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  • A beverage can (or drinks can) is a can manufactured to hold a single serving of a beverage. In the United States, the can is most often made ...
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  • A tin can, also called a tin (especially in British English) or a can, is an air-tight container that is made of metal and used for the distribution ...
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  • Americium (chemical symbol Am, atomic number 95) is a radioactive, synthetic metallic element, classified as an actinide. It was the fourth transuranic ...
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  • "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist," or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a ...
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  • Diazonium compounds or diazonium salts are a group of organic compounds sharing a common functional group with the characteristic structure of ...
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  • Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God in the Book of Revelation (verses 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13). Its meaning is found ...
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  • In mathematics, an average, mean, or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or "expected value" ...
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  • Representationism or Representative Theory of Perception, also known as indirect realism, epistemological dualism, the veil of perception, and ...
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  • Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one of the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the ...
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  • Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He was one of the most prolific ...
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  • Kairos ( grc|καιρός ) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment." The ancient Greeks had two words for time ...
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  • The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy which flourished during the fourth and early third centuries B.C.E ...
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  • Saint Teresa of the Andes, known formally as Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, (July 13, 1900 – April 12, 1920) was a Chilean nun canonized ...
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  • Antisthenes (c. 444 - 365 B.C.E.), is one of the founders of the Cynic School of philosophy. In his youth he studied rhetoric under Gorgias, ...
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  • In Judaism, the name of God represents the Jewish conception of the divine nature, and of the relation of God to the Jewish people. ...
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  • The Annunciation, also known as the Annunciation to Mary, is the announcement or proclamation to Mary, the mother of Jesus, by the archangel ...
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  • Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of what exists, and, more specifically, what exists by itself, underlying the ...
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  • In logic, two sentences (either in a formal language or a natural language) may be joined by means of a logical connective to form a compound ...
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  • Cuauhtémoc (also known as Cuauhtemotzin or Guatimozin; c. 1502 – February 28, 1525) was the last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and ...
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  • William Cowper (pronounced Cooper /'ku:pə(r)/) (November 26, 1731 – April 25, 1800) Date of birth is given in New Style (Gregorian calendar ...
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  • In chemistry, a carbene is a highly reactive organic compound with the general molecular formula "R1R2C:." This formula indicates that ...
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  • Balaam (Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, Bilʻam ) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring toward the end of the Book of ...
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  • Hillel (הלל) was a famous Jewish religious teacher who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod around the beginning of the Common ...
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  • Henry Habberley Price (May 17, 1899 – November 26, 1984) was a British philosopher and logician, known for his work on perception and thinking ...
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  • category:image wanted Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович ...
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  • Category:Linguists and lexicographers Category:Archaeologists Grotefend, Georg Friedrich Georg Friedrich Grotefend (June 9, 1775 – December ...
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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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  • An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...
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  • An epoxide is a cyclic ether with only three ring atoms. The simplest epoxide is ethylene oxide, also known as oxirane, which is regarded as ...
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins (July 28, 1844 – June 8, 1889) was a British Victorian poet and Jesuit priest. Hopkins sought and struggled to unite ...
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  • category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Brenda Lee |Img = |Img_capt = |Img_size = (240) ...
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  • Pyrrho (c. 360 B.C.E. - c. 275 B.C.E.), a Greek philosopher from Elis, was credited in antiquity as being the first skeptic philosopher and the ...
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  • In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is the view that physical objects do not exist as things in themselves but only ...
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  • Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg ( Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг ) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov ...
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  • Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the position that nothing exists beyond oneself and one's immediate experiences. In philosophy ...
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  • Egoism is the concept of acting in one’s own self-interest, and can be either a descriptive or a normative position. Psychological egoism, ...
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  • Sir Thomas Malory (c.1405 – March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, the first definitive text in English prose ...
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  • In general, an amplifier (or simply amp) is a device that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a signal. The "signal" is usually ...
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  • Walter Rauschenbusch (October 4, 1861 – July 25, 1918) was a Christian Theologian and a Baptist Minister. He pioneered the social gospel movement ...
