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  • 81Xiang'er — The Xiang’er (Simplified Chinese: 想尔, Traditional Chinese: 想爾) is a commentary to the Dao De Jing that is best known for being one of the earliest surviving texts from the Way of the Celestial Master variant of Daoism. The meaning of the title… …

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  • 82Priya Reddy — (known also by the name Warcry) is an environmentalist and anarchist activist, filmmaker, writer and political organizer currently living in New York City. [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0205,kaplan,31886,1.html Keepers of the Flame] , Village …

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  • 83Ламбайеке (культура) — Не следует путать с термином «Сиканы». Карта Перу: провинция Ламбайеке находится слева сверху, третья по счёту сверху вниз вдоль побережья Сиканская культура, англ. Sican Culture  название культуры, предшествовавшей инкам на северном побережье… …

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  • 84SaudiArabia — Sau·di A·ra·bi·a (souʹdē ə rāʹbē ə, sôʹdē, sä o͞oʹdē) A country occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula. Inhabited since ancient times by nomadic Semitic tribes, the region was consolidated under Muhammed, who established a theocratic state at… …

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  • 85Muslim Brothers, Society of the — an organization founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hasan al Banna (1906 49), calling for a return to rigid orthodoxy, the overthrow of secular governments, and a restoration of the theocratic state. Also called Muslim Brotherhood. [trans. of Ar al… …

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  • 86Chang Ling — ▪ Chinese religious leader in full  Chang Tao ling,  Pinyin  Zhang Daoling  born AD 34, ?, P ei, Kiangsu, China ?d. 156, Han chung       the founder and the first patriarch of the Taoist church in China.       Chang settled in the Szechwan area… …

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  • 87Fouta Djallon — ▪ region, Guinea also spelled  Futa Jallon,         mountainous region of west central Guinea. Consisting of a series of stepped sandstone plateaus with many picturesque trenches and gorges, the region serves as the watershed for some of western… …

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  • 88Lawrence, D.H. — ▪ English writer Introduction in full  David Herbert Lawrence  born September 11, 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England died March 2, 1930, Vence, France  English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters …

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  • 89Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan, Sayyid — ▪ Somalian leader also spelled  Mohammed Abdullah Hassan  born April 7, 1864, Dulbahante area, British Somaliland [now Doli Bahanta, Somalia] died Dec. 21, 1920, Imi, Ethiopia       Somali religious and nationalist leader (called the “Mad Mullah” …

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  • 90Shehu Ahmadu Lobbo — ▪ Fulani Muslim leader Shehu also spelled  Seku, or Cheikou, Lobbo  also spelled  Lobo,  also called  Hamad Bari, or Ahmadu Hammadi Bubu,  Arabic  name Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Abū Bakr Ibn Saʿīd  born 1775 died 1844       Fulani Muslim leader in… …

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