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- As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made ... him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Kantianism refers to a line of thought that is broadly based on the ... The revolutionary impact of Kant’s critical method on western thought ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- - October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... sympathy for the vision in God and aspects of occasionalism and Berkeley ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- He served as a professor at the University of Chicago as well as Harvard ... After his service in the war he applied to the University of Chicago ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 19:19, 23 May 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
- and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2023
- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century, even ...21 KB (3,149 words) - 03:34, 24 July 2023
- Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- 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
- and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet ... treasures ever discovered. Many of the scrolls today are housed ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- was born in Liverpool. Jevons was one of three men to simultaneously ... his remarkable insights and understanding of a wide ranges of issues. Although ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ... or minimized, depending on the agenda of the commentator. Shi'a ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- and theologian who is considered one of the most important philosophers ... Pennsylvania, in 1897, as the son of a minister, Francis Cope Hartshorne ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism ... Almost nothing is known of Sextus Empiricus’s personal life, including ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- Yi Hwang (李滉, 이황 1501-1570) was one of the two most prominent ... in the Joseon court and bureaucracy for most of his life, holding 29 government ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- anthropologist and writer. A founder of American anthropology, he is ... While Morgan's unilinear model, particularly of the development ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- Minimum wage is the minimum amount of compensation an employee must ... The intent of minimum wage legislation is to to avoid exploitation ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- reverence for Mother nature, and worship of the Goddess. The movement received ... claimed that Wicca had secretly existed for thousands of years, originating ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- closely with Karl Marx in the foundation of modern Communism. The son of ... Kautsky). Engels contributed in questions of nationality, military affairs ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 11:02, 11 April 2024
- was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians ... Maine, on December 14, 1897, the daughter of Carrie Murray and George Emery ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall ... ideas took many years to come to any sort of fruition, his tenure as the ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- 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
- is found in the mythological Cretan tale of Daedalus and Icarus, in the ... desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- reasoning cannot replace direct experience of God. He also mounted a strong ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- century in Europe, particularly as a result of the Industrial Revolution. ... have been successful in a number of fields, including retailing ...22 KB (3,153 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- the dark lines that appear in the spectra of the sun. During his lifetime ... Fraunhofer was born in Straubling, Bavaria, the son of Franz Xaver ...10 KB (1,534 words) - 02:14, 11 August 2022
- radiation that falls on it, without any of the radiation passing through ... When heated, the black body becomes an ideal source of thermal radiation ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of ... jurisdiction, may include execution, loss of liberty, government supervision ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the ... According to his relative of the same name, the Gibran family's ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ... The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- small eyes, no external ear, and absence of hind limbs (although there ... Manatees, which sometimes are known as sea cows, are part of the order ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 11:01, 9 March 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
- 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
- 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
- Normative ethics is one of three main component areas of inquiry of ... have either moral principles as standards of right action or virtues as ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 02:48, 16 November 2022
- Blood is a highly specialized, circulating tissue that consists of ... There are two main components of blood: Blood cells (collectively ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- in adapting to the culture and traditions of a society in order to introduce ... gwang, who later helped shape the foundation of the Silhak movement in Korea. ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- family known as the Liu clan. The history of this dynasty divides into two ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 00:55, 28 January 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
- is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the Electromagnetic and Weak ... (PAEC) - the atomic research agency of Pakistan and Space and Upper ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- editor. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education ... Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- one’s decisions and actions. The interest of free will in philosophy primarily ... The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... her editor at the New York World, but he thought a man would be more up to ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- 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
- eras. Ruskin is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism. ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 2024
- in 1876, building on the pioneering efforts of Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci ... on March 3, 1847. He was the middle of three children, all boys. Both ...26 KB (4,070 words) - 13:48, 18 July 2023
- specialist curators research the background of the collection, interpret the ... contexts. Curators have the unique role of building a culture of peace ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 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
- 16, 1774) was a French economist, founder of the Physiocratic school. He ... economic state as a balanced, circular flow of funds—a system he saw as ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 03:39, 4 June 2021
- 26, 1976) is considered by many to be one of the most significant and influential ... Messkirch in Boden, a rural Catholic region of Germany. His father was a craftsman ...24 KB (3,594 words) - 16:31, 6 November 2022
- from the southern Low Countries, was one of the inventors and major proponents ... Siger's political theory held that good laws were better than ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864 ... Hong proclaimed the "Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping" and began to ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- v. Sandford," The American Journal of Legal History 32(4): 373-390. ... " was a lawsuit, pivotal in the history of the United States, decided ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism ... . Lukács studied at the universities of Budapest and Berlin, receiving ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 06:56, 18 April 2024
- The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ( c=竹林七賢 ) were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ...14 KB (2,127 words) - 19:50, 21 April 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