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  • Radio, once known as "wireless telegraphy" or "radiotelegraphy," is the wireless communication of signals by transmitting ...
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  • Crown ethers are heterocyclic chemical compounds that consist of a ring containing several ether groups. The most common crown ethers are oligomers ...
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  • Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) (1760 – May 10, 1849) was an Edo period Japanese artist, painter, wood engraver and maker of ukiyo-e, author ...
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  • category:image wanted The ethics of care is a normative ethical theory often considered a type of virtue ethics. Dominant traditional ethical ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Perls, Fritz Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8, 1893 – March 14, 1970), better known as Fritz Perls, was a ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Goldenlocks.jpg|thumb|250px|Twelfth century icon of Archangel Gabriel from Novgorod]] Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל ...
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  • Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon and the First Lady of the United ...
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  • Syādvāda (Devanagari: स्यादवाद meaning "Could-be-ism") is the Jain doctrine of epistemological relativism underpinning ...
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  • Francesco Landini, or Landino, (around 1325 – September 2, 1397) was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, and instrument maker. He ...
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  • Seongcheol (Hangul: 성철, Hanja: 性徹, April 10, 1912 – November 4, 1993) is the dharma name of a Korean Seon (Hangul: 선, Hanja: 禪 ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Category:Image wanted Calkins, Mary Whiton Mary Whiton Calkins (March 30, 1863 – February 26, 1930 ...
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  • William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished ...
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  • Saint Martín de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) was a Catholic monk of mixed raced from Peru and the first "black" ...
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  • In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical statements such as: *"I am lying now." *"This statement is false ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy, was founded ...
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  • Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières – February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright ...
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  • A Deva (Sanskrit: meaning "radiant" or "shining") refers to a "god" or "deity" found in both Vedic Hinduism ...
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  • Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s ...
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  • Samuel Jackson "Sam" Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American golfer who won 81 tournaments on the PGA Tour, and 80 more ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Elias, Norbert Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 - August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist, famous for his development of Process ...
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  • The Transcendental Ego (or its equivalent under various other formulations) refers to the self that must underlie all human thought and perception ...
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  • An argument is an attempt to demonstrate the truth of an assertion called a conclusion, based on the truth of a set of assertions called premises ...
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  • Kong Rong (153 – 208) was a bureaucrat, poet, and minor warlord during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He was ...
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  • category:image wanted Dusty Springfieldcategory:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Dusty Springfield | Img = ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr., (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American singer and guitarist, with ...
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  • In chemistry, an amide is one of two kinds of compounds: * the organic functional group characterized by a carbonyl group (C=O) linked to a nitrogen ...
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  • A Nazirite (also spelled Nazarite) (from Hebrew: נזיר, nazir meaning "consecrated"), refers to Jews who consecrated their lives ...
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  • The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based narratives and traditions, relating the travels and miraculous deeds of John ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:Lavater1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The four temperaments as illustrated by Johann ...
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  • The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung der Judenfrage) refers to the Nazis' plan to engage in systematic genocide ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1533 – 1586) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle of the somewhat ...
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  • Category:Public The Categorical Imperative is the central concept in Kant’s ethics. It refers to the “supreme principle of morality” (4:392 ...
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  • The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting ...
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  • In electronics, a diode is a component that allows an electric current to flow in one direction but blocks it in the opposite direction. Thus ...
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  • William Tell was a legendary hero of disputed historical authenticity who is said to have lived in the Canton of Uri in Switzerland in the early ...
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest twentieth century poet ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Sci Am 50.png|thumb|300px|right|Scientific American, 1920]] ...
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  • The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman who appeared among the royal families of Europe in the eighteenth century ...
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  • The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region of the abdominal cavity, below the diaphragm. Since most compounds absorbed ...
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  • Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation and thus the electromagnetic ...
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  • Friedrich Wöhler (July 31, 1800 - September 23, 1882) was a German chemist who ushered in a new age of organic chemistry when he demonstrated ...
