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• Books
  ...y them out. At Nineveh, 22,000 tablets were found, dating from the seventh century BC; this was the archive and library of the kings of Assyria, who had works ...gamineum," which became "parchment." Its production began around the third century BC. Made using the skins of animals (sheep, cattle, donkey, antelope, etc.)
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• Beauty
  ...onary of the History of Ideas'':] Theories of Beauty to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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• New Religious Movement
  ...define as "new" everything after the advent of the Bahá'í Faith (mid-19th century). ...ge]] groups, have emerged, some of which originated in the late Nineteenth century in the Meiji Era and others in the aftermath of World War Two.
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• Secularism
  ...and with secularization as a sociological or historical process. Twentieth-century scholars whose work has contributed to the understanding of these matters i ...ck, Owen (1975). The Secularization of the European mind in the nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press.
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• 2012-02-08-The Flurry 2
  Satania rebellion was still being spread during the 18th and 19th century rise of nationalism and the in the nineteenth century, at least not then to the extent they became involved in the
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• Shame
  Nineteenth century scientist [[Charles Darwin]], in his book ''The Expression of the Emotions
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• Art History
  ...ory is a relatively new academic enterprise, beginning in the [[nineteenth century]].<ref>Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline By Eli ...r [[Apelles]]. Similar, though independent, developments occurred in [[6th century]] [[China]], where a canon of worthy artists was established by writers in
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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 &mdash; until the 18th century.
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...[[unconscious]], a [[concept]] that had existed for much of the nineteenth century. Freud determined that one of the most fruitful sites to explore the uncons ...children, denials of this idea have persisted into the early twenty-first century.
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• Heresy
  ...lism: From the end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_century first century] hairesis and the corresponding [[Hebrew]] word min were used in the deroga ...xperience]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century seventeenth-century religious wars] were [[minds]] ready for another [[perspective|view]] of th
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 4
  ...kness is the worst thing that can happen to civilization. In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, me ...e responsibility for its cruelties to its victims themselves. A nineteenth century critic remarked: "Throughout contemporary literature we find the tendency t
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• Chosen People
  ...[[Deuteronomy]] (7:6, 14:2), a biblical text not written until the seventh century BCE. Underlying God's promises to [[Abraham]] and his descendants in [[Gene ...l be punished by God for their transgressions. Nevertheless, as the eighth-century prophet [[Hosea]] insists, punishment does not negate their election. Compa
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• The Book of Revelation
  ...Apocalypse of John are interpreted as being fulfilled by events in the 1st century. ...se in the Ancient Church, (c. 1929), pp. 139-142, esp. p. 138 In the [[9th century]], it was included with the ''[[Apocalypse of Peter]]'' among "disputed" bo
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 7
  ...rkers whose low wages and wretched conditions do undeniably evoke the 19th century. "Backward sectors", comes the retort, "in the process of reabsorption". Ca ...were redirected to them at such great cost by the rebels of the nineteenth century. The insurgents of Lyon and Fourmies have certainly proved luckier dead tha
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• Socialism
  ...ionary/socialism "Socialism"] Modern socialism originated in the late 19th-century [[intellectual]] and working class [[social movement|political movement]] t ...abor movement, until appearance of the Labour Party in the early twentieth century. The first U.S. socialist party was founded in 1876, then metamorphosed to
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• Time
  ...[[Catania]], [[Sicily]] ([[264 BCE]]), which gave the incorrect time for a century, until the markings appropriate for the latitude of [[Rome]] were used ([[1 ...the past through the present. This was widely discussed in around the 3rd century CE.
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• Reflection
  The philosophical psychology prevalent before the end of the nineteenth century relied heavily on [[introspection]]. The speculations concerning the mind b
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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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• Languages and Literature
  ...] begins in Northern [[History of India|India]] with [[Pāṇini]], the [[5th century BC]] grammarian who formulated 3,959 rules of [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit] ...of [[science]], [[mathematics]], and other [[formal system]]s in the 20th century led many to attempt a formalization of the study of language as a "semantic
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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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