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  • 71Buddhism — Buddhist, n., adj. Buddhistic, Buddhistical, adj. Buddhistically, adv. /booh diz euhm, bood iz /, n. a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that… …

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  • 72Johnson, Samuel — known as Dr. Johnson born Sept. 18, 1709, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Eng. died Dec. 13, 1784, London British man of letters, one of the outstanding figures of 18th century England. The son of a poor bookseller, he briefly attended Oxford… …

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  • 73ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …

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  • 74Italian literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Italian language that had its beginnings in the 13th century. Until that time nearly all literary work composed in the Middle Ages was written in Latin. Moreover, it was predominantly… …

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  • 75Nietzsche, Friedrich — ▪ German philosopher Introduction born Oct. 15, 1844, Röcken, Saxony, Prussia [now in Germany] died Aug. 25, 1900, Weimar, Thuringian States  German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of… …

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  • 76ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …

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  • 77Jean Genet — Infobox Person name = Jean Genet caption = Vienna, Austria, December 1983 birth date = birth date|1910|12|19 birth place = Paris, France dead=dead death date = death date and age|1986|4|15|1910|12|19 death place = Paris, FranceFrench literature… …

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  • 78Thomas FitzMaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry — (1668 16 March 1741) was the son of William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw, and Constance Long.Originally the 21st Baron Kerry, he was created Earl of Kerry in 1723. He married Anne Petty, the daughter of scientist and philosopher… …

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  • 79Sociology of Religion (book) — Sociology of Religion is a 1920 book by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist. The original edition was in German.Max Weber, unlike Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim, studied the effects of religious action and inaction. Instead of viewing… …

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  • 801782 in Great Britain — Events from the year 1782 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.Incumbents*Monarch George III of the United Kingdom *Prime Minister Frederick North, Lord North, Tory (to 22 March), Charles Watson Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Whig (to 1 July) …

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