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  • 44Order of Preachers —     Order of Preachers     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Order of Preachers     As the Order of the Friars Preachers is the principal part of the entire Order of St. Dominic, we shall include under this title the two other parts of the order: the… …

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  • 45Enclosure — For other uses, see Enclosure (disambiguation). Enclosure or inclosure is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land. Once enclosed, these uses of the land become restricted to… …

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  • 47Borat — This article is about the film. For the fictional character who stars in the film and other media, see Borat Sagdiyev. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Poster in faux Cyrillic style …

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  • 48HASKALAH — (Heb. הַשְׂכָּלָה), Hebrew term for the Enlightenment movement and ideology which began within Jewish society in the 1770s. An adherent of Haskalah became known as a maskil (pl. maskilim). The movement continued to be influential and spread, with …

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  • 49Moses Mescheloff — in his younger years Moses (Moshe)[1] Mescheloff (Hebrew: משה בן מאיר משלוף‎[2]) (June 12, 1909 May 9, 2008) was a renowned American Orthodox rabbi and community leader for 75 years, known especially within circles of American Orthodox Judaism,… …

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