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- – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus ... Kaplan was one of the foremost scholars in international relations ...9 KB (1,221 words) - 16:45, 12 April 2024
- family in Poland, he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...17 KB (2,401 words) - 22:23, 27 June 2023
- also known as Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, was the co-founder, with Betty Williams ... After winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Corrigan gained recognition as ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 ... Balch was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an ...10 KB (1,611 words) - 18:17, 13 February 2024
- bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) is the name of two Chinese mythological ... Often viewed as the sacred union of male and female, Feng being male ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- – December 9, 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from May 8, 1978 ... in efforts to educate peacemakers. He was the founder of the University ...13 KB (1,884 words) - 14:31, 28 June 2023
- Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), ... quot;) is a common Arabic word, used in the sense of "false prophet ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- In Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ( ar|مهدي Mahdī , also Mehdi; "Guided One") is the prophesied redeemer of ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his ... management. Orr became a pupil-teacher at the Academy, from where he went ...11 KB (1,795 words) - 02:42, 4 November 2022
- from Northern Ireland, and co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize ... He was the second leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party ...10 KB (1,561 words) - 06:00, 3 August 2022
- leader from Friesland (today a province of The Netherlands). His followers ... Friesland. Friesland was ravaged by war in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 04:32, 9 November 2022
- Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically ... The Just War tradition is, first of all, a set of criteria that act ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- The Djiboutian Civil War (also known as the Afar Insurgency) was a ... However, the war and the flow of Somalian refugees from the Somali ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- The St Andrews Agreement was an agreement between the British and ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ... Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 08:32, 28 January 2024
- Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of the Peace in the District of ... been appointed to the position of justice of the peace in the District of ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- Category:Nobel Peace Prize Winners Addams, Jane [[Image:UIC Hull House ... and reformer, known in United States as the "mother of social work ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the ANC ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- American nurse and social worker, active in the late nineteenth and early ... German-Jewish middle-class family. She was the third of four children born ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first official Secretary-General ... organize multinational troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950 ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- [[Image:Old Bailey Microcosm edited.jpg|250px|thumb|A trial at the ... civil, labor, administrative, and criminal justice under its laws. In common ...21 KB (3,221 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- African American scientist and a champion of civil rights and world peace. ... City, Maryland, on November 9, 1731. He was the first of three children to ...14 KB (2,221 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- to parliament in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... Together with the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Jeremiah ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support ... a headscarf and for allegedly shaking the hand of a man. Defending her ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- The Ford Foundation is a charitable foundation incorporated in Michigan ... The Foundation makes grants through its New York headquarters and ...17 KB (2,437 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- , was an Austrian novelist, pacifist and the first woman to win the Nobel ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full ... The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was among the first female attorneys in ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and ... enlightenment in 1916 and had a precognition of the world entering an era of ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- and politician, who, in 1957, became the first Canadian to receive ... universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan and Canada ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- diplomat, and jurist, best known as the first Chief Justice of the ... Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- and politician who was for many years the voice of the young nation ... Born in South Africa, he excelled as a student of foreign languages ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations assists ... ==Organizational Structure and Pattern of Work== ECOSOC has 54 members ...13 KB (1,735 words) - 11:44, 3 May 2023
- quot;—apparently a shortened form of Amasiah, meaning "the ... Amos is regarded as the first of the "literary prophets," ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... Clark sought to discover economic relationships, such as the relationship ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of ... judicial review. Oddly enough, the Justice-of-the-Peace commissions, which ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- dissident and human rights activist. The father of the Soviet hydrogen ... in 1938. Following evacuation in 1941 during the World War II, he graduated ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... that women were equal to men. He negotiated peace treaties with native Americans ...16 KB (2,612 words) - 10:39, 11 May 2023
- The “Fulani Empire” is now known as the Sokoto Caliphate or “Sultanate ... Founded by Usman dan Fodio in 1804, it was one of the most powerful ...23 KB (3,525 words) - 07:17, 15 April 2024
- 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of ... As secretary-general, Hammarskjöld took the stance that he was not ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 – March 22 1322) was one of the ... Thomas Plantagenet upheld the principles of Parliamentary oversight ...17 KB (2,615 words) - 20:54, 31 October 2022
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... From its headquarters in Independence, Missouri, the church places ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... Europe as well as his homeland. His vision of founding a European army to ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- as an academic and a journalist, and was the first appointed professor ... 1864, in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, into the prominent Anglican family ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- – November 3, 1639) was a Catholic monk of mixed raced from Peru and the ... Born the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave ...10 KB (1,693 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- The term Christus Victor (meaning "Victorious Christ") is ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- is an Arabic term for "uprising." The word was first widely used ... The Oslo peace process began as the international community responded ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife ... During the Civil Rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s she worked ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- Lisa Najeeb Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein ... Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby was born in Washington, DC, of Arab ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- 19, 1370), born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 ... Guillaume de Grimoard, was a native of Grizac in Languedoc (today ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- politician, and stateswoman. She was the first woman in Canadian history ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | date of birth=September 15, 1857 | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... The Radical Republicans took a hard line against the Confederacy early ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- and social reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social ... William Henry Beveridge was born in Bengal, India, on March 5, 1879 ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... The Revolution restored the parliament, which had been suspended by ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- The Belfast Agreement, alternatively and widely known as the Good ... Former British Prime Minister John Major had laid some of the groundwork ...31 KB (4,792 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- 6, 2002) was, for over 35 years, one of America's leading anti ... by his wartime experiences. Following the war, he became a Catholic ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 14:50, 28 March 2023
