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• Jewish philosophy
  ...nds in the Middle Ages, and (3) its modern period, which began in the 18th century and has continued to today. The remainder of this article sketches the deta ...medieval Jewish philosophers (from the [[8th century]] to end of the [[9th century]]) were especially influenced by the Islamic [[Mutazilite]] philosophers; t
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• Gravity
  ...early cultures#India|ancient India]] explained the phenomenon from the 8th century BC. In the 4th century BC, the [[Greek philosophy|Greek philosopher]] [[Aristotle]] believed that
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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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• Eastern philosophy
  ...]] was a semi-legendary Indian monk who traveled to [[China]] in the [[5th century]]. There, at the [[Shaolin Temple]], he began the Ch'an school of Buddhism, ...ectual and elites, but could not appeal to the masses. Later in the [[13th century]], they lost official support and most of their valuable works were destroy
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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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• Perfection
  ...formulated by Lucilio Vanini (1585–1619), who had a precursor in the 16th-century writer Joseph Juste Scaliger, and they in turn referred to the ancient phil ...: all threes are perfect). Another number, 7, found a devotee in the sixth-century Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great), who favored it on grounds similar to th
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• Jesus Christ Superstar
  ...[Jerusalem]] and ending with the [[Crucifixion]]. [[20th century|Twentieth-century]] attitude and sensibilities as well as contemporary slang pervade the lyri By the turn of the century, the furor over the play had died down so greatly that it is now often perf
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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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• Prophet
  In the late 20th Century the appellation of a 'prophet' has been used to refer to individuals partic ...of Israel if one accepts the opinion that Nechemyah died in Babylon before 9th Tevet 3448 (313 BCE). Babylonian Talmud | first = Vilna Gaon | volume = San
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• Leadership
  ...ald Heifetz (1994) traces the trait theory approach back to the nineteenth-century [[tradition]] of associating the [[history]] of [[society]] to the history # KSEEB. Sanskrit Text Book -9th Grade. Governament of Karnataka, India.
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• Nature
  ..."physical" shows its use as a synonym for "natural" in about the mid-15th century: [https://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=physical] ...ironment in which they exist, and also with other life forms. In the 20th century this premise gave rise to the concept of '''ecosystems''', which can be def
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• 2012-07-20-ABC Summaries, Document K
  known as the 9th circuit of planets consisting of 45 individual spheres. This 45 number is 1 [[The Father]] uses the additional planet in the 9th circuit for his housekeeping and useful detentions of
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• Algorithm
  ...lation with Hindu Numerals''. It was translated into [[Latin]] in the 12th century as ''Algoritmi de numero Indorum'' (al-Daffa 1977), which title was likely ...an Latin translation of al-Khwarizmi's name into ''algorithm'' by the 18th century. The word evolved to include all definite procedures for solving problems o
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• Harmony
  ...ce to three notes, sounded simultaneously. An anonymous writer of the 13th century (CoussemakerS, i, 297) defined the concordantia (the simultaneity employed ...d imperfect consonances as ‘harmony’ (CoussemakerS, iii, 197); in the 17th century, among other prerequisites for the composition of contrappunto moderno, Chr
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