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• Paper 71 - Development of the State
  ...e sudden and extensive [[manner]] of their [[adoption]]. The collapse of [[Rome]] indicates what may be expected when a [[state]] undergoes too rapid exten 71:5.3 Throughout the [[Ancient|earlier]] ages of any world, [[competition]] is [[essential]] to [[progress
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• Paper 136 - Baptism and the Forty Days
  136:4.12 Throughout these [[eventful]] days [[Jesus]] lived in an ancient rock [[cavern]], a [[shelter]] in the side of the hills near a village some 136:8.4 [[Jesus]] had traveled much; he recalled [[Rome]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria Alexandria], and [https://en.w
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• Paper 127 - The Adolescent Years
  ...dea]], in [[favor]] of [[rebellion]] against the payment of [[taxes]] to [[Rome]]. There was coming into [[existence]] a strong [[nationalist]] party, pres ...e the [[Jewish]] religion was involved in all this [[agitation]] against [[Rome]].
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• Atheism
  In early [[Ancient Greek]], the adjective ''atheos'' (ἄθεος|ἄθεος, from the privat ...[deists]] (such as Thomas Paine) and even [[polytheists]]; conversely, the ancient Romans accused Christians of being atheists for not worshipping the pagan d
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• Book of Maccabees, 1
  ..., Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdo ...hundred and fifty-first year Demetrius the son of Seleucus set forth from Rome, sailed with a few men to a city by the sea, and there began to reign.
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• Discipline
  ...doth neglect, or may not punish. 1858-60 GARDNER Faiths World I. 479/1 The ancient discipline of the church, while it excluded offenders from spiritual privil ...nd up for the beauteous discipline Against the menstruous cloth and rag of Rome. 1642 CHAS. I, Roy. Protestations 4 New doctrines and disciplines. 1643 MIL
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• Magic
  ...ts, the Magi of Zoroastrianism, and their reputation together with that of Ancient Egypt shaped the [[hermeticism]] of [[Hellenistic religion]]. ...a conduit for messages from the spirits. The time of the Emperor Julian of Rome, marked by a reaction against the influence of Christianity, saw a revival
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• Tycho Brahe
  ...|Cassiopeia]], now named [[SN 1572]]. Since it had been maintained since [[Ancient history|antiquity]] that the world beyond the orbit of the moon, i.e. that ...the Earth's motion. It gained a considerable following after [[1616]] when Rome decided officially that the heliocentric model was contrary to both philoso
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• Earth
  ...powell.net/sciencecenter/paleoclimate.htm] Paleoclimatology - The Study of Ancient Climates, Paleontology Science Center ...ion Yearbook 1994, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Rome, Italy ISBN 9250038445
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• 2010-06-11-Unification of Diverse Groups
  ...we are talking about courage expressed by the best of the ancient gods of Rome and Greece; the very best of their strengths, the very best of their powers
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• 2002-03-24-Review Of Dynamic Energy Series
  ...rain falls upon your [[enemies]] as well as yourselves, to put it in those ancient terms. ...wax tablets to write messages with a stick? They did that in Greece and in Rome and Egypt, and some of these tablets have been preserved even today. The ta
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• Scientific Method
  ...rly [[papyri]], describe methods of medical diagnosis. In [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] culture, the method of [[empiricism]] was described. The [[experime ...tute of Neurosciences, Laboratory of Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology, Rome, Italy:
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• Human Being
  ...e states, such as [[Persian Empire|Persia]], [[China]], and [[Roman Empire|Rome]], developed through conquest into the first expansive [[empire]]s. Influen ...y more complex, constantly evolving and improving with time. Even the most ancient human tools and structures are far more advanced than any structure or tool
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• 2013-07-05-ABC Summaries, Document O
  know any better, and thus these souls are judged in the courts of the Ancient of Days with great “I see no way for you or Rome to become the last of the century’s decision to lend me your ears
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• Creativity
  The ancient Greeks, who believed that the [[muse]]s were the source of all inspiration, In Rome, this Greek view was modified, and [[Horace]] wrote that not only poets but
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• Anthropology
  ...sive readings of Classical materials (literature and history of Greece and Rome), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries ...activities), with the intent of understanding distribution and movement of ancient populations, development of human social organization, and relationships am
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• Thomas Jefferson
  ...y, Jefferson was a proponent of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] styles, which he believed to be most representative of American dem ...which was modeled after the Maison Carrée at Nîmes in southern France, an ancient [[Roman temple]]. Jefferson's buildings helped initiate the ensuing America
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• History of the Concept of Mind, v.1-Chap.4
  *Contents: Ancient Hebrew and Homeric Greek life-force; Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic thoug and was an insatiable collector of Greek doctrines, commentator on ancient texts,
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• Harmony
  ...considered as a structural principle is just as much an intrinsic part of ancient and medieval music as it is of the tonal system of modern times. The two-no ...counterpoint, that were covered by the term ‘harmony’ (in keeping with the ancient and medieval meaning of the term). From the 18th century onwards both aspec
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• Home
  ...ome-close. 1774 Garton Inclos. Act 3 All the home-steads, home-closes, and ancient inclosures. 1853 C. W. ADAMS Spring in Canterbury Settlement vii. 69 The ho 1579-80 NORTH Plutarch 190 The *home-tarriers and house-doves that kept Rome still.
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