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- by Nichifor Crainic, an intellectual figure on the far right who shared ... Sorin Toma (son of the Stalinist literary figure Alexandru Toma)Tismăneanu ...22 KB (3,385 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- Despite significant scholarly research, Loki seems to have been a ... As a figure in Norse mythology, Loki belonged to a complex religious ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- son-in-law as well. Thus, he is a revered figure for all Muslims, although ... and Shi'a Muslims, Ali is also a figure around whom Muslims unite ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- from two locations on the Earth, they arrived at a figure of about 140 million kilometers. A somewhat more accurate estimate can be obtained by ...8 KB (1,072 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- by many politicians as a controversial figure due to his outspoken opposition ... " and was seen as a truly national figure. This feeling was further ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- rumors can be found regarding nearly any royal figure. More congenial is the story of how she sheltered a deposed patriarch for 12 years without anyone ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- Herrick is nonetheless a significantly influential figure. He was widely admired by eighteenth-century poets, both for the breadth of his classical learning ...8 KB (1,326 words) - 05:06, 15 December 2022
- A figure 8 is the common name of a geometric shape, often used in ... caduceus (where two snakes form several figure eights) as stability or balance ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- was named after the tragic Carthaginian figure Sophonisba. ... she could not undertake the complex multi-figure compositions required for ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 22:03, 30 January 2023
- it clear that Saint Peter is to be the central figure of the church after Jesus' death. Thus Jesus gives the keys to the Kingdom of God to Peter ...20 KB (3,346 words) - 20:09, 11 September 2021
- on May 3, 1868, and became the historical figure who not only saved the lives ... Sakamoto Ryoma, a key figure in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 17:15, 5 October 2022
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December 21, 1804 – April 19, 1881) was an English statesman and literary figure ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- Cornetist, composer, and pianist Bix Beiderbecke was a key figure ... *Eddie Condon, guitarist and banjo player and a leading figure in ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- Using optimization algorithms, a circle-packing figure can be computed for any uniaxial base of arbitrary complexity. Once this figure is computed ...17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
- Daily News. Hadden was a rather carefree figure, who liked to tease Luce ... in an autocratic fashion becoming a major figure in twentieth-century media ...20 KB (2,824 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- That Jeroboam remained an honored figure in the northern kingdom is ... thus wiped out, he remained a respected figure in the northern kingdom, ...17 KB (2,812 words) - 18:48, 23 June 2023
- Kirstein, a writer, art connoisseur, and cultural figure in New York City in the 1930s. He is famous less for his own artistic achievement than for his ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- Birkenau State Museum revised this figure in 1990, and new calculations ... possibilities." Adolf Eichmann gave a figure of 2 million. Soviet and ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- and perhaps more than any musical figure of the nineteenth century was responsible for developing the attitude that the conductor was a supreme ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- quot;broad") on account of his robust figure. Another alternative is that ... and-answer style is more formal: the main figure represents Plato and the ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- between Pelops and Oinomaos, and the central figure which dominates the work is of Zeus. The western pediment depicts the abduction of the Lapith women ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- An allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but it may be ... statues of 'Justice': a female figure traditionally holding scales ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- Merezhkovsky was a seminal literary figure in modernist Russia. He helped to introduce Friedrich Nietzsche into Russian thought. His poetry and ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Chief Joseph would become a mythical figure in the United States, ... a viable option. He became a mythical figure in the United States, as ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- cross, (mandalas), or by the quaternity (a figure with four parts). Prominent ... priest, professor, or any other authority figure. It represents insight, wisdom ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered among the ...21 KB (3,324 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- to deliver pestilence. In this way, the figure of Sebastian can be seen ... these depictions, the saint is seen as a figure of boyish, even effeminate ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- As a figure in the Norse mythic corpus, Völund belonged to a complex ... for "if Völund had been the divine figure he probably once was, the ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- Levi became a major literary figure in Italy. The Truce became a set ... survivors. He became in the end a symbolic figure for anti-fascists in Italy. ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- The former quarters of the Dalai Lama. The figure in the throne represents ... of the Gelug tradition. His central figure is surrounded by lamas from ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an influential figure in the development of modern American anthropology. The first student of Franz Boas and a prolific ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- named Don Pedro who had been a vital figure in expelling the Moors from ... War, Farragut has been an inspirational figure within navy and military ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- the raid on Ali's house. She was a leading figure in the community, as Muhammad's biological daugher and mother of his only grandchildren. Abu ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- Twain was a colorful figure who arrived on the literary scene during ... of Arc, whom he saw as an authentic Christ figure untainted by the hypocrisies ...25 KB (3,843 words) - 02:57, 23 December 2022
- Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 - October 15, 1965) was an American poet and literary critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- of depth. The background and object (or figure) planes interpenetrate one ... formal academic art training, such as figure drawing and painting in oil ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- an important and influential political figure serving in the Senate. He ... offensive" by embracing the "figure of Simon bolivar--first Santander ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Bobrowski, in Kraków—a more cautious figure than either of his parents ... novels: the introduction of an enigmatic figure who serves as a touchstone ...22 KB (3,429 words) - 21:20, 6 May 2024
- a Great Notion, and as a counter-cultural figure who, some consider a link ... he remained a popular counter-cultural figure until the end of his life. ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 17:21, 5 October 2022
- sculpture to be just as important as the figure, much as a frame could be ... from above. In shallow relief, sculpted figure-groups of the Cornaro family ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- O'Hara was an important figure in the development of gay ... about his homosexuality and an important figure in the development and acceptance ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- selected elect who will attain salvation. The figure 144,000 appears three times in the New Testament: Rev. 7:3-8; Rev. 14:1; and Rev. 14:3-5. These passages ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 06:27, 13 June 2023
- made him an attractive counter-cultural figure in certain circles. For example ... and most inflexible dogmatism, a dark figure out of the Middle Ages, part ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
- and industrial refrigeration systems. Figure 1 provides a schematic diagram ... as shown in Figure 2. In this cycle, a circulating refrigerant such ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- laureate Daniel Kahneman, he was a key figure in the discovery of systematic ... odds from the 15 percent prior probability figure. The reliability figure for ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- #039;s study (1796) of the classical figure Amor with an inverted torch ... Although iconic depictions of a single figure are the dominant type ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- with Charlie Parker, was a major figure in the development of bebop ... His personality and his public nature made him a natural ambassador ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 January 2023
- of these two motions produces a figure-eight pattern as seen from ... in that orbit is a more or less distorted figure-eight, returning to the same ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- Since the fourteenth century, the figure of Pope Joan has taken on ... recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, of Pope Zachary. ...24 KB (4,035 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- life and thought. At times a controversial figure in Chinese history, his legacy ... ==Confucius as a Cultic Figure== Soon after Confucius's death ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- modern French chiffre, which means digit, figure, or number; chiffrer, to ... * German: Ziffer, digit, figure, numeral, cypher * Hindi: shunya ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else. But I have a wonderful memory of observation ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 07:57, 3 August 2022
- Rooney, ‘the Chief,’ was a legendary figure, a dedicated Catholic whose ... Today, Rooney is probably the city's most beloved figure. Few ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- critics, who regard him either as a mythological figure or as the personification of tribal reminiscences crystallized around a semi-mythical hero. The ...17 KB (2,859 words) - 19:56, 7 September 2022
- 101. Here's a look back at the hidden figure's remarkable life] Business ... renames-facility-to-honor-hidden-figure-katherine-johnson/3225/ NASA ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- The handwork involved in making a wayang kulit figure that is suitable ... be replaced with an expensive, newly made figure. For this reason, the wayang ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- upon this seal depicts a horned male figure with an erect phallus, the ... The central figure is seated in a yogic posture and is surrounded ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 19:47, 14 April 2020
- else as a man with the head of a bull. The figure of Moloch has been an object ... as a metaphor for Adolf Hitler. The figure of Moloch also appears frequently ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- the orientation of the magnetic field (see figure at top). Another place where ... The figure to the right is a sketch of Earth's magnetic field ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- before death. However, he did not do so, and the figure remains unknown. ==Regalia== Cardinals gained their distinctive red dress and hat under ...9 KB (1,483 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- power, to the Son; and the form or figure, to the Father. Von Mosheim, 220. Von Mosheim described Sabellius' views thusly: "But while ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 18:31, 22 December 2022