- 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) ... in 1974 after it became known that one of his closest aides had been ...21 KB (3,209 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- from 98, until his death in 117. He was the second of the Five Good Emperors ... As a civilian administrator, Trajan maintained good relations with ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American ... Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the eldest of the four children ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- and a Baptist Minister. He pioneered the social gospel movement, especially ... His father, Augustus, who was German went to the United States as a Lutheran ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- Helen Elizabeth Clark (born February 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime ... Loosing the 2008 election, she was appointed foreign affairs spokeswoman. ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her ... grew up in Tiergarten, a fashionable section of town, with her parents. She ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- The Arab-Israeli conflict ( الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي ... ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (April 25, 1287 – November ... and quartered. In 1328, he was created Earl of March. In 1330, Edward III ...18 KB (2,777 words) - 02:39, 16 December 2022
- 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United ... and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April ... Earth Day grew out of the recognition by young people that the earth ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- , established in 1945, is an agency of the United Nations. Its purpose ... The organization has 192 Member States and 6 Associate Members. Based ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 01:23, 3 May 2023
- Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests ... not be considered such in another. However, the basic effort on the part of ...16 KB (2,401 words) - 23:59, 24 March 2024
- lawyer and politician and a founding father of the United States. He served ... He was appointed justice of the peace in 1762, judge of the court ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- Völund is a mythical smith-god of the Nordic and Germanic peoples ... Norse Mythology is renowned for its rich tapestry of colorful stories ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- Federalist No. 78 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth ... Titled "The Judiciary Department", Federalist No. 78 was ...16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
- Suleiman I, in Turkish language Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet ... Known as Suleiman the Magnificent but also, especially among Muslims ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American ... as a "cheery elf," rather than the common image of the austere ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 06:30, 15 January 2023
- civil-rights activist, a field secretary of the National Association for ... July 2, 1925, near Decatur, Mississippi, as the third of four children of ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- a powerful English statesman and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Wolsey became involved in furthering the political ambitions of Henry ...31 KB (4,953 words) - 20:23, 31 October 2022
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was ... who was sworn in by his father, a justice of the peace, in Plymouth Notch ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... The Libray has been guided by the "belief that universal access ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- The Taif Agreement was negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving ... The background to the Taif Agreement consists of both the Lebanese ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- Sargon I, also known as Sargon of Akkad or Sargon the Great (Akkadian: ... Sargon's vast empire is known to have extended from Elam to the ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...31 KB (4,680 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- Shekh Hasina Oajed) (born September 28, 1947) is the Prime Minister ... The fact that Hasina is her father's daughter has played a significant ...39 KB (5,517 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2022
- The term interreligious dialogue (or interfaith dialogue) refers to ... The rise of interreligious dialogue has been made possible by the ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, ... Liberia has recently been afflicted by two civil wars, the Liberian ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- Bestiary.jpg|thumb|350px|The phoenix from the Aberdeen Bestiary.]] The phoenix, or phœnix as it is sometimes spelled, has been an enduring ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... Indian family (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- a precursor for the modern "Justice of the Peace," based on selecting ... peace, a precursor to the office of Justice of the Peace. His use of the knights ...34 KB (5,307 words) - 23:24, 17 January 2024
- ISBN 978-0415200493). A modern Hindu sect, the Brahma Kumaris articulate ... Lawrence A. Babb, Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the ...28 KB (3,991 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...30 KB (4,393 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- II Adolphus, widely known in English by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus ... He is, and was even during his own time, widely regarded as the archetype ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal was ... Some Muslim feminists laud this event as an example of political intervention ...27 KB (4,726 words) - 02:43, 26 September 2023
- Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of ... pleasure is an important constituent of human happiness, but only when ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... parties which may be individuals or groups of states or organizations. Treaties ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- Yaroslav I the Wise (c. 978 - February 20, 1054) (East Slavic: Ярослав ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- 29, 1947) was an American economist, one of the early American neoclassical ... and promoting healthy living and world peace, an early advocate of the ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...21 KB (3,278 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- The Communist Party USA, formally known as the Communist Party United ... In the late 1920s, the party was shaken by internal factionalism when ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- von Taaffe; 11th Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote, in the peerage of ... Taaffe contributed significantly to the democratization process in ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- mutualist political philosopher who was the first individual to call himself ... Proudhon’s concept of revolution did not entail violent upheaval ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 19:38, 31 March 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- New York. He served as a professor at the University of Chicago as well ... a private and renowned high school. During the Second World War, following ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 19:19, 23 May 2023
- Standard Hebrew Yirməyáhu), was one of the "greater prophets ... The name Jeremiah means "Raised-up/Appointed of the Lord.” ...32 KB (5,493 words) - 08:37, 31 July 2022
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good ... and Aristotle dealt with virtues in terms of character traits of the soul ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- Hampshire), called Ælfgifu, was daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke ... (1002-1016); and then to Canute the Great of Denmark (1017-1035). ...42 KB (6,697 words) - 18:48, 31 December 2021
- Matías Mella, and is widely considered the architect of the Dominican ... His vision for the country, formerly Spain's oldest colony, was ...13 KB (2,050 words) - 12:08, 30 September 2022
- an American psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology ... His humanistic model allowed psychologists and students of psychology ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
