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- In cosmology, the Steady State theory (also known as the Infinite ... The Steady State Theory of Bondi, Gold and Hoyle was inspired by the ...10 KB (1,466 words) - 19:55, 9 February 2023
- :This article is about the hypothetical class of particles. ... as one possible solution to the dark matter problem. They are considered ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of ... is a subatomic particle with a baryon number of 1. Baryons are a subset of ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- to absolute zero, it acquires an unusual set of properties known as superfluidity ... in 1937. It is a major facet in the study of quantum hydrodynamics. ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- in the universe. They form the densest part of the large-scale structure of ... galaxies. The Virgo Cluster forms the heart of the larger Local Supercluster ...13 KB (1,886 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- fungi. They are generally composed of hyphae (filamentous structures ... mushrooms, mildews, and yeast, make up one of the kingdoms in biological ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- several bosons can occupy the same quantum state. Thus, bosons with the same ... Composite bosons are important in superfluidity and other applications ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 17:22, 22 December 2022
- In particle physics, fermions are a group of elementary (or fundamental ... Quarks are fermions that couple with a class of bosons known as gluons to form ...16 KB (2,185 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- opposed to living organisms or inorganic matter. However, what specifically ... In contrast with herbivory, which involves the consumption of living ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon ... Compton scattering is of prime importance in radiation therapy. In ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 00:23, 8 January 2024
- X-ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy that focuses ... Astronomers have discovered various types of X-ray sources in the ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 14:15, 20 May 2023
- Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one ... Since its philosophy regards the universe as consisting of two eternal ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 02:13, 23 December 2022
- an interior that is thought to be composed of mainly neutrons. It is formed ... times smaller than the Sun. Thus the density of a neutron star (estimated at ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- Kannada:ದ್ವೈತ) is a dualist school of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. ... Madhva, who wrote commentaries on a number of Hindu scriptures. ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions ... Vedānta tradition has his own understanding of the precise meanings of the ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- known for propagating the Vaishnava doctrine of bhedabheda dvaitadvaita, duality ... and non-duality. He defines three categories of existence, God (Isvara), souls ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- under an applied shear stress regardless of the magnitude of the applied ... is made by evaluating the viscosity of the matter: for example silly ...15 KB (2,275 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- from the previous one. The lowest level is matter, the material world. Every ... Emanationism differs from the Christian doctrine of creation, which ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- Dialectical materialism is the philosophical expression of Marxism ... world, including human beings, is "matter in motion" and that ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- called a hadron. An electron is an example of an elementary particle; protons ... Dozens of subatomic particles have been discovered. Most of them, ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- and physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded ... Le Bon's thesis that the behavior of crowds was based on emotion ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 12:46, 24 January 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
- rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic potential of ... The term enthalpy was composed of the prefix en-, meaning to "put ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, ... Traditionally, some of the objects in a still life were likely to ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... The term is also used in a wider sense in several fields of philosophy ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary ... Our understanding of the nature of physical existence derives in large ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 08:56, 18 November 2022
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... Unlike Aristotle who held that the natural state of matter is to be ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy ... (a) Regular ("baryonic") matter, made of electrons and quarks; ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- forms, the forms are known as allotropes of the element, and this type ... of an element within the same phase or state of matter (i.e. different solid ...5 KB (685 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Astrochemistry, representing an overlap of the disciplines of astronomy ... beyond the Solar System. The study of chemicals within the Solar System ...7 KB (940 words) - 18:21, 19 August 2023
- Matter is made of atoms, and atoms are made of electrons and quarks ... time and space that we observe is the square of this complex spacetime, and ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 06:25, 31 July 2023
- Anaximenes (in Greek: Άναξιμένης) of Miletus (c. 585 – ... Thales, the first philosopher of Ionia, conceived the original being ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- particle formed by the binding together of quarks and gluons. The quarks ... There are two types of hadrons: baryons and mesons. Common examples ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- States, England and Wales, or other parts of the world, a brief is a road ... The brief was probably so called from its at first being only a copy ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- important contributions are the founding of Moscow State University, the ... Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- Particulates, also referred to as particulate matter (PM), aerosols ... spray. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, also generate ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2022
- In particle physics, a lepton is one of the elementary (or fundamental ... pairs, and in three generations. Everyday matter is composed of the first ...8 KB (1,168 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, ... Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- meaning "power") is a branch of physics that studies the effects ... quot; thus, thermodynamics is the study of the movement of energy and ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- , or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is one of the ... The theory of anamnesis is a version of theory of innate ideas. Rationalists ...15 KB (2,367 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- 1990, for his pioneering work in the field of corporate finance theory. Miller ... The basic theorem states that the value of a firm is unaffected by ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the philosophers of Ionia ... inquired into the unchanging principle of being that can uniformly explain ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Falun Gong (Chinese: 法轮功: meaning "Practice of the Wheel ... surfaced in the institutional field of alternative Chinese science ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs (632–634). Abu Bakr was a towering figure in the development and early survival ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... ==Properties of free space== Free space is characterized by the defined ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron ... As white dwarfs are composed of electron-degenerate matter, no nonrotating ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- Boiling is the process of rapidly converting a liquid to its gaseous ... The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which it can ...13 KB (2,088 words) - 05:24, 17 November 2023
- philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of the first outspoken atheists ... place for all the intellectual figures of his time, radical and conservative ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite ... Since mesons are composed of quarks, they participate in both the ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- capital vices or cardinal sins, are a list of the worst vices that cut a ... Much debate thrived over the relative merit of the Seven Deadly Sins ...16 KB (2,583 words) - 10:07, 26 January 2023
- He was the one of the leading figures of the Russian Symbolist movement ... sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were men of letters ...11 KB (1,565 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- with free will, and oversimplification of complex phenomena. == Mechanism as the principles of nature== The older doctrine which ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- and promoted a complex understanding of the origins of the universe ... Basilides was a pupil of a hearer of St. Peter, Glaucias by name, ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- to gamma radiation, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation and ... By comparison, visible light occupies the middle range of the electromagnetic ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- Gas is one of the four major states or phases of matter, along with solid, liquid, and plasma. Each state is characterized by distinct physical ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- 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
