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Seven Deadly Sins: Encyclopedia - Seven Deadly Sins
The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, suggest a classification of vices and were enumerated in their p...
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Pride: Encyclopedia - Pride
Pride refers to a sense of self-respect, a refusal to be humiliated as well as joy in the accomplishments of oneself or a person, group, ...
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Seven Deadly Sins: Encyclopedia Ii - Seven Deadly Sins - History
The seven deadly sins were first introduced by St. Gregory the Great in Moralia in Job. The sins were derived from the eight evil thought...
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Concupiscence: Encyclopedia - Concupiscence
In theology, concupiscence refers to the orientation or inclination of human desire towards a partial good before any voluntary and consc...
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Lust: Encyclopedia - Lust
Lust is a term for an intense desire or craving, usually sexual although it is also common usage to talk of a "lust for life" or a "lust ...
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Lazy: Encyclopedia - Lazy
Lazy can refer to:
Laziness (sloth). See also Seven deadly sins
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A song by Deep Purple
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Human Condition: Encyclopedia - Human Condition
The human condition encompasses the totality of the experience of being human and living human lives. As mortal entities, there are a ser...
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Virtue: Encyclopedia - Virtue
(Greek αρετη; Latin virtus) Virtue is moral excellence of a man or a woman. The word is derived from the Greek arete (αρετη). A...
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Bushido: Encyclopedia - Bushido
Japanese samurai in armour, 1860s. Photograph by Felice Beato.
Bushido (Japanese: 武士道; bushidō, "way of the warrior"), is a way of...
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Belphemon: Encyclopedia - Belphemon
Belphemon is a character from the Digimon franchise. Belphemon was the last of The Seven Great Demon Lords to be released, and of the Sev...
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Vainglory: Encyclopedia - Vainglory
Vainglory is defined by Webster's 1913 Dictionary as excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mi...
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Kindness: Encyclopedia - Kindness
Kindness is the act or the state of charitable behaviour to other people. It is considered to be one of the Knightly Virtues, and is a re...
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Acedia: Encyclopedia - Acedia
Acedia is a Greek word, literally meaning caringfree. In Roman Catholicism, acedia is one of the seven deadly sins, and is defined as spi...
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Gluttony: Encyclopedia - Gluttony
Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. Defined as the wasting of food, either through overindulgence (food, drink or intoxicants), the...
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Laziness: Encyclopedia - Laziness
Laziness is the lack of desire to act or work in general or to do an act or work that is expected of the person. The general tendency to ...
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Greed Emotion: Encyclopedia - Greed Emotion
Greed is a desire to obtain more money, wealth or material possessions than one needs. Greed is listed as one of the Christian seven dead...
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Actraiser 2: Encyclopedia - Actraiser 2
ActRaiser 2 is a side-scrolling platform game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System released by Enix in November 1993 and is the se...
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Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - Capital Vices And Virtues
The seven capital vices or seven deadly sins suggest a classification of vices and were enumerated by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century....
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Human Condition: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Condition - Study
The human condition is the subject of fields of study like sociology, anthropology, and demographics. In some of the poorest parts of the...
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Bushido: Encyclopedia Ii - Bushido - History
In the year 1256 CE, the Shogunal Deputy in Kyoto, Hojo Shigetoki (1198-1261 CE) wrote a letter to his son and house elders of his clan....
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Bushido: Encyclopedia Ii - Bushido - History
"One should have restraint and deep sympathy in all things."
In the year 1256, the Shogunal Deputy in Kyoto, Hojo Shigetoki (1198-1261) w...
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Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - The Four Virtues
The four classic Western "cardinal" virtues are:
prudence/wisdom
justice
fortitude/courage
temperance
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Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - The Unity Of The Virtues
Classically, some philosophers, most notably Plato and Aristotle, said that in order to pursue any of these virtues perfectly, one would ...
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Bushido: Encyclopedia Ii - Bushido - Bushido Ethics
Bushido expanded and formalized the earlier code of the samurai, and stressed frugality, loyalty, mastery of martial arts, and honor to t...
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Virtue: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtue - Virtue And Vice
The opposite of a virtue is a vice. One way of organizing the vices is as the corruption of the virtues. Thus the cardinal vices would be...
