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  • 1Mental Pathology —     Mental Pathology     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mental Pathology     This subject will be considered under the following headings:     I. Localization of Mental Faculties     II. Causes of Mental Disturbances     III. Varieties of Insanity… …

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  • 2Schizophrenia: Emergence —    (See also Psychosis: Emergence; Schizophrenia: Recent Concepts; Unitary Psychosis; Wernicke–Kleist–Leonhard Pathway.)    Schizophrenia remains among the most puzzling of all diseases in psychiatry because there is no single symptom… …

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  • 3Schizophrenia/Dementia Praecox: Emergence of the Concept —    (See also Psychosis: Emergence; Schizophrenia: Recent Concepts; Unitary Psychosis; Wernicke–Kleist–Leonhard Pathway.)    Schizophrenia remains among the most puzzling of all diseases in psychiatry because there is no single symptom… …

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  • 4dietary law — Judaism. law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food. Cf. kashruth. [1925 30] * * * ▪ religion Introduction       any of the prescriptions as to what… …

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  • 5ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …

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  • 6Spain — /spayn/, n. a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 39,244,195; 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Cap.: Madrid. Spanish, España. * * * Spain Introduction Spain Background: Spain s powerful world empire of the 16th and… …

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  • 7India — • The peninsula is separated on the north from Tibet and Central Asia by the Himalaya, Hindu Kush, and Karakoram mountains, and some lower ranges divide it from Afghanistan and Baluchistan Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. India      …

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  • 8Earth Abides — infobox Book | name = Earth Abides title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of the 1949 Random House first edition. author = George R. Stewart illustrator = cover artist = H. Lawrence Hoffman [cite… …

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  • 9Antisemitism — Part of a series on Discrimination General forms …

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  • 10Landed gentry — Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748 49) is a painting by British artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting members of the landed gentry. National Gallery, London. Landed gentry is a traditional British social class, consisting of land owners who could live… …

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