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- which argues for the equal rights of all living beings. Næss called ... adhering to an increasingly higher standard of living. There will be a profound ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
- | [[Standard enthalpy change of formation|Standard enthalpy of ... | Standard molar entropyS°solid | 237.7 J.K−1.mol−1 ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- Christian eschatology named for its denial of a future thousand-year, physical ... existed even in the first three centuries of the Christian era, during which ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu philosophy. Dvaita is ... Little is known about the actual life of Shri Madhvacharya, save for ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera of supergroup Rhizaria), characterized ... sand dollars, and many other animals. Tens of thousands per square meter ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate ... to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) ...28 KB (3,844 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, ... Health care is a vital aspect of human society. Through the health ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- scandal that began during the administration of President Harding. Elk Hills ... but the sudden improvement in his standard of living prompted speculation. ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- together with Confucius, is considered one of the two great moral teachers ... Mozi founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- network, is the largest multilateral source of development assistance in the ... *Decent standard of living, measured by Gross Domestic Product per capita ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- iconic American actress, comedian, and star of the landmark sitcom I Love ... Lucille, known as the "Queen of Comedy," was also responsible ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- Singapore") is the national anthem of Singapore. Composed by Zubir ... Originally composed in the key of G major, in 2001, the national anthem ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 00:16, 22 October 2023
- significant popularity. The strength of his approach is the importance ... Rogers was born on January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:14, 19 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Swaziland (Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini), or the Kingdom ... growth and maintain Swazis' standard of living. Overgrazing, soil ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... in 1626. He was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- A Benedictine is an adherent of the teachings of Saint Benedict of ... Beyond its religious influences, the Rule of St Benedict has been ...25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- the Soviet Union and China, the its standard of living lagging dramatically ... rule, North Korea's economy standard of living declined precipitously ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... U.S. to seek employment and a higher standard of living. Significant Tongan ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- precept found in virtually all the religions of the world. Also known as the ... Arising as it does in nearly all cultures, the ethic of reciprocity ...18 KB (2,926 words) - 05:37, 20 December 2022
- reason for the survival and prosperity of the Korean people in the face ... in economic development and in the standard of living but also in the development ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 6 March 2024
- – March 26, 1959) was an American author of the so-called hardboiled detective ... Hammett's Sam Spade, the epitome of the hardboiled private detective ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... socialist, she aimed to raise the standard of living of her people and to ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- The Beatles) outpaced her. She was also one of the earliest pop stars to have ... Dynamite, as the explosive sound pouring out of her diminutive, pre-teenage ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- remains obscure in comparison to the giants of his time such as Walt Whitman ... Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English and American ancestry ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... being had a significantly lower standard of living and life span in the ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- 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
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture ... The idea of qi represents one of the unique and foundational elements ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- [[Image:Universum.jpg|thumb|300px|Colorized version of the Flammarion ... Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), in the process of replacing scholarly notions ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of jazz piano as the supreme master ... his mother owned, playing by ear by the age of three. Tatum would learn both ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- gas. It is formed by the disintegration of radium and is one of the densest ... found that it was the heaviest gas known as of then. It has been called radon ...15 KB (2,200 words) - 22:50, 7 December 2022
- Heloise (1101 - 1162), the famous lover of Peter Abelard (Abélard ... Heloise was the ward of an uncle, a canon A clergyman serving in a ...20 KB (3,412 words) - 17:12, 6 February 2022
- Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was the site of the American Continental ... appointed General Nathanael Greene head of the meager and poorly managed ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four islands in the southern Pacific ... The islands are best known for being the home of the descendants of ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Harrods at night.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The exterior of Harrods ... which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a predominant ...29 KB (4,395 words) - 09:47, 29 January 2024
- groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine invertebrates that are ... terrestrial representatives. Representatives of the phylum can be found at ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:27, 11 October 2020
- Nitrogen (symbol N, atomic number 7) is the chief constituent of the ... In living organisms, nitrogen atoms are part of the molecular structures ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 02:26, 16 November 2022
- a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of seventeenth-century Rome. The ... conceits include the piazza and colonnades of Saint Peter's. He preferred ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman William Darrah ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- and improves the external standard of living. However, there are also ... enjoy wealth far beyond a sustenance standard of living through the use of slavery. ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes ... The legal requirements of proving defamation are often difficult to ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the ... In living systems, ammonia plays several important roles, serving ...39 KB (5,803 words) - 07:35, 25 July 2023
- – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... to raise the Soviet citizens' standard of living so that they could ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- Computer animation is the art of creating moving images through the ... Computer animation can be seen in a large variety of media today, ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 00:25, 8 January 2024
- it does not entirely capture the meaning of the Greek word. One important ... between these two central concepts is one of the important preoccupations ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- body (sporocarp or reproductive structure) of a fungus, typically produced ... (lamella, the papery ribs under the cap of a mushroom), the term can refer ...22 KB (3,256 words) - 19:06, 10 November 2022
- Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived ... wealth disparities are seen as an indicator of poverty and the condition of ...23 KB (3,286 words) - 22:07, 30 November 2022
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (October 18, 1870 – July 22, 1966; standard ... to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Bernhard ... have been honored more than once, a total of 813 different individuals and ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- was an American engineer, early advocate of scientific management and a ... The Gilbreths are considered the founders of modern industrial management ...16 KB (2,285 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Dacia, in ancient history and geography was the land of the Dacians ... and Rome, Emperor Trajan began the process of subjugating the empire and ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- ) was a city in ancient Israel, situated north of Bethel and south ... The Bible describes Shiloh as an assembly place for the people of ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- and Ella Fitzgerald, is considered one of the greatest vocalists in jazz ... producer John Hammond, Holiday spent much of the 1930s working with some ...15 KB (2,388 words) - 17:35, 31 October 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along ... dramatic upsurge in its economy and standard of living during the twentieth ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Buddhism connect back to the central roots of Buddhism, the original followers ... and Bhikkuni also stand in a position of leadership to the Buddhist ...18 KB (2,886 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the Spanish nobility and nicknamed ... The nickname "El Cid Campeador" is a compound of two separate ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- Vagrancy is the condition of being a vagrant, defined as a person ... While societies have made efforts to deal with the large numbers of ...25 KB (3,643 words) - 14:08, 3 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
- formula but differ in the arrangement of atoms. (Isomers in chemistry ... the prevailing chemical understanding of the time, which held that chemical ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 05:56, 11 March 2024
- A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family ... a distinct species, C. hircus. It was one of the first animals domesticated ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- thumb," which is really an extension of the wrist bone. It has reddish ... Panda is also a genus of the plant family Pandaceae. The word panda ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère the Lionheart. She was the eldest daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- html Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living] econlib.org. 17 July ... *Hartwell, R.M. "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800 ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- Justicialist Party and the current President of Argentina. She is the wife ... America's second elected woman head of state—after Chile's ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- all become the guiding principles of American identity. Emerson ... "no longer interested" in the rite of communion, Emerson left the ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- A Levite (from Levi, "attached") is a member of the Hebrew ... When the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, the Levites received ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen ... Cole Porters' songs and thoughts are about the many aspects of ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great Cathedrals ... (seat or chair), and refers to the presence of the bishop's or archbishop ...26 KB (4,257 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... First, it expresses a passion for the ideal of unity and harmony. Analysis ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- The Common Rule is a federal policy governing the protection of human ... in 1991, including the Department of Health and Human Services ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 18:58, 25 July 2021
- require a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber. Dyeing is the process of imparting color to a textile material in ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- index, Singapore has the highest standard of living in Asia, and is ranked ... curbed unemployment, raised the standard of living, and implemented a ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- the modern libertarian movement and revival of classical liberalism. Prominent ... which all people agree is: That the standard of living of the Russian masses ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South Dakota. He became one ... not civil rights, should be the basis of the United States government ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- abolitionist. Anthony invested fifty years of her life advocating for the ... rewarded posthumously with the ratification of the Nineteenth amendment to ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- quot;) refers to most important scriptures of Judaism that are the foundation ... oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- close association with the Imagist movement of Ezra Pound. H.D.'s early ... her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth. He ... assertion without having a substantial body of documentation to support his ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- ), also known as the Adi Granth, is the primary Holy Book of the Sikhs ... Composed during the period of Sikh Gurus, from 1469 to 1708, the Guru ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- Air pollution is the human introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals ... stationary sources, but the greatest source of emissions is mobile sources ...34 KB (4,855 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- The Damascus Document, also called the Zadokite Fragments, is one ... Because it gives insights into the special religious attitudes of ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 22:57, 22 June 2020
- device used for the remote operation of a machine. Remote controls ... One of the earliest examples of a remote control was developed in ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent the ... and Muhammad. He helped to pioneer the use of primary sources as well as ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- #039;s economy, delivering a high standard of living, with many social services ... economy. Now the country has a high standard of living, with many social services ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- Species are the basic taxonomic units of biological classification ... Jay Gould, the macroevolutionary patterns of species are typically ones ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 17:36, 14 October 2022
- refer to a road tractor. Other common uses of the term include the lawn tractor ... to drive mechanical farm machinery by way of a flexible belt. Around 1850 ...28 KB (4,353 words) - 04:53, 1 May 2023
- 28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... the coffee that brought the highest standard of living" said Akbar Godi ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- tone and expressive phrasing, he was one of the most famous violinists ... debut the following year. He had become one of the world's leading performers ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and ... Tiberian Qərā’îm), meaning "Readers (of Scripture)," ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute the ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- — is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná ... widest estuary in the world. It forms part of the border between Argentina ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- ) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China ... on the island. The People's Republic of China government claims Hainan ...25 KB (3,616 words) - 16:53, 21 January 2024
