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• Rest
  The [[word]] leisure comes from the [[Latin]] word licere, meaning “to be permitted” or “to be free,” via Old F ...the 1870s, a trend which spread to industrial nations in Europe and North America. As workers channeled their wages into leisure activities, the modern enter
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• 2011-03-04-Conversations with Monjoronson 28
  ...ew Zealand in 1987 and spread to North America, and to Europe and to South America, and to the rest of the world. This comes after the publication of The Ura ...istics in all human cultures, whether in China or the United States, South America, or any other human social group, that are identical within the first two y
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• Womanhood
  ...man (from Irish bean woman, sí fairy) and zenana (from Persian zan). The [[Latin]] fēmina, whence female, is likely from the root in fellāre (to suck), re ...as a deliberate archaism; "muliebrity" is a neologism (derived from the [[Latin]]) meant to provide a female counterpart of "virility", but used very loose
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• 2009-03-31-Confusing Magisterial Mission w Antichrist
  ...uestion comes from our brethren in Latin America and reads as follows: Our Latin countries were conquered by the Spanish, a conquest that was harsh and whic
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• Imperium
  ...ates|U.S. President]], was the commander of the armed forces. In fact, the Latin word, imperator, gives us the English word emperor. In monotheistic religions such as Christianity (where the official language, Latin, used terms as ''Imperium Dei/Domini'') the Divine is held to have a superi
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• Counsel
  ...e meaning a deliberating body are now written COUNCIL, by confusion with [[Latin]] concilium. In the United States of America, the term counselor-at-law designates, specifically, an attorney admitted t
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• World Government
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Dante Alighieri], titled in Latin, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Monarchia De Monarchia], which in Englis De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) is a 1625 [[book]] in [[Latin]], written by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Grotius Hugo Grotius] and
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• Transcendental
  ...[[meaning]]s, all of them derived from the word's literal meaning (from [[Latin]]), of climbing or going beyond: one sense that originated in [[Ancient Phi ...u.hk/~ppp/ksp1 Kant's System of Perspectives] (Lanham: University Press of America, 1993). See especially Part Two.
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• Illustration
  A [[movement]] was started in Latin America by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Martinez_Delgado Santiago Martin
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• The Enlightenment
  ...e Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia and Scandinavia, along with Latin America and instigating the Haitian Revolution. It has been argued that the signato
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• Exceptionalism
  ...rg/wiki/American_exceptionalism American Exceptionalism] (United States of America) *Lund, Joshua. "Barbarian Theorizing and the Limits of Latin American Exceptionalism," Cultural Critique, 47, Winter 2001, pp. 54-90 in
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• Orinoco River
  The '''Orinoco River''' is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km, (1,330 miles). Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoq *Helferich, Gerard (2004) Humboldt's cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American journey that changed the way we see the world Gotham Books, New Yo
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• Society
  ...'socius'' meaning "companion, associate, comrade or business partner." The Latin word was derived from the Greek socus locus, and implied a social contract ...ndly societies]] and [[building society|building societies]]). In [[Latin America]], the term society may also be used in commerce denoting a partnership bet
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• University
  ...th Century]. This was the first of two revivals of ancient [[Greek]] and [[Latin]] learning in the Western world, the second commencing with the [https://en ...edia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge Cambridge], where they remain, or in America with its distinct family of liberal arts colleges. Other examples of new ad
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• Francis of Assisi
  ...t education, and he became fluent in reading several languages including [[Latin]]. He was also known for drinking and enjoying the company of his many frie ...alled [[Franciscan Order|Friars Minor]], a term derived from "fratres", in Latin, "brothers".
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• Adultery
  ...aning "on the other side of the bond of marriage"). (Longman Dictionary of Latin, Berlin 1950) ...686; also H.H. Bancroft, ''The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America'', I, 514). If, however, the wronged husband could visit swift and terrible
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• History
  ...ry, history, record, narrative." The [[Latin]] form was ''[[wikt:historia#Latin|historia]]'', "narrative, account." In [[Old French]], the word "estoire" ...civilizations, such as those of [[Sub-Saharan Africa]] and [[pre-Columbian America]]. Historians in the West have been criticized for focusing disproportionat
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• Dance
  ...ch is focused exclusively on [[ballroom dance|ballroom]] and [[latin dance|latin]] dance.'' A popular example of this is the TV program [[Dancing with the S ...train in a variety of dance forms including competitive dance forms (e.g. Latin dance, ballroom dance, etc.) as well as ethnic/traditional dance forms.
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• Intellectual
  ...was not widespread. "Men of letters" were also termed literati (from the [[Latin]]), as a group; this phrase may also refer to the 'citizens' of the [[Repub ...Walsh and the Role of the Intellectual in Latin American Politics'', Latin America Bureau 2000, ISBN 1-899365-43-5
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• Carthusian
  ...source. The motto of the Carthusians is ''Stat crux dum volvitur orbis'', Latin for "The Christian cross is steady while the world is turning." ...in Europe—including one in Sussex, England—but there are also two in South America, one in the United States and one in South Korea.
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