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Robert G. Ingersoll

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Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899) was an American lawyer, father of the feminist Eva Ingersoll Brown, a Civil War veteran, politician, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. [1]

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A. C. Dixon

Amzi Clarence Dixon (July 6, 1854 – June 14, 1925) was a Baptist pastor, Bible expositor, and evangelist, popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Agnostic atheism

Agnostic atheism is a philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism.

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Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.

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Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

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Alone (TV series)

Alone is an American reality television series on the History channel.

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American Secular Union

The American Secular Union (ASU, also sometimes called the "American Secular Union and Freethought Federation") espoused secularism and freethought at the end of the 19th century in the United States of America.

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Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist.

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Arthur Nash (businessman)

Arthur Nash (June 26, 1870 – October 30, 1927) was an American business man, author, and popular public speaker who achieved recognition in the 1920s when he determined to run his newly purchased sweatshop on the basis of the Golden Rule, and his business prospered beyond all expectation.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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August 11

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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".

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Billy Sunday

William Ashley Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.

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Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition

The Black Legend of the Spanish Inquisition is the hypothesis of the existence of a series of myths and fabrications about the Spanish Inquisition used as propaganda against the Spanish Empire in a time of strong military, commercial and political rivalry between European powers, starting in the 16th century.

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Center for Inquiry

The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a nonprofit educational organization.

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Charles Cardwell McCabe

Charles Cardwell McCabe (October 11, 1836 – December 19, 1906) was an American who distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, an Army chaplain during the American Civil War, a Church executive chiefly in the field of fundraising, as Chancellor of American University, and as a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (M.E.), elected in 1896.

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Cheiro

William John Warner (also known as Count Louis Hamon according to some sources), popularly known as Cheiro (November 1, 1866 – October 8, 1936), was an Irish astrologer and colorful occult figure of the early 20th century.

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Colonel Bob Mountain

Colonel Bob is a summit in the Colonel Bob Wilderness, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.

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Colonel Bob Wilderness

Colonel Bob Wilderness is a protected area located in the southwest corner of Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington.

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Criticism of Christianity

Criticism of Christianity has a long history stretching back to the initial formation of the religion during the Roman Empire.

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Criticism of the Bible

The view that the Bible should be accepted as historically accurate and as a reliable guide to morality has been questioned by many scholars in the field of biblical criticism.

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Cultural depictions of Napoleon

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, has become a worldwide cultural icon generally associated with tactical brilliance, ambition and political power.

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Dobbs Ferry, New York

Dobbs Ferry is a village in Westchester County, New York.

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Dresden, Yates County, New York

---- Dresden is a village in Yates County, New York, USA.

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Ebon C. Ingersoll

Ebon Clark Ingersoll (December 12, 1831 – May 31, 1879) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois and the brother of the politician and orator Robert G. Ingersoll.

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Ernest Renan

Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, historian, and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany.

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Ernest S. Clements

Ernest S. Clements (April 17, 1898 – May 17, 1987) was a seemingly unlikely member of the Long political faction in Louisiana in a career which spanned thirty-eight years from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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Euthanasia

Euthanasia (from εὐθανασία; "good death": εὖ, eu; "well" or "good" – θάνατος, thanatos; "death") is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering.

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Frederick de Sola Mendes

Frederick de Sola Mendes (Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, July 8, 1850—1927) was a rabbi, author, and editor.

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Frederick Triebel

Frederick Ernest "Fritz" Triebel (December 29, 1865 – 1944) American sculptor, best remembered for his two works, marble statues of George Laird Shoup and Henry Mower Rice, located in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington D.C. He was born in Peoria, Illinois, where his father, was a monument maker.

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Free Speech League

The Free Speech League was a progressive organization in the United States, in the first two decades of the twentieth century, that fought to support freedom of speech in the early years of the twentieth century.

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Freethought

Freethought (or "free thought") is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.

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Golden Age of Freethought

The Golden Age of Freethought describes the socio-political movement promoting freethought that developed in the mid 19th-century United States.

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Gramercy Park

Gramercy ParkSometimes misspelled as Grammercy is the name of both a small, fenced-in private parkKugel, Seth, The New York Times, July 23, 2006.

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Gramercy Park Hotel

Gramercy Park Hotel is a luxury hotel located at 2 Lexington Avenue, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, adjacent to the park of the same name.

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Heavenly Discourse

Heavenly Discourse is a collection of satirical essays by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, published in 1927.

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Helen H. Gardener

Helen Hamilton Gardener (1853–1925), born Alice Chenoweth, was an American author, rationalist public intellectual, political activist, and government functionary.

