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- Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with ... Neo-Hegelianism was prominent in Great Britain and in the United States ...8 KB (1,042 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House ... His election as king of Finland resulted from the temporary ascendancy ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- 1, 1918) was an American educator and one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... in Hagenow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (now in Germany), into a prosperous family ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- 1926) founded the first American department of sociology at the University ... Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the son of Reverend ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 17:49, 19 December 2022
- formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ... With the onset of World War I, the world would see the two alliances ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- governor best known for his administration of Germany immediately after World ... Clay supported and lobbied for this change of policy, fearing that an impoverished ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint ... The speech was delivered over 10 months before the Armistice with ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic ... on reforms that ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, urged the ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- a world champion heavyweight fighter from Germany whose two fights with Joe ... After rising to the top of the heavyweight ranks, Schmeling fought ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- radioactive mineral that is composed mainly of uranium dioxide (UO2). It is ... This mineral also contains minor amounts of radium and helium, which ...4 KB (526 words) - 13:35, 3 May 2023
- in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a method of synthesizing ammonia using ... 1927. After Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, the Nazis forced him to ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- served as a major motivation for Nazi Germany's territorial aggression ... The idea of a Germanic people without sufficient space dates back ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:49, 25 October 2022
- A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education and ... may specialize in more practical areas of study, such as technology, ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- educator, dedicated to the education of young children. After meeting ... Susan Blow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the oldest of six children ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
- His initial insight was that a social group of human beings in many ways functions ... into an important family in Karlsruhe, Germany. His father was the head ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 06:38, 15 April 2024
- Organization, officially named the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and ... ), was an organization of Central and Eastern European communist states ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 22:57, 3 May 2023
- that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata ... . Although the basic echinoderm pattern of five-fold symmetry can be recognized ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 16:49, 31 May 2020
- 6, 1919 – February 22, 1943) was a student of medicine at the University ... in the Catholic faith. He was the father of three children, the last of ...9 KB (1,303 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the ... that afforded many contacts for the rest of his life. He graduated from ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... regimes. The conflict and the two sets of alliances can be seen as representing ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- Constitutional law is the foundational body of law of nation states ... These foundational or basic laws of states or organizations, guided ...11 KB (1,572 words) - 16:59, 21 April 2021
- American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America ... Astor was born in 1763 to a poor working class family in Waldorf, ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... betrayal" was coined in several of these countries to describe ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- A key figure of early Post-minimalism in the United States and one ... an emphasis on the physical properties of materials and the manner of ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- The gnome is a class of legendary creatures throughout Europe and ... Despite varying forms, gnomes have the common attribute of being able ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- current in North America. In many parts of Europe, such as Germany, the ... While a number of countries have prep schools as part of their education ...13 KB (1,906 words) - 22:22, 30 November 2022
- whose writings in the 1920s sparked a surge of interest in the subject of ... Oberth was the son of Dr. Julius Oberth, the head of a Saxon family ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 10:20, 22 January 2024
- The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world ... and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern part of New ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride, NaCl, commonly known ... Halite occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that ...5 KB (705 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically ... it is connected with the principal feast day of Saint Joseph, spouse of the ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:56, 21 January 2023
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- He is famous for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two ... Lincolnshire, England, the eldest son of Draper and Fanny Anne Hewitt ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- a German naval leader, who was in command of the Kriegsmarine during World ... After the war, he was charged and convicted of "crimes against ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 07:15, 5 October 2022
- A gas chamber is an apparatus consisting of a sealed chamber into ... The practice of using the gas chamber for executing condemned prisoners ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 04:37, 18 April 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
- the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) ... Gym, a shortened form of gymnasium, refers to facilities intended ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- economist. He began his career as a member of the Austrian School of economics ... Morgenstern was born on January 24, 1902 in Görlitz, Germany. His ...9 KB (1,193 words) - 04:38, 18 November 2022
- first journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934. In 1939, Time magazine ... Her biographer said of her, "she was the voice of courage and ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- and distribute leaflets under the group name of the White Rose non-violent ... Sophie and her family loved Germany, and she and her brother had both ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in ... movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ideals of Western ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- early contributions to the development of radar. He served as a professor ... become an often-unseen but indispensable part of modern life. ...7 KB (1,005 words) - 05:01, 17 June 2023
- organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 ... Union rejects aggression as a way for states to resolve disputes. With ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- institution that teaches an inclusive range of subjects across the academic ... While some continue to support the idea of selective education, with ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... Allianz was the largest insurer in Germany when the Nazi party came ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- Britannica (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993, ISBN 978-0852295717 ... imprisonment due largely to the intervention of the Bishop of Chichester, George ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany where he achieved international ... when he was eight years old as the last of the ten children of Henry and ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 08:12, 3 April 2024
- army officer who emigrated to the United States, became a geographer, cartographer ... the 29th New York Infantry, made up entirely of Germans and also known as the ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... Schröder started a process whereby Germany, after having been excluded ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows ... The concertina was developed independently in both England and Germany. ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- 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
- award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- empires over several hundred years, and one of the last remaining areas open ... Italy actually acquired a larger African territory than Germany did ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- League contributed significantly to the work of the League of Nations. During ... Balch was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an ...10 KB (1,611 words) - 18:17, 13 February 2024
- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Abraham Lincoln. He was a staunch supporter of the Union and of the emancipation ... Hay was born in 1838, in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, raised ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- Lyer optical illusion with arrows. Both set of arrows are exactly the same ... The Müller-Lyer illusion is an optical illusion consisting of a set ...5 KB (795 words) - 18:00, 10 November 2022
- Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... the Nazis seized power, he became a leader of the representative Jewish body ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- in the European Union. It originates in Germany's Black Forest as the ... Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman ...23 KB (3,172 words) - 22:13, 25 January 2024
- Nazi medical doctors and officials accused of criminal human experimentation ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, ... present their stories as faithful renditions of direct folkloric materials ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- in 1694. His commentaries and revisions of the theories of Thomas Hobbes ... the ore mountains (Erzgebirge) in the Duchy of Saxony, Germany. His father ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
- to viaducts, which is a bridge composed of several small spans constructed ... their capital city, Nineveh. The full length of the aqueduct ran for 50 miles ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy of ... on world religions, tackling the problem of how one can acknowledge their ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 22:49, 3 February 2022
- 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
- German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg, professor of Byzantine studies ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Espionage is the practice of obtaining confidential information through ... ==Types of Espionage== ===Industrial Espionage=== Industrial espionage ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- he played a key role in the leadership of the Confessing Church that ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- West Germany (in German Westdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from ... Austria-Hungary. He was born into a family of wealth, to Anton Lang (August ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- The U–2 Affair of 1960 occurred when an American U–2 spy plane ... On May 1, 1960, fifteen days before the scheduled opening of an East–West ...9 KB (1,350 words) - 01:20, 3 May 2023
- modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... Intellectuals, perceiving the United States as hypocritical, turned away ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- Division (UNSD), includes the countries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary ... Using this definition, the nations of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia ... "marching swastika" in the center of the cross and reinstituted ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- (Finlayson and Moser 1991). The United States Environmental Protection ... 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
- [[Image:IVE Tsing Yi.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Hong Kong Institute of ... conceptual knowledge, characteristic of tertiary education. ...18 KB (2,528 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since ... and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party ...19 KB (2,792 words) - 17:34, 12 July 2023
- in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- by the men's national soccer teams of the member nations of Fédération ... the World Cup Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 national ...41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
- There were two Battles of the Marne fought during World War I. The ... By the end of August 1914, the whole Allied army on the Western Front ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1 ... Where strife exists, rightly of wrongly, on ethnic lines and national ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 09:17, 15 January 2023
- as the common ground for and at the root of diverse religions, spiritual ... He was born in Alzey, Germany, the son of a rabbi, Samuel Adler. The ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty ... The peace as a whole is often used by historians to mark the beginning ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 19:34, 15 August 2023
- 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
- scientific circles, serving as the a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant ... As a vegetable, the tender, succulent shoots of asparagus not only ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- February 10, 1923) was a German physicist of the University of Würzburg ... for his discovery, Röntgen chose the path of humility. When others wished ...11 KB (1,777 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz ... largely eastward, forming communities in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... Robert Michels was born on January 9, 1876, in Cologne, Germany, into ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- ) (known as ING Group) is a financial institution of Dutch origin ... clients in 50 countries with a workforce of over 130,000 people. It has ...15 KB (2,077 words) - 16:53, 10 February 2024
- 1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- Chim (pronounced shim) was the pseudonym of David Seymour (November ... A founding member of Magnum Photos, together with Robert Capa and ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- #039;s education, particularly the invention of the kindergarten system for ... near Rudolstadt in Thuringia (now Germany), the fifth of six children ...15 KB (2,345 words) - 06:41, 15 April 2024
