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- stock rose to ninety dollars per share, at which figure we sold out to an English company. That proved to be the means of saving us from loss. The ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- became a tireless public speaker and intellectual figure in French society, touring Europe and giving conferences on cultural and social issues as well ...10 KB (1,586 words) - 22:18, 4 March 2023
- ensured that he will remain a controversial figure. For many musicians, however, his flawless technique, broad musical and human sympathies and ability ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- quasi-religious rituals about a central figure, usually a head of state ... citizens of City 17 rally around the figure of Gordon Freeman and overthrow ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- 277.jpg|thumb|right|200 px| Gorgons. Attic black-figure lekythos, ca. 530 B.C.E.]] Generally, the Gorgons are identified as female, with scaly ...11 KB (1,834 words) - 04:53, 26 December 2022
- of the school and of the historical figure is murky. Pyrrhonism became influential during the past few centuries when the modern scientific worldview ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 03:54, 7 December 2022
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading figure in the development of the impressionist ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- triangle, whose exact definition is a three-sided figure whose angles add up to precisely 180 degrees. All particular triangles that are drawn on paper ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- Johnson was also a significant figure in the transition of Delta blues ... Robert Johnson was an extremely minor figure, and very little that happened ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- of an artist with the reincarnation of a figure related to King Gesar. ... tsha, is a brave warrior and important figure in the epic. He is sometimes ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- He remains as iconic figure that lived an adventurous life in turbulent ... Cid, either physically or as an important figure. In 1081, now a mercenary ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- on painting. He is considered the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and is often described as a great influence ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- to be an influential and controversial figure. Years after his death he ... ====Figure and ground==== McLuhan's statement that the content ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- and brave. Never more than a marginal figure in the politics of his time ... the poet as an almost supernatural creator-figure, partaking in the divine ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- in Roman Times as a Universal and merciful mother figure. Though the Virgin Mary is not worshiped (only venerated) in Catholicism and Orthodoxy, her role ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- the prehistory of this particular mythological figure. ==Mythology== Orion is mentioned in the oldest surviving Greek literature. His legend is ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- on metaphysics. Arnauld was a well-respected figure by this time, while Leibniz was only at the start of his mature philosophy. The suggestion ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- has come alive. She sees a woman's figure in the wallpaper, especially at night, and the "trapped" woman takes on the persona ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in northern Mississippi who ... and her faith, and thus stands as a proud figure amidst a dying family. ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- , fl. ninth century) also spelled Han Shan, was a legendary figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- her name to be bestowed on an outstanding public figure. The prime minister of India presented the first award to Nanaji Deshmukh. The government of the ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 06:51, 16 June 2023
- Highgate in London, and she became a familiar figure in later years, living beyond the age of 100. Waley lived in Bloomsbury and had a number ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Hindu descriptions of a future savior figure had an influence on Christian views of the apocalypse, or vice-versa. It is also possible that ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:29, 5 October 2022
- Saint John of the Cross (June 24, 1542 – December 14, 1591), born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- sales revenue that exceeded ₤1.5 million, a figure unparalleled for the next eight years. In October of 1958, Sotheby’s sold the prestigious ...11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:12, 27 April 2023
- William Henry Holmes was a significant figure in the evolution of American museology and anthropology. He wrote prolifically on archaeological ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 2023
- virginal espousal to Christ, Agnes became a popular figure in Christian legend in later centuries, and various folk customs and religious traditions are ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- on the other hand, have all but lost the public figure in the haunting recesses of his lyric poems. Marvell's most famous poems are the ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 17:58, 27 July 2023
- and physical anthropologist, a leading figure in the study of human fossils. A strong supporter of Charles Darwin, he wrote more than 500 publications ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 11:11, 16 August 2023
- a high priest of Sîn, ca. 2100 B.C.E. The seated figure is probably King Ur-Nammu, who dedicated the great ziggurat of Ur in honor of Nanna/Sîn, who ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- The construction of the "moment arm" is shown in the figure below, along with the vectors r and F mentioned above. The problem with ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:22, 28 June 2023
- the concepts of the Advent of a savior figure, the final confrontation ... cosmic eschatology affirms the savior figure Maitreya who awaits his final ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- He is arguably the most influential figure in American linguistics. His anthropological approach, influenced by Franz Boas, began with his research ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 23:51, 12 February 2024
- Judas Maccabeus now emerges as a heroic figure, resisting Antiochus and harshly punishing or killing any Jews who cooperate with the Gentiles ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- as well as a humor writer and a well known figure in the Nashville social scene. In 1975, Minnie Pearl was inducted into the Country Music Hall ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- The last of these, by his estimate, was 27 days—a figure not far from later, more accurate estimates (25 days). Cassini was the first to compile ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 20:28, 26 September 2023
- D'Alembert was an important figure of the French Enlightenment and made contributions in physics, mathematics, philosophy, and literature ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- power," she would cut "a deplorable figure." "World Power," without that, a nation cuts a deplorable figure," he said. ...30 KB (4,097 words) - 18:41, 7 February 2024
- his wife`s picture of Goethe, a figure he later dreams about. Trying ... ceremony. Father Jacobus becomes a mentor figure for Knecht, however, like ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- de Vivar (nicknamed El Cid Campeador), a military figure in medieval Spain. The original 1637 edition of the play was subtitled a tragicomedy ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- and artistic styles, from classic Greek black-figure and red-figure vases to carved Roman tunic pins. Several highlights of the collection include ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- tend to show the dakini as a young, naked figure in a dancing posture, often holding a skullcup (kapala) filled with menstrual blood or the elixir ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- after Eve to whom God spoke directly. She is a figure of particular importance in the Islamic tradition, both as the mother of Ishmael, with whom she ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- of his day. After his death, however, he became a figure of controversy and some of his writings were condemned for the "heresy" of Nestorianism. ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- entirely without pay in both roles. He was a key figure in the early phases of the French Revolution, serving in the Estates General and the subsequent ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 2022
- romantic reputation make him an iconic figure among British heroes. His ... was lionized like almost no other military figure in British history (his only ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- The film largely consisted of a stick figure moving about and encountering all manner of morphing objects, such as a wine bottle that transforms ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- that made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, a figure unmatched even by the most successful bluesman of all time, B.B. King. Reed's simple ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 13:23, 1 August 2022
- viewed Filmer as a significant and interesting figure in his own right. His critique of contract theory and democracy is of particular interest to feminists ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- [[Image:QAPF diagram granite.svg|right|thumb|300px|Figure 1. QAPF diagram of granitoids and phaneritic foidolites (plutonic rocks).]] ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (1941 - November 24, 1989) was a highly influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, and a central figure ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- his stepfather, David Baldwin, his only father figure. David, a factory worker and store-front preacher, was allegedly very cruel at home, and the ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- kingdom" by a messianic figure, occasionally suggesting ... of evil by a triumphant messianic figure, the Saoshyant, at the end ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- female in the creation of the cosmos: in this figure, Shiva and Shakti are non-dual and inseparable. Ardhanarisvara is considered an anthropomorphized ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- point in his publication led to an iron-content figure that was ten times too high. In 1937, German chemists reinvestigated this "miracle vegetable ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 21:39, 7 February 2023
- Abu Sufyan is a contentious figure, especially between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. The lateness of his conversion has always attracted the ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 06:56, 14 June 2023
- around a character called Maldoror, a figure of unrelenting evil who has ... Gide regarded him as the most significant figure, meriting Aragon, Breton ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- #039;s most outspoken critics. Sakharov was a key figure in the eyes of the world in challenging the moral authority of the Soviet regime. Two years ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- religious or otherwise influential figure. State mourning may occur ... mourning behavior on the death of a public figure or member of a royal family. ...23 KB (3,744 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- inspired Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. A major figure of the Counter-Reformation, he was beatified in 1783, by Pope Pius VI, canonized in 1881 by Pope ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- tool in his fight. With it he became important figure in the history of documentary photography. Numerous memorials around New York City carry ...11 KB (1,754 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- He was turned into an almost saintly figure who did not even bear moral ... For the rest of his life, Emperor Shōwa was an active figure in Japanese ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- epitome of evil. Yazid is by no means an heroic figure among Sunnis, who regard his appointment as caliph as irregular and generally see him as a secular ...12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- of only two years, was the first father figure in his life and the father ... Buckley remains to be an influential and iconic figure in music. In ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 04:32, 31 July 2022
