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  • 51movable feast — Feast Feast (f[=e]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f[^e]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fair}, n., {Festal}, {F[^e]te}.] 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or… …

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  • 52Athanasius of Alexandria — Infobox Saint name=Saint Athanasius of Alexandria birth date=around 293 death date=death date|373|5|2|mf=y feast day=May 15 = 7 Pashons, 89 A.M. (Coptic) May 2 (Western Christianity) January 18 (Eastern Orthodox Church) venerated in=Oriental… …

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  • 53Constantius II — Emperor of the Roman Empire Bust of Constantius II Reign 324 (November 13) – 337 …

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  • 54Chinese classic texts — or Chinese canonical texts (zh cp|c=典籍|p=diǎnjí) refer to the pre Qin Chinese texts, especially the Confucian Four Books and Five Classics (四書五經). All of these pre Qin text were written in classical Chinese. They can be referred to as jing (經).… …

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  • 55Eastern Orthodox Church — Orthodox Catholic Church and Orthodox Christian Church redirect here. For other uses of the term, see Orthodox (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Oriental Orthodox Churches. See also: Eastern Christianity and Orthodoxy by country The… …

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  • 56Simonides of Kea — Simonides Ceos (Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος) Simonides of Kea (c. 556 BC 468 BC), Greek lyric poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea. He was included, along with Sappho and Pindar, in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic… …

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  • 57Shi Jing — (Zh tspw|t=|s=|p=Shī Jīng|w= Shih Ching ), translated variously as the Classic of Poetry , the Book of Songs or the Book of Odes , is the earliest existing collection of Chinese poems. It comprises 305 poems, some possibly written as early as… …

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  • 58Five Classics — The Five Classics (zh tp|t=五經|p=Wǔjīng) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books used by Confucianism as the basis of studies. According to tradition, they were compiled or edited by Confucius himself.Classic of ChangesThe Classic of Changes or… …

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  • 59List of illuminated manuscripts — This is a list of illuminated manuscripts. 2nd century *Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, cod. suppl. gr. 1294 (Romance Papyrus) 3rd century *Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap. 2331 (Heracles Papyrus) 4th century *Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu… …

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  • 60Feast of the Cross — Russian icon of Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (icon from Yaroslavl by Gury Nikitin, 1680. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). Liturgical year Western Advent …

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