Search results for "Figure" - New World Encyclopedia
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- theorist, and author in Yugoslavia. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during the World War II as well as in the post war government. His book ...834 bytes (122 words) - 20:26, 5 January 2024
- # A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. ## Any of various figures used in Mayan writing. ...976 bytes (120 words) - 20:16, 5 March 2024
- Jesus of Nazareth, is Christianity's central figure, both as Messiah and, for most Christians, as God incarnate. Muslims regard him as a major prophet ...870 bytes (132 words) - 20:43, 23 April 2022
- assessed. She is now regarded as an important figure of the Russian Silver Age. }} ...814 bytes (121 words) - 20:35, 30 August 2023
- him or her as an idealized, heroic figure. It typically occurs in a totalitarian or authoritarian government which has control over access to ...913 bytes (129 words) - 22:33, 29 September 2023
- July 17, 1793), known as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. A provincial woman who had supported the revolution and was a supporter ...832 bytes (122 words) - 02:15, 30 September 2022
- Manilal in literary circles. He was an influential figure in nineteenth-century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and educators ...895 bytes (124 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution. He was a close friend of Maximilien Robespierre and served as his most trusted ...863 bytes (125 words) - 21:19, 26 November 2022
- a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). + -al. ...1 KB (133 words) - 15:12, 5 September 2023
- seen as the Father of Europe and is an iconic figure, instrumental in defining European identity. His was the first truly imperial power in the West ...892 bytes (141 words) - 17:05, 20 March 2022
- poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for the collection Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire ...1,005 bytes (147 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2023
- and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s onward. During the 1930s, he ranked second in the Soviet ...1,002 bytes (145 words) - 22:13, 28 December 2022
- century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. In addition to his outstanding portraits of well-known ...1 KB (155 words) - 20:56, 5 August 2020
- Alexander Radishchev was the most significant figure of 18th century Russian literature because he was the first to test the limits of thought ...982 bytes (164 words) - 00:09, 1 May 2020
- surgeon by profession, who became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian Islamist organization, and eventually attained the rank ...937 bytes (127 words) - 00:18, 19 January 2023
- greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure in both Azerbaijani and Ottoman literature. Fuzuli's work was widely known and admired ...1 KB (149 words) - 23:26, 5 December 2023
- classification of syllogisms known as the figure. The four figures are: ... conclusion followed by the number for the figure. For example, the syllogisms ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- of the outfit." Al-Zawahiri was a leading figure in the promotion and use of terror to advance the cause of Islam, a religion of peace. It is an ...962 bytes (159 words) - 01:55, 30 September 2022
- National Convention but was perhaps the best known figure of the dechristianization movement responsible for attacks on the church including the deaths ...1 KB (204 words) - 02:02, 28 August 2022
- Aleksandr Kuprin was a significant figure of the Silver Age of Russian Literature. This group of writers lived during the late 19th century and ...1 KB (206 words) - 22:32, 20 September 2021
