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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Electric chair.jpg|thumb|250 px|The first electric chair, which was used to execute ...
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  • Cochise (A-da-tli-chi = "hardwood," also Cheis) (c. 1805 – June 9, 1874) was a chief (a nantan) of the Chokonen ("central" ...
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  • Theseus (Greek Θησεύς ) was a legendary king of Athens and son of Aethra and either Aegeus or Poseidon, as his mother had laid with both ...
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  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ...
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  • Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals [[Image:Paul Julius Reuter 1869.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Reuter aged 53 years (1869) by Rudolf Lehmann]] ...
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  • Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology ...
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  • Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...
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  • Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an American singer and actress. She is probably most remembered for her role as matchmaker ...
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  • The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites dedicated to the Roman god Bacchus (a variant of the Greek Dionysus). These ...
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  • Walter Duranty (May 25, 1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New ...
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  • William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was the first of the thirteenth century theologians ...
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  • Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. The term comes from the Latin jus, meaning "right" or "law ...
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  • Frank Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American film director and the creative force behind a ...
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  • William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) (c. 1285 – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher ...
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  • Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect ...
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  • Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 – August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ...
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  • Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz) (خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی in Persian ...
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  • Rashbam (רשב"ם) is a Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Shmuel ben Meir (c. 1085 - c. 1158). He was the grandson and student of the great Jewish ...
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  • Naguib Mahfouz ( نجيب محفوظ , Nagīb Maḥfūẓ ) (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 ...
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  • Category: Image wanted Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий) (January 25, 1938 – July 25 ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue.jpg|thumb|240px|Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu]] Padmasambhava ...
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  • Abolitionism (from "abolish") was a political movement in late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that sought to end the practice ...
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  • The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Euaion.jpg|thumb|right|A portrait from a vase of a Greek actor performing in Sophocles' lost play Andromeda.]] ...
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  • James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. His ...
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  • Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...
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  • Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for ...
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  • In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is one of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, infamously known as the betrayer ...
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  • Ichthys (Greek: grc|ἰχθύς , capitalized grc|ΙΧΘΥΣ ; also transliterated and Latinized as icthus, ichthus or ikhthus), is the Ancient ...
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  • The sonnet is one of the most important and enduring poetic forms in all of European literature. First invented by Italian poets in the thirteenth ...
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  • Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding discrimination from multiple sources. It identifies advantages and disadvantages ...
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  • The Decadent movement (Fr. décadence, “decay”) was a late-nineteenth-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe ...
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  • Ewha Womans University (Korean: 이화여자대학교, Hanja: 梨花女子大學校), refers to a private women's university in central ...
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  • The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization ...
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  • category:image wanted Divine command theory is the metaethical theory that an act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is commanded by ...
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  • Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican ...
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  • In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Lee, Ivy [[Image:Ivy Lee.jpg|thumb|Ivy Lee]] Ivy Ledbetter Lee ...
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  • In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law ...
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  • Stanisław Szczepanowski or Stanislaus of Kraków (July 26, 1030 – April 11?, 1079) is the patron saint of Poland. In life, he was the Bishop ...
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  • Biblical criticism is a form of literary criticism that seeks to analyze the Bible through asking certain questions about the text, such as who ...
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  • Saint Martín de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) was a Catholic monk of mixed raced from Peru and the first "black" ...
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  • Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes judgment for its proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom ...
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  • Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk, theologian and reformer from the British Isles who taught that human beings were free and ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Image wanted Peabody, Elizabeth Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, (May 16, 1804-January 3, 1894 ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Category:Economists Category:biography Dow, Charles Charles Henry Dow (November 5, 1851 – December 4, 1902) was ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Garrison, William Lloyd [[Image:william_garrison.jpg|thumb|240px|William Lloyd ...
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  • Annie Wood Besant (October 1, 1847 – September 20, 1933) was born in Clapham, London and died in Adyar, India where she was President of the ...
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  • The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is a Christian denomination that ...
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  • The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. Africa's oldest republic ...
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  • Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings throughout history. However, the ...
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  • The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, who helped create soul music with gospel-style vocals. The Drifters began in 1953 ...
