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• Romance
  ...metimes not. Romance is still sometimes viewed as an expressionistic, or [[art]]ful form, but within the context of "romantic love" relationships it usual ...mation itself is comparable to romance, where the [[spirituality]] of both art and egalitarian [[ideal]]s is combined with strong character and emotions.
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• Religion
  ...urished, and Hindu and Buddhist [[text]]s were first being translated into European languages. Early influential scholars included [[Friedrich Max Müller]], i ...o the cultural anthropologist of religions are rituals, beliefs, religious art, and practices of piety.
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• Novel
  ...eir own traditions of the epic and the shorter story into the field of the European novel. ...vel took another turn. The late seventeenth century saw the emergence of a European market for scandal, with French books now appearing mostly in the Netherlan
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• Anthropology
  ...hich had been increasing since the 15th century as a result of the [[First European colonization wave]]. The traditions of [[jurisprudence]], [[history]], [[ph ...In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike studying the flora and fauna of those places.
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• Navigation
  ...a craft or vehicle from one place to another.[1] It is also the term of [[art]] used for the specialized [[knowledge]] used by navigators to perform navi ...s are users of the system, including the United States, Japan, and several European countries. Russia uses a nearly exact system in the same frequency range, c
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• Civilization
  ...ions have even more intricate cultures, including literature, professional art, architecture, organized religion, and complex customs associated with the ...e of such cultures were the original inhabitants before being displaced by European settlers, they use the term "[[First Nations]]." Generally, these people do
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• Social Sciences
  ...atural sciences, are historically valid, so long as they are describing an art or organized body of knowledge which can be taught objectively. The use of ===European enlightenment===
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• 2009-10-29-Inner Source of Freedom
  ...ing in...is partly you. That's that wonderful oriental expression of "Thou art that". And that, out there, is partly you. ...ood it would not stick to your ribs, like sitting down to an old-fashioned European-American style Thanksgiving dinner with the turkey and the dressing, mashed
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• Perfection
  *7. Great or complete proficiency in an [[activity]], [[art]], or skill. ...work consists in its forcing the recipient to be active—to complement the art work by an effort of mind and imagination.[6]
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• Information science
  ...hman, F. (1961). Notched Cards. In R. Shaw (Ed.), The state of the library art (Volume 4, Part 1, pp. 11-55). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, The State Univer ===European documentation===
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• Chemistry
  ...the widely observed phenomenon of burning that led to [[metallurgy]]- the art and science of processing ores to get metals (e.g. [[History of metallurgy ...erives from the old French ''alkemie'' from the Arabic ''al-kimia'' - "the art of transformation". The Arabs borrowed the word "kimia" from the Greeks whe
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• Vision
  ...ast (up to 90 images per second - permitting one to see the flicker of the European 50[[Hz]] TV images). Elements of the visual field are thus grouped automati *<center>"'''Vision''' is the [[art]] of seeing the invisible." - Jonathan Swift</center>
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• African Philosophy
  ...o hold the viewpoint of the Professional Philosopher would likely answer, "European, American and Asian philosophy alone shall be called philosophy". Professio ...ation; political organization; economic organization; creative production (art, music, literature, dance, etc.) and ethos. It also involves creating a lan
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 4
  ...disappears from sight. Nobody seems worried that joy has been absent from European music for nearly two centuries; which says everything. Consume, consume: th ...were philosophers and wise men who explained to the worlds of science and art that suffering had to do with the collective life of men, the inevitable pr
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• Community
  ...the titles of international organizations, as European Defence Community, European Economic Community.) ...nberra in Australia, and Brasília in Brazil. It was also common during the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on fresh g
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• Satan
  An alternate name for the main deity in the tentatively Indo-European pantheon of the [[Yazidi]], Malek Taus, is Shaitan.[https://www.avesta.org/ In [[art]] and [[literature]], Satan has been depicted in numerous ways throughout [
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• Magic
  ...minine, in μαγική τέχνη (''magike techne'', Latin ''ars magica'') "magical art." ...of [[Romanticism]] cultivated a renewed interest in exotic spiritualities. European colonialism, which put Westerners in contact with [[India]] and [[Egypt]],
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• The Shaman Reborn in Cyberspace
  ...been made at 26,000 BCE, contemporaneous with the Upper Palaeolithic art of Western Europe; the Lascaux cave paintings date from 17,000 BCE). Initia For the Bushman his rock art is a unique record of altered states of consciousness, even alternate state
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• Mortal Knowlege: The Originary Event, & The Emergence of the Sacred
  examples of rock art in the world" (Scarre, 1993, p. 45). Stanford anthropologist Klein (2002) n Davidson (1991, 1996) who made a study of cave art and prehistoric sculpture and concluded that languages can be traced back
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• Human Being
  ...erialistic]] conquest brought much of the Americas, Asia, and Africa under European control, leading to later struggles for [[independence]]. The [[Scientific ...]] and interconnected. Although this has encouraged the growth of science, art, and technology, it has also led to culture clashes, the development and us
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