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  • Category:Public Pre-Socratics or pre-Socratic philosophers were the earliest Western philosophers, active during the fifth and sixth centuries ...
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  • The term pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the Americas in the time before significant European influence. While technically ...
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  • The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848, by John ...
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  • packages and curiosities such as 1975's Pre-Creedence, a compilation album of The Golliwogs' early recordings. Fantasy also released ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Illustrerad Verldshistoria band I Ill 107.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Thales]] Thales (in Greek: Θαλης) of Miletus (ca ...
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  • Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" is derived from Latin "principium ...
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  • Category:Public[[Image:Leucippus.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Leucippus]] Leucippus or Leukippos (first half of the fifth century b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic ...
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  • Category:Public Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 B.C.E.- c. 478 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Xenophanes ...
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  • The Common Rule is a federal policy governing the protection of human research subjects as uniformly codified in separate regulations of numerous ...
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  • Anaximenes (in Greek: Άναξιμένης) of Miletus (c. 585 – 528 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the third of the philosophers ...
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  • The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848, by John ...
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  • Category:Public Tabula rasa (Latin: "scraped tablet," though often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ...
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  • Anaxagoras (c. 500 – 428 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Anaxagoras conceived the origin of the cosmos as the pre-existing, undifferentiated ...
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  • Category:Public Protagoras (in Greek Πρωταγόρας) (c. 481 B.C.E. – c. 420 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Abdera ...
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  • Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, later Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 – April 10, 1882) was an English poet and painter who is considered ...
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  • Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was born at Abdera in Thrace and lived from around 460 B.C.E. to 370 B.C.E. Democritus developed ...
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  • Category:Public Pre-Socratics or pre-Socratic philosophers were the earliest Western philosophers, active during the fifth and sixth centuries ...
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  • Category:Public Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Prefontaine, Steve {{Infobox_Person | name = Steve Roland Prefontaine | residence = Eugene, Oregon | other_names ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person in the time period between ...
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  • Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production ...
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  • Adoptionism is a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely human and that he became divine—adopted as God's son—later in ...
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  • The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word," but can also mean ...
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  • Aztec codices (singular codex) are books written by pre-Columbian and colonial-era Aztecs. These codices provide some of the best primary sources ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Heraclitus b 4 compressed.jpg|Heraclitus|thumb|250px|right]] The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (Greek Ἡράκλειτος ...
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  • Category:Public Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the ...
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  • Empedocles (c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. ...
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  • Category:Public Zeno of Elea (Greek. Ζήνων)(c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member ...
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  • Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is a concept used in philosophy and some social sciences, meaning the world "as lived" prior to reflective ...
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  • Monad is an English term meaning "one," "single," or "unit," especially in technical contexts. It comes from the ...
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  • Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was a Victorian era English poet. Her family was artistically talented and ...
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  • Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of the Roman Empire. It usually refers to ancient Greek philosophy. It can also ...
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  • Ferrites are a class of ferrimagnetic ceramic chemical compounds consisting of mixtures of various metal oxides, usually including iron oxides ...
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  • Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher, literary theorist and ...
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  • Jaundice, also known as icterus, is a condition in which there is a yellowish discoloration of a person's skin, the whites of the eyes ...
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  • Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" in "Jizi" comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Preschool education is education that focuses on educating children from the ages of ...
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  • Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, c. 604) was a Benedictine monk and the first archbishop of Canterbury. He is considered ...
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  • Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was ...
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  • Ontology is a major branch of philosophy and a central part of metaphysics that studies questions of being or existence. The questions include ...
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  • An embryo (Greek: ἔμβρυον , plural ἔμβρυα ) is a multicellular eukaryote organism in its early stages of development. In humans ...
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  • The term sophists originally meant “wise men” in Ancient Greece. By the fifth century B.C.E., the term designated a profession in or a group ...
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  • Pythagoras (c. 570 B.C.E. – 496 B.C.E., Greek: Πυθαγόρας) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, a mystic, and a mathematician, known ...
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  • Genus (plural, genera), a primary category of biological classification, is the first in the pair of names used worldwide to specify any particular ...
