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• Quantum Mechanics
  ...quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the twentieth century by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg Werner Heisenberg], [ht ...1985). Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0-471-87373-X.
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• Apocalypse
  ...first half of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Century 2d Christian century], apocalyptic [[writing]] completely replaced the older [[prophetic]] style "Apocalyptic." New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 545-547. Gale Virtual Reference
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• Roman law
  ...e law that was applied throughout most of Europe until the end of the 18th century. In some countries like [[Germany]] the practical application of Roman law ...n the early [[Roman Republic|Republic]], dating from the middle of the 5th century BC. According to Roman historians, the plebeian tribune C. Terentilius Arsa
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• Oracle of Delphi
  ...the worship of [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]], in the last quarter of the [[8th century BC]] there is a steady increase of artifacts found at the settlement site i ...to that of [[Dodona]]: both Aeschylus and Euripides, writing in the fifth century, attribute to primeval times the same methods as used at Delphi in their ow
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• Science fiction
  ...ge de la Terre à la Lune and Des états de la Lune et du Soleil in the 17th century. Following the Age of Reason and the development of modern science itself, ...about a flight to the moon.[29] More examples appeared throughout the 19th century.
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• Remote Viewing
  ...of psychic [[phenomena]] by major scientists started in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included [[Michael Faraday]], Alfred Russel Wallace, Ruf ...alleged psychics, as had been the case with the studies in the nineteenth century. The initial goal of these studies was to try and determine, by technical m
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• Academic
  ...oss generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized t ...he mid-eighteenth century and [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the early nineteenth century. In the United States academia tends to be politically progressive with 72%
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• Books
  ...y them out. At Nineveh, 22,000 tablets were found, dating from the seventh century BC; this was the archive and library of the kings of Assyria, who had works ...sacred texts were deposited (such as the Book of the Dead, from the early 2nd millennium BC).
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• Clairvoyance
  ...'''clairvoyance''' (from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 17th century] French with clair [[meaning]] "clear" and voyance meaning "[[vision]]") is ...his behavior is somewhat reminiscent of the reported behaviors of the 20th century medical clairvoyant and psychic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
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• Secularism
  ...and with secularization as a sociological or historical process. Twentieth-century scholars whose work has contributed to the understanding of these matters i ...ck, Owen (1975). The Secularization of the European mind in the nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press.
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• Totalitarianism
  ...f the book Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century by Bruce F. Pauley, ISBN 088295993X # Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century (2000) ISBN 0-393-04818-7, page 74
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• Translation
  ...arly literary translation. These two ideals are often at odds. Thus a 17th-century French critic coined the phrase, "les belles infidèles," to suggest that t ...There have been periods, especially in pre-Classical Rome and in the 18th century, when many translators stepped beyond the bounds of translation proper into
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• Theology
  ...re, ''Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology'' 2nd ed.(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)</ref> ...Gregory 1006/Hoskier 215; the title was however in circulation by the 6th century - see Allen Brent ‘John as theologos: the imperial mysteries and the Apoc
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• Chosen People
  ...[[Deuteronomy]] (7:6, 14:2), a biblical text not written until the seventh century BCE. Underlying God's promises to [[Abraham]] and his descendants in [[Gene ...l be punished by God for their transgressions. Nevertheless, as the eighth-century prophet [[Hosea]] insists, punishment does not negate their election. Compa
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• Nazareth
  ...etymology of ''Nazareth'' from as early as [[Eusebius]] up until the 20th century has been said to derive from ''netser'', a "shoot" or "sprout", while the [ ..., pp. 272-310.) attesting to unambiguous human presence there from the 2nd century AD onward.
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• The Book of Revelation
  ...Apocalypse of John are interpreted as being fulfilled by events in the 1st century. ...se in the Ancient Church, (c. 1929), pp. 139-142, esp. p. 138 In the [[9th century]], it was included with the ''[[Apocalypse of Peter]]'' among "disputed" bo
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...jīng "classic." According to [[tradition]], it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zho ...in English. The pinyin romanization Daodejing originated in the late 20th century, and this romanization is becoming increasingly popular, having been adopte
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• Genesis
  ...Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th century and the Codex Alexandrinus of the 5th century - these are the oldest surviving nearly-complete manuscripts of the [[Old T ...the documentary hypothesis advanced by Julius Wellhausen in the late 19th century. This sees Genesis as a composite work assembled from various sources: the
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• Satan
  The 2nd Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references For the Chasidic Jews of the eighteenth century, Ha-satan was ''Baal Davar''.
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• Atheism
  ...word began to indicate more-[[intention]]al, active godlessness in the 5th century [[BCE]], acquiring definitions of "severing relations with the gods" or "de ...ally denoting disbelief in the monotheistic [[Abraham]]ic god. In the 20th century, globalization contributed to the expansion of the term to refer to disbeli
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