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- The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance ... The word renaissance in French, (rinascimento in Italian) literally ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh ... Ferdowsi traced the history of Persia from its earliest days to the ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- Ethnobotany is the systematic study of the relationships between plants ... *the culturally specific ways that humans perceive and classify different ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest ... Ánkyra. Ankara also serves as the capital of the Province of Ankara. ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... Samarkand revolted against its Mongol rulers in 1365, and became the ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- over what range of animals is encompassed by the term mouse (plural mice). ... tails with no or little hair. In all but the most restrictive use of the ...17 KB (2,522 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- has been written, drawn or painted upon for the purpose of decoration or preserving ... can directly turn to a specific page. While the scroll was popular until the ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a ... The Jewish diaspora began with the conquests of the eighth to the ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and is perhaps the most famous and influential ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- (January 14, 1861 – May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the ... In the process, Mehmed suspended parliament and asserted personal ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- , Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands ... On 25 August 1898, a Turkish mob massacred hundreds of Cretan Greeks ...64 KB (9,291 words) - 23:45, 15 May 2024
- bāni-apli; 685 B.C.E. – 627 B.C.E.), was the last great king of ancient ... The son of Esarhaddon and grandson of Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal was ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- β-lactam antibiotics obtained from fungi of the Penicillium genus and used ... reproduction, fungi also serve a purpose for the whole. In particular, fungi ...17 KB (2,357 words) - 07:15, 23 November 2022
- were belatedly recognized as some of the finest plays in the tradition ... rare assimilation of the strength of the Greeks, the imaginative depth of German ...15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
- The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city ... The temple was described by Philo of Byzantium: I have seen the walls ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- In common terminology, wind is the flow of air. In a broader sense ... spatial scale, speed, geographic location, the types of forces producing ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 10:56, 15 May 2023
- 1464, philosopher and theologian, was one of the last representatives of Byzantine ... works, including commentaries, treatises on the works of Thomas Aquinas, polemical ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 06:49, 18 April 2024
- [[Image:Temple of Zeus.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Ruins of the Temple of ... Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... is lost; this does not necessarily mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- 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
- Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for ... mother was a Lutheran. In 1898, he attended the Akademisches Gymnasium. Between ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) identifies two classes of rabbinical ... The Great Sanhedrin was an assembly of Jewish judges who constituted ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- The First Council of Constantinople (381), also known as the Second ... Although the council represented the triumph of Nicene orthodoxy over ...21 KB (3,217 words) - 17:20, 28 March 2024
- Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world. ... The site was inhabited as far back as 3000 B.C.E., and by the year ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 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
- Taxila is an important archaeological site in Pakistan containing ... centre of learning from the sixth century B.C.E."History of Education ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical ... as well as having significant impact on the territory and its people being ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Typhoid fever (or enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium ... Once ingested, the bacteria are ingested by macrophages (cells in ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- in a defined end-state. Informally, the concept of an algorithm is ... smaller sub-methods, which are built up to the program as a whole. In other ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- in Parliament as well as his essays gave the followers of William Pitt ... of supporters who would become known as the Canningites. Conversely though ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 07:33, 15 May 2024
- The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Έλευσίνια Μυστήρια ... Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient Mediterranean world, these ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... The symbol of the Cross has been revered by Christians but controversial ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- The Bosporus or Bosphorus, also known as the Istanbul Strait, ( ... ) is a strait that forms the boundary between the Thrace and Anatolian ...18 KB (2,647 words) - 14:59, 9 February 2022
- #039;s death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices ... Funeral rites can be traced back to the most primitive of societies ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- to include related freedoms applied to the religious sphere, such as ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... The Revolution restored the parliament, which had been suspended by ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- advantage and thus move loads beyond the normal capability of a human ... The first cranes were invented by the Ancient Greeks and were powered ...36 KB (5,771 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- Thyme is the common name for any of the about 350 species of aromatic ... In general, thyme is one of the world's more well-known and useful ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 23:15, 30 April 2023
- Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two persons ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- For the past century, the vicinity of Oxyrhynchus has been continually ... The town was named after a species of fish in the Nile River that ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 06:03, 18 November 2022
- Eschatology (from the Greek έσχατος, "last, ultimate, ... On the level of the purpose for the individual, it is the end of physical ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- is a metalloid with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is ... and solder. Recently, it is being used by the semiconductor industry for ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- The golden calf (עגל הזהב), in Jewish tradition, was an idol ... For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the Bull of Crete: ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the ... In the Hebrew Bible, Edom is a name given to Esau in the as well as ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- The Janissaries (derived from Ottoman Turkish ينيچرى (yeniçeri ... wealth, power and frequent revolts against the Sultan. The Ottoman Empire ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Given the lack of historical details present in the text itself, scholars ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... If Sophocles was the dramatist whose primary theme was fate, Aeschylus ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- The Maccabees (Hebrew: מכבים or מקבים, Makabim) were Jewish ... authority in Jerusalem and combining the office of king and High Priest ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- , Nikolaos, "victory of the people") was Bishop of Myra ... Empire's Lycia, modern day Demre in the Antalya province of Turkey ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- A dowry is a gift of money or valuables given by the bride's ... Today, the practice has decreased in developed countries and urban ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- , the same as "Gaul," and in Sinhalese, gaːlːə ) refers to a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- The Rule of Saint Basil refers to the monastic regulations formulated ... The development of rules for Christian monks was an effort to bring ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 03:26, 1 January 2022
- Ammonoid or Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals of the ... The words "ammonoid" and "ammonite" are both commonly ...20 KB (3,015 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- (c. 204 - 249), known in English as Philip the Arab or formerly (prior to ... whether Philip, not Constantine I, was the first Christian emperor. Those ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- A eunuch is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those deliberately ... The English word eunuch is from the Greek eune ("bed") and ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... spiritual inspiration, cognitive processes, the social environment, personality ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic that ravaged the city ... Traditionally considered an outbreak of the bubonic plague, the symptoms ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 07:48, 24 November 2022
- George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03-26 ... He has written extensively about the relationship between language ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- 250px|thumb|Egyptian hieroglyphs typical of the Graeco-Roman period, sculpted ... A hieroglyph is a character used in a pictorial writing system. The ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl ... to reach stardom and then she became one of the Top 10 box office draws for ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 14:44, 23 July 2022
- Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis (95 B.C.E.–46 B.C.E.), known as Cato ... and collected a large sum in taxes for the Roman Empire. Cato never relented ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 03:51, 6 November 2022
- Catechisms are doctrinal manuals often in the form of questions followed ... repositories of Christian faith over the ages, containing great wisdom ...21 KB (3,269 words) - 17:53, 30 November 2023
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... reality acts within history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- in England. His most famous painting is The Nightmare (1781), in which ... and theology, but came to detest it. The spiritual figures in his work ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- In mathematics, a fraction (from the Latin fractus, broken) is a concept ... represents three divided by four, which may be represented as the ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان Lubnān), officially the Lebanese Republic ... Until the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90), the country was considered ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... 40 years of communist totalitarian rule in the late twentieth century under ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- The Minoans (Greek: Μυκηναίοι; Μινωίτες) were a pre ... The term "Minoan" was coined by the British archaeologist ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- #039;s population lives in Barcelona, the capital city. Official languages ... older history as an independent territory of the Crown of Aragon, which in ...38 KB (5,664 words) - 19:12, 29 November 2023
- North Macedonia (before 2019, Macedonia), officially the Republic ... The lands governed by the republic were the southernmost part of the ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the ... He serves as both a guide to the recently departed and as the patron ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 05:49, 11 August 2023
