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101Leibniz (from) to Kant — From Leibniz to Kant Lewis White Beck INTRODUCTION Had Kant not lived, German philosophy between the death of Leibniz in 1716 and the end of the eighteenth century would have little interest for us, and would remain largely unknown. In Germany… …
102LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES, city in S. California with approximately 4,000,000 inhabitants occupying 469 square miles of territory; the third most populous city in the U.S. and the largest city in area in the world. Los Angeles County is the home of some… …
103MEXICO — MEXICO, federal republic situated south of the United States of America with a population of 97,483,412 (2000) inhabitants and a Jewish community of about 40,000 (2000), most of whom live in Mexico City. Colonial Period The Jewish presence in… …
104Reigns of Nadir Shah and Zahir Shah — Reign of Mohammed Nadir Shah, 1929 1933 Mohammed Nadir Shah quickly abolished most of Amanullah Khan s reforms, but despite his efforts to rebuild an army that had just been engaged in suppressing Tajiks and Hazaras, the forces remained weak… …
105Language isolate — A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or genetic ) relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common to any other …
106Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County) — For Sonoma County, California creek, see Arroyo Seco Creek. The Arroyo Seco: Devil s Face profile next to Devil s Gate Dam, gunited many decades ago for erosion control The Arroyo Seco, meaning dry stream in Spanish, is a 24.9 mile long… …
107Louis Bertrand (saint) — Infobox Saint name=Saint Louis Bertrand birth date=birth date|1526|1|1|df=y death date=death date and age|1581|10|9|1526|1|1|df=y feast day=10 October venerated in=Roman Catholic Church imagesize=200px caption=Spanish Baroque Oil painting of… …
108Ottoman–Habsburg wars — Part of the Ottoman Wars in Europe From top left clockwise: Austrian coat of arms, Ottoman Mameluke …
109Jack Vaughn — Jack Hood Vaughn (August 18 1920 ) [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vaughn.html the Political Graveyard. Index to Politicians: Vaughn. ] ] was the second Director of the United States Peace Corps succeeding Sargent Shriver. Vaughn was… …
110Eastern Orthodoxy — the faith, practice, membership, and government of the Eastern Orthodox Church. * * * officially Orthodox Catholic Church One of the three major branches of Christianity. Its adherents live mostly in Greece, Russia, the Balkans, Ukraine, and the… …
