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  • 21Sacrifice of the Mass — • The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the breaking of bread (fractio panis) or… …

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  • 22abortion — abor·tion /ə bȯr shən/ n 1: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus; esp: the medical procedure of inducing expulsion of a human fetus to terminate a pregnancy 2: the crime of …

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  • 23Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement — Presidents Francisco Flores Pérez, Ricardo Maduro, George W. Bush, Abel Pacheco, Enrique Bolaños and Alfonso Portillo Note: Within this article, CAFTA refers to the agreement as it stood before January 2004, and DR CAFTA is used after that. Th …

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  • 24Mormon handcart pioneers — A statue commemorating Mormon handcart pioneers on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah Th …

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  • 25Siete Partidas — The Siete Partidas (Seven Part Code) or simply Partidas was a Castilian statutory code first compiled during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile (1252 1284), with the intent of establishing a uniform body of normative rules for the kingdom. The… …

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  • 26England (Before the Reformation) —     England (Before the Reformation)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► England (Before the Reformation)     This term England is here restricted to one constituent, the largest and most populous, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.… …

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  • 27Criminal Code of Canada — The Criminal Code[1] or Code criminel[2] is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada. Its official long title is An Act respecting the criminal law (R.S.C. 1985, c. C 46, as amended). Section 91(27) of the Constitution… …

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  • 28Maritime history of California — History of California This article is part of a series Timeline …

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  • 29History of the telescope — The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex… …

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  • 30Intelligence in the American Revolutionary War — Intelligences in the American Revolutionary War was essentially monitored and sanctioned by the Continental Congress to provide military intelligence to the Continental Army to aid them in fighting the British during the American Revolutionary… …

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