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  • 121Native American music — Introduction       music of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The Americas contain hundreds of native communities, each with its own distinctive history, language, and musical culture. These communities although united in placing… …

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  • 122Buskins — • Ceremonial stockings of silk, sometimes interwoven with gold threads, and even heavily embroidered, worn by the celebrant of a pontifical Mass Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Buskins     Buskins …

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  • 123Irish Literature — • It is uncertain at what period and in what manner the Irish discovered the use of letters. It may have been through direct commerce with Gaul, but it is more probable, as McNeill has shown in his study of Irish oghams, that it was from the… …

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  • 124Nuptial Mass — • Missa pro sponso et sponsa , the last among the votive Masses in the Missal. It is composed of lessons and chants suitable to the Sacrament of Matrimony, contains prayers for persons just married and is interwoven with part of the marriage rite …

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  • 125Targum — • The distinctive designation of the Aramaic translations or paraphrases of the Old Testament Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Targum     Targum      …

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  • 126Ecclesiastical Heraldry —     Ecclesiastical Heraldry     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Heraldry          Ecclesiastical heraldry naturally divides itself into various branches, principally: the arms of religious corporations, and other bodies; the insignia of… …

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  • 127Rule of St. Basil —     Rule of St. Basil     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Rule of St. Basil     I.     Under the name of Basilians are included all the religious who follow the Rule of St. Basil. The monasteries of such religious have never possessed the hierarchical… …

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  • 128calligram — noun /ˈkælɪɡræm/ a) A word, phrase or longer text in which the typeface or the layout has some special significance b) A signature made from interwoven Arabic words, or interwoven Arabic words in the shape of the thing described Mahmud II of the …

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