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  2. Emishi - Wikipedia

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    The book refers to "the 55 kingdoms (国) of the hairy people (毛人) of the East" as a report by King Bu — one of the Five kings of Wa. The first recorded use of the Japanese word Emishi is in the Nihon Shoki in 720AD, where the word appears in the phonetic spelling 愛瀰詩 for emi 1 si [3] [4] (see also Old Japanese § Vowels for an ...

  3. Textbooks in Israel - Wikipedia

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    Arabic textbooks. According to a 2011 report by the Arab Cultural Association, Arabic textbooks provided to third grade to ninth grade students in Israeli schools contained at least 16,255 mistakes. The report was based on a study and examination of textbooks in all subjects by a committee, headed by Dr. Elias Atallah.

  4. Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. At 81 books, it is the largest and most diverse biblical canon in traditional Christendom.

  5. Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese is a textbook for learners of the Japanese language that starts at an absolute beginner level. [9] [10] The textbook is divided into two volumes, containing 23 lessons focusing on Japanese grammar, vocabulary, and kanji. [11] It is used in many universities throughout the English-speaking world ...

  6. The Exodus - Wikipedia

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    The Exodus ( Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. 'Departure from Egypt' [a]) is the founding myth [b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ). The consensus of modern scholars is that the Pentateuch does not ...

  7. Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform describes their goal as combatting what it sees as masochistic depictions of Japanese history. [3] They argue that textbooks focus too heavily on dark aspects of Japanese history, so as to make Japan solely bear responsibility for the devastation of war. The group also claims that post-war ...

  8. Book of Zhou - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Zhou ( Zhōu Shū) records the official history of the Xianbei -led Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties of China, and ranks among the official Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. Compiled by the Tang dynasty historian Linghu Defen, the work was completed in 636 CE and consists of 50 chapters, some of which have been lost ...

  9. The Holocaust in textbooks - Wikipedia

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    The Holocaust is conceptualized and narrated in textbooks worldwide in a variety of approaches to treating temporal and spatial scales, protagonists, interpretative paradigms, narrative techniques, didactic methods and national idiosyncrasies with and within which the Holocaust. There exist convergent trends or internationally shared narrative ...