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  • 11Quarrendon (village) — Infobox UK place country = England official name= Quarrendon static static image caption= Remains of St Peter s Church in Quarrendon latitude= 51.832322 longitude= 0.833174 civil parish= Aylesbury Town shire district= Aylesbury Vale shire county …

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  • 12Dominique Bouhours — (15 May 1628, Paris, France 27 May 1702, Paris) was a French Jesuit priest, essayist and neo classical critic. Reverend Dominique Bouhours S.J. Bouhours entered the Society of Jesus at the age of sixteen, and was appointed to read lectures on… …

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  • 13Ressentiment — (pronounced /IPA|rɛsɑ̃timɑ̃/) is a term used in Psychology and Philosophy derived from the French word ressentiment (meaning resentment : fr. Latin intensive prefix re , and sentire to feel ). Ressentiment is a sense of resentment and hostility… …

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  • 14Nicodemus the Hagiorite — Part of a series on Eastern Christianity …

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  • 15ahankara — /euh hung kahr euh/, n. Hinduism, Buddhism. the false identification of the purusha, or true inner self, with the body, the mind, or the outside world. [ < Skt ahankara ego consciousness, equiv. to aham I + kara making or producing (a sound),&#8230; …

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  • 16park — parker, n. parklike, adj. /pahrk/, n. 1. an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation. 2. an&#8230; …

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  • 17Park — /pahrk/, n. 1. Mungo /mung goh/, 1771 1806?, Scottish explorer in Africa. 2. Robert E., 1864 1944, U.S. sociologist. * * * I Large outdoor area set aside for recreation. The earliest parks were hunting grounds of the Persian kings; such reserves&#8230; …

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  • 18phase — phase, aspect, side, facet, angle are comparable when they denote one of the possible ways in which an object of contemplation may be seen or may be presented. Phase may distinctly imply a change in the appearance of a thing without a change in&#8230; …

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  • 19point of view — point of view, viewpoint, standpoint, angle, slant denote the position or attitude that determines which aspect of an object of contemplation is seen or presented. Point of view, viewpoint, and standpoint are often interchangeable, but point of&#8230; …

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  • 20theorem — the•o•rem [[t]ˈθi ər əm, ˈθɪər əm[/t]] n. 1) math. Math. a theoretical proposition, statement, or formula embodying something to be proved from other propositions or formulas 2) a rule or law, esp. one expressed by an equation or formula 3) pho&#8230; …

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