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  • 91New York City — City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and an important seaport, it consists of five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. The site of a… …

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  • 92Assyria — • Includes geographical and historical information Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Assyria     Assyria     † …

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  • 93Sacrifice of the Mass — • The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the breaking of bread (fractio panis) or… …

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  • 94The Counter-Reformation —     The Counter Reformation     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Counter Reformation     The subject will be considered under the following heads:     I. Significance of the term II. Low ebb of Catholic fortunes III. St. Ignatius and the Jesuits,… …

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  • 95comfortable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. content[ed], at ease; informal, well off, fixed. See content, prosperity. Ant., uncomfortable, wretched; poor. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In a state of ease] Syn. contented, content, easy, relaxed,… …

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  • 96ZEALOTS AND SICARII — Introduction This article deals not only with the group of fighters for the freedom of Israel known from josephus as the Zealots, but includes in its survey other groups with similar aims, particularly the Sicarii. Judea differed from the other… …

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  • 97Cadfael — (pronEng|ˈkædvaɪl, approximately CAD vile ) is the fictional detective in a series of murder mysteries by the late Edith Pargeter writing under the name Ellis Peters. Life and times of CadfaelA Welsh monk in an English monasteryCadfael is a… …

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  • 98Writing of Principia Mathematica — Isaac Newton composed Principia Mathematica during 1685 and 1686.Authoring Principia Newton s major work mdash; Principia Mathematica In the other letters written in 1685 and 1686, he asks Flamsteed for information about the orbits of the moons… …

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  • 99Third-generation Ford Taurus — Infobox Automobile name = Third generation Ford Taurus aka = manufacturer = Ford Motor Company parent company = production = 1996 1999 assembly = Hapeville, Georgia Chicago, Illinois predecessor = Second generation Ford Taurus successor = Fourth… …

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  • 100insurance — /in shoor euhns, sherr /, n. 1. the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one s person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a… …

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