Search results for "Religion in the United States" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Ethical Culture is a nontheistic religion established by Felix Adler ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- educator, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Henry David Thoreau. Adler found ethics as the common ground for and at the ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- The Nuer are a people located primarily in southern Sudan along the ... The Nuer today face the challenges common to all traditional cultures ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- 1932), a Protestant, medical missionary from the United States, who later also ... Horace Newton Allen was born in Delaware, Ohio, on April 23, 1858 ...8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
- and politician and a founding father of the United States. He served as ... He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- : 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
- and ethnographer, famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and ... Paul Radin was born on April 2, 1883, in Lodz, Russia (today Poland ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868), was a member ... Stevens was born in Danville, Vermont on April 4, 1792. He suffered ...9 KB (1,431 words) - 02:49, 19 April 2023
- 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States Secretary of State ... Although Lincoln won the Republican presidential nomination over Seward ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, ... of white ranchers, Wovoka was well versed in both the English language and ...9 KB (1,467 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Federalist No. 5, titled "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning ... Federalist No. 5 addresses the idea of states forming regional confederacies ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- and his brother, Allen W. Dulles, directed the C.I.A.. As Eisenhower's ... was what became known as brinkmanship, the ability to get to the brink ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues ... The family unit is not only the site of reproduction of the human ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 00:38, 25 March 2024
- songwriter, and fiddler, who was known as the "King of the Hillbillies ... Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee, the third of five children ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- | 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
- more than 26 years from 1944 until his death in 1971. His administration lasted ... Tubman was born in Harper, Liberia to the Reverend Alexander Tubman ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- 30, 2016) was a religious studies scholar in the United States. He wrote ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... a written constitution, and humane laws. At the time, Pennsylvania was the ...16 KB (2,612 words) - 10:39, 11 May 2023
- and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious ... Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- model. He was a close friend of the U.S. German-born theologian ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- pioneer, soldier, and statesman. He was the seventh governor of Kentucky ... Born in South Carolina, Adair enlisted in the state militia and served ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 04:05, 3 August 2022
- established for charitable purposes only. The law favors charities because ... A charity goes beyond giving relief to the poor or homeless, extending ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... The word blasphemy is derived from the Middle English blasfemen, which ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- The Fugitive Slave Act was a federal law in the United States providing ... The Articles of Confederation of the New England Confederation of ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 07:11, 15 April 2024
- 1916) was an American educator, dedicated to the education of young children ... Susan Blow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the oldest of six children ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
- The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation ... The role of religion in American public life remains an unresolved ...29 KB (4,563 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- like purposes, and often, especially in the past, serving ceremonial ... The history of friendly societies is entwined with benefit societies ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 06:44, 15 April 2024
- Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being ... and "fetal homicide" both involve the killing of an unborn fetus ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's ... Despite their diversity, rites of passage all serve the same purpose: ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- and briefly a politician who became the first woman to serve in the ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- a wave of creative experimentation in modern dance. She and her husband, Ted Shawn, founded the influential dance school ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ... The Supreme Court overturned Griswold's conviction and invalidated ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 05:50, 25 February 2023
- was an artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his ... ==Youth in Lebanon== According to his relative of the same name, the ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- Advent (from the Latin Adventus, "coming," sc. Redemptoris ... Advent (and adventism) has its roots in Hebrew and Christian prophetic ...6 KB (939 words) - 14:01, 7 May 2024
- James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... Monroe was a popular president who ran unopposed for a second term ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- |region1 = United States (New York) |region2 = United States (North Carolina) |pop1 = ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 00:36, 3 May 2023
- for public office. Landon was a key figure in the United States Republican ... Landon was born in 1887, to John Manuel and Anne Mossman Landon. The ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- |region2 = United States (New York, Oklahoma) |pop2 = ... The Cayuga were members of a powerful confederacy of tribes of the ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:34, 3 December 2023
- an eminent theologian and religious scholar in the German Protestant tradition ... Born in Peine (near Hanover), Rufolf Otto attended the Gymnasium Adreanum ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2022
- theory. Regarded as a founder of sociology in the United States, he believed ... Ross studied human nature in detail, regarding human beings as essential ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- right|William Blackstone as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws ... an English jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- concern for monetary profit. NPOs are active in a wide range of areas, including ... Since those involved in running a non-profit organization must pursue ...18 KB (2,646 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- The Ghost Dance was a religious movement that began in 1889 and was ... First performed in accordance with Wilson's teachings among the ...15 KB (2,439 words) - 18:52, 21 May 2024
- October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was among the first female attorneys in ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- 26, 1649) led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the Massachusetts ... that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- a Confederate general who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and ... Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806 to Sarah and William ...10 KB (1,572 words) - 08:03, 6 March 2023
- is commonly associated with Neo-orthodoxy or the dialectical theology movement. After being educated in both Europe and the United States, Brunner ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- 1873) was an American educator who created the McGuffey Readers, one of America ... William Holmes McGuffey was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- educator, and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism ... Born in Bohemia, Wise was educated in Prague and Vienna, receiving ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- his 1980 campaign, she was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United ... Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the daughter of an ...14 KB (1,976 words) - 01:05, 9 February 2023
- ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- 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
- Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the ... Tilden was born in New Lebanon in New York State. He studied at New ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 20:20, 1 December 2023
- #039;s Party, Woman’s Peace Party, and the American Civil Liberties Union ... Crystal Eastman was born on June 25, 1881 in Marlborough, Massachusetts ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:32, 11 January 2024
- not only as a skilled aviator but also as the first African American woman ... by racial and gender discrimination in early twentieth-century America ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 17:27, 29 September 2023
- Category:Philosophy and religion Cell church refers to a church structure based on the regular gathering ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- Intermarriage is the marriage between two people of different backgrounds ... group. Whether that group is defined by religion, race, or other difference ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... Tocqueville's insights into what made the United States successful ...22 KB (3,185 words) - 06:41, 20 July 2023
