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An atrocity (from the Latin atrox, "atrocious", from Latin ater = "matte black" (as distinct from niger = "shiny black")) is a term used to describe crimes ranging from an act committed against a single person to one committed against a population or ethnic group. In general use, an atrocity or massacre designates a politically or ethnically motivated killing of civilians. In international law, more precise ...

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Ashta-mangalas are a set of eight auspiciopus symbols. There is some variation among different traditions about the eight symbols. Digambara Jain tradition: Chhatra (parasol), dhwaja (banner), Kalasha (pot), chauri (wisk), Darpana (mirror), Bhadrasana (seat), fan and vessal. Swetambara Jain tradition: swastika, srivatsa, nandyavarta, vardhmanaka (food vassel), bhadrasana (seat), kalasha (pot), mirror, fish pair. Tibetan Buddhism: Chattra or Parasol, Dhwaja or banner, Sankha or Conch; Shrivasta or an infinite knot, Dharmachakra or the wheel of the law, Kalash ...

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Beaujolais is a historical province and a wine-producing region in France. It is now part of the Burgundy région for administrative purposes. The region is known internationally for its long tradition of winemaking, and more recently for the enormously popular Beaujolais nouveau. Beaujolais - Beaujolais wines. The Beaujolais is a French AOC wine, almost all Beaujolais wines are reds of the Gamay grape but like most AOC wines are not labelled varietally. Whites from the region, which make up ...

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Barebacking is a term that originated in gay slang for acts of anal sex performed between two anonymous or casual partners without the use of a condom. In addition to the term's use amongst men who have sex with men, some straight people have used the term to denote any type of penetrative sexual act without the use of a condom. This term is mostly used in first-world or developed countries with a strong gay subculture. Barebacking - Barebacking among gay men. Before the advent of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of t ...

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• Barebacking - Barebacking among gay men
• Barebacking - Rising popularity of barebacking amongst gay men and ensuing controversy
• Barebacking - Heterosexual barebacking and ensuing lack of controversy
• Barebacking - Bugchasers and gift givers
• Barebacking - Barebacking and prostitution

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Bartopian Theory - The Bartopian Theory. A theory first proposed by the Russian Dr.S.Lunskaya in 1972, that humans were actually created as the result of Aliens copulating with Monkeys thousands upon thousands of years ago. The basis of this theory is studies of the Bible and other ancient religious manuscripts with the idea that the stories of angels coming down from the skies are actually descriptions of aliens and their space crafts. More of an expansion on the theory as put forward b ...

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• Bartopian Theory - The Bartopian Theory

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Basketball moves are generally individual actions used by players to pass by defenders to gain access to the basket or to get a clean pass to a teammate. Basketball moves - Facing Opponent. Basketball moves - Triple Threats. A combination of the jab step and the pump fake and the crossover to get the defender out of his defensive stance. The jab step is performed when a player holds onto the ball before dribbling while his secondary leg performs a routine j ...

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• Basketball moves - Facing Opponent
• Basketball moves - Triple Threats
• Basketball moves - Dribbling
• Basketball moves - Spin Move
• Basketball moves - Hesitation Dribble
• Basketball moves - Layup
• Basketball moves - Finger Roll
• Basketball moves - Tear Drop
• Basketball moves - Power Stop/Drive
• Basketball moves - Passes
• Basketball moves - Blind Pass
• Basketball moves - Behind the Back
• Basketball moves - Dish
• Basketball moves - Two Person Game
• Basketball moves - Give and Go
• Basketball moves - Pick and Roll
• Basketball moves - Back Door

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The Ashanti (also Asante) are a major ethnic group from Africa who speak a dialect of Akan. Prior to European colonization, the Ashanti Confederacy was a major state, particularly during the period from 1570 to 1900. Ashanti wealth was based on the region's substantial deposits of gold. These luscious gold deposits led to many people who started metal-working. From these gold deposits came a golden stool. The stool was sacred, so that no one could sit, touch, or even get within a ...