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a large and ... Over the years dragons have become the most famous and recognizable ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- and singer considered a crucial figure in the history of music. His work ... Having taken over opera from the Florentine "camerata" and ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Scottish novelist, best known for his novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Unionist ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert ... properties are iron, some steels, and the mineral lodestone (an oxide ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Humanistic psychology is an approach in psychology that emerged in ... The following five postulates form the foundation of Humanistic psychology ...22 KB (2,987 words) - 12:19, 4 February 2023
- Writing is a form of communication through the act of preserving text ... an alphabet provides symbols for all the consonants and vowels that ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman ever created ... Afterwards, she tried to close the lid but it was too late; however ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- feline goddess who was worshiped since the early dynastic period (ca ... In classical Egyptian religion, Bast was the subject of considerable ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- is best known as a part of Catholic Mass, the Anglican Holy Communion service ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- of Gods) is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogies of ... Although the text is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- The word Magi refers to a class of ancient Zoroastrian astrologer ... The word Magi is the origin of the English words magic and magician. ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... quot; was universally the same. To the Greeks, the term "law of nature ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for ... According to tradition, the Coptic Orthodox Church was established ...24 KB (3,712 words) - 21:25, 4 May 2020
- The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691 ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (The Foundations of the Nineteenth ... This philosophy would later be applied by the Nazis in their Final ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... The use of monsoon winds, which enabled a voyage safer than a long ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods ... In most cases, each country has monopoly control over the supply and ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and ... The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is considered to have provided ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- The main group elements of the periodic table are groups 1, 2 and ... The alkali metals are the series of elements in Group 1 of the periodic ...30 KB (4,368 words) - 00:41, 24 November 2022
- The Second Crusade (1147-1150) was the second major crusade launched ... The Second Crusade was announced by Pope Eugene III. The initial response ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- The siege of Sparta took place in 272 B.C.E. and was a battle fought ... 297–272 B.C.E.) and an alliance consisting of Sparta, under the ...24 KB (3,591 words) - 22:02, 26 February 2024
- The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people ... In the Hebrew Bible, the Philistines were usually portrayed as implacable ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- of ancient Athens. His orations constitute the last significant expression ... them unjustly as traitors to the Greeks. The historian maintains that ...80 KB (11,861 words) - 09:32, 28 January 2024
- Samaritans today are both a religious and an ethnic group located ... In the New Testament, Samaritans were despised by the Judean Jews; ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Lyric poetry refers to either poetry that has the form and musical ... The lyric was originally verse to accompany the lyre. In Ancient Greece ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- , c.185 – c.254 C.E.) was one of the most distinguished theologians ... The details of Origen's life are found in his biography as given ...23 KB (3,479 words) - 01:25, 18 November 2022
- bar. Pole jumping competitions date back to the ancient Greeks, as well as ... over natural obstacles in places such as the marshy provinces of Friesland ...22 KB (3,728 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel ... During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- Wheat includes any agricultural cereal grass of the genus Triticum ... extent as a forage crop for livestock and the straw can be used as fodder ...21 KB (3,052 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- Hinduism and Islam. Abrahamic religions on the whole date back about 2500 ... a sea route to India by circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and ... has had negative effects on the environment, particularly ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- [[Image:COINCOLLECTIONCOINS.jpg|thumb|200 px|Coins from around the world]] A coin is a metal token, usually in the shape of a disc, often of ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- was a fourth century Roman historian. His is the last major historical account ... He lacked the linguistic style of Tacitus, being at times turgid and ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 07:33, 25 July 2023
- , Kishinyov) is the capital city, the industrial and commercial center ... Since the country gained its independence in 1991, Chişinău has ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous Churches in full communion ... The Eastern Catholic Churches were located historically in Eastern ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the ... Modern Cairo remains the cultural center of the Arabic world, and ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations ... extent in very early times, as is proved by the distribution of Melian obsidian ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one ... Born at Penshurst, Kent, Sidney was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... planet” or “Earth’s twin,” as the two are similar in size and ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- Cremation, or the practice of burning the dead, refers to the disposal ... may view fire as a purifying agent and see the practice of cremation as the ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... who live in conquered territory. The Greeks, the Romans, the nineteenth ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- Optimism (from the Latin