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  • Galactosemia is a rare genetic metabolic disorder that affects an individual's ability to properly metabolize the sugar galactose. The disease ...
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  • Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God in the Bible. Jews normally do not pronounce this name, considering it too ...
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  • René Descartes (French ʁə'ne de'kaʁt ) (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form) ...
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  • The parathyroid glands are small endocrine glands found in all tetrapod (four-limbed) vertebrates (that is, except fish) and that produce parathyroid ...
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  • The Second Epistle to the Corinthians is a book in the New Testament, written by Paul the Apostle. Paul's most personally revealing letter ...
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  • Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist, and lecturer. Both deaf and blind, she changed the public ...
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  • Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a twentieth-century American poet, whose verse has been the subject of more critical ...
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  • Jeep is an automobile marque (and registered trademark) of Chrysler. It is the oldest Sports utility vehicle (SUV) brand. Land Rover is the second ...
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  • Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Chicago-ChicagoTribuneBuilding01.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Chicago Tribune building]] The Chicago Tribune, founded ...
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  • Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author who is considered to be one of the foremost figures ...
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  • Chief Joseph (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904) was the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Native Americans during ...
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  • Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered ...
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His prolific and ...
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  • Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897), or more properly Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte ...
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  • Gu Kaizhi ( t=顧愷之|s=顾恺之|p=Gù Kǎizhī|w=Ku K'ai-chih ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded as ...
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  • Yury Olesha ( Юрий Карлович Олеша , (May 3, 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian novelist during the early Soviet period. He ...
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  • Archilochus (Greek: Αρχιλοχος) (ca. 680 B.C.E. – ca. 645 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek poet and mercenary. His works are, unfortunately ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Fromm, Erich [[Image:Erich Fromm 1974.jpg|thumb|right|Erich Fromm]] Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – ...
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  • Anekāntavāda (Devanagari: अनेकान्तवाद), meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Social workers Gratz, Rebecca Rebecca Gratz (March 4, 1781 – August 27, 1869) was an American ...
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  • Emmanuel Lévinas (January 12, 1906 – December 25, 1995) was a French, Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator. He fought for the French ...
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  • Germaine Greer (January 29, 1939 - ) is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist, and scholar of early modern English literature, widely ...
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  • The Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms) was a general assembly (a Diet) of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, a small ...
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  • Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ...
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  • Emu is the common name for a large flightless Australian bird, Dromaius novaehollandiae, characterized by long legs with three-toed feet, long ...
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  • Maria Isabella Boyd (May 4, 1844 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated ...
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  • Antonín Leopold Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a nineteenth century Czech composer whose works include operas, oratorios, ...
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  • Autonomy (Greek: Auto-Nomos—nomos meaning "law:" One who gives oneself his own law) means freedom from external authority. In moral ...
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  • An adjective, in grammar, is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjective's subject), giving more ...
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  • Emperor Gao (256 B.C.E. or 247 B.C.E. – June 1, 195 B.C.E.), commonly known inside China as Gaozu ( c=高祖|p=Gāozǔ , Wade-Giles: Kao Tsu ...
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  • Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...
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  • In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the wife and older sister of Zeus. She was also called upon as the goddess of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based membership organization ...
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  • Madam C. J. Walker (December 23, 1867 - May 25, 1919), was an African-American philanthropist and tycoon. Born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana ...
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  • Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 - April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος ...
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  • Alveolus (plural: alveoli), or pulmonary alveolus, informally known as air sac, is any of the innumerable minuscule, thin-walled, capillary-rich ...
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  • Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of describing God by negation, in which one avers only what may not be said ...
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  • Emotivism is the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives ...
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  • Sufism (from Arabic (صوف), Suf meaning "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Housing Category:Religion [[Image:Sweat lodge nez.jpg|thumb|300px|Nez Percé ...
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  • In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from one key to another. This may or may not be accompanied by a change in key ...
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  • Demolition is the opposite of construction: The tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction, which is the ...
