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- ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of ... Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry are found ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- chain amino acid and it is an isomer of isoleucine. (Isomers are molecules ... In humans, the L-isomer of leucine is one of the 20 standard amino ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 22:03, 25 October 2022
- and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental ... in philosophy in 1897. Following the advice of his mentor William James, Woodworth ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of ... The Kama Sutra is the most notable example of a group of texts known ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- Augustana), is the primary confession of faith used in the Lutheran ... The Augsburg Confession provides a succinct statement of 28 articles ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- end, or purpose, and teleology is the study of goals, ends and purposes. A ... The two main types of theory brought under the rubric of teleological ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- to use these measures to assess the standard of living and the welfare (or ... national welfare is well founded.The standard of living is a measure of economic ...33 KB (5,148 words) - 19:46, 7 July 2023
- guitarist best known as the creative pioneer of amplified blues harmonica playing. His revolutionary harmonica style set the standard for blues players to this ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- proteins and, together with cysteine, is one of two sulfur-containing proteinogenic ... The L-isomer of methionine, which is the only form that is involved ...11 KB (1,600 words) - 16:26, 9 November 2022
- the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number ... Possibly, they would question the teaching of the Church and the authority ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- to dignity, freedom and a decent standard of living. He was succeeded by ... to dignity, freedom and a decent standard of living. They root this tradition ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- [[Image:Lincoln's coffin, replica.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A replica ... box used in the display and containment of deceased remains for burial ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Interoperability refers to the ability of diverse systems and organizations ... for system integration or collaboration of sub-systems. Today, system ...21 KB (2,868 words) - 13:29, 7 February 2023
- while attempting to improve the standard of living of his country, making ... #To quickly and substantially raise the standard of living for all ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- 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
- There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the speed of light in a vacuum c * the electric constant ε0, ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy ... Regular ("baryonic") matter, made of electrons and quarks; (b) dark ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- In the cosmology of Hinduism, the term Yuga (meaning: "age" ... associated with a progressive deterioration of dharma (or "righteousness ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
- born in Abdera in Ancient Greece. He was one of the best known Sophists. Protagoras is best known for his dictum: "Man is the measure ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- for employees who are injured in the course of employment, in exchange for ... allow them to maintain a reasonable standard of living. Workers' compensation ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 16:31, 10 October 2020
- in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes ... Pennsylvania. His early life was of a typical farm boy, spent in ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- although it has been criticized for its lack of structure. The strength of ... with Abraham Maslow, Rogers was the founder of the humanistic approach to ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living ... In contrast with herbivory, which involves the consumption of living ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- Baleen whales comprise the Mysticeti, one of two suborders of the ... generally seen as gentle animals, a sighting of which adds to the wonder of ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:51, 26 August 2023
- social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work education movement ... 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of Issa Desha ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- when released into air, due to refraction of light. At low concentrations ... (1790-1868) in 1812, by exposing a mixture of carbon monoxide and chlorine ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 22:44, 28 March 2023
- among white audiences during the blues revival of the 1960s. been called "the very personification of Texas blues" (Clayton 2005). ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово ... This work is a mixture of Christianity and that Slavic paganism that ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- to improving the opportunities, and standard of living, of those otherwise ... did not improve their workers' standard of living, those workers would ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement ... Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- Desert, encompasses 77,000 square miles of rolling sand dunes in eastern ... 039;s sand ridges. It is defined by a series of natural borders, including ...14 KB (2,193 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- form involved in protein synthesis) is one of the twenty standard amino acids ... The intricate coordination of systems in the human body is seen in ...15 KB (2,091 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- the world. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion ... While there is a great deal of diversity in nature, the rarity of ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- scientific principles and Aristotelian logic of the twelfth century to scholars ... Neckam wrote religious works on a variety of subjects, most of which ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- means “to practice and learn the way of the truth.” Xiuzhen combines ... Certain aspects of Xiushen, such as veneration of parents and elders ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 17:32, 11 October 2020
- Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist of the Song dynasty, who is credited ... and Zhu Xi, who honored Zhang as one of the founders of the Study of ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- Party. Although superficially the standard of living in East Germany under ... during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of 192 Germans who tried to escape ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... this system would provide a minimum standard of living "below which no ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful ... led to higher wages and a better standard of living. Adam Smith and Thomas ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- economist who occupied the first chair of political economy in England ... Compton, Berkshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist. The Buddhist ... delve into the Sutra Pitaka, gaining an ocean of knowledge. ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... With the steady improve of the standard of living in South Korea during ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- government, to work, and to a decent standard of living and health care. It ... 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded ... and gradual improvement in their standard of living in the first few decades ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 03:59, 6 October 2022
- R.F. Outcault, he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip and ... yellow colored nightshirt ushered in the era of colored comic strips. Outcault ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in ... dust storms, forest and grassland fires, living vegetation, and sea spray ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2022
- All tape-based camcorders have removable media in the form of video ... eventually enabled the construction of portable video-cameras and ...34 KB (5,130 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Democritus identified the real existence of the cosmos with infinite numbers ... shape, and size. The qualitative diversity of the world is reduced to and ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- quot;) is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty ... Mahavira's later life was an example of rigorous asceticism. ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or into poor families ... At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
- around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- or running around," is a rite of passage during adolescence ... The Amish, a sub-sect of the Anabaptist Christian movement, intentionally ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 18:14, 22 December 2022
- Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen ... thereby dealing a serious blow to the theory of vitalism. ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... among the largest NIEs, boasting a standard of living comparable to industrialized ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- Compleat Angler, a classic guide to the joys of fishing with over 300 new printings ... scholars. Until 1643, he lived in the parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. For example, a ... In the philosophy of science, two theories are said to be incommensurable ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- family known as the Liu clan. The history of this dynasty divides into two ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 00:55, 28 January 2022
