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- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- for employees who are injured in the course of employment, in exchange for ... allow them to maintain a reasonable standard of living. Workers' compensation ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 16:31, 10 October 2020
- in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes ... Pennsylvania. His early life was of a typical farm boy, spent in ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- although it has been criticized for its lack of structure. The strength of ... with Abraham Maslow, Rogers was the founder of the humanistic approach to ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living ... In contrast with herbivory, which involves the consumption of living ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- Baleen whales comprise the Mysticeti, one of two suborders of the ... generally seen as gentle animals, a sighting of which adds to the wonder of ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:51, 26 August 2023
- social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work education movement ... 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of Issa Desha ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- when released into air, due to refraction of light. At low concentrations ... (1790-1868) in 1812, by exposing a mixture of carbon monoxide and chlorine ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 22:44, 28 March 2023
- among white audiences during the blues revival of the 1960s. been called "the very personification of Texas blues" (Clayton 2005). ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово ... This work is a mixture of Christianity and that Slavic paganism that ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- to improving the opportunities, and standard of living, of those otherwise ... did not improve their workers' standard of living, those workers would ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- Desert, encompasses 77,000 square miles of rolling sand dunes in eastern ... 039;s sand ridges. It is defined by a series of natural borders, including ...14 KB (2,193 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- form involved in protein synthesis) is one of the twenty standard amino acids ... The intricate coordination of systems in the human body is seen in ...15 KB (2,091 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- the world. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion ... While there is a great deal of diversity in nature, the rarity of ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- scientific principles and Aristotelian logic of the twelfth century to scholars ... Neckam wrote religious works on a variety of subjects, most of which ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- means “to practice and learn the way of the truth.” Xiuzhen combines ... Certain aspects of Xiushen, such as veneration of parents and elders ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 17:32, 11 October 2020
- Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist of the Song dynasty, who is credited ... and Zhu Xi, who honored Zhang as one of the founders of the Study of ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- Party. Although superficially the standard of living in East Germany under ... during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of 192 Germans who tried to escape ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... this system would provide a minimum standard of living "below which no ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful ... led to higher wages and a better standard of living. Adam Smith and Thomas ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- economist who occupied the first chair of political economy in England ... Compton, Berkshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... With the steady improve of the standard of living in South Korea during ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist. The Buddhist ... delve into the Sutra Pitaka, gaining an ocean of knowledge. ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- government, to work, and to a decent standard of living and health care. It ... 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded ... and gradual improvement in their standard of living in the first few decades ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 03:59, 6 October 2022
- R.F. Outcault, he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip and ... yellow colored nightshirt ushered in the era of colored comic strips. Outcault ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in ... dust storms, forest and grassland fires, living vegetation, and sea spray ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2022
- All tape-based camcorders have removable media in the form of video ... eventually enabled the construction of portable video-cameras and ...34 KB (5,130 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos with infinite numbers ... shape, and size. The qualitative diversity of the world is reduced to and ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- quot;) is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty ... Mahavira's later life was an example of rigorous asceticism. ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or into poor families ... At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
- around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- or running around," is a rite of passage during adolescence ... The Amish, a sub-sect of the Anabaptist Christian movement, intentionally ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 18:14, 22 December 2022
- Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen ... thereby dealing a serious blow to the theory of vitalism. ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... among the largest NIEs, boasting a standard of living comparable to industrialized ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- Compleat Angler, a classic guide to the joys of fishing with over 300 new printings ... scholars. Until 1643, he lived in the parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a ... In the philosophy of science, two theories are said to be incommensurable ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- family known as the Liu clan. The history of this dynasty divides into two ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 00:55, 28 January 2022
- The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... Hepatocytes (liver cells) comprise about 60 percent of liver tissue; ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior. Government ... use of capital, has kept our standard of living lower than would otherwise ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... in Nice, France, where his family was living at the time. His mother ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
