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- situated in the vestibulum in the inner ear (Figure 1). ... [[Image:Vestibular_PushPull.svg|thumb|right|300px|Figure 2: Push-pull ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 20:01, 16 February 2021
- as the first century C.E.B. Caron, 1993, A Roman Figure-Engraved Glass Bowl. Metropolitan Museum Journal 28:47-55. It continued into the fourth century ...11 KB (1,710 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- == The Historical figure == Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric (968–1057), Earl of Mercia. Her name occurs in charters and the Domesday survey ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- As with many Greek deities, Poseidon was depicted as a lascivious ... and his status as a relatively uncommon figure in extant Greek mythology ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- in the English language, and a seminal figure in the history of eighteenth ... Whigs and Tories could see Cato as a noble figure: The Whigs admiring his noble ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 17:44, 6 May 2024
- Bhindranwale has remained a controversial figure in Indian history. Some view ... #039;s son who has now become a prominent figure within Sikh politics. Some ...16 KB (2,278 words) - 22:08, 8 February 2023
- man from clay. They each walked around the figure seven times, reciting a kabbalistic ... life from the golem by walking around the figure seven times again, repeating ...15 KB (2,356 words) - 08:30, 12 May 2024
- important poet, a major transitional figure from early high Modernism ... reflecting the hours of the day and the figure of the poet's father ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- of Catholic thought, Molina was a leading figure in the sixteenth-century ... Molina was a leading figure in the sixteenth-century revival of scholasticism ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- as in the Theogony. Written above this figure (a convention in Greek vase ... as to Pandora's evolution as a mythic figure. In classical scholarship ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- of Electron Dot Notation are shown in the figure on the right. An alternative ... between the carbon atoms (as shown in the figure). Each structure, if taken ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 06:13, 11 January 2024
- Lucrezia Borgia (April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance figure who later became Pope Alexander ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- particularly in his role as a trickster figure. He is found, for example ... this world. In Ayyavazhi, the Satan-like figure, Kroni is a ravenous demon ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- exiled to Babylon. It revolves around the figure of Daniel, an Israelite who ... Nebuchadnezzar sees them and a fourth figure walking unharmed in the furnace ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- Condorcet was a key figure in the transformation of society from its ... and Condorcet's role as a central figure in the Enlightenment. However ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- The legendary Vikramaditya is a popular figure in both Sanskrit and ... " Shalivahana is a legendary figure in Indian history, the king ...12 KB (1,714 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- March 29, 2007. Smith was a popular figure with the Surrealists in the ... be beyond his abilities. He was a popular figure in Brazil, appearing on talk ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned figure throughout the Graeco-Roman ... the size of the sun, however, he reached a figure larger and more accurate ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- to Palestine in 1923. He became a leading figure in the Zionist intellectual ... Gershom Scholem stands out as the seminal figure in modern and contemporary ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- established Jesus as a historical Jewish figure, and the Gospels as part ... Jesus was a profoundly Jewish historical figure. The “Christ” of Christianity ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- school system, immediately made him a figure of controversy. ... authority, but he was no longer a central figure in the city's politics ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- quarreled, but he remained an influential figure, especially in the development ... For the next six years Bogdanov was a major figure among the Bolsheviks ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- Doctor of the Church. Bede is a seminal figure in the history of English ... be considered as an important scientific figure. He wrote several major works: ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- Israel, as well as the most mentioned figure in the Hebrew Bible. He is ... == David as a religious figure == === David in Judaism === ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- and citizens credit him being a key figure to start the momentum for ... given credit for being the first public figure to speak out firmly against ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- excellence. The poetry of Su Shih, the figure painting of Li Kung-lin, ... who had died in 1079, was also a key figure through his art and his influence ...19 KB (3,202 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- When she became a prominent national figure, her enemies falsely characterized ... Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent Protestant figure (who was a supporter of female ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 06:00, 8 May 2020
- major figures (some would argue the major figure, even greater than Shakespeare ... I, the Knight of Holiness encounters the figure of Despair, and escapes only ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- of a man from clay. They each walked around the figure seven times, reciting a Kabbalistic formula, and the golem was brought to life. The golem appeared ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- Vertex figure For every vertex one can define a vertex figure consisting of the ...42 KB (6,082 words) - 00:20, 12 April 2023
- Figure 1 is an animation of the classic illustration of Coriolis force ... and three examples of this result are plotted in Figure 4. ...54 KB (8,553 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- works which convincingly placed the human figure in contemporary environments. ... draftsmanship and obsession with the figure, the pictures created in ...13 KB (1,878 words) - 18:10, 12 February 2024
