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- [[Image:The Gift table.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A table with wrapped gifts.]] A gift or present is the transfer of money, property, and so forth ...16 KB (2,568 words) - 23:38, 10 December 2022
- for his role in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile ... into an Orthodox Jewish family. His uncle, the renowned sociologist Émile ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his work ... Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Benjamin Max (d. 1958 ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- 250 px|A traditional, formal presentation of the bride price at a Thai engagement ... or other form of wealth "paid" to the parents of a woman for the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- although tended to flaunt this. He owned the Ziegfeld and the Billy Rose ... as a stenographic clerk to Bernard Baruch of the War Industries Board during ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- ; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of both the sea and earthquakes. In ... However, when offended or ignored, he struck the ground with his trident and ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- Alms or almsgiving is the general practice of charitable giving to ... Related to almsgiving is the practice of giving a tithe. In English ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- The origin of the modern Christian concept of speaking in tongues ... After the Protestant Reformation, speaking in tongues was sometimes ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- gender, race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington ... The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope and completed ...9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
- The Trobriand Islands (today officially known as the Kiriwina Islands ... The people of the area are mostly subsistence horticulturalists who ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- Christmas Eve is the evening or day before Christmas Day, the widely ... Christmas Eve is celebrated in different ways around the world, varying ...27 KB (4,071 words) - 21:38, 10 December 2023
- and aroma derived from oil extracted from the rind of the bergamot orange ... The tea is known as a "scented" tea, and its taste and aroma ...15 KB (2,263 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- The ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that means life or ... The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant journalist ... Dana was best known for his association with Ulysses S. Grant during ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary ... father's tannery. In 1775, he served in the provincial assembly. The following ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 05:54, 31 July 2023
- Manna was miraculously produced food of the Israelites in the desert ... Manna reportedly sustained the Israelites through the 40 years in ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 02:56, 6 November 2022
- , Nikolaos, "victory of the people") was Bishop of Myra ... Empire's Lycia, modern day Demre in the Antalya province of Turkey ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- According to the Ramayana, rakshasas were created from Brahma's ... ==Rakshasas in the Mahabharata== In the world of the Mahabharata, rakshasas ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 00:11, 8 December 2022
- Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth ... celebrated in a religious fashion. In the Catholic tradition, it is ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:56, 21 January 2023
- of God") is a prominent angel in the Abrahamic religions, who serves ... The angel Gabriel is first mentioned in the Book of Daniel in the ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- direct personal experience with God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit ... "On the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus' resurrection ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- December 13, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. The son of a Roman named Rufinus ... During Sylvester's pontificate, Christianity became the favored ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- in India, and now are practiced all around the world, though more than 90 ... types of religious leaders. According to the strict interpretation of the ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- :This page is about the biblical person Joshua. For the book, see ... Joshua or Yehoshúa (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ—"The LORD is help ...17 KB (2,859 words) - 19:56, 7 September 2022
- [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...31 KB (4,680 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- Crantor (ca. 330 – 270 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Old ... was that life is punishment, and death the release of the soul. He followed ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- The Boston Public Library is the largest municipal public library ... With public support and the help of significant contributions by numerous ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 19:51, 20 November 2023
- Fatimah binte Muhammad or popularly Fatimah Zahra (Fatima the Gracious ... men, and many have exercised power. The royal houses of Jordan and ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England ... == The Historical figure == Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric (968–1057 ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- her work written in close association with the Imagist movement of Ezra Pound ... embrace H.D.'s prolific reading of the Latin and Greek classics, ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, ( Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres 50 miles from Paris, is considered one of the world's finest examples ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- ], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth day") is one of ... Pentecost is also called Whitsun, Whitsunday, or Whit Sunday in the ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- black and white landscape photographs of the national parks and especially ... in photography after his encounter with the ground-breaking photographer ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- Japanese 公案) is a story, dialog, question, or statement from the ... some aspect of Zen teaching, and a test of the student’s understanding; ...33 KB (5,103 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period. The figured ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- thumb|right|345px|The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of ... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the ...28 KB (4,522 words) - 21:59, 10 December 2023
- feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... When Betty's mother took over running the shop after her husband fell ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the ... Besides its joyful character, the letter is also unique in its attitude ...10 KB (1,691 words) - 20:40, 17 May 2023
- 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is renowned for its ... As a Southern Gothic novel and a bildungsroman, the primary themes ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and his ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ...30 KB (4,439 words) - 21:38, 10 December 2023
- The Holy Spirit refers to the third person of the Trinity in Christianity ... The Trinitarian doctrine of the Holy Spirit as a distinct "person ...27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics and ... At the age of 30, suffering from a severe illness and believing she ...13 KB (2,141 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- conductor, band leader, and author of the late nineteenth and early ... effects that became emblematic of the genre. Among his best known ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 03:59, 2 May 2024
- Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- his exhortations toward chastity and purity. The medieval church was itself ... and then sent him to spend several years at the court of King David I of Scotland ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author ... were not uncommon. This was partly due to the fact that they were conducted ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- of social science. His work belongs to the tradition of anthropological ... began with his discovery of mimetic desire, the tendency of people to imitate ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title "King of ... and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- Carpe diem, usually translated as "seize the day" (literally ... Carpe Diem is an exhortation to value the moment over the uncertainties ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival ... In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah is written he|חנֻכה or ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- August 4, 1598) was an English politician, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth ... a wise counselor, with a rare and natural gift for avoiding dangers. He served ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- was a French physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist ... He was received in Berlin by Frederick the Great, who allowed him ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ... Precognition is the most frequently reported type of ESP, occurring ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- Esau (עֵשָׂו, Esav) was the oldest son of Isaac and Rebekah ... Although he stood first in the line of inheritance, Esau sold his ...18 KB (2,951 words) - 22:23, 20 February 2022
- including genre subjects, portraits, and the still lifes common in the ... Leyster's style reflected the Utrecht School, or "Caravaggists ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 21:00, 4 October 2022
- Influenced by Hegel, he maintained that the history of any people or culture ... Krochmal was leading figure of the Haskalah Jewish enlightenment and ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- C.E.) was a Christian missionary involved in the evangelization of Ireland ... in Ireland including a story that he used the three-leaf shamrock to teach ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 00:49, 23 December 2022
- Garuda (from the Sanskrit: Garuḍa myth, Garuda is a lesser divinity, usually the vehicle (or vahana) of Vishnu ...14 KB (2,324 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America ... at a higher salary than Poe's. Later, the two competed for the attention ...41 KB (6,146 words) - 17:44, 22 December 2022
- An Indulgence, in Roman Catholic theology, is the full or partial ... Prior to the modern period, indulgences could be obtained by offering ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 19:36, 8 October 2020
- , which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theater of the ... Alfred Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- The Blue Nile is a river originating in natural springs above Lake ... Today, dams along the Blue Nile in Sudan produce 80 percent of that ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- The Rev. Dr William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA (November 7, 1687 – ... Trained in the medical profession and turning later in life to the ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 20:32, 13 May 2023
- The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd ... The first notable pharaoh of the Old Kingdom was Djoser (2630–2611 ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived ... The work, which can be typologically identified as wisdom literature ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- on various days in many places around the world. Officially recognized ... a forerunner of today's holiday, the contemporary Mother's ...22 KB (3,311 words) - 17:00, 10 November 2022
