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  • 101Alice Bunker Stockham — (1833 1912) was an obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago, and the fifth woman to be made a doctor in the United States. She promoted gender equality, dress reform, birth control, and male and female sexual fulfillment for successful… …

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  • 102Encratites — The Encratites( self controlled ) were an ascetic second century sect of Christians who forbade marriage and counselled abstinence from meat. Eusebius says that Tatian was the author of this heresy [Eusebius, iv. 28, 29 ] . It is these Gnostic… …

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  • 103The Water-Method Man — Infobox Book | name = The Water Method Man title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = John Irving illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = subject = genre = Novel publisher =… …

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  • 104Wielding a Red Sword — infobox Book | name = Wielding a Red Sword title orig = translator = image caption = author = Piers Anthony illustrator = cover artist = country = language = series = Incarnations of Immortality genre = Fantasy publisher = Del Rey Books pub date …

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  • 105Uganda — Ugandan, adj., n. /yooh gan deuh, ooh gahn /, n. an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 20,604,874; 91,065 sq. mi.… …

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  • 106Sathya Sai Baba — Infobox Hindu leader name= Sathya Sai Baba birth date= birth date and age|1926|11|23 birth place= Puttaparthi birth name= Sathyanarayana Raju death date= death place= philosophy= Advaita Vedanta honors=Sai Baba quote= Love All Serve All Help Ever …

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  • 107Joseph Wharton — Infobox Person name = Joseph Wharton other names = caption = Joseph Wharton, 1902 birth date = birth date|1826|3|3|mf=y birth place =Philadelphia, Pennsylvania death date = death date and age|1909|1|11|1826|3|3|mf=y death place = Philadelphia,… …

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  • 108Ailred of Rievaulx — Infobox Saint name=Saint Ailred of Rievaulx birth date=1110 death date=death date|1167|1|12|df=y feast day=12 January venerated in=Roman Catholic Church; Anglican Communion imagesize= caption= birth place=Hexham, Northumberland, England death… …

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  • 109History of alcohol — The purposeful production of alcoholic beverages is common in many cultures and often reflects their cultural and religious peculiarities as much as their geographical and sociological conditions. Patrick (1952) states that the discovery of late… …

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  • 110Mohammed and Mohammedanism —     Mohammed and Mohammedanism     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mohammed and Mohammedanism     I. THE FOUNDER     Mohammed, the Praised One , the prophet of Islam ( see Islam (Concept) ) and the founder of Mohammedanism, was born at Mecca (20… …

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