optimus, best) and pessimism (from the Latin ... Philosophically, optimism is linked to the notion that the world is fundamentally ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the ... in analyzing character and in tracing the relationship between cause ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... of being as secondary. So, even if they use the same word "is," ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- a (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 C.E.) was the first ... Aryabhata was born in the region lying between Narmada and Godavari ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical ... Common to all of these theories is the notion of a sovereign will ...28 KB (4,260 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- – April 19, 1824) was an English poet of the Romantic school, who was easily ... iconoclast. Their poetry would share some of the same interests, though Byron ...22 KB (3,443 words) - 02:41, 4 November 2022
- a person engaging in these events, although the term can also refer to physically ... and violent nature than did the Greeks. The Romans absorbed many Greek ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... toward music similar to that of the Greeks. The Chinese believed that ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- Horus is one of the most archaic gods of the classical Egyptian pantheon ... In the mythic cosmos, Horus was most notably seen as a sky god, which ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 18:16, 7 February 2024
- The Falkland Islands ( Islas Malvinas ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- The Pythia (Gr. Πύθια) was the priestess presiding over the Oracle ... Its last recorded response was given in 393 C.E., when the emperor ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Venetian ... painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He usually ...77 KB (11,557 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire (Latin: ... The idea behind the Holy Roman Empire was of a Christian Europe united ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style. In the ... David became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend ...24 KB (3,977 words) - 08:23, 18 March 2024
- The Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics) are the ... The original Olympic Games began in c. 776 B.C.E. in Olympia, Greece ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- safety in Islamic law in return for paying the capital tax. This status was ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- Hair, a filamentous, often pigmented, outgrowth from the skin, is ... The hair of non-human species is commonly referred to as fur when ...25 KB (4,025 words) - 13:24, 24 January 2023
- Cosmetics are substances used to enhance or protect the appearance ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates cosmetics ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 18:25, 17 January 2023
- Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... Archives are made up of records which have been created during the ...30 KB (4,298 words) - 06:20, 12 August 2023
- Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibers ... knowledge, art, and culture, paper is one of the most important and consequential ...25 KB (4,009 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- The term Celt, normally pronounced /kɛlt/ now refers primarily to ... Although today restricted to the Atlantic coast of Western Europe ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- The use of elephants to execute captives often attracted the horrified ... The use of elephants as executioners inextricably intertwined with ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- far as it goes, it does not entirely capture the meaning of the Greek word ... All ancient ethical theorists understand eudaimonia to be the highest ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Mummy 501594 fh000031.jpg|thumb|375px|A mummy in the British ... bodies are submerged in bogs. Taken from the medieval Latin word “mumia ...24 KB (3,616 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The ... However, the emperor was later unable to cope with the mounting incursions ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- Ginger is the common name for the monocotyledonous perennial plant ... There also are some other plants that utilize the term ginger as part ...24 KB (3,593 words) - 22:30, 1 January 2023
- [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... in human sacrifice, often accompanied by the claim that the blood of victims ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- Keychain of Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ), the oldest college fraternity ... The term fraternity, often colloquially shortened to "frat," ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is ... The literary legacy, however, does take us back to one of very earliest ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- and optics. He is particularly known for the unit of magnetism that bears ... and righteousness. He believed in a life beyond the grave. ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- The Nicene Creed, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed or Icon/Symbol of ... There are several designations for the two forms of the Nicene creed ...31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- Kābul (Persian: کابل, IPA: [kɑː'bʊl]) is the capital ... Many empires have fought over the city during its 3,500 year history ...23 KB (3,382 words) - 16:50, 14 May 2024
- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- The Dead Sea ( البحر الميت , ים המלח , translated as Sea of Salt), is a salt lake lying on the border between ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned ... with a review of project needs to define the required material properties ...29 KB (4,284 words) - 02:56, 30 November 2022
