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- ASCII character set
(computer science) 128 characters that make up the ASCII coding scheme - Linear A
an undeciphered writing system used in Crete in the 17th century B.C. - Linear B
a syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C. - Pilgrim's Progress
an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678 - Aeneid
an epic in Latin by Virgil - Divine Comedy, Divina Commedia
a narrative epic poem written by Dante - Iliad
a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy - Odyssey
a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy - Nibelungenlied
an epic poem written in Middle High German and based on the legends of Siegfried and Teutonic kings - Rosetta Stone
a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC - Dead Sea scrolls
(Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s - Oxford English Dictionary, O.E.D., OED
an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles - Adi Granth, Granth, Granth Sahib
the principal sacred text of Sikhism contains hymns and poetry as well as the teachings of the first five gurus - Avesta, Zend-Avesta
a collection of Zoroastrian texts gathered during the 4th or 6th centuries - Bhagavad-Gita, Bhagavadgita, Gita
(Hinduism) the sacred `song of God' composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic) - Mahabharata, Mahabharatam, Mahabharatum
(Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families - Genesis, Book of Genesis
the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation - Exodus, Book of Exodus
the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses - Leviticus, Book of Leviticus
the third book of the Old Testament - Numbers, Book of Numbers
the fourth book of the Old Testament - Deuteronomy, Book of Deuteronomy
the fifth book of the Old Testament - Joshua, Josue, Book of Joshua
a book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses - Judges, Book of Judges
a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges - Ruth, Book of Ruth
a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died - I Samuel, 1 Samuel
the first of two books in the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David - II Samuel, 2 Samuel
the second of two books of the Old Testament that tell of Saul and David - I Kings, 1 Kings
the first of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel - II Kings, 2 Kings
the second of two Old Testament books telling the histories of the kings of Judah and Israel - I Chronicles, 1 Chronicles
the first of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC - II Chronicles, 2 Chronicles
the second of two Old Testament books telling the history of Judah and Israel until the return from the Babylonian Captivity in 536 BC - Ezra, Book of Ezra
an Old Testament book telling of a rabbi's efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity - Nehemiah, Book of Nehemiah
an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity - Esther, Book of Esther
an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre - Job, Book of Job
a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply - Book of Psalms, Psalms
an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of 150 Psalms - Proverbs, Book of Proverbs
an Old Testament book consisting of proverbs from various Israeli sages (including Solomon) - Ecclesiastes, Book of Ecclesiastes
an Old Testament book consisting of reflections on the vanity of human life - Song of Songs, Song of Solomon, Canticle of Canticles, Canticles
an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later - Isaiah, Book of Isaiah
an Old Testament book consisting of Isaiah's prophecies - Jeremiah, Book of Jeremiah
a book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet Jeremiah - Lamentations, Book of Lamentations
an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC - Ezekiel, Ezechiel, Book of Ezekiel
an Old Testament book containing Ezekiel's prophecies of the downfall of Jerusalem and Judah and their subsequent restoration - Daniel, Book of Daniel, Book of the Prophet Daniel
an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar - Hosea, Book of Hosea
an Old Testament book telling Hosea's prophecies - Joel, Book of Joel
an Old Testament book telling Joel's prophecies - Amos, Book of Amos
an Old Testament book telling Amos's prophecies - Obadiah, Abdias, Book of Obadiah
an Old Testament book telling Obadiah's prophecies - Jonah, Book of Jonah
a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale - Micah, Micheas, Book of Micah
an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Micah foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem - Nahum, Book of Nahum
an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of Nineveh - Habakkuk, Habacuc, Book of Habakkuk
an Old Testament book telling Habakkuk's prophecies - Zephaniah, Sophonias, Book of Zephaniah
an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zephaniah which are concerned mainly with the approaching judgment by God upon the sinners of Judah - Haggai, Aggeus, Book of Haggai
an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Haggai which are concerned mainly with rebuilding the temples after the Babylonian Captivity - Zechariah, Zacharias, Book of Zachariah
an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zechariah which are concerned mainly with the renewal of Israel after the Babylonian Captivity - Malachi, Malachias, Book of Malachi
an Old Testament book containing the prophecies of Malachi - Matthew, Gospel According to Matthew
one of the Gospels in the New Testament - Mark, Gospel According to Mark
the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament - Luke, Gospel of Luke, Gospel According to Luke
one of the four Gospels in the New Testament - John, Gospel According to John
the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament - Acts of the Apostles, Acts
a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome - Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Epistle to the Romans, Romans
a New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul - First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, First Epistle to the Corinthians, I Corinthians
a New Testament book containing the first epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Corinth - Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Second Epistle to the Corinthians, II Corinthians
a New Testament book containing the second epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Corinth - Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians, Epistle to the Galatians, Galatians
a New Testament book containing the epistle from Saint Paul to the Galatians - Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians, Epistle to the Ephesians, Ephesians
