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Suffering: Encyclopedia - Suffering
Suffering is any unwanted condition and the corresponding negative emotion. It is usually associated with pain and unhappiness, but any c...
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Suffering: Encyclopedia Ii - Suffering - Suffering Addressed By Major Faiths
Suffering - Buddhism.
In Buddhism, the central problem is identified as dukkha, a term in Pali and Sanskrit which can be translated as ...
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Suffering: Encyclopedia Ii - Suffering - Law
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 defines "torture" as involving "suffer...
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Kalapani Film: Encyclopedia - Kalapani Film
Kalapani (means "black water" or dark sea in Hindi), is a multi language Indian film. The name Kalapani is derived from the mode of impri...
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Dal: Encyclopedia - Dal
Dal (also spelt dhal, dahl, or daal) is a Sanskrit term common to many South Asian languages referring to pulses which have been stripped...
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Nominal Aphasia: Encyclopedia - Nominal Aphasia
Nominal aphasia (also known as anomic aphasia) is a form of aphasia (loss of language capability caused by brain damage) in which the sub...
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Acceptance And Commitment Therapy: Encyclopedia - Acceptance And Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT (said as one word, not as individual letters), is based on functional contextualism. ACT is based ...
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Hell: Encyclopedia - Hell
Hell is, according to many religious beliefs, a place or a state of painful suffering. The English word 'hell' comes from the Teutonic 'H...
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Abracadabra: Encyclopedia - Abracadabra
Abracadabra is a word used as an incantation, considered by some to be the phrase that is pronounced most universally in other languages ...
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Shamanism: Encyclopedia - Shamanism
Shamanism refers to the traditional healing and religious practices of Northern Asia (Siberia) and Mongolia. By extension, the concept of...
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Schadenfreude: Encyclopedia Ii - Schadenfreude - Expressions And The Term In Other Languages
The last statement is false, as there are equivalent terms in other languages:
Dutch: leedvermaak (leed, suffering or sorrow, and vermaa...
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Algeria: Encyclopedia Ii - Algeria - Language
Main article: Languages of Algeria
The official language is Arabic, spoken natively in dialectal form ("Darja") by some 80% of the popula...
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Double Negative: Encyclopedia Ii - Double Negative - Ancient Greek
Double negatives are perfectly correct in Ancient Greek, sometimes expressing an affirmation, sometimes strengthening the negation. With ...
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Moroccan Arabic: Encyclopedia Ii - Moroccan Arabic - Diglossia And Social Prestige
While being a natural localisation of Classical Arabic due to geographic and historical reasons, as French evolved from Vulgar Latin, Mor...
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Limerick Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Limerick Poetry - Limericks In Other Languages Than English
Although limericks have been written in a great number of different languages, many of these suffer from the fact that the meter of the l...
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Boredom: Encyclopedia Ii - Boredom - Literature
The word boredom first appeared in the English language in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House, published in 1852, where Dickens wrote ...
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Qwerty: Encyclopedia Ii - Qwerty - Alternative Keyboard Layouts
Because modern keyboards do not suffer from the problems of older mechanical keyboards, the QWERTY layout's separation of frequently used...
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Żejtun: Encyclopedia Ii - Żejtun - History
In Medieval times the whole district around Żejtun, that is, in the southern end of Malta, was known as le Terre di Santa Caterina, ('th...
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Proximate Cause: Encyclopedia Ii - Proximate Cause - Controversy
The doctrine of proximate cause is notoriously confusing. The doctrine is phrased in the language of causation, but in most of the cases ...
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Kalapuya: Encyclopedia Ii - Kalapuya - Copied From Kalapooian Article
A group of tribes who used to live in the Willamette River valley, who spoke a distinct language. Some of the tribes, such as the Yonkall...
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Autistic Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Autistic Culture - Autistic Pride Day
Autistic Pride Day is a celebration of the 'neurodiversity' of individuals on the autism spectrum which is celebrated on June 18 of each ...
