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  • 51police — /peuh lees /, n., v., policed, policing. n. 1. Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws. 2. (used with a pl. v.) members of such a force: Several police are… …

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  • 52Sweden — /sweed n/, n. a kingdom in N Europe, in the E part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 8,946,193; 173,732 sq. mi. (449,964 sq. km). Cap.: Stockholm. Swedish, Sverige. * * * Sweden Introduction Sweden Background: A military power during the 17th… …

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  • 53Arabic literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Arabic language.       The tradition of Arabic literature stretches back some 16 centuries to unrecorded beginnings in the Arabian Peninsula. At certain points in the development of… …

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  • 54Māturīdīyah — ▪ Islam       a Muslim orthodox school of theology named after its founder Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad al Māturīdī (d. 944). The Māturīdīyah is similar in basic outlook to another orthodox school, that of al Ashʿarī (d. 935), the Ashʿarīyah, that has… …

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  • 55History of Physics —     History of Physics     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of Physics     The subject will be treated under the following heads: I. A Glance at Ancient Physics; II. Science and Early Christian Scholars; III. A Glance at Arabian Physics; IV.… …

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  • 56History of the Jews —     History of the Jews     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of the Jews     (Yehúd m; Ioudaismos).     Of the two terms, Jews and Judaism, the former denotes usually the Israelites or descendants of Jacob (Israel) in contrast to Gentile races;… …

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  • 57Orestes Augustus Brownson —     Orestes Augustus Brownson     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Orestes Augustus Brownson     Philosopher, essayist, reviewer, b. at Stockbridge, Vermont, U.S.A., 16 September, 1803; d. at Detroit, Michigan, 17 April, 1876.     His childhood was… …

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  • 58Santa Casa di Loreto (Holy House of Loreto) —     Santa Casa di Loreto     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Santa Casa di Loreto     (The Holy House of Loreto).     Since the fifteenth century, and possibly even earlier, the Holy House of Loreto has been numbered among the most famous shrines of… …

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  • 59Renaissance —     The Renaissance     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Renaissance     The Renaissance may be considered in a general or a particular sense, as     (1) the achievements of what is termed the modern spirit in opposition to the spirit which… …

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  • 60The Renaissance —     The Renaissance     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Renaissance     The Renaissance may be considered in a general or a particular sense, as     (1) the achievements of what is termed the modern spirit in opposition to the spirit which… …

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