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  • an Indian Christian missionary whose life and message had a far ranging ... giving some attention to the Hindu, Sikh, and Buddhist terminology. His ...
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  • rapturous devotion, somber contemplation, and endless debate as the topic ... thus created, the distinction between good and evil emerges in his thought ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... Patriarchy (from Greek: Patria meaning father and arché meaning rule ...
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  • Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council ... Soviet Union. He also supported the invasion and crackdown on Hungary in 1956 ...
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  • The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah ... to seven million. Also, about 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered in the ...
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  • twentieth century. A trumpeter, band leader and composer, Davis was at the ... Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...
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  • the Greek amphi meaning "both" and bios meaning "life," ... amphibians generally have smooth and naked skin. Yet, some have ...
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  • God's command to save Noah, his family, and a pair of all animals from ... in his generation," to build an ark and to take on board his family ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology ... refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or ...
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  • 12, 1704) was a French bishop, theologian, and renowned pulpit orator and ... made the argument that government was divine and that kings received their ...
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  • of abolitionists. Other routes led to Mexico and overseas. It is estimated that at its height between 1810 and 1850, 30,000 to ...
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  • Hinduism, known as Sanātana Dharma, (सनातन धर्म ... used in the 1829 Oxford English Dictionary and derived from the Persian language ...
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  • Christian community founded by Jesus Christ and led by the Twelve Apostles ... The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church and the largest ...
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  • 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered ... * 1903 — Ideas of Good and Evil * 1903 — In the Seven Woods ...
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  • Lech Wałęsa born September 29, 1943) is a Polish politician and ... state controlled to a free market economy and by the end of his term, the ...
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  • revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his literary ... (which he calls sodomy), child rape, crime, and blasphemy against Christianity ...
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  • , Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister ... Robert Gordon Menzies was born to James Menzies and Kate Menzies ...
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  • community responded, sending aid and a UN peace-keeping mission ... to intervene in the Rwandan Genocide and in other subsequent conflicts ...
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  • born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized ... Goldman advocated free speech, birth control, women’s equality and ...
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  • , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ... ). His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All ...
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  • Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Order of St. John ... They never ceased to function as healers and care-givers, so their humanitarian ...
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  • region of France between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries before ... between the physical world (seen as evil) and the spiritual world ...
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  • While far from monolithic in practice and having no centralized authority ... Jewish people, then known as the Israelites, and revealed his laws and commandments ...
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  • was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of ... religion, the relationship between physical and emotional love, and speculation ...
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  • quot; that they will lessen the stress and anxiety of the sufferer. While ... of anxiety, including the routine tension and stress that appear throughout ...
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  • John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was a noted and highly ... the heroic individual. His framing of scenes and his blocking of actors in ...
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  • on the ministry of the apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus, who are the ... Luke. The traditional view is that both Luke and Acts were written in the early ...
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  • to Christianity posed by rationalism and logical positivism. ... mother in 1844; died on October 10, 1876) and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda ...
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  • Philosophers often suppose a certain sense of being as primary, and ... anxiety, commitment, death, good and evil, faith, fate, and others ...
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  • traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols ... 1887). It is this narrow sense that the film and television industry and film ...
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  • that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best ... are produced by a mind that conceives and executes a plan. According ...
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  • Kantianism refers to the thought of Kant and those immediate followers ... great German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and the systematizer of his thought ...
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  • astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher, who is ... enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion. He thus ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology ... Category:Marriage and family [[Image:kidsindoorwayC.jpg|thumb|250 px ...
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  • empiricism of their British contemporaries and the scientific mind of the ... upon them"; and so also are moral good and evil. At this point Cudworth ...
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  • ; Burmese: mun lu-myo) are a linguistically and culturally related group of ... the Peoples’ Republic of China to identify and classify minority groups in ...
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  • 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician, working mostly ... doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction ...
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  • social structure based on matrilineal clans, and property, such as land and ... poets, writers, statesmen, scholars, and religious scholars. ...
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  • ) are an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States and ... Most speak a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch at home and ...
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  • 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United ... prime ministers, with Winston Churchill and others citing Gladstone as ...
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  • (Tale of Matsura), anthologist, scribe and scholar of the late Heian ... of Japanese poets, and perhaps the greatest master of the waka form ...
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  • spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical ... some of which recur with regularity. Good and evil traits are not permanent ...
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  • of others, is also found in the graphic and performing arts. juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre. ...
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  • as a consequence. As he wrote in Beyond Good and Evil, "The falseness ... * Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, (original 1886) translated ...
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  • author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third ... politics, he ran for political office twice and was a longtime political commentator ...
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  • but was arrested. He was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life imprisonment ... show that he wrestled with issues of good and evil, the existence of God ...
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  • December 31, 1384), an English theologian and early proponent of reform ... Intense persecution, from both the religious and secular authorities, cracked ...
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  • referred to as King David, was the second and most famous king of ancient ... B.C.E. to 965 B.C.E. The account of his life and rule are recorded in the books ...
