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Fantasy, man’s capacity to “give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name,” has long intrigued poets, playwrights, and painters… Java man , Java man a fossil hominid of the Middle Pleistocene period, whose remains were found in Java in 1891. Nahman Of Bratslav , NAḤMAN OF BRATSLAV
NAḤMAN OF BRATSLAV (1772–1810), ḥasidic admor ("master, rabbi, and teacher") and fertile thinker in the fields of philosophy and l… Henry Edward Manning , MANNING, HENRY EDWARD
Cardinal, archbishop of westminster; b. Copped Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, July 15, 1808; d. London, Jan. 14, 1892. He was… bogeyman , bo·gey·man / ˈboŏgēˌman; ˈbō-/ (also boo·gey·man, bo·gy·man) • n. (pl. -men) (usu. the bogeyman) an imaginary evil spirit, referred to typically to f… Pithecanthropus , Pithecanthropus a former genus name applied to some fossil hominids found in Java in 1891. Also called Java man. The term was originally coined as a…
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