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- A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a professional who practices ...29 KB (3,911 words) - 19:59, 15 May 2020
- Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: [miˈʃɛl fuˈko] ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Euaion.jpg|thumb|right|A portrait from a vase of a Greek actor performing in Sophocles' lost play Andromeda.]] ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- in its emphasis on attaining self-knowledge and attaining the state "Clear." *Several contemporary Sethian movements emphasize channeled ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, and peoples by Western scholars. It can also refer to the ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- The Tathāgatagarbha doctrine is an important teaching in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism, which affirms that each sentient being contains the ...16 KB (2,284 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Eingang Mathematisches Kolloquium.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- Category:Image wanted Vine Deloria, Jr. (March 26, 1933 – November 13, 2005) was an a Native American author, theologian, historian, and political ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- Mimesis (μίμησις from μιμεîσθαι) in its simplest context means "imitation" or "representation" in Greek. ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving proper credit. It ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated as Po-Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 17:05, 5 April 2024
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne ([ miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ ]) (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- category:image wanted The deep Web (also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, or the hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 18:13, 4 June 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics The Prague Linguistic Circle (French: Cercle linguistique de Prague; Czech: Pražský ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth century by a group of logical positivists. The verifiability theory ...8 KB (1,167 words) - 18:01, 3 May 2023
- Jewish philosophy refers to philosophical inquiry informed or inspired by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- Babylonia, named for its capital city of Babylon, was an ancient state in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- Gregory Bateson (May 9, 1904 – July 4, 1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- Category:Public [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited ...29 KB (4,205 words) - 14:35, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Common-law marriage ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world. We think of the things and events we experience as connected, and causal ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the study and application of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in the practice ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- A toxin is a chemical substance that is capable of causing injury, illness, or death to an organism (poison) and that is produced by living cells ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 04:49, 1 May 2023
- Existentialism is a philosophical movement that arose in the twentieth century. It includes a number of thinkers who emphasize common themes ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Archaeological ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- First Cause is term introduced by Aristotle and used in philosophy and theology. Aristotle noted that things in nature are caused and that these ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda (Ethiopian), Nicaula (Roman), and Bilquis (Arabic), was the ruler of an ancient ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 08:56, 18 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:RWEmerson.jpg|thumb|230px|Ralph Waldo Emerson]] Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was the preeminent ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Social workers Gratz, Rebecca Rebecca Gratz (March 4, 1781 – August 27, 1869) was an American ...8 KB (1,118 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[File:Walton Hall Pen&Ink.jpg|thumb|300 px|Walton Hall, headquarters of the Open ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- A siddha (Sanskrit: Meaning, "one who is accomplished") refers to perfected spiritual masters who have transcended the ahamkara (ego ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 20:06, 21 April 2023
- Khadijah (between 555-570 C.E. – about 630 C.E.) was the first wife of the Muslim prophet, Muhammad. Khadijah al-Kubra, the daughter of Khuwaylid ...7 KB (1,148 words) - 03:33, 6 October 2022
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious recognition of sensations, visions, or events after having been declared ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:642px-John Bauer 1915.jpg|thumb|256px|Trolls with ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and statesman from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer but a powerful ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the ...32 KB (4,799 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- Anisotropy is a term used in various scientific disciplines to indicate that certain properties of matter (such as a material or radiation) vary ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 06:28, 28 July 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Image wanted Montessori, Maria Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an ...21 KB (3,176 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- Category:Sociologists Mauss, Marcel Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872 – February 10, 1950) was a French sociologist known for his role in elaborating ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- Category:Economists Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Drucker, Peter Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11 ...31 KB (4,468 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- become one again in the Absolute in an act of self-knowledge. This is the synthesis, the unity of the real with the ideal. Schelling’s philosophy ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- A pentagram, a five sided, transparent star, often within a circle, is one of the oldest markings known to humankind. Dating back to Europe as ...20 KB (3,104 words) - 07:21, 23 November 2022
- Acetylcholine, often abbreviated as ACh, is a small, organic molecule that is a derivative of choline and acetic acid and serves as an important ...16 KB (2,189 words) - 07:34, 14 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology The term Attitude as well as the concepts "attitude formation" and "attitude ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- Category:Economists Category:Biography Chamberlin, Edward Edward Hastings Chamberlin (May 18, 1899 – July 16, 1967) was an American economist ...8 KB (1,083 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- Category:Image wanted Hartshorne, Charles Charles Hartshorne (June 5, 1897 – October 9, 2000) was a prominent American philosopher and theologian ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- In Jewish tradition, a cantor or hazzan is a musician trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the synagogue in songful prayer. While religious ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- which is the extent to which self-knowledge is defined, consistent ... and interacts with self-esteem, self-knowledge, and the social self ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- Category:Psychologists Cattell, Raymond Raymond Bernard Cattell (March 20, 1905 - February 2, 1998) was a British and American psychologist who ...19 KB (2,804 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960 -1040?) was a French rabbi, best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom ...14 KB (2,372 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2023
