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  • 51Principle of individuation — The Principle of Individuation is a criterion which supposedly individuates or numerically distinguishes the members of the kind for which it is given, i.e. by which we can supposedly determine, regarding any kind of thing, when we have more than …

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  • 52Maccabees — /mak euh beez /, n. 1. (used with a pl. v.) the members of the Hasmonean family of Jewish leaders and rulers comprising the sons of Mattathias and their descendants and reigning in Judea from 167? to 37 B.C., esp. Judas Maccabaeus and his… …

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  • 53beehive house — ▪ architecture       primitive type of residence designed by enlarging a simple stone hemisphere, constructed out of individual blocks, to provide greater height at the centre; the form resembles a straw beehive, hence, its name. The beehive… …

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  • 54Cortes's Account of the City of Mexico — ▪ Primary Source       FROM HIS SECOND LETTER TO THE EMPEROR CHARLES V.       In order, most potent Sire, to convey to your Majesty a just conception of the great extent of this noble city of Temixtitan, and of the many rare and wonderful objects …

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  • 55Axum — • A titular metropolitan see of ancient Christian Ethiopia Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Axum     Axum     † …

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  • 56Hymnody and Hymnology — • Hymnody means exactly hymn song , but as the hymn singer as well as the hymn poet are included under (hymnodos), so we also include under hymnody the hymnal verse or religious lyric. Hymnology is the science of hymnody or the historico… …

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  • 57Altars (in Scripture) —     Altars (in Scripture)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Altars (in Scripture)     The English word altar, if the commonly accepted etymology be adopted alta ara does not describe as well as its Hebrew and Greek equivalents, mizbeah (from zabhah,… …

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  • 58MACGREGOR, Sir William (1846-1919) — administrator, governor of Queensland was born in the parish of Towie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 20 October 1846 (Dict.Nat.Biog.). He was the eldest son of John Macgregor, a farm labourer. Educated at the school at Tillyduke, and encouraged by… …

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  • 59Altar (Bible) — Altars (Hebrew: מזבח‎, mizbe ah, a place of slaughter or sacrifice )[1] in the Hebrew Bible were typically made of earth (Exodus 20:24) or unwrought stone (20:25). Altars were generally erected in conspicuous places (Genesis 22:9; …

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  • 60arrested — Synonyms and related words: babbling, back, backward, behind, behindhand, belated, blithering, blocked, bridled, burbling, callow, caught, charmed, checked, coarse, constrained, controlled, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous,… …

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