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No Mike, you dipshit, enlightment is lighting one up.
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In the Author's Announcement, "enlightment" was corrected to
Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg
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A movement was inaugurated in 1772 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law, with a view to securing the triumph of the rationalistic "enlightment" in Church and State by means of the secret society of "Illuminati" (q.v.), which he founded.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Manry also points out the artist draws er-Obama with a dot (or Urna) on his forehead, a symbol of enlightment or wisdom often seen in depictions of Buddha.
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The Carnation Revolution coup in Lisbon which returned democracy to Portugal in 1974 precipitated the end of hundreds of years of Portugal's pre-enlightment colonial regimes.
Derek Flood: Territorial Triumph and Geopolitical Pitfalls in South Sudan Derek Flood 2011
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Trust me Roddis, I am a ole fashioned conservative in the pre-enlightment sense (maybe I am just Roman lol).
Matthew Yglesias » A Crisis of Demand, Not Productivity 2010
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Trust me Roddis, I am a ole fashioned conservative in the pre-enlightment sense (maybe I am just Roman lol).
Matthew Yglesias » A Crisis of Demand, Not Productivity 2010
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Don Mackenzie has found enlightment in the wisdom of his own thinking.
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A transforming mentor who creates a environment and offers context in which you experience enlightment.
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The Carnation Revolution coup in Lisbon which returned democracy to Portugal in 1974 precipitated the end of hundreds of years of Portugal's pre-enlightment colonial regimes.
Derek Flood: Territorial Triumph and Geopolitical Pitfalls in South Sudan Derek Flood 2011
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