- A Tautology is a statement that is always true because of its structure—it requires no assumptions or evidence to determine its truth. A tautology ...9 KB (1,481 words) - 16:04, 23 June 2023
- Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan), refers to a ritual drink of importance in ancient Vedic and Persian culture. This drink was composed from ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- A bibliographic database is a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles, conference proceedings, and audio-visual ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act of disobedience, as well as the ongoing fallen state of humanity bound in ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- Mary Anning (May 21, 1799 – March 9, 1847) was an early British fossil collector and paleontologist. She is credited with the discovery of ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, commonly known as Novalis (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), was one of the earliest of the German ...20 KB (3,018 words) - 22:15, 16 November 2022
- The Trimurti (meaning "three forms" of God), also known as the Hindu Trinity, is an iconographic representation of God in Hinduism ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author of a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history) is the period before written history became available to assist our understanding ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- In regular usage, the term sound is applied to any stimulus that excites our sense of hearing. The cause of sound is vibratory movement from ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- Roman Witold Ingarden (February 5, 1893 - June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers for phenomenological ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first ...23 KB (3,445 words) - 10:17, 21 January 2023
- Edward Wadie Said (November 1, 1935 – September 25, 2003) ( إدوارد سعيد ) was a well-known Palestinian-American literary theorist ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- Kumārajīva (Simplified Chinese: 鸠摩罗什; Traditional Chinese: 鳩摩羅什; Pinyin:Jiūmóluóshí; also Kiu-kiu-lo, Kiu-mo-lo-che, Kiu ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- Nastika ( sa|नास्तिक , nāstika ; "heterodox") and Astika (Sanskrit: sa|आस्तिक , IAST: āstika ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- Monocotyledons or monocots are a major group of flowering plants (angiosperms) whose members typically have one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf ...8 KB (1,275 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (Russian: Денис Иванович Фонвизин) (April 14, 1744? – December 1, 1792) is the only playwright ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- Ethology is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of animal behavior. Ethologists take a comparative approach, studying behaviors ranging ...16 KB (2,274 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- Category:Image wanted Sir George Etherege (1635? – c. May 10, 1692) Sir George Etherege Britannica Online. was an English dramatist, known ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- Category:Public The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably the oldest known work of literature. The story includes a series ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that originated with Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 – 1914) (who first stated the pragmatic maxim) and ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- is defined by one's self-concept, self-knowledge, self-esteem, and social self]] Self-esteem is the subjective measure of a person's ...22 KB (3,077 words) - 23:44, 25 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology Egyptology as an academic discipline did not fully emerge until ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciencesCategory:Anthropologists Montagu, Ashley Ashley Montagu (June 28 1905 - November 26, 1999), was an English ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 04:42, 18 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication [[Image:Interview.jpg|thumb|right|350px|An interview]] interview is a conversation ...17 KB (2,644 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- The Vedas (Devanagari sa|वेद ) are a large corpus of texts originating in ancient India. They are the oldest scriptural texts of Hinduism ...32 KB (4,855 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Mixed-couple.jpg|thumb|250 ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Graham, Katharine [[File:Katherine Graham (48426191266).jpg|300px|thumb|right|Katherine Graham ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 17:10, 5 October 2022
- Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese philosophy was inextricably associated with religion, ethics, aesthetics, political organization and ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- Empress Myeogseong (October 19, 1851 – October 8, 1895), also known as Queen Min, married to King Gojong, the 26th King of the Joseon Dynasty ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively on the history ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus about 241 B.C.E. He left no extant ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 04:33, 6 October 2022
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers to the time of the guiding intellectual movement, called The Enlightenment ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Category:Public [[Image:Christopher_Marlowe.jpg|thumb|right|An anonymous portrait, often believed to show Christopher Marlowe.]] Christopher ...25 KB (3,850 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication [[File:Stephen Avenue 3.jpg|thumb|400px|Statue of two men speaking]] Communication ...17 KB (2,393 words) - 17:12, 9 January 2024
- Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which knowledge of the relative positions of celestial bodies and related information ...33 KB (4,705 words) - 18:24, 19 August 2023
- Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1554 to 1557 – August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 16:30, 14 November 2021
- Ballroom dance refers to a set of learned partner dances, which are enjoyed socially and engaged in competitively around the globe. Any of the ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- Susanne Langer (December 20, 1895 - July 17, 1985) née Susanne Katherina Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...18 KB (2,642 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good behavior, for example, wisdom, courage, modesty, generosity, and self-control ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- A Garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Han Yu (韓愈, Hán Yù, Pinyin Han Yu, also called Han Wen-kung) (768 - 824 C.E.), born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Варлам Тихонович Шаламов; July 1, 1907 – January 17, 1982) was a Russian ...8 KB (1,126 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics {{Infobox Writing system |name=Egyptian hieroglyphs |type=logography |typedesc=usable ...23 KB (3,348 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific knowledge and physical resources to design and produce materials, structures ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to mid-nineteenth ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 01:03, 2 May 2023
- A contradiction is a logical incompatibility between two or more statements or propositions. It occurs when those statements or propositions ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Mapuche |image=[[Image:Mapuche ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- Shāng Yāng (商鞅; Kung-sun Yang; Wei Yang; Pinyin Shang Yang; d. 338 B.C.E.) was an important statesman and social political philosopher ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain ...27 KB (3,663 words) - 10:11, 11 March 2023