- leader, he effectively promoted the primacy of the Roman church and cooperated ... role in condemning Pelagianism, his support of deposed patriarch of Constantinople ...15 KB (2,270 words) - 11:00, 13 February 2022
- term designated a profession in or a group of teachers of rhetoric. Rhetoricians ... Socrates and Plato challenged sophist ideas of replacing rhetorical ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- 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
- Nuclear physics is a field of physics that involves investigation ... are the most commonly known applications of nuclear physics, but the research ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 00:29, 17 November 2022
- quot; that would lead to the development of nutrition as a science. His ... in organic chemistry at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Upon his ...8 KB (1,193 words) - 20:03, 9 February 2023
- In February 1926, Carter G. Woodson launched the celebration of "Negro ... G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... The origins of the theory are rooted in the medieval idea that God ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- Mass, in classical mechanics, is the measure of an object's resistance ... Probing into the depths of classical mechanics, physicists have conceptualized ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- that denotes the genuine, original, true state of human existence. The concept ... which often emphasize the restoration of an authentic self and society ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was the bishop of Rome ... As pope, he promoted the authority of Rome both within the Christian ...11 KB (1,751 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- to order capital punishment. The legitimacy of political authority is, however ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- formalist poets and exhibited a mastery of traditional poetic forms, winning ... Randall Jarrell, another ardent student of Ransom who was to be a lifelong ...8 KB (1,303 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- New York, graduated from the University of Vermont, and began his journalistic ... Raymond is perhaps best known, however, for being the founder of the ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics ... They have also observed the birth and death of stars, cosmic rays, the cosmic ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth ... Adherents of the verifiability principle claimed that all statements ...8 KB (1,167 words) - 18:01, 3 May 2023
- Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of ... , Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 22:59, 30 April 2023
- the Pushti sect in India and the philosophy of Shuddha advaita (pure non-dualism). ... Vallabha is regarded as an acharya (embodiment of a divine personality ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using ... Automatic writing first became popular during the golden age of Spiritualism ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is a mineral composed of calcium ... Historically, some varieties of fluorite have been used for ornamental ...8 KB (1,085 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
- Agency (EPA) considers the bog one of the four general categories ... plant and animal species. They are a source of peat, which can be dried and ...13 KB (1,940 words) - 00:02, 12 January 2023
- the period after the legendary arrival of Gija in northern (or in the ... Koreans point to Gija as a co-founder of Korean civilization along ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
- Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and ... Chastity is seen as undergirding marriage; sexual acts outside of ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- Pope Saint Gelasius I (reigned 492 - 496 C.E.) was an important pope ... One of the more prolific writers among the early popes, many of Gelasius ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 06:35, 18 April 2024
- gas, but it is usually considered a distinct state of matter in contrast to gases because of its unique properties. "Ionized" means that at ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 07:58, 24 November 2022
- ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature ... one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy and ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- naturalistic, and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings ... Wang Chong deplored the degeneration of Confucianism and Daoism into ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- The Cambridge Platonists are a group of seventeenth century British ... scholars but often lacked the originality of thought of more illustrious ...25 KB (3,863 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years ... moved to Worcester when she was two years of age. Perkins' father opened ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- observation statements, and judgments of perception have also been used ... A number of questions arose about such alleged protocol sentences: ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- scandal that began during the administration of President Harding. Elk Hills ... The Teapot Dome oil field received its name because of a rock resembling ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- A crystallite is a domain of solid-state matter that has the same structure as a single crystal. Crystallites can vary in size from a few nanometers ...11 KB (1,643 words) - 23:09, 9 May 2020
- 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
- John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous ... at 16 and studied theology at the University of Glasgow. He admired the works ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- Materials science is an interdisciplinary field involving the study ... has witnessed a surge in the development of new materials, including plastics ...17 KB (2,292 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- Sphagnum is the common name and genus name for a group of mosses ... enhancer or conditioner, or used in potting of plants. Sphagnum moss has also ...14 KB (2,165 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding ... The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct ... contrary to his preferences or will because of a threat administered by another ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... tenth child. President John Adams was one of his cousins. Adams was a baptized ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- Pope Saint Victor I was bishop of Rome (from about 189 to 199 C.E ... all Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus on Sunday, rather than ...14 KB (2,181 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- in which electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy ... Hertz, although the term has generally fallen out of use. ...23 KB (3,443 words) - 04:26, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... Philosophers often suppose a certain sense of being as primary, and ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- html Solar Wind Squeezes Some of Earth's Atmosphere into ... referred to as the "fourth state of matter." Lightning is ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 11:09, 6 March 2024
- according to an established standard of evaluation. There is a range ... established only within certain frameworks of thought and value perspectives ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- January 31, 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student ... From 1920 until 1928, he was the Chairperson of the WSCF. For his labors in ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 03:51, 3 May 2024
- hi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit]) Retrieved December ... which have experienced most if not all of these characteristics, the ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- being created entirely from inanimate matter, and given life through a ... and has to be deactivated. The notion of the golem, then, serves to ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- de la Tour discovered the critical point of a substance in his famous cannon ... be explained by looking at the phase diagram of a pure component, for example ...14 KB (2,010 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- a German chemist who ushered in a new age of organic chemistry when he demonstrated ... Eschersheim, near Frankfurt am Main, the son of August Anton Wöhler, who was ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:37, 17 October 2022
- formal training in how to teach the subjects of their expertise. In fact, many ... to qualify a person as a teacher: knowledge of the subject matter to be taught ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact ... A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- as Classical Yoga or simply Yoga) is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools ... concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- specifically an aryl amine, consisting of a phenyl group attached to ... First, benzene is heated with a concentrated mixture of nitric acid ...13 KB (1,817 words) - 06:09, 28 July 2023
- the United States, Brunner became professor of systematic theology at the ... At first a close friend and ally of Karl Barth, Brunner split with ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- is an ester derived from the combination of ethanol and acetic acid. Its ... removers. It is also useful in the process of decaffeination of coffee and ...8 KB (1,113 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... the second period spans the lifetimes of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- Coeducation is the integrated education of males and females at the ... single-sex education is undergoing a rebirth of popularity. ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 22:24, 7 January 2024
