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Main article: Moscow Trials. Between 1936 and 1938 three Moscow Trials of former senior Communist Party leaders were held. The defendants were accused of conspiring with the western powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders, dismember the Soviet Union and restore capitalism. The first trial was of 16 members of the so-called "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre," held in August 1936, at which the chief defendants were Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, two of the most prominent former party leaders. ...

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Great Purge, Great Purge - Introduction, Great Purge - Background, Great Purge - The Moscow Trials, Great Purge - Purge of the army, Great Purge - The wider purge, Great Purge - Ex-kulaks, Great Purge - National operations of NKVD, Great Purge - End of Yezhovshchina, Great Purge - Western reactions, Great Purge - Rehabilitation, Great Purge - Victim toll, Great Purge - Soviet investigation commissions, Great Purge - Skepticism and denial, Great Purge - Notes, Great Purge - Further reading and references

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In Roman Catholicism a nun is the term for a female monastic regular, equivalent to that of a male monk. In the Roman Catholic tradition, there are a number of different orders of nuns each with its own charism or special devotion. In general, when a person enters a convent she has a trial period (Noviciate) that lasts a number of years. Upon completion of this period she may take her vows. In the various branches of the Benedictine tradition (Benedictines, Cistercian and Trappists) nuns usually take formal vows of stability (that is, ...

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Nun, Nun - Catholic, Nun - Distinction between nun and religious sister, Nun - Eastern Orthodox Christian, Nun - Other Christian, Nun - Buddhist

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In 1958, Selby started working on his first piece, The Queen Is Dead. At the time, Selby had a succession of jobs. Yet he continued to work on his fiction every night after his day job as a secretary, a gas station attendant, and a freelance copywriter. The short story slowly evolved for the next six years before it saw the light of publication. In 1961, a short story Tralala was published in a literary journal, The Provincetown Review. It also appeared in Black Mountain Review and New Directions. Wi ...

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Hubert Selby Jr., Hubert Selby Jr. - Wrong Entrance, Hubert Selby Jr. - One Way, Hubert Selby Jr. - Last Exit, Hubert Selby Jr. - Dead End, Hubert Selby Jr. - Works, Hubert Selby Jr. - Fiction, Hubert Selby Jr. - Spoken Word, Hubert Selby Jr. - Filmography, Hubert Selby Jr. - Documentaries, Hubert Selby Jr. - Quotes, Hubert Selby Jr. - Notes, Hubert Selby Jr. - Trivia

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At this point Pursuivant suggested a less violent test for Edmund himself. The procedure for it sounded simpler. "I place before the suspect a dagger and crucifix. The suspect is blindfolded, and if he picks up the dagger from the table, he is Satan's bedfellow." Finding the described test interesting, Harry advised his younger brother to go through with it in order to take himself out of the running. Edmund was still hesitant but finally agreed, having noted the locations of both artifacts on the table. Pursuivant however provided a ...

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Prince Edmund Blackadder, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Battle of Bosworth Field, Prince Edmund Blackadder - The Black Adder, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Service under a regent, Prince Edmund Blackadder - First encounter with Dougal McAngus, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Claiming the throne, Prince Edmund Blackadder - The murder of an Archbishop, Prince Edmund Blackadder - A shrewd prince, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Archbishop of Canterbury, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Assassination attempt, Prince Edmund Blackadder - The next few years, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Engagement, Prince Edmund Blackadder - First attempt at marriage, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Marriage, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Black plague, Prince Edmund Blackadder - A witch-hunt begins, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Introduction to the Witchsmeller, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Accused of being a witch, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Beginning of a witch trial, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Incarceration, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Conclusion of the witch trial, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Awaiting execution, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Failed execution, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Disgruntled Prince, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Recruiting conspirators, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Conspiracy plans, Prince Edmund Blackadder - The Hawk, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Treachery, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Poisoned, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Further comments, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Legacy, Prince Edmund Blackadder - Titles and honours

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Detective - Street work. Detectives have a wide variety of techniques available in conducting investigations. However, the majority of cases are solved by interrogation of suspects and witnesses, which takes time. In a policeman's career as a uniformed officer and as a detective, a detective develops an intuitive sense of the plausibility of suspect and witness accounts. This intuition may fail at times, but usually is reliable. Besides interrogations, detectives may rely on a network of informants they have cultivated over the years. Informants often have connections with perso ...