- has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- 1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and ... semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon family who translated ... He also produced the first Hebrew glossary of philosophical and biblical ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel ... During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) ... While the use of Ockham's Razor in the later development of philosophy ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- economy, focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in ... Behavioral economics is another hallmark of institutional economics ...34 KB (4,820 words) - 19:36, 5 March 2024
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- England, what emerged later as the House of Commons first met. Recognition ... as a deacon, he was created Cardinal Deacon of San Adriano thus joining the ...11 KB (1,739 words) - 23:29, 17 December 2022
- #039;Oresme (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of ... it travels (in vacuum) at the speed of light (c). Photons are vital ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- famous for his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- dilemma" (so named because a version of it first appeared in Plato ... He discusses Abraham's dilemma of offering his son Isaac by a ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- refer to the structural and functional unit of living organisms and designed ... from his microscope design and drawing of cells in cork to major buildings ...11 KB (1,559 words) - 17:09, 15 March 2024
- notable_ideas = Problem of causation, Induction, Is-ought problem | ... the third, the most radical and, in the eyes of many, the most important of ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world ... As a number of philosophers (including Nicolas Malebranche and David ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- )), mid-2800s B.C.E., was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns ... Fu Xi was born on the lower-middle reaches of the Yellow River in ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 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
- Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was the bishop of Rome ... As pope, he promoted the authority of Rome both within the Christian ...11 KB (1,751 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... cravings, Tolstoy came to embrace a life of personal austerity based on ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- [[Image:CodexOfHammurabi.jpg|thumb|350px|An inscription of the Code ... The Code of Hammurabi (also known as the Codex Hammurabi and Hammurabi ...42 KB (7,282 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- all become the guiding principles of American identity. Emerson ... "no longer interested" in the rite of communion, Emerson left the ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- migratory bird, Ectopistes migratorius, of the Columbidae family, that ... century, the species went from being one of the most abundant birds in ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- the Enlightenment, and the editor-in-chief of the famous, Encyclopédie, ... The Encyclopédie, conceived as a compendium of all available knowledge ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of ... Stirner was a member of a group of German intellectuals calling themselves ...35 KB (5,494 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- 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
- but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a ... true virtue. Virtue, which consisted of imitating God, could only be ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... in American history. He served as Speaker of the House longer than any man ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on ... is traditionally studied within the field of cognitive psychology. ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 22:38, 5 February 2023
- religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ... They first settled the island of Aquidneck, which is now part of Rhode ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- African-Americans, or Black Americans, are citizens of the United ... in those states that were still in a state of rebellion, having seceded from ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] to an individual's self perception of being male or female. Within ...24 KB (3,629 words) - 06:41, 18 April 2024
- but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- 1968), also called "RFK," was one of two younger brothers of President ... RFK's resounding legacy is in the domain of civil rights. Along ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December ... Although a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- 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
- he acquired a reputation in his day as one of the greatest philosophical ... Though he was first known for his critique of it, Arnauld was an adamant ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, ... . The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid ("People of Monotheism ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- An Drochshaol), known more commonly outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato ... The Irish Potato Famine was the culmination of a social, biological, political ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 13:17, 6 March 2024
- Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern ... In one of the earliest English settlements in the New World, English ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- fulfilling sexual instincts. The concept of libido was taken up by Freud ... in his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: "We have defined ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- other than the human species as bearers of rights. This means that animals ... The philosophy of animal rights has given rise to a socio-political ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, ... The roots of the tradition of virtue ethics lie in the works of Plato ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- as a political economist, and an organizer of the International Workingmen ... Marx developed his revolutionary theories over a period of four decades ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod around the beginning ... hearted approach to interpreting the spirit of the law, Hillel and his followers ...16 KB (2,728 words) - 13:17, 22 January 2024
- quot;my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- advanced support for the wave theory of light. He invented a specialized ... Fresnel was one of four children of an architect, born at Broglie ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... to orbit in a plane containing our line of sight, they will eclipse each ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- lofty, elevated, exalted), is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude ... The first study of the value of the sublime is the treatise ascribed ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- discipline that involves application of the principles of physics for ... The beginnings of mechanical engineering go back to the craftsmen ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 03:49, 9 November 2022
- He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque ... Although the place (or date) of his birth is not reliably documented ...11 KB (1,822 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
- Malthus is widely regarded as the founder of modern demography. He made ... The influence of Malthus' theories was substantial. His theory ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- 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
- Kon-Ska, which means meaning "Children of the Middle Waters." Today ... and be recognized as Osages, an identity of which they can remain proud. ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:50, 11 March 2023
- Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 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
- (a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of ...50 KB (7,105 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- disorder characterized by an obsessive fear of gaining weight due to a distorted ... According to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an estimated ...25 KB (3,785 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason or an explanation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- 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 House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled ...20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tent ... The origins of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor are ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- history, astrology, and health. Most of his work consisted of diagnosing ... he was a prophet pointing to hidden depths of, and new possibilities for ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 18:08, 12 February 2024
