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Livy's Roman History, 1664
Historiarum ab Urbe Condita. - The complete history of Rome and its Urban Foundation -from its foundation to Augustine- by Titus Livius Patavina (59 BC – AD 17). Latin text. Edited with extensive commentary by Joannes Frederick Gronovius...
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Young George Washington with His Father
Father, I cannot tell a lie: I cut the tree, showing George Washington as a young with his father Augustine 'Gus' Washington (1694-1743), a Virginian planter, engraving by John C. McRae after a painting by G.G. White, c. 1867. Library...
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The Challenge of Gnosticism (Part 1)
Origins of Christianity Lecture Series http://www.ou.edu/content/cte/teaching/articles/origins-of-christianity.html The Origins of Christianity Lecture Series explores the history of Christianity from Jesus to Augustine. The series aims...
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The Challenge of Gnosticism (Part 2)
Origins of Christianity Lecture Series http://www.ou.edu/content/cte/teaching/articles/origins-of-christianity.html The Origins of Christianity Lecture Series explores the history of Christianity from Jesus to Augustine. The series...
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Christianity
Christianity is the world's largest religion, with 2.8 billion adherents. It is categorized as one of the three Abrahamic or monotheistic religions of the Western tradition along with Judaism and Islam. 'Christian' is derived from the Greek...
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Mary, Mother of Jesus
Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus Christ, is one of the most venerated women from the ancient world. Her most common epithet is "the virgin Mary." She is celebrated by Eastern Orthodox Churches, Catholicism, and various Protestant denominations...
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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan, or Fernão de Magalhães (c. 1480-1521), was a Portuguese mariner whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22 in the service of Spain. Magellan was killed on the voyage in what is today the Philippines...
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther (l. 1483-1546) was a German priest, monk, and theologian who became the central figure of the religious and cultural movement known as the Protestant Reformation. Even though earlier reformers had expressed Luther's views, his...
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The Saxons
The Saxons were a Germanic people of the region north of the Elbe River stretching from Holstein (in modern-day Germany) to the North Sea. The Saxons who migrated to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries CE along with the Angles, Frisians...
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Ancient Britain
Ancient Britain was a landmass on the northwest of the continent of Europe first occupied by humans c. 800,000 years ago prior to it becoming an island c. 6000 BCE due to flooding which separated it from the mainland. Agriculture began to...