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- by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ... While Lewis's best known and most controversial theory is that ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- scripture, the Rig Veda, contains hymns of praise to thirty-three different ... to "Father Sky," the chief god of the Indo-European pantheon ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 10:11, 29 January 2024
- designed to describe the logical relations of modal notions. The list of ... The languages of modal logics usually extend preexisting logics, e ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos with infinite numbers ... All atoms are qualitatively homogeneous, different only in form, shape ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence ... The existence of propositions in the former sense, as well as the ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- who founded the field known as the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy ... :*Leibniz believed that the best of all possible worlds would actualize ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length ... plural: “novelle”) meaning a tale; piece of news. Novellas as a literary ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them, The Consul (1950) and ... Much of the enduring popularity of Menotti's works derives from ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 01:44, 10 December 2022
- L. Kroeber with Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi tribe, (1911).]] was an influential figure in the development of modern American anthropology ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- where conflict occurs between groups of people, for a variety of reasons ... The history of conflict theory can be traced back to thinkers such ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world ... As a number of philosophers (including Nicolas Malebranche and David ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- and the Royal Geographic Expedition of 1977-1978, with more than 100 ... primary focus has shifted to the promotion of an awareness of the significance ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 17:58, 12 July 2023
- most important English composer and organist of his era. Taverner reflected ... Taverner was the first organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 ... After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- 1295.jpg|thumb|right|250px|City seal of Zwolle from 1295 with Saint ... as a reptile, and is reputed to be king of serpents. One of the most feared ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- in child development. Bronfenbrenner was one of the first psychologists to ... Bronfenbrenner emphasized the importance of the social environments ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- mathematician, astronomer, and physicist best known for his astronomical ... Born in The Hague, Christiaan Huygens was the second son of Constantijn ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- 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
- and August 10, 1543) was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in ... As a renowned composer of Mass settings and Latin motets as well as ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- and was known as the "Royal Church of St. Mary at Aachen" during ... The Cathedral of Aachen is one of the best-known architectural monuments ...13 KB (1,948 words) - 07:09, 13 June 2023
- incorporeal energy force that is present in all living things but distinct ... thereof, such as the Holy Spirit. (The study of the Holy Spirit in Christian ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Necromancy (Greek: νεκρομαντία, nekromantía) is a form ... Necromancy is communing with the spirits of the dead, rather than the evil ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- In Kabbalah and European Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is a spirit of ... another opportunity to do so in the form of a dybbuk. Dybbuks seek out ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Revolutionary War began, and is seen as one of the first examples of African ... to her personal circumstances or to issues of race. Rather her poems are ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Glieseupdated.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Artist's impression ... Extraterrestrial life is the term used to define any form of life ...28 KB (4,265 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon ... Based on experiences with Earth, the environment of a planet can be ...32 KB (4,766 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- people who originally lived in the valley of the Río Yaqui in the northern ... Spanish, defeating successive expeditions of conquistadores in battle. However ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Batu Khan (c. 1205 – 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of ... use. Perhaps the most significant aspect of Batu Khan's legacy and ...14 KB (2,251 words) - 18:34, 14 February 2023
- She was involved in two of the most famous and well-received radio ... career were her two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- who held that we live in the “best of all possible worlds,” which Voltaire ... of Leibniz that this is the best of all possible worlds, we may even oppose ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 16:38, 29 July 2023
- designed for the observation and study of objects and phenomena in outer ... are hampered by the filtering and distortion of electromagnetic radiation by ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 19:04, 7 February 2023
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions ... According to Genesis, partaking of the fruit of the Tree of Life would ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science ... district near Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Svante Gustav and Carolina ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- and occultist. He is known for his system of mnemonics based on organized ... the Dominican priesthood and Italy in search of a stable academic position ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 13:28, 15 December 2022
- and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all of them lived in Iraq.Nathaniel ... The 2003 Iraq War reduced the population of Iraqi Mandaeans to approximately ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- In the physical sciences, the weight of an object is a measurement ... Recognition of the difference between weight and mass is a relatively ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman ... music, and magic. He had no visible means of support, but no lack of resources ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
- “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge. A ... The historical source for contemporary understanding of the a priori ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- is situated at the north-eastern end of the Houses of Parliament building ... Although not as historical a London landmark as the Tower of London ...22 KB (3,639 words) - 22:14, 23 November 2023
- flowing east through the eponymous plains of northern India into Bangladesh ... In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: "… The ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- (NGO). The organization has hundreds of branches internationally and ... The beginnings of Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU ...28 KB (3,991 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... The term is also used in a wider sense in several fields of philosophy ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine ... other western churches, and is seen as one of the clearest creedal expressions ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... Philosophers often suppose a certain sense of being as primary, and ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- that is equipped to conduct observations of terrestrial events or celestial ... emissions, gamma ray bursts, and expansion of the universe. Volcano observatories ...10 KB (1,374 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- Heimdall is the sentry of Asgard and a member of the Aesir (the gods ... peoples. This mythological tradition, of which the Scandinavian (and ...18 KB (2,781 words) - 22:43, 3 February 2022
