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1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. 1988 - Events. January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. January 2 - Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 - Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial. 1988 - February. ...

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• 1988 - Nobel Prizes
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• 1988 - Right Livelihood Award
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As the popularity of D&D grew throughout the late-'70s and '80s, references to the game often began to appear in popular culture. For example, in the movie E.T., several of the young characters are shown playing the game. More typically, D&D players are seen as the epitome of geekdom, and references to the game are used as a shorthand to establish characterization (as in the movie Airheads) or provide the punchline of a joke (for example, on Saturday Night Live). Many players, miffed with thi ...

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Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons & Dragons - Play overview, Dungeons & Dragons - Adventures, Dungeons & Dragons - Miniature figures, Dungeons & Dragons - Game History, Dungeons & Dragons - Influences, Dungeons & Dragons - Edition history, Dungeons & Dragons - Legacy, Dungeons & Dragons - Related products, Dungeons & Dragons - Magazines, Dungeons & Dragons - Films and TV, Dungeons & Dragons - Computer and video games, Dungeons & Dragons - Novels, Dungeons & Dragons - Comics, Dungeons & Dragons - Board games, Dungeons & Dragons - References in popular culture, Dungeons & Dragons - Controversy and notoriety

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The end times are, in one version of Judeo-Christian eschatology and in Islam, a time of tribulation that will precede the Second Coming of the Messiah. Specifically, what is usually referred to as the 'end times' revolves around a cluster of beliefs in Christian or Rastafarian millennialism. These beliefs typically include the ideas that the biblical apocalypse is imminent and that various signs in current events are omens of Armageddon. These beliefs have been widely held in one form, by the Adventist movement (Millerites), by Jehov ...

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• End times - Christianity
• End times - Roots of contemporary end-times belief
• End times - The dispensationalist prophecies
• End times - Views by groups
• End times - Catholics
• End times - Jehovah's Witnesses
• End times - Latter-day Saints
• End times - Preterism
• End times - Rastafarians
• End times - Fictional treatments
• End times - Literature
• End times - Motion pictures

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Absolute pitch, widely referred to as perfect pitch, refers to the ability to identify a note by name without the benefit of a reference note, or to be able to produce a note (as in singing) that is the correct pitch without reference. Absolute pitch - Definition. Absolute pitch has been defined as "the ability to attach labels to isolated auditory stimuli on the basis of pitch alone" (Ward and Burns, 1982). A person with absolute pitch will be able to, at minimum, know when a piece is ...

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• Absolute pitch - Definition
• Absolute pitch - Distinctions
• Absolute pitch - Passive absolute pitch
• Absolute pitch - Active absolute pitch
• Absolute pitch - Correlation with musical genius
• Absolute pitch - Scientific studies related to absolute pitch
• Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch as a special case of sensation
• Absolute pitch - Absolute pitch and linguistics
• Absolute pitch - Nature or Nurture?
• Absolute pitch - Famous possessors of absolute pitch

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Hannibal Lecter - Early life and murder spree. Hannibal Lecter was born in Lithuania in 1938 to wealthy parents. His father was a count, his mother a descendent of the famous Visconti family of Milan. In Hannibal he is said to be a cousin of the artist Balthus. He had a younger sister named Mischa. When Lecter was six, a group of German deserters retreating from Russia shelled his family's estate, killing his parents and most of the servants. Lecter, his sister, and other local children were rounded ...

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Hannibal Lecter, Hannibal Lecter - Biography, Hannibal Lecter - Early life and murder spree, Hannibal Lecter - Helping the FBI, Hannibal Lecter - Winning Clarice, Hannibal Lecter - Appearance, Hannibal Lecter - Lecter as Cultural Figure, Hannibal Lecter - Related References

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A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its small stature and subterranean lifestyle. According to Paracelsus, gnomes are the most important of the elemental spirits of the classical element earth, and they move as easily through the earth as humans walk upon it. The sun's rays turn them into stone. In other traditions, they are simply small, mischievous sprites or goblins. Some sources claim they spe ...

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• Gnome - Garden gnomes
• Gnome - Gnomic Culture

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By the 1960s and 1970s, as a consequence of its massive, international growth in the post-World War II era, the Church was no longer primarily a Utah-based church, but a world-wide organization. The church, mirroring the world around it, felt the disunifying strains of alien cultures and diverse points of view that had brought an end to the idealistic modern age. At the same time, the postmodern world was increasingly skeptical of traditional religion and authority, and driven by mass-media and public image. These influences awoke within the ...

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History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Migration to Utah and Colonization of the West c. 1846 to c. 1856, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Brigham Young's early theocratic leadership, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The Church's attempt to restructure society on the fringes of the United States c. 1856 to c. 1890, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The Mormon Reformation, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Early political conflicts between Mormons and outsiders, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Brigham Young's later years, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Polygamy and the United States Mormon question, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The Church and the modern world c. 1890 to c. 1960, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The beginnings of Mormon involvement in and attention to national politics, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The effect of modernism on Mormon doctrine, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The beginnings of the Church bureaucracy, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The Church and Lamanites, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Reacting and Adapting to the Postmodern World c. 1960 and later, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Latter-day Saint ecumenism, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Emerging Multiculturalism, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Centralization of Church Structure, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Making Church Participation More Convenient, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Reacting to pluralism, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The Church and the Information Age

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After the coup, the military is faced with the issue of the type of government to establish. In Latin America, it was common for the post-coup government to be led by a junta, a committee of the chiefs of staff of the various armed forces. A common form of African post-coup government is the revolutionary assembly, a quasi-legislative body made of members elected by the army. In Pakistan, the military leader ...

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Coup d'état, Coup d'état - History, Coup d'état - Recent forms of coup, Coup d'état - Types of coups, Coup d'état - Post-military-coup governments, Coup d'état - Important coups in the 19th century, Coup d'état - Important coups in the 20th century, Coup d'état - Recent coups and coup attempts, Coup d'état - Currently-serving leaders who came to power via coups, Coup d'état - Reference

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The series was created by Irna Phillips, who based it on personal experiences. After giving birth to a still-born baby at age 19, she found spiritual comfort listening to sermons by a preacher of a church centered on the brotherhood of man. It was these sermons that formed the nucleus of the creation of The Guiding Light. Guiding Light - The radio years. The radio show's original storyline centered around a preacher named Rev. John Ruthledge (Arthur Peterson, Jr.) and all the people of a fictional s ...

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Guiding Light, Guiding Light - History, Guiding Light - The radio years, Guiding Light - Early years on television, Guiding Light - 1960s, Guiding Light - 1970s, Guiding Light - 1980s, Guiding Light - 1990s, Guiding Light - 2000s, Guiding Light - Trivia, Guiding Light - Day-Behind airings, Guiding Light - Cast, Guiding Light - Current cast members, Guiding Light - Recurring cast members, Guiding Light - Coming and going cast members, Guiding Light - Head writers and executive producers

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1988 - January. January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. January 2 - Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 - Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial. 1988 - February. February 3 - The United States House of Representatives controlled by the Democratic Party re ...

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1988 - January to March. January 2 - Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901) January 5 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947) January 7 - Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913) January 11 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b. 1912) January 13 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910) January 14 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902) January 15 - Se ...

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