- extraordinary revival. She is a dominant figure in the movement within literary theory known as Cultural Studies, where she is studied both as ...12 KB (1,861 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in Germany. As a renowned composer ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- Sturluson has almost become a mythological figure in his own right, nearly ... faced hardship, they began to venerate the figure as more than just a man. ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- McDougall has been adopted as an iconic figure by proponents of a strong influence of inherited traits on behavior, some of whom are regarded ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- Normandy seacoast—the reappearance of the human figure. He painted many still life subjects during this time, maintaining his emphasis on structure ...6 KB (896 words) - 15:12, 21 May 2024
- along a space diagonal, such that it becomes a 2D figure, equivalent to a regular hexagon divided via its own diagonals into six equilateral triangles ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- and was Japan's first great literary figure. Hitomaro lived and wrote ... Hitomaro was Japan's first great literary figure. Very little ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- Possibly the most idolized woman artist of her time, she is a figure ... them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the ...18 KB (2,754 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- [[File:Oedipus and the Sphinx of Thebes, Red Figure Kylix, c. 470 ... as a liminal or "threshold" figure, helping effect the transition ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- in English up to his time, became a public figure of tremendous fame and influence; ... By now, Johnson was a celebrated figure. He received an honorary ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- in Europe. As a "classical" figure for whom nudity was her natural ... discovered a statuette of a female figure in Lower Austria during the ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- One prominent theory suggests that the Krishna figure originated with the combination of two deities: Krishna-Gopala and Vasudeva-Krishna. Krishna ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- and instrumental pieces made him a musical figure known for his mature character and his gratifyingly productive life. Within his lifespan, Gabrieli ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- Bérenger is a semi-autobiographical figure expressing Ionesco's wonderment and anguish at the strangeness of reality. He is comically naïve ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- horizon disappears beyond the sky and behold the figure one. … It is good for those beginning to sit in meditation, when they find their mind distracted ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- curved figures, a triangle on a negatively curved figure ("saddle") will have its angles add up to less than 180° while a triangle on a positively ...19 KB (3,068 words) - 16:46, 2 May 2023
- her importance as a New Woman and figure of resistance to dominant ... recognition as an important Canadian figure, a number of biographers ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- The prophet Habakkuk is a largely enigmatic figure, discernible only ... and doctrinal rulings, the historical figure of Habakkuk has, in and of ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- military commander, powerful lord, and a leading figure in the politics of his era. The acknowledged but illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, Borgia ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- Mahavira (599 – 527 B.C.E.) (meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- followed the work of his elders and produced figure prints of girls, actors, and samurai, or warriors. The second stage was his first landscape period ...13 KB (2,024 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2024
- herself, she was a significant literary figure who influenced literary tastes ... were large and striking eyes and a buxom figure. She was, however, ...18 KB (2,968 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- For example, see Figure 5 in the [http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/nat_Fak_IV/Organische_Chemie/Didaktik/Keusch/cassy_pa_hwz-e.htm link ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 16:04, 3 August 2023
- status in Homer and to become almost a comic figure. Burkert, 132. ... of a pre-Greek "great goddess" figure, comparable to the powerful ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- in the life of a prominent intellectual figure. His thoughts provided an alternative vision, as opposed to communism, for the integration of ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- in 1932, who became a distinguished figure in the philosophy of mathematics. ... from 1927–1973. He was a central figure in its department of social ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- Samuel C. Blackwell, married another important figure in women's rights, Antoinette Brown. ==Medical school== Blackwell traveled to Kentucky ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- shown naval officers and recruits; the authority figure was perceived to be less distorted. This shows that the mental attitude of the observer to ...7 KB (1,155 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- David and the other psalmists. No Hebrew figure ever descended into Sheol ... with various bones strewn about, and one figure still tied up in chains who ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- and ruled that in cases where a public figure was libeled the burden of ... which are claimed to defame a public figure is now Reynolds v. Times ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- of an object, deity or sacred figure or event. Originally, in ... shows the artist as "a world-historic figure" and "Christianity ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was a major U.S. political figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- A founding figure of modern jazz, or bebop, Parker's innovative ... for the Beat generation, and was a pivotal figure in the evolving conception ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being ... yeti has remained an iconic and legendary figure. The yeti is seen in pop ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- #039;s approach was to establish a geometric figure for a building or room, then articulate this figure by means of geometric subunits. The fundamental ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 06:44, 1 April 2024
