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Acta
(Latin: "Acts") In ancient Rome, the daily minutes of public business and a record of political and social events. Julius Caesar in 59 BC ordered that the Senate's daily doings (acta diurna, commentaria Senatus) be made public; Augustus later prohibited publication, though the Senate's acts continued to be recorded and could be read with special permission. There were also public registers (acta diurna urbis, "daily minutes of the city") of the acts of the popular assemblies and the courts as well as births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. These constituted a daily gazette, a prototype of the modern newspaper.
Aflaq
Syrian social and political leader. While studying at the Univ. of Paris (1929-34) he came to believe that the Arab nationalist struggle had to oppose both the native elite and foreign rulers. Hoping to unite all the Arab states into a single socialist nation through nonviolence, he es-tablished the Baath Party in 1946 and served as its teacher, theorist, and organizer. He persuaded the Syrian government to form the United Arab Republic with Egypt in 1958, from which Syria withdrew in 1961. His career in Syrian politics ended in 1966 when he moved to Lebanon. See also Pan-Arabism.
Allah
(Arabic: "God") Standard Arabic word for God, used by Arab Christians as well as by Muslims. According to the Quran, Allah is the creator and judge of mankind, omnipotent, compassionate, and merciful. The Muslim profession of faith affirms that there is no god but Allah and emphasizes that he is inherently one: "nothing is like unto him." Everything that happens occurs by his commandment; submission to God is the basis of Islam. The Quran and the Hadith contain the 99 "most beautiful names" of God, incl. the One and Only, the Living One, the Real Truth, the Hearer, the Seer, the Benefactor, and the Constant Forgiver.
atlas
Collection of maps or charts, usually bound together. The name derives from a custom--initiated by G. Mercator in the 16th cent.--of using the figure of the Titan Atlas, holding the globe on his shoulders, as a frontispiece for books of maps. Abraham Ortelius's Epitome of the Theater of the World (1570) is generally thought to be the first modern atlas. Atlases often contain pictures, tabular data, facts about areas, and indexes of place-names keyed to coordinates of latitude and longitude or to a locational grid with numbers and letters along the sides of maps.
Male figure used as a column to support an entablature, balcony, or other projection, originating in Classical architecture. Such figures are posed as if supporting great weights, like Atlas bearing the world. The related telamon of Roman architecture, the male counterpart of the caryatid, is also a weight-bearing figure but does not usually appear in an atlas pose.
In Greek mythology, the strong man who supported the weight of the heavens on his shoulders. He was the son of the Titan ...
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