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  • 31savant — n. Scholar, learned man, erudite person, one of the literati, man of science …

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  • 32Wellington underground poets — The Wellington underground poets comprised an influential poetry movement based in Wellington, New Zealand. Wellington underground poets not only considered the poetry of the established literary hierarchy ( literati ) to be nepotistic and… …

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  • 33Southern School — The Southern School (南宗画, pinyin: nanzhonghua ) of Chinese painting, often called painting (文人画, wenrenhua ), is a term used to denote art and artists which stand in opposition to the formal Northern School of painting. Where professional, formal …

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  • 34MacMhuirich bardic family — The MacMhuirich bardic family, known in Scottish Gaelic as Clann MacMhuirich[1] and Clann Mhuirich,[2] was a prominent family of bards and other professionals in 15th to 18th centuries. The family was centred in the Hebrides, and claimed descent… …

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  • 35Yangzhou riot — The Yangzhou riot of August 22 23, 1868 was a brief crisis in Anglo Chinese relations during the late Qing Dynasty. The crisis was fomented by the gentry of Yangzhou who opposed the presence of foreign Christian missionaries in the city, who… …

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  • 36Monumenta Estoniae Antiquae — The Monumenta Estoniae Antiquae is a corpus of Estonian folksongs which contains around 800,000 pages of manuscript, including 100,000 songs in the standard trochaic dimeter form. This corpus is one of the largest and most significant of its kind …

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  • 37BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …

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  • 38Thomas Crofts — The Reverend and Learned Thomas Crofts FRS FSA (1722 8 November 1781) was a British bibliophile, Anglican priest, Fellow of the Royal Society and European traveller. Early life Thomas was born in Monmouth, Wales and was the son of John Crofts. At …

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  • 39East End of London — The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is the area of London, England, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames, although it is not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries. Use of the term …

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  • 40Huashu — The Huashu (zh stpw |s=化书|t=化書|p= Huàshū |w= Hua Shu ), or Book of Transformations, is a 930 CE Daoist classic about neidan internal alchemy , psychological subjectivity, and spiritual transformation. In the description of Poul Andersen,The… …

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