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Bushido: Encyclopedia Ii - Bushido - Bushido Ethics
Bushido expanded and formalized the earlier code of the samurai, and stressed frugality, loyalty, mastery of martial arts, and honor to t...
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Anger: Encyclopedia Ii - Anger - Religious Perspective On Anger
Buddhism presents a quite different view on emotions like anger. Anger is defined here as: "being unable to bear the object, or the inten...
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Lust: Encyclopedia Ii - Lust - Derivation
The word derives from the Old English term for desire, and ultimately from the German word of the same spelling.
Obsolete uses include lu...
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Green: Encyclopedia Ii - Green - Uses Of The Color Green
Green - Green substances.
Food colorings used for green include chlorophyll (E140 and E141), quinoline (E104) and, in countries where i...
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Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Enneagram - Ego-fixations & Deadly Sins
The Enneagram types have also been correlated with the traditional Seven Deadly Sins plus two additional descriptors - 'deceit' and 'fear...
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Green: Encyclopedia Ii - Green - Uses Of The Color Green
Green - Green substances.
Food colorings used for green include chlorophyll (E140 and E141), quinoline (E104) and, in countries where ...
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Seven Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Seven Film - Cast
Tagline: "Seven deadly sins. Seven ways to die."
Seven stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as the two detectives in charge of solving the ...
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Rejuvenation Aging: Encyclopedia Ii - Rejuvenation Aging - Strategies For Engineered Negligible Senescence Sens
The leading modern exponent of scientific rejuvenation is the modern biomedical gerontologist Dr. Aubrey de Grey. He calls his proje...
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Actraiser 2: Encyclopedia Ii - Actraiser 2 - Story
The game begins with the universe over-run with evil, with God (The Master) battling with Satan (Tanzra). Satan, once God's servent, lead...
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Enneagram System:
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Enneagram system (Enneagram, Enneatype system): System of spiritual psychology based on an ancient Sufi typology of nine (ennea in Gre...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia - Captain Marvel Dc Comics
Captain Marvel (left), and his young alter ego, Billy Batson. Art by C.C. Beck, originally used for the cover of Whiz Comics # 22.
Capta...
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Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia - Ethics In Religion
Ethics is a branch of philosophy dealing with right and wrong in human behaviour. All religions have a moral component, and religious app...
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Violet Beauregarde: Encyclopedia - Violet Beauregarde
Violet Beauregarde is a fictional character from the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its film adaptations, Willy W...
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Veruca Salt: Encyclopedia - Veruca Salt
For the 1990s alternative rock group, see Veruca Salt (band)
Veruca Salt is a character from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, ...
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Augustus Gloop: Encyclopedia - Augustus Gloop
Augustus Gloop is the glutton of the five main child characters in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fictional story writte...
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Enneagram: Encyclopedia - Enneagram
The Enneagram (or Enneagon) is a nine-pointed diametric figure which is used to indicate the dynamic ways that aspects of things and proc...
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Anger: Encyclopedia - Anger
Acceptance
Anger
Anticipation
Boredom
Disgust
Envy
Fear
Guilt
Hate
Hope
Joy
Jealousy
Love
Remorse
Sadness
Sorrow
Surprise
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Astaroth: Encyclopedia - Astaroth
Astaroth (also Ashtaroth, Astarot, and Asteroth) is a Grand Duke of Hell; his main assistants are four demons called Aamon, Pruslas, Barb...
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Green: Encyclopedia - Green
Green is a color seen commonly in nature. Many plants are green mainly because of a complex chemical known as chlorophyll which is involv...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Marvel Dc Comics - Full History
Captain Marvel DC Comics - Development and inspirations.
After the success of National Comics' new superhero characters Superman and Ba...
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The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Structure And Story
The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or "cantiche"), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), compose...
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Veruca Salt: Encyclopedia Ii - Veruca Salt - Veruca In The Book And Films
In each version, Veruca is portrayed as a spoiled brat, whose parents give her anything she wants, no matter how ridiculous the price. Wh...
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List Of Other Charmed Magical Information: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Other Charmed Magical Information - Series Six
Excalibur - in Arthurian legend, it is the sword given to King Arthur by the Lady of the Lake. At Arthur's death, Sir Bedivere threw Exca...
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Violet Beauregarde: Encyclopedia Ii - Violet Beauregarde - Violet In The Novel
In Roald Dahl's novel Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Violet is described as having a "great big mop of curly hair" and as someone who ...
