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- phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky ... A rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colors. Traditionally, however ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance ... Details of Botticelli's life are sparse, but we know that he ...28 KB (4,094 words) - 03:13, 23 December 2022
- In English, it refers to a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ... and now known colloquially as the "sign of the fish" or ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... The symbol of the Cross has been revered by Christians but controversial ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the conventional name of the ... ==Authorship of On the Sublime== Biographical details about the author ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 21:04, 3 November 2022
- public") is a symbolic, figurative mode of representation of abstract ... The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- The troll is a mythical creature of Scandinavian origin that has become ... Throughout the ages, the differing renditions of trolls has fallen ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended ... Founded in 1976, TIFF is now one of the largest and most prestigious ...26 KB (3,603 words) - 04:11, 1 May 2023
- , was a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's ... Though thought of as French, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Bruxelles ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- (1653 – 1725) was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet ... Chikmatsu wrote plays mainly for theaters in Kyoto and Osaka, most ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- is satisfied") was the second Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. ... death, he was deified into the patron god of Deir el-Medina. ...23 KB (3,603 words) - 02:51, 24 July 2023
- 20, 1854) was a German philosopher and one of the three great representatives ... identified with Romanticism and the spirit of the German “Sturm und Drang” ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- [[File:JohnnyAppleseedHowe.gif|thumb|250px|right| Drawing of John ... a self-appointed missionary for the Church of the New Jerusalem, a Christian ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
- Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... Some classical examples of Tricksters in various mythologies are Mercurius ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use ... For example, the University of Virginia Library provides access to ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- Sir Francis Galton (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), cousin ... to lead to an increase in the number of people manifesting the desirable ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Tzu ("Master Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
- everything is interconnected in a chain of co-becoming and in a state ... Widely misconceived as a doctrine of nihilism, the teaching on the ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities ... faiths have apprehended the nature of divine being(s) in terms of ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- the Western world by the Latinized version of his name, Alkindus) was known ... and admitted revelation as a superior source of knowledge in some matters of ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that ... The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- to Sōdai (早大, Sōdai), is one of the top universities in Japan ... Korea, and other Asian countries, many of whom became influential political ...16 KB (2,213 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and ... Nurses develop a plan of care, working collaboratively with physicians ...27 KB (3,663 words) - 10:11, 11 March 2023
- Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ... social groupings were no more than the sum of their parts, a view that is ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- and director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine (little Anthony), and ... At the age of four, Artaud had a severe attack of meningitis. The ...12 KB (1,968 words) - 07:00, 31 July 2023
- directors owing to his innovative use of montage. and waned over the years, and the merit of his films and the value of ...36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
- A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates ... and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are thus closely tied ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- electrical engineer and inventor. He was one of the most prolific inventors ... ==Overview of his life== Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in Chelsea ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- in Giorgio Vasari's Vite (Lives of the Artists). Alberti studied ... treatises to propound a new humanistic theory of art, and drew on his contacts ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- primarily in Germany, held by a number of thinkers in diverse disciplines ... Historicism also often challenged the concept of truth and the notion ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- poet, and politician, considered to be one of the most important poets in ... Little definitive is known of Sturluson's life, and much of what ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- photographer/inventor, and the son of astronomer William Herschel ... Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, the son of William and ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies ... :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- ) refers to an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern ... The rise of the Chalukyas marks an important milestone in the history ...41 KB (5,966 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- 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
- Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a ... vilified by his successors for his neglect of the traditional religious cult ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of ... bonheur (1748), and La Volupté, and L'Art de jouir, in which the purpose ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- 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
- literature and society, and the impact of The Holocaust. ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- For Naturalism in literature and art, see Naturalism (literature). Naturalism designates any of several philosophical stances that make ...17 KB (2,419 words) - 15:22, 11 November 2022
- the Holocaust. It reflects on the sense of alienation and cruelty in modern ... science in Poland (at the University of Lodz). He worked as an assistant ...21 KB (3,001 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2023
- and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ... The factors leading to war are often complicated and due to a range ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively ... D. in 1949. While there, primarily because of his editorship of the Harvard ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher ... Little was known until recently about much of Blanchot's life ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- - October 8, 1735) was the fourth emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and ... instituted which ensured the Kangqian Period of Harmony, a period of continued ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 17:48, 15 October 2020
- 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
- refers to the simultaneous sale and purchase of identical securities or other ... to profit by exploiting price differences of identical or similar financial ...24 KB (3,749 words) - 21:31, 11 August 2023
