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Imago Dei
Imago Dei Imago Dei is Latin for "image of God," a theological doctrine common to Jews, Christians, and Muslims that denotes humankind's relation to God on the one hand and all other living creatures on the other. Traditionally, only human beings are in the image of God, and it is by virtue of... Read more |
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Burgenland
Burgenland , province (1991 pop. 270,880), 1,530 sq mi (3,963 sq km), E Austria. The capital is Eisenstadt . It is a narrow, hilly region bordering Slovakia in the northeast and Hungary in the east, and it is indented by Neusiedler Lake. It is primarily agricultural, but industry and tourism are... Read more |
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Immaculate Conception
immaculate conception The doctrine of the immaculate conception holds that Mary is the one fully human being preserved from original sin because she is the Mother of God. Grace intervened at the very instant in which her life began, preventing sin from touching her in any way, and so making her holy... Read more |
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Trace Elements
TRACE ELEMENTS TRACE ELEMENTS. Early in the twentieth century, scientists were able to qualitatively detect small amounts of several elements in living organisms. At the time, these elements were often described as being present in "traces" or "trace amounts." This apparently led to the term... Read more |
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plaster casting
plaster casting as a sculpture process, is of three kinds. One employs a waste mold, another a piece mold (both plaster of paris), and the third a gelatin mold; all reproduce the original clay or wax model executed by the sculptor. The waste mold is chipped away (wasted) to free the hardened cast,... Read more |
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Uniramia
Uniramia Formerly a phylum or a subphylum of Arthropoda, in which the appendages are unbranched (i.e. uniramous) and at one time classed as members of the Mandibulata. The group includes the myriapods (centipedes and millipedes) and the insects, the earliest known fossils being Devonian and... Read more |
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Abraham Arden Brill
Abraham Arden Brill 1874-1948, American psychiatrist, b. Austria, grad. New York Univ., 1901, M.D. Columbia, 1903. He came to the United States alone at the age of 13. After studies with C. G. Jung in Switzerland, he returned to the United States in 1908 to become one of the earliest and most... Read more |
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body snatching
body snatchers Between the Tudor era and the early nineteenth century, the only legal source of corpses for dissection was the gallows. Not enough bodies were provided to supply the proliferating number of anatomy schools and their burgeoning numbers of students. Body snatchers... Read more |
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