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  • 121Zoroaster — /zawr oh as teuhr, zohr , zawr oh as teuhr, zohr /, n. fl. 6th century B.C., Persian religious teacher. Also called Zarathustra. * * * or Zarathustra born с 628, probably Rhages, Iran died с 551 BCE Iranian religious reformer and prophet, founder …

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  • 122Symbolist movement — Literary movement that originated with a group of French poets in the late 19th century, spread to painting and the theatre, and influenced Russian, European, and American arts of the 20th century. Reacting against the rigid conventions of… …

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  • 123mystery religion — Any of various secret cults of the Greco Roman world. Derived from primitive tribal ceremonies, mystery religions reached their peak of popularity in Greece in the first three centuries AD. Their members met secretly to share meals and take part… …

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  • 124Oresme, Nicholas — ▪ French bishop, scholar, and economist Introduction French  Nicole Oresme  born c. 1320, Normandy died July 11, 1382, Lisieux, France       French Roman Catholic bishop, scholastic philosopher (Scholasticism), economist, and mathematician whose… …

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  • 125List of characters in Game of Thrones — The characters from the American medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones are based on their respective counterparts from author George R. R. Martin s A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels. The series follows a civil war for the Iron… …

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  • 126Nigamananda — Swami Nigamananda स्वामी निगमानंद (Paramahansa Shrimad Swami Nigamananda Saraswati Deva) Born 18 August 1880(1880 08 18) Kutabpur, Nadia district (Now in Bangladesh) …

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  • 127MOSES — (Heb. מֹשֶׁה; LXX, Mōusēs; Vulg. Moyses), leader, prophet, and lawgiver (set in modern chronology in the first half of the 13th century B.C.E.). Commissioned to take the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses led them from his 80th year to his death at… …

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  • 128Extraterrestrial life — For fiction, see Extraterrestrials in fiction. For other uses, see Alien (disambiguation). A 1967 Soviet Union 16 kopeks postage stamp, depicting a satellite from an imagined extraterrestrial civilization …

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