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    Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans as part of a ritual, which is usually intended to please or appease gods, a human ruler, public...
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  • Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms...
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    Cattle raiding is the act of stealing live cattle, often several or many at once. In Australia, such stealing is often referred to as duffing, and the...
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  • Latin obscenity is the profane, indecent, or impolite vocabulary of Latin, and its uses. Words deemed obscene were described as obsc(a)ena (obscene, lewd...
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    The Necropolis of Pantalica is a collection of cemeteries with rock-cut chamber tombs in southeast Sicily, Italy. Dating from the 13th to the 7th centuries...
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  • Fand ("tear", "teardrop of beauty") or Fann ("weak, helpless person'") is an otherworldly woman in Irish mythology. The two forms of her name are not phonetic...
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    Lydie Salvayre (born Lydie Arjona in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went...
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  • St. Phillip's Anglican Church, also known as the African Church, in the Kingstown area of Tortola in British Virgin Islands, was built in 1840 by a community...
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    Markt Triefenstein (German: [ˈtʁiːfn̩ˌʃtaɪ̯n] ) is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken)...
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  • Pomponius Porphyrion (or Porphyrio)[citation needed] was a Latin grammarian and commentator on Horace. He was possibly a native of Africa, and flourished...
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  • Within the field of rhetoric, the contributions of female rhetoricians have often been overlooked. Anthologies comprising the history of rhetoric or rhetoricians...
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  • Abigail Garner (born 1975[citation needed] in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American author and advocate for children with LGBT parents. Garner is the...
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  • The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Seville, Andalusia, Spain. 491 – Cathedral of Seville is built 600 – Isidore of Seville becomes...
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    Pensri Pomchoosri (Thai: เพ็ญศรี พุ่มชูศรี; RTGS: Phensi Phumchusi; June 17, 1929 in Changwat Phitsanulok – May 14, 2007 in Changwat Samut Prakan) was...
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  • Marjorie Violet Mussett (1922 - 21 December 2004) was a British biologist and endocrinologist. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University...
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  • Nikac Tomanović (Serbian: Никац Томановић; fl. 1755–56), known in epic poetry as Nikac of Rovine (Никац од Ровина/Nikac od Rovina), was Montenegrin harambaša...
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