- A corona is a type of plasma "atmosphere" of the Sun or ... The high temperature of the corona gives it unusual spectral features ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:34, 8 January 2024
- Berzelius, is considered a "father of modern chemistry." In ... He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass; co ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, invisible, indestructible ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person ... Promotion of the rights of the accused sometimes comes into conflict ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- 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
- The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation ... The role of religion in American public life remains an unresolved ...29 KB (4,563 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The compromise was possible after the death of President Zachary Taylor, who ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the earth. (Other planetary ... The cycle is usually thought of as four main reservoirs of carbon ...17 KB (2,593 words) - 23:46, 20 April 2023
- In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its ... The phenomenon of escape velocity is a consequence of conservation ...18 KB (2,947 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander ... and Islamic philosophy. The beginning of "modern" philosophy ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary ... Bang theory is consistent with the theory of general relativity and with ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- formula SiH4. It is the silicon analog of methane and, like methane, ... == Nomenclature of different structures == There are certain rules ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 22:02, 29 January 2023
- hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in ... "telekinesis" or "mind over matter," is the ability to ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... parties which may be individuals or groups of states or organizations. Treaties ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... a precedent and my God will Make it the Seed of a Nation. That an example may ...16 KB (2,612 words) - 10:39, 11 May 2023
- derived from the astrological symbols of Venus and Mars.]] to an individual's self perception of being male or female. Within ...24 KB (3,629 words) - 06:41, 18 April 2024
- Trichoptera is an order of moth-like, holometabolous insects, known ... Caddisflies provide important ecological functions as part of food ...12 KB (1,840 words) - 16:48, 2 May 2023
- discipline that involves application of the principles of physics for ... The beginnings of mechanical engineering go back to the craftsmen ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 03:49, 9 November 2022
- His writings, particularly his advocacy of the "single tax" ... George's motivation was to address the problem of poverty that ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 07:25, 22 January 2024
- lawyer and politician and a founding father of the United States. He served ... He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- while western church, under the discipline of the papacy, denounced the doctrine ... Monophysitism received new life again during the reign of Justinian ...23 KB (3,529 words) - 20:01, 9 November 2022
- Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, ... The roots of the tradition of virtue ethics lie in the works of Plato ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Virgins remained celibate for 30 years on penalty of death]] Virginity is a term used to describe the state of never having engaged ...20 KB (2,940 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- , in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body—has more general ... thought. Here lies the attractiveness of monism, which subsumes all ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War satirists ... Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of poor Jewish parents ...20 KB (3,184 words) - 17:07, 19 December 2022
- In Islamic tradition, he was the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad and the ... In the Book of Genesis, Ishmael was the first of Abraham's household ...15 KB (2,619 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- to acknowledge our common sense experience of the world as valid. The starting ... outside world is nothing but a projection of my own self is philosophically ...26 KB (3,989 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- sixteen people on board, citing violation of airspace. The episode took ... The Atlantique Incident, taking place one month after the end of the ...17 KB (2,490 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- developed by the established Church of England. Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- applying evolutionary theory to the study of politics and ethics. He coined ... Herbert Spencer was born in Derby, England on April 27, 1820, the ...19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- 200 books and articles in various fields of science. He was well versed ... Razi's portrait adorns the great hall of the Faculty of Medicine in ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- quot; railway because it linked the capital of Vienna with Austria’s Italian ... It is still fully functional as a part of the Austrian Southern Railway ...10 KB (1,532 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic ... Proponents of academic freedom believe that the freedom of inquiry ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 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
- [[Image:Laas Geel cow herd.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Detail of the Laas ... approximately 40,000 years ago. The purpose of the cave paintings is not known ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 16:21, 3 December 2023
- [[Image:Lascaux 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Lascaux cave painting of aurochs]] Discovered in 1940, Lascaux is a series of caves in southwestern France ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- economist and political theorist, and one of the founders of the Saint-Simonian ... Paris, France, on February 8, 1796, the son of a banker from Dauphiné. After ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- the persecution which caused the banishment of his predecessor Pope Cornelius ... Lucius' brief papacy took place during the beginning stages of ...11 KB (1,673 words) - 04:03, 26 November 2022
- 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent Western political ... Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
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- religions referring to the entire cycle of cause and effect which governs ... with earthly existence. The concept of karma in Indian philosophy ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 07:22, 5 October 2022
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- organized the National Colonization Society of America and the American Colonization ... The society held close control over the development of Liberia until ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 03:32, 24 July 2023
- Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are one of ... there is increasing evidence that the type of glia known as astrocytes may ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 07:55, 24 January 2023
- "occasionalism," an interpretation of Cartesian mind-body dualism ... Geulincx served as professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
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- [[image:Edge_of_Space2.png|thumb|right|175px|Layers of Atmosphere (NOAA)]] The Earth's atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding our planet ...24 KB (3,540 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of ... Protons are spin-1/2 fermions and are composed of three quarks, making ...10 KB (1,600 words) - 08:20, 2 December 2022
- A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed ... (1735-1826) in his book, General History of Connecticut first published ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- his papacy, Simplicius witnessed the fall of the western Roman Empire to ... Simplicius defended the after-effects of the of the Council of Chalcedon ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 11:44, 13 February 2022
- 1969), was the thirty-sixth kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1939 until his ... used in Uganda. As king he was also leader of the Baganda people, the largest ...15 KB (2,301 words) - 19:37, 10 November 2022
- or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. In some cases ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- (Lost) Brothers for Me") was the son of Sargon II, whom he succeeded ... In response Sennacherib sacked a number of cities in Judah. He laid siege ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- Japanese film director, is regarded as one of the masters of Japanese cinema ... the actors during dialogs; and using shots of objects, landscapes or empty ...21 KB (3,096 words) - 09:52, 23 May 2023
- system known as Civil law. For the area of law in common law countries ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...15 KB (2,321 words) - 22:28, 10 December 2023
