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• Logic
  ...nsisted of [[grammar]], logic, and [[rhetoric]]. Since the mid-nineteenth century ''formal logic'' has been studied in the context of [[foundations of mathem ...han two millennia, while symbolic logic is comparatively new, only about a century old.
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• Civilization
  ...re''. ''Civilization'' can also refer to society as a whole. To nineteenth-century [[England|English]] [[anthropology|anthropologist]] [[Edward Burnett Tylor] ...to ''civility'', meaning politeness or civil virtue — until the 18th century.
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• Astronomy
  ...often considered to be synonymous with '''astrophysics'''. Since the 20th century, the field of professional astronomy split into observational and theoretic ...pse/SEsaros/SEsaros.html Eclipses and the Saros saros]. In the 2nd century BC, the size and distance of the Moon were estimated by [https://www-groups.dc
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• Nazareth
  ...etymology of ''Nazareth'' from as early as [[Eusebius]] up until the 20th century has been said to derive from ''netser'', a "shoot" or "sprout", while the [ ..., pp. 272-310.) attesting to unambiguous human presence there from the 2nd century AD onward.
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• El
  ...ization, in the archaeological site of Tell Mardikh in Syria dated to 2300 BC. He may have been a desert god at some point, as the myths say that he had A Phoenician inscribed amulet of the 7th century BCE from Arslan Tash may refer to ʼĒl. Rosenthal (1969, p. 658) translate
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• Garden of Eden
  ...e ''Genesis'' narratives. After its actual decline, beginning about [[1500 BC]], Dilmun developed such a reputation as a long-lost garden of exotic perfe .... ''The Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan''. Wine Pr. Publishing, 2nd edition (1997). ISBN 1579210074</ref> (though this claim has been disputed)
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• Prophet
  In the late 20th Century the appellation of a 'prophet' has been used to refer to individuals partic ...wn is [[Nostradamus]], who was born in France at the beginning of the 16th century.
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• Community
  ...distinct philosophies (or [[Ideology|ideologies]]) began in the late 20th century, opposing [[classical liberalism]] and [[capitalism]] while advocating phen ...ange Trading Systems were first developed by Michael Linton, in Courtenay, BC, ''see'' [https://www.gmlets.u-net.com/explore/home.html "LETSystems - new
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• Magic
  ...hers for their "impious rites." Greek ''magikos'' is attested from the 1st century [[Plutarch]], typically appearing in the feminine, in μαγική τέχν ...influences [[destiny|fate]]." ''Sorceress'' appears also in the late 14th century, while ''sorcerer'' is attested only from 1526.
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