- 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage ... in Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1909. He was one of two sons. His father was a ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- is the oldest and most fundamental branch of mathematics. It is used by ... In common usage, arithmetic refers to a branch of mathematics that ...35 KB (4,898 words) - 02:39, 15 August 2023
- the symbol. In mathematics, the definition of number has been extended over ... are called numerical operations. The study of numerical operations is called ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- ran counter to the prevailing rationalism of his day. Shestov rejected any ... He emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a ... Vocabulary control includes policies, procedures, and methodologies ...17 KB (2,446 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- thumb|300px|A sixteenth-century depiction of Ptolemy.]] Soter, a Macedonian general who became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.E., or other ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- critic, and activist. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature ... Academically speaking, Said was a follower of Post-structuralist theory ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- main_interests = Aesthetics, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy ... without organs, deterritorialization, line of flight, nomad thought, plane ...35 KB (5,046 words) - 09:29, 15 December 2022
- , meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ... Key to the Jaina Middle Way Metaphysics of Anekantavada, Philosophy East ...30 KB (4,673 words) - 18:01, 27 July 2023
- A dream is the experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, ... or heaven giving warnings or announcements of fortune that is to come. For ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:34, 30 January 2024
- Mehndi (or Hina) is the application of henna (Hindustani: हेना ... Henna has been used to adorn young women’s bodies as part of social ...26 KB (4,222 words) - 09:39, 10 March 2023
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- every prominent French intellectual of his day, including Raymond ... Kojeve's reading of Hegel was an anthropologizing one that emphasized ...23 KB (3,422 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial ... The creation of Baguazhang during the nineteenth century is attributed ...25 KB (3,699 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2023
- as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- the Purāṇas. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems ... lived near the Himalayas, in the vicinity of Ujjain, and in Kalinga. This ...29 KB (4,367 words) - 18:38, 26 January 2023
- described by John Stuart Mill as one of the seminal minds of his age ... a landmark work that led to the emergence of the Romantic Movement in England ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible ... (grammatikḕ téchnē), which means "art of letters," from ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union ... are purely designed to protect the citizens of the Russian capital. The U ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... regarding them as their peers. The survival of the Persian empire against ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- The state of mental health is generally understood to be a state of ... From the perspective of positive psychology, mental health includes ...28 KB (3,695 words) - 16:10, 9 November 2022
- or Ashiwi are a Native American tribe, one of the Pueblo peoples, most of ... Their religious beliefs guided their way of life and involved numerous ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- centuries, in particular his book The Making of the English Working Class ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age of William Shakespeare and proved ... Jonson was undoubtedly one of the most well-read men in the England ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Division of Labor is the specialization of cooperative labor in specific ... The division of labor can apply to any field. Division of labor may ...26 KB (4,018 words) - 18:21, 1 August 2023
- Korean) were a well-educated scholarly class of male Confucian scholars who ... The yangban tradition of a close network based on education, teachers ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- one novel, one play, and only a small volume of poems—his intellectual breadth ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- As a number, zero means nothing—an absence of other values. It plays a central ... systems, 0 was identified before the idea of 'negative integers' ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- his philosophical methodology and theory of knowledge in sharp contrast ... Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker, Vico attended ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological movement ... guide each person to understand the meaning of human life in all its contexts ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums ... in recent years as the central instrument of large drum ensembles called ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 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 Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent ... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the first poem in the volume; ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
- In music and music theory a chord (from Greek χορδή: gut, string ... (polyphony), the natural by-product of this process was a vertical ...34 KB (5,534 words) - 17:56, 10 December 2023
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical ... With the decline of Rome and the ascendancy of Christianity in Europe ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America ... The Haida in Canada created the Council of the Haida nation gaining ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- orgies, and in some cases cannibalism. Each of these religious groups engaged ... from the philosophical and dramatic works of a variety of medieval Hindu ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 17:44, 14 May 2024
- Amherst is a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows ... to prepare its students for a wide variety of careers, allowing them to develop ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and ... its roots in Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- Distance is a numerical description of the separation between objects ... are important for various fields of work, such as surveying, aircraft ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 15:29, 29 January 2024
- Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ... The myth of Dangun with legend following presents Gojoseon (고조선 ...10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022
- influence the weather or crops, and as part of religious practices like shamanism ... While some deny any form of magic as authentic, those that practice ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- ್ಥಾನ), built on the banks of the Yagachi River in Belur ... The Hoysala Empire of southern India prevailed during the tenth to ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- opinion about the general orientation of his system, it must be acknowledged ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- #039;s education, particularly the invention of the kindergarten system for ... in Thuringia (now Germany), the fifth of six children. The village where ...15 KB (2,345 words) - 06:41, 15 April 2024