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• Ashanti people - Slave Trade
• Ashanti people - European Resistance

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Beatmatching is a mixing technique employed by DJs that was popularized by Francis Grasso in the late 60's/early 70's. While originally it involved counting the tempo with a metronome and finding a record with the same tempo, today it involves changing the speed at which a recording is played back so that its tempo matches that of the song currently playing. In this way, the DJ can either simultaneously play two songs of different original tempos without their beats clashing or "galloping" or can more smoothly transition between two s ...

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Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness, is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics whose aim is to define that which would have to be synthesized were consciousness to be found in an engineered artefact.1 The idea of producing an artificial sentient being is ancient and is featured in numerous myths such as the Golem, the Greek promethean myth, mechanical men in Chrétien d ...

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• Artificial consciousness - The nature of consciousness
• Artificial consciousness - Information processing and consciousness
• Artificial consciousness - Consciousness in digital computers
• Artificial consciousness - Schools of thought
• Artificial consciousness - Artificial consciousness as a field of study
• Artificial consciousness - Practical approaches
• Artificial consciousness - Franklin’s Intelligent Distribution Agent
• Artificial consciousness - Haikonen’s Cognitive architecture
• Artificial consciousness - Testing for artificial consciousness
• Artificial consciousness - The ethics of artificial consciousness
• Artificial consciousness - Artificial consciousness in literature and movies

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In the English language, yo has become a common interjection that originated decades ago in a dialect spoken in the Philadelphia area. It is often interchangeable with the word "hey," as in "Yo, what's up?" or, "Yo! Wait for me!" While the word can also stand alone as a greeting, like the word "hey," it also has a wide range of meanings that depend on the tone, context, and situation in which it is used. Examples: If someone is bothering another person, "Yo!" becomes the equivalent of saying "Hey! Stop it," or "Knock it o ...

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Mortification of the flesh literally means "putting the flesh to death". The term is primarily used in religious contexts, and is practiced in a variety of ways. The institutional and traditional terminology of this practice in Catholicism is corporal mortification. Mortification of the flesh - Forms. In its simplest form, it can mean merely denying oneself certain bodily pleasures, such as by abstaining from chocolate, from meat, from food generally (fasting), from alcohol, or from sex. It ca ...

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• Mortification of the flesh - Forms
• Mortification of the flesh - Practices in Different Religions & Cultures
• Mortification of the flesh - Jewish practices
• Mortification of the flesh - Etymology and Christian roots
• Mortification of the flesh - Examples of mortification of the flesh in Christian history
• Mortification of the flesh - Modern Christian theology
• Mortification of the flesh - Recent Church documents
• Mortification of the flesh - Pain as means for a higher end
• Mortification of the flesh - Pain is to be loved relative to the positive end
• Mortification of the flesh - Pain as an integral part of human nature united to the Person of Christ
• Mortification of the flesh - The teaching of Pope John Paul II: the salvific meaning of suffering
• Mortification of the flesh - Need for suffering
• Mortification of the flesh - Process of revealing the meaning of suffering
• Mortification of the flesh - Joy in suffering: sharing in the redemption

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African American contemporary issues have been of concern to many African Americans and other ethnic groups in the United States. Many African Americans have been discriminated and left impoverished in American society, but many African Americans have also risen to the middle and upper classes recently. African American contemporary issues - Institutional racism and discrimination. Institutional racism is top-down discrimination, usually practiced or approved of by the government. Slavery could be seen as t ...

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• African American contemporary issues - Institutional racism and discrimination
• African American contemporary issues - Environmental racism
• African American contemporary issues - Education
• African American contemporary issues - Economics and employment
• African American contemporary issues - Health and healthcare access
• African American contemporary issues - The criminal justice system

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The view that there may or may not be a god (or gods) while maintaining a general personal belief in a spiritual aspect of reality, particularly without distinct religious basis, or adherence to any doctrine. Category: Cleanup from November 2005 Other related archivesCleanup from November 2005, god

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The most comprehensive statement we possess as to the various kinds of clubs which might exist in a single Greek state appears in a law of Solon quoted incidentally in the Digest of Justinian I (47.22), which guaranteed the administrative independence of these associations provided they kept within the bounds of the law. Those mentioned (apart from demes and phratries, which were not clubs as here understood) include associations for religious purposes, for burial, for trade, for privateering, and for the enjoyment of co ...

