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  • 31France — • Geography, statistics, and history Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. France     France     † …

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  • 32AMSTERDAM — AMSTERDAM, constitutional capital of the netherlands . Ashkenazim until 1795 DEMOGRAPHY AND ECONOMY The beginning The first Ashkenazim arrived in Amsterdam from the end of the 1610s onwards. They left the German countries owing to the Thirty… …

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  • 33PHILOSOPHY, JEWISH — This article is arranged according to the following outline: WHAT IS JEWISH PHILOSOPHY? recent histories of jewish philosophy biblical and rabbinic antecedents bible rabbinic literature hellenistic jewish philosophy philo of alexandria biblical… …

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  • 34ZEALOTS AND SICARII — Introduction This article deals not only with the group of fighters for the freedom of Israel known from josephus as the Zealots, but includes in its survey other groups with similar aims, particularly the Sicarii. Judea differed from the other… …

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  • 35Cher — This article is about the entertainer. For other uses, see Cher (disambiguation). Cher Cher at the London premiere of Burlesque in 2011 Background information Birth name …

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  • 36nonfictional prose — Introduction       any literary work that is based mainly on fact, even though it may contain fictional elements. Examples are the essay and biography.       Defining nonfictional prose literature is an immensely challenging task. This type of… …

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  • 37Alejandro Korn — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE |thumb|230px|right name = Alejandro Korn birth = 3 May 1860 ARG (San Vicente,Buenos Aires,Argentine) death = death date and age|1936|10|9|1860|5|3 (La… …

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  • 38Alīʿ — ▪ Muslim caliph Introduction in full  ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib  born c. 600, Mecca, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia] died January 661, Kūfah, Iraq       cousin and son in law of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam (Islām), and fourth of the “rightly guided”… …

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  • 39Church Music —     Ecclesiastical Music     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Music     By this term is meant the music which, by order or with the approbation of ecclesiastical authority, is employed in connexion with Divine service to promote the… …

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  • 40Once More, with Feeling (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) — Once More, with Feeling Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Once More, with Feeling intertitle …

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