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    The Hundred-word Eulogy (Chinese: 百字讃; pinyin: Bǎi Zì Zàn) is a 100-character praise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad written by the Hongwu Emperor...
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    Ahmadiyya in China The Hundred-word Eulogy Chinese Muslim cuisine Religion in China Freedom of religion in China Antireligious campaigns of the Chinese Communist...
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    that the emperor wrote the Hundred-word Eulogy praising Islam. The reign of the Hongwu Emperor is notable for his unprecedented political reforms. The emperor...
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    expeditions to the Indian Ocean. The Hongwu Emperor even composed The Hundred-word Eulogy in praise of Muhammad. Muslims who were descended from earlier immigrants...
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    a guide to encourage the format as an instructional tool. Six-Word Memoirs have seen use in hospital wards, appeared in a eulogy, and suggested as a form...
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    Religion in China The Hundred-word Eulogy  This article incorporates text from The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith, by...
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    Chinese cash coin produced under the reign of the Yongle Emperor. As the Ming dynasty didn't produce copper coinage at the time since it predominantly used...
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  • "Alone," "Dictator," "Reality," "Idiot," and "Eulogy"). Heritage, Helen (2008). The Devil's Dictionary (play). The Devil's Dictionary has spawned many successors...
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    during the years of the healing revival. Gordon Lindsay's eulogy stated that Branham's death was the will of God and privately he accepted the interpretation...
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  • Clementa C. Pinckney (category Democratic Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives)
    an evening Bible study at his church. President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy and sang "Amazing Grace" at Pinckney's funeral nine days later. Clementa...
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  • uses the word "Lispod" from which is derived the Hebrew term Hesped. There is more than one purpose for the eulogy. it is both for the deceased and the living...
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    Bernard Manning (category Deaths from kidney failure in the United Kingdom)
    the years to defend Manning. Satya Rudravajhala, the widow of Visveswara Rao Rudravajhala, wrote a eulogy that was published in the local paper, the Middleton...
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    alliteration as it can happen at any place in the word, not just the beginning. In the following example, the k sound is repeated five times. ...with streaks...
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  • This is the first book to describe the Starways Congress, a high standpoint legislature for the human space colonies, and the Hundred Worlds, the planets...
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    Guide. Penguin. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6. "Usha Suktam - A Vedic Eulogy to the Goddess of Dawn". George M. Williams (2008). Handbook of Hindu Mythology...
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    for president, but lost to the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter. Kennedy was known for his oratorical skills. His 1968 eulogy for his brother Robert and...
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    secular terms, the fall of man from the Garden of Eden. The Fall explores themes of innocence, imprisonment, non-existence, and truth. In a eulogy to Albert...
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    political and military power. The Allahabad Pillar inscription, a prashasti (eulogy) composed by his courtier Harisena, credits him with extensive military...
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    mourners, and a eulogy by Al Sharpton. Def American became American Recordings. Rubin has said: "When advertisers and the fashion world co-opted the image of...
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  • delivers a eulogy at the funeral of his niece, Lady Laena Velaryon. Six years later, Vaemond petitions to Ser Otto Hightower to name him the heir to Driftmark...
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    notably the Hundred Years' War. A major challenge of the reign was the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, and the young king played a central part in the successful...
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  • Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev (category 1982 in the Soviet Union)
    commissar in the Soviet 18th Army during World War II, noting how Brezhnev led his men "with the fiery party word". Anatoly Alexandrov's eulogy noted how...
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    non-denominational funeral was held at the Jewish chapel of the cemetery on February 17. Suzanne Pleshette delivered the eulogy at the request of Janssen's widow...
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    "over four hundred editions" of grammar and "two hundred fifteen editions" of dictionary books that became available to the public in the 1700s, "five...
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    together the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Jews." At the funeral of George Floyd on June 4, 2020, Sharpton delivered a eulogy where he called for the four Minneapolis...
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  • digraphs, as ⟨ea⟩, ⟨ie⟩, ⟨eu⟩ in leave (cf. accede), achieve, eulogy (cf. utopia). The discontiguous digraphs, whose second element is "magic e", e.g...
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  • acceptance The importance of love for God as the motive of obedience to His Laws The importance of utilizing material means Eulogy of the learned among the people...
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  • before the attack on Castle Black, Aemon speaks with Samwell Tarly about his feelings for Gilly. After the battle, he delivers a eulogy for the fallen...
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    a public lecture in the form of a memorial eulogy for King Philip, a seventeenth-century Indian leader who was assassinated by the Plymouth colonists....
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    Arquebus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    derived from the Dutch word Haakbus ("hook gun"). The term arquebus was applied to many different forms of firearms from the 15th to 17th centuries,...
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