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  • 23The Avesta —     The Avesta     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Avesta     The sacred books of Parsees, or Zoroastrians, and the main source of our knowledge concerning the religious and spiritual life the ancient Persians. This collection of writings occupies… …

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  • 24The Skeleton in Armor — is the name given to a curious archaeological artifact unearthed in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1832, and subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1843.Discovery and descriptionA contemporary account of the skeleton s discovery and general appearance …

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  • 25The First Sex — is a 1971 book by the American librarian Elizabeth Gould Davis, considered part of the second wave of feminism. In the book, Gould Davis aimed to show that early human society consisted of matriarchal queendoms based around worship of the Great… …

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  • 26The Twelve Caesars —   Author(s) Suetonius Original title De vita Caesarum (literal trans.: On the Life of the Caesars) …

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  • 27The Rough Wooing — was a term coined by Sir Walter Scott and H. E. Marshall to describe the Anglo Scottish war pursued intermittently from 1544 to 1551. It followed from the failure of the Scots to honour the terms of the 1543 Treaty of Greenwich, by which the… …

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  • 28The Logos —     The Logos     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Logos     The word Logos is the term by which Christian theology in the Greek language designates the Word of God, or Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Before St. John had consecrated this term… …

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  • 29The Dominican Republic —     The Dominican Republic     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Dominican Republic     (SAN DOMINGO, SANTO DOMINGO).     The Dominican Republic is the eastern, and much larger political division of the island now comprehensively known as Haiti,… …

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  • 30History of the Balkans — The Balkans is an area of southeastern Europe situated at a major crossroads between mainland Europe and the Near East. The distinct identity and fragmentation of the Balkans owes much to its common and often violent history and to its very… …

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