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  • Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various ...
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  • Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the Figure ... illusionworks.com/html/figure_ground.html Figure/ground.] Retrieved October ...
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  • The Orbison figures most often involve a figure placed over a background ... may cause the perception of a distorted figure.Sara Bolouki and Roger Grosse ...
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  • classification of syllogisms known as the figure. The four figures are: ... conclusion followed by the number for the figure. For example, the syllogisms ...
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  • [[Image:Mueller lyer.svg|thumb|200 px|A figure to explain the Mueller ... visual system is unable to separate the figure into parts. As a whole figure ...
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  • A piece of the mantle is shown in Figure 1 (orthopyroxene is black ... quot;pyroxene quadrilateral" shown in Figure 2. The enstatite-ferrosilite ...
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  • which is marked off on the two axes (see Figure 1). Cartesian coordinate ... by the equation x² + y² = 4 (see Figure 2). == History == ...
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  • illusion easily when reading text with the illusion figure in the periphery. Motion is consistently perceived in a dark-to-light direction, so the two ...
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  • in which the perspective changes while viewing the figure. ... angles and so is fully aware that the figure is not "impossible, ...
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  • other angles and so is fully aware that the figure is not "impossible," perception from the critical viewing angle does not change—the ...
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  • In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression, pattern, or melodic fragment), often played by instruments in the rhythmic ...
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  • [[Image:5kingdoms.png|thumb|right|Figure 1. Five kingdoms.]] ... In 1969, Robert Whittaker published a proposed five kingdom system ...
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  • the ambiguous parts that makes the whole figure consistent. It is rare that ... There is evidence that by focusing on different parts of the figure ...
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  • ===Black & white and the figure-ground relationship=== ... visual art, stemming from a discordant figure-ground relationship that ...
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  • Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various ...
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  • this case misinterpretation, of the actual figure. Study of this illusion aids ... To further complicate matters, the figure is not actually of a checkerboard ...
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  • false Messiah (see also: Antichrist) is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology. He is to appear at a time in the future, before Yawm al-Qiyamah (The ...
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  • Zerubbabel shows that he was an important figure to many Second Temple Jews. ... who is depicted as a kind of Daniel-type figure in the dispute among the ...
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  • traditionally believed that Harold is the figure with the arrow in his eye ... male figures in the border below this figure; the one directly below the ...
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  • one sees a set of vertical red lines over a figure of blue lines that radiate out from two points to the left and right of the set of red lines, ...
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  • animals, to the shape, size, and angle of a figure's eyes, nose, and lips. The process seems very scientific, but often requires a very deep understanding ...
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  • The line segment (or chord) AB (in the figure), which passes through the ... The semimajor axis (denoted by a in the figure) is one-half of the ...
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  • in his right hand, close to his heart. The figure of the Wrathful Vajrapani ... the five wisdoms is also associated with a Buddha figure. ...
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  • Scientific notation is a compact form of writing numbers that are very large or very small. It is especially useful when expressing measurements ...
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  • [[Image:Carbon_dioxide_pressure-temperature_phase_diagram.jpg|frame ... diagram for carbon dioxide, as shown in Figure 2, where the critical point ...
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  • The Zöllner figure is composed of a series of parallel, diagonal lines intersected by a number of short horizontal and vertical bars. The parallel ...
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  • *Morgan, M.J. and B. Moulden. "The Münsterberg figure and twisted cords." Vision Research, 26 (1986):1793–1800. *Ninio, Jacques. ...
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  • especially in Switzerland, where the Tell figure was instrumentalized in the ... again had become national identification figure, the historian Karl Meyer ...
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  • authorities regard him as a type of merman figure or fish-deity of the the ... Dagon has become a popular figure in recent literature, movies, and ...
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  • jpg|The upper portion of the central Sakyamuni figure. ====Other Northern ... wall.jpg|South wall with Bodhisattva and additional figure. ...
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  • complex web of relationships as shown in the figure on the right. In this figure, the grouping of Phytoplankton → Herbivorous zooplankton → Carnivorous ...
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  • right|thumb|Pegasus and Bellerophon, Attic red-figure]] ... objects that make up a constellation. The figure that these objects create ...
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  • Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply "Santa," is the mythical figure who, in most of ...
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  • reference to him as a significant literary figure. The relative scarcity of ... In the history of poetry, Archilochus is a somewhat paradoxical figure ...
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  • [[Image:Ehrenstein figure.svg|thumb|Illusion 3. Adding a circle (bottom ... further input, will assume that there is a figure in front of the lines. ...
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  • ninety years, from 1131 to 1221. The central figure of the first section is Taira no Kiyomori (平清盛) who is described as arrogant, evil, ruthless ...
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  • opposite directions, according to this pattern: (Figure 1) They will then reach this position: (Figure 2) But to move from the ...
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  • Another relief at the same site shows him with his court. Every figure ... Anahita was a divine figure associated with water, wisdom and healing ...
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  • American female outlaw. She was a well-known figure during the late nineteenth century and is rumored to have been involved with a number of famous criminals ...