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2 Esdras: Encyclopedia Ii - 2 Esdras - Author And Criticism
The main body of the book appears to be written for consolation in a period of great distress (most likely Titus' destruction of the Seco...
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Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Brazil - Poverty Illiteracy And Income Concentration
Brazil currently has 25 million people living in conditions of poverty [2] [3]. This is a critical issue.
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Cerebellum: Encyclopedia Ii - Cerebellum - Dysfunction
Patients with cerebellar dysfunction experience problems in walking, balance, and accurate hand and arm movement. Recent brain imaging st...
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Neanderthal: Encyclopedia Ii - Neanderthal - Popular Culture
Popular Literature has tended to greatly exaggerate the ape-like gait and related characteristics of the Neanderthals. It has been determ...
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Caucasian Albania: Encyclopedia Ii - Caucasian Albania - Spreading Of Christianity In Caucasian Albania
Caucasian Albania was one of the first countries where Christianity was adopted from the 4th century, when the Albanian Church was formed...
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Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Brazil - Poverty, Illiteracy And Income Concentration
Brazil currently has 25 million people living in conditions of poverty [2] [3]. This is a critical issue.
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Pope Clement Xi: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope Clement Xi - Chinese Rites Controversy
Another important decision of Clement was in regard to the Chinese Rites controversy: the Jesuit missionaries were forbidden to take part...
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Herm: Encyclopedia Ii - Herm - History
Herm was occupied in prehistoric times; the remains of Neolithic chamber tombs have been found in the island.
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Millennium Items: Encyclopedia Ii - Millennium Items - Individual Items
The primary power of the Millennium Items is to enact Shadow Games, transporting the players into an alternate realm if desired (the Engl...
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Confessio Amantis: Encyclopedia Ii - Confessio Amantis - Reception
The Confessio was apparently popular in its own time; its 49 surviving manuscripts suggest a popularity about halfway between Chaucer's C...
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Code 46: Encyclopedia Ii - Code 46 - Plot
It is the not-too-distant future, in a world which appears to suffer from overpopulation and large scale environmental degradation. The p...
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Brazil: Encyclopedia Ii - Brazil - Poverty Illiteracy And Income Concentration
Brazil currently has 45 million people living in conditions of poverty. This is a critical issue.
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The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll: Encyclopedia Ii - The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll - Criticisms
As it happens with many free votes over the Internet, the poll may be a victim of organized voting campaigns and biases introduced by the...
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Taveuni: Encyclopedia Ii - Taveuni - Geography
The island is about 10.5 kilometers wide and 42 kilometers long. As much as 10 meters of rain falls annually on the eastern side of the i...
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Paraconsistent Logic: Encyclopedia Ii - Paraconsistent Logic - Problems
In classical logic, a set of sentence, Λ, is said to be negation inconsistent if and for some sentence P.
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Isaak Markus Jost: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaak Markus Jost - Literary Activity
Having himself suffered from the lack of system that characterized the yeshibah, Jost took the greatest interest in pedagogics, and his e...
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Lord Of The Isles: Encyclopedia Ii - Lord Of The Isles - Background
The west coast and islands of present-day Scotland formed part of the territories of the Northern Picts, and then were invaded by Gaelic ...
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Krymchak: Encyclopedia Ii - Krymchak - Russian And Soviet Rule
Russia annexed the Crimea in 1783. The Krymchaks were thereafter subjected to the same humiliations imposed on other Jews in Russia. Unli...
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History Of Malta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Malta - British Rule
In 1814, Malta voluntarily became part of the British Empire. Although initially the island was not given much importance, its excellent ...
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Hell: Encyclopedia Ii - Hell - Hell In Entertainment And Other Popular Culture
Philip José Farmer in his Riverworld series (1971) created perhaps the best science fiction depiction of a "man" made hell created with ...
