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  • 31The Martyrs of Gorkum —     The Martyrs of Gorkum     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Martyrs of Gorkum     The year 1572, Luther and Calvin had already wrested from the Church a great part of Europe. The iconoclastic storm had swept through the Netherlands, and was… …

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  • 32The Light of Asia — subtitled The Great Renunciation , is a book by Edwin Arnold. The first edition of the book was published in London in July 1879.In the form of poem, the book endeavors to describe the life and time of Prince Gautama Buddha, who after attaining …

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  • 33The History of England from the Accession of James the Second — is the full title of the multi volume work by Lord Macaulay more generally known as The History of England .The history is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of… …

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  • 34Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion — ▪ fraudulent document       fraudulent document that served as a pretext and rationale for anti Semitism in the early 20th century. The document purports to be a report of a series of 24 (in other versions, 27) meetings held at Basel, Switz., in… …

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  • 35Ari Thorgilsson the Learned — ▪ Icelandic historian born c. 1067 died November 9, 1148       Icelandic chieftain, priest, and historian whose Íslendingabók (Libellus Islandorum; The Book of the Icelanders) is the first history of Iceland written in the vernacular. Composed… …

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  • 36The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …

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  • 37The Shadow (fairy tale) — Infobox Book | name = The Shadow title orig = Danish: Skyggen translator = image caption = Vilhelm Pedersen illustration author = Hans Christian Andersen country = Denmark language = Danish series = genre = Fairy tale published in = publication… …

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  • 38Learned treatise — A learned treatise, in the law of evidence, is a text that is sufficiently authoritiative in its field to be admissible as evidence in a court in support of the contentions made therein.Under the common law, such evidence was considered hearsay a …

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  • 39The Merchant of Venice — This article is about Shakespeare s play. For other uses, see The Merchant of Venice (disambiguation). The Merchant of Venice Title page of the first quarto of Merchant of Venice (1600) …

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  • 40The Art of Fugue — A portrait which may show Bach in 1750 The Art of Fugue (or The Art of the Fugue, original German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete work[1] by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). It was most likely started at the beginning of the… …

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