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• New Year
  *2: the first few days or weeks of a year: ''interest rates may climb in the new year''. ...months was January to December in the Old Roman calendar during the reign of King [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa_Pompilius Numa Pompilius] in about
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• Entente
  *2. a [[group]] of states in an informal alliance. ...nderstanding between Britain and France reached in 1904, forming the basis of Anglo-French cooperation in [[World War I]].
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• Witch-hunt
  *1: a searching out for [[persecution]] of persons accused of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft witchcraft] *2: the searching out and deliberate harassment of those (as [[political]] opponents) with unpopular views
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• Coronation
  [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Coronation-of-Maria-de-Medici.jpg|right|frame]] * the [[act]] or occasion of crowning; also : accession to the highest office
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• Peers
  ...ank, a mate, partner, adversary, in post-classical Latin also a [[person]] of equal legal [[status]] (frequently c1102-1422 in British sources), a noble ...egni (frequently 1339-1568 in British sources), and the following examples of Anglo-Norman piers de la terre:
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• English
  ...nelaw--and the Norman Conquest. These events resulted in the assimiliation of Old Norse and French vocabulary and other linguistic features. ==Chronology of Events in the History of English==
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• United States
  ...ler Martin Waldseemüller] produced a world map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere "America" after Italian [[explorer]] and cartographe ...changed to read, "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America".
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• Hegemony
  ...lly cultural and non-military dominance, as opposed to the related notions of [[empire]] and [[suzerainty]]. ...g the strength to dominate Europe all by itself--an occurrence which Great Britain had always resisted in the past when it came about by conquest." or histori
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• 133:4 Personal Work in Corinth
  .../Ancient_Corinth Corinth]. They had close converse with a great [[number]] of [[persons]] who greatly profited by the instruction [[received]] from [[Jes ...ttractive]] form and suited to the [[capacity]] of [[receptivity]] of each of your [[Inquiry|inquire]]rs. "
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• Social movement
  ...ovements''' are a type of |group action. They are large informal groupings of [[individual]]s and/or [[organization]]s [[focus]]ed on specific [[politics ...ovements. However others point out that many of the major social movements of the last hundred years grew up, like the Mau Mau in Kenya, to oppose Wester
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• Merlin
  [[Image:Bard_2.jpg|right|frame|<center>fr. [[Tennyson]]'s [[Idylls of the King]]</center><center>1898</center>]] ...d|North British]] madman with no connection to [[King Arthur]], with tales of the [[Romano-British]] war leader [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]] to form the comp
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• The Book of Revelation
  ...t]] in the [[Bible]]. It is the only biblical book that is wholly composed of [[apocalyptic literature]]. ...did not achieve canonical status, except for the [[2 Esdras]] (Apocalypse of Ezra), which is canonical in the [[Russian Orthodox]] and [[Ethiopian Ortho
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• Conservatism
  ...o]] or to reform society slowly, while others seek to return to the values of an earlier time, the [[status quo ante]]. ...[[Stalinists]], or the reformers who have adopted the [[right-wing]] views of modern conservatives such as [[Margaret Thatcher]]?"<ref>[https://political
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• Chapter 3 - The Return from Rome
  ...to Tarentum, <u>Ganid asked Jesus a direct question as to what he thought of India's '''caste''' system.</u> ...he spiritual brotherhood of men when assembled for worship in the presence of God."
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• Prayer
  ...[[thoughts]] and [[emotion]]s. The words used in prayer may take the form of [[intercession]], a hymn, incantation or a spontaneous utterance in the per ...yer is ritualized and must be followed through a sometimes strict sequence of actions (even going as far as restricting who may pray), other religions, m
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• Nature
  ...n unless qualified in ways such as, e.g., "[[human nature]]" or "the whole of nature". Nature is also generally distinguished from the [[supernatural]]. <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Nature''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ca
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• Information science
  ...actually a broad, interdisciplinary field, incorporating not only aspects of computer science, but also [[library science]], [[cognitive science|cogniti ...eld of Information, and there are a growing number of Schools and Colleges of Information.
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• Atlantis
  ...|right|frame|<center>[https://www.discoveryofatlantis.com/index.html Image of Atlantis</center>]]] ...]], Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος}, "island of [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]]") is the name of a legendary island first mentioned in [[Plato]]'s dialogues ''[[Timaeus (di
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• Paper 133 - The Return From Rome
  ...ht up to the time of the [[appearance]] in [[Rome]] of the first preachers of the [[Christian]] [[religion]]. ...colonists lived along this road, but already the progeny of great numbers of inferior [[slaves]] were beginning to make their [[appearance]].
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• Samuel Johnson
  ...d=b-8cONT4lHIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=life+of+samuel+johnson#PPP13,M1 Life of Samuel Johnson]''. ...The Life of Richard Savage'', the poems "London |London'' and ''The Vanity of Human Wishes'', and the play ''Irene''.
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