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  • == Literary figure == Sima Qian's Shiji is respected as a model of biographical literature with high literary value. Its artistry was mainly ...
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  • Image:Polispasto4.jpg|Figure 4b - A practical block and tackle pulley ... pulleys are encased in single housings is shown in Figure 4b. ...
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  • to for disaster relief. A legendary figure, Lee’s contributions to ... A pioneering yet controversial figure among public relations, Ivy ...
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  • referred to it as the "shifted chequerboard figure." It has also been called the "illusion of kindergarten patterns" because it was ...
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  • device may act as a cooler, as in the figure to the left below. This is ... == Figure of merit == The figure of merit for thermoelectric devices ...
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  • statues into a granite wall. One Buddha figure posed in reclining position ... Historians have identified a standing figure on a lotus throne located ...
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  • strength of various contributing factors like figure orientation was different among each species.Tadasu Oyama and Takuo Goto. [http://www.blackwell-synergy ...
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  • and philosophy of history. He is an important figure in the early twentieth century liberal school of religious and philosophical thought in Germany ...
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  • Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world cultures, a trickster is a figure who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys ...
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  • Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. There are two main types of ...
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  • new religions. He is a deeply respected figure by the followers of many ... He first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a figure who challenged the idolatrous ...
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  • sense of morality, Buck is also in important figure in the history of American literature due to her connections with the cultures of Asia, and China ...
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  • Charles Ammi Cutter (March 14, 1837 – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's most significant ...
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  • Mani presented himself as a savior figure and his religious teachings ... and evil and in the increasingly vivid figure of Satan. Augustine of Hippo ...
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  • kingship, with his left foot on the chest of a figure lying on his back before him. The prostrate figure is reputed to be the pretender Gaumata. Darius ...
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  • established himself as a public figure. He had been married a year ... authority.) He was a conspicuous figure in the siege of Paris, fought ...
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  • The Panchen Lama (Tibetan: པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ་; Chinese: 班禪喇嘛) is the second-highest-ranking religious figure (after ...
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  • hydrated, and consists of two subunits (Figure 1). One ribosomal subunit ... In Figure 4, both ribosomal subunits (small and large) assemble at ...
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  • ===Emphasis on the human figure=== The human figure is the primary subject matter for most African art ...
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  • of slavery, Equiano is also a notable figure in Pan-African literature ... dispute, Equiano is nonetheless a major figure both in the politics and ...
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  • Liberal Federation made him an influential figure in Liberal circles, albeit ... views. He was considered an influential figure in Liberal circles. ...
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  • that God is a deeply personal and loving figure rather than a cold, distant ... existence, as well as a anthropomorphic figure worthy of an individual& ...
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  • before World War I and a principal figure in the history of the Internationalist ... influence, he has been considered a lesser figure to his contemporaries in ...
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  • around the globe. The numbers in the figure are shown in parentheses ... correspond to the numbered hotspots in the figure on the right. ...
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  • The Gospel of Mark is an ancient koine Greek document that describes the life, persecution, and death of Jesus Christ, the central figure of ...
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  • for a short period, usually until the next figure is encountered. ... to be held, a line is drawn next to the figure or figures to indicate this: ...
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  • revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National ... after the suppression of the uprising. The figure ranges from around 3,000 ...
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  • movement can also be found in neon signs, where a figure or object appears to change position. ==Notes== ==References== *Chang, Freddy, Daniel ...
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  • long life, some considering him to be a figure of myth rather than history ... grandfather of Noah, Methuselah does not figure prominently in the rest of ...
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  • artisans never depicted Buddha as a human figure on those stone carvings. ... Image:SanchiBracketFigure.jpg|Sanchi Bracket Figure, British Museum ...
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  • are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother ... are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically mother-and-child ...
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  • short life, he is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the history and development ... in agreement that Wyatt was the principal figure in recognizing the formal ...
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  • century. He was a widely read, and popular figure of the era, and in his later ... of the already established literary figure, Washington Irving, who helped ...
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  • ===Heimdall as liminal figure=== Georges Dumézil, using examples from ... This view of Heimdall as a liminal figure helps to account for many ...
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  • of the corresponding central angle \theta (see Figure). ... (cf. the blue and green angles \psi in the Figure). Angles inscribed ...
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  • had established a reputation as a major figure in French musical circles ... the instrument, but he was a pioneering figure in developing new and inventive ...
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  • showing a detailed, twisted, and bloody figure of Christ on the cross in ... and became something of a cult figure, with the angst-laden expressionism ...
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  • King also argues in favor of naming Mary Magdalene as the central ... and also for her being the central figure of Christianity. Also, when ...
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  • movement in the city. Hume became a leading figure in the civil rights movement in the mid 1960s, having been prominent in the unsuccessful fight to have ...
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  • Two Men Standing, Man, and Seated Figure (Classic Male), while simultaneously ... related to landscape than to the human figure. These paintings, such as ...
