Search results for "Human figure" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • expression, the monumentality of the half-figure composition, and the subtle ... expressed this view by describing the figure in the painting as a kind ...
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  • Suffering is endemic to the human condition, and the ways people address ... In the story of Kisa Gotami, she came to the realization that human ...
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  • religion, and social class. He affirms human solidarity. His poetry expounds ... #039;s arguments is that the principal figure in the second group is not ...
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  • and perhaps more than any musical figure of the nineteenth century ... that such a joint effort is possible for human beings, so rich in communication ...
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  • is completely perfect, needing nothing from human beings in terms of sacrifices ... evoked Apollonius in his later Cantos as a figure associated with sun-worship ...
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  • as if the lives of his subjects, human or not, were to be sheltered ... "Artist of Merit." His hunched figure pegged to a bulky wooden ...
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  • Chief Joseph would become a mythical figure in the United States, ... address to the General, which focused on human equality, by expressing his ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • there was a dynamic movement and energy of human forms— they spiralled around ... sculpture to be just as important as the figure, much as a frame could be ...
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  • able to further both his knowledge of how human anatomy and physiology affect ... Spearman, used factor analysis in studying human intelligence. Burt developed ...
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  • religious or otherwise influential figure. State mourning may occur ... Traditions and beliefs related to death are an important part of human ...
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  • history advances through time toward human beings as the highest life ... == Gould as a public figure == Gould became widely known through his ...
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  • unique ideas about the nature of God and human life were both highly praised ... the theory of psychological egoism and see human existence as something dependent ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • a complete, or hopeful, view of normal human psychological development. ... Klein put forth the interpretation that the human psyche constantly oscillates ...
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  • of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European ... rival Fanny Ellesler was unapologetically human, earthbound and voluptuous ...
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  • are present, it does indicate that the human connection to the dead is ... embracing it. Local legend tells that the figure is Finn the Giant, builder ...
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  • an American archaeologist, known as a key figure of the twentieth century ... religious concepts and practices and other human activities and relationships ...
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  • focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in shaping ... its culture, and so on. Institutions are human-made constraints that control ...
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  • For this reason, he is often seen as a morally exemplary figure possessing ... Sif. Finally, Skáldskaparmál mentions a figure named Hlóra who was Thor ...
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  • and its perceived effects on the human body. It was based on the ... As a consequence theorists assumed the human species might be overtaken ...
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  • of life are miserable, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression ... The literature of dystopia draws on the human experience of the failure ...
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  • all natural phenomena and the events in human life without resorting to ... and physical elements. They brought human thought to a new level of ...
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  • is, a highly unorthodox and controversial figure in Church history. ... revelation of God's truth to human beings through the Logos ...
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  • a Great Notion, and as a counter-cultural figure who, some consider a link ... study of the institutional process and the human mind. The novel was written ...
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  • Reports of outrageous exploitation and widespread human rights abuses ... of Leopold, due to the mass killings and human rights abuses that took place ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity used ... . It is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity used ...
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  • over 200,000 verses).China Society for Human Rights Studies, [http://www ... Heavenly nectar can be brewed in the human world. The epic incorporates ...
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  • as causes of food spoilage and plant and human diseases and allergies. But ... also described the antibacterial action on human tissue on what he called ...
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  • Stone tools, inhabitation sites, and human fossils from this period ... * Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca et al. The History and Geography of Human ...
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  • example of how closely art participates in human development. In the case ... religious emphasis, concentrating on the human position in the cosmos in ...
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  • psychological changes that occur in human beings as they age. Originally ... is to understand the complexities of human nature and the processes ...
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  • a goat, with the upper body and hands of a human male, resembling a faun. ... the god responsible for the adjudication of human activities involving animals ...
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  • for his pioneering work on the sociology of human migration with his studies ... professor and made him a controversial figure among his colleagues. In ...
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  • Dostoevsky, Hamsun was a key transitional figure between nineteenth century ... novel. It hails the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing, unique ...
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  • he openly criticized the current state of human rights in Australia and the ... https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-towering-figure-who-crossed-the-political ...
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  • made him a notorious and denigrated figure in his own time, but he became ... reign of "love and freedom" in human society through a series ...
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  • as an economist but he was also a key figure in the advancement of the ... Economics is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship ...
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  • Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered among the ... and benevolent" sources of human destiny. Yeats idiosyncratic ...
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  • in Realms of Value (1954), a critique of human civilization in the light ... Perry is best known as a leading figure in the American New Realism ...