- A castrato may also be one who, because of an endocrinological condition ... used most frequently today, as a reflection of contemporary culture's ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- first discussed by Sigmund Freud as part of his psychoanalytic theory and ... is to address the underlying causes of the pain these mechanisms are ...32 KB (4,936 words) - 09:11, 28 January 2024
- 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was ... Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, ...31 KB (4,736 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
- He was Member of the Parliament of England briefly and was also a ... William Petty was born in Romsey on May 27, 1623 to a family of middle ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
- 1945) was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders ... The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919), a masterpiece of cultural history ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- Courtly love was a medieval European conception of ennobling love ... It can be seen as a combination of complex factors: Philosophical ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into ... The components of the initiation vary widely from study of scripture ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries ... It is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals ...31 KB (4,402 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- illusion. Both circles are the same shade of yellow, just as both squares ... Illusions are distortions of a sensory perception, revealing how the ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- held every February. It is considered one of the most important film festivals ... The festival began at the beginning of the Cold War, in the city of ...34 KB (4,808 words) - 11:03, 28 September 2023
- It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- for his barbed and clever wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights ... As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- ) is an internal (neijia, Wudangquan) Chinese martial art, in which ... The origins of tai chi chuan are known only through legend and speculation ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- the cultural and literary renaissance of Spain in the twentieth century ... As part of his own “project of life,” Ortega acted on his convictions ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the ... Evidence of the promiscuity and ethically lax lives of many of the ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- Scriabin began composing in the style of the lush romanticism of Frédéric ... old, his mother, a concert pianist, died of tuberculosis. Scriabin's ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature ... Gardening is an art and a science. It is an activity that brings out ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- A Morality play is a type of dramatic allegory, performed in a theater ... Morality plays survived the disenchantment of the church and the wrath ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- important respects, most notably in the use of gourd resonators. It is possible ... A distinctive feature of the sitar are the curved frets, which are ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... authoritative perspective, or definition of creativity; nor is there a ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- to the color era, Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular ... Hitchcock was the quintessential master of suspense. One aspect that ...29 KB (4,441 words) - 08:14, 20 July 2023
- Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures ... above Bulguksa, the grotto overlooks the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and rests ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- talk therapy, or just therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly ... There are hundreds of psychotherapy techniques, some minor variations; ...38 KB (4,942 words) - 17:25, 24 February 2024
- historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs ... Girard's theoretical work began with his discovery of mimetic ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism ... "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- in southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 190 miles ... The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... distinct disciplines. However, the origins of their ideas and goals are located ...53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
- 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
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the ... The theonym "Uranus" is the Latinized form of Ouranos ( ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- 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
- Bauer was also a pioneering figure in the development of biblical ... Thuringia in Saxe-Altenburg, the son of a painter in a porcelain factory ...21 KB (3,103 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists ... Realism. Realism focused on the description of the details of everyday existence ...9 KB (1,444 words) - 10:40, 13 December 2023
- The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... is whether it over-emphasizes the role of conflict in development. In ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... over the centuries, so, too, have the foci of African American literature ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- b.c.e. – August 12, 30 b.c.e.) was queen of Ancient Egypt, the last member ... As co-ruler of Egypt with her father Ptolemy XII Auletes, her brother/husband ...20 KB (3,144 words) - 22:04, 7 January 2024
- but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5. Meeting ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... was dramatist who examined the relation of the gods to the lives of mortal ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- to be the most important Spanish poet of the twentieth century. García ... by the Spanish Modernismo style—a style of particularly overwrought, melodramatic ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of ... Beyond the gestural aspect of the art form, other significant aspects ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic ... to literary interdependence. The question of the precise nature of their ...41 KB (5,932 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2024
- (Old Style) - March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- Digital audio has emerged because of its usefulness in the recording ... ==Overview of digital audio== === Going from analog to digital === ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 03:54, 29 July 2022
- for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional ... Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... The qualities that create the distinctive character of liturgical ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- His systematized and refined the cosmologies of Plotinus and Iamblichus, and ... Proclus’ greatest concern was the elevation of the human soul to ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 23:05, 30 November 2022
- the modern libertarian movement and revival of classical liberalism. Prominent ... on September 29, 1881, in Lemberg (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy falling one after another ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- the first among the great German dramatists of the nineteenth century. The ... Kleist was born of aristocratic descent at Frankfurt an der Oder, ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 15:02, 26 October 2022
