| Virtue Virtue (Latin virtus; Greek ) is moral excellence. Personal virtues are characteristics valued as promoting individual and collective well-being, and thus good by definition. Virtue
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| Apostasy Apostasy (IPA: /əˈpɒstəsi/) is the formal religious disaffiliation or abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociologists without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, one's former religion. Apostasy
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| Hurrians The Hurrians (also Khurrites; Hittites on Bartleby. cuneiform Ḫu-ur-ri ) were a people of the Ancient Near East, who lived in northern Mesopotamia and areas to the immediate east and west, beginning approximately 2500 BC. Hurrians
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| John Carpenter | birthplace = Carthage, New York, U.S. John_Carpenter
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| People of the Book In Islam, the "People of the Book" (Arabic , ), also "Followers of the Holy Books"Qur'an 5:15., are non-Muslim peoples who, according to the Qur'an], received [[scriptures which were revealed to them by God before the time of Muhammad (especially Christians and Jews). People_of_the_Book
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| Israelites According to the Bible, the Israelites were the dominant group living in the Land of Israel from the time of the conquest of the territory by Joshua until they were conquered by the Babylonians in c.586 BCE and taken into exile. Israelites
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| Satanic Verses Satanic Verses is an expression coined by the historian Sir William Muir in reference to a few verses delivered by Muhammad as part of the Qur'an and later retracted. Muslims refer to the delivery and retraction of the two verses as the Gharaniq incident. Satanic_Verses
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| Surrealist automatism Automatism has taken on many forms: the automatic writing and drawing initially (and still to this day) practiced by surrealists can be compared to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazzhttp://www.autonomedia. Surrealist_automatism
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| Child sacrifice Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please, propitiate or force supernatural beings in order to achieve a desired result. As such, it is a form of human sacrifice. Child_sacrifice
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| Child sacrifice Talk:Child_sacrifice
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| Donkey The donkey or ass, Equus asinus, is a member of the Equidae or horse family, and an odd-toed ungulate. The words donkey and ass are applied to the domesticated E. Donkey
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| Obesity Obesity
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| Adultery Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not his or her spouse, though in many places it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someone who is not her husband. In most cases, in western countries, only the married party is said to have committed adultery, and if both parties are married (but not to each other) then they both commit separate acts of adultery. Adultery
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| Ron Howard | birthplace = Duncan, Oklahoma, U.S. Ron_Howard
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| Sjögren's syndrome Sjögren's_syndrome
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| Public domain resources Wikipedia:Public_domain_resources
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| Superpower A superpower is a state with a leading position in the international system and the ability to influence events and project power on a worldwide scale; it is traditionally considered to be one step higher than a great power. Alice Lyman Miller (Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School), defines a superpower as "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes, in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global hegemon. Superpower
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| Manuel Castells Manuel Castells (full Spanish name: Manuel Castells Olivánborn 1942 in Hellín], [[Albacete (province)|Albacete, Spain) is a sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications. According to the Social Sciences Citation Index's survey of research from 2000 to 2006, Castells was ranked as the fifth most cited social sciences scholar and the foremost cited communications scholar in the world. Manuel_Castells
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| Al-Aqsa Mosque |religious_affiliation=Islam Al-Aqsa_Mosque
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| Lu Xun | birthplace = Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China Lu_Xun
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| Reinforcement learning Inspired by related psychological theory, in computer science, reinforcement learning is a sub-area of machine learning concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of long-term reward. Reinforcement learning algorithms attempt to find a policy that maps states of the world to the actions the agent ought to take in those states. Reinforcement_learning
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| Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova (, real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) ( — March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, a Russian poet credited with a large influence on Russian poetry. Anna_Akhmatova
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| Dhimmi Talk:Dhimmi
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| Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg (pronounced [ˈaːrnɔlt ˈʃøːnbɛrk]) (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He used the spelling Schönberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 (Steinberg 1995, 463), "in deference to American practice" (Foss 1951, 401), though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier (Ross 2007, 45). Arnold_Schoenberg
