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  • 11Desiderius Erasmus —     Desiderius Erasmus     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Desiderius Erasmus     The most brilliant and most important leader of German humanism, b. at Rotterdam, Holland, 28 October, probably in 1466; d. at Basle, Switzerland, 12 July, 1536. He was… …

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  • 12biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …

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  • 13Cordwainer Smith — Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Cordwainer Smith Smith, ca. early 1960s Born July 11, 1913(1913 07 11) Milwaukee, Wisconsin Died …

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  • 14The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …

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  • 15The Vanity of Human Wishes — The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated is a 1749 poem by the English author Samuel Johnson. [Johnson 1971] It was completed while Johnson was busy writing A Dictionary of the English Language and it was the first… …

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  • 16Irish Literature — • It is uncertain at what period and in what manner the Irish discovered the use of letters. It may have been through direct commerce with Gaul, but it is more probable, as McNeill has shown in his study of Irish oghams, that it was from the… …

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  • 17CODIFICATION OF LAW — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the concept and its prevalence in other legal systems in jewish law in the mishnah format and style of the mishnah the talmud and post talmudic halakhic literary forms variety of… …

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  • 18Nicolae Iorga — Iorga redirects here. For the village in Botoşani County, see Manoleasa. Nicolae Iorga Nicolae Iorga in 1914 (photograph published in Luceafărul) Prime Minister of Romania …

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  • 19Mohammad Taghi Bahjat Foumani — Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi (Taqi) Bahjat Foumani (born in 1917) is an Iranian Twelver Shi a Marja. He was born in Fouman, Gilan Province, Iran. At the age of 14, he moved to Karbala, Iraq to continue his religious studies. Four years later,… …

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  • 20Judaism — /jooh dee iz euhm, day , deuh /, n. 1. the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the… …

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