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• Duel
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Medieval Latin ''duellum'', from Old Latin, [[war]] ...d_West American Old West] for quite some time due to the absence of common law.
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• Amen
  ...In [[Islam]], it is the standard ending to [[Dua]] (supplication). Common English translations of the word ''amen'' include: "Verily", "Truly", "So be it", a ...ary etymology, ''amen'' passed from Greek into Late Latin, and thence into English.[https://www.bartleby.com/61/75/A0247500.html]
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• Crossing the Rubicon
  ...he [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon Rubicon River] in violation of [[law]], hence making conflict inevitable. Therefore the term "the Rubicon" is us ...ts as the "Radius of Action formula"—originated, according to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], as a technical term in air navigation to refer to the point o
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• Hebrew Bible
  ''Hebrew Bible'' is a term that refers to the common portions of the [[Tanakh|Jewish canon]] and the [[Bible#Christian Bible|Chr ...n Greek ''hē palaia diathēkē'' ( Παλαιὰ Διαθήκη, ''palaios'' gives several English prefixes like ''[[palaeography]]''). There is additional, confessional impl
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• Intuition
  The [[Oxford English Dictionary|OED]] cites '''intution''' as "the immediate apprehension of an In common usage, intuitions lead us to believe things without being able to articulat
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• English
  [[Image:English.jpg|right|frame]] ...he most profound outside influences on the development of PDE (present day english) are the [[Viking]] conquests and settlements--resulting in the establishme
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• Classics
  ...Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Era|CE]] 500. The study of the Classics was the initial field of study in t ...εταχαραττε το θειον νομισμα" ("metacharatte to theion nomisma"). It is the law of strict continuity. We preserve and do not throw away words or ideas. Wor
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• Fear
  ...perspiration to cool the body. When the stimulus is shocking or abrupt, a common reaction is to cover (or otherwise protect) vulnerable parts of the [[anato
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• Information
  ...ionary]], the earliest historical meaning of the word ''information'' in [[English]] was the act of ''informing'', or giving form or shape to the mind, as in ...ch this may have influenced the development of the word ''information'' in English is unclear.
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• Fatherhood
  ...ality", "[[fascist]]", "[[totalitarian]]", "imperial".[20] The fundamental common grounds between domestic and national authority, are the [[mechanisms]] of ...ity have been synonymous.[24] In the 19th century Europe, the [[idea]] was common, among both traditionalist and revolutionaries, that the authority of the d
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• Humanities
  ===Law=== ...thing laid down or fixed. see [https://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=law&searchmode=none Etymonline Dictionary] and the adjective ''legal'' comes fr
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• Personal
  # law: Any individual or formal organization with [[standing]] before the courts. #:''By common law a [[corporation]] or a [[trust]] is legally a '''person'''.''
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• Euthanasia
  ...ntle and easy [[death]]. Used esp. with reference to a proposal that the [[law]] should sanction the putting painlessly to death of those suffering from i ...ministering lethal medicine is considered important[6]. For example, Swiss law on assisted suicide allows assisted suicide, while all forms of active euth
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• Deity
  ...ted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to The English word "god" comes from Anglo-Saxon, and similar words are found in many Germ
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• Quentin Skinner
  ...achiavelli]], and more recently (in ''Liberty before Liberalism'' 1998 the English republicans of the mid-seventeenth century (including [[John Milton]], Jame ...storian [[J.G.A. Pocock]], whose ''The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law'' (1957) was a significant early influence. Another important stimulus came
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• Family
  '''Family''' denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the [[concept]] of consanguini ...ily consists of one or more parents/guardians and their children. The most common form of this family is regularly referred to as a nuclear family. [https://
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• Sabotage
  ...[[earth]] and its inhabitants. The [[[https://www.fbi.gov|FBI] and other [[law]] enforcement agencies use the term eco-terrorist when applied to damage of ...on and criminal penalties instead of detention as a prisoner of war. It is common for a government in power during war or supporters of the war policy to use
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• Constitution
  ...[[formal]] or [[informal]] [[system]] of [[primary]] [[principle]]s and [[law]]s that [[regulate]]s a [[government]] or other [[institution]]. ...nstitutions, the term ''constitution'' could be applied to any important [[law]] that governed the functioning of a government.
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• The Hague
  ...ts with the "Hagenezen", who speak "plat Haags" ("plat" meaning "flat" or "common"). There is relatively little social interaction between these groups. * [https://www.denhaag.com/ City of Den Haag (English)]
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• Theology
  ...ford: OUP, 1998), Ignaz Goldziher's ''Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law'' (Princeton University Press, 1981), Roger Jackson and John J. Makransky's The word ''theology'' comes from late middle English (originally applying only to Christianity) from French ''théologie'', from
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