Nostradamus, (December 14, 1503 – July 1, 1566) born Michel de Nostredame, is one of the world's most famous authors of prophecies. He is most famous for his book Les Propheties, which consists of rhymed quatrains (4‑line poems) grouped into sets of 100, called Centuries. Nostradamus - Biography. Born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the south of France in December 1503, Michel de Nostredame was the son of a grain dealer who was also a prosperous home-grown notary. His family wa ...

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• Nostradamus - Biography
• Nostradamus - Preparation and methods of prophecy
• Nostradamus - His works
• Nostradamus - Skepticism
• Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes
• Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture
• Nostradamus - Television
• Nostradamus - Film
• Nostradamus - Music
• Nostradamus - Comics
• Nostradamus - Sources

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Nostradamus, Nostradamus - Biography, Nostradamus - Preparation and methods of prophecy, Nostradamus - His works, Nostradamus - Skepticism, Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes, Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture, Nostradamus - Television, Nostradamus - Film, Nostradamus - Music, Nostradamus - Comics, Nostradamus - Sources

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Nostradamus - Television. The television series Alias prominently features the character Milo Rambaldi, a fictional Nostradamus-like prophet. In the science fiction series First Wave, the protagonists use the quatrains of Nostradamus to fight back against an alien invasion. Nostradamus has also been parodied on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show a ...

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Nostradamus, Nostradamus - Life, Nostradamus - Childhood, Nostradamus - Student years, Nostradamus - Marriage and healing work, Nostradamus - The seer, Nostradamus - Final years and death, Nostradamus - Methods, Nostradamus - Works, Nostradamus - Hazards of interpretation, Nostradamus - Misquotes and hoaxes, Nostradamus - Nostradamus in popular culture, Nostradamus - Television, Nostradamus - Film, Nostradamus - Music, Nostradamus - Comics, Nostradamus - Games, Nostradamus - Sources, Nostradamus - External links

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Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic science fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten or mythologized. The fall of civiliz ...

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• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Cultural views on apocalyptic fiction
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Criticism
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Examples listed by nature of the catastrophe
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - World War III nuclear
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Pandemic
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Astronomic impact meteorites
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Alien invasion
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Ecological catastrophe
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Cybernetic revolt
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - The decline and fall of the human race
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - After the fall of space-based civilization
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - The Sun's expansion
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Religious and supernatural apocalypse Eschatological fiction
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - Various
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction - To be categorized

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The Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known formally (in Latin) as the Missa pro defunctis or Missa defunctorum, is a liturgical service of the Roman Catholic Church and its Eastern Rite. Its theme is a prayer for the salvation of the souls of the departed, and it is used both at services immediately preceding a burial, and on occasions of more general remembrance. It is sometimes observed by other denominations of Christianity such as ...

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• Requiem - The Roman Catholic service
• Requiem - Musical compositions
• Requiem - Added movements
• Requiem - Concert requiems
• Requiem - Non-Catholic requiems
• Requiem - Anglican burial service
• Requiem - 20th century developments
• Requiem - Requiem in popular culture
• Requiem - Requiem composers
• Requiem - Renaissance
• Requiem - Baroque
• Requiem - Classical period
• Requiem - Romantic era
• Requiem - Post-romantic | 20th century
• Requiem - Requiems by languages other than Latin

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Alias is an American "SpyFi" television series, created by J.J. Abrams. It first aired on September 30, 2001 and stars Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a CIA agent, usually seen wearing a colorful new disguise undercover on most episodes. The series began its fifth season on September 29, 2005 and will conclude in May 2006 when it was announced by ABC that it would be Alias' final season. Alias can currently be seen on Wednesdays at 10 pm ET on ABC, and Sundays at 4pm ET on CTV. Additionally, episodes from the s ...

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• Alias TV series - Cast and characters
• Alias TV series - Plot
• Alias TV series - Season 1
• Alias TV series - Season 2
• Alias TV series - Season 3
• Alias TV series - Season 4
• Alias TV series - Season 5
• Alias TV series - Themes
• Alias TV series - Opening credits
• Alias TV series - Timeframe
• Alias TV series - Spoofs
• Alias TV series - Alias: The Video Game
• Alias TV series - Link to Lost
• Alias TV series - Original novels
• Alias TV series - Production and crew
• Alias TV series - Distributors
• Alias TV series - DVD
• Alias TV series - Season 1 Features
• Alias TV series - Season 2 Features
• Alias TV series - Season 3 Features
• Alias TV series - Season 4 Features

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The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado, near Denver and Littleton, Colorado, in the United States. Two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, carried out a shooting rampage, killing twelve fellow students and a teacher, as well as wounding twenty-four others, before committing suicide. It is considered to be the deadliest school ...