- Horace Newton Allen (1858 - 1932), a Protestant, medical missionary from the United States, who later also served as a diplomat, made a remarkable ...8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
- An argument is an attempt to demonstrate the truth of an assertion called a conclusion, based on the truth of a set of assertions called premises ...9 KB (1,514 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- Mungo Park (September 11, 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations in the Niger area on ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- Category:Philosophy and religion Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894 – 1962) was an American Christian ethicist best known for his books The Meaning ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood ...34 KB (5,091 words) - 00:19, 12 April 2023
- Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms in response to a given stimulus or situation ...40 KB (5,552 words) - 21:51, 20 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges [[Image:Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.jpg|thumb ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher ( ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃlaɪɐˌmaxɐ|lang ; November 21, 1768 – February 12, 1834) was a German Reformed ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- Origen (Greek: Ὠριγένης , c.185 – c.254 C.E.) was one of the most distinguished theologians and scholars of the early Christian Church ...23 KB (3,479 words) - 01:25, 18 November 2022
- The focal length of an optical system is a property that provides a measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (diffuses ...10 KB (1,614 words) - 20:48, 19 October 2022
- Philo (20 B.C.E. – 50 C.E.), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher who synthesized Stoic ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Concepts are the categorization of objects, events, or people that share common properties ...32 KB (5,041 words) - 02:42, 8 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:IVE Tsing Yi.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education ...18 KB (2,528 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- Materials science is an interdisciplinary field involving the study of different types of materials and the applications of knowledge about these ...17 KB (2,292 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- Morton A. Kaplan (May 9, 1921 – September 26, 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at the University of ...9 KB (1,221 words) - 16:45, 12 April 2024
- Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c. 1398 – c. February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith and inventor who achieved fame for his ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 15:05, 1 August 2022
- Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was a noted educator and author renowned for her forthright opinions on women’s ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- Lying is telling or writing or otherwise promulgating a false statement or claim with intent to deceive. Here we will be concerned only with ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- Xu Guangqi ( t=徐光啟|s=徐光启|p=Xú Guāngqǐ|w=Hsu Kuang-ch'i , Christian name Paul Hsü) (1562 – 1633), courtesy name Zixian ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus, or le Père Mersenne (September 8, 1588 – September 1, 1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Jan de Bray 002.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Governors of the Haarlem Guild of St ...29 KB (4,314 words) - 03:51, 11 July 2023
- James Ewell "Jeb" Brown Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate States ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 04:28, 31 July 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Sociology The Hawthorne effect refers to a phenomenon which is thought to occur ...19 KB (2,835 words) - 15:03, 25 January 2023
- Cyril of Alexandria (c. 378 - 444 C.E.) was the Christian patriarch of Alexandria when the city was at its height in influence and power within ...19 KB (2,930 words) - 07:26, 12 January 2024
- Naturopathy This article is part of the branches of CAM series. CAM Classifications NCCAM:Alternative Medical System Modality:Professionalized ...20 KB (2,831 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- The Golden Rule is a cross-cultural ethical precept found in virtually all the religions of the world. Also known as the "Ethic of Reciprocity ...18 KB (2,926 words) - 05:37, 20 December 2022
- Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (1120 - c. 1229), much better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn ( فریدالدین ) and ‘Attār ( ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Blegen, Carl [[Image:Blegen_Library.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Blegen Library at the ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- Nakahama Manjirō (中濱 万次郎 Nakahama Manjirō) (1827 - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to visit ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- Predestination (from Latin 'praedestinare,' "fore-ordain") is a religious idea especially among the monotheistic religions ...26 KB (4,098 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji-zong) is one of the two major Japanese Zen sects. The other major sect is ...8 KB (1,186 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- Genotype is the genetic makeup (set of genes) of an individual organism or cell. Genes, the units of heredity in living organisms, are encoded ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 08:02, 23 January 2023
- category:image wanted Virtue ethics is one of three major theories in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and consequentialism ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Category:Psychologists Gordon Willard Allport (November 11, 1897 - October 9, 1967) was an American psychologist, who played a major role in shaping ...18 KB (2,581 words) - 03:25, 23 December 2022
- Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations that developed between 3000-1200 B.C.E. in Greece and the basin of the ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its kind in the United States. It honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Botany is the branch of biology dealing with the scientific study of plant life. It is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant ...17 KB (2,438 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- The central nervous system (CNS) is that portion of the vertebrate nervous system that is composed of the brain and spinal cord. Together with ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- Phenomenology is, in its founder Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in which things present themselves in ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (March 10, 1861 – March 7, 1913), who is commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- Refraction is the change in direction of a wave due to a change in its speed, as observed when a wave passes from one medium to another. The ...21 KB (3,222 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- The Ebionites (from Hebrew; אביונים, Ebyonim, "the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that flourished ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- Category:Economists Schmoller, Gustav von [[Image:Gustav von Schmoller by Nicola Perscheid c1908.jpg|thumb|Gustav von Schmoller]] Gustav von Schmoller ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 01:03, 27 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:VictorianPostcard.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Humorous nineteenth century postcard ...26 KB (3,715 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- Category:Economists Keynes, John Neville John Neville Keynes (August 31, 1852 – November 15, 1949) was a British philosopher and economist. ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Zoltán Kodály ( ˈzoltaːn ˈkodaːj ) (December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist ...8 KB (1,191 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Nondirective psychotherapy was developed by the humanistic psychologist ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Category:Public Pantheism (from Greek: pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious and philosophical view that everything in existence ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality consists of many different things or kinds of things. In this sense ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned and described by the ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- Thomas Hobbes (April 5, 1588–December 4, 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- An abacus (plurals abacuses or abaci), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool for performing arithmetical processes, often constructed ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Έλευσίνια Μυστήρια) were initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Ernst Troeltsch (February 17, 1865 – February 1, 1923) was a German Protestant theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from present-day Spain, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams ...9 KB (1,468 words) - 16:29, 6 November 2022
- Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and how they can be implemented in computer systems. ...20 KB (2,897 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin the Philosopher) (ca. 100–165) was an early Christian apologist and saint ...34 KB (5,421 words) - 21:24, 4 October 2022
- Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本 龍馬, Sakamoto Ryōma) (January 3, 1836 - December 10, 1867) was a Japanese imperial loyalist whose effort to forge ...18 KB (2,973 words) - 00:57, 23 December 2022
- John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for his taciturn New England ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs) (384 B.C.E. – March 7, 322 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- The Yangban (양반, 兩班 in Korean) were a well-educated scholarly class of male Confucian scholars who were part of the ruling elite in Korea ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century ...43 KB (6,642 words) - 07:00, 18 April 2024
- A propeller is a device used for the propulsion of a vehicle such as an aircraft, ship, or submarine though a medium such as air or water. By ...19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[File:Figure 5 Literacy has rapidly spread Reading the past writing the future.png|right ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- Jahannam ( جهنم ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- Technopark Kerala refers to a technology park in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India dedicated to electronics, software, and other Information ...28 KB (3,882 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro de Sevilla ) (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- In many religious and philosophical systems, the word "soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus of sapience ...34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
- Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332/732AH – March 19, 1406/808AH) was a famous historiographer and historian born in present-day Tunisia ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Evans, Arthur [[Image:SirArthurEvans.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Bronze statue of Sir ...10 KB (1,447 words) - 12:20, 7 November 2021
- Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016) was an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- Count Francesco Algarotti (December 11, 1712–3 May, 1764) was an Italian philosopher and art critic. After studying at the University of Bologna ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- The Greek word telos means goal, end, or purpose, and teleology is the study of goals, ends and purposes. A moral theory is regarded as teleological ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern era stands as one of the notable events in the early history of relations ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Giusto Sustermans.]] Galileo Galilei (February ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- definite aim in life; (3) the necessity of self-knowledge for public men (cf. Plato's first Alcibiades); (4) the Stoic doctrine of liberty (introduced ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- In mathematics and set theory, an axiomatic system is any set of specified axioms from which some or all of those axioms can be used, in conjunction ...10 KB (1,582 words) - 07:21, 23 August 2023
- The Platte River is an approximately 310 mile (499 km) long river in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming. Combined with the length ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having a conscience involves being aware of the moral rightness or wrongness ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- Julius Pomponius Laetus, also known as Giulio Pomponio Leto, (1425 - 1498) was an Italian humanist, archaeologist, and Latinist who promoted ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ломоно́сов) ( November 19|1711|November 8 – April 15|1765|April 4 ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- The term Pāramitā or Pāramī (Sanskrit and Pāli respectively) means "Perfect" or "Perfection." In Buddhism, the Paramitas ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- Mind is a concept developed by self-conscious humans trying to understand what is the self that is conscious and how does that self relate to ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command" ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872 – ca. June 18, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. Amundsen interacted with ...24 KB (3,885 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- John Wycliffe (also Wyclif, Wycliff, or Wickliffe) (c.1320 – December 31, 1384), an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the ...43 KB (7,057 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- Emotivism is the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- Étienne Gilson (June 13, 1884 – September 19, 1978) was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and historian. He is seen as one of the ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as famous as its German ...27 KB (3,885 words) - 08:56, 5 September 2023
- The Epistle to the Colossians is a book of the Bible's New Testament. Although its authorship is disputed, the book is traditionally believed ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:41, 7 January 2024
- Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Esoteric Buddhism, and the Diamond Vehicle) refers to a family of Buddhist lineages ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- category:image wanted Interoperability refers to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). The term is ...21 KB (2,868 words) - 13:29, 7 February 2023
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas and imperium) is a key concept in political philosophy. Authority is a ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- Christian August Crusius (January 10, 1715 – October 18, 1775) was a German philosopher and theologian. He enjoyed a considerable reputation ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- Praise and blame are closely connected with the concept of moral responsibility for an action, omission, or a trait of character. When someone ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word," but can also mean ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens. Born in Damascus about 460 C.E., he studied rhetoric ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image = [[Image:Dartmouth ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- Jōdo shū (浄土宗 "The Pure Land School"), also known as Jodo Buddhism, is a branch of Pure Land Buddhism, derived from the teachings ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 13:45, 1 August 2022
- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India Company between 1814 and 1816. It is sometimes called the Gorkha War or the ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- Koca Mi‘mār Sinān Āġā (Ottoman Turkish: خوجه معمار سنان آغا) (April 15, 1489 - April 09, 1588), better known simply as ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 22:27, 29 January 2023
- Nestorianism was an ancient Christian heresy associated with Nestorius (c. 386–c. 451 C.E.), Patriarch of Constantinople, who taught that ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Herskovits, Melville J. Melville Jean Herskovits (September ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 - April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 23:05, 30 November 2022
- Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was an Anglo-Welsh poet who is widely considered one of the most influential English ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- category:image wanted [[Image:Mondriaan 1924.jpg|thumb|250px|Piet Mondrian, 1924]] Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, (pronounced: ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerd) (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471 ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 23:17, 8 February 2022
- Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one or more chemical reactions in order to get a product, or several products ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal revealed in 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan administration. It began as an ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- The Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) is a cornerstone document outlining ethical principles for conducting medical research with human subjects ...23 KB (3,386 words) - 00:17, 27 December 2021
- Wilhelm Schmidt (February 16, 1868 – February 10, 1954) was a German Roman Catholic priest, and a famous linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni Islam is also referred to as Sunnism or as Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Sociology is an academic and applied discipline that studies society and human social ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous Korean religion, one that had enormous impact on the unfolding of ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- Paleoanthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology and paleontology, and is also known as human anthropology. Studying hominid fossil evidence ...20 KB (2,921 words) - 11:00, 11 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work and involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union ...9 KB (1,434 words) - 05:44, 9 January 2023
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was one of the most respected and popular poets of the Victorian era. Browning ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeology Category:Anthropology Category:Linguistics [[Image:Egypt Hieroglyphe4.jpg|right|250px ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest in the Order of ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean, situated between the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Borobudur, a ninth century Buddhist Mahayana monument in Central Java, Indonesia. Built for the devotees of Mahayana Buddhism, the temple stands ...30 KB (4,409 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1294), was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. He was an English philosopher who called for the reform ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 02:30, 16 December 2022
- are many channels to reach this greater self-knowledge. The analysis of dreams is the most common. Others may include analyzing feelings expressed ...23 KB (3,347 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a self-taught American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- Category:Image wanted Billy Rose (September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American theatrical showman. He composed over 50 hit songs. ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky ( ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851) was the French artist and chemist who is often credited with being the inventor ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- Fire safety refers to precautions that are taken to prevent or reduce the likelihood of a fire that may result in death, injury, or property ...10 KB (1,424 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Lepsius, Karl Richard [[Image:Carl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884).jpg|thumb|150px ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- Calanoida Cyclopoida Gelyelloida Harpacticoida Misophrioida Monstrilloida Mormonilloida Platycopioida Poecilostomatoida Siphonostomatoida ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal [[Image:John William Waterhouse - Circe (The ...35 KB (5,255 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Weatheringcartoon.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This illustration shows various components of space weathering]] Space weathering ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 17:14, 14 October 2022
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges Liberal arts colleges are post-secondary educational institutions which focus on a Liberal ...23 KB (3,427 words) - 11:01, 7 March 2023
- Samuel Daniel (1562 – October 14, 1619) was an English poet and historian who exerted a considerable influence on the development of Elizabethan ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 02:58, 23 December 2022
- Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with studying the principles of the flow of gases and the forces generated on a solid body ...26 KB (3,914 words) - 06:23, 15 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Optical grey squares orange brown.svg|thumb|200 px|An optical ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- Identity politics refers to the idea that socially constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis for creating group ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible ...21 KB (3,123 words) - 02:56, 27 July 2023
- In Hinduism, the term Isvara (ईश्वर in Devanagari script, also variously transliterated as Ishvara and Īśvara), is a generic name ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 06:19, 11 March 2024
- Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清; c. 1363 – c. 1443), also called Kanze Motokiyo (観世 元清), was a Japanese aesthetician, actor and playwright ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group-Jen| |group=Nenets |image=[[File:No-nb bldsa ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- The Augsburg Confession (known in Latin as Confessio Augustana), is the primary confession of faith used in the Lutheran Church and one of the ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- In physics, the angular momentum of an object rotating about some reference point is the measure of the extent to which the object will continue ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 – March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist who revolutionized science and ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions specific to a professional, disciplinary, or practical field. Subsets ...12 KB (1,559 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- Aisha, Ayesha, 'A'isha, or 'Aisha 1 (Arabic عائشه `ā'isha, "she who lives") was a wife of the prophet Muhammad ...25 KB (4,166 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- Nunavut (Inuktitut syllabics: [[Image:Nunavut.png|55px|The word "Nunavut" in Inuktitut syllabics]] ) is the largest and newest territory ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- A New World monkey is any member of the primate clade Platyrrhini, comprised of four Central and South America families: Cebidae (marmosets, ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 19:29, 14 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Socialist economics is a term which refers in its descriptive sense to the economic effects ...42 KB (6,187 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- Category:Economists Clark, John Maurice John Maurice Clark (November 30, 1884 – June 27, 1963) was an American economist, the son of John Bates ...11 KB (1,541 words) - 06:33, 3 August 2022
