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• Landon Garland
  ...dolph-Macon College. In 1854, he was elected president of the [[University of Alabama]]. ...accepted the chair of [[philosophy]] and [[astronomy]] at the [[University of Mississippi]] in 1867. It was here that McTyeire, now a Methodist bishop,
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• George Peabody
  ...usemuseum.org]), a museum dedicated to preserving his life and legacy. One of George Peabody's longtime business associates and friends was the renowned ...who, in 1814, provided financial backing for the wholesale dry goods firm of ''Peabody, Riggs, and Company''.
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• Fugue
  ...w=Main&entry=t114.e2723] composers approach the style with varying degrees of freedom and individuality. ...Reicha]] (1770–1836) and [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] (1906–1975) wrote cycles of fugues.
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• Disciple
  <center>A '''disciple''' is a follower and student of a [[mentor]], [[teacher]], or other [[wisdom|wise]] figure.</center> ...ME. di-, deciple, a. OF. deciple, semi-popular ad. L. discipul-us. Both in OF. and ME., deciple was gradually conformed to the L. spelling as disciple; M
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• Hoax
  probably contraction of ''hocus'' ...ttered by a [[conjuror]] to [[distract]] his [[audience]] from his sleight of hand.
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• Regent Street Polytechnic Architectural School
  ...edents, the Royal Polytechnic Institution date back to 1838, making it one of the oldest post-school educational institutions in [[United Kingdom|Britain ...from 132 countries studying at the University of Westminster on a variety of programmes. These range from undergraduate and postgraduate courses to tail
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• Abuse
  1. The process of using up or wearing out. Obs. ...rversion. spec. The non-therapeutic or excessive use of a drug; the misuse of any substance, esp. for its stimulant effects. Cf. drug-abuse s.v. DRUG n.1
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• Pantheistic
  *1: a [[doctrine]] that equates [[God]] with the [[forces]] and laws of the [[universe]] ...y; also : [[toleration]] of [[worship]] of all gods (as at certain periods of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire Roman empire])
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• Theonomy
  ...tonomy]]" (Christian Theistic Ethics p. 134). Among Reformed Christians, [[John Calvin]], the Continental Reformers, the Westminster Divines and other Puri ...ormers and [[Puritans]]. Some in the modern Reformed churches are critical of this understanding,[2] while other Calvinists affirm Theonomy.[3]
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• Euthanasia
  *2. The means of bringing about a gentle and easy death. Also transf. and fig. ...proposal that the [[law]] should sanction the putting painlessly to death of those suffering from incurable and extremely painful diseases.
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• Constitution
  [[Image:Magna_carta_thumb.jpg|right|"Magna Carta to which King John of England agreed in 1215"]] ...ething up, or establishing something; the [[composition]] or [[structure]] of such a thing; its [[makeup]].
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• Charterhouse Public School
  ...nt school]] for boys, between [[Hurtmore]] and [[Godalming]] in the county of [[Surrey]]. ...London|Smithfield]] (see [[London Charterhouse|Charterhouse]]), it is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the [[Public Schools
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• Genius
  ...r "tutelary" [[spirit]] of a person, or even of an entire gens, the plural of which was 'genii'[9]. ...2][3] This usage of the term is closely related to the general [[concept]] of [[intelligence]].
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• Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  '''The Episcopal Church''' is the official name of the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States. ...copalchurch.org/visitors_8950_ENG_HTM.htm What makes us Anglican?Hallmarks of the Episcopal Church]
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• Difference
  ...rance'' then played a key role in Derrida's engagement with the philosophy of [[Edmund Husserl]] in ''Speech and [[Phenomena]]''. The term was then elabo ...Thus, meaning is forever "deferred" or postponed through an endless chain of signifiers. The second (relating to difference, sometimes referred to as ''
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• Chapter 4 - The Transition Years
  At the temple of religion on Lake Urmia Jesus delivered a series of lectures: ...tements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission.”
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...[[fact]] of evolution, the path of evolution, and the theory or mechanism of evolution. ==The fact of evolution==
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• Transpersonal Psychology
  ...self-development, peak or [[mysticism|mystical experiences]], experiences of living. ...by psychologists who are focused on the personal and developmental aspects of the human psyche.
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• Politics
  '''Politics''' is the [[process]] by which groups of people make [[decisions]]. Although the term is generally applied to [[beha ...d apply [[policy]]. [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/politics Definition of politics from "The Free Dictionary"]
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• Oxford English Dictionary
  ...,400 illustrative [[quotation]]s. The latest, complete ''printed'' edition of the dictionary (Second Edition, 1989) was 20 volumes, comprising 21,730 pag ...tempt recording a word's most known uses and variants in ''all'' varieties of English, worldwide, past, and present; per the 1933 Preface:
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