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- Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
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- text=Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story originates from medieval times but who remains significant in popular ...725 bytes (112 words) - 17:09, 16 August 2023
- Myles Standing was a key figure in the founding of the Plymouth Rock community. While not a member, he fought against native foes and help secure ...809 bytes (137 words) - 17:45, 25 October 2021
- eras in which the leader was seen as a god-like figure. While these cults of personality invariably occur in dystopian states in which millions have ...808 bytes (132 words) - 18:30, 29 September 2023
- ancient world. According to this theory, the figure of Jesus is a mythical composite character based on earlier belief systems or historical persons ...955 bytes (143 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- Supreme Court, he became not just the leading figure for textualist and originalist interpretations of the law, but arguably the outstanding legal mind ...1 KB (174 words) - 19:16, 1 December 2021
- De Lamartine was a key Republican figure. A moderate, he played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the death penalty in France. He was ...1 KB (188 words) - 02:23, 30 April 2023
- deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshiped. #:They built a shrine ...1 KB (175 words) - 16:34, 30 November 2023
- Madame Roland was an important figure during the French Revolution. Her husband, Jean-Marie, became interior minister and they both were important ...1 KB (196 words) - 23:58, 22 October 2022
- Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the Figure ... illusionworks.com/html/figure_ground.html Figure/ground.] Retrieved October ...6 KB (934 words) - 20:58, 21 December 2022
- # A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure. #: What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds? ...2 KB (257 words) - 23:31, 31 August 2023
- The Orbison figures most often involve a figure placed over a background ... may cause the perception of a distorted figure.Sara Bolouki and Roger Grosse ...4 KB (510 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2022
- meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth and most recent Tirthankara ("Crosser ...758 bytes (112 words) - 23:32, 26 November 2022
- text=Lilith is a female demon figure found in Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish folklore, associated with sexual temptation, storms, disease ...684 bytes (105 words) - 23:03, 16 March 2022
- Tawfiq al-Hakim was an important Egyptian literary figure in the mid-twentieth century. Many of his plays addressed philosophical themes and ...741 bytes (113 words) - 19:35, 29 November 2023
- of love for the Divine make him a figure of inter-religious understanding and harmony. }} ...719 bytes (109 words) - 14:57, 31 October 2023
- existed, but was a purely symbolic or mythical figure syncretized from various non-Abrahamic deities and heroes. }} ...791 bytes (119 words) - 14:40, 13 July 2023
- Roland soon established herself as a leading figure within the political group the Girondins. In June 1793, she was the first Girondin to be arrested ...769 bytes (112 words) - 23:20, 26 October 2022
- March 3, 2023 was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced ...789 bytes (103 words) - 17:02, 28 September 2023
- the Bolshevik party. Kollontai was a leading figure in the foundation of the Zhenotdel, the new women's department of the Central Committee ...756 bytes (97 words) - 20:13, 30 July 2023
- to shut down a person, corporation or political figure with whom you disagree. The basis of cancel culture is the postmodern idea that some people are ...792 bytes (127 words) - 02:15, 26 April 2022
- theorist, and author in Yugoslavia. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during the World War II as well as in the post war government. His book ...834 bytes (122 words) - 20:26, 5 January 2024
- # A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. ## Any of various figures used in Mayan writing. ...976 bytes (120 words) - 20:16, 5 March 2024
- Jesus of Nazareth, is Christianity's central figure, both as Messiah and, for most Christians, as God incarnate. Muslims regard him as a major prophet ...870 bytes (132 words) - 20:43, 23 April 2022
- assessed. She is now regarded as an important figure of the Russian Silver Age. }} ...814 bytes (121 words) - 20:35, 30 August 2023
- him or her as an idealized, heroic figure. It typically occurs in a totalitarian or authoritarian government which has control over access to ...913 bytes (129 words) - 22:33, 29 September 2023
- July 17, 1793), known as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. A provincial woman who had supported the revolution and was a supporter ...832 bytes (122 words) - 02:15, 30 September 2022
- Manilal in literary circles. He was an influential figure in nineteenth-century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and educators ...895 bytes (124 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- a Jacobin club leader, and a major figure of the French Revolution. He was a close friend of Maximilien Robespierre and served as his most trusted ...863 bytes (125 words) - 21:19, 26 November 2022
- a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). + -al. ...1 KB (133 words) - 15:12, 5 September 2023
- seen as the Father of Europe and is an iconic figure, instrumental in defining European identity. His was the first truly imperial power in the West ...892 bytes (141 words) - 17:05, 20 March 2022
- poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for the collection Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire ...1,005 bytes (147 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2023
- and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s onward. During the 1930s, he ranked second in the Soviet ...1,002 bytes (145 words) - 22:13, 28 December 2022
- century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. In addition to his outstanding portraits of well-known ...1 KB (155 words) - 20:56, 5 August 2020
- Alexander Radishchev was the most significant figure of 18th century Russian literature because he was the first to test the limits of thought ...982 bytes (164 words) - 00:09, 1 May 2020
- surgeon by profession, who became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian Islamist organization, and eventually attained the rank ...937 bytes (127 words) - 00:18, 19 January 2023
- greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure in both Azerbaijani and Ottoman literature. Fuzuli's work was widely known and admired ...1 KB (149 words) - 23:26, 5 December 2023
- classification of syllogisms known as the figure. The four figures are: ... conclusion followed by the number for the figure. For example, the syllogisms ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- of the outfit." Al-Zawahiri was a leading figure in the promotion and use of terror to advance the cause of Islam, a religion of peace. It is an ...962 bytes (159 words) - 01:55, 30 September 2022
- National Convention but was perhaps the best known figure of the dechristianization movement responsible for attacks on the church including the deaths ...1 KB (204 words) - 02:02, 28 August 2022
- Aleksandr Kuprin was a significant figure of the Silver Age of Russian Literature. This group of writers lived during the late 19th century and ...1 KB (206 words) - 22:32, 20 September 2021
- writer and literary critic who was a leading figure in what came to be known as Russian Formalism. Russian Formalism rejected earlier literary criticism ...1 KB (165 words) - 00:07, 31 August 2023
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution. A member of the nobility, he was ...1 KB (208 words) - 02:42, 27 July 2022
- [[Image:Mueller lyer.svg|thumb|200 px|A figure to explain the Mueller ... visual system is unable to separate the figure into parts. As a whole figure ...5 KB (795 words) - 18:00, 10 November 2022
- A piece of the mantle is shown in Figure 1 (orthopyroxene is black ... quot;pyroxene quadrilateral" shown in Figure 2. The enstatite-ferrosilite ...9 KB (1,340 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- # (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure. ====Derived terms==== ...2 KB (188 words) - 15:37, 1 September 2023
- a phrase, incident, or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates. #: The running gag is ...2 KB (235 words) - 21:28, 31 August 2023
- which is marked off on the two axes (see Figure 1). Cartesian coordinate ... by the equation x² + y² = 4 (see Figure 2). == History == ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- theologian, author, and public figure who served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. ...2 KB (266 words) - 16:08, 8 April 2021
- rights and gender equality made her an iconic figure in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. She received attention in American popular ...2 KB (256 words) - 21:39, 31 August 2021
- illusion easily when reading text with the illusion figure in the periphery. Motion is consistently perceived in a dark-to-light direction, so the two ...4 KB (637 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