- PEP. The arrow indicating a reverse reaction in the Figure below is incorrect. {{Enzymatic Reaction |foward_enzyme=Pyruvate kinase ...14 KB (1,901 words) - 15:37, 18 June 2015
- Ma, early twentieth century Hindu religious figure]] Teachers and students ... Books and movies figure prominently in the cultural life of Shahbag ...25 KB (3,589 words) - 18:25, 6 January 2024
- "The single most influential figure in the history of Japanese ... upon his accomplishment as the leading figure among the many fine poets ...30 KB (4,827 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- A structure similar to an inuksuk, but meant to represent a human figure, is called an inunnguaq (ᐃᓄᙳᐊᖅ, "imitation of a person ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 11:05, 6 March 2024
- no doubt the tomb of St. Lawrence, while a figure stands in a reverent attitude ... of St. Peter; the "vernicle," or figure of the Saint Veronica, and ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 05:56, 25 August 2020
- for the Kapp label, he was largely a forgotten figure. A 1969 stroke left his right side paralyzed, ending his active career. ==Legacy== ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- [[Image:mjjmdekk process model.jpg|thumb|Figure 1: Meta-process model for Market research The model shows every activity that must be performed ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- |population = 60,003,000(mid-2009 est.)Figure refers to the population of the United Kingdom excluding Northern Ireland, and includes about 500 ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- was characterized by a conception of the figure as if seen in low relief ... János, then Archbishop of Hungary. The figure attributed to Botticelli—the ...28 KB (4,094 words) - 03:13, 23 December 2022
- in 1969. However, she continues to be a popular figure among the faithful in many lands. Today Barbara is perhaps best known as the patron saint ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- defeat. With his son, Haider Ali is an iconic figure in post-colonial India, Pakistan and Bangladesh because of his determination to remain free of ...12 KB (1,977 words) - 18:40, 31 July 2023
- a pagoda and also a pavilion with the life-size figure of their patron deity, Nan Wu Wu Ji Sheng Mu. While the temple takes the direction of a Chinese ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 20:14, 13 September 2023
- made her an even more powerful public figure than her husband. ==Senator== In 1922, Governor Thomas W. Hardwick was a candidate for the next ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- singer and guitarist. A seminal Delta blues figure, House was a well known performer in the Mississippi blues scene in the 1920s and 30s and was a major ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- the ranks to become a powerful military figure. Nader married the two daughters ... of Khorasan. He agreed and thus became a figure of national importance. When ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- * Rudolf Kasztner, controversial figure who saved 1,685 Hungarian Jews * Carl Lutz, Swiss consul in Budapest * Aristides Sousa Mendes, Portuguese ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- example, many news agencies, when trying to figure out what the "average American" believes, visit Muncie, Indiana. This view was only furthered ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Ehrenburg was a controversial figure in Soviet literature. He began his career as a journalist writing anti-German propaganda during World War ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- from 100,000 to 700,000 (though the higher figure certainly includes Rastafari ... Another figure who played an instrumental role in the formation of ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- Fitz" Fitzgerald (a prominent figure in Boston politics who served one term as a member of Congress and later became the city's mayor ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- Ed Sullivan remains an important figure in American broadcasting because of his talents as a producer to have been able to find and showcase ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- and he has become an important figure in many fields beyond psychoanalysis ... The Symbolic order is present in the figure of the adult who is carrying ...49 KB (7,514 words) - 08:30, 18 March 2024
- his father, John Hunyadi he is an iconic figure in the European resistance ... [[Image:Lovski vodnjak1.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Matthias as a figure ...23 KB (3,564 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- the blood or even with the reflected figure outwardly visible in the ... rice or maize mother is a corresponding figure; in classical Europe and ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- career, but the prominent politician and literary figure, Fan Zhongyan ( 范仲淹), was impressed with the boy’s abilities and recommended that he ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- Sin and the sun god, Shamash, Ishtar is the third figure in a triad personifying the moon, the sun, and the earth. In this trinity, the moon represents ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- Bernabò Visconti, the last great figure of Ghibellinism in northern Italy, which occupied the Papal city of Bologna and valiantly resisted the ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- Reading to a Little Girl (1901). Here the mother figure as well holds the book of knowledge for the child. In this way, Cassatt's paintings redefine ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- Peninnah Schram, "Dov Noy is the fourth major figure in the renaissance of preserving and perpetuating the Jewish oral tradition. While he published ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- Apostles, James was nonetheless a very important figure. Paul identified him as "the brother of the Lord" in Galatians 1:19 and as one of the ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- killing Prince Lazar, who became a Christ like figure in Serb myth. This was at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. Muslims were demonized in much Serbian ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 18:44, 7 February 2024
- Baptist, who was thought by many to be a messianic figure in his own right. In this view, the Gospel writers go to some length to present John ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 09:20, 30 December 2021
- [[Image:CentrifugalCompressor.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Figure 1: A single-stage centrifugal compressor.]] Centrifugal compressors use a vaned rotating ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- scissors and cuts a triangle from one end of the figure, turns it, and attaches it to the other side forming a rectangle—the problem of the area can ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- He was already presenting himself as a figure of consequence, annoying ... the heads and the main outlines of the figure, for an engraver to work ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- Wright strongly influenced Jay Lush, who was the most influential figure in introducing quantitative genetics into animal and plant breeding ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- depicted in myth as an intelligent and cunning figure who had sympathy for humanity; today, the term "Promethean" is used to describe people ...12 KB (1,993 words) - 23:54, 1 December 2022
- Shaft of the Dead Man. Here is found the only figure of a human being on the walls of Lascaux. This painting, entitled "Scene of the Dead Man ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- Sappho remains an influential literary figure, due to the fact that her ... Sappho has become an almost mythological figure—the absence of her works ...13 KB (2,038 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- first lady in 1809, her status as the central figure of Washington society was confirmed. Dolley's vivacious manner and expansive memory for names ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- vary widely. Lower estimates place the figure near to 22 million, while the highest estimates apparently place the figure between 400 and 600 ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- soldiers (left). Belisarius may be the bearded figure on Justinian's right in this mosaic that celebrates the reconquest of Italy under Belisarius.]] ...13 KB (2,123 words) - 11:43, 13 February 2022
- a somewhat lower, but still enormous figure of 514,000 prisoners, reducing ... The Axis and the Allies, gives a figure of 653,924 Soviet casualties ...44 KB (6,570 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- the human remains of an important religious figure, or a sacred item, carefully preserved as a tangible memorial. Relics are an important aspect ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- autocracy. The king was made a titular figure, and the post of prime minister ... Kathmandu's most notable building. A figure of the god Hanuman guards ...24 KB (3,331 words) - 17:13, 5 October 2022
- A four-sided plane figure is a quadrilateral (quadrangle) or square ... A solid figure with four faces is a tetrahedron. The regular tetrahedron ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- career In 1878, Okubo, the most powerful figure in the government, was assassinated, and Ito took over the post of Home Minister and secured ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 06:30, 11 March 2024
- Willard Quine wrote, "Carnap is a towering figure. I see him as the dominant figure in philosophy from the 1930s onward, as Russell had been in ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- Hawaiian Islands portion of the county. This figure accounts for about three-quarters of the state's population. As a jurisdictional unit ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler ...23 KB (3,538 words) - 17:39, 22 December 2022
- The apocryphal book of 2 Esdras is included in many English translations of the Bible, although it is not generally recognized as canonical by ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- it is widely assumed to be based on the figure of German Dr. Johann Georg ... Because of his early treatment as a figure in legend and literature ...35 KB (5,273 words) - 01:42, 26 March 2024
- bare-knuckle fighters. He was a hugely popular figure in the late-nineteenth century. Sullivan's boxing skills remain well known even today, ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 17:28, 1 May 2024
- Women's Memorial statue included a standing figure of a nurse holding a Vietnamese baby, which although not intended as such, was deemed a political ...24 KB (3,601 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- it moved it had to have a man inside to turn (the figure). In the Sheng-Ming reign period, Gao Di commissioned Zi Zu Chongzhi to reconstruct it according ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- #039;s life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a rock ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 06:46, 14 June 2023
- pH is a measure of the acidity and the basicity/alkalinity of a solution in terms of activity of hydrogen (H+) (strictly speaking, there is no ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 15:20, 29 August 2023
- Rush was an important figure in the development of educational theory and a number of his ideas were incorporated into the early United States ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- Italian. In 1826 Panizzi met lawyer and political figure Henry Brougham and helped him in a difficult abduction case; when Brougham became Lord Chancellor ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- #039;s Gift. Thiessen portrays Haber as a tragic figure who strives unsuccessfully throughout his life to evade both his Jewish background and the moral ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- 11, 1967) was a German psychologist. He was a key figure, together with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, in the development of Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- in his son Jonathan, Saul became a tragic figure. He was plagued by what the ... of antagonist. He became the dark central figure in a tragedy of Shakespearian ...26 KB (4,275 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- United States businessman and political figure, and the father of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
