• In ancient Greece and Rome, an asylum was a place where people facing persecution could seek refuge. These locations were largely religious in nature,...
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  • up asylum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Asylum may refer to: Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome Benevolent asylum, a...
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  • refuge: An asylum (antiquity), in antiquity, a place (usually a temple) where people could seek refuge A sovereign offering the right of asylum A sanctuary...
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    understand human interactions with the natural world. Asylum (antiquity) Cities of Refuge Church asylum Elvira Arellano Frith Hospitality Hospitality law...
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    The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the...
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    up hospitality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Asylum (antiquity) – Place of refuge in antiquity Hospitality service – Form of hospitality and lodgingPages...
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    Cities of Refuge (category Right of asylum)
    might grant them from time to time, unless the denizens persisted. Asylum (antiquity) Hilchot Rotzeach, ch. 8 par. 9 Metzger, Bruce M.; Coogan, Michael...
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  • claims for asylum by those asylum seekers that enter EU territory for the first time in Malta. Asylum applications in Malta Decisions on asylum status in...
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    Insane Asylum and the Hanwell Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, was an asylum built for the pauper insane, opening as the First Middlesex County Asylum in 1831...
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  • considered the last serious Jewish attempt to gain autonomy in Palestine in antiquity. In 1160 David Alroy led a Jewish uprising in Upper Mesopotamia that aimed...
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    State Hospital (ASH), formerly known until 1925 as the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, is a 299-bed psychiatric hospital located in Austin, Texas. It is the oldest...
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    Simultaneously, religious houses were established with the purpose of providing asylum and encouraging the reformation of prostitution. Magdalene Homes were particularly...
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    Piracy (redirect from Piracy in antiquity)
    Aegean and Mediterranean waters in the 14th century BC. In classical antiquity, the Phoenicians, Illyrians and Tyrrhenians were known as pirates. In...
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    painted in June 1889. It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of...
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  • [citation needed] In 1873, the first electromechanical vibrator was used at an asylum in France for the treatment of hysteria.[citation needed] While physicians...
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    "plebeians", consisted of the servants, freedmen, fugitives who sought asylum at Rome, those captured in war, and others who were granted Roman citizenship...
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  • Photos, Legends of Essex County Hospital (AKA Overbrook Asylum for the Insane). Antiquity Echoes History, present day photos, and video of the Essex...
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    Intellectual Internet Morphological Political By right Assembly Association Asylum Choice Death Education Fair trial Family life Freedom from discrimination...
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    Corinthian brass, aes Corinthiacum, or Grilver was a metal alloy in classical antiquity. It is thought to be an alloy of copper with gold or silver (or both)...
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    of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine region and the Holy Land. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilization followed by the kingdoms of...
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    nationalities—especially Pakistani and Bangladeshi—with more recent political asylum and/or illegal migration flows through Turkey of Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians...
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  • The buildings maintained by such organizations, particularly: Lunatic asylums Prisons Institutions in computer science Search for "institution" on Wikipedia...
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    entry to asylum seekers". It is not legal for the US to deny anyone the right to seek asylum. Nonetheless, according to advocacy lawyers, asylum seekers...
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    locations where Armenians are considered an indigenous population. Since antiquity, Armenians have established communities in many regions throughout the...
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    Chronology Bibliography of European history Prehistory Classical antiquity Late antiquity Middle Ages Early modernity World War I World War II Pax Europaea...
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    continent to slavery in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East from antiquity until the mid-20th century. The Red Sea slave trade is known as one of...
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    statues and sculptures from antiquity are disfigured, headless or mutilated, likely by Christian zealots in late antiquity during the persecution of pagans...
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    received the favor of the Seleucid kings of Syria and enjoyed the right of asylum for political refugees. It is mentioned in a rescript from Rome about 138 BC...
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    archaeologists to theorize that Pikillacta could have been used as an insane asylum or prison. Cerro Baúl Located in south of what is now Peru, Cerro Baul was...
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    the educational and industrial department, and one for the custodial or asylum department. The institution was required to accommodate no fewer than five...
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