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- ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of ... Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry are found ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- chain amino acid and it is an isomer of isoleucine. (Isomers are molecules ... In humans, the L-isomer of leucine is one of the 20 standard amino ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 22:03, 25 October 2022
- and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental ... in philosophy in 1897. Following the advice of his mentor William James, Woodworth ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of ... The Kama Sutra is the most notable example of a group of texts known ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- Augustana), is the primary confession of faith used in the Lutheran ... The Augsburg Confession provides a succinct statement of 28 articles ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- end, or purpose, and teleology is the study of goals, ends and purposes. A ... The two main types of theory brought under the rubric of teleological ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- to use these measures to assess the standard of living and the welfare (or ... national welfare is well founded.The standard of living is a measure of economic ...33 KB (5,148 words) - 19:46, 7 July 2023
- guitarist best known as the creative pioneer of amplified blues harmonica playing. His revolutionary harmonica style set the standard for blues players to this ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- proteins and, together with cysteine, is one of two sulfur-containing proteinogenic ... The L-isomer of methionine, which is the only form that is involved ...11 KB (1,600 words) - 16:26, 9 November 2022
- the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number ... Possibly, they would question the teaching of the Church and the authority ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- to dignity, freedom and a decent standard of living. He was succeeded by ... to dignity, freedom and a decent standard of living. They root this tradition ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- [[Image:Lincoln's coffin, replica.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A replica ... box used in the display and containment of deceased remains for burial ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Interoperability refers to the ability of diverse systems and organizations ... for system integration or collaboration of sub-systems. Today, system ...21 KB (2,868 words) - 13:29, 7 February 2023
- while attempting to improve the standard of living of his country, making ... #To quickly and substantially raise the standard of living for all ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are a group of mythical riders ... The vision of the Four Horsemen describes events related to the Last ...13 KB (2,133 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- 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
- In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy ... Regular ("baryonic") matter, made of electrons and quarks; (b) dark ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- In the cosmology of Hinduism, the term Yuga (meaning: "age" ... associated with a progressive deterioration of dharma (or "righteousness ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
- born in Abdera in Ancient Greece. He was one of the best known Sophists. Protagoras is best known for his dictum: "Man is the measure ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- for employees who are injured in the course of employment, in exchange for ... allow them to maintain a reasonable standard of living. Workers' compensation ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 16:31, 10 October 2020
- in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes ... Pennsylvania. His early life was of a typical farm boy, spent in ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- although it has been criticized for its lack of structure. The strength of ... with Abraham Maslow, Rogers was the founder of the humanistic approach to ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living ... In contrast with herbivory, which involves the consumption of living ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- Baleen whales comprise the Mysticeti, one of two suborders of the ... generally seen as gentle animals, a sighting of which adds to the wonder of ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:51, 26 August 2023
- social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work education movement ... 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of Issa Desha ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- when released into air, due to refraction of light. At low concentrations ... (1790-1868) in 1812, by exposing a mixture of carbon monoxide and chlorine ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 22:44, 28 March 2023
- among white audiences during the blues revival of the 1960s. been called "the very personification of Texas blues" (Clayton 2005). ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово ... This work is a mixture of Christianity and that Slavic paganism that ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- to improving the opportunities, and standard of living, of those otherwise ... did not improve their workers' standard of living, those workers would ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- Desert, encompasses 77,000 square miles of rolling sand dunes in eastern ... 039;s sand ridges. It is defined by a series of natural borders, including ...14 KB (2,193 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- form involved in protein synthesis) is one of the twenty standard amino acids ... The intricate coordination of systems in the human body is seen in ...15 KB (2,091 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- the world. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion ... While there is a great deal of diversity in nature, the rarity of ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- scientific principles and Aristotelian logic of the twelfth century to scholars ... Neckam wrote religious works on a variety of subjects, most of which ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- means “to practice and learn the way of the truth.” Xiuzhen combines ... Certain aspects of Xiushen, such as veneration of parents and elders ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 17:32, 11 October 2020
- Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist of the Song dynasty, who is credited ... and Zhu Xi, who honored Zhang as one of the founders of the Study of ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- Party. Although superficially the standard of living in East Germany under ... during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of 192 Germans who tried to escape ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... this system would provide a minimum standard of living "below which no ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful ... led to higher wages and a better standard of living. Adam Smith and Thomas ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- economist who occupied the first chair of political economy in England ... Compton, Berkshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist. The Buddhist ... delve into the Sutra Pitaka, gaining an ocean of knowledge. ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... With the steady improve of the standard of living in South Korea during ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- government, to work, and to a decent standard of living and health care. It ... 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded ... and gradual improvement in their standard of living in the first few decades ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 03:59, 6 October 2022
