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- The Book of Enoch is an apocraphal and pseudopigraphal collection ... ), which describes a group of fallen angels (called "the Grigori ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was the founder ... Smith's movement was based upon his publication of the Book of ...44 KB (6,932 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- The Rule of Saint Basil refers to the monastic regulations formulated ... The development of rules for Christian monks was an effort to bring ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 03:26, 1 January 2022
- Semitic goddess who was also worshiped in ancient Egypt. In Ugaritic ... Anat's name is remembered in Hebrew tradition in relation to ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Franciscan-inspired Order ... Born in Brindisi, Kingdom of Naples, to a family of Venetian merchants ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to ... While the specific rationales and occasions for offering children ...43 KB (6,539 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2023
- John Chrysostom (349– ca. 407 C.E.) was the archbishop of Constantinople ... The Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches honor him as a saint ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- The Seneca are a group of indigenous people native to North America ... The Seneca were one of the five original tribes of the Iroquois Nation ...28 KB (4,085 words) - 15:59, 26 October 2023
- refers to an act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, ... proven to be fraudulent, others (such as the Paschal Fire in Jerusalem ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- thumb|400 px|Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream]] A dream is the experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:34, 30 January 2024
- is a rabbinical court. Tradition holds that the institution originated with ... After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the beth din of Johanan ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the most widely known performer ... rocksteady, and reggae songs, which include the hits "I Shot the Sheriff ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- who was one of three major pioneers in the wedding of genetics to ... Sewall Wright was a Unitarian and after he retired in 1955 and moved ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- which a person is held accountable. It is the human condition that people ... essential to being human. Freedom, which is the ability to know right from ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... He was a bridge builder, reaching out to the secular world. He was spiritual ...66 KB (9,276 words) - 17:37, 31 October 2023
- poetry prefigured, and came to influence, the Romantic movement. spiritual perception as surer denoters of the truth than sentiment or emotional ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- throughout his career. Although he was born in Canada and raised in America ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation ... several medieval theater traditions, such as the mystery plays that formed ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- art, inscriptions, and carvings. First used in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece ... Made of stone, these sarcophagi have endured through the centuries ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy ... Born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, she grew up in a devout family ...22 KB (3,790 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- brothers born in Thessaloniki in the ninth century, who became missionaries ... The two brothers, Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- 17, 1796) was a Scottish poet, known as the "translator" of ... In 1761 Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United ... In February 1926, Carter G. Woodson launched the celebration of "Negro ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- norms of behavior run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day ... On the other hand, countercultures can be detrimental to society, ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- an Irish mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion ... Hamilton was the fourth of nine children of Archibald Hamilton, a ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- The Akkadian Empire usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that ... civilization may have been derived from the Akkadians but the Empire was ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- The Babylonian exile (or Babylonian captivity) is the name generally ... While the Jews in Babylon did not suffer greatly in the physical sense ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- leader and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy ... He was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. He matriculated at Sidney ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... admission to a Christian church. Although the primary meaning of the Greek ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and Cyrus II of Persia ... In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve ... Swimming is consistently among the top public recreational activities ...26 KB (3,876 words) - 13:41, 23 March 2023
- 25, 1903 – September 22, 1979) founded the Jamaat-e-Islami (The Islamic ... The family had a long-standing tradition of spiritual leadership and ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- critic of British children's literature in the eighteenth century. Her ... several Sunday schools and charity schools in her parish. To further these ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- two most influential families, Mather was the son of the noted Puritan divine ... Mather entered Harvard at age eleven, the youngest student ever admitted ...26 KB (3,857 words) - 08:24, 10 January 2024
- Millennialism or millenarianism is a Christian belief, based on the ... These millennial views in Christianity, in spite of their differences ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in ... Slavery is the social and/or legal designation of specific persons ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- and sacred draughts.” Non-literal: “From the University, we receive enlightenment ... The University of Cambridge (or Cambridge University), is located ...34 KB (4,989 words) - 13:06, 3 May 2023
