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10 hours ago · Thomas the Apostle ( Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs; Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized: Tʾōmā, meaning "the twin"), [a] also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "Doubting Thomas" because he ...
10 hours ago · Adeline Virginia Woolf ( / wʊlf /; [2] née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London.
10 hours ago · African diaspora. The global African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. [38] The African populations in the Americas are descended from haplogroup L genetic groups of native Africans. [39] [40] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West ...
10 hours ago · Medieval and early modern era 1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, or pre-Petrian literature, to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization. The term is generally used to refer to all forms of literary activity in what is often called Old ...
