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• Collective Intelligence
  # Flew, T. (2008). New Media: an introduction. Melbourne: Oxford University Press ...search in Professional Practice, School of Management, University of Bath: England
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• Social movement
  ...ether into a proper social movement. The "social movement" was invented in England and North America during the first decades of the nineteenth century and ha *Anthony Giddens. 1985. The Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge, England: Polity Press. ISBN 0520060393
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• Gossip
  ===In early modern England=== In Early Modern England the word "gossip" referred to companions in childbirth, not limited to the
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• Roman law
  ...egal treatises like [[William Blackstone]]'s ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' and enactments like the French [[Napoleonic Code|Code civil]]. ...ty of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. Elements of Romano-canon law were present in England in the [[ecclesiastical courts]] and, less directly, through the developmen
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• Biblical Apocrypha
  ...ollowing:<ref>''The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha'', Oxford World's Classics, 1998, ISBN-13: 978-0192835253</ref> ...isted in ''Article VI'' of the [[Thirty-Nine Articles]] of the [[Church of England]].<ref>[https://www.episcopalian.org/pbs1928/articles/AnglicanTeaching/042.
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• Religion
  ...anguages. Early influential scholars included [[Friedrich Max Müller]], in England, and [[Cornelius P. Tiele]], in the Netherlands. Today religious studies is ...science. [[Max Müller]] was the first Professor of Comparative Religion at Oxford University, a chair created especially for him. In his ''Introduction to th
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• Communion
  1538 STARKEY England II. ii. 178 The communyon betwyx them [i.e. body and soul] also to be of th ...our Communion, and say, they are misplaced. 1575 in W. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 368 Ye..Burgesses..shall yearly procure a communion or sermon to be made.
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• Orality
  ...Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry''. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971, p. 272. ...king from 12th Century [[England]]. Writing already had a long history in England, and it would have been possible to use texts to establish for example, the
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• 2013-03-26-The Flurry 12 (v2, 2)
  especially in England, that spirit could evoke anything it wished to before the eyes of an audien ...that day. As many of you may know, the premier spiritualist of the day in England was
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• Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  The Episcopal Church traces its history from its origins in the [[Church of England]]. It stresses its continuity with the early universal Western church and The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion
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• Communism
  ...nd Gordon Marshall. Oxford University Press 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. ...cise Oxford Dictionary of Politics. Ed. Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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• Academic
  ...ions and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized the term to Most notable of these schools were in [[Bologna]], [[Paris]], [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]], though others were opened throughout [[Europe]]. Study
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• Democracy
  ...(2000). ''From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First'', Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198296881. ...ns Herma]]n. (1991). ''The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes.'' Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631180173
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• Atheism
  ...]], and practically all the ''[[philosophe]]s'' of 18th-century France and England held to some form of Deism. Despite their ridicule of Christianity, many De ...nderich, Ted (Ed.) (1995). "Humanism". The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press. p 376. ISBN 0198661320.
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• Samuel Johnson
  Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford for a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as ...'' brought Johnson popularity and success; until the completion of the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', 150 years later, Johnson's was viewed as the pre-em
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• Personal
  ...//www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/person?view=uk Person], from the ''Compact Oxford English Dictionary''. In modern usage, the term "person" is subject to disp ...and persistent [[personal identity (philosophy)|personal identity]]. The [[England|English]] philosopher [[John Locke]] defined a person as "a thinking intell
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• Logic
  ...totle]]. Morris Kline, "Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972, ISBN 0-19-506135-7, p.53 "A major achievement of Ar ...nd [[Martha Kneale|Kneale, Martha]], (1962), ''The Development of Logic'', Oxford University Press, London, UK.
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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...]], advised by Peter of Pisa and Alcuin of York, attracted the scholars of England and Ireland, and by imperial decree in 787 A.D. established schools in ever ...edinger, Andrew B., ed. [1996]. Readings in Medieval Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.
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• Creativity
  ...ton, D.K. (1999). Origins of genius: Darwinian perspectives on creativity. Oxford University Press. ...vinina (Ed.) The international handbook on innovation (pp. 17-30). Oxford, England: Elsevier Science.
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• Chosen People
  ..., nineteenth-century religious reformers in Germany, America, and later in England, emphasized the universal nature of Israel's election, reiterating that the ...is clearly detailed in [[W. H. C. Frend]]'s [[The Donatist Church]] (1952; Oxford, 1971). Perhaps the most extensive study of neo-Manichaeanism to date is [[
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