Search results for "Standard of living" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • means “to practice and learn the way of the truth.” Xiuzhen combines ... Certain aspects of Xiushen, such as veneration of parents and elders ...
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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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  • Party. Although superficially the standard of living in East Germany under ... during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of 192 Germans who tried to escape ...
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  • reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... this system would provide a minimum standard of living "below which no ...
    11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
  • an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful ... led to higher wages and a better standard of living. Adam Smith and Thomas ...
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  • Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...
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  • economist who occupied the first chair of political economy in England ... Compton, Berkshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior ...
    11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
  • The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... With the steady improve of the standard of living in South Korea during ...
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  • religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist. The Buddhist ... delve into the Sutra Pitaka, gaining an ocean of knowledge. ...
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  • government, to work, and to a decent standard of living and health care. It ... 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the ...
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  • combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded ... and gradual improvement in their standard of living in the first few decades ...
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  • R.F. Outcault, he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip and ... yellow colored nightshirt ushered in the era of colored comic strips. Outcault ...
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  • Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ...
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  • or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in ... dust storms, forest and grassland fires, living vegetation, and sea spray ...
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  • All tape-based camcorders have removable media in the form of video ... eventually enabled the construction of portable video-cameras and ...
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  • Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos with infinite numbers ... shape, and size. The qualitative diversity of the world is reduced to and ...
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  • quot;) is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty ... Mahavira's later life was an example of rigorous asceticism. ...
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  • to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or into poor families ... At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million ...
    19 KB (2,793 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
  • around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...
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  • which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...
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