- R.F. Outcault, he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip and ... yellow colored nightshirt ushered in the era of colored comic strips. Outcault ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in ... dust storms, forest and grassland fires, living vegetation, and sea spray ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2022
- All tape-based camcorders have removable media in the form of video ... eventually enabled the construction of portable video-cameras and ...34 KB (5,130 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos with infinite numbers ... shape, and size. The qualitative diversity of the world is reduced to and ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- quot;) is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty ... Mahavira's later life was an example of rigorous asceticism. ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or into poor families ... At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
- around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- or running around," is a rite of passage during adolescence ... The Amish, a sub-sect of the Anabaptist Christian movement, intentionally ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 18:14, 22 December 2022
- Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen ... thereby dealing a serious blow to the theory of vitalism. ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... among the largest NIEs, boasting a standard of living comparable to industrialized ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- Compleat Angler, a classic guide to the joys of fishing with over 300 new printings ... scholars. Until 1643, he lived in the parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a ... In the philosophy of science, two theories are said to be incommensurable ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- family known as the Liu clan. The history of this dynasty divides into two ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 00:55, 28 January 2022
- or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior. Government ... use of capital, has kept our standard of living lower than would otherwise ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... Hepatocytes (liver cells) comprise about 60 percent of liver tissue; ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... in Nice, France, where his family was living at the time. His mother ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- |caption=Basketweaver of the Yurok people |poptime=5,000+ ... longest tributary, near the Pacific coast of Northern California. They are ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- Fideism emphasizes the importance of faith over reason in understanding ... ==The “Rationale” of Fideism== Despite the fact that fideism is ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- to mention the costs of bringing the standard of living to levels close to ... the neighboring islands, where the standard of living is lower. Ngazidja ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... are inadequate to provide the same standard of living for all. Moral decisions ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- significance for many Christians because of its use in the biblical Book ... The spectrum of Christian theological views on the meaning of 144 ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 06:27, 13 June 2023
- Diogenes of Sinope (412 or 399 B.C.E. – 323 B.C.E.) was an ancient ... for information on Diogenes is the Lives of Eminent Philosophers written ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- is commonly regarded as the fundamental unit of counting and measurement. For ... known as the "identity element" of multiplication (or multiplicative ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the ... The almanac is a natural byproduct of the calender and serves as ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a photon at a certain wavelength ... Fluorescence is named after the mineral fluorite, composed of calcium ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 17:45, 28 March 2024
- Filial piety is the virtue of a child to his or her parents or parental ... ) is one of the virtues to be cultivated and denotes a love and respect ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... dedicated to justice, outreach and youth. As of 2006, the Community of Christ ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- of climate, national tendencies or standard of living. He argued that a person’s ... acknowledged that an increase in the standard of living could cause population ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- or biological chemistry) is the study of chemicals and chemical processes ... Biochemists have been able to artificially produce a variety of substances ...24 KB (3,603 words) - 23:47, 11 January 2023
- their reactivity is different from that of ions of similar structure. ... == Clarification of terms == Historically, the term "radical" ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- Marie began her career as a writer in 1839. She was a friend of female ... and leave men to the more public sphere of politics and religion. She ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... work helped to usher in a higher standard of living in the United States ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- hi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit]) Retrieved December ... In order to emphasize the degeneration of society, the standard of ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Siberia a land with a better standard of living, migrated there. As ... they had recovered their original standard of living.Lee, 2000, 141. The ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- meaning, reason, proportions, principle, standard, or logic, among other things ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... first used to refer to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- eschewing the more popular genres of opera and symphonic poems. ... Brahms was a a devout student of the Bible, if unconventional in his ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
- * Increases the average standard of living. * Creates incentive to ... mentions that they had a better standard of living under Communists. ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth ... Its issues with poverty and standard of living continued to be addressed. ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- co-founded the New York Cosmos soccer team of the former North American Soccer ... The son of a distinguished Turkish diplomat, Ertegun co-founded Atlantic ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid ... On Earth, regolith is an important factor that supports living organisms ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- 29, 1947) was an American economist, one of the early American neoclassical ... social issues, and promoting healthy living and world peace, an early ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry.]] Anthropometry is the measurement of physical attributes of human beings ...14 KB (1,919 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- which argues for the equal rights of all living beings. Næss called ... adhering to an increasingly higher standard of living. There will be a profound ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
