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- Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
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- text=Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story originates from medieval times but who remains significant in popular ...725 bytes (112 words) - 17:09, 16 August 2023
- Myles Standing was a key figure in the founding of the Plymouth Rock community. While not a member, he fought against native foes and help secure ...809 bytes (137 words) - 17:45, 25 October 2021
- eras in which the leader was seen as a god-like figure. While these cults of personality invariably occur in dystopian states in which millions have ...808 bytes (132 words) - 18:30, 29 September 2023
- ancient world. According to this theory, the figure of Jesus is a mythical composite character based on earlier belief systems or historical persons ...955 bytes (143 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- Supreme Court, he became not just the leading figure for textualist and originalist interpretations of the law, but arguably the outstanding legal mind ...1 KB (174 words) - 19:16, 1 December 2021
- De Lamartine was a key Republican figure. A moderate, he played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the death penalty in France. He was ...1 KB (188 words) - 02:23, 30 April 2023
- deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshiped. #:They built a shrine ...1 KB (175 words) - 16:34, 30 November 2023
- Madame Roland was an important figure during the French Revolution. Her husband, Jean-Marie, became interior minister and they both were important ...1 KB (196 words) - 23:58, 22 October 2022
- Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the Figure ... illusionworks.com/html/figure_ground.html Figure/ground.] Retrieved October ...6 KB (934 words) - 20:58, 21 December 2022
- # A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure. #: What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds? ...2 KB (257 words) - 23:31, 31 August 2023
- The Orbison figures most often involve a figure placed over a background ... may cause the perception of a distorted figure.Sara Bolouki and Roger Grosse ...4 KB (510 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2022
- meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth and most recent Tirthankara ("Crosser ...758 bytes (112 words) - 23:32, 26 November 2022
- text=Lilith is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish folklore, associated with sexual temptation, storms, disease ...684 bytes (105 words) - 23:03, 16 March 2022
- Tawfiq al-Hakim was an important Egyptian literary figure in the mid-twentieth century. Many of his plays addressed philosophical themes and ...741 bytes (113 words) - 19:35, 29 November 2023
- of love for the Divine make him a figure of inter-religious understanding and harmony. }} ...719 bytes (109 words) - 14:57, 31 October 2023
- existed, but was a purely symbolic or mythical figure syncretized from various non-Abrahamic deities and heroes. }} ...791 bytes (119 words) - 14:40, 13 July 2023
- Roland soon established herself as a leading figure within the political group the Girondins. In June 1793, she was the first Girondin to be arrested ...769 bytes (112 words) - 23:20, 26 October 2022
- March 3, 2023 was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced ...789 bytes (103 words) - 17:02, 28 September 2023
- the Bolshevik party. Kollontai was a leading figure in the foundation of the Zhenotdel, the new women's department of the Central Committee ...756 bytes (97 words) - 20:13, 30 July 2023
- to shut down a person, corporation or political figure with whom you disagree. The basis of cancel culture is the postmodern idea that some people are ...792 bytes (127 words) - 02:15, 26 April 2022
- theorist, and author in Yugoslavia. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during the World War II as well as in the post war government. His book ...834 bytes (122 words) - 20:26, 5 January 2024
- # A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. ## Any of various figures used in Mayan writing. ...976 bytes (120 words) - 20:16, 5 March 2024
- Jesus of Nazareth, is Christianity's central figure, both as Messiah and, for most Christians, as God incarnate. Muslims regard him as a major prophet ...870 bytes (132 words) - 20:43, 23 April 2022
- assessed. She is now regarded as an important figure of the Russian Silver Age. }} ...814 bytes (121 words) - 20:35, 30 August 2023
- him or her as an idealized, heroic figure. It typically occurs in a totalitarian or authoritarian government which has control over access to ...913 bytes (129 words) - 22:33, 29 September 2023
- July 17, 1793), known as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. A provincial woman who had supported the revolution and was a supporter ...832 bytes (122 words) - 02:15, 30 September 2022
- Manilal in literary circles. He was an influential figure in nineteenth-century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and educators ...895 bytes (124 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution. He was a close friend of Maximilien Robespierre and served as his most trusted ...863 bytes (125 words) - 21:19, 26 November 2022
- a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). + -al. ...1 KB (133 words) - 15:12, 5 September 2023
- seen as the Father of Europe and is an iconic figure, instrumental in defining European identity. His was the first truly imperial power in the West ...892 bytes (141 words) - 17:05, 20 March 2022
- poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for the collection Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire ...1,005 bytes (147 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2023
- and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s onward. During the 1930s, he ranked second in the Soviet ...1,002 bytes (145 words) - 22:13, 28 December 2022
- century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. In addition to his outstanding portraits of well-known ...1 KB (155 words) - 20:56, 5 August 2020
- Alexander Radishchev was the most significant figure of 18th century Russian literature because he was the first to test the limits of thought ...982 bytes (164 words) - 00:09, 1 May 2020
