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91Russian Civil War — (1918–20) Conflict between the newly formed Bolshevik government and its Red Army against the anti Bolshevik forces in Russia. The unfavourable Treaty of Brest Litovsk concluded with Germany caused socialists opposed to Vladimir Lenin to break… …
92humble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lowly, unassuming, modest (see humility); poor, obscure, paltry, mean. v. t. abase, shame, humiliate. See modesty, obscurity, piety. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Meek] Syn. lowly, submissive, gentle,… …
93incidental — adj 1. chance, fortuitous, serendipitous, Inf. fluky; indiscriminate, random, haphazard, casual, hit or miss, careless, leaving much to chance; occasional, accidental; contingent, conditional, circumstantial, provisional, dependent, accompanying; …
94Conflict of Investitures — Conflict of Investitures † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Conflict of Investitures (Ger. Investiturstreit.) The terminus technicus for the great struggle between the popes and the German kings Henry IV and Henry V, during the period 1075 …
95Monasticism — • The act of dwelling alone (Greek monos, monazein, monachos), has come to denote the mode of life pertaining to persons living in seclusion from the world, under religious vows and subject to a fixed rule, as monks, friars, nuns, or in general… …
96Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… …
97Vitruvius — A 1684 depiction of Vitruvius (right) presenting De Architectura to Augustus Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer,[1] active in the 1st century BC. He is best known… …
98petty — /ˈpɛti / (say petee) adjective (pettier, pettiest) 1. of small importance; trifling; trivial: petty grievances. 2. of lesser or secondary importance, merit, etc. 3. having or showing narrow ideas, interests, etc.: petty minds. 4. mean or… …
99Pygmy — pygmoid, adj. pygmyish, adj. pygmyism, n. /pig mee/, n., pl. Pygmies, adj. n. 1. Anthropol. a. a member of a small statured people native to equatorial Africa. b. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands. 2. (l.c.)… …
100pygmy — /ˈpɪgmi / (say pigmee) noun (plural pygmies) 1. Colloquial (chiefly derogatory) a small person. 2. anything very small of its kind. 3. someone who is of small importance, or who has some quality, etc., in very small measure. 4. one of a race of… …
