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  2. List of continent name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Another suggestion is that the name comes from the Ancient Egyptian word afruika - which means 'turning towards the ka' or 'turning towards the birthplace' or 'motherland' of humanity. The name "Africa" began to be stretched to encompass a larger area when the provinces of Tripolitania , Numidia and Mauretania Caesariensis were subdued to the ...

  3. Original sin - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of the sin of Adam and Eve (The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens). Original sin (Latin: peccatum originale) in Christian theology refers to the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which is inherited from Adam and Eve due to the Fall, involving the loss of original righteousness and the distortion of the Image of God. [1]

  4. Names of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known use of the name "America" dates to 1505, when German poet Matthias Ringmann used it in a poem about the New World. [2] The word is a Latinized form of the first name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who first proposed that the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a previously unknown landmass, rather than the eastern limit of Asia.

  5. Names for India - Wikipedia

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    The term 'Hindu' was the Old Persian adaption of "Sindhu" (another name for the river Indius). "Hindustan" is still commonly used in the subcontinent to refer to the modern day Republic of India by Hindustani speakers.

  6. Originality - Wikipedia

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    Originality is the aspect of created or invented works that distinguish them from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or substantially derivative works. [citation needed] The modern idea of originality is according to some scholars tied to Romanticism, [1] by a notion that is often called romantic originality.

  7. Name of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded use of the word Australia in English was in 1625 in "A note of Australia del Espíritu Santo, written by Sir Richard Hakluyt", published by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus, a variation of the original Spanish name Austrialia del Espiritu Santo (' Southern-Austrian Land of the Holy Spirit ') [1] [2] [11] coined by ...

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  9. Primary source - Wikipedia

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    For example, these ideas may be used to trace the history of scientific theories, literary elements, and other information that is passed from one author to another. In scientific literature, a primary source, or the "primary literature", is the original publication of a scientist's new data, results, and theories. [8]