- Cross country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined ... The Olympic mascot, an animal or human figure representing the cultural ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- etched various designs including a human figure into a stone, and then broke ... chief deity. In this version the human figure was purposely drawn without ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- (seated) from the Harpies. Side A from an Attic red-figure column-krater, ca. 460 B.C.E.]] This continued until Jason and the Argonauts arrived ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- national federation with its own king. The figure of Abimelech, son of Gideon ... *Jephthah—A tragic figure, Jephthah was the son of a prostitute ...19 KB (3,100 words) - 00:20, 19 November 2023
- strip, was modeled on Floyd. Like the real-life figure, Flattop hailed from Oklahoma's Cookson Hills. A film, Pretty Boy Floyd, was made ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- trumpet player. He is considered a historical figure announcing the transition between swing and modern jazz. Roy Eldridge was both an innovator ...9 KB (1,351 words) - 02:28, 17 December 2022
- with the ideal image of the maternal figure in her place in society. ... This is a text in which the domestic maternal figure comes to the ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- The center of mass of this figure is at a distance of 8.5 units from the left corner of the figure. == Tracing around the perimeter of a shape ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- began with him, but Griffith was a key figure in establishing the set of ... Griffith was a highly controversial figure. Immensely popular at the ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- figura liber (“On the Monad, Number, and Figure,” 1591) Giordano Bruno ... et figura liber (“On the Monad, Number, and Figure”). ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- and matter, finite and infinite. The figure is determined to be from ... strong chest while the large lap gives the figure a sense of proportional harmony ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
- "With most drivers, you figure 25 percent driver, 75 percent car," said American Phil Hill, the 1961 Formula One champion. "With ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- body itself, such as mass, extension, figure and motion; while “secondary” ... properties, such as extent, divisibility, figure, etc., should not, however ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- on the circle, is the perfect geometrical figure, representing the perfection ... [[Image:MimarSinan-Detail.jpg|thumb|Sinan is likely the figure shown ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 22:27, 29 January 2023
- ]]. The central figure came to be called Vairocana. In the conception of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vairocana is at the center. ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- poets writing in English. He remains the leading figure in Anglo-Welsh literature. His vivid and often fantastic imagery was a rejection of the Modernist ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- In May 1943, as a colonel, Perón was a significant figure in the ... then Evita had become a powerful political figure in her own right. She began ...17 KB (2,640 words) - 06:03, 10 May 2024
- the tuft of hair on the forehead of the fleeing figure); otherwise the moment is gone and can not be re-captured (shown in sculpture by the back of head ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- 0385469926), 726; E.P. Sanders, Historical Figure of Jesus (Penguin, 1996, ... of biblical scholars argue that Jesus never existed as a historical ...44 KB (6,589 words) - 16:59, 22 February 2023
- Lewis, usually seen as the central figure in the movement, had been ... politically, Lewis remained an isolated figure in the 1930s. In Letter to ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- Jackson, serving until 1836. Cass was a central figure in formulating and implementing the Indian Removal policy of the Jackson administration. He was ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- or atmospheric effects. The most remarkable figure in this novel is Porfiry Golovlev, nicknamed Little Judas, the empty and mechanical hypocrite ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- site, and he was a particularly important figure to the Merovignian and Carolingian ... of France and of soldiers, as well as a figure often cited by pacifists ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- a head resembling a boar. Part of a jade figure (coiled 'pig dragon ... weather for crops, and the imaginative figure of dragon has been gradually ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- #039;s crosses were made and a doll-like figure of Brighid, called a Brídeóg ... #039; or 'Biddy'), a doll-like figure of Brighid made from rushes ...20 KB (3,131 words) - 15:26, 4 February 2023
- that, using the Greek stadium of 185 meters, the figure of 804 million stadia that he quotes for the distance to the sun comes to 149 million kilometers ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- Secretariat exhibited. If the Beyer Speed Figure calculation had been developed ... Secretariat became a beloved figure with fans and non-fans of horse ...29 KB (4,653 words) - 17:43, 25 January 2023
- Medal of Honor. Cody is an almost iconic figure in the development of the ... and painted boldly across its face was the figure of an Indian. He wore the ...27 KB (4,199 words) - 12:10, 8 May 2023
- day, it is clear that he was highly influential figure due to his inclusion in the group of the nine canonical poets of ancient Greece by later scholars ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- |colspan=5 style="font-size:.7em"|No symbol = official figure,F = FAO estimate, * = Unofficial figure, C = Calculated figure; ...24 KB (3,593 words) - 22:30, 1 January 2023
- * [http://www.hiatoys.com/bessie.html Bessie Coleman Action Figure] * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19750 Find-A ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 17:27, 29 September 2023