- for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- ; June 6 1236 – January 9 1283), also Man Tin Cheung, Duke of Xingguo ... his achievements as a poet. A dozen of his lyric poems are extant ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth ... Alternative spellings of his first and last names include Saïd, Syed ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... Through such international bodies as the Inter Action Council, Schmidt ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- Altruism is the selfless concern for the welfare of others. Altruism ... Altruism can be distinguished from a feeling of loyalty and duty. ...27 KB (4,209 words) - 08:39, 23 July 2023
- May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- writer who is best known for his development of Christian realism. As he served ... #039;s theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 - January 1, 1787) was one of the ... of Charleston College; served as Justice of the Peace from 1776-1786. ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- for his watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of God in his book ... for that of Appleby. He was also a justice of the peace. In 1782 he became ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- The United Nations (or simply UN) is an international organization ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the ... in analyzing character and in tracing the relationship between cause ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated ... The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
- rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. After ... including issues surrounding command of the military. However, Poland ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia ... The fact that Russia was aware that the terms of the Treaty would ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...42 KB (6,144 words) - 08:27, 10 January 2024
- The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... was founded in England in the seventeenth century as a Christian religious ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- Federalist No. 3, titled "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning ... act provocatively when their states are at the center of a conflict, while ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Prize-winning Turkish novelist and professor of comparative literature at Columbia ... Pamuk is one of Turkey's most prominent novelists, ...30 KB (4,557 words) - 10:43, 11 March 2023
- The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental ... to its citizens and the duties of the citizens to the State. Those ...44 KB (6,390 words) - 07:20, 15 April 2024
- (1364 – 1430) was a writer and analyst of the Medieval era, who strongly ... 74). Her success stems from a wide range of innovative writing and rhetorical ...13 KB (2,108 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- 3, 1958) was an Anglican theologian, Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Chichester ... Hampshire, where his father was a Church of England clergyman. Bell attended ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- in large part for his major victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn against ... Sitting Bull was born around 1831 near the Grand River in present ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 22:40, 29 January 2023
- crime and its penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- Matthias Corvinus (Matthias the Just) (February 23, 1443 – April ... at Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca) in the house currently known as Matthias ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the Truman Administration ... his speech on U.S. policy toward Asia before the National Press Club in January ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- لمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded ... The cosmopolitan city of Baghdad, founded by his father, blossomed ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh ... Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ...50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
- – June 11, 1970) served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian ... In the aftermath of the collapse of the autocracy, hastened by Russian ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- with Frank Hyneman Knight he was one of the leading figures at the ... He made significant contributions to the theories of cost and production ...10 KB (1,485 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- :This page is about Anthony Collins the philosopher. For the British ... of land, and held the offices of justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant. ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... Edward II was the first monarch to establish colleges in the universities ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- Constitutional law is the foundational body of law of nation states ... These foundational or basic laws of states or organizations, guided ...11 KB (1,572 words) - 16:59, 21 April 2021
- ) (967 – August 15, 1038) was Grand Prince of the Magyars (997-1000/1001 ... in Hungary and his decrees could ensure the internal peace in his kingdom ...19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a captain in ... Widely considered America's first spy, a copy of Frederick MacMonnies ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2022
- a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ... mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- Canada is an institution that is part of Corrections Canada. Opened ... (1808). This made it possible for Justice of the Peace in each county to ...31 KB (4,789 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... A hero to some and a villain to others, Gompers founded the American ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- Henry V of England (September 16, 1387 – August 31, 1422) was one ... Henry was son of Henry of Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, and Mary de ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 15:24, 22 February 2022
- In addition to extensive territory around and beyond the Baltic, Sweden ... As a modern day supporter of the peace keeping activities of the United ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- Farooq or just as Omar or Umar, was from the Banu Adi clan of the Quraysh ... He became the second caliph of Islam (634-644 c.e.) and is regarded ...21 KB (3,473 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- ; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham and the ... The historicity of Isaac's story in the Bible has come under ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... during her childhood so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- [[Image:Gandhi Salt March.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Gandhi during the ... Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- Irish Civil Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British Parachute ... that those shot at were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- Salome Alexandra or Alexandra of Jerusalem (139 – 67 B.C.E.) was ... The daughter of a prominent Pharisaic family, Alexandra was the wife ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 01:53, 23 December 2022
- 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... She was the eldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- non-governmental organization (NGO) with the stated purpose of campaigning ... and was shocked and angered to come across the story of two Portuguese students ...30 KB (4,487 words) - 00:59, 9 January 2023
- 30, 2016) was a religious studies scholar in the United States. He wrote more ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- [[image:Robert_F._Kennedy_1964.jpg|thumb|right|Robert F. Kennedy in ... 1968), also called "RFK," was one of two younger brothers of President ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868), was a member ... to hold a steady job and who abandoned the family before dying in the ...9 KB (1,431 words) - 02:49, 19 April 2023
- from 1985-90, was elected president for the second time in 2006. For much ... After a popular rebellion resulted in the overthrow and exile of dictator ...27 KB (3,871 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: ... at reconciliation have also been made. The differences between the two ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- , Hanyu Pinyin: bào'ēnsì, English: Temple of Thanksgiving ... she accepted an appointment as Justice of the Peace by Dr. Benjamin Henry ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- /; meaning "beloved ornament of the palace") is the common ... She died in Burhanpur in the Deccan (now in Madhya Pradesh) during ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- Central America is the region of North America located between the ... The region has made several attempts at political unity since its ...32 KB (4,189 words) - 17:46, 11 May 2023