- Buddhist teacher, philosopher, and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan ... His major work, Shobogenzo (literally, "Treasury of the True ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- The Eucharist is a sacramental or memorial reenactment of the Last ... Christians generally recognize a special presence of Christ in this ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one ... == Statement of Boyle's law == Boyle's law can be stated ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- at extremely low temperatures (on the order of −200 degrees Celsius), characterized ... Superconductors are used to make some of the most powerful electromagnets ...21 KB (3,041 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- Kiriwina Islands) are a 170 mi² archipelago of coral atolls off the eastern ... The people of the area are mostly subsistence horticulturalists who ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- Philo (20 B.C.E. – 50 C.E.), known also as Philo of Alexandria and ... Bible as an allegory for the rise and fall of the human soul. He developed ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the ... What the nature of the resurrected body is may still be an issue. ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, ... The use of the Commerce Clause by Congress to justify its legislative ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- as referring to the happiness or well being of individuals. Utilitarianism ... back to Plato and ancient Greek discussions of eudaimonia. The most important ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
- with a psychic ability to produce phenomena of a mental or physical nature ... ==History of mediumship== Human beings have attempted to contact spirits ...19 KB (2,785 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- rule," which predicts the number of phases that a substance can ... Josiah Willard Gibbs was the only son and the fourth of five children ...19 KB (2,808 words) - 20:00, 7 September 2022
- Peat is a dark, fibrous accumulation of partially decomposed and disintegrated ... There are several different types of peat and peat-forming terrains ...19 KB (2,935 words) - 17:10, 26 March 2023
- 2, 1731 O.S. — May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first ... George Washington took his oath of office in New York City on April ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:57, 6 December 2023
- Nitric acid (chemical formula HNO3) is one of the most important inorganic ... It is also used for the manufacture of explosives (such as nitroglycerine ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2022
- A sheep is an individual of any of the woolly mammal species that ... horns that are more divergent than those of goats. Sheep have scent glands ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 21:23, 6 October 2022
- Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions that ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch ... thinkers, and contributed to the development of modern European philosophy ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation in 1838, of the ... This was caused by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee Trail ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
- "to bear") are invertebrates of the phylum Porifera. They are ... Sponges represent the simplest of animals. With no true tissues (parazoa ...15 KB (2,195 words) - 18:05, 14 October 2022
- Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany ... The city also enjoyed frequent periods of prosperity. The current ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- Gaya refers to a confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley ... The Gaya confederacy became a key component of the Silla dynasty. ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge ... Esotericism largely involves an element of initiation such as the ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public ... they are not bound by the competition of the business sector. In this ...18 KB (2,646 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, ... was not a fraud. He died during the Imamat of Imam Ja'far al- Sadiq ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- The Physiocrats were a group of economists who believed that the wealth ... The most significant contribution of the physiocrats was their emphasis ...22 KB (3,407 words) - 05:10, 24 November 2022
- ketopropane) is the simplest representative of the group of chemical compounds ... Small amounts of acetone are metabolically produced in the body, mainly ...10 KB (1,364 words) - 07:34, 14 June 2023
- tragedies were belatedly recognized as some of the finest plays in the tradition ... Grillparzer stands on the cusp of the new age of realism, in which ...15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
- Dolomite is the name for a mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate ... it is a raw material for the manufacture of cement, and a source of magnesium ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 16:38, 29 January 2024
- While one can detect an integral number of quanta, one cannot detect one ... Thus, in quantum physics, the outcome of even an ideal measurement ...26 KB (4,014 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (1540-1542). She is sometimes ... immediately after his annulment from Anne of Cleves was arranged. However ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
- Value is not equivalent to moral value. Works of art have value, but ... ==The meaning of value judgments== What are we doing when we ascribe ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- close friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the influential figures in ... a provincial town some miles north of Stuttgart. Schiller was the ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tent ... The origins of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor are ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was ... Titled, "The Apportionment of Members Among the States" ...15 KB (2,066 words) - 01:55, 26 March 2024
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the ... is enforced either by a high court (such as State supreme courts in some American ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution ... and biotic environment or as "the study of the structure and function ...38 KB (5,612 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- 1135; r. 1100-1126) was the eighth and one of the most famous emperors of ... He was a collector of paintings, calligraphies, and antiques of previous ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 10:25, 21 January 2023
- work in economics, especially his criticism of the railroad system, helped ... in Medford, Massachusetts, into the family of Nathaniel L. Ripley and Estimate ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- Soil is the mixture of minerals, organic matter, liquids, and gases ... While the general concept of soil is well established, the definition ...27 KB (4,112 words) - 15:59, 14 October 2022
- – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- in Islam as Jahannam. The powerful imagery of Gehenna originates from a ancient ... (גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 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
- from and within the contexts and history of Christianity. While Ethics ... Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Roman ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- The term xylene refers to a group of three benzene derivatives, each ... in the United States, measured in terms of volume. The xylenes are solvents ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 09:56, 22 May 2023
- The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed ... The principle has a variety of expressions, all of which are perhaps ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 21:33, 26 February 2023
- According to the teachings of the Buddha, a proper understanding of ... *Form—in terms of an external object (such as a sound) and its associated ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- The solar wind is a stream of charged particles — a plasma — ejected ... as the Northern Lights, the plasma tails of comets that always point away ...23 KB (3,443 words) - 00:46, 4 February 2023
- In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules ... The scientific study of convection not only helps clarify the principles ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- religion with its origins in the prehistory of India, still practiced today ... that respect and honor the spiritual nature of every living being. Jainism ...28 KB (4,275 words) - 12:42, 6 November 2021
- facility for the support and housing of poor persons, typically run ... them unattractive, so as to ensure no abuse of this charity, workhouse conditions ...14 KB (2,160 words) - 23:59, 17 May 2023
- General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed ... Previously, Newton's law of universal gravitation (1686) had ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
- 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
- to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a law passed ... on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- mystic and poet who is now revered as one of the most influential Persian ... its early part; there is a great deal of more or less mythical anecdote ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- that seeks to portray common values of the ordinary individual, as ... was an attempt to create a perfect illusion of reality through detailed sets ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- theology, is the full or partial remission of punishment for sins. The indulgence ... be obtained by offering a certain amount of money as alms to the Church ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 19:36, 8 October 2020
- "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
- Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ... the United States was restored at the end of the Civil War, not all Northerners ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives, U.S. Senator ... South Carolina. In 1824, his father was one of the founders of the first Reform ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 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
- , located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most prestigious universities ... Today Keio Gijuku Daigaku includes undergraduate faculties of Business ...12 KB (1,563 words) - 17:19, 5 October 2022
