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(c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...

Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was the mother of the Virgin Mary. Born of the ... According to the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of James, Anne and her husband ...

The Dialogue of the Saviour is one of the ancient works of the New ... The Dialogue of the Saviour teaches that the physical body and the ...

Joseph (also Joseph the Betrothed, Joseph of Nazareth, and Joseph ... According the Matthew's Gospel, Joseph agonized over Mary's ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for ... the apostle and evangelist in the middle of the first century (approximately ...

Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of ... hills that form the most southerly points of the Lebanon mountain range ...

Near East. Budge was was a strong proponent of liberal Christianity and was ... came to hold arguably the best collection of Ancient Near East artifacts ...

Mary (מרים, Maryām, "Bitter") was the mother of Jesus ... have supported Jesus' public ministry, Mary was present at the crucifixion ...

" "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...

under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt (323 B.C.E. — 283 B ... the dynasty he founded and in the tradition of cultural patronage and fusion ...

she was prominent as the wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus. Isis' origins are uncertain but the first mention of the deity ...

burning bush is a biblical representation of the numinosity of God, where ... light, illumination, and the burning heart of purity, love and clarity. From ...

The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and ... which state that Jesus "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin ...

:For the council of 449, see Second Council of Ephesus. The Council of Ephesus, also known as the Third Ecumenical Council ...

The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic ... Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation of Plato's Republic. The ...

and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties ... MacNeice was born in Belfast, the youngest son of John Frederick and ...

The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the communion of Eastern Christian ... The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is considered the spiritual ...

A tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. Derived from the ... Most tombs reflect a system of religious beliefs, and are used by ...

The Henotikon (or "act of union") was a document issued ... avoid language which offended the opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, which ...

Cyril of Alexandria (c. 378 - 444 C.E.) was the Christian patriarch ... controversy against Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, in which Cyril ...

The Second Council of Ephesus was a church synod in 449 C.E. It was ... had been deposed by Patriarch Flavian of Constantinople on account of ...

Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman ... She was born in the major Mesopotamian city of Ur and moved with her clan ...

also refer to the biological phenomenon of outbreeding or inbreeding. or endogamous rules concerning the selection of marriage partners. In the case ...

The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites ... The Amalekites are unknown historically and archaeologically outside ...

The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... The original Seven Wonders of the World consists of: The Great Pyramid ...

leader) often seen as the instigator of the Monophysite heresy. He ... The head of an influential monastery near Constantinople, Eutyches ...

The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...

economist who occupied the first chair of political economy in England ... Compton, Berkshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior ...

quot;), or Hierogamy, refers to the coupling of a god and goddess or their ... The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ...

The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom ... to climate change and to defeat at the hands of Judith, a legendary Jewish Queen. ...

[[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...

Dioscorus of Alexandria was the twenty-fifth bishop of Alexandria ... A disciple of Saint Cyril of Alexandria, whom he succeeded as patriarch ...

May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...

D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific ... Geographic Magazine has, through its use of photojournalism and quality ...

"Warrior Lion"), was the brother of Moses and Miriam and founder ... for his leadership during the early stages of the Exodus, and especially ...

people who first occupied the country west of the Euphrates from the second ... them as enemies and left several records of their defeat by Israelite heroes ...

belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae. It is ... it is described as "among the best of fruits," and in Numbers ...

Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology ... Basilides was a pupil of a hearer of St. Peter, Glaucias by name, ...

constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle ... musical expression. In the ancient cultures of China, Africa, Greece, the ...

A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...

; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area of ... pillar known as the "stone of witness." Shechem was ...

civilization museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation ... for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People") ...

for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...

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 ...

Brautigan wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...

"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 ...

Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval ... is integral to ancient Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict ...

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 ...

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire DBE ... is often cited, by the Guinness Book of World Records and others, as ...

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 ...

when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles George Gordon in the ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...

The Council of Chalcedon, also known as the Fourth Ecumenical Council ... Following the lead of Pope Leo I, the council sought a middle path ...

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 ...

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. ...

plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature, human attributes while ... that they were handed down as an oral form of storytelling, sometimes recorded ...

known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and ... the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael, in particular, had ...

that is especially honored either because of its antiquity, association ... building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public ...

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 ...

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 Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... preservation standards. As with the case of other notable museums, the ...

empire, particularly in Syria, the Levant, Egypt, and Anatolia, while western ... Monophysitism received new life again during the reign of Justinian ...

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any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy in order ... There are several specific categories of monks including cenobites ...

) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the ... Due to the extraordinary talents of Michelangelo (1475-1564), the ...

A dream is the experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, ... or heaven giving warnings or announcements of fortune that is to come. For ...

The First Council of Constantinople (381), also known as the Second ... Although the council represented the triumph of Nicene orthodoxy over ...

arts, and film. This movement was an amalgam of many different styles and movements ... 1930s and early 1940s, and soon fell out of public favor. The time frame ...

first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...

the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...

Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – October 4, 1226) is for many people ... in secular life. He is the patron saint of animals, merchants, Italy, ...

conductor, Rachmaninoff is remembered as one of the true artistic geniuses ... his own works as soloist. He was one of the greatest pianists of his ...

Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ... Though land-linked, the habitable peninsula of Mount Athos is accessible ...