- 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- 039;ah, Shari'a, Shariah or Syariah) is the Arabic word for Islamic law ... It shows one of many ways that humanity strives to harmonize and maintain ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... The origins of the theory are rooted in the medieval idea that God ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- leader in colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate to the ... Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he was one of the most radical advocates ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- Cyberethics, also referred to as internet ethics, is a branch of applied ... Rather than straightforward application of traditional ethical theories ...26 KB (3,869 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- The Somali Civil War is an armed conflict in Somalia that started ... The failure of the UN mission in Somalia, which withdrew having completed ...29 KB (4,403 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- partner, or other family member within the household. Domestic violence ... Occurring within the home, the place where people naturally expect ...31 KB (4,715 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- 23, 1800), South Carolina statesman, was one of four signers of the Declaration ... A delegate at both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- Diaz) (c. 1450 – May 29, 1500), a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a ... Dias died at sea in 1550, in a storm off the Cape. Just over a century ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations ... Headquartered in New York City, the UNDP is funded entirely by voluntary ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- (May 21, 1944 - ) was the first female President of Ireland, serving ... political office. Robinson resigned the presidency four months ahead ...34 KB (5,329 words) - 08:42, 10 March 2023
- adversaries into friends and resolve issues of injustice and oppression. Gandhi ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs ... Girard's theoretical work began with his discovery of mimetic ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from ... Bhutto was executed in 1979 for allegedly authorizing the murder of ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- The Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia or Galicia-Vladimir, was a principality ... The century during which the principality existed was especially important ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- influenced by Marxist thought and a pioneer of "popular education." ... Freire's methods were successful in raising the level of literacy ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ... ), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the northwest ...37 KB (5,339 words) - 23:54, 8 March 2024
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are a group of mythical riders ... The vision of the Four Horsemen describes events related to the Last ...13 KB (2,133 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21, 1471) was King of England from ... One consequence of the fluidity of the political situation, with Henry ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 23:17, 8 February 2022
- philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States. After 150 ... Cooper contributed significantly to social justice, wrote about good ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- [[Image:Chiefs wife.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|Nuer woman, second wife ... The Nuer are a people located primarily in southern Sudan along the ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- – August 28, 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely ... on artificial turf, with a goal at each end of the field. The object of the ...38 KB (6,157 words) - 21:43, 30 January 2023
- Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 ... After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- The Cheyenne are a Native American tribe that originally lived in ... The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains. The ...31 KB (4,746 words) - 20:56, 9 December 2023
- an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau ... administrations, encompassed Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the ... against Darwinism, which culminated in the Scopes Trial in 1925. Like ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the ... Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) nephew ... professionals who learned from him used the techniques and ideas that ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- legal systems in countries using common law. The brief is presented to a court ... The brief was probably so called from its at first being only a copy ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the highest ranking American military ... Eisenhower was also deeply committed to peace. Prior to taking office as ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- educator, diplomat, and politician during the Meiji and Taishō periods ... intellectuals and students. He was critical of the increasing militarism in ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- philosophical ideas to philosophers of African origin, a distinction ... Surveys of the beliefs of hundreds of African peoples have shown that ...20 KB (3,143 words) - 06:07, 16 June 2023
- Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (June 19, 1917 – July 1, 1999) was ... In 1980, both Nkomo and Mugabe took part in the Lancaster House talks ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 07:40, 27 February 2023
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that ... Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service ... The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... The islands' proximity to South America has influenced its culture ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- 400px|The gentle and pensive virgin has the power to tame the unicorn ... The unicorn, a legendary creature usually depicted with the body of ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- The Contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing ... The term "Contra" comes from the Spanish la contra, short ...20 KB (2,936 words) - 02:50, 8 January 2024
- whose introspective lyrics made him the leading Southern California ... Browne joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in Los Angeles in 1966 and ...19 KB (2,645 words) - 09:05, 13 March 2024
- complete God’s providential purposes for the world. Unification thought ... ==The Goal of History== The goal of history is restoration or "re ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- and propagandist, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, lent its name to the ... during World War II. After experiencing the excesses of Stalinism, he ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- c. 721 C.E./103 AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi ... hiding and publicly declared him deceased. The majority Twelver groups however ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- The Monroe Doctrine is a United States doctrine which, on December ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- August 4, 1598) was an English politician, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth ... of Northamptonshire in 1532, and a Justice of the Peace for Rutland. His eldest ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed ... Liberation theology has had an impact. It helped many of the poor ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to ... ), the plural of which is mujahideen ( ar|مجاهدين ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the ... Nixon is noted for his diplomatic foreign policy, especially with ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- |name = University of Tokyo |native_name = 東京大学 (Tōkyō ... Nov 2005.JPG|250px|The Yasuda Auditorium on the University of Tokyo's ...19 KB (2,825 words) - 22:33, 23 June 2023
- The Alhambra (Arabic: الحمراء—Al-Ħamrā'; literally ... Mohammed I, the first king of the Nasriden—a Moorish dynasty in ...22 KB (3,517 words) - 00:37, 9 January 2023
- |name = Columbia University inthe City of New York videbimus lumen(In Thy light shall we see the light) (a paraphrase of Psalm ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874 ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... able to pass on to those who followed him on the throne an empire that was ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864 ... In 1844, Hong and his follower Feng Yun-shan founded the "God ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- An ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, held on the July 22 ... The flag displays a horizontal tricolour of "deep saffron" ...33 KB (5,237 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the ... He serves as both a guide to the recently departed and as the patron ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 05:49, 11 August 2023
- referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as The Rock, is a small island located ... Due to its isolation by the cold, strong, hazardous currents of San ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- , and (1871–1872), as President of Mexico.For resisting the French ... and adoption of a federalist constitution. ==Early life== ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm), located at the confluence ... Although the region has had a history that included the Kushite, Meroitic ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... He won the three Pulitzer Prizes (both fiction and drama), numerous ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- Violence is defined as "the use of physical force so as to injure ... Less conventional definitions are also used, such as the World Health ...62 KB (8,789 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... that a woman was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- The Norse pantheon consisted of numerous minor dieties that were often ... Norse Mythology is renowned for its rich tapestry of colorful stories ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the fundamental principles ... Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-nineteenth century. He ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ... university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. One of several ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the ... Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under ... Forms of nonviolence draw inspiration from both religious or ethical ...51 KB (7,370 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- in Babylonian mythology. He was originally the chief god of the city of Eridu ... Enki was the god of water, crafts, intelligence, and creation. He ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi ... With the genocide, and the resurgence in the civil war, Rwanda's ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... As Holland readjusted itself to a new status in the world without ...35 KB (5,252 words) - 06:40, 28 February 2023
- The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of ... Criminal punishment, depending on the offense and jurisdiction, may ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around the world ... Across the globe, local Sathya Sai Baba groups assemble to sing bhajans ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 15:00, 23 October 2023
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- educator, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Henry David Thoreau. Adler found ethics as the common ground for and at the ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- as Yi Hwang T'oegye (1501-1570). The two lived in the same period ... Zhu Xi's Thought in Korea and set the path of Korean Neo-Confucianism ...21 KB (3,447 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region including the ... The term has also been used to refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series ... 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty ... At its zenith, the Empire stretched to the northern natural boundaries ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929–April 4, ... 's impact and legacy was not limited to the U.S., but was worldwide, including ...58 KB (9,123 words) - 17:52, 18 January 2023
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed ... ) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was ... She is remembered as a champion of women's rights, of Hindu-Muslim ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- April 2, 1872) was an American, a painter of portraits and historic scenes ... Samuel Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 12:03, 6 September 2022
- was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... as well as David Beebe, another justice of the peace, later disagreed with ...85 KB (12,298 words) - 05:39, 11 August 2023
- linguistic monad (especially by Westerners), the character dao was often modified ... From the earliest recorded religio-philosophical texts onward, Tian ...21 KB (3,367 words) - 19:34, 7 July 2023
- [[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew ... A prophet (from the Greek word προφήτης, meaning one who ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser ... The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- for slavery, most famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate ... Before the Civil War, Davis served in the Mississippi legislature ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...29 KB (4,689 words) - 10:15, 13 December 2023
- actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...37 KB (5,309 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- 1966 to 1978, during which he reoriented the agency's focus beyond ... Born in Paris, France, he was the son of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- Alfonso VIII (November 11, 1155 – October 5, 1214), called the Noble ... On the one hand, Alfonso is credited with turning the Christian tide ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- historian, and political activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South ... During the time when predominantly black-white civil rights issues ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- :Note: This article is about the institution and office of the Dalai ... The Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") is an institution ...29 KB (4,223 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- | prizes = Goethe Prize (1928)Nobel Peace Prize (1952) ... philosopher, and physician, renowned in the twentieth century as a humanitarian ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- from an archaeologists' label for the material culture of Britain ... While the history of Roman Britain is reasonably well covered by contemporary ...51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- A public library is a library that is open to the public and generally ... Public libraries exist in most nations of the world and are often ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... In this perspective, as the world community matures, diplomacy and ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established ... his doctoral thesis, titled An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern ... slaves and later contract laborers from the Dutch East Indies and India ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest ... to serve as a buffer state in order to keep the Muslim Moors from advancing ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of ... The text is traditionally read by Jewish people on Tisha B'Av ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
- Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... Senegal, though poor, has a tradition of political stability and peaceful ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- (a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... anarchism with capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; ...50 KB (7,105 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... Socialism developed as a political ideology in the nineteenth century ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast ... The islands were explored by Russians in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... As the son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial ... sea and land routes to India with the Fall of Constantinople in ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern ... Together with the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole the Creek ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ... His health suffered in prison but he earned the respect of fellow inmates ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and ... Although he was pitted against the Swiss reformers at the Marburg ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- Bribery is a crime involving a sum of money or an item given in order ... Bribery is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- Ashoka the Great (304 B.C.E. - 232 B.C.E.; also known as Asoka, Sanskrit: ... The name ‘Ashoka’ translates as “without sorrow” in Sanskrit ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- missionary who converted a community in the late eleventh century in the ... defended their fortresses. Alamut fell to the Mongols in 1256. ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- religious ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept ... Different theories on the origin of sin have been proposed by world ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... Despite its natural resources, East Timor has the lowest per capita ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- The Book of Nahum is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... As with many of the Biblical prophets, little is known of Nahum, the ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 20:35, 17 May 2023
- Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265 ... in Sicily but by 1258, he was again leading the Parliamentary opposition. ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- (May 6, 1758 – July 28, 1794) was one of the primary leaders of the ... Politically, Robespierre was a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Rodrigo Borgia), Pope from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the ... He was renowned for his mistresses but also for his patronage of the ...30 KB (4,978 words) - 14:44, 18 July 2023
- thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... of his father. He was appointed Justice of the Peace, the local magistrate. ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- a legally constituted, voluntary association of individuals or groups that ... The number of non-governmental organizations has exploded during the ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most ... Edward was crowned at the age of 14, following the deposition of his ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- on a person. It can be used as a means of intimidation, as a deterrent ... Torture is almost universally considered to be a violation of human ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 04:41, 1 May 2023
- March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and ... Known as the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement," Lowery ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- and author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published ... Peck described human life as a series of obstacles to be overcome ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- former Communist Party member, testified to the House Un-American Activities ... During the pretrial discovery process, Chambers produced new evidence ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- Blythe III on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United ... During Clinton's presidency, the world continued to transition ...54 KB (7,922 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- ), was a figure of the French Revolution. A provincial woman who had ... In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Marat ...30 KB (4,620 words) - 00:41, 5 December 2023
- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World ... The Security Council requires all five permanent members to agree ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died ... Nicholas was instrumental in developing the concept of “panentheism ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country ... From 1991 to 2002, the country suffered greatly under the devastating ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- |caption =Keating Hall with Edwards Parade in the foreground ... Fordham University is a private university in the United States, with ...33 KB (4,668 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church ... The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church and the largest ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- Sorbonne.jpg|thumb|300 px|Main buildings of the University of Paris I Panthéon ... The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris) first appeared ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- | motto = Utraque Unum("Both into One")From ... | affiliations = Association of Jesuit Colleges | fightsong ...40 KB (5,605 words) - 08:22, 23 January 2023
- :This article covers the political aspects of the American Revolution ... The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half ...47 KB (6,905 words) - 06:45, 25 July 2023
- lawyer but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- weht(German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- August 16, 2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary ... At the height of its power in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- influence on German and European history. The last capital of Prussia was ... whether Austria or Prussia would dominate the new polity. Had Austria done ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- Detroit, Michigan. She has been dubbed "The Queen Of Soul" and "Lady ... Franklin had two number one hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100, "Respect ...28 KB (4,152 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A community of interest gathers at Stonehenge ... preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present ...25 KB (3,567 words) - 00:17, 8 January 2024
- was an influential Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological ... using a more complete method that the Freudian psychoanalysis with ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 ... Roosevelt was a leader in forming the United Nations, the U.S. United ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:11, 13 February 2024
- to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...71 KB (11,340 words) - 17:01, 18 March 2022
- The Guru Granth Sahib ( ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ), also known as the Adi Granth, is the primary Holy Book of the Sikhs ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... by American presidents early in the nineteenth century, but more ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen ... It is for his series of articles published in June 1931 covering Stalin ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... religious teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle ...69 KB (10,533 words) - 13:50, 28 April 2023
- Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... When Britain acquired an Empire of its own, reference to His or Her ...53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
- statesman who is popularly credited as one of the finest military commanders ... During his invasion of Italy he defeated the Romans in a series of ...41 KB (6,779 words) - 19:11, 29 January 2022
- The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учред ... By the time it finally met, the Bolsheviks had already overthrown ...40 KB (5,691 words) - 16:00, 22 July 2022
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- 1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to ... Marcos initially had laudable intentions: to improve the economy, ...51 KB (7,579 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- |motto = Vox clamantis in deserto(The voice of one crying ... |nickname = The Big Green (official) |athletics =NCAA ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- African-American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the ... Mrs. Parks is one of the two individuals most often associated with ...35 KB (5,782 words) - 21:42, 16 April 2023
- The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... The IWW contends that all workers should be united within a single ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President ... and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- emotion that involves a subjective character of unpleasantness, aversion, harm ... or emotion that is linked primarily to the body or to the mind. Examples ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...16 KB (2,495 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- and Bahujan political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution ... community he spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- The history of Solidarity begins in September 1980, at the Gdańsk ... movement ranging from people associated with the Catholic ChurchManfred B. ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide has been deemed criminal by the United Nations, as well as ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación ... former FSLN allies as well as supporters of the former Somoza regime. More ...51 KB (7,226 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- poet, and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age of William Shakespeare ... Jonson was undoubtedly one of the most well-read men in the England ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 328 in the ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- patriot, Massachusetts delegate to the First and Second Continental ... Adams was the author of the Massachusetts constitution, the new nation ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) was a series of civil wars fought ... The Wars were fought largely by the landed aristocracy and armies ...33 KB (5,447 words) - 22:07, 18 November 2022
- Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... Arab geographers, for over a thousand years the island was ruled by independent ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- The Gabonese Republic or Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- Father Damien, also known as Blessed Damien of Molokai (January 3 ... no doctor, no nurse, no priest, no justice of the peace, no resident police ...24 KB (3,819 words) - 01:38, 26 March 2024
- Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire (Latin: ... The idea behind the Holy Roman Empire was of a Christian Europe united ...50 KB (7,783 words) - 08:59, 6 October 2022
- The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," ... Israel declared its independence in 1948. With a diverse population ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international ... human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- German for "Master," referring to the academic title of Master of ... Meister Eckhart can be considered a symbol of the intellectual spirit ...18 KB (2,801 words) - 04:17, 9 November 2022