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Architecture Cinema Comic books Cuisine Dance Literature Music Poetry Sculpture Television Theater Visual arts American literature refers to written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and Colonial America. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United Stat ...

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• American literature - Overview
• American literature - Colonial literature
• American literature - Early U.S. literature
• American literature - Unique American style
• American literature - American lyric
• American literature - Realism Twain and James
• American literature - Turn of the century
• American literature - Theater
• American literature - Post-World War II
• American literature - Post-Postmodernism and Other Recent Movements
• American literature - Modern humorist literature
• American literature - Southern literature
• American literature - Jewish writers
• American literature - African American literature
• American literature - Other ethnic minority and immigrant literatures
• American literature - Other genres
• American literature - External link

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The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which it can change its state from a liquid to a gas throughout the bulk of the liquid. A liquid may change to a gas at temperatures below the boiling point through the process of evaporation. Any change of state from a liquid to a gas at boiling point is considered vaporization. However, evaporation is a surface phenomenon, in which only molecules located near the gas/liquid surface could evaporate. Boiling on the other hand is a bulk process, so at the boiling point molecules anywhere in the liquid may be vap ...

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• Boiling point - Intermolecular interactions

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Isaiah (Hebrew ישׁעיהו Yeshayahu or Yəša‘ăyāhû) is a book of the Jewish Hebrew Bible as well as the Christian Old Testament, containing prophecies attributed to Isaiah. This book is often seen by scholars as being divided into at least two sections. The first section, consisting of chapters 1-39, is generally accepted as being written by the prophet Isaiah of Jerusalem, or by his followers who took down his words. The second section, chapters 40-66, is of more debatable origin, as will be described further b ...

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• Book of Isaiah - Content
• Book of Isaiah - Historical setting for Isaiah
• Book of Isaiah - Themes
• Book of Isaiah - Scholarly issues
• Book of Isaiah - The Traditionalist View
• Book of Isaiah - Use in the New Testament
• Book of Isaiah - Principal passages
• Book of Isaiah - Additional passages
• Book of Isaiah - Online translations and commentaries on the Book of Isaiah
• Book of Isaiah - Bibliography
• Book of Isaiah - Popular culture references

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Wen Tianxiang (Wade-Giles: Wen T'ien-hsiang) (文天祥, June 6, 1236 – January 9, 1283), titled Duke of Xinguo, the last resisting Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, was captured by Kublai Khan and brought back to Beijing under house arrest, in the company of musicians and female entertainers. Kublai Khan wanted to use Wen Tianxiang as his chief minister under the Mongol Overlordship to control the Han Chinese population, but Wen r ...

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• Wen Tianxiang - Descendants

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Vicarius is a Latin word, meaning substitute or deputy. It is the root of the English word "vicar." In ancient Rome, this was the partial title for various officials. Each vicarius was assigned to another superior official, after whom his full title was generally completed. (e.g. Vicarius Praetor) However, there was an exception to this usage in which both the title and position were singular, simply referred to as a vicarius. Consul Praetor Quaestor Promagistrate < ...

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Vocal jazz is a type of music sung to imitate the sounds of other instruments, or improvise existing lyrics. Presently, it is often performed A cappella, though a rhythm section may be used. Refer to http://www.a-cappella.com/ for samples. Mathew Bahl writes his thoughts on vocal jazz in the following reading. "There have been as many variations on the definition of vocal jazz as there have been people with opinions. Over the years, the consensus within the jazz community has shifted frequently as critics and fans have w ...

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