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  • Henry Drummond, who was to become a key figure and sponsor of the future ... especially on his views concerning the human nature of Christ. ...
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  • by sand dunes is their encroachment on human habitats. Sand dunes are ... work, but researchers are still trying to figure out the best possible fence ...
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  • Migrating birds and sea turtles, as well as human sailors following ... the orientation of the magnetic field (see figure at top). Another place where ...
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  • a religious (and often political) savior figure who inaugurates a new age ... along with that of another messianic figure, the Mahdi. In some lineages ...
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  • he counsels against the loss of "sweet human love" in exchange for ... a pioneering science fiction novel of the human apocalypse in the distant ...
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  • to never leave the band), he was an iconic figure in Rock and Roll history ... Joey Ramone provided the human face and voice at the forefront of ...
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  • of a "proto-Shiva" figure. Gavin Flood, An Introduction to ... the shape is intended to represent a human figure, it is nevertheless possible ...
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  • Birkenau State Museum revised this figure in 1990, and new calculations ... possibilities." Adolf Eichmann gave a figure of 2 million. Soviet and ...
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  • the use of certain kinds of flesh, including human flesh ... (the rule regarding human flesh became necessary because Suppiyā ...
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  • Bacchus/Dionysus was an important figure in the religious imagination ... in 186 B.C.E., as it happens too often in human history, religion served ...
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  • of labor by making it an expression of human creativity. However, the ... class woman whose pale skin, languid figure, and wavy, abundant dark ...
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  • was an English statesman and literary figure. He served in government ... Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative ...
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  • but can best be described as commenting on human life. In journalism, his ... Schulz had a long association with ice sports, as both figure skating ...
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  • ethics in economics. Knight was the central figure in the development of the "Chicago School of Economics," and the teacher of Nobel Prize ...
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  • national federation with its own king. The figure of Abimelech, son of Gideon ... *Jephthah—A tragic figure, Jephthah was the son of a prostitute ...
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  • Sense of Life), refers to the passionate human longing for immortality when ... such as Jean-Paul Sartre confirmed the human desire for immortality, but ...
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  • world. According to this theory, the figure of Jesus is a mythical composite ... historians is that Jesus was a historical figure, and the hypothesis of Jesus ...
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  • Jackson Pollock style and traditional figure and landscape based art styles ... and the primordial. The idea that all human beings are "wired the ...
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  • esoteric passage lead the second Enoch figure to be associated with various ... survive a Great Flood and thus carry on the human race and preserve the Gospel ...
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  • His scientific interest in the human body led him to consider becoming ... inspired him: The nude or lightly clad figure in motion. In the process ...
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  • suspending chair trick]] makes use of the human body's center of gravity ... The center of mass of this figure is at a distance of 8.5 units from ...
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  • a two-and-a-half-plus hour depiction of human intolerance throughout the ... began with him, but Griffith was a key figure in establishing the set of ...
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  • Evidence of Stone Age human inhabitants of Gandhara, including stone ... Gandharas and their king figure prominently as strong allies of the ...
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  • he took a pessimistic, ironical view of human nature that, in hindsight ... appeared as a severe, reticent, remote authority figure. ...
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  • held that consciousness, the world, and the human body as a perceiving thing ... other things and behaves like any "figure" against a certain background ...
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  • as a sovereign nation. Their battle for human rights in the twentieth century ... to a wide range of materials, including the human body through tattooing. ...
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  • Ezra Pound, Stevens was a markedly solitary figure. Stevens is a rare ... :Sings in the palm, without human meaning, :Without human feeling, ...
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  • edh-Dhra near the Dead Sea indicate that human habitation there may indeed ... against the Kedorlaomer, king of Elam, a figure unknown outside of the Bible ...
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  • presuppositions about the nature of the human person, especially with regard ... some kind of psychosomatic unity of a human personality, it carries profoundly ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Informed consent, as used in human subject research or healthcare ... Some of the major ethical failings of human subject research have been ...
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  • and acts of kindness that celebrate the human heart of the Christian message. ... the Antioch school held that he was born human and infused with the Holy ...
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  • Since the fourteenth century, the figure of Pope Joan has taken on ... penned "By a LOVER of TRUTH, Denying Human Infallibility." According ...
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  • situations. Pareto's recognition that human society cannot be understood ... USA you count up how many people—that figure goes on the X-axis of the ...
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  • of harmonizing God's initiation and human responsibility. Thoughtful ... kingdom" by a messianic figure, occasionally suggesting ...
