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  • and the “type-scene” (also called a "theme" or "typical ... claimed that the appearance of the theme in Ancient Greek poetry, ...
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  • society here on earth, emerged as a dominant theme in later American religious thought. This can be understood both as a restoration of primitive ...
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  • court in Potsdam, where the king played a theme for Bach and challenged him ... complex fugues and canons based on a simple theme. A magnum opus of thematic ...
    38 KB (5,977 words) - 19:57, 7 May 2024
  • that takes up another prominent Hitchcock theme, amnesia. ... has a “hypnotic” quality to enforce the theme of “vertigo,” but it ...
    29 KB (4,441 words) - 08:14, 20 July 2023
  • cultural events centered around a different theme each year. is centered around an historical theme, and features a distinguished ...
    19 KB (2,939 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
  • Albert Marquet 1906). Holidays were a favorite theme of twentieth-century artists and the Fauvists were no exception. Whereas earlier genres of art ...
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  • of four volumes, each representing a different theme, in order to present the whole of British law in a logical and comprehensive way. The publication ...
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  • emphasis on monetary success as one dominant theme in American culture, and have traced the strains which it differentially imposes upon those variously ...
    11 KB (1,697 words) - 10:44, 30 October 2021
  • and differences provide a unifying theme, allowing the principles learned from studying one cell type to be extrapolated and generalized to other ...
    11 KB (1,596 words) - 23:46, 3 December 2023
  • and was reflected in the final treaties. This theme would continue to be a significant factor in European politics until the time of the French Revolution ...
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  • of an English Opium Eater, drawing on the theme of the internal struggle with one's self. ==Online texts== All links retrieved December 11, 2007. ...
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  • serpent, called Rahab and Leviathan in the Bible, a theme which occurs several times in the post-exilic Jewish literature. How the prophet Habakkuk ...
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  • Cirque Du Soleil added a narrative, or background theme, to the acrobatic routine. The acrobats of Cirque du Soleil, dress in unusual costumes and make ...
    10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
  • Sanskrit, tells of his exploits as a child, a theme later elaborated by many Bhakti movements. Friendhelm Hardy, Viraha-Bhakti--The Early History ...
    11 KB (1,583 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
  • Energies/Glory, and it is a recurring theme in the works of Greek Orthodox theologians. In Eastern Orthodox parlance, the preferred name for the ...
    11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
  • to be purely literary. The “Messianic Secret” theme, in which Jesus continually performed wonders and then asked his witnesses not to tell anybody ...
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  • based on religious beliefs. This basic theme appeared consistently elsewhere in Bayle's work, and has clear roots in his firsthand experience ...
    10 KB (1,589 words) - 05:18, 24 November 2022
  • in A Major K. 201 uses a contrapuntal main theme in its first movement, and ... paid homage to Mozart by writing sets of theme and variations on several ...
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  • The Woman paintings II through VI (1952-53) are all variants on this theme, as are Woman and Bicycle (1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New ...
    10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
  • "The Sentinel" (1948) introduced a spiritual theme into ... the novel and film present a Cold War theme, with the looming tensions ...
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