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- Jones, William (philologist) [[Image:Sir William Jones.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Sir William Jones]] ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an African ... towards the mathematical, formulaic music of the Second Viennese School ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the ... convene and preside at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 that divided up Africa ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- William Paley (July 1743 – May 25, 1805) was an English divine, ... Born in Peterborough, Paley was educated at Giggleswick School, of ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- Bagley, William Chandler William Chandler Bagley (March 15, 1874 – July 1, 1946), was an ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- William Henry Seward, Sr. (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 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
- probably best known, however, as the sister of famous English Romantic poet ... Cockermouth, Cumberland. She was the third of five children. Dorothy spent ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 21:07, 13 August 2020
- Stokoe, William William C. Stokoe, Jr. (pronounced STOE-kee) (July 21, 1919 – April ...13 KB (1,991 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- William M. "Boss" Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April12, 1878 ... Tweed left school at the age of 11 to learn his father’s trade of ...9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was ... Chase is perhaps best remembered as one of the pre-eminent art teachers ...16 KB (2,363 words) - 10:36, 11 May 2023
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural ... was founded by Washington philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran in 1869 ...7 KB (1,002 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 – November 2, 1083) was Queen consort ... Matilda was daughter of count Baldwin V of Flanders and Adèle (1000 ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- Blackstone, William illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830) was an English ... Hazlitt came from a branch of Irish Protestant stock that moved in ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- Stukeley, William [[Image:Stukeley William.jpg|right|thumb|William Stukeley]] ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 20:32, 13 May 2023
- William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American ... He was a widely read, and popular figure of the era, and in his later years ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- : This article is about Dr. William Ellery Channing, the Unitarian ... Dr. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- songwriter, was born in the auld hoose of Gask, Perthshire to Jacobite ... and helped by so doing to preserve much of Scotland's musical heritage ...8 KB (1,337 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- William Zebina Ripley (October 13, 1867 – August 16, 1941) was an ... William Zebina Ripley was born on October 13, 1867, in Medford, Massachusetts ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990), coming ... Jewish immigrant. When he was 12, William added the middle initial ...12 KB (1,903 words) - 20:44, 24 November 2022
- William of Normandy (French: Guillaume de Normandie) (1028 – September ... William invaded England with his band of Normans, defeated the English ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 11:03, 9 May 2023
- American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America ... in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born to butcher ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- William Dampier (baptised September 5, 1651 – died March 1715) was ... Dampier's life belongs to the great age of so-called "Discovery ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- Tubman, William {{Infobox Officeholder | name=William Vacanarat Shadrach ... | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- William Isaac Thomas (August 13, 1863 – December 5, 1947), was an ... He co-operated with Florian Znaniecki on the formulation of what became ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman ... The battle took place on October 14, 1066, between the Norman army ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- [[Image:William Carlos Williams passport photograph 1921 (cropped ... Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17 ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for President ... Cass was in full favor of United States expansion and supported President ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- Sir William Henry Bragg (July 2, 1862 – March 10, 1942) was an English ... Bragg was the eldest child of Robert John Bragg, a sea captain who ...13 KB (1,944 words) - 18:22, 17 April 2023
- William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910 – February 15, 1992) was ... He was among a number of notable American composers, including Aaron ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years ... Born in New York City, his father, William, was from a non-practicing ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and ... was to "strike terror in the hearts of the proslavery people." ...7 KB (1,185 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- Matilda of Scotland (c. 1080 – 1 May 1118) was the first wife and ... also commissioned the Gesta regum Anglorum of William of Malmsbury, considered ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes some ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- a prominent law professor, and a signer of the United States Declaration ... tradition, contributed in the areas of law, politics, and education ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 22:41, 24 November 2022
- Mary II (April 30, 1662 – December 28, 1694) reigned as Queen of ... Mary reigned jointly with her husband and first cousin, William III ...22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:05, 16 December 2022
- elections. It formed as a breakaway faction of the Democratic party and was ... main support came from Yankee-settled areas of upstate New York, western Massachusetts ...6 KB (913 words) - 10:35, 11 April 2024
- Sir Frederick William Herschel, FRS KH (November 15, 1738 - August ... Born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in Hanover, Germany, Herschel was ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the First Lady of the United States when her ... to Kentucky political leader Henry Clay of the Whig Party, Mary Todd developed ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:14, 7 November 2022
- industrialist, born on Staten Island, New York. He entered the transportation ... many enemies. His public perception was that of a vulgar, mean-spirited man ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in ... The Glorious Revolution also saw a partnership of husband and wife ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 18:55, 31 December 2023
- William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author ... Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, the son of an Armenian immigrant ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- in a chain, stretching backward. The cause of the cat you see today, for ... the "Prime Mover" that is a deity of "pure form" without ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- Holmes, William Henry William Henry Holmes (1846 – 1933) was an American anthropologist ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 2023
