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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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