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  • Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. ...
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  • in form. Its foundation was the desire for self-knowledge and truth, untrammeled by the rigid bonds of any particular system. Hemsterhuis was ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ...
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  • Dmitri Mendeleev or Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev (birth unknown – death, 1907) was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator ...
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  • Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American educator and philosopher and a leader of the school of new realism in American pragmatic philosophy ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bezold Effect.svg|frame|right|Demonstration of the Bezold ...
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  • A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck, shaken, rubbed, and scraped with an implement, or by any other ...
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  • Nachman Kohen Krochmal (näkh'män krôkh'mäl) also called (by acronym) Ranak (born in Brody, Galicia, on February 17, 1785; died ...
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  • Acoustics is a branch of physics that studies sound, or more precisely, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. It is concerned with ...
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  • Alexander Neckam (sometimes spelled "Nequam") (September 8, 1157 – 1217, Hertfordshire, England), was an English theologian, philosopher ...
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  • Joseph Albo (יוסף אלבו) (c. 1380 – c. 1444) was a Jewish philosopher, a rabbi who lived in Spain during the fifteenth century, known ...
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  • André-Marie Ampère (January 20 1775 – June 10 1836), was a French physicist who first demonstrated that two current-carrying wires exert ...
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  • Wang Fu-chih (王夫之) or Wang Fuzhi or Chuanshan (船山 Ch’uan-shan), also known as Wang Fu-zi or Wang Zi (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher ...
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  • The tabla (Urdu: تبلہ, Hindi: तबला, tubblaa) (or pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument ...
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  • Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882 – April 28, 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. He converted to Catholicism and is the author of more ...
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  • of the Divine Feminine, the ultimate unity of self-knowledge and knowledge of the divine, the attainability of Christhood to all who attain gnosis, ...
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  • category:image wanted National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) The National Digital Information Infrastructure ...
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  • Vajra (Sanskrit: meaning thunderbolt and diamond) refers to an important sacred tool and ritual implement in Vajrayana Buddhism, Hinduism and ...
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  • Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...
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  • Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics that studies questions of being or existence. The questions include ...
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