- or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior. Government ... use of capital, has kept our standard of living lower than would otherwise ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... Hepatocytes (liver cells) comprise about 60 percent of liver tissue; ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... in Nice, France, where his family was living at the time. His mother ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- |caption=Basketweaver of the Yurok people |poptime=5,000+ ... longest tributary, near the Pacific coast of Northern California. They are ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- Fideism emphasizes the importance of faith over reason in understanding ... ==The “Rationale” of Fideism== Despite the fact that fideism is ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- to mention the costs of bringing the standard of living to levels close to ... the neighboring islands, where the standard of living is lower. Ngazidja ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... are inadequate to provide the same standard of living for all. Moral decisions ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- significance for many Christians because of its use in the biblical Book ... The spectrum of Christian theological views on the meaning of 144 ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 06:27, 13 June 2023
- Diogenes of Sinope (412 or 399 B.C.E. – 323 B.C.E.) was an ancient ... for information on Diogenes is the Lives of Eminent Philosophers written ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- is commonly regarded as the fundamental unit of counting and measurement. For ... known as the "identity element" of multiplication (or multiplicative ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the ... The almanac is a natural byproduct of the calender and serves as ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a photon at a certain wavelength ... Fluorescence is named after the mineral fluorite, composed of calcium ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 17:45, 28 March 2024
- Filial piety is the virtue of a child to his or her parents or parental ... ) is one of the virtues to be cultivated and denotes a love and respect ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... dedicated to justice, outreach and youth. As of 2006, the Community of Christ ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- of climate, national tendencies or standard of living. He argued that a person’s ... acknowledged that an increase in the standard of living could cause population ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- or biological chemistry) is the study of chemicals and chemical processes ... Biochemists have been able to artificially produce a variety of substances ...24 KB (3,603 words) - 23:47, 11 January 2023
- their reactivity is different from that of ions of similar structure. ... == Clarification of terms == Historically, the term "radical" ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- Marie began her career as a writer in 1839. She was a friend of female ... and leave men to the more public sphere of politics and religion. She ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... work helped to usher in a higher standard of living in the United States ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- hi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit]) Retrieved December ... In order to emphasize the degeneration of society, the standard of ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Siberia a land with a better standard of living, migrated there. As ... they had recovered their original standard of living.Lee, 2000, 141. The ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- meaning, reason, proportions, principle, standard, or logic, among other things ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... first used to refer to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- eschewing the more popular genres of opera and symphonic poems. ... Brahms was a a devout student of the Bible, if unconventional in his ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
- * Increases the average standard of living. * Creates incentive to ... mentions that they had a better standard of living under Communists. ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth ... Its issues with poverty and standard of living continued to be addressed. ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- co-founded the New York Cosmos soccer team of the former North American Soccer ... The son of a distinguished Turkish diplomat, Ertegun co-founded Atlantic ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous material covering solid ... On Earth, regolith is an important factor that supports living organisms ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- 29, 1947) was an American economist, one of the early American neoclassical ... social issues, and promoting healthy living and world peace, an early ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry.]] Anthropometry is the measurement of physical attributes of human beings ...14 KB (1,919 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- which argues for the equal rights of all living beings. Næss called ... adhering to an increasingly higher standard of living. There will be a profound ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
- | [[Standard enthalpy change of formation|Standard enthalpy of ... | Standard molar entropyS°solid | 237.7 J.K−1.mol−1 ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- Christian eschatology named for its denial of a future thousand-year, physical ... existed even in the first three centuries of the Christian era, during which ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu philosophy. Dvaita is ... Little is known about the actual life of Shri Madhvacharya, save for ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera of supergroup Rhizaria), characterized ... sand dollars, and many other animals. Tens of thousands per square meter ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate ... to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) ...28 KB (3,844 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, ... Health care is a vital aspect of human society. Through the health ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- together with Confucius, is considered one of the two great moral teachers ... Mozi founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- scandal that began during the administration of President Harding. Elk Hills ... but the sudden improvement in his standard of living prompted speculation. ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- network, is the largest multilateral source of development assistance in the ... *Decent standard of living, measured by Gross Domestic Product per capita ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- iconic American actress, comedian, and star of the landmark sitcom I Love ... Lucille, known as the "Queen of Comedy," was also responsible ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- Singapore") is the national anthem of Singapore. Composed by Zubir ... Originally composed in the key of G major, in 2001, the national anthem ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 00:16, 22 October 2023
- significant popularity. The strength of his approach is the importance ... Rogers was born on January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:14, 19 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Swaziland (Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini), or the Kingdom ... growth and maintain Swazis' standard of living. Overgrazing, soil ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... in 1626. He was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- A Benedictine is an adherent of the teachings of Saint Benedict of ... Beyond its religious influences, the Rule of St Benedict has been ...25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- the Soviet Union and China, the its standard of living lagging dramatically ... rule, North Korea's economy standard of living declined precipitously ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... U.S. to seek employment and a higher standard of living. Significant Tongan ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- precept found in virtually all the religions of the world. Also known as the ... Arising as it does in nearly all cultures, the ethic of reciprocity ...18 KB (2,926 words) - 05:37, 20 December 2022
- – March 26, 1959) was an American author of the so-called hardboiled detective ... Hammett's Sam Spade, the epitome of the hardboiled private detective ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- reason for the survival and prosperity of the Korean people in the face ... in economic development and in the standard of living but also in the development ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 6 March 2024
- | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... socialist, she aimed to raise the standard of living of her people and to ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- The Beatles) outpaced her. She was also one of the earliest pop stars to have ... Dynamite, as the explosive sound pouring out of her diminutive, pre-teenage ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- remains obscure in comparison to the giants of his time such as Walt Whitman ... Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English and American ancestry ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... being had a significantly lower standard of living and life span in the ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... Catholic Spark reacted by accusing him of seeking publicity to further ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture ... The idea of qi represents one of the unique and foundational elements ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- [[Image:Universum.jpg|thumb|300px|Colorized version of the Flammarion ... Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), in the process of replacing scholarly notions ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of jazz piano as the supreme master ... his mother owned, playing by ear by the age of three. Tatum would learn both ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- Heloise (1101 - 1162), the famous lover of Peter Abelard (Abélard ... Heloise was the ward of an uncle, a canon A clergyman serving in a ...20 KB (3,412 words) - 17:12, 6 February 2022
- gas. It is formed by the disintegration of radium and is one of the densest ... found that it was the heaviest gas known as of then. It has been called radon ...15 KB (2,200 words) - 22:50, 7 December 2022
- Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was the site of the American Continental ... appointed General Nathanael Greene head of the meager and poorly managed ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four islands in the southern Pacific ... The islands are best known for being the home of the descendants of ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Harrods at night.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The exterior of Harrods ... which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a predominant ...29 KB (4,395 words) - 09:47, 29 January 2024
- groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine invertebrates that are ... terrestrial representatives. Representatives of the phylum can be found at ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:27, 11 October 2020
- Nitrogen (symbol N, atomic number 7) is the chief constituent of the ... In living organisms, nitrogen atoms are part of the molecular structures ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 02:26, 16 November 2022
- a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of seventeenth-century Rome. The ... conceits include the piazza and colonnades of Saint Peter's. He preferred ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman William Darrah ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes ... The legal requirements of proving defamation are often difficult to ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- and improves the external standard of living. However, there are also ... enjoy wealth far beyond a sustenance standard of living through the use of slavery. ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the ... In living systems, ammonia plays several important roles, serving ...39 KB (5,803 words) - 07:35, 25 July 2023
- Computer animation is the art of creating moving images through the ... Computer animation can be seen in a large variety of media today, ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 00:25, 8 January 2024
- – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... to raise the Soviet citizens' standard of living so that they could ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- it does not entirely capture the meaning of the Greek word. One important ... between these two central concepts is one of the important preoccupations ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- body (sporocarp or reproductive structure) of a fungus, typically produced ... (lamella, the papery ribs under the cap of a mushroom), the term can refer ...22 KB (3,256 words) - 19:06, 10 November 2022
- Poverty is a condition in which a person or community is deprived ... wealth disparities are seen as an indicator of poverty and the condition of ...23 KB (3,286 words) - 22:07, 30 November 2022
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (October 18, 1870 – July 22, 1966; standard ... to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Bernhard ... have been honored more than once, a total of 813 different individuals and ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- was an American engineer, early advocate of scientific management and a ... The Gilbreths are considered the founders of modern industrial management ...16 KB (2,285 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Dacia, in ancient history and geography was the land of the Dacians ... and Rome, Emperor Trajan began the process of subjugating the empire and ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- ) was a city in ancient Israel, situated north of Bethel and south ... The Bible describes Shiloh as an assembly place for the people of ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
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- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along ... dramatic upsurge in its economy and standard of living during the twentieth ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Buddhism connect back to the central roots of Buddhism, the original followers ... and Bhikkuni also stand in a position of leadership to the Buddhist ...18 KB (2,886 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the Spanish nobility and nicknamed ... The nickname "El Cid Campeador" is a compound of two separate ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- Vagrancy is the condition of being a vagrant, defined as a person ... While societies have made efforts to deal with the large numbers of ...25 KB (3,643 words) - 14:08, 3 May 2023
- poetry belonging to the confessional school of poets in the style of other ... and precise wording that covered a spectrum of feelings that many people can ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- formula but differ in the arrangement of atoms. (Isomers in chemistry ... the prevailing chemical understanding of the time, which held that chemical ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 05:56, 11 March 2024
- A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family ... a distinct species, C. hircus. It was one of the first animals domesticated ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- thumb," which is really an extension of the wrist bone. It has reddish ... Panda is also a genus of the plant family Pandaceae. The word panda ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère the Lionheart. She was the eldest daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- html Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living] econlib.org. 17 July ... *Hartwell, R.M. "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800 ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- Justicialist Party and the current President of Argentina. She is the wife ... America's second elected woman head of state—after Chile's ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- all become the guiding principles of American identity. Emerson ... "no longer interested" in the rite of communion, Emerson left the ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen ... Cole Porters' songs and thoughts are about the many aspects of ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- A Levite (from Levi, "attached") is a member of the Hebrew ... When the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, the Levites received ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great Cathedrals ... (seat or chair), and refers to the presence of the bishop's or archbishop ...26 KB (4,257 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... First, it expresses a passion for the ideal of unity and harmony. Analysis ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- The Common Rule is a federal policy governing the protection of human ... in 1991, including the Department of Health and Human Services ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 18:58, 25 July 2021
- require a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber. Dyeing is the process of imparting color to a textile material in ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- index, Singapore has the highest standard of living in Asia, and is ranked ... curbed unemployment, raised the standard of living, and implemented a ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- the modern libertarian movement and revival of classical liberalism. Prominent ... which all people agree is: That the standard of living of the Russian masses ...19 KB (2,970 words) - 02:41, 5 November 2022
- activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South Dakota. He became one ... not civil rights, should be the basis of the United States government ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- abolitionist. Anthony invested fifty years of her life advocating for the ... rewarded posthumously with the ratification of the Nineteenth amendment to ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- quot;) refers to most important scriptures of Judaism that are the foundation ... oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- close association with the Imagist movement of Ezra Pound. H.D.'s early ... her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth. He ... assertion without having a substantial body of documentation to support his ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 2023