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  • The name Lazarus (Hebrew: "God helped") refers to two separate individuals described in the New Testament: the first Lazarus is miraculously ...
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  • Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन) (December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990), better known ...
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  • Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the head in general in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. It may ...
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  • Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ...
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  • Malachi (מַלְאָכִי, Mál'akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally believed to be written by ...
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  • Ezekiel (592 to 570 B.C.E.) (Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל—"God will strengthen") was a major prophet in the Hebrew Bible during the ...
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  • Shaktism is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Shakti (or Devi)—the female principle of the divine—in her many forms as the absolute ...
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  • category:image wanted In philosophy and logic, proposition refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence or ...
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  • Akiva ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא) or simply Rabbi Akiva—also spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ...
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  • Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 – March 17, 1917) was a philosopher and psychologist. He contributed to a number ...
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  • Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for ...
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  • The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical theories whose subject is the implied agreements by which people form states ...
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  • John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for his taciturn New England ...
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  • Gideon (Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Gidʻon), also known as Jerubbaal, was a judge appearing in the biblical Book of Judges. He was the son of ...
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  • Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pashto/Urdu: فخر افغان خان عبد الغفار خان/خان عبدالغفار خان) (c. 1890 – January ...
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  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd ɒn] in British English, [pʁu dɔ̃] in French) (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) was a French ...
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  • Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz) (خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی in Persian ...
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  • Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本 龍馬, Sakamoto Ryōma) (January 3, 1836 - December 10, 1867) was a Japanese imperial loyalist whose effort to forge ...
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  • Catherine Booth (January 17, 1829 – October 4, 1890) was the wife of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, and was considered the ...
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  • Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gon is known as Korea's first Roman Catholic priest. Born into a family of Christian converts at a time of unprecedented ...
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  • Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, best known for attempting ...
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  • Dajian Huineng (慧能 or 惠能; Pinyin: Huìnéng) (638 – 713) was one of the most important figures in the Chinese Chán monastic tradition ...
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  • Wang Xizhi (Wang Hsi-chih, 王羲之) (303 – 361) was the most celebrated Chinese calligrapher, traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy ...
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  • Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 - November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer especially noted for his work with the Berlin ...
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  • Meher Baba (Devanagari: मेहेर बाबा ), (February 25, 1894– January 31, 1969), was an Irani (Indian of Persian descent) born ...
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, who was best known in his own time ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists Milgram, Stanley Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist ...
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  • Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was an Algerian-French writer and philosopher. He is best known for the existential themes ...
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  • Pierre Curie (May 15, 1859 – died April 19, 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity ...
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  • Diodorus Cronus (fourth century, B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Megarian school who made important contributions to the development of ...
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  • Dorothy Wordsworth (December 25, 1771 – January 25 1855) was an English poet and diarist. She is probably best known, however, as the sister ...
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  • Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known ...
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  • Dayi Daoxin (Chinese: 道信, Wade-Giles: Tao-hsin) (Japanese: Dōshin) (580 - 651) was the fourth Chán Buddhist Patriarch, following Jianzhi ...
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  • Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism's Torah and Christianity's Old Testament. Its Hebrew name ...
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  • Homi Jehangir Bhabha (October 30, 1909 – January 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage. He was a gifted scientist ...
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  • Edward B. Jenner (May 17, 1749 – January 26, 1823) was an English physician and scientist who is most recognized for introducing and popularizing ...
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  • Theodor Herzl (May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and playwright who became the founder of modern political ...
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  • William Ewart Gladstone (December 29, 1809 – May 19, 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom ...
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  • The Golden Rule is a cross-cultural ethical precept found in virtually all the religions of the world. Also known as the "Ethic of Reciprocity ...
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  • Betty Williams (May, 1943 - ) was a co-recipient, with Mairead Corrigan, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 (the prize for 1976), for co-founding ...
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  • Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian-born ...
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  • Animal rights is a philosophical concept in bioethics that considers animals other than the human species as bearers of rights. This means that ...
