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  • 1New Testament — This article is about part of the Christian Bible. For the theological concept, see New Covenant. Books of the New Testament …

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  • 2Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …

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  • 3Constitution of Bhutan — Bhutan This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Bhutan Constitution Law of Bhutan …

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  • 4Confucius — For other uses, see Confucius (disambiguation). Confucius 孔丘 A portrait of Confucius, by Tang Dynasty artist Wu Daozi (680–740). Full name …

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  • 5Duty — • The definition of the term duty given by lexicographers is: something that is due , obligatory service ; something that one is bound to perform or to avoid Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Duty     Duty …

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  • 6Lapis lazuli — Infobox mineral name = Lapis lazuli category = Rock boxwidth = boxbgcolor = caption = polished specimen of Lapis lazuli formula = mixture of minerals molweight = color = Blue, mottled with white calcite and brassy pyrite habit = Compact, massive… …

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  • 7BEN-ASHER, AARON BEN MOSES — (called Abu Saʿid in Arabic; first half of tenth century), last and most important of a family of masoretes active in Tiberias for five generations, from the second half of the eighth century. That Ben Asher lived in the first half of the tenth… …

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  • 8sign — n 1 Sign, mark, token, badge, note, symptom can denote a sensible and usually visible indication by means of which something not outwardly apparent or obvious is made known or revealed. Sign is the most comprehensive of these terms, being… …

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  • 9YIDDISH LANGUAGE — YIDDISH LANGUAGE, language used by Ashkenazi Jews for the past 1,000 years. Developed as an intricate fusion of several unpredictably modified stocks, the language was gradually molded to serve a wide range of communicative needs. As the society… …

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  • 10masterful — masterful, domineering, imperious, peremptory, imperative are comparable when they apply to persons or their acts, utterances, and demands and mean governed by, or manifesting, a strong tendency to impose one s will on another. One is masterful… …

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