- was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School ... Along with Schoenberg and Webern he was one of the pivotal composers of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- by modern scholars in the ruined library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, near ... on seven clay tablets. This epic is one of the most important sources ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will be liable ... Perception is the process by which stimulation of the senses is translated ...52 KB (7,802 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- ("to yoke")) refers to a series of interrelated ancient Hindu ... During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the pillars of the Western ... upon his conviction about the immortality of the soul, Socrates defined ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- (movement) and graphos (writing), is the art and craft of creating and ... Cinematography is an art form unique to motion pictures. Although ...29 KB (4,666 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- but also include courses on the doctrines of the church and often offer ... a God-centered environment, the narrowness of the vision of parochial schools ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon one of the figures most associated ... Robbe-Grillet, an influential theorist as well as writer of the nouveau ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 04:24, 17 June 2023
- Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism ... Buddhism, reasserting the importance of repentance and internal enlightenment ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- beak without teeth. Common characteristics of birds include the laying of ... has been observed to reach a flying speed of at least 124 mph (200 km/h ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. It is based ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and ... He was a mathematician of the first order. In mathematics, Pascal ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies ... In 2008, Sokal published Beyond the Hoax, which revisited the history ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Indigenous cultures along the ... After the movement of European settlers to the region, cultural and ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ... In formal logic, the definition of a dilemma differs markedly from ...24 KB (3,799 words) - 15:21, 29 January 2024
- until the fourth century C.E. This period of Greek literature stretches ... Most of the epic poetry and tragedy has its roots in Ancient Greek ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- it. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac. He is best known to the world, however, as the noted author of his ...14 KB (2,358 words) - 05:00, 9 April 2024
- information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings ... Although theoretically, any piece of information on a given book is ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral ... In psychology, personality is a collection of emotional, thought, ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes some ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based ... Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient Mediterranean world, these ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being taxed. There ... and assessment, with various methods of assessing property value in ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 B.C.E. – ca ... Hippokrátēs, was an ancient Greek physician of the "Age of ...33 KB (4,488 words) - 14:32, 13 July 2023
- he became known as the "Father of Advertising." He also ... his insights into the purpose and method of advertising brought incredible ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 20:00, 19 May 2023
- September 19, 1940) was a British pioneer of ethnography. He conducted significant ... and much interest in the people and races of Africa. Influential in academic ...11 KB (1,543 words) - 19:06, 4 December 2023
- and economist. His monumental History of the Italian Republics in the ... Dauphiné to Switzerland at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. It was ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. Emotions ... attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James ...51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- the third largest city in Ecuador in terms of population. It is located in ... Tupac Yupanqui ordered the construction of a grand city to serve as a ...19 KB (2,779 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- Pierre Nicole (1625 - November 16, 1695) was one of the most distinguished ... who based their ideas on the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, he believed ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 05:25, 24 November 2022
- Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned ... A typical geotechnical engineering project begins with a review of ...29 KB (4,284 words) - 02:56, 30 November 2022
- a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the most ... His father was a clergyman and the author of theological writings. After ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 06:09, 31 December 2022
- translated into Latin in 1150. His concept of the universality of matter ... writing poetry in his teens. At the age of 16 he wrote a poem later included ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- young. In 1450 he entered the University of Vienna, where he became a pupil ... Regiomontanus made a number of important observations, including eclipses ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 03:03, 8 December 2022
- and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Pravda (Правда, "The Truth") was a leading newspaper ... 3, 1908. The editorial staff consisted of Trotsky and, at various times ...17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- arts at an early age. It is an extreme form of a gift. One generally accepted ... After they reach physical adulthood, many of their peers have caught up ...26 KB (3,861 words) - 01:14, 12 April 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
- for its inherent and interesting mixture of colors. Although not mineralized ... in England it is found with interments of the bronze age. A remarkably ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 02:46, 24 July 2023
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from ... As tonality emerged as the prevalent syntax of Western music, this ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- Herakleitos) (c. 535 – 475 B.C.E.) is one of the most important pre-Socratic ... His words resemble those of a prophet, rather than those of a philosopher ...11 KB (1,556 words) - 09:50, 22 January 2024
- George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 — April 30, 1983) was one of ... York City Ballet. His United States staging of The Nutcracker made that ballet ...14 KB (1,953 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- refers to an idealized or prototypical model of a person, object, or concept ... "archetype is an explanatory paraphrase of the Platonic eidos" (Jung ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- attitudes towards minorities. Kipling, of course, was a man of his times ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- [[Image:Mexico.Tab.OlmecHead.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monument 1, ... people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, roughly ...35 KB (5,268 words) - 00:32, 18 November 2022