- theology. Imprisoned for many years by the Inquisition for his libertinism ... He promoted pansensism, the idea that all things in nature are endowed ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë ... The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne ...38 KB (6,119 words) - 06:49, 28 July 2023
- Sin is a term used to describe either an action that is prohibited ... Different theories on the origin of sin have been proposed by world ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, encompasses the ... not have records of individual lives or of the achievements of individual ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- |motto=Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam (The wise heart seeks knowledge ... Emory University is a private university located in the metropolitan ...26 KB (3,754 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- The Doukhobors or Doukhabors ( Духоборы , Dukhobory), earlier ... The Doukhobors were one of the sects—later defined as a religious ...38 KB (5,415 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...29 KB (4,732 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- excess. Hellman is representative of the interwar generation of authors ... Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana into a Jewish family ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- Prostitution describes sexual intercourse in exchange for remuneration ... Prostitution, however, has continued to exist since the earliest societies ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- Philippa of Hainault (June 24, 1311 – August 15, 1369) was the queen ... queen who persuaded her husband to spare the lives of the Burghers of Calais ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival ... In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah is written he|חנֻכה or ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal ... Given a manuscript copy, several or many copies, but not the original ...67 KB (9,999 words) - 15:03, 30 April 2023
- kinship. It constitutes a cultural taboo in most societies and is often ... Many reasons underlie the incest taboo: Biological explanations of ...23 KB (3,379 words) - 21:59, 4 February 2023
- coeducational research university in Nashville, Tennessee, in the ... In its history Vanderbilt has been involved in controversy surrounding ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- English composer. He was a student at the Royal College of Music and ... He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- The Nez Perce (autonym: Niimíipu) are Native American people who ... Initially successful in their relationships with white settlers, like ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- The Qur’ān, literally "the recitation" (also sometimes ... The Qur’an is fundamental to every aspect of Islam. It informs Muslim ...49 KB (7,703 words) - 20:37, 24 January 2023
- Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was the first ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... The Enlightenment advocated reason as a means to establishing an authoritative ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- jpg|thumb|250 px|Funeral arrangement in a Temple in Tokyo]] #039;s death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- The Amish (Amisch or Amische) (IPA: ˈɑːmɪʃ ) are an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States and ...35 KB (5,323 words) - 07:31, 25 July 2023
- 6, 1920) – September 3, 2012), was born in North Pyeongan Province, which ... religious teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle ...69 KB (10,533 words) - 13:50, 28 April 2023
- from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually reconcile ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- , transliterated Asklēpiós; Latin Aesculapius) was the god of medicine ... Given humanity's universal interest in health and longevity, ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
- According to the Abrahamic religions, Noah's Ark was a large ... God selected Noah, a man "righteous in his generation," to build ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- This practice has been all too common in human history. Even biblical ... Genocide has been deemed criminal by the United Nations, as well as ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- Joshua was a leading rabbinical sage of the first half-century following ... an opponent of asceticism who represented the more liberal school of Hillel ...15 KB (2,290 words) - 05:05, 7 May 2024
- Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act ... Used with the definite article ("the original sin"), the ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- having directed several great classic films, The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt ... Huston acted in many movies other than his own, sometimes memorably ...23 KB (3,526 words) - 06:02, 3 August 2022
- Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...29 KB (4,671 words) - 22:22, 25 October 2022
- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites ... The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they ...16 KB (2,149 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was ... Saint Anne is not named in the canonical Gospels or anywhere else ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- The Anglican Communion is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches ... The status of full communion means that all rites conducted in one ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- Christianity. Not content to be a member of the religious "flock," ... revivals and other missionary campaigns in America's largest cities ...47 KB (7,375 words) - 22:05, 3 February 2022
- The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... people to those who are indistinguishable in appearance from the general ...44 KB (6,423 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of ... Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a hollow plateau some 1,200 feet ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- August 3, 1964) was an American author, born in Savannah, Georgia. She is generally ... The Southern Gothic author usually avoids perpetuating Antebellum ...24 KB (3,778 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- |motto = Dominus Illuminatio Mea"The Lord is my Light" rd/history.shtml A Brief History of the University.] Retrieved June ...35 KB (5,122 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- This article is about the nation of Georgia. For the U.S. state, see ... , known officially from 1990 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 20:12, 4 September 2023
