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  • 51Klages, Ludwig — (1872 1956)    cultural theorist; a member of the George Circle for whom research into the unconscious became worship of the uncon scious (Pachter). Born in Hanover, he studied physics and philosophy before taking a doctorate in 1901 in chemistry …

    Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

  • 52Kristien Hemmerechts — (Brussels, 27 August 1955) is a Belgian writer.LifeKristien Hemmerechts studied Germanic philology at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (KUB) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). Afterwards, she studied literary science in Amsterdam… …

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  • 53Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants — CICPA China’s main professional accounting and external auditing organization. The CICPA was established in 1988, more than a century after its equivalents in most English speaking countries. Its late foundation reflects China’s estrangement from …

    Auditor's dictionary

  • 54Klages, Ludwig — ▪ German psychologist and philosopher born Dec. 10, 1872, Hannover, Ger. died July 29, 1956, Kilchberg, near Zürich, Switz.       German psychologist and philosopher, distinguished in the field of characterology. He was also a founder of modern… …

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  • 55solitude — n. 1. Loneliness, isolation, seclusion, solitariness, retiredness, recluseness, retirement, privacy, lonely state, lonely life, estrangement from the world. 2. Isolation, seclusion, remoteness. 3. Desert, wilderness, waste, lonely place, deserted …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 56UNITED STATES LITERATURE — The Influence of the Bible and Hebrew Culture The Jewish influence on American literary expression predated the actual arrival of Jews in the United States in 1654, for the Puritan culture of New England was marked from the outset by a deep… …

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  • 57Byzantine Empire — the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Empire in A.D. 476. Cap.: Constantinople. * * * Empire, southeastern and southern Europe and western Asia. It began as the city of Byzantium, which had grown from an ancient Greek colony… …

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  • 58Eastern Orthodoxy — the faith, practice, membership, and government of the Eastern Orthodox Church. * * * officially Orthodox Catholic Church One of the three major branches of Christianity. Its adherents live mostly in Greece, Russia, the Balkans, Ukraine, and the… …

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  • 59MIXED MARRIAGE, INTERMARRIAGE — The terms intermarriage and mixed marriage are used interchangeably. Intermarriage in the present context is defined as a marriage where one partner professes a religion different from that of his spouse. Marriages in which a partner has… …

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  • 60Tito–Stalin split — The Tito Stalin Split was a conflict between the leaders of Federal People s Republic of Yugoslavia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which resulted in Yugoslavia s expulsion from the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) in 1948.… …

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