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New Age movement
New Age Movement. The name popularly given to a constellation of ideas originating in the late 1960s and related to paradigmatic cultural changes in the last third of the twentieth century.Broadly, such changes may be characterized as the move from a modern to a postmodern worldview; from Newtonian... Read more |
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Bunch
Bunch a cluster or tuft, properly of things of one type growing or fastened together; a group of things or animals of the same type gathered close together. See also bundle, nosegay. Examples: bunch of bananas; of cards, 1563; of cattle, 1884; of charity, 1633; of cherubs, 1832; of ducks [up to... Read more |
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Innocent III
Innocent III b. 1160 or 1161, d. 1216, pope (1198-1216), an Italian, b. Anagni, named Lotario di Segni; successor of Celestine III. Innocent III was succeeded by Honorius III. Papacy Innocent came from an important family, the counts of Segni, to which belonged also Gregory IX and Alexander IV. He... Read more |
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Set Theory
Set theory A set is a collection of things. A set can consist of real or literal numbers (such as 1, 2, 3, 4 or a, b, c, d) or of objects (such as baseballs or books). Set theory is the field of mathematics that deals with the properties of sets that are independent of the things that make up the... Read more |
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Incantations
Spells Spells are incantations, written or spoken formulas of words believed to be capable of magical effects. The term "spell" derives from the Anglo-Saxon spel, a saying or story, hence a form of words; the Icelandic spjall, a saying; and the Gothic spill, a fable. The conception of spells... Read more |
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Mulungu
Mulungu The Nyamwezi people of Tanzania in East Africa worship Mulungu as the god who created all things and who watches over the earth. Although he created the world, Mulungu is a very distant god with no personal relationship with living beings. According to legend,... Read more |
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Toxicity
Toxicity Toxicity is the capacity of a substance to poison. Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493–1541) defined poison as follows: "What is there that is not a poison? All things are poison and nothing without poison. Solely the dose determines that thing is not a poison." The... Read more |
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Omniscience
Omniscience Omniscience concerns God's (a priori) knowledge about the course of people's lives. More generally, it concerns God's knowledge about the whole course of history, including the future. This appears in that aspect of prophetical literature that expresses itself in a forecasting style,... Read more |
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Grace George
George, Grace (1879–1961), actress. The fair‐haired, blue‐eyed beauty was born in New York and educated at a convent, later studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making her debut as a schoolgirl in The New Boy (1894). Her first important role was the... Read more |
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Vitality
Vitality Vitality is a name given that force or principle possessed by living things. In the case of human beings, controversy has long raged between those who interpret vitality mechanistically as the energy derived from food and oxygen intake and those who support theories of vitalism, a doctrine... Read more |
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Lone Star Cosmos; At Their Ball, Texans Draw Washington Into Their Vast,...
...a party: live longhorn steers...here -- and beautiful women...really kick up their heels. The...tech barons up for the inauguration...offer to take their clothes off for this thing." No naked...booked ... |
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I'm so not trying to be the new Freddie
...material, The Cosmos Rocks, under...banner. During their illustrious...this whole thing," says Paul...lives in the beautiful Okanagan valley...Canada. ("I live overlooking...released DVDs of their concerts...music. The ... |
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The show must go on; Andy Welch taks to Paul Rodgers about fronting one of...
...material, The Cosmos Rocks, under...Rodgers. During their illustrious...this whole thing," says Paul...lives in the beautiful Okanagan valley...released DVDs of their concerts...All the live work has readied...music. The ... |
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Mapping out the music
...Park line-up. All bands...indignity - their song Bohemian...as cool as their name suggests...clever and beautiful he can score...Allison (live) Former...Sound of the Cosmos (live...day from ... |
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Cool Cape Town is the mother city of parties.(News)
...clubs. Our beautiful coastal location...most natural thing in the world...Friday at their sundownder...Street. The Cosmos are delicious...also whip up a wicked one...more you come up with. Kink...naughtily creative ... |
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Reviews; `Burning': Queens for Life
...Realness" is their primary criterion...like the real thing that they can almost become their dream. In the tight little cosmos of "Paris...trophies in their particular...houses grow up, makeshift...Legend's ... |
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Just Savannah Good Time; Writer John Berendt Fell in Love With the City. And...
...of giant live oaks. Rain...Aiken ("Cosmos Mariner...where a real live voodoo priestess...the most beautiful city in the...finished their meal by the...as comic, beautiful and cruel...about these things," ... |
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Bennett's love song collection exquisite
...Sondheim, to name but a few...Bennett came up with an unabashedly...eyes and live for you...recorded live in a seamless...can be a beautiful thing. Stewart...through the cosmos once Stewart...and ended ... |
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GOING JAPANESE: MUST-HAVE SACDS FOR 2011
...printed in the beautiful but complicated...would find their home on SACD...for $50 and up - and it...From 1972 up to the release...s biggest names - bassist...ventures into the cosmos, Asia delivered...Rainbow, "Long ... |
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HELP OUR HONEYBEES; gardening.(Features)
...to preserve their numbers and...deserted by their residents. The reasons for their decline include...love include cosmos, Nigella...coldest months. Beautiful flowering...and drones live. Site the...water building ... |