- which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- as a strong chemical base in the manufacture of pulp and paper, textiles, drinking ... It is very soluble in water, with liberation of heat. It also dissolves in ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- The Redwood National and State Parks stretch along the northern Pacific ... and include land held in three state parks: Jedediah Smith Redwoods ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the ... === First Assembly of Notables and peasants === The suggestion to summon ...27 KB (4,325 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- "clear-seeing") denotes a form of extra-sensory perception in ... Most cultures throughout history have anecdotal reports of clairvoyance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 07:21, 14 January 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
- Cranmer and Matthew Parker, as a co-founder of Anglican theology. He was also ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- founded the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahāyāna (Great Vehicle) ... major influence not only on the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought, ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- and folklorist, recognized as the founder of the field of folklore in France ... Van Gennep's work showed that the formation of social groups ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- problems in governing the the United States of America, which had been operating ... The convention failed to resolve successfully the question of slavery ...26 KB (3,802 words) - 03:12, 24 November 2022
- the Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of any theory of evolution in ... The Scopes Trial (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- the Nobel Prize in 1922. He was also part of the team of physicists working ... Niels Bohr is one of the most important scientists from Denmark; he ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- Michael Faraday was one of the pioneers of modern electromagnetic ... It can also be argued that his discoveries resulted in some of the ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 16:54, 9 November 2022
- soon became a friend and a major patron of the group of artists known ... While Caillebotte's own style belongs to the school of Realism ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 01:24, 27 July 2023
- leaves. Fertilizers can be organic (composed of organic matter), or inorganic ... engage in nitrogen fixation (conversion of atmospheric nitrogen to a biologically ...33 KB (4,735 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861 ... Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The Buchanan ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first child of the painter Orazio Gentileschi ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- Church about whether certain elements of Chinese folk religion (including ... as they sought to create a Chinese version of Christianity instead of trying ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ray ... Cosmic rays originate from a wide variety of sources--ranging from ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- The brain is a centralized mass of nerve tissue enclosed within the ... Along with the spinal cord, the brain forms part of the central nervous ...28 KB (4,199 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- gas (LPG or LP-gas) and can be a mixture of propane with smaller amounts ... in gasoline by Dr. Walter O. Snelling of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in ...13 KB (1,941 words) - 00:08, 2 December 2022
- In some systems of Hindu thought, Shakti may also be worshiped as ... The concept of Shakti, as both divine energy and as the goddess is ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 10:17, 26 January 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
- direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior. Motivation is a temporal ... that can be unique. The former type of motivation involves satisfying ...18 KB (2,702 words) - 17:02, 10 November 2022
- a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the Franciscan Friars Minor ... He rejected Aristotle’s concept of the eternity of the world, ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a ... He was the first of a series of eight presidents between Andrew Jackson ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ... In formal logic, the definition of a dilemma differs markedly from ...24 KB (3,799 words) - 15:21, 29 January 2024
- A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement ... as is habitual in civil law systems, as part of a general law of obligations ...41 KB (6,819 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners, redolent of ... and chlorination by Cl2 in the presence of FeCl3 to give ortho and para ...10 KB (1,406 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- Copepods are a group of generally minute aquatic crustaceans found ... tap water in New York City became a source of religious controversy in the ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 02:55, 8 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
- Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being ... is generally considered the most important of the few that survive. ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- described science as "the greatest joy of my life." He found the ... a new element, cerium. His studies of the effects of electric currents ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 21:46, 4 October 2022
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical ... In aquatic environments, enhanced growth of choking aquatic vegetation ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions ... ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth century. However ...12 KB (1,559 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- It includes the floodway, which consists of the stream channel and adjacent ... Floodplains constitute a valuable part of the environment. They filter ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 19:34, 9 November 2023
- most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- sapir) is a gemstone belonging to a family of gems that are varieties of ... sapphire wafers are used as the faces of high-quality watches and as ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against ... Described as an international bill of rights for women, it came into ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- difference between our experience of time and space. Modern physics ... The basic property of spacetime is 'the metric' that describes ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 19:16, 17 August 2023
- Gerbil is the common name for any of the small to medium-sized rodents ... eggs and are preyed upon by snakes, birds of prey such as owls, and small ...22 KB (2,988 words) - 15:28, 30 November 2022
- 1130 – 1200 C.E.) was a Confucian scholar of the Song dynasty who became ... was his moralization and ordering of the cosmos. By describing the ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- meteorology, geography, jurisprudence, study of the Bible, mathematics, anatomy ... alike, he was burnt at the stake by order of the Geneva governing council ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... Ketuvim (Writings) as the second last book of the Bible, and the latter situating ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins ... Ancient Jewish religion involved rites of priestly sacrifice of animal ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- A vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter ... The quality of a vacuum is measured by how closely it approaches a ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- fuel obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, often called petrodiesel ... Diesel engines are a type of internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- place, it requires a certain minimum amount of energy, called its activation ... if a given reaction can produce a variety of products, the catalyst may ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:49, 30 November 2023
- third century C.E., based on the teachings of the antipope Novatian, who ... for the Roman church during the persecution of Emperor Decius c. 250 C.E. ...17 KB (2,510 words) - 22:16, 16 November 2022
- The Book of Kells (less widely known as the Book of Columba) is an ... The Book of Kells is the high point of a group of manuscripts produced ...38 KB (6,352 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts ... amongst the three points—the omnipotence of God, the goodness of God, and ...38 KB (6,068 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- According to the Bible, Elisha was a powerful prophet in the Kingdom ... kings and was instrumental in the defeat of armies and the lifting of sieges ...20 KB (3,192 words) - 21:43, 7 January 2019
- "living being") era is an interval of about 186 million years defined ... After the great extinction event at the end of the Paleozoic era, ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- Sediment is any particulate matter that is transported by the flow ... Sediments may be transported by the action of streams, rivers, glaciers ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 17:44, 25 January 2023
- that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction ... Ages, beauty is a constitutive element of the cosmos associated with ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ... Einstein postulated that the speed of light is the same for all observers ...42 KB (6,653 words) - 19:12, 7 February 2023
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution4glyph.png Indians would add a horizontal line on top of the numeral, and the Kshatrapa ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- 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
