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  • 51cartography — cartograph /kahr teuh graf , grahf /, n. cartographer, n. cartographic /kahr teuh graf ik/, cartographical, adj. cartographically, adv. /kahr tog reuh fee/, n. the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation,… …

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  • 52Roman Catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church. [1815 25] * * * Largest single Christian denomination in the world, with some one billion members, or about 18% of the world s population. The Roman Catholic church has… …

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  • 53Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron — born Dec. 26, 1751, London, Eng. died Nov. 1, 1793, London English instigator of the anti Catholic Gordon riots. The third son of the duke of Gordon, he entered Parliament in 1774. In 1779 he organized the Protestant associations formed to secure …

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  • 54Mishima Yukio — orig. Hiraoka Kimitake born Jan. 14, 1925, Tokyo, Japan died Nov. 25, 1970, Tokyo Japanese writer. Having failed to qualify physically for military service in World War II, Mishima worked in a Tokyo factory and after the war studied law. He won… …

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  • 55collective behaviour — ▪ psychology Introduction       the kinds of activities engaged in by sizable but loosely organized groups of people. Episodes of collective behaviour tend to be quite spontaneous, resulting from an experience shared by the members of the group… …

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  • 56Evil — • In a large sense, described as the sum of the opposition, which experience shows to exist in the universe, to the desires and needs of individuals; whence arises, among humans beings at least, the sufferings in which life abounds Catholic… …

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  • 57Pessimism — • Term applied in popular language to persons who habitually take a melancholy view of life; or in philosophy, to a system that attempts to account for the presence of evil in the world. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Pessimism      …

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  • 58The Highest Good —     The Highest Good     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Highest Good      We always act with a view to some good. The good is the object which all pursue, and for the sake of which they always act , says Plato (Republic, I, vi). His disciple… …

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  • 59substitution — 1. In chemistry, the replacement of an atom or group in a compound by another atom or group ( e.g., s. of H by Cl in CH4 to give CH3Cl). 2. In psychoanalysis, an unconscious defense …

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  • 60Climate of Europe — Biomes of Europe and surrounding regions:      tundra      alpine tundra      taiga …

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