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- MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands ... The future of the MARC formats is a matter of some debate in the worldwide ...10 KB (1,427 words) - 04:45, 5 November 2022
- was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- 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
- instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology. McDougall ... in Lancashire, England, as the second son of Isaac Shimwell McDougall and ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- gas. It is formed by the disintegration of radium and is one of the densest ... found that it was the heaviest gas known as of then. It has been called radon ...15 KB (2,200 words) - 22:50, 7 December 2022
- in Northern Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- was forced to flee the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when communism gained ... especially the eggs representative of Easter, made of precious metals ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- |observedby=United States and Canada |date=February 2 whether it sees its shadow, announcing the result of this ...21 KB (3,219 words) - 06:16, 25 February 2023
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... by the Heisei period (1990– ), neither of these is widely associated ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- known particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in ... Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- He was influential in the development of modern systematic zoology, ... is given annually by the National Academy of Sciences for an original contribution ...9 KB (1,298 words) - 09:40, 15 May 2021
- Gravel is rock that is of a certain particle size range. In geology ... or tarmac. Russia alone has over 400,000 km of gravel-surfaced roads. Gravel ...6 KB (948 words) - 18:27, 20 January 2023
- 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from ... Ian Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the small town of ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is a mineral composed of calcium ... Historically, some varieties of fluorite have been used for ornamental ...8 KB (1,085 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
- or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. In some cases ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September ... armistices between Israel and the Arab states surrounding the new nation ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic ... The Deep South is a belt stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to west ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 08:36, 15 January 2023
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces ... Mannerheim is given much of the credit for successfully steering the ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- an eleven year ministry in a tenement area of New York City, he taught at ... who was German went to the United States as a Lutheran missionary ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- " or other variations on the theme of "Ethical." Ethical ... Ethical Culture Society initiated a number of projects to improve the lives ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- painter who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Chagall is ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... * Sovereign states (country names in bold), consisting of: ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- In sociology, conflict theory states that society or an organization ... where conflict occurs between groups of people, for a variety of reasons ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- was a Jewish-American political theorist of German descent and one of the ... Rejecting much of the Western philosophical tradition, Arendt maintained ...24 KB (3,560 words) - 18:02, 23 January 2024
- Christian movement centered on the teachings of Czech martyr Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415 ... force in Moravia, Bohemia, and parts of Poland, with many Czech nobles ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 21:21, 9 February 2024
- that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts ... psychologism on the ground that principles of logic are universally true ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- and an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis with children ... and opened a private practice. At the age of 40 he married Libusa Deutsch ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- ), or half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures ... One of the first people to use the term half-timbered was Mary Martha ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 23:35, 30 April 2023
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... establish and define the modern theory of socialism, societal problems ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, who ... would no longer be held, following the death of Unification Church founder ...12 KB (1,783 words) - 07:06, 23 November 2022
- American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was ... in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, at the time of Landon's birth. Later ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- he was the first official Secretary-General of the United Nations. As a representative ... troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950. Prior to this ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth ... in Paris, France, she was the daughter of the prominent Swiss statesman ...18 KB (2,968 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- 1993 to 1995, and the third woman leader of a Muslim country, following ... After gaining her doctorate from the University of Connecticut, she ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 04:26, 27 February 2023
- service retail store offering a wide variety of food products, such as meat ... for canned and packaged goods. A variety of non-food items such as household ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 13:56, 28 April 2023
- Fe2O3 (hematite). Magnetite is one of several types of iron oxide ... tectonics. Changes in the oxygen content of the Earth's atmosphere ...8 KB (1,145 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Ham is the thigh and rump of any animal that is slaughtered for meat ... to prohibit eating ham, as a product of the pig, Christian holidays ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- Eel is the common name for any of the various members of the fish ... The common name eel also is applied to members of various species ...9 KB (1,257 words) - 04:30, 21 November 2020
- It is based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, with diatomaceous ... to promote peace and science for the benefit of mankind. ...6 KB (937 words) - 01:17, 16 January 2023
- The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ... from the city center. These sites attract millions of pilgrims annually. ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1923. Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon ... The Cardinal de Richelieu was often known by the title of the King ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:14, 26 November 2023
- in America, but fell gradually out of favor from that time on. Parsons ... Coming could not occur until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- known for his large realistic landscapes of the American West. In obtaining ... Bierstadt's was a second-generation member of the Hudson River ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- most famous for his successful development of the gyrocompass. He also developed ... died in childbirth, and in the absence of his father, Sperry was raised ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk ... center. Historically it was a member of the Hanseatic League, and remains ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States ... speech represented a milestone in his work of turning the United States away ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal ... However, the basic effort on the part of the majority of countries in ...16 KB (2,401 words) - 23:59, 24 March 2024