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  • Category:Public Dōgen (also Dōgen Zenji 道元禅師; Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元) (January 19, 1200 - September ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:chinese-phoenix-from-nanning.jpg|thumb|right|180px ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Brown Willy Bodmin Moor.jpg|thumb|250 px|right ...
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  • Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences [[Image:Benz-velo.jpg|thumb|right|213px|Karl Benz's "Velo" (velo means ...
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  • Teotihuacán was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas in the first half of the first millennium C.E.. It was also one of the largest ...
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  • The nucleolus (plural nucleoli) is a large, distinct, spheroidal subcompartment of the nucleus of eukaryote cells that is the site of ribosomal ...
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  • The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji-zong) is one of the two major Japanese Zen sects. The other major sect is ...
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  • The term pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the Americas in the time before significant European influence. While technically ...
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  • In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying ...
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  • Tecún Umán (Tecún Umaán, Tecúm Umán, Tecúm Umam, or Tekun Umam) (c. 1500 - December 20, 1524) was the last ruler and king of the K'iche ...
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  • Determinism is the philosophical view that past events and the laws of nature fix or set future events. The interest of determinism in analytic ...
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  • Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius) (January 24, 1679 - April 9, 1754) was the most eminent German philosopher between ...
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  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen) is one of the fundamental ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Evans, Arthur [[Image:SirArthurEvans.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Bronze statue of Sir ...
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  • Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development of philosophy from around the sixth century B.C.E. to the sixth century ...
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  • Lidice is a small village that lies in the rolling hills of Bohemia, less than a half-hour by car west of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Barter is a type of trade where goods or services are directly exchanged for a certain ...
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  • The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse that Ham's father, Noah, placed upon Ham's youngest son, Canaan ...
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  • The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House of Gediminas dynasty that reigned in Central European countries (present ...
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  • Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. He was one of the founding members of the Pre ...
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  • The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is a letter from St. Paul to the church of Philippi ...
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  • The Hudson River School was a mid-nineteenth century American art movement that was coined around a loosely connected group of landscape painters ...
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  • A sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups, the other two being igneous and metamorphic rocks. It is formed by the consolidation ...
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  • The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the "Writings" of the Old Testament. It represents the most concise representation of Jewish ...
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  • The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early ...
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  • Monarchianism (also known as monarchism) refers to a heretical body of Christian beliefs that emphasize the indivisibility of God (the Father ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:willamette meteorite.jpg|thumb|300px|The Willamette Meteorite, the largest ever to be found in the United States]] ...
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  • Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as the twenty-first President. Arthur ...
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  • Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the Order Ephemeroptera, characterized by a short-lived adult stage and fragile ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Dreikurs, Rudolf Rudolf Dreikurs (February 8, 1897 – May 25, 1972) was an American psychiatrist and educator who developed ...
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  • Realism is a widely used term in the arts. In literature, it came into being as a response to Romanticism. While Romanticism focused on the inner ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Ochs, Adolph [[Image:ochsstamp.jpg|thumb|right|180 px|A U.S. Postage Stamp commemorating Ochs.]] Adolph Simon Ochs ...
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  • Immunization (or immunisation in British English) is the process of conferring increased resistance to an infectious disease by a means other ...
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  • This article is about Lyceum as school or as public hall. Lyceum can also be short for Lyceum Theatre. Lyceum is a term used to refer to an educational ...
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  • Category:Public Meir, Golda [[Image:Golda Meir (1964) cropped.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Golda Meir. ]] Golda Meir (Hebrew: גּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר ...
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  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty (March 14, 1908 – May 4, 1961) was a French philosopher, strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and ...
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  • Jericho (Arabic أريحا, ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô / Yərîḥô; meaning "fragrant," ...
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  • category:image wanted Cram schools (also known as crammers) are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most ...
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  • The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically ...
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  • The Cuban Revolution overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista by the 26th of July Movement and established a new Cuban government led by Fidel ...
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  • The Battle of Talikota (or Tellikota) (January 26, 1565) constituted a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan ...
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  • A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been ...
