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- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among ... The first two are part of the so-called "prairie trilogy," ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- as a singer, Rogers formed Sons of the Pioneers, a western cowboy music ... Rogers' replacement in the Sons of the Pioneers, began playing zany camp ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 20:50, 21 December 2022
- Pioneers traveled in wagons across the Oregon Trail, one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, in order to settle ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Modern dance is a dance form that developed in the early twentieth ... The early modern dance pioneers of the 1920s through the 1940s broke ...18 KB (2,688 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- and psychologist, famous for his research on the psychology of music and sound ... and effectively became one of the pioneers in this discipline. He ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- are about populating the wilderness; in The Pioneers his father appears directly ... very successful at the date of issue; The Pioneers (1823), the first of the ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 01:33, 8 February 2023
- Florentine noble house. As one of the pioneers in modern rhythmic notation ... He studied under the organist and famous madrigalist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ...5 KB (689 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- in digital form and exhibits them via the Internet. Most virtual museums ... Some virtual museums exist solely in a virtual environment. The Museum ...12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- a Hoffman voltameter is being used for the electrolysis of water. It ... by passing an electric current through them. The process is extremely useful ...7 KB (1,039 words) - 04:29, 27 November 2020
- with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, in the development of Gestalt psychology ... Köhler gained fame with The Mentality of Apes, in which he argued ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- philanthropist often considered as one of the fathers Reform Judaism. ... He is recognized today as one of the pioneers of Reform Judaism, even ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- She and her husband, Ted Shawn, founded the influential dance school ... State in 1938, which is credited as one of the first dance departments in ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926) founded the ... *Small, Albion W. 1963 (original 1909). The Cameralists. The Pioneers ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 17:49, 19 December 2022
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the ... The City of Rocks is an extraordinary granite encirclement of rock ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the third of the philosophers ... Thales, the first philosopher of Ionia, conceived the original being ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- 1, 1918) was an American educator and one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... and at a young age became familiar with the work of Friedrich Froebel ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to ...42 KB (6,112 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained ... The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly ... La Gazzetta dello Sport in Italy, and the now defunct Sporting Life ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- who made important early contributions to the development of radar. He served ... Not only did radar greatly assist the Allies in the world war, but ...7 KB (1,005 words) - 05:01, 17 June 2023
- Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer space, by both ... for geopolitical rivalries, particularly the Cold War. The early era of ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote ... The desert image of the outback belies the land's natural riches—gold ...7 KB (1,078 words) - 20:04, 20 January 2023
- the 1850s until the 1870s, and many of the pioneers in the reed organ industry ... Catalogue states: "We are the pioneers and leading manufacturers ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- eighteenth century. He was also one of the pioneers of the private exhibition ... He was also one of the pioneers of the private exhibition, orchestrating ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- 1916) was an American educator, dedicated to the education of young children ... Susan Blow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the oldest of six children ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
- She believed that children lacked the experience needed to make ... Beecher was born in East Hampton, New York, the oldest of 13 children ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s ... A central aim of Constructivist architects was to instill the avant ...17 KB (2,374 words) - 02:43, 8 January 2024
- To appreciate the value and the richness of the Korean Sirhak, one ... deserve our admiration for having been the pioneers of the Sirhak not just ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 2023
- gulag survivor. He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak ... The trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky was the beginning of another period ...8 KB (1,077 words) - 10:24, 7 June 2023
- The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... The Kinneret is fed by underground springs, but its main source is ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting ... Human ability to harness electricity is one of the keys for the establishment ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- using electronic devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical ... electromechanical designs and they paved the way for the later emergence ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans ... fans showed no desire to learn about the pioneers he learned from. The 1950s ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- wit and dialogue. He was also one of the early pioneers of what would ... His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and experimental ... Bartlett was born in 1886 in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 10:25, 11 April 2024
- school, and kindergarten teacher, one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... who founded Bellewood Female Seminary. The Hill parents tried to provide ...9 KB (1,385 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Mathematical logic is often divided into the subfields of model theory ... One unifying theme in mathematical logic is the study of the expressive ...11 KB (1,513 words) - 16:50, 7 November 2022
- a dwarf, Webb was able to become perhaps the most powerful drummer of the ... for a greater wealth of top soloists, the bouncy energy and special ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 15:18, 10 December 2023
