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• Tommy
  ...guitarist [[Pete Townshend]], with two tracks contributed by Who bassist [[John Entwistle]] and one fictitiously attributed to Who drummer [[Keith Moon]], ....uk/nme_writers.htm#100_74] [[Q (magazine)|Q]] ranked it 9th on their list of "The Music That Changed The World: Part One 1954-1969" in 2004. [https://ww
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• Translation
  ...nterpreting of the [[meaning]] of a [[text]] and the subsequent production of an equivalent text, likewise called a "translation," that [[communication|c ...nto account constraints that include [[context]], the rules of [[grammar]] of the two languages, their writing conventions, and their idioms. A common mi
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• Merlin
  [[Image:Bard_2.jpg|right|frame|<center>fr. [[Tennyson]]'s [[Idylls of the King]]</center><center>1898</center>]] ...d|North British]] madman with no connection to [[King Arthur]], with tales of the [[Romano-British]] war leader [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]] to form the comp
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• Sovereignty
  [[Image:Sovgood.jpg|right|frame|<center>a [[state]] of [[love]]?</center>]] ...upreme lawmaking authority, subject to no other, and most often the [[head of state]]. Thus the legal maxim, "there is no law without a sovereign."
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• Collective Intelligence
  ...eld that studies collective behavior from the level of quarks to the level of bacterial, plant, animal, and human societies. <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Collective Intelligence''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/i
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• Conservatism
  ...o]] or to reform society slowly, while others seek to return to the values of an earlier time, the [[status quo ante]]. ...[[Stalinists]], or the reformers who have adopted the [[right-wing]] views of modern conservatives such as [[Margaret Thatcher]]?"<ref>[https://political
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• Civilization
  ...u]], "the Lost City of the Incas," has become the most recognizable symbol of the [[Inca]] civilization.</center>]] ...up normally defined as a [[complex society]] characterized by the practice of [[agriculture]] and settlement in [[city|cities]].
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• Chosen People
  ...een election, predestination, and free will? And finally, how, in the face of competing claims to election, can one know if one's own claim is true? <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Chosen People''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?t
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• Francis of Assisi
  ...hurch|Roman Catholic]] [[friar]] and the founder of the [[Franciscan|Order of Friars Minor]], more commonly known as the Franciscans. ...Catholic churches to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of October 4. [https://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/111206/depobs.
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• Automaton
  ...n'' is derived from the [[Greek]] ''αὐτόματος'',... ''automatos'', “acting of one’s own will”. It is more often used to describe non-electronic movin ...'''Automaton''' is derived from the Greek αὐτόματος,... automatos, “acting of one’s own will”. It is more often used to describe non-electronic movin
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• Extraterrestrial
  ...'', [[novel]]), the fictional creatures from "out there" have tended to be of the usurping, death-ray variety - not surprisingly, since this makes for a <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of matters '''''Extraterrestrial''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/
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• Democracy
  [[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Goddess-of-democracy,-tiane_2.jpg|right|frame]] ...s''), "people" and ''κράτος'' (''kratos''), "rule, strength" in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in som
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• Socialism
  ...g class [[social movement|political movement]] that criticized the effects of industrialization and private ownership on society. [[Karl Marx]] posited t ...], the first [[individual]] to coin to term "socialism" and the originator of technocracy and industrial planning. The first socialists predicted a world
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• Theocracy
  ...who are regarded as divinely guided.[2] For believers, theocracy is a form of government in which divine [[power]] governs an earthly [[human]] [[state]] ...y theological or moral [[concepts]], and monarchies held "By the [[Grace]] of [[God]]".
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• Atheism
  ...ities]], or the explicit view that there are no deities. On the definition of atheism: [https://www.investigatingatheism.info/definition.html] ...d [[naturalism]], but, as for theists, there is no one [[ideology]] or set of [[behavior]]s to which all atheists adhere. Some [[religion]]s, such as Jai
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• Samuel Johnson
  [[Image:JohnsonOpie.jpg|right|frame|<center>Samuel Johnson by John Opie</center>]] ...d=b-8cONT4lHIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=life+of+samuel+johnson#PPP13,M1 Life of Samuel Johnson]''.
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• Perfection
  *1. a. The [[fact]], [[state]], or condition of [[being]] completed or perfected; consummation, completion, end. Obs. ...or development of a [[person]] or [[thing]]; [[maturity]]; ripeness. Also of a flower: full bloom.
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• Anthropology
  ...primary methods, and the text that is written as a result of the practice of anthropology and its elements. ...criticisms of [[post-colonialism|post-colonial]] oppression and promotion of [[multiculturalism]].
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• Communism
  ...erm "communism" is sometimes used to refer to communist [[state]]s, a form of government in which the state operates under a one-party system and declare ...alists or social democrats, slowly drifted away from the [[radical]] views of Marx after his death in 1883; other communists, like [[Vladimir Lenin]], co
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• Logic
  ...word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle) is the study of valid [[inference]] and [[demonstration (proof)|demonstration]]. ...h as the study of [[fallacies]] and [[paradox]]es, to specialized analysis of reasoning using [[probability]] and to arguments involving [[causality]].
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