- "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male nature dieties ... refer a particular divine being and a race of related demigods, respectively ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ... work is less concerned with the importance of technological change and development ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- The term “monad” was used by the Pythagoreans as the name of the ... The term "monad," however, is best known as a concept of ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- was an Argentine intellectual and author of highly experimental novels ... Along with Borges, Cortazar is often considered to be one of the most ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the ... In 405 B.C.E., following the severe Spartan defeat at the Battle of ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- before being appointed as Wykeham professor of logic at New College, Oxford ... His earliest book, Perception (1932), rejected causal theories of ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the speed of light in a vacuum c * the electric constant ε0, ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- she was for her actual poetry. During much of her career she lived the life ... Millay lived and wrote during the early decades of the twentieth-century ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America ... | death_place = Covington, Louisiana, United States of America ...9 KB (1,310 words) - 18:46, 17 April 2023
- Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow ... news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- to indicate the improper usage of science or scientific claims. ... The charge of scientism often is used as a counter-argument to appeals ...22 KB (3,110 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- Classical Greek had no independent word of "existence." The ... but reversed the Medieval priority of essence over existence. The ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- critic, and activist. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature ... Academically speaking, Said was a follower of Post-structuralist theory ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, most commonly white sage ... Native Americans, and it has been practiced all over the world, its modern ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- His initial insight was that a social group of human beings in many ways functions ... Karlsruhe, Germany. His father was the head of the household staff of the ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 06:38, 15 April 2024
- Macrocosm/microcosm is a Greek compound of μακρο- "Macro ... The paired concept of Macrocosm and Microcosm presents the idea that ...11 KB (1,612 words) - 17:28, 9 November 2022
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... intelligence can bring about the betterment of society. It is usually characterized ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- The Hopi are a Native American nation, the westernmost group of Pueblo ... their culture, which is based on a mythology of their origin, spiritual beliefs ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- make firm") is a term used in a variety of contexts with different meanings ... , which may or may not contain the body of the deceased. Samadhis are ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 02:04, 23 December 2022
- who in 1893, when he attended the Parliament of the Worlds Religion at Chicago ... that the same universal truth underlies all religions, although he regarded ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 ... book, Waldseemüller published one of the Vespucci accounts, which ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland (Australia) and ... Dampier's life belongs to the great age of so-called "Discovery ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- she published under the androgynous name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated ... Edith Nesbit was born in 1858 Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- a scientist; Khayyám contributed a number of insights to the development ... and particularly for the volume The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, famously translated ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- a wide geographical and temporal spread of cultures perhaps to mark territory ... is thought by many to be the foundation of art as well as an indication ...11 KB (1,550 words) - 02:26, 16 December 2022
- hi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit]) Retrieved December ... societies which have experienced most if not all of these characteristics, ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- 20, 1524) was the last ruler and king of the K'iche-Maya people ... on February 20, on the anniversary of his death. Tecún Umán has ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- quot; in Japanese) (617 – 686), was one of the leading philosophers, writers ... With his life spanning the end of the Three Kingdoms period and the ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that ... Critical realism refers to several schools of thought. These include ...13 KB (1,784 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning ... Peirce formulated abduction as a method of scientific research and introduced ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth ... developed alongside the continuation of medieval theater and especially ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- "The Watchers") are a group of fallen angels described in ... A modern view of the Grigori appears in some versions of Italian witchcraft ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- is God in his manifestation as Creator of the universe. Brahmā is part ... city located on Mount Meru. As creator of the world, Brahmā is considered ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- Life, may be considered by some as a type of virtual reality. virtual artifact (VA) either through the use of standard input devices such ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication ... With the rise of Post-Modernism, social constructionism became popular ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the ... to Hindu thought is its elucidation of the pramanas (tools of epistemology ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism and president ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- Science fiction (also, sf, SF, or sci-fi) is a broad genre of fiction ... Science fiction is part of, and in organizational or marketing contexts ...54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- quot; or "blowing out" of the triple fires of greed, ... from the Samyutta Nikaya (a scripture of Buddhism), which describes ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- belief that the natural world is a community of living personas, only some ... While the term "animism" refers to a broad range of spiritual ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- used for four species in the genus Cucurbita of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae: ... the same family as squash. Well known types of squash include the pumpkin ...13 KB (1,929 words) - 18:11, 14 October 2022
- Papyrus (The plural of papyrus is papyri) is an early form of thick ... The study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, and ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world," is ... an original painting. The original subject of ukiyo-e was city life—more ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 01:28, 3 May 2023
- Viperidae, whose members are commonly known as vipers, is a family ... Viperids are found all over the world, except in Australia and Madagascar ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- March 29 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists ... entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, where he studied both ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister ... The biography of Necker is part of the history of the French Revolution ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- good, should be relocated in small groups of less than ten, in distances ... was known to point out admirable qualities of various disadvantaged people ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... The Hokku of early Japanese poets like Matsuo Basho and Ueshima Onitsura ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador ... Quito is considered to have one of the oldest and best preserved colonial ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
