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  2. Be fruitful and multiply - Wikipedia

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    "Adam and Eve" by Ephraim Moshe Lilien, 1923. In Judaism, Christianity, and some other Abrahamic religions, the commandment to "be fruitful and multiply" (referred to as the "creation mandate" in some denominations of Christianity) is the divine injunction which forms part of Genesis 1:28, in which God, after having created the world and all in it, ascribes to humankind the tasks of filling ...

  3. Magna Carta - Wikipedia

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    The English Liberties (1680, in later versions often British Liberties) by the Whig propagandist Henry Care (d. 1688) was a cheap polemical book that was influential and much-reprinted, in the American colonies as well as Britain, and made Magna Carta central to the history and the contemporary legitimacy of its subject.

  4. Western canon - Wikipedia

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    The Great Books of the Western World in 60 volumes. A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the United States in the 1920s by John Erskine of Columbia University, which proposed to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning.

  5. E. D. Hirsch - Wikipedia

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    The "series" books are based on the curriculum guidelines in the Core Knowledge Sequence. The books are used in Core Knowledge schools and other elementary schools. However, they have also been popular with homeschooling parents. Before turning to education, Hirsch wrote on English literature and theory of interpretation (hermeneutics).

  6. Mandate of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    This dynasty soon lost control of northern China to non-Han ethnic groups, and in the literature of the southern dynasties that followed there began to appear an object called the State-Transmitting Seal. This magical talisman was the physical manifestation of Heaven's mandate, tied up in the fortunes of ruling families, allowing the exiled ...

  7. Retranslation - Wikipedia

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    An implicit retranslation hypothesis can be attributed to Goethe's 1819 claim that three kinds of translation are required. [10] The first, a "simple prosaic rendering" is able to surprise with what is new. The second is placed "in the context of the foreign country" but requires representations in terms of the receiving culture.

  8. Cultural literacy - Wikipedia

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    Western culture in general and Anglo-American culture in particular is a bibliocentric culture. It often trades in allusions to the Christian Bible, [ 2 ] the influential works of Early Modern English such as works of William Shakespeare , the Thomas Cranmer Book of Common Prayer , Geoffrey Chaucer 's poetry, and many others.

  9. Kulturkampf - Wikipedia

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    Pope Pius IX (c. 1878). The philosophic influences of The Enlightenment, Scientific realism, Positivism, Materialism, nationalism, secularism, and Liberalism impinged upon and ended the intellectual and political roles of religion and the Catholic Church, which then was the established church of Europe, excluding Scandinavia, Russia, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and, crucially, Prussia.