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  • 21Islam —     Mohammed and Mohammedanism     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mohammed and Mohammedanism     I. THE FOUNDER     Mohammed, the Praised One , the prophet of Islam ( see Islam (Concept) ) and the founder of Mohammedanism, was born at Mecca (20… …

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  • 22Mohammed and Mohammedanism (Islam) —     Mohammed and Mohammedanism     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mohammed and Mohammedanism     I. THE FOUNDER     Mohammed, the Praised One , the prophet of Islam ( see Islam (Concept) ) and the founder of Mohammedanism, was born at Mecc …

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  • 23Numa Pompilius — King of Rome Numa Pompilius, as imagined on a Roman coin minted by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Piso himself claimed descent from the king. Reig …

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  • 24Piracy in the Caribbean — The great era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1560s and died out in the 1720s as the nation states of Western Europe with colonies in the Americas began to exert more state control over the waterways of the New World. The period during… …

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  • 25J. Posadas — (1912–1981) (occasionally referred to as Juan Posadas), was the pseudonym of Homero Romulo Cristalli Frasnelli, an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism . Early lifeBorn in Argentina to Italian immigrants… …

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  • 26Fourth International Posadist — The Fourth International Posadist is a Trotskyist political international. It was founded in 1962 by J. Posadas, who had been the leader of the Latin America Bureau of the Fourth International in the 1950s, and of the Fourth International s… …

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  • 27Randall Flagg — Stephen King character Randall Flagg as depicted by Michael Whelan …

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  • 28Vasai — Infobox Indian Jurisdiction native name = Vasai | type = city | latd = 19.47 | longd = 72.8 locator position = right | state name = Maharashtra district = Thane leader title = leader name = altitude = 11 population as of = population total =… …

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  • 29Equine influenza — (Horse flu) refers to varieties of Influenzavirus A that are endemic in horses. Horse flu viruses were first isolated in 1956. There are two main types of virus called equine 1 (H7N7) which commonly affects horse heart muscle and equine 2 (H3N8)… …

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  • 30Short, sharp shock — The phrase Short, sharp shock is a phrase meaning punishment that is quick and severe. [ [http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/short+sharp+shock Dictionary definition] ] It was most famously used in Gilbert and Sullivan s 1885 comic opera The… …

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