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- 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
- 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 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
- In its "everyday sense" morality (from Latin la|moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of conduct ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is bound to the north by the Gulf of Mexico, to ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar, because ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- Cuenca (full name Santa Ana de los cuatro ríos de Cuenca) is the third largest city in Ecuador in terms of population. It is located in the ...19 KB (2,779 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński, Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский, Belarusian: ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the shape of which has been compared to a raised arm and fist or to a flaming ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeology Category:Art [[Image:Newspaper rock.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Petroglyphs on Newspaper ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the Khmer empire that flourished from approximately the ninth century to the fifteenth ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- Eidetic reduction is a technique in Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience ...9 KB (1,238 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- Pistachio is a common name for a small, deciduous tree, Pistacia vera, of western and central Asia, that produces a commercially popular "Pistachio ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, at the intersection of the borders of the provinces ...24 KB (3,489 words) - 17:08, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first ...23 KB (3,445 words) - 10:17, 21 January 2023
- The Alps ( Alpen ; Alpes ; Alpi ; Alpe ) are a great mountain system of Europe, forming parts of nine nations: stretching from Bosnia and Herzegovina ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 08:34, 23 July 2023
- Obsidian is an igneous rock with a glassy form that is produced during the rapid cooling of volcanic lava. It is sometimes classified as a mineraloid ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning "nonviolence" or "non-injury" (literally: the avoidance of himsa: violence). The principle ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 06:51, 16 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being by another. The penalty for ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20, 1917 – October 28, 2006) was both a highly successful head basketball coach and an influential ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- <!-- --> {{Infobox Former Country |native_name = ಬನವಾಸಿ ಕದಂಬರು |conventional_long_name = Kadambas of Banavasi ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 21:31, 7 September 2023
- Chichen Itza ("At the mouth of the well of the Itza") is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located ...32 KB (4,966 words) - 20:59, 9 December 2023
- Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed in the Peruvian Andes by the pre-Incan Chavín ...15 KB (2,387 words) - 00:46, 5 December 2023
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces creating sounds of a soothing, romantic, mood-elevating and sometimes sensual ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- Cuauhtémoc (also known as Cuauhtemotzin or Guatimozin; c. 1502 – February 28, 1525) was the last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and ...8 KB (1,234 words) - 19:34, 8 July 2016
- For Naturalism in literature and art, see Naturalism (literature). Naturalism designates any of several philosophical stances that make the assumption ...17 KB (2,419 words) - 15:22, 11 November 2022
- Georgi Sava Rakovski (Георги Сава Раковски) (1821 – October 9, 1867), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (Съби Стойков ...16 KB (2,460 words) - 20:16, 13 December 2023
- The Chennakesava Temple (Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಚೆನ್ನಕೇಶವ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ), originally called Vijayanarayana Temple ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- A relief is a sculptured art work in which figures are either carved into a level plane or, more typically, the plane is removed to create images ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday | |holiday_name=May Day |image=Maypoles.jpg ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- The Rapture is a controversial religious belief, held by some Christians, that claims that at the end of time when Jesus Christ returns, descending ...32 KB (4,883 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving along the lower Indus River and the Ghaggar River-Hakra River in what ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- In electronics, printed circuit boards (PCBs) are used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 22:58, 30 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Putnam, Frederic Ward Frederic Ward Putnam (April 16, 1839 – August 14, 1915 ...9 KB (1,359 words) - 10:26, 11 April 2024
- William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Amillennialism (Greek: a- "not" + Latin: mille "thousand" + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières – February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the preeminent songwriter ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.) (Latin: Basilius), also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 03:31, 1 January 2022
- Fossil range: Cambrian-Permian image = [[Image:Asaphiscuswheelerii.jpg|200px|Asaphiscus wheeleri]] | caption = Asaphiscus wheeleri, a trilobite ...16 KB (2,412 words) - 17:20, 2 May 2023
- Geom-mu refers to a traditional sword dance practiced in Korea. Korean folk dancers perform Geom-mu with special costumes, dance motions, and ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- The Kingdom of Mutapa (Shona: Wene we Mutapa; Portuguese: Monomotapa) or the Mutapa Empire was a medieval kingdom (c. 1450-1629) which stretched ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 23:43, 21 October 2023
