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  • 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter ... was well known for painting the aristocracy of Europe, the new and emerging ...
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  • by the belief that while one set of beliefs is absolutely true ... Broadly speaking, there are two schools of Inclusivist thought: ...
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  • The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...
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  • Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... five shekels was levied for the redemption of first-born sons (Numbers 18:15 ...
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  • film director. Working within the medium of narrative cinema, he created ... Bresson dispensed with spectacle and drama in favor of a lean and ...
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  • study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of decay and damage. ... damage, preservation concerns the prevention of potential damages. ...
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  • #039;s revolution against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, he grew ... Falls, which was on the New York Times list of top ten books in 1993 and was ...
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  • whose works, such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The ... to express the complexities and calamities of the modern era. Perhaps more ...
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  • quot;) refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical doctrines about ... Rabbis) as a reference to the full body of Judaism's oral law. Over ...
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  • Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...
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  • quot; or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the ... particular with works such as the Satyricon of Petronius and later, and more ...
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  • October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic era who used his ... convictions as was Anton Bruckner. One of his biographers, Hans Redlich ...
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  • to as Hollywood (from the place name of its birth), is the industry ... a new visual culture. The immediacy of the medium created a system ...
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  • The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...
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  • Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice ... The concept of possession by evil spirits and the practice of exorcism ...
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  • was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864 ... Hong proclaimed the "Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping" and began to ...
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  • during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ... and there are extant works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry ...
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  • , c.185 – c.254 C.E.) was one of the most distinguished theologians ... The details of Origen's life are found in his biography as given ...
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  • as a civil servant. Frustrated with the lack of change, he took up his pen ... was not immediately felt. His depiction of socioeconomic conditions in ...
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  • singer and songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter ... a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing ...
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