- A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States ... The Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are generally ...10 KB (1,549 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2020
- it has specific rules and etiquette for the dancers to follow. different types of dance, with origins in the many kinds of dances that ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- The term soft drink—more commonly known as soda, pop, or soda pop ... (though not always) carbonated. By contrast, the term "hard drink" ...25 KB (3,852 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... workers in this area include one of the pioneers of computational chemistry ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- Big Sur is a 100-mile stretch of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along ... Big Sur's boundaries are loosely defined; many definitions of ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- is a general term which refers to change in the nature, the social institutions ... in society. If the initiatives of the pioneers succeed, then it encourages ...31 KB (4,566 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- his work on analog computing, his role in the development of the atomic ... to Richard Perry Bush (unrelated to the Bush political family) and ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- 21, 1880 – May 29, 1961) was a pioneer in the field of child development ... influence of G. Stanley Hall, one of the pioneers in the study of child ...11 KB (1,524 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
- a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, was one of the chief pioneers of the revival ... His clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 06:39, 18 April 2024
- 300px|The old Co-operative building behind the Gateshead Millennium Bridge ... or co-op) is defined as a business owned by the people who use its services ...22 KB (3,153 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central ... The Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... The art of improvisation often focuses on bringing one's personal ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and ... Egyptian civil officer, worked as a judge in the judiciary in the Egyptian ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- Louise Lang, and Yale Joel at a cafe in the Bois de Boulogne after World ... Seymour was one of the pioneers of the fast moving, front-line, battle ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism ... Pound dubbed a "Vortoscope," and the resulting photographs "Vortographs ...23 KB (3,410 words) - 08:45, 23 July 2023
- Although he is often mentioned as the associate of Jeremy Bentham ... James Mill was born April 6, 1773, at Northwater Bridge, in the parish ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- born British entrepreneur and media owner, the founder of Reuters news agency ... An innovator in the field, he still recognized the need to cooperate ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major ... Great Britain had become a dominant colonial power during the eighteenth ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- vocal advocate of gender equality, the wife of abolitionist Henry ... Stone was born on the August 13, 1818, on her family's Massachusetts ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 02:36, 5 November 2022
- Utah, a state located in the western United States, was the 45th state ... Utah's pivotal central western location makes the state a natural ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ... of new discoveries about energy, including the newly recognized X-rays of ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- for his "Knightian uncertainty," the distinction between risk and ... high school but was admitted in 1905 to the American University in Tennessee ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ... as his eldest son's, he was one of the pioneers of the waltz as a serious ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- United States National Park located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range ... square km—over 3.4 million acres), it is the largest national park in the ...35 KB (5,565 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- February 10, 1923) was a German physicist of the University of Würzburg. On ... Despite the fame he achieved for his discovery, Röntgen chose the ...11 KB (1,777 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- study of dissociative disorders laid the foundation for analytical ... Paul Janet, a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and a devoted follower ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- sociologist, and historian, one of the pioneers of the school of institutional ... Commons' work, improving the life of labor class, formed a substantial ...13 KB (1,864 words) - 07:07, 3 August 2022
- a college of arts, science, and commerce. The Senate of Serampore College ... unable to retrieve. --> The Latin name of the college motto, Gloriam ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution in ... Clark sought to discover economic relationships, such as the relationship ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- The Omaha tribe is a Native American tribe that currently reside in ... During the late 1700s and early 1800s, the Omaha were briefly the ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 00:35, 18 November 2022
- a German ethnographer, who contributed to the development of ethnography ... Bastian is remembered as one of the pioneers of the concept of the ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United ... When Harrison took office in 1841 at the age of 68, he was the oldest ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 10:57, 9 May 2023
- became a self-appointed missionary for the Church of the New Jerusalem ... Known to many as the beloved Johnny Appleseed, he understood the practical ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