- The White Rose ( die Weiße Rose ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles ... This path defined the sixties generation and Lennon was an archetype ...28 KB (4,313 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024
- event. Villaraigosa is a former director of the ACLU Southern California affiliate ... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a national non-profit ...25 KB (3,875 words) - 02:54, 24 July 2023
- of his characters' psychology and for the dryness of his writing style ... In his most famous novel, The Red and the Black, Stendhal would not ...15 KB (2,490 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh ... Ferdowsi traced the history of Persia from its earliest days to the ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- [[Image:Acts-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive ... Montanism was an early Christian sectarian movement beginning in the ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 21:12, 9 November 2022
- Standard Hebrew Yirməyáhu), was one of the "greater prophets" ... The name Jeremiah means "Raised-up/Appointed of the Lord.” ...32 KB (5,493 words) - 08:37, 31 July 2022
- Arius (256 - 336 C.E., poss. in North Africa) was an early Christian ... given as Ammonius. He was made presbyter of the district of Baucalis in Alexandria ...24 KB (3,928 words) - 02:41, 15 August 2023
- The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey ... Chaucer is generally considered not only the father of English literature ...31 KB (5,016 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- [[File:Durham 2534.jpg|thumb|325px|Men of the Shkreli tribe at the ... A tribe is a human social system existing before the emergence of ...37 KB (5,635 words) - 16:06, 27 July 2021
- memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...37 KB (5,309 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- tzavah, "command") is a word used in Judaism to refer to the commandments ... Rabbis are divided between those who seek the purpose of the mitzvot ...49 KB (8,351 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 – March 22 1322) was one of the ... Thomas Plantagenet upheld the principles of Parliamentary oversight ...17 KB (2,615 words) - 20:54, 31 October 2022
- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the ... crusade against Darwinism, which culminated in the Scopes Trial in 1925. Like ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- Emma (c. 985–March 6, 1052 in Winchester, Hampshire), called Ælfgifu ... (1002-1016); and then to Canute the Great of Denmark (1017-1035). ...42 KB (6,697 words) - 18:48, 31 December 2021
- :This article refers to the South Korean private university. For the ... /) a private, coeducational university located in Seoul, South Korea ...28 KB (3,704 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2023
- adoption. There are a number of variations in the basic family structure ... indicator of a society's well-being is the health of its families. For ...66 KB (10,046 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- organization that arose from obscure origins in the late sixteenth to early ... The fraternity is administratively organized into Grand Lodges (or ...59 KB (8,933 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- He had classically liberal views and argued in favor of competition, free ... Jean-Baptiste Say was born in Lyons, France on January 5, 1767 to ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 16:56, 2 April 2024
- Marriage is a universal human institution which has formed the foundation ... Challenges to the institution of marriage in the twentieth century ...46 KB (7,206 words) - 14:15, 7 May 2024
- letters and postcards, and has works in every major category of the ... Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre ...53 KB (8,012 words) - 13:28, 6 March 2024
- Confession of sins is the public or spoken acknowledgment of either ... The practice of confession in the Judeo-Christian tradition goes back ...20 KB (3,112 words) - 18:56, 15 May 2020
- 7 (seven) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... In addition, it is classified as a real number, A real number is a ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- 20, 1819 – July 9, 1850), better known as the Báb, was a martyred Iranian ... The son of a merchant from Shiraz, Iran, the Báb announced himself ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- called Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor ... Popular legend remembers Nero as a pleasure seeker who engaged in ...39 KB (6,311 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- Armenia (Armenian language: "Hayastan"), officially the ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- until her death. Sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen (since she never ... Elizabeth's reign is referred to as the Elizabethan era or the ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- traditionally made of yeasted wheat dough in the form of a roughly hand ... Bagels are similar in shape to doughnuts and texture to bialys. Russian ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Poitou (c. 1124 –April 1, 1204) was one of the most powerful women in Europe ... of Assisi. Eleanor was considered one of the greatest women in her own ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- on stage and screen. A pre-eminent actress in her era, she won two Emmy Awards ... She is considered one of the twentieth century's greatest classical ...26 KB (3,842 words) - 18:10, 24 January 2024