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Demographics Of France: Encyclopedia Ii - Demographics Of France - Immigration
Demographics of France - Before World War II.
In the twentieth century, France exhibited a high rate of immigration. Immigration was pa...
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Communicating Sequential Processes: Encyclopedia Ii - Communicating Sequential Processes - History
The version of CSP presented in Hoare's original 1978 paper was essentially a concurrent programming language rather than a process calcu...
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History Of Canada: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Canada - The Great War
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated, setting off a chain of events leading to World War I. By ...
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Space Trilogy: Encyclopedia Ii - Space Trilogy - Cosmology
According to the Oyarsa of Malacandra, Maleldil, the son of the Old One, ruled the Field of Arbol directly. But then the Bent One (The Oy...
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Émile Nelligan: Encyclopedia Ii - Émile Nelligan - Biography
Émile Nelligan (December 24, 1879 - November 18, 1941) was a French language poet from Quebec, Canada.
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History Of Khuzestan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Khuzestan - Modernization And Persianization
Discrimination against the Arabic language in schools, media, and government would have been enough to incur the enmity of the Arabic-spe...
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Hawaii: Encyclopedia Ii - Hawaii - Climate
The climate of Hawaii is typical of tropical areas. It is famous for being warm throughout the whole year; during the summer, the tempera...
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Institute Of Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - Institute Of Technology - Portugal
There are fifteen state-run polytechnics in Portugal and also some private polytechnical institutions. The Polytechnical Institutes (Inst...
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Archive Of Fictional Things: Encyclopedia Ii - Archive Of Fictional Things - Fictional Characters Creatures And Entities
Archive of fictional things - Fictional characters.
Category:Fictional characters
Category:Lists of fictional characters
List of ficti...
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Hawaii: Encyclopedia Ii - Hawaii - Climate
The Climate of Hawaii is typical of tropical areas. It is famous for being warm throughout the whole year; during the summer, the tempera...
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Archive Of Fictional Things: Encyclopedia Ii - Archive Of Fictional Things - Fictional Characters, Creatures, And Entities
Archive of fictional things - Fictional characters.
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Rastafari Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Rastafari Movement - Politics
Rastafari culture does not encourage mainstream political involvement. In fact, in the early stages of the movement most Rastas did not v...
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Rastafari Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Rastafari Movement - Doctrines
Rastafari developed amongst very poor people, who felt society had nothing to offer them except more suffering. Rastas see themselves as ...
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Irish Poetry: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Poetry - The 18th Century
The 18th Century perhaps marks the point at which the two language traditions reach equal weight of importance. In Swift, the English tra...
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Republic Of Moldova: Encyclopedia Ii - Republic Of Moldova - History
Main article: History of Moldova
Moldova's territory was inhabited in ancient times by Dacians. Strategical location due to the situation...
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Education In The People's Republic Of China: Encyclopedia Ii - Education In The People's Republic Of China - Education Policy
During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), higher education in particular suffered tremendous losses; the system was shut down, and a ri...
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University Of Hong Kong: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Hong Kong - Criticism
Declining English Standards: The government Higher Education Resources Organizer, as well as academics, parents, and local Hong Kong busi...
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Chrestes, Chrestos, Chrestians, Chrestos:
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Chrestes, Chrestos, Chrestians, Chrestos
Chrestes, Chrestos, Chrestians chrestos (Greek) Applied by the Greeks as a title of respect equivalent to "the worthy." Chre...
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Spirit:
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Spirit Cosmically, the homogeneous emanation from the universal cosmic monad; in man, the direct emanation of his spiritual monad, the...
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Chréstos:
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Chréstos (Ancient Greek) The early Gnostic form of Christ. It was used in the fifth century B.C. by Eschylus, Herodotus, and ot...
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Nightmares Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary -
Nightmares
Nightmares Also See Sleep & Sleep Disorders What is a nightmare? A nightmare is a very distressing dream which usually fo...
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