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81James Buchanan: The Impending Disruption of the Union — ▪ Primary Source During the critical four months that intervened between Abraham Lincoln s election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861, President James Buchanan, a Democrat, was faced with the problem of secession. The… …
82Adonias — • Fourth son of King David, and Adonias the Levite are discussed Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Adonias Adonias † …
83Jacques-Louis David — Infobox Artist bgcolour = #EEDD82 name = Jacques Louis David imagesize = 200px caption = Self portrait of Jacques Louis David, 1794, Musée du Louvre birthname = Jacques Louis David birthdate = birth date|mf=yes|1748|8|30|mf=y location = Paris,… …
84LOAN — (Heb. הַלְוָאָה, halva ah), a transaction in which a thing, usually money, is given by one person, called the malveh ( lender ), to another, called the loveh ( borrower ), for the latter s use and enjoyment, and in order that such thing or its… …
85Civil Constitution of the Clergy — A commemorative plate from 1790 shows a curate swearing the Constitution. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (French: Constitution civile du clergé ) was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman… …
86Roman litigation — The system of Roman litigation passed through three stages over the years: until around 150 BC, the Legis Actiones system; from around 150 BC until around 342 AD, the formulary system; and from 342 AD onwards, the cognitio procedure.Legis… …
87Harold or the Norman Conquest — Opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen with a libretto by Edward Malet, edited by Frederic Edward Weatherly, adapted into the German by L.A. Caumont, and first performed at Covent Garden, London on 8 June,… …
88ceremonial — adj Ceremonial, ceremonious, formal, conventional, solemn are comparable when they mean char acterized or marked by attention to the forms, procedures, and details prescribed as right, proper, or requisite. Both ceremonial and ceremonious imply… …
89Trial by ordeal — is a judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience. In some cases, the accused were considered innocent only if they survived the test, or if their …
90Sharīʿah — ▪ Islamic law Introduction also spelled Sharia the fundamental religious concept of Islām, namely its law, systematized during the 2nd and 3rd centuries of the Muslim era (8th–9th centuries AD). Total and unqualified submission to the… …