- The Westminster Confession of Faith is a reformed confession of faith ... In 1643, the English Parliament called upon "learned, godly, ...10 KB (1,440 words) - 17:22, 4 May 2023
- Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... The fusion of swing and Cuban music produced this fascinating rhythm ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- reference to its rites and ceremonies. Used in a more pejorative sense, cult ... During the twentieth century, groups referred to as "cults" ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary ... Born to a wealthy New York family long involved in Republican politics ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- Parochial school is a term used (particularly in the United States ... who desire their children to be educated in a God-centered environment ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:Village school in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan.jpg|thumb ... Coeducation is the integrated education of males and females at the ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 22:24, 7 January 2024
- by John Calvin, a Protestant Reformer in the sixteenth century, and ... Calvinism is also known for some notable experiments in Christian ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 18:38, 25 November 2023
- chemist and industrialist who emmigrated to the United States in 1799 and ... has had a major impact on American affairs. The DuPont Company was a major ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 21:44, 29 December 2021
- social worker who specifically focused on the advancement of child welfare ... One of four children, Grace Abbott was raised in a home environment ...7 KB (984 words) - 08:16, 24 May 2024
- | religion = Buddhist |}} 1960-1965, 1970-1977 and 1994-2000, and was the world's first female ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ... While the distinction between a "civil war" and a "revolution ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- Singer was a well-known proponent of the idea that New Religious Movements ... Her research garnered the attention of respected psychological institutions ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
- A state religion (also called an official religion, established church ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter, ... In addition to painting two United States presidents - Theodore Roosevelt ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments ... The Bill of Rights also restricts Congress' power by prohibiting ...36 KB (5,472 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the ... Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a United ... from inauspicious beginnings to success in fields traditionally dominated ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney ... Unlike Marshall, who had supported a broad role for the federal government ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held elected positions ... Benjamin was born a British subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- |region1 = United States (New York) |pop1 = |ref1 = ... #039;io, Kahni'kwi'io, Other Indigenous Religion ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- coeducational, liberal arts college situated in Poughkeepsie, New York. Founded ... For Vassar graduates, both men and women, to advance the world of ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- Greek: Συγκριτικό Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and similarities ... As the world becomes smaller in traveling time, and larger in legal ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- civil-rights activist, a field secretary of the National Association for the ... July 2, 1925, near Decatur, Mississippi, as the third of four children of ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics ... foreign exchange transactions, now known as the "Tobin tax." This ...10 KB (1,470 words) - 08:52, 1 April 2024
- socialist, and journalist. She worked with the National Consumers League ... Mary White Ovington was born on April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was ... During his tenure as president, Roberts pushed for European and United ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... In the United States in particular, as well as other countries worldwide ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- She believed that children lacked the experience needed to make ... Beecher was born in East Hampton, New York, the oldest of 13 children ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- with little formal education, he partnered in building a successful dry goods ... Perhaps his best known philanthropic work in the U.S. is the Peabody ...10 KB (1,547 words) - 14:53, 21 May 2024
- Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... During World War I, Baeck served as an army chaplain in the German ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- |caption=Basketweaver of the Yurok people |poptime=5,000+ ... The Yurok, whose name means "downriver people," are Native ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives ... While never rising to the presidency, Clay became perhaps the most ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president ... nationalist, favoring war with Britain in 1812 and a vast program of ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States ... 30, 1917) was an American newspaper mogul, the owner and editor-in-chief ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- | nationality = United States | period = | genre = Literary fiction ... an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his work ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- political essay written by John Jay. It was the second of The Federalist Papers ... Federalist No. 2 established the premise of nationhood that would ...20 KB (2,888 words) - 01:53, 26 March 2024
- Indian culture. Cushing was an expert on the process of making various ... Cushing's work provided unique insights into the lives of the ...10 KB (1,434 words) - 05:03, 9 April 2024
- Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty ... Harrison presidency was notable for the dramatic geographical expansion ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- was a ary statesman and patriot, leader in colonial Virginia's House ... Henry is remembered in history for his ringing "Give me liberty ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... Apostasy is distinguished from heresy in that the latter refers to ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- 11, 1925 – September 6, 2002) was one of the best known English social ... |right|250px|Michael Argyle suggested the idea that social skills ...16 KB (2,228 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- main_interests = Democracy, Race, Philosophy of religion, Ethics| ... University, West became a professor of Religion and director of African ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- Flag of the Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Oklahoma [[Image:Flag of the Sac and Fox Nation.svg|none|200px]] ...12 KB (1,846 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- an early and courageous proponent of the separation of church and state ... A religious separatist, Williams questioned the right of the colonists ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He ... 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
- Falun Gong (Chinese: 法轮功: meaning "Practice of the Wheel ... immediate acclaim and nominated twice as the "Star Qigong School" ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth ... While Fillmore is considered by many as one of the lesser United States ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- Christian Science Monitor, The The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is an international newspaper ...9 KB (1,395 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- The Northeastern United States, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... down, derived from custom or implied. In the United States and most ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- most well known for his work and involvement in the American Civil Liberties ... Hays was born in Rochester, New York. His father and mother, both ...9 KB (1,434 words) - 05:44, 9 January 2023
- officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed the ... Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- Bannock is a form of flat bread, the same thickness as a scone cooked ... Adopted into Native American culture, the bannock has become popular ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 07:26, 20 September 2023
- theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and grew up in the Bishopston ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... notable_ideas = The “will to believe” doctrine, the pragmatic ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State ... his speech on U.S. policy toward Asia before the National Press Club in January ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... Methodism originated in England in the eighteenth century, among a ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- Number 10) is an essay by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers ... No. 10 addresses the question of how to guard against "factions ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 01:53, 26 March 2024
- February 21, 1919) was an American pioneer in the areas of feminism, abolitionism ... One of the first women in the country to be awarded a medical degree ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- ; April 4, 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania – June 12, 1999 in Chicago ... A brilliant scholar, he invested greatly in his students, brought ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- historically, a form of interpersonal status in which a man and a woman are ... However, common-law marriage is becoming a thing of the past. It is ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... with Adorno, and extended his analysis to the criticism of the western civilization ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America, and one of the leaders ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- congressman, and sixth president of the United States. The son of ... As secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe, Adams ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 03:49, 3 May 2024