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  • and mediums, he is considered a preeminent figure in American art. ... contrast of light and dark, and lively figure groupings—qualities that ...
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  • *Cantata Figure humaine for double-choir a cappella (1943), Premiere ... *Figure humaine (12 voices) (1943) *Un soir de neige (6 voices) (1944) ...
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  • In geometry, a polygon is a plane figure that is bounded by a closed path or circuit, composed of a finite sequence of straight line segments ...
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  • A key figure of early Post-minimalism in the United States and one ... out in December 1953. She then studied figure drawing at the Art Student ...
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  • [[image:chromosome.png|frame|Figure 1: Chromosome. (1) Chromatid. ... some of them grow breasts and develop a curvy figure. *Turner syndrome ...
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  • and street scenes as well as the nude figure. Like her fellow female Impressionist ... * Figure of a woman, 1875-76, (Before the Theater). * The Pscyhé, ...
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  • that featured a dark, bearded, Christ-like figure. It was soon replaced with ... early 1980s, with Saint Germain as a central figure. ===Who was Saint ...
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  • If a figure is both a rectangle (right angles) and a rhombus (equal edge lengths) then it is a square. == Other facts == *If a circle is circumscribed ...
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  • [[Image:Atomic_structure_of_olivine_1.png|left|thumbnail|Figure 1: ... There are three distinct oxygen sites (marked O1, O2, and O3 in figure ...
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  • She became the most important religious figure of her day, and her evocative ... #039;s oldest known author as well as a figure who evidences a significant ...
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  • the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure at the court in the 780s ... Alcuin is the most prominent figure of the Carolingian Renaissance ...
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  • Croce, portraying a very human Christ figure in a moment of the agony ... 1409-1411, he executed the colossal seated figure of Saint John the Evangelist ...
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  • are rigged with a virtual skeleton. For 2D figure animations, separate objects ... The starting point is often a stick figure in which the position of ...
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  • – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ... is how he was also represented in a marble figure in the Villa Albani in Rome ...
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  • These in his judgment:Justifies concluding that a figure between 700 and 800 is likely to be near the norm, and that variation in either direction is ...
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  • from events in the life of a historical figure. An account ascribed by the ... and Zeus, Saturn became an indispensable figure in Roman mythology and religion ...
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  • of Constantine made Sylvester a pivotal figure in medieval Christianity ... After his death, Sylvester became a major figure of legend. In a famous ...
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  • a road. Later, a priest saw the stricken figure and avoided him, presumably ... minority proves to be the truly righteous figure. Within the context of the ...
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  • the Second Temple era of Judaism and a key figure in the transition from Temple ... it is a historical fact that he was a key figure in the establishment of post ...
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  • depictions of a suffering messianic figure that seems to have influenced ... 039;s ways. God will soon send a messianic figure called "the Branch." ...
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  • of the poem, most controversially, a figure of Christ is seen in the ... Pushkin, whom he believed to be an iconic figure capable of uniting White ...
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  • situated in the vestibulum in the inner ear (Figure 1). ... [[Image:Vestibular_PushPull.svg|thumb|right|300px|Figure 2: Push-pull ...
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  • as the first century C.E.B. Caron, 1993, A Roman Figure-Engraved Glass Bowl. Metropolitan Museum Journal 28:47-55. It continued into the fourth century ...
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  • in the English language, and a seminal figure in the history of eighteenth ... Whigs and Tories could see Cato as a noble figure: The Whigs admiring his noble ...
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  • == The Historical figure == Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric (968–1057), Earl of Mercia. Her name occurs in charters and the Domesday survey ...
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  • As with many Greek deities, Poseidon was depicted as a lascivious ... and his status as a relatively uncommon figure in extant Greek mythology ...
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  • Bhindranwale has remained a controversial figure in Indian history. Some view ... #039;s son who has now become a prominent figure within Sikh politics. Some ...
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  • important poet, a major transitional figure from early high Modernism ... reflecting the hours of the day and the figure of the poet's father ...
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  • of Catholic thought, Molina was a leading figure in the sixteenth-century ... Molina was a leading figure in the sixteenth-century revival of scholasticism ...
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  • as in the Theogony. Written above this figure (a convention in Greek vase ... as to Pandora's evolution as a mythic figure. In classical scholarship ...
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  • of Electron Dot Notation are shown in the figure on the right. An alternative ... between the carbon atoms (as shown in the figure). Each structure, if taken ...
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  • man from clay. They each walked around the figure seven times, reciting a kabbalistic ... life from the golem by walking around the figure seven times again, repeating ...
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  • Lucrezia Borgia (April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance figure who later became Pope Alexander ...
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  • particularly in his role as a trickster figure. He is found, for example ... this world. In Ayyavazhi, the Satan-like figure, Kroni is a ravenous demon ...
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  • exiled to Babylon. It revolves around the figure of Daniel, an Israelite who ... Nebuchadnezzar sees them and a fourth figure walking unharmed in the furnace ...