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... he absorbed local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... prior to Socrates are called PreSocratics; the second period spans the lifetimes ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... The Italian Republic shares its northern alpine boundary with France ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... To the Mongols, the European invasions were a third theater of operations ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal ... was written of in ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and ... this doctrine was included in the two most widely used Christian creeds ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest ... Ancient Alexandria was a thriving Greco-Roman city, one of the most ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's ... The ethical issues raised by this practice are complex, just as are ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... than 2,500 years. It is renowned as one of the founding cities of Western ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it reflects ... For industrial applications, as well as in the arts, permanence and ...29 KB (4,213 words) - 06:14, 24 November 2022
- deity whose cult originated at Thebes, in the Upper Kingdom of classical ... cosmological belief system that developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- and joy, but was also seen as a goddess of the sky, as evidenced by the etymological ... role that is most potently represented in the story of her violent assault ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- Greek chartis - map and graphein - write) is the study and practice of making ... becomes, remains both a science and an art. The aesthetics of any given map ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- both tertiary and quaternary education. The word university is derived ... of great personal development, but have the reputation of isolation or ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the pillars of the Western tradition ... and opinion. Based upon his conviction about the immortality of the soul, Socrates ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul or The Apostle Paul, (4–64 C.E ... Saul is described in the New Testament as a Hellenized Jew and Roman ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival ... In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah is written he|חנֻכה or ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 ... other people take for granted. The advancement of thought is ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space ... Cold is the absence of heat, hence in order to decrease a temperature ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- ) is the capital city and the economic and communications hub of Padova ... Padua is famous as the city where the poet Dante lived, where Saint ...25 KB (3,594 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Cetacea) with many teeth that belong to the "toothed whales" ... Dolphins are considered to be among the most intelligent of animals ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... politics, similar to which Adolf Hitler and the National Socialism emerged ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- in eastern and southern Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... predominantly poor Christians numbering in the thousands, led by Peter the ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the ... * A total eclipse occurs when the Sun is completely obscured by the ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age–specifically ... historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens." ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... and to a Pax Britannica all paid homage to the Roman legacy. At the time ...53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... or "The Great Assassin" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- for men and women in many countries around the world. Its official name and ... ==History of the Sport== Field hockey history The sport of field hockey ...33 KB (5,580 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... 1364–1365, he was offered employment by the Christian king of Seville ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely ... Although several species are often considered weeds, people around ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign ... Monaco is the world's most densely populated state and second ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually reconcile ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ... The term Orator is recorded in English since around 1374, meaning ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- in what is now southern Benin. Founded in the seventeenth century, Dahomey ... Unusual in Africa, Dahomey was ruled by a form of absolute monarchy ...28 KB (4,382 words) - 17:35, 27 December 2022
- Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... For many people justice is overwhelmingly important: "Justice ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- he directed his barbed wit not only against the Washington political establishment ... Zappa was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...27 KB (4,049 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Sea turtle (or seaturtle) is the common name for any of the large ... Sea turtles provide important functions for the ecosystem. They are ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- The Canary Islands, though politically a part of Spain, are only 67 ... The autonomous community of the Canary Islands was established by ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 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
- The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic ... The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- "star-cross'd lovers" and the role played by their tragic ... back at least as far as the Ancient Greeks. The story of Pyramus and Thisbe ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- The Colosseum or Coliseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheater ... The Colosseum remained in use for nearly 500 years, with the last ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county ... arts, and international trade. The city is home to the largest ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- Astronomy in China has a very long history. Oracle bones from the ... Astronomy had a specific role in the governing itself of the ancient ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- The plow (British spelling plough) is a tool used in farming for initial ... by horses. In industrialized countries, the first mechanical means of ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- flat surfaces which revolve or oscillate. The most common applications of ... Pictorial evidence records that the Greeks, the Etruscans, and the ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Nero Germanicus before his accession) was the fourth Roman Emperor of the ... 37. This infirmity may have saved him from the fate of many other Roman nobles ...58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...62 KB (10,177 words) - 20:44, 3 May 2023
