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• Jeff Hastings
  | religion = [[Christian]] ...= President at Ivy Consulting Group<br>Adjunct Lecturer <br> Founder of ReferralBook.com<br>Author <br> Entrepreneur
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• J. K. Rowling
  | education = [[University of Exeter]] <small>(1986, [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])</small> ...ref> becoming the [[List of best-selling books|best-selling book series in history]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Record for best-selling book series |url=http://ww
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• Insurance
  ...management]], primarily used to [[Hedge (finance)|hedge]] against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss. ...exchange for the insurer's promise to compensate the insured in the event of a covered loss. The loss may or may not be financial, but it must be reduc
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• Harvard University
  ...on = [[Heraldry of Harvard University#Harvard University coat of arms|Coat of arms]] ...ks.google.com/books?id=U6hsNJjVnE0C&pg=PA1|date= 1996|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-71020-4|page=1}}</ref>
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• Steve Jobs
  {{short description|American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.}} * Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of [[Apple Inc.]]
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• Bill Gates
  | alt = Head and shoulders photo of Bill Gates | caption = Gates at the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services]] in March 2018
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• Steve Wozniak
  .../news/vw-5389_1_steve-wozniak |title=A UC Berkeley Degree Is Now the Apple of Steve Wozniak's Eye |last=Stix |first=Harriet |date=May 14, 1986 |website=[ ...zniak |title=Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak |website=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] |publisher=[[Lemelson Foundation]] |accessdate=November 22
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• Donald Trump
  {{short description|45th President of the United States}} ...fying "45th" in the Infobox?]] had a weak consensus to keep the status-quo of no link. -->
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• Katy, Texas
  ...= Location in [[Harris County, Texas|Harris County]] and the state of [[Texas]] |subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
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• Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company
  | revenue = $324.3 million [[United States dollar|USD]] of Earned Premium (YE 2016) ...isher=Wipf & Stock Publishers | series=Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-57910-771-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?i
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• Knights of Columbus
  {{Distinguish|Knights of St Columba}} |name = Knights of Columbus
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• Dubai
  | image_flag = Flag of Dubai.svg | image_shield = Coat of arms of Dubai.svg
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• Kazakhstan
  {{For|the Kazakh television station of the same name|Qazaqstan (channel)}} | conventional_long_name = {{nowrap|Republic of Kazakhstan}}
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• United States
  | conventional_long_name = United States of America | image_flag = Flag of the United States.svg
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• Harvard Research
  ...on = [[Heraldry of Harvard University#Harvard University coat of arms|Coat of arms]] ...ks.google.com/books?id=U6hsNJjVnE0C&pg=PA1|date= 1996|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-71020-4|page=1}}</ref>
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• Mark Zuckerberg
  ...a-fi-hiltzik-20120517 |title=Facebook shareholders are wedded to the whims of Mark Zuckerberg |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Michael |last=Hiltzik | ...net worth]] is estimated to be [[United States dollar|US$]]61.4 billion as of October 19, 2018, declining over the last year with Facebook stock as a who
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• Theory
  ...context, the results might, for example, include generalized explanations of how [[Nature (philosophy)|nature]] works. The word has its roots in [[ancie ...planatory [[Conceptual model|models]]. To theorize is to develop this body of knowledge.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Gary |title=Education and
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• Résumé
  ...present their backgrounds and skills. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often they are used to secure new employment.<ref>{{cite ...d [[education]], as its French origin implies. The résumé is usually one of the first items, along with a [[cover letter]] and sometimes an application
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• Cambridge, Massachusetts
  ...versity]], [[Ray and Maria Stata Center]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], the Cambridge skyline and [[Charles River]] at night, and [[C | image_flag = Flag of Cambridge, Massachusetts.svg
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• Ivy League
  {{About|the group of colleges and the athletic conference that gave the group its name}} ...rsity]], and [[Yale University]]. The term ''Ivy League'' has connotations of [[academic excellence]], [[College admissions in the United States#How coll
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• Elizabeth Banks
  | alma_mater = [[University of Pennsylvania]]<br>[[American Conservatory Theater]] ...arred in the [[Netflix]] miniseries ''[[Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp]]'' (2015) and ''[[Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later]]'' (2017)
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• Bibliography of George Washington
  This '''bibliography of George Washington''' is a selected list of written and published works about [[George Washington]] (1732–1799). Goo ...ver the years, providing the basis by which the many biographical accounts of Washington's life have been written.