- The surviving side panel shows, from right to left, a figure breaking the jaws of a lion, a mounted hunter with his sword raised to strike a ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- of a man from clay. They each walked around the figure seven times, reciting a Kabbalistic formula, and the golem was brought to life. The golem appeared ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- before he ran for public office. Landon was a key figure in the United States Republican party in the 1930s. He was best known as a Republican Presidential ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- Apostles portrays Peter as an extremely important figure within the early Christian community, although it is not clear whether Peter or James, "the ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- Midian, eastward (Genesis 25:6). Midianites figure into the story of the Israelites' migration to Israel when they cooperate with Jacob's ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- expanded on Young's work. He was able to figure out what the seven Demotic signs in Coptic were. Upon the advice of Young, he looked for examples ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- of the dance. There is also a figure called the "Hip Twist," where, by closing his feet following a backward movement, the hip movement ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- Spanish. Joseph Pulitzer was also a key figure in publicizing the war in ... that he eventually became an archetypal figure in his own right. He had ...25 KB (4,004 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- pioneer of economic anthropology and a leading figure at the London School of Economics. Firth's work in the Pacific Islands, particularly Tikopia ...14 KB (2,002 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- may or may not have said or done as a historical figure. ... evidence of the man behind the myths. The figure they have discovered is very ...36 KB (5,268 words) - 08:35, 3 April 2024
- average "knowledge workers." That figure was updated to "[http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/jul2007/ca20070719_880333.htm $650 ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 22:50, 5 February 2023
- of the Thesis that Galen Originated the Fourth Figure of the Syllogism in Light of New Data from the Arabic. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance, which marked a turning point for African American literature. Prior ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- theorist, and author in Yugoslavia. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during the World War II as well as in the post war government, and became ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 20:29, 5 January 2024
- by Fred B. Kniffen (1928) arrived at the same figure. Kroeber estimated the combined population of the Achumawi and Astugewi in 1910 as 1,100 ...12 KB (1,758 words) - 18:13, 21 August 2023
- toward his image as a controversial figure. His loyalty to his German homeland and his work to promote its image in the United States in the ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- She is now regarded as an important figure of the Russian Silver Age. ... Review) magazine. She became a popular figure in the Petersburg literary ...28 KB (3,939 words) - 20:33, 30 August 2023
- has only recently been recognized as an important figure in the modern analytical thought. Thomas Reid and David Hume were both born in Scotland and were ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- person). Though not attributed to any particular figure, the text is definitively Confucian in its emphases. The first of these themes is the ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 14:25, 13 May 2020
- Yoshitsune has long been a popular figure in Japanese myth and lore due to his appearance as the main character in the third section of the Japanese ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- during his lifetime and continues to be a notable figure. ===Places named after Telford=== ====Telford New Town==== When a new town was being ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- ’” ‘Aum’ can be seen as Sri Ganesh, whose figure is often represented in the shape of ‘Aum.’ He is thus known as Aumkar (“Shape of ‘Aum’” ...13 KB (2,123 words) - 07:07, 13 June 2023
- Pound evoked Apollonius in his later Cantos as a figure associated with sun-worship and a messianic rival to Christ. Pound also celebrates Apollonius ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
- Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the first century C.E., and an important figure in Judaism's core work of ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- there is a general pattern embracing a six-sided figure within a circle. While hex signs, in all likelihood, were originally displayed only for ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- and twentieth centuries, he became a legendary figure of literature, art, and film. ==Biography== ===Origins=== [[Image:ThracianTribes.jpg|thumb ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- *Sep 1915 to Apr 1920: Became an influential figure in the May Fourth ... copies to more than three times that figure in less than half a year ...26 KB (3,844 words) - 14:50, 5 December 2023
- Jeroboam. It was skillfully engraved with a figure of a roaring lion. Its inscription read, "Shema, Servant of Jeroboam." ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 08:00, 3 April 2024
- If Hines stands as a lonely giant, rather than as the main figure of a school or style, he nevertheless exerted considerable influence on many ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- divided by the volume below the waterline. If that figure is equal to the density of water (roughly one kilogram per liter), the boat will float. If ...13 KB (1,916 words) - 05:44, 16 November 2023
- clear the Hickey is meant as an allegorical figure for Christ. Yet Hickey, even after his "awakening," is no ordinary savior. Instead of ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- credited with being the single most influential figure in the history of Marathi literature, the body of scholarship on Tukaram outside Marathi is rather ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- writer, and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best ...12 KB (2,002 words) - 02:59, 2 May 2024
- --> to an official tally of over 40 percent at present. This figure ... but public health experts say the real figure is probably four times as ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- # Devotion to the guru as a divine figure or avatar. # The belief that such a guru has transmitted, or will impart moksha, diksha or shaktipat ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 07:58, 24 July 2023
- powerful allegory of her break with Rodin. One figure in L'Age Mûr, The Implorer (the young woman), was later produced as a separate edition on ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- which was reduced by 10.5 percent from the 2000 figure. National Statistics Coordination Board, [http://www.nscb.gov.ph/headlines/StatsSpeak/100706_rav_poverty ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- of secular chansons. He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay. Busnois appreciated and extolled ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- Bernhard later became a very popular figure in the Netherlands until ... went on to be the most prominent figure, owing to her experience ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- acting as little more than a ceremonial figure under the military-dominated ... During the 1970s, Bhumibol became a key figure in the Village Scouts and ...35 KB (4,836 words) - 23:02, 15 May 2024
- Socrates was the central figure in Ancient Greek philosophy. He shifted ... through having give-and-take with a figure like Socrates, one is awakened ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- all ages. For many, he is an iconic, inspirational figure whose life mirrors that of Jesus of Nazareth more closely than any other figure in Christian ...33 KB (5,300 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- college president. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy in the ... and Reconstruction, Lee became a central figure in the lost cause of the ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- and skill. He was never an extremely popular figure with the American voting public, but he did win their admiration. There is a Tilden Street ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 20:20, 1 December 2023
- of the plot of the tragic mulatto, a common figure in early African-American literature. Others suggest that the novel complicates that plot by ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- some, Atatürk remains an inspirational figure who pointed the direction ... and Mustafa Kemal became a senior military figure. In 1911, he went to the ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- stories/hidden-figures/2016/11/22/hidden-figure-nasa-dorothy-vaughan Hidden Figure: Dorothy Vaughan] Spelman College, November 2016. Retrieved ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- himself was a particularly intriguing or romantic figure. While his first two marriages ended very quickly, he would remain affectionate and devoted ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- 1934), a German engineer, is an instrumental figure who is considered the founder of Deutsches Museum. A few months prior to the summer 1903 meeting ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- endeavor to create theoretical models and figure out the observational consequences of those models. This approach helps observers look for data ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- daughter, Anna Freud, who had become a major figure in child psychotherapy. Many controversies arose from this conflict, eventually leading to a split ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- . Harvey Wiley was one particularly well-known figure involved in the investigation of saccharin. Wiley, then the director of the bureau of chemistry ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 00:18, 22 August 2022
- Zoroaster is generally accepted as an authentic historical figure ... , in which he fictionalized the historical figure to meet his own literary ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- The Blue Rider (1903) which shows a small cloaked figure on a speeding horse rushing through a rocky meadow. The rider's cloak is a medium blue. ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- fall and mountains would crumble. He later became a figure of legend, as recorded in the apocryphal book of 1 Esdras and the Jewish Apocalypse of Zerubbabel. ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- who is sometimes shown spearing a human figure, understood to represent Maximian. ... George (Redcross Knight) as a central figure in his epic poem The Faerie Queen. ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- of Materia Medica, 1596). Another figure from the Ming era, the famous geographer Xu Xiake (1587-1641) wrote of mineral beds and mica schists ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Valentinus had been a significant figure in the Roman church at one ... looks to John the Baptist as a central figure and teacher. Frequent ritual ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- by Tian (天), a more distant and moralistic figure. This being said, Shangdi is also the name given for God in the Standard Mandarin Union Version ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- Mountain (画云台山记). He wrote, "In figure paintings the clothes and the appearances were not very important. The eyes were the spirit and ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- tragedy, Kagekiyo, was an actual historical figure, a samurai of the Heike clan from the ancient “Tale of the Heike.” Zeami also wrote about Kagekiyo. ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- committed to a significant religious figure--for example, Krishna or Jesus. Prayer is a communication with this most significant religious figure ...35 KB (5,768 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- December 3, 1882) was a Russian revolutionary figure associated with the Nihilist movement. The Nihilist movement was an 1860s Russian cultural movement ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- Browne is a unique figure not only in literature, bearing almost no resemblance to any of his contemporaries, but also in the history of thought ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Mandela became the most widely known figure in the struggle against South ... Mandela attracted condemnation and was a figure of hatred for some groups ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- still is, a highly unorthodox and controversial figure in Church history. ==Biography== Titus Flavius Clemens was born sometime during the middle ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- of the world population's protein, and that figure is considerably elevated in some developing nations and in regions that depend heavily on the sea. ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- The fact that Ammonius was the only major figure of Horapollo's school who was allowed to resume his teaching, and that Damascius condemned ...15 KB (2,178 words) - 17:13, 26 July 2023