- العربي ) Al-Adab Al-Arabi, is the writing produced, both prose ... Arabic literature emerged in the sixth century with only fragments ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... The Shakers are famous for their ecstatic religious dances and work ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- The Waco "cult" — more properly known as the Branch Davidians ... This tiny apocalyptic sect was thrust into the international spotlight ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- to include related freedoms applied to the religious sphere, such as ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- Mary (מרים, Maryām, "Bitter") was the mother of Jesus ... #039; public ministry, Mary was present at the crucifixion and is depicted ...30 KB (4,633 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church ... The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church and the largest ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a ... was Nefertiti, who has been made famous as the most “beautiful women in ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- Wayang is an Indonesian word for theater. Bayang, the Javanese word ... Wayang today is both the most ancient and most popular form of puppet ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and one ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
- The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based ... The Acts of John describes his journeys to Ephesus, filled with dramatic ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- An abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from ... that were often unsafe and could result in serious harm or even death ...56 KB (8,002 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- Few concepts in human history have generated as much fascination, ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- , Isdud), located in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean ... The first documented settlement in Ashdod dates to the Canaanite culture ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- ), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom ... In the past, the British Library restricted use of its reading room ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 02:43, 22 November 2023
- In a figurative sense, a tragedy (from Classical Greek τραγωδία ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was born in ... He published the famous stories of Poor Richard's Almanack and ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 09:50, 28 September 2023
- famous for her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar and her advancements ... In 1982, Plath became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously ...19 KB (3,157 words) - 01:56, 27 February 2023
- by Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), refers to the finite and limited condition ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- 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
- Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization ... Ancient Egyptian contributions to knowledge in the areas of mathematics, medicine ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- Newly married and having recently accepted the call to pastor a Baptist church ... partners, and colleagues. They initiated the most famous Montgomery bus ...18 KB (3,027 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- In Egyptian mythology, Hathor (Egyptian for "House of Horus" ... In this celestial context, she was occasionally characterized as an ...27 KB (4,192 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- as a major prophet and some regard him as the Messiah. Many Hindus also ... as a social activist and as uninterested in social issues, as offering ...78 KB (12,289 words) - 02:54, 1 August 2022
- Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth or The Old Colony) was an ... Founded by a group of separatists who later came to be known as the ...62 KB (9,521 words) - 01:56, 10 April 2023
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the ... In mythology, Prometheus is the entity who stole fire from the gods ...36 KB (5,384 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- all levels (bachelor, master, and doctorate) in a variety of subjects. A university ... of great personal development, but have the reputation of isolation or ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- Romania is a country in Southeastern Europe bordering Hungary and ... Many Romanians take pride in being the most eastern Romance people ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ... The Stoic school flourished in Greece and Rome for almost five centuries ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px ... King of England, King of Ireland, and was the first to style himself King ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature ... Fo was associated with liberal and socialist causes. His most famous ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 21:43, 25 June 2022
- The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; ... is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, but ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- When a corvée is commuted for cash payment, in effect it becomes a poll tax ... There are several famous cases of poll taxes in history, notably a ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- an objective or practical meaning. Despite the fact that language speakers ... The concept of "word" is distinguished from that of a morpheme ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- Concepts are the categorization of objects, events, or people that ... While research on learning in animals has been used by some psychologists ...32 KB (5,041 words) - 02:42, 8 January 2024
- Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut ... houses a representative cross-section of the undergraduate student body ...40 KB (5,720 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
- The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...36 KB (5,268 words) - 08:35, 3 April 2024
- "keys" that, when pressed, lead to the printing of characters on ... For much of the twentieth century, typewriters were indispensable ...36 KB (5,574 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian ... when cultural influences were eroding the adherence of the people to ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- Hinduism and Islam. Abrahamic religions on the whole date back about 2500 ... Vasco da Gama, seeking preexisting Christian nations in India, discovered ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- satirist, and social critic, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" ... He is well-known as the journalist who covered the Scopes Trial, which ...28 KB (4,252 words) - 18:12, 29 July 2023
- Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul or The Apostle Paul, (4–64 C.E ... Saul is described in the New Testament as a Hellenized Jew and Roman ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- "rest"; Shabbos or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- their teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism ... Godwin held the optimistic view that every individual, as a rational ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- Zoroastrianism (or Mazdaism) refers to the religion developed from ... was tremendously influential on the history, culture, and art ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- The West Bank ( الضفة الغربية , הגדה המערבית and Samaria, is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine ... Slovenia has been part of the Roman Empire, the Duchy of Karantania ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- Rădulescu taught at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, which he helped ... Among his many accomplishments, Radulescu is considered one of the ...64 KB (9,591 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone FRGS (October 6, 1779 – November ... sources. Aspects of his work pioneered the modern study of Indian history ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one ... Born at Penshurst, Kent, Sidney was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... Ironically, while a modernist in style and technique, Pound rejected ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- a millenarian national rebirth by exalting the nation or race, and promoting ... different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- Muslim minister and a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also ... #039;s shortcomings and hypocrisies, he made the majority understand that maintaining ...49 KB (7,838 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican ... The far-reaching reforms enacted by the Council impacted virtually ...53 KB (8,198 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked ... Burgess's fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition. In ... Bowne identified the essence of a human being with the "person ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a Middle Eastern country ... Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- The Cherokee (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, a-ni-yv-wi-ya, in the Cherokee language ... Today, the Cherokee Nation and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians ...50 KB (7,562 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- The Cathari (also known as Cathars, Albigensians, or Catharism) were ... in their theology, espousing a stark distinction between the physical ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to ... eventually gained his own title, Batman. As the decades wore on, differing ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... ). The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- solid, white, pale pink or light grey in color, normally obtained from ... Sodium and chlorine, the two components of salt, are necessary for ...36 KB (5,357 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 ... The most famous historic site in Hebron sits on the Cave of the Patriarchs ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during ... Lawrence's public image was due in part to U.S. traveler and ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. It has an estimated ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," ... Israel declared its independence in 1948. With a diverse population ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- The Palace of Versailles (in French: Château de Versailles, or simply ... In 1660, Louis XIV was approaching majority and the assumption of ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- The Baroque style began as somewhat of a continuation of the Renaissance ... The Council of Trent (1545-1563), in which the Roman Catholic Church ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 10:50, 20 September 2023
- Lebanon (Arabic: لبنان Lubnān), officially the Lebanese Republic ... Until the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90), the country was considered ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- The Mongol invasions of Europe were centered in their destruction ... To the Mongols, the European invasions were a third theater of operations ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- [[Image:Cannibals.23232.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cannibalism in Brazil ... Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- Tennessee is a state located in the Southern United States. In 1796 ... The State joined the Confederate States of America during the American ...47 KB (6,620 words) - 03:00, 19 April 2023
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- Christianity in China (called 基督教 Jī dū jiào, or Christ religion ... The Nestorians were accepted in China because of their ability to ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- The Tunisian Republic (الجمهرية التونسية), or Tunisia ... Forty per cent of the country is comprised of the Sahara Desert, with ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern ... Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates ... Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- from Italy who is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. ... Pio is renowned among Roman Catholics as one of the Church's ...40 KB (6,382 words) - 17:02, 2 October 2023
- The Pilgrim Fathers is the common name for a group of English separatists ... Worshiping in various separatist churches in London, Norfolk and the ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 20:39, 9 April 2023
- The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the ...52 KB (8,358 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- The United States Military Academy at West Point (also known USMA ... Tuition for cadets is fully funded by the Army in exchange for an ...49 KB (7,478 words) - 11:57, 3 May 2023
- The word comes from the Classical Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
