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• Christmas
  ...hology]], and his modern appearance is believed to have originated in 19th century media. ...n letter X, has been used as an abbreviation for Christ since the mid-16th century.[8] Hence, Xmas is often used as an abbreviation for Christmas.
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• Catastrophism
  Until the 19th century the dominant scientific [[beliefs]] in Europe were founded on the [[Bible|b The leading scientific proponent of catastrophism in the early nineteenth century was the French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier. His motivation
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• Intellectual
  ===Nineteenth-century English usage=== ...tellectual", which first came into common use at the end of the nineteenth century, when it was used as a term for the defenders of [[Dreyfus]], see below. T
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• Tarot
  ...he Tarot deck was probably invented in northern [[Italy]] in the fifteenth century. Other scholars who disagree with that theory point to a medieval origin of ...ille is one of the standards from which many tarot decks of the nineteenth century and later are derived.
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  ...gical evolutionary ideas began to appear towards the end of the eighteenth century. A prominent exponent in England was the physician and naturalist Erasmus D ...ovidence, where all depends on God's grace. Although by the mid nineteenth century religious worries were still much in evidence, Charles Darwin met this chal
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• Novel
  ...[fiction]]al [[narrative]], typically in [[prose]]. Until the [[eighteenth century]], the word referred specifically to [[short fiction]]s of [[love]] and int During the 18th century the novel adopted features of the old romance and became one of the major l
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• Social movement
  ...d mobility of labour due to the industrialisation and urbanisation of 19th century societies. It is sometimes argued that the freedom of expression, education ...ed in England and North America during the first decades of the nineteenth century and has since then spread across the globe.[Tilly, 2004]
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• Academic
  ...oss generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized t ...he mid-eighteenth century and [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the early nineteenth century. In the United States academia tends to be politically progressive with 72%
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• Western Philosophy
  ...otle]], for example, wrote on all of these topics; and as late as the 17th century, these fields were still referred to as branches of "natural philosophy"). ...d cosmology, alongside his metaphysics and ethics. Even in the eighteenth century physics and chemistry were still classified as "natural philosophy", that i
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• Occult
  ...mph of empirical sciences and the Age of Enlightenment. "By the eighteenth century these unorthodox religious and philosophical concerns were well defined as ...aspects of its philosophy to most Christian-based occultism since the 17th century.
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...been primarily reserved for God and it was not until the later eighteenth century that the notion of creativity was reformulated and the term ‘creative’ ...nly nature and community, but from his inner self. In the later eighteenth century a cultural and philosophical movement emerged in Germany for which the mean
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 13
  ...). Innumerable dualities of this type were kept bubbling for century after century like a good stew on the fire of mythic unity. Then the bourgeoisie took the By the close of the eighteenth century the fabric was rending in all directions as the process of decomposition be
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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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• 2007-10-22-Positive Conditioning
  ...remaining tribes of earth and not rushing in like eighteenth or nineteenth century missionaries to convert native cultures without any real grasp of what they
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• Information science
  ...Press, 1901</ref> Institutionally, information science emerged in the 19th Century along with many other social science disciplines. As a science, however, i ...experiments.<ref>Korty, Margaret Barton. “Benjamin Franklin and Eighteenth Century American Libraries.” ‘‘Transactions of the American Philosophical Soc
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• Many Worlds: The New Universe and Its Theological Implications
  Cosmotheology is to be distinguished from Derham's eighteenth-century astrotheology in that the main thrust of the former is not to offer proof o ...the [[Milky Way]] galaxy. Although we have known this now for most of the century, and although it gives urgency to the religious questions (especially the I
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• Metaphysics
  ...l activity unlike the rest of philosophy, and by the end of the eighteenth century, it had begun to be called "science" in order to distinguish it from [[phil ...us dictionaries trace its first appearance in English to the mid-sixteenth century, although in some cases as early as 1387.[https://dictionary.reference.com/
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• Satan
  For the Chasidic Jews of the eighteenth century, Ha-satan was ''Baal Davar''. ...who is able to provoke [[David]] to destroy Israel. The Chronicler (third century B.C.) regards Satan as an independent agent, a view which is the more strik
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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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• Conservatism
  ...ed the critique of [[modernism]], a term first used at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch religious conservative [[Abraham Kuyper]]. Burke was troubled ...clared…this law ... encroached upon property rights... . To the eighteenth century Whig, nothing was more sacred than the rights of property, ... the protest
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