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  • Wulfila (Gothic: "Little wolf" or Latin: Ulfilas/Ulphilas) (c. 311 - 380 C.E.) was the apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator ...
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  • Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. With ...
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  • Loyalists were British North America colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolution. They were also ...
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  • Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...
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  • Earwig is the common name for any of the insects comprising the order Dermaptera, characterized by chewing mouthparts, incomplete metamorphosis ...
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  • John Wycliffe (also Wyclif, Wycliff, or Wickliffe) (c.1320 – December 31, 1384), an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the ...
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  • Roger Eliot Fry (December 14, 1866 – September 9, 1934) was an English artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:WWII daycare Richmond CA.jpg|thumb|400 px|A woman worker drops off her child ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[File:The Fox and the Grapes.jpg|thumb|300px|In the fable of "The Fox and the ...
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  • Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 – 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar, physician, philosopher, and political ...
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  • Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 C.E.), the Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester and, later, Archbishop of Canterbury ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophers | era = Nineteenth-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = Nietzsche1882 ...
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  • Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) was an English politician and writer. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long ...
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  • Kalkin (meaning "eternity" or "time"; also rendered as Kalki or Kalika) is the tenth and final Avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu ...
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  • category:image wanted Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович ...
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti, (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a noted writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual topics ...
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  • In linguistics, logic, and mathematics etc., quantification is the kind of linguistic construction that specifies the quantity of individuals ...
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  • Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned and described by the ...
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  • category:image wanted In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that some sense-data (for example, of primary qualities ...
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  • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (July 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803) was a German epic and lyric poet. His more subjective approach initiated a break ...
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  • Category:Public [[File:Heidegger 2 (1960).jpg|thumb|200px|Martin Heidegger]] Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) is considered ...
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  • The naturalistic fallacy is an alleged fallacy of moral reasoning. The British philosopher George Edward Moore (1873-1958) introduces the naturalistic ...
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  • Raphael (רפאל, Hebrew for "God has healed," "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ...
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  • The Holy Spirit refers to the third person of the Trinity in Christianity. In Judaism the Holy Spirit refers to the life-giving breath or spirit ...
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  • The Ostrogoths ( Ostrogothi or Austrogothi ) were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a major role in the political events ...
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  • Joséphine de Beauharnais (nee Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte ...
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  • category:image wanted Anamnesis (Greek: αναμνησις recollection, reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ...
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  • The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of the verb ειναι, "to be"; Latin, esse; German, Sein; French ...
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  • In Hinduism, Brahmā (Sanskrit: meaning "swelling" or "expansion") is God in his manifestation as Creator of the universe ...
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  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [ freɪ'nel ] or fray-NELL in American English, [ fʁɛ'nɛl ] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14 ...
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  • Category:Public Copernicus, Nicolaus [[image:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Nicolaus Copernicus]] Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19 ...
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  • According to Medieval legend, Pope Joan (also known as Pope Joanna or La Papessa) was a female pope who allegedly reigned for less than two years ...
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  • William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sakhr ibn Harb, (Arabic: صخر بن حرب ) more commonly known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca ...
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  • Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French ...
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  • Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:RIAN archive 25981 Academician Sakharov.jpg|thumb|right]] Dr. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Андре́й Дми́триевич ...
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  • Kantianism refers to a line of thought that is broadly based on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The term can also refer directly to Kant’s ...
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  • Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) was a German painter and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Eysenck, Hans Hans Jürgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997) was an eminent psychologist, most remembered for ...
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  • Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small, dome-shaped cactus whose native region extends from the southwestern United States through central ...
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  • A dilemma (Greek δί-λημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ...
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  • Analytic philosophy has been the dominant academic philosophical movement in English-speaking countries and in the Nordic countries from about ...
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  • Leo Baeck (May 23, 1873 – November 2, 1956) was a twentieth-century German-Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader ...
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  • In many religious and philosophical systems, the word "soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus of sapience ...
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  • Hua Tuo (華佗, 華陀, 华陀, Huá Tuó) (? - 208) was a renowned physician during the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China ...
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  • Category:Social workers Category:Politicians and reformers Hobhouse, Emily [[Image:Hobhouse.jpg|right|frame|Emily Hobhouse.]] Emily Hobhouse ...