- surgeon by profession, who became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian Islamist organization, and eventually attained the rank ...937 bytes (127 words) - 00:18, 19 January 2023
- greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure in both Azerbaijani and Ottoman literature. Fuzuli's work was widely known and admired ...1 KB (149 words) - 23:26, 5 December 2023
- classification of syllogisms known as the figure. The four figures are: ... conclusion followed by the number for the figure. For example, the syllogisms ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- of the outfit." Al-Zawahiri was a leading figure in the promotion and use of terror to advance the cause of Islam, a religion of peace. It is an ...962 bytes (159 words) - 01:55, 30 September 2022
- National Convention but was perhaps the best known figure of the dechristianization movement responsible for attacks on the church including the deaths ...1 KB (204 words) - 02:02, 28 August 2022
- Aleksandr Kuprin was a significant figure of the Silver Age of Russian Literature. This group of writers lived during the late 19th century and ...1 KB (206 words) - 22:32, 20 September 2021
- writer and literary critic who was a leading figure in what came to be known as Russian Formalism. Russian Formalism rejected earlier literary criticism ...1 KB (165 words) - 00:07, 31 August 2023
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution. A member of the nobility, he was ...1 KB (208 words) - 02:42, 27 July 2022
- [[Image:Mueller lyer.svg|thumb|200 px|A figure to explain the Mueller ... visual system is unable to separate the figure into parts. As a whole figure ...5 KB (795 words) - 18:00, 10 November 2022
- A piece of the mantle is shown in Figure 1 (orthopyroxene is black ... quot;pyroxene quadrilateral" shown in Figure 2. The enstatite-ferrosilite ...9 KB (1,340 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- # (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure. ====Derived terms==== ...2 KB (188 words) - 15:37, 1 September 2023
- a phrase, incident, or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates. #: The running gag is ...2 KB (235 words) - 21:28, 31 August 2023
- which is marked off on the two axes (see Figure 1). Cartesian coordinate ... by the equation x² + y² = 4 (see Figure 2). == History == ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- theologian, author, and public figure who served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. ...2 KB (266 words) - 16:08, 8 April 2021
- rights and gender equality made her an iconic figure in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. She received attention in American popular ...2 KB (256 words) - 21:39, 31 August 2021
- illusion easily when reading text with the illusion figure in the periphery. Motion is consistently perceived in a dark-to-light direction, so the two ...4 KB (637 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- in which the perspective changes while viewing the figure. ... angles and so is fully aware that the figure is not "impossible, ...8 KB (1,193 words) - 23:03, 17 March 2024
- other angles and so is fully aware that the figure is not "impossible," perception from the critical viewing angle does not change—the ...5 KB (696 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression, pattern, or melodic fragment), often played by instruments in the rhythmic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- [[Image:5kingdoms.png|thumb|right|Figure 1. Five kingdoms.]] ... In 1969, Robert Whittaker published a proposed five kingdom system ...8 KB (1,051 words) - 13:09, 10 March 2023
- the ambiguous parts that makes the whole figure consistent. It is rare that ... There is evidence that by focusing on different parts of the figure ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 16:07, 11 November 2022
- ===Black & white and the figure-ground relationship=== ... visual art, stemming from a discordant figure-ground relationship that ...8 KB (1,285 words) - 00:44, 18 November 2022
- god of the Memphis region (perhaps even a totemic figure), he eventually came to be associated with loftier figures—first, the craftsman/creator god ...2 KB (400 words) - 13:58, 25 June 2021
- Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- this case misinterpretation, of the actual figure. Study of this illusion aids ... To further complicate matters, the figure is not actually of a checkerboard ...6 KB (942 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- false Messiah (see also: Antichrist) is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology. He is to appear at a time in the future, before Yawm al-Qiyamah (The ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- Category:Religious figure navigational boxes ...4 KB (403 words) - 23:25, 9 July 2020
- Zerubbabel shows that he was an important figure to many Second Temple Jews. ... who is depicted as a kind of Daniel-type figure in the dispute among the ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- traditionally believed that Harold is the figure with the arrow in his eye ... male figures in the border below this figure; the one directly below the ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- one sees a set of vertical red lines over a figure of blue lines that radiate out from two points to the left and right of the set of red lines, ...3 KB (445 words) - 14:11, 20 May 2023
- animals, to the shape, size, and angle of a figure's eyes, nose, and lips. The process seems very scientific, but often requires a very deep understanding ...6 KB (950 words) - 15:07, 30 April 2023
- The line segment (or chord) AB (in the figure), which passes through the ... The semimajor axis (denoted by a in the figure) is one-half of the ...10 KB (1,658 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- in his right hand, close to his heart. The figure of the Wrathful Vajrapani ... the five wisdoms is also associated with a Buddha figure. ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- Scientific notation is a compact form of writing numbers that are very large or very small. It is especially useful when expressing measurements ...9 KB (1,279 words) - 17:25, 25 January 2023