- ), also known as the Adi Granth, is the primary Holy Book of the Sikhs ... Composed during the period of Sikh Gurus, from 1469 to 1708, the Guru ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- Air pollution is the human introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals ... stationary sources, but the greatest source of emissions is mobile sources ...34 KB (4,855 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- The Damascus Document, also called the Zadokite Fragments, is one ... Because it gives insights into the special religious attitudes of ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 22:57, 22 June 2020
- After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent the ... and Muhammad. He helped to pioneer the use of primary sources as well as ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- device used for the remote operation of a machine. Remote controls ... One of the earliest examples of a remote control was developed in ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- #039;s economy, delivering a high standard of living, with many social services ... economy. Now the country has a high standard of living, with many social services ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- Species are the basic taxonomic units of biological classification ... Jay Gould, the macroevolutionary patterns of species are typically ones ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 17:36, 14 October 2022
- refer to a road tractor. Other common uses of the term include the lawn tractor ... to drive mechanical farm machinery by way of a flexible belt. Around 1850 ...28 KB (4,353 words) - 04:53, 1 May 2023
- tone and expressive phrasing, he was one of the most famous violinists ... debut the following year. He had become one of the world's leading performers ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- 28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... the coffee that brought the highest standard of living" said Akbar Godi ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute the ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and ... Tiberian Qərā’îm), meaning "Readers (of Scripture)," ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- — is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná ... widest estuary in the world. It forms part of the border between Argentina ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- ) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China ... on the island. The People's Republic of China government claims Hainan ...25 KB (3,616 words) - 16:53, 21 January 2024
- The text of the first part of the Shema is as follows: diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- have been rediscovered by a number of literary, feminist, and post ... The Johnsons enjoyed a high standard of living, their family and home ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- quot;the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that ... Scholarly knowledge of the Ebionites is limited and fragmentary, deriving ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- distinctive cinema that arose in the context of the changing era of the Bolshevik ... ) into a family of Jewish intellectuals in Białystok, Congress Poland ...19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
- had been thought too vulgar to be capable of literary merit. Like Chaucer ... is apparent in the linguistic skill of his masterwork, the Confessio ...27 KB (4,375 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- by the belief that while one set of beliefs is absolutely true ... Broadly speaking, there are two schools of Inclusivist thought: ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration ... Today, Memorial Day commemoration includes the flying of the American ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- Hooker was influenced by the guitar style of his stepfather, a local blues ... to play with him. Thus, during most of his career, he remained a solo ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 06:12, 3 August 2022
- require a ballast to regulate the flow of power through the lamp. In ... and industry are encouraging the replacement of traditional incandescent light ...43 KB (6,681 words) - 17:46, 28 March 2024
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... The people of Liechtenstein enjoy a standard of living in the upper 20 percent ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- featuring the viola. She is considered one of the most important British ... in part to her ideas about the limited role of a female composer, her works ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... with Russia and Spain. By Article III of the Anglo-American Convention ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- 1924 - February 4, 2020) was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002 ... he claimed, a distinctive African tradition of leadership. He claimed to be ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- , is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ... Despite these disparities, the common feature of apartment construction ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- |name = University of Tokyo |native_name = 東京大学 (Tōkyō ... The Yasuda Auditorium on the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus]] ...19 KB (2,825 words) - 22:33, 23 June 2023
- in Western classical music as a standard member of the string section ... The double bass is generally regarded as the only modern descendant ...40 KB (6,473 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents of neo ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- challenged the laissez faire economic policy of his time and criticized the ... be changed. His Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation, was published ...28 KB (4,469 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... And although Tunisia has a better standard of living than other nations ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- open access archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields ... In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers ...14 KB (1,942 words) - 20:17, 11 August 2023
- psychiatric hospitals. He also had a number of hits covering old R & B ... Taylor was part of a wave of singer-songwriters of the time that also ...20 KB (2,798 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- known in United States as the "mother of social work." Co-founder ... woman suffrage and was an outspoken advocate of internationalism. She participated ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
- An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Country Music Association's performer of the year in 1971| ... prison term in the 1960s, Haggard became one of the giants of country music ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science ... Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- 1973) (born Walden Robert Cassotto) was one of the most popular American, ... for the American Heart Association because of his lifelong heart disease. ...16 KB (2,577 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2023
- arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- and education. His extensive knowledge of Latin and Greek equipped him ... the Aristotelian Scholastics with a number of debates and criticisms. His ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Given the lack of historical details present in the text itself, scholars ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served ... Before entering national politics, Arthur had been Collector of Customs ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- in awarding to him the Nobel Peace Prize of 1958. Through the organizations ... impoverished families improve their standard of living and gain a sense of ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 23:54, 28 November 2022
- The prophetic book of the Bible attributed to Zephaniah occurs ninth ... The Book of Zephaniah has been most influential in the Christian and ...21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
- first to realize and develop the potential of film as an extended dramatic ... Legendary actress Lillian Gish called Griffith "the father of ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- Cobra is the common name for a number of Asian and African snakes ... food chains, helping to maintain the balance of prey species and controlling ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 07:35, 14 January 2023
- Czech photographer, dubbed the "Poet of Prague." War I injury, which led to the amputation of his right arm, he took up photography ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2022
- described by John Stuart Mill as one of the seminal minds of his age ... a landmark work that led to the emergence of the Romantic Movement in England ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- perception, and suggested that all knowledge of objects outside the self comes ... work “La citta del sole” (The City of the Sun). == Life == ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the ... were usually portrayed as implacable enemies of the Israelites. Their most ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) is a province of China located on the southeast ... center and pristine nature. The ecology of the province has been threatened ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- (1170 – August 6, 1221), was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly ... Witnessing the success of the Cathar movement in southern France, ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:37, 22 December 2022
- Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (c. 296 C.E. ... – May 2, 373 C.E.) was a Christian bishop—the Patriarch of Alexandria—in ...20 KB (3,060 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ... Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a Web browser ...31 KB (4,531 words) - 13:58, 20 May 2023
