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  • ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role ... Although mostly associated with the Latin American Boom of the 1960s ...
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  • shtml Prologues of St. Jerome, Latin text] Retrieved February 15, 2008. ... and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition". ...
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  • (The word "rodent" comes from the Latin word for "gnawing." ... the groundhog (M. monax) is assigned the Latin name monax, for "solitary ...
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  • in manuscript form, was translated into Latin in 1342 at the request of ... some of these are printed in the early Latin editions of Aristotle’s ...
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  • a form of communication that is free of language-specific elements and thus ... Both pictogram and pictography share the same Latin root, pict(us ...
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  • according to their regional origin and language). The papal legate decided ... == Latin Averroism: Siger de Brabant == Ibn Rushd or Averroes (1126 ...
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  • created through Jerome the standard Latin translation of the Bible ... promulgated the use of a standardized Latin language format for the mass, ...
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  • the revision of the Russian literary language, and several important scientific ... he obtained admission into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy. There his progress ...
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  • The book was originally written in Rome, in the Greek language, but ... slave. The text makes use of allegorical language to present its religious ...
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  • which means "hidden," and then to the Latin crypta, which described a "grotto, or hidden vault," attesting to the will of Church ...
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  • a common factor: This may be a topic, a language, a period, or some other ... are takes from HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies Online) ...
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  • birds. The name ratite comes from the Latin word for raft (ratis), because their breastbone looks like a raft. Among ratites are included ostriches ...
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  • in Italy is the lyceum, where students study Latin and English for five years between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. There are several types ...
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  • to discuss a union between the Greek and Latin Churches, and made several ... about a union between the Greek and Latin Churches and was at that ...
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  • that, based on the style of the language, and the fact that the author ... Old Slavonic, Armenian, Arabic, Irish and Latin. Though no early Latin versions ...
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  • It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...
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  • The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ... The English word "spirit" comes from the Latin spiritus ...
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  • Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology ... quot;, which forms the base for the Latin nebula, referring to "fog ...
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  • on metaphysics which was translated into Latin in 1150. His concept of the ... townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his mother’s ...
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  • name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... In English language bibles, YHWH is traditionally translated as "The ...
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