- 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 explored and settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century Portugal, especially ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- and beliefs in which knowledge of the relative positions of celestial ... Although the two fields share a common origin, modern astronomy is ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- [[image:Robert_F._Kennedy_1964.jpg|thumb|right|Robert F. Kennedy in ... trusted advisors, RFK worked closely with the President during the Bay of ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle encompasses diverse ... The ultimate question here is whether there is or was some special ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- In the arts, Baroque is a period as well as the style that used exaggerated ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- The chicken (Gallus gallus) is one of humankind's most common ... eggs. People in many cultures have admired the good qualities of chickens ...29 KB (4,637 words) - 15:23, 10 December 2023
- Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder ... magi on his journey to Rome in 66 C.E. In the early twentieth century, Franz ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- university in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. Founded in ... issues of racial segregation. During the early days of the American ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab ) generally refers to those persons ... and mastered the music theory of the Greeks. The common style that developed ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of ... That change, often known as the Copernican revolution, had important ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- to a person that is consistent over time. The idea that we can understand ... to a person that is consistent over time. The word originates from the Latin ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- literary critic, and novelist notably in the fantasy and autobiographical ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- Mithraism, properly known as the Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of ... The term 'mysteries' does not imply that the religion was ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- The nervous system is the network of specialized cells, tissues, and ... but is most complex in vertebrate animals. The only multicellular animals ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- have no physical explanation. In these cases the creatures bear more similarity ... decoration. This is particularly the case with those symbolizing ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... Its geographic position as a small, wedge-shaped country between the ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... The Enlightenment advocated reason as a means to establishing an authoritative ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and ranks sixth in ... metropolitan area was the fifth-largest in the United States. A commercial ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South ... Bangladesh's rank among the most densely populated countries ...30 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city, as well as the ... The people of Bucharest suffered under the leadership of Nicolae Ceaușescu ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], during the war, 1993. Photo by Mikhail ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- (born June 17, 1882, Oranienbaum (in the Soviet times Lomonosov) near ... Russian period: L'Oiseau de feu ("The Firebird") (1910), Petrushka ...32 KB (4,790 words) - 16:04, 12 February 2024
- Poetry (from the Greek " ποίησις ," poiesis, a "making ... such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη) was the capital ... The city has had many names throughout history. Depending on the background ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, ... This planet is heavily cratered and appears similar to the Moon. It ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Святослав, ca. 942 – 972) was the warrior prince (or konung ... Sviatoslav was the first ruler of Kievan Rus' whose name is indisputably ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... Many Tatars inter-married with Russian families, including the nobility ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- In natural philosophy, atomism is the theory that all the objects ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- The "Roman Empire" (Imperium Romanum) is used to denote ... The precise date at which the Roman Republic changed into the Roman ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. He is ... (fourth century) in their commentaries on the Almagest; from Strabo's ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- Olive is the common name for a evergreen tree or shrub, Olea europaea ... Among the Greeks, the oil was valued as an important article of diet ...31 KB (4,932 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse ... on both Western and Islamic philosophy. The beginning of "modern ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... years, Belgrade's wider city area was the birthplace of the largest ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- invasion 1592 and 1596], creating war along the length of the peninsula until ... Under pressure from the Chinese army and local guerrillas, with food ...32 KB (4,655 words) - 22:08, 8 February 2023
- religions speak of demonic forces within the cosmos representing the antithesis ... Most religions and cultures of the world accept the existence of demons ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology ... Campbell's recognition of the universality of human stories allows ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 17:54, 6 May 2024
- is one of eight universities that belong to the Ivy League. Originally founded ... The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