- black basalt ware in imitation of Greek red-figure vases. He also created the pyrometer, a device for measuring high temperatures—invaluable for ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 05:23, 7 May 2024
- Kong Rong was undeniably a leading literary figure of his time, famed for his prose as well as his poems. His poems, along with those of six other ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- judging from the authority the figure commands. Seated male sculpture, or "Priest King" (even though no evidence exists that either ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- became the Minister of War and the dominant figure in the newly formed socialist-liberal coalition government. Under Allied pressure to continue the ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- reactive ion etching system is shown in the figure below. ====Deep reactive ion etching (DRIE)==== A special subclass of RIE, growing rapidly ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
- festival of Orun. This festival would figure prominently in the rise of the Oyomesi over the Alaafin, as in the eighteenth century the Oyomesi ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- plate by Juan Valverde de Amusco, a figure holds a knife in one hand and his own skin in the other.]] Little progress was made in anatomy for ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 19:02, 26 July 2023
- Smalls remained a political figure into the twentieth century and was a delegate to the 1895 South Carolina constitutional convention. He spoke ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- In the sixth century B.C.E. the Greeks manufactured black-figure wine drinking vessels (literally known as “eye vessels”) with exaggerated ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- #039; is defined as 'a plane figure (genus) bounded by three straight sides (differentia). See Genus-differentia definition === Rules for ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Rachel ( רחל , "Ewe"—also spelled Rachael) was the younger and favorite wife of Jacob, sister of Leah and mother of Joseph and ...14 KB (2,238 words) - 22:37, 7 December 2022
- Isaac D’Israeli, himself a noted literary figure, and had corresponded with him. Bulwer-Lytton and D'israeli began corresponding themselves ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- In the Jim Henson film Labyrinth, Goblins figure prominently. Jareth the Goblin King, a powerful sorcerer, commands a legion of foul, diminutive ...13 KB (2,074 words) - 15:53, 18 December 2022
- professor and made him a controversial figure among his colleagues. In 1918, the FBI arrested Thomas under the Mann Act, which prohibits "interstate ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- in January 2000, or when he met with a key figure in the USS Cole bombing. ... had been used to assassinate Al-Qaeda figure Haitham al-Yemeni inside Pakistan. ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- stands out as a unique and at times idiosyncratic figure; although a supporter of civil rights, Ellison was deeply skeptical of the Civil Rights Movement ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- orthodox gospels is that he had become a central figure for those Christians who stressed the teachings of Jesus rather than sacraments of the church ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- in their truth. He was an important Jewish figure of the eighteenth century, and his German translation of the Pentateuch anchored the Jewish ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- only in certain environments, they can be used to figure out the kind of environment under which ancient marine sediments were deposited. ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- and record producer, Brown was a seminal figure in the evolution of gospel ... James Brown is a towering figure in American music. In the mid-1960s ...25 KB (3,918 words) - 21:04, 20 March 2024
- [[Image:Nathan-Hale-statue-Chicago-Tribune-Tower-figure.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Nathan Hale statue by Bela Lyon Pratt at the Chicago Tribune Tower]] ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2022
- this act, however, he would go on to become a major figure in Christian art, drama, fiction, and film. From the standpoint of Judaism, Caiaphas ...15 KB (2,468 words) - 18:17, 25 November 2023
- the most powerful men in the government, and the figure most associated with the Terror. The Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced thousands to the guillotine ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 08:14, 8 January 2024
- Canopy was published, making Agnon a central figure in Hebrew literature. In 1935 the novella A Simple Story was published, set in Buczacz at the end ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- investment successes, he was beginning to figure prominently in the American ... making the acquaintance of literary men. I figure that this will take three ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) is a figure who was, for much of the ... J.S. Bach has, over time, come to be seen as the towering figure of ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- banker Henry Drummond, who was to become a key figure and sponsor of the future Catholic Apostolic Church (the Drummond family to this day still funds ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- of gold (1 Kings 10:13). While this figure may or may not be accurate ... Solomon is an important, if controversial figure, in Judaism and occupies ...29 KB (4,624 words) - 00:50, 4 February 2023
- Furthermore, he claimed that “’Studying the Way’ is just a figure of speech….In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 20:57, 7 February 2024
- also work, but researchers are still trying to figure out the best possible fence design. Preventing sand dunes from overwhelming cities and agricultural ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2022
- with a half-life of about 1.9 × 1019 years. This figure is over a billion times longer than the current estimated age of the universe. Given this phenomenal ...14 KB (1,891 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- Its name derives from the Greek mythological figure of Boreas, the North Wind. The changeable Bora often blows throughout Dalmatia and the Adriatic ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- seeks to write a biography of an elder, towering figure poet—Jorris Buxton. Buxton's character is loosely based on the nineteenth century, ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 04:21, 29 October 2022
- * Bhartrihari (c 450–510 C.E.), early figure in Indic linguistic theory * Bodhidharma (c. 440–528 C.E.), founder of the Zen school of Buddhism ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Soong Ching-ling is still a beloved figure in mainland China. In 1982, to commemorate the first anniversary of her death, the Chinese Communist ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- , with his feet over head of a small figure (Vamana), with Lakshmi seated ... top. Over each bracket stands sculptured figure(s) called salabhanjika or ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:15, 18 March 2023
- During his lifetime, Park became a well-known figure both within and outside the academic world. At various times he was president of the American ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 05:02, 15 December 2022
- strongly built, its roof surmounted by a golden figure of the mango. In the center of the vihāra, a life-size statue of the Buddha turning the wheel ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 03:29, 23 December 2022
- was made a Doctor of the Church in 1754. A leading figure in the centralization of the organization of the Roman Catholic Church, he was probably the ...15 KB (2,335 words) - 20:05, 25 October 2022
- Flann O'Brien is rightly considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature. The British writer Anthony Burgess was moved to ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- Philip Berrigan was considered a key figure in the development of Christian anarchism due to his belief that freedom will only be guided by the ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 14:50, 28 March 2023
- the Great" would become a popular figure in Britain. In 1937, the Mails chief war correspondent, George Ward Price, to whom Mussolini once ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 07:46, 12 January 2024
- the only existing photograph of that historical figure. Many paintings and drawings of those figures exist, but, at the time, photography was still a ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- which he has been thrust. More than any historical figure in the Bible, Jeremiah bears his soul to his readers. His self-portrait is not one of inner ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- sense of depth. The background and object (or figure) planes interpenetrate one another. In the Netherlands, too, there was interest in this new ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- The seven archangels each figure in some systems of ritual magic, each bearing a specific seal. Some insist that archangels are not a separate ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- writer who was an influential and important figure in the development of sports journalism. In 1922 Rice became the first play-by-play announcer ...14 KB (2,078 words) - 14:51, 31 December 2022
- the male and seeming trustfulness of the female figure enclosed within her partner's limbs, down to the stance of their feet, is a position viewers ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- on world literature. From Sweden, the main figure was August Strindberg, but ... of the 1880s. The first key literary figure to emerge was Verner von ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- another, roughly a contemporaneous biblical figure of the same name, and also to confuse his lineage with the royal lineage of Judah. ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 04:42, 31 July 2022
- carved, painted and gilded fittings with a golden figure of their youngest son, William on the bow. This was said to be such a surprise to William and ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- court accessories such as necklaces, miniatures, figure groups, and animals. In addition Faberge was commissioned to make the annual Easter egg, symbolizing ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- poteris" (You can see not only the figure of a face, but [also] the ... raised itself upright so one could see the figure of our Lord on it." ...62 KB (9,799 words) - 14:29, 27 January 2023
- Always an outspoken, frequently controversial figure, her public support eroded and she resigned in 1992. In 1995, Cresson became a member of the European ...15 KB (2,117 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
