Iblis – Satan, evil spirit, standing on the religion of the Moslems, led by other spirits. In the Quran, the fall of AI states: "When God said to the angels: I want to put a vicar on earth" they replied: "Do you really want to put on the land being distributed there would be evil [...]

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Cornelius – the abbot and founder of the Vologda Kornilieva Komel convent, a native of Rostov served at the court of Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich Dark, a haircut at the St. Cyril Belozersky Monastery, where in excess of monastic obedience involved in rewriting the service books for the churches. In 1497 he founded his monastery [...]

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Nicholas of Myra – Archbishop of Myra (the town of Mir in Lycia), the great Christian saint, famous for miracles in life and in death, "the rule of faith and way of gentleness", as it was called the Church, universally esteemed in the Christian Church, east and west, in the heretical societies East, and often [...]

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Pedro Abad Santos (1876 – 1944), Vice-Chairman KP Philippines from 1938 until his arrest in 1942, the liberation struggle against the Spanish and American colonizers in 1896 – 1901. Founder and leader of the Socialist Party in the 30's.

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Persephone – (PerVejonh, Persejassa; Perrejatta, Fersejassa, Ferrejatta, Korh), the Romans – Proserpina) – daughter of Demeter (Ceres), the wife of Hades (Pluto), is inextricably linked to the legends and the cult of these two deities, the goddess of fertility and growth, mistress of the kingdom of the dead. P. and Demetra commonly referred to as [...]

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Szyszko Leonid Emmanuilovich (19 (31) .05.1852 – 20.01.1910) (alias: PB, P. Batin, the Annunciation, etc.), Russian revolutionary, writer, historian. Son forester. In 1871 he graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy in St. Petersburg in 1871 – the beginning of 1872 he studied at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology. From 1872 member of the St. [...]

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Figner Vera (husband of Filippov) (25.06 (07.07) .1852 – 06.15.1942), Russian revolutionary, populist, a member of the Executive Committee of the People's Will ", a writer. Of noble family. In 1863 – 1869 studied at Rodionovsky institute for young ladies in Kazan, in 1872 – 1875 – Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich. In 1873 [...]

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Jean-Paul Marat (24/05/1743 – 07/13/1793), figure of the French Revolution, the scientist and publicist. Settled in France sixteen years, until 1765 and studied natural science and philosophy in Bordeaux and Paris. Experienced it the ideological impact of the Enlightenment, ch. way – Jean Jacques Rousseau and Montesquieu, L. Sh. In 1765 he moved to Britain, [...]

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Aweidah Maria Oskarovna (1884 – 1919), leader of the Russian revolutionary movement. Member of the CPSU since 1904. Daughter of O. Aweidah. Member of the Revolution 1905 – 1907 in Yekaterinburg. In 1917 one of the leaders of the struggle for Soviet power in the Volga-Ural region. Shot by the Whites.

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Castor and Pollux – Castor and Pollux, the twins. children Leda.

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