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81The Nation — This article is about the U.S. magazine. For other uses, see Nation (disambiguation). The Nation The Nation, cover dated May 3, 2010 Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel Former editors …
82École Normale Supérieure — The École normale supérieure (also known as Normale Sup’, Normale, ENS, ENS Paris, ENS Ulm or Ulm) is a French grande école (higher education establishments outside the mainstream framework of the public universities system). Initially conceived… …
83Richard of Cirencester — dablink This article discusses the historical person. For the forgery that was attributed to him, see De Situ Britanniae.Richard of Cirencester (c. 1335 ndash; c. 1401), historical writer, was a member of the Benedictine abbey at Westminster, and …
84Jacob Acontius — (Italian: Jacopo (or Giacomo) Aconcio; 7 September 1492 ndash; around 1566) was an Italian jurist, theologian, philosopher and engineer.He was traditionally thought to have been born at Trento, although it was probably Ossana.He was one of the… …
85Foibe massacres — The Foibe massacres were killings attributed to Yugoslav Partisans during and shortly after World War II in Istria. The name derives from a local geological feature, a type of deep karst sinkhole called a foiba [ [http://books.google.com/books?id …
86After Virtue — is a highly regarded book on moral philosophy by Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre provides a bleak view of the state of modern moral discourse, regarding it as failing to be rational, and failing to admit to being irrational. He claims that older… …
87Israel Lewy — (1841 1917) was a German Jewish scholar. He was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University in Breslau. In 1874 he was appointed docent at the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums in Berlin, and in 1883, on the death …
88Juan Francisco Masdeu — (4 October 1744 1817), Spanish historian, was born at Palermo. He joined the Company of Jesus on 19 December 1759 and became professor in the Jesuit seminaries at Ferrara and Ascoli. He visited Spain in 1799, was exiled, and returned in 1815,… …
89Theatre of Japan — Traditional Japanese theatre includes kabuki, noh (and kyōgen) and bunraku. Contents 1 Traditional form of theater 1.1 Noh and Kyogen 1.2 Kabuki …
90Brazilian firearms and ammunition referendum, 2005 — On October 23, 2005 Brazil held a country wide referendum on article 35 of the Disarmament Statute. The possible outcome was either an approval or disapproval of the article, which states in full : The sale of firearms and ammunition is… …