- As with all paranormal or "psi" phenomena, the existence ... == Types of ESP == The term Extra-sensory perception (ESP) was used ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- 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
- General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed ... Previously, Newton's law of universal gravitation (1686) had ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
- and occultist. He is known for his system of mnemonics based on organized ... the Dominican priesthood and Italy in search of a stable academic position ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 13:28, 15 December 2022
- during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ... and there are extant works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- the Jewish term gentile, the Islamic notions of infidel and kafir, and the ... used to criticize and demonize the adherents of non-Christian faiths since ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- to being a woman, and yet becoming president of both the American Psychological ... her greatest interest becoming the study of self. Calkins is deservedly ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- to be regarded alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets ... personae, so she didn't write as part of any school or movement. She ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- rabbinic literature, which are primarily of an exegetic and homiletic nature ... ==Part of the Jewish oral law== The Haggadah is part of Judaism's ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- the Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of any theory of evolution in ... ... that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. ...49 KB (7,998 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- 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
- and social critic, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American ... this case, which tackled the issue of the proper teaching of biology ...28 KB (4,252 words) - 18:12, 29 July 2023
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth ... Alternative spellings of his first and last names include Saïd, Syed ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic ... Proponents of academic freedom believe that the freedom of inquiry ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- social critic, and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism. Tawney ... 30, 1880, in Calcutta, India, the son of a respected Sanskrit scholar ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- ministry. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian ... a divine will that worked through the agency of heroes and leaders. In his ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 18:40, 30 April 2023
- The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ... Moses was one of greatest miracle-workers of all time, and his dramatic ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- 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
- mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion of bodies ... Hamilton was the fourth of nine children of Archibald Hamilton, a ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, ... Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... War and all its bloodshed (3.09 percent of the population) could have ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper ... as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family traveled ...26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- who has often been called “the father of existentialism.” Although ... is best known for such notions as his stages of existence, “faith in the ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
- Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government (Qu'est ... Proudhon’s concept of revolution did not entail violent upheaval ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 19:38, 31 March 2023
- Marxism-Leninism is an adaptation of Marxism developed by Vladimir ... Communist parties subscribed to the teachings and legacy of Karl Marx ...15 KB (2,166 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... in the nation, based largely on the value of slaves, who were counted as ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... John Bordley Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the second ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- 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
- A society is a grouping of individuals, which is characterized by ... Beginning with the family, human life is one of interdependence and sharing ...31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
- perform other tasks such as keeping records of humans' actions, acting ... beings is an ancient and common feature of most world religions, but only ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch ... thinkers, and contributed to the development of modern European philosophy ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- simultaneously. This is the most common form of polygamy. The man may marry ... wife simultaneously, is the most common form of polygamy ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period of English history from the ... English monarchs bear the title "Duke of Normandy." England also ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- that is directly involved in the promotion of cancer or in the facilitation ... Common examples of carcinogens are tobacco smoke, inhaled asbestos ...14 KB (1,935 words) - 19:12, 26 November 2023
- that every person is the absolute owner of their own life and should be ... and freedom. Libertarians are suspicious of the ability of government and ...55 KB (8,054 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a ... The primary functions which distinguish money are as a medium of exchange ...51 KB (7,687 words) - 16:23, 18 June 2023
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... agreement providing such a high degree of individual protection. State ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- holiday record today. He starred in scores of western films, and also played ... many times on the Forbes magazine list of the four hundred richest men ...12 KB (1,776 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under ... Supporters of deprogramming portray the practice as an antidote to ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- Land pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces often ... The Industrial Revolution set in motion a series of events which impinged ...12 KB (1,940 words) - 21:14, 22 October 2022
- diverse explanations about the structure of the universe that open the ... special intention or plan for the appearance of humans in the universe, and ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among ... Popper was born in Vienna (then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to ...33 KB (4,906 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- 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
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- he developed an interest in the development of customs associated with marriage ... Pursuing this he gathered large quantities of material and developed ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 05:07, 3 August 2022
- In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- In biblical times the shofar was used as a signaling device in time ... The method of playing the shofar is similar to that of bugle, with ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based ... In some tropical and subtropical regions, where the amount of precipitation ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 17:37, 25 January 2023
- also the most important and authoritative of all the early Yoruba principalities. Beginning as simply the city of Oyo, it rose to prominence through ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family ... a distinct species, C. hircus. It was one of the first animals domesticated ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- combine Christian lore with a Celtic myth of a cauldron endowed with special ... The quest for the Holy Grail makes up an important segment of the ...17 KB (2,819 words) - 16:11, 25 January 2023
- Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... to establish colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; he founded ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874 ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- or public even if the consequences of that activity are not conclusively ... appropriate precautions even in the absence of scientific consensus that the ...46 KB (6,708 words) - 18:54, 17 February 2022
- Consciousness at its simplest refers to sentience or awareness of ... Beyond the problem of how to define consciousness, there are also ...56 KB (7,936 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- November 1, 1894) reigned as Tsar (Emperor) of Russia from March 14, 1881 ... role that his father had granted members of the educated class, he gave ...18 KB (2,859 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- dæmon, or daimon) is a supernatural being of malevolent intent, or a fallen ... Most religions and cultures of the world accept the existence of demons ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 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
- 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
- Wade-Giles: Liu Pang), was the first Emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty (漢朝 ... replaced the harsh Legalist administration of the Qin with a Confucian system ...17 KB (2,890 words) - 20:34, 31 December 2021
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation ... The most basic of these meanings (the literal meaning) is "thirst ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
- The Long Parliament is the name of the English Parliament called by ... after the English Civil War and at the end of Interregnum in 1660."Dissolving ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 21:03, 3 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
- He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...43 KB (6,140 words) - 05:41, 11 August 2023
- . Historically, alimony arose as a result of the indissoluble nature of ... and wives owed each other a similar duty of support. Accordingly, courts ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 00:40, 9 January 2023
- Tongdosa Temple is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea, representing ... bell-shaped stupa believed to contain relics of the Buddha, the main representation ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 03:59, 1 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
- American circus. In addition, he was mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a ... joy and gaiety amid the drabness and labor of their lives. He also pioneered ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- close friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the influential figures in ... a provincial town some miles north of Stuttgart. Schiller was the ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct ... contrary to his preferences or will because of a threat administered by another ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- 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
- ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is a major component of ... According to present observations of structures larger than galaxies ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 January 2024
- act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... but beneficial event (such as the survival of a natural disaster), or even ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Jewish rebels who fought against the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the ... in Jerusalem and combining the office of king and High Priest. This ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts ... amongst the three points—the omnipotence of God, the goodness of God, and ...38 KB (6,068 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film of the same name starring Jodie ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most ... Hamilton put the new United States of America onto a sound economic ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- 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
- or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial ... sea and land routes to India with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, discovered ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- 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
- Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous ... Choe's religious teaching, and the rebellion that many followers ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- In 1794, the Qajar family took full control of Iran as they had eliminated ... empire. Britain also established control of the Trucial States. In the ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- 26, 1902) was an activist and a leader of the early women's rights ... Until their disagreement over ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ...33 KB (5,008 words) - 16:16, 13 February 2024
- 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
- Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by ... The development of Korean Literature is quite unique due to the creation ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- 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
- thumb," which is really an extension of the wrist bone. It has reddish ... Panda is also a genus of the plant family Pandaceae. The word panda ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic radiation waves ... As a pioneer opening the window onto the invisible but very real world ...15 KB (2,237 words) - 15:17, 25 January 2023
- Founded by a group of separatists who later came to be known as the ... Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of people who later came to ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- The Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi, and Ahjumawi) were one of several ... trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their traditional ...18 KB (2,714 words) - 07:37, 14 June 2023
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... tenth child. President John Adams was one of his cousins. Adams was a baptized ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- #039;s law, represents the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis. Ohm offers a good example of the working of science through his experimental ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of ... Bateson is most closely associated with the concept of the double ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- ) were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a ... The Ostrogoths established a relatively short-lived successor state ...25 KB (3,947 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency, located ... The head of state is King Charles III, who holds the title of Lord ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- political philosopher, noted for his defense of liberal democracy and free ... 1899 in Vienna, Austria to a Catholic family of prominent intellectuals. He ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...37 KB (5,369 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- right|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
- update Alfred Nobel on the progress of the peace movement. After 1899 ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- history is very ancient, the formal role of cantor did not emerge until ... #039;s role to Jewish males over the age of 13. Non-Orthodox Jewish movements ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo. Bowie is also known ... He was born in Kentucky and spent most of his life in Louisiana. Bowie ...34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- third century C.E., based on the teachings of the antipope Novatian, who ... for the Roman church during the persecution of Emperor Decius c. 250 C.E. ...17 KB (2,510 words) - 22:16, 16 November 2022
- Carl Menger (February 28, 1840 – February 26, 1921) was the founder ... Poland on February 28, 1840. He was the son of a wealthy family; his father ...18 KB (2,699 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... priest and missionary and founding member of the Society. Xavier, however ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
