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  • to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one ... Sexual behavior is related to the very purpose of human existence: ...
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  • to the English military occupation of Scotland during significant ... To the Scottish people, Wallace was the exemplification of undying ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Carnegie, Andrew Category:Public [[Image:Andrew-carnegie-portrait-pd.png|thumb|Andrew Carnegie]] ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • This chemical is used mostly as an intermediate in the production ... A minor but significant use of ethylene oxide is for the sterilization ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office ...
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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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  • (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 ...
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  • Gregory of Nyssa (Latin:Gregorius Nyssenus, Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος ... and Roman Catholic Christianity, all of which celebrate his memory ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...
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  • James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... Party effectively moribund, the eight years of Monroe's administration ...
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  • religious teachings were an eclectic blend of various traditions including ... The teachings of Mani were once widely circulated in the ancient world ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • logician, cryptographer and one of the originators of modern computer ... codebreaking center, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible ...
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  • yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...
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  • Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name ... by having an external shell and two pair of gills rather than one (Vecchione ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but ... made opera, a typically dense and epic form of entertainment, available to ...
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  • Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...
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  • 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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  • this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...
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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 ...
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  • 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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  • #039;s revolution against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, he grew ... Falls, which was on the New York Times list of top ten books in 1993 and was ...
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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 ...
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  • Saint Agnes (291–304 C.E.) was a virgin martyr and saint of the ... Traditionally, Agnes was martyred for her faith during the persecution ...
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  • 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, ...
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  • ) (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 ...
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  • An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... but more aggressively pursued by President Andrew Jackson after the passage ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the ... to 1877, but some historians include a phase of Presidential Reconstruction ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...
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  • The Church of Scotland (known informally as The Kirk) is the national ... The church adheres to the Bible and the Westminster Confession of ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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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  • that is used to shape or finish a piece of work through rubbing which ... are used very extensively in a wide variety of industrial, domestic, and technological ...
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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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  • Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures ... above Bulguksa, the grotto overlooks the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and rests ...
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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 ...
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  • 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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  • 1969), was the thirty-sixth kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1939 until his ... used in Uganda. As king he was also leader of the Baganda people, the largest ...
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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 ...
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  • | 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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  • postcard, commenting on the consequences of sexual ignorance.]] sexual intercourse, and other aspects of human sexuality. Common avenues ...
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