- that played a major role in controlling New York City politics from the 1790s ... Tammany Hall is an example of how political parties, because they ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
- William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall or Tyndall) (ca. 1494–September ... Possibly, they would question the teaching of the Church and the authority ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- Natural theology is a branch of theology, which attempts to establish ... The existence of God and the immortality of the soul are but a few ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth ... England, the Pilgrims arrived off the coast of New England without a patent ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 02:22, 9 November 2022
- dedicating her life to improving the lives of the under-privileged. Lowell ... had strong Unitarian roots, and spent most of their wealth on helping their ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
- term originated primarily through the work of the nineteenth century Danish ... thing, but rather experiences the anxiety of the existential nothingness ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine ... fail to place their skills at the service of humanity. Instead, what they ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events ... The Tapestry is valued both as a work of art and as a source concerning ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- Sumner, William Graham Category:Public [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills ... Galway, Ireland, in 1821, the third son of James Hardiman Burke, an officer ...8 KB (1,267 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He founded and served ... on December 10, 1787, the oldest of eight children. His family ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program of grants for international educational ... Fulbright alumni around the world recognize the importance of continued ...11 KB (1,431 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served ... Before entering national politics, Arthur had been Collector of Customs ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- McDougall, William William McDougall (June 22, 1871 – November 28, 1938) was a British ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- appear distorted. There are several variants of the Orbison illusion. The illusion ... The Orbison illusion is named for psychologist William Orbison, who ...4 KB (510 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2022
- weary public lost interest in seeing photos of the war, and Brady’s popularity ... War and combat photographs and photographers constitute one of the ...9 KB (1,405 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- William Kingdon Clifford (May 4, 1845 - March 3, 1879) was an English ... Under the influence of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, Clifford ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- [[Image:Beit Sur1.jpg|thumb|320px|Beth-Zur, one of the sites in the ... William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- Voluntarism is fundamentally a theory of action according to which ... Voluntarism (from the Latin: voluntas, meaning ‘will’) is a theory ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
- born American psychiatrist who became one of the most influential figures ... Meyer pioneered the application of Freudian ideas in American psychiatry ...9 KB (1,247 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn, fought ... aftermath were marked by the British capture of New York City (which it held ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... was unsuccessful in halting enforcement of the Intolerable Acts. Their ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- William Byrd (c. 1540 – July 4, 1623) was one of the most celebrated ... teenage years, alongside the finest musicians of his day. ...10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and ... the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael, in particular, had ...16 KB (2,149 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- Wampum is a string of shell beads often woven into belts and formerly ... Wampum belts were exchanged as a form of treaty between tribes. Wampum ...7 KB (1,160 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- Robert Lowell and the confessionalist school of poetry, who is increasingly ... and complicate the autobiographical nature of his poetry, and it is unclear ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 04:15, 3 August 2022
- a clergyman. He is famous for his criticism of David Ricardo and his insistence ... He also worked as a commissioner on the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 ...8 KB (1,180 words) - 01:42, 14 December 2022
- Welsh poet who is widely considered one of the most influential English ... Dylan Thomas was born in the coastal city of Swansea, Wales. His father ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Dr. William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was an early ... From an early age William Thornton displayed interest and discernible ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- and luminosity than a main sequence star of the same surface temperature ... Stars of greater luminosity than giant stars are classified as supergiants ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- library system is a nationwide network of libraries administered by the ... the government and promised to offer a part of his estate at Hyde Park, New ...19 KB (2,492 words) - 22:38, 30 November 2022
- to the Partisan Review and member of the group known as "The ... to receive tenure in the Department of English. A popular professor ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 04:21, 29 October 2022
- William Congreve (January 24, 1670 – January 19, 1729) was an English ... the grave site was erected by the Duchess of Marlborough, with whom he was ...16 KB (2,529 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... the United States following the end of the Civil War. Utilizing membership ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) ... William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- was the founder and first president of the American Broadcasting Company ... than the more flamboyant figures of William S. Paley and David ...8 KB (1,119 words) - 20:12, 25 October 2022
- 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
- stockholder in AT&T and in the New York Central Railroad. Most of ... Born William Samuel Rosenberg to a Jewish family in New York City ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American poetry, ... may have gone unnoticed, ironically, because of his even greater talents in ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- The Peasants' Revolt, Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising ... military campaigns overseas—a continuation of the Hundred Years' War ...8 KB (1,321 words) - 07:09, 23 November 2022
- his capture by the British after the Battle of Long Island. Widely considered America's first spy, a copy of Frederick MacMonnies ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 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