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• Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson
  |alt = Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale. |alma_mater = [[The College of William & Mary|College of William and Mary]]
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• Bibliography of Jimmy Carter
  Books about and authored by [[Jimmy Carter]], the 39th [[President of the United States]] (1977&ndash;1981). * {{cite book |title=Annual register of the United States Naval Academy |volume=1946–1947 |publisher=United State
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• Bibliography of Barack Obama
  ...rack Obama]], [[List of Presidents of the United States|44th]] [[President of the United States]]. ...Christopher P. |title=[[Barack and Michelle|Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage]] |publisher=William Morrow |location=New York |year=2
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• Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant
  |office = [[List of Presidents of the United States|18th]] [[President of the United States]] |office2 = [[Commanding General of the United States Army]]
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• Columbia University
  | native_name = Columbia University in the City of New York ...1896)<ref name="Moore 1846 53–60">{{cite book|title=A Historical Sketch of Columbia|last=Moore|first=Nathanal Fischer|year=1846|publisher=Columbia Uni
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• Cornell University
  ...Cornell sees 10.6 percent return on FY18 investments|publisher=Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund Institute |year=201 ...ion of Public and Land-Grant Universities|APLU]]<br>[[National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities|NAICU]]
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• Dartmouth College
  ...=PA104&pg=PA108&q=Earl%20of%20Dartmouth%20de%20lega Sketches of the alumni of Dartmouth college], Page 108, The New Hampshire Repository, Volumes 1-2, Wi ...ation of Independent Colleges and Universities|NAICU]]| [[University Press of New England|UPNE]]}}
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• Princeton University
  | endowment = [[US$]]25.9 billion<ref>As of October 10, 2018. {{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/10/08 | former_names = College of New Jersey<br /><small>(1746–1896)</small>
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• Yale University
  | caption = [[Yale University Coat of Arms|Coat of arms]] | endowment = [[US$]]29.4 billion<ref name=Endowment>As of October 1, 2018. {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/busines
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• Christian
  |image = [[File:V&A - Raphael, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1515).jpg|300px]] ...iraculous catch of fish]], Christ invokes his disciples to become "fishers of men" ({{bibleref|Matthew|4:19|KJV}}) by [[Raphael]].
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• Jesus
  {{short description|central figure of Christianity}} {{About|Jesus of Nazareth}}
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• God
  ...God (male deity)|God in specific religions|Conceptions of God|8=other uses of the term|9=God (disambiguation)}} ...God in icons for art or for worship. Here are examples of representations of God in different monotheistic religions. Clockwise from upper left: [[God i
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• Muslim
  ...ps://web.archive.org/web/20110209094904/http://www.pewforum.org/The-Future-of-the-Global-Muslim-Population.aspx |archivedate=9 February 2011 }}</ref>
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• Old Testament
  ...[[New Revised Standard Version]] Anglicised Edition</ref> The second part of the Christian Bible is the [[New Testament]]. ...ks are ultimately derived from the earlier [[Greek Septuagint]] collection of the Hebrew scriptures and are also Jewish in origin. Some are also containe
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• Easter
  ...atan—depicted as an old man—is bound and chained. (See [[Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art]].) | significance = Celebrates the resurrection of Jesus
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• Good Friday
  |observances = [[service of worship|Worship services]], [[prayer]] and [[vigil]] services, [[fasting]], ...ificance = Commemorates the [[Crucifixion of Jesus|crucifixion]] and death of [[Jesus|Jesus Christ]]
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• Holy Spirit
  {{Philosophy of religion sidebar |expanded=God}} ...ad tidings to Muslims." }}</ref> The term is also used to describe aspects of other religions and belief structures.
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• Heaven
  ...d to originate, be [[throne|enthroned]], or live. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to earth or [[Incarnation|incar ...t beliefs]] or simply the [[will of God]]. Some believe in the possibility of a heaven on Earth in a [[World to Come]].