- Grouse (plural: grouse or grouses) is the common term for any members ... Grouse tend to be plump birds that have a protective coloration of ...11 KB (1,578 words) - 20:47, 28 November 2021
- that involves the design and manufacture of ceramic products. Ceramics ... prepared and are being used for a wide range of applications, including components ...14 KB (1,948 words) - 23:58, 3 December 2023
- laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... A proponent of realpolitik (or the realist school of international ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ... denounced Stalin's "cult of personality." He helped ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 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
- The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese ... Japan also received the southern half of the island of Sakhalin from Russia. ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical ... Telegraphy forms the foundation for almost all of the communication ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957) was one of ... he was 18 years old, Byoir became the editor of the Waterloo Times-Tribune ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:54, 13 January 2023
- author, and conductor. His broad grasp of music combined the Italian ... was born in Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually ... and sedimentary rocks, often in the form of cryptocrystalline fragments ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... to believe” doctrine, the pragmatic theory of truth, radical empiricism, ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- which is the organization and management of information services or materials ... today are required to have a high degree of diversified and specialized ...23 KB (3,189 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2023
- 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police ... Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 17:56, 25 October 2022
- during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy]] scientist, and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory, best known ...27 KB (3,751 words) - 16:42, 14 May 2024
- Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- is commonly associated with the United States, where the largest concentration ... adults. Originally designed for the elite of society, the thinkers and leaders ...23 KB (3,427 words) - 11:01, 7 March 2023
- founded on March 25, 1957, by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the ... citizens, while also remaining citizens of their home states. ...13 KB (1,869 words) - 04:30, 23 March 2024
- military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on ... the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- exploration setting for the transmission of physical knowledge and skills ... The purpose of physical education involves more than training the ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- and Taishō periods in Japan. Born the son of a samurai of the Morioka Clan ... intellectuals and students. He was critical of the increasing militarism in ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in ... was the first university in the United States to emphasize research, applying ...28 KB (4,118 words) - 19:30, 4 May 2024
- Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- typographer, and architect. He was one of the most important figures ... .Anna Glazova. El Lissitzky in Weimar Germany. [http://spintongues.vladivostok ...38 KB (5,595 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- and composer, the second surviving son of five sons from Johann Sebastian ... Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar, Germany, to Maria Barbara ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- 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
- and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of government involvement in solving ... in politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- Juggling is a form of skillful, often artful, object manipulation ... There is also the Late Latin form joculare of Latin joculari, meaning to jest. ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 09:05, 12 May 2024
- Gustav von Schmoller (June 24, 1838 – June 27, 1917) was the leader ... and mathematical approaches to economics of Classical and Neoclassical ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 01:03, 27 July 2023
- may also be used for a canal or a flow of water—for consumption, for ... the construction in the twentieth century of such undersea tunnels as the ...17 KB (2,599 words) - 00:21, 3 May 2023
- Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... churches, and the Restorationist movements of the late eighteenth and nineteenth ...23 KB (3,274 words) - 08:17, 2 December 2022
- ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ... term has been understood to refer to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ... refugee protection is the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- The largest portion lies within the borders of Poland; the rest is within ... century on, after the Czech king Charles IV of the Luxembourg dynasty became ...32 KB (4,656 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics ... they paved the way for the later emergence of electronic instruments. An ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- Doctrine," which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around ... Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the daughter of an ...14 KB (1,976 words) - 01:05, 9 February 2023
- The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...44 KB (6,668 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- The Nuremberg Code is a landmark document that delineates a set of ... on people by Nazi researchers, the value of the Nuremberg Code outside ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 15:28, 10 October 2021
- [[Image:Nez-perce-couple-teepee-1900.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|A tipi ... A tipi (also teepee, tepee) is a conical tent originally made of ...15 KB (2,483 words) - 23:39, 30 April 2023
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- to 15 years hard labor in the [[United States Disciplinary Barracks|military ... service, or they may refuse to be a part of any combatant organization ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (by reading ... these do not correspond to the level of complexity that Gall described ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- The Counts of Cilli The house should be referred to in English by the ... the house died out its head held the rank of prince of the Holy Roman Empire ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 08:36, 10 January 2024
- concertos and piano miniatures, and founder of the American Academy in Rome ... to achieve major recognition as a composer of concert music. The Boston Symphony ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- 28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry ... 1879, in Frankfurt am Main, the youngest son of the glazier and entrepreneur ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- Kigali has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda ... center during the Belgian colonial period of 1919–1962. When Rwanda gained ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 23:00, 3 March 2023
- , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most significant scientists ... that energy is transmitted not in the form of an unbroken (infinitely subdivisible ...30 KB (4,449 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- and settling overseas colonies. From the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden ... As a modern day supporter of the peace keeping activities of the United ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- bend in each arm. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates ... Though once commonly used all over much of the world without stigma ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- laureate, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic ... Like other German authors, already in their prime during the rise ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- works in Russian under the pseudonym of Sirin, but rose to international ... multilingual puns, anagrams, and coinages of terms. A novelist of formidable ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- for more than 50 years, holding the position of general manager from 1925 to ... A long time advocate of freedom of the press, Cooper authored several ...7 KB (1,050 words) - 03:26, 6 October 2022
- group, Brassica oleracea Gemmifera Group, of the wild cabbage (B. oleracea ... in Europe, has resulted in diverse cultivars of Brussels sprouts, selected ...12 KB (1,657 words) - 16:48, 22 November 2023
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her nation through ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German ... The first report of the fire came shortly after 9:00 p.m., when a Berlin ...45 KB (6,712 words) - 21:11, 28 September 2023
- Most commonly, rivers flow on the surface of the land, but there are also ... ==Origins of river water== A river may have its source in a spring ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation ... The advent of the printed Bible ushered in an age in which Bibles ...21 KB (3,123 words) - 02:56, 27 July 2023
- When William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and himself ... purposes or to emphasize the rich heritage of their creators' home country ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Nordic ... His reputation grew in the United States following the critical reception ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- A hookworm is any of a number of small, parasitic nematodes (roundworms ... worldwide and possibly up to one-fifth of the world's population ...16 KB (2,392 words) - 13:39, 2 February 2024
- whose work centered around theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal ... into a Jewish family. Buber spent much of his childhood in the house ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 16:30, 6 November 2022
- that is equipped to conduct observations of terrestrial events or celestial ... emissions, gamma ray bursts, and expansion of the universe. Volcano observatories ...10 KB (1,374 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- 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
- Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral ... and paving material. Given the hardness of the individual grains, uniformity ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- rule," which predicts the number of phases that a substance can ... Josiah Willard Gibbs was the only son and the fourth of five children ...19 KB (2,786 words) - 05:25, 7 May 2024
- the global Cold War superpowers. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater of ... victory in Indochina that year. One of the poorer countries in South ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system in ... her daughter began teaching in at the age of 16. Education was the center ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- by faith in the doctrines and sacraments of the Christian religion. a major force in the mainline churches of Great Britain and the United ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 21:44, 30 January 2023
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... Empire aligned itself with the united states of Germany. In 1879, Germany ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- A printing press is a mechanical device to print many copies of text ... first across Europe and then the rest of the world. Books became widely ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- ]) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from ... The phrase Weimar Republic is an invention of historians, and was not used ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- a colonial global empire outside of continental Europe. Their skills ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- American gospel singer, the leading exponent of the music in her generation ... During the course of a career that led to a Grammy Lifetime Achievement ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- 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
- are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore ... to serve other functions using the height of the tower. For example, the ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 16:19, 29 April 2024
- Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor ... Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809, in the small village of ...8 KB (1,163 words) - 02:52, 4 November 2022
- , a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic ... Schumann, can be said to be one of the first truly Romantic composers ...26 KB (4,179 words) - 02:15, 16 December 2022
- and Hawaiian English) is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most ... Since approximately 75 percent of the resident population of the state ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- a heavier-than-air craft in which movement of the wings is not used to generate ... Fixed-wing aircraft include a large range of craft from small trainers ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 2023
- education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination. The underlying ... admissions, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination|right ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- origins are usually traced to the United States in the 1820s. In the following ... Women's suffrage is the most widely applicable aspect of the ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ...30 KB (4,439 words) - 14:09, 7 May 2024
- Justicialist Party and the current President of Argentina. She is the wife ... America's second elected woman head of state—after Chile's ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ... In addition to completing this level of academic studies, high schools ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and ... markets for consumer goods and services of all kinds tend to expand and ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- Aspens are trees of the willow family (Salicaceae) and comprise one ... and commercial value for producing a variety of products for humans, including ...9 KB (1,368 words) - 04:51, 18 August 2023
- fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ... and is determined by usage, the effect of a civil war upon the population ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- grains or other edible, starchy portions of plants and used chiefly in ... Flour is the key ingredient of bread, which is the staple food in ...20 KB (3,186 words) - 08:08, 21 May 2021
- or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (Latin: Disputatio ... is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 ...38 KB (5,692 words) - 21:06, 29 January 2024
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ... At the beginning of his Critique of Pure Reason, following the distinction ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- He was responsible for thrusting awareness of the Gulag on the non-Soviet ... in helping to strip away the legitimacy of the Soviet regime should not ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- between the Soviet Union and the United States and a thawing of the Cold ... in tensions. Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
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- The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
