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• Choir
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...ian_polychoral_style polychoral] [[composition]]. In typical 18th- to 21st-century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio oratorios] and [https://en.wikipedi
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• Gloom
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...sociated with depression. This association was made as far back as the 2nd century by the ancient Greek physician, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretaeus_of_
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• Catacombs
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...y 1836 to refer to any subterranean receptacle of the dead, as in the 18th-century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris Paris catacombs].
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• Easter
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...s one of the high points of the Christian calendar, and since the late 2nd century Easter has also been a time for [[baptism]]. The painting of eggs and tales
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• Forthright
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ::1873 J. R. Lowell ''Among my Bks''. 2nd Ser. 123 Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase.
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• Sadducees
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...eriod, starting from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_century_BC 2nd century BC] through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple#Destruction de
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• Compass
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...e_Ages medieval] Europe around 1300. This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.
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• Dictatorship
  ...ification. There were no such dictatorships after the beginning of the 2nd century BC, and later dictators such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla Sulla] ...e [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] and early 21st century hereditary dictatorship remained a relatively common [[phenomenon]].
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• Oxford Companion to Black British History
  ...t day. From African auxiliaries stationed on [[Hadrian's Wall]] in the 2nd century AD, through [[John Edmonstone]], who taught taxidermy to [[Charles Darwin]]
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• Mundane
  ..., [[earthly]], relating to the [[universe]], [[cosmic]] (earliest attested 2nd cent. a.d. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apuleius Apuleius] *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]
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• Rosary
  The traditional 15 Mysteries of the Rosary were set by Pope Pius V the 16th century. The mysteries are grouped into three sets: the joyful mysteries, the sorro # "Rosary". Wedgewood, Hensleigh. A Dictionary of English Etymology. 2nd ed. London: Trubner & Co., 1872. pg 544.
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• Alpha and the Omega
  ...â, v), and from Prudentius (Cathemer., ix, 10) we learn that in the fourth century the [[interpretation]] of the apocalyptic letters was still the same: "Alph
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• Yin and yang
  ...hy of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Zhongshu Dong Zhongshu], (c. 2nd century BCE) a moral dimension is attached to the yin-yang idea.
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• Judea
  ...ישראל‎ Eretz Yisrael) from the 8th century BCE (Assyrian rule) to the 2nd century CE, when [[Roman]] Judea was renamed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_P
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• Babylonia
  ...in the north and [[Sumer]] in the south combined in the first half of the 2nd millennium bc . ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammurabi Hammurabi] in the first half of the 18th century BC, becoming a major capital city. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterw
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• Original Sin
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] The concept of ''original sin'' was first alluded to in the 2nd century by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irenaeus Irenaeus], Bishop of Lyons in hi
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• Marathon
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_of_Samosata Lucian of Samosata] (2nd century AD) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides ...idippides]. Browning's poem, his composite story, became part of late 19th century popular culture and was accepted as a historic legend.[citation needed]
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• Mesopotamia
  ..._Alexander The Anabasis of Alexander]'', which was written in the late 2nd century AD, but specifically refers to sources from the time of [https://en.wikiped ...tian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and 3rd century AD, including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra.
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• Viking
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century] ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widsith Widsith]'', which probably dates from the 9th century. In Old English, and in the history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen wr
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• Elohim
  ...r in terms of monotheism by the emergence of Rabbinical Judaism in the 2nd century AD.[5] ...der Horst (eds), "Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible" (revised 2nd edition, Brill, 1999) p.274, 352-3
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• Libertine
  ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester], and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade ...Divinity in the University of St. Andrews, and Christian minister in 17th Century Scotland) offered a rigorous treatment of "Libertinism" in his polemical wo
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• Fallen angel
  ...taken to identify the "sons of God" of Gen 6:1 and 4 as angels. By the 3rd century, there is [[evidence]] that some early Christians accepted this Jewish Enoc
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• Conundrum
  ..., such as a conflict known as Buridan’s ass, which was posed by fourteenth-century philosopher Jean Buridan. An ass forced to choose between two equally lusci ...uch as the problem faced by economists in the second half of the twentieth century of how to achieve full employment without inflation.
