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  • 11Religion (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of religion Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas William Desmond Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–) seem like a mere aggregate of thinkers. Jaspers, a German thinker who coined the phrase Existenz… …

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  • 12bend — I. v. a. 1. Curve, crook, bow, incurvate, flex, make crooked, deflect, draw. 2. Direct, turn, incline. 3. Exert, apply (earnestly), direct (attentively). 4. [Usually in the passive.] Incline, determine, resolve, set. 5. Subdue, cause to yield,… …

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  • 13Kwaito — is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early 1990s. It is based on house music beats, but typically at a slower tempo and containing melodic and percussive African samples which are looped, deep basslines and often… …

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  • 14Sea otter — Taxobox name = Sea Otter status = EN trend = down status system = iucn2.3 image caption = A sea otter wraps itself in kelp in Morro Bay, California. image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Mammalia …

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  • 1510th of August (French Revolution) — On August 10, 1792, during the French Revolution, a mob with the backing of a new municipal government of Paris that came to be known as the insurrectionary Paris Commune besieged the Tuileries palace. King Louis XVI and the royal family took… …

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  • 16Takashi Nagai — (永井 隆, Nagai Takashi?, February 3, 1908, Matsue – May 1, 1951, Nagasaki) was a physician specializing in radiology, a convert to Roman Catholicism, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life of prayer and service earned …

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  • 17Ritual Decalogue — Part of a series on The Bible …

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  • 18History of Otago — The history of Otago in New Zealand tells the story of human settlement of one of the more isolated outliers of the inhabited earth. Archaic Māori period The precise date at which the first inhabitants of New Zealand reached Otago and the extreme …

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  • 19ear — ear1 earless, adj. earlike, adj. /ear/, n. 1. the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane …

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  • 20Napoleon I — (Napoleon Bonaparte) ( the Little Corporal ) 1769 1821, French general born in Corsica: emperor of France 1804 15. * * * ▪ emperor of France Introduction French in full  Napoléon Bonaparte , original Italian  Napoleone Buonaparte , byname  the… …

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