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  • in creating human beings, the Fall of man, and redemption—the process through ... of Life, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the forbidden fruit ...
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  • The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... zone between the rival sultanates of Egypt and Damascus. In contrast, the ...
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  • Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single ... and a reflection of the battle between good and evil. When confronted with ...
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  • the commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps and became known by the nickname ... that allied commandos captured in Europe and Africa be immediately executed ...
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  • Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential ... Kubrick's cinematic style was very distinctive and influenced ...
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  • in the Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Green Eggs and Ham. Geisel ... had been a magazine writer, cartoonist and advertising artist. Patriotic ...
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  • extremely ascetic lifestyle, the duration and manner of his meditation training ... and death, existence and non-existence, good and evil, right and wrong, thereby ...
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  • | occupation = Author and journalist | nationality = British ... 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology ... of human rights. Signatories of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions ...
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  • Victor-Marie Hugo, novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist ... Hugo was recognized and continues to be lauded as a major force within ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen ...
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  • President of the United States (1801–1805) and one of the most controversial ... , United States Senator (1791-1797), and for one term as Vice President ...
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  • 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also active ... Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked ...
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  • faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the world's second largest ... and in The Final Day; and in Fate, that Good and Evil are from God, and Resurrection ...
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  • known as the Dominican Order), a philosopher and theologian in the scholastic ... young scholars of the age. The Dominicans and the Franciscans represented ...
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  • island carved stone monuments known as moai and has the only evidence of a ... Located 2237 miles (3600 kilometers) west of continental Chile and ...
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  • distinguished from ravens by smaller size and without the raven's shaggy ... Crows, and especially ravens, often have poor reputations, being featured ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... circumpolar region, excluding Scandinavia and most of Russia, but including ...
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  • with the transgressions of the community and driven into the wilderness ... through a series of prayers, benedictions, and animal sacrifices. The process ...
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  • – February 10, 2014) was an American film and television actress, singer ... moved on from acting. She entered politics and became a diplomat with an ...
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  • known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, is an organization ... Roman Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá and given final approval in 1950 ...
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  • 1924 – August 17, 1988) was the president and military ruler of Pakistan ... During his tenure, he advanced the Islamization of Pakistan and carried ...
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  • such as the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, and is considered ... between Pope Innocent III, King John, and his English barons about the ...
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  • - April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of ... reformers at the Marburg Conference (1529) and in various disputations, he ...
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  • ethics, aesthetics, political organization and culture, and was not practiced ... beings; and the transcendent non-duality of good and evil. ...
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  • of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and an influential Founding Father ... author, lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University ...
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  • is the absolute owner of their own life and should be free to do whatever ... or be upheld—political, social, economic, and/or governmental system is ...
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  • of the party in the mid-twentieth century and was the Minister of Health ... view of the war as a fight between good and evil, suggesting that it was ...
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  • The study of light and its interaction with matter is termed optics ... 10 percent of their energy as visible light and the remainder as infrared; ...
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  • 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany ... Hitler used charismatic oratory and propaganda, appealing to economic ...
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  • #039;s novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. ... ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept ...
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  • officials, in pursuit of their own agenda and goals. Government entities ... actors who have their own political agenda and seek to promote it in opposition ...
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  • nation in the Caribbean Sea. It is distinct and separate from the Dominican ... the youngest islands in the Lesser Antilles, and is still being formed by geothermal ...
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  • to the political, economic, military and cultural influence of the ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...
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  • political hierarchy in the years 1789–1791 and acquired the reputation of ... that he was in the pay of King Louis XVI and the Austrian enemies of France ...
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  • people of all denominations, faiths, and cultures. He was a bridge ... Carolina. He was of Scots-Irish descent and was the eldest of four children ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Radimlja necropolis of stećak in Bosnia and Herzegovina]] ...
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  • as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper ... standing upright, dressed in a flowing robe and a spiked crown, holding a ...
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  • following—especially among occultists and conspiracy theorists. His ... especially in the media, in popular culture, and among adherents of various ...
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  • at Yale University, Harvard University, and the City University of New ... when ordered to do so by an authority figure and when their peers also act ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ...
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  • Parliament, denied for over 100 years - and Repeal of the Union between ... rebellions in 1641, 1798, 1803, 1865 and 1916. O'Connell, though ...
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  • ) was a woman rhetorician and philosopher in ancient Greece, famous ... of Xenophon, Aeschines Socraticus, Plato and Antisthenes and is regarded ...
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  • of Japan under its military occupation and administration of Korea following ... A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial ...
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  • who were active primarily between the tenth and nineteenth century. The word ... code,” by integrating Confucian ethics and Zen Buddhism, which played ...
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  • for the sake of internal, spiritual growth, and for the defense and expansion ... Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice (Praeger, 2009, ISBN ...
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  • of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative ... remained active on the international scene and perhaps enjoyed more popularity ...
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  • Free will is the power to exercise control over one’s decisions ... thus created the world such that both good and evil can operate freely. ...
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  • of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and was appointed by his brother ... well as that of the impoverished in America and throughout the world. ...