- | location = Brühl, Germany | deathdate = 1976|4|1|1891|4|2 ... graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince ... Social unrest at the end of World War I led to the German Revolution ...30 KB (4,097 words) - 18:41, 7 February 2024
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... After World War I, Munich became a hotbed of right-wing politics, ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- occurred in China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty from November ... and China was defeated by Britain. In view of the weakness of the Qing government ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... the conditions for peaceful resolution of conflict, and to end war. Speaking ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- in the "National System" type of capitalism. Although greatly ... List was born in Reutlingen, Württemberg, Germany in 1789. Unwilling ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943 ... under Soviet control after the collapse of Nazi Germany. The political ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- with 11,000 other virgins in Cologne, Germany around 383 C.E. At the request ... Recently, the historicity of Ursula's story has come under serious ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 00:54, 23 December 2022
- The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer), an iconic symbol of the ... Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter ... violin, and at age eight, he was given a box of chalk from his grandmother ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- ) was a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938. On a single ... on Jewish people and their property in Germany and German-controlled lands ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- , 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
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- Hindemith helped to create a new conception of tonality with the 12-tone scale ... Born in Hanau, Germany, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- Dresden, the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony ... royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who furnished the city ...25 KB (3,605 words) - 17:41, 30 January 2024
- ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- Health insurance is a type of insurance that covers costs incurred ... There are many types of health insurance plans. Some are high-deductible ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 09:24, 20 January 2024
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- name=Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg| native_name=Albert-Ludwigs ... Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (German Albert-Ludwigs-Universität ...21 KB (2,957 words) - 05:02, 17 June 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
- 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
- He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 ... van der Rohe from 1930 to 1933). The changes of venue and leadership resulted ...21 KB (3,071 words) - 03:07, 26 September 2023
- in the American Civil Liberties Union, of which he was a founding member ... Hays was born in Rochester, New York. His father and mother, both ...9 KB (1,434 words) - 05:44, 9 January 2023
- and colonial governor. In the United States, he is best remembered as ... administrative systems. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he argued for Catholic ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- by the sun and generally provide a means of cultivating young, tender, ... The development of greenhouses involves the creation of a management ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 19:14, 28 November 2021
- who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy by opening ... Fichte must be credited with reintroducing the idea of a direct contact ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- Allies. The three major Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Luksemburg) was a Polish revolutionary of Jewish ancestry. She rose up ... and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party ...25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
- in the twentieth century. When one side of a conflict participates in ... The threat of total devastation to the earth and humankind through ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- and Kurt Koffka, in the development of Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer ... Köhler gained fame with The Mentality of Apes, in which he argued ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- Cellulose acetate is a chemically modified form of cellulose. In chemical ... was probably a factor in their choice of careers. Basel was a center ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- East Germany (in German Ostdeutschland) was the common English name ... With an area of 40,919 square miles (105,980 square kilometers), or ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after ... Cologne also became an important center of medieval pilgrimage. Three ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- than sugar, making it the least potent of the commercially available ... its aftertaste is generally less than that of saccharin or acesulfame potassium ...7 KB (974 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- England. He left school at the age of 16 to become a free-lance journalist ... they would publish answers on every question of general interest sent in by ...9 KB (1,294 words) - 07:18, 20 July 2023
- :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...27 KB (4,082 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2022
- to magnify the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum experiments to the ... and Georgine Emilia Brenda (daughter of Alexander Bauer, Professor ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The term military-industrial complex (MIC) refers to the combination ... the military services, and the United States government (especially the ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical ... "to seek," which was the name of an island in the Red Sea that ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 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
- "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the ... Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the theory ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- Bowling has been popular for hundreds of years, with different variations ... There are many different forms of the game in various parts of the ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- Magnetic levitation transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation ... operating segment) demonstration line of Shanghai, China, that transports ...31 KB (4,504 words) - 05:00, 5 November 2022
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... His family emigrated to the United States when he was twelve years ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... Reconstruction commenced in January 1993, under the direction of church ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 06:08, 3 August 2023
- is considered to have been the best backhand of all time. Budge was held in ... From January of 1937 until late in 1938, Budge won an amazing 92 consecutive ...15 KB (2,399 words) - 17:17, 30 January 2024
