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Master of the Revels
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Swedenborgianism
SWEDENBORGIANISM SWEDENBORGIANISM. A religious movement based on the revelations of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688– Read more |
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Seven Churches in Asia
Seven Churches in Asia addressed in the preface of the Book of Revelation . They are the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia (Lydia), and Laodicea (Phrygia). They are in W Asia Minor.... Read more |
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Hiram Rhoades Revels
Hiram Rhoades Revels Hiram Rhoades Revels (1822-1901), African American clergyman and university administrator, was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate. Hiram Revels was born of free parents on Sept. 27, 1822, in Fayetteville, N.C. His early education was limited, since it was... Read more |
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Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich Julian of Norwich (1342-c 1416) was the most important English mystic of the 14th century. Her spirituality is strongly Trinitarian and basically Neoplatonic. In her Revelations of Divine Love Julian relates that in May 1373, when she was 30 years old, she suffered a... Read more |
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse , allegorical figures in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. The rider on the white horse has many interpretations—one is that he represents Christ; the rider on the red horse is war; on the black horse is famine; and on the pale horse, death.... Read more |
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Gog
Gog in the Bible. In the Book of Ezekiel, Gog is a leader, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal who will attack Israel and be defeated in the last days. Magog is his country. The same theme surfaces in the Book of Revelation, where the assailants are Gog and Magog. They represent the nations of... Read more |
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Exclusion Crisis
EXCLUSION CRISIS EXCLUSION CRISIS. Exclusion Crisis was the name given to the crisis over the succession that developed in England in the aftermath of Titus Oates's revelations in the summer of 1678 of a "popish plot" to murder Charles II (ruled 1660 |
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Feast of Fools
Feast of Fools burlesque religious festival of the Middle Ages. It occurred during the Christmas and New Year's revels, on or near New Year's Day. In many places a Lord of Misrule ruled over the revels. In France and England the ceremonies were under the charge of the Boy-Bishop, a young man fitted... Read more |
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Cabala
CABALA CABALA. The commonly used term for the mystical, magical, and theosophic teachings of Judaism from the twelfth century onward, the cabala (also cabbala, kabbala, or kabbalah) was considered the esoteric and unwritten portion of the revelation granted to Adam and again to Moses, while the... Read more |
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Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations.
...history at Columbia University. STALIN: The Glasnost Revelations. By Walter Laqueur Charles...years of perestroika, the "Stalin question" dominated the dialogue...informative survey, Stalin: The Glasnost ... |
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Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941.
STALIN IN POWER: The Revolution From Above...five years of perestroika, the "Stalin question" dominated the dialogue...notes in his informative survey, Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations, that the debate over de-Stalinization... |
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The `inside' View of The Glasnost Cauldron
...focuses on the nature of glasnost and the agonies of revelation of the Stalinist past. Smith...the reality of Gorbachev's glasnost, or openness. He interviews...learned of a secret cemetery of Stalin's victims in Byelorussia... |
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LETTERS
...review of my book Stalin in Power (Book...claim that recent revelations did not necessitate...if he referenced glasnost sources." Good...appear as yet under glasnost (which deal with the history of Stalin's time), hence... |
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Is Stalinism Really Dead?
...years of perestroika, the "Stalin question" dominated the dialogue...in his informative survey, Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations, that the debate over de...the past and thus prolong the Stalin debate. Laqueur focuses on... |
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Russia's manifest destiny.
...magazines. Walter Laqueur's Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations (Scribner's, 382 pp...the Soviet Union today than in Stalin's time. This hardly lessens...was a necessary condition of Stalin's. It does not automatically... |
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Letter from Moscow: the buttons of glasnost. (Soviet political polarities)
...Soviet society today. Is Stalin Still With Us? focuses...call for a return to Stalin's kind of despotic...because they believe that glasnost has been monopolized...Another film, Day of Revelation, portrays the political...rally at Kuropaty, where ... |
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Russians Seek Rosier Past, Even Revising Stalin Image
...question whether Joseph Stalin and his gulag were as...as perestroika-era revelations suggested. Support...Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, came...organization formed in the glasnost era to uncover and document...the church-hating ... |
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The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life.(Book Review)
...write a biography of Stalin as a Machiavellian evil...the secret file, is Stalin's anti-Semitism...fairly logical way; if Stalin was an Okhrana agent...updated with some early glasnost-era revelations. However, because... |
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`Glasnost' With a Grain of Salt
...from "irreversible." Glasnost, he says, has "reached...Gorbachev has chosen. Glasnost is a double-edged...them. "What if the revelations and the debates do not...whose unceremonious, Stalin-style removal from...example of the "limits of ... |