- was the mayor of the city, and the important figure in local politics. His younger brother Georg Curtius was a famous philologist. ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- [[File:Enneagram integration.JPG|thumb|250px|The Enneagram Figure]] ... gramma (something written or drawn). The figure can also be called an "enneagon ...32 KB (4,685 words) - 14:39, 29 September 2023
- in 1977. Makarios remains a controversial figure, although he is widely regarded ... with enthusiasm and became a very popular figure among Greek Cypriots. He ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- as being at least as much a legendary figure as an historical person. ... is sometimes seen as a type of Ishtar figure rewritten into Israelite ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- of the face itself. Where a two dimensional figure can appear to follow the viewers movements, the hollow face actually appears to swivel. ...7 KB (1,100 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- priest, professor, or any other authority figure. It represents insight, wisdom ... forms (mandalas) or by the quaternity (a figure with four parts). Prominent ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- the most dominant and influential figure in jazz history. With his ... had transcended music to become an iconic figure in American popular culture. ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- President, Floride Calhoun was a central figure in the Petticoat Affair. ... history made him a highly controversial figure. On the other hand his original ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- that violate the divine order, yet heroic figure surmounts obstacles and injustice ... also known as Iocaste. Oedipus was a figure from Greek mythology who ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- empire combined to make him an admirable figure who struggled diligently ... empire combined to render him an admirable figure who struggled diligently ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- historically uncertain, consequently his figure has been developed into more ... According to some variations of the legend, Saint Nicholas' figure ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- The "waggle dance" is the name given to a particular figure ... This involves running through a small figure-eight pattern: a waggle run ...15 KB (2,290 words) - 10:47, 28 February 2023
- Renaissance, crucifix show an optimistic figure of Christ with lowered eyes ... Jesus was nothing less than an optimistic figure, standing in stark contrast ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- author, Erewhon made Butler a well-known figure, more because of this speculation ... the anonymous author was some better-known figure (the favorite being Lord ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- and modesty made him a respected public figure in his lifetime. ... helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery, noble outlaw. ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- is now believed to be a significant figure in the decades leading up ... fame that Desiderius Erasmus, the foremost figure in the northern European ...13 KB (2,070 words) - 07:50, 3 August 2022
- Stability attracted foreign investment and he was an influential figure ... Kenyatta was a controversial figure. He is accused by his critics ...13 KB (1,915 words) - 19:43, 4 May 2024
- Indus Valley Civilization seal showing a figure seated in a yoga-like posture ... seal depicting an ithyphallic male figure with horns sitting in a yogic ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 23:15, 18 April 2020
- Frost has always been a difficult figure to categorize in American ... writes in his aphoristic essay, "The Figure a Poem Makes," ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- drummer of the swing era and the transitional figure between classic and modern jazz drumming. In contrast to his contemporary, drummer Gene Krupa ...6 KB (967 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
- finest elegiac poet. Baratynsky was a leading figure in the rise of Russian poetry, known as the "Golden Age of Russian Poetry," that included ...7 KB (1,089 words) - 18:40, 31 May 2022
- #039;s dictatorial regime through the figure of Juan Facundo Quiroga, ... the power held by an authoritarian figure, thus using the specific ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 15:31, 5 July 2023
- m long, although the dimensions of each figure varies. The Hummingbird is ... In 2020, the figure of a cat was discovered on a hillside overlooking ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:59, 11 November 2022
- He also admired another great intellectual figure of the time, Jean-Jacques ... Joseph Johnson, a publisher and prominent figure in radical British political ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- attached to the silicon atoms (see the figure showing the structure of ... oil (see the structure shown in the figure). The second largest group ...15 KB (2,090 words) - 22:06, 29 January 2023
- expression, the monumentality of the half-figure composition, and the subtle ... expressed this view by describing the figure in the painting as a kind ...32 KB (4,849 words) - 15:32, 25 May 2023
- of nine years and eight months by Manetho. This figure is affirmed by a year 8 stela from his reign in Nubia. Thutmose IV was once thought to have enjoyed ...7 KB (1,124 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- applies only to the least significant figure of x. For instance, 1.00794(7) stands for 1.00794 ± 0.00007. Often, the uncertainty of a measurement ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- in Greek philosophy. He was an enigmatic figure with multiple faces as a poet, medical doctor, preacher, mystic, magician, prophet, and a political ...8 KB (1,150 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- sense of depth. The background and object (or figure) planes interpenetrate one another to create the ambiguous shallow space characteristic of cubism ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- Another major figure in limnology is George Evelyn Hutchinson (1903-1991), a British-American zoologist who is known for his studies of freshwater ...8 KB (1,108 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian that spread widely in Europe in the thirteenth century and became a fixture of Christian ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- the atomic masses of many elements to six-figure accuracy. Gravimetry provides very little room for instrumental error and does not require a ...8 KB (1,266 words) - 19:27, 20 January 2023