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  • Category:Public Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather ...
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  • Hinduism, known as Sanātana Dharma, (सनातन धर्म) and Vaidika-Dharma by most Hindus, is a worldwide religious tradition rooted ...
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  • Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...
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  • Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov Александр Александрович Богданов (born Alexander Malinovsky) (August 22 (Old ...
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  • Bede (IPA: /biːd/ ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: /beda/ ), (ca. 672 or 673 – May 27, 735), was a Benedictine ...
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  • The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...
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  • The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder--for there were five surviving brothers, among them Ludwig Emil Grimm, the ...
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  • Saint Barbara (d. c. 306 C.E.) was a Christian saint and martyr who died at Nicomedia in today's Turkey c. 306 C.E. Known in the Eastern ...
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  • The Great Purge ( Большая чистка , tr: Bolshaya chistka) is the name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in ...
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  • Situational ethics, or situation ethics, is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome of an action as opposed ...
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  • A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to ...
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  • Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (December 17, 1778 – May 29, 1829) was an esteemed British chemist and physicist, who vastly expanded chemical ...
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  • Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly ...
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  • The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works. The best known of these portrays the last prophecies of Moses, given to ...
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  • The Damascus Document, also called the Zadokite Fragments, is one of the works found in multiple fragmentary copies in the caves at Qumran, and ...
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  • Sarah Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were Nineteenth century American Quakers, educators ...
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  • Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals ...
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  • René Descartes (French ʁə'ne de'kaʁt ) (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form) ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sir William Empson (September 27, 1906 – April 15, 1984) was an English critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest ...
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  • Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet of the early Renaissance who, along with his close contemporary William Shakespeare ...
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  • Isma'il bin Jafar (Arabic: إسماعيل بن جعفر, c. 721 C.E./103 AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a ...
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  • Śūnyatā, शून्यता (Sanskrit meaning "Emptiness" or "Voidness"), is an important Buddhist teaching which claims ...
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, c. 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian ...
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  • Chang Tsai or Zhang Zai ( c=張載/长载|p=Zhāng Zǎi| w=Chang Tsai Chang Heng-ch'ü. 1020-1077) was a Chinese Neo-Confucian moral philosopher ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Mills, C. Wright Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist. His writings addressed ...
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  • Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerd) (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the ...
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  • The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James, traditionally understood as James the ...
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  • Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...
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  • Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Hebrew Elisheva, אֱלִישֶׁבַע—"An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist ...
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  • Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as just Correggio (/kəˈrɛdʒioʊ/, also UK: /kɒˈ-/, US: /-dʒoʊ/ ...
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  • Meher Baba (Devanagari: मेहेर बाबा ), (February 25, 1894– January 31, 1969), was an Irani (Indian of Persian descent) born ...
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  • Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. He is generally ...
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  • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) is a well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme Court. He ...
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  • The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians or simply 2 Thessalonians, is a short book ...
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  • Satya Sai Baba (also Sathya Sai Baba) (November 23, 1926 - April 24, 2011) is a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around ...
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  • category:image wanted Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United ...
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  • Pentecostalism is a movement within Evangelical Christianity that places special emphasis on having a direct personal experience with God through ...
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  • Bruce Jun Fan Lee (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), was a Chinese-American martial artist, instructor, and actor widely regarded as one ...
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  • Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbár, (alternative spellings include Jellaladin, Celalettin) also known as Akbar the Great (Akbar-e-Azam) (October 15, ...
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  • Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, sometimes spelled Esenin (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Есе́нин; October 3, 1895 ...
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  • Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was an influential philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United ...
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  • Kurt Josef Waldheim (December 21, 1918 – June 14, 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal In parapsychology, clairvoyance (meaning "clear-seeing" ...
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  • Anna Akhmatova ( А́нна Ахма́това , real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23, 1889 (June 11, Old Style ...
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  • William Carey (August 17, 1761 – June 9, 1834) was an English missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions ...
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  • Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The Daily Mirror, often referred to simply as The Mirror, is a British tabloid ...
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  • Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1745 – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and ...