- Category:Psychologists Category:Image wanted Gesell, Arnold {{Infobox scientist |name = Arnold Gesell |image = ...11 KB (1,524 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
- Long an advocate of the individual's private quest for self-knowledge, Hesse despised the growing mass movement of German nationalism and ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- Category:Media Professionals Otis, Harrison Gray :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States Representative and Senator ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- Ayurveda (Devanāgarī: आयुर्वॆद, the 'science of life') is a system of traditional medicine native to India, and practiced ...26 KB (3,585 words) - 06:06, 10 January 2023
- Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting of a main island, Grande-Terre (or Mahoré), a smaller island, Petite-Terre ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- Zhū Xī (朱熹; Wade-Giles: Chu Hsi; 1130 – 1200 C.E.) was a Confucian scholar of the Song dynasty who became one of the most significant ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:The Siren.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Siren, by ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Located in southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest and most influential American conservationists, sometimes called the ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 03:01, 2 May 2024
- A crystallite is a domain of solid-state matter that has the same structure as a single crystal. Crystallites can vary in size from a few nanometers ...11 KB (1,643 words) - 23:09, 9 May 2020
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work Category:Law Child abuse is an act, or failure to act, that endangers ...23 KB (3,424 words) - 15:27, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Skyline Parkway Motel Burned.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A motel after an arson fire]] ...10 KB (1,466 words) - 05:41, 9 January 2023
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge with an emphasis on the conditions of its validity and finding answers ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = Harvard ...32 KB (4,558 words) - 16:50, 30 January 2022
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Preschool education is education that focuses on educating children from the ages of ...23 KB (3,350 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- Category:Image wanted Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873, - December 30, 1962) was an influential American intellectual historian and philosopher ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- Salome Alexandra or Alexandra of Jerusalem (139 – 67 B.C.E.) was the only Jewish regnant queen of the Hasmoneans, reigning from 75 B.C.E. until ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 01:53, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Abenaki |image=[[Image:Abenaki ...20 KB (2,915 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- John Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American political philosopher, a long-time professor at Harvard University, and ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- Category:Sociologists Znaniecki, Florian [[Image:Florian Znaniecki 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Florian Znaniecki]] Florian Witold Znaniecki (January ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Maxwell, Robert Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991), was ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- Printing is a process for producing texts and images, typically with ink on paper, usually using a printing press or other kind of printing apparatus ...36 KB (5,772 words) - 18:43, 29 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology :For information about the psychology discipline that deals with the measurement and ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 18:01, 14 April 2023
- laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of philosophy took shape in the third century C.E. with the philosopher Plotinus ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- The Peace Corps is an independent United States federal agency. The Peace Corps was established by Executive Order 10924 on March 1, 1961, and ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
- Sir Thomas Malory (c.1405 – March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, the first definitive text in English prose ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, Raymond Siever, Sand (New York: Scientific American Library, 1988, ISBN ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 17:45, 25 January 2023
- Methuselah or Metushélach (מְתוּשָׁלַח - "Man of the dart," or alternatively "when he dies, it will be sent" ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (June 24, 1771 – October 31, 1834), known as Irénée du Pont, or E.I. du Pont, was a French-born American ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 21:44, 29 December 2021
- Sebastian Franck (c. 1499 – c. 1543) was a sixteenth-century German Protestant Reformer, theologian, freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted Category:Biography Category:Economists Robinson, Joan Joan Violet Robinson, née Maurice (October 31, 1903 – August 5 ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen |name = The ...25 KB (3,516 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Bill Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter, band leader, and mandolin player, often referred to ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:06, 31 October 2023
- The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is a Catholic religious order created by Saint Dominic in the early thirteenth ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of society, whose members live the best possible life. The term “Utopia” was ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- Acrobatics (from Greek Akros, high and bat, walking) involve movements that are a combination of difficult feats of balance, agility and coordination ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- Vitamin B6 (vitamin B6) is an organic nutrient of the vitamin B complex that appears in three natural, related, water-soluble forms: the alcohol ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled crafts practitioners ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Image wanted Leakey, Mary Mary Douglas Leakey (née Nicol) (February 6 ...9 KB (1,368 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Dubois, Eugène Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (January 28, 1858 – December ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- Abeno Nakamaro or Abe no Nakamaro (阿倍仲麻呂, abe (no) nakamaro) (c. 698 – c. 770 C.E.) was a Japanese scholar, administrator, and waka ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. He was one of the founding members of the Pre ...19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
- A public library is a library that is open to the public and generally funded by taxes at the municipal, district covering several municipalities ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- The Devil is the title given to the supernatural being who is believed to be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. The name ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Health professionals (or healthcare professionals) provide health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. They study ...24 KB (3,245 words) - 17:08, 17 June 2020
- Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world, in particular those involving social behavior ...53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Education [[Image:Leonardo_da_Vinci_helicopter_and_lifting_wing.jpg|thumb|right ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- William Langland is the conjectured author of the fourteenth-century English poem Piers Plowman. Almost nothing is known of Langland himself ...19 KB (3,143 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- The Chinese Rites controversy (ca. 1630-1715 C.E.) was a dispute within the Roman Catholic Church about whether certain elements of Chinese folk ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- In Indian philosophy and religion, Samadhi (Sanskrit: समाधि, lit. "establish, make firm") is a term used in a variety of ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 02:04, 23 December 2022
- Boiling is the process of rapidly converting a liquid to its gaseous (vapor) state, typically by heating the liquid to a temperature called its ...13 KB (2,088 words) - 05:24, 17 November 2023
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was an outstanding Dutch physicist who was the first to obtain an equation ...10 KB (1,620 words) - 23:19, 22 June 2023
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy, natural science ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors in the Silla and Unified Silla dynasties who played an instrumental role in ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The ...66 KB (9,824 words) - 23:40, 15 January 2024
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Philosophers Steiner, Rudolf [[Image:Steiner_Berlin_1900_big.jpg|thumb|Rudolf Steiner 1900]] ...49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
- Marranos or Secret Jews were Jews resident in the Iberian peninsula in the late fourteenth through seventeenth centuries who adopted Christianity ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
- Pierre Nicole (1625 - November 16, 1695) was one of the most distinguished of the French Jansenists. He affiliated himself with the Jansenists ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 05:25, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Radin, Paul Paul Radin (April 2, 1883 – February 21, 1959) was an American linguist ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Bitumen is a mixture of dark, sticky, highly viscous organic liquids composed mainly of aromatic hydrocarbons. It is usually black or dark brown ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 23:49, 11 January 2023
- Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c. 1075-1141 C.E.) was a Jewish Spanish philosopher ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- Civil engineering is a broad field of engineering covering many specialties. It includes construction engineering, environmental engineering ...12 KB (1,647 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics. He ...10 KB (1,470 words) - 08:52, 1 April 2024
- Hypatia of Alexandria (in Greek: Υπατία) (c. 370 C.E. – 415 C.E.) was a popular Hellenized Egyptian female philosopher, mathematician ...11 KB (1,782 words) - 16:39, 10 February 2024
- Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental philosophical principles of the great French philosopher René Descartes. Descartes ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- The precautionary principle is the concept that establishes it is better to avoid or mitigate an action or policy that has the plausible potential ...46 KB (6,708 words) - 18:54, 17 February 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:Jade pot from the Qing Dynasty.jpg|thumb|Gilt-metal and ...28 KB (4,112 words) - 06:15, 12 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death among human beings ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice of evicting demons or other evil spiritual entities from a person or place ...20 KB (3,223 words) - 23:55, 24 March 2024
- 0 (zero) is both a number and a numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. As a number, zero means nothing—an absence of other ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- striving for excellence, Epictetus emphasized self-knowledge and keeping one’s moral character in order as the way to achieve a happy life. He instructed ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- Mehrgarh (Urdu: مﮩرگڑھ , also spelled as Mehrgahr, Merhgarh, or Merhgahr) is one of the most important Neolithic (7000 B.C.E. to ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (November 11, 1599 – March 28, 1655) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden. She was the daughter ...22 KB (3,602 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- Carlos Monzón (August 7, 1942 – January 8, 1995) was an Argentine boxer who held the world middleweight title for seven years, during which ...10 KB (1,638 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- Consciousness at its simplest refers to sentience or awareness of internal or external existence. Despite centuries of analyses, definitions ...56 KB (7,936 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists Category:Biography Beccaria, Cesare [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Psychology (from Greek, literally "study of the soul," from gr|ψυχή, psyche ...53 KB (7,102 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
- William M. "Boss" Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April12, 1878) was an American politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the ...9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Fountain of Wealth.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A fountain of wealth]] ...21 KB (3,362 words) - 23:23, 3 May 2023
- Carneades (c. 214 - 129 B.C.E.) was one of the most prominent Academic skeptics. Head of the Academy from 167 to 137 B.C.E., he not only argued ...11 KB (1,736 words) - 00:29, 29 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = University ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- Category:Economists Rothbard, Murray [[Image:Murray Rothbard.jpg|thumb|300 px|Rothbard c. 1955]] Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January ...36 KB (5,322 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch of philosophy that studies the philosophical assumptions, foundations ...72 KB (11,042 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Physical sciences Category:Biographies of Scientists and Mathematicians ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of the Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and Sun acting on the oceans ...37 KB (5,992 words) - 23:32, 30 April 2023
- Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- Cochise (A-da-tli-chi = "hardwood," also Cheis) (c. 1805 – June 9, 1874) was a chief (a nantan) of the Chokonen ("central" ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 22:17, 7 January 2024
- Category:Economists Jevons, William Stanley [[Image:Jevons.jpeg|200px|right|thumb|William Stanley Jevons]] William Stanley Jevons, (September ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity ...39 KB (5,412 words) - 23:24, 3 May 2023
- Hussein bin Ali (1852 – 1931) (حسین بن علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917 ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 – 524 or 525 C.E.) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In angiosperms (flowering plants), an ovary is a part of ...12 KB (1,838 words) - 09:21, 21 June 2021