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  • Condorcet was a key figure in the transformation of society from its ... and Condorcet's role as a central figure in the Enlightenment. However ...
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  • The legendary Vikramaditya is a popular figure in both Sanskrit and ... " Shalivahana is a legendary figure in Indian history, the king ...
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  • March 29, 2007. Smith was a popular figure with the Surrealists in the ... be beyond his abilities. He was a popular figure in Brazil, appearing on talk ...
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  • of philosophy made Posidonius a renowned figure throughout the Graeco-Roman ... the size of the sun, however, he reached a figure larger and more accurate ...
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  • to Palestine in 1923. He became a leading figure in the Zionist intellectual ... Gershom Scholem stands out as the seminal figure in modern and contemporary ...
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  • established Jesus as a historical Jewish figure, and the Gospels as part ... Jesus was a profoundly Jewish historical figure. The “Christ” of Christianity ...
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  • school system, immediately made him a figure of controversy. ... authority, but he was no longer a central figure in the city's politics ...
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  • quarreled, but he remained an influential figure, especially in the development ... For the next six years Bogdanov was a major figure among the Bolsheviks ...
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  • Doctor of the Church. Bede is a seminal figure in the history of English ... be considered as an important scientific figure. He wrote several major works: ...
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  • Israel, as well as the most mentioned figure in the Hebrew Bible. He is ... == David as a religious figure == === David in Judaism === ...
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  • and citizens credit him being a key figure to start the momentum for ... given credit for being the first public figure to speak out firmly against ...
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  • excellence. The poetry of Su Shih, the figure painting of Li Kung-lin, ... who had died in 1079, was also a key figure through his art and his influence ...
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  • When she became a prominent national figure, her enemies falsely characterized ... Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent Protestant figure (who was a supporter of female ...
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  • major figures (some would argue the major figure, even greater than Shakespeare ... I, the Knight of Holiness encounters the figure of Despair, and escapes only ...
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  • of a man from clay. They each walked around the figure seven times, reciting a Kabbalistic formula, and the golem was brought to life. The golem appeared ...
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  • Vertex figure For every vertex one can define a vertex figure consisting of the ...
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  • Figure 1 is an animation of the classic illustration of Coriolis force ... and three examples of this result are plotted in Figure 4. ...
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  • works which convincingly placed the human figure in contemporary environments. ... draftsmanship and obsession with the figure, the pictures created in ...
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  • extraordinary revival. She is a dominant figure in the movement within literary theory known as Cultural Studies, where she is studied both as ...
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  • I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in Germany. As a renowned composer ...
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  • Sturluson has almost become a mythological figure in his own right, nearly ... faced hardship, they began to venerate the figure as more than just a man. ...
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  • McDougall has been adopted as an iconic figure by proponents of a strong influence of inherited traits on behavior, some of whom are regarded ...
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  • along a space diagonal, such that it becomes a 2D figure, equivalent to a regular hexagon divided via its own diagonals into six equilateral triangles ...
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  • Normandy seacoast—the reappearance of the human figure. He painted many still life subjects during this time, maintaining his emphasis on structure ...
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  • and was Japan's first great literary figure. Hitomaro lived and wrote ... Hitomaro was Japan's first great literary figure. Very little ...
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  • Possibly the most idolized woman artist of her time, she is a figure ... them made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the ...
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  • [[File:Oedipus and the Sphinx of Thebes, Red Figure Kylix, c. 470 ... as a liminal or "threshold" figure, helping effect the transition ...
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  • in English up to his time, became a public figure of tremendous fame and influence; ... By now, Johnson was a celebrated figure. He received an honorary ...
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  • Renaissance, crucifix show an optimistic figure of Christ with lowered eyes ... Jesus was nothing less than an optimistic figure, standing in stark contrast ...
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  • Indus Valley Civilization seal showing a figure seated in a yoga-like posture ... seal depicting an ithyphallic male figure with horns sitting in a yogic ...
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  • Albert Hoyt Taylor was indeed an important figure in the history of the United States Navy. His research would yield new discoveries for those ...
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  • However, Ravana was a tragic figure who engendered his own demise ... His successes notwithstanding, Ravana was a tragic figure who engendered ...
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  • such as feline subject matter and figure-eight scrolls. ... supreme deity of Chavín de Huántar. The figure is anthropomorphic, with ...
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  • rumors can be found regarding nearly any royal figure. More congenial is the story of how she sheltered a deposed patriarch for 12 years without anyone ...
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  • it clear that Saint Peter is to be the central figure of the church after Jesus' death. Thus Jesus gives the keys to the Kingdom of God to Peter ...
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  • quot;broad") on account of his robust figure. Another alternative is that ... and-answer style is more formal: the main figure represents Plato and the ...
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  • William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered among the ...
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  • to deliver pestilence. In this way, the figure of Sebastian can be seen ... these depictions, the saint is seen as a figure of boyish, even effeminate ...
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  • with Charlie Parker, was a major figure in the development of bebop ... His personality and his public nature made him a natural ambassador ...