- rivals of Wilhelm Wundt, then the most prominent figure in German experimental psychology. Stumpf opposed pure introspection, which reduced experience ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- Oresme designated the area of the resulting geometrical figure the “mensura” or “quantitas,” and demonstrated that if the speed of an ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- fame that followed, Browning became a major figure in the history of Victorian literature, securing a reputation that remains undiminished even today. ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- as a lonely, proud and ultimately tragic figure. Like Baoyu, Daiyu has a ... face, fair skin and some say a voluptuous figure, in contrast to Daiyu's ...35 KB (5,738 words) - 17:35, 30 January 2024
- right|250px|An Indus Valley seal with the seated figure termed pashupati]] Pashupata Shaivism was one of the main Shaivite schools. The Pashupatas ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 19:20, 23 June 2020
- the newspaper staff and a respected public figure in Mexico. ... artistic clubs. Martí became a well-known figure in the city's social ...19 KB (3,059 words) - 06:30, 6 May 2024
- Julia Lathrop was an important figure in numerous social reforms, inducing changes like the improvement in the care for the mentally ill, reduction ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- Passion plays also figure in the history of antisemitism, as they ... a much more human being than the static figure depicted in icons, readings ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- The mythological figure of Brunhild was probably inspired by the real ... Norse story-tellers and poets changed the figure of Brynhild. In making her ...18 KB (2,858 words) - 16:28, 30 April 2020
- 1753. He was now recognized as a leading literary figure, and associated with the likes of David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson and Laurence ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
- he set himself apart from the predominant figure sculpture tradition of the time. ... on The Age of Bronze, a life-size male figure whose realism would lead ...42 KB (6,353 words) - 19:06, 21 August 2023
- and replaced with a simple winged figure. The square was renamed "Place du Peuple," and later "Place Napoléon." In 1831 ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- easily distinguished by the emotion of the figure and the contortions of the body. ... in little but the human face and figure. He possessed an unrivaled ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 10:50, 20 September 2023
- abject poverty—even higher than the original figure. The first two volumes of his Life and Labour of the People of London were published in 1889. ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- screenwriters, as well as in the modern figure of the disillusioned anti ... struggle (the fish, of course, is a major figure in Christianity). The old ...19 KB (2,931 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- landscape is on level ground, with no figure towering above the other ... brought down the denunciation of no less a figure than Charles Dickens. ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 01:40, 8 December 2022
- Browning and Tennyson. Timrod may be a secondary figure in American poetry — overshadowed, as he was, by some of the most influential figures in the ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- in other religions, that also describe a Father figure in their theological framework. ==History and background== The Lotus Sutra was probably ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- quot; vase after Edgar Rubin. The figure and ground are reversible ... an aspect of perceptual organization, figure-ground perception, in which ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- Walpole continued to be an influential figure in the House of Commons; ... in 1721 left Walpole as the most important figure in the administration. In ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 00:47, 29 November 2022
- Theogony, the earth, personified as a maternal figure and named Gaia, came into existence out of Chaos by her own accord. She then gave birth to Uranus ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- Louis Wirth became a leading figure in Chicago School of Sociology. His interests included urban life, behavior of minority groups, housing, ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- left the party in 1906. Banerjee was an important figure in the Swadeshi movement, advocating goods manufactured in India against foreign products, and ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 23:52, 26 February 2023
- the Indus Valley Civilization, showing a figure in meditation posture.]] Indus Valley Civilization have unearthed a figure who appears to be practicing ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- Andrić is both a politically controversial figure and literarily a somewhat marginal presence. Many Croatian historians of literature have never considered ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 07:47, 12 March 2024
- and this led to his being a central figure in the growing reform faction ... referring to him as the greatest literary figure of his age. ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- taught her. She also became a mother figure to Ramakrishna’s disciples, and was later deified by Ramakrishna’s followers. Although poor and ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 15:51, 18 June 2022
- could read and write French, although this figure was higher than those who ... percent of the population in general, this figure was only 37.7 percent for ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- center of a regular tetrahedron (a four-sided figure with equilateral triangles as sides) with each of the other four molecules at a corner of the tetrahedron ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 17:33, 9 March 2022
- ... In this traditional paradigm, a figure achieves prominence not from ... Zhu Xi is a figure whose lasting impact upon Chinese life and society ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 – April 5, 1794) was a noted orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution ...20 KB (3,217 words) - 23:22, 28 November 2022
