Search results for "Book of Life" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 1980) was a popular wildlife conservationist of the 1960s and an author, best ... as her own country, living on the shores of Lake Naivasha. It was with ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:00, 8 September 2022
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers. He considered himself ... Henry Morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrhymny ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- philosopher, and economist. In light of the ideological struggles in ... Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox priest in the ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He attended ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the early chapters of the book, Hosea marries the unfaithful "woman ...12 KB (1,912 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ... In addition to the general importance of the text for Christian and ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- a leading figure in the study of human fossils. A strong supporter ... 5, 1866 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the sixth of 10 children to John Keith and ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 11:11, 16 August 2023
- 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists ... However, he believed that the main point of The Jungle was lost on ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- as a practicing physician his entire life. In his early writings, Williams ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated ... an illuminated manuscript was also a time of religious devotion and prayer; ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- poetry belonging to the confessional school of poets in the style of other ... and precise wording that covered a spectrum of feelings that many people can ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely ... From its original Hebrew, The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... The author of Chronicles, termed "the Chronicler," may also ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian ... 5, 1817 in Paris, France, into a family of Huguenot descent. His father ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes ... in central Russia. He came from a long line of landed gentry and serf owners ...7 KB (1,081 words) - 06:34, 11 March 2024
