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  • century traditions. They include Neo-orthodoxy by Karl Barth in Europe, and pentecostalism and fundamentalism in America. But, they seem to have ...
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  • Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely viewed as Brazil's national musical style. The name samba probably ...
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  • Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as famous as its German ...
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  • category:image wanted Giovanni Croce (also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis) (1557 – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Golem and Loew.jpg|200px|Rabbi Loew and golem.|thumb]] ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Elias, Norbert Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 - August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist, famous for his development of Process ...
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  • Historicism is a position that holds that all knowledge and cognition are historically conditioned. It is also widely used in diverse disciplines ...
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  • Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means out of communion ...
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  • Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied the country west ...
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  • Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903) was a French Impressionist painter who was called the "Father of Impressionism" ...
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  • George Enescu (pronunciation in Romanian: /'ʤěor.ʤe e'nes.ku/ ; known in France as Georges Enesco) (August 19 1881, Liveni – May ...
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  • Broadly defined, biological evolution is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes may be slight or large, but must ...
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  • Shin Saimdang (신사임당, 1504 – 1551) was a famous Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) Korean painter and calligraphist. She also the mother of ...
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  • Beauty is commonly defined as a characteristic present in objects, such as nature, art work, and a human person, that provides a perceptual experience ...
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  • Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian language|Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor' Fëdorovič Stravinskij ...
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  • Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a writer, politician, and ...
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  • Category:Image wanted George Carl Johann Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer and pianist who was ...
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  • Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages during the twelfth century. During the Scramble for Africa in the late ...
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  • Tao or Dao (道, Pinyin: Dào, Cantonese: Dou) is a Chinese character often translated as ‘Way’ or 'Path'. Though often seen as ...
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  • Paul Hindemith (November 16, 1895 – December 28, 1963) was an outstanding twentieth-century German composer, as well as a violist, teacher ...
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  • The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement that originated in mid eighteenth century England. In the nineteenth century, increasingly serious ...
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  • Category:Economists Leontief, Wassily Wassily Leontief (August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999) has been associated with the quantitative economics ...
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  • Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari) (June 14, 1899 – April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly ...
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  • Category:Economists Hicks, John Richard Sir John Richard Hicks (April 8, 1904 – May 20, 1989) was a British economist, one of the most influential ...
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  • and Catholicism, liberalism and neo-orthodoxy, and so on. For Tillich, this position on the border was not painful or unpleasant. He perceived ...
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  • Category:Economists Malthus, Thomas Robert {{Infobox_Economist |school_tradition= Classical economics |color = #B0C4DE |image_name ...
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  • Catharsis (Latin), from the Greek Κάθαρσις Katharsis meaning "purification" or "cleansing" (also literally from the ...
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  • Lughnasadh or Lughnasa (pronounced LOO-nə-sə; Lúnasa ; Lùnastal ; Manx: Luanistyn) is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest ...
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  • Bernard Bosanquet (July 14, 1848 – February 8, 1923) was an English philosopher and an influential figure on matters of political and social ...
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  • Category:Public Pantheism (from Greek: pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious and philosophical view that everything in existence ...
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  • Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ( Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев , Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) (Alternative transliterations ...
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  • Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority by territorial conquest or by establishing economic and political domination ...
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  • Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica ( s=中药学|t=中藥學|p=Zhōngyào xué ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Skinner, B. F. [[File:B.F. Skinner.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Burrhus Frederic Skinner]] Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20 ...
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  • Category:Public Gould, Stephen Jay [[Image:Tyrannosaurus AMNH 5027.jpg|frame|250px|right]] Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002 ...
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  • Druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in Britain until ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{infobox University-Jen |name = Yale University ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Battle strike 1934.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Teamsters, armed with pipes ...
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  • The Mongol invasion of Rus' was heralded by the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223 between Subutai's reconnaissance unit and the combined ...
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  • An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's ...
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  • Valentinus (ca. 100–ca. 160) was the best known and, for a time, most successful theologian in early Christian Gnosticism. In his Alexandrian ...
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  • Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Arabic,مندائية) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic tendencies. Its adherents, known as Mandaeans ...
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  • The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo-jidai), also called the Tokugawa period, is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1867. The period ...
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  • Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth century until its declaration of independence in 1821. After capturing Constantinople ...
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  • Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name "Pavol Jozef Šafárik" (born May 13, 1795 in Kobeliarovo, Slovakia ...
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  • The English word "axiology" (Greek: axios = worth; logos = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ...
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  • Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development of philosophy from around the sixth century B.C.E. to the sixth century ...