- Paul himself is also an ambiguous figure in this work. His teachings lead Thecla into trouble, and yet Paul is never there when the trouble comes ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- " Boothroyd had become a familiar figure to the British public because the broadcasting of Parliament was a recent innovation when she was ...16 KB (2,349 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- Al-fath bin Khaqan, who was Turkish, was a famous figure of Al-Mutawakkil's era. His reliance on Turkish soldiers would come back to haunt ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- era. Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration. ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 06:38, 8 April 2024
- on the perceived legitimacy of the authority figure. For instance, a charismatic leader in a religious context might promote an unchallenged belief ...16 KB (2,186 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- 'The ccoa was an important figure in the Andean cultures. In ... and artist. He painted the large Kon-Tiki figure on the raft's sail. ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- Jacob Grimm convinced his brother that the figure of Brynhild proved that the ... The figure of the damsel in distress has been particularly attacked ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- haunting subject matter she is considered a key figure in contemporary documentary photography. Although born into privileged circumstances, Arbus broke ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- Blaine, the Republican party's most prominent figure, declined to seek the presidential nomination. The national convention proceeded to nominate ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- Hymn of the Republic led to her becoming a public figure. From the 1870s, she began to lecture widely throughout Massachusetts and New England. ...13 KB (2,163 words) - 09:30, 12 May 2024
- to Manchester. He quickly became a leading figure in the university. Unconventional in his attire and his manner of conducting his classes, his ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- Javier Mina, a Spanish political figure exiled from Spain because of his opposition to King Ferdinand VII's policies, decided Mexico would ...15 KB (2,102 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- impeachment. Taney was a controversial figure during his lifetime and remains ... Taney remained a controversial figure—even when merely a statuary ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- the Riveter" after the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker |nickname = |observedby = United States, Canada, United ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- against the Kedorlaomer, king of Elam, a figure unknown outside of the Bible, who had established a growing empire in the region. The resistance ...14 KB (2,337 words) - 22:02, 30 January 2023
- the Spanish landscape: Santiago, a religious figure, given the title the Moor-killer, that is, the killer of Muslims; hotels called "Reconquista ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- Abram "laugh," which would later figure in the naming of the son ... emerged as the larger-than-life central figure of the Israelite origin story ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- spiritual affairs. He has become a major figure in the ecumenical movement ... The pope is a major figure in the ecumenical movement, whose voice ...30 KB (4,691 words) - 14:08, 7 May 2024
- speed in working out images of the human figure which could then be translated ... wife was recognized by viewers in the figure of Venus. In an intimate ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- a year later he was almost the full figure, my mature Batman," ... as a respectable citizen and paternal figure that inhabited a "bright ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- Hugo is a towering figure in French literature and politics, and in ... and France’s pre-eminent literary figure duing the early 1800s. In ...37 KB (5,552 words) - 20:07, 3 May 2023
- The phoenix does not appear as a heraldic figure as often as other mythical creatures. However, it has appeared on family crests and shields ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- . However, when he died, he was a popular figure in Britain. His murder, widely ... As a result, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- Mary is the most prominent female figure in Christianity and is considered ... to the references in the Talmud to the figure of Ben-Pandera as Jesus& ...30 KB (4,633 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- Raleigh is remembered as a literary figure primarily for his poems, yet only 560 lines of his verse remain. He is not, by any means, a talent ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:28, 3 May 2023
- image of Chatterton in the nineteenth century. The figure of the poet was modeled by the young George Meredith.]] The death of Chatterton attracted ...14 KB (2,111 words) - 18:41, 30 April 2023
- and Moody Publishers. He was the preeminent figure at the center of the Third Great Awakening. His sermons were known to be colloquial, simple, and ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- to fit. The custom of artists to make the figure fit the available space lent ... most outstanding is that of the central figure of Christ at La Madaleine ...63 KB (10,037 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- Warren Hollister called John an "enigmatic figure": ... * King John is a central figure in the 1819 historical romance Ivanhoe ...28 KB (4,489 words) - 17:02, 4 May 2024
- story is at least partly based on the pagan figure in order to convert Celts to Christianity. Given the struggle Christian missionaries faced in their ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- after the war and he became a well-loved public figure. In 1920-21 he was Minister of Public Instruction and worked on school reforms. During the ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- as border decorations around a central figure. Each Mahasiddha has come to be known for certain characteristics and teachings, which facilitates ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 20:06, 21 April 2023
- Abu Bakr was a towering figure in the development and early survival of Islam. He was responsible for preventing the break-up of the Islamic ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- Via syncretism, Lazarus has become an important figure in Santeria, standing in for the Yoruba deity Babalu Aye. Like the beggar of the Christian ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 17:59, 25 October 2022
- As a pianist, Henderson was a minor figure. Nevertheless, his occasional solos reveal a sure musical instinct, allowing him to express much with ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- and Shakespeare, so that she became a popular figure both in Sweden and abroad. By 1895, she gave up her teaching to devote herself to her writing ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- the area of a segment of a parabola (the figure delimited by a parabola and ... infinitesimals, showing how breaking up a figure into an infinite number of ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- that he would always be seen as a controversial figure within the boxing world. This controversy would range from his actual date of birth all the ...14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- Series E design, featuring a bolder denomination figure at the top left of the obverse side, and a reverse side featuring the composer Sir Edward Elgar ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- Bernard Bosanquet (July 14, 1848 – February 8, 1923) was an English philosopher and an influential figure on matters of political and social ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- time, Deng was the foremost and paramount figure in Chinese politics, Mao ... officially admitted to have died. The true figure may never be known, since ...30 KB (4,513 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- Throughout his career as a media figure, Buckley had received much ... Mailer, calling him "a towering figure in American literary life ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- a single soul in a great flash of lightening. A figure called the Son of Man commands that a special garment be given them, "and the small one became ...17 KB (2,741 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- The great violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini was a legendary figure who, as a composer, exploited the technical potential of his instrument to ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- #039;s history. Commonly regarded as the key figure of medieval Russia, Alexander was the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 14:33, 18 July 2023
- that Śyena and Garuda are one and the same figure. ===Mythology=== [[Image:Garuda Vishnu Laxmi.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Vishnu and Lakshmi riding ...14 KB (2,324 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- Titans received names: the obscure Delphic figure Phoebe, Wilamowitz considered "eine leerer Füllfigur," an empty complement to fill ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- role in young Rutherford's life as a father figure and later benefactor for his college education. Rutherford and his sister Fanny were very close ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- The first Chinese paintings were figure paintings of immortals, emperors, court ladies, social scenes, and common people at their work. Many ...28 KB (4,073 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- Germany. Soon, through the work of such a gigantic figure as Rashi, his tradition would be enshrined for generations. The halakhic rulings of ...14 KB (2,372 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2023
- Cesare Lombroso was a historical figure in criminology and the founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology, which included Enrico ...15 KB (2,164 words) - 01:47, 13 January 2023
- that Jesus requested to be honored under the figure of His Heart of flesh, also claiming that, when He appeared radiant with love, He asked for a ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 18:34, 22 December 2022
- and $2 billion accredited to Australia. The U.S. figure for 2006 was $13.33 billion. For the U.S., video sales and rentals were the biggest contributor ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- to erect a monument in honor of a famous historical figure, or to beautify a designated location are examples of charitable purposes intended to foster ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- United States with her often posing as the female figure for his paintings. His work gained wider recognition when the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- missions that made him a major figure in Jewish history, rather than merely a wealthy financier, and shared all the risks and dramas in travelling ...14 KB (2,182 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- Alejandro Nouel Bobadilla, a neutral figure, to the position of provisional ... Dominican sex trade, 63 percent of that figure being girls.Julia O'Connell ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- Travis is considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music, whose distinctive, low-pitched voice and unpretentious style helped establish ...14 KB (2,016 words) - 00:35, 8 December 2022
- Soviet bloc as well, and as such was a reviled figure. ==Biography== Dzerzhinsky was born into a Polish szlachta family of the Samson coat of ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- The Sunga Empire's wars with the Indo-Greek Kingdom figure greatly in the history of this period. From around 180 B.C.E. the Greco-Bactrian ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- sanity still view him as an essentially honorable figure. ... Métis scholars have noted that Riel is a more important figure to ...46 KB (7,007 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- that Diotima was in fact a historical figure. According to Charles Kahn ... Plutarch (46 – 127 C.E.) accepts her as a significant figure both ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- Halas was the central figure in the growth and development of the National Football League, which has surpassed baseball as the mythical "national ...14 KB (2,238 words) - 00:17, 10 November 2022