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  • made him an attractive counter-cultural figure in certain circles. For example ... and most inflexible dogmatism, a dark figure out of the Middle Ages, part ...
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  • Since the fourteenth century, the figure of Pope Joan has taken on ... recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, of Pope Zachary. ...
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  • life and thought. At times a controversial figure in Chinese history, his legacy ... ==Confucius as a Cultic Figure== Soon after Confucius's death ...
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  • I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else. But I have a wonderful memory of observation ...
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  • Rooney, ‘the Chief,’ was a legendary figure, a dedicated Catholic whose ... Today, Rooney is probably the city's most beloved figure. Few ...
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  • critics, who regard him either as a mythological figure or as the personification of tribal reminiscences crystallized around a semi-mythical hero. The ...
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  • The handwork involved in making a wayang kulit figure that is suitable ... be replaced with an expensive, newly made figure. For this reason, the wayang ...
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  • upon this seal depicts a horned male figure with an erect phallus, the ... The central figure is seated in a yogic posture and is surrounded ...
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  • else as a man with the head of a bull. The figure of Moloch has been an object ... as a metaphor for Adolf Hitler. The figure of Moloch also appears frequently ...
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  • the orientation of the magnetic field (see figure at top). Another place where ... The figure to the right is a sketch of Earth's magnetic field ...
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  • before death. However, he did not do so, and the figure remains unknown. ==Regalia== Cardinals gained their distinctive red dress and hat under ...
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  • power, to the Son; and the form or figure, to the Father. Von Mosheim, 220. Von Mosheim described Sabellius' views thusly: "But while ...
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  • etched various designs including a human figure into a stone, and then broke ... chief deity. In this version the human figure was purposely drawn without ...
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  • trumpet player. He is considered a historical figure announcing the transition between swing and modern jazz. Roy Eldridge was both an innovator ...
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  • began with him, but Griffith was a key figure in establishing the set of ... Griffith was a highly controversial figure. Immensely popular at the ...
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  • figura liber (“On the Monad, Number, and Figure,” 1591) Giordano Bruno ... et figura liber (“On the Monad, Number, and Figure”). ...
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  • "With most drivers, you figure 25 percent driver, 75 percent car," said American Phil Hill, the 1961 Formula One champion. "With ...
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  • body itself, such as mass, extension, figure and motion; while “secondary” ... properties, such as extent, divisibility, figure, etc., should not, however ...
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  • ]]. The central figure came to be called Vairocana. In the conception of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vairocana is at the center. ...
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  • poets writing in English. He remains the leading figure in Anglo-Welsh literature. His vivid and often fantastic imagery was a rejection of the Modernist ...
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  • the tuft of hair on the forehead of the fleeing figure); otherwise the moment is gone and can not be re-captured (shown in sculpture by the back of head ...
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  • Lewis, usually seen as the central figure in the movement, had been ... politically, Lewis remained an isolated figure in the 1930s. In Letter to ...
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  • Jackson, serving until 1836. Cass was a central figure in formulating and implementing the Indian Removal policy of the Jackson administration. He was ...
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  • In May 1943, as a colonel, Perón was a significant figure in the ... then Evita had become a powerful political figure in her own right. She began ...
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  • or atmospheric effects. The most remarkable figure in this novel is Porfiry Golovlev, nicknamed Little Judas, the empty and mechanical hypocrite ...
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  • site, and he was a particularly important figure to the Merovignian and Carolingian ... of France and of soldiers, as well as a figure often cited by pacifists ...
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  • a head resembling a boar. Part of a jade figure (coiled 'pig dragon ... weather for crops, and the imaginative figure of dragon has been gradually ...
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  • that, using the Greek stadium of 185 meters, the figure of 804 million stadia that he quotes for the distance to the sun comes to 149 million kilometers ...
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  • Secretariat exhibited. If the Beyer Speed Figure calculation had been developed ... Secretariat became a beloved figure with fans and non-fans of horse ...
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  • Medal of Honor. Cody is an almost iconic figure in the development of the ... and painted boldly across its face was the figure of an Indian. He wore the ...
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  • Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident ...
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  • * [http://www.hiatoys.com/bessie.html Bessie Coleman Action Figure] * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19750 Find-A ...
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  • rivals of Wilhelm Wundt, then the most prominent figure in German experimental psychology. Stumpf opposed pure introspection, which reduced experience ...
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  • Oresme designated the area of the resulting geometrical figure the “mensura” or “quantitas,” and demonstrated that if the speed of an ...
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  • fame that followed, Browning became a major figure in the history of Victorian literature, securing a reputation that remains undiminished even today. ...
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  • right|250px|An Indus Valley seal with the seated figure termed pashupati]] Pashupata Shaivism was one of the main Shaivite schools. The Pashupatas ...
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  • Julia Lathrop was an important figure in numerous social reforms, inducing changes like the improvement in the care for the mentally ill, reduction ...
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  • Passion plays also figure in the history of antisemitism, as they ... a much more human being than the static figure depicted in icons, readings ...
