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  • 41Communist regime in Czechoslovakia — History of Czechoslovakia This article is part of a series Origins …

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  • 42Witch trials in the Early Modern period — Punishments for witchcraft in 16th century Germany. Woodcut from Tengler s Laienspiegel, Mainz, 1508. The Witch trials in the Early Modern period were a period of witch hunts between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries,[1] when across Early… …

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  • 43Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, A — by Paul Bowles (1962)    The four so called kif stories (kif is a mixture of cannabis leaves and tobacco), “A Friend of the World,” “The Story of Lachen and Idir,” “He of the Assembly,” and “The Wind at Beni Midar,” that constitute the collection …

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  • 44EMDEN, JACOB — (pen name Yaveẓ; derived from Ya akov Ben Ẓevi; 1697–1776), rabbi, halakhic authority, kabbalist, and anti Shabbatean polemicist. Emden was regarded as one of the outstanding scholars of his generation. Emden s teacher was his father Ẓevi Hirsch… …

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  • 45IDOLATRY — Greek eidōlon originally meant image or fantasy. By the time of the Septuagint the term was used for images of gods. Idolatry is literally image worship. To grasp the character of image worship in biblical literature one must first realize that… …

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  • 46SYNAGOGUE — This article is arranged according to the following outline. origins and history until the first century first century c.e. middle ages modern period …

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  • 47understand — verb (understood; standing) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English understandan, from under + standan to stand Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to grasp the meaning of < understand Russian > b. to grasp the reasonableness of …

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  • 48Benjamin Banneker — (November 9, 1731 ndash;October 9, 1806) was a free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. Although it is difficult to verify details of Benjamin Banneker s family history, it appears that his grandmother …

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  • 49Sauget, Illinois — Geobox|Settlement name = Sauget native name = other name = category = Village etymology = official name = motto = nickname = image caption = symbol = country = United States state = Illinois region = St. Clair region type = County district =&#8230; …

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  • 50Jack Webb — Infobox actor name = Jack Webb othername=John Randolph pen name imagesize = caption = Jack Webb birthname = John Randolph Webb birthdate = birth date|1920|04|02 location = flagicon|California Santa Monica, California deathdate = death date and&#8230; …

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