a New Testament book containing the epistle from Saint Paul to the Ephesians which explains the divine plan for the world and the consummation of this in Christ - Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians, Epistle to the Philippians, Philippians
a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Philippi in Macedonia - Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians, Epistle to the Colossians, Colossians
a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to the Colossians in ancient Phrygia - First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians, First Epistle to the Thessalonians, I Thessalonians
a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's first epistle to the Thessalonians - Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, II Thessalonians
a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's second epistle to the Thessalonians - First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy, First Epistle to Timothy, I Timothy
a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's first epistle to Timothy - Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy, Second Epistle to Timothy, II Timothy
a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's second epistle to Timothy - Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Titus, Epistle to Titus, Titus
a New Testament book containing Saint Paul's epistle to Titus - Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon, Epistle to Philemon, Philemon
a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to Philemon asking Philemon to forgive the slave for escaping - Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews
a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him - Epistle of James, James
a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle - First Epistle of Peter, I Peter
the first New Testament book traditionally attributed to Saint Peter the Apostle - Second Epistle of Peter, II Peter
the second New Testament book traditionally attributed to Saint Peter the Apostle - First Epistle of John, I John
the first New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle - Second Epistel of John, II John
the second New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle - Third Epistel of John, III John
the third New Testament epistle traditionally attributed to Saint John the Apostle - Epistle of Jude, Jude
a New Testament book attributed to Saint Jude - Revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Book of Revelation
the last book of the New Testament - Septuagint
the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament - Vulgate
the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century - Douay Bible, Douay Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, Rheims-Douay Bible, Rheims-Douay Version
an English translation of the Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars - Authorized Version, King James Version, King James Bible
an English translation of the Bible published in 1611 - Revised Version
a British revision of the Authorized Version - New English Bible
a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha - American Standard Version, American Revised Version
a revised version of the King James Version - Revised Standard Version
a revision of the American Standard Version - Torah, Pentateuch, Laws
the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit - Torah
the whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition - Tanakh, Tanach, Hebrew Scripture
the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings - Prophets, Nebiim
the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures - Haftorah, Haftarah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah
a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah - Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings
the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures - Book of Mormon
a sacred text revealed to Joseph Smith in 1830 by an ancient prophet Mormon - Angelus
a prayer said 3 times a day by Roman Catholics in memory of the Annunciation - Ave Maria, Hail Mary
a salutation to the Virgin Mary now used in prayers to her - Canticle of Simeon, Nunc dimittis
the prayer of Simeon (Luke 2:29-32) - Evening Prayer, evensong
(Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer - Kol Nidre
the opening prayer on the eve of Yom Kippur - Book of Common Prayer
the Anglican service book of the Church of England - Litany
a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation - Lord's Prayer
the prayer that Christ gave his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:9-13) - Paternoster
(Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin - Additions to Esther
an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Esther - Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Children
an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel - Susanna, Book of Susanna
an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel - Bel and the Dragon
an Apocryphal book consisting of text added to the Book of Daniel - Baruch, Book of Baruch
an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch - Letter of Jeremiah, Epistle of Jeremiah
an Apocryphal book consisting of a letter ascribed to Jeremiah to the Jews in exile in Babylon warning them against idolatry - Tobit, Book of Tobit
an Apocryphal book that was a popular novel for several centuries - Judith, Book of Judith
an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people - I Esdra, 1 Esdras
an Apocryphal book consisting of a compilation from I Chronicles and II Chronicles and Ezra and Nehemiah - II Esdras, 2 Esdras
an Apocryphal book of angelic revelations - Ben Sira, Sirach, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach
an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect) - Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom
an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom - I Maccabees, 1 Maccabees
an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus - II Maccabees, 2 Maccabees
an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus - Book, Koran, Quran, al-Qur'an
the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina - Fatiha, Fatihah
the first or opening sura of the Quran which is the central prayer of Islam and is used on all special occasions as well as during the five daily prayers - Talmud
the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism - Gemara
the second part of the Talmud consisting primarily of commentary on the Mishna - Mishna, Mishnah
the first part of the Talmud - Ramayana
one of two classical Hindu epics telling of the banishment of Rama from his kingdom and the abduction of his wife by a demon and Rama's restoration to the throne - Samhita