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  • The Minoan eruption was a major catastrophic volcanic eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini) in the mid ...
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  • Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg ( Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг ) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Capa, Robert Robert Capa (October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was ...
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  • Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary will of another.F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (University of Chicago ...
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  • Category:Public Johnson, Samuel [[Image:Samuel Johnson.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.]] ...
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  • Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German philosopher who developed a unique theistic existential philosophy ...
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  • Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was an Algerian-French writer and philosopher. He is best known for the existential themes ...
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  • Krishna (meaning "dark" or dark-blue"), also known as Govinda ("cow-protector") among many other names, is one of the ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Munsterberg, Hugo Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 - December 19, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was a pioneer ...
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  • The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred ...
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  • The arXiv (pronounced "archive," as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, or Χ) is an open access archive for electronic ...
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  • Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher, literary theorist and ...
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  • The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as a broadsheet at 3600 New York Avenue NE, Washington, D.C., the paper covers ...
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  • Category:Image wanted René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He is well known ...
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  • Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the first century C.E., and an important figure in Judaism's core work of ...
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  • Chen Duxiu (陳獨秀) (October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) Wade-Giles romanization Ch'en Tu-hsiu, original name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng ...
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  • Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most ...
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  • Wu Zetian (625 – December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor although ...
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  • Dvaita (Devanagari:द्बैत, Kannada:ದ್ವೈತ) is a dualist school of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. For definition of Dvaita as a dualistic ...
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  • Yonsei University (IPA: / 'jənsɛː /) a private, coeducational university located in Seoul, South Korea, has earned recognition as one ...
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  • Orvon 'Gene' Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998) was an American cowboy singer and actor who gained fame as the first "Singing ...
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  • The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that is best known for its teaching that Saturday, rather than Sunday, is the Sabbath ...
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  • Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ...
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  • The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: Ryojunkō Heisoku Sakusen, February 8-9, 1904) was the starting battle of the Russo-Japanese War. It began ...
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  • Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in ...
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  • Mahavira (599 – 527 B.C.E.) (meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists category:biography McGuffey, William Holmes [[image:William Holmes McGuffey.jpg|thumb|William Holmes ...
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  • Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955) was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement ...
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  • Sir Thomas Browne (October 19, 1605 – October 19, 1682) was an English author and doctor, who lived during the time of Sir Francis Bacon and ...
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  • Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit philosopher, prose writer and baroque moralist. After receiving ...
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  • Paradigm, (Greek:παράδειγμα (paradigma), composite from para- and the verb δείχνυμι "to show," as a whole -roughly ...
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  • The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors, led by Stepan Petrichenko, against the government of the early Russian SFSR. ...
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  • Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: ar|فرنسيس بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش , ar|Fransīs bin Fatḥ ...
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  • Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular faith, or group of faiths, will attain salvation while groups that do ...
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  • Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom of belief and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. It is generally ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties. Contract ...
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  • The Social Gospel is a Protestant Christian theological teaching that formed the basis for a prominent social movement in the late nineteenth ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests and obtains from ...
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  • Annie Oakley, (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's ...
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  • Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - August 21, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. The ...
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  • Gongsun Long (公孫龍, Kung-sun Lung, Pinyin Gongsun Long) (ca. 320 B.C.E.–250 B.C.E. was one of the best known representatives of the Logicians ...
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  • Tommaso Campanella (September 5, 1568 – May 21, 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, Counter-Reformation ...
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  • Shays' rebellion was an armed uprising in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebels, led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites ...
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  • The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, encompasses the first widespread use of technology—as humans progressed from simpler to more ...
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  • Dönmeh, a derogatory term meaning "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews of the Near East who were originally ...
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  • Francis Herbert Bradley (January 30, 1846 – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement known as British idealism ...
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  • Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance to human beings. Its outstanding historical example was Renaissance humanism ...
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  • The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written ...
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  • The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable organization structured in a quasi-military fashion. The organization reports ...
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  • Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth ...
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  • Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (May 31, 1863 - July 31, 1942) was a British Army officer in India, explorer, and spiritualist ...
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  • category:image wanted Gospel literally translated means "good news," deriving from the Old English "god-spell" translated ...