- to be among the best Chinese literature of the period. Chang's work ... Upon the formation of the People's Republic of China, her works ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic ... In his illustrated 1753 treatise "The Analysis of Beauty," ...25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- Hampshire. In addition to his literary body of work, Kingsley was a Protestant ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- who practices medicine with the purpose of promoting, maintaining, or ... Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself ...29 KB (3,911 words) - 19:59, 15 May 2020
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово ... This work is a mixture of Christianity and that Slavic paganism that ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which ... While astronomy is the scientific study of astronomical objects and phenomena ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- economics, and philosophy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow ... made significant contributions in the area of physical chemistry. Based on ...17 KB (2,500 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- C.E.) designates an ancient royal dynasty of Karnataka that ruled from Banavasi ... in 345 C.E., showing at times the potential of developing into imperial proportions ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 21:31, 7 September 2023
- The Doll describes the romantic infatuation of a man of action who is frustrated ... "Prus has no biography, he is one of the best-camouflaged of writers ...24 KB (3,556 words) - 07:13, 17 November 2023
- William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 ... William was thoroughly acquainted with the works of Aristotle, and ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- education, is a broad term for the practice of teaching and educating adults ... and also due to the increasing consciousness of the rights of all people to ...24 KB (3,446 words) - 06:19, 15 June 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
- 17, 1917) was a French sculptor, and one of the pre-eminent sculptors of ... be considered too informal, the exactness of his forms too real, or the ...42 KB (6,353 words) - 19:06, 21 August 2023
- Life, may be considered by some as a type of virtual reality. virtual artifact (VA) either through the use of standard input devices such ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, ... father was Alberto Fermi, a Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Communications ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions ... There are three main subjects of Chinese painting: human figures, ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- Gadamer. Ricoeur published a large body of work on a variety of philosophical ... himself from a more modern understanding of the knowing subject as limited ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- 1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It was one of the most destructive and deadly ... in theodicy and in the philosophy of the sublime. As the first earthquake ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical ... relationships. Pythagoras' discovery of the overtone series, with its ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... The Hokku of early Japanese poets like Matsuo Basho and Ueshima Onitsura ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador ... This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that played in ... into the movie business at the beginning of the "talkie" era ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- "true words") is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the ... The teachings of Shingon are based on esoteric Vajrayana texts, the ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain in general ... Once the seeds of flamenco were planted in Andalusia, it grew as a ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- de Lantins). The era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire (476 C.E. ... was very expensive, due to the expense of parchment, and the huge amount ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
- The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...51 KB (7,537 words) - 12:02, 1 February 2024
- The Kenites were a nomadic tribe of the ancient Levant, many of whom ... Among the well-known Kenites were Jethro, the "priest of Midian ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- is one of the two styles of Indian classical music; the other is Hindustani ... where the student lived with and learned the art from his guru (master). Today ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- – January 24, 1965) was a Russian philosopher, representative of ... concerned with theology than with the task of working out a system of metaphysics ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ... between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- quot;) refers to a "descent" of the divine into the realm of ... Due to the correspondences between the Hindu concept of avatar and ...18 KB (2,850 words) - 07:10, 23 August 2023
- in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Perkins (formerly Mary ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang ... Most of Hanshan's 600 poems were inscribed on tree trunks or ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- instructor, and actor widely regarded as one of the most influential martial ... Like many of his colleagues, Lee saw the martial arts in part as a ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 16:58, 29 April 2020
- the Minoans. Based on depictions in Minoan art, Minoan culture is often characterized ... have been used to describe the current ruler of the Minoan civilization. What ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... Broadcasting forms a very large segment of the mass media. Television ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- |WHS = Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns ... in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Iona is a small island located in the north-west region of Scotland ... The island of Iona lies approximately one mile (1.6 km) from the ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
- doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meaning of Freud’ profoundly changed ... Lacan's work has had a profound impact on the development of ...49 KB (7,514 words) - 08:30, 18 March 2024
- The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... Antioch, Alexandria, and other centers of learning to study the Greek ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration ... The most intensively studied traditions of alliterative verse are ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 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
- [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...20 KB (2,817 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- tales and he would eventually record a total of 11 fairy tales. All his tales ... The best known of these tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- astronomer, and philosopher, considered one of the greatest mathematicians ... after Eutocius brought out editions of some of his works, with commentaries ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter ... The quality of a vacuum is measured by how closely it approaches a ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- A personality test aims to assess aspects of a person's character ... A variety of methods have been developed to assess personality differences ...32 KB (4,685 words) - 14:39, 29 September 2023
- that utilizes the behavior and effects of electrons for the production ... to cover electronic engineering amongst some of the older (notably American ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...49 KB (7,258 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
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