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- religious ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept ... Different theories on the origin of sin have been proposed by world ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes ... The VAT was first adopted in France in 1954. By the end of the twentieth ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ... As humankind becomes more aware of the need to recognize all people ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- and Anaximenes, explored the origin of existing beings and developed ... Pythagoras approached the question of being from an angle that was ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- thumb|right|300px|Albert Einstein, archetype of genius.]] intellectual capacity standing in a class of its own far above that possessed ...20 KB (2,859 words) - 06:48, 18 April 2024
- The standard of living lagged far behind that of West Germany. Food ... which aimed at improvement in the standard of living, stressed a shift in ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- and later as Jackie Onassis, was the wife of President John F. Kennedy, ... #039;s gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's assassination ...21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024
- purify”) is the Roman Catholic doctrine of an intermediary state between ... In considering the end of human life, mainstream Christianity accepts ...14 KB (2,345 words) - 14:29, 2 July 2022
- , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Although best known as the structural units of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA ... The ubiquitous presence of nucleotides from viruses and bacteria to ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the conflicts in the Horn of ... considered well off by the Ethiopian standard of living. They were deported ...22 KB (3,294 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- some Christians, that claims that at the end of time when Jesus Christ returns ... millennial kingdom to take over rulership of the world for a thousand years ...32 KB (4,883 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... Bridgetown benefits from its country's standard of living, which ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites ... The Amalekites are unknown historically and archaeologically outside ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, ... Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- , Safad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel. It is a center ... Although Safed played no role in either Jewish of Christian biblical ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 18:37, 22 December 2022
- long barrier island located off the Atlantic coast of Maryland and ... Sinepuxent, Maryland, near the northern end of the bay, and the other from ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous ... A commercial, financial, and cultural center of the city, Manhattan ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- The Republic of South Africa, most commonly referred to as South Africa ... white minority enjoyed the highest standard of living in all of Africa, often ...35 KB (4,809 words) - 15:13, 27 April 2023
- jpg|thumb|300 px|Walton Hall, headquarters of the Open University. (Artist: ... called correspondence education, is a field of education that focuses on the ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- novel and signaled his emergence as one of the world's great writers ... original creation. Torn in two (the root of his name, "raskol' ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם Avraham "Father/Leader of ... the "Abrahamic religions" because of the role Abraham plays in their ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- Caviar is the processed, salted roe of certain species of fish, most ... in the United States, high consumption of caviar led to over-fishing ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein bin Talal ... agency dedicated to raising the standard of living of rural and urban ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ... From 1839 to the mid-1840s she organized discussion groups of women ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... A number of non-harp-like instruments are colloquially referred to ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- that is essential for all known forms of life. Laurence D. Barron, ... gaseous state, water vapor. About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... the United States nominates the head of the World Bank as the biggest ...25 KB (3,686 words) - 00:01, 18 May 2023
- musicologist, author, and producer, and one of the most important field collectors ... the civil rights and cultural recognition of African Americans, organizing ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one ... or "vulgar" Italian, instead of the traditional Latin, making ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- The Sermon on the Mount is believed to be a sermon given by Jesus ... that the sermon was meant as a summary of Jesus' teaching for Matthew ...16 KB (2,654 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief ... The four main highways of Zambia; the Great North Road to Tanzania ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...23 KB (3,516 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President ... minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- and is known as the "Father of Railways." The Victorians ... west of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the second child of Robert and ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 00:40, 14 November 2022
- territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing Dynasty ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- and Parastacidae, resembling small versions of the marine lobsters, to which ... a popular food for people in various regions of the world. ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- northernmost, and most sparsely populated of its 47 prefectural-level subdivisions ... Hokkaidō did not officially become part of Japan until 1868, and ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a province of the People's ... development and a comfortable standard of living with abundant water ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- by measuring apparent changes in the periods of the revolution of Jupiter& ... his wife, Anna Olufsdatter Storm, daughter of an alderman. Christen Pedersen ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- (also known as Ukerewe and Nalubaale) is one of the African Great Lakes. It ... Lake Victoria plays a vital role in supporting the millions of people ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 23:25, 21 October 2022
- and newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the ... and poets, as well as to American poets of all races and creeds. He has ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- believes that the second coming (or Advent) of Jesus Christ is imminent. Seventh ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such ... He was, perhaps, the quintessential man of his times, but for this ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 04:57, 3 August 2022
- whom many consider the first true composer of jazz music. musical education. He learned a number of instruments, but got his professional ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
