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21Charles Darwin's religious views — Charles Darwin (1809–1882), who proposed the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Charles Darwin s views on religion have been the subject of much interest. His work which was pivotal in the development of modern biology and… …
22plate tectonics — plate tectonic, adj. Geol. a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past… …
23earthquake — /errth kwayk /, n. 1. a series of vibrations induced in the earth s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. 2. something that is severely disruptive; upheaval. [1300 50; ME erthequake …
24Hinduism — /hin dooh iz euhm/, n. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many… …
25likeness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. portrait, effigy, counterpart; similarity; resemblance. See representation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Similarity] Syn. resemblance, correspondence, similarity, analogy, parallelism, affinity, similitude …
26perception — perceptional, adj. /peuhr sep sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding. 2. immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic… …
27Muhammad Iqbal — Iqbal redirects here. For other uses, see Iqbal (disambiguation). Muhammad Iqbal Sir Allama Mohammad Iqbal Full name Muhammad Iqbal Born November 9, 1877(1877 11 09) Sialkot, Punjab, British India …
28Houston Stewart Chamberlain — (September 9, 1855 January 9, 1927) was a British born author of books on political philosophy, natural science and his posthumous father in law Richard Wagner. His two volume book Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of… …
29The Bollandists — The Bollandists † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Bollandists An association of ecclesiastical scholars engaged in editing the Acta Sanctorum. This work is a great hagiographical collection begun during the first years of the seventeenth… …
30Zachary, St. — (d. 752) A central figure in the political revolution in the Frankish kingdom, Zachary, or Zacharias, was pope during an important period in the development of the papacy (r. 741 752). He was actively involved with diplomatic affairs during… …
