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  2. Stefano Durazzo (Doge of Genoa) - Wikipedia

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    Son of Pietro Durazzo, doge of Genoa in the two years 1685–1687, and his wife, Violante Garbarino, he was born in the Genoese capital in 1668.Compared to other noble representatives, Stefano Durazzo, in fact, did not deal much with public life and even his biennial Dogate was somewhat uninfluential or almost "ordinary administration".

  3. Confucianism - Wikipedia

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    Temple of Confucius of Jiangyin, Wuxi, Jiangsu.This is a wenmiao (文庙), that is to say a temple where Confucius is worshipped as Wendi, "God of Culture" (文帝). Gates of the wenmiao of Datong, Shanxi

  4. Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, Buddhism, [1] ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Zoroastrianism.. Arabian polytheism, the dominant form of religion in pre-Islamic Arabia, was based on veneration of deities and spirits.

  5. V1 Saliency Hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    It was uninfluential initially since for decades it has been believed that attentional guidance is essentially or only controlled by higher-level brain areas. These higher-level brain areas include the frontal eye field and parietal cortical areas [ 19 ] in the frontal and more anterior part of the brain, and they are believed to be intelligent ...

  6. Sereno Edwards Dwight - Wikipedia

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    Dwight was the fifth son of Yale College President Timothy Dwight IV and his wife Mary Woolsey, born in Greenfield Hill in Fairfield, Connecticut.He graduated Yale in 1803, was a tutor there in 1806–1810, and successfully practised law in New Haven, Connecticut in 1810–1816.

  7. Book of Idols - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Idols (Kitāb al-ʾAṣnām), written by the Arab scholar Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737–819), is the most popular of the Islamic-era works about the gods and rites of pre-Islamic Arab religions. [1]

  8. Marginalism - Wikipedia

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    Other marginalists have sought to present what they thought of as more realistic explanations, [11] [12] but this work has been relatively uninfluential on the mainstream of economic thought. Paradox of water and diamonds

  9. Heterodox economics - Wikipedia

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    Heterodox economics family tree. Heterodox economics is a broad, relative term referring to schools of economic thought which are not commonly perceived as belonging to mainstream economics.