- American pragmatists Charles S. Peirce and William James. Wright wrote only ... After reading Darwin's Origin of Species (published in 1859) ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- publisher, and owner. Patterson was one of the first women to head a major ... and using their talents for the benefit of society, their family life ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 13:57, 2 April 2008
- abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is ... described as "the real founder and soul of the woman's rights movement ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- Zircon is a mineral belonging to a subgroup of silicate minerals called ... and nuclear reactors. It is the source of zirconium oxide, an extremely ...9 KB (1,181 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- 200px|thumb|Blegen Library at the University of Cincinnati.]] Carl William Blegen (January 27, 1887 – August 24, 1971) was an ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- States presidency in the disputed election of 1876, the most controversial ... Tilden was born in New Lebanon in New York State. He studied at New ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 20:20, 1 December 2023
- Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier." He ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America ... | death_place = Covington, Louisiana, United States of America ...9 KB (1,310 words) - 18:46, 17 April 2023
- Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet. Born in France ... Her works are mostly dedicated to members of the French court at the ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- The sonnet is one of the most important and enduring poetic forms ... Consisting of 14 rhymed lines broken into either two or four stanzas ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- an American newspaper publisher and founder of The E.W. Scripps Company, a ... England, and Julia A. Osborne from New York. He had five brothers and ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 17:31, 12 February 2024
- Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American ... Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the eldest of the four children ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- spirit and public mission to be a vital part of the life around it, not an ... regarded as a powerful force in the freeing of education from the strictures ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- 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
- popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution ... manufacturing, others regard him as a hero of the Industrial Revolution in ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 03:02, 23 December 2022
- has never been as wide-spread as that of many of her Modernist peers; ... style. She was, and remains, one of the most difficult poets to ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 04:13, 6 November 2022
- The Black Hole of Calcutta incident refers to forty three British ... Faced with overwhelming superiority, most of the British soldiers ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 14:24, 8 February 2022
- includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written ... As the twentieth century continued into the dynamic experimentation ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving ... for the dramatic geographical expansion of the United States. The large ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of ... ruler Charles the Simple had allowed a group of Vikings, under their leader ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- image_caption = William James | name = William James | birth = January 11, 1842 | death = August 26, 1910 | ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- Taussig, Frank William Frank William Taussig (December 28, 1859 – November 11, 1940) was ...7 KB (1,057 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- Felton filled the vacancy left by the death of Thomas E. Watson, serving just ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- William Gaddis (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American ... As a result of his uniqueness, Gaddis was largely misunderstood by ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 12:11, 8 May 2023
- First Lady of the United States is the unofficial title of the hostess ... To date, no women have served as president of the United States. Presumably ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- in debtor's prisons or the claiming of property by the state. The ... by unjust taxation was enough for citizens of the new state to expect not ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 13:24, 27 January 2023
- † 443 B.C.E. in Argos), was one of the canonical nine poets of ... a poet that, although only a tiny fraction of his works have survived, what ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- tactics employed by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst in their ... However, the era of yellow journalism was influential both in galvanizing ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 09:56, 23 May 2023
- first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to ... Hastings, unlike many of his successors, respected and admired Indian ...14 KB (2,155 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- 24, 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing ... commemorated by many major poets and authors of the romantic style. Percy Bysshe ...14 KB (2,111 words) - 18:41, 30 April 2023
- artist, and daredevil who captivated much of the Western world with his ... He immigrated with his father at the age of four on July 3, 1878, ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 20:47, 29 January 2022
- Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 - May 12, 1978) was one of the most ... For most of his life Zukofsky was virtually unrecognized, even though ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- Hearst, William Randolph {{Infobox Biography | subject_name = William Randolph Hearst | image_name = HearstAbout1910 ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 10:39, 12 May 2023
- May 14, 1727 – August 2, 1788) was one of the foremost portrait and landscape ... He is recognized among the most innovative and enigmatic artists of ...17 KB (2,489 words) - 21:10, 30 April 2023
- and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental ... in philosophy in 1897. Following the advice of his mentor William James, Woodworth ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle ... The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry ...21 KB (3,432 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- Garrison, William Lloyd [[Image:william_garrison.jpg|thumb|240px|William ... William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- wing causes, she was a vigorous proponent of social justice and critic of ... Louisiana into a Jewish family. During most of her childhood she spent half ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- within the school system and as a professor of education at the college level ... states that each employee rises to the level of his incompetence. Although ...14 KB (2,060 words) - 17:51, 25 October 2022