- [[Image:Carbon_dioxide_pressure-temperature_phase_diagram.jpg|frame ... diagram for carbon dioxide, as shown in Figure 2, where the critical point ...14 KB (2,010 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- The Zöllner figure is composed of a series of parallel, diagonal lines intersected by a number of short horizontal and vertical bars. The parallel ...4 KB (537 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- *Morgan, M.J. and B. Moulden. "The Münsterberg figure and twisted cords." Vision Research, 26 (1986):1793–1800. *Ninio, Jacques. ...4 KB (575 words) - 09:41, 11 April 2024
- especially in Switzerland, where the Tell figure was instrumentalized in the ... again had become national identification figure, the historian Karl Meyer ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- authorities regard him as a type of merman figure or fish-deity of the the ... Dagon has become a popular figure in recent literature, movies, and ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- jpg|The upper portion of the central Sakyamuni figure. ====Other Northern ... wall.jpg|South wall with Bodhisattva and additional figure. ...11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 November 2022
- complex web of relationships as shown in the figure on the right. In this figure, the grouping of Phytoplankton → Herbivorous zooplankton → Carnivorous ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 10:18, 10 November 2023
- right|thumb|Pegasus and Bellerophon, Attic red-figure]] ... objects that make up a constellation. The figure that these objects create ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 07:12, 23 November 2022
- Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply "Santa," is the mythical figure who, in most of ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- reference to him as a significant literary figure. The relative scarcity of ... In the history of poetry, Archilochus is a somewhat paradoxical figure ...8 KB (1,240 words) - 06:18, 12 August 2023
- [[Image:Ehrenstein figure.svg|thumb|Illusion 3. Adding a circle (bottom ... further input, will assume that there is a figure in front of the lines. ...4 KB (549 words) - 07:14, 10 August 2023
- ninety years, from 1131 to 1221. The central figure of the first section is Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛) who is described as arrogant, evil, ruthless ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- opposite directions, according to this pattern: (Figure 1) They will then reach this position: (Figure 2) But to move from the ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- Another relief at the same site shows him with his court. Every figure ... Anahita was a divine figure associated with water, wisdom and healing ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- American female outlaw. She was a well-known figure during the late nineteenth century and is rumored to have been involved with a number of famous criminals ...14 KB (2,256 words) - 18:59, 11 January 2023
- == Literary figure == Sima Qian's Shiji is respected as a model of biographical literature with high literary value. Its artistry was mainly ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- Image:Polispasto4.jpg|Figure 4b - A practical block and tackle pulley ... pulleys are encased in single housings is shown in Figure 4b. ...10 KB (1,745 words) - 23:46, 2 December 2022
- to for disaster relief. A legendary figure, Lee’s contributions to ... A pioneering yet controversial figure among public relations, Ivy ...11 KB (1,658 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- referred to it as the "shifted chequerboard figure." It has also been called the "illusion of kindergarten patterns" because it was ...4 KB (646 words) - 10:17, 25 November 2023
- device may act as a cooler, as in the figure to the left below. This is ... == Figure of merit == The figure of merit for thermoelectric devices ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- statues into a granite wall. One Buddha figure posed in reclining position ... Historians have identified a standing figure on a lotus throne located ...12 KB (1,690 words) - 08:40, 24 November 2022
- strength of various contributing factors like figure orientation was different among each species.Tadasu Oyama and Takuo Goto. [http://www.blackwell-synergy ...4 KB (658 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- and philosophy of history. He is an important figure in the early twentieth century liberal school of religious and philosophical thought in Germany ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world cultures, a trickster is a figure who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- #039;Higginists. Carrerists claim that his figure is not given enough recognition ... He is considered the most important figure in the movement for full ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 19:38, 9 May 2024
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. There are two main types of ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- new religions. He is a deeply respected figure by the followers of many ... He first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a figure who challenged the idolatrous ...18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- sense of morality, Buck is also in important figure in the history of American literature due to her connections with the cultures of Asia, and China ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- Charles Ammi Cutter (March 14, 1837 – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's most significant ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- Mani presented himself as a savior figure and his religious teachings ... and evil and in the increasingly vivid figure of Satan. Augustine of Hippo ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- kingship, with his left foot on the chest of a figure lying on his back before him. The prostrate figure is reputed to be the pretender Gaumata. Darius ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- established himself as a public figure. He had been married a year ... authority.) He was a conspicuous figure in the siege of Paris, fought ...14 KB (2,358 words) - 05:00, 9 April 2024
