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  • al-mu`tazilah) is a theological school of thought within Islam originating ... The Mu'tazili school of thought had a wide influence on early ...
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  • reverence for Mother nature, and worship of the Goddess. The movement received ... claimed that Wicca had secretly existed for thousands of years, originating ...
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  • , in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body—has more general ... thought. Here lies the attractiveness of monism, which subsumes all ...
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  • to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute the ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...
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  • Digital audio has emerged because of its usefulness in the recording ... ==Overview of digital audio== === Going from analog to digital === ...
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  • Meyerhold's mugshot, taken at the time of his arrest by Soviet police]] in unconventional theater made him one of the seminal forces in modern ...
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  • philosopher, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, is well-known for ... Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle ...
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  • to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which ... Neijia styles teach awareness of the spirit, mind, chi (breath), and ...
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  • view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...
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  • Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school ... Subsequent Neoplatonic philosophers include Hypatia of Alexandria ...
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  • Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... the second period spans the lifetimes of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; ...
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  • The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the ... " emphasizing the participatory aspect of the web as opposed to the web ...
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  • the Tang dynasty. Liu Zongyuan was a master of the free and simple guwen prose ... government. He supported the reform efforts of Emperor Shunzong, fell into ...
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  • Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based ... The movement is generally traced to Alexandria in the first centuries ...
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  • Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications ... Knowledge can be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives ...
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  • poet and painter who is considered one of the founding members of the ... had drifted astray from the fundamental principles of artistic integrity that ...
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  • The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...
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  • Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, ... mythology and the major belief systems of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism ...
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  • ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... E., making him a candidate to be the founder of the earliest religion based ...
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  • Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate ... to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) ...
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  • pedagogy emphasized the importance of an environment that supports ... Montessori saw psychological development proceeding through a sequence ...
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  • from and within the contexts and history of Christianity. While Ethics ... Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Roman ...
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  • writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...
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  • which argues for the equal rights of all living beings. Næss called ... and Christianity's Saint Francis of Assisi, whose views include ...
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  • Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ... While disasters are by definition tragic, resulting in great loss ...
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  • parties in relation to the devolution of power to Northern Ireland. ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...
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  • Natural theology is a branch of theology, which attempts to establish ... The existence of God and the immortality of the soul are but a few ...
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  • right|thumb|Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.]] in large cities due to the rapid influx of large numbers of people, Howard ...
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  • (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the ... game became apparent at the beginning of the twentieth century with ...
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  • formal training in how to teach the subjects of their expertise. In fact, many ... to qualify a person as a teacher: knowledge of the subject matter to be taught ...
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  • Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand ... Sima Qian’s style of writing was easy to read, full of humor and ...
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  • Alain de Lille (älăN' də lēl) , (Also called Alain of Lille ... which took place during the second half of the twelfth century. His philosophy ...
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  • )), mid-2800s B.C.E., was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns ... Fu Xi was born on the lower-middle reaches of the Yellow River in ...
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  • The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century, even ...
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  • that creates money and enables the expansion of an economy. It is used by most ... other, and depositors have a minimum amount of deposits guaranteed by insurance ...
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  • entails the inward-looking self-observation of conscious thoughts.]] on thinking, reasoning, and examination of one's own thoughts and ...
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  • [[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand ... II Velikaya, born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst; May 2, 1729 ...
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  • The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments ... The Bill of Rights also restricts Congress' power by prohibiting ...
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  • ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...
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  • The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...
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  • movement through the air, as in the case of aircraft, or beyond Earth& ... In eighth century Cordoba, Ibn Farnas studied the dynamism of flight ...
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  • greatly restricts the activities and power of labor unions. required to affirm they were not supporters of the Communist Party. The Taft ...
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  • , literally "without breeches") were the common people of ... The sans-culottes, most of them urban laborers, served as the driving ...
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  • surfacing throughout the very early years of the last century, the 1907 ... The futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture ...
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  • paper") is the Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of ... Origami only uses a small number of different folds, but they can ...
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  • ) is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century ... Beijing opera features four main types of performers; performing troupes ...
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  • The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and dynamic physical ...
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  • 29, 1947) was an American economist, one of the early American neoclassical ... living and world peace, an early advocate of the League of Nations. ...
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  • The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Roman ... and dedicated to the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity, and ...
