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• History
  ...rACAAAAIAAJ The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?id=wrACAAA ...rd "estoire" was coined by Brigitte Gasson. The word entered the [[English language]] in [[1390]] with the meaning of "relation of incidents, story". In [[Mid
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• Evil
  ...orm ''*Ubilaz'', comparable to the Hittite ''huwapp-'' ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European form ''*wap-'' and suffixed zero-grade form ''*up-elo-''. Other later Germa ...off our feelings towards the person we are harming. He cites the use of [[language]] in Nazi Germany as being a key to how the German people were able to do t
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• Mortal Knowlege: The Originary Event, & The Emergence of the Sacred
  ...nt will be compared. Next, brief considerations on a minimal definition of language will be followed by a look at the suddenness and revelatory aspects of its hypothesis per se—that human language, and with it, humanity itself, came into being in an event—has a higher l
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• God
  ...the Proto-Germanic *''ǥuđan''. Most linguists agree that the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form *ǵhu-tó-m was based on the root *ǵhau(ə)-, which meant either "to In the [[English]] language the capitalization continues to represent a distinction between monotheisti
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• Novel
  ...ems to have become the label of romantic fictions because of the "Romance" language in which early (11th and twelfth century) works of this genre were composed ...Verse allowed the culture of oral traditions to live on, yet it became the language of authors who carefully composed their texts — texts to be spread in wri
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• El
  ...ia, however, Dante contradicts this by saying that God was called I in the language of Adam, and only named El in later Hebrew, but before the confusion of ton
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• Self Esteem
  ...mastery, self-reproach, and self-sacrifice — are no longer in fashion. The language most in favor is that which exalts the self — self-expression, self-asser ...f-esteem; self-respect" in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, 2000. Online at https://www.bartleby.com/61/58/S0245800.ht
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• Book of Daniel
  ...competent to serve in the king's palace, and to teach them the letters and language of the Chalde'ans. ...cept their own God. [29] Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed'nego sh
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• Science fiction
  # The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000. ...ictions Then, Now, and in the (Imagined) Future", Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2001), pp. 25–47 (30f.)
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• Human Being
  ...[heterochrony]]), allowing for an extended period of social learning and [[language acquisition]] in juvenile humans. [[Physical anthropology|Physical anthropo ...ception]], [[learning]], [[problem solving]], [[memory]], [[attention]], [[language]] and [[emotion]] are all well-researched areas as well. Cognitive psycholo
  56 KB (8,237 words) - 00:50, 13 December 2020
• The Shaman Reborn in Cyberspace
  ...lien obsessions that populate today’s ‘technological unconscious’. The [[language]] and [[ideas]] of the [[information]] [[society]] have slipped into ...e mestizoshamans of the Amazon region. Ayahuasca derives from the Quechua language: huasca meaning ‘vine’ and aya meaning ‘dead people’. Thus the
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