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- Ivan Vasilievich Kireevsky (April 3, 1806 – June 23, 1856) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who, together with Aleksey Khomyakov ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 07:38, 12 March 2024
- Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of history at University of Cambridge ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-346), also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom, is generally recognized as the founder of cenobitic (communal) Christian ...11 KB (1,740 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- Arianism was a major theological movement in the Christian Roman Empire during the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. The conflict between Arianism ...25 KB (3,876 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- Polynesia (from the Greek words meaning "many islands") is a large grouping of over one thousand islands scattered over the central ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Nishida_kitaro.jpg|thumb|Nishida Kitaro]] Nishida Kitaro (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō') (1870 – 1945) was ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the spirit and body of a person in that person's afterlife, or simply with ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of the verb ειναι, "to be"; Latin, esse; German, Sein; French ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- Allah (Allah (/ˈæl.lə, ˈɑːl.lə, əˈl.lɑː/; Arabic: ٱللَّٰه, romanized: Allāh,) is the common Arabic word for God. In the ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- Quinoa ( ˈkinwɑ KEEN-wah or /ˈkinoʊə/ KEE-no-uh, Spanish quinua) is a tall South American herb, Chenopodium quinoa in the goosefoot genus ...14 KB (2,175 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to ...13 KB (1,906 words) - 22:22, 30 November 2022
- The Ghaznavid Empire was a KhorāṣānianClifford Edmund Bosworth, 2006. [http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f6/v10f608.html Ghaznavids] Encyclopaedia ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 18:52, 21 May 2024
- Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The physical processes which produce radio waves ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Leif Ericson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson) (c. 970 – c. 1020 C.E.) was a Norse explorer thought to be the first European to have landed in ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 19:05, 25 October 2022
- Antoine Arnauld, (1612 – August 8, 1694) was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician. Though his primary interests ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose of protecting ...26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
- Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava River in central Bohemia, it is home to ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A brief or factum (Latin for "act" or "deed") is a written legal document ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Life sciences Category:Food Chai [[Image:a cup of chai.JPG|thumbnail|190px|right ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- Zürich ( [ˈtsyːʁɪç] , Zürich German: Züri [ˈtsyɾi] , Zurich [zyʁiʃ] , in English generally Zurich, Zurigo [dzu'ɾiːgo] ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- Catherine Howard (between 1520 and 1525 – February 13, 1542), also called Katherine or Kathryn There are several different spellings of "Catherine ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
- category:image wanted Cornelia Johanna Arnalda ten Boom, is known to the world as Corrie ten Boom. Ten Boom was a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor ...21 KB (3,559 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- The name king Vikramaditya ( विक्रमादित्य ) is a Sanskrit tatpurusha, from विक्रम ( vikrama ) meaning "valour ...12 KB (1,714 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- category:image wanted The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School of names" or “School of semantics”) was a classical ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- Ribozyme (from ribonucleic acid enzyme) is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule that can catalyze biochemical reactions, just as as certain protein ...13 KB (1,885 words) - 20:53, 16 April 2023
- Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the nineteenth century, who discovered ...12 KB (1,930 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- Timber framing ( Fachwerk ), or half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged mortise ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 23:35, 30 April 2023
- ] Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following its fall in 1453, of the Ottoman ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- Lake Titicaca is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world, at 12,507 feet (3,812 m) above sea level, and the largest freshwater lake ...14 KB (2,293 words) - 05:37, 4 March 2023
- Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose journals, The English Review and ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- Art Nouveau (French for 'new art') is an international style of art, architecture, and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning ...15 KB (1,991 words) - 04:02, 15 August 2023
- The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom of Benin, was a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria. There ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Arapaho |image=[[Image:Black Otter ...23 KB (3,297 words) - 21:30, 11 August 2023
- Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- Philolaus (ca. 470 B.C.E. – ca. 385 B.C.E., Greek: Φιλόλαος) was a Greek Presocratic philosopher and one of the three prominent Pythagoreans ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- Anna Akhmatova ( А́нна Ахма́това , real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23, 1889 (June 11, Old Style ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 06:43, 28 July 2023
- Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (May 10, 1866 - December 28, 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer who revolutionized the arts ...13 KB (1,809 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- sites, including heritage sites from the pre-Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque periods. The Montenegrin coastal region is especially well known for its ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- Ainu (アイヌ, International Phonetic Alphabet : /ʔáınu/) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaidō, northern Honshū (Japan), the Kuril ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (柿本 人麻呂; c. 662 – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured prominently in the ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a Doctor of the Church (Latin doctor, teacher, from Latin docere, to teach) is a saint from whose writings the ...14 KB (1,860 words) - 16:32, 29 January 2024
- Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher, educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:MetCemBrunswigSphynx.jpg|thumb|300 px|Marble sphinx ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Tee-ball wity Peace Corps volunteer, Honduras.jpg|thumb|250 px|A volunteer teaches ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Diogenes Laërtius (c. 200 - 250 C.E.) was an early doxographer who compiled biographies of ancient Greek philosphers in his seminal work, Lives ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and France, with a short coastline ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican culture, noted for having the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- The term jade is applied to two different types of rock, nephrite and jadeitite, that are made up of different silicate minerals. Nephrite can ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and body. Chastity includes abstinence from sexual intimacy for the unmarried ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- Pyrotechnics is generally considered the technology of manufacturing and using fireworks, but its scope is wider and includes items for military ...6 KB (877 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of the world with a history ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- When William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and himself a Quaker, encouraged European settlers who wished to escape religious ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- Shipyards and dockyards are places that repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners, or other cargo or passenger ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- Arthur is a legendary British "king" of mythical proportions. Although his historicity is controversial, he ranks as one of the most ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
- Among Christians, Lent (known as "Great Lent" in Eastern Orthodxy) is the forty-day period prior to Easter (lasting, in Roman Catholicism ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- The Igbo, sometimes referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ethnic groups in Africa. Most Igbo speakers are based in southeastern Nigeria ...21 KB (3,253 words) - 16:00, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group-Jen| |group=Tuareg |image=[[Image:Targui.jpg|300px]] ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a cataloger or indexer selects for assigning subject headings or descriptors ...17 KB (2,446 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- Water purification is the process of removing contaminants from a raw water source. The goal is to produce water for a specific purpose with ...30 KB (4,619 words) - 23:17, 3 May 2023
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things or actions with an inner meaning the expression of Christian ideas. In a greater ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- Paradigm, (Greek:παράδειγμα (paradigma), composite from para- and the verb δείχνυμι "to show," as a whole -roughly ...16 KB (2,327 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- The Jomon period (縄文時代, Jōmon-jidai) is the period of Japanese prehistory from about 10,000 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E., during which the ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 19:45, 4 May 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:The speaking portrait.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Illustration from "The Speaking ...14 KB (1,919 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather. In temperate and polar regions, four ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 17:37, 25 January 2023
- The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, encompasses the first widespread use of technology—as humans progressed from simpler to more ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- Purine is a heterocyclic, aromatic, organic compound, consisting of a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring. Heterocyclic compounds are ...7 KB (928 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- Category:Public Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (also known as Ibn Ezra, or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- Poverty Point ( Pointe de Pauvreté ) is a prehistoric mound builder site located in the extreme northeastern corner of the present-day state ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 17:40, 9 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics {{Infobox Writing system |name=Linear A |type=Undeciphered |typedesc=(likely Syllabic ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. Yoruba constitute about 21 ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- Edward Irving was a noted Scottish clergyman generally regarded as the founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church. His followers were sometimes ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- Category:Psychologists May, Rollo [[Image:Rollo May USD Alcalá 1977.jpg|thumb|Rollo May]] Rollo May (April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994) was an ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal (earlier Gubla). The ancient city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea served ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Mexico.Tab.OlmecHead.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monument ...35 KB (5,268 words) - 00:32, 18 November 2022
- John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 2024
- Jadeite is one of the minerals recognized as the gemstone jade. The other mineral recognized as "jade" is nephrite, a green amphibole. ...7 KB (945 words) - 12:38, 6 November 2021
- Alexandre Kojève (Александр Владимирович Кожевников, Aleksandr Vladimirovič Koževnikov) (April 28, 1902 – ...23 KB (3,422 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more widely known tuba. Created in the early 1890s by J.W. Pepper at the direction ...19 KB (2,980 words) - 22:02, 24 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Sociology [[Image:RoyalMailCollectionBox20040124CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|thumb ...32 KB (4,926 words) - 05:47, 30 November 2022
- Sarnath (also Mrigadava, Migadāya, Rishipattana, Isipatana) refers to the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, and where ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 03:29, 23 December 2022
- The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, said by some to date back to the ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. It tells the story of dragon-slayer Siegfried ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- A fire extinguisher is an active fire protection device used to extinguish or control a fire, often in emergency situations. Typically, a fire ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- Category:Public John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one of the most important philosophers in American history. His ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis) located in the Leeward Islands, is an island ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- Charcoal is the blackish material consisting mainly of carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from plant matter (such ...15 KB (2,216 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeology Category:Anthropology Category:Linguistics [[Image:Egypt Hieroglyphe4.jpg|right|250px ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Comenius, John Amos [[Image:Relief Komensky.jpg|thumb|200px|Comenius on relief at school building ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- Phenomenology is, in its founder Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in which things present themselves in ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- Cubism was a twentieth century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a nineteenth-century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- Victor Witter Turner (May 28, 1920 – December 18, 1983) was a British anthropologist who studied rituals and social change and was famous for ...16 KB (2,369 words) - 20:08, 3 May 2023
- Armor is protective clothing intended to defend its wearer from intentional harm in military and other combat engagements, typically associated ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- Modern Philosophy refers to an especially vibrant period in Western European philosophy spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