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• Resurrection
  ...tion''' is the concept of coming back to life after [[death]]. In a number of ancient religions, a [[dying-and-rising god]] is a deity which dies and res ...this division again takes place in the same way, for that fresh formation of the dissolved body which will properly be, and be called, resurrection |url
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• John the Baptist
  ...beginning of the ministry of Jesus in a sabbatical year); 35 CE – death of John the Baptist"</ref><ref>"born 1st decade BCE, Judaea, Palestine, near J |feast_day = 24 June ([[Nativity of St. John the Baptist|Nativity]]),<br> 29 August (Beheading),<br> 7 January
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• Islam
  {{about|the religion|the history of Islamic civilization|History of Islam|other uses}} ...le (called the ''[[sunnah]]'', composed of accounts called ''[[hadith]]'') of Muhammad ([[Circa|{{circa}}]] 570–8 June 632 CE).
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• Hinduism
  ...n Indonesia|parts of Southeast Asia]]. Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world,{{refn|group=note|See: * Fowler: "probably the oldest religion in the world" ({{harvnb|Fowler|1997|p=1}})
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• Buddhism
  ...t the [[Tokyo National Museum]]. One of the earliest known representations of the [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]], 1st–2nd century CE.]] ...</ref>{{sfn|Lopez|2001|p=239}} with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as ''Buddhists''.<ref group="web" name="auto">
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• Baptism
  ...[affusion]]. The artist may have chosen an archaic form for this depiction of baptism by [[St. Peter]].]] ...hough some reserve the word "christening" for the [[Infant baptism|baptism of infants]].<ref>{{Citation | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aJ2JGNB
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• Confirmation
  [[Image:LutheranClergy.JPG|thumb|right|A woodcut depicting the confirmation of [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] youth]] ...mal grace".<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P3P.HTM Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1285] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20
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• Marriage
  [[File:Wedding rings.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.25|A pair of [[wedding ring]]s]] {{Anthropology of kinship|expanded=concepts}}
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• Lakewood Church
  ...omination = [[Non-denominational Christianity|Non-denominational]], [[Word of Faith]], [[Charismatic movement|Charismatic]] ...not affiliated), while the leadership may be considered part of the [[Word of Faith]] movement.<ref name=southerncrossroads67 />
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• Rick Warren
  ...evangelism, ''[[The Purpose Driven Church]]'', which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known ...uch as abortion, same-sex marriage, abstinence-only education over the use of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS, and [[embryonic stem-cell research]].
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• Billy Graham
  | religion = [[Christianity]] ([[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] [[Protestantism]]) ...web|quote=Billy Graham stands among the most influential Christian leaders of the twentieth century.|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=https://global
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• Jerry Falwell
  |office = 1st President of [[Liberty University]] ...s|conservative]] activist.<ref name=soulforce/> He was the founding pastor of the [[Thomas Road Baptist Church]], a [[megachurch]] in [[Lynchburg, Virgin
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• Nondenominational Christianity
  [[File:Church of Broken Pieces, Minersville PA 01.JPG|thumb|Church of Broken Pieces (est. 1982) in [[Minersville, Pennsylvania]], is a nondenomin ...om.html Nondenominational Congregations Research at Hartford Institute for Religion Research website]. Hirr.hartsem.edu. Retrieved on 2010-11-03.</ref>
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• Christianity
  ...s "Christian" or "Judaeo- Christian" civilization.</ref> Early statements of essential beliefs were the [[Apostles Creed]] and [[Nicene Creed]]. ...Pope]]. Similarly, [[Protestantism]] [[Anti-Catholicism|split]] in [[List of the largest Protestant denominations|numerous denominations]] from the Cath
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• Bible
  | religion = [[Christianity]] | chapters = varies; see ''[[Books of the Bible]]''
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• New Testament
  ...ESENTATION WAS PERFORMED, THE WHOLE OF THE ARTICLE REMAINS IN SERIOUS NEED OF ATTENTION IN THIS REGARD. {{Books of the New Testament}}
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