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... helping to found the United Steelworkers of America. He joined the U.S ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... :In the royal service, Major General and Inspector of the Artillery ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- gas is the main product from the combustion of sulfur compounds and is of ... coal and petroleum contain various amounts of sulfur compounds, their combustion ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 21:44, 26 February 2023
- A chart or graph is a type of information graphic or graphic organizer ... Certain types of charts are more useful for presenting a given data ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere ... Lovelock hypothesized that the living matter of the planet functioned ...30 KB (4,599 words) - 11:57, 4 December 2023
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... to orbit in a plane containing our line of sight, they will eclipse each ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- Macrocosm/microcosm is a Greek compound of μακρο- "Macro ... The paired concept of Macrocosm and Microcosm presents the idea that ...11 KB (1,612 words) - 17:28, 9 November 2022
- or as sulfide and sulfate minerals. Many of the unpleasant odors of organic ... This element is essential for living organisms, particularly as part ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was a student ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Gem.pebbles.800pix.labelled.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A selection ... A gemstone is a mineral, rock, or petrified organic matter that, when ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 06:40, 18 April 2024
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- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,778 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2022
- , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- Consciousness at its simplest refers to sentience or awareness of ... Beyond the problem of how to define consciousness, there are also ...56 KB (7,936 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- The nervous system is the network of specialized cells, tissues, and ... peripheral nervous system (PNS), consisting of all the nerves and neurons ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... regarding them as their peers. The survival of the Persian empire against ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring ... Parthenogenesis is part of the wide diversity of adaptations found ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- Rain is a form of precipitation—other forms of which include snow ... cycle again. There is also a small amount of water vapor that respires from ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 00:07, 8 December 2022
- Sales tax is a consumption tax charged at the point of purchase for ... The design and implementation of sales tax has many problems, some ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- Measures of national income and output are used in economics to measure ... to its history, and may provide comparisons of economies in different countries ...33 KB (5,148 words) - 19:46, 7 July 2023
- – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any ... The Jewish diaspora began with the conquests of the eighth to the ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- nature, it is found in the stings and bites of many insects of the order Hymenoptera ... the first person to describe the isolation of formic acid by the distillation ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based ... The movement is generally traced to Alexandria in the first centuries ...42 KB (6,476 words) - 10:52, 22 January 2024
- Vaishali, or Vesali (Pali), had been the capital of the Licchavis ... at that time. Vesali sat where the village of Basrah in Vaishali District ...15 KB (2,417 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- A large part of the Chavin population was based on an agricultural ... The site with its complex of striking terraces and squares surrounded ...15 KB (2,387 words) - 00:46, 5 December 2023
- |name = Ohio State University |image = [[Image:OhioStateUniversityHall ... The Ohio State University (OSU) is a public research university in ...40 KB (5,731 words) - 10:21, 11 March 2023
- was an English politician, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most ... He served as Secretary to the Protector of King Edward, and as an adviser ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- CBR, MBR, and relic radiation) is a form of electromagnetic radiation filling ... with a uniform glow from its red-hot fog of hydrogen plasma. As the universe ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- sewn the first American flag. Three members of a secret committee from the ... She was the eighth of 17 children, of whom only nine survived childhood. ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
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- Joan of Burgundy (June 24, 1293 – September 12, 1348), also known ... Joan's significant patronage of learning sustained the tradition ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 05:59, 5 April 2024
- who in 1893, when he attended the Parliament of the Worlds Religion at Chicago ... he regarded Vedanta as the best expression of that truth. In a lecture delivered ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements ... Perjury is the giving of false testimony under oath. The word comes ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- a critically important role in the process of transmitting religious teachings ... ) or chela. Such sharing of sacred wisdom is imparted through the ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 07:58, 24 July 2023
- from police. His exploits, along with those of other criminals of the 1930s ... 1924, a small-time criminal who was a friend of Dillinger convinced him to ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- 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
- [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- ("to yoke")) refers to a series of interrelated ancient Hindu ... During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, "People" + Mapu, "of the ... so, they reorganized their traditional way of life, gathering together previously ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- 1877) was a French painter whose portrayals of peasants and scenes of everyday ... Following the Revolution of 1848, his representation of contemporary ...18 KB (2,723 words) - 01:44, 27 July 2023
- [[Image:Bankrupt computer store 02.jpg|thumb|Notice of closure attached ... Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability, or impairment of ability ...20 KB (3,097 words) - 03:35, 17 September 2023
- States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- Sewage treatment, or domestic wastewater treatment, is the process ... , or collected and transported via a network of pipes and pump stations to ...40 KB (5,900 words) - 10:11, 26 January 2023
- 1967. Tracy is still widely considered one of the most skillful actors of ... named Tracy among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking ninth on ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- educator and philosopher and a leader of the school of new realism in ... to formulate The Program and First Platform of Six Realists published in the ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- refers to an idealized or prototypical model of a person, object, or concept ... "archetype is an explanatory paraphrase of the Platonic eidos" (Jung ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- in Latin as Ambrosius, was successful bishop of Milan, who was later recognized ... In the beginning of his life, Ambrose embarked upon a career in law ...27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
- 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
- Uzziah of Judah ( עֻזִּיָּהוּ ), also known as Azariah, was the king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian ... He developed a sophisticated analysis of language (thus foreshadowing ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 05:15, 31 July 2023
- Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the ... There are about 2,500 species of mayflies worldwide, including about ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- Pugin for Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-1811).]] before a court. Similarly, those accused of a crime have the right to present ...21 KB (3,221 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- "soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
- civilization is the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference ... and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1878 until his death ... but he is most noted for his "Theory of Objects" (Über Gegenstandstheorie ...14 KB (1,974 words) - 06:46, 20 July 2023
- Knowledge is evaluated and organized information with implications ... Knowledge can be studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives ...16 KB (2,254 words) - 16:10, 15 October 2020
- "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves ... ) or the Dunhuang Caves. -->Construction of the Buddhist cave ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- As with all paranormal or "psi" phenomena, the existence ... == Types of ESP == The term Extra-sensory perception (ESP) was used ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ... on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of Richard and ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- which may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious service ... The award recognizes acts of heroism performed in ground combat if ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... before dying of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. Sanger attended ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance resounded ... the Jewish faith while advancing the cause of reason. Towards the end of ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- smelling liquid. It is a natural constituent of crude oil but is usually synthesized ... Benzene has been the subject of studies by many famous scientists ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 10:44, 28 September 2023
