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- writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual ... not only among his immediate circle of friends and disciples (many ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra ... The aim of the Académie Royale de Danse was to reestablish the perfection ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 18 November 2022
- #039; to spread Gnostic teachings. Author of over 60 books, Samael Aun Weor ... sexual practices as the highest form of religious devotion and articulated ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- as a score—that is based on accomplishment of tasks set within the game. ... However, with the popular use of the term "video game," ...26 KB (4,049 words) - 20:12, 3 May 2023
- 1822 – December 10, 1909) was a war leader of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). ... One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States ...13 KB (2,097 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- 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
- or Tengrianizm) was the major belief of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic ... The other deities were Umai (a life-giving deity), Erlik (god of the ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- who created the McGuffey Readers, one of America's first textbook ... on religion and a belief in the value of education. In 1802, the family ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- in the earliest-known religious system of the Han Chinese people. The ... seemingly understood as a composite ancestor of the ruling dynasty. From the ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- Nichiren (日蓮), was a Buddhist monk of thirteenth century Japan. A ... Nichiren’s ideal of establishing a Buddhist ideal land on earth ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...14 KB (2,044 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- )—a city of the Indus Valley Civilization built around 2600 B.C ... The discovery of Mohenjo-daro led to tremendous excitement in the ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu philosophy. Dvaita is ... Little is known about the actual life of Shri Madhvacharya, save for ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- the American Revolutionary War. Hale is best remembered for his "I ... Widely considered America's first spy, a copy of Frederick MacMonnies ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2022
- or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- born American Academy Award-winning actress of film and theater whose versatility ... World War II, Colbert embodied the ideal of the independent, resourceful ...28 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound ... great-uncle's family in the small town of Villars, in Burgundy. There ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology to aid ... important technology within the scope of computer-aided technologies ...14 KB (2,113 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- recognized it as an important component of art and aesthetics. However ... the highest value, which exist independently of and transcend the phenomenal ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists ... However, he believed that the main point of The Jungle was lost on ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- and inventor who foresaw the possibility of space travel and launched the ... Robert Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the only child ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- sins: a complete disregard for the tradition of hospitality and an aggressive ... by the Jordan River, "like the garden of the LORD." (Gen. 13:10 ...14 KB (2,337 words) - 22:02, 30 January 2023
- The linga (also known as "Lingam") is the primary symbol ... (representing Shakti), the vulvular symbol of female creative energy. Although ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 23:15, 18 April 2020
- Prize-winning Turkish novelist and professor of comparative literature at Columbia ... Pamuk is one of Turkey's most prominent novelists, ...30 KB (4,557 words) - 10:43, 11 March 2023
- 29, 1618) is famed as a writer and poet. One of the last true "Renaissance ... primarily for his poems, yet only 560 lines of his verse remain. He is not ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:28, 3 May 2023
- speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility ... Lem was born in 1921 in Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine). He was the son ...29 KB (4,415 words) - 15:49, 27 April 2023
- played a decisive role in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. New Orleans jazz, with its spontaneous use of improvisation in a small band ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- with George Harrison lead guitarist of The Beatles. Together with ... he rejected the drug abuse and other aspects of the hippie culture, remaining ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- progressive educator, author, and founder of Summerhill School. He is best ... for students to govern themselves requires of them considerable moral responsibility ...15 KB (2,308 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism ... Buddhism, reasserting the importance of repentance and internal enlightenment ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- Tengri is the supreme god of the old Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar ... Tengri is a probable precursor of the Chinese deity Tian, which became ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- Tītânes) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary ... the Titans in the Titanomachy ('War of the Titans'). The Titans ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan), refers to a ritual drink of importance ... qualities. In the Avesta scripture of Zoroastrianism, Haoma has an ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the nineteenth century. He ... William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- with special effects. With the advent of computer graphics imaging, ... environment. These rides include the use of moving chairs and added scents ...30 KB (4,494 words) - 19:11, 7 February 2023
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- As a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded on ... Many of Kepler's writings reflect his deep desire to understand ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- 1565) was a Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; ... he lived out his life in the context of what many regarded as permanent ...33 KB (5,326 words) - 18:45, 6 November 2022
- Cotton can refer to members of the genus Gossypium of flowering plants ... Since ancient times, some species of cotton plants have been cultivated ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics promulgated ... The Hasidic movement, which is a subset of Haredi Judaism, is less focused ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- the most well-known North American Native of his generation, meeting and ... spent attempting to rectify the injustice of the Iroquois lands being handed ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences) (1907). The ... The experience of déjà vu seems to be quite common among adults ...17 KB (2,710 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- philosopher. He is widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague ... The Maharal is famously associated with the legend of the golem, in ...15 KB (2,356 words) - 08:30, 12 May 2024
- Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus ... endangered in the wild. As a result of its preservation and reintroduction ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- a collaboration which led also to the film of the same name; and as a host ... February 16, 2009., and became the chairman of the British Interplanetary ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also ... least the eighth century, with some evidence of its existence in pre-Islamic ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
