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91British stained glass (1811-1918) — In early 19th century Britain, beginning with an armorial window created by Thomas Willement in 1811 12, there was a revival of the art and craft of stained glass window manufacture. This revival gained impetus until stained glass windows became… …
92Zhenren — (zh cpwl|c=真人|p=zhēnrén|w=chen jen|l=true person) is a Chinese term that first appeared in the Zhuangzi meaning Daoist spiritual master , roughly translatable as Perfected Person . Religious Daoism mythologized zhenren to rank above xian… …
93Dürer, Albrecht — born , May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg died April 6, 1528, Nürnberg German painter and printmaker. He worked as a draftsman in his father s goldsmith workshop before being apprenticed at 15 to a painter and illustrator in his native… …
94Materialism — • As the word itself signifies, Materialism is a philosophical system which regards matter as the only reality in the world, which undertakes to explain every event in the universe as resulting from the conditions and activity of matter, and… …
95Montreal Group — The Montreal Group was a circle of Canadian modernist writers formed in the mid 1920s at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, which included Leon Edel, John Glassco, A.M. Klein, Leo Kennedy, F.R. Scott, and A.J.M. Smith. Most of the group s… …
96Artavazd Peleshyan — Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan (born November 22, 1938, Leninakan) is an Armenian director of film essays, a documentarian in the history of film art and a film theorist. However his work unlike Maya Deren s is not avant garde nor tries to explore the …
97African nationalism — is the nationalist political movement for one unified Africa, or the less significant objective of the acknowledgment of African tribes by instituting their own states, as well as the safeguarding of their indigenous customs. Establishments which …
98birth control — regulation of the number of children born through the deliberate control or prevention of conception. Cf. family planning (def. 1). [1914, Amer.] * * * Voluntary limiting of human reproduction, using such means as contraception, sexual abstinence …
99human behaviour — Introduction the potential and expressed capacity for physical, mental, and social activity during the phases of human life. Human beings, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of… …
100Eastern Churches — • Eastern Churches depended originally on the Eastern Empire at Constantinople Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Eastern Churches Eastern Churches …