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  • plays the aulos for a banqueter: Attic red-figure cup by the Euaion Painter ... Some studies, notably Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the ...
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  • that he invented a way to transfer the soul of a human being into a machine, thus creating a machine with a soul and rendering the soul immortal. ...
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  • more aware of the global interdependence of human life than has usually been ... To our surprise, the reliefs of two human figures with hands above ...
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  • a tireless public speaker and intellectual figure in French society, touring ... a conservative and skeptical outlook on human nature, verging on the cynical ...
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  • For the most part, Kandinsky's paintings did not emphasize any ... Rider (1903) which shows a small cloaked figure on a speeding horse rushing ...
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  • ensured that he will remain a controversial figure. For many musicians, however, his flawless technique, broad musical and human sympathies and ability ...
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  • a head resembling a boar. Part of a jade figure (coiled 'pig dragon ... and fishing to be the main source of food, human beings prayed for good weather ...
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  • personalities, representing universal human qualities, so that the audience ... *Authority figure, man of power *Canny, stingy, miserly, mean ...
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  • Buddhist and Hindu temples and palaces. Human and animal wastes, agricultural ... autocracy. The king was made a titular figure, and the post of prime minister ...
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  • recognition and Smart was a pivotal figure in this process, at which ... to play in combating tribalism, that is, human captivity to its own cultures ...
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  • rationality in Germany. Wolff was the key figure in establishing German as ... to them as an evidence of the power of human reason to attain by its own ...
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  • He remains as iconic figure that lived an adventurous life in turbulent ... Cid, either physically or as an important figure. In 1081, now a mercenary ...
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  • wide variety of purposes over the course of human history. Pentagons have been ... pentagram represented the five points of a human being: Two feet, two hands ...
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  • idea that the world is one, transnational human community. to be an influential and controversial figure. Years after his death he ...
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  • Jesus requested to be honored under the figure of His Heart of flesh, also ... as well as on June 11, he consecrated every human to the Sacred Heart. The ...
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  • and brave. Never more than a marginal figure in the politics of his time ... Sidney, following Aristotle, writes that human action is tantamount to human ...
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  • and fostered by religion throughout human history, and has been an ... a monument in honor of a famous historical figure, or to beautify a designated ...
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  • metaphysics. Arnauld was a well-respected figure by this time, while Leibniz ... Not only did Arnauld see this view as threatening any truth in human ...
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  • has come alive. She sees a woman's figure in the wallpaper, especially ... * Human Work (1904) * Forerunner (magazine) (monthly journal with prose—1909 ...
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  • William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in northern Mississippi who ... illuminate the contradictory mysteries of human experience in ways that no ...
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  • import. In the end, however, his model of human intelligence consisted of ... Eysenck was a proponent of the theory of human intelligence proposed ...
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  • Hindu descriptions of a future savior figure had an influence on Christian ... a depressing satire on modern society and human motivations, exploring the ...
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  • twenty-first century, Sotheby's serves human society by facilitating the ... revenue that exceeded ₤1.5 million, a figure unparalleled for the next ...
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  • The agency became notorious for large-scale human rights abuses, including ... Soviet bloc as well, and as such was a reviled figure. ==Biography== ...
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  • modern French chiffre, which means digit, figure, or number; chiffrer, to ... * German: Ziffer, digit, figure, numeral, cypher * Hindi: shunya ...
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  • Chen Ta Erh is sent to assassinate an authority figure, succeeds, ... * Allan, Derek. Art and the Human Adventure: André Malraux’s Theory ...
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  • own time — was a negative influence on human development. Rousseau believed ... Rousseau saw a fundamental divide between society and human nature ...
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  • Indus Valley Civilization have unearthed a figure who appears to be practicing ... 039;s actions of body, speech and mind, the human being becomes fit to practice ...
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  • views, particularly Freud’s theory of human sexuality. She also made ... her father as a cruel disciplinarian figure holding his son Berndt in ...
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  • the material, sensual world and the naked human form in religious and mythological ... and speed in working out images of the human figure which could then be translated ...
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  • is one of the most debasing features of human culture and must be overcome ... the effect of colonial subjugation on the human psyche. This book was a personal ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • to be, an economic commodity based on human life. In the twenty-first ... Slavery has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years ...
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  • of which Bowne is the dominant figure. Bowne identified the essence of a human being with the "person ...
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  • genderless nature of of God beyond human distinctions. in the creation of the cosmos: in this figure, Shiva and Shakti are non ...
