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  • 21Satnami sect — Religious community in India that challenges political and religious authority by worshiping the supreme god Satnam. Combining practices from Islam and Hinduism, Satnamis typically reject both the worship of images and the caste system, while… …

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  • 22Weil, Simone — born Feb. 3, 1909, Paris, France died Aug. 24, 1943, Ashford, Kent, Eng. French mystic and social philosopher. After graduating from the École Normale Supérieure, she taught philosophy in several girls schools from 1931 to 1938. To learn the… …

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  • 23Gotthelf, Jeremias — ▪ Swiss writer pseudonym of  Albert Bitzius   born Oct. 4, 1797, Morat, Switz. died Oct. 22, 1854, Lützelflüh  Swiss novelist and short story writer whose vivid narrative works extol the virtues of Bernese rural people and defend traditional… …

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  • 24Hardie, J Keir — ▪ British labour leader born Aug. 15, 1856, Legbrannock, Lanark, Scot. died Sept. 26, 1915, Glasgow  British labour leader, first to represent the workingman in Parliament as an Independent (1892) and first to lead the Labour Party in the House… …

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  • 25Dunmanway killings — Location Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland Date 26–28 April 1922 Target Protestants accused of informing Attack type Shooting …

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  • 26scalawag — scal|a|wag [ˈskæləwæg] n AmE [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from Scottish English scallag farm servant ] a ↑scallywag …

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  • 27scalawag — (n.) disreputable fellow, 1848, American English, originally in trade union jargon, of uncertain origin, perhaps an alteration of Scottish scallag farm servant, rustic (by influence of wag habitual joker ). An early recorded sense was undersized… …

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  • 28villain — vil•lain [[t]ˈvɪl ən[/t]] n. 1) a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel 2) lit. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot 3) law why villein… …

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  • 29villain — /ˈvɪlən / (say viluhn) noun 1. a wicked person; scoundrel. 2. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot. 3. Colloquial a criminal. 4. a villein. –phrase 5. the villain of the piece, the person …

  • 30αὐλιτῶν — αὐλίτης farm servant masc gen pl …

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