- The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder ... and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- a French scholar and archaeologist, one of the early pioneers of Egyptology ... in 1827, when he was only six years old. At the age of 12 he was already able ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The measures, designed by Whig Senator Henry Clay (who failed to get ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- a woman, and yet becoming president of both the American Psychological Association ... In her early work in psychology she developed the paired-associate ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- charge, known as positive and negative. The charge on an electron is, ... is, its net electric charge is zero) because the number of protons within its ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist who was one of three major pioneers in the wedding of genetics ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- and blues and gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United States. Rhythm and blues (a combination of blues and jazz) arose in the 1940s ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- that can be steered and propelled through the air. It is classified as an ... Airships were the first form of aircraft to make controlled, powered ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- work in human instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology ... McDougall was born on June 22, 1871 in Lancashire, England, as the ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- and subsequently bought by Harold the pioneers of popular journalism ... The Daily Mirror was launched on November 2, 1903, by Alfred Harmsworth ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within ... elevation than nearby Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon. The rim at Bryce ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- his work with mental patients, he discounted the unconscious postulated by ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone in the late 1960s ... driven by sixteenth-note divisions of the beat; crisp and active rhythm ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... the Sorbonne and was well received by the pioneers of the world's avant ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- music’s most legendary pianists and one of the greatest. His airy, volatile ... Earl Hines was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Duquesne, Pennsylvania ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- Zion National Park is a United States national park located in the ... A prominent feature in the 229-square-mile (593 square kilometer) ...32 KB (4,872 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- was already widely known and respected in the world of physics. He discovered ... He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with his wife Marie Curie ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 05:21, 24 November 2022
- George Antheil became one of the pioneers in searching for alternatives ... His earliest musical training was on the viola at age five. In 1916 ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 - April 1, 1991), an American dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- #039;s short story writing was influenced by the Bible, the stories of the ... recognition as an authoress. Dinesen felt the native people—the Somali ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- is a global news agency, headquartered in the United States. The company ... Newspaper publisher Edward W. Scripps (1854 — 1926) created the ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- and his brother, Allen W. Dulles, directed the C.I.A.. As Eisenhower's ... Dulles was one of the pioneers of the concept of brinkmanship. In ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theater ... by Symbolism. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Modern European ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- of the twentieth century and one of the pioneers of recorded music. Caruso ... recordings and made millions of dollars from the sale of his 78 rpm records ...13 KB (1,957 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. A Presidential proclamation ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- The May Fourth Movement (五四運動, 五四运动, wǔ sì yùn ... The May Fourth Movement led to the New Cultural Movement and a drastic ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and other early pioneers of rock and roll. Often ... The now classic Sun recordings by Presley, Cash, Lewis, Orbison, and ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:58, 23 December 2022
- Christian socialism in America, and one of the leaders of Progressive Era ... Ely was one of the pioneers of the Progressive movement, whose Wisconsin ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in ... Monroe toured the South and recorded in the 1930s as one of the partners ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism ... His reputation grew in the United States following the critical reception ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political ... Women's suffrage is the most widely applicable aspect of the ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- a German neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- with Alfred Lord Tennyson is perhaps one of the most well-remembered poets ... as Prometheus Unbound, which inspired him to the dramatic poetry which would ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one of the founding members of one of ... Cavalcanti chose to write in the vernacular, or "vulgar" ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- normally round plates of various alloys. The majority of cymbals are of ... The word cymbal is derived from the Latin cymbalum, "Cymbalum ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- of the twentieth century. He was one of the pioneers in the field of ethnomusicology ... His pioneering efforts in the field of ethnomusicology with his colleague ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- of folk music and rock music. Originally the term referred to a genre that ... Folk rock had antecedents in the labor movement of the 1930s, notably ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of ... Christian hymns, and came to maturity during the era of slavery. Southern gospel ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 00:04, 3 January 2024
- May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was one of the first working female engineers ... The Gilbreths are considered the founders of modern industrial management ...16 KB (2,285 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Chinese Chan master in Tang-era China. He founded one of the five ... practice. He is also known for expressing the entire Zen teachings in one ...14 KB (2,283 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- socially and engaged in competitively around the globe. Any of the various ... The waltz is credited with having been "invented" in Austria ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- is a device that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a signal. The ... amplifiers extremely difficult. One of the pioneers in high bandwidth vertical ...18 KB (2,580 words) - 09:26, 18 June 2021
