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  • 51Seven Wonders of the World — the seven most remarkable structures of ancient times: the Egyptian pyramids, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Templeof Artemis at Ephesus, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the statue of Zeus by Phidias at Olympia, and… …

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  • 52The End of the World (painting) — Infobox Painting title=The Great Day of His Wrath artist=John Martin year= 1851 1853 type=Oil on canvas height= 197 width= 303 height inch = width inch = museum=Tate Gallery city= London The End of the World , later to be commonly known as The… …

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  • 53GREEK LITERATURE, MODERN — The literary image of the Jew was molded in Greece by the Jews themselves, by Greek non Jews and, indirectly, by the Turks. In ancient Greece, Jews were referred to as a community of philosophers. In the Hellenistic period there was some anti… …

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  • 54Chapters and verses of the Bible — The Bible is a compilation of many shorter books written at different times and later assembled into the Biblical canon. All but the shortest of these books have been divided into chapters, generally a page or so in length, since the early 13th… …

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  • 55History of the Punjab — The first known use of the word Punjab is in the book Tarikh e Sher Shah Suri (1580), which mentions the construction of a fort by Sher Khan of Punjab . The first mentioning of the Sanskrit equivalent of Punjab , however, occurs in the great epic …

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  • 56CREATION AND COSMOGONY IN THE BIBLE — The Hebrew Bible commences with a majestic cosmological account of the genesis of the universe. According to Genesis 1:1–2:4a (the P account according to the documentary hypothesis), God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day …

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  • 57The Collection (Boney M.) — Infobox Album Name = The Collection Type = Compilation Artist = Boney M. Released = 1991 Recorded = 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 Genre = Pop, Disco, Euro Disco Length = 40:45 Label = flagicon|West Germany BMG Ariola (FRG) Producer = Frank Farian… …

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  • 58Modern animation in the United States — History of animation in the United States Animation in the United States during the silent era Golden Age of American animation …

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  • 59Modern attempts to revive the Sanhedrin — Part of a series on …

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  • 60Babylon — Bab·y·lon || bæbɪlÉ™n n. ancient city located on the Euphrates River in Asia (former capital of the Babylonian Empire); site and ruins of the ancient city of Babylon located south of modern Baghdad (Iraq); Babylon Ltd., single click… …

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