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3 days ago · The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1999; 427pp. Paul Kliber Monod has written an ambitious and very welcome book, which seeks to investigate the relationship between Christianity and kingship across the whole of Christian Europe in the 'long' seventeenth century from 1589 to 1715.
3 days ago · The Amish ( / ˈɑːmɪʃ /; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. [2] As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in common, the Amish have been described ...
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1 day ago · OCLC 1023081856. The name Palestine has its origin in the Hebrew Peleshet, first mentioned in the Bible (Exodus 15:14) in reference to the land of the Pelishtim, or Philistines, one group of the Sea Peoples that invaded the region during the early biblical period. ^ Killebrew 2005, p. 202,205.
5 days ago · The Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Modern genetic analyses indicate that the strain of Y. pestis introduced during the Black Death is ancestral to all extant circulating Y. pestis strains known to cause disease in humans.
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- It is not known for certain how many people died during the Black Death. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plag...
- The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely...
- The plague that caused the Black Death originated in China in the early to mid-1300s and spread along trade routes westward to the Mediterranean an...
- Yersinia causes three types of plague in humans: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Although there is DNA evidence that Yersinia was present in vi...
- The effects of the Black Death were many and varied. Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which dev...
- The Black Death has also been called the Great Mortality, a term derived from medieval chronicles’ use of magna mortalitas. This term, along with m...
4 days ago · Answer: Ireland. 3. Where was Eddy Grant, singer of "Electric Avenue", born? Answer: Guyana. It was popular in 1983. Only "Electric Avenue" and "Romancin' on the Stone" were Top 40 hits in the United States. Grant had much better success in England. Grant was born in Guyana, emigrated to England in 1960, then moved to Barbados in the 1980s. 4.
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6 days ago · Liberalism, the belief in freedom, equality, democracy and human rights, is historically associated with thinkers such as John Locke and Montesquieu, and with constitutionally limiting the power of the monarch, affirming parliamentary supremacy, passing the Bill of Rights and establishing the principle of "consent of the governed".
4 days ago · The Bible tells us that water for the Flood came from under the earth. We read in Genesis 7:11 that ‘all the springs of the great deep burst forth’. Possibly water came from the earth’s mantle. Geologists calculate that the rocks of the earth’s mantle still contain within their mineral structure enough water to fill the oceans ten times ...
