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- The term “monad” was used by the Pythagoreans as the name of the ... The term "monad," however, is best known as a concept of ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- was an Argentine intellectual and author of highly experimental novels ... Along with Borges, Cortazar is often considered to be one of the most ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the ... In 405 B.C.E., following the severe Spartan defeat at the Battle of ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- before being appointed as Wykeham professor of logic at New College, Oxford ... His earliest book, Perception (1932), rejected causal theories of ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the speed of light in a vacuum c * the electric constant ε0, ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- she was for her actual poetry. During much of her career she lived the life ... Millay lived and wrote during the early decades of the twentieth-century ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America ... | death_place = Covington, Louisiana, United States of America ...9 KB (1,310 words) - 18:46, 17 April 2023
- Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow ... news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- to indicate the improper usage of science or scientific claims. ... The charge of scientism often is used as a counter-argument to appeals ...22 KB (3,110 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- Classical Greek had no independent word of "existence." The ... but reversed the Medieval priority of essence over existence. The ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- critic, and activist. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature ... Academically speaking, Said was a follower of Post-structuralist theory ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, most commonly white sage ... Native Americans, and it has been practiced all over the world, its modern ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- His initial insight was that a social group of human beings in many ways functions ... Karlsruhe, Germany. His father was the head of the household staff of the ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 06:38, 15 April 2024
- Macrocosm/microcosm is a Greek compound of μακρο- "Macro ... The paired concept of Macrocosm and Microcosm presents the idea that ...11 KB (1,612 words) - 17:28, 9 November 2022
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... intelligence can bring about the betterment of society. It is usually characterized ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- The Hopi are a Native American nation, the westernmost group of Pueblo ... their culture, which is based on a mythology of their origin, spiritual beliefs ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- make firm") is a term used in a variety of contexts with different meanings ... , which may or may not contain the body of the deceased. Samadhis are ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 02:04, 23 December 2022
- who in 1893, when he attended the Parliament of the Worlds Religion at Chicago ... that the same universal truth underlies all religions, although he regarded ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 ... book, Waldseemüller published one of the Vespucci accounts, which ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- the first Englishman to explore or map parts of New Holland (Australia) and ... Dampier's life belongs to the great age of so-called "Discovery ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- she published under the androgynous name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated ... Edith Nesbit was born in 1858 Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- a scientist; Khayyám contributed a number of insights to the development ... and particularly for the volume The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, famously translated ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- a wide geographical and temporal spread of cultures perhaps to mark territory ... is thought by many to be the foundation of art as well as an indication ...11 KB (1,550 words) - 02:26, 16 December 2022
- hi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit]) Retrieved December ... societies which have experienced most if not all of these characteristics, ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- 20, 1524) was the last ruler and king of the K'iche-Maya people ... on February 20, on the anniversary of his death. Tecún Umán has ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- quot; in Japanese) (617 – 686), was one of the leading philosophers, writers ... With his life spanning the end of the Three Kingdoms period and the ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that ... Critical realism refers to several schools of thought. These include ...13 KB (1,784 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning ... Peirce formulated abduction as a method of scientific research and introduced ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth ... developed alongside the continuation of medieval theater and especially ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- "The Watchers") are a group of fallen angels described in ... A modern view of the Grigori appears in some versions of Italian witchcraft ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- is God in his manifestation as Creator of the universe. Brahmā is part ... city located on Mount Meru. As creator of the world, Brahmā is considered ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- Life, may be considered by some as a type of virtual reality. virtual artifact (VA) either through the use of standard input devices such ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication ... With the rise of Post-Modernism, social constructionism became popular ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the ... to Hindu thought is its elucidation of the pramanas (tools of epistemology ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism and president ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- Science fiction (also, sf, SF, or sci-fi) is a broad genre of fiction ... Science fiction is part of, and in organizational or marketing contexts ...54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- quot; or "blowing out" of the triple fires of greed, ... from the Samyutta Nikaya (a scripture of Buddhism), which describes ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- belief that the natural world is a community of living personas, only some ... While the term "animism" refers to a broad range of spiritual ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- used for four species in the genus Cucurbita of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae: ... the same family as squash. Well known types of squash include the pumpkin ...13 KB (1,929 words) - 18:11, 14 October 2022
- Papyrus (The plural of papyrus is papyri) is an early form of thick ... The study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, and ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world," is ... an original painting. The original subject of ukiyo-e was city life—more ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 01:28, 3 May 2023
- Viperidae, whose members are commonly known as vipers, is a family ... Viperids are found all over the world, except in Australia and Madagascar ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- March 29 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists ... entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, where he studied both ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister ... The biography of Necker is part of the history of the French Revolution ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- good, should be relocated in small groups of less than ten, in distances ... was known to point out admirable qualities of various disadvantaged people ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... The Hokku of early Japanese poets like Matsuo Basho and Ueshima Onitsura ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador ... Quito is considered to have one of the oldest and best preserved colonial ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