- and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers ... several blues sub-genres, and originality on the guitar. Difficult to imitate ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- theorist and publisher, and was probably the most influential man outside ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- Co catalog cover.png|thumb|200 px|Catalog of the Central Scientific Company, 1912]] ... Montgomeryshire, Wales was also one of the pioneers in the mail order business ...17 KB (2,545 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- Michael Faraday was one of the pioneers of modern electromagnetic theory. His work laid the foundation for the identification of light as an ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 16:54, 9 November 2022
- Special education is the term most commonly used to describe the methodology ... that students with special needs can achieve the same educational goals as ...20 KB (2,954 words) - 19:10, 7 February 2023
- a rock and roll classic that illustrates the close relationship between ... by pop music critics as one of the pioneers of rock and roll. ...15 KB (2,405 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- Pravda (Правда, "The Truth") was a leading newspaper ... ==Origins: The Vienna Pravda== The original Pravda ("The Truth ...17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- and social, self-centered greed on the part of those in authority ... The supermarket typically comprises meat, produce, dairy, and baked ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 13:56, 28 April 2023
- Sigmund Freud's closest aides, and by the end of his career one of his ... ascribing all such development as rooted in the birth trauma, has found wide ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- enjoyed pop music cross-over success during the era of the Nashville Sound ... Tonk Heroes & Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country & Western ...17 KB (2,547 words) - 16:47, 21 November 2022
- was an influential Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological ... using a more complete method that the Freudian psychoanalysis with ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for ... aspects of the electron established by the pioneers of quantum mechanics. ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- and songwriter, who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland ... works were a source of inspiration to the pioneers of liberalism, socialism ...16 KB (2,543 words) - 03:14, 15 December 2022
- whose inventions and discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism ... Joseph Henry was born on December 17, 1799, in Albany, New York, the ...17 KB (2,674 words) - 00:41, 11 August 2022
- electric guitars, bass guitar, and drums. The term "hard rock" ... Hard rock became a template of society and reflected the many views ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- rock with abrasive grit, in a rotating drum. The biggest pebble here is 40 ... used in jewelry and decorative items. Among the most highly valued gemstones ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 06:40, 18 April 2024
- The Great Basin is a huge heart-shaped area that covers parts of six ... The Great Basin Culture Area, home to several Shoshonean Great Basin ...18 KB (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- He was founder of the Woodcraft Indians and one of the founding pioneers ... naturalists. He is credited with being the seminal figure in the emergence ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism ... and graduated with a master’s degree at the age of 21. ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 20:40, 1 April 2024
- Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was one of the pioneers ... From his early experience at the Froebel kindergarten in Minden, to ...37 KB (5,468 words) - 05:16, 9 April 2024
- The Platte River is an approximately 310 mile (499 km) long river ... game, and a clear path westward for the pioneers. Both the Oregon Trail ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential ... Catholic and Orthodox traditions regarding the Fathers of the Church ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The Battle of Vicksburg, or Siege of Vicksburg, was the final significant ... Grant had captured Jackson, the Mississippi state capital, in mid ...17 KB (2,734 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- Category: History of the Americas [[File:PatrickBreenDiaryPage28.jpg ... Truckee Lake was not yet frozen, but the pioneers were unfamiliar with catching ...73 KB (11,798 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- His most famous works is Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)... The Little ... By 1926, he was flying again. He became one of the pioneers of international ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- notable_ideas = The “will to believe” doctrine, the pragmatic ... psychologist and philosopher who popularized the branch of philosophy known ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious ... With recent developments in cardiac resuscitation techniques, the ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- 10-inch, 245-pound Mikan was one of the pioneers of professional basketball ... trophy, three scoring titles, and named to the first four NBA All-Star teams ...19 KB (3,019 words) - 16:27, 15 August 2021
- a pioneer family. Her best known book from The 'Little House Series ... and yet in her lifetime she witnessed all the major changes that transformed ...19 KB (2,983 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world ... This partially landlocked body of water, an indentation in the southeastern ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- The Mitsubishi Group (三菱グループ; Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi ... Mitsubishi was the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial ...21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
- Its philosophical roots can be found in the school of behaviorism, which ... The history of behavior therapy progressed during the same time that ...21 KB (3,092 words) - 16:57, 2 February 2024
- patents to his credit. De Forest invented the triode vacuum tube, which ... De Forest's zeal for promoting the mass media helped shape it ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 18:59, 25 October 2022
- an American psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology ... and students of psychology to appreciate the spiritual dimension of human ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
- and sizes, based on their interaction with the wind. Most kinds of dunes ... Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- travel over any relatively smooth surface. The Hovercraft is designed for ... classic.html In 1965 Sweden become the pioneers of commercial hovercraft ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- |faculty = 285[http://www.smith.edu/about_justthefacts.php Just ... located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
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- , commonly known as NTT, is a telephone company that dominates the ... Japanese subsidiary NTT DoCoMo launched the world's first 3G (Third ...22 KB (3,054 words) - 05:01, 15 November 2022
