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31Babylonian law — Archaeological material for the study of Babylonian law is singularly extensive. So called contracts exist in the thousands, including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts, and most important of all, actual legal… …
32African Rite — In the history of Christianity, the African Rite refers to a now defunct Catholic, Western liturgical rite, and is considered a development or possibly a local use of the primitive Roman Rite. It used the Latin language. The African Rite may be… …
33African Liturgy — • In use not only in the old Roman province of Africa of which Carthage was the capital, but also in Numidia and Mauretania Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. African Liturgy African Liturgy …
34marriage — mar·riage / mar ij/ n 1: the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law see also divorce 2: the ceremony… …
35Francesco Alberoni — (December 31, 1929, Borgonovo Val Tidone, Province of Piacenza) is an Italian Sociologist, Journalist, and professor in Sociology. He was a Board Member and Senior Board Member (Chairman) of Rai, the national Italian Television, from 2002… …
36cohabitation — I (living together) noun abiding together, act of dwelling together, alliance, living together in sexual intimacy, lodging together, lodging together as husband and wife, occupying the same domicile, residing together, rooming together associated …
37Douglas Kennedy — (né le 1er janvier 1955 à New York) est un écrivain américain qui décrit d un œil acerbe certains côtés des États Unis d Amérique, dénonçant notamment le paradoxe du puritanisme religieux. Douglas Kennedy …
38Butterfly — calesButterflies are characterized by their scale covered wings.The coloration of butterfly wings is created by minute scales. These scales are pigmented with melanins that give them blacks and browns, but blues, greens, reds and iridescence are… …
39Culture of Mangalorean Catholics — The Culture of Mangalorean Catholics is a blend of Goan and Mangalorean cultures. After migration to Mangalore, they adopted the local Mangalorean culture, but retained many of their Goan customs and traditions. Their traditional houses, observed …
40Betrothal — • In the Catholic Church, a deliberate and free, mutual, true promise, externally expressed, of future marriage between determinate and fit persons Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Betrothal Betrothal …