- in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution5glyph.png The evolution of our modern glyph for five cannot be neatly traced ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- his grandfather David. He was the third king of the House of David and, after ... Rehoboam's reign has been dated to roughly the last quarter of ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2023
- Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space ... Cold is the absence of heat, hence in order to decrease a temperature ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- Prize for non-fiction in 1974, for his The Denial of Death. The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- 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
- The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes ... The VAT was first adopted in France in 1954. By the end of the twentieth ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ... As humankind becomes more aware of the need to recognize all people ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- and Anaximenes, explored the origin of existing beings and developed ... Pythagoras approached the question of being from an angle that was ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- thumb|right|300px|Albert Einstein, archetype of genius.]] intellectual capacity standing in a class of its own far above that possessed ...20 KB (2,859 words) - 06:48, 18 April 2024
- The standard of living lagged far behind that of West Germany. Food ... which aimed at improvement in the standard of living, stressed a shift in ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- and later as Jackie Onassis, was the wife of President John F. Kennedy, ... #039;s gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's assassination ...21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024
- , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- purify”) is the Roman Catholic doctrine of an intermediary state between ... In considering the end of human life, mainstream Christianity accepts ...14 KB (2,345 words) - 14:29, 2 July 2022
- Although best known as the structural units of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA ... The ubiquitous presence of nucleotides from viruses and bacteria to ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the conflicts in the Horn of ... considered well off by the Ethiopian standard of living. They were deported ...22 KB (3,294 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- some Christians, that claims that at the end of time when Jesus Christ returns ... millennial kingdom to take over rulership of the world for a thousand years ...32 KB (4,883 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... Bridgetown benefits from its country's standard of living, which ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites ... The Amalekites are unknown historically and archaeologically outside ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, ... Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- , Safad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel. It is a center ... Although Safed played no role in either Jewish of Christian biblical ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 18:37, 22 December 2022
- long barrier island located off the Atlantic coast of Maryland and ... Sinepuxent, Maryland, near the northern end of the bay, and the other from ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous ... A commercial, financial, and cultural center of the city, Manhattan ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- The Republic of South Africa, most commonly referred to as South Africa ... white minority enjoyed the highest standard of living in all of Africa, often ...35 KB (4,809 words) - 15:13, 27 April 2023
- jpg|thumb|300 px|Walton Hall, headquarters of the Open University. (Artist: ... called correspondence education, is a field of education that focuses on the ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- novel and signaled his emergence as one of the world's great writers ... original creation. Torn in two (the root of his name, "raskol' ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם Avraham "Father/Leader of ... the "Abrahamic religions" because of the role Abraham plays in their ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- 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
- Caviar is the processed, salted roe of certain species of fish, most ... in the United States, high consumption of caviar led to over-fishing ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein bin Talal ... agency dedicated to raising the standard of living of rural and urban ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ... From 1839 to the mid-1840s she organized discussion groups of women ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... A number of non-harp-like instruments are colloquially referred to ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- that is essential for all known forms of life. Laurence D. Barron, ... gaseous state, water vapor. About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... the United States nominates the head of the World Bank as the biggest ...25 KB (3,686 words) - 00:01, 18 May 2023
- musicologist, author, and producer, and one of the most important field collectors ... the civil rights and cultural recognition of African Americans, organizing ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one ... or "vulgar" Italian, instead of the traditional Latin, making ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- The Sermon on the Mount is believed to be a sermon given by Jesus ... that the sermon was meant as a summary of Jesus' teaching for Matthew ...16 KB (2,654 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief ... The four main highways of Zambia; the Great North Road to Tanzania ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...23 KB (3,516 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President ... minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- and is known as the "Father of Railways." The Victorians ... west of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the second child of Robert and ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 00:40, 14 November 2022
- territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing Dynasty ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- and Parastacidae, resembling small versions of the marine lobsters, to which ... a popular food for people in various regions of the world. ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a province of the People's ... development and a comfortable standard of living with abundant water ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- by measuring apparent changes in the periods of the revolution of Jupiter& ... his wife, Anna Olufsdatter Storm, daughter of an alderman. Christen Pedersen ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- northernmost, and most sparsely populated of its 47 prefectural-level subdivisions ... Hokkaidō did not officially become part of Japan until 1868, and ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- (also known as Ukerewe and Nalubaale) is one of the African Great Lakes. It ... Lake Victoria plays a vital role in supporting the millions of people ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 23:25, 21 October 2022
- and newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the ... and poets, as well as to American poets of all races and creeds. He has ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- believes that the second coming (or Advent) of Jesus Christ is imminent. Seventh ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such ... He was, perhaps, the quintessential man of his times, but for this ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 04:57, 3 August 2022
- whom many consider the first true composer of jazz music. musical education. He learned a number of instruments, but got his professional ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
- Debussy is considered the most original musical mind of the turn of ... Debussy was not only one of the most influential French composers ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- 250px|Increasingly the world is thought of as a whole]] Globalization, as a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- tradition. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University ... Bowne identified the essence of a human being with the "person ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one ... Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- is one of two main temples of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, the ... east of Fukui in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In English, its name means ...16 KB (2,429 words) - 00:05, 13 February 2024
- Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive the gift of tongues (Acts 2)]] bishops leading the Church, and the practice of ecstatic worship in which its ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 21:12, 9 November 2022
- city, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. ... in 2007, the average Cuban's standard of living remained, in 2008, ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- culture. He was generally recognized as one of the most popular cultural figures ... The multifaceted talent of Vladimir Vysotsky is often described by ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 20:49, 3 May 2023