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Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Language
Up to roughly 1340, the Romance languages spoken in the Middle Ages in the Northern half of what is today's France are collectively known...
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List Of Board Games: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Board Games - Two-player Abstract Strategy Games
In abstract strategy games, players know the entire game state at all times, and random generators such as dice are not used.
List of bo...
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Storyteller System: Encyclopedia Ii - Storyteller System - Making Characters
Storyteller System characters are built with points that represent a Dot on their character sheets. Each Dot represents a ten-sided (d10)...
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Spectacle: Encyclopedia Ii - Spectacle - Low And High Culture
"Spectacle" operates in two contexts simultaneously. On the one hand, it refers to high culture (drama, movies) performances where the dr...
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Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Ethics In The Bible
Western philosophical works on ethics were written in a culture whose literary and religious ideas were based in the Hebrew Bible (Old Te...
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Augustus Gloop: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Gloop - Different Versions Of Augustus
Gloop is perhaps portrayed most uniformly between all three versions. He is a stereotypical "fat kid" who is always seen eating large qua...
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Mike Teavee: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Teavee - Mike In The Book
In the novel, first published in 1964, nine-year-old Mike was particularly obsessed with violent gangster films. He wore "no less than ei...
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Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Enneagram - The Nine Types
The nine Enneagram types are often given names that indicate some distinctive behavioral aspect, though these labels are insufficient to ...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Marvel Dc Comics - Full History
Captain Marvel DC Comics - Development and inspirations.
After the success of National Comics' new superhero characters Superman and Ba...
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Augustus Gloop: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Gloop - Augustus Gloop Song
Augustus Gloop - Plot.
The Augustus Gloop Song is the first Oompa-Loompa song in the book and its subsequent film versions. It is sung ...
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Spectacle: Encyclopedia Ii - Spectacle - The Masque And Spectacle
Court masques and masques of the nobility were most popular in the Jacobean and Caroline era. Such masques, as their name implies, relied...
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The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern
The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternate meanings. Dant...
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Augustus Gloop: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Gloop - Different Versions Of Augustus
Gloop is perhaps portrayed most uniformly between all three versions. He is a stereotypical "fat kid" who is always seen eating large qua...
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The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - Original Copies
Only two known copies of the original manuscript still remain. One is in Milan, and the other is owned by the Asiatic Society of Bombay. ...
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Mike Teavee: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Teavee - Mike In The 1971 Film
He was depicted by Paris Themmen in the 1971 film adaption as dressing in a cowboy outfit and emulating the stars of his favorite western...
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Augustus Gloop: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Gloop - Augustus' Fate
His fate in the 1971 film isn't known apart from Willy Wonka's insistence that all four bad children would be okay. In the novel his body...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Marvel Dc Comics - Cultural Influences
Captain Marvel's adventures have contributed a number of elements to both comic book culture and pop culture in general. The most notable...
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The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy In The Arts
The Divine Comedy has been a source of inspiration for countless artists for almost 6 centuries–as one of the most well known and great...
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Veruca Salt: Encyclopedia Ii - Veruca Salt - Veruca's Downfall
In the original book, Veruca's demise takes place in Wonka's nut sorting room. After being denied a squirrel by Willy Wonka, Veruca braze...
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Violet Beauregarde: Encyclopedia Ii - Violet Beauregarde - Violet In 1971 Film
In the 1971 movie adaption, Violet was portrayed as a pre-teen girl with long brown hair and wearing a dark blue dress, living in Miles ...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Marvel Dc Comics - Supporting Cast
Captain Marvel often fights evil as a member of a superhero team known as the Marvel Family, made up of himself and several other heroes:...
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Veruca Salt: Encyclopedia Ii - Veruca Salt - Veruca's Name
While all the names in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are unusual for comic effect, a trend often shown in Roald Dahl's children's nov...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Marvel Dc Comics - Appearances In Film And Television
The first filmed adaptation of Captain Marvel was produced in 1941. The Adventures of Captain Marvel, starring Tom Tyler in the title rol...
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Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Enneagram - Stress & Security Points
The internal lines of the triangle and hexagon indicate what are called 'Stress Points' and 'Security Points'.
In Don Riso's teachings th...