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Herman George Scheffauer

Herman George Scheffauer (born February 3, 1876, San Francisco, California – died October 7, 1927, Berlin) was a German-American poet, architect, writer, dramatist, journalist, and translator.

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History of Illinois

The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, and finally, its growth into one of the most populous and economically powerful states of the United States.

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I. Newton Baker

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Illinois Attorney General

The Illinois Attorney General is the highest legal officer of the state of Illinois in the United States.

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Influence and legacy of Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Indian Hindu monk is considered as one of the most influential people of modern India and Hinduism.

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Ingersoll (surname)

Ingersoll is a surname derived of the Old Norse words "Ingvar" or "Inger" and "", common words in found in modern Icelandic, Swedish and Norwegian.

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Irreligion in Iceland

Irreligion is prevalent in Iceland, with approximately 10% of the population identifying as "convinced atheists" and a further 30% identifying as non-religious.

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Jackson, Tennessee

Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Tennessee.

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James B. Fields

James B. Fields (March 1, 1850 – August 1, 1896) was a Baptist preacher and orator in Illinois and Denver, Colorado.

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James G. Blaine

James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881.

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James Hervey Johnson

James Hervey Johnson (August 2, 1901 in Oregon - August 6, 1988 in San Diego, California) was an American atheist freethinker, writer and editor of The Truth Seeker (founded 1873), formerly run by Charles Lee Smith.

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James Monroe Gregory

James Monroe Gregory (January 23, 1849 – December 17, 1915) was a Professor of Latin and Dean at Howard University.

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James Reavis

James Addison Reavis (May 10, 1843 – November 27, 1914), later using the name James Addison Peralta-Reavis, the so-called Baron of Arizona, was an American forger and fraudster.

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James Underdown

James "Jim" Underdown has been the executive director of The Center for Inquiry (CFI) Los Angeles since 1999.

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Jewish skeptics

Jewish skeptics are Jewish individuals (historically, Jewish philosophers) who have held skeptical views on matters of the Jewish religion.

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Joseph B. Foraker

Joseph Benson Foraker (July 5, 1846 – May 10, 1917) was the 37th Governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and a Republican United States Senator from 1897 until 1909.

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Joseph L. Lewis

Joseph Lewis (June 11, 1889 – November 4, 1968) was an American freethinker and atheist activist, publisher, and litigator.

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Joseph Wheless

Joseph Wheless (Montgomery County, Tennessee 1868-1950) was an American lawyer who wrote promoting the Jesus myth theory during the early years of the 20th century.

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July 21

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Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn

Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (February 2, 1878 – March 17, 1951) was a U.S. feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States.

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List of abolitionists

This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery, often called abolitionists.

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List of agnostics

Listed here are persons who have identified themselves as theologically agnostic.

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List of American feminist literature

Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women.

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List of books about skepticism

This list of books about skepticism is a skeptic's library of works centered on scientific skepticism, religious skepticism, critical thinking, scientific literacy, and refutation of claims of the paranormal.

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List of burials at Arlington National Cemetery

This is a list of notable individuals buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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List of feminist literature

Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women.

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List of Freemasons (E–Z)

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List of Liberty ships (M–R)

This section of List of Liberty ships is a sortable list of Liberty ships—cargo ships built in the United States during World War II—with names beginning with M through R.

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List of museums in New York (state)

This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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List of pantheists

Pantheism is the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God.

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List of people from Illinois

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List of people from Peoria, Illinois

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Peoria, Illinois.

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List of United States political families (I)

The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with I.

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Little Blue Book

Little Blue Books are a series of small staple-bound books published in 1919-1978 by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas.

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Lucien H. Kerr

Lucien H. Kerr (May 4, 1831 – October 31, 1873) was an American politician and soldier from Ohio.

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Lucy N. Colman

Lucy N. Colman (July 26, 1817 – January 18, 1906) was a freethinker, abolitionist and feminist campaigner.

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Margaret Sanger

Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.

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Marilla Ricker

A suffragist, philanthropist, lawyer, and freethinker, Marilla Marks (Young) Ricker (1840-1920) accomplished a remarkable number of firsts during her lifetime.

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Miracle

A miracle is an event not explicable by natural or scientific laws.

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Nalapat Narayana Menon

Nalapat Narayana Menon (October 7, 1887 – October 31, 1954) was a Malayalam language author from Kerala state, South India.

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National Liberal League

The National Liberal League (1876 – c.1885) of the United States advocated separation of church and state and the freedom of religion.

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Old Shawneetown, Illinois

Old Shawneetown is a village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.

