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Ranters
Ranters name given to the adherents of an antinomian movement in England about the time of the Commonwealth and Protectorate (1649-59). Its principal teaching was pantheistic, that God is present in nature. The Ranters appealed to the inner experience of Jesus and denied the authority of Scripture.... Read more |
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Wildlife Preservation
WILDLIFE PRESERVATION WILDLIFE PRESERVATION. In the colonial and early national period, a distinctively American conception of nature combined spiritual and aesthetic appreciation with antipathy and exploitation. Despite public outcries and literary appeals for the preservation of American... Read more |
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Anthropic Principle
Anthropic Principle The Anthropic Principle asserts that the existence of human life places certain necessary constraints on cosmological and metaphysical theories. It is an ex post facto methodological tool that attempts to relate the structure of the universe to the underlying conditions that... Read more |
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Fourteen Points
Fourteen Points formulation of a peace program, presented at the end of World War I by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in an address before both houses of Congress on Jan. 8, 1918. The message, though intensely idealistic in tone and primarily a peace program, had certain very practical uses as an... Read more |
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Act in Restraint of Appeals
Appeals, Act in Restraint of (1533). The Act (24 Hen. VIII c. 12), largely the work of Thomas Cromwell, was a crucial step in Henry VIII's assertion of royal supremacy against the papacy. He had already moved against the clergy with accusations of praemunire and in 1532 forbade the payment of... Read more |
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Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
TEMPORARY EMERGENCY COURT OF APPEALS Congress created the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals (TECA) in 1971, 85 Stat. 749, specifically to hear cases from district courts regarding the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 799). The idea for TECA grew out of the Emergency Court of Appeals... Read more |
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Court of Appeal
COURT OF APPEAL An intermediate federal judicial tribunal of review that is found in thirteen judicial districts, called circuits, in the United States. A state judicial tribunal that reviews a decision rendered by an inferior tribunal to determine whether it made errors that warrant the reversal... Read more |
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United Jewish Appeal (UJA)
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL (UJA) The main organization through which U.S. Jews support Jews abroad. In 1939 the United Palestine Appeal joined with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the National Refugee Service to form the United Jewish Appeal (UJA). Most of what it raises... Read more |
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appeal
appeal in law, hearing by a superior court to consider correcting or reversing the judgment of an inferior court, because of errors allegedly committed by the inferior court. The party appealing the decision is known as the appellant, the party who has won the case in the lower court as the... Read more |
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The American Scholar
American Scholar, The, address by Emerson delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard (Aug. 31, 1837), published separately in 1837, and reprinted in Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849). Called “our intellectual Declaration of Independence” by Holmes, the work was... Read more |
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Roussillon: the next global player; Can you find Roussillon on the map? Maybe...
...marketplace, Languedoc has a broad appeal to winemakers looking to produce...everything from clays to almost pure schist, especially in the subsoil...shallow, with granite- and schist-related elements. Grapes...despite the name, is not a "natural" sweet wine ... |
 "The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)")
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STONE REMAINS FASHION'S DARLING IN HOME DECOR
...popularity. Since it's a natural material, no two pieces...stone are alike - which appeals to those who covet unique...vinyl." Reflecting the appeal of both faux and natural stone, Interior Design...cardosa, a grayish schist from Tuscany, or ... |
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LUXURY HOME 'A RECORD BREAKER'.
...Constructed of mostly natural materials, it is the...strong international appeal. "There are few homes...Everything here is as natural as possible, from the...appreciates the integrity of natural materials, values privacy...600 tonnes of Tuamarina ... |
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American Home in NZ a Record Breaker.
...Constructed of mostly natural materials, it is the...strong international appeal. "There are few homes...Everything here is as natural as possible, from the...appreciates the integrity of natural materials, values privacy...600 tonnes of Tuamarina ... |
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AMERICAN HOME IN NZ A RECORD BREAKER.
...Constructed of mostly natural materials, it is the...strong international appeal. "There are few homes...Everything here is as natural as possible, from the...appreciates the integrity of natural materials, values privacy...600 tonnes of Tuamarina ... |
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Required reading: With extensive new accommodation, above and below ground,...
...emporium with all the appeal of a convention centre...exclude the hoi polloi and natural light) and to develop...blasting out the Manhattan schist to a depth of 18 metres...in all his buildings, natural light is filtered by...and open stairwell pull ... |
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Central Park on the river
...ton boulders of Manhattan schist borrowed from Central Park...where there's no soil or natural irrigation. You need a crane...the project has a charismatic appeal. The Coast Guard, which must...Part of Smithson's enduring appeal is that his work is backed... |
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Prehistoric Ritual and Religion.(Review) (book reviews)
...builders themselves held of their space: natural/made; close to home/place of pilgrimage...Davis make the case for the aesthetic appeal and rarity-value of objects made of...passage-graves, the alternating red schist and white quartz at the Jardin aux Moines... |
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