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  • Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerd) (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the ...
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  • Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter often associated with the Impressionists, and known especially ...
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  • The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a black basalt monument bearing an inscription by the ninth century B.C.E. Moabite King ...
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  • Seokguram Grotto ("Stone Cave Hermitage") is considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures created by Far Eastern civilization ...
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  • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) is a well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme Court. He ...
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  • Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic of the Victorian age. He is often remembered as the third ...
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  • Television (or TV) (from the Greek tele, meaning "far," and the Latin visio, meaning "sight") is a telecommunication system ...
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  • In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living organisms or inorganic matter. However, what specifically is included as ...
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  • The Battle of Quebec, also known as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, was a pivotal battle in the North American theatre of the Seven Years ...
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  • A river is a natural waterway that conveys water derived from precipitation from higher ground to lower levels. Most commonly, rivers flow on ...
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  • Garuda (from the Sanskrit: Garuḍa गरुड or "devourer") is a large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both ...
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  • Bernard de Mandeville (1670 – 1733), was a philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life ...
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  • Plutonium (chemical symbol Pu, atomic number 94) is a radioactive, metallic chemical element that is part of the actinide series. It is the element ...
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  • Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler ...
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  • Cadmium (chemical symbol Cd, atomic number 48) is a relatively rare, soft, bluish-white metal. Its chemical properties are similar to those of ...
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  • A hookworm is any of a number of small, parasitic nematodes (roundworms) of the order Strongiloidae and family Ancylostomatidae that have hooked ...
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  • Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act of disobedience, as well as the ongoing fallen state of humanity bound in ...
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  • Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. Despite his early sympathy for Fidel ...
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  • Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (September 9, 1754 – December 7, 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator ...
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  • Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the spirit and body of a person in that person's afterlife, or simply with ...
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  • Fig is the common name given to any vine, shrub, or tree in the genus Ficus of the mulberry family, Moraceae. The term also is used for the sweet ...
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  • Beryllium (chemical symbol Be, atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray in color, it is strong but brittle. ...
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  • Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several related fat-soluble organic compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, that act ...
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  • Category:Public Eliot, T.S. [[File:TS Eliot.jpg|thumb|right|T.S. Eliot ]] Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an ...
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  • The Book of Revelation, also called Revelation to John or Apocalypse of John, is the last canonical book of the New Testament in the Christian ...
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  • Scorpion is the common name for any of the carnivorous arthropods comprising the order Scorpiones within class Arachnida, characterized by a ...
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  • Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Indiana. His works include the musical comedies ...
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  • The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced degrees in biblical studies, religion or related fields [as well as] published ...
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  • Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (April 7, 1939 – August 31, 2013) was an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality, and television host. ...
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  • Corn syrup is any of a variety of forms of syrup (thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, with little tendency ...
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  • Lily is the common name for any of the herbaceous flowering plants comprising the genus Lilium of the Liliaceae family, characterized by large ...
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  • Vaisheshika, also Vaisesika (Sanskrit: वैशॆषिक, IAST Vaiśeṣika), is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic ...
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  • Category:Economists Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Drucker, Peter Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11 ...
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  • The Norse pantheon consisted of numerous minor dieties that were often overshadowed by the more famous gods such as Odin, Thor, Loki, and Freyja ...
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  • Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
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  • Box jellyfish is the common name for any of the radially symmetrical, marine invertebrates comprising the Cnidarian class Cubozoa, characterized ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Behaviorism is an approach within psychology based on the proposition that behavior ...
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  • Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; IPA /əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə/ ...
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  • Hockey is a sport that is not only one of the major sports in the United States, but also extremely popular throughout the world. Hockey can ...
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  • Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova ( Галина Сергеевна Уланова ) (January 10, 1910 – March 21, 1998) was regarded by many as the ...
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  • Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself coined ...
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  • Ruby Dee (née Wallace; October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and activist ...
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  • Anglo-Saxon Poetry (or Old English Poetry) encompasses verse written during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ...