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- Republic. During World War II, millions of Jews died in Nazi death camps ... Today there are more than 7,000 descendants of the Schindler-Jews ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- Honduras, officially Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras ... the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by ...34 KB (4,896 words) - 12:36, 2 February 2024
- singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers ... by his high-pitched voice, mastery of several blues sub-genres, and ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... building his country and raising the standard of living. He had inherited a ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- and other domesticated animals, by the bite of infected ticks. ... there identified additional features of the disease, including an unidentified ...45 KB (6,567 words) - 16:55, 21 December 2023
- David (דָּוִד "Beloved," Standard Hebrew Davíd, Tiberian ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- Scottish historian, a co-founder and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ... as well as Farsi, drew on a wide range of Indian sources. Aspects of ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- scientist, engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first television; ... Baird's work was part of the great advance in technology that ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 02:31, 9 February 2023
- The Kingdom of Mutapa (Shona: Wene we Mutapa; Portuguese: Monomotapa ... polity that flourished before the coming of European rule. Written sources ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 23:43, 21 October 2023
- and networking, and a major manufacturer of personal and office printers ... devotes approximately 10 percent of its net sales to research and ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- languages), is the official language of the Indian state of Andhra ... Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and in the ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was ... Rome, it continued to enjoy a high degree of autonomy as a client-state ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- writer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest American writers ... for the "Lost Generation" of Americans born in the 1890s ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô ... Palestine near the Jordan River. The history of Jericho goes back to the end ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... let alone provide for the rising standard of living which the regime promised ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- often referred to as the “Descartes of the twelfth century” due ... The story of his tragic love affair with his student, Héloïse has ...23 KB (3,725 words) - 01:06, 24 November 2022
- now possible to provide a very high standard of living for all mankind, making ... provide a sustainable standard of living for all humanity—more advanced ...36 KB (5,646 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- only with lies as statements—not lies of demeanor or costume or some ... by philosophers, by jurists, and others. One of the Ten Commandments, for example ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- States preserves 242,756 acres (982 km²) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles ... Wilderness includes 64,250 acres (260 km²) of the most pristine sections ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 05:36, 26 August 2023
- Rabbit is the common name for small mammals in the family Leporidae ... is used as a collective term for all members of the Leporidae family, including ...28 KB (4,391 words) - 16:17, 7 December 2022
- a background in the elementary concepts of game theory. ... In game theory, the prisoner's dilemma PD is a type of non-zero ...41 KB (6,536 words) - 23:01, 30 November 2022
- a rapid growth in national prosperity and standard of living. The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- author, poet, and actor. The author of several major country hits ... in other genres. Nelson also wrote a number of hits for other major stars ...49 KB (6,754 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- European Union, and Australia) is a transfer of resources from one country ... so that a society can increase its standard of living to the point that food ...36 KB (5,305 words) - 06:56, 16 June 2023
- 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously Tanganyika ... He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 06:41, 28 February 2023
- are a Native American people originally of the Great Lakes region. They ... The Potawatomi controlled a vast amount of territory in the 1700s ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 00:29, 12 April 2023
- the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- disease caused by flukes (class Trematoda) of the genus Schistosoma, with ... estimated 200 million people infected and, of these, 120 million displaying ...18 KB (2,573 words) - 17:07, 25 January 2023
- was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most important twenieth ... Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract style did not come about ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:NBC, NewYork.jpg|thumb| The front entrance of the NBC Tower ... logo. Formed in 1926 by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), control of NBC ...26 KB (4,061 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2022
- atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray ... Alloys of beryllium with copper or nickel are strong and wear-resistant ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- to a traditional Korean fermented dish made of seasoned vegetables. The most ... Kimchi has been a mainstay of Korean culture for over 2,000 years ...18 KB (2,571 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- pop music fans as well. This slick brand of country music in turn stimulated ... Atkins' style of finger-picking opened new creative possibilities ...16 KB (2,556 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute ...48 KB (7,492 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve ... sport, swimming is featured in a range of local, national, and international ...26 KB (3,876 words) - 13:41, 23 March 2023
- 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
- that carries its own motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles ... The automobile is one of the technologies—along with such others ...30 KB (4,553 words) - 07:06, 23 August 2023
- institution which has formed the foundation of the family throughout history ... Challenges to the institution of marriage in the twentieth century ...46 KB (7,203 words) - 00:09, 22 October 2023
- during World War II, beginning at the age of 15, and the loss of his parents ... Wiesel was a passionate and powerful writer and author of more than ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- was an American researcher in the fields of cognitive psychology, computer ... closer and more accurate representations of the full dimensions of human ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- == Evolution of the glyph == J upside down. The main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs was ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also called the Great Crash or the ... Not only was the event of such a magnitude that it is unforgettable ...33 KB (5,019 words) - 20:15, 24 June 2020
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots ... the human spirit through the recognition of distinguished or ancient lineage ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- an Irish writer and poet, regarded as one of the seminal figures of modernism ... Joyce pushed the limits of the "stream-of-consciousness" ...32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
- fund, and as a result, the standard of living of the population, ... and a sharp decline in the standard of living of the rural population ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... greatly. The north maintains a lower standard of living than the south due ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- Santeria (Santería in Spanish, meaning "Way of the Saints" ... remained popular among the descendants of West African slaves. In the ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when ... For much of the twentieth century, typewriters were indispensable ...36 KB (5,574 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 23:12, 30 July 2023
- The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in ... has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- [[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science. A longtime ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was ... individual to enjoy a comfortable standard of living, but that it was unfairly ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest ... Hard rock became a template of society and reflected the many views ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- observations in Africa challenged attitudes of racial superiority and provoked ... at a time when women were thought incapable of doing what men did. Her achievements ...29 KB (4,571 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- His gregarious personality and dynamic style of play endeared him ... by Seattle Mariner Ichiro Suzuki), and one of only two to record 2,000 hits ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- Outer space (often called space) consists of the relatively empty ... has established the Kármán line, at an altitude of 100|km|mi ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- term also is used to refer to all members of the order Crocodilia, a group ... that are primarily found in tropical regions of Asia, the Americas, Africa ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- for the New York Yankees. He was the brother of Vince DiMaggio and Dom DiMaggio ... with which he played the game. At the time of his retirement at age 36, he ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 13:46, 1 August 2022
- Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family. Originally ... Despite the appearance of two significant Berber dynasties, the Almoravids ...26 KB (3,865 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- 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
- city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States ... It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... subcultural divisions among themselves; two of the largest are White Hmong ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- Maple syrup is a sweet syrup (thick, sticky solution of sugar and ... Maple syrup is one of innumerable products that people obtain from ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 11:09, 9 March 2023
- "Unclean! Unclean!" These were the words of lepers as they ... nerves. It also affects the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract ...31 KB (4,435 words) - 21:58, 25 October 2022
- pop singer who, among the female artists of the British Invasion of the ... O'Brien, Springfield was a major fan of American soul music, and created ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- she changed the public's perception of people with disabilities. She ... true value comes from the height and depth of her mind. ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 08:35, 21 January 2024
- statesman, dramatist, and writer of the Silver Age of Latin literature ... Born in Córdoba, Spain in 4 B.C.E., Seneca was the second of three ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music ... It evolved in the United States in the communities of former African ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- conductor, Rachmaninoff is remembered as one of the true artistic geniuses ... his own works as soloist. He was one of the greatest pianists of his ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 2023
- produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the ... is FDG ([18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose), an analog of glucose, the concentrations ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- Social Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general ... Any and all of these factors make up important aspects of culture ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- , is the most populous prefecture and city in Japan, and the center ... It is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and, unique among the prefectures ...39 KB (5,420 words) - 03:54, 1 May 2023
- [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- spans two major phases in the development of French literature. Gautier ... as a means to a middle-class standard of living, although he complained ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period. applying its principles to a novel form of illumination, the Bude light; ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- horticulturist, botanist, and co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural ... He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 22:29, 25 October 2022
- the fourteenth century and mainly comprised of non-Muslim boys often captured ... major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople, the defeat ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- Hollywood with his innovative practice of method acting, inspiring the ... In the 1960s Brando was one of the first actor-activists to march ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west ... years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after Sri Lanka ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- .nsf/mf/3238.0.55.001 Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... 2.7% of Australia's population |popplace=New South Wales 2.9 ...50 KB (7,297 words) - 17:55, 22 August 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
- long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from ... The primary aspect of the art of conducting can be said to be bringing ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- Opera is a form of theater in which the drama is conveyed wholly or ... ==Background of Opera== Comparable art forms from various other parts ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...29 KB (4,671 words) - 22:22, 25 October 2022
- Basidiomycota is a major division (or phyla) of the kingdom Fungi ... within Basidiomycota, or about 37 percent of all described species of fungi ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- ) 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
- The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... 42,000, Caymanians enjoy the highest standard of living in the Caribbean. According ...26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
- Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty ... concern for civil society, and for the lives of the underprivileged, that marks ...18 KB (2,990 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- A thermostat is a device for regulating the temperature of a system ... Thermostats can be constructed in many ways and may use a variety ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries ... full Highland dress, including a tartan kilt of his mother's clan, for ...44 KB (6,554 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... the entire peninsula. Following a series of insurrections, its territory ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition ... The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic ...36 KB (5,546 words) - 10:43, 9 March 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
- American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... It is a destination spot of many vacationers due to its seasonally ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- pioneered important concepts in the fields of cell biology and microbial ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...19 KB (2,756 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- for squirrel-sized South American rodents of the Andes mountains, characterized ... largely live in colonies in rocky areas of the Andes region of Bolivia ...19 KB (2,808 words) - 22:35, 13 January 2023
- Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer ... Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious ... cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of NDEs reported continually increases ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- Sedevacantism is a theological position embraced by a minority of ... " the seat in question being that of the Papal See. The phrase is ...21 KB (3,214 words) - 20:24, 21 December 2023
- [[Image:Pyramid of Capitalist System.png|thumb|right|250px|An Industrial ... weak, and the sick maintain a good standard of living despite low class status. ...31 KB (4,685 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- A parachute is a device used to slow the descent of a person or object ... controlled descent similar to that of a glider. In addition, smaller ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- and white stones on the vacant intersections of a 19×19 rectilinear grid. ... the Go player gains a deeper understanding of the game, which requires not ...59 KB (9,909 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
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- was the lead singer and predominant lyricist of the Doors, and is considered ... Of Scottish and Irish ancestry, Jim Morrison was the son of United ...31 KB (4,948 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- city in Russia and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast, has deep historical ... The preeminence of Veliky Novgorod in Russian culture is represented ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 14:59, 3 May 2023
- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding ... as a reaction against the rationalization of nature during the Enlightenment ...19 KB (2,987 words) - 04:48, 3 August 2022
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... England and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city. His father, Charles ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... One question asks the kinds of practical rules people actually use ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- The plan envisaged a massive increase in the Soviet standard of living ... administrator, with the Soviet standard of living rising considerably ...60 KB (8,496 words) - 22:35, 29 April 2023
- MS causes gradual destruction of myelin (demyelination) and breakdown ... The total number of people suffering from MS is not known. Estimates ...42 KB (6,258 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... in search of employment and a higher standard of living. ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
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- with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.28 million ... Sydney is one of the most multicultural cities in the world which ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- chey") is the official state ideology of North Korea and the political ... Juche theory is a type of Marxism ideology, but it is built upon the ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 06:36, 28 February 2023
- The Trimurti (meaning "three forms" of God), also known ... most strongly held in Hindu denomination of Smartism, though it is largely ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- and college football coach in the early era of the sport and is the namesake ... Clemson University, Georgia Tech, University of Pennsylvania, Washington & ...22 KB (3,381 words) - 06:56, 8 April 2024