- an American artist and illustrator. He was the star pupil of Howard Pyle ... In 1911 he gained national recognition with his illustrations for ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 22:57, 10 November 2022
- #039;s immediate social group respectively. The two words also refer to the ... exogamous or endogamous rules concerning the selection of marriage partners ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
- Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot (4,322-meter) stratovolcano, is the second ... stands some 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) above the surrounding area. ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite ˤAmmurāpi, "the kinsman is ... A great literary revival followed. One of the most important works ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- The Baptist Church is a Christian denomination—or group of denominations—that ... The focus of Baptist church services is the proclamation of the Gospel ...25 KB (3,609 words) - 07:57, 20 September 2023
- In sociology, conflict theory states that society or an organization ... it is questionable whether this represents the ideal human society. Although ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- 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
- 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
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... The European Convention is still the only international human rights ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- The Caduceus, also known as the wand of Hermes, was a symbol of the ... The caduceus is sometimes used as a symbol for medicine, especially ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- Stephen Arnold Douglas nicknamed the "Little Giant" (April ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- Weed is a term for any plant growing in a setting where it is not ... Weeds may be unwanted because they are unsightly, or they limit the ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 22:25, 11 June 2020
- diplomat, and jurist, best known as the first Chief Justice of the ... Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... intertwining many different traditions. The southern and central parts ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- other herbs or plants are used or added and the leaves are usually bound with ... and it has been practiced all over the world, its modern incarnation ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- educator, diplomat, and politician during the Meiji and Taishō periods ... and students. He was critical of the increasing militarism in Japan ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- 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
- Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Great (c. 958 – July 15, 1015, Berestovo ... The illegitimate son of Prince Sviatoslav I of Kiev, Vladmir consolidated ...12 KB (1,795 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain ... The Rocky Mountains are commonly defined to stretch from the Liard ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- Thomas Helwys, (c. 1575 – c. 1616), was one of the joint founders ... In 1612, Helwys published the first plea for religious liberty in ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 21:16, 30 April 2023
- The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington ... The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope and completed ...9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
- The Kaabah, Kaaba or Ka'bah (Arabic: الكعبة meaning: "Cube ... Muslims face the Ka'bah during their daily prayers. In the Hajj ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- a Dutch theologian and (from 1603) professor in theology at the University ... In his early years Arminius affirmed the traditional Calvinist view ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 08:08, 18 March 2024
- [[Image:Beit Sur1.jpg|thumb|320px|Beth-Zur, one of the sites in the ... archaeologist, known as a key figure of the twentieth century biblical ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Category:Philosophy and religion Day, Dorothy [[Image:Dorothy Day, ... The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions ... common religious tradition or communion. In particular, the Eastern Orthodox ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ... Historically, sociology of religion was of central importance to sociology ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under ... Supporters of deprogramming portray the practice as an antidote to ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- cactus whose native region extends from the southwestern United States ... Although illegal in most jurisdictions, its use continues today, especially ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 02:54, 24 November 2022
- Red Jacket (c. 1750 - January 20, 1830), known as Otetiani in his ... Red Jacket urged neutrality during the American Revolutionary War ...21 KB (3,357 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- a woman agrees to become pregnant for the purpose of gestating and giving ... Surrogacy has a long history, but was not formally recognized until ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 13:57, 28 April 2023
- that contains tabular information in a particular field organized ... The calendar is not only a tool for organizing information and dates ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...23 KB (3,516 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country ... The modern state is relatively new to human history, emerging after ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
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- intelligence officer who coordinated the Central Intelligence Agency ... However, the Shah's regime was oppressive and rode roughshod ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, ... Liberia has recently been afflicted by two civil wars, the Liberian ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and ... because they are spiritually damaging to the individual and because they ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- famous for their study Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture ... Robert Lynd was born on September 26, 1892, in New Albany, Indiana ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- 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
- |region1 = United States -->(New York, Oklahoma)--> ... The Seneca are a group of indigenous people native to North America ...28 KB (4,085 words) - 15:59, 26 October 2023
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth president of the United ... Taylor was born in Orange County, Virginia on November 24, 1784. He ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy ... Scholars distinguish the Old Academy (Plato and his immediate successors ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United ... Adams was born in Boston to Mary Fifield and Samuel Adams, Sr., Samuel ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... (he was a great-grandson of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth century ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as ... Arthur had been Collector of Customs for the Port of New York. He was appointed ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- with Charlie Parker, was a major figure in the development of bebop, or ... and gifted improviser, building on the style of trumpeter Roy Eldridge ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 January 2023
- The Modoc are a Native American people who originally lived in the ... Historically, the Modoc are most known for the Modoc War between a ...23 KB (3,542 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- He was the son of Theodore, a Roman nobleman. He reigned for longer ... He may have been the first Pope to refer to the Donation of Constantine ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 06:17, 15 June 2023
- physicist and mathematician. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in ... Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the theory ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- – August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York, United States) was a distinguished ... Black was born in Azerbaijan but grew up in London, England, where ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, ... by separation of people of different races in daily life when both are doing ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- historian, and political activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South ... During the time when predominantly black-white civil rights issues ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Vestal.JPG|thumb|right|300px|In Roman times, the Vestal Virgins ... Virginity is a term used to describe the state of never having engaged ...20 KB (2,940 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- witch"; feminine wicce), also known as the "Old Religion," ... existed for thousands of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- Similar to classification systems used in biology, bibliographic classification ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Bacon is any of certain cuts of meat taken from the sides, belly, ... Bacon, like ham, which also derives from the pig, has been a common ...17 KB (2,674 words) - 05:35, 26 August 2023
- The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early ... The Apostles' Creed was esteemed as an example of the apostles ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- |popplace=United States (Oklahoma) |rels=Christianity, other ... The Pawnee (also Paneassa, Pari, Pariki) are a Native American tribe ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 01:45, 23 November 2022
- Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices, and institutions ... It is characterized by a liberal attitude toward the Jewish law and ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- The potato plant (Solanum tuberosum) is a member of the Solanaceae ... Potatoes are the world's most widely grown tuber crop, and the ...20 KB (3,010 words) - 05:53, 30 November 2022
- The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Totem_Park_pole_1.jpg|thumb|right|100px|A totem pole located ... Derived from the term "ototeman" in the Ojibwe language ...20 KB (3,178 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- – December 10, 1909) was a war leader of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He ... One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States ...13 KB (2,097 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... Bin Laden's name is transliterated in several ways. Most English ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- and theologian who is considered one of the most important philosophers ... Charles Hartshorne (pronounced, "harts-horn") was born in ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- Heimdall is the sentry of Asgard and a member of the Aesir (the gods ... In some scholarly accounts, parallels have been drawn between Heimdall ...18 KB (2,781 words) - 22:43, 3 February 2022
- and playwright. He has been called, “the conscience of his generation” ... to religious fundamentalism. During the “speakeasy” decade of ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous Churches in full communion ... The Eastern Catholic Churches were located historically in Eastern ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- support to other organizations, or provide the sole source of funding for ... A philanthropic foundation is a way to live for the sake of others ...18 KB (2,622 words) - 14:49, 28 March 2023
- The Helsinki Final Act, Helsinki Accords, or Helsinki Declaration ... On the other hand, by signing the document, the Soviet Union had also ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution in ... Clark sought to discover economic relationships, such as the relationship ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement ... In France, on the other hand, Deism in the person of Voltaire took ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was one of the foremost astronomers in American ... Born the son of John P. Hubble, an insurance executive in Marshfield ...14 KB (2,031 words) - 23:56, 12 February 2024
- vocal advocate of gender equality, the wife of abolitionist Henry ... Stone was born on the August 13, 1818, on her family's Massachusetts ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 02:36, 5 November 2022
- July 17, 1887) was an activist on behalf of the indigent insane. She created ... Dorothea Lynde Dix was born in the tiny frontier village of Hampden ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 09:38, 15 January 2023
- Cardinal József Mindszenty (March 29, 1892 - May 6, 1975) was the ... An opponent of both Fascism and Communism, he was elevated to the ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 16:42, 14 May 2024
- The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States ... The U.S. Constitution is the oldest written national constitution ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and together ... Rose Kennedy raised children who sought to serve the greater purpose: ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- Völund is a mythical smith-god of the Nordic and Germanic peoples ... heroic sacrifice, and epic battles. In the history of northern Europe ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern "antipo ... While the twentieth century in many ways proved him correct, stronger ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- Jewish men, although some men and women in the egalitarian Conservative ... According to the Talmud, a Jewish man is required to cover his head ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which ... to 100,000 people escaped enslavement via the Underground Railroad, though ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and ranks sixth in ... metropolitan area was the fifth-largest in the United States. A commercial ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- writer, lecturer, and social reformer during the early 1900s. She was born ... Gilman was born Charlotte Anna Perkins in Hartford, Connecticut, the ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central ... The Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central ...28 KB (4,092 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- and educator, most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- prolific author. He taught at Pomona College in Claremont, California from ... and religious arenas, including the Unification Church, founded ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single ... different nations. A person who adheres to the idea of cosmopolitanism in ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills in northeastern ... The Antiquities Act, granting the President authority to restrict ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Islam, and Sikhism. Within Christianity, the practice derives from the ... The religious act of foot-washing is also practiced in Islam and Sikhism ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- or practical ethical questions during the early part of the twentieth ... Because of the complexity of each ethical issue, a philosopher often ...12 KB (1,559 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- studies on Pueblo Indians are regarded as the most comprehensive work on ... Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons was born on November 27, 1875, in ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of ... The longest serving Chief Justice in Supreme Court history, Marshall ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- generally attribute omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family ... The domestic goat is descended from the wild goat, Capra aegagrus ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- track and field athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in ... Owens was born in Danville, Alabama, in 1913. His family moved to ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 08:12, 3 April 2024
- 250px|Teamsters, armed with pipes, riot in a clash with police in the ... of violence and property damage, usually in reaction to a perceived grievance ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- Spiritualism is the belief that the spirits of the dead can be contacted ... to be capable of providing helpful advice to the living in both worldly and ...26 KB (3,720 words) - 15:24, 27 April 2023
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- charities, dedicating her life to improving the lives of the under-privileged ... Josephine Shaw was born on December 16, 1843, in Roxbury, Massachusetts ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
- |popplace=United States (Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming) |rels=Christianity ... The Arapaho tribe of Native Americans historically lived on the eastern ...23 KB (3,297 words) - 21:30, 11 August 2023
- was an Italian librettist and poet born in Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto ... and siblings converted to Roman Catholicism in 1763, he took the name Lorenzo ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La ... by the National Constituent Assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2022
- free=19 teams in 11 sports| colors=Oxford Blue and Forest Green| affiliations = United Methodist Church| website=[http://www.drew.edu/ ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- [[Image:Blegen_Library.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Blegen Library at the ... archaeologist famous for his work on the site of Pylos in modern-day ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- |region1 = United States |pop1 = 17,000 |region2 = Russia ... The Aleuts (Unangax, Unangan or Unanga) are the indigenous people ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... The Constitution, as drafted, did not enumerate specific civil rights ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- Category:Religion Merton, Thomas and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ...21 KB (3,278 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- A sheep is an individual of any of the woolly mammal species that ... those of goats. Sheep have scent glands on the face and hind feet. They have ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 21:23, 6 October 2022
- that became a prominent feature of the nineteenth century American ... The first known large camp meetings were led by Presbyterian minister ...15 KB (2,238 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- Hall was a strong believer in the scientific method and its application ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- The Yao nationality (瑶族, Pinyin: Yáo zú; Vietnamese: người ... Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe that the Yao became ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership ... HJI offers professional training in the ministry, serving a wide spectrum ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- 16, 2021) was a renowned American educator in religion, rabbi, and writer ... explored radical theological frontiers in Jewish thought. He argued that ...16 KB (2,308 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- |region2 = United States (New York) |pop2 = 15,000 ... The Mohawk were one of the five core tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- a Russian emigre poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature ... ===In the Soviet Union=== Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- Fundamentalism refers to any sect or movement within a religion that ... Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- The Athanasian Creed, also known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening ... Today, however, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- of Traditionalist Catholics which holds that the Papal See has been vacant ... The term "sedevacantism" is derived from the Latin phrase ...21 KB (3,214 words) - 20:24, 21 December 2023
- Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities ... and monotheistic faiths have apprehended the nature of divine being(s) ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy ... service, and diplomatic efforts within the duchy. Relics, such as the ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- political, and ecclesiological impulses of the Protestant Reformation. The ... Protestants generally may be divided among four basic groups: The ...23 KB (3,274 words) - 08:17, 2 December 2022
- to as Middle Africa, defines a portion of the African continent south of ... *Democratic Republic of the Congo *Republic of Congo *Equatorial Guinea ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- Scouts coming from various nations sing at the European Jamboree 2005]] A Boy Scout is a boy, usually a teenager, participating in the worldwide ...39 KB (5,942 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The organization faced controversy on several occasions over its discriminatory ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of ... Most of the biggest supporters in all countries have been women, often ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... result of war, famine, and disease caused by the conflict. Four million people ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- political movement that originally supported the establishment of a homeland ... The term "Zionism" is derived from the word Zion (Hebrew: ...20 KB (2,796 words) - 18:55, 1 November 2023
- writer, and editor. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship ... Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- saint and martyr who died at Nicomedia in today's Turkey c. 306 ... Veneration of Saint Barbara was common from the ninth century until ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th ... Pierce served in the House of Representatives and Senate as a Democrat ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- of Congress, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is closely ... In contrast to Eliot, who gave up his American citizenship to become ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively ... and Haredi Judaism, which includes Hasidism. The Modern and Haredi variants ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- :This article is about the Algonquin of Quebec and the Ottawa Valley ... The Algonquins (or Algonkins) are an aboriginal North American people ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... themselves as spreading order, morality, the true religion and civilization ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the Democratic ... 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
- The term scientism has been used with different meanings in literature ... to indicate the improper usage of science or scientific claims. ...22 KB (3,110 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- was a French jurist and judge. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 ... In addition to his intimate involvement in producing the UDHR, Cassin ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- Paine anticipated and helped foment the American Revolution through ... Born in England, Paine was an active participant in both the American ...26 KB (4,114 words) - 22:45, 30 April 2023
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- :This article is about the Sioux chief also known as Spotted Elk. ... Big Foot (also known as Ste Si Tȟáŋka. The son of Lone Horn, he was cousin ...12 KB (1,889 words) - 16:24, 27 December 2023
- The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; ... religious community whose traditional religion is said to have begun as ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev years ... Anastas Mikoyan joined the Bolshevik Party and fought in Baku during ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- LaGuardia, often spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America ... A north central state, it forms a bridge between the forests of the ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the most widely known performer ... rocksteady, and reggae songs, which include the hits "I Shot the Sheriff ...16 KB (2,442 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- Loki (sometimes referred to by his full name, Loki Laufeyjarson) is ... Loki seems to have been a figure that roused the imagination rather than any ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... are represented in the country today. Christianity was introduced to ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- unincorporated organized territory of the United States located east ... During the period of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- The Scopes Trial (often called the Scopes Monkey Trial) was a highly ... The Scopes Trial (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- The term interreligious dialogue (or interfaith dialogue) refers to ... The rise of interreligious dialogue has been made possible by the ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- The Partition of Bengal in 1947 divided Bengal into the two separate ... The government of Bengal supported a unified, independent Bengal as ...19 KB (2,769 words) - 23:04, 28 June 2023
- be described as commenting on human life. In journalism, his work would ... Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 00:33, 5 December 2023
- fifty years of her life advocating for the social and legal equality ... Anthony's lifelong efforts were rewarded posthumously with the ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- The Harrowing of Hell is a doctrine in Christian theology, derived ... The "Harrowing of Hell" doctrine was especially popular ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- 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
- an American statesman and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of ... This Confederacy owed its origin to the rise of the slave trade in ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... common law is a historical background of the means towards a harmony and ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- Arkansas (are-can-saw) is a state located in the southern region of ... Little Rock became the center of international attention in 1957 when ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- Jōdo shū (浄土宗 "The Pure Land School"), also known ... Jodo shu sought to provide people with a simple Buddhist practice ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 13:45, 1 August 2022
- Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- Scientology is a new religious movement based on the writings of L ... The organization presents itself as a fully integrated system of religious ...33 KB (4,873 words) - 17:26, 25 January 2023
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... The Hawaiian Islands, once known as the Sandwich Islands, form an ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- The Arab-Israeli conflict ( الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي ... tensions and open hostilities. It involves the establishment of the modern ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 in Madrid, Spain – September ... Santayana's main philosophical works are The Sense of Beauty ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024
- questions, nor was he willing to accept the limitations incurred by the ... The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ... While Yoruba can be found throughout the entirety of West Africa, ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- The Potawatomi (also spelled Pottawatomie or Pottawatomi) are a Native ... The Potawatomi controlled a vast amount of territory in the 1700s ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 00:29, 12 April 2023
- Category:Philosophy and religion Christian ethicist best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941 ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- 1982) was born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum in Russia and emigrated to the ... Her novels were based upon the projection of the Randian hero, a man ...20 KB (2,901 words) - 07:26, 23 August 2023
- Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, ... The species was on the brink of extirpation in the continental United ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth ... With the charter for the colony incomplete at the time the colonists ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 02:22, 9 November 2022
- statesman, politician, and soldier. The Virginia-born Houston was ... emigration to Tennessee, time spent with the Cherokee Nation (into which ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 01:57, 23 December 2022
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- for slavery, most famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate ... Before the Civil War, Davis served in the Mississippi legislature ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth ... He was born in a log cabin at Cove Gap, near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red ... all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- :For the province, see Sulu {{Infobox Former Country |native_name = Sulu ... The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence ... One of the founders of Rhode Island was Roger Williams. In 1636, Williams ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of ... Gospel music has played an anomalous role in American race relations ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 04:25, 24 May 2024