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• Columbine High School massacre - Warning signs
• Columbine High School massacre - Crime punishment and retaliation
• Columbine High School massacre - Journals and videos
• Columbine High School massacre - Firearms
• Columbine High School massacre - April 20 1999: shooting at Columbine High
• Columbine High School massacre - The shooting begins
• Columbine High School massacre - The library massacre
• Columbine High School massacre - Suicide of the shooters
• Columbine High School massacre - The shooting ends
• Columbine High School massacre - Aftermath
• Columbine High School massacre - Third shooter theory
• Columbine High School massacre - Aftershock and the search for reasons
• Columbine High School massacre - Long-term impact
• Columbine High School massacre - Cultural impact
• Columbine High School massacre - Notes

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Viz is a popular British adult spoof comic magazine. The comic's style parodies the strait-laced British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with very adult language, crude toilet humour and either sexual or violent story lines (and often both). It also sends up tabloid style newspapers, with mockeries of letters pages and daft competitions with rubbish prizes. It also often satirises current events and politicians, and pretends to be obsessed with celebrities, including half ...

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• Viz comic - History
• Viz comic - Regular Features
• Viz comic - Featured Strips
• Viz comic - Spoof News Stories
• Viz comic - Letterbocks
• Viz comic - Top Tips
• Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions
• Viz comic - Photo Strips
• Viz comic - Viz in other media

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Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution. The highly explicit ideology of Adolf Hitler's Nazism was the most extreme example of this phenomenon. Anti-Semitism has historically taken different forms: Religious anti-Semitism, or anti-Judaism. Before the 19th century, most anti-Semitism was primarily religious in nature, based on Christian or ...

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• Anti-Semitism - Etymology and usage
• Anti-Semitism - Definitions of the term
• Anti-Semitism - Earliest Antisemitism
• Anti-Semitism - Religious Antisemitism
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism in the New Testament
• Anti-Semitism - Early Christianity
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages
• Anti-Semitism - Disabilities and Restrictions
• Anti-Semitism - The Crusades
• Anti-Semitism - The expulsions from England France Germany and Spain
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism and the Reformation
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in 19th and 20th century Catholicism
• Anti-Semitism - Passion plays
• Anti-Semitism - Racial anti-Semitism
• Anti-Semitism - The rise of racial anti-Semitism
• Anti-Semitism - Elites and the use of Anti-semitism
• Anti-Semitism - Dreyfus Affair
• Anti-Semitism - Pogroms
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Jewish Legislation
• Anti-Semitism - The Holocaust and Holocaust Denial
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and the Muslim world
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-semitism and specific countries
• Anti-Semitism - United States
• Anti-Semitism - Europe
• Anti-Semitism - Asia
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
• Anti-Semitism - New anti-Semitism
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the 21st century

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Main article: Telugu literature The Vijayanagara dynasty produced a very prolific set of poets during the reign of Sri Krishnadevaraya. Allasani Peddana, Nandi Timmana, Maayadagari Mallana, Ayyalaraju Ramabhadrudu, Tenali Ramakrishna, Dhoorjati and Pingali Soorana were Krishnadevaraya's court poets. Sri Pothuluri Veerabrahmendra Swami (like his western counterpart Nostradamus) composed "Ka ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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Main article: Telugu literature The famous Indian literary epic, the Mahabharatha, was translated into telugu over a period of a few centuries by Nannaya, Tikkana and Yerrapragada. Nannaya is also credited to have participated in formalizing Telugu grammar. Pothana wrote the Bhagavatam that focuses on devotion to MahaVishnu and his avatars (incarnations). Vemana wrote moral and so ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Polyagglutination, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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Telugu language - Vowels. అ ఆ ఇ ఈ ఉ ఊ ఋ ౠ ఌ ౡ ఎ ఏ ఐ ఒ ఓ ఔ అ౦ అః Telugu language - Consonants. క ఖ గ ఘ ఙ చ ఛ జ ఝ ఞ ట ఠ డ ఢ ణ త థ ద ధ న ప ఫ బ భ మ య ర ల వ శ ష స హ ళ ఱ Telugu language - Phonology. Telugu l ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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Telugu language - Vowels. అ ఆ ఇ ఈ ఉ ఊ ఋ ౠ ఌ ౡ ఎ ఏ ఐ ఒ ఓ ఔ అ౦ అః Telugu language - Consonants. క ఖ గ ఘ ఙ చ ఛ జ ఝ ఞ ట ఠ డ ఢ ణ త థ ద ధ న ప ఫ బ భ మ య ర ల వ శ ష స హ ళ ఱ Telugu language - Phonology. Telugu l ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Polyagglutination, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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Paul Mooney - Early years. Paul Mooney wrote many of Richard Pryor's routines for his appearance on Saturday Night Live, co-wrote his material for the Live on the Sunset Strip, Bicentennial Nigger, and Is It Something I Said albums, and Pryor's film Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. As the head writer for The Richard Pryor Show, he gave many young stand-up comics, such as Robin Williams, Sandra Bernhard, Marsha Warfield, John Witherspoon, and Tim Reid, ...

