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  • 101Occult Art, Occultism — • An attempt to work apparent miracles not by the power of God, but by the use of hidden forces beyond man s control Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Occult Art, Occultism     Occult Art, Occultism …

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  • 102The Theatre —     The Theatre     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Theatre     Considering the tone of what is preserved to us of the works of the Greek tragedians and even of the comedies of Plautus and Terence, it seems at first difficult to understand the… …

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  • 103Valentin Hauy —     Valentin Haüy     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Valentin Haüy     Founder of the first school for the blind, and known under the endearing name of Father and Apostle of the Blind ; b. at Saint Just, in the department of Picardy, France, 13… …

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  • 104laughing stock — noun An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; a butt of sport. Pray you let us not be See Also: butt of the joke …

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  • 105Creationist cosmologies — Part of a series on Creationism History of creationism Neo creationism …

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  • 106Public image of Sarah Palin — Sarah Palin waves to delegates during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention …

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  • 107Military career of Adolf Hitler — Hitler wearing his war time military jacket in 1942. The military career of Adolf Hitler can be divided into two distinct portions of Adolf Hitler s life. Mainly, the period during World War I when Hitler served as a Gefreiter (Lance Corporal) in …

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  • 108Bernard, Pierre Arnold — (1875–1955)    Western tantric teacherBorn Peter Coons in Leon, Iowa, Pierre Bernard created the Tantrik Order in America, in New York City, in 1909, perhaps the first Hindu group in the United States founded by a Westerner.As a young man,… …

    Encyclopedia of Hinduism

  • 109HEPHÆSTUS —    called Vulcan by the Romans, the Greek god of fire, or of labour in the element of fire, the son of Zeus and Hera, represented as ill shapen, lame, and ungainly, so much so as to be an object of ridicule to the rest of the pantheon, but he was …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 110Stooge — 1. entertainer who feeds lines to a comedian and is often the object of ridicule; 2. one who acts on behalf of another, especially in an obsequious, corrupt, or secretive fashion; 3. act as a stooge …

    Dictionary of Australian slang