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  • the only client of major construction; with all pre-Romanesque architectural styles borrowing from Roman construction with its semicircular arch. Due ...
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  • Category:Public Pre-Socratics or pre-Socratic philosophers were the earliest Western philosophers, active during the fifth and sixth centuries ...
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  • Category:Public Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast ...
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  • Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer. Varèse's music features an emphasis ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Prefontaine, Steve {{Infobox_Person | name = Steve Roland Prefontaine | residence = Eugene, Oregon | other_names ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person in the time period between ...
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  • Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production ...
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  • Adoptionism is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely human and that he became divine—adopted as God's son—later in ...
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  • The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word," but can also mean ...
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  • Aztec codices (singular codex) are books written by pre-Columbian and colonial-era Aztecs. These codices provide some of the best primary sources ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Heraclitus b 4 compressed.jpg|Heraclitus|thumb|250px|right]] The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (Greek Ἡράκλειτος ...
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  • Category:Public Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the ...
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  • Empedocles (c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. ...
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  • Lisbon ( Lisboa , liʒˈboɐ ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, and the westernmost capital in mainland Europe. Over the course of ...
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  • Category:Public Zeno of Elea (Greek. Ζήνων)(c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member ...
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  • Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is a concept used in philosophy and some social sciences, meaning the world "as lived" prior to reflective ...
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  • Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a strategically important country at the crossroads of the Mediterranean ...
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  • Monad is an English term meaning "one," "single," or "unit," especially in technical contexts. It comes from the ...
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  • Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was a Victorian era English poet. Her family was artistically talented and ...
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  • Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of the Roman Empire. It usually refers to ancient Greek philosophy. It can also ...
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  • Ferrites are a class of ferrimagnetic ceramic chemical compounds consisting of mixtures of various metal oxides, usually including iron oxides ...
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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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  • Jaundice, also known as icterus, is a condition in which there is a yellowish discoloration of a person's skin, the whites of the eyes ...
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  • Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" in "Jizi" comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family ...
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  • The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of European history into three "epochs": the classical civilization ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{infobox University-Jen | name = Georgetown ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Preschool education is education that focuses on educating children from the ages of ...
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  • Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, c. 604) was a Benedictine monk and the first archbishop of Canterbury. He is considered ...
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  • Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was ...
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  • Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics that studies questions of being or existence. The questions include ...
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  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what ...
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  • An embryo (Greek: ἔμβρυον , plural ἔμβρυα ) is a multicellular eukaryote organism in its early stages of development. In humans ...
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  • The term sophists originally meant “wise men” in Ancient Greece. By the fifth century B.C.E., the term designated a profession in or a group ...
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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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  • Genus (plural, genera), a primary category of biological classification, is the first in the pair of names used worldwide to specify any particular ...
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  • Category:Public Dōgen (also Dōgen Zenji 道元禅師; Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元) (January 19, 1200 - September ...
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  • Munich ( München ˈmʏnçən Minga ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city in the country, with approximately 1.35 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:chinese-phoenix-from-nanning.jpg|thumb|right|180px ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Brown Willy Bodmin Moor.jpg|thumb|250 px|right ...
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  • Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences [[Image:Benz-velo.jpg|thumb|right|213px|Karl Benz's "Velo" (velo means ...
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  • Teotihuacán was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas in the first half of the first millennium C.E.. It was also one of the largest ...
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  • The nucleolus (plural nucleoli) is a large, distinct, spheroidal subcompartment of the nucleus of eukaryote cells that is the site of ribosomal ...
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  • The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji-zong) is one of the two major Japanese Zen sects. The other major sect is ...
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  • The term pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the Americas in the time before significant European influence. While technically ...
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  • In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying ...
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  • Tecún Umán (Tecún Umaán, Tecúm Umán, Tecúm Umam, or Tekun Umam) (c. 1500 - December 20, 1524) was the last ruler and king of the K'iche ...
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  • Determinism is the philosophical view that past events and the laws of nature fix or set future events. The interest of determinism in analytic ...
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  • Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius) (January 24, 1679 - April 9, 1754) was the most eminent German philosopher between ...
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  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen) is one of the fundamental ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Evans, Arthur [[Image:SirArthurEvans.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Bronze statue of Sir ...
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