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Detective, Detective - Detective as a designator of rank or status, Detective - Detectives and their work, Detective - Becoming a detective, Detective - Organization of detectives, Detective - Techniques of detectives, Detective - Street work, Detective - Forensic evidence, Detective - Records investigation, Detective - Court testimony, Detective - Famous fictional detectives, Detective - Police detectives, Detective - Private detectives

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Conventional treatment focuses on three areas: trigger avoidance, symptomatic control, and preventive drugs. Migraine - Trigger avoidance. Patients can attempt to identify and avoid factors that promote or precipitate migraine episodes. Moderation in alcohol and caffeine intake, consistency in sleep habits, and regular meals may be helpful. Beyond an often pronounced placebo effect, general dietary restriction has not been demonstrated to be an effective approach to treating migraine.[3] ''''''''''''''''''''=== Symptomatic control to abort a ...

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Migraine, Migraine - Signs & Symptoms, Migraine - Pathophysiology, Migraine - Migraine triggers, Migraine - Treatment, Migraine - Trigger avoidance, Migraine - Preventive drugs, Migraine - Alternative approaches, Migraine - History, Migraine - Prevalence, Migraine - Economic impact, Migraine - Acephalgic migraine, Migraine - Migraine and stroke risk

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In 1961, he became the leader of the ANC's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated as Spear of the Nation, also abbreviated MK), which he co-founded. He co-ordinated a sabotage campaign against military and government targets, and made plans for a possible guerrilla war if sabotage failed to end apartheid. A few decades later, MK did indeed wage a guerrilla war against the regime, especially during the 1980s. Mandela also raised funds for MK abroad, and arranged for pa ...

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Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela - Early life, Nelson Mandela - Political activity, Nelson Mandela - Arrest and imprisonment, Nelson Mandela - ANC presidency and presidency of South Africa, Nelson Mandela - International diplomacy, Nelson Mandela - Marriages, Nelson Mandela - Retirement, Nelson Mandela - Orders and decorations, Nelson Mandela - Trivia

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1. ^  Old English wicce, feminine, corresponding to wicca, witch n.1, both of which are app. derivatives of wiccian, witch v.1. (definition) 1. a. A female magician, sorceress; in later use esp. a woman supposed to have dealings with the devil or evil spirits and to be able by their co-operation to perform supernatural acts. (oldest attested use in Old English) c1000 ÆLFRIC Saints' Lives vii. 209: "Animað...þa reðan wiccan, Seo þe ðus awent þurh wiccecræft ...

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Wicca, Wicca - Definition, Wicca - History of Wicca, Wicca - Origins, Wicca - Later developments, Wicca - Beliefs and practices, Wicca - Morality, Wicca - Discrimination and persecution of Wiccans, Wicca - United States, Wicca - Wiccan traditions, Wicca - Notes, Wicca - Bibliographical and Encyclopedic Sources, Wicca - Academic Studies

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During her freshman year at Syracuse University, Sebold was raped. In Lucky, her 1997 memoir of that event and its aftermath, she describes how a police officer told her the rapist's previous victim had died. She also saw the rapist on the street later and reported him to the police. Eventually she testified against him at trial, and he was convicted and received the maximum sentence. She began the novel in the early 1990s as an outgrowth of those events. However, she fiercely resists any suggestion that it had anything to do w ...

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The Lovely Bones, The Lovely Bones - Plot summary, The Lovely Bones - Title, The Lovely Bones - Origins, The Lovely Bones - Characters, The Lovely Bones - Themes and literary techniques, The Lovely Bones - Symbols and motifs, The Lovely Bones - Omniscient narrator, The Lovely Bones - Commercial and critical reception, The Lovely Bones - Controversies, The Lovely Bones - Film version, The Lovely Bones - Trivia

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Mantra meditation involves channeling one's consciousness from a low level to a high level of purer thought. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and God was the word." Word, sound, and mantra, are all integral parts of the manifest cosmos. By constantly meditating on a chosen mantra, one is, in due course, released from the compulsory round of births and deaths.

The word 'mantra' is a mix of the root 'man' meaning 'to think' and 'tra' meaning 'to protect or free'. Repeated regularly, a mantra awakens and expands one's consciousness. Once we comprehend that everything in nature is energy, we realise that a mantra too is pure divine energy encased in the vacuum of sound structure.

(See also: Meditation Techniques , Meditation, Meditation for Beginners, Meditation Techniques)

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No single time or person can be identified with the invention of the bicycle. Its earliest known forebears were called velocipedes, and included many types of human-powered vehicles. One of these, the scooter-like dandy horse of the French Comte de Sivrac, dating to 1790, was long cited as the earliest bicycle. Most bicycle historians now believe that these hobby-horses with no steering mechanism probably n ...