- Coal is a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed primarily ... into nearby water courses. The process of burning of coal generates waste ...32 KB (4,888 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- 580-643), courtesy name Xuancheng (玄成), formally Duke Wenzhen ... selflessness, courage, attitude, and life of attendance. Upon the death ...33 KB (5,278 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- dilemma" (so named because a version of it first appeared in Plato ... He discusses Abraham's dilemma of offering his son Isaac by a ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually ... and sedimentary rocks, often in the form of cryptocrystalline fragments ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus ... endangered in the wild. As a result of its preservation and reintroduction ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- a World War I hero. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- Stanisław Szczepanowski or Stanislaus of Kraków (July 26, 1030 – ... Born in the village of Szczepanów, Stanislaus became Bishop of Krakow ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 13:40, 5 September 2022
- and engineer now best known for the brand of electrical goods that bear ... in connection with the development of the alternating current system ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 00:24, 24 November 2022
- clear and forceful singing, his powerful use of the 12-string guitar, and the ... Lead Belly was one of the most colorful, albeit notorious figures ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- for extracting alkaloids (such as morphine) of pharmaceutical importance from ... The use of chloroform during surgery expanded rapidly thereafter in ...14 KB (1,907 words) - 17:08, 10 December 2023
- , Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was a founder of ... 039;s father, Lewis Reid, came from a family of clergymen and government official ...15 KB (2,355 words) - 22:50, 30 April 2023
- and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He attended ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- – November 3, 1639) was a Catholic monk of mixed raced from Peru and the ... Born the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave ...10 KB (1,693 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... Hotel on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing Empire of China ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- Uracil is one of the five main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids ... replaces thymine as the usual complement of adenine. Thus, thymine is usually ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:37, 12 November 2022
- typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Indigenous cultures along the ... After the movement of European settlers to the region, cultural and ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- came to describe the prominent art movement of the late nineteenth century ... Monet was born to Adolphe and Louise-Justine Monet, both of them second ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 10:58, 19 December 2023
- 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, Order of the Nation (ON), Member of ... the faceless. She helped to set up a network of child-care centers to encourage ...21 KB (2,959 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- the past – it referred to all inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary irrespective ... Magyars were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... Mass killings of over one million Jews occurred before the plans of ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- The dugong is only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; ... Dugongs are part of the order Sirenia along with manatees, both of ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of decay and damage. ... damage, preservation concerns the prevention of potential damages. ...34 KB (4,751 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The Constitution ... The original mechanics of presidential elections were established ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- This article is part of the branches of CAM series. CAM Classifications ... Naturopathic medicine (also known as naturopathy) is a school of medical ...20 KB (2,831 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... United States in 1846. An early supporter of reforms such as mixed-gender ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- Most broadly, mind is the organized totality of the mental processes of an ... Aspects of mind are also attributed to complex animals, which are ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- She was involved in two of the most famous and well-received radio ... Gregory's acclaimed stage production of Shaw's Don Juan In Hell ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- great interest in exposing the workings of the subconscious mind through ... on January 28, 1912. He was the youngest of five boys. A year after Pollock ...37 KB (5,789 words) - 09:21, 13 March 2024
- 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
- that first aired in 1980. The purpose of the network is to make information ... and Reese Schonfeld. The founding purpose of the network was to make information ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 10:13, 25 November 2023
- the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- a vital role in the structures and processes of the living and nonliving worlds ... diagram of carbon, which shows the state of matter for varying temperatures ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 22:12, 25 November 2023
- Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874 ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- 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 Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- (1987) and was chosen Poet Laureate of the United States (1991-1992 ... Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, the son of a professional ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- The Nuremberg Code is a landmark document that delineates a set of ... on people by Nazi researchers, the value of the Nuremberg Code outside ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 15:28, 10 October 2021
- A magnetosphere is a dynamically varying tear-drop shaped region of ... Human knowledge of the magnetosphere dates from 1958 when the first ...23 KB (3,695 words) - 05:21, 5 November 2022
- courtier and politician at the court of Louis XIV. Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the theory of political absolutism; ...26 KB (4,115 words) - 12:30, 6 November 2021
- (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of an independent Kenya. He is ... On the one hand, Kenyatta is a symbol of his nation, on the other ...13 KB (1,915 words) - 19:43, 4 May 2024
- 1.9 million acres (2,968.75 square miles) of land in the U.S. state of Utah ... It is a high, rugged, and remote area which consists of three main ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 14:39, 31 December 2022
- refers in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the existence ... or not God exists received from him one of his famous "silences. ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- A transistor is a semiconductor device that uses a small amount of ... field effect transistors (FETs). Application of current in BJTs and voltage ...30 KB (4,329 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2023
- an organism to conserve energy. Among types of dormancy are hibernation, estivation ... Diversity is one of the factors that enhances the human experience ...21 KB (3,263 words) - 09:30, 15 January 2023
- practice various tantric rituals as part of a sadhana, or spiritual practice ... The ganachakra, or 'tantric feast', can be seen as a mandala ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- with two sections from the Torah's Book of Deuteronomy (6:4-9 and 11:13 ... Jewish law (Halakha) prescribes in detail the affixing of mezuzot ...13 KB (2,058 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2022
- goff), was an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister ... However, despite the brevity of his premiership, his government left ...39 KB (5,698 words) - 00:11, 3 January 2024
- Zhang Guo Lao (張果老) (Chang Kuo Lao in Wade-Giles) is one of ... In iconographic depictions, he is most easily recognizable by his ...10 KB (1,682 words) - 15:18, 3 December 2022
- worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of ... ==Frontiers of Hungary== The Hungarian government terminated the personal ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 14:59, 2 May 2023
- dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter ... White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- Helium (chemical symbol He, atomic number 2) is a minor component ... Helium II is a superfluid, a quantum-mechanical state of matter with ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:19, 25 January 2023
- #039;Oresme (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence ... the local high society and present petitions of the Jews to the ruler. ...12 KB (1,873 words) - 20:25, 28 May 2020
- ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... == History of Imperial Examinations == [[Image:Palastexamen-SongDynastie ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- is God in his manifestation as Creator of the universe. Brahmā is part ... city located on Mount Meru. As creator of the world, Brahmā is considered ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- pamphleteer, and, most enduringly, author of what is widely considered the ... blind, Paradise Lost relates the story of the biblical Fall of Man: It ...27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 2024
