| Ambrose Saint Ambrose (c. between 337 and 340bishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the fourth century. He is counted as one of the four original doctors of the Church. Ambrose
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| Andrea Alciato Andrea Alciato, commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus) (January 12, 1492 - 1550), was an Italian jurist and writer. He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists. Andrea_Alciato
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| Ark of the Covenant Ark of the Covenant ( Ārōn Hāb’rīt Aron Habrit]Tābūt Al-ʿahd) is the sacred container, wherein rested the Tablets of stone containing the Ten Commandments as well as Aaron's rod and manna. The Ark was built at the command of God, in accord with Moses' prophetic vision on Mount Sinai (). Ark_of_the_Covenant
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| Apostolic succession Apostolic succession is the doctrine in some of the more ancient Christian communions that the succession of bishops, in uninterrupted lines, is historically traceable back to the original Twelve Apostles Within Catholic Christianity it "is one of four elements which define the true Church of Jesus Christ" and legitimizes the existing sacramental offices, as it is considered necessary for a bishop to perform legitimate or "valid" ordinations of priests, deacons, and other bishops. Apostolic_succession
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| Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi AC (; ), born 19 June 1945 in Rangoon, is Prime Minister-elect, Aung_San_Suu_Kyi
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| Baptist A Baptist is a Christian who subscribes to a theology and may belong to a church that, among other things, is committed to believer's baptism (as opposed to infant baptism) and, with respect to church polity, favors the congregational model. The term Baptist can also describe a church, denomination, or other group of individuals made up of individual Baptists. Baptist
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| Bram Stoker Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847–20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Bram_Stoker
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| Christianity Christianity (from the word "Christ") is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. The Christian faith is essentially faith in Jesus as the Christ (or Messiah), the Son of God, the Savior, and God (Yahweh or the "Lord") himself.Adherents of Christianity, known as Christians, believe that Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (the part of scripture common to Christianity and Judaism). Christianity
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| Canada Day Canada Day (), formerly Dominion Day (), is Canada's national day, a federal statutory holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867 enactment of the British North America Act of 1867, which united Canada as a single country of four provinces. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally. Canada_Day
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| Common Era Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used world-wide for numbering the year part of the date. The numbering of years using Common Era notation is identical to the numbering used with Anno Domini (BC/AD) notation, being the current year in both notations and neither using a year zero. Common_Era
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| Differential cryptanalysis Differential cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis applicable primarily to block ciphers, but also to stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. In the broadest sense, it is the study of how differences in an input can affect the resultant difference at the output. Differential_cryptanalysis
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| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a Mainline Protestant denomination in North America. It is often referred to as The Christian Church, The Disciples of Christ, or more simply as The Disciples. It has made significant contributions to worldwide Christianity through the evangelistic work of its missionary societies and through its participation in the ecumenical dialogue of the 20th century. Christian_Church_(Disciples_of_Christ)
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| Folklore Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group. Folklore
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| Guerrilla warfare Guerrilla warfare is the unconventional warfare and combat in which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes, raids, etc.) to combat a larger and less mobile formal army. The guerrilla army uses ambush (stealth and surprise) and mobility (draw enemy forces to terrain unsuited to them) in attacking vulnerable targets in enemy territory.This term means "little war" in Spanish and was created during the Peninsular War. Guerrilla_warfare
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| John Diefenbaker John_Diefenbaker
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| King Arthur King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians. King_Arthur
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| Knife A knife is any cutting edge or blade, handheld or otherwise, with or without a handle. Knives were used at least two-and-a-half million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools. Originally made of rock, flint, and obsidian; knives have evolved in construction as technology has with blades being made from bronze, copper, iron, steel, ceramics, and titanium. Knife
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| Korn shell The Korn shell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn (AT&T Bell Laboratories) in the early 1980s. It is backwards-compatible with the Bourne shell and includes many features of the C shell as well, such as a command history, which was inspired by the requests of Bell Labs users.The main advantage of ksh over the traditional Unix shell is in its use as a programming language. Korn_shell
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| Lombards Talk:Lombards
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| Music For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of music.Music is an art form whose medium is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses". Music
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| Melancholia Melancholia (from Greek μελαγχολία - melancholia, also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist:saturnine, see Saturn (mythology)), in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of enthusiasm and eagerness for activity. Melancholia
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| Newfoundland (island) Newfoundland (; , ) — is a large Canadian island off the east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The island of Newfoundland (originally called Terra Nova, from "New Land" in Latin, but also in Portuguese, Italian, Galician and Catalan) was "discovered" and named by the Italian John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto), working under contract to England on his expedition from Bristol, England in 1497. Newfoundland_(island)
