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Defenestration: Prague's History of Literally Throwing Authority Out the Window

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Why Do People Say “Amen” at the End of a Prayer?

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Which Religion Is the Oldest?

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Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

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Also Known As	Petra Payna
Born	c.1380 • England
Died	c.1455 • Prague • Czech Republic
Subjects Of Study	John Wycliffe • theology

Jan Hus

Bohemian religious leader

Jerome of Prague

Czech philosopher

John Wycliffe

English theologian

Nicholas Of Hereford

English scholar

Michael Novak

American theologian, economist, historian, and author

Jan Rokycana

Bohemian archbishop

George

king of Bohemia

Prokop The Bald

Bohemian priest

Sir Francis Walsingham

English statesman

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

William of Ockham

English philosopher

Richard Hooker

English theologian

Antony Flew

English philosopher

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of Halifax

British statesman

William De La Mare

English philosopher

Isaac Of Stella

English philosopher and theologian

John Biddle

English theologian

Ralph Cudworth

British theologian and philosopher

Frederick Denison Maurice

British theologian

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