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  2. Migration to Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    The migration to Abyssinia (Arabic: الهجرة إلى الحبشة, romanized: al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijra (الهجرة الأولى, al-hijrat al'uwlaa), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the Sahabah, or the companions) migrated from Arabia due to their persecution by ...

  3. Invisible hand - Wikipedia

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    This passage concerns the distribution of wealth: the poor receive the "necessities of life" after the rich have gratified "their own vain and insatiable desires". It has been noted that in this passage Smith seems to equate the invisible hand to " Providence ", implying a divine plan.

  4. Unseen examination - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, an unseen examination is an essay test in school or college, where the student does not know what questions are going to be asked in advance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The student is required to answer questions based upon what they have learned over the course of their academic study.

  5. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    follow the organization of a passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, draw inferences from a passage about its contents, identify the main thought of a passage, ask questions about the text, answer questions asked in a passage, visualize the text, recall prior knowledge connected to text, recognize confusion or attention problems,

  6. Five Ways (Aquinas) - Wikipedia

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    The Summa uses the form of scholastic disputation (i.e. a literary form based on a lecturing method: a question is raised, then the most serious objections are summarized, then a correct answer is provided in that context, then the objections are answered).

  7. Book of Esther - Wikipedia

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    The Nova Vulgata accounts for the additional verses by numbering them as extensions of the verses immediately following or preceding them (e.g., Esther 11:2–12 in the old Vulgate becomes Esther 1:1a–1k in the Nova Vulgata), while the NAB and its successor, the NABRE, assign letters of the alphabet as chapter headings for the additions (e.g ...

  8. Great Bengal famine of 1770 - Wikipedia

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    [11] [17] [5] [1] [18] [19] [20] The loss to cultivation was estimated to be a third of the total cultivation. [21] [22] Some scholars consider these numbers to be exaggerated in large part because reliable demographic information had been lacking in 1770. [23] [24] Even so, the famine devastated traditional ways of life in the affected regions.

  9. Yogachara - Wikipedia

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    The fifth class of beings, the icchantika, were described in various Mahayana sutras as being incapable of achieving enlightenment, unless in some cases through the aid of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. Nevertheless, the notion was highly criticized by later Mahayanists who supported the universalist doctrine of ekayana .