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- In 27 months of combat action in World War II, Murphy became the most ... To Hell and Back (1955), based on his memoir of the same name (1949), and starred ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
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- (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA is restricted from operating inside the United States, although ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
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- 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
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- country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...34 KB (4,824 words) - 22:31, 15 May 2024
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- Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant ... Often references to mastodons are limited to members of the genus ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- December 4, 1952) was a German psychoanalyst of Norwegian and Dutch descent ... on September 16, 1885 in the German city of Hamburg. Her father, Berndt ...26 KB (3,913 words) - 16:28, 15 November 2023
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- Architecture Since 1922" at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1932, marking ... In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- and historian, better known as the “Father of the Olympics." Coubertin ... He was the primary force in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- executive. As the general manager of the BBC, he established the ... Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Reverend ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English Channel ... These islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
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- His work evidences an impressive combination of art and science. The artwork ... His love for art and his appreciation of the aesthetic aspects of all ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 2023
- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church ... son, Paul Revere, became the famous United States revolutionary. ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- frequently cited as the greatest ballerina of the modern era. When she was ... Maya chaffed against the oppressive regime of the Soviet Union. During ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), statistics and ... Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles ... researchers to find descriptive records of relevant information sources ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- Rosicrucianism (meaning "Rose Cross") refers to a family ... The meetings of these societies were held in private and thus Rosicrucians ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 19:19, 16 December 2022
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
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- defeated the Republicans, or Loyalists, of the Second Spanish Republic ... and civilians, formally acting independently of the state, massacred Catholic ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In her day ... deep anguish. Eventually she shook free of her family's expectations ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was the unsuccessful ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become ... For Vassar graduates, both men and women, to advance the world of ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- historian, best known as "the father of containment" and was a ... Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich ... is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. Unlike ... Condorcet was a key figure in the transformation of society from its ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit ... Organized crime takes advantage of social conditions or laws, such ...12 KB (1,649 words) - 10:42, 11 March 2023
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- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization and democratization ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
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- It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Nordic countries from about the beginning of the twentieth century up to ... The main founders of analytic philosophy were the Cambridge philosophers ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. Influenced by the philosophy ... In September, 1874 he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- 35) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as ... Bromine is an important resource for the production of a wide range ...10 KB (1,346 words) - 04:33, 22 November 2023
- He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company ... Over the course of his life, Rosenwald and his fund donated over ...10 KB (1,544 words) - 09:56, 12 May 2024
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- known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored ... His strong advocacy of France's role in world affairs ensured ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
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- Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316, Savaria, Pannonia – November 8, 397 ... with a freezing beggar and received a vision of Christ which moved him to renounce ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- 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
- , -logia) or tree-ring dating is a method of scientific dating based ... cross section cut through the trunk of a tree. Growth rings are the ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- professor in theology at the University of Leiden. He wrote many books ... In his early years Arminius affirmed the traditional Calvinist view ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 08:08, 18 March 2024
- physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- A dominant feature of most planetariums is the large, dome-shaped ... The celestial scenes can be created using a wide variety of technologies ...27 KB (4,171 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- Catholic Church to reform itself in the wake of the Protestant Reformation ... clarification and reform in the areas of doctrine, ecclesiastical structure ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 08:30, 10 January 2024
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- refugee who died in Bergen-Belsen. Her diary of two years in hiding during ... and very insightful written observations of life in hiding and the personalities ...32 KB (5,043 words) - 06:52, 28 July 2023
- river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its ... The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan fought over the control of Korea ... symbolized the degeneration and enfeeblement of the Qing Dynasty and demonstrated ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- rule. It started on August 1, 1944, as part of a nationwide uprising, Operation ... failed to make further headway in the course of the Uprising, leading to accusations ...33 KB (5,102 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- 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
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- shelters, and grottos. The scientific study of caves is known as speleology. unusual species that inhabit caves, some of which are not found outside ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- Henry Ford (July 30, 1864 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the ... cars that were priced for this new market of workers as consumers, Ford ...32 KB (4,898 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy ... in Lida, stand in remembrance and honor of the past ruler and his many ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
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