- Harpy is the singular form for the mythical creatures called Harpies ... The word Harpy in English comes from Old French harpie from the Latin ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- a certain legitimacy, justification, and the right to exercise it. Authority ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- short fiction, and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime ... and short stories were also adapted for the screen, including "Welcome ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh ... Ferdowsi traced the history of Persia from its earliest days to the ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- his first literary works in Russian under the pseudonym of Sirin, but rose ... #039;s affair with a 12-year-old girl, and the uniquely structured Pale Fire ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- rank") was a great woman of faith and the fore-mother of the Israelites ... Sarah was originally called Sarai. She was born in the major Mesopotamian ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the ... The library was created based on Pope Nicholas V's vision of ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo ... His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, ... The main theme running through the Book of Numbers is the people& ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the College ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,778 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2022
- socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah in the Bible. She became Abraham ... According to the account in Genesis, since Sarah could not have children ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the ... she is often enthroned and crowned with the polos, the high cylindrical ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... admission to a Christian church. Although the primary meaning of the Greek ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- class of its own far above that possessed by the vast majority of people. The ... intellectual ability identified as a gift for some skill or area of ...20 KB (2,859 words) - 06:48, 18 April 2024
- Kringle, or simply "Santa," is the mythical figure who, in most ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- Bartholomew was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus. He is mentioned as ... , transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Aramaic ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- " His work was intended to empower the oppressed through literacy ... Freire's methods were successful in raising the level of literacy ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- an individual commissioned by God to spread the "good news" of the ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- A Pulitzer Prize is an award regarded as the highest national honor ... legacy, his effort to establish and maintain the highest standards in the profession ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 2022
- scholar, administrator, and waka poet of the Nara period. Little is documented ... was 16 when he was sent to China as one of the young students that the Japanese ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- early teacher in music was his mother; at the age of nine he was introduced ... a fascination with spiritual phenomenon. The narrative of his well-know ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the ... ). From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day has been associated ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
- ) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring ... is seen both as a true prophet of God for the Gentiles and as a heathen ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- novelist, and dramatist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance ... research, however, was too far removed from the mainstream style of academic ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- Hanuman (from the Sanskrit "having a large jaw") is an important ... Hanuman is one of the more popular deities in the Hindu pantheon, ...19 KB (3,063 words) - 19:40, 29 January 2022
- You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco ... a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and the first philosopher to attempt ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- rights. She is sometimes credited with being the first American feminist but ... Mott's Philadelphia home was a stop on the Underground Railroad ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ... in Lom, Norway in Gudbrandsdal. He was the fourth son of Peder Pedersen ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- Founded in 1971, by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most ... are independent organizations which share the same ideals, and have been ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- is commonly associated with Neo-orthodoxy or the dialectical theology movement. After being educated in both Europe and the United States, Brunner ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- and Romanian physicist, whose writings in the 1920s sparked a surge of interest ... Oberth was the son of Dr. Julius Oberth, the head of a Saxon family ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 10:20, 22 January 2024
- quot;Captivating") was the wife of the patriarch Isaac ... Rebekah was instrumental in Jacob's winning, by deception, the ...13 KB (2,094 words) - 01:43, 8 December 2022
- satirist. Apart from professional work in the field of logic, Zinovyev was ... of Communism (and successive leaders of the Soviet Union), he later became ...15 KB (2,070 words) - 15:29, 18 July 2023
- Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...29 KB (4,732 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." ... Cheever's main themes include the duality of human nature: Sometimes ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
- Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided ... Hārūn was the son of al-Mahdi, the third 'Abbasid caliph (ruled ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ... a number of controversial books, including The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- Suleiman I, in Turkish language Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet ... Known as Suleiman the Magnificent but also, especially among Muslims ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- is a central and much revered figure in the majority of [Hinduism|Hindu ... Vyasa is the author of, and an important character in, the Mahabharata ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- The State Hermitage Museum ( Государственный Эрмитаж ... ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 14:53, 12 February 2022