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- Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- The Star of David is a widely recognized symbol of Judaism, named ... by the Nazis to stigmatize Jews), the Star of David continues to be a heroic ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
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- Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- 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
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... engineers from the mid-western United States to distinguish electronic ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Sphalerite is a mineral that consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline ... Significant quantities of this mineral have been found in many parts ...5 KB (693 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- or local government agencies as part of public education, are the most ... or lack thereof, prior to the establishment of public schools impacts their ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy ... In the history of war (which covers basically all of human history ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate ... many practical applications and for works of art. In particular, it is used ...8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:52, 28 July 2023
- but it is frequently tinted by the presence of impurities. Possible colors ... meters in width. This mineral has a hardness of 7.5-8, and its specific gravity ...5 KB (674 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- advances and attention to principles of composition and design were ... and played a singular role in the emergence of modernism in the visual arts ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 18:19, 20 July 2023
- major magazine, during the "Golden Age of Photojournalism," she ... whether that required sitting on top of a gargoyle on the Chrysler ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- The Monroe Doctrine is a United States doctrine which, on December ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- 21, 1959) was a famous American boxer of the 1930s, onetime Heavyweight ... Baer turned pro in 1929 and won 22 of his first 24 fights, nine with ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 00:53, 9 November 2022
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- British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers and the ... Harold Sidney Harmsworth, the son of an indigent English barrister ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- Lidice is a small village that lies in the rolling hills of Bohemia ... During World War II, when Czechoslovakia was occupied by the forces ...12 KB (1,879 words) - 22:48, 25 October 2022
- , based on a strict deconstruction of the term, refers to what people ... took common sense as the source and ground of justification for philosophical ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- method and its application to the study of human nature. Thus, he supported ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- to the preservation, education, and study of computers. Computer museums ... Some computer museums are part of science museums, while some are ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 02:34, 8 January 2024
- right| Hershey, Pennsylvania, named in honor of Milton Hershey and his Hershey ... Hershey Chocolate Company, which became one of the largest and most famous ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, ... Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- and housing reform, and advocated on behalf of women’s suffrage, world peace ... middle-class family. She was the third of four children born to parents ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- a German philosopher and the founding father of the Vienna Circle; he was also ... As the founder and leader of the Vienna Circle—arguably the most ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through ... This rock is useful for a variety of practical applications. For instance ...5 KB (686 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State Parties (countries ... The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- – October 5, 1880), composer and cellist of the Romantic era, was one of ... the French musical community. Near the end of his life, he wrote one serious ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- against religious sites, and the seizure of church property. mere secularism or the French tradition of laïcité, which advocates ...18 KB (2,564 words) - 23:52, 27 April 2022
- May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several public holidays ... in several European nations and the United States, in cultural expressions ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ... + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races, especially ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 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
- and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. His original name ... Walter gained a reputation for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... empires, Korea's history has been one of constantly fluctuating borders ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- World Tomorrow and was an associate editor of The Nation. He also participated ... that he attested to. He was a stalwart of socialism who opposed communism ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- in 2001, devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for ... ] and [http://www.plos.org/ Public Library of Science]. ...14 KB (1,898 words) - 06:20, 11 January 2024
- energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- who founded the field known as the history of ideas. As a professor of philosophy ... that material objects exist independently of human perception of them, and ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was also one ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a study of "sexual perversity," ... Richard Krafft-Ebing was born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany, on August ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia ... The fact that Russia was aware that the terms of the Treaty would ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... by the Sultan in 1878. However, the process of replacing existing institutions ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- and physiology, Wundt created a new branch of science, psychology, which ... The later years of Wundt's life were spent working on Völkerpsychologie ...20 KB (2,709 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- well as other desert and mountainous regions of North Africa. hunts rodents, insects, birds, and eggs of birds and insects. Much of ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 23:29, 20 July 2022
- Program (ERP)), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding ... The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of participating ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- that a person or organization submit copies of their publications to a repository ... receiving copyright protection. The number of copies varies and can range ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:03, 25 October 2022
- Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices, and institutions ... Jewish law and rejects virtually all aspects of the ceremonial and dietary ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- than socialism globally. Given the defeats of the 1917–1923 European communist ... theory opposes Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and the ...28 KB (3,944 words) - 18:00, 8 December 2022
- developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... his doctoral thesis, titled An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- Kasner, July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany), is a German politician ... Safety from 1994. As the first female leader of the world's third largest ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- footprint for support pillars, blocking less of the sky. In addition, modern ... have been made since the latter part of the nineteenth century. Usually ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 21:10, 9 November 2022
- eastern Europe in 1912–1913, in the course of which the Balkan League (Kingdom ... independence in 1878, and the re-emergence of a Croatian state in 1868 awoke ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle ... was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst of the Freudian school. He contributed ...11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
- and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading ... Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world along with ...17 KB (2,456 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- Law School and became the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Houston ... Mary Hamilton Houston, was a hairdresser of famous clientele; his father ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- aquatic birds comprising the genus Gavia of their own family (Gaviidae ... While advancing an individual function of survival, reproduction, ...16 KB (2,427 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- Born in Haarlem, North Holland, she was one of the leaders of the Dutch resistance ... In December of 1967, Corrie ten Boom received recognition from the ...21 KB (3,559 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the nineteenth ... his diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- Potash has been used since antiquity in the manufacture of glass, ... its discovery in the water-soluble fraction of wood ash. The element potassium ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- partly inspired by the Walrasian analysis of general equilibrium via inter ... Wassily Leontief, the son of Wassily W. Leontief (professor of economics ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder ... The discovery of gold on January 24, 1848, by Sutter's carpenter ...21 KB (3,406 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... Militias, being composed of civilians rather than professional soldiers ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) nephew ... he developed for selfish gain at the expense of others. However, just as Bernays ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- philanthropist. He introduced the concept of “salesmanship” into print ... efforts eventually resulted in the creation of the National Institutes of ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- infamous for the Italians' illegal use of mustard gas. The war resulted ... for themselves by tramping on the rights of the people whose territory ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- 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
- [[Image:CircleOfFriends.jpg |thumbnail|250px|A group of Outward Bound ... Drawing upon the philosophy and theory of experiential education and ...21 KB (3,090 words) - 05:58, 18 November 2022
- existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...42 KB (6,144 words) - 08:27, 10 January 2024
- the Swedish Parliament in 1634) was founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden ... own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- EADS, high-technology and parent company of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes ... survival during the German economic crisis of the 1920s. Its automobiles ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 00:05, 24 June 2022
- and athletic ability and the ability of the racer to manage pain. athletes from Austria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, Italy, Norway, South ...27 KB (4,168 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 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
- Prohibition In the United States (1920-1933) was the era during which ... made it more profitable to smuggle. The cost of enforcing prohibition was high ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 23:11, 30 November 2022
- It has led the consolidation of the world steel industry and today ... The company is headquartered in Luxembourg City, the former seat of ...21 KB (2,936 words) - 06:14, 12 August 2023
- Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters ... On the morning of Friday, February 14, St. Valentine's Day, six ...8 KB (1,287 words) - 00:55, 23 December 2022
- journalist in the country during much of his life. He had a brilliant ... Dana spent months with Grant on the field of battle. The close association ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands ... The future of the MARC formats is a matter of some debate in the worldwide ...10 KB (1,427 words) - 04:45, 5 November 2022
- was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology. McDougall ... in Lancashire, England, as the second son of Isaac Shimwell McDougall and ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... It is a destination spot of many vacationers due to its seasonally ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- in Northern Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- gas. It is formed by the disintegration of radium and is one of the densest ... found that it was the heaviest gas known as of then. It has been called radon ...15 KB (2,200 words) - 22:50, 7 December 2022
- known particularly for his waltzes, a form of music he was instrumental in ... Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- |observedby=United States and Canada |date=February 2 whether it sees its shadow, announcing the result of this ...21 KB (3,219 words) - 06:16, 25 February 2023
- was forced to flee the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when communism gained ... especially the eggs representative of Easter, made of precious metals ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... by the Heisei period (1990– ), neither of these is widely associated ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- Gravel is rock that is of a certain particle size range. In geology ... or tarmac. Russia alone has over 400,000 km of gravel-surfaced roads. Gravel ...6 KB (948 words) - 18:27, 20 January 2023
- architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- He was influential in the development of modern systematic zoology, ... is given annually by the National Academy of Sciences for an original contribution ...9 KB (1,298 words) - 09:40, 15 May 2021
- born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from ... Ian Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the small town of ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 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
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September ... armistices between Israel and the Arab states surrounding the new nation ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- 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
