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  • Causality is the process of making something happen. Often it denotes a necessary relationship between one event (called cause) and another event (called effect) which is the direct consequence of...

    Causality

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Causality is the process of making something happen. Often it denotes a necessary relationship between one event (called cause) and another event (called effect) which is the direct consequence of...

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  • Determinism necessarily entails that humanity or individual humans may not change the course of the future and its events (a position known as fatalism); however, some determinists believe that the...

    Determinism

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Determinism necessarily entails that humanity or individual humans may not change the course of the future and its events (a position known as fatalism); however, some determinists believe that the...

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  • Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely...

    Synchronicity

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. In order to count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely...

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  • Magi (Latin plural of magus, ancient Greek magos, English singular ‘magian’, ‘mage’, ‘magus’, ‘magusian’, ‘magusaean’) is a term, used since at least the 4th century BCE, to denote a follower...

    Magi

    Posted on July 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Magi (Latin plural of magus, ancient Greek magos, English singular ‘magian’, ‘mage’, ‘magus’, ‘magusian’, ‘magusaean’) is a term, used since at least the 4th century BCE, to denote a follower...

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  • El Badi Palace (Arabic: قصر البديع‎ – meaning the incomparable palace) is located in Marrakech, Morocco, and it consists nowadays of the remnants of a magnificent palace built by the...

    El Badi Palace

    Posted on July 12, 2009 | No Comments
    El Badi Palace (Arabic: قصر البديع‎ – meaning the incomparable palace) is located in Marrakech, Morocco, and it consists nowadays of the remnants of a magnificent palace built by the...

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  • The Holophusikon (or Holophusicon, also known as the Leverian Museum) was a museum of natural curiosities exhibited at Leicester House, on Leicester Square in London, England, from 1775 to 1786 by Ashton Lever. The collection was acquired by...

    Holophusikon

    Posted on July 5, 2009 | No Comments
    The Holophusikon (or Holophusicon, also known as the Leverian Museum) was a museum of natural curiosities exhibited at Leicester House, on Leicester Square in London, England, from 1775 to 1786 by Ashton Lever. The collection was acquired by...

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  • The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London, commissioned by William Bullock as a museum to house his collection (which included curiosities brought back from the South Seas by Captain Cook), was completed in 1812 at a cost...

    The Egyptian Hall

    Posted on July 5, 2009 | No Comments
    The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London, commissioned by William Bullock as a museum to house his collection (which included curiosities brought back from the South Seas by Captain Cook), was completed in 1812 at a cost...

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  • In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later. The term refers to...

    Lazarus Taxa

    Posted on May 9, 2009 | No Comments
    In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later. The term refers to...

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  • 168 In biology and ecology, extinction is the death of every member of a species or group of taxa. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death...

    Extinction

    Posted on May 9, 2009 | No Comments
    168 In biology and ecology, extinction is the death of every member of a species or group of taxa. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death...

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  • Biography His father, Roderigo de Tordesillas, and his mother, Agnes de Herrera, were both of good family. After studying for some time in his native country, Herrera proceeded to Italy,...

    Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas

    Posted on April 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Biography His father, Roderigo de Tordesillas, and his mother, Agnes de Herrera, were both of good family. After studying for some time in his native country, Herrera proceeded to Italy,...

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