- exiled by Odoacer), indicating that the figure of Ermaneric belongs to a ... The legendary figure of Dietrich also appears in the thirteenth century ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- took part in the work, some of whose names figure in other contexts. It is ... walls. Though she is a decidedly marginal figure who is never again mentioned ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- farm families only a few decades ago; now, that figure is around 1-2 percent, and some 80 percent of the population lives in cities. The food industry ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 06:16, 1 April 2024
- The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the belief in a religious (and often political) savior figure who inaugurates ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- his teams. He became as much of a public figure as many of his star players ... all four years, Stengel was a popular figure nonetheless, not least due ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- He retired in 1955. He remained an important figure until his death in Nuremberg in 1973. ==Philosophy == In 1923, Carl Grungberg was invited ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- By virtue of being the first figure in the triad consisting of Anu, Enlil, and Ea, Anu came to be regarded as the father and king of the gods ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- where he was well-known as a friendly figure around town. He died on December 6, 1955, at the age of eighty-one, and is buried at Jefferson ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 13:38, 2 February 2024
- the fig tree, I saw you," is based on Jewish figure of speech referring to studying the Torah. Nathanael recognizes Jesus as "the Son of God ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- #039;s arguments is that the principal figure in the second group is not ... for Simurgh long enough for the birds to figure out that they themselves ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- thirteenth century Japan. A controversial figure during his lifetime, he is ... Nichiren was an extremely controversial figure in his own time, and ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- [[image:griffin3.jpg|thumb|200px|Medieval figure of a heraldic griffin]]The griffin is often seen as a "charge" in heraldry. The Gryphon ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 19:20, 31 January 2023
- advocacy after the civil war spared no political figure. Even Grant was subject to Dana's criticism of his abilities as President of the United States ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- |Augusta]], with the obverse showing a standing figure of the goddess, Juno]] Zenobia and her large army made expeditions and conquered Anatolia ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- mysterious circumstances. A controversial figure in life, Maxwell's activities ... zest for life … Bob Maxwell was a unique figure who attracted controversy ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- serious interests, Patterson seemed an unlikely figure to have major impact on society other than through scandals. After a disastrous marriage, and ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 13:57, 2 April 2008
- One way is simply by withdrawing as an authority figure; teachers can also redirect students’ ambitions for power by having them participate in making ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- of the Monophysite heresy. He was a key figure of the Second Council of Ephesus, where he was exonerated, but was later condemned at the Council ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 05:26, 5 April 2021
- great-grandmother of Elizabeth I. She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses. Beaufort was a descendant of Edward III through John of Gaunt ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- poetry. Although Sandburg was never a major figure of Modernism, like Pound, or a literary celebrity like Frost, his impact on the development of a ...10 KB (1,491 words) - 12:48, 27 November 2023
- Tories and became the most prominent literary figure to lend his hand to Tory politics. As a result, Swift found himself in a bitter feud with the other ...20 KB (3,110 words) - 19:48, 4 May 2024
- Jackson Pollock style and traditional figure and landscape based art styles ... Jackson Pollock style and traditional figure and landscape based art styles ...37 KB (5,789 words) - 09:21, 13 March 2024
- Marie Taglioni (April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884) was a famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- Institutionally, she was the central figure of a nationally recognized ... Finally, Bast was also a common figure in popular worship. During ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- of a man embracing it. Local legend tells that the figure is Finn the Giant, builder of the cathedral. Another column has a similar sculpture of a woman ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 02:11, 15 January 2023
- and Heinrich Hertz. FitzGerald was a leading figure among the group of Maxwellians who revised, extended, clarified, and confirmed Maxwell's ...10 KB (1,546 words) - 15:49, 20 May 2024
- Harbor at a time when virtually every public figure and government official approved of it. Thomas loudly condemned the ACLU for "dereliction of ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- youth, prior to his appearance as a historical figure. An early event is detailed in this history. With the help of fellow-villagers, Tyler routed ...10 KB (1,583 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- servants in all perils. Bel was an important figure of Babylonian idolatry as depicted in (Isaiah 45:1 and Jer. 51:44). The term is the Akkadian equivalent ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- was an American archaeologist, known as a key figure of the twentieth century biblical archaeology movement. A noted biblical scholar, historian ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- Atisha stands as an important figure in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition ... For those reasons, Atisha remains a central figure in the history ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- in the Bible, he is nevertheless a very important figure, especially because of his prophetic role as a counterbalance to the otherwise absolute rule ...11 KB (1,891 words) - 01:30, 11 November 2022