- is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious activity ... large following." Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," is his ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- and vividness. Cardozo is regarded as one of the most influential and respected ... The decisions of past jurists and legislators may or may not have ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York ... Building was built in homage to the success of the auto giant for which it ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- and Beelzebus) was reportedly the name of a deity worshiped in the Philistine ... In the Old Testament, the Israelite king Ahaziah inquired of Ba‘al ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... Party effectively moribund, the eight years of Monroe's administration ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 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
- on Dante Alighieri established him as one of the foremost medievalists of ... social problems through the application of economic theories. He was one ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 03:49, 24 November 2022
- |institutions = Institution of Civil Engineers |practice_name = ... was summoned to take part in the creation of many new architectural and ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the ... voice. Keats felt that the deepest meaning of life lay in the apprehension ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- a considerable influence on the development of Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry ... in his own right, Daniel stands out as one of the most versatile of all English ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 02:58, 23 December 2022
- Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was ... quot;Domesday" (Middle English spelling of Doomsday) in the twelfth century ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- Sir William Wallace (c. 1270 – August 23, 1305) was a Scottish knight ... To the Scottish people, Wallace was the exemplification of undying ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- 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
- 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
- centuries, in particular his book The Making of the English Working Class ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost ... Morley was one of the first composers of madrigals to utilize the ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- 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
- , 936–978), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (南唐後主 ... Li Houzhu has been called the "first true master" of the Ci, ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- 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
- the information environment consisting of the interdependent network ... infringement, and may call for new models of commerce. Furthermore, cyberspace ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- their goals. She established the New York Infirmary in 1857, thereby ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- The New York Daily News is the sixth largest daily newspaper in the ... Patterson and Robert R. McCormick, members of the family that published the ...9 KB (1,384 words) - 21:48, 14 November 2022
- authors. She is known for her depictions of life in the United States in ... The first two are part of the so-called "prairie trilogy," ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH (March 7, 1792 ... Herschel was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, the son of William and ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- Formal logic is logic that deals with the form or logical structure ... ==Types of Formal Logic== Formal logic encompasses predicate logic ...7 KB (926 words) - 06:33, 1 April 2024
- In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral ... as an important virtue in various aspects of social life. ...6 KB (958 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
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- Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, in New York ... Built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890, it is one of the ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 00:35, 29 November 2023
- 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... He guarded information about his private life and instead focused ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
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- " 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
- She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her novels ... Chelsea, which was then on the outskirts of London. Gaskell was the eighth ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 16:19, 13 February 2024
- The Long Parliament is the name of the English Parliament called by ... after the English Civil War and at the end of Interregnum in 1660."Dissolving ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 21:03, 3 November 2022
- The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the ... Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of ...21 KB (3,060 words) - 14:46, 11 November 2022
- during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi Der Stürmer newspaper ... and for their impact on the treatment of Jews in "places where ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a ... true virtue. Virtue, which consisted of imitating God, could only be ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society, the unique ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
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- William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
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- and poet who is notable for his mastery of English prosody and his deeply ... baptized on April 18, 1580. He was the son of a bricklayer who had been raised ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 on Breed's ... The British were victorious but they suffered a devastating loss of ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- R.F. Outcault, he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip and ... yellow colored nightshirt ushered in the era of colored comic strips. Outcault ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth Control ... Sanger was born in Corning, New York. Her father Michael Higgins was ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 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
- Sir William David Ross KBE (April 15, 1877 – May 5, 1971) was a ... Ross also wrote books on Kant's ethics, each of Aristotle's ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- – June 18, 1869), born near Lima, New York, graduated from the University ... Raymond is perhaps best known, however, for being the founder of the ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison, who ... North Carolina, on May 20, 1768, a daughter of John Payne, farmer and starch ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- an Italian-born British librarian and a man of letters. He was exiled from ... best remembered for his role in the design of the Circular Reading Room within ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- Jogging is a form of trotting or running which is conducted at a slow ... Running may be considered more of a competitive sport, while jogging ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 06:42, 5 April 2024
- Chick Webb, born William Henry Webb (February 10, 1905 - June 16, ... could pride themselves for a greater wealth of top soloists, the bouncy energy ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 15:18, 10 December 2023