- James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- were arrested and brought before Justice of the Peace Wells Spicer, while ... In December, Clanton went before the Justice of the Peace J. B. Smith ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970) was the first President of ... The spelling "Sukarno" has been official in Indonesia since ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
- and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in the Ogun State of ... Awolowo was well aware that the challenge of holding Nigeria's ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- John (December 24, 1166 – October 18, 1216) reigned as King of England ... History has contrasted his unpopularity with the popularity of his brother ...28 KB (4,528 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- novelist, poet, and critic. Scott was among the first to draw upon history ... Scott’s works follow the transition from the eighteenth century ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- jpg|250 px|Sketch by Samuel de Champlain of a Huron deer hunt using a large ... The Wyandot, or Wendat, also known as Huron, are indigenous people ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- Odysseus; Latin: Ulixes), was the mythical Greek king of Ithaca and ... Relatively little is known of Odysseus' background except that ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- Parenting is the process of rearing children by promoting and supporting ... The relationships in the family form the basis for how children perceive ...34 KB (4,978 words) - 07:57, 18 November 2022
- Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the commanding ... Called to Washington to assume command of the Union armies after his ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
- ) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna ... He is fondly remembered by Sikhs as a defender of the faith and a ...43 KB (7,122 words) - 06:18, 10 January 2024
- ), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- ) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and ... After he had been deposed in 1595 from the Swedish throne by his uncle ...20 KB (2,908 words) - 15:22, 7 October 2022
- American exceptionalism has been historically referred to as the belief ... The difference is often expressed in American circles as some categorical ...29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
- star, often within a circle, is one of the oldest markings known to ... The pentagram has been used for a wide variety of purposes over the ...20 KB (3,104 words) - 07:21, 23 November 2022
- Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, Order of the Nation (ON), Member of ... Miller has had a reputation as a voice for the poor and unemployed, as an ...21 KB (2,959 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... The term "social science" did not appear until the nineteenth ...53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
- Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since ... Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum, a key text ...19 KB (2,792 words) - 17:34, 12 July 2023
- Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the ... to 1877, but some historians include a phase of Presidential Reconstruction ...46 KB (6,871 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... Mauritania is a land dominated by sand and barren soil located on ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country ... Norway plays a significant role in the pursuit of stability and world ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... The word blasphemy is derived from the Middle English blasfemen, which ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... These cultural achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... | date of birth=August 27, 1908 | place of birth=Stonewall, Texas ...44 KB (6,749 words) - 03:18, 5 November 2022
- Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- Humanistic psychology is an approach in psychology that emerged in ... The following five postulates form the foundation of Humanistic psychology ...22 KB (2,987 words) - 12:19, 4 February 2023
- The Qajar dynasty (also known as Ghajar or Kadjar) is a common term ... empire. Britain also established control of the Trucial States. In the ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- Hatch's 42-year Senate tenure made him the longest-serving Republican ... Hatch chaired the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ...48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
- unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (C.E.) was a failed attempt by a group ... Calendar). Thomas Knyvet, a Justice of the Peace, and a party of armed ...20 KB (3,229 words) - 04:40, 7 December 2021
- | order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ... | date of birth=February 12, 1809 | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- ecological egalitarianism which argues for the equal rights of all living ... and Christianity's Saint Francis of Assisi, whose views include ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
- Бакунин, Michel Bakunin—on the grave in Bern), (May 18 (May ... he was sent as punishment for promoting the revolution against the Russian ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- ), the name of a film Indian musical comedy film directed by Rajkumar ... Gandhism under Munna Bhai's notion of Gandhigiri.Mridula Chunduri ...43 KB (6,480 words) - 05:34, 4 March 2023
- The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... Established to preach the Gospel and to combat heresy, the order is ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- John Wesley (June 17, 1703-March 2, 1791) was the central figure of ... Wesley's long and eventful life bridged the Reformation and modern ...47 KB (7,294 words) - 08:04, 3 August 2022
- Theogony (Greek: Θεογονία, theogonia=the birth of Gods) is ... Although the text is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- :This article refers to the government of Paris in 1871, for the one ... The "Paris Commune" (French: La Commune de Paris) was a ...40 KB (6,079 words) - 07:58, 18 November 2022
- [[image:Richard coeurdelion g.jpg|thumb|right|Richard I of England]] Richard I (September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199) was king of England ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- astronomer, and philosopher, considered one of the greatest mathematicians ... after Eutocius brought out editions of some of his works, with commentaries ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions ... The Missouri River flows through the western part of the state and ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- Alfred (also Ælfred from the Old English: Ælfrēd) (c. 849 – October ... One reason for Alfred's greatness was the magnanimity with which ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was one of the most important leaders ... As a member of a privileged and wealthy family, he studied law in ...56 KB (8,938 words) - 15:04, 16 June 2023
- The Peasants' War (in German, der Deutsche Bauernkrieg, literally ... The Protestant reformation, which began with Martin Luther in 1517 ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 23:30, 4 December 2022
- – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and Cyrus II of Persia ... In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- and mathematician, working mostly in the twentieth century. He and ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter of the American Old West frontier ... (née McKey). His father served in both the Mexican-American War and the ...32 KB (5,281 words) - 16:31, 29 January 2024
- Christian ethicist best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941 ... H. Richard Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the youngest of five children ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- The West Bank ( الضفة الغربية , הגדה המערבית and Samaria, is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque ( bɛlepɔk|lang ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- | order=26th President of the United States | date1=September 14, 1901 ... | date of birth=October 27, 1858 | place of birth=New York City, New York ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 07:05, 28 February 2023
