Search results for "Human figure" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • ===Emphasis on the human figure=== The human figure is the primary subject matter for most African art ...
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  • historiography included an emphasis on the human element in history rather ... == Literary figure == Sima Qian's Shiji is respected as a model ...
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  • claimed, based on his observations, that human sex cells had 24 pairs of ... * † Human Genome Project goals called for determination of only ...
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  • traditionally believed that Harold is the figure with the arrow in his eye ... The Tapestry has 626 human figures, 190 horses, 35 dogs, 506 other ...
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  • about the most ancient civilizations of human history. This is a significant ... with his left foot on the chest of a figure lying on his back before ...
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  • in the city. Hume became a leading figure in the civil rights movement ... years ago of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he indicated his ...
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  • the concerns and experiences of its human adherents, so it changes ... in order further extend his own super-human sensory abilities. ...
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  • that passions were an inherent part of human nature, rather than errors ... of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned figure throughout the Graeco-Roman ...
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  • are rigged with a virtual skeleton. For 2D figure animations, separate objects ... The starting point is often a stick figure in which the position of ...
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  • world to a more representative and diverse human community. ... #039;Higginists. Carrerists claim that his figure is not given enough recognition ...
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  • the unconscious mind that is common to all human beings. The term was originally ... #039;s unconscious that is common to all human beings. It is distinguished ...
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  • only in art and literature, representing human desire for that which is ... Ultimately the sphinx represents human desire and ability to penetrate ...
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  • Condorcet was a key figure in the transformation of society from its ... following years, he took up the defense of human rights in general, and of ...
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  • The artisans never depicted Buddha as a human figure on those stone carvings ... Image:SanchiBracketFigure.jpg|Sanchi Bracket Figure, British Museum ...
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  • and physical anthropologist, a leading figure in the study of human fossils ... was also there that he started to write on human evolution. After three years ...
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  • established Jesus as a historical Jewish figure, and the Gospels as part ... Israel, continued to present man and the human situation as the arena in ...
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  • prominent theory suggests that the Krishna figure originated with the combination ... God’s complete love for each and every human being. As a deity, Krishna ...
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  • kind of life, that with a soul, and that human beings ought not seek to ... "God, Man and Golem. Golem Aspects of Human Beings"] Jewish Museum ...
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  • philosophy of history. He is an important figure in the early twentieth century ... he saw as unduly restricting the scope of human reality, in particular the ...
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  • simply "Santa," is the mythical figure who, in most of Western cultures ... Goat. In Finland, however, the more human figure retained the Yule Goat ...
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  • or is a projection of unconscious human energies. In some traditions ... Satan the serpent was an active agent in the human fall (Pirḳe R ...
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  • to a number of conditions: Fallibility of human beings; the limit of knowability ... or a limit of cognitive capabilities of human being as the valid principle ...
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  • they found foot prints much larger than any human could have made. The Sherpas ... Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being ...
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  • move toward naturalism and the rendering of human feelings. An primary example ... 1409-1411, he executed the colossal seated figure of Saint John the Evangelist ...
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  • are typically associated or identified with human abilities to engage in mathematics ... It is difficult to identify a major figure in the history to whom ...
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  • theory, he built upon its theories of human alienation in order to understand ... Louis Wirth became a leading figure in Chicago School of Sociology ...
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  • of morality, Buck is also in important figure in the history of American ... became an extremely passionate activist for human rights, and she diverted ...
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  • retired in 1955. He remained an important figure until his death in Nuremberg ... from Marxist perspective with social and human sciences through institute ...
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  • elegiac poet. Baratynsky was a leading figure in the rise of Russian poetry ... nature's child—the poet—and the human herd, which were growing ...
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  • forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother ... are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically mother-and ...
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  • situated in the vestibulum in the inner ear (Figure 1). As our movements consist of rotations and translations, the vestibular system comprises ...
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  • god in the Old Testament associated with human sacrifice. Some scholars ... else as a man with the head of a bull. The figure of Moloch has been an object ...
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  • humankind after Prometheus stole fire for human use. Pandora held a box ... imprisoned in the jar, does this mean that human existence is utterly hopeless ...
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  • ) (January 20, 1948 - ) is a notable former Soviet dissident, human ... be used to legitimize their demands for human rights. Sharansky was imprisoned ...
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  • we have not well understood in ourselves as human beings. ... were depicted as having the head of a human being, similar to gorgons ...
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  • figura liber (“On the Monad, Number, and Figure,” 1591) Giordano Bruno ... Leibniz posited that human souls were a special kind of monad, termed ...
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  • numerous well-preserved paintings and other human evidence as well as fossilized ... |left|250px|The Chauvet Cave contains the oldest human footprint that ...
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  • anatomy, cytology, histology, and human anatomy. Comparative anatomy ... "quintessence," and that three human souls--vegetative, animal ...
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  • positive commercial value, nor do they figure strongly in Aboriginal mythology; ... including some very large wombats. Human activities may be largely ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities ... In early polytheistic religions human qualities and emotions—including ...
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  • behavior, although simpler than that of human beings, nonetheless contains ... of Vienna, where his uncle taught human physiology. His uncle noticed ...
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  • all world cultures, a trickster is a figure who plays tricks or otherwise ... not necessarily a supernatural or divine figure. He or she is usually depicted ...
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  • philosophers, he recognized that human beings had different qualities ... body itself, such as mass, extension, figure and motion; while “secondary” ...
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  • had established a reputation as a major figure in French musical circles ... the instrument, but he was a pioneering figure in developing new and inventive ...
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  • before World War I and a principal figure in the history of the Internationalist ... influence, he has been considered a lesser figure to his contemporaries in ...
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  • new religions. He is a deeply respected figure by the followers of many ... He first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a figure who challenged the idolatrous ...
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  • Arachnids are named after the mythological figure Arachne. ... ==Arachnids in human culture== Arachnids since ancient times have captured ...
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  • Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. The father ... he was one of the founders of the Moscow Human Rights Committee and came ...
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  • lore of Norse mythology, like virtually all human history itself, is violent ... As a figure in the Norse mythic corpus, Völund belonged to a complex ...
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  • music was, "a gift from God, not a human gift." Luther's ... for a short period, usually until the next figure is encountered. ...
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