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121Helena Blavatsky — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Helena Blavatsky, co founder of the Theosophical Society Born 12 August 1831 Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) …
122Murray, Margaret — (1863–1963) British Egyptologist who made an important contribution to that subject but is probably best known for her work The Witch Cult in Western Europe (1921), which proposed a pan European, pre Christian religion extending from the… …
123collective behaviour — Potentially a very wide ranging field of study which deals with the ways in which collective behaviours emerge as responses to problematic circumstances and situations. At one extreme this can mean the study of co ordinated and organized social… …
124social movements — An organized effort by a significant number of people to change (or resist change in) some major aspect or aspects of society. The term was first used by Saint Simon in France at the turn of the eighteenth century, to characterize the movements… …
125craze — [[t]kre͟ɪz[/t]] crazes N COUNT: usu with supp If there is a craze for something, it is very popular for a short time. ...the craze for Mutant Ninja Turtles... Walking is the latest fitness craze. Syn: fad …
126bungee jumping — Bungee jumping is a controversial sport in which participants leap from bridges, cranes or other high spots, attached only by a long elastic rope secured to their ankles. It became popular in the 1980s, and in the 1990s a national organization …
127filofaxes — On sale in the UK since the 1920s, Filofax is a trade name for a personal organizer, which is a loose leaf ring binder for carrying diaries, notes, address books, maps and anything else considered essential for day to day working and… …
128gameboys — Gameboys are small hand held electronic devices with screens. They use cartridges to enable people to play computer games. They were first produced by the Japanese company Nintendo in 1989, and are firmly established as an aspect of youth… …
