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  • 1Mediocrity principle — Mediocre redirects here. For the album by Ximena Sariñana, see Mediocre (album). The mediocrity principle is the notion in philosophy of science that there is nothing very unusual about the evolution of our solar system, the Earth, any one nation …

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  • 2French Literature — • Origin, foundations, and types Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. French Literature     French Literature     † …

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  • 3Here I Stand (Usher album) — Here I Stand …

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  • 4Italian Literature — • The modern language of Italy is naturally derived from Latin, a continuation and development of the Latin actually spoken among the inhabitants of the peninsula after the downfall of the Roman Empire Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …

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  • 5Lydgate, John — • Writer, born at Lydgate, Suffolk, about 1370; d. probably about 1450. He entered the Benedictine abbey at Bury when fifteen and may have been educated earlier at the school of the Benedictine monks there and have been afterwards at the… …

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  • 6Sculpture — • In the widest sense of the term, sculpture is the art of representing in bodily form men, animals, and other objects in stone, bronze, ivory, clay and similar materials Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sculpture     Sculpture …

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  • 7John Lydgate —     John Lydgate     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► John Lydgate     Born at Lydgate, Suffolk, about 1370; d. probably about 1450. He entered the Benedictine abbey at Bury when fifteen and may have been educated earlier at the school of the… …

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  • 8Russian literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in the late 10th century.       The unusual shape of Russian literary history has been the source of numerous… …

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  • 9John Randolph of Roanoke — For other people named John Randolph, see John Randolph (disambiguation). John Randolph of Roanoke Randolph as he appears at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. 8th …

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  • 10Sir William d'Avenant —     Sir William D Avenant     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Sir William D Avenant     Poet and dramatist, b. Feb., 1605 6, at Oxford, England; d. in London, 7 April, 1668. He was the second son of John D Avenant, a prosperous vintner and owner of an… …

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