- was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA ... Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon was born in Savannah, Georgia to William ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- 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
- The Elizabethan Age is the time period associated with the reign of ... The Elizabethan Age is viewed so highly because of the contrasts with ...11 KB (1,816 words) - 21:47, 22 September 2022
- Harold Harefoot (c. 1015–March 17, 1040) was King of England from ... He was the son of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, Norway ...17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
- famous Dow Jones Industrial Average as part of his research into market movements ... society today. The Wall Street Journal isone of the most respected financial ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- part for his major victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn against Custer’s ... tribe clashed with U.S. troops at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain. The battle ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 22:40, 29 January 2023
- 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 (1,624 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic ... from major orchestras and a number of these works were premiered ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- other awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. insight, touching on the essentials of life. He had an unfailing faith ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- 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
- Nobel laureate, credited with the discovery of the electron, the isotope, ... in Cheetham Hill, Manchester in England, of Scottish parentage. Thomson ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- Award winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from Hollywood ... in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur ...17 KB (2,572 words) - 13:41, 1 August 2022
- for his Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. He was also ... he was also a key figure in the advancement of the British system of university ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October ... He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... to receive the necessary two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- William Godwin (March 3, 1756 – April 7, 1836) was an English journalist ... to achieve an elevated understanding of moral and political truth, ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several ... non-profit organization with offices in New York City and Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 07:45, 27 February 2023
- The Museum was a major participant of the Great Circus Parade held ... Center. The Museum also contains a variety of archive materials as well as ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, normally called Westminster ... Since the Christmas Day coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066 ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- Often referred to as the "father of modern parapsychology," ... since he could not advance beyond the stage of observing phenomena to developing ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- regarded as the "Founding Father" of the Hudson River School, an ... His historical and allegorical paintings of the 1820s and 1830s gave ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- or simply 2 Thessalonians, is a short book of the New Testament in the Christian ... Since the turn of the twentieth century, scholars have questioned ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 20:43, 17 May 2023
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield PC (March 2, 1705 – March ... that slavery was immoral. This is an example of how a slavish adherence to ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- born Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as ... married into), military service in the War of 1812, and subsequent successful ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 01:57, 23 December 2022
- 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
- Electric charge is a fundamental, conserved property of some subatomic ... electric charge is zero) because the number of protons within its nucleus ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at the age of 12 that he was going to be ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- 19, 1873) was an English bishop, third son of William Wilberforce the anti ... the upper classes, he was also a champion of social justice and a defender ...12 KB (1,800 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction ... Cheever's main themes include the duality of human nature: Sometimes ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
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- [[Image:Universum.jpg|thumb|300px|Colorized version of the Flammarion ... Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), in the process of replacing scholarly notions ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
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- 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
- 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
- William "Captain" Kidd (c. 1645 – May 23, 1701) is remembered ... claim to be from Greenock. After the death of his father when he was five ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- the Restoration emphasis on the exploits of rakes who seek fame and fortune ... years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theaters in 1660 signaled ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 17:44, 26 January 2023
- Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... both personally and relating to succession of the Crown and religious polarization ...29 KB (4,444 words) - 15:41, 7 December 2022
- The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency ... During the beginning of his term, Jackson was forced to confront the ...7 KB (1,113 words) - 00:42, 17 November 2022
- mogul, the owner and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Harrison ... Otis also played an important role in the development of Los Angeles ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving ... While Fillmore is considered by many as one of the lesser United States ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- The Peterborough Chronicle (also called the Laud Manuscript), one ... maintained between the various monasteries of Anglo-Saxon England and were ...16 KB (2,619 words) - 01:36, 24 November 2022
- Jevons, William Stanley [[Image:Jevons.jpeg|200px|right|thumb|William ... William Stanley Jevons, (September 1, 1835 - August 13, 1882), an ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the ... Like all Modern art, a general term used for most of the artistic ...19 KB (2,696 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- he was a major contributor to the fame of the Cambridge school of mathematical ... and applying mathematics to any member of the university. He served in ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 10:37, 13 December 2023