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- The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age. Tempus ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- Lyric poetry refers to either poetry that has the form and musical ... reference to the classical past, by the pioneers of courtly poetry and ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain is the ... Spanish archaeologist, who was one of the pioneers in the study of the earliest ...25 KB (4,047 words) - 06:22, 18 November 2022
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- Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... in 1956 by Louis Couffignal, one of the pioneers of cybernetics, characterizes ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
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- The Somali Revolution started in 1986, when President Siad Barre began ... The United Nations was involved on the ground in Somalia from 1992 ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 01:10, 4 February 2023
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) was the first United ... lands in a 4,000-mile wilderness trek, the expedition lost only one man ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... The term "social science" did not appear until the nineteenth ...53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
- Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of ... The lake is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, a pluvial lake ...23 KB (3,613 words) - 12:54, 22 January 2023
- The Ohio River is the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi ... The Hopewell culture developed on its shores 2,000 years ago. By the ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that ... The pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church had much to do with ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- they have been and are still flown all over the world. See also gliding and ... A "glider" is an unpowered aircraft. The most common types ...22 KB (3,495 words) - 08:00, 24 January 2023
- philosopher and reformist who is considered the foremost intellectual leader ... As one of the pioneers of Chinese journalism of his time, Liang believed ...24 KB (3,503 words) - 22:24, 25 October 2022
- Spearfishing is a form of fishing that has been popular throughout ... powered spearguns and slings to strike the hunted fish. ...23 KB (3,586 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- located in Houston, Texas. It is the fifth largest private sector ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- A Kibbutz (קיבוץ), plural Kibbutzim (קיבוצים), from the ... The spiritualism of the pioneers of the kibbutz movement consisted ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 03:59, 6 October 2022
- environment through one's senses. The term "simulated reality ... or a virtual artifact (VA) either through the use of standard input devices ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome ... over time. Initially, he was one of the pioneers of Reader Response Criticism ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... The Shakers are famous for their ecstatic religious dances and work ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were Nineteenth ... The Grimké sisters were born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. ...25 KB (4,265 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- she was noted for her many contributions to the entertainment industry. She ... A staple panelist of American game shows, dubbed "the first lady ...54 KB (7,980 words) - 18:02, 29 September 2023
- Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek ... Greece's classical age produced two of the pioneers of history: ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- essays, and short stories, most notably in the fantasy and science fiction ... Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- service, frequently youth service, in the community. As a teaching methodology ... back to 1862 when President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act donating public ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- newspaper and radio commentator. He invented the "gossip column" ... At the height of his influence, more than 50 million Americans, or ...22 KB (3,440 words) - 22:30, 3 May 2023
- A Garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display ... Gardening is an art and a science. It is an activity that brings out ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- direct personal experience with God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit ... several theories that say that because the pioneers of Pentecostalism were ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- 12, 1989) was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... but it was already rich and essential in the period of antiquity called ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1896 - November 25, 1997) was the leader of ... him of his title. Banda ran for president in the democratic elections which ...24 KB (3,748 words) - 08:44, 20 January 2024
- ) is a Japanese trading company and one of the largest sogo shosha ... Marubeni's name combines the Japanese words for "circle ...25 KB (3,645 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, grew up in the midst of poverty. The suffering ... democracy, that it was meant to ensure the promises of life, liberty ...25 KB (3,909 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- The reed organ is a keyboard instrument that operates via bellows ... The Yamaha piano builder was one of the pioneers in Japan to build reed ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- – November 28 1962) was queen regnant of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 ... that a woman was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- and actor. A premier representative of the New German Cinema. Famous ... Fassbinder was distinguished for the strong provocative current underlying ...50 KB (7,532 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- and radiochemistry. He received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ... Otto Hahn was born on March 8, 1879, in Frankfurt am Main, the youngest ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... The term broadcast was coined by early radio engineers from the mid ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological ... and comparative psychology. Ultimately, the goal of those working in the ...31 KB (4,396 words) - 05:46, 25 August 2020
- cultural anthropologist, a pioneer of the feminist movement in America ... a feminist, Mead is considered one of the pioneers of the feminist movement ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 03:56, 6 November 2022
- Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning ... although it is suggested that the pioneers of Boolean logic were ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948 ... The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
- The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie and steppe that ... The region covers almost 500|mi|km east to west and 3000|mi|km ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- American exceptionalism has been historically referred to as the belief ... The difference is often expressed in American circles as some categorical ...29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
- ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ... and practiced in many schools around the globe. Its popularity is not ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- 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
- also pursuing a career as a painter. In the early 1960s, Skelton was the ... can be seen in the 2005 PBS special, The Pioneers of Primetime. ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... Cookson (eds.). Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age. Tempus ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- American scientist and inventor who foresaw the possibility of space travel ... Robert Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the only child ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 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
- ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- The Right Reverend James Edward Lesslie Newbigin C.B.E. (December ... universal community. His writing challenged the church to re-engage with the ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- into more than fifty languages. He is the recipient of numerous national ... for his criticism of some episodes in the Turkish past, including genocide ...30 KB (4,557 words) - 10:43, 11 March 2023
- Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation ... Hospice care in the United States is largely defined by the practices ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 20:47, 25 September 2020
- modern life. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in ... Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter ...26 KB (4,124 words) - 21:08, 30 April 2023
- East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... of Shamanism, Confucianism and Buddhism. The early Shamanist Koreans had ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- and philosopher, considered one of the greatest mathematicians in ... of some of his works, with commentaries, in the sixth century C.E. Ancient ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- form. In fibers with large core diameter, the confinement is based on total ... The term optical fiber covers a range of different designs including ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- means to effect public and social order. The term is most commonly associated ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...30 KB (4,393 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- Attention is defined as a readiness on the part of the organism to ... Attention involves the selection of some incoming information for ...32 KB (4,749 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism ... De Andrade was one of the pioneers of Brazilian and Latin American ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Sukarnoputri of Indonesia. Bangladesh was the first country in the world ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- who pioneered modern education for the Muslim community in India ... scholar while working as a jurist for the British East India Company ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... scientist Michael Dertouzos was among the pioneers of the internet. Nicolas ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- (February 17, 1899 - October 22, 1954) is the most popular Bengali poet ... In the early days of the twentieth century, Jibanananda was at the ...31 KB (4,652 words) - 01:09, 9 February 2023
- field), each of whom uses a netted stick (the cross) in order to pass and ... summer sport. It has grown in popularity in the United States, becoming the ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 22:41, 30 April 2023
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- ::Note: For the Roman god Jupiter please click here. : Jupiter is the ... to the axis of the Earth's field. The Pioneers measured the bow shock ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- music tradition that has been evolving since the twelfth century C.E., in what ... which extemporized variations are generated. The forms of Hindustani classical ...31 KB (4,635 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- Paleontology (palaeontology or palæontology) is the scientific study ... Paleontology represents the desire of human beings to better understand ...34 KB (5,105 words) - 06:23, 18 November 2022
- Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution ... Ecology may be more simply defined as the relationship between living ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization ... With the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911, there was ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the ... Tim O'Reilly is generally credited for coining the term and the ...39 KB (5,412 words) - 23:24, 3 May 2023
- of United Artists in 1919. She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in ... pitted against a cruel world earned her the sobriquet, "America& ...32 KB (4,715 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- – July 14, 1881) was better known as Billy the Kid, but also known ... lifetime but was catapulted into legend in the year after his death when ...32 KB (5,164 words) - 17:41, 31 October 2023
- Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by ... of novel but of “romance.” Among the pioneers of this genre we find ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the state ... Baltimore's harbor has always been a major asset. Once the second ...32 KB (4,493 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- :This article focuses on modern scientific research on the age of Earth. ... The pioneers of radioactivity were Bertram B. Boltwood, a young chemist ...34 KB (5,149 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- record-setting test pilot. In 1947 he became the first pilot in history confirmed ... In recognition of his achievements he was awarded the Harmon Trophy ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- quot; or "radiotelegraphy," is the wireless communication of ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Ludwig Gumplowicz is believed to have coined the term "ethnocentrism" ... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the ... "Detroit" is a word almost universally associated with the ...33 KB (4,747 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