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  • Ga-gorib. He was also a life-death-rebirth figure, dying and resurrecting himself ... is a dune-dwelling creature that is mostly human-looking, except that it has ...
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  • the lasting power of some myths in the human imagination. ... in his publication led to an iron-content figure that was ten times too high ...
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  • examination of the results from the Human Genome Project lends credence ... Margulis remains a leading figure in cell biology and evolutionary ...
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  • definitions, as to render a general figure meaningless, especially in ... They are also active in education, agriculture, peace and human rights ...
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  • Sexual behavior is related to the very purpose of human existence: ... Often the abuser is seen as an authority figure who tells their victim not ...
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  • Judas is still somewhat of an ambivalent figure in Christian history. Judas ... Judas has been a figure of great interest to esoteric groups, such ...
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  • mysterious circumstances. A controversial figure in life, Maxwell's activities ... zest for life … Bob Maxwell was a unique figure who attracted controversy ...
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  • Dorothea Dix (1802–1887) was an important figure in the development ... under-resourced, and were accused of violating human rights. ...
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  • success. The book made him an important figure in the radical literary and ... capacity for this type of moral progress in human beings was unlimited. A person ...
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  • of Materia Medica, 1596). Another figure from the Ming era, the famous ... Minerals are essential to various needs within human society, such ...
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  • defense of secularism, democracy, and human rights, by effort to control ... outside politics was already a well known figure due to her outspoken criticism ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A structure similar to an inuksuk, but meant to represent a human figure, is called an inunnguaq (ᐃᓄᙳᐊᖅ, "imitation of a person ...
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  • Livingstone became a frail and weak figure suffering from malaria ... Livingstone described the destruction to human life caused by the slave trade: ...
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  • may or may not have said or done as a historical figure. ... While analyzing the gospels as fallible human creations is a standard ...
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  • controversy. He is considered a seminal figure in the history of Hasidism ... on the community through his act of human kindness. However, the tzaddik ...
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  • dearest possession from the ravening human beasts—then I say lynch ... made her an even more powerful public figure than her husband. ...
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  • Institutionally, she was the central figure of a nationally recognized ... the relationship between the gods and their human constituents. ...
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  • Atisha attained the knowledge of emptiness and became aware of pure ... Atisha stands as an important figure in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition ...
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  • you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being." ... struggles which shape existence, both as a human and as an African (as in ...
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  • regarding all aspects of international human rights law. ... * Rudolf Kasztner, controversial figure who saved 1,685 Hungarian Jews ...
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  • the topic of music and its influence of the human psyche, he remarked, "I ... to Europe, becoming an important musical figure in the early years of the ...
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  • A tribe is a human social system existing before the emergence of ... The fundamental unit of human society is the family. Margaret Mead ...
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  • was a philosopher of science and a major figure in twentieth-century logical ... century and also one of the most wonderful human beings that one could encounter ...
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  • inhabited," and was originally a figure of speech referring to the ... union" and two natures of Christ, human and divine; adopted the Chalcedonian ...
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  • Thus, Gregory is seen as a major figure in the history of apophatic ... In the theologian's view, the ideal of human religious effort was constant ...
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  • both because he later became a legendary figure in the Islamic world, and ... === The Ten Intellects and the human mind === In Avicenna's account ...
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  • Secretariat exhibited. If the Beyer Speed Figure calculation had been developed ... Secretariat became a beloved figure with fans and non-fans of horse ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the desire of sexual relationship as human is she capable of achieving ... ," "Maison des Lunes," "Human Again," and "If ...
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  • novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in ... George Orwell, he is sharply critical of a figure with whom many people assume ...
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  • is almost certainly the most controversial figure in all of world cinema. The ... "Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without ...
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  • acting as little more than a ceremonial figure under the military-dominated ... During the 1970s, Bhumibol became a key figure in the Village Scouts and ...
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  • Averroes, and al-Farghani. The last major figure of the family was Jacob b ... of immortality, and the final aim of human existence. Samuel ibn Tibbon ...
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  • has been a pervasive cross-cultural human belief. Of course, the tradition ... systems of thought, souls are restricted to human beings while in other systems ...
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  • (1998) focuses on the McCarthy era. The Human Stain examines identity politics ... instincts, and where one cannot always figure out what a Jew is that a ...
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  • Johnson was also a significant figure in the transition of Delta blues ... cry that I think you can find in the human voice." Bob Dylan was ...
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