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• Celt
  ...The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the modern descendants of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic [[culture]]. ...he later Iron Age (La Tène]] period), Celts had expanded over a wide range of lands: as far west as [[Ireland]] and the [[Iberian Peninsula]], as far ea
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• Social Sustainability
  ...ability''' is the least defined and least understood of the different ways of approaching [[sustainability]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainab ...most widely accepted as a model for addressing sustainability. The concept of "social sustainability" in this approach encompasses such topics as: social
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• Quentin Skinner
  ...From 2008 he will be Professor in the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. ...Cambridge, where he has been ever since. He is now also an Honorary Fellow of Caius.
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• Wean
  ...e drinking> <settling his soldiers on the land… , weaning them from habits of [[violence]] — Geoffrey Carnall> ...human or animal, to what will be its adult diet and withdrawing the supply of its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breastfeeding mother's milk].
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• Infallible
  ...'in', not + 'fallere', to deceive), is a term with a [[Diversity|variety]] of [[meanings]] related to knowing [[truth]] with certainty. ...statement, teaching, or [[book]] is called 'infallible', this can mean any of the following:
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• University
  ...chology]], city planning, and history of science came of age as autonomous university-based disciplines. ...ny religious assumptions. At the same time universities embraced new forms of [[critical]] and [[scientific]] [[thinking]], and as a consequence [[theolo
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• Rebellion
  ...edience]] or order [1]. It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of [[behaviors]] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience civil ....org/wiki/American_Civil_War American Civil War]. It also includes members of paramilitary forces who take up arms against an established government.
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• Hierarchy
  ...:Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs.jpg|right|frame|<center>[[Maslow]]'s Hierarchy of Needs</center>]] ...ught of as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another. (Oxford English Dictionary ISBN 0-19-861186-2)
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• Commensurate
  ...ommensuratus, from [[Latin]] com- + Late Latin mensuratus, past participle of mensurare to [[measure]], from Latin mensura ...]] or extent : coextensive <lived a life commensurate with the early years of the [[republic]]>
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• Conundrum
  ...inating in some university joke, or as a [[parody]] of some [[Latin]] term of the schools, which would agree with its unfixed form in 17-18th c. It is do *3. A pun or [[word]]-play depending on similarity of [[sound]] in words of different [[meaning]]. Obs.
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• Templeton Library
  ...Templeton was born in the town of Winchester, Tennessee. He attended Yale University, pledged the Zeta Psi Fraternity and was selected for membership in the Eli ...lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a trustee on the board of [https://www.ptsem.edu/ Princeton Theological Seminary], the largest Presby
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• Superstition
  ...e [[unknown]], [[trust]] in [[magic]] or [[chance]], or a false conception of [[causation]] :b : an irrational abject [[attitude]] of [[mind]] toward the [[supernatural]], [[nature]], or [[God]] resulting from
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• Pleasure
  ...typically stimulated by eating, exercise, [[sexuality]], [[music]], usage of drugs. The term analogously connotes a positive mental state arising from c ...ore generally, pleasure is characterised by others as reduction or absence of suffering.
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• Genocide
  *the [[Intention|deliberate]] and [[systematic]] destruction of a [[Race|racial]], [[political]], or [[Culture|cultural]] [[group]] ...prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring [[children]] of the group to another group."[1]
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• Christ as Logos
  ...on") has been important in establishing the doctrine of the [[divinity]] of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]] and his position as [[Eternal Son|God the Son]] in t ..., or distinct.[https://jkalb.freeshell.org/more/doctrine.html The Doctrine of the Logos]
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• Scripture
  ...ven to mythological and ritual texts from ancient religions, where records of their authority (or heresy) have not survived. <center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of the '''''[[Bible]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?t
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• Visitor
  ...om [[Latin]] visitare, frequentative of visere to go to see, frequentative of vidēre to see *1 a archaic : comfort —used of the [[Deity]] <visit us with Thy [[salvation]] — [https://www.wikipedia.o
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• Scriptorium
  ...s no further need for a room to be set aside for the purpose. By the start of the 13th century secular copy-shops developed; professional scribes may hav The monastery built in the second quarter of the 6th century by [[Cassiodorus]] at Vivarium in southern Italy, contained
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• Normal
  In [[behavior]], '''normal''' refers to a lack of significant deviation from the [[standard|average]]. The phrase "not normal ...l|deliberate]] or inconsistent acceptance of society's standards, [[fear]] of humiliation or rejection etc.
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• Oral history
  ...method of historical documentation, using interviews with living survivors of the time being investigated. ...With the development of audio tape recordings after World War II, the task of oral historians became easier.
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