Aviva Directory
Aviva Directory
History & Genealogy |
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| Galileo |
| Philosopher. Scientist. Heretic. All of these words describe the man who was arguably one of the most famous men of the 17th century and a central figure in the scientific revolution of that century, Galileo Galilei. |
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| Local & Global |
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| Germany |
| Germany is a republic in west-central Europe with a population of approximately 81 million people, making it the most populous country in the European Union and the 2nd most populous country, next to Russia, in Europe as a whole. |
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| Faith & Spirituality |
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| Who Are the Hutterites? |
| The Hutterian Brethren had their origins in Moravia, which was then under Austrian rule. In 1526, Anabaptists were invited to settle the rural areas by the Moravian gentry in order to help develop the local economy, and to show its independence from the Holy Roman Empire. |
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| The Origins of Voodoo in the Caribbean |
| Americans, at least in the United States, tend to blur the several events that eventually led to the European colonization of North America, associating Christopher Columbus with the landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, despite the fact that Columbus died in 1506. |
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