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  • Nebkheperure Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon, Egyptian egy|twt-ˁnḫ-ı͗mn; *tuwt-ʕankh-yamān ) was a Pharaoh ...
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  • Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 – March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom fighter ...
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  • Baron Samuel von Pufendorf (January 8, 1632 – October 13, 1694), was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Philosophers Steiner, Rudolf [[Image:Steiner_Berlin_1900_big.jpg|thumb|Rudolf Steiner 1900]] ...
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  • General Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-twentieth century. During ...
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  • The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing the adventures and martyrdom of the Apostle Thomas, whom it portrays ...
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  • Category:Public Henotheism (from the Greek heis theos or “one god”) refers to religious belief systems that accept the existence of many gods ...
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  • Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first ...
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  • Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen ...
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  • Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" (as first name), "Gothart" or "Neithardt" (as surname), (c. 1470? – August 31 ...
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  • Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and Petit Martinique) and several tiny islands in the southeastern Caribbean ...
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  • Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in Kiowa County, Colorado near the towns of Eads and Chivington, commemorating ...
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  • The World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian agency, provides food to more than ninety million people in eighty countries ...
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  • Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (French IPA: [ʒak la'kɑ̃] ) (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist ...
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  • David John Moore Cornwell (October 19, 1931 - December 12, 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré (pronounced /ləˈkæreɪ/), was ...
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  • John Knox (1514?–1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines following ...
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  • Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה, metzuda, "fortress") is the name for a site of ancient palaces ...
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  • Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was the first American playwright to create a realistic portrayal of African-American urban ...
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  • Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman of high rank") was a great woman of faith and the fore-mother of the ...
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  • Huángbò Xīyùn (simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运 traditional: 黄檗希運 Wade-Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün; Japanese: Ōbaku Kiun) (d. 850) ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Lionel Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. Trilling was a ...
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  • Abu Simbel (Arabic أبو سنبل or أبو سمبل) is an archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the ...
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  • The Rapture is a controversial religious belief, held by some Christians, that claims that at the end of time when Jesus Christ returns, descending ...
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  • John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president, and political philosopher from ...
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  • Category:Economists Leontief, Wassily Wassily Leontief (August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999) has been associated with the quantitative economics ...
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  • Maya Angelou ( ˈmaɪə ˈændʒəloʊ ), (born Marguerite Johnson, April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, actress and ...
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  • Pythagoras (c. 570 B.C.E. – 496 B.C.E., Greek: Πυθαγόρας) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, a mystic, and a mathematician, known ...
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  • Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c. 1075-1141 C.E.) was a Jewish Spanish philosopher ...
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  • Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American Communists ...
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  • Sarnath (also Mrigadava, Migadāya, Rishipattana, Isipatana) refers to the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, and where ...
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  • Confucius (Kong Fuzi or K'ung-fu-tzu, lit. "Master Kong") (traditionally September 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the ...
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  • Category:Public Blake, William [[Image:William Blake by Thomas Phillips.jpg|244px|thumb|right|William Blake (1807)]] William Blake (November 28 ...
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  • The filioque clause is a heavily disputed part of Christian trinitarian theology and one of the core differences between Catholic and Orthodox ...
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  • Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (July 11, 1916 - October 21, 2014), known as Gough Whitlam ( ˈɡɒf goff), was an Australian former politician and ...
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  • Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, who, in a long career spanning several decades, ...
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  • Category:Linguists and lexicographers Harris, Zellig Zellig Sabbetai Harris (October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was an American linguist. Originally ...
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  • Ailred or Ælred or Ailred of Rievaulx, Abbot of Rievaulx (b. Hexham 1110 – d. Rievaulx January 12, 1167), is a Christian saint and historian ...
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  • Deontological ethics recognizes a number of distinct duties, such as those proscribing the killing of innocent people (murder) and prohibitions ...
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  • Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 – November 2, 1083) was Queen consort of England and the wife of William I the Conqueror. She and William had ...
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  • Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists of his era, was a prolific American ...
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  • The Buddha most commonly refers to Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhāttha Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” ...
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  • The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern era stands as one of the notable events in the early history of relations ...
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