one of four collections of sacred texts - Rig-Veda
a Veda consisting of a collection of Hindu poems dating from before 2000 BC - Sama-Veda
a collection of mantras and tunes for use with the Rig-Veda - Atharva-Veda
a collection of mantras and formulas - Yajur-Veda
a collection of sacrificial formulas and prayers - Brahmana
prose works attached to the Samhitas instructing the bahmins to perform the very elaborate sacrificial rituals - Aranyaka
a treatise resembling a Brahmana but to be read or expounded by anchorites in the quiet of the forest - Vedanga
Vedic texts from the fifth and fourth centuries BC dealing with phonetics and ritual injunctions and linguistics and grammar and etymology and lexicography and prosody and astronomy and astrology - Ayurveda
(Sanskrit) an ancient medical treatise summarizing the Hindu art of healing and prolonging life - Upanishad
a later sacred text of Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing with metaphysical questions - Psalm
one of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament - Augsburg Confession
the document drawn up in 1555 to defend the catholicity of Lutheran doctrine and to justify innovations in Lutheran practice - Magna Carta, Magna Charta, The Great Charter
the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 - Domesday Book, Doomsday Book
record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror - Combined DNA Index System
the DNA file maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Declaration of Independence
the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the Colonies from Great Britain - Articles of Confederation
a written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states - Constitution, United States Constitution, U.S. Constitution, US Constitution, Constitution of the United States
the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states - MS-DOS, Microsoft disk operating system
an operating system developed by Bill Gates for personal computers - Linux
an open-source version of the UNIX operating system - Internet Explorer, Explorer, IE
a commercial browser - Konqueror
a freeware browser for Linux - lynx
a text browser - Mosaic
a freeware browser - Netscape
a commercial browser - Opera
a commercial browser - MapQuest
a free, widely-used Web Map Server - Google
a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search - Yahoo
a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance - Ask Jeeves
a widely used search engine accepting plain English questions or phrases or terms - Kamasutra
(Hinduism) an ancient Sanskrit text giving rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure and love and marriage in accordance with Hindu law - Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, MEDLARS
relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature - WordNet, Princeton WordNet
a machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings - Dow Jones, Dow-Jones Industrial Average
an indicator of stock market prices - Standard and Poor's, Standard and Poor's Index
a broadly based stock market index - Communist Manifesto
a socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views - First Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression - Fifth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes - Fourteenth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868 - Eighteenth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920 - Nineteenth Amendment
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920 - Annunciation
(Christianity) the announcement to the Virgin Mary by the angel Gabriel of the incarnation of Christ - Parallel Lives
a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch - Parkinson's law
C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that the number of subordinates in an organization will increase linearly regardless of the amount of work to be done - Parkinson's law
C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that work will expand so as to fill the time available for its completion - Peace of Westphalia
the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648 - Chemical Weapons Convention
a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons - Geneva Convention
an agreement first drawn up in Geneva in 1864 and later revised concerning the treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime - Lateran Treaty
the agreement signed in the Lateran Palace in 1929 by Italy and the Holy See which recognized the Vatican City as a sovereign and independent papal state - North Atlantic Treaty
the treaty signed in 1949 by 12 countries that established NATO - SALT I
the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - SALT II
the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - Treaty of Versailles
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans - British Crown
the symbol of the power of the British monarchy - Hallel
(Judaism) a chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh - Hare Krishna
a chant to the Hindu god Krishna - Dies Irae
the first words of a medieval Latin hymn describing the Last Judgment (literally `day of wrath') - Internationale
a revolutionary socialist anthem - Magnificat
(Luke) the canticle of the Virgin Mary (from Luke 1:46 beginning `Magnificat anima mea Dominum') - Te Deum
an ancient liturgical hymn - Messiah
an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742 - Marseillaise
the French national anthem - The Star-Spangled Banner
a poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 was set to music and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the national anthem of the United States - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT
negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons - Decalogue, Ten Commandments
the biblical commandments of Moses - Missouri Compromise
an agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories - Canterbury Tales
an uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer - Arabian Nights' Entertainment, Arabian Nights, Thousand and One Nights
a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century - Emergency Alert System, EAS
a federal warning system that is activated by FEMA - Hippocratic oath
an oath taken by physicians to observe medical ethics deriving from Hippocrates - Gettysburg Address
a three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863) - Sermon on the Mount
the first major discourse delivered by Jesus (Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:20-49) - Das Kapital, Capital
a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories - Erewhon
a satirical novel written by Samuel Butler (1872) describing a fictitious land