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  • 21Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …

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  • 22Theatines — • A religious order of men, founded by Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene, Paolo Consiglieri, Bonifacio da Colle, and Giovanni Pietro Carafa, afterwards Pope Paul IV Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Theatines     Theatines …

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  • 23DANCE — In Ancient Israel In the Bible, Mishnah, and Talmud, dance is referred to in various contexts as an important ritualized activity and as an expression of joy. None of these references, however, contain descriptions of how the dancers actually… …

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  • 24Pomp and Circumstance Marches — The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches ), Op. 39 are a series of marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar. For the music commonly known as Pomp and Circumstance in the United States,… …

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  • 25Italian literature — is literature written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in Italy in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to modern Italian. Early… …

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  • 26Our Lady of Lourdes — For a more detailed account of the Marian apparitions at Lourdes, please see Lourdes apparitions Our Lady of Lourdes Location Lourdes, France Date 11 February 16 July 1858 …

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  • 27motion picture — motion picture, adj. 1. a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion picture projector) in such rapid succession as to… …

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  • 28Western sculpture — ▪ art Introduction       three dimensional artistic forms produced in what is now Europe and later in non European areas dominated by European culture (such as North America) from the Metal Ages (Europe, history of) to the present.       Like… …

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  • 29St. Bonaventure —     St. Bonaventure     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Bonaventure     Doctor of the Church, Cardinal Bishop of Albano, Minister General of the Friars Minor, born at Bagnorea in the vicinity of Viterbo in 1221; died at Lyons, 16 July, 1274.… …

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  • 30FASTING AND FAST DAYS — FASTING AND FAST DAYS, the precept (or custom) of refraining from eating and drinking. In the Bible Although the origins of the ritual of fasting are obscure, several current theories claim that it originated as (1) a spiritual preparation for… …

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