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    is one of the newest religions. The Church of scientology was created in 1953 by L Ron Hubbard. He made the church of scientology because before this he claims in WW2 he was hit by a bomb. He was nearly paralyzed and blind. However he clams by using Dianetics he cured himself. He ended up writing a book about this three years before opening the church of Scientology. That ended up selling really while. After this Hubbard decided to open up the church. The church would teach about the secrets of…

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    Doukhobors Background

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    German speaking Russians which origin is unclear (hard to know when they were originally created). The Doukhobors rejected church and instead practised an easier form of the christian religion, that speaked in psalms and hymns instead of using the bible and called it the Living Book. They did this because they believed that god is in each human being is unnecessary to have a church for that reason. At meeting the Doukhobors don’t use symbols except use of a display or bread, salt and water…

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    its character. Of all creatures within our history of literature, the symbolism of snakes seems to have a strong negative connotation in today’s culture worldwide. This noble creature of the earth…

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    fierce autocratic ruler, but the Westernization of Russia helped Russia become a powerful European force. His taxes, despite being high, were necessary for his many reforms to be enacted. Sources "Peter the Great - Domestic Reforms - History Learning Site." History Learning Site. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec.…

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    CHAPTER 1 BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE FOOD OF GREECE Greek cuisine offers the traveler a rich and diverse range of different foods and beverages. Although Greek food has changed over the centuries as the country has been invaded and influenced by others, the names of food, cooking methods and basic ingredients have remained largely the same for thousands of years. Greece’s climate is perfect for cultivating olive and lemon trees, producing two of the most characteristic elements of Greek cooking…

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    Samaria to pagan Greek parents. Justin displayed intelligence, his love for knowledge, and his devotion to the knowledge of Truth at a very young age. The Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church consider him to be a saint. His writings have standardized the foundation for a theology of history. Saint Justin defended the truth of Christian teaching, persuasively confuting pagan fallacious arguments and heretical distortions of Christianity. Martyr eventually…

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    In fact it could even be considered the dark ages of Ethiopian education as all existing attempts to modern education came to a complete standstill, in short it was a negative period in the history of Ethiopian…

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    Politics, Language, modern day religion. Politics and Government. The Government, laws, and political philosophies that is found in the United States derive and find its origins in the Greco-Roman world. The first, major democracy in the history of the world was Athens, Greece (even though there is a possibility it wasn’t the first…

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    place in the history of Western Europe in the sixteenth century. Historians have experienced considerable difficulty trying to pin him down in broad historical categories: he was a humanist, except for when he burned Muslim books in order to suppress their text-based philosophy. He was an ecclesiastical reformer, except for his unwillingness to create serious change within the Spanish Inquisition. The contradictions above are created by the focuses of scholarship, as traditional histories…

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    of social unity amongst mankind; consoling them in similar feelings and forever extending the shared common visual language of the world. Through new visual ideas introduced by artists, categories of styles are borrowed and begin to bleed through history and time. In my opinion, this is held to be evident in the art pieces of the mosaic of Theodora and her assistants located inside the Basilica of San Vitale on Ravenna Italy (527-565 Ca.) and the…

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