- that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter ... sense by Aristotle to describe the effect of music and tragic drama on an ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- It is medium- to coarse-grained and consists of a number of minerals, especially ... Polished granite stones are used in the team sport of curling. ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- Brotherhood. There he adopted the teachings of Sayyed Qutb, most significantly ... sent out fatwa to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, moving to Pakistan ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- way into his novels, both in their subject matter and in his matter of fact ... father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, was the head of the post office in Dublin in ...19 KB (3,017 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that ... Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- | order=General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ... | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- is engaged in the ministry and leadership of religious group. Within the ... Members of holy orders, as leaders of their religious communities ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... Antioch, Alexandria, and other centers of learning to study the Greek ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- which the seed grows. Pisum sativum was one of the first plants cultivated ... bacteria, peas play a role in the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into a ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... agreement providing such a high degree of individual protection. State ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ... As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- century Jewish mystic and the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He was born ... The title Baal Shem Tov is usually translated as "Master of the ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- task, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). This ... is all computer programs. The concept of reading different sequences ...20 KB (2,988 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- The term Biblical canon refers to a definitive list of inspired, authoritative ... These lists of authoritative scriptures emerged through a prolonged ...22 KB (3,254 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- French Revolution, became a great exponent of the conservative tradition ... De Maistre developed a theological view of the French Revolution as ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 02:13, 11 August 2022
- partnership with Lionel Richie. One of the best-selling music artists ... National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. He developed the ...38 KB (5,690 words) - 22:10, 3 March 2023
- 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving ... presidential campaign, held in the aftermath of World War I, he promised a ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ... In addition to completing this level of academic studies, high schools ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- than revelation—should form the basis of religion. In England and the ... In France, on the other hand, Deism in the person of Voltaire took ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- to live in England, he was also the founder of the first Hebrew printing press ... Born to a family of Portuguese Marranos who settled in Amsterdam, ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- | office = Mayor of Chicago | order = 48th Mayor of Chicago | term_start = 1955 | term_end = 1976 ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- economy, focuses on understanding the role of human-made institutions in ... Behavioral economics is another hallmark of institutional economics ...34 KB (4,820 words) - 19:36, 5 March 2024
- Market research is the process of systematic gathering, recording ... ==History of market research== Market research before the 1900s was ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- has been a contribution to the advancement of human society of the same order ... ==Contents of hay== [[Image:Roundbale1.jpg|thumb|Good quality hay should ...30 KB (4,880 words) - 15:04, 25 January 2023
- (Zen) master best known as a keen advocate of the use of koans to achieve ... Dahui was a disciple of Yuanwu Keqin (Wade-Giles: Yuan-wu K'o ...16 KB (2,594 words) - 16:55, 13 May 2020
- Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that ... addition, it is important for the production of semiconductor devices, fuel ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- trauma on defenseless children. Victims of child abuse often become abusers ... The solution to the widespread phenomenon of child abuse cannot be found ...23 KB (3,424 words) - 15:27, 10 December 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- thirteenth century, after the introduction of Averroës' interpretations ... inconsistent with standard understandings of Christian doctrine, prompting ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Chief Joseph (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904) was the chief ... Until his death, he would put this image of himself to use in an attempt ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- Varnish is traditionally a combination of a drying oil, a resin, and ... evaporated, or harden after evaporation of the solvent through certain ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- (Korean: 신미양요 ,Western Disturbance of the Year Sinmi) started out ... Korea had maintained a relationship of tribute with China. In exchange ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... considered a rather inhumane method of execution it was the method ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- formal term for the earliest surviving canon of Buddhist scriptures, also called ... # Sutta Pitaka, (contains discourses of the Buddha and his disciples) ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 17:41, 2 May 2023
- he held sway are immortalized in, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ... Hārūn was the son of al-Mahdi, the third 'Abbasid caliph (ruled ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ... social groupings were no more than the sum of their parts, a view that is ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- Honor has been defined in more modern times as the evaluation of a ... The ancient Greek concepts of honor (timē) included not only the ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface. If the force is ... Our understanding of the concept of pressure and our ability to manipulate ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...37 KB (5,078 words) - 17:20, 15 April 2021
- penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment, by means of ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- 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
- chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ... is that there exists an infinite number of concrete and causally isolated ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- pleasing in appearance. The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation ... Many types of crystals are found in nature. Snowflakes, diamonds, ...24 KB (3,432 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- He was responsible for thrusting awareness of the Gulag on the non-Soviet ... in helping to strip away the legitimacy of the Soviet regime should not ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- the Negev Desert and the Aravah valley of what is now southern Israel ... descended from him. Esau was the brother of Jacob, the ancestor of the ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- 28, 1585 - May 6, 1638) was Catholic bishop of Ypres, Dutch Roman Catholic ... Duvergier de Hauranne, who had become the abbé of Saint-Cyran, won ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ... ==Scope of the Conflict== The conflict is sometimes referred to as ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- clearly formulate the fundamental principles of thermodynamics. He also placed ... Clausius was born in Köslin in the Province of Pomerania, the son ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 21:04, 21 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
- Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the ... Biopsychology has been a prominent field of psychology from the start ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 17:55, 31 October 2023
- Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and ... to the U.S. and the first popularizer of blackface performance, which ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... When Yucatán became a state in 1824 it occupied the entire peninsula ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- or one or more communities within a state that are seeking either independence ... The factors leading to war are often complicated and due to a range ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method ... A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than ... insects such as bees, can see into a portion of the ultraviolet region (the ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:30, 18 April 2023
- Moss is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular ... There are other non-bryophyte organisms that use the common name of ...21 KB (3,181 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- or boat to a specific point at the bottom of a body of water. The anchor ... There are two primary classes of anchors: temporary and permanent ...30 KB (5,219 words) - 01:04, 9 January 2023
- Qiao (房喬) but went by the courtesy name of Xuanling, ... formally Duke Wenzhao of Liang (梁文昭公), was the lead editor ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 22:43, 13 July 2022
- The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest ... The Muslim conquest of the city solidified Arab control over Judea ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