- Debussy is considered the most original musical mind of the turn of ... Debussy was not only one of the most influential French composers ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- 250px|Increasingly the world is thought of as a whole]] Globalization, as a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one ... Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- tradition. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University ... Bowne identified the essence of a human being with the "person ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- is one of two main temples of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, the ... east of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In English, its name means ...16 KB (2,429 words) - 00:05, 13 February 2024
- Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive the gift of tongues (Acts 2)]] bishops leading the Church, and the practice of ecstatic worship in which its ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 21:12, 9 November 2022
- culture. He was generally recognized as one of the most popular cultural figures ... The multifaceted talent of Vladimir Vysotsky is often described by ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 20:49, 3 May 2023
- city, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. ... in 2007, the average Cuban's standard of living remained, in 2008, ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- Republic. During World War II, millions of Jews died in Nazi death camps ... Today there are more than 7,000 descendants of the Schindler-Jews ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- Honduras, officially Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras ... the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by ...34 KB (4,896 words) - 12:36, 2 February 2024
- [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... building his country and raising the standard of living. He had inherited a ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers ... by his high-pitched voice, mastery of several blues sub-genres, and ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- and other domesticated animals, by the bite of infected ticks. ... there identified additional features of the disease, including an unidentified ...45 KB (6,567 words) - 16:55, 21 December 2023
- Scottish historian, a co-founder and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ... as well as Farsi, drew on a wide range of Indian sources. Aspects of ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- David (דָּוִד "Beloved," Standard Hebrew Davíd, Tiberian ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- scientist, engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first television; ... Baird's work was part of the great advance in technology that ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 20:54, 1 May 2024
- The Kingdom of Mutapa (Shona: Wene we Mutapa; Portuguese: Monomotapa ... polity that flourished before the coming of European rule. Written sources ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 23:43, 21 October 2023
- and networking, and a major manufacturer of personal and office printers ... devotes approximately 10 percent of its net sales to research and ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- languages), is the official language of the Indian state of Andhra ... Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and in the ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was ... Rome, it continued to enjoy a high degree of autonomy as a client-state ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- writer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest American writers ... for the "Lost Generation" of Americans born in the 1890s ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô ... Palestine near the Jordan River. The history of Jericho goes back to the end ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... let alone provide for the rising standard of living which the regime promised ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- often referred to as the “Descartes of the twelfth century” due ... The story of his tragic love affair with his student, Héloïse has ...23 KB (3,725 words) - 01:06, 24 November 2022
- now possible to provide a very high standard of living for all mankind, making ... provide a sustainable standard of living for all humanity—more advanced ...36 KB (5,646 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- Rabbit is the common name for small mammals in the family Leporidae ... is used as a collective term for all members of the Leporidae family, including ...28 KB (4,391 words) - 16:17, 7 December 2022
- States preserves 242,756 acres (982 km²) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles ... Wilderness includes 64,250 acres (260 km²) of the most pristine sections ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 05:36, 26 August 2023
- only with lies as statements—not lies of demeanor or costume or some ... by philosophers, by jurists, and others. One of the Ten Commandments, for example ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- a rapid growth in national prosperity and standard of living. The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- a background in the elementary concepts of game theory. ... In game theory, the prisoner's dilemma PD is a type of non-zero ...41 KB (6,536 words) - 23:01, 30 November 2022
- 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously Tanganyika ... He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 09:54, 12 May 2024
- author, poet, and actor. The author of several major country hits ... in other genres. Nelson also wrote a number of hits for other major stars ...49 KB (6,754 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- European Union, and Australia) is a transfer of resources from one country ... so that a society can increase its standard of living to the point that food ...36 KB (5,305 words) - 06:56, 16 June 2023
- are a Native American people originally of the Great Lakes region. They ... The Potawatomi controlled a vast amount of territory in the 1700s ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 00:29, 12 April 2023
- the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- disease caused by flukes (class Trematoda) of the genus Schistosoma, with ... estimated 200 million people infected and, of these, 120 million displaying ...18 KB (2,573 words) - 17:07, 25 January 2023
- was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most important twenieth ... Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract style did not come about ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:NBC, NewYork.jpg|thumb| The front entrance of the NBC Tower ... logo. Formed in 1926 by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), control of NBC ...26 KB (4,061 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2022
- atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray ... Alloys of beryllium with copper or nickel are strong and wear-resistant ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- to a traditional Korean fermented dish made of seasoned vegetables. The most ... Kimchi has been a mainstay of Korean culture for over 2,000 years ...18 KB (2,571 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- pop music fans as well. This slick brand of country music in turn stimulated ... Atkins' style of finger-picking opened new creative possibilities ...16 KB (2,556 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute ...48 KB (7,492 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve ... sport, swimming is featured in a range of local, national, and international ...26 KB (3,876 words) - 13:41, 23 March 2023
- 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- that carries its own motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles ... The automobile is one of the technologies—along with such others ...30 KB (4,553 words) - 07:06, 23 August 2023
- institution which has formed the foundation of the family throughout history ... Challenges to the institution of marriage in the twentieth century ...46 KB (7,206 words) - 14:15, 7 May 2024
- during World War II, beginning at the age of 15, and the loss of his parents ... Wiesel was a passionate and powerful writer and author of more than ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- was an American researcher in the fields of cognitive psychology, computer ... closer and more accurate representations of the full dimensions of human ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- == Evolution of the glyph == J upside down. The main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs was ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots ... the human spirit through the recognition of distinguished or ancient lineage ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- an Irish writer and poet, regarded as one of the seminal figures of modernism ... Joyce pushed the limits of the "stream-of-consciousness" ...32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
- The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also called the Great Crash or the ... Not only was the event of such a magnitude that it is unforgettable ...33 KB (5,019 words) - 20:15, 24 June 2020
- fund, and as a result, the standard of living of the population, ... and a sharp decline in the standard of living of the rural population ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... greatly. The north maintains a lower standard of living than the south due ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- Santeria (Santería in Spanish, meaning "Way of the Saints" ... remained popular among the descendants of West African slaves. In the ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when ... For much of the twentieth century, typewriters were indispensable ...36 KB (5,574 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 17:25, 12 May 2024
- The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in ... has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- [[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science. A longtime ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest ... Hard rock became a template of society and reflected the many views ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was ... individual to enjoy a comfortable standard of living, but that it was unfairly ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- observations in Africa challenged attitudes of racial superiority and provoked ... at a time when women were thought incapable of doing what men did. Her achievements ...29 KB (4,571 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- His gregarious personality and dynamic style of play endeared him ... by Seattle Mariner Ichiro Suzuki), and one of only two to record 2,000 hits ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 19:11, 5 May 2024
- term also is used to refer to all members of the order Crocodilia, a group ... that are primarily found in tropical regions of Asia, the Americas, Africa ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- Outer space (often called space) consists of the relatively empty ... has established the Kármán line, at an altitude of 100|km|mi ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. Originally ... Despite the appearance of two significant Berber dynasties, the Almoravids ...26 KB (3,865 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- for the New York Yankees. He was the brother of Vince DiMaggio and Dom DiMaggio ... with which he played the game. At the time of his retirement at age 36, he ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 13:46, 1 August 2022
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States ... It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... subcultural divisions among themselves; two of the largest are White Hmong ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- Maple syrup is a sweet syrup (thick, sticky solution of sugar and ... Maple syrup is one of innumerable products that people obtain from ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 11:09, 9 March 2023
- "Unclean! Unclean!" These were the words of lepers as they ... nerves. It also affects the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract ...31 KB (4,435 words) - 21:58, 25 October 2022
- pop singer who, among the female artists of the British Invasion of the ... O'Brien, Springfield was a major fan of American soul music, and created ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- she changed the public's perception of people with disabilities. She ... true value comes from the height and depth of her mind. ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 08:35, 21 January 2024
- statesman, dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature ... Born in Córdoba, Spain in 4 B.C.E., Seneca was the second of three ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music ... It evolved in the United States in the communities of former African ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- conductor, Rachmaninoff is remembered as one of the true artistic geniuses ... his own works as soloist. He was one of the greatest pianists of his ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 2023
- produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the ... is FDG ([18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose), an analog of glucose, the concentrations ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- Social Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- , is the most populous prefecture and city in Japan, and the center ... It is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and, unique among the prefectures ...39 KB (5,420 words) - 03:54, 1 May 2023
- [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- spans two major phases in the development of French literature. Gautier ... as a means to a middle-class standard of living, although he complained ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period. applying its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- horticulturist, botanist, and co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural ... He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 22:29, 25 October 2022