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Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Enneagram - Criticism
Many psychologists and scientists regard the Enneagram as a pseudoscience that uses an essentially arbitrary set of personality dimension...
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Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Enneagram - Research Issues
Because of differences among teachers in their understanding of the personality characteristics of the nine types and more theoretical as...
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Green: Encyclopedia Ii - Green - Green As A Political Ideology
The ecology movement uses green because of its common occurrence in nature. Greenpeace, an ecological group, uses green because of its as...
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Green: Encyclopedia Ii - Green - Green As A Symbol
Green is the color of the back of U.S. currency, and thus carries a strong connotation of money, wealth, and capitalism. This is especial...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Marvel Dc Comics - Supporting Cast
Captain Marvel DC Comics - Marvel Family.
Captain Marvel often fights evil as a member of a superhero team known as the Marvel Family, ...
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Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Enneagram - Wings
To some extent the personality issues and traits of the nine Enneagram types can be understood as 'overlapping' around the circle. Observ...
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Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Enneagram - Historical Development
It is sometimes speculated that forms of the Enneagram typology can be found in ancient sources, especially within the Sufi spiritual tra...
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Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Hindu Ethics
Hindu ethics are related to Hindu beliefs, such as reincarnation, which is a way of expressing the need for reciprocity, as one may end u...
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Augustus Gloop: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Gloop - Augustus' Fate
His fate in the 1971 film isn't known apart from Willy Wonka's insistence that all four bad children would be okay. In the novel his body...
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Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Buddhist Ethics
Buddhism's ethical foundation for laypeople is the Pancasila: no killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, or intoxicants. (Some Mahay...
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Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Chinese Traditional Ethics
Chinese traditional systems of thought are both varied and mixed, so it's difficult to point to a single, central structure to Chinese et...
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Ethics In Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ethics In Religion - Islamic Ethics
Islam is monoetheistic and emphasizes submission to Allah (God). It sees all of natural law, including that revealed by science, as an as...
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Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Other Forms
A large body of fables survive in Old French; these include (mostly anonymous) literature dealing with the recurring trickster character ...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Marvel Dc Comics - Cultural Influences
Captain Marvel's adventures have contributed a number of elements to both comic book culture and pop culture in general. The most notable...
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Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Chanson De Geste
At the beginning of the 13th century, Jean Bodel, in his "Chanson de Saisnes", divided medieval French narrative literature into three "m...
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Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Early Texts
The earliest extant French literary texts date from the eleventh century. The first literary works written in Old French were saints' liv...
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Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Roman
Jean Bodel's other two categories -- the "Matter of Rome" and the "Matter of Britain" -- concern the French romance or "roman". The term ...
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Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Lyric Poetry
Medieval French lyric poetry was indebted to the poetic and cultural traditions in Southern France and Provence -- including Toulouse, Po...
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Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Theater
Discussions about the origins of non-religious theater ("théâtre profane") -- both drama and farce -- in the Middle Ages remain controv...
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Captain Marvel Dc Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Captain Marvel Dc Comics - Appearances In Film And Television
The first filmed adaptation of Captain Marvel was produced in 1941. The Adventures of Captain Marvel, starring Tom Tyler in the title rol...
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Medieval French Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval French Literature - Orality And Transmission
The Middle Ages was an oral culture; literacy was reserved for an educated elite of clercs and chancellery officials. Furthermore, before...
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List Of Other Charmed Magical Information: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Other Charmed Magical Information - Series One
Athame - An athame is one of the common altar tools. Traditionally, it's a double bladed knife with a black handle. The athame represents...
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List Of Other Charmed Magical Information: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Other Charmed Magical Information - Series Two
Akashic Records - Believed to be a written account of all significant events throughout time, however the records have been lost for cent...
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List Of Other Charmed Magical Information: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Other Charmed Magical Information - Series Three
Alchemist's tools - Essence Bearer - An alchemist uses the bottle to capture or store a life essence. A life essence is comparable to a h...
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List Of Other Charmed Magical Information: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Other Charmed Magical Information - Series Five
Auger Shell - Used to trap the immortality of a mermaid. Can kill if not used by an immortal being.
Avatar's Power - Avatars exist outsid...
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List Of Other Charmed Magical Information: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Other Charmed Magical Information - Series Four
Demonic Wasteland - Usually, it is where demons go, most of the time, after they have been vanquished. A worm-type monster feeds on their...
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