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  • The mythological figure of Brunhild was probably inspired by the real ... Norse story-tellers and poets changed the figure of Brynhild. In making her ...
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  • he set himself apart from the predominant figure sculpture tradition of the time. ... on The Age of Bronze, a life-size male figure whose realism would lead ...
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  • and replaced with a simple winged figure. The square was renamed "Place du Peuple," and later "Place Napoléon." In 1831 ...
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  • easily distinguished by the emotion of the figure and the contortions of the body. ... in little but the human face and figure. He possessed an unrivaled ...
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  • screenwriters, as well as in the modern figure of the disillusioned anti ... struggle (the fish, of course, is a major figure in Christianity). The old ...
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  • landscape is on level ground, with no figure towering above the other ... brought down the denunciation of no less a figure than Charles Dickens. ...
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  • Browning and Tennyson. Timrod may be a secondary figure in American poetry — overshadowed, as he was, by some of the most influential figures in the ...
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  • in other religions, that also describe a Father figure in their theological framework. ==History and background== The Lotus Sutra was probably ...
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  • quot; vase after Edgar Rubin. The figure and ground are reversible ... an aspect of perceptual organization, figure-ground perception, in which ...
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  • Walpole continued to be an influential figure in the House of Commons; ... in 1721 left Walpole as the most important figure in the administration. In ...
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  • Theogony, the earth, personified as a maternal figure and named Gaia, came into existence out of Chaos by her own accord. She then gave birth to Uranus ...
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  • the Indus Valley Civilization, showing a figure in meditation posture.]] Indus Valley Civilization have unearthed a figure who appears to be practicing ...
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  • Andrić is both a politically controversial figure and literarily a somewhat marginal presence. Many Croatian historians of literature have never considered ...
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  • taught her. She also became a mother figure to Ramakrishna’s disciples, and was later deified by Ramakrishna’s followers. Although poor and ...
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  • ... In this traditional paradigm, a figure achieves prominence not from ... Zhu Xi is a figure whose lasting impact upon Chinese life and society ...
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  • Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 – April 5, 1794) was a noted orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution ...
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  • The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the belief in a religious (and often political) savior figure who inaugurates ...
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  • He retired in 1955. He remained an important figure until his death in Nuremberg in 1973. ==Philosophy == In 1923, Carl Grungberg was invited ...
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  • By virtue of being the first figure in the triad consisting of Anu, Enlil, and Ea, Anu came to be regarded as the father and king of the gods ...
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  • the fig tree, I saw you," is based on Jewish figure of speech referring to studying the Torah. Nathanael recognizes Jesus as "the Son of God ...
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  • thirteenth century Japan. A controversial figure during his lifetime, he is ... Nichiren was an extremely controversial figure in his own time, and ...
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  • mysterious circumstances. A controversial figure in life, Maxwell's activities ... zest for life … Bob Maxwell was a unique figure who attracted controversy ...
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  • Marie Taglioni (April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884) was a famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history ...
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  • Institutionally, she was the central figure of a nationally recognized ... Finally, Bast was also a common figure in popular worship. During ...
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  • of a man embracing it. Local legend tells that the figure is Finn the Giant, builder of the cathedral. Another column has a similar sculpture of a woman ...
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  • Harbor at a time when virtually every public figure and government official approved of it. Thomas loudly condemned the ACLU for "dereliction of ...
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  • servants in all perils. Bel was an important figure of Babylonian idolatry as depicted in (Isaiah 45:1 and Jer. 51:44). The term is the Akkadian equivalent ...
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  • was an American archaeologist, known as a key figure of the twentieth century biblical archaeology movement. A noted biblical scholar, historian ...
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  • Atisha stands as an important figure in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition ... For those reasons, Atisha remains a central figure in the history ...
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  • Madam Tallien, a great figure of the French Revolution, who was nicknamed Our Lady of Thermidor, used to take baths full of strawberries to keep ...
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  • Due to his studies in African history, Frobenius is a figure of renown in many African countries even today. In particular, he influenced Léopold ...
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  • For this reason, he is often seen as a morally exemplary figure possessing ... Sif. Finally, Skáldskaparmál mentions a figure named Hlóra who was Thor ...
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  • Ernest Jones was a key figure in introducing the study of psychoanalysis into the English-speaking world. He translated many of Freud’s works ...
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  • and established himself as a leading figure in the scientific revolution ... sister Katherine, who had been a maternal figure for him. Their father soon ...
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  • Kissinger was a satirized or lampooned figure in America and overseas ... in China. The character is a semi-comic figure with an ungainly appearance ...
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  • Raymond Henry Williams (August 31, 1921 – January 26, 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within ...
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  • she is almost certainly the most controversial figure in all of world cinema. The controversy is largely dependent on her enormous skill as cinematographer ...
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  • and Heinrich Hertz. FitzGerald was a leading figure among the group of Maxwellians who revised, extended, clarified, and confirmed Maxwell's ...