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  • An oven is an enclosed chamber designed for heating, baking, or drying. Over the course of history, various types of ovens have been used for ...
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  • Ivan Vasilievich Kireevsky (April 3, 1806 – June 23, 1856) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who, together with Aleksey Khomyakov ...
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  • Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...
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  • Thomas Gray (December 26, 1716 – July 30, 1771), was an English poet, classical scholar and professor of history at University of Cambridge ...
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  • Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-346), also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom, is generally recognized as the founder of cenobitic (communal) Christian ...
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  • Arianism was a major theological movement in the Christian Roman Empire during the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. The conflict between Arianism ...
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  • Polynesia (from the Greek words meaning "many islands") is a large grouping of over one thousand islands scattered over the central ...
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  • The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Nishida_kitaro.jpg|thumb|Nishida Kitaro]] Nishida Kitaro (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō') (1870 – 1945) was ...
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  • Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the spirit and body of a person in that person's afterlife, or simply with ...
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  • The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of the verb ειναι, "to be"; Latin, esse; German, Sein; French ...
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  • Allah (Allah (/ˈæl.lə, ˈɑːl.lə, əˈl.lɑː/; Arabic: ٱللَّٰه‎, romanized: Allāh,) is the common Arabic word for God. In the ...
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  • Quinoa ( ˈkinwɑ KEEN-wah or /ˈkinoʊə/ KEE-no-uh, Spanish quinua) is a tall South American herb, Chenopodium quinoa in the goosefoot genus ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to ...
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  • The Ghaznavid Empire was a KhorāṣānianClifford Edmund Bosworth, 2006. [http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f6/v10f608.html Ghaznavids] Encyclopaedia ...
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  • Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The physical processes which produce radio waves ...
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  • Leif Ericson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson) (c. 970 – c. 1020 C.E.) was a Norse explorer thought to be the first European to have landed in ...
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  • Antoine Arnauld, (1612 – August 8, 1694) was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician. Though his primary interests ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose of protecting ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A brief or factum (Latin for "act" or "deed") is a written legal document ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Life sciences Category:Food Chai [[Image:a cup of chai.JPG|thumbnail|190px|right ...
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  • Catherine Howard (between 1520 and 1525 – February 13, 1542), also called Katherine or Kathryn There are several different spellings of "Catherine ...
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  • category:image wanted Cornelia Johanna Arnalda ten Boom, is known to the world as Corrie ten Boom. Ten Boom was a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor ...
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  • The name king Vikramaditya ( विक्रमादित्य ) is a Sanskrit tatpurusha, from विक्रम ( vikrama ) meaning "valour ...
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  • The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...
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  • category:image wanted The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School of names" or “School of semantics”) was a classical ...
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  • Ribozyme (from ribonucleic acid enzyme) is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule that can catalyze biochemical reactions, just as as certain protein ...
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  • Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the nineteenth century, who discovered ...
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  • Timber framing ( Fachwerk ), or half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged mortise ...
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  • The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...
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  • Lake Titicaca is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world, at 12,507 feet (3,812 m) above sea level, and the largest freshwater lake ...
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  • Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose journals, The English Review and ...
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  • The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population ...
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  • Art Nouveau (French for 'new art') is an international style of art, architecture, and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning ...
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  • The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom of Benin, was a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria. There ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Arapaho |image=[[Image:Black Otter ...
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  • Ragtime is an American musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then ...
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  • Philolaus (ca. 470 B.C.E. – ca. 385 B.C.E., Greek: Φιλόλαος) was a Greek Presocratic philosopher and one of the three prominent Pythagoreans ...
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  • Anna Akhmatova ( А́нна Ахма́това , real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23, 1889 (June 11, Old Style ...
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  • Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (May 10, 1866 - December 28, 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer who revolutionized the arts ...
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  • Ainu (アイヌ, International Phonetic Alphabet : /ʔáınu/) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaidō, northern Honshū (Japan), the Kuril ...
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  • Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (柿本 人麻呂; c. 662 – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured prominently in the ...
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  • In the Roman Catholic Church, a Doctor of the Church (Latin doctor, teacher, from Latin docere, to teach) is a saint from whose writings the ...