- him fondly, as a stern but kind father-figure who put the needs of his dancers and company above his own. As Lifar said, he died with two coats ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 23:22, 13 August 2023
- Taejo of Joseon (1335-1408; r. 1392-1398), born Yi Seonggye, was the main figure in overthrowing the Goryeo Dynasty and the founder and the first ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- Chen Ta Erh is sent to assassinate an authority figure, succeeds, and is later killed in a failed suicide bombing attempt on Chiang Kai-shek ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- initial casting and the "derived" figure (generated through the transformation of old lines)), as this is understood to provide a more detailed ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- similarity with jatakas except with a main figure other than Bodhisattva himself ... panels.Soekmono (1976), 32. The principal figure of the story, the youth Sudhana ...30 KB (4,409 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- To allow better water management, the king asked the scientists to figure out some ways to inform the farmers of the available amount of water ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 16:10, 8 February 2023
- know, so that we can recognize them and figure out what they mean. ... know, so that we can recognize them and figure out what they mean. ...32 KB (4,749 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São ... was the chief organizer and the central figure in the event, which was greeted ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- Although Rhodes remained a leading figure in the politics of southern Africa, especially during the Second Boer War, he was dogged by ill health ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- remained Germany's principle literary figure through a series of movements ... Jefferson, and Ludwig van Beethoven, a figure in two worlds: on one hand ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- in Chicago in 1893, and became an influential figure in synthesizing Eastern and Western thought. His travel to the West was criticized by some ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- Leopold II is still a controversial figure in the Democratic Republic of Congo; in 2005 his statue was taken down just hours after it was re ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- In one interpretation, some consider a figure in the bas-relief standing ... They forward that rather than Arjuna, the figure performing austerities represents ...31 KB (4,590 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- and kiss his feet (103). he was a tall, imposing figure, 'over six feet tall' and 'massive', capable of wearing the 'towering ...14 KB (2,378 words) - 07:22, 17 November 2023
- example) has raised him to the level of an ideal figure, a great military and intellectual leader, and even a paragon for future rulers to emulate. His ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Although Epaminondas was a historically significant figure of his ... the 10 years in which he was the central figure of Greek politics. By the ...33 KB (5,264 words) - 21:39, 9 February 2022
- the Ga-gorib. He was also a life-death-rebirth figure, dying and resurrecting himself on numerous occasions; his funeral cairns are located in many ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 03:58, 6 October 2022
- did so. In succeeding elections this figure dropped, reaching only 50 percent in 1988. Michels' theory is based on documented fact: no organization ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- to the lengths of the sides in the accompanying figure: *The sine function (sin), defined as the ratio of the side opposite the angle to the hypotenuse ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- Deng's elevation as China's new central figure meant that ... Jean Chretien called Deng a "pivotal figure" in Chinese history ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- bribery in sport is the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal, where the French judge in the pairs competition voted for the Russian skaters ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- Falk Epstein, who became Lee's father figure. Leon used his mother's ... #039;s' Father Is a Pretty Legendary Figure Too] Los Angeles Times. June ...28 KB (4,294 words) - 19:00, 25 October 2022
- [[Image:Bee dance.png|thumb|right|250px|The honeybee's figure-eight dance is a fixed-action pattern that communicates information to other ...16 KB (2,274 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- loved Patroclus." In Renaissance art, the figure of David is thought by some to have taken on a particular homo-erotic charge, as some see in ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 05:57, 9 July 2023
- such a satellite would trace an analemma (figure 8) in the sky. ... Such a satellite would trace an analemma (figure 8) in the sky. ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- and primitive. Thus, the fact that they held a figure of the wilderness in such high regard is not surprising. ==Mythology== ===Birth=== ...15 KB (2,404 words) - 06:26, 18 November 2022
- of the instrument (top-action, as pictured in the figure at the top of the article) or out the front of the instrument (front-action or side-action ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 2023
- He was a controversial figure in his own day, facing prison several ... More than any historical figure in the Bible, Jeremiah bears his soul ...32 KB (5,493 words) - 08:37, 31 July 2022
- of Poland (1772). Maria Theresa was a key figure in the power politics of eighteenth-century Europe who brought unity to the Habsburg Monarchy ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- , have made him a controversial figure, subject to adversarial actions ... rebuilt the language. The first notable figure of the Czech Slavic renaissance ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- Mitchell was the leading figure of the large number of institutionalist ... Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic ...34 KB (4,820 words) - 19:36, 5 March 2024
- concerns in no way belie his importance both as a figure in literary history and as a major character in the political scene of seventeenth-century England ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 04:57, 3 August 2022
- Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Taft was a powerful figure in local and state political and legal circles, and was known as a loyal Republican ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- Several modern commentators speak of Tamar as a figure of significance in the history of women's rights. Alan Dershowitz, in The Genesis ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Morton was a key figure in the birth and development of jazz because he had so many talents: pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Jazz ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
- quot; was then transformed into a figure with a blue hood, whom Lucia said looked like "Our Lady of Mount Carmel." Those who experienced ...15 KB (2,588 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- One major figure from the New Kingdom is also represented: Horemheb, the last pharaoh of the eighteenth Dynasty, who had a tomb built for himself ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- to the massive overall casualty figure for Sui during the campaign. Emperor Yang crossed the Liao River to attack Goguryeo, initially, with 305 ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 08:50, 19 December 2022
- total of 4,000 deaths remains the most cited figure. A scholarly demographic study in 1973, estimated 2,000 total deaths; another, in 1984, concluded ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
- Pictures of chickens are found on Greek red figure and black-figure pottery. The ancient Romans used chickens for oracles, both when flying ( ...29 KB (4,637 words) - 15:23, 10 December 2023
- with it. Typically, a prominent central figure is surrounded by other deities ... to the shape, size, and angle of a figure's eyes, nose, and lips ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- slave. She "became a powerful political figure" especially after her husband's death. Kirstin Olsen. 1994. Chronology of women ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- John Langshaw Austin (more commonly known as J.L Austin) (March 28, 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- In his final years, he was a legendary and heroic figure to some of the young writers and artists in Paris. Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- The story is based on an obscure historical figure who probably lived during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 B.C.E.). In the Old Testament ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- Equity in 1919, against the advice of father figure and producer, Florenz Ziegfeld. Cantor's career declined somewhat in the late 1930s due ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- studying under Francis Hutcheson, another leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. In 1740, Smith entered Balliol College, Oxford, but he left the ...16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- brought $8,625, while a river landscape with a figure rowing a boat sold for $250,000 at Eldred's annual "last weekend in March" Americana ...16 KB (2,363 words) - 10:36, 11 May 2023
- theologian, author, and public figure. He served as the Chief Rabbi ... The first figure was the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel ...46 KB (6,319 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
- with him his young family, all of whom would figure largely in Dodgson's life, and greatly influence his writing career over the following years ...15 KB (2,406 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- bar may also be expressed as a decimal figure ranging from 0 to 1, known ... in 1919, provides a twice-daily benchmark figure to the industry. ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 08:13, 24 January 2023
- great controversy. He is considered a seminal figure in the history of Hasidism. His contributions to Hasidic Judaism include the following: ...16 KB (2,514 words) - 23:00, 10 November 2022
- shares some of the traits of the central figure of Encolpius, a former gladiator, ... From the comedies of Plautus, Lazarillo borrows the figure of the ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- was characterized in the press as a central figure in disaffected Jewish circles, and the murder was applauded by Vienna's Nazis and became ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- level, the propriety of venerating a particular figure is determined by a synod of bishops corresponding to the relevant geographical area. An interesting ...17 KB (2,634 words) - 19:27, 25 November 2023
- begun, the rock was found unsuitable, so his figure was moved to Washington's left. |right|250px|The original plan for the Mount Rushmore ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 18:42, 13 July 2023
- to have numbered over twice as many—though this figure is exaggerated—and had up to 160 cannon." |strength2=~ 25,000 to 28,00053 cannons ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- of Sudan African National Union (SANU), leading figure during the first liberation war against the Khartoum government. * John Garang de Mabior ...14 KB (2,232 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, in the process becoming a highly ...27 KB (4,092 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- Joseph Lowery was a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the twentieth century, continuing the fight for civil rights ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- Robbe-Grillet was an important figure in the French Nouveau Roman movement, which helped to introduce the idea of the antihero. Robbe-Grillet ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 04:24, 17 June 2023
