary Magdalene's name identifies her as the "Mary of Magdala ...

The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...

national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...

Musical theater is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken ... Some of the best-loved musicals, such as Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music ...

was a British general and commander in chief of the British North American ... Gage was born in Firle, England the second son of the first Viscount ...

The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred ... The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States ...

The historicity of Jesus concerns the historical authenticity of Jesus ... of biblical scholars argue that Jesus never existed as a historical ...

October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe ... During the War of 1812 he fought on the side of the British. Later ...

is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, on the opposite ... is a major factor in the exploration of and the research conducted ...

Spiritualism is the belief that the spirits of the dead can be contacted ... These spirits are thought to be capable of providing helpful advice ...

their reactivity is different from that of ions of similar structure. ... == Clarification of terms == Historically, the term "radical" ...

Winnipeg is both the largest city and capital city of the province ... Prairies, on a flood plain at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers ...

for their own existence. It is the sum total of a being's knowledge and ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...

Mary (מרים, Maryām, "Bitter") was the mother of Jesus ... the crucifixion and is depicted as a member of the early Christian community ...

| order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ... | date of birth=February 12, 1809 | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky ...

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with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include ... Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light ...

Calvinism is a system of Christian theology advanced by John Calvin ... John Calvin's international influence on the development of the ...

membership, known as Salvationists, of over 1 million consisting of ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...

Carta, due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that ... proceedings, in order for judges instead of legislators to guarantee fundamental ...

infused music propelled them to the heights of popularity during the "British ... was later led by the songwriting partnership of singer Mick Jagger and guitarist ...

in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the twentieth century, it has ... #039; rights. Labour is a full member of the Party of European Socialists ...

is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island ... Similar to other Caribbean islands, it has a history of being ravaged ...

" referring to the academic title of Master of Theology that he ... Meister Eckhart can be considered a symbol of the intellectual spirit ...

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors ...

Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...

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de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...

American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ...

for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional ... Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he ...

Polycarp of Smyrna (ca. 69 - ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna ... and the patristic period. After many decades of service to the nascent Christian ...

KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...

with two neighboring islands, forms one of Australia's external dependent ... Norfolk Island is the main island of the island group the territory ...

order to facilitate the study and analysis of history, understanding current ... continuous and not generalized, all systems of periodization are more or less ...

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The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted ... War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated ...

– July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...

represent its content or origins. The act of creating a counterfeit is called ... This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ...

"Covent Garden," is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal ... and ballet. In the nearly three centuries of its history, the Royal Opera ...

Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...

votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The Constitution ... The original mechanics of presidential elections were established ...

"true words") is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the ... The teachings of Shingon are based on esoteric Vajrayana texts, the ...

:This article covers the political aspects of the American Revolution ... The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half ...

and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...

or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (Latin: Disputatio ... is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 ...

that creates money and enables the expansion of an economy. It is used by most ... other, and depositors have a minimum amount of deposits guaranteed by insurance ...

fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ... and is determined by usage, the effect of a civil war upon the population ...

The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...

15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature ... intent on promoting the Established Church of Britain and on teaching young ...

In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer ... ==The cause of surface tension== [[Image:WassermoleküleInTröpfchen ...

also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...

At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger overall concern over ...

popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and an ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...

The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute ...

C-Double-A") is a voluntary association of about 1,200 institutions, conferences ... athletic organization in the world. Because of the great popularity of college ...

Clinical psychology is the application of psychology to assess mental ... to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions ...

Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self ... channeling, prayer, and altered states of consciousness. The person may ...

The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme ...

any person anointed by a prophet or priest of God, especially a Davidic king ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...

Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ... or minimized, depending on the agenda of the commentator. Shi'a ...

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...

is an entity responsible for the money of its country or of its group ... Though the primary purpose of a central bank is to act as a financial ...

and successful general. During the course of the American Civil War he quickly ... After the war he was alleged to have participated in the founding ...

275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...

such as the Trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...

for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature ... in all who undertake it. An unending array of colors, textures and sometimes ...

(أبو عمّار). Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ... of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004). Arafat ...

The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean ... The Divine Principle follows the format of systematic theology, basing ...

his career as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University, after ... His writing on Islam pioneered, in the English-speaking world, use ...

identities. The term is used in a variety of ways to describe phenomena ... Many contemporary advocates of identity politics take an intersectional ...

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. ...

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...

his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel Death of a Hero, and the controversy ... interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they achieved ...

‎; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before ... A divorce must be certified by a court of law, as a legal action is ...

The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere ... Lovelock hypothesized that the living matter of the planet functioned in many ...

a single note being played. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard ... Cage was a long-term collaborator and romantic partner of choreographer ...

(CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...

The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...

Ahmadiyya) refers to the followers of a controversial religious movement ... Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat ...

Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting ... Aruba seceded in 1986 as a separate country within the Kingdom of ...

), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...

), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...

England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... United Kingdom, or the same as the island of Great Britain, which consists ...

to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests ... precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government. As ...

until 1910, lasted for five centuries as one of the world's longest running ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island ... it became known as the "Birthplace of Confederation" for having ...

Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to ... when people had no scientific understanding of natural phenomena, such as ...

) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...

James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October ... He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of ...

enormous popular success during a career of more than 70 years and continues ... and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics ...

process in which critical thinking faculties of the human mind are bypassed ... theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a ...

Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the ... The major themes of his work were social: Radical individualism, libertarianism ...

a generic term referring to the continuation of existence after death, typically ... Is death the end, or is there something of people that survives after ...

exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different ... life, and lineage, is commodified, the value of a human being is inevitably ...

039;s Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...

on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States, serving ... United States experienced the longest period of peacetime economic expansion ...

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parents, Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la ... she was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. ...

, is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ... Despite these disparities, the common feature of apartment construction ...

May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...

Protestant Reformation and is the namesake of the system of Christian theology ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...

the subject is asked and answers a series of questions, on the basis that ... . Several other technologies are also used in the field of lie detection ...

together to challenge the immoral system of racial segregation. The movement ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...

Canada is an institution that is part of Corrections Canada. Opened ... she is denied or unable to meet conditions of bail, or is unable to post ...

available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book, namely, Jews and ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...

the molecular level, liquid ethanol consists of hydrogen-bonded pairs of ethanol ... Ethanol has a refractive index of 1.3614. Ethanol is a versatile solvent ...

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Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the ... Sheridan prosecuted the latter years of the Indian Wars of the Great ...

injustice and tyranny. His band consists of a "seven score" group ... He has been the subject of numerous movies, television series, books ...

Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... ferocity and pillaging raids, the voyages of the Vikings also linked different ...

critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement ... His work made use of frequent homages and references to film history ...

are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... Sinai, and to share them with the people of Israel in the third month after ...

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...

Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...

Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase ... life or to learn to live for the sake of others. The role of parents ...

The City of Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and the ... On April 1, 1996, the government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the four ...

Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...

was principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's ... He was a pioneer of modern sports ownership and is remembered for ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...

The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived by major ...

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United ... Oklahoma was the destination of the Native American Cherokee tribes ...

A pyramid's design, with the majority of the weight closer to the ground ... Civilizations in many parts of the world have built pyramids, generally ...

Nebraska is a state located on the Great Plains of the United States ... Originally home to the Plains Indians, the area was part of Louisiana ...

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G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition ... The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic ...

Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... and sexual expression between individuals of the same sex. Today attitudes ...

He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, of which he was the first great ... enemies. By the next year, after a career of little more than a decade, ...

Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...

Atlanta is the capital and the largest city in the U.S. state of Georgia ... Atlanta has in recent years undergone a transition from a city of ...

a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...

the people indigenous to the United States|broader uses of "Native ... Native'One race: 2.5 million Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics ...

- December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...

is a Christian belief, based on the Book of Revelation 20:1-6, that Christ ... These millennial views in Christianity, in spite of their differences ...

served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. She ... when she was eleven years old. A member of the Democratic Party, she worked ...

(a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of ...

the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a historic landmark which consists of ... The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce ...

With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ... established in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany on October 7, 1949 ...

and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...

payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a ... The primary functions which distinguish money are as a medium of exchange ...

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...

Psychology (from Greek, literally "study of the soul," from ... natural sciences it is also considered one of the behavioral sciences—a ...

Popularly, Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related ... The ancient Greeks described love with a number of different words: ...

cover art, and elaborate live shows. One of rock music's most successful ... Pink Floyd had moderate mainstream success and was one of the most ...

was cited as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World ... while in high school. With the guidance of Arista Records chairman Clive ...

and endless debate as the topic of God. In the English language ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...

native to North America, who, at the time of European contact in the sixteenth ... Today, the Cherokee Nation and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians ...

forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over ... believe that the massacres were a case of genocide. Western commentators ...

Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (March 11 ... Wilson is generally recognized as a man of profound intellect but ...

and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous ... Antifaschistische Aktion inspired a variety of different movements, groups ...

film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took ... secure Hollywood's position as one of the world's most powerful ...

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

and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States ... , National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). She appeared ...

UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... in the Korean War. During a Soviet boycott of the meetings over the inclusion ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with molecular structures ... properties and are efficient conductors of heat. Their novel properties ...

The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...

Protestants, Catholics, and a small number of Orthodox Christians. Although ... The Nestorians were accepted in China because of their ability to ...

and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... the Republican Party. Bush is the eldest son of the 41st U.S. President, George ...

quot; or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used ... Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts ...

North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle (1996). ...

Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...

Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...