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  • 122Humani generis redemptionem — is a encyclical by Pope Benedict XV given at St. Peter s, Rome, on June 15 , on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the year 1917, in the third of his Pontificate. The encyclical points to an ever increasing number of Christian preachers… …

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  • 123Yasuke — (彌介) (c. 1556 ?) is a Japanese name used to refer to a black slave who for a short time was in the service of the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga. He is unnamed in contemporary accounts and is sometimes erroneously referred to as Kurusan .… …

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  • 124Bedfordite — The Bedfordites were an 18th century British political faction, led by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford. Other than Bedford himself, notable members included John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich; Granville Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Gower; Richard… …

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  • 125Lost Boys (Peter Pan) — Peter Pan s Lost Boys are characters in J. M. Barrie s play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn t Grow Up and subsequent adaptations and extensions to the story. They are boys who were lost by their nannies in places such as Kensington Gardens.… …

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  • 126Hotta Masamori — (堀田正盛 January 16, 1606 June 8, 1651), Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period who was a key figure in the early decades of the Tokugawa shogunate.OriginsThe rise of Hotta Masamori through the ranks of the Tokugawa shogunate is a rather miraculous …

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  • 127Hadith of Umar's ban on hadith — Some recorded oral tradition among Muslims istr|hadith is about Umar s ban on hadith. Although the narration is prominently quoted and referred to, it is not given any formal name, in contrast to other hadith such as the Hadith of the pond of… …

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  • 128Madre de Deus — (Mother of God; also called Mãe de Deus) was a Portuguese ship, renowned for her fabulous cargo, which stoked the English appetite for trade with the Far East, then a Portuguese monopoly. Model of the Portuguese carrack Madre de Deus, in the… …

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