- Madam Tallien, a great figure of the French Revolution, who was nicknamed Our Lady of Thermidor, used to take baths full of strawberries to keep ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 22:58, 21 October 2022
- Due to his studies in African history, Frobenius is a figure of renown in many African countries even today. In particular, he influenced Léopold ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- historian, had reigned for 9 years--a figure which conforms exactly with ... However, he is also significant as a figure who managed the beginning ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 02:21, 18 April 2023
- For this reason, he is often seen as a morally exemplary figure possessing ... Sif. Finally, Skáldskaparmál mentions a figure named Hlóra who was Thor ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure in twentieth-century logical positivism. Together with Rudolf Carnap, he was one of the leading ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- Ernest Jones was a key figure in introducing the study of psychoanalysis into the English-speaking world. He translated many of Freud’s works ...11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
- Rossetti's reputation as a major literary figure. In part, these developments in Rossetti's literary style were precipitated by events ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 22:13, 25 January 2024
- and established himself as a leading figure in the scientific revolution ... sister Katherine, who had been a maternal figure for him. Their father soon ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- Kissinger was a satirized or lampooned figure in America and overseas ... in China. The character is a semi-comic figure with an ungainly appearance ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- moves in response to each scenario, God is able to figure all consequences from what I will do next moment, since my options are multiple but still limited. ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- ) is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish ... Historically, the figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- Raymond Henry Williams (August 31, 1921 – January 26, 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- she is almost certainly the most controversial figure in all of world cinema. The controversy is largely dependent on her enormous skill as cinematographer ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- to her father’s paintings with backgrounds and figure blocking, as was the usual distribution of labor in painting workshops of the time. ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 15:54, 6 November 2022
- of State. Retrieved May 1, 2007. This figure does not include those who ... make a large contribution to the remaining figure. In all, around 18 percent ...21 KB (3,255 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- John Corry, a controversial figure himself Terry Teachout, [https://www ... Kosinski was himself a popular figure with the media, appearing 12 ...21 KB (3,001 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2023
- Chinese lives between 1850 and 1865. That figure is generally thought to be ... in 1860, numbered 2.5 million. If this figure were accepted as accurate ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- and William Polk. His father was a well known figure during the American Revolution, who enjoyed close ties with major Federalists of his time and ...10 KB (1,572 words) - 08:03, 6 March 2023
- while not questioning that he was a prominent figure in the early development of baseball. A granite monument in Oahu Cemetery (formerly Nuuanu ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 09:07, 18 July 2023
- Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early twentieth century photographer who became a key figure in the development ...23 KB (3,410 words) - 08:45, 23 July 2023
- Arachnids are named after the mythological figure Arachne. ==Major groups== ===Spiders=== Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that comprise ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 02:13, 9 January 2023
- " largely compiled by a mysterious figure called al-Muqtana. It has ... and social than religious. A religious figure is admired for his wisdom ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- African and Asian churches led by the formidable figure of Cyprian of Carthage, Stephen protected the spiritual status of Christians who sincerely believed ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- made him a notorious and denigrated figure in his own time, but he became ... him from Byron and Keats. He is a unique figure in British poetry, and remains ...20 KB (3,154 words) - 00:32, 24 November 2022
- Gustavus Adolphus was the main figure responsible for the success ... Gustavus Adolphus was an important figure whose innovative style and ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- to their influence. Liza was a stock figure from German poetry but did not translate well into the Russian setting. Fyodor Dostoevsky would make ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
- inert were-jaguar baby held by the central figure is seen by some as an indication ... The mythological figure of the feathered or plumed serpent depicted ...35 KB (5,268 words) - 00:32, 18 November 2022
- day he remains the Japanese people’s favorite figure. There are many popular legends about Ryōkan. For example, when a bamboo sprout was growing ...10 KB (1,696 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- as an economist but he was also a key figure in the advancement of the British system of university education. His Robbins Report led to the ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- Nevertheless, Clement I remains an important figure in church history. He may indeed have been a hearer of Peter who went on to become a leader ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- native Argentina, he became a well known society figure and also began a career as an actor. However, a darker side of Monzón would soon begin ...10 KB (1,638 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who was a major figure ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- the Mahdi of Sudan made him a heroic figure for many in Britain, who ... and installed at Khartoum. This is the figure which now stands at the Gordon ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- * 1928-32 Complex Presentiment: Half-Figure in a Yellow Shirt * 1932-34 Running Man ==References== * Dreikausen, Margret. [http://www.worldcatlibraries ...11 KB (1,476 words) - 17:18, 5 October 2022
