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• University of Oxford Text Archive
  ==[https://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ University of Oxford Text Archive]== ...he creation and use of these resources, and is involved in the development of standards and infrastructure for electronic language resources.
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• University of Oxford Text Archive
  ==[https://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ University of Oxford Text Archive]== ...he creation and use of these resources, and is involved in the development of standards and infrastructure for electronic language resources.
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• Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
  ...[[culture]]s who have contributed to the [[thought]] as well as the action of the twentieth century. ...orld Biography.'' This abridged and updated edition published as an Oxford University Press paperback 1999
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• Permission
  *1: the [[act]] of permitting *3: A [[license]] or [[freedom]] to do something; the granting of such [[freedom]]; (Publishing) an authorization given to a publisher to quo
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• Margaret Drabble
  ...ation. Her other works include A Writer's Britain ( 1979 ) and a biography of Angus Wilson ( 1995 ). [[A. S. Byatt]] is her sister, and she is married to ...y Stringer. Oxford university Press, 2007. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press
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• Subconscious
  ...being recalled at present, but still available to be recalled at will. Use of the term "subconscious" is avoided in academic settings [https://www.oxford ...American Acceptance of Psychoanalysis, 1906-1910." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Science, 15, 155-165.
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• Jessie Ball duPont Library
  ...l resources of the surrounding [[community]] in addition to serving as one of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_depository_library '''''Federal ...dan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Oxford_Reference_Premium '''''Oxford Reference Online''''']</center>]]
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• Oxford Companion to Black British History
  ...eference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t240 '''''The Oxford Companion to Black British History'''''] ...cles are brought together to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the black presence in Britain, and the rich and diverse contribution it has
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• Cambridge University Press
  ...UniversityPress.jpg|right|frame|The original headquarters of the Cambridge University Press, in Trumpington Street, Cambridge, UK.]] ...printer for official documents for the [https://www.cam.ac.uk/ University of Cambridge]. Authors published by Cambridge have included [https://en.wikipe
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• Liminality
  ...occupied during a [[ritual]] or rite of passage, characterized by a sense of [[solidarity]] between participants. ...lves to some extent, bringing about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition where normal limits to [[thought]], self-[[understanding]], and
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• Body
  With regard to living [[things]], a '''body''' is the physical [[material]] of an [[individual]]. "Body" often is used in connection with [[illusion|appea The human body mostly consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.
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• Law
  ...f a sanction". Regardless of how it functions, it is a central institution of progressive society. ...law]] and more have long lasting effects on the cultural wealth of groups of people.
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• Mood
  ...sitive or negative [[valence]]. In other [[words]], people typically speak of being in a good mood or a bad mood. Unlike acute, emotional feelings like f ...and neuroticism predispose certain types of moods. Long term disturbances of mood such as [[depression]] and [[bipolar disorder]] are considered mood di
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• Exclusion
  *1a : to prevent or restrict the entrance of ...ntly]] violating that [[institution]]'s rules, or for a single [[offence]] of appropriate severity in [[extreme]] cases. Laws and [[procedures]] regardin
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• Subjectivity
  *1. a. Consciousness of one's perceived states. ...ively through the medium of one's own mind or individuality; the condition of being dominated by or absorbed in one's personal feelings, thoughts, concer
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• Synoptic Gospels
  ...nical New Testament. The "synoptic problem" concerns the nature and origin of the literary relationship between these three accounts. ...ly date the [[synoptic]] gospels as having been written after the epistles of [[Paul the Apostle|Paul]] and before the gospel according to John, thus bet
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• Tutor
  <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Learning''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title= <center>For lessons on the related [[topic]] of '''''[[Teaching]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?ti
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• Dictionary of Weather
  ....com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t16 '''''A Dictionary of Weather'''''] ...ta]] from around the world are given and key terms from the related fields of [[oceanography]], hydrology, and [[climatology]] are also covered.
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• Commentary
  ...ich may be foreign to the reader. Such a commentary usually takes the form of footnotes, endnotes, or separate text cross-referenced by line, paragraph o ...textual [[criticism]], [[syntax]] and [[semantics]], and the [[analysis]] of [[rhetoric]], literary [[tropes]], and [[style]]. The aim is to remove, les
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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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• Dictionary of Chemistry
  ....com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t81 '''''A Dictionary of Chemistry'''''] ...ry, biochemistry, explosives, and plastics. A new feature is the inclusion of entry-level web links.
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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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• 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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• Sin
  ...]] and an offence against [[God]]; a violation (esp. wilful or deliberate) of some religious or moral principle. :b. transf. A violation of some [[standard]] of taste or propriety.
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• Racism
  ...ces]] produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.[1] In the case of institutional racism, certain racial [[groups]] may be denied rights or ben ...may be discriminated against on an ethnic or cultural basis, independently of their somatic differences. According to the United Nations conventions, the
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• Inequality
  ...s of social [[status]] involve property rights, voting rights, [[freedom]] of speech and assembly, access to [[health]] care, and [[education]] as well a Inequality is socially created by matching two different kinds of processes.
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• Pseudo-science
  ...nt among [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science philosophers of science] and among commentators in the scientific [[community]] about wheth ...ility requirement or substantially deviates from other fundamental aspects of the [[scientific method]].[3][14][15][16][17][18]
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• Holography
  ...t was when recorded. The image [[changes]] as the position and orientation of the viewing [[system]] changes in exactly the same way as if the object wer The technique of holography can also be used to [[Optics|optically]] store, retrieve, and [[
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• Fathom
  ...example is [https://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]'s aborted launch of [https://www.fathom.com Fathom.com] (logo at right) one the first serious e ...of the imperial yard. Formerly, the term was used for any of several units of length varying around 5 and 5½ feet.
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• Classics
  ...tudy in the humanities. The word "Classics" also refers to the literature of that period. ...he eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• Ashtar Command
  '''Ashtar''' is the name of a purported [[extraterrestrial]] [[being]], who was first claimed to be [[c ..."[[metaphysical]]" activity, but rather an example of the [[application]] of an allegedly advanced extraterrestrial science, that anyone could implement
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• Byzantine
  ...Byzantine” period is traditionally dated from 1204 (or 1261, the recovery of Constantinople by the Byz.) to 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks. ==Period of the Late Roman Empire (4th–mid-7th C.)==
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