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  • Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet and lawgiver, who according to the Bible and the Qur'an (by his ...
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  • The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, one of the twelve minor prophets whose works were canonized in the Hebrew Bible ...
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  • Rachel ( רחל , "Ewe"—also spelled Rachael) was the younger and favorite wife of Jacob, sister of Leah and mother of Joseph and ...
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  • Shin Saimdang (신사임당, 1504 – 1551) was a famous Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) Korean painter and calligraphist. She also the mother of ...
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  • Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. Caused by infection with the ...
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  • Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern Coast Bantu languages. Swahili ...
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  • Uisang (의상625 - 702) was one of the most eminent early Silla scholar-monks, a Buddhist philosopher, and a close friend of Wonhyo (원효 ...
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  • Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich ...
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  • The llama is a domesticated, gregarious, South American ungulate, Lama glama, of the camel family (Camelidae), characterized by long neck and ...
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  • Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Hale is best remembered ...
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  • Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first ...
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  • Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, was a Samaritan gnostic who, according to ancient Christian accounts, allegedly ...
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti, (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a noted writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual topics ...
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  • Lake Burley Griffin is the centerpiece of Canberra, an entirely purpose-built, planned city which serves as Australia's federal capital ...
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  • Richard Lowell Rubenstein (January 8, 1924 - May 16, 2021) was a renowned American educator in religion, rabbi, and writer, noted particularly ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Institutional economics, known by some as institutionalist political economy, focuses ...
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  • Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם Avraham "Father/Leader of many," Arabic ابراهيم Ibrāhīm) was the original patriarch of ...
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  • Etta James (January 25, 1938 - January 20, 2012) was an American blues, soul, R&B, and jazz singer and songwriter, who had her biggest success ...
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  • Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic ...
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  • Sai Baba of Shirdi (d. October 15, 1918), also known as Shirdi Sai Baba, was an Indian guru, yogi and Sufi who is regarded simultaneously by ...
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  • Nutrition is the combination of elements consumed by a person that nourishes the body, enabling it to sustain in an efficient manner all of its ...
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  • Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in ...
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  • The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included in Christianity's Old Testament. It was originally written in a ...
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  • A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary device, anthropomorphism - that is giving animals, plants, inanimate ...
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  • The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the eponymous ...
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  • The ear is the sense organ in vertebrates that detects sound and also plays a major role in the sense of balance and body position. The ear shows ...
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  • The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...
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  • Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists category:image wanted Fröbel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (or Froebel ...
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  • John Byron Nelson, Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946. A Texas native, Nelson ...
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  • Binge drinking, or heavy episodic drinking, is drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of ...
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  • The Globe Theatre normally refers to one of three theaters in London associated with William Shakespeare. These are: # The original Globe Theatre ...
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  • Samantha Reed Smith (June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985) was an American schoolgirl from Manchester, Maine, who became known as "America ...
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  • Paul Ricœur (February 27, 1913 – May 20, 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic ...
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  • An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services ...
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  • Redwood is a common name used for three species of trees with red or reddish colored wood, which are part of the subfamily Sequoioideae of the ...
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  • Saint Sebastian (traditionally died January 20, 287) was a Christian saint and martyr, who is said to have died during the Diocletian persecution ...
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  • Vienna (German: Wien, [ʋiːn] , Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. Vienna is Austria ...
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  • Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection of fables identified ...
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  • Marc Chagall (Russian: Марк Захарович Шага́л; Belarusian: Мойша Захаравіч Шагалаў Mojša Zacharavič ...
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  • The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता Bhagavad Gītā , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...
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  • Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally causing the death ...
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  • Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך mlk) is a Canaanite god in the Old Testament associated with human sacrifice ...
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  • Pontius Pilate ( ˈpɔnʧəs ˈpaɪleɪt ; Latin: Pontius Pilatus, Greek: Πόντιος Πιλάτος ) was the governor of the Roman Iudaea ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Atonality describes music that does not use a tonal center or key. It applies to music that does not conform to the system ...