- 529 C.E., led by a charismatic messianic figure named Julianus ben Sabar ... a road. Later, a priest saw the stricken figure and avoided him, presumably ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Perry is best known as a leading figure in the American New Realism movement, and for his theory of value. During his long tenure at Harvard ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- of child support cases had arrears owed in 2003 (a figure up from 53 percent in 1999).[http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/pubs/2004/reports/preliminary_data/ ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 15:32, 10 December 2023
- Sargon made such an impression on Mesopotamia that his figure became associated with many legends. The Sumerian literature known as "the ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- With the figure of Anicetus, the papacy begins to move out of the shadow of myth into light of historical reality. Although Rome may not have ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2022
- by poets and critics universally as a major figure in French literature. By the time Villon's popularity began to experience a significant ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- Krochmal was leading figure of the Haskalah Jewish enlightenment and Judische Wissenschaft Science of Judaism movements. His major work, Moreh ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- landscapes, and birds and flowers. Figure painting became highly developed ... Much of what we know of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- which could contract itself into a spherical figure and then stretch itself out again; the end of its tail appeared with a forceps like that of an ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 21:46, 16 April 2023
- for blacks, she remained a central figure in the women's movement as a peacemaker, a critical function for that period in women's rights ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- It is difficult to identify a major figure in the history to whom some rationalist doctrine has not been attributed at some point. One reason ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- members to never leave the band), he was an iconic figure in Rock and Roll history. As the voice of the Ramones, he played a pivotal role in the establishment ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Leinweber states, "She became a kind of fairy-tale figure, used by mothers and nannies to induce good behavior among children." ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 20:54, 22 October 2022
- very often in the presence of a priestly figure who appeases an offended ... kohen gadol (High Priest) as their central figure. These services included ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- on the inner walls, including a center figure that has carving under his ... jamb is another carved panel of a seated figure surrounded by more glyphs ...32 KB (4,966 words) - 20:59, 9 December 2023
- works of Ferruccio Busoni would figure prominently in his later work, but his biggest influence would be from the ideas of the Second Viennese ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- or guilds. Samuel himself was a leading figure among the bands of roaming ... prophet belonging to history or a literary figure of a later era is a subject ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- of a curve as a connected, continuous geometric figure that is "like" a line, without thickness and drawn without interruption, although ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 21:42, 23 June 2022
- Bacchus/Dionysus was an important figure in the religious imagination of the Greeks and Romans, as he was thought to represent the union between ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- In the Mahabharata (M. 3, 107), Maharishi Kapila is a major figure in the story associated with the Hindu holiday of Makar Sankranti, celebrating ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- of her career in Paris, a well-known figure. As the good-looking French ... essentially, of the draped female figure, with one arm upraised, bearing ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- An unconventional portrait of a controversial figure. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0837174015 ==External links== All links retrieved December ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- state. Art historians suggest that this figure is based on the Tori style. ... by the two-dimensionality of the figure and the repetitive pattern ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- known as the "Tree of Peace." The center figure also represents the Onondaga Nation where the central council fires reside—all issues involving ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 23:04, 12 February 2022
- is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... In addition to this unique role in Greek mythology, the figure of ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- not the case in Korea. The monk Gihwa, the leading figure of the Buddhist saṅgha at the outset of the Joseon, who had himself been an acclaimed Confucian ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- lines), he is regarded as the predominant poetic figure of the middle decades of the eighteenth century in English literature. In 1757, following the ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- ways when ordered to do so by an authority figure and when their peers also ... ways when ordered to do so by an authority figure and when their peers also ...34 KB (5,093 words) - 15:49, 27 April 2023
