Search results for "Figure" - New World Encyclopedia
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- which could contract itself into a spherical figure and then stretch itself out again; the end of its tail appeared with a forceps like that of an ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 21:46, 16 April 2023
- for blacks, she remained a central figure in the women's movement as a peacemaker, a critical function for that period in women's rights ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- It is difficult to identify a major figure in the history to whom some rationalist doctrine has not been attributed at some point. One reason ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- members to never leave the band), he was an iconic figure in Rock and Roll history. As the voice of the Ramones, he played a pivotal role in the establishment ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Leinweber states, "She became a kind of fairy-tale figure, used by mothers and nannies to induce good behavior among children." ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- very often in the presence of a priestly figure who appeases an offended ... kohen gadol (High Priest) as their central figure. These services included ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- on the inner walls, including a center figure that has carving under his ... jamb is another carved panel of a seated figure surrounded by more glyphs ...32 KB (4,966 words) - 20:59, 9 December 2023
- works of Ferruccio Busoni would figure prominently in his later work, but his biggest influence would be from the ideas of the Second Viennese ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- or guilds. Samuel himself was a leading figure among the bands of roaming ... prophet belonging to history or a literary figure of a later era is a subject ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- of a curve as a connected, continuous geometric figure that is "like" a line, without thickness and drawn without interruption, although ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 21:42, 23 June 2022
- Bacchus/Dionysus was an important figure in the religious imagination of the Greeks and Romans, as he was thought to represent the union between ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- In the Mahabharata (M. 3, 107), Maharishi Kapila is a major figure in the story associated with the Hindu holiday of Makar Sankranti, celebrating ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- of her career in Paris, a well-known figure. As the good-looking French ... essentially, of the draped female figure, with one arm upraised, bearing ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- An unconventional portrait of a controversial figure. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0837174015 ==External links== All links retrieved December ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- state. Art historians suggest that this figure is based on the Tori style. ... by the two-dimensionality of the figure and the repetitive pattern ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- known as the "Tree of Peace." The center figure also represents the Onondaga Nation where the central council fires reside—all issues involving ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 23:04, 12 February 2022
- a professor and, eventually, a central figure in the era now called Classical ... (1889-1912) and, eventually, a central figure in the era now called Classical ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024
- is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... In addition to this unique role in Greek mythology, the figure of ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- not the case in Korea. The monk Gihwa, the leading figure of the Buddhist saṅgha at the outset of the Joseon, who had himself been an acclaimed Confucian ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- lines), he is regarded as the predominant poetic figure of the middle decades of the eighteenth century in English literature. In 1757, following the ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