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  • Vitamin C (or ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble vitamin required for a number of metabolic processes in living organisms. As a vitamin, ascorbic ...
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  • Desmond Mpilo Tutu (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s ...
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  • The Liezi (列子 in Chinese characters, Lièzĭ in pinyin) is a Daoist text attributed to Lie Yukou, a philosopher conventionally thought to ...
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  • The Beatles were a highly influential English rock 'n' roll band from Liverpool. They are the most critically acclaimed and commercially ...
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  • The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), written by the eponymous prophet ...
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  • Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous Korean religion, one that had enormous impact on the unfolding of ...
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  • Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are 236 described species of Melaleuca, all of which occur in ...
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  • Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick explored sociological ...
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  • Confession of sins is the public or spoken acknowledgment of either personal or collective guilt, seen as a necessary step to receive divine ...
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  • Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which began with the arrest of five men who broke into the Democratic National ...
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  • Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright ...
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  • Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi to express his philosophy that non-violence is a power ...
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  • Qu Yuan ( c=屈原|p=Qū Yuán , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring ...
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  • A spacecraft is a craft or machine designed for spaceflight. Although it is, by definition, designed to travel into space, it may or may not ...
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  • Isa Ibn Maryam (Arabic: عيسى بن مريم‎, translit. ʿĪsā ibn Maryām; Jesus, son of Mary ), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered ...
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  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. A premier representative of the ...
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  • Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist ...
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  • Chagas' disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical acute and chronic parasitic disease of the Americas caused by the flagellate ...
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  • David and Jonathan were heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, whose relationship was recorded the Old Testament books of Samuel. Jonathan ...
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  • Category:Economists Category:Media Professionals Category:Politicians and reformers George, Henry [[Image:Henry George c1885 retouched.jpg|thumb ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער) (November 21, 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel ...
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  • The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first published in 1611, has had a profound impact on English literature and can ...
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  • Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician ...
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  • The hypothalamus, also known as the "master gland," is a supervising center in the brain that links the body's two control systems ...
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  • Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886), better known as Mary Boykin Chesnut, was a South Carolina author noted for ...
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  • Tamar (תָּמָר, Hebrew meaning "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in-law of the patriarch Judah, the ...
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  • Edvard Munch (IPA: [ˈɛdvɑɖ muŋk] ) (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and graphic artist ...
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  • Tao or Dao (道, Pinyin: Dào, Cantonese: Dou) is a Chinese character often translated as ‘Way’ or 'Path'. Though often seen as ...
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  • The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged at the Institute for Social ...
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  • Wen Tianxiang ( c=文天祥|p=Wén Tiānxiáng|w=Wen T'ien-hsiang ; June 6 1236 – January 9 1283), also Man Tin Cheung, Duke of Xingguo ...
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  • Vinegar is a sour liquid produced from the fermentation of diluted alcohol products, which yields the organic compound acetic acid, its key ingredient ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The Austrian School, also known as the “Vienna School” or the “Psychological School ...
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  • The ability of a chemical to behave as both an acid and a base is called amphoterism, and this type of substance is known as an amphoteric substance. ...
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  • Fatehpur Sikri ( फतेहपूर सिकरी , فتحپور سیکری ), a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state ...
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  • NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle ...
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  • Category:Lawyers and Jurists Darrow, Clarence [[Image:Clarence Darrow.jpg|thumb|right|Clarence Seward Darrow ca. 1922]] Clarence Seward Darrow ...
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  • Czeslaw Milosz (June 30, 1911 - August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. A well-known critic ...
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  • Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties and consciousness ...
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  • Ethical Culture is a nontheistic religion established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is a non-sectarian, ethico-religious ...
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  • György Széll, best known by his anglicized name, George Szell (June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), was a conductor and composer. He is remembered ...
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  • Swami Dayananda Saraswati (स्‍वामी दयानन्‍द सरस्‍वती) (1824 - 1883) was an important Hindu religious ...