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  • The Tibetan people are indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching ... of Tibetan living in India, 60,000 in Nepal, and 4,000 in Bhutan. ...
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  • Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor and chief justiciar of England ... 6: York.] Retrieved February 11, 2009. and his wife Maud de Valoignes ...
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  • The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient ... represent opposite principles, such as good and evil, intellect and instinct ...
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  • name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical traditions that ... # a philosophical school based on the Dao De Jing, the Zhuangzi, and ...
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  • 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded ... Shakespeare was born and lived in Stratford-upon-Avon. From 1585 until ...
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  • by Hindu communities throughout India and the world, Shiva is an ancient ... In images and sculpture, Shiva is often represented as immersed in ...
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  • sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is closely ... "aisthetike" and was coined by the philosopher Alexander ...
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  • Claudius Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the ... neglecting the problems of the Roman city and empire and as the emperor ...
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  • Presbyterian, he became a noted historian and political scientist. As a ... ==Early Life, Education, and Family== Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born ...
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  • renowned French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science ... to imitate the desire of other, personally and culturally significant figures ...
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  • | notableworks= Crime and Punishment'The Idiot'The Brothers ... | title = Other Colors: Essays and a Story | publisher = Vintage Books ...
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  • as reconstructed through historical methods and the Christ of faith as understood ... and a minority "The nonhistoricity thesis has always been controversial ...
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  • – September 2, 1973) was a British writer and university professor who is ... His works address the inner struggle of good and evil within each of us. The ...
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  • was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Emmy-winning English actor ... Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than ...
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  • widely credited with the early development and spread of Christianity. His ... Saul is described in the New Testament as a Hellenized Jew and Roman ...
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  • America's foremost civil rights leader and is deemed by many as the greatest ... 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s impact and legacy was not limited to ...
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  • Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was the first ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...
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  • Ezra) is canonical in the Russian Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. of Asia, urging them to endure persecution and repent of their sins. The ...
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  • question, or statement from the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism ... Some Zen practitioners concentrate on koans during meditation, and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... |related=Shoshone and other Numic peoples }} The Comanche people are ...
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  • TCM practices include theories, diagnosis and treatments such as herbal ... TCM theory asserts that processes of the human body are interrelated ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law An authorized official can pardon, or forgive, a crime and its penalty; ...
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  • Altman has frequently been a favorite with most of the best critics ... come to be highly regarded by most critics and cineastes, although there ...
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  • was a British Conservative politician and prime minister of the United ... In 1918, after serving in local politics and as lord mayor of Birmingham ...
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  • at least 6 meters (20 feet) high at maturity and, more importantly, having ... the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Good and Evil. In Buddhism, the Bodhi ...
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  • civil service more efficient, methodical and hard working and also conscious ... Historically, the French had tried to keep Germany weak and divided ...
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  • woman who had supported the revolution and was a supporter of the Girondins ... While Corday was a young girl, her older sister and their mother, ...
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  • The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Africa bears a difference from other regions and cultures. The roles of music ...
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  • of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist ... Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Arnold Ruge. Stirner offered ...
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  • known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. ... Cooper's career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included ...
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  • the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half ... by an arch, ironic pose, full of nuance, and a superficial air of dignified ...
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  • novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. helping to popularize themes of drugs and homosexuality during the countercultural ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Military ... involving significant military forces and complex planning, as well ...
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  • 21, 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. He is best known for ... in south Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate ...
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  • Saint Clare) for women (the second order), and the Third Order for lay-people ... He is especially popular amongst peace and environmental activists. He ...
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  • refers to a cluster of religious schools and traditions in Hinduism devoted ... The central figure is seated in a yogic posture and is surrounded ...
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  • – December 23, 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet and translator ... languages, was enthusiastic about literature and theater, and exerted a strong ...
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  • geographer, occultist, astronomer, and astrologer, whose expertise ... Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as the two disciplines ...
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  • consisting of a fuel (such as hydrogen) and an oxidant (such as oxygen ... as remote weather stations, large parks, and rural areas. They are also ...
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  • Romeo and Juliet is a world-renowned tragedy by William Shakespeare ... Although Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances ...
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  • or 1837Sharon Halevi and Fruma Zachs, Gendering Culture in Greater ... Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analyzed ...
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  • principle guaranteeing freedom of belief and freedom of worship for individuals ... 10, 1948, defines freedom of religion and belief as follows: ...
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  • for his performances in film, stage, and television. He received multiple ... at Elsinore (1964), Macbeth, King Lear, and Barrymore. In film he won ...
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  • was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for ... His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories ...
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  • beginnings of the Hebrew kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the eleventh century ... of the Bible divided the text of Samuel and Kings into four books, which ...
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  • a revolutionary activist, a prolific writer and Marxism's key ideologue ... transform the existing economic structures, and create a society in which ...
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  • 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the ... famous for his roles in preserving the Union and helping to end slavery in ...
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  • emphasis on the conditions of its validity and finding answers to ultimate ... the fact.|Friedrich Nietzsche|Beyond Good and Evil, Part One: On the Prejudices ...
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