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- As an educator, he promoted the teaching of history, science, and the arts ... gases becoming famous for his co-discovery of oxygen, which he called "dephlo ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- Bean is a common name for edible plant seeds or seed pods of several ... The various species of bean plants include some of the very first ...19 KB (3,083 words) - 16:15, 14 November 2023
- laureate, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic ... Like other German authors, already in their prime during the rise ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- how the collective unconscious, that part of the unconscious that is cross ... choanalytic school"). The goal of analytical or Jungian psychology ...23 KB (3,347 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- Prize for non-fiction in 1974, for his The Denial of Death. The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- journalist, essayist and pianist. He is best known for the numerous piano ... in Chingford, Essex (now Greater London), of mixed Indian (Parsi), Spanish ...18 KB (2,515 words) - 22:23, 4 October 2022
- Cranes are any of the large, long-legged, long-necked, wading birds ... Representatives of the Guidae family, comprising 15 extant species ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 20:20, 28 May 2024
- 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for establishing the ... His father was a wealthy grain merchant of Magyar-Jewish descent and his ...20 KB (2,932 words) - 04:55, 7 May 2024
- with the 1641 publication, in Paris, of Rene Descartes' Meditationes ... was that God had created the best of all possible worlds, since there could ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still ... sheet music for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march, it ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- [[Image:Epikur.jpg|right|thumb|234px|Bust of Epicurus]] an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one of the most ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author ... Castaneda's descriptions of psychedelic experiences stood apart ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- a vital role in the structures and processes of the living and nonliving worlds ... The careless disposal of paints, plastics, and other carbon-containing ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 22:12, 25 November 2023
- Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space, by both ... particularly the Cold War. The early era of space exploration was driven ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- after 1780, was a Native American of the Seneca tribe's Wolf ... but finally accepted the majority decision of the Iroquois League, to which ...21 KB (3,357 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- late 1800s, when séances were at the height of their popularity. The Ouija ... Ouija the Most Dangerous Game (1985), one of the first uses of "Ouija ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Shaktism is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Shakti (or Devi ... and points toward the fundamental necessity of a female image of the divine ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
