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  • 11Dionysius of Alexandria — • Also called Dionysius the Great. Bishop, d. 264 or 265 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Dionysius of Alexandria     Dionysius of Alexandria      …

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  • 12August Schmarsow — (26 May 1853 26 January 1936) was a German art historian. He was born at Schildfeld, Mecklenburg Schwerin, and was educated in Zürich, Strassburg and Bonn. He became docent of the history of art at Göttingen in 1881, professor there in 1882, at… …

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  • 13Idea Star Singer — infobox television | show name = Idea Star Singer caption = format = Interactive Reality Game Show runtime = 60 or 90 minutes per episode creator = Asianet judges = M. G. Sreekumar (2007 2008) Ouseppachan (2008) P. Unnikrishnan (2008) Sharath… …

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  • 14Saint-Pierre, Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de — ▪ French author original name  Charles irénée Castel   born Feb. 13, 1658, Saint Pierre Église, Fr. died April 29, 1743, Paris       influential French publicist and reformist, one of the first modern European writers to propose an international… …

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  • 15Belief — • That state of the mind by which it assents to propositions, not by reason of their intrinsic evidence, but because of authority Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Belief     Belief …

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  • 16Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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  • 17English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …

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  • 18performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 19Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …

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  • 20United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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