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  • The Book of Revelation, also called Revelation to John or Apocalypse of John, is the last canonical book of the New Testament in the Christian ...
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  • Federico Fellini or Frederico Rimini-Fellini, as his contemporaries referred to him, (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was one of the most ...
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  • The Modern Jazz Quartet (also known as the MJQ) was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson (vibraphone), John Lewis (piano, musical director), Percy ...
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  • Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral relativism, and ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Horney, Karen [[Image:Karen_Horney_1938.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Karen Horney]] Karen Horney (September 16, 1885, – December ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:crematorium.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery ...
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  • Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement ...
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  • Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history ...
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  • Belly dance ( رقص شرقي|Raqs sharqi|oriental dance ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and torso. The Egyptian ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005), was an Austrian-Jewish architectural ...
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  • Ernst Troeltsch (February 17, 1865 – February 1, 1923) was a German Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology {{Infobox WS |name=Cuneiform ...
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  • The Five Classics ( t=五經|p=Wǔjīng ) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books that makes up part of the basic canon of the Confucian school ...
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  • Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that originated with Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 – 1914) (who first stated the pragmatic maxim) and ...
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  • Étienne Gilson (June 13, 1884 – September 19, 1978) was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and historian. He is seen as one of the ...
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  • The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance and advice to countries for the purposes ...
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  • Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens. Born in Damascus about 460 C.E., he studied rhetoric ...
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  • Mani (c.216–274 A.D.) was an Iranian religious prophet and preacher who founded Manichaeism, an ancient dualistic religion that was once prolific ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in the field of political ...
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  • The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the world's oldest and most complex civilizations covering a history of over ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Atonality describes music that does not use a tonal center or key. It applies to music that does not conform to the system ...
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  • Jakob Friedrich Fries (August 23, 1773 – August 10, 1843) was a German philosopher in the Kantian tradition. Unlike Immanuel Kant’s immediate ...
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  • Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous Korean religion, one that had enormous impact on the unfolding of ...
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  • Henry Habberley Price (May 17, 1899 – November 26, 1984) was a British philosopher and logician, known for his work on perception and thinking ...
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  • category:image wanted Thomas Hill Green (April 7, 1836 – March 26, 1882) was an English philosopher and brought idealism into England. Green ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Service, Elman Rogers Elman Rogers Service (May 18, 1915 – November 14, 1996 ...
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  • A dreamcatcher is a sacred Native American object that consists of a ring of red willow, or other similarly common and pliable bark, held together ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.png|right]] Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (January 27, 1775 - August 20 ...
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  • Edward Caird (March 23, 1835 – November 1, 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in Britain. He was one of ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Mannheim, Karl Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893 – January 9, 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding ...
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  • When a celestial object is in an elliptical orbit around another body, an apsis (plural apsides) is a point on the orbit at greatest or least ...
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  • Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany – February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's ...
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  • A candle (from the Latin word candere, meaning "to shine") is a light source that usually has an internal wick rising through the center ...
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  • The Juche Ideology (Juche Sasang 주체사상 in Korean; or Chuch'e; approximately, "joo-chey") is the official state ideology ...
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  • In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia, Anu (also An—from Sumerian An = sky, heaven) was a sky-god and the ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873, - December 30, 1962) was an influential American intellectual historian and philosopher ...
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  • The ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that means life or living. Ancient Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop ...
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  • Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế province, Vietnam, had been the imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty between ...
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  • Aaron Temkin Beck (July 18, 1921 November 1, 2021) was an American psychiatrist, regarded as the father of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Category:Biography Category:Economists Robinson, Joan Joan Violet Robinson, née Maurice (October 31, 1903 – August 5 ...
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  • Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism ...
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  • Sinocentrism (中華思想) is any ethnocentric political ideology that regards China to be central or unique relative to other countries. ...
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  • The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written ...
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  • Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz ...
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  • The Chinese Rites controversy (ca. 1630-1715 C.E.) was a dispute within the Roman Catholic Church about whether certain elements of Chinese folk ...
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  • Robert Adam (July 3, 1728 – March 3, 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer, and furniture designer. He is famous for ...
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  • Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed countries' involvement in the developing world. Critics of neocolonialism ...
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  • The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis) are considered one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World ...
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  • Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In the post ...
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  • The Mariinsky Theater ( Мариинский театр , also spelled Maryinsky Theater) is a historic theater of opera and ballet in St Petersburg ...
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  • The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; דרוזים , Druzim; also transliterated Druz or Druse) are a Middle ...
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  • category:image wanted Sargon I, also known as Sargon of Akkad or Sargon the Great (Akkadian: Šarukinu, "the true king") (reigned 2334 ...
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