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Bicycle, Bicycle - History, Bicycle - Technical aspects, Bicycle - Legal requirements, Bicycle - Construction and parts, Bicycle - Performance, Bicycle - Bicycle physics, Bicycle - Social and historical aspects, Bicycle - Economic and social implications, Bicycle - Bicycles at work, Bicycle - Bicycle recreation, Bicycle - Bicycles and war, Bicycle - Bicycle racing, Bicycle - Modal share: cycle use in modern cities, Bicycle - Cycling activism, Bicycle - Types of bicycle, Bicycle - Standards, Bicycle - Notes

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Embalming as practiced in the funeral homes of the Western World uses several steps. Modern embalming techniques are not the result of a single practitioner, but rather the accumulation of many decades, even centuries, of research, trial and error and invention. A standardized version follows below but variation on techniques is very common. The first thing an embalmer should do is verify the identity of the deceased (normally via wrist or leg tags) and perform basic tests for signs of death, such as clouded-over corneas, lividity, an ...

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Embalming, Embalming - History of embalming, Embalming - Modern embalming, Embalming - Embalming chemicals, Embalming - Specialist embalming, Embalming - Embalming and different religions, Embalming - Embalming in popular culture

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Populism is characterized by a sometimes radical critique of the status quo, but on the whole does not have a strong political identity as either a left-wing or right-wing movement. Populism has taken left-wing, right-wing, and even centrist forms. In recent years, conservative politicians have begun adopting populist rhetoric; for example, promising to "get big government off your backs", or to stand up to "the powerful trial lawyer lobby", "the liberal elite", or "the Hollywood elite". Also in recent years, left-wing politicians have incre ...

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Populism, Populism - Populist methods, Populism - History, Populism - Classical populism, Populism - Early modern period, Populism - Religious revival, Populism - Rejection of ultramontanism, Populism - Elitist nationalism, Populism - Populism in the Americas, Populism - Populism in Germany, Populism - Populism in France, Populism - Current or recent populists

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Shatner had a long dry spell in the decade between the original Star Trek series and the first Trek film, which he believes was due to his being typecast as Captain Kirk, making it difficult to find other work. Moreover, his wife Gloria Rand left him and the Canadian actor, unfamiliar with California divorce laws, was all but wiped out financially. With very little money and acting prospects now, he lived in a truck bed camper in the San Fernando Valley until acting bit-parts turned into higher paying roles. Shatner refers to t ...

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William Shatner, William Shatner - Early life, William Shatner - Star Trek career, William Shatner - Post-Star Trek career, William Shatner - Family and other ventures, William Shatner - Musical tangents, William Shatner - Trivia, William Shatner - Memorable quotes, William Shatner - Filmography, William Shatner - Television Work, William Shatner - Books, William Shatner - Fiction, William Shatner - Nonfiction, William Shatner - Albums

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Cocaine addiction is the obsessive or uncontrollable abuse of cocaine. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) shows promising results. Spiritual based Twelve-step programs such as Cocaine Anonymous (modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous) have some success combatting this problem. A cocaine vaccine is also being tested which may prevent the recipient from feeling the desirable effects of the drug, although a similar effort to develop a heroin vacci ...

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Cocaine, Cocaine - History, Cocaine - The coca leaf, Cocaine - Isolation, Cocaine - Popularization, Cocaine - Prohibition, Cocaine - Modern usage, Cocaine - Pharmacology, Cocaine - Appearance, Cocaine - Forms of cocaine, Cocaine - Methods of administration, Cocaine - Mechanism of action, Cocaine - Metabolism and excretion, Cocaine - Effects and health issues, Cocaine - Cocaine as a local anesthetic, Cocaine - Cocaine addiction, Cocaine - Treatment, Cocaine - Usage, Cocaine - In the United States, Cocaine - Works concerning cocaine, Cocaine - Books about cocaine, Cocaine - Movies about cocaine

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There are many different types of beer, each of which is said to belong to a particular style. A beer's style is a label that describes the overall flavour and often the origin of a beer, according to a system that has evolved by trial and error over many centuries. A major component of determining the type of beer is the yeast used in the fermentation process. Most beer styles fall into one of two large families: ale, using top-fermenting yeast, or lager, using bottom-fermenting yeast. Beers that blend the charac ...

