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111Cunning folk in Britain — A model of a nineteenth century cunning woman in her house, at the Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle in England. The cunning folk in Britain were professional or semi professional practitioners of magic active from the Medieval period through to… …
112CANADIAN LITERATURE — English A.M. Klein (1909–1972), the founding father of Canadian Jewish literature, grew up in Montreal, the birthplace of that body of writing. A polyglot and autodidact, Klein absorbed his Hebrew and Yiddish heritages, as well as traditional… …
113KOOK (Kuk), ABRAHAM ISAAC — (1865–1935), rabbinical authority and thinker; first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of modern Ereẓ Israel. Born in Greiva (now Griva), Latvia, Kook received the type of Jewish education that was customary in 19th century Eastern Europe. At a very early… …
114The Age of Reason — The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology , a deistic treatise written by eighteenth century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy… …
115Otto von Guericke — Otto von Guericke, engraving by Anselmus von Hulle, (1601 1674) Born …
116Bhakti movement — The Bhakti movement was a Hindu religious movement in which the main spiritual practice was loving devotion to God, or bhakti . The devotion was directed towards a particular form of God, such as Shiva, Vishnu, Murukan or Shakti. The bhakti… …
117Asbab al-nuzul — Asbāb al nuzūl اسباب النزول, an Arabic term meaning occasions/circumstances of revelation , is a secondary genre of Qur ānic exegesis ( tafsir ) directed at establishing the context in which specific verses of the Qur ān were revealed. Though of… …
118Gabriel Metsu — (January 1629, Leiden buried Oct 24 1667, Amsterdam), Dutch painter, was the son of the Flemish painter Jacques Metsu (c.1588 1629), who lived most of his days at Leiden, where he was three times married. The last of these marriages was… …
119What Is Life? — Infobox Book name = What is Life? Mind and Matter title orig = image caption = author = Erwin Schrödinger illustrator = cover artist = country = language = English series = subject = genre = Popular science publisher = Cambridge University Press… …
120Characters of Crash Bandicoot — This is a list of characters from the Crash Bandicoot video game. Crash Bandicoot is a series of platform video games published by Activision. The series was formerly developed by Naughty Dog from 1996 to 1999, and by Traveller s Tales, Eurocom… …
