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Old Believers
Old Believers ETHNONYMS: Beglopopovtsy, Beguny, Belokrinitsy, Bespopovtsy, Chasovennye, Diakonovtsy, Edinoverie, Feodoseevtsy, Filippovtsy, Onufrievtsy, Pomortsy, Popovtsy, Spasovtsy, Staroobriadtsy, Starovery, Stranniki Orientation Identification. The Old Believers include all those... Read more |
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev
Vladimir Sergeyevich Soloviev , 1853-1900, Russian religious philosopher and poet; son of Sergei Mikhailovich Soloviev. Soloviev believed in the incarnation of divine wisdom in a being called Sophia, a concept that greatly influenced the young symbolist poets, especially Blok. He advocated a... Read more |
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Hagiography
HAGIOGRAPHY Various types of narratives with documentary and commemorative functions for the Orthodox Church are also regarded as important literary works in the medieval Russian canon. Sacred biographies (vitae ) were written about persons who had followed Christ's example in life and shown... Read more |
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There Shall be No Night
There Shall be No Night (1940), a play by Robert E. Sherwood. [Alvin Theatre, 181 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] The Nobel Prize–winning scien‐tist Dr. Kaarlo Valkonen ( Alfred Lunt) and his American‐born wife, Miranda ( Lynn Fontanne), are reluctant to believe that the Russians will... Read more |
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Ainu
Ainu , aborigines of Japan who may be descended from a Caucasoid people who once lived in N Asia. More powerful invaders from the Asian mainland gradually forced the Ainu to retreat to the northern islands of Japan and Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in what is now the Russian Far East; today, they... Read more |
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biogeocoenosis
biogeocoenosis A term equivalent to ‘ecosystem’, often used in Russian and Central European literature, and attributed to V. Sukachaev who is believed to have coined it in 1947. A biogeocoenosis comprises a biocoenosis (the biome, or living community), together with its habitat,... Read more |
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centre of origin
centre of origin A geographical location or local region (often in the tropics) where a particular group of organisms is believed to have originated. Many authorities believe centres of origin are also centres of diversity. For example, there are 6 genera of Palmae (palms) in the lower part of the... Read more |
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Wang Yang-ming
Wang Yang-ming , 1472-1529, Chinese philosopher. He developed an idealist interpretation of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the orthodox philosophy of Chu Hsi . Wang believed that universal moral law is innate in man and discoverable through self-cultivation. In contrast to... Read more |
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Judgment Day
Judgment Day or Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bible are numerous. The Christian belief in the Last Judgment asserts that this world will end, the dead will be raised up in the... Read more |
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RUSSIANS FEAR DAYS NUMBERED WITH `666' ID CODE
...Thousands of Russian Orthodox priests...monks, and believers are refusing...mark of the antichrist. The uproar...s rampant tax evasion by issuing each Russian citizen a...identification numbers. Petitions...trouble getting ... |