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“Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.”

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M. M. Mangasarian

M. M. Mangasarian, born on December 29, 1859, and died on June 26, 1943. The profession and category are unknown, and the information is limited. more

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