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refers specifically to the aromatic leaves of this plant, which are used ... medicinal use. It is used in a wide variety of dishes, including as a meat ...

Coeducation is the integrated education of males and females at the ... single-sex education is undergoing a rebirth of popularity. ...

in Ugaritic as Athirat. She was the consort of the chief deity El and the ... a false Canaanite deity and a major source of temptation to the Israelites ...

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in Latin as Ambrosius, was successful bishop of Milan, who was later recognized ... In the beginning of his life, Ambrose embarked upon a career in law ...

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George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI ... from the Indian but he also had a sense of obligation towards the people ...

Landscape Painting depicts the scenery of the European natural world ... was for effect. Tintoretto, Saint Mary of Egypt in Meditation, 1585, ...

perform other tasks such as keeping records of humans' actions, acting ... beings is an ancient and common feature of most world religions, but only ...

The Gospel of John, (literally, According to John; Greek, Κατά ... Of the four gospels, John is the only one that presents a true christology ...

pamphleteer, and, most enduringly, author of what is widely considered the ... blind, Paradise Lost relates the story of the biblical Fall of Man: It ...

The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit ... The Dome of the Rock has a striking presence in the holy city of Jerusalem ...

Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian ... As king, Nabonidus was maligned by the priests of the chief Babylonian ...

Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus, is ... As might be expected with a man of this stature, partial understandings ...

during World War II and the 34th President of the United States. During the ... with the communist Soviet Union. During the height of the ...

Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first child of the painter Orazio Gentileschi ...

at its capital in Constantinople. Much of this territory had first fallen ... There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period ...

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and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The ... Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolition of slavery in ...

In anatomy, the heart is the muscular, pumping organ of the closed ... . Cardiovascular disease refers to the class of diseases that involve the heart ...

distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic. Hailing ... Pompey fought on the side of the Optimates, the conservative faction ...

Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824 - 12 May 12, 1884) is considered one ... founded several music schools in promotion of Czech music and fostered a ...

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a magical order of the late ... Thelema, and other forms of magical spirituality popular today, were ...

It is a time of somber reflection, fasting, and spiritual preparation ... is remembered on the fourth Sunday, and Mary of Egypt on the fifth Sunday. ...

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The Basilica of Saint Petrus, commonly called Saint Peter's Basilica ... One of four major basilicas of Rome—(St. John Lateran, St. Peter ...

The Baroque style began as somewhat of a continuation of the Renaissance ... The Council of Trent (1545-1563), in which the Roman Catholic Church ...

American sculptor. She was a master of naturalistic animal sculpture ... Huntington is recognized as one of America's finest animaliers ...

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The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...

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best known for his single-handed composition of a new Latin translation of ... (the Vulgate) is the most important version of the text ever composed, as ...

for God (or the gods), with the purpose of delivering a divinely inspired ... the Mari tablets, discovered on the banks of the Euphrates in northern Mesopotamia ...

The First Council of Nicaea was the earliest ecumenical council (meaning ... church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.Richard Kieckhefer ...

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Male Circumcision is a surgical procedure that removes some or all ... it include that circumcision is a form of ritual sacrifice or offering ...

for people to gather for the purpose of drinking tea, often combined ... The form of a tea house or room varies considerably, just as the occasions ...

(monastērion) denotes the buildings of a community of monastics (monks ... by community rules that stipulate the gender of the inhabitants and require ...

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Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kaptan ... A series of smaller victories followed over French and Spanish adversaries ...

Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice ... The concept of possession by evil spirits and the practice of exorcism ...

(January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to ... Sukarnoputri means "daughter of Sukarno" (Sanskrit) and ...

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The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as ... enthusiastic: Some powers linked the demise of the Ottomans with the fate ...

The State of Illinois is a state of the United States of America, ... About 2,000 Native American hunters and a small number of French villagers ...

staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital ... In accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were ...

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The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," ... Israel declared its independence in 1948. With a diverse population ...

is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...

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Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...

Sir Francis Galton (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), cousin ... to lead to an increase in the number of people manifesting the desirable ...

to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...

Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...

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

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end. Therefore history is not a series of accidents or merely the story ... ==The Goal of History== The goal of history is restoration or "re ...

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British Army officer and creator of special military units in World ... Perhaps the most important aspect of Wingate's legacy is that ...

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

command to save Noah, his family, and a pair of all animals from the Great ... take on board his family and representatives of all the animals and birds. ...

for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...

Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...

The modern day term, Vampire (derivative of the German vampir), usually ... The most popular and well-known means of killing a vampire is driving ...

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; April 21, 1926 – September ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...

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- 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 ...

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only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas ... Initially established during the Preclassic period, many of the Mayan ...

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; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French ... Antoinette Laurent, was the daughter of a clothing salesman,Pierre ...

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most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...

Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...

musician and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... in style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially ...

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

when the last Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings), Yazdegerd III (632 ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...

Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...

physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist ... Some time later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary ...

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

An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious ... historical-medieval faiths also made use of them, including the Roman, ...

and a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder ... As a fiery, socio-political critic of American Christianity's ...

a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... for her day. She sought the attention of those who could influence her ...

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...

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 ...

(The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...

A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together ... composition and many other properties of a star by observing its spectrum ...

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