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (or William Conrad Roentgen, in English) ... for his discovery, Röntgen chose the path of humility. When others wished ...11 KB (1,777 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- was coined around a loosely connected group of landscape painters, whose aesthetic ... Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | deathplace = New York City, U.S. | occupation = Novelist, editor ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period of English history from the ... English monarchs bear the title "Duke of Normandy." England also ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- treated can be fashioned into a wide variety of useful objects, components ... on December 29, 1800. He was the son of Amasa Goodyear and the oldest ...19 KB (3,096 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- during the 1870s. There he befriended many of the leading French artists ... language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- and important figure in the development of sports journalism. to fame in 1924 when his column in the New York Herald-Tribune referred to ...14 KB (2,078 words) - 14:51, 31 December 2022
- The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium ... Negotiators for Britain included minor diplomats William Adams, James ...5 KB (803 words) - 14:55, 2 May 2023
- writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual ... not only among his immediate circle of friends and disciples (many ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- electric chair, which was used to execute William Kemmler in 1890]] the United States, and has become a symbol of the death penalty there. Although ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
- together with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe in 1990, for his ... The basic theorem states that the value of a firm is unaffected by ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 16:14, 9 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
- New York Times, The The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City and distributed ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 15:40, 30 April 2023
- Michelson, to determine whether the speed of light was affected by the Earth ... Morley was born in Newark, New Jersey, the eldest son of Sardis Brewster ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 16:28, 9 August 2023
- Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the ... From his childhood Wright acquired a deep and almost mystical love ...16 KB (2,277 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- an American poet who wrote during the period of literary Modernism. Crane is ... Crane devoted himself to the task of writing a new kind of modern ...7 KB (1,109 words) - 20:59, 29 January 2022
- for excellence in journalism. Along with William Randolph Hearst he was also ... His father was a wealthy grain merchant of Magyar-Jewish descent and his ...20 KB (2,955 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
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- was a British general and commander in chief of the British North American ... Gage was born in Firle, England the second son of the first Viscount ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- April 2, 1872) was an American, a painter of portraits and historic scenes ... Samuel Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 12:03, 6 September 2022
- 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
- iconic American actress, comedian, and star of the landmark sitcom I Love ... Lucille, known as the "Queen of Comedy," was also responsible ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
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- Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas; she was the tenth of thirteen ... fields, Coleman assumed the responsibilities of housekeeping. She looked after ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 17:27, 29 September 2023
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- November 16, 1272) was the son and successor of John Lackland as King of England ... He assumed the crown under the regency of the popular William Marshal ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 22:21, 8 February 2022
- and newspaper publisher, who left a gift of $500,000 to Columbia University ... He thus sought to establish the school of journalism at Columbia University ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 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
- one novel, one play, and only a small volume of poems—his intellectual breadth ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- in a longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)]] Human Beings"), is the name of a Native American tribe, and ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 00:30, 12 April 2023
- ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third ... In his biography of Xenocrates, Diogenes Laertius recounts several ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement and ... , an epic poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- Maury County, Tennessee, and a third cousin of President James K. Polk. He ... Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806 to Sarah and William ...10 KB (1,572 words) - 08:03, 6 March 2023
- James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- changed to Baumfree) in the Dutch settlement of Hurley in upstate New York ... The painful experiences of being a child, wife, and mother who had ...14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ... speech represented a milestone in his work of turning the United States away ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- leader in colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate to the ... Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he was one of the most radical advocates ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- 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
- an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- jpg|thumb|right|200px|A Hamadryad, by John William Waterhouse]] In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- quot; that would lead to the development of nutrition as a science. His ... Born on a farm in Oneida County, New York, Babcock earned degrees ...8 KB (1,193 words) - 20:03, 9 February 2023
- Huddie William Ledbetter (January 23, 1888 - December 6, 1949), better ... Lead Belly was one of the most colorful, albeit notorious figures ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- a leading scholastic theologian and bishop of the twelfth century. His philosophical ... Peter Lombard upheld the use of reason in interpreting dogma, while ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties ... MacNeice was born in Belfast, the youngest son of John Frederick and ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764) was an English ... In his illustrated 1753 treatise "The Analysis of Beauty," ...25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869 ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
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- [[Image:Greeley-Horace-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|Photographic portrait of ... editor, reformer, and politician. His New York Tribune was one of America ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- general. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina ... After the war he spoke in favor of civil and voting rights for the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
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- 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
- Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ... but her doctrine has become an integral part of the "collective unconsciousness” ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- William Frank Buckley Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 28, 2008 ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant ... Often references to mastodons are limited to members of the genus ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
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- O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter ... Among his more famous offerings are "The Ransom of Red Chief ...22 KB (3,541 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born ... His writing on Islam pioneered, in the English-speaking world, use ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- best known for works, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story ... Albee was one of the early American contributors to Theatre of the ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- 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
- 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
- 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... Billy Wilder is sometimes confused with director William Wyler. This ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
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- 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
- Margaret Beaufort (May 31, 1443 – June 29, 1509) was the mother ... Beaufort was a descendant of Edward III through John of Gaunt, Duke ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- The Caduceus, also known as the wand of Hermes, was a symbol of the ... with the traditional medical symbol, the Rod of Asclepius, which has only a ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been ... Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- Civil War. He was "an old friend" of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whom ... In May 1861 Adolph raised a volunteer regiment in New York City, the ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
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- 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
- The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the ... The Seven Days Battles began with a Union attack in the minor Battle ...23 KB (3,550 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
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- 19, 1888 - November 15, 1963) was one of the great international conductors ... He was born to a secular Jewish family in the Pest section of Budapest ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
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- The Battle of Plassey (Pâlāshīr Juddha) was a battle that took ... The battle was between Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
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- The Niagara Escarpment is a long, precipitous, cliff-like ridge of ... The Niagara Escarpment is the most prominent of several escarpments ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
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- Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminum inosilicate ... This mineral is an important source of lithium, which in turn has ...8 KB (1,146 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
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- most famous for his successful development of the gyrocompass. He also developed ... Sperry was born in Cortland, New York, to Stephen Decatur and Mary ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was ... II, particularly his work with the leaders of Japanese industry. Many in ...24 KB (3,501 words) - 22:00, 3 May 2023
- located in Bourges, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Bourges. The cathedral is noted for its unique feats of architecture, impressive sculptures ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact ... Human beings generally live with beliefs in various degrees of certainty ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- brilliant chief, warrior, orator, and leader of the Shawnee Nation, who advocated ... Tecumseh's warnings about the erosion of traditional tribal values ...19 KB (2,963 words) - 04:39, 27 February 2023
- from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln ... Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member ...20 KB (3,092 words) - 08:05, 3 August 2022
- ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... site became famous as the original source of oracle bones and oracle bone ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- [[File:JohnnyAppleseedHowe.gif|thumb|250px|right| Drawing of John ... a self-appointed missionary for the Church of the New Jerusalem, a Christian ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
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- William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) ... Sherman's attack on civilian infrastructure and displacement ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- Philippa of Hainault (June 24, 1311 – August 15, 1369) was the queen ... who persuaded her husband to spare the lives of the Burghers of Calais after ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
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- Alain de Lille (älăN' də lēl) , (Also called Alain of Lille ... which took place during the second half of the twelfth century. His philosophy ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
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- The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between July 2-6, 1777 ... The uncontested surrender of Ticonderoga caused an uproar in the American ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
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- chemist who contributed to the development of spectroscopy as a powerful ... Bunsen was the youngest of four sons of Christian Bunsen (1770–1837 ...8 KB (1,189 words) - 20:25, 11 August 2022
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- The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng ... ) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built ...14 KB (2,322 words) - 07:41, 4 January 2024
- [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
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- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
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- for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
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- vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety ... == Usage of sonata == The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- Sir William Petty (May 27, 1623 – December 16, 1687) was an English ... He was Member of the Parliament of England briefly and was also a ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
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- spanning fifty years, she made a total of seventy-three films. musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and ...15 KB (2,082 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 ... needed to be tamed, settled and made part of the American dream, where life ...27 KB (4,199 words) - 12:10, 8 May 2023
- listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker ... W. Ross and his wife, Jane Grant, a New York Times reporter. Ross wanted ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
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- November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- – August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York, United States) was a distinguished ... he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell, Ludwig ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
