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  • 103Indonesia — /in deuh nee zheuh, sheuh, zee euh, doh /, n. 1. See East Indies (def. 1). 2. Republic of. Formerly, Netherlands East Indies, Dutch East Indies. a republic in the Malay Archipelago consisting of 13,677 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi,… …

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  • 104Mozambique — /moh zam beek , zeuhm /, n. 1. Formerly, Portuguese East Africa. a republic in SE Africa: formerly an overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 18,165,476; 297,731 sq. mi. (771,123 sq. km). Cap.: Maputo. 2. a seaport on an… …

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  • 105Plenary Councils of Baltimore —     Plenary Councils of Baltimore     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Plenary Councils of Baltimore     While the ecclesiastical province of Baltimore comprised the whole territory of the American Republic, the provincial councils held in that city… …

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  • 106Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica — For other Gnostic churches, see Gnostic church (disambiguation). Thelema Category:Thelema Core topics The Book of the L …

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  • 107Consecration — • An act by which a thing is separated from a common and profane to a sacred use, or by which a person or thing is dedicated to the service and worship of God by prayers, rites, and ceremonies Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …

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  • 108western Africa, history of — Introduction       history of the region from the 11th century to the present.       A reasonable body of sources for the writing of western African history begins to be available about AD 1000. Three centuries earlier, the Arabs (Arab) had… …

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  • 110Chinese nobility — Chinese sovereignty and peerage,[1] the nobility of China, were an important feature of traditional social and political organization of Imperial China. While the concepts of hereditary sovereign and peerage titles and noble families were… …

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