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Explanation
Explanation When one wants to understand something, one asks for an explanation. In principle, everything can be the object of explanation. Some explanations, such as in classification and interpretation, explain what something is: What is a whale? It is a mammal; Could you explain the movie Dr.... Read more |
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Ten Days That Shook the World
Ten Days That Shook the World, history by John Reed, published in 1919. A dramatization by Robert E. Lee was produced in 1973.A reportorial, firsthand, and sympathetic account of the November Revolution in Russia (1917), when, as the author puts it, “the Bolsheviki, at the head of the... Read more |
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Stagnation
StagnationBIBLIOGRAPHYCentral to the definition of “stagnation,” in economics, is a situation in which total output (or output per capita) is constant, falling slightly, or rising only sluggishly, or a situation in which unemployment is chronic and growing. Such conditions may exist in particular... Read more |
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Apologetics
Apologetics From the Greek roots apo and leg (apologia ), the term apologetics can be translated as "speech with cause." In the Christian context, apologetics is important in science and religion discourse because it aims to provide religious faith with credibility. Particularly since the... Read more |
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Combat Effectiveness
Combat Effectiveness. The mystery of why men fight has always tantalized students of warfare. Explanations usually reflect cultural and military‐institutional prejudices. Men have fought—and died—against all instincts for survival because of many factors: tribal loyalties,... Read more |
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hail
hail precipitation in the form of pellets composed of ice or of ice and snow, occurring at any time of the year, usually during the passage of a cold front or during a thunderstorm. Small hailstones have a soft center and a single outer coat of ice. They are formed when the surfaces of snow clumps... Read more |
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Eucharist
Eucharist [Gr.,=thanksgiving], Christian sacrament that repeats the action of Jesus at his last supper with his disciples, when he gave them bread, saying, "This is my body," and wine, saying, "This is my blood." (Mat. 26; Mark 14; Luke 22; 1 Cor. 11.) Partaking is called communion. For... Read more |
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gravitation
gravitation the attractive force existing between any two particles of matter . The Law of Universal Gravitation Since the gravitational force is experienced by all matter in the universe, from the largest galaxies down to the smallest particles, it is often called universal gravitation. (Based... Read more |
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Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727, English mathematician and natural philosopher (physicist), who is considered by many the greatest scientist that ever lived. Early Life and Work Newton studied at Cambridge and was professor there from 1669 to 1701, succeeding his teacher Isaac Barrow as Lucasian... Read more |
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Pierre Bayle
Pierre Bayle , 1647-1706, French philosopher. Born a Huguenot, he converted to Roman Catholicism and then returned to Protestantism. To avoid French intolerance of Protestants, he moved in 1681 to Rotterdam, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. Trained as a philosopher and with a strong... Read more |
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imperialism
...Literally ‘empire-ism’, a term...political and military aspirations of...general, involving military competition and...seek to provide explanations for the expansion...after 1870. They fall into three broad...a landed and ... |
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`THE FALL' OF ROME.(Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of...
...an end to the Roman Empire in western Europe...question of Rome's fall was an Englishman...of the Roman Empire. Published one...If Rome's military and political...offer different explanations. By the ... |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians.(Book...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History...Rome did not fall because of the negative...able to turn their military inferiority around...the invaders' military might brought Rome...this reader, an explanation ... |
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Doing as the Romans did?(BOOKS)
...The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire," which ironically...offered many explanations for the fall of Rome, among...privatization to support military and other operations...His argument falls short, ... |
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The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition. (book reviews)
...the pinnacle of Roman authority, a...festivals of the empire. Grant's list...deal with the military problems of the...involved in the `Fall, and to the complex...essentially a military explanation for the ... |
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Age of empire
...traditional Jewish explanations of the destruction...the city's fall. Others brood...Jews in the Roman Empire, was mostly...he paints of Romans and Jews at...through merciless military campaigns...environment. A few ... |
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Theodosius: The Empire at Bay. (book reviews)
...the pinnacle of Roman authority, a...festivals of the empire. Grant's list...deal with the military problems of the...involved in the `Fall, and to the complex...essentially a military explanation for the ... |
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The articulation of imperial decadence and decline in epic science...
...s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...collapse of the Roman Empire, a period that...end of the Eastern Empire in 1453. For Gibbon...about the Roman Empire was not that it...distrusted the ... |
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The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First...
...cry at the fall of Jericho...the role of military chaplains is...challenges of military chaplaincy...distinct as the Roman Empire, the Crusades...chaplains and military historians...aside a fuller ... |
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All roads lead to ruin
...the decline and fall of Rome (the last Roman emperor, Romulus...to return the empire to its initial...parts of the empire which had been...supposedly divided for military and administrative...western and eastern empires was ... |
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The perils of America's progress.
...expanding empires--the Egyptian...the ancient empire of Rome was...decline and fall of the Roman Empire also...most obvious explanation for Rome...instructive, are explanations that look...pattern of ... |
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