- the fourteenth century and mainly comprised of non-Muslim boys often captured ... major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople, the defeat ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- Hollywood with his innovative practice of method acting, inspiring the ... In the 1960s Brando was one of the first actor-activists to march ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west ... years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after Sri Lanka ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- .nsf/mf/3238.0.55.001 Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... 2.7% of Australia's population |popplace=New South Wales 2.9 ...50 KB (7,297 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- 3, 1958) was an Anglican theologian, Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Chichester ... Hampshire, where his father was a Church of England clergyman. Bell attended ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from ... The primary aspect of the art of conducting can be said to be bringing ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...29 KB (4,671 words) - 22:22, 25 October 2022
- Opera is a form of theater in which the drama is conveyed wholly or ... ==Background of Opera== Comparable art forms from various other parts ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- Basidiomycota is a major division (or phyla) of the kingdom Fungi ... within Basidiomycota, or about 37 percent of all described species of fungi ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to ... ), the plural of which is mujahideen ( ar|مجاهدين ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... 42,000, Caymanians enjoy the highest standard of living in the Caribbean. According ...26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
- Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty ... concern for civil society, and for the lives of the underprivileged, that marks ...18 KB (2,990 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- A thermostat is a device for regulating the temperature of a system ... Thermostats can be constructed in many ways and may use a variety ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
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- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... the entire peninsula. Following a series of insurrections, its territory ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition ... The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic ...36 KB (5,546 words) - 10:43, 9 March 2023
- and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in the Ogun State of ... Awolowo was well aware that the challenge of holding Nigeria's ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... It is a destination spot of many vacationers due to its seasonally ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
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- Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer ... Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious ... cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of NDEs reported continually increases ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
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- A parachute is a device used to slow the descent of a person or object ... controlled descent similar to that of a glider. In addition, smaller ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
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- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding ... as a reaction against the rationalization of nature during the Enlightenment ...19 KB (2,987 words) - 04:48, 3 August 2022
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... England and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city. His father, Charles ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... One question asks the kinds of practical rules people actually use ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- The plan envisaged a massive increase in the Soviet standard of living ... administrator, with the Soviet standard of living rising considerably ...60 KB (8,496 words) - 22:35, 29 April 2023
- beak without teeth. Common characteristics of birds include the laying of ... even sleeping on the wing. The fastest living animal is a bird, the peregrine ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- MS causes gradual destruction of myelin (demyelination) and breakdown ... The total number of people suffering from MS is not known. Estimates ...42 KB (6,258 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... in search of employment and a higher standard of living. ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.28 million ... Sydney is one of the most multicultural cities in the world which ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- chey") is the official state ideology of North Korea and the political ... Juche theory is a type of Marxism ideology, but it is built upon the ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 06:36, 28 February 2023
- The Trimurti (meaning "three forms" of God), also known ... most strongly held in Hindu denomination of Smartism, though it is largely ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- and college football coach in the early era of the sport and is the namesake ... Clemson University, Georgia Tech, University of Pennsylvania, Washington & ...22 KB (3,381 words) - 06:56, 8 April 2024
- and that his story is actually a syncretism of previous myths and mystery ... it carries little weight among the majority of modern historians and scholars ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- January 31, 1969), was an Irani (Indian of Persian descent) born in Poona ... spiritual matters. However, at the age of 19, contact with an old Muslim ...32 KB (4,996 words) - 04:10, 9 November 2022
- Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – August 16, 2003) was President of Uganda ... health care and to raise the standard of living generated some enthusiasm ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
- Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals ... Placozoans are the simplest in structure of all known multicellular ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the ... Yunnan has earned fame for the natural beauty of its setting from ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... A higher standard of living since independence has accelerated obesity ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- and libertarian attitude. He was an exemplar of the communitarian, drug-positive ... his family in 1919 from the Galicia region of northwest Spain to San Francisco; ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
- The trio of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash are a folk ... the charts in 1970. They produced a string of mellow, well-harmonized, message ...21 KB (3,245 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- 039;at 'Azza) is a narrow coastal strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean ... Following the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
- The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably ... The essential story tells of the spiritual maturation of the heroic ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- 1973) was an American pioneer in the history of photography and its struggle ... artists who eventually became legends of modern art, as well as eventual ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar ... a calendar based on the true motions of both the sun and moon, calculated ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- style and many contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including ... 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