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  • John Corry, a controversial figure himself Terry Teachout, [https://www ... Kosinski was himself a popular figure with the media, appearing 12 ...
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  • Chinese lives between 1850 and 1865. That figure is generally thought to be ... in 1860, numbered 2.5 million. If this figure were accepted as accurate ...
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  • and William Polk. His father was a well known figure during the American Revolution, who enjoyed close ties with major Federalists of his time and ...
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  • while not questioning that he was a prominent figure in the early development of baseball. A granite monument in Oahu Cemetery (formerly Nuuanu ...
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  • Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early twentieth century photographer who became a key figure in the development ...
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  • Arachnids are named after the mythological figure Arachne. ==Major groups== ===Spiders=== Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that comprise ...
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  • " largely compiled by a mysterious figure called al-Muqtana. It has ... and social than religious. A religious figure is admired for his wisdom ...
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  • African and Asian churches led by the formidable figure of Cyprian of Carthage, Stephen protected the spiritual status of Christians who sincerely believed ...
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  • made him a notorious and denigrated figure in his own time, but he became ... him from Byron and Keats. He is a unique figure in British poetry, and remains ...
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  • Gustavus Adolphus was the main figure responsible for the success ... Gustavus Adolphus was an important figure whose innovative style and ...
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  • to their influence. Liza was a stock figure from German poetry but did not translate well into the Russian setting. Fyodor Dostoevsky would make ...
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  • inert were-jaguar baby held by the central figure is seen by some as an indication ... The mythological figure of the feathered or plumed serpent depicted ...
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  • day he remains the Japanese people’s favorite figure. There are many popular legends about Ryōkan. For example, when a bamboo sprout was growing ...
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  • as an economist but he was also a key figure in the advancement of the British system of university education. His Robbins Report led to the ...
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  • Nevertheless, Clement I remains an important figure in church history. He may indeed have been a hearer of Peter who went on to become a leader ...
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  • native Argentina, he became a well known society figure and also began a career as an actor. However, a darker side of Monzón would soon begin ...
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  • Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who was a major figure ...
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  • the Mahdi of Sudan made him a heroic figure for many in Britain, who ... and installed at Khartoum. This is the figure which now stands at the Gordon ...
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  • * 1928-32 Complex Presentiment: Half-Figure in a Yellow Shirt * 1932-34 Running Man ==References== * Dreikausen, Margret. [http://www.worldcatlibraries ...
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  • 529 C.E., led by a charismatic messianic figure named Julianus ben Sabar ... a road. Later, a priest saw the stricken figure and avoided him, presumably ...
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  • Perry is best known as a leading figure in the American New Realism movement, and for his theory of value. During his long tenure at Harvard ...
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  • of child support cases had arrears owed in 2003 (a figure up from 53 percent in 1999).[http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/pubs/2004/reports/preliminary_data/ ...
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  • Sargon made such an impression on Mesopotamia that his figure became associated with many legends. The Sumerian literature known as "the ...
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  • With the figure of Anicetus, the papacy begins to move out of the shadow of myth into light of historical reality. Although Rome may not have ...
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  • by poets and critics universally as a major figure in French literature. By the time Villon's popularity began to experience a significant ...
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  • Krochmal was leading figure of the Haskalah Jewish enlightenment and Judische Wissenschaft Science of Judaism movements. His major work, Moreh ...
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  • landscapes, and birds and flowers. Figure painting became highly developed ... Much of what we know of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial ...
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  • which could contract itself into a spherical figure and then stretch itself out again; the end of its tail appeared with a forceps like that of an ...
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  • for blacks, she remained a central figure in the women's movement as a peacemaker, a critical function for that period in women's rights ...
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  • It is difficult to identify a major figure in the history to whom some rationalist doctrine has not been attributed at some point. One reason ...
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  • members to never leave the band), he was an iconic figure in Rock and Roll history. As the voice of the Ramones, he played a pivotal role in the establishment ...
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  • Leinweber states, "She became a kind of fairy-tale figure, used by mothers and nannies to induce good behavior among children." ...
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  • very often in the presence of a priestly figure who appeases an offended ... kohen gadol (High Priest) as their central figure. These services included ...
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  • on the inner walls, including a center figure that has carving under his ... jamb is another carved panel of a seated figure surrounded by more glyphs ...
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  • works of Ferruccio Busoni would figure prominently in his later work, but his biggest influence would be from the ideas of the Second Viennese ...
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  • or guilds. Samuel himself was a leading figure among the bands of roaming ... prophet belonging to history or a literary figure of a later era is a subject ...
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  • of a curve as a connected, continuous geometric figure that is "like" a line, without thickness and drawn without interruption, although ...
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  • Bacchus/Dionysus was an important figure in the religious imagination of the Greeks and Romans, as he was thought to represent the union between ...
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  • In the Mahabharata (M. 3, 107), Maharishi Kapila is a major figure in the story associated with the Hindu holiday of Makar Sankranti, celebrating ...
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  • of her career in Paris, a well-known figure. As the good-looking French ... essentially, of the draped female figure, with one arm upraised, bearing ...