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• University
  ...ult of manifold [[change]]s occurring in the second half of the nineteenth century. Demographic and urban growth, industrialization, democracy, and religious ...and encourage [[religious]] [[belief]]. Until approximately the nineteenth century, most graduates of universities entered clerical careers, and most academic
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• Holy
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] The [[English]] [[word]] holy dates back to at least the 11th Century with the Old English word '''hālig''', an adjective derived from ''hāl''
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• Wheel
  *Date: before [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Century 12th century] ...us_Valley_Civilization Indus Valley] by the 3rd millennium BCE. During the 2nd millennium BCE, the spoke-wheeled chariot spread at an increased pace, reac
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• Dialogue
  ...cily|Sicilian]] poets [[Sophron]] and [[Epicharmus]] had cultivated half a century earlier. The works of these writers, which Plato admired and imitated, hav In the [[2nd century|2nd century AD]]. [[Lucian of Samosata]] achieved a brilliant success with his ironic d
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• Hebrews
  ...in Jewish holy scriptures, study, speech and prayer. Since the late 19th century, Hebrew has undergone a secular revival, to become the primary everyday lan
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• Immortal
  * [[Melchizedek]] (18th century BC), a priest. According to some [[translation]]s of [[Hebrews]] 7:3: "With * The Wandering Jew (b. 1st century BC), a Jewish shoemaker. According to legend, he taunted [[Jesus]] on his w
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• Ratio
  ...ios delayed the full acceptance of fractions as alternative until the 16th century.[11] * "Proportion" New International Encyclopedia, Vol. 19 2nd ed. (1916) Dodd Mead & Co. pp270-271
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• Yoga
  ...ced by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pata%C3%B1jali Patañjali] in the 2nd century BC. Someone who practices yoga or follows the yoga philosophy with a high l
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• Mirror
  ...a ray coming from one point is reflected to another point.[4] By the 11th century, clear glass mirrors were being produced in Moorish Spain.[5] ...e exact date and location of the [[discovery]] is unknown, but in the 16th century, [[Venice]], a city famed for its glass-making expertise, became a centre o
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• Reconciliation
  ...meaning]] in the [[context]] of the [[war]]s and violence of the twentieth century. But the wars of the twentieth century and the many situations of transitional [[justice]] (the restoration of civ
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• Christ as Logos
  ...nism]]. The debate about the [[nature]] of [[Jesus|Christ]] from the first century through the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE must be understood in light of t ...ginning of the second century AD, Pre-Gnosticism was present in the second century BC. This syncretism is clearly seen in the parallelism of the Rabbinic writ
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• Rest
  ...re [[thought]] to have emerged in Victorian Britain in the late nineteenth century, late in the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Early factories required workers to # The “u” first appeared in the early sixteenth century, probably by analogy with words such as pleasure.[1]
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• Paper
  ...e early 12th century. [[Mechanized]] production of paper in the early 19th century caused significant cultural changes worldwide, allowing for relatively chea
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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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• Jurors
  The modern jury trial evolved out of this custom in the mid 12th century during the reign of Henry II. [1] Juries, usually 6 or 12 men, were an "anc ==18th Century England==
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• Adolf von Harnack
  In the 19th century, [[higher criticism]] flourished in Germany, establishing the [[historical- ...ritative]] doctrinal system of the church and its development from the 4th century down to the Protestant Reformation. He considered that from its earliest or
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  ...eachings of [[Buddha|Gautama Buddha]], a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama (c. [[5th century BCE]]). Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in [[metaphysic ...rocess took shape from about the [[2nd century BCE]] to probably the [[2nd century CE]].
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• Transformation
  ...f thousand years (although its present form dates to around the 4th or 5th century c.e.). Unlike classic Hinduism, the traditional Samkhyan philosophy is [[at .... And while essentially a [[static]] worldview, by the 18th and early 19th century it had been "temporalized" by the [[concept]] of the soul ascending or prog
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• Literary theory
  ...e the [[18th century]], [[aesthetics]] and [[hermeneutics]]. In the [[20th century]], "theory" has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approach ...s from [[ancient philosophy]] through the [[18th century|18th]] and [[19th century|19th centuries]] are important influences on current literary study. The th
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• Alchemy
  ...aqua vitae (alcohol) and of the mineral acids, both before the thirteenth century; the preparation of vitriol and the alums. ...post-Renaissance alchemical literature. An author quoted by the fifteenth-century Rosarium philosophorum declares that "only he who knows how to make the Phi
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• Materialism
  Later Indian materialist Jayaraashi Bhatta (6th century CE) in his work ''Tattvopaplavasimha'' ("the Upsetting of all principles") In early 12th-century al-Andalus], the Arabian philosopher, Ibn Tufail (Abubacer), wrote discussi
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• Hebrew Bible
  [[Image:Targum2.jpg|right|frame|<center>265px|11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with [[Targum]]</center>]] ...of the relationship between the Testaments became controversial in the 2nd century. Consensus was eventually achieved, well before the Catholic-Orthodox divis
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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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• Medieval Philosophy
  ...Empire]] in the fifth century A.D. to the [[Renaissance]] in the sixteenth century. It is defined partly by the [[process]] of rediscovering the ancient cultu ...ed and cultivated; *the [[Islamic]] period from the seventh to the twelfth century, consisting of translating the ancient philosophers, commenting upon, clari
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• Sociology of religion
  ...classical, seminal sociological theorists of the late 19th and early 20th century were greatly interested in [[religion]] and its effects on society. These t ...r, noteworthy for anticipating the “[[culture]] [[war]]s” of the late 20th century, especially their religious [[character]].
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• Collective Intelligence
  ...om, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, 2000 ...Technology, Industry, Culture” in Terry Flew, New Media: An Introduction (2nd edn), Oxford University Press, South Melbourne 101-114.
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• Gifford Lectures
  ...wick Owen Chadwick] ''The Secularisation of the European Mind in the 19th Century'', ISBN 0-521-39829-0 ...kipedia.org/wiki/John_Hick John Hick] ''An Interpretation of Religion'', (2nd ed.): ISBN 0-300-10668-8
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