- ethics in economics. Knight was the central figure in the development of the "Chicago School of Economics," and the teacher of Nobel Prize ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- "Artist of Merit." His hunched figure pegged to a bulky wooden ... rain drops. In The Window of My Studio, a figure is barely distinguishable ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
- or trays) used in distillation columns, as seen in Figure two, are typically lower than that of a theoretical 100 percent efficient equilibrium stage ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 06:40, 1 April 2024
- He was an important figure from the American Revolutionary War era and was prominent in the vital designs that helped produce the structure of ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. His ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
- Other scholars believe that the Mon records refer to another figure, but whose name and personal history are much in the mold of the Indian Buddhaghosa ...14 KB (1,973 words) - 17:39, 30 April 2020
- This esoteric passage lead the second Enoch figure to be associated with various mystical texts, such as the Book of Enoch and movements in both Judaism ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- Judas is still somewhat of an ambivalent figure in Christian history. Judas ... Judas has been a figure of great interest to esoteric groups, such ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- Jesus Christ represents the central figure of the Age of Pisces, which is now giving way to the Age of Aquarius. The Ages go backwards through ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- , and Rupert C. Thompson Arena (hockey and figure skating), as well as a rowing ... club sports, such as rugby, water polo, figure skating, men's volleyball ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- also has its source in the Ethiopian highlands, the figure rises to 90 percent of the water and 96 percent of transported sediment. ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- Further, though he is not a common figure in the surviving mythic corpus ... Though his importance as a mythic figure is certainly secondary to ...22 KB (3,533 words) - 02:30, 16 November 2022
- by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the moon. Private letter published in The ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 20:32, 13 May 2023
- a niche or on inner walls. The presence of the figure of a horse, which some suppose to have come into India in relatively recent times, indicates that ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 03:37, 1 October 2023
- a cocoon by moving its head in a "figure 8" pattern. Two glands ... Using a rough figure of one kilometer of silk (about 3300 feet) per ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- that prince and made him the central figure of later narrative. This second version of Nestor's work is preserved in the Laurentian codex. ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- [[Image:GandharaFemale.JPG|thumb|150px|Female spouted figure, terracotta ... Gandharas and their king figure prominently as strong allies of the ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- appeared as a severe, reticent, remote authority figure. Housman always found his true vocation in classical studies and treated poetry as a secondary ...10 KB (1,687 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- he was only nine years old, and without a father figure to guide or support him, Zhitui was raised largely by the efforts of his elder brother (Ebrey ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- This figure is quoted as the dissociation constant of carbonic acid, although this is ambiguous: it might better be referred to as the acidity ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- It was not until the Puranas that Ganesha became an established figure ... Prior to the emergence of Ganesha as a cult figure, Karttikeya had ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-towering-figure-who-crossed-the-political ... described him as a "very significant figure in the history of Australian ...31 KB (4,378 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- of Pope Paul VI, Mindszenty remained a popular figure throughout the Catholic Church after his release. Today, he is widely considered as a possible ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 16:42, 14 May 2024
- Poulet was the leading figure of the Geneva School, a group of critics that also included the French critic Jean-Pierre Richard, and the Swiss ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- removing the patina surrounding the intended figure, are also known. Sometimes petroglyphs are painted or accentuated by polishing. The degree of repatination ...11 KB (1,550 words) - 02:26, 16 December 2022
- who is portrayed by the biblical writers as a key figure in establishing Israel as a nation. ==Biblical narrative== Eli was a descendant of Aaron ...11 KB (1,806 words) - 00:35, 30 December 2021
- and in meditational visualizations, of a human figure manifesting all of the thirty-two marks of a Buddha. The place where the Sambhogakāya body ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- == Gould as a public figure == Gould became widely known through his popular science essays in Natural History magazine and his best-selling books ...30 KB (4,344 words) - 04:42, 28 April 2023
- American rights to education. She was a prominent figure within the Transcendentalism Movement publishing their literary journal, The Dial, in 1842 and ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- 39. Retrieved July 17, 2021. Mary, a minor figure for early Christians, gained ... a Dutch folk tale based on the historical figure Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas ...30 KB (4,439 words) - 14:09, 7 May 2024
- on the shadowy early Christian figure John the Presbyter of Syria ... the Presbyter. However, little links this figure to the Prester John legend ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker," and ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
