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Martin Luther's excommunication

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Nostradamus and His Prophecies

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Leo X

Leo X

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Erastus, portrait by Tobias Stimmer, 1582; in the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switz.

Thomas Erastus

Swiss physician and theologian

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