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Historical romance

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Historical romance is a subgenre of two literary genres, the romance novel and the historical novel.
Contents

1 Definition
2 Subgenres

2.1 Viking
2.2 Medieval
2.3 Tudor
2.4 Elizabethan
2.5 Georgian
2.6 Pirate
2.7 Victorian
2.8 Colonial United States
2.9 Civil War
2.10 Western
2.11 Indian
2.12 Americana

3 Market
4 History
5 Footnotes
6 References

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Definition
Historical romance is set before World War II.
This subgenre includes a wide variety of other subgenres, including Regency [...]

100% (comic book)

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100%

Artwor for the wraparound cover of 100% #1. Art by Paul Pope.
Publisher
Vertigo imprint of DC Comics
Schedule
Monthly
Format
mini-series
Publication date
2002 – 2003
Number of issues
5
Creative team
Creator(s)
Paul Pope
100% is a black-and-white comic book with gray tones written and drawn by Paul Pope. It was published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint in five issues between 2002 and 2003, then collected as [...]

Sally MacKenzie

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Sally MacKenzie is a USA Today bestselling romance novelist who has currently published three books, The Naked Duke, The Naked Marquis, and The Naked Earl. Her fourth book, The Naked Gentleman, is scheduled to release April 1, 2008. According to Romance Reviews Today, The Naked Marquis is “… charming … funny … full of delightful [...]

PLUR

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Beads spelling out PLUR on a raver bracelet (see: candy raver)
PLUR or PLURR is an acronym that stands for “Peace Love Unity Respect”, a credo or mantra
PLUR can also be viewed as a more mainstream variant of its predecessor LPE (Love Peace Ecstasy), because it removes the drug reference. LPE was mainly used in Europe [...]

Tough love

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For other uses, see Tough love (disambiguation).
Tough love is an expression used when someone treats another person harshly or sternly with the intent to help them in the long run.
In most uses, there must be some actual love or feeling of affection behind the harsh or stern treatment to be defined as tough love. For [...]

Love of God

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God
Theistic approaches
Deism · Henotheism
Monotheism · Panentheism
Pantheism · Monolatrism
Specific conceptions
Names · “God” · Existence · Gender
Creator · Architect · Demiurge · Sustainer
Lord · Father · Monad · Oneness
Supreme Being · The All · Personal
Unitarianism · Ditheism · Trinity
Omniscience · Omnipotence
Omnipresence · Omnibenevolence
in Bahá’í · in Buddhism · in Christianity
in Hinduism · in Islam · in Judaism
in Sikhism
Experience and practices
Faith · Prayer · Belief · Revelation
Fideism · Gnosis · Metaphysics
Mysticism · Hermeticism · Esotericism
Related topics
Philosophy · Religion · Ontology
God complex · Neurotheology
Euthyphro dilemma · Problem of [...]

Thomas Jay Oord

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Thomas Jay Oord (b. 1965) is a philosopher and theologian who specializes in research related to love, relational thought (including relational theism), and science and [...]

Compersion

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Close relationships

Affinity • Attachment • Bonding • Boyfriend • Casual • Cohabitation • Compersion • Concubinage • Consort • Courtship • Divorce • Domestic partnership • Dower, dowry, and bride price • Family • Friendship • Girlfriend • Husband • Infatuation • Intimacy • Jealousy • Limerence • Love • Marriage • Monogamy • Nonmonogamy • Passion • [...]

Helen Fisher (anthropologist)

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Helen E. Fisher (born 1945) is an anthropology professor and human behavior researcher at the Rutgers University and is one of the major researchers in the field of romantic interpersonal attraction. Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York [...]

Emotion in animals

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Emotion in animals considers the question of whether non-human animals feel emotions, in the sense that humans understand it.
Different answers have been suggested throughout human history, by animal lovers, scientists, philosophers, and others who interact with animals, but the core question has proven hard to answer since we can neither obtain spoken answers, nor assume [...]

Valentine’s Day

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For other uses, see Valentine’s Day (disambiguation).
Valentine’s Day

Saint Valentine, bishop of Terni, oversees construction of his basilica at Terni. 14th century French ms. Paris, workshop of Richard de Montbaston.
Also called
St Valentine’s Day
Observed by
Western and Western-influenced cultures
Type
Christian, Cultural, multinational
Significance
Lovers express their feelings to each other
Date
February 14
Observances
Sending greeting cards and gifts, dating.
Related to
The Night of Sevens, a [...]

Secret admirer

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Affectional bond

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In psychology, the term affectional bond is a type of attachment behavior one individual has for another individual, typically a mother for her child, in which the two partners tend to remain in proximity to one another.
Contents

1 Five criteria
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

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Five criteria
Bowlby referred to attachment bonds as a specific type of [...]

Unconditional love

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This article is about concept of unconditional love. For other uses, see Unconditional love (disambiguation).

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Romance (love)

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De amore (Andreas Capellanus)

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Andreas Capellanus was the twelfth century author of a treatise commonly entitled De amore (“About Love”), also known as De arte honeste amandi, for which a possible English translation is The Art of Courtly Love (though the book’s realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love). His [...]

Narcissism

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This article is about narcissism as a word in common use. For narcissism in psychology, see Narcissism (psychology).
Narcissism describes the trait of excessive self-love, based on self-image or ego.
The term is derived from the Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo. As [...]

Interpersonal attraction

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Interpersonal attraction (known as biological attraction in animals) is the attraction between people which leads to friendships and romantic relationships. The study of interpersonal attraction is a major area of study in social psychology. In a colloquial sense, interpersonal attraction is related to how much we like, love, dislike, or hate someone. Interpersonal attraction can [...]

Broken heart

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For other uses, see Broken heart (disambiguation).
“Heartbreak” redirects here. For the New Edition album, see Heart Break.
A broken heart (or heartbreak) is a common metaphor used to describe the intense emotional pain one feels after losing a loved one, through death, divorce, or other means as in breaking up with someone or having your partner [...]