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  • An unconventional portrait of a controversial figure. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0837174015 ==External links== All links retrieved December ...
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  • state. Art historians suggest that this figure is based on the Tori style. ... by the two-dimensionality of the figure and the repetitive pattern ...
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  • known as the "Tree of Peace." The center figure also represents the Onondaga Nation where the central council fires reside—all issues involving ...
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  • is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... In addition to this unique role in Greek mythology, the figure of ...
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  • not the case in Korea. The monk Gihwa, the leading figure of the Buddhist saṅgha at the outset of the Joseon, who had himself been an acclaimed Confucian ...
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  • lines), he is regarded as the predominant poetic figure of the middle decades of the eighteenth century in English literature. In 1757, following the ...
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  • ways when ordered to do so by an authority figure and when their peers also ... ways when ordered to do so by an authority figure and when their peers also ...
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  • ethics in economics. Knight was the central figure in the development of the "Chicago School of Economics," and the teacher of Nobel Prize ...
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  • "Artist of Merit." His hunched figure pegged to a bulky wooden ... rain drops. In The Window of My Studio, a figure is barely distinguishable ...
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  • or trays) used in distillation columns, as seen in Figure two, are typically lower than that of a theoretical 100 percent efficient equilibrium stage ...
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  • He was an important figure from the American Revolutionary War era and was prominent in the vital designs that helped produce the structure of ...
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  • James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. His ...
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  • Other scholars believe that the Mon records refer to another figure, but whose name and personal history are much in the mold of the Indian Buddhaghosa ...
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  • This esoteric passage lead the second Enoch figure to be associated with various mystical texts, such as the Book of Enoch and movements in both Judaism ...
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  • Judas is still somewhat of an ambivalent figure in Christian history. Judas ... Judas has been a figure of great interest to esoteric groups, such ...
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  • Jesus Christ represents the central figure of the Age of Pisces, which is now giving way to the Age of Aquarius. The Ages go backwards through ...
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  • , and Rupert C. Thompson Arena (hockey and figure skating), as well as a rowing ... club sports, such as rugby, water polo, figure skating, men's volleyball ...
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  • also has its source in the Ethiopian highlands, the figure rises to 90 percent of the water and 96 percent of transported sediment. ...
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  • Further, though he is not a common figure in the surviving mythic corpus ... Though his importance as a mythic figure is certainly secondary to ...
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  • by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the moon. Private letter published in The ...
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  • a niche or on inner walls. The presence of the figure of a horse, which some suppose to have come into India in relatively recent times, indicates that ...
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  • a cocoon by moving its head in a "figure 8" pattern. Two glands ... Using a rough figure of one kilometer of silk (about 3300 feet) per ...
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  • that prince and made him the central figure of later narrative. This second version of Nestor's work is preserved in the Laurentian codex. ...
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  • [[Image:GandharaFemale.JPG|thumb|150px|Female spouted figure, terracotta ... Gandharas and their king figure prominently as strong allies of the ...
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  • appeared as a severe, reticent, remote authority figure. Housman always found his true vocation in classical studies and treated poetry as a secondary ...
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  • he was only nine years old, and without a father figure to guide or support him, Zhitui was raised largely by the efforts of his elder brother (Ebrey ...
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  • This figure is quoted as the dissociation constant of carbonic acid, although this is ambiguous: it might better be referred to as the acidity ...
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  • It was not until the Puranas that Ganesha became an established figure ... Prior to the emergence of Ganesha as a cult figure, Karttikeya had ...
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  • https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-towering-figure-who-crossed-the-political ... described him as a "very significant figure in the history of Australian ...
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  • Poulet was the leading figure of the Geneva School, a group of critics that also included the French critic Jean-Pierre Richard, and the Swiss ...
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  • removing the patina surrounding the intended figure, are also known. Sometimes petroglyphs are painted or accentuated by polishing. The degree of repatination ...
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  • who is portrayed by the biblical writers as a key figure in establishing Israel as a nation. ==Biblical narrative== Eli was a descendant of Aaron ...
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  • and in meditational visualizations, of a human figure manifesting all of the thirty-two marks of a Buddha. The place where the Sambhogakāya body ...
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  • == Gould as a public figure == Gould became widely known through his popular science essays in Natural History magazine and his best-selling books ...
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  • American rights to education. She was a prominent figure within the Transcendentalism Movement publishing their literary journal, The Dial, in 1842 and ...
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  • 39. Retrieved July 17, 2021. Mary, a minor figure for early Christians, gained ... a Dutch folk tale based on the historical figure Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas ...
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  • on the shadowy early Christian figure John the Presbyter of Syria ... the Presbyter. However, little links this figure to the Prester John legend ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker," and ...
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  • stock rose to ninety dollars per share, at which figure we sold out to an English company. That proved to be the means of saving us from loss. The ...
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  • became a tireless public speaker and intellectual figure in French society, touring Europe and giving conferences on cultural and social issues as well ...
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