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  • that derives from the Augustinian doctrine of original sin and is advocated ... It is the teaching that, as a consequence of the Fall of Man, every ...
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  • philosopher, and biographer whose use of dialectical philosophy, emphasizing ... Strauss was one of the first to make a clear distinction between Jesus ...
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  • reformer, who dedicated more than 40 years of his life to the education of ... throughout France. A strong proponent of reading and universal education ...
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  • economist, sociologist, and historian, one of the pioneers of the school ... Commons' work, improving the life of labor class, formed a substantial ...
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  • The Church of Scotland (known informally as The Kirk) is the national ... The church adheres to the Bible and the Westminster Confession of ...
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  • reasoning cannot replace direct experience of God. He also mounted a strong ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...
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  • eras. Ruskin is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism. ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...
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  • Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...
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  • speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint ... Points became the basis for the terms of the German surrender, as negotiated ...
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  • Computer animation is the art of creating moving images through the ... Computer animation can be seen in a large variety of media today, ...
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  • and human rights activist. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, he ... 1945 to study at the Theoretical Department of Lebedev Physical Institute ...
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  • Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...
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  • George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...
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  • The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the ... with the monarchy and its policy of continuing the war grew. Under ...
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  • total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...
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  • philosopher, and scientist. He was one of the major Islamic philosophers ... Avicenna is also well known for his medical work, The Canon of Medicine ...
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  • Calvinism is a system of Christian theology advanced by John Calvin ... John Calvin's international influence on the development of the ...
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  • Scientology is a new religious movement based on the writings of L ... The organization presents itself as a fully integrated system of religious ...
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  • magic and the occult, he also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination ... Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as the two disciplines ...
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  • The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...
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  • who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential ... Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three ...
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  • Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist of the Song dynasty, who is credited ... and Zhu Xi, who honored Zhang as one of the founders of the Study of ...
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  • translated into Latin in 1150. His concept of the universality of matter ... writing poetry in his teens. At the age of 16 he wrote a poem later included ...
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  • Northern India with the life and teachings of Guru Nanak and nine successive ... As a religion, philosophy and way of life, Sikhism is centered on ...
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  • In the broader sense of the term, bioethics encompasses both biomedical ... ==Scope of bioethics== Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that ...
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  • Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... authoritative perspective, or definition of creativity; nor is there a ...
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  • Rules, Second Edition), accreditation of MLS (Masters of Library Science ... ALA advocates freedom of speech, has been critical of censorship, ...
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  • Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni ... or example of the Prophet Muhammad. They represent the branch of Islam ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • reproductive cell containing a single set of chromosomes. A sperm fertilizes ... Because sperm cells are haploid, they contribute half of the genetic ...
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  • the Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of any theory of evolution in ... ... that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities ...
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  • Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...
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  • electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of ... it travels (in vacuum) at the speed of light (c). Photons are vital ...
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  • American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...
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  • computing, his role in the development of the atomic bomb and other weapons ... Through his public career, Bush was a proponent of technological innovation ...
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  • performers. The Chinese art in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and that of ... China relied heavily on the patronage of the imperial court and the ...
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  • pdf Iqbal and Goethe] Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India ... works, which include the Tarana-e-Hind (Song of India), Asrar-e-Khudi (Secrets ...
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  • and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...
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  • Kantianism refers to a line of thought that is broadly based on the ... The revolutionary impact of Kant’s critical method on western thought ...
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  • The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... Antioch, Alexandria, and other centers of learning to study the Greek ...
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  • Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth ...
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  • philosopher, theologian and historian of science. His surname is pronounced ... Whewell’s philosophy of science included the claim that through ...
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  • Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...
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  • leader from Friesland (today a province of The Netherlands). His followers ... 'Free' Frisians to accept the duke of Saxony-Meissen as their head ...
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  • January to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry ... Anthropometry is the measurement of physical attributes of human beings ...
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  • The term military-industrial complex (MIC) refers to the combination ... States government (especially the Department of Defense). Such collusion includes ...
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  • James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...
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  • significant research in the sociology of education which strongly impacted ... his Ph.D. in 1955, working with the Bureau of Applied Social Research (1953 ...
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  • was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most important twenieth ... Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract style did not come about ...
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  • the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly ... Like all Modern art, a general term used for most of the artistic ...
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  • Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...
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