- A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... To defend themselves against sieges, even the earliest cities were ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- The Kingdom of Mysore (Kannada ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ... Under the Mysore Kingdom, the fine arts flourished in southern India ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- , Urdu: لدّاخ; "land of high passes") is a province ... Situated on a high altitude plain, Ladakh became the midway point ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... Puritan colonists from England founded the city in 1630. During the ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- a Christian spiritual movement that arose in the later Middle Ages. The ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...32 KB (4,791 words) - 23:19, 17 January 2024
- and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 2024
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- thumb|250px|A spit barbecue at a street fair in New York City's [[East ... B-Que, diminutive form barbie used chiefly in Australia, New Zealand, and ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was one of the most important leaders in ... As a member of a privileged and wealthy family, he studied law in ...56 KB (8,938 words) - 15:04, 16 June 2023
- has a long history, extending back to the Greco-Roman world and culminating ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- mountain" is a small, mountainous state in south-west Balkans, bordering ... Periodically independent since the late Middle Ages, and an internationally ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- Parenting is the process of rearing children by promoting and supporting ... The relationships in the family form the basis for how children perceive ...34 KB (4,978 words) - 07:57, 18 November 2022
- :This article is about the chemical substance. {|class="infobox ... In typical usage, the term water refers to its liquid state, but the ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- original purpose, can also be used as toys. The term "toy" can also ... physically, and practice skills needed in adulthood. Adults on occasion ...41 KB (6,246 words) - 04:50, 1 May 2023
- logician, and mathematician, working mostly in the twentieth century. He and ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- known as "fabulous creatures" in historical literature). Examples of legendary creatures can be found in medieval bestiaries ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...71 KB (11,340 words) - 17:01, 18 March 2022
- was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. and her subsequent execution were part of the complex beginnings of the ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- for recovering alcoholics. Members meet in local groups that vary in size ... The stated purpose is "to stay sober and help other alcoholics ...34 KB (5,182 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- define love more precisely, as living for the sake of another, motivated ... The ancient Greeks described love with a number of different words: ...70 KB (11,122 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... biologically and anatomically, but also in psychological, social, and ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ... themes such as religion, honor, and the meaning of life. Most Western ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President ... In addition to his political career, Jefferson was an agriculturalist ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... Homosexuality has been widely maligned as deviant or sinful behavior ...91 KB (13,332 words) - 16:14, 25 January 2023
- The Mughal Empire, (Persian language: مغل بادشاۿ) was an ... Under Akbar the Great, the empire grew considerably, and continued ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... Germany was unified as a nation state amidst the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- | order=26th President of the United States | date1=September 14, 1901 ... president, and twenty-sixth president of the United States, succeeding ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural ... and most fiction (an exception is the verse novel) are examples ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- from April 22, 1509, until his death. He was the second monarch of the Tudor ... Henry VIII's reign. They included the several Acts which severed ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" ... , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a devastating ... Notable later outbreaks include the Italian Plague of 1629–1631 ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- The Shroud of Turin is an ancient linen cloth which some believe is ... The idea is that his image was somehow recorded as a photographic ...62 KB (9,799 words) - 14:29, 27 January 2023
- found to contain heroin when inspected by the US [[Drug Enforcement Administration ... The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- poet, and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship between the ... and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. He was inducted into ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... England is often mistakenly considered the same as the United Kingdom ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy ... 1) postmodernism as a reaction to the aesthetic "modernism ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn, Filisṭīn) is one of several names for ... Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment ... Christian thought, he is often called the "Father of Modern Theology ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest ... Located at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi ...42 KB (6,247 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- whose wilderness exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United ... continue unchecked until pioneers reached the Pacific, and newly settled ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella ... The Inquisition, as a tribunal dealing with religious heresy, had ...61 KB (9,267 words) - 12:36, 18 September 2023
- 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- [[Image:Camuccini Lamentation over the Corpse of Socrates.jpg|thumb ... Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death ...47 KB (7,217 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