- American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ... and 1921 for denouncing U.S. participation in World War I. His health suffered ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- ) is a prehistoric mound builder site located in the extreme northeastern ... from the Mississippi River. It is a complex array of earthen mounds ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 17:40, 9 November 2023
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- Santeria (Santería in Spanish, meaning "Way of the Saints" ... The Yorùbá people originated from Western Africa in the area known ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- |popplace= Canada (Alberta)United States (Montana) |rels=Christianity, other ... The Blackfoot confederacy of Alberta in Canada and Montana in the ...26 KB (3,951 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
- [[File:William Hogarth - A Rake's Progress - Plate 1 - The Young ... :This article is concerned with the inheritance of physical and monetary ...15 KB (2,362 words) - 17:02, 21 November 2020
- American physicist who conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and ... Szilárd was born in Budapest at the time of the Austro-Hungarian ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of ... Most Christian denominations accept the doctrine of infant baptism ...16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- Humanistic psychology is an approach in psychology that emerged in ... The following five postulates form the foundation of Humanistic psychology ...22 KB (2,987 words) - 12:19, 4 February 2023
- has healed," "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- Iðunn (romanized "Idun") is one of the goddesses of the ... Despite the lack of any evidence of extensive cultic worship, Idun ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit ... new institutions and international networks, the Endowment associates shape ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- An American abolitionist, she was most famous as the author of The ... In 1868, she helped establish the New England Suffrage Association ...13 KB (2,163 words) - 09:30, 12 May 2024
- |caption =Keating Hall with Edwards Parade in the foreground ... |country = United States |undergrad = 8,430 |postgrad = 7,579 ...33 KB (4,668 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh ... (of Scripture)," and is derived from the old Hebrew word for the Hebrew ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- William Booth (April 10, 1829 – August 20,1912) was the founder ... Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, England, the only son of four ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 6 May 2023
- |region1 = United States |pop1 = 1,800 - Pit River Indians ... The Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi, and Ahjumawi) were one of several ...18 KB (2,714 words) - 07:37, 14 June 2023
- and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association ... In 1994, César Estrada Chávez was posthumously awarded the Presidential ...25 KB (4,024 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- |popplace=United States (Oklahoma, Alabama) |rels=Protestantism, other ... The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- his exhortations toward chastity and purity. The medieval church was itself ... Ailred was an Anglo-Saxon, born in Hexham, Northumbria, in 1110. His ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- The Council of Chalcedon, also known as the Fourth Ecumenical Council ... Following the lead of Pope Leo I, the council sought a middle path ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 08:25, 10 January 2024
- 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was United States politician who was ... Wallace was born on August 25, 1919, in Clio, Alabama to George Corley ...23 KB (3,280 words) - 07:33, 15 May 2024
- various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced ... types of religious leaders. According to the strict interpretation of the ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded ... Neo-Platonists revived the academy in the late antiquity. Due to the ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- arkho, “rule” ) is a form of government in which political power effectively ... noble class, or with plutocracies, ruled by the wealthy members of a community ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial ... science books and co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- The word deacon is derived from the Greek word diakonos (διάκονος ... Among the more prominent deacons in history are Saint Stephen, Philip ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- Maronites are members of one of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches ... Before the conquest of Lebanon by Arabian Muslims, which resulted ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, and novelist ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- reigned for slightly less than a year during the Novatianist schism. He was ... Lucius' brief papacy took place during the beginning stages of ...11 KB (1,673 words) - 04:03, 26 November 2022
- best known for his excavations at Ur in Sumer, ancient Mesopotamia ... sediment that he believed were evidence of The Flood recorded in the Bible ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United ... He was the first of a series of eight presidents between Andrew Jackson ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- , also known as Shin Buddhism, was founded by the former Tendai Japanese ... In contemporary times, Jodo Shinshu is one of the most widely followed ...23 KB (3,447 words) - 20:10, 24 April 2023
- an Indian yogi and guru. He was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation ... Western Christianity. His understanding of the Bible was unique for someone ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- example of "miscegenation." The woman standing is her sister ... mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private ... The term "Ivy League" is now most commonly used to refer ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- 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
- The Igbo, sometimes referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ... The Igbo share linguistic ties with their neighbors the Bini, Igala ...21 KB (3,253 words) - 16:00, 12 February 2024
- This article deals with the government-funded school provided for ... agencies as part of public education, are the most common type of educational ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- event. Villaraigosa is a former director of the ACLU Southern California affiliate ... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a national non-profit ...25 KB (3,875 words) - 02:54, 24 July 2023
- Serampore College, located in Serampore Town, in Hooghly District ... unable to retrieve. --> The Latin name of the college motto, Gloriam ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- denote polytheistic faiths. Since the term was typically used as ... ethnologists and anthropologists avoid the term "paganism" ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Royce is relatively unknown today, but he contributed in introducing ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- lawyer but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- honoring mothers, celebrated on various days in many places around the world ... While Christian and pre-Christian societies in Europe commonly celebrated ...22 KB (3,311 words) - 17:00, 10 November 2022
- A Rabbi, in Judaism, is a religious teacher and, in modern times, ... With the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Jewish ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- Ethnobotany is the systematic study of the relationships between plants ... *the culturally specific ways that humans perceive and classify different ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... The area's fertile soil and warm climate gave rise to the early ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- For Naturalism in literature and art, see Naturalism (literature). Naturalism designates any of several philosophical stances that make ...17 KB (2,419 words) - 15:22, 11 November 2022
- 1837 – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its ... The National Memorial was established on October 9, 1997, through ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Animism (from the Latin: animus or anima, meaning mind or soul) refers ... While the term "animism" refers to a broad range of spiritual ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- `Aflāq) (1910 – June 23, 1989) was the ideological founder of Ba’athism ... The Ba'th Party (also spelled Baath or Ba'ath; Arabic: حزب ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- essayist. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made ... cultural traditions and introduced them to the West. His witty, sharp analysis ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic ... Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the ... offshore reserves has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy, which ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- newspaper publisher, and former owner of The New York Times. Under his ... immigrants, Julius and Bertha Levy Ochs, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The family ...10 KB (1,585 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- was an American sociologist who established the sociology department at Harvard ... Talcott Parsons was born on December 13, 1902, in Colorado Springs ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- The term Bride of Christ is normally a metaphorical reference to the ... In the Roman Catholic Church, the image of the Church as Christ's ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 23:02, 20 November 2023
- The House of Nemanjić (Serbian: Немањићи, Nemanjići; Anglicized: ... led some Serbs to see others as a threat to the purity of their heritage. ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 18:44, 7 February 2024
