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  • 51grand — I. adjective Etymology: Anglo French grant, grand, large, great, grand, from Latin grandis Date: 1548 1. a. having more importance than others ; foremost b. having higher rank than others bearing the same general designation < the grand champion&#8230; …

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  • 52Self (psychology) — The self is a key construct in several schools of psychology, broadly referring to the cognitive representation of one s identity. The earliest formulation of the self in modern psychology stems from the distinction between the self as I, the&#8230; …

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  • 53Fantom — Infobox musical artist Name = Fantom Img capt = 2007 The Fantom Man. Img size = Landscape = Background = solo singer Birth name = Jamaurice Devron Holt Alias = Fantom Man Born = birth date and age|1989|12|13 Origin = Atlanta, Georgia, United&#8230; …

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  • 54What Computers Can't Do — Book cover of the 1979 paperback edition See also: Philosophy of artificial intelligence Hubert Dreyfus has been a critic of artificial intelligence research since the 1960s. In a series of papers and books, including Alchemy and AI (1965), What&#8230; …

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  • 55theatre — /thee euh teuhr, theeeu /, n. theater. * * * I Building or space in which performances are given before an audience. It contains an auditorium and stage. In ancient Greece, where Western theatre began (5th century BC), theatres were constructed&#8230; …

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  • 56Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the&#8230; …

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  • 57Femme de l'Apocalypse — La Vierge comme femme de l’Apocalypse, Pierre Paul Rubens. La Femme de l Apocalypse est un personnage biblique qui apparaît au chapitre 12 du livre de l Apocalypse[1] …

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  • 58CORÉE — Partagée en deux États après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Corée est riche d’une longue tradition, historique et artistique, qui est restée originale tout en se développant au contact de la Chine. La Corée se rattache à l’Asie du Nord Est par sa …

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  • 59PÈLERINAGES ET LIEUX SACRÉS — Les termes de «pèlerinage» et de «lieu sacré» sont typiquement occidentaux: si l’on met à part les langues germaniques, ce sont les formes latines de peregrinatio et de loca sacra qui sont, non seulement dans les parlers latins mais aussi dans&#8230; …

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  • 60ROMANTISME — Le vaste mouvement de sensibilité et d’idées appelé «romantisme» a embrassé tant de domaines divers (histoire, politique, réforme sociale, philosophie, littérature, musique et arts plastiques) qu’il dépasse tous les efforts de synthèse entrepris&#8230; …

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