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  • Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish philosopher, educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:MetCemBrunswigSphynx.jpg|thumb|300 px|Marble sphinx ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Tee-ball wity Peace Corps volunteer, Honduras.jpg|thumb|250 px|A volunteer teaches ...
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  • Arthur is a legendary British "king" of mythical proportions. Although his historicity is controversial, he ranks as one of the most ...
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  • The Igbo, sometimes referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ethnic groups in Africa. Most Igbo speakers are based in southeastern Nigeria ...
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  • Water purification is the process of removing contaminants from a raw water source. The goal is to produce water for a specific purpose with ...
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  • Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things or actions with an inner meaning the expression of Christian ideas. In a greater ...
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  • Paradigm, (Greek:παράδειγμα (paradigma), composite from para- and the verb δείχνυμι "to show," as a whole -roughly ...
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  • The Jomon period (縄文時代, Jōmon-jidai) is the period of Japanese prehistory from about 10,000 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E., during which the ...
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  • A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather. In temperate and polar regions, four ...
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  • The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, encompasses the first widespread use of technology—as humans progressed from simpler to more ...
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  • Category:Public Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (also known as Ibn Ezra, or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished ...
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  • Poverty Point ( Pointe de Pauvreté ) is a prehistoric mound builder site located in the extreme northeastern corner of the present-day state ...
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  • The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. Yoruba constitute about 21 ...
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  • Category:Psychologists May, Rollo [[Image:Rollo May USD Alcalá 1977.jpg|thumb|Rollo May]] Rollo May (April 21, 1909 - October 22, 1994) was an ...
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  • Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal (earlier Gubla). The ancient city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea served ...
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  • Alexandre Kojève (Александр Владимирович Кожевников, Aleksandr Vladimirovič Koževnikov) (April 28, 1902 – ...
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  • Sarnath (also Mrigadava, Migadāya, Rishipattana, Isipatana) refers to the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, and where ...
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  • John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author ...
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  • The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, said by some to date back to the ...
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  • Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of ...
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  • The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. It tells the story of dragon-slayer Siegfried ...
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  • Category:Public John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one of the most important philosophers in American history. His ...
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  • Charcoal is the blackish material consisting mainly of carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from plant matter (such ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Comenius, John Amos [[Image:Relief Komensky.jpg|thumb|200px|Comenius on relief at school building ...
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  • Phenomenology is, in its founder Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in which things present themselves in ...
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  • Cubism was a twentieth century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in ...
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  • Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a nineteenth-century German romantic painter, considered by many critics to be ...
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  • Victor Witter Turner (May 28, 1920 – December 18, 1983) was a British anthropologist who studied rituals and social change and was famous for ...
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  • Armor is protective clothing intended to defend its wearer from intentional harm in military and other combat engagements, typically associated ...
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  • Modern Philosophy refers to an especially vibrant period in Western European philosophy spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most ...
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  • In its "everyday sense" morality (from Latin la|moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of conduct ...
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  • Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is bound to the north by the Gulf of Mexico, to ...
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  • Cuenca (full name Santa Ana de los cuatro ríos de Cuenca) is the third largest city in Ecuador in terms of population. It is located in the ...
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  • Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński, Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский, Belarusian: ...
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  • James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that ...
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  • Eidetic reduction is a technique in Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience ...
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  • Pistachio is a common name for a small, deciduous tree, Pistacia vera, of western and central Asia, that produces a commercially popular "Pistachio ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first ...
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  • The Alps ( Alpen ; Alpes ; Alpi ; Alpe ) are a great mountain system of Europe, forming parts of nine nations: stretching from Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
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  • Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning "nonviolence" or "non-injury" (literally: the avoidance of himsa: violence). The principle ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being by another. The penalty for ...
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  • Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20, 1917 – October 28, 2006) was both a highly successful head basketball coach and an influential ...
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  • Georgi Sava Rakovski (Георги Сава Раковски) (1821 – October 9, 1867), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (Съби Стойков ...