- back to Europe, becoming an important musical figure in the early years of the Edinburgh Festival and in Salzburg, Vienna, and Munich. His late life ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- also holds that Malachi was a very significant figure in providential history, playing a role in Judaism parallel to that of Martin Luther in the ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- than any other pre-Christian biblical figure. Traditionally, he is credited ... New Testament than any other Old Testament figure. The Letter to the Hebrews ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- writings makes them a popular figure of fun in both campus novels ... Derrida translated into the philosophical figure of the verb "to come ...49 KB (7,258 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- a Winter Olympic medal sport in 1976, is a form of figure skating which draws from the tradition of ballroom dancing. === Elements of competition === ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- largely neglected, but she was an important figure in mid-twentieth century American philosophy. Although she is not frequently cited by professional ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- presage. But this animal does not figure among the domestic beasts, it is not always easy to find, it does not lend itself to classification ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- objects. These images dissolve into and out of the figure of a young boy, who appears to call forth the giant image of a woman. With lots of quick cuts ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- working-class woman whose pale skin, languid figure, and wavy, abundant dark hair were considered by Morris and his friends the epitome of beauty. ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the veneration of a leader, portraying him or her as an idealized, heroic figure. It typically ...57 KB (8,108 words) - 06:45, 11 January 2024
- America. Montevideo's greatest literary figure is the essayist Jose Enrique Rodo (1872-1917), who greatly influenced Latin American thought. ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- In geometry and trigonometry, an angle (or plane angle) is the figure formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint. The endpoint is called the ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- during the Great Depression and became a national figure, serving as President Roosevelt's Director of Civilian Defense during the run-up to the ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, as a key figure in the development of a distinctly American literature. Like Melville, Hawthorne was preoccupied ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 21:23, 27 October 2023
- and visual arts can be traced to the lonely figure of Baudelaire, alienated from community and unmoored from moral and religious restraint. ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- first summer. He was a younger man than the figure of the original cover. His top hat was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore a morning ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- by Roberto Marín (an influential figure in his life), who noticed the boy's strong throwing arm and began using him at shortstop, eventually ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- earned the accolade of the most important figure of Seon in the Goryeo. In ... efforts. Scholars consider him the central figure in the revival of Joseon ...32 KB (4,825 words) - 20:07, 15 August 2021
- Wells became a public figure in Memphis when, in 1884, she led a campaign against racial segregation on the local railway. A conductor of the ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 15:32, 12 February 2024
- Schulz had a long association with ice sports, as both figure skating and ice hockey featured prominently in his cartoons. In Santa Rosa, he ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 00:33, 5 December 2023
- to attributes, but occasionally in black-figure vase-paintings she still ... archaic portraits of Athena in black-figure pottery, the goddess retains ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- Like many queen consorts, Berengaria of Navarre, does not figure boldly in the history of the English royalty, especially because she did not ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- Edmund Husserl has always been a canonical figure in continental philosophy. Nonetheless, Husserl is also a respected subject of study in the ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- into four parts, where Unamuno analyzes the figure of Christ from different perspectives: as a symbol of sacrifice and redemption, as a reflection ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- biblical literature. While he remains an enigmatic figure, Balaam is certainly one of the most intriguing characters in the Bible. ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- ended up in France. The author was a popular figure in France, where his originality was quickly recognized. That this Russian was newly appreciated ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- Ford was an important figure in the literary movement of Modernism. He helped to pioneer the use of literary techniques associated with Modernism ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- , and more recent genetics textbooks give the figure at roughly 80 percent (Plomin et al. 2001). Burt had a large influence on many leading psychologists ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- Renaissance music period. As the central figure in the Burgundian School, he was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 03:20, 25 February 2023
- with Xavier. A modern estimate puts the figure of those baptized by him at about thirty thousand, as opposed to the one million asserted by Baroque ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- works constitute the only genre aside from the figure that seriously interested Klimt. In recognition of his intensity, the locals called him "Waldschrat ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- On the other hand, though the figure of 3 million is unsubstantiated ... Bangladeshi sources cite a staggering figure of 200,000 women raped. Some ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- color in culture and history. Walker is a respected figure in the liberal political community for her support of unconventional and unpopular views as ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- of Jesus. Generally, a cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two bars that run perpendicular to each other. Usually, these bars are represented ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- on BBC radio. He also became a public figure associated with the British Humanist Association. Forster had a happy personal relationship beginning ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Cynewulf has proven to be a difficult figure to identify, but recent research suggests he was from the early part of the 9th century. A number ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- in with other things and behaves like any "figure" against a certain background. Just as much as our own unity as a bodily subject is not a ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- C. Huygens and David Brewster, On the cause of the extraordinary figure of calcareous spar, and on its cleavage in three directions, The Edinburgh ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- 2007-07-21 and became a world-famous figure. By the mid-1930s, Rogers ... 07-20 Clement Rogers was a distinguished figure in Indian Territory. A Cherokee ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- former colleague, Bogdanov, as its leading figure. In October 1920, he clashed ... was alive, Lunacharsky was not a powerful figure. Trotsky described him as ...35 KB (4,665 words) - 20:09, 31 August 2023
- The first writer to produced a novel about the figure of Artemisia was Anna Banti, wife of art critic Roberto Longhi. She started the book in ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- Hurston thus became by far the leading black figure of the libertarian Old Right, and in 1952 she actively promoted the presidential candidacy of Robert Taft. ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- reliable sources it is impossible to give a precise figure for the French and English casualties. However, it is clear that though the English were considerably ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- While China has the largest population of Hmong people, an exact figure ... of Hmong people in Myanmar, but no exact figure is available. ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- in Indian rural life. She was the leading figure in the introduction of improved medical care and public health service in India. == Legacy and ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- Mishnah and the Talmud, Shimon is also a major figure in the non-legal texts that constitute the Aggadah. Many of his sayings there relate to the study ...16 KB (2,585 words) - 14:13, 27 January 2023
- A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- the food retail is controlled by supermarkets. The figure is similar in Europe. The rise of supermarkets in Asia, South America, and Africa places supermarkets ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 13:56, 28 April 2023
- of Bai Juyi's literary circle and a key figure in the ancient literature (ku-wen) revival. He was the author of Yingying's Biography ...14 KB (2,277 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- Zheng Chenggong is an interesting figure because several opposing political forces have given him the status of a hero. For this reason, historical ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 15:22, 3 December 2022
- Many plays depict the return of a historical figure, in a spiritual or ghostly form, to the site where some significant event took place during his ...16 KB (2,586 words) - 19:45, 5 March 2023
- society of Paris and London. "Every single figure strives visibly by some singularity in outline, set, cut or color, to startle attention violently ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- Kargil Conflict] -GlobalSecurity.org That figure includes troops from Pakistan ... army losses has been more difficult to figure out, partly because Pakistan ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- by Grigory Chernetsov groups his corpulent figure with fellow writers Alexander ... The sculptor Peter Clodt seats his massive figure on a tall pedestal surrounded ...31 KB (4,830 words) - 07:40, 12 March 2024
- his time and has remained a controversial figure since then. Frontier life ... as considerably older than the historical figure. Taking his cue from the ...32 KB (5,281 words) - 16:31, 29 January 2024
- out of the hall distressed, for he cannot figure out what he is supposed to ... same frustration is found when he tries to figure out what the abbot wants ...33 KB (5,103 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- Mailer was a leading figure of the New Journalism, which reflects the tendency toward greater versimilitude in modern art. The notion that art ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- Pope Paul VI was a major figure in the modern history of the Roman Catholic papacy. Reviled by traditionalists for implementing the reforms of ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 01:36, 23 November 2022
- More recent estimates put the latter figure at more than 13 million The ... The same source gives a plausible total figure of 750,000 illegals currently ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- and even goodness and become a totemic figure of the modern world—the ... to his heirs. Any income above this figure was to be retained by the ...32 KB (5,043 words) - 06:52, 28 July 2023
- his life Xu Guang-qi was an extremely influential figure at the Imperial Court of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming came under attack by from the Manchu, descendants ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- A body of legend has grown up around the figure of Pontius Pilate. The fragmentary apocryphal Gospel of Peter exonerates Pilate of responsibility ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 20:06, 9 April 2023
- As one of 28 French tax collectors and a powerful figure in the unpopular Ferme Générale, Lavoisier was branded a traitor during the Reign ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the fifth largest metropolitian area in North America. Located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario ...43 KB (6,252 words) - 23:37, 15 January 2024