- publisher best known for establishing the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes ... His younger brother, Albert, was trained for the priesthood but never attained ...20 KB (2,955 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- Anarchist communism advocates the abolition of the state, private ... sometimes, libertarian communism, advocates the abolition of government, which ...42 KB (6,266 words) - 22:50, 14 September 2023
- 1845) was an English prison reformer who was the driving force in legislation ... May 21, 1790, in Norwich, Norfolk, England; the third child of a Quaker family ...14 KB (2,286 words) - 16:17, 13 February 2024
- significantly higher than other children of the same age. The focus was initially ... is often distributed unevenly across the various intellectual spheres ...28 KB (4,026 words) - 06:24, 11 December 2022
- Mountain. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology ... clear skies at 5,600 feet above sea level, the Hale Telescope and other Palomar ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- #039;s France) and an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. ... he used his knowledge of Greek to create the first Latin treatises explaining ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 13:14, 22 January 2024
- rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for his ... Saadia was born in Dilaz, in upper Egypt in 882 c.e.. The name "Saadia ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- The Star of David is a widely recognized symbol of Judaism, named ... While the symbol has had a varied emotional history for the Jewish ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- is best known as a part of Catholic Mass, the Anglican Holy Communion service ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- 29, 1963) was an American poet, arguably the most recognized American poet ... Masque of Mercy" (1947), based on the story of Jonah, presents a ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- minister, noted poet, and scholar of the Tang Dynasty, serving as chancellor ... gave truthful yet often bitter advise to the Emperor even at the risk of ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 05:57, 13 June 2023
- mystic whose writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced ... Böhme’s ideas about the process of Creation, the primacy of will ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- 88), who had been apprenticed as a youth to the Boston lithographic firm of ... Currier and Ives greatly increased the public demand for graphic images ...14 KB (2,141 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- and playwright. He has been called, “the conscience of his generation” ... to religious fundamentalism. During the “speakeasy” decade of ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- Charles Hodge (1797 - 1878) was a leader of the “Princeton School” ... Though a Presbyterian and a Calvinist, he refused to entertain the ...15 KB (2,292 words) - 19:10, 4 December 2023
- portraitists, by 1787 she had become one of the most famous and successful ... Austria. She was trained by her father, the Swiss muralist Johann Joseph ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- A kangaroo is any of several large marsupial mammals of the Macropodidae ... . Kangaroos are best known for their great leaping power due to the ...21 KB (3,232 words) - 07:08, 28 February 2023
- writer and television host, best known as the emcee of the popular and influential ... Between the years 1948 and 1971, nearly everyone who watched television ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... In its early history, one of the Church's earliest ecclesiological ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:54, 11 March 2024
- strengthen") was a major prophet in the Hebrew Bible during the period ... Ezekiel is remembered for various reasons. He is regarded as the author ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ... After the Nazi anti-semitic legislation forced her to resign from ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... able to pass on to those who followed him on the throne an empire that was ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- 29, 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ... After Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, the Nazis forced him to leave ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- The Hopi are a Native American nation, the westernmost group of Pueblo ... The Hopi have generally maintained their culture, which is based on ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- [[Image:Acts-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive ... Montanism was an early Christian sectarian movement beginning in the ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 21:12, 9 November 2022
- (931/932 – December 16, 999) was one of the most prominent European woman ... Italy, who was later allegedly poisoned by the usurper Berengar of Ivrea ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- quot;) among many other names, is one of the most beloved and widely worshiped ... The legends associated with Krishna have had an enormous impact on ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- writer best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show Starring ... Carson almost single-handedly made the late-night light television ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 19:16, 3 August 2022
- According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the ... The golden plates are the most significant of metallic plates in Latter ...50 KB (7,692 words) - 04:51, 20 December 2022
- with Frederick Waugh, he introduced the celebrated Frisch-Waugh theorem; ... He was the creator of much of the nomenclature used in the world of ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- Awards and one Tony Award. She was ranked as the fourth greatest female star ... At the time, Bergman's marriage was unhappy. Few people at the ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:21, 19 November 2022
