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1The Carmelite Order — The Carmelite Order † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Carmelite Order One of the mendicant orders. Origin The date of the foundation of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been under discussion from the fourteenth century to …
2The Twelve Caesars —   Author(s) Suetonius Original title De vita Caesarum (literal trans.: On the Life of the Caesars) …
3Darius the Great — Darius I Khshayathiya Khshayathiyanam , King of Kings Outline tracing of the figure representing Darius in the Behistun Inscription Reign Sep 522 BCE to …
4The Books of Abarat — Abarat Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War Absolute Midnight The Dynasty of Dreamers The Eternal Author Clive Barker Illustrator Clive Barker Cover artist …
5Responsibility for the Holocaust — Historians differ as to where the responsibility for the Holocaust lies. Intentionalist historians such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people from as early as 1918, and that he personally oversaw its… …
6Indigenous peoples of the Americas — Red Indian redirects here. For the native inhabitants of the island of Newfoundland known for using red ochre, see Beothuk. Indigenous peoples of the Americas …
7The Republic (Zeno) — The Republic of Zeno was a work written by Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoic philosophy at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Although it has not survived, it was his most famous work, and various quotes and paraphrases were preserved by… …
8The Hollow Men — (1925) is a major poem by T. S. Eliot, a Nobel Prize winning modernist poet. Its themes are, like many of Eliot s poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned with: post War Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which …
9The Nameless City — Author H. P. Lovecraft Country United States Language English Genre(s) Horror short story …
10History 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… …
