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- 2501: The Holy Bible and Its History
- ... manuscript containing the Gospels and Acts, but with a much different text. Codex Washingtonianus, or - "The Freer Gospels". Fifth century manuscript containing all four Gospels. This document is now located in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.. Before the fifteenth century when Gutenberg invented the printing press, all copies of literature were made by hand, thus called manuscript. We now have over 6,000 manuscript copies of the Greek New ...
- 2502: Theory of Religion
- ... s theory had similar meaning in that religion made people have inner peace as they go through life. Another theory of religion, one of a completely different view of Freud and James, is from James George Frazer. He believed that religion, with its ceremonies, prayer, and spiritual beings, was much like a sorcerer and his magic. Neither doubts that the same cause will always produce the same effect with the performance ...
- 2503: Buddha
- ... www.tricycle.com/buddhabasics.html Facts on File. New York: Oxford, 1993. Find your Faith in Buddhism and reach for it http://www.spiritualblessings.com/html/four_noble_truths.html Gard, Richard. Buddhism. New York: George Braziller, 1962. Shaftel, Oscar. An Understanding of the Buddha. New York: Shocken Books, 1974. The Eightfold Path http://www.budtempchi.org/8path.html The Four Noble Truths http://www.3.10pht.com/~gil/4noble.html
- 2504: The History of the Catholic Church in St. Augustine
- ... do enjoy the city. As I began to research this city I learned all about our old city, interesting tid-bits and old traditions. On a warm Saturday I would love to go visit St. George Street and Anastasia beach. I thought it would be even more enjoyable if I understood the sights. What did I learn? I learned plenty about this city and its old traditions including one such tradition ...
- 2505: The Invention of the Airplane
- ... people were working hard to invent the airplane. The period of active experimentation begins in 1891, when noted German engineer Otto Lilienthal began experimenting with hang gliders. Lilienthal took seriously the ideas advocated by Sir George Cayley almost a hundred years earlier. Through an extensive study of birds and bird flight, Cayley realized that the lift function and the thrust function of bird wings were separate and distinct, and could be ...
- 2506: Conflicts Between The North and The South
- ... problems. The Compromise of 1850 was created and put a stop to the evident problems. This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico, banned slave trade in Washington, D.C., and passed a very strict fugitive law. What this compromise also did was cripple the South's representation in the Senate, for the better of the North because the odds were for them ...
- 2507: Brief Look at Jewish History
- ... Holocaust : the Jewish tragedy Gilbert,Martin, COLLI 1986 2. Israel & the Arabs: The June 1967 War Facts on file, INC. New York, N.Y. 1968 3. The Holocaust in Historical Perspective Yehuda Bauer University of Washington Press 1978
- 2508: The Spaniard Quietist Miguel de Molinos
- ... Madrid: Editorial Catσlica, 1979. Pastor, Ludwing. The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages. Vol. 32. USA: Consortium Books, 1978. Whalen, John P., and Patrick O. Boyle, eds. New Catholic Encyclopedia. Washington: McGraw Book Co., 1966. S.v. "Molinos, Miguel de Art," by T. K. Connolly.
- 2509: Gold And Its Uses
- ... Today, worldwide production amounts to about 2,300 tonnes annually, having doubled since 1980 due to higher prices and new technology. Although gold is mined in almost sixty countries, the following are the major producers. George Harrison discovered gold on Langlaagte farm near Johannesburg in February 1886. Soon, South Africa was the world's premier producer, a position that it has held almost continuously ever since. In just over a century ...
- 2510: Religion In Our Lives
- ... deep into these religious symbols, there exists a common thread uniting all religions. The aspect of community becomes the "heart and soul" of almost all religious groups around the world. It is this upon which George Weckman focuses his article. The author defines the characteristics of a community in a number of ways. For one, he claims that some sort of initiation or "entrance ritual" needs to occur in order to ...
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