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Old age
OLD AGE OLD AGE. From ancient to modern times in Europe, conceptions of the life cycle that recognized discrete "ages of man" counted old age as one of the stages of life. Ancient philosophers such as Aristotle (384 Read more |
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Abraham
Abraham [according to the Book of Genesis, Heb.,=father of many nations] or Abram [Heb.,=exalted father], in the Bible, progenitor of the Hebrews; in the Qur'an, ancestor of the Arabs. As the founder of Judaism , he is said to have instituted the rite of circumcision as a sign of the covenant... Read more |
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Modern Language Association of America
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America is the largest society of humanists in the United States. Its mission is to promote study, criticism, and research in the modern languages and their literatures and to further the common... Read more |
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Philip Cortelyou Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson 1906-2005, American architect, museum curator, and historian, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1927). One of the first Americans to study modern European architecture, Johnson wrote (with H.-R. Hitchcock) The International Style: Architecture since 1922 (1932), in... Read more |
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Persecution
PERSECUTION PERSECUTION. Life was difficult for almost everyone in early modern Europe. Malnutrition, grinding poverty, pervasive disease, and frequent warfare over much of the continent were commonplace challenges for early modern Europeans. Furthermore, most political systems oppressed at least... Read more |
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Paul Anthony Samuelson
Samuelson, Paul A. 1915- BIBLIOGRAPHY If one could do a mental time-and-motion study of a modern economic theorist at work, a large fraction of what he or she actually does from day to day would turn out to have its origins in Paul Samuelson’s work. In that precise sense, Samuelson has... Read more |
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Paphos
Paphos , two ancient cities, SW Cyprus, on the coast. Old Paphos was probably founded in the Mycenaean period by colonists from Greece or Phoenicia. Modern excavations have revealed ruins dating from 3000 BC New Paphos was 10 mi (16 km) to the northwest. An important seaport, it was the capital of... Read more |
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Prome
Prome or Pyè , city (1983 pop. 83,332), Bago div., S central Myanmar, on the Ayeyarwady River. It is a commercial town and port, with railroad connections to Yangon. One of the oldest cities in Myanmar, Prome was founded in the 8th cent. by the Indianized Pyus, who were conquered and... Read more |
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