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- 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
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- and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the Truman Administration ... Korea. Such a Soviet-supported invasion of South Korea did occur in June ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
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- Review, were instrumental in the development of early twentieth century English ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- she was for her actual poetry. During much of her career she lived the life ... Millay lived and wrote during the early decades of the twentieth-century ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- and theologian who is considered one of the most important philosophers ... Pennsylvania, in 1897, as the son of a minister, Francis Cope Hartshorne ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
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- William Langland is the conjectured author of the fourteenth-century ... too archaic to be understood without the aid of a glossary or translation. ...19 KB (3,143 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was ... grew up in the multiethnic Lower East Side of Manhattan, on Oliver Street ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
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- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church ... Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Harry Truman, Gerald ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
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- school, and kindergarten teacher, one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... March 27, 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky, one of six children of William and ...9 KB (1,385 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- The Treaty of Utrecht that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather ... The treaties were concluded between the representatives of Louis XIV ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ... They first settled the island of Aquidneck, which is now part of Rhode ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain ... Following four centuries of colonization of the Western Hemisphere ...25 KB (4,004 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- financier, public official, and publisher of the Washington Post newspaper ... agent, Meyer also served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. In 1946 ...9 KB (1,262 words) - 04:14, 23 March 2024
- Fiberglass or glass fiber is material made from extremely fine fibers ... Glass fiber is formed when thin strands of silica-based or other formulation ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- expressionism, Action painting, and the New York School. Like all Modern art ... Neo-expressionism, and the other movements of the sixties and seventies and ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... in 1626. He was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of ... The Book of Micah is also notable for its more hopeful passages, portraying ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... A chemical synthesis begins by selection of compounds that are known ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- |opposed = William Godwin, Marquis de Condorcet, Jean-Jacques ... Malthus is widely regarded as the founder of modern demography. He made ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent ... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the first poem in the volume; ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
- 1903 – December 22, 1940) was the pen name of U.S. author, screenwriter, ... spiritually and materially, in the years of this economic depression. His ...8 KB (1,339 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear chain reaction ... Szilárd was born in Budapest at the time of the Austro-Hungarian ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
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- 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
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- Hubert Walter (c. 1160-1205 C.E.) was the Archbishop of Canterbury ... a precursor for the modern "Justice of the Peace," based on selecting ...34 KB (5,307 words) - 23:24, 17 January 2024
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- William Ewart Gladstone (December 29, 1809 – May 19, 1898) was a ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
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- 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
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- – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary ... degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology ...25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was ... Williams, Faulkner is often considered one of the most important writers ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
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- ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ... In addition to the general importance of the text for Christian and ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
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- revolutionary, infamous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police ... Square in Moscow, was toppled as part of the celebration of the collapse ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- 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
- 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential poets ... Auden was a poet of prodigious talent and output, living at a time ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
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- Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows" by William Blake.]] Lynching is a form of violence, usually murder, considered by its ...23 KB (3,493 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Bauxite is an important ore of aluminum, composed mainly of aluminum ... Bauxite consists predominantly of minerals such as gibbsite (Al(OH ...6 KB (660 words) - 03:09, 26 September 2023
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- an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau ... Hoover has frequently been accused of exceeding and abusing his authority ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- William Wycherley (c. 1640 – January 1, 1716) was an English dramatist ... values, or simply a response to the years of violence and bloodshed that ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
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- October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe ... During the War of 1812 he fought on the side of the British. Later ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 19:44, 14 August 2021
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
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- 300px|The mutineers turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- 1812 – March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States of America ... The causes of the Civil War remain the subject of debate and it is ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 21:02, 28 November 2023