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| Armed Forces of Armenia - 70 Armed_Forces_of_Armenia
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| Hijab Hijab or ħijāb (, pronounced: ) is the Arabic term for "cover" (noun), based on the root حجب meaning "to veil, to cover (verb), to screen, to shelter". Hijab
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| Timeline of historic inventions The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions. Timeline_of_historic_inventions
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| Jihad Talk:Jihad
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| Mary (mother of Jesus) | death_date= unknown; See Assumption of Mary Mary_(mother_of_Jesus)
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| Jeremiah Jeremiah () ; Septuagint Greek: Ἰερεμίας) was one of the 'greater prophets' of the Hebrew Bible. He was the son of Hilkiah, a priest of Anathoth. Jeremiah
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| California State Route 1 in San Juan Capistrano California_State_Route_1
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| Islamic eschatology Talk:Islamic_eschatology
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| Asceticism Asceticism (Greek: askēsis) describes a life-style characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures (especially sexual activity and consumption of alcohol) often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals. Christianity and the Indian religions (including yoga) teach that salvation and liberation involve a process of mind-body transformation that is effected through practicing restraint with respect to actions of body, speech and mind. Asceticism
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| Islamic dietary laws Islamic dietary laws provide a set of rules as to what Muslims eat in their diet and other areas. Islamic_dietary_laws
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| Sunni Islam Talk:Sunni_Islam
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| Timeline of computing 2400 BC–1949 This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computing from Prehistory until 1949. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of computers and history of computer science. Timeline_of_computing_2400_BC–1949
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| Brigid In Irish mythology, Brigit or Brighid ("exalted one"Campbell, Mike Behind the Name) was the daughter of the Dagda and one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. She was the wife of Bres of the Fomorians, with whom she had a son, Ruadán. Brigid
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| Virginity A virgin (or maiden) is, originally, a young woman characterized by absence of sexual experience (see Etymology). Virginity is the state of being a virgin (never had vaginal intercourse). Virginity
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| Bilingual education Bilingual education involves teaching all subjects in school through two different languages - in the United States, instruction occurs in English and a minority language, such as Spanish or Chinese, with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model. The following are several different types of bilingual education program models: Bilingual_education
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| Gates McFadden | location = Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio United States Gates_McFadden
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| Walter Annenberg | birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin Walter_Annenberg
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| Kodiak, Alaska |population_total = 6182 Kodiak,_Alaska
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| Santa Barbara, California {{Infobox Settlement Santa_Barbara,_California
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| Owosso, Michigan |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID Owosso,_Michigan
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| Armenian Genocide The Armenian Genocide (, ), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, the Great Calamity (Մեծ Եղեռն)—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction (genocide) of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterised by the use of massacres, and the use of deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of Armenian deaths generally held to have been between one and one-and-a-half million. Armenian_Genocide
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| Flyweight pattern Flyweight is a software design pattern. A Flyweight is an object that minimizes memory occupation by sharing as much data as possible with other similar objects; it is a way to use objects in large numbers when a simple representation would use an unacceptable amount of memory. Flyweight_pattern
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| Henryk Górecki Henryk Mikołaj Górecki () (born December 6, 1933 in Czernica, Silesia, Poland) is a Polish composer of classical music. His work in the late 1950s and 1960s was characterised by a dissonant modernism influenced by Nono, Stockhausen and Górecki's contemporaries Penderecki and Serocki. Henryk_Górecki
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| Abbeys and priories in England Abbeys and priories in England lists abbeys, priories, friaries or other monastic religious houses in England. Abbeys_and_priories_in_England
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| Sonderkommando Sonderkommandos were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners forced to aid the killing process during The Holocaust. These groups should not be confused with the SS-Sonderkommandos which were ad hoc units formed from various SS offices between 1938 through 1945. Sonderkommando
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| Islamic banking Islamic banking refers to a system of banking or banking activity that is consistent with Islamic law (Sharia) principles and guided by Islamic economics. In particular, Islamic law prohibits usury, which is the collection and payment of interest, also commonly called riba in Islamic discourse. Islamic_banking
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