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- 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
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers. He considered himself ... Henry Morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrhymny ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- philosopher, and economist. In light of the ideological struggles in ... Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox priest in the ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the early chapters of the book, Hosea marries the unfaithful "woman ...12 KB (1,912 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ... In addition to the general importance of the text for Christian and ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He attended ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- a leading figure in the study of human fossils. A strong supporter ... 5, 1866 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the sixth of 10 children to John Keith and ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 11:11, 16 August 2023
- 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
- 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
- the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated ... an illuminated manuscript was also a time of religious devotion and prayer; ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- as a practicing physician his entire life. In his early writings, Williams ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely ... From its original Hebrew, The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... The author of Chronicles, termed "the Chronicler," may also ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- poetry belonging to the confessional school of poets in the style of other ... and precise wording that covered a spectrum of feelings that many people can ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived ... identified as wisdom literature, consists of a loosely-organized collection ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian ... 5, 1817 in Paris, France, into a family of Huguenot descent. His father ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ... represented a class of devotional manuals popular among medieval Catholic ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] Common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... worldwide. An thought provoking aspect of his literary legacy is that ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes ... in central Russia. He came from a long line of landed gentry and serf owners ...7 KB (1,081 words) - 06:34, 11 March 2024
- accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows ... five years later, in 1834. Various forms of concertina are used for classical ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... The book has two distinct parts: a series of six narratives (chapters ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, ... to be dated to "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical ... Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. He was seemingly preordained ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 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
- Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely ... The Apostles' Creed was esteemed as an example of the apostles ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, ... Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Book of Revelation, as well as ... refers to the stereotypical depictions of cherubim in western art. As ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B.C.E.–283 ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American poetry, ... may have gone unnoticed, ironically, because of his even greater talents in ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- ; literary "four books") or The Four Books of Confucianism ... classical Confucian texts and a point of reference for the Neo-Confucian ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- was a popular and prolific British author of children's books. Blyton ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ... During this time, Coulomb submitted some of his first work to the Society ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- and economist. Best known as the father of the influential economist John ... == Life == John Neville Keynes was born on August 31, 1852, in Salisbury ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, little is known of ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, is considered one of the three founders of Dvaita ... 1486-1498 C.E., before moving, at the behest of the king and ministers, to ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics ... in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he and his younger sister ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 08:52, 18 March 2024
- and physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded ... Le Bon's thesis that the behavior of crowds was based on emotion ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 12:46, 24 January 2023
- The Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather ... Released the second Tuesday in September of the year prior to the ...19 KB (2,821 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- An audiobook is an audio recording of a book, speech, or any form ... a synonym for audiobooks when the majority of audiobooks (then called "spoken ...17 KB (2,579 words) - 18:27, 21 August 2023
- and cooking technique into the kitchens of American families everywhere. for her 1961 cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking as well as for ...12 KB (1,819 words) - 09:26, 12 May 2024
- Pope Saint Alexander I was the bishop of Rome for seven to ten years ... longer lists him as a martyr, as his cause of death cannot be historically ...6 KB (917 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution ... British society in his day, the "Rule of Law" cannot be absolute ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398 C.E.), the founder of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ... military treatise that outlined the use of Chinese military technology ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- the Lynds pioneered applying the methods of cultural anthropology to the ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera. His nineteenth ... considered him amongst the greatest virtuosi of his period. In his youth Beer ...9 KB (1,303 words) - 18:53, 21 May 2024
- The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible ... The Book of Job has been called the most difficult book of the Bible ...21 KB (3,491 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- (1364 – 1430) was a writer and analyst of the Medieval era, who strongly ... 74). Her success stems from a wide range of innovative writing and rhetorical ...13 KB (2,108 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... the Ketuvim (Writings) as the second last book of the Bible, and the latter ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- would quickly renounce these views in favor of a life-long, if sometimes cynical ... lived a comfortable, if not privileged, life. Annual family trips to Europe ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- University, he studied the cultures of Southeast Asia and North Africa ... California in 1926. He was the editor of his high school newspaper and ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of ... According to the New Testament, John came from a family of fisherman ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- among Japanese intellectuals. As a scholar of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied ... == Life == Watsuji Tetsuro was born in 1889 in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- science. Although he was a close confidant of the Lake School of Poets, and ... not just for their preoccupation with some of the seedier issues of London ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- philosopher, and biographer whose use of dialectical philosophy, emphasizing ... Strauss was one of the first to make a clear distinction between Jesus ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 07:54, 28 January 2024
- ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ... refers to scriptural texts that fall outside of the Biblical canon. However ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was an Irish ... Bede's meticulous and detailed account of Saint Aidan's ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- the founder and first General (1878-1912) of The Salvation Army. Originally ... Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, England, the only son of four ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 6 May 2023
- chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- themes from the spiritual tradition of Judaism. Malamud's stories ... schoolhood friends. He was especially fond of Charlie Chaplin's comedies ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest twentieth-century ... and her meticulous precision in her choice of just the right words and images ...8 KB (1,277 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- who made major contributions to the field of organic chemistry and was awarded ... Baeyer was born on October 31, 1835, in Berlin, the son of Johann ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- was a Greek Presocratic philosopher and one of the three prominent Pythagoreans ... that the Earth was not the stationary center of the cosmos, but moved around ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- and writer who is considered to be one of the most important writers ... Among the African-American writers of his time, Ellison stands out ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- 13, 1896) was a German organic chemist. One of the most prominent organic ... Kekulé was born in Darmstadt, Germany, the son of a civil servant ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology ... Although controversial in its comparison of Christianity to other ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- 1851 – July 22, 1926) was an early member of the Austrian School of economics ... Wieser was born in Vienna, Austria on July 10, 1851. He was the son ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 03:17, 1 December 2023
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Given the lack of historical details present in the text itself, scholars ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, ... Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- ) - February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of ... Sholokhov was born in the Kamenskaya region of Russia, in the "land ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 04:04, 25 March 2023
- by Herbert Spencer's application of the evolution theory of Charles ... American history, promoting the concept of the United States as the climax ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- clergyman generally regarded as the founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church ... Irving is sometimes referred to as a forerunner of the Charismatic ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... Catholic Spark reacted by accusing him of seeking publicity to further ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- and scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy," he was born ... Agricola was born 1494, as the second of seven children of a Tuchmacher ...7 KB (1,117 words) - 16:42, 21 May 2024
- The New Testament is the name given to the second and final portion ... collected into a single volume over a period of several centuries. They consist ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose ... The purpose of Jikji was to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen ...14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
- (November 26, 1731 – April 25, 1800) Date of birth is given in New Style ... In addition to being renowned as one of the greatest nature poets ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years ... mother, née Alice Nimmo, was the daughter of Scottish immigrants and their ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and ... Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna Radin. His ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- in 1962 with his idealized, lyrical book about the Mbuti Pygmies, The ... was known to point out admirable qualities of various disadvantaged people ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p ... and can also be seen as a process of transformation. The concept ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- an Italian-born British librarian and a man of letters. He was exiled from ... best remembered for his role in the design of the Circular Reading Room within ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- 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
- and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... Sagan also wrote a bestselling book supporting the Cosmos series and ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