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Cyprus fell in 1571, and the Venetians retained Crete until 1670. ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- The State of Georgia is a state in the United States and was one of ... Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River by land ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:18, 21 May 2024
- Douglass and Nat Turner, she offered one of the only autobiographical narratives ... Her personal narrative stood apart from the majority of slave narratives ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 20:40, 29 January 2022
- was a United States born archaeologist and diplomat who is best known ... The colonization process in the Americas paid little attention to ...16 KB (2,447 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- significant and ingenious. Her popular Woman in the Nineteenth Century, published ... She grew up in the Unitarian Church and became friends with Ralph ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- 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 (2,526 words) - 17:42, 23 May 2024
- of Empiricism. Locke also made contributions in the fields of theology, education ... Though Thomas Hobbes and especially Francis Bacon had pioneered the ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- nineteenth century postcard, commenting on the consequences of sexual ignorance.]] have some form of sex education, but the nature varies widely. In some ...26 KB (3,715 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- :In keeping with, and seeking to respect the sacred in the tradition ... According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- | nationality = United States | genre = Action Science fiction ... worldwide. His works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature ...24 KB (3,558 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- American actress, comedian, and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy ... Lucille, known as the "Queen of Comedy," was also responsible ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- #039;s "Velo" (velo means bicycle in [[French language|French]] ... which makes it a witness of a previous era in human society. Antiques are ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes are the largest ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 19:37, 24 May 2024
- Brainwashing refers to the systematic application of coercive techniques ... Whether any techniques exist that change thought and behavior to the ...29 KB (4,296 words) - 22:37, 20 November 2023
- The Anglican Communion is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches ... The status of full communion means that all rites conducted in one ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... While hanging, especially when carried out in public, is generally ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- Petit Martinique) and several tiny islands in the southeastern Caribbean ... In 1983, Grenada was invaded by U.S.-led troops that toppled the pro ...26 KB (3,667 words) - 18:33, 31 January 2023
- 1854) was a German philosopher and one of the three great representatives ... A brilliant but restless mind, Schelling is the philosopher most directly ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- Unification thought sees history as a theater in which God works voluntarily ... The goal of history is restoration or "re-creation," namely ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- | religion = Roman Catholic | spouse = Eleanor "Sis" Daley ... December 20, 1976) served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran ... Thurmond holds the record for the longest serving Dean of the United ...27 KB (3,778 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in ... landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests. In its most generic sense, the ...23 KB (2,982 words) - 17:36, 12 February 2024
- Ludwig Gumplowicz is believed to have coined the term "ethnocentrism" ... Ethnocentrism is the tendency to look at the world primarily from ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first ... In addition to his government service, Moyihan was a distinguished ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- Censorship is the editing, removing, or otherwise changing speech ... Restricting freedom of speech violates the foundation of democracy, yet ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Established ... The economy of Barbados is susceptible to various issues, such as ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- The Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the ... The Southern Netherlands, situated in modern-day Belgium, Luxembourg ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the ... Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- A catechism (κατηχητικός in Greek) is a summary or exposition ... repositories of Christian faith over the ages, containing great wisdom ...21 KB (3,269 words) - 17:53, 30 November 2023
- , (May 22, 1772 – September 27, 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj ... In 1828, prior to his departure to England, Rammohan founded, with ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the ... In many places, lawyers are bound by an ethical code that is enforced ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- newspaper and magazine publishing in Britain. He was famous for ... Alfred Charles William Harmsworth was born on July 15, 1865 in Chapelizod ...9 KB (1,294 words) - 07:18, 20 July 2023
- objector sentenced to 15 years hard labor in the [[United States Disciplinary ... beliefs incompatible with being a combatant in military service, or they may ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- The Pueblo People are a diverse group of Native American inhabitants ... The Pueblo people have retained their pre-Spanish way of life to a ...29 KB (4,495 words) - 18:09, 14 April 2023
- Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President ... In addition to his political career, Jefferson was an agriculturalist ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in ... Costa Rica is also at the forefront of conservation and environmental ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- headquarters at 635 Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.]] organization of public radio stations in the United States. NPR was ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 14:58, 11 November 2022
- Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889 - 1929), born in Patiala State, India, became ... The international Christian missionary press focused upon Sundar Singh ...21 KB (3,248 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- Accra is the capital, the largest city, and the administrative, communications ... Among the attractions of Accra are the National Museum, with a display ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- taken to eliminate discrimination—whether in employment, housing, or education—but ... action, such as quotas for race or gender in college admissions, have been ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential ... Catherine Mulvihill and initially grew up in the multiethnic Lower East ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- Sigmund Freud's closest aides, and by the end of his career one of his ... His theory, although considered limited in ascribing all such development ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- refer to a particular ethnic group, such as the Nuer, to a nation state, such ... Human beings are essentially social creatures, with the desire and ...31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
- The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh ... Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ...50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
- Yoga (from the Sanskrit root yuj ("to yoke")) refers to ... During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- |popplace=United States (Oklahoma, Montana) |rels=Christianity, other ... The Cheyenne are a Native American tribe that originally lived in ...31 KB (4,746 words) - 20:56, 9 December 2023
- The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central ... abundant resources, including Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave ...39 KB (5,531 words) - 22:12, 3 March 2023
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening that ... a sector of American society that emphasized the human responsibility to dramatically ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- In historiography the phrase the Dark Ages (or Dark Age) is most commonly ... intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Vulgar Latin ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- and philosopher, who pioneered bridging the Far Eastern world and the ... tradition also helped Asians to recapture the values of their religious ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- Religion in Korea encompasses Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity ... Religion in Korea has a multi-faceted character. Shamanism, a tribal ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- Belgian-American journalist who specialized in international politics. Following ... of government, monarchs, and key figures of the world, including Saddam Hussein ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 03:52, 15 August 2023
- City, Maryland, on November 9, 1731. He was the first of three children to ... knowledge, Banneker began to educate himself in mathematics and became intrigued ...14 KB (2,221 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- plays also share some similarities with the "Theater of the Absurd ... Epic theatre assumes that the purpose of a play, more than entertainment ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 11:01, 11 April 2024