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Paul Mooney, Paul Mooney - Background, Paul Mooney - Career, Paul Mooney - Early years, Paul Mooney - Chappelle's Show, Paul Mooney - Trivia, Paul Mooney - Television, Paul Mooney - Filmography

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Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and a bit in the neighboring states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharastra, Orissa and Chhattisgarh in India, but it is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates where there are large numbers of Telugu speaking expatriates. Telugu speaking Andhras have become a large and successful Indian community in the USA [3]. Telugu language - Official status. Telugu is one of the official languages of India. It is the official language of the state of Andhra Prade ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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Like all Dravidian languages, Telugu has a base (or lexicon) of words which are essentially Dravidian in origin. Words that describe objects or actions associated with common or everyday life -- like 'tala' (head), 'puli' (tiger), 'uru' (town/city) have cognates in other Dravidian languages and are indigenous to the Dravidian language family. However, Telugu is also largely Sanskritized, that is, it has a wide variety of words of Sanskrit/Prakrit origin. This large Sanskrit influence can be attributed to many factors. One major influe ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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In Telugu, Karta(కర్త) (nominative case or the doer), Karma(కర్మ)(object of the verb) and Kriya(క్రియ) (action or the verb) follow a sequence. This is one of the several reasons why Linguists classify Telugu as a Dravidian Language--this pattern found in other Dravidian languages but not in Sanskrit. Telugu also has the Vibhakthi(విభక్తి) (or preposition) tradition. Telugu is often considered an agglutinative language, where certain syllables are added to the end of a noun in order to denote its case: These agglutinations apply to all ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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Like all Dravidian languages, Telugu has a base (or lexicon) of words which are essentially Dravidian in origin. Words that describe objects or actions associated with common or everyday life -- like 'tala' (head), 'puli' (tiger), 'uru' (town/city) have cognates in other Dravidian languages and are indigenous to the Dravidian language family. However, Telugu is also largely Sanskritized, that is, it has a wide variety of words of Sanskrit/Prakrit origin. This large Sanskrit influence can be attributed to many factors. One major influe ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Polyagglutination, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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The massacre was one of the subjects of the controversial 2002 Michael Moore documentary film Bowling for Columbine, about what he sees as a culture of violence in the U.S.[32] The Columbine shooting also inspired a number of films and books. Films included the fictional 2003 Gus Van Sant film, Elephant, and the 2002 film Zero Day, which examined the motives of two similar killers.^{See also:}

Columbine High School massacre, Columbine High School massacre - Warning signs, Columbine High School massacre - Crime punishment and retaliation, Columbine High School massacre - Journals and videos, Columbine High School massacre - Firearms, Columbine High School massacre - April 20 1999: shooting at Columbine High, Columbine High School massacre - The shooting begins, Columbine High School massacre - The library massacre, Columbine High School massacre - Suicide of the shooters, Columbine High School massacre - The shooting ends, Columbine High School massacre - Aftermath, Columbine High School massacre - Third shooter theory, Columbine High School massacre - Aftershock and the search for reasons, Columbine High School massacre - Long-term impact, Columbine High School massacre - Cultural impact, Columbine High School massacre - Notes

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Main article: Telugu script The Telugu (తెలుగు) script is believed to descend from the Brahmi script of the Ashokan era. Merchants took the Eastern Chalukyan Script to Southeast Asia where it parented the scripts of Mon, Burmese, Thai, Khmer, C"am, Javanese and Balinese languages. Their similarities to Telugu script can be discerned even today. Its appearance is quite s ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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