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  • 111The Church in China —     The Church in China     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church in China     Ancient Christians     The introduction of Christianity into China has been ascribed not only to the Apostle of India, St. Thomas, but also to St. Bartholomew. In the… …

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  • 112ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… …

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  • 113CUBA — CUBA, archipelago of islands consisting of Cuba, Isla de Pinos, and 1,600 smaller islands; population (2004) 11,300,000; Jewish population (2004) approximately 1,200. The Colonial Period Columbus discovered Cuba during his first voyage (1492).… …

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  • 114Alcoholics Anonymous — AA meeting sign Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international mutual aid movement which says its primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety. Now claiming more than 2 million members, AA was founded in 1935 by Bill …

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  • 115Surrealism — SurrealismIn 1917, Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Surrealism in the program notes describing the ballet Parade which was a collaborative work by Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso and Léonide Massine: From this new alliance, for until …

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  • 116Elizabeth Cady Stanton — Infobox Person name = Elizabeth Cady Stanton image size = 289px caption = Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot. birth date = birth date|mf=yes|1815|11|12|mf=y birth place = Johnstown, New York death date = death date and… …

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  • 117Johnson State College — Infobox University name = Johnson State College established = 1828 motto = Docendo discimus by teaching, we learn type = Public Liberal Arts president = Barbara E. Murphy chancellor = Robert G. Clarke city = Johnson state = Vermont country =… …

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  • 118Western swing — Stylistic origins Western blues folk swing Dixieland jazz Cultural origins 1920s and 1930s; small towns in the US Southwest Typical instruments guitar • piano • drums • vocals • …

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  • 119Hard Times — For other uses, see Hard Times (disambiguation). Hard Times   …

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  • 120A Vindication of the Rights of Men — A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is a political pamphlet, written by the eighteenth century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft …

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