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- #039;a dinastia) was the ruling family of Georgia. Their ascendancy lasted ... This period of time, particularly the reigns of David IV (1089-1125 ...21 KB (3,136 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in ... is the ability to influence the movement of matter or energy through mental ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- a furnace is usually produced by combustion of a fuel such as oil, wood, or ... for kiln, a device used in the production of ceramics. In British English ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 09:57, 18 October 2022
- have been made with varying degrees of realism by engineers as well ... Several reasons have been given in support of space colonization. ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- as the dominant figure in the Republic of Korea's history and particularly ... of industries and rise in the standard of living of average South Korean ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- The Anglican Communion is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches ... The status of full communion means that all rites conducted in one ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the ... The Druids were polytheists who also revered elements of nature, such ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 09:43, 15 January 2023
- unfettered by concerns about conditions of their employment will be more ... A life tenure or lifetime tenure is a term of office that lasts for ...21 KB (3,170 words) - 03:41, 30 April 2023
- The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted ... War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated ...28 KB (4,129 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... eighteenth century Boston was the location of several major events surrounding ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
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- and one's own needs, often at the expense of others. from normal to abnormal. A moderate degree of narcissism may be healthy, ...31 KB (4,187 words) - 17:00, 16 November 2023
- unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- Hamlet: Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It ... and it is universally included on lists of the world's greatest books. ...40 KB (6,336 words) - 16:59, 21 January 2024
- "Yavana" are both transliterations of the Greek word for "Ionians ... * The mention of the "Yona king Antiochus" in the Edicts ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- it is most frequently used in the context of New Guinea and Melanesia. In ... In both cases, many of the beliefs and practices particular to these ...28 KB (4,339 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...40 KB (5,976 words) - 22:28, 13 November 2022
- Korea's first religion, the religion of Dangun, the mythical founder ... better educated and have a higher standard of living than most of their ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- ) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- The State of Indiana is the 19th U.S. state and is located in the ... often called Hoosier Hysteria. Residents of Indiana are called Hoosiers. ...31 KB (4,480 words) - 18:55, 4 March 2024
- , the legendary gypsy jazz guitarist, is one of the most innovational European ... Born into and raised along the caravan trail traveled by a tribe of ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
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- dao was often modified by other nouns, each of which represented a subset ... Tian Dao is explained using the concepts of yin and yang. The resulting ...21 KB (3,367 words) - 19:34, 7 July 2023
- was a rabbi from France, famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentaries ... Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the texts ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- enabled ordinary people to enjoy a standard of living far better than that ... html Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living] by Clark Nardinelli ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- A kangaroo is any of several large marsupial mammals of the Macropodidae ... great leaping power due to the structure of their hind legs. They are native ...21 KB (3,232 words) - 07:08, 28 February 2023
- Sodium (chemical symbol Na, atomic number 11) is a member of a group ... bright illumination at low cost. An alloy of sodium and potassium (NaK) ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 21:54, 30 January 2023
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China ... emphasizes the rise in the Chinese standard of living, literacy rate, and ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- release with Full Tilt Boogie Band. On each of her recordings, Joplin is listed ... in 1953. The family belonged to the Churches of Christ denomination. ...20 KB (3,184 words) - 09:39, 1 April 2024
- Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It ... percent of the white population. The standard of living is on the rise, with ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- the most populous city in India and capital of the state of Maharashtra. Mumbai ... and the relatively high standard of living, making the city a ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- in the late twelfth century as the Poor Men of Lyons, a band organized by ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...32 KB (4,791 words) - 23:19, 17 January 2024
- for the Wounded Knee Creek, a tributary of the White River, which runs ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the ... The major themes of his work were social: Radical individualism, libertarianism ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- A lake (from the Latin word lacus) is an inland body of water, not ... There is, however, a lack of consensus on definitions used to distinguish ...31 KB (4,835 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds ... A word that consists of a single syllable (like English dog) is called ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- and commercial center, and the largest city of Moldova. Inhabited for thousands ... capital, with a much higher standard of living than most rural areas. ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January ... and the family lost its middle-class standard of living. When Ban was six, ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's ... Mayr's theories on speciation remain the leading view of how ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions ... The Missouri River flows through the western part of the state and ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- Scorpion is the common name for any of the carnivorous arthropods ... Scorpions are widely distributed south of about 49° N, with the notable ...32 KB (4,433 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- a British analytic philosopher. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she became ... read "Mods & Greats" (a course of study in classics, ancient ...23 KB (3,440 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... The original native people of Aruba and surrounding islands were the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
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