- January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces ... Mannerheim is given much of the credit for successfully steering the ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- an eleven year ministry in a tenement area of New York City, he taught at ... who was German went to the United States as a Lutheran missionary ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- painter who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Chagall is ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- " or other variations on the theme of "Ethical." Ethical ... Ethical Culture Society initiated a number of projects to improve the lives ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- was a Jewish-American political theorist of German descent and one of the ... Rejecting much of the Western philosophical tradition, Arendt maintained ...24 KB (3,560 words) - 18:02, 23 January 2024
- The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic ... The Deep South is a belt stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to west ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 08:36, 15 January 2023
- Christian movement centered on the teachings of Czech martyr Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415 ... force in Moravia, Bohemia, and parts of Poland, with many Czech nobles ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 21:21, 9 February 2024
- In sociology, conflict theory states that society or an organization ... where conflict occurs between groups of people, for a variety of reasons ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... * Sovereign states (country names in bold), consisting of: ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts ... psychologism on the ground that principles of logic are universally true ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- ), or half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures ... One of the first people to use the term half-timbered was Mary Martha ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 23:35, 30 April 2023
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- and an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis with children ... and opened a private practice. At the age of 40 he married Libusa Deutsch ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ... establish and define the modern theory of socialism, societal problems ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, who ... would no longer be held, following the death of Unification Church founder ...12 KB (1,783 words) - 07:06, 23 November 2022
- literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth ... in Paris, France, she was the daughter of the prominent Swiss statesman ...18 KB (2,968 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- 1993 to 1995, and the third woman leader of a Muslim country, following ... After gaining her doctorate from the University of Connecticut, she ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 04:26, 27 February 2023
- he was the first official Secretary-General of the United Nations. As a representative ... troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950. Prior to this ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was ... in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, at the time of Landon's birth. Later ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- service retail store offering a wide variety of food products, such as meat ... for canned and packaged goods. A variety of non-food items such as household ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 13:56, 28 April 2023
- Fe2O3 (hematite). Magnetite is one of several types of iron oxide ... tectonics. Changes in the oxygen content of the Earth's atmosphere ...8 KB (1,145 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Ham is the thigh and rump of any animal that is slaughtered for meat ... to prohibit eating ham, as a product of the pig, Christian holidays ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- It is based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, with diatomaceous ... to promote peace and science for the benefit of mankind. ...6 KB (937 words) - 01:17, 16 January 2023
- The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ... from the city center. These sites attract millions of pilgrims annually. ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Eel is the common name for any of the various members of the fish ... The common name eel also is applied to members of various species ...9 KB (1,257 words) - 04:30, 21 November 2020
- in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1923. Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon ... The Cardinal de Richelieu was often known by the title of the King ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:14, 26 November 2023
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk ... center. Historically it was a member of the Hanseatic League, and remains ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- in America, but fell gradually out of favor from that time on. Parsons ... Coming could not occur until man rid himself of all social evils, and sought ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- known for his large realistic landscapes of the American West. In obtaining ... Bierstadt's was a second-generation member of the Hudson River ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- most famous for his successful development of the gyrocompass. He also developed ... died in childbirth, and in the absence of his father, Sperry was raised ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- that involves the design and manufacture of ceramic products. Ceramics ... prepared and are being used for a wide range of applications, including components ...14 KB (1,948 words) - 23:58, 3 December 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
- laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... A proponent of realpolitik (or the realist school of international ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States ... speech represented a milestone in his work of turning the United States away ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- in the late twelfth century as the Poor Men of Lyons, a band organized by ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...32 KB (4,791 words) - 23:19, 17 January 2024
- author, and conductor. His broad grasp of music combined the Italian ... was born in Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- Grouse (plural: grouse or grouses) is the common term for any members ... Grouse tend to be plump birds that have a protective coloration of ...11 KB (1,578 words) - 20:47, 28 November 2021
- = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical ... Telegraphy forms the foundation for almost all of the communication ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal ... However, the basic effort on the part of the majority of countries in ...16 KB (2,401 words) - 23:59, 24 March 2024
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- 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
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- was a rabbi from France, famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentaries ... Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the texts ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
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- , a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic ... Schumann, can be said to be one of the first truly Romantic composers ...26 KB (4,179 words) - 02:15, 16 December 2022
- Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor ... Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809, in the small village of ...8 KB (1,163 words) - 02:52, 4 November 2022
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- An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ... At the beginning of his Critique of Pure Reason, following the distinction ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
