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• Seekers
  ...any of them subsequently merged. Seekers considered all organised churches of their day to be corrupt, and preferred to wait for [[God]]'s [[revelation]] <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''[[Seekers]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?tit
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• Spectacle
  ...earch=spectacle&searchmode=none] The term "spectacle" has also been a term of art in [[theater]] dating from the 17th century in [[English language|Engli ...[[Circus]]es, in the rather famous philosophy of the [[Rome|Roman]] elite of "Bread and Circuses" to maintain civil order due to the an inability to sol
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• Cathedral
  *1: of, relating to, or containing a ''cathedra'' (a bishop's [[throne]]) *2: [[emanating]] from a chair of [[authority]]
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• Somersault
  The word 'flip' is synonymous with somersault in a number of countries including the USA. However this is not used in trampolining in so Many sports (not just gymnastics) have added to the confusion of named somersaults. For instance in sports such as BMX, FMX, [https://en.wik
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• Campaign
  ...English. in the 17th c., and at first occasionally used in all the senses of the earlier CHAMPAIGN, but was at length differentiated, and restricted to ...ected]] [[series]] of [[military]] operations forming a distinct [[phase]] of a [[war]]
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• Childhood
  ...ldhood''' (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the [[phase]] of [[development]] in [[humans]] between infancy and adulthood. ==Age definition of a child==
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• Rogue
  ...upport]] these conjectures, and an etymological connection with the family of classical [[Latin]] ''rogāre'' (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogatio ...erson]] who [[rejects]] [[conventional]] rules of [[society]] in [[favor]] of following their own [[personal]] goals and [[values]].
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• Curriculum
  ...henomenon]] of [[plurality]] that is inherent in the new [[paradigm]] view of curriculum. (<u>Curricula</u> is the plural form) <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Curriculum''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?titl
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• Palm Sunday
  ...[172:3|Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem]], an event mentioned in each of the four canonical [[Gospels]]. ...box, yew, willow, and olive. The Sunday was often designated by the names of these trees, as in Yew Sunday, or by the general term Branch Sunday.
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• Marooned
  *2: to place or leave in [[isolation]] or without [[hope]] of ready [[escape]] ...maroon'', a [[word]] for a fugitive [[slave]], which could be a corruption of Spanish ''cimarrón'', [[meaning]] a household animal (or slave) who has ru
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• John Donne
  ...ll as [[erotic]] and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits. ...aul%27s Dean of St Paul's Cathedral] in London. He also served as a member of parliament in 1601 and in 1614.
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• Opera
  *1: a [[drama]] set to [[music]] and made up of vocal pieces with [[orchestral]] accompaniment and orchestral overtures and *2: the score of a musical [[drama]]
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• Great Awakening
  ...affected, an increase in evangelical church membership, and the formation of [[new religious movements]] and denominations. ...iladelphia to New York, and back to the South."[2] In 1740, he visited New England, and "at every place he visited, the consequences were large and tumultuous
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• Edwin Arnold
  ...most known for his work, [https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8920 ''The Light of Asia''] ...t which he held for seven years, which includes a period during the mutiny of 1857, when he was able to render services for which he was publicly thanked
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• Apocrypha
  Medieval Latin, from Late Latin, neuter plural of ''apocryphus'' [[secret]], not canonical, from Greek ''apokryphos'' obscure *1: [[writings]] or [[statements]] of dubious authenticity
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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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• Richard Maurice Bucke
  ...best known work – ''Cosmic Consciousness'', a classic in the modern study of [[mysticism|mystical]] [[experience]]. ...st to California, working manually at odd jobs along the way. He was part of a traveling party who had to fight for their lives under attack from the [[
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• William Blake
  [[Image:WilliamBlakebyThomasPhillips.jpg|right|frame|<center>Portrait of Wm. Blake by Thomas Phillips</center>]] ...lically]] rich oeuvre, which [[embraced]] the [[imagination]] as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".
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• Transcendentalism
  ...es called ''American Transcendentalism'' to distinguish it from other uses of the word ''[[transcendental]]''. ...ized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.
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• Autumn
  ...(Southern Hemisphere) or September (Northern Hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier. ...d the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn" whilst others treat it as the start of autumn.
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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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• Science fiction
  ...he [[tradition]]al [[purpose]] of science fiction, making it a "literature of [[ideas]]".[1] Science fiction is largely based on writing entertainingly a ...ve [[timelines]], or in a historical past that contradicts known [[facts]] of [[history]] or the [[Archaeology|archeological]] record
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• 1992-06-21-Gratitude
  Opening Prayer: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_St._Francis Prayer of St. Francis] ...ing. I am Daniel. I am your [[teacher]]. It is so nice to be here with all of you tonight. It is [[good]] that so many are here this evening. I am always
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• Biblical Apocrypha
  ...Proemial Annotations of Volume I of the [[Douay-Rheims Bible|Old Testament of Douay]] A comparative list can be found in the article on [[books of the Bible]]. For extra-biblical works sometimes referred to as ''apocrypha
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• Telepathy
  ...f others. Telepathy, along with [[psychokinesis]] forms the main branches of [[parapsychological]] research, and many studies seeking to detect and unde ...lly enabled telepathy, called "techlepathy", will be the inevitable future of humanity, and seek to develop practical, safe devices for directly connecti
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• Materialism
  ...theories based on [[dualism]] or [[pluralism]]. For singular explanations of the phenomenal [[reality]], materialism would be in contrast to [[idealism] <center>For lessons on the topic of '''''Materialism''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?tit
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• Personal
  From ME. '''persone''' OF. '''[[persone]]''' (human being, French [[personne]]) , L. '''[[persona]]'' # The physical [[body]] of a specified individual.
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...ssance]] in the sixteenth century. It is defined partly by the [[process]] of rediscovering the ancient culture developed in Greece and Rome in the [[cla The [[history]] of medieval philosophy is traditionally divided into three main periods:
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• Hair
  ...The musical broke new ground in [[musical theatre]] by defining the genre of the "rock musical", utilizing a racially-integrated cast, and by inviting t ...''Hair'' ranked tenth in a [[BBC Radio 2]] listener [[Opinion poll|poll]] of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals" ("Nation" referring to the [[U
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• 2012-02-08-The Flurry 2
  ===Topic: '''''Roots of the Urantia Book'''''=== The Urantia Book is heir to a rich tradition of human thought and divine teachings when it comes
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• Paper 134 - The Transition Years
  ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph Joseph]'s people, and he did this of his own [[free will]]. ...ely decided to finish his life on [[earth]] and to complete his [[career]] of [[mortal]] [[existence]] in the same [[land]] in which he entered the [[hum
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