- ; "holds the heel"), also known as Israel ("Struggles ... In the Book of Genesis, Jacob overcomes many adversities to win God ...29 KB (4,809 words) - 08:01, 18 March 2024
- Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer ... barred from pulpits, seminaries, and the medical profession. ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- famous for her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar and her advancements ... In 1982, Plath became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously ...19 KB (3,157 words) - 01:56, 27 February 2023
- The panda or giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a mammal native ... The term panda is also used for the red panda, Ailurus fulgens, another ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- Co catalog cover.png|thumb|200 px|Catalog of the Central Scientific Company, 1912]] consumers without them having to come into the physical store. Many mail ...17 KB (2,545 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published ... Variants of the tale are known across Europe. Heidi Anne Heiner, [http://www ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... highly. His most notable work of fiction, the historical novel I, Claudius ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- kami, paper; "folding paper") is the Japanese art of paper folding ... colors, and usually proceed without cutting the paper. Contrary to most popular ...17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
- Online shopping is the process of researching and purchasing products ... photos, and multimedia files. Typically the customer selects items to ...28 KB (4,204 words) - 00:40, 18 November 2022
- and guru. He was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation and ... Western Christianity. His understanding of the Bible was unique for someone ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- to al-Biruni he was born in Rayy, Iran in the year 865 C.E. (251 a.h.), ... The modern-day Razi Institute in Tehran, and Razi University in Kermanshah ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- expanding such knowledge, particularly in the United States, where he expanded ... Ian Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the small town of ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- Trnka graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design ... He was dubbed "the Walt Disney of the East" Edgar Dutka ...21 KB (3,254 words) - 02:02, 9 February 2023
- attribute omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- The word Magi refers to a class of ancient Zoroastrian astrologer ... The word Magi is the origin of the English words magic and magician. ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- to a census town in North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. Goa had ... have been in India almost for as long as the religion has existed, founded ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:24, 31 December 2023
- The Willis Tower, built and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower ... Designed as a headquarters for the Sears company with substantial ...13 KB (2,043 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye ...80 KB (11,371 words) - 23:33, 1 August 2023
- a United States Army cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the ... his remarkable life and military career. The celebrated calvary man has ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- A Texas native, Nelson and two other well-known golfers of the time ... in 1945. He retired officially at the age of 34 to be a rancher ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 19:11, 24 November 2023
- psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, was considered the father of the field of public ... professionals who learned from him used the techniques and ideas that ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- quot;), also referred to as King David, was the second and most famous king ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- 26, 1827 - July 16, 1915) was co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church ... ministry was instrumental in founding the Sabbatarian Adventist movement ...20 KB (3,079 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice ... The person performing the exorcism, known as an exorcist, is often ...20 KB (3,223 words) - 23:55, 24 March 2024
- William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great ... perseverance and patience to overcome the many setbacks and defeats ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of ... Normandy is a region in northwest France, which in the 155 years prior ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... politician, lawyer, military leader, and the 19th President of the United ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was the founder ... Smith's movement was based upon his publication of the Book of ...44 KB (6,932 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- addition to charting more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs ... Travis is considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music ...14 KB (2,016 words) - 00:35, 8 December 2022
- quot; or "mind over matter," is the ability to influence the movement ... The popularity of those claiming psychokinetic abilities, and the ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- New Jersey. Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1922. He was ... Niels Bohr is one of the most important scientists from Denmark; he ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... Science, while providing theories about the How and What of life, has ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- #039;s death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices ... Funeral rites can be traced back to the most primitive of societies ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- The America’s Cup is the most famous and most prestigious regatta ... During the year of the first World's Fair, American boatbuilders ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- feeling good about themselves, while at the same time supporting their ... Criticized by some, for example for the ostentatious "rewards ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 16:09, 7 November 2022
- Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at ... if" ideas that often relate to the extremes of human behavior ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- was a Dominican tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order and a later ... around 1366, after which she began to attend the poor. She had visions which ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- , (May 22, 1772 – September 27, 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj ... Rammohan founded, with Dwarkanath Tagore, the Brahmo Samaj, which came to ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- known as B-P, was a lieutenant general in the British Army, writer, and ... Baden-Powell joined the British Army in 1876. He was posted in India ...20 KB (2,990 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- vengeance, and bearer of life. A daughter of the chief god El, she was also ... Anat's name is remembered in Hebrew tradition in relation to ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- guru who has millions of followers around the world, especially among Hindus ... Across the globe, local Sathya Sai Baba groups assemble to sing bhajans ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 15:00, 23 October 2023
- legendary, and she is known today as one of the most brilliant writers in ... Dorothy Parker, known to many as Dot or Dottie, had one of the most ...18 KB (2,914 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- Lúcia de Jesus Rosa Santos—"Sister Lúcia of Jesus and of ... Ordered to keep silent about the content of her revelations, at age ...15 KB (2,588 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- many of whose songs became classics of the Chicago blues genre and were ... recorded his songs, including Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- with principal rules of Socialist realism (the official policy toward art ... 1973 were banned, scrapped, or closed by the Soviet film administration ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 00:25, 7 January 2024
- Hêphaistos) was the Greek god of fire, metals and metallurgy, and ... Though his forge traditionally lay in the heart of Lemnos, Greece ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
- from Italy who is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He ... Pio is renowned among Roman Catholics as one of the Church's ...40 KB (6,382 words) - 17:02, 2 October 2023
- and to nurture a child's creativity. The layout and exhibits of a children ... of children's museums include the Association of Children's ...29 KB (4,459 words) - 16:38, 10 December 2023
- across various music genres, and topped the country and pop album charts ... Rogers' signature song, 1978's The Gambler, was a cross ...38 KB (5,690 words) - 22:10, 3 March 2023
- "she who lives") was a wife of the prophet Muhammad. Aisha was ... Aisha played a key role in the emergence of Islam, a faith and life ...25 KB (4,166 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- sense," is defined in parapsychology as the ability to acquire information ... As with all paranormal or "psi" phenomena, the existence ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order ... In 1529, while attending the University of Paris, Xavier became acquainted ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... The Museum's collection ranges from ancient to contemporary with ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- and essayist who is best known for leading the scientific revolution. His ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- August 13, 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, is the ... as when she served as a nurse during the Crimean War. She would gather ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- as "Koo-Koo-Sint," or "the Stargazer." Over his ... This represented one-fifth of the North American continent. His great ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- Meditation (from the Latin meditatio: "discourse on a subject") ... techniques whose primary aim is the achievement of non-ordinary ...38 KB (5,451 words) - 00:07, 13 July 2021
- who made significant contributions to the classification of educational ... rather hard work. His studies showed that the most successful in their fields ...22 KB (3,277 words) - 09:17, 27 September 2023
- – May 22, 1885) is recognized as one of the most influential Romantic ... While he made significant contributions to the revolutionary cause ...37 KB (5,552 words) - 20:07, 3 May 2023
- 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
- The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff ... Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the largest and most prestigious ...26 KB (3,603 words) - 04:11, 1 May 2023
- taxation) is an ad valorem tax where only the value of land itself is taxed ... taxes in their current form, by taxing the value of both land and buildings ...37 KB (5,677 words) - 23:33, 3 July 2023
- Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his ... His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), ignited fierce controversy ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- and a Baptist Minister. He pioneered the social gospel movement, especially ... His father, Augustus, who was German went to the United States as a Lutheran ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- versatile German composer and organist of the Baroque era, whose sacred ... Bach expressed as much, writing, "The purpose and end aim of figured ...38 KB (5,972 words) - 07:13, 5 April 2024
- A private library is a library under the care of private ownership ... Private libraries often reflect the interests of the owner and the ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