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  • Samael Aun Weor (March 6, 1917 - December 24, 1977) was a spiritual teacher, occultist, esotericist, and author. He established himself in Mexico ...
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  • George Berkeley (March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three great British Empiricists ...
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  • William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great northern seaport of Hull and served in the English Parliament from 1780 to ...
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  • Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the formula NH3. It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure In this case, ...
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  • Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation in most cultures. The problem of desire has been a fundamental obstacle ...
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  • Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist, who, along with Abraham Maslow, founded the ...
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  • Leon Harrison Gross (alias Lee Falk), (April 28, 1911 - March 13, 1999), was considered a talent in music, art, theater, and writing. Falk was ...
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  • A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings, usually over a sounding ...
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  • Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted ...
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  • Optimism (from the Latin optimus, best) and pessimism (from the Latin pessimus, worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former ...
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  • Cognitive therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy developed by American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s. CT is one therapeutic approach ...
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  • Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder of the Arshakuni Dynasty which ruled until 428. The dates of his birth and ...
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  • Lycopene is a bright red, fat-soluble carotenoid pigment and phytochemical, C40H56, found in tomatoes, watermelon, guava, and other red fruits ...
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  • Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and ...
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  • The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew version, it often appears as the last book ...
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  • Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England ...
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  • Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian"Niemöller, (Friedrich ...
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and literary critic. His most famous writings ...
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  • Identity politics refers to the idea that socially constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis for creating group ...
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  • Qi Baishi ( s=齐白石|t=齊白石|p=Qí Báishí , also Ch'i Pai-shih or Ch'i Huang) (January 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a ...
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  • The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ship on April 28, 1789 which has been made famous by several books, films, ...
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  • Cyril of Alexandria (c. 378 - 444 C.E.) was the Christian patriarch of Alexandria when the city was at its height in influence and power within ...
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  • Cholesterol is an important sterol (a combination steroid and alcohol) and a neutral lipid that is a major constituent in the cell membranes ...
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  • Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through one's senses. The term ...
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  • Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. Along with Li Bai (Li Bo), he is frequently called the greatest of the ...
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  • Olivier Messiaen ( mɛsjɑ̃ or /mɛsjɛ̃/ ; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was an influential French composer, organist, and ornithologist ...
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  • Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 David Mikkelson, [http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/bogart2.asp Was Humphrey Bogart Born on Christmas ...
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  • Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 – August 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best ...
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  • According to the Bible, Elisha was a powerful prophet in the Kingdom of Israel during the mid-late ninth century B.C.E.. Known as the successor ...
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  • Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, critic, and influential feminist. Her reputation is legendary ...
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  • Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American politician, statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. One of the ...
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  • Sir Roger Vernon Scruton FBA FRSL (February 27, 1944 - January 12, 2020) was an English philosopher and writer who specialized in aesthetics ...
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  • In Norse mythology, Asgard (Old Norse: Ásgarðr) was the realm of the gods (the Aesir) that was mythologically connected to the abode of the ...
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  • Emperor Haile Selassie I (born Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge'ez, Amh. pronounciation lij teferī mekōnnin, July 23, 1892 – August 27, 1975) ...
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  • Kathakali (കഥകളി, kat̪ʰəkaɭi ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian state of Kerala during the late ...
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  • Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (ca. 1501/1507 – May 19, 1536) A birth year of ca. 1504 is given only as an approximation as it is ...
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  • Wallis and Futuna, is a group of three volcanic tropical islands—Wallis Island (Uvea), Futuna Island, and Alofi Island—with fringing reefs ...
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  • Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (November 29, 1797 – April 8, 1848) was an Italian opera composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's ...
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  • John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a self-taught American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted ...
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  • Juliana (Juliana Emma Louise Marie Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau) (April 30, 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the ...
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  • The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133 ; also known as the CIA World Factbook)Central Intelligence Agency. 2008-01-03 Where in the World is Mt. Kilimanjaro ...
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  • The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible ...
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