Textus Receptus (Latin: "received text") refers to all printed editions of the Greek New Testament from Erasmus' Novum Instrumentum omne (1516) to the 1633 Elzevir edition. It was the most commonly used text type for Protestant denominations.. The Textus Receptus constituted the translation-base for the original German Luther Bible, the translation of the New Testament …

Sakoku (鎖国, literally "chained country") was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, for a period of 265 years during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and nearly all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were …

The Pantheon (UK: / ˈ p æ n θ i ə n /, US: /-ɒ n /; Latin: Pantheum, from Greek Πάνθειον Pantheion, "[temple] of all the gods") is a former Roman temple and, since 609 AD, a Catholic church (Basilica di Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of …

Maastricht (/ ˈ m ɑː s t r ɪ x t / MAH-strikht, US also / m ɑː ˈ s t r ɪ x t / mah-STRIKHT, Dutch: [maːˈstrɪxt] (); Limburgish: Mestreech [məˈstʀeːç]; French: Maestricht (archaic); Spanish: Mastrique (archaic)) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg.Maastricht is located on both sides of the Meuse …

Human papillomavirus infection (HPV infection) is caused by a DNA virus from the Papillomaviridae family. Many HPV infections cause no symptoms and 90% resolve spontaneously within two years. In some cases, an HPV infection persists and results in either warts or precancerous lesions. These lesions, depending on the site affected, increase the risk …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

隠れキリシタン（かくれキリシタン）は、日本の江戸時代に江戸幕府が禁教令を布告してキリスト教を弾圧した後も、密かに信仰を続けたキリスト教徒（キリシタン）信者である。 以下の2つに分けられ、かつては両者を区別しなかったが、現代では前者を「潜伏キリシタン」と呼ぶことも多い 。. 強制改宗により仏教を信仰していると見せかけ、キリスト教 ...

The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (), to December 31, 1700 ().It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific …

The Kingdom of Portugal (Latin: Regnum Portugalliae, Portuguese: Reino de Portugal) was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic.Existing to various extents between 1139 and 1910, it was also known as the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves after 1415, and as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and …

La famiglia d'origine e la nascita. Galileo Galilei nacque il 15 febbraio 1564 a Pisa, primogenito dei sette figli di Vincenzo Galilei e di Giulia Ammannati. Gli Ammannati, originari del territorio di Pistoia e di Pescia, vantavano importanti origini; Vincenzo Galilei invece apparteneva ad una casata più umile, per quanto i suoi antenati facessero parte della buona borghesia fiorentina. …