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- the United Kingdom as well as other areas of Europe and North America, and ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
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- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... and was marked by the military leadership of notable generals such as the ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
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- December 4, 1952) was a German psychoanalyst of Norwegian and Dutch descent ... on September 16, 1885 in the German city of Hamburg. Her father, Berndt ...26 KB (3,913 words) - 16:28, 15 November 2023
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- and historian, better known as the “Father of the Olympics." Coubertin ... He was the primary force in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
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- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- His work evidences an impressive combination of art and science. The artwork ... His love for art and his appreciation of the aesthetic aspects of all ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 2023
- Rosicrucianism (meaning "Rose Cross") refers to a family ... The meetings of these societies were held in private and thus Rosicrucians ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 19:19, 16 December 2022
- a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles ... researchers to find descriptive records of relevant information sources ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
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- The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
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- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
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- as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In her day ... deep anguish. Eventually she shook free of her family's expectations ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
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- Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich ... is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
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- City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was the unsuccessful ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
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- political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. Unlike ... Condorcet was a key figure in the transformation of society from its ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization and democratization ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- Nordic countries from about the beginning of the twentieth century up to ... The main founders of analytic philosophy were the Cambridge philosophers ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. Influenced by the philosophy ... In September, 1874 he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- 9, 1936) was an American journalist and one of the most famous and influential ... estate" at its best. Politicians are of course bound by the same laws ...10 KB (1,453 words) - 04:14, 29 October 2022
- carnivorous mammals in the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family, typically ... Originally, the name "weasel" was applied to one species ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- 35) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as ... Bromine is an important resource for the production of a wide range ...10 KB (1,346 words) - 04:33, 22 November 2023
- Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316, Savaria, Pannonia – November 8, 397 ... with a freezing beggar and received a vision of Christ which moved him to renounce ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored ... His strong advocacy of France's role in world affairs ensured ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- dynamics by the pumping/pedaling action of the feet. The faster a player ... Suction type organs were mainly built in the United States, but European ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 03:00, 8 December 2022
- physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- Skydiving is a type of parachuting done for recreational purposes ... and aircraft in flight, later as a way of delivering soldiers to the ...19 KB (3,068 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- A dominant feature of most planetariums is the large, dome-shaped ... The celestial scenes can be created using a wide variety of technologies ...27 KB (4,171 words) - 07:49, 24 November 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
- Catholic Church to reform itself in the wake of the Protestant Reformation ... clarification and reform in the areas of doctrine, ecclesiastical structure ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 08:30, 10 January 2024
- rule. It started on August 1, 1944, as part of a nationwide uprising, Operation ... failed to make further headway in the course of the Uprising, leading to accusations ...33 KB (5,102 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- , -logia) or tree-ring dating is a method of scientific dating based ... cross section cut through the trunk of a tree. Growth rings are the ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- professor in theology at the University of Leiden. He wrote many books ... In his early years Arminius affirmed the traditional Calvinist view ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 08:08, 18 March 2024
- refugee who died in Bergen-Belsen. Her diary of two years in hiding during ... and very insightful written observations of life in hiding and the personalities ...32 KB (5,043 words) - 06:52, 28 July 2023
- A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa. There are more than ... Roses are members of the family Rosaceae, which is one of the largest ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan fought over the control of Korea ... symbolized the degeneration and enfeeblement of the Qing Dynasty and demonstrated ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its ... The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy ... in Lida, stand in remembrance and honor of the past ruler and his many ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- Henry Ford (July 30, 1864 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the ... cars that were priced for this new market of workers as consumers, Ford ...32 KB (4,898 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and ... H. Richard Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the youngest of five children ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into ... The horn, as a member of the brass instrumental family, is a powerful ...16 KB (2,716 words) - 14:17, 7 February 2024
- "confessional" singer-songwriter of the late 1960s and early 70s ... was a staff writer at the Nina Music branch of Elektra Records in the late ...19 KB (2,645 words) - 09:05, 13 March 2024
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- " is the mythical figure who, in most of Western cultures, brings gifts ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- Neo-Kantianism designates the revived or modified types of Kantian ... The return to Kant of Neo-Kantianism in the second part of the nineteenth ...24 KB (3,466 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- shelters, and grottos. The scientific study of caves is known as speleology. unusual species that inhabit caves, some of which are not found outside ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
