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  • 101osteocope — /os tee euh kohp /, n. Pathol. severe pain in the bones, esp. that occurring in syphilitic persons. [1700 10; < Gk osteokópos, equiv. to osteo OSTEO + kópos beating, toil, fatigue] * * * …

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  • 102economic systems — Introduction       the way in which humankind has arranged for its material provisioning. One would think that there would be a great variety of such systems, corresponding to the many cultural arrangements that have characterized human society.&#8230; …

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  • 103Lapland and Lapps — • This singular race is divided into three different groups: mountain, forest, and fisher Lapps Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Lapland and Lapps     Lapland and Lapps …

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  • 104Shammai — • Jewish scribe who together with Hillel made up the last of the pairs , or as they are sometimes erroneously named, presidents and vice presidents of the Sanhedrin Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Shammai     Shammai …

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  • 105Siberia — • A Russian possession in Asia forming the northern third of that continent Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Siberia     Siberia     † …

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  • 106Armella Nicolas —     Armella Nicolas     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Armella Nicolas     Popularly known as La bonne Armelle , a saintly French serving maid held in high veneration among the people, though never canonized by the Church, b. at Campeneac in Brittanny …

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  • 107Ecclesiastical Annals —     Ecclesiastical Annals     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Annals     The historical literature of the Middle Ages may be classed under three general heads: chronicles, annals, and lives of the saints.     CHRONICLES     Chronicles&#8230; …

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  • 108Mary Aloysia Hardey —     Mary Aloysia Hardey     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mary Aloysia Hardey     Of the Society of the Sacred Heart, who established all the convents of her order, up to the year 1883, in the eastern part of the United States, Canada, and Cuba; b.&#8230; …

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  • 109St. Rose of Lima —     St. Rose of Lima     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Rose of Lima     Virgin, patroness of America, born at Lima, Peru 20 April, 1586; died there 30 August, 1617.     At her confirmation in 1597, she took the name of Rose, because, when an&#8230; …

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  • 110Forced prostitution — Rangoon, Burma. August 8, 1945. A young ethnic Chinese woman who was in one of the Imperial Japanese Army s comfort battalions is interviewed by an Allied officer. Forced prostitution, also known as involuntary prostitution, is the act of&#8230; …

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