- thinker and jurist, who lived during the Enlightenment and made significant ... principle. Republics are characterized by the virtues of patriotism and ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was ... to achieving civil rights for all. He told the 1948 Democratic National Convention ...32 KB (4,916 words) - 21:09, 7 February 2024
- 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an entrepreneur in popular entertainment, who ... " and later his circus, dubbed "The Greatest Show on Earth," ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective ... perspective which took common sense as the source and ground of justification ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... American Samoa is a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, located ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- Polynesia (from the Greek words meaning "many islands") ... Polynesia may be described as the islands within a triangle with its ...17 KB (2,443 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- 9 (nine) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... In addition, it is classified as a real number, A real number is a ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- who was one of three major pioneers in the wedding of genetics to ... Sewall Wright was a Unitarian and after he retired in 1955 and moved ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- Dread or Angst as a philosophical term originated primarily through ... In dread one does not fear some thing, but rather experiences the ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated ... The holiday has its highest prominence in Mexico, where the celebration ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Lingayatism, also known as Veerashaivism, began as a reform movement ... The adherents of the faith go by the name Lingayats or Veerashaivas ...20 KB (2,822 words) - 04:17, 29 October 2022
- philanthropist often considered as one of the fathers Reform Judaism. Born in Halberstadt in today's Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Jacobson ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- was an influential Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological ... using a more complete method that the Freudian psychoanalysis with ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- Nevada is a state located in the western region of the United States ... Nevada encompasses about 70,745,600 acres, making it the seventh-largest ...34 KB (5,052 words) - 04:36, 11 March 2023
- The Yongle Encyclopedia ( t=永樂大典|s=永乐大典|p=Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn ; literally “The Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Era” ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 16:59, 4 June 2023
- The term Holy Orders comes from the Latin Ordo (order) and the word ... leaders of their religious communities, hold the power to make their respective ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- [[Image:531px-Voltaire.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Voltaire in 1718. Portrait ... philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the eighteenth ...27 KB (4,100 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- social change and was famous for developing the concept of "liminality ... containing religious or spiritual components in the referents of the symbolism ...16 KB (2,369 words) - 20:08, 3 May 2023
- self taught lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American ... Wallace was born in Brookville, Indiana, to a prominent local family ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is the process ... Especially in the English-speaking nations, homeschooling provides ...29 KB (4,035 words) - 16:36, 1 March 2023
- and unconventional "Temple School" in Boston, as well as the utopian ... Amos Bronson Alcott was born on Spindle Hill in the town of Wolcott ...13 KB (1,941 words) - 17:22, 26 July 2023
- a German neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...30 KB (4,473 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society ... The Shakers are famous for their ecstatic religious dances and work ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- 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
- الدین محمد رومی), known to the English-speaking world simply ... Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- 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
- #039; Weekend" at Camp Becket of the Becket Chimney Corners YMCA ... for children and teenagers conducted during the summer months. Children and ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- right|thumb|200 px|Paiute women and children in Yosemite Valley 1891.]]Paiute ... The Paiute are particularly well-known through the work of Wovoka ...23 KB (3,614 words) - 06:17, 18 November 2022
- Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... and which are protected from disclosure to the public based on classification ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... He won the three Pulitzer Prizes (both fiction and drama), numerous ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- and Orientalist who virtually created the discipline of comparative ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions ... The Missouri River flows through the western part of the state and ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- and a Baptist Minister. He pioneered the social gospel movement, especially ... Rauschenbusch was born in Rochester, New York. His father, Augustus ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- Mother Teresa, in full Saint Teresa of Calcutta, (born Agnesa Gonxha ... Her supporters sometimes referred to her as the "Angel of Mercy ...24 KB (3,633 words) - 20:00, 15 March 2023
- [[Image:Emory-Yuma.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yumas from "United States ... The Yuman are Native American tribes who live along the lower Colorado ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 10:25, 7 June 2023
- The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ... The term Orator is recorded in English since around 1374, meaning ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- patriot, Massachusetts delegate to the First and Second Continental ... Adams was the author of the Massachusetts constitution, the new nation ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- and his support for King Charles I resulted in his beheading in the middle ... Laud wanted the reconciliation of all Christians, hoped and prayed ...19 KB (2,977 words) - 11:10, 10 May 2023
- of both short stories and novels. He wrote in Yiddish. From a traditional ... Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in 1902 in Leoncin, a small village ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- writings were highly influential during the Victorian era. Coming from ... Carlyle held that the universe was ultimately good and directed by ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 18:40, 30 April 2023
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was ... His political leanings were conservative, which enabled him to become ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Charles Hodge (1797 - 1878) was a leader of the “Princeton School” ... Though a Presbyterian and a Calvinist, he refused to entertain the ...15 KB (2,292 words) - 19:10, 4 December 2023
- A cemetery is a place in which dead human bodies and cremated remains ... A cemetery is generally a place of respect for the dead where the ...16 KB (2,305 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- , Hanyu Pinyin: bào'ēnsì, English: Temple of Thanksgiving ... eco-friendly and elderly-friendly designs in their temple. During a major ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... Initially a site for English penal colonies in the eighteenth and ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec), United States (Maine) ... The Mi'kmaq ([miːgmaɣ]; (also spelled Míkmaq, Mi'gmaq ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- New Year's, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the ... displays of fireworks at midnight, welcoming in the New Year. In contemporary ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- (Arabic,مندائية) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic ... 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin apis, a "bee") is ... can harmoniously interact with nature. In order to receive the product ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 10:23, 26 September 2023
- Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना) in (Sanskrit ... The term is also used to refer to the Buddhist vipassana movement ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 20:31, 3 May 2023
- The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, also referred ... Aruba seceded in 1986 as a separate country within the Kingdom of ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- Texas is a state located in the south-central United States. Austin ... and has a steadily growing population of 23.9 million. Houston is ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee ... She later was promoted officially to the position. During her 28-year ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... A former French colony, Haiti became the first independent black republic ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious ... In the first sense, creationism (not to be confused with the doctrine ...31 KB (4,607 words) - 06:18, 11 January 2024
- or paramilitary service, or those engaged in such activity. Militias can ... rather than professional soldiers, vary in their military training and ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- and educator. As an educator, he promoted the teaching of history, science ... he called "dephlogisticated air" in his determination to defend ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- for his "Knightian uncertainty," the distinction between risk and ... Frank Hyneman Knight was born on November 7, 1885 in MacLean County ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