- cephalosporins and carbapenems, but this figure has been challenged by various investigators. Nevertheless, the risk of cross-reactivity is sufficient ...17 KB (2,357 words) - 07:15, 23 November 2022
- This figure is thought to be the compiler of the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings, as well as the probable author of Deuteronomy, working ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied the country west ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- hung gracefully on his shoulders, and his whole figure was patriarchal. Though indifferent to general literature, he had some taste in the fine ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 17:47, 6 May 2024
- *Authority figure, man of power *Canny, stingy, miserly, mean *Alluring, provocative *Liar, braggart, untruthful *Non-human characters, such as ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- for nuclear disarmament. He was soon a leading figure of the post-war German peace movement. He was even brought to court in 1959 because he had ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- Grillparzer was an important figure in the Viennese theater of the 1840s when his greatest dramatic works were produced. Together with Hebbel ...15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
- Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart was a legendary Confederate figure and is considered one of the great cavalry commanders of America. Stuart was the son-in-law ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 04:28, 31 July 2022
- remained in place where the ancient wooden cult figure of the Lady of Ephesus had been caught by an eighth-century flood. This form of breast-jewelry ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- The two percent figure above refers only to money contributed by the federal government directly to NPR. Additional government money makes its ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 14:58, 11 November 2022
- During the election campaign, the grandmother figure was often dwarfed by her party officials and bodyguards. One veteran of Liberia's political ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- Dostoevsky, Hamsun was a key transitional figure between nineteenth century realism and the subjectivism of modern prose, such as the irrational ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- with Pope Celestine I. He was also the central figure in the Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius, although Cyril himself ...19 KB (2,930 words) - 07:26, 12 January 2024
- casualties to be as high as 20,000, the figure modern historians find to ... due to his great military successes. His figure first attracted attention ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- Boone remains an iconic, if imperfectly remembered, figure in American ... Daniel Boone remains an iconic figure in American history, although ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- Dionysus, report that their central human-divinity figure entered a major city in this triumphal fashion. Both the Synoptic Gospels and the Gospel of ...17 KB (2,712 words) - 06:25, 18 November 2022
- a clear distinction between Jesus the historical figure and Jesus the subject of Christian belief. Despite the flaws that are now apparent in his work ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 07:54, 28 January 2024
- Clarence Clemens became a major figure in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. As jazz-rock fusion became an important musical genre in the ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- According to medieval accounts, a small figure of a bound barbarian chieftain once crouched underneath the horse's front right leg. ...16 KB (2,530 words) - 03:10, 6 November 2022
- the idea of God as a temperamental, monarchical figure no doubt derives in part from Zeus. Thus, Zeus' presence in the collective religious consciousness ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- Noah and his Flood is seen by many scholars in the figure of Utnapishtim, a character from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- of the Staff God, a leering, cartoon-like figure, with a hood and fangs, has ... deity. It has also been suggested that the figure may have been carved onto ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 02:50, 16 November 2022
- Billy the Kid grew into a symbolic figure of the American Old West. ... Billy the Kid grew into a symbolic figure of the American Old West ...32 KB (5,164 words) - 17:41, 31 October 2023
- (Báb) to him. After his death he became a major figure in the Baha'i faith, which sees him as the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh. ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- limit for beryllium is two µg/m³, but this figure has been challenged as inadequate for protecting workers from developing beryllium sensitization ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- part in pre-war appeasement made him an unpopular figure during and after World War II. A newspaper campaign hounded him for not donating the iron gates ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- The Fortune Teller, his first composition with more than one figure ... me?,” while his eyes, fixed upon the figure of Christ, have already said ...56 KB (8,917 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- The Mexican War transformed Taylor from a minor military figure into a presidential contender. He was dispatched to the disputed Texas border ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American cowboy actor and singer. He and his wife Dale Evans ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 20:50, 21 December 2022
- early history gives essentially the same figure.Richard Knolles, The Generall ... 150 men, it seems clear that Balbi's figure is an exaggeration, whereas ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- American Civil War. Bragg was a controversial figure during the Civil War. While he had an astute military mind he lacked the social skills that were ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 13:25, 11 February 2022
- In the history of the United States, Abraham Lincoln is an iconic ... appears to have been a providential figure. His stirring speeches helped ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- Ford was a key figure in the creation of the iconic style of the classic ... came close to that with the Tom Doniphan figure in The Man Who Shot Liberty ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- the cure for all social ills. He was an important figure in twentieth century institutional economics, providing perhaps the exemplar institutionalist ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- Joan of Arc has remained an important figure in Western culture. From ... how each succeeding culture imagines the figure whose charismatic courage ...41 KB (6,624 words) - 13:42, 1 August 2022
- in the Estates General, Mirabeau was one figure who stood out. He was widely ... Mirabeau was actually a leading figure in the Jacobin Club, although ...44 KB (6,937 words) - 18:06, 5 December 2022
- loyalty, and this reputation as a historical figure overshadows his achievements as a poet. Fewer than a dozen lyric songs (ci) are attributed to Wen ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- Fanon was considered an inspirational figure among anti-colonial and liberation movements. In particular, Les damnés de la terre was a major ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- " There was also a historic figure known as Vlad the Impaler ... Coppola, reimagines the count as a tragic figure rather than a monster. It ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- to depict "Ohrmazd" reveal a male figure wearing a high crown. However, rejection of anthropomorphic images of divine entities including ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 16:30, 30 December 2021
- and Hejaz who accepted Jesus as a prophetic figure and followed normative Judaism, rejecting the christology of the Pauline Church.Muhammad Shahrastani ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- In classical rhetoric, personification is a figure of speech (trope) that employs the deliberate use of anthropomorphism, often to make an emotional ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- and guitarist. Often cited as a key figure in the transition from blues to rock and roll, he introduced insistent, driving rhythms and a hard ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- a figure which has been rejected by modern historians. The poet Simonides ... Stecchini argues that Ctesias's figure of 800,000 battle troops ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Is there something about the face and figure of a budding young woman that a man finds beautiful, regardless of culture, time, and place? One ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- it never reached within 10 shillings of that figure. In 1878, the price fell to 46 shillings, 5 pence. By 1885, corn-growing land declined by a ...16 KB (2,539 words) - 03:04, 8 January 2024
- This statue of Charles II stands in the Figure Court of the Royal Hospital ... Grinling Gibbons in 1676) has stood in the Figure Court of the Royal Hospital. ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- Pétré-Grenouilleau has put forward a figure of 17 million African people ... and research estimates that the actual figure could be up to 1,420 women ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- of King Taibo of Wu, a historic figure who founded the first Wu Kingdom (吳國) around the Yangtze Delta of China. (Original Chinese from the ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- Vyāsa (Devanāgarī: व्यास) is a central and much revered figure in the majority of [Hinduism|Hindu]] traditions. He is also sometimes ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- mention money judge or I'll have to mention a figure that'll make ya sorry ya brought it up." "What can we do then?" asked Hansen ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 13:22, 1 August 2022
- The most notorious figure in the S&L crisis was probably Charles Keating, who headed Lincoln Savings of Irvine, California. Keating was convicted ...19 KB (3,012 words) - 17:07, 23 December 2022
- attacker. Often the abuser is seen as an authority figure who tells their victim not to discuss their "secret" with other adults. When the abuser ...18 KB (2,684 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- along Dadaist lines. The most important figure in this group was Iliazd, whose radical typographical designs visually echo the publications of ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- brother-in-law, and another well-known figure in Argentine literature. ... and became an increasingly public figure, obtaining appointments as ...30 KB (4,821 words) - 06:22, 6 May 2024
- first leader. Sun Yat-sen was a unifying figure in post-Imperial China, and ... is that of a respected but unimportant figure, as the first provisional ...36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
- German born David Einhorn would become a leading figure in American Reform Judaism after immigrating to the U.S. in 1855. In Hungary, Talmudic ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- Valla, he also attacked the validity of the third figure. Ramus also set the modern fashion of deducing the figures from the position of the middle ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- Another figure used is from Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who traveled ... sacrifice to Xipe Totec. A bigger figure would be dedicated to Huitzilopochtli ...52 KB (8,358 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- brother of another important Chinese political figure and essayist Zhou Zuoren. He was among the early supporters of the Esperanto movement in China. ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- went on to become perhaps the first watershed figure in American music; his career, while never extremely innovative, marked the beginning of the ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- she longed for the love of a father figure, and Chaplin craved her loyalty ... British Film Institute as "a towering figure in world culture," ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- The prophet Habakkuk is a largely enigmatic figure, discernible only through the oblique hints offered by the text itself. The evidence, as manifested ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