- Xuanzang (玄奘, Xuán Zàng, Hsüan-tsang, Xuanzang, original name Ch'en I, honorary epithet San-tsang, also called Mu-ch'a T'i ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word αριθμός, meaning "number") is the oldest and most fundamental branch of mathematics ...35 KB (4,898 words) - 02:39, 15 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Smith, William Robertson William Robertson Smith (November 8 ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient, using a variety of different principles. The word thermometer is ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore is a way for a society to transmit history, literature, law and other knowledges across generations ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793 - 1875) was a surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder, and prototypical British gentleman scientist ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- Wheat includes any agricultural cereal grass of the genus Triticum in the grass family Poaceae. Wheat is one of the top three cereal crops in ...21 KB (3,052 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- Kapila or Maharishi Kapila is a Vedic sage (rishi) traditionally considered to be the original proponent of the Samkhya system of Indian philosophy ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- Alcuin, also known as Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus or Ealhwine (c. 735 – May 19, 804) was a scholar, theologian, churchman, poet, and teacher from ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 05:08, 17 June 2023
- The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of pleasure"), is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- Hipparchus (Greek Ἳππαρχος) (ca. 190 B.C.E. - ca. 120 B.C.E.) was a Greek, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- An index is a guide, in an electronic or print form, used to locate information in documents, files, publications, or a group of publications ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- process as part of itself. This self-knowledge is quite literally for Hegel the development of self-consciousness– the Socratic dictum to ...23 KB (3,422 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- Anne Bradstreet (circa 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the first colonial female poet to be published in the New World. She was both the daughter ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- A Vihara (Sanskrit: meaning "dwelling" or "house") was the ancient Indian term for a Buddhist monastery. Originally, viharas ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex systems, especially communication processes, control mechanisms, and feedback ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- Cyanobacteria (Greek: κυανόs (kyanós) = blue + bacterium) is a phylum (or "division") of bacteria that obtain their energy through ...12 KB (1,656 words) - 17:46, 12 May 2020
- Edmond Halley FRS (sometimes "Edmund," November 8, 1656 – January 14, 1742) was an English astronomer who is best known for having ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- Sir Henry Morgan (Hari Morgan in Welsh), (ca. 1635 – August 25, 1688) was a Welsh privateer, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (October 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians in the late nineteenth century ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue.jpg|thumb|240px|Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu]] Padmasambhava ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- Holism (from ὅλος holos, a Greek word meaning all, entire, total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological, chemical ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- Thomas Alva Edison (February 11,1847 – October 18,1931) was an American inventor and businessman whose most important inventions revolutionized ...26 KB (4,124 words) - 21:08, 30 April 2023
- The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- Bhadantācariya Buddhaghosa was a fifth-century Hinüber, Oskar, 1996: 103 is more specific, estimating dates for Buddhaghosa of 370 - 450 C.E ...14 KB (1,973 words) - 17:39, 30 April 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Jakarta_slumlife65.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A boy from an East ...23 KB (3,286 words) - 22:07, 30 November 2022
- William Dampier (baptised September 5, 1651 – died March 1715) was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists category:biography Stukeley, William [[Image:Stukeley William ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 20:32, 13 May 2023
- category:image wanted Michael Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was a popular US jazz saxophonist and one of the premier saxophonists ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 16:53, 9 November 2022
- Relativism is the view or claim that there is no absolute referent for human beliefs, human behaviors, and ethics. Relativists claim that humans ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes normal, successful development rather than the treatment of mental illness ...40 KB (5,742 words) - 16:04, 12 September 2023
- The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte and local Mamluk forces ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- Marianne Moore (December 11, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. Moore's reputation has never been as wide ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 04:13, 6 November 2022
- Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law ...24 KB (3,551 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- Logical positivism (later referred to as logical empiricism, rational empiricism, and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food or food into other forms for consumption by ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 06:18, 1 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) refers to an educational system of instruction performed ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 08:09, 14 January 2023
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation in most cultures. The problem of desire has been a fundamental obstacle ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
- Category:Economists Category:Media Professionals Bagehot, Walter [[Image:Walter Bagehot.jpg|thumb|Walter Bagehot.]] Walter Bagehot (February 3 ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- Saint Martín de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) was a Catholic monk of mixed raced from Peru and the first "black" ...10 KB (1,693 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- Hegel had said that Absolute Spirit achieves self-knowledge by objectifying itself in the finite world; Feuerbach said that the finite human ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- Atra-Hasis, also spelled Atrahasis, is an eighteenth century B.C.E. Akkadian epic, named after its human hero. It contains both a creation myth ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- category:Politics and social sciences category:Anthropology [[Image:Totem RMBC 1.jpg|thumb|200px|A [[Gitksan|Gitxsan]] pole (left) and Kwakwaka ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- category:image wanted The Progressive Movement in Korea began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan and Korea, and ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization, a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- Genes, the units of heredity in living organisms, are encoded in an organism's genetic material (DNA). They exert a central influence on ...26 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 3 August 2021
- Eyeglasses, also called glasses or spectacles, are frames-bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes normally for vision correction or eye protection ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- Apocrypha (from the Greek: ἀπόκρυφα , meaning "hidden" Specifically, ἀπόκρυφα is the neuter plural of ἀπόκρυφος ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- A Rakshasa (Sanskrit: रा॑क्षसः, rā́kṣasaḥ ; alternately, raksasa or rakshas) is a demon or unrighteous spirit in Hindu mythology ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 00:11, 8 December 2022
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972), officially titled "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," was a forty ...41 KB (6,364 words) - 00:19, 27 December 