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Beer, Beer - Beer in antiquity, Beer - Beer in the Middle Ages, Beer - Beer in early European history, Beer - Beer during the Industrial Revolution, Beer - History of modern beer, Beer - Etymology, Beer - Mythology, Beer - Ingredients, Beer - Water, Beer - Malt, Beer - Hops, Beer - Yeast, Beer - Clarifying agent, Beer - The brewing process, Beer - Packaging and presentation, Beer - Varieties of beer, Beer - Ale, Beer - Lager, Beer - Spontaneous fermentation, Beer - Hybrid beers, Beer - Beer in a social context, Beer - Beer around the world, Beer - Africa, Beer - Americas, Beer - Asia, Beer - Australasia, Beer - Europe, Beer - Related beverages

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Sociology has attributed the occurrence of witchhunts to the human necessity to blame problems on someone. For example, Europe during the periods in which witchhunts prevail relied upon agriculture; if this failed one year, the consequences would very likely be disastrous. Crop failures often correlated with the occurrence of witchhunts, leading sociologists to state that communities often took out their anger of a lack of food on supposed 'witches'. This can be paralleled in more recent examples such as the Nazi use of anti-semitism to appo ...

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Witch-hunt, Witch-hunt - Early modern Europe, Witch-hunt - Evidence, Witch-hunt - Execution, Witch-hunt - The Burning Times, Witch-hunt - Africa, Witch-hunt - Other part of the world, Witch-hunt - Sociology, Witch-hunt - Modern usage, Witch-hunt - George Orwell, Witch-hunt - Arthur Miller, Witch-hunt - Modern witchhunts, Witch-hunt - Religious deprogramming, Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse, Witch-hunt - Involuntary commitment, Witch-hunt - Political confirmation

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Saint Cuthbert Mayne (1543-1577), Catholic priest and martyr. He was born at Yorkston, near Barnstaple, in Devon, the son of William Mayne and was baptized on March 20, 1543/4, St Cuthbert's day. The times were not propitious for the Catholic faith and the England of Henry VIII was already in schism. With the ascent to the throne of the boy King Edward VI was to fall into the hands of an overtly Protestant regime. Cuthbert Mayne's uncle was a priest who leaned heavily to the new doctrines. The idea was that the boy, a good-natu ...

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• Cuthbert Mayne - Sources

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Gerald Gardner is credited with re-introducing the word 'Wicca' into the English language, although he himself used the spelling 'Wica' in his published work of 1954. The spelling 'Wicca' is now used almost exclusively, (Seax-Wica being the only major use of the four-letter spelling). In Old English, wicca meant "A wizard, soothsayer, sorcerer, magician" (Bosworth, 1898 [1]). Its modern English descendant is the word witch, now used almost exclusively to describe women sorcerors, but formerly used for both sexes. Other ( ...

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Wicca, Wicca - Definition, Wicca - History of Wicca, Wicca - Origins, Wicca - Later developments, Wicca - Beliefs and practices, Wicca - Morality, Wicca - Discrimination and persecution of Wiccans, Wicca - United States, Wicca - Wiccan traditions, Wicca - Notes

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Certain members of the Dover Board of Education expressed concern about the teaching of evolution. In the summer of 2004 they were given legal advice by the Discovery Institute and around July accepted an offer to represent the board made by the Thomas More Law Center. On October 18, 2004, the school board voted 6–3 to add the following statement to their biology curriculum: Students will be made aware of the gaps/problems in Darwin’s theory and of other theories of evolution including, but not l ...

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Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Background, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Litigants, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Plaintiffs, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Defendants, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Trial, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Opening statements, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Witnesses, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Closing arguments, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District - Decision

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Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1st Intifada · ...

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On the advice of old family friend Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Eichmann joined the Austrian branch of the SS, enlisting on April 1, 1932, as an SS-Anwärter. He was accepted as a full SS member that November, appointed an SS-Mann, and assigned the SS number 45326. For the next year, Eichmann was a member of the part time Allgemeine-SS and served in a mustering formation operating from Salzburg. In 1933 when the Nazis came to power in Germany, Eichmann returned to that country and submitted an application to join the full ...

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Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Eichmann - Early life, Adolf Eichmann - Pre-Nazi years, Adolf Eichmann - Nazi Party and the SS, Adolf Eichmann - World War II, Adolf Eichmann - Post World War II, Adolf Eichmann - Capture, Adolf Eichmann - Trial, Adolf Eichmann - Eichmann analysis, Adolf Eichmann - Books

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