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Orator

An orator, or oratist, is a public speaker, especially one who is eloquent or skilled.

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Peter Britt

Peter Britt (Obstalden, Canton of Glarus, Switzerland 12 March 1819 - Jacksonville, Oregon, 3 October 1905) was a Swiss portrait painter and American pioneer photographer, meteorologist, accomplished horticulturist, an early settler and developer in the Rogue Valley of the Oregon Territory.

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Pilots of Japan

Pilots of Japan is an indie band formed in 2004.

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Political party strength in Illinois

Illinois is a Democratic stronghold in presidential elections and one of the "big three" Democratic states alongside California and New York.

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Redwater, Texas

Redwater is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States.

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Robert George Irwin

Robert George Irwin (1907–1975), an artist, sculptor, and recurring mental hospital patient who pleaded guilty to killing three people on Easter weekend in 1937 in the Beekman Hill area of New York City’s Turtle Bay neighborhood.

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Robert Green (disambiguation)

Robert Green (born 1980) is an English footballer.

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Robert Ingersoll

Robert or Bob Ingersoll may refer to.

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Robert Ingersoll Birthplace

Robert Ingersoll Birthplace, also known as Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum, is a historic home located at Dresden in Yates County, New York.

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Robert White (attorney general)

Robert White (February 7, 1833 – December 12, 1915) was an American military officer, lawyer, and politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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S. T. Joshi

Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958), known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction.

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Sam Crawford

Samuel Earl Crawford (April 18, 1880 – June 15, 1968), nicknamed "Wahoo Sam", was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers from 1899 to 1917.

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Second Corinth Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Corinth of the American Civil War on October 3 and 4, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi.

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Secularism

Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institution and religious dignitaries (the attainment of such is termed secularity).

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Shiloh Union order of battle

The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Shiloh of the American Civil War.

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Siege of Corinth Union order of battle

The following units and commanders of the Union Army fought at the Siege of Corinth (29 Apr-30 May 1862) of the American Civil War.

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Star Route scandal

The Star Route scandal involved a lucrative 19th-century scheme whereby United States postal officials received bribes in exchange for awarding postal delivery contracts in southern and western areas.

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Star routes

Star routes is a term used in connection with the United States postal service and the contracting of mail delivery services.

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Stephen Wallace Dorsey

Stephen Wallace Dorsey (February 28, 1842March 20, 1916) was a Republican member of the United States Senate from Arkansas with service for a single six-year term during the era of Reconstruction.

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Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby (born June 4, 1945) is an American author.

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

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The Age of Reason

The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of Deism.

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The Black Riders and Other Lines

The Black Riders and Other Lines is a book of poetry written by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900).

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The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties

The Fall of Kelvin Walker is a novel by Alasdair Gray.

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The Socialist Woman

The Socialist Woman (1907-1914) was a monthly magazine edited by Josephine Conger-Kaneko.

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The Song of the Lark

The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915.

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The Thirteen Club

In the 1880s, the Thirteen Club was created to debunk the superstition of "13 at a table" being unlucky.

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The West Tennessee Raids

Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee was a raid conducted by Confederate Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee from December 1862 to January 1863, during the American Civil War.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Thinker's Library

The Thinker's Library was a series of 140 small hardcover books published between 1929 and 1951 for the Rationalist Press Association by Watts & Co., London, a company founded by Charles Albert Watts.

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1. Paine's birth date, therefore, would have been before New Year, 1737. In the new style, his birth date advances by eleven days and his year increases by one to February 9, 1737. The O.S. link gives more detail if needed. – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.

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Tibbits Opera House

Tibbits Opera House is the second-oldest theatre in Michigan, having been built in 1882.

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Tim Page (music critic)

Tim Page (born October 11, 1954) is a writer, editor, music critic, producer and professor.

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Tom Flynn (author)

Thomas W. "Tom" Flynn (born August 18, 1955) is an American author, journalist, novelist, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and editor of its journal Free Inquiry.

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Tressa May

Tressa May was a steamboat that was operated in the Yaquina Bay region of Oregon from 1883 to 1888.

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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Washington Area Secular Humanists

The Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH) is an all volunteer, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in Maryland, USA.

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Washington College of Law

American University Washington College of Law (WCL) is the law school of American University.

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Wife selling

Wife selling is the practice of a husband selling his wife and may include the sale of a female by a party outside a marriage.

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William Taylor Davidson

William Taylor Davidson (February 8, 1837 – January 3, 1915) was the owner and editor of the Fulton Democrat newspaper from 1858 to 1915.

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11th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry

The 11th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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1881 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1881.

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1899

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll

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