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41Ruhani Satsang — The origin of Ruhani Satsang of came about at the request of disciples of Master Baba Sawan Singh (1858 1948). The western disciples had requested Master Baba Sawan Singh to come and visit the west. Master Baba Sawan Singh said this visit could… …
42Jean-Baptiste Pussin — (1746 1811) was a hospital superintendent who, along with his wife and colleague Marguerite, is recognized as having established more humane treatment of patients with mental disorders. They helped physician Philippe Pinel appreciate and… …
43Chabad-Lubavitch related controversies — This article examines controversial issues involving the Chabad Lubavitch movement. For a more complete examination of Chabad, see the main article. Part of a series on Chabad …
44Kith (Poul Anderson) — The Kith are a starfaring culture featured in a number of stories by Poul Anderson::* Ghetto (1954):* The Horn of Time the Hunter (also known as Homo Aquaticus , 1963):*The novel Starfarers (1998)The Kith develop out of early interstellar… …
45scorn — scorner, n. scorningly, adv. /skawrn/, n. 1. open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt. 2. an object of derision or contempt. 3. a derisive or contemptuous action or speech. 4. laugh to scorn, to… …
46Julio-Claudian dynasty — (AD 14–68) Successors of Augustus, the first Roman emperor: Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. It was a loosely defined set of kin relations rather than a direct bloodline. Tiberius s rule was competent, with notable accomplishments, but it… …
47Jean-Baptiste Greuze — Jean Baptiste Greuze † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jean Baptiste Greuze French painter, b. at Tournus in Ardeche, 21 August, 1725; d. at Paris, 21 March, 1805. His father, a master tiler, wished to make him an architect, but ended by… …
48Haizi — (né Zha Haisheng) b. May 1964, Anqing; d. 26 March 1989, Shanghai Poet Haizi was a well known poet who began writing as a campus poet in 1982. He entered Peking University at the age of fifteen and began writing lyrical and narrative poetry,… …
49Ghenadie Petrescu — His Eminence Ghenadie Petrescu Metropolitan Primate of Romania Etching of Metropolitan Ghenadie, ca. 1893 Church …
50Nature fakers controversy — Illustration from William J. Long s School of the Woods (1902), showing an otter teaching her young to swim The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th century American literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment… …
