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  • 1funeral, funereal — These words have related meanings, but funeral (FYOO nuhr uhl) usually means burial rites, whereas funereal (fyoo NEER i uhl) has an additional and more regularly intended meaning of sad, doleful, and gloomy (a funereal expression on her face) …

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  • 2Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology       Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… …

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  • 3Egypt — • Provides information on history, religion, and literature Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Egypt     Egypt     † …

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  • 4Ali Omar Ermes — (Arabic:علي عمر الرميص) is an internationally renowned artist, writer, and speaker as well as a community activist; but above all, he is a thinker who never restricts his objective to one precinct [Mary Richardson, ‘The alphabet of Ali Omar… …

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  • 5Religious Painting —     Religious Painting     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Religious Painting     Painting has always been associated with the life of the Church. From the time of the Catacombs it has been used in ecclesiastical ornamentation, and for centuries after… …

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  • 6Beethoven, Ludwig van — (baptized Dec. 17, 1770, Bonn, archbishopric of Cologne died March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria) German composer. Born to a musical family, he was a precociously gifted pianist and violist. After nine years as a court musician in Bonn, he moved to… …

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  • 7Gladiator — For other uses, see Gladiator (disambiguation). Part of the Zliten mosaic from Libya (Leptis Magna), about 2nd century CE. It shows (left to right) a thraex fighting a murmillo, a hoplomachus standing with another murmillo (who is signaling his… …

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  • 8Kalachakra — Kālacakra(Sanskrit: unicode|कालचक्र; IAST: Kālacakra; Telugu : కాలచక్ర bo|t=དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ།|w=dus kyi khor lo) is a Sanskrit term used in Tantric Buddhism that means time wheel or time cycles . It refers both to a Tantric deity (Tib. yidam ) of… …

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  • 9Funeral — This article is about the ceremony. For other uses, see Funeral (disambiguation). The funeral of Pope John Paul II A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise… …

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  • 10Theology of Pope Pius XII — The theology of Pope Pius XII comprised fourtyone encyclicals, and almost 1000 messages, and speeches during his long pontificate. The encyclicals Mystici Corporis and Mediator Dei clarified membership and participation in the Church. The… …

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