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21New Rural Reconstruction Movement — New Rural Reconstruction (NRR, Chinese: 新乡村建设; pinyin: Xīn xiāngcūn jiànshè) is an intellectual current and social movement initiated by Wen Tiejun and other activists to address the crisis they saw in the Chinese countryside at the start of …
22realism — /ree euh liz euhm/, n. 1. interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc. 2. the tendency to view or represent things as they really are. 3. Fine Arts. a. treatment of forms, colors, space, etc …
23Hindu philosophy — Part of a series on Hindu philosophy …
24Boris Johnson — Infobox Mayor honorific prefix = name = Boris Johnson honorific suffix = imagesize = office = Mayor of London term start = 4 May 2008 term end = deputy = Richard Barnes predecessor = Ken Livingstone successor = office2 = Shadow Minister of State… …
25Quiroga, Elena — b. 1921, Santander; d. 1995, La Coruña Writer One of several major women novelists to emerge in the early postwar period, Elena Quiroga gained national recognition when her second novel, Viento del norte (North Wind), was awarded the Nadal… …
26Marxism — The body of theory and diverse political practices and policies associated with (or justified by reference to) the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . For a substantial part of the twentieth century, and until the closing years of the… …
27Hawaiian religion — is a broad term encompassing a series of traditional beliefs and practices thought to have been passed down by the Tahitians and other Pacific islanders who landed in Hawaiokinai between 500 and 1300 CE.cite book|last=Carroll|first=Bret|title=The …
28sanction — 1. The dominant current meaning of the noun is ‘a penalty for disobeying a law or rule’ and is usually found in the plural, as in the phrase economic sanctions. This older meaning goes back to legal terminology of the 16c and 17c. A second, more… …
29slow-worm — a small legless lizard, is the dominant current spelling (formerly also sloe worm). The word is unconnected with either sloes (the fruit) or the adjective slow …
30World Chess Championship — Current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India. The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title. The official world championship is… …
