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• Mediation
  ...Justinian_I Justinian's] Digest of 530 - 533 CE) recognized mediation. The Romans called mediators by a variety of [[names]], including internuncius, [[mediu
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• Gourmet
  ...ted the frugal ancient [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta Spartans] and Romans of the Republic with the [[decadent]] [[luxury]] of [https://en.wikipedia.o
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• Cross
  ...ting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient [[Romans]] for [[execution]] The cross is one of the most ancient [[human]] [[symbols]], and is used by many religions, such as [[Christianit
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• New Testament
  *[[Letters to the Romans]] ...ese apocryphal works are nevertheless important insofar as they provide an ancient context and setting for the composition of the canonical books. They also c
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• Military
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army terracotta soldiers]. The [[Romans]] were [[dedicated]] to military matters, leaving to [[posterity]] many tre ...e changed the employment of the militaries beyond [[recognition]] to their ancient [[participants]]. [[Empires]] have come and gone; [[states]] have grown and
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• Applause
  The [[ancient]] [[Romans]] had a set [[ritual]] of applause for [[public]] [[performances]], express
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• Public speaking
  ...experience of orators in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece ancient Greek] city-states. In classical Greece and Rome, the main component was [[ ...of [[training]] in public speaking was adopted virtually wholesale by the Romans.
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• 85:1 Worship of Stones and Hills
  ...of thirty; among the red men it was usually a [[circle]] of stones. The [[Romans]] always threw a stone into the air when invoking [https://en.wikipedia.org
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• 87:6 Coercion and Exorcism
  ...]; shouting, bells, and drums drove them away from the living; and these [[ancient]] [[methods]] are still in vogue at "wakes" for the dead. Foul-smelling con ...] were believed to [[constitute]] impassable barriers to [[ghosts]]. The [[Romans]] carried water three times around the corpse; in the twentieth century the
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• Public domain
  ...Roman Law], as a preset system included in the property right system." The Romans had a large proprietary rights system where they defined "many things that
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• 83:5 Plural Marriages
  ...ustom]] of more than half the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_World ancient world]. This was a [[relic]] of the [[time]] when marriage was a [[family]] ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny polygyny]. The concubines of the [[Jews]], [[Romans]], and [[Chinese]] were very frequently the handmaidens of the [[wife]]. La
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• Christmas
  ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice winter solstice],[7] which in ancient times was marked on December 25.[10] In 1743, German Protestant Paul Ernst ...~mclennan/BA/SF/WinSol.html "Bruma"], Seasonal Festivals of the Greeks and Romans Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 18:59
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• 89:6 Evolution of Human Sacrifice
  ..., [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamians], [[Greeks]], [[Romans]], and many other peoples, even on to recent times among the backward Afric ...[record]], [[illustrative]] of the [[heart]]-tearing contentions between [[ancient]] and time-honored [[religious]] [[customs]] and the contrary demands of ad
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• Philanthropy
  It is generally agreed that the [[word]] was coined 2500 years ago in ancient [[Greece]], by the playwright [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus Aesc ...ive of benefit to humans.” Philanthropia was later [[translated]] by the [[Romans]] into [[Latin]] as, simply, humanitas—humane-ness. And because Prometheu
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• Apocalypse
  ...t reversals. They began to write official [[documents]], as in Babylon, in ancient scripts and long-forgotten [[languages]], and in many ways people revived [ This almost haunting return to ancient [[customs]] and accounts showed up in [[Jerusalem]] in the Deuteronomic ref
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• Paul, the Apostle
  ...also called '''''Paul the Apostle''''', the Apostle Paul, or Saint Paul, (Ancient Greek: Σαούλ (Saul), Σαῦλος (Saulos), and Παῦλος (Paulos ...as ascribed to him in antiquity, was questioned even then, never having an ancient attribution, and in modern times is considered by most experts as not by Pa
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• Philistine
  ...ean|Hasmonean Kingdom]]), [[Greeks]] ([[Seleucid Empire]]), [[Roman Empire|Romans]], and subsequent empires. ...have suggested refers to "[[Potnia theron|Potnia]]," the title given to an ancient [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] [[goddess]]. Excavations in [[Ashkelon]], [[
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• Mediterranean Sea
  ...Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] cultures. The [[history of the Mediterranean]] is crucial to u ...'inland' (''medius'', 'middle' + ''terra'', 'land, earth'). To the ancient Romans, the Mediterranean was the center of the Earth as they knew it.
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• Amen
  ..." or, ''ve-nomar'' (ונאמר) = "and let us say." Contemporary usage reflects ancient practice: As early as the 4th century BCE, Jews assembled in the Temple res * ''Amen'' occurs in several [[doxology]] formulas in [[Epistle to the Romans|Romans]] 1:25, 9:5, 11:36, 15:33, and several times in Chapter 16. It also appears
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• 2006-11-01-More Than Gratitude
  ...for their gods, others like Pharaohs for themselves alone, and some as the Romans for circuses to please the crowds. The simplicity and integrity of masonry ...r mystical journey. Because compression is the force that mortar utilizes, ancient buildings still stand. Similarly, the mortar of your life compresses togeth
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