- and that his story is actually a syncretism of previous myths and mystery ... it carries little weight among the majority of modern historians and scholars ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- January 31, 1969), was an Irani (Indian of Persian descent) born in Poona ... spiritual matters. However, at the age of 19, contact with an old Muslim ...32 KB (4,996 words) - 04:10, 9 November 2022
- Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – August 16, 2003) was President of Uganda ... health care and to raise the standard of living generated some enthusiasm ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
- ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the ... Yunnan has earned fame for the natural beauty of its setting from ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals ... Placozoans are the simplest in structure of all known multicellular ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... A higher standard of living since independence has accelerated obesity ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- and libertarian attitude. He was an exemplar of the communitarian, drug-positive ... his family in 1919 from the Galicia region of northwest Spain to San Francisco; ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
- The trio of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash are a folk ... the charts in 1970. They produced a string of mellow, well-harmonized, message ...21 KB (3,245 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- 039;at 'Azza) is a narrow coastal strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean ... Following the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
- The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably ... The essential story tells of the spiritual maturation of the heroic ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- 1973) was an American pioneer in the history of photography and its struggle ... artists who eventually became legends of modern art, as well as eventual ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
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- hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in ... is the ability to influence the movement of matter or energy through mental ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- a furnace is usually produced by combustion of a fuel such as oil, wood, or ... for kiln, a device used in the production of ceramics. In British English ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 09:57, 18 October 2022
- have been made with varying degrees of realism by engineers as well ... Several reasons have been given in support of space colonization. ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- as the dominant figure in the Republic of Korea's history and particularly ... of industries and rise in the standard of living of average South Korean ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- The Anglican Communion is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches ... The status of full communion means that all rites conducted in one ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the ... The Druids were polytheists who also revered elements of nature, such ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 09:43, 15 January 2023
- unfettered by concerns about conditions of their employment will be more ... A life tenure or lifetime tenure is a term of office that lasts for ...21 KB (3,170 words) - 03:41, 30 April 2023
- The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted ... War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated ...28 KB (4,129 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... eighteenth century Boston was the location of several major events surrounding ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
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- Hamlet: Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It ... and it is universally included on lists of the world's greatest books. ...40 KB (6,336 words) - 16:59, 21 January 2024
- and one's own needs, often at the expense of others. from normal to abnormal. A moderate degree of narcissism may be healthy, ...31 KB (4,187 words) - 17:00, 16 November 2023
- 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
- "Yavana" are both transliterations of the Greek word for "Ionians ... * The mention of the "Yona king Antiochus" in the Edicts ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- it is most frequently used in the context of New Guinea and Melanesia. In ... In both cases, many of the beliefs and practices particular to these ...28 KB (4,339 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...40 KB (5,976 words) - 22:28, 13 November 2022
- Korea's first religion, the religion of Dangun, the mythical founder ... better educated and have a higher standard of living than most of their ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- ) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- The State of Indiana is the 19th U.S. state and is located in the ... often called Hoosier Hysteria. Residents of Indiana are called Hoosiers. ...31 KB (4,480 words) - 18:55, 4 March 2024
- , the legendary gypsy jazz guitarist, is one of the most innovational European ... Born into and raised along the caravan trail traveled by a tribe of ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- border connecting the Indian state of Sikkim with the Tibet Autonomous ... Nathu La constitutes one of the three trading border posts between ...20 KB (2,900 words) - 23:53, 29 May 2023
- dao was often modified by other nouns, each of which represented a subset ... Tian Dao is explained using the concepts of yin and yang. The resulting ...21 KB (3,367 words) - 19:34, 7 July 2023
- was a rabbi from France, famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentaries ... Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the texts ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- enabled ordinary people to enjoy a standard of living far better than that ... html Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living] by Clark Nardinelli ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- A kangaroo is any of several large marsupial mammals of the Macropodidae ... great leaping power due to the structure of their hind legs. They are native ...21 KB (3,232 words) - 07:08, 28 February 2023
- Sodium (chemical symbol Na, atomic number 11) is a member of a group ... bright illumination at low cost. An alloy of sodium and potassium (NaK) ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 21:54, 30 January 2023
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China ... emphasizes the rise in the Chinese standard of living, literacy rate, and ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- release with Full Tilt Boogie Band. On each of her recordings, Joplin is listed ... in 1953. The family belonged to the Churches of Christ denomination. ...20 KB (3,184 words) - 09:39, 1 April 2024
- Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It ... percent of the white population. The standard of living is on the rise, with ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- the most populous city in India and capital of the state of Maharashtra. Mumbai ... and the relatively high standard of living, making the city a ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- in the late twelfth century as the Poor Men of Lyons, a band organized by ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...32 KB (4,791 words) - 23:19, 17 January 2024
- for the Wounded Knee Creek, a tributary of the White River, which runs ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the ... The major themes of his work were social: Radical individualism, libertarianism ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- A lake (from the Latin word lacus) is an inland body of water, not ... There is, however, a lack of consensus on definitions used to distinguish ...31 KB (4,835 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds ... A word that consists of a single syllable (like English dog) is called ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- and commercial center, and the largest city of Moldova. Inhabited for thousands ... capital, with a much higher standard of living than most rural areas. ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 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
- who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January ... and the family lost its middle-class standard of living. When Ban was six, ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's ... Mayr's theories on speciation remain the leading view of how ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Scorpion is the common name for any of the carnivorous arthropods ... Scorpions are widely distributed south of about 49° N, with the notable ...32 KB (4,433 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- a British analytic philosopher. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she became ... read "Mods & Greats" (a course of study in classics, ancient ...23 KB (3,440 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... The original native people of Aruba and surrounding islands were the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Stockholm. The citizens enjoy a high standard of living and the country is ... (including the Swedish-controlled areas of what is today Finland), were ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New ... early colonial times. Its Fundamental Orders of 1639 are considered to be the ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
