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  • 11beneficial — Tending to the benefit of a person; yielding a profit, advantage, or benefit; enjoying or entitled to a benefit or profit. This term is applied both to estates (as a beneficial interest ) and to persons (as the beneficial owner ) @ beneficial… …

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  • 12Vanity press — A vanity press or vanity publisher is a publishing house that publishes books at the author s expense [ [http://www.merriam webster.com/dictionary/vanity%20press vanity press Definition from the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary ] ] Johnathon… …

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  • 13Vanity gallery — A vanity gallery is an art gallery that charges artists fees in order to exhibit their work and makes most of its money from artists rather than from sales to the public. Some vanity galleries charge a lump sum to arrange an exhibition, while… …

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  • 14INQUISITION — INQUISITION, special permanent tribunal of the medieval Catholic Church, established to investigate and combat heresy. The Early Institution Although the Inquisition was established by Pope gregory ix , it owed its name to the procedure… …

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  • 15PHILIP° — PHILIP°, name of six kings of France. PHILIP II or PHILIP AUGUSTUS, king of France from 1180 to 1223. All Philip s biographers agree that he detested the Jews, an attitude formed by stories he had heard in his childhood about Jews murdering… …

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  • 16René Descartes — Descartes redirects here. For other uses, see Descartes (disambiguation). René Descartes Portrait after Frans Ha …

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  • 17Antigua — This article is about the island. For more detailed information on Antigua as a political entity, see Antigua and Barbuda. For other places named Antigua, see Antigua (disambiguation). For British Royal Navy ships, see HMS Antigua. Antigua Native …

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  • 18Lodowicke Muggleton — Lodowicke Muggleton, by William Wood, circa 1674 Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698) was an English plebeian religious thinker, who gave his name to Muggletonianism. He spent his working life as a journeyman tailor in the City of London and was… …

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  • 19Pierre de Marca — (January 24, 1594 – June 29, 1662) was a French bishop and historian, born at Gan in Béarn of a family distinguished in the magistracy.[1] His family was known among judicial circles in the 16th century, and maintained the Roman Catholic faith af …

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  • 20Western Africa — ▪ region, Africa Introduction       region lying south of the Sahara and east and north of the Atlantic Ocean. It is latitudinally divided into two parallel belts of land: the western portion of the Sudan, a geographic area that stretches across… …

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