- The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... There were about 1.5 million Mennonites worldwide as of 2006. Mennonite ...44 KB (6,423 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the third ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is renowned for its ... As a Southern Gothic novel and a bildungsroman, the primary themes ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- The Republic of Cameroon is a "hinge" state bridging central ... Cameroon is home to over 250 ethnic and linguistic groups, with the ...36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- ; born June 13, 1944) is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth ... On October 13, 2006, he was elected as the eighth Secretary-General ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- |affiliations = Association of American Universities |website ... university in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. Founded in ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- Western Sahara, located in northwestern Africa, is one of the most ... Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia al-Hamra ...31 KB (4,505 words) - 17:20, 4 May 2023
- Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. His skills ... Hickok came to the West as a stage coach driver, then became a lawman ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
- |flag_caption = Oklahoma Choctaw Battalion Flag during the American ... The Choctaws, or Chahtas, are a Native American people originally ...38 KB (5,802 words) - 17:09, 10 December 2023
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... Partly, decolonization was overseen by the United Nations, with UN ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- right|Michelangelo's Creation from the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo ... promises) made. Biblical covenants underpin the Abrahamic religions of Judaism ...23 KB (3,861 words) - 20:30, 28 May 2020
- 1847) (Irish: Dónal Ó Conaill), known as The Liberator, ... or The Emancipator, A Short History of Ireland: Monster Meetings. BBC. ...44 KB (6,781 words) - 18:16, 24 January 2024
- governmental and other agencies to support the economic, social, and political ... The Marshall Plan, in which the United States provided significant ...34 KB (5,026 words) - 10:14, 29 January 2024
- #039;s political career took him throughout the Balkans and into France and ... A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist ...62 KB (8,909 words) - 22:59, 3 March 2023
- and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers" ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ... Historically, sociology of religion was of central importance to sociology ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- Charles I (November 19, 1600 – January 30, 1649) was King of England ... a Catholic princess, Henrietta Maria, over the objections of Parliament and ...42 KB (6,645 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the ... be by a King at least, and not by a parcel of upstart lawless Committeemen ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... The name Manila comes from may nilad, Tagalog for "there is nilad ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- American Empire is a term relating to the political, economic, military ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...48 KB (7,076 words) - 03:33, 24 July 2023
- and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist ... Scruton embraced conservatism after witnessing the May 1968 student ...58 KB (8,069 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... Jesuits are required to pledge allegiance to the Pope but their intellectual ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- The Philippine-American War was an armed military conflict between ... The conflict officially ended on July 4, 1902. Sharon Delmendo, The ...65 KB (9,572 words) - 20:45, 23 September 2023
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... The Bush family has a significant history in United States politics ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 08:20, 23 January 2023
- The Polish-Soviet War (February 1919 – March 1921) was an armed ... By 1919, the Polish forces had taken control of much of Western Ukraine ...77 KB (11,326 words) - 23:09, 8 October 2023
- quot;) is a word used in Judaism to refer to the commandments, of which there ... Rabbis are divided between those who seek the purpose of the mitzvot ...49 KB (8,351 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- philosophy maintaining that every person is the absolute owner of their own ... an ethical theory or stance that holds that the best—i.e., best ethically ...55 KB (8,054 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...38 KB (5,991 words) - 14:42, 31 August 2022
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... Croatia borders the country on the north, west, and south, Serbia ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता ... , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- The Cold War was the protracted ideological, geopolitical, and economic ... The global confrontation between the West and communism was popularly ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- A personality test aims to assess aspects of a person's character ... A variety of methods have been developed to assess personality differences ...32 KB (4,685 words) - 14:39, 29 September 2023
- ) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations ... political speeches. He would go on to devote the most productive years of his ...80 KB (11,861 words) - 09:32, 28 January 2024
- The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred ... The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...51 KB (7,712 words) - 07:36, 27 February 2023
- Eschatology (from the Greek έσχατος, "last, ultimate, ... On the level of the purpose for the individual, it is the end of physical ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- quot;) in religion and philosophy refers to the belief that a part of a living ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally ...49 KB (7,494 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... Saint Thomas Aquinas is held in the Roman Catholic Church to be the ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- – July 14, 1881) was better known as Billy the Kid, but also known ... in Lincoln County at the home of justice of the peace Squire Wilson to discuss ...32 KB (5,164 words) - 17:41, 31 October 2023
- Horus is one of the most archaic gods of the classical Egyptian pantheon ... In the mythic cosmos, Horus was most notably seen as a sky god, which ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 18:16, 7 February 2024
- an effective and relatively safe means of vaccination against smallpox ... and was made Mayor of Berkeley and Justice of the Peace. He continued his ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- Armenia (Armenian language: "Hayastan"), officially the ... During World War I in the western portion of Armenia, Ottoman Turkey ...47 KB (6,850 words) - 03:48, 15 August 2023
- Europe bordering Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova ... Many Romanians take pride in being the most eastern Romance people ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- Luksemburg) was a Polish revolutionary of Jewish ancestry. She rose up ... and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party ...25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
- Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition. In 1876 ... the father, Joseph Bowne was a Justice of the Peace, a farmer, a Methodist ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... Denmark borders the Baltic Sea on the southeast and the North Sea ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated ... One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus, is ... As might be expected with a man of this stature, partial understandings ...78 KB (12,289 words) - 02:54, 1 August 2022
- The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...51 KB (7,537 words) - 12:02, 1 February 2024
- Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke AC (December 9, 1929 - May 16, 2019) ... Hawke's government floated the Australian dollar, deregulated ...25 KB (3,662 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ... While disasters are by definition tragic, resulting in great loss ...28 KB (4,048 words) - 15:27, 29 January 2024
- Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was the first ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- Sociological research ranges from the analysis of short contacts ... public policy with rationales for the actions that they take. Sociology ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- The Yongzheng Emperor ( 雍正 born Yinzhen 胤禛) (December 13, ... Though he is less well-known than the Kangxi Emperor and his son, ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 17:48, 15 October 2020
- April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw and the most famous member of the ... Jesse Woodson James was born in Clay County, Missouri, near the site ...36 KB (5,651 words) - 02:37, 1 August 2022
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) is the ... his career as a writer and propagandist for the American war effort against ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- Hijacking is the assumption of control of a vehicle through some means ... increase security and reduce such threats, the ultimate solution to the problem ...26 KB (3,897 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