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  • The Chennakesava Temple (Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಚೆನ್ನಕೇಶವ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ), originally called Vijayanarayana Temple ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Putnam, Frederic Ward Frederic Ward Putnam (April 16, 1839 – August 14, 1915 ...
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  • William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders ...
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  • Amillennialism (Greek: a- "not" + Latin: mille "thousand" + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named ...
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  • Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières – February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright ...
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  • Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the preeminent songwriter ...
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  • Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.) (Latin: Basilius), also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ...
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  • Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes ...
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  • Anglo-Saxon Poetry (or Old English Poetry) encompasses verse written during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ...
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  • Peking Man (sometimes called Beijing Man), is a prominent example of Homo erectus, an extinct species of the genus to which modern humans also ...
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  • Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into ...
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  • Amelia Mary Earhart, born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart ...
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  • In the Roman Empire, the Vestal Virgins (sacerdos Vestalis), were holy female priests who honored Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. Their primary ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Kinsey, Alfred Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956), was a professor of entomology and zoology, who ...
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  • Easter Island, known in the native language as "Rapa Nui" ("Big Rapa") or "Isla de Pascua" in Spanish, is an island ...
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  • Category:Public In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive evidence for the existence of true matriarchal societies ...
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  • William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered among the ...
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  • Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply "Santa," is the mythical figure who, in most of ...
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  • Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (April 16, 1755 - March 30, 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a French portraitist, who is best remembered ...
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  • Supramolecular chemistry refers to an area of chemistry that specializes in the study of noncovalent interactions within and between molecules. ...
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  • The Ebionites (from Hebrew; אביונים, Ebyonim, "the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that flourished ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, natural, or supernatural phenomena. ...
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  • Category:Public The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, originating in ancient Greek philosophy, that stresses development ...
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  • Alexander Blok Александр Александрович Блок, (November 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical ...
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  • Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (Russian: Николай Онуфриевич Лосский) ( December 6|1870|November 24 – January 24, 1965) ...
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  • The Uyghur (also spelled Uygur, Uighur, Uigur; Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر; s=维吾尔|t=維吾爾|p=Wéiwú'ěr ) are a Turkic people of Central ...
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  • The Atlas Mountains ( جبال الأطلس ) are a series of mountain peaks that run along the northwestern portion of the African continent ...
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  • The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened peace"), or Shōwa era, is a period of Japanese history that ...
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  • Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ...
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  • The bedhaya (also written as bedoyo, beḍaya, and various other transliterations) is a sacred ritualized dance of Java, Indonesia, associated ...
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  • category:image wanted [[Image:Mali historic places.PNG|thumb|250px|Some of the cities in [[Mali Empire|Mali]] which were under the control of ...
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  • category:image wanted In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that some sense-data (for example, of primary qualities ...
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  • 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses on the Jewish revolt against Antiochus IV and concludes with the defeat of ...
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  • A fetus (or foetus, fœtus) is a developing mammal or other viviparous vertebrate, after the embryonic stage and before birth. In humans, the ...
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  • The Haridasa (Kannada: ಹರಿದಾಸರು, literally meaning "servants of Lord Hari") denotes a devotional movement that marked ...
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  • The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the belief in a religious (and often political) savior figure who inaugurates ...
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  • The Battle of Kosovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Косовски бој or Бој на Косову was fought on St Vitus' Day (June 15, now celebrated ...
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  • Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (March 25, 1797 - July 1, 1855) was an Italian philosopher and theologian who set out to re-define the balance between ...
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  • Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 – October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth century French dramatists ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Libido, etymologically rooted in Old Latin libido (desire, lust) from libere (to be ...
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  • Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 21, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American blues singer, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter. ...
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  • Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Diana Spencer) (July 1, 1961—August 3, 1997) was the first wife of Charles ...
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  • A pyramid (from πυραμίς pyramís) is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the ...
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  • category:image wanted Anamnesis (Greek: αναμνησις recollection, reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ...
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  • Arlington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Arlington, Virginia, near The Pentagon, and directly across the Potomac ...
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  • Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist ...
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  • Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts to solve The Problem of Evil—the problem that arises when trying to ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Religion Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using the conscious mind ...
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  • The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter ...
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