- diverse explanations about the structure of the universe that open the ... special intention or plan for the appearance of humans in the universe, and ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... Folk rock had antecedents in the labor movement of the 1930s, notably ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- Canonization is the process of posthumously declaring someone to be ... The practice of Canonization is currently practiced by the Roman Catholic ...17 KB (2,634 words) - 19:27, 25 November 2023
- thirsty and ferocious deity; yet, in spite of her seemingly terrifying form ... Kali is said to have emanated from the brow of the goddess Durga. The text ...16 KB (2,597 words) - 17:12, 14 May 2024
- Swan is any of various large, long-necked water birds of the family ... The swan is one of the largest, fastest swimming, and fastest flying ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- The Mongol invasion of Rus' was heralded by the Battle of the ... The rise of Moscow as the successor state to the one centered in Kiev ...16 KB (2,408 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers ... by his high-pitched voice, mastery of several blues sub-genres, and ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... Cambridge Magazine with his own funds. Many of his later collection of poems ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- type is the returning boomerang, a kind of throwing stick that, when thrown ... have also been used by various other peoples of the world. Boomerangs can be ...18 KB (2,904 words) - 19:33, 20 November 2023
- - October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... the actual world was in fact the best of all possible worlds (see Leibniz& ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was a student ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- Iraq. He founded the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt, Syria, Yemen (except ... which translates to "The Righteousness of the Faith" from Arabic ...16 KB (2,458 words) - 00:59, 23 December 2022
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown ... The museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... up to the task and worried about the amount of luggage she would carry. In ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... the preferred term by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and that the word ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- cartoons for frescoes in the new Palace of Westminster (1843), and which ... A cartoon is a form of expression, or communication, that refers to ...17 KB (2,492 words) - 00:46, 29 November 2023
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is ... Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological movement ... guide each person to understand the meaning of human life in all its contexts ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- 1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It was one of the most destructive and deadly ... for the best in this, "the best of all possible worlds," a world ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained ... ==Usage of the term "engine"== Originally, an engine was ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of ... Welles was born in 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the second son of ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- The First Council of Constantinople (381), also known as the Second ... Although the council represented the triumph of Nicene orthodoxy over ...21 KB (3,217 words) - 17:20, 28 March 2024
- The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary ... One component of the text that has received extensive scholarly attention ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- spelled Halacha) is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including ... Halakha. Reflecting the cultural diversity of Jewish communities, slightly ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- regarded as the most influential filmmaker of the post-war Soviet era in ... Tarkovsky, son of the prominent poet Arseny Tarkovsky, was a product ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- Architecture Since 1922" at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1932, marking ... In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity of the Zoroastrian faith, which ... Ahura Mazda thus represents what some lines of evidence suggest to ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 16:30, 30 December 2021
- Canada. Their name derives from their use of hemp, meaning "hemp gatherers ... other than violence, the southern group of Tuscarora enlisted the help ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 00:36, 3 May 2023
- public. Beyond recreation, other functions of zoos include research, education ... observing nature and have a role as stewards of creation, have, in the ideal ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost figures in world ... with the social and psychological anomie of modern life than were many ...30 KB (4,821 words) - 06:22, 6 May 2024
- ), a sub-school of the Vedānta (literally, end or the goal of the ... as major sub-schools of Vedānta. Advaita (literally, non-duality ...19 KB (2,943 words) - 06:21, 15 June 2023
- such as the Trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- 1860 - October 23, 1946) was born in England of Scottish parents. He was raised ... He was founder of the Woodcraft Indians and one of the founding pioneers ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- is applied to the edible, cylindrical fruit of this plant. In advancing their own individual purpose of continuation as a species ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 06:43, 11 January 2024
- and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age of William Shakespeare and proved ... Jonson was undoubtedly one of the most well-read men in the England ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- was an English soldier and seaman, and one of the most colorful and important ... Unlike the founding of the Plymouth colony by religious dissenters ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 04:04, 3 May 2024
- she changed the public's perception of people with disabilities. She ... true value comes from the height and depth of her mind. ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 08:35, 21 January 2024
- to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ... Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki (he ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the ... position to lobby for international control of atomic energy and to avert ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- Anthony Trollope ( April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882 ) became one ... Baretshire is focused on the inner workings of an imaginary cathedral ...17 KB (2,461 words) - 05:26, 31 July 2023
- poet, critic, theologian. He is best known for his influence on ... to philosophy and criticized his lack of understanding about the role ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The Yaranga, ... to suit the needs and environment of its inhabitants. Traditional ...18 KB (2,825 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential poets ... Auden was a poet of prodigious talent and output, living at a time ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- 1877) was a French painter whose portrayals of peasants and scenes of everyday ... Following the Revolution of 1848, his representation of contemporary ...18 KB (2,723 words) - 01:44, 27 July 2023
- directors owing to his innovative use of montage. and waned over the years, and the merit of his films and the value of ...36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
- The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family ... instrument for composers from the time of its invention. ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- His systematized and refined the cosmologies of Plotinus and Iamblichus, and ... Proclus’ greatest concern was the elevation of the human soul to ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 23:05, 30 November 2022
- Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kaptan ... A series of smaller victories followed over French and Spanish adversaries ...38 KB (6,070 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2022
- 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