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| Newfoundland and Labrador Talk:Newfoundland_and_Labrador
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| Protestantism Protestantism is a movement within Christianity that originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the principal traditions within Christianity, together with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Anglicanism and Nontrinitarian Christianity, both of which are significantly influenced by Protestantism, are also sometimes considered separate traditions. Protestantism
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| Photoelectric effect Talk:Photoelectric_effect
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| Religious affiliations of United States Presidents The religious affiliations of Presidents of the United States can affect their electability, shape their visions of society and how they want to lead it, and shape their stances on policy matters. Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and even William Howard Taft Religious_affiliations_of_United_States_Presidents
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| Quasigroup Talk:Quasigroup
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| Oswald of Northumbria Oswald (c 604 August 5, 642) was King of Northumbria from 634 until his death, and is now venerated as a Christian saint. He was the son of Æthelfrith of Bernicia and came to rule after spending a period in exile; after defeating the British ruler Cadwallon ap Cadfan, Oswald brought the two Northumbrian kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira once again under a single ruler, and promoted the spread of Christianity in Northumbria. Oswald_of_Northumbria
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| Yellow fever Talk:Yellow_fever
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| Mycenae "Lion Gate" redirects here. For other uses, see Lions' Gate (disambiguation).Mycenae (Greek Mykēnai or Mykēnē), is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6Corinth, 48Argolid to the Saronic Gulf. Mycenae
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| Telugu language Telugu_language
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| James A. Garfield James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration, made his tenure the second shortest (after William Henry Harrison) in United States history.Before his election as president, Garfield served as a major general in the United States Army and as a member of the U.S. James_A._Garfield
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| Hayley Wickenheiser Hayley Wickenheiser (born August 12, 1978) is a women's ice hockey player for Canada. She was also the first woman to play full time professional hockey at a position other than goalie. Wickenheiser has represented Canada at the Winter Olympics three times, capturing two gold and one silver medals. Hayley_Wickenheiser
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| World Council of Churches World Council of Churches (WCC) is an international Christian ecumenical organization. Based in Geneva, Switzerland , it is a fellowship of about 340 churches of which 157 are members. The fellowship includes denominations collectively representing about 550 million Christians throughout more than 120 countries. World_Council_of_Churches
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| Brahmic family of scripts The Brahmic family is a family of syllabaries (writing systems) used in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and parts of Central Asia and East Asia, descended from the Brāhmī script.The individual syllabaries may be called Brahmic scripts or Indic scripts. Brahmic_family_of_scripts
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| Linear cryptanalysis In cryptography, linear cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis based on finding affine approximations to the action of a cipher. Attacks have been developed for block ciphers and stream ciphers. Linear cryptanalysis is one of the two most widely used attacks on block ciphers; the other being differential cryptanalysis.The discovery is attributed to Mitsuru Matsui, who first applied the technique to the FEAL cipher (Matsui and Yamagishi, 1992). Linear_cryptanalysis
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| Systematics Talk:Systematics
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| Cartimandua Cartimandua
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| Nucleobase Nucleobase
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| Louise Arbour Louise Arbour, CC (born February 10, 1947) is the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. She is slated to become the next president and CEO of the International Crisis Group. Louise_Arbour
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| Newfoundland (island) Talk:Newfoundland_(island)
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| Bruce Cockburn Bruce Douglas Cockburn, OC ( ; born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His 29th album was released in summer 2006, and he has written songs in styles ranging from folk to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll. Bruce_Cockburn
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| Romana Talk:Romana
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| Craig, Colorado Craig,_Colorado
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| Common Era Talk:Common_Era
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| Saint Mungo Saint Mungo is the commonly used name for Saint Kentigern (also known as Cantigernus (Latin) or Cyndeyrn Garthwys (Welsh)). He was the late 6th century apostle of the Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in modern Scotland, and patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. Saint_Mungo
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| Penda of Mercia Penda (died November 15, 655) was a 7th-century King of Mercia, a kingdom in what is today the English Midlands. A pagan at a time when Christianity was taking hold in many of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Penda participated in the defeat of the powerful Northumbrian king Edwin at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633. Penda_of_Mercia
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| Æthelfrith of Northumbria Æthelfrith (died c. 616) was King of Bernicia from c. 593 until c. 616; he was also, beginning c. 604, the first Bernician king to also rule Deira, to the south of Bernicia. Since Deira and Bernicia were the two basic components of what would later be defined as Northumbria, Æthelfrith can be considered, in historical terms, the first Northumbrian king. Æthelfrith_of_Northumbria
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| Ecumenism Ecumenism (also ëcumenism, oecumenism, œcumenism, or even eucumenism) now mainly refers to initiatives aimed at greater religious unity or cooperation. In its broadest sense, this unity or cooperation may refer to a worldwide religious unity; by the advocation of a greater sense of shared spirituality across the three Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Ecumenism
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| Eye Talk:Eye
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