- philosophical and theological foundation for the development of Christianity ... Philo wrote commentaries portraying the Hebrew Bible as an allegory ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- Jewish mystical writings she is said to be the first wife of Adam, who refused ... Historically, the figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- to such an association. One such poem is the frequently anthologized “The ... baptized by Jacob Tekahionwake Johnson on the encouragement of Sir William ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the ... and almost mystical love of nature. Like the Arts and Crafts Movement, ...16 KB (2,277 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- The Royal Library of Alexandria, part of a museum and library modeled ... The city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 06:39, 20 July 2023
- famous monastic Rule was adopted throughout the Western monastic tradition ... Benedict founded 12 monastic communities, the best known being Monte Cassino ...20 KB (3,232 words) - 09:12, 27 September 2023
- of God and a symbolic reflection of the transcendent spiritual world ... his thought by embedding his ideas in the context of descriptive narrative ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- religion, nature, science, math, and the ethnic origins of man. He ... not often associated with modern music of the early twentieth century. After ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- so commanding that he is often considered the archetypal Renaissance Man ... during his long life was prodigious. When the sheer volume of correspondence ...21 KB (3,322 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- by John Calvin, a Protestant Reformer in the sixteenth century, and further ... John Calvin's international influence on the development of the ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 18:38, 25 November 2023
- and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his ... itself not in his literary style, but in the themes of his stories, which ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned ... by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors ...33 KB (4,941 words) - 22:49, 30 April 2023
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- from 1973 until his death in July 2010, the longest in club history, the ... ownership and is remembered for starting the wave of high spending for ...36 KB (5,317 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- lecturer. Both deaf and blind, she changed the public's perception of ... Her life story exemplifies well the truth that though the body's ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 08:35, 21 January 2024
- are represented in the country today. had converted to Christianity. Towards the end of the sixteenth century ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... The first attempt by Jesuits to reach China was made in 1552 by Saint ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- :For other articles that otherwise might have the same name, see Print ... In photography, the process of making a picture on photosensitive ...36 KB (5,772 words) - 18:43, 29 April 2023
- was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...41 KB (6,575 words) - 04:41, 3 August 2022
- Marie Antoinette (November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793), the Archduchess ... she was executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- It applies to music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies ... polyphony leading towards atonality, the most prominent school to compose ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and ... The central plot of the epic traces the journeys of the bardic hero ...26 KB (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- Yaroslav I the Wise (c. 978 - February 20, 1054) (East Slavic: Ярослав ... ties helped to make Kiev one of the largest and wealthiest and ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- [[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew ... A prophet (from the Greek word προφήτης, meaning one who ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- theologian, philospher, general of the Franciscan Friars Minor, and ... He rejected Aristotle’s concept of the eternity of the world, but ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- mathematician who is regarded as one of the most brilliant mathematicians ... mathematics, Ramanujan devoted himself to the subject he loved and submitted ...35 KB (5,270 words) - 16:14, 5 November 2023
- editor, and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism ... She began writing at an early age, and by the time she met Dmitri ...40 KB (5,765 words) - 22:46, 29 June 2023
- Unlike many of the poets who had memorialized the great achievements ... Sassoon was born in a house named Weirleigh (which still stands) in ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
- |caption=Seal of the Penobscot Indian Nation of Maine |poptime=3-4,000 ... The Penobscot (Panawahpskek) are a sovereign people indigenous to ...23 KB (3,545 words) - 07:18, 23 November 2022
- actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...37 KB (5,309 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement ... In France, on the other hand, Deism in the person of Voltaire took ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President ... that day, shines brightly in history while the other speeches have long been ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- Kaziranga National Park, a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon ... crisscrossed by four major rivers, including the Brahmaputra, and has numerous ...31 KB (4,349 words) - 22:14, 15 September 2023
- was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance ... many of his early works have been attributed to the elder master, ...28 KB (4,094 words) - 03:13, 23 December 2022
- The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- myths and legends, and myths concerning the founding of Chinese culture ... Chinese myths are thought to have originated around the twelfth century ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- after 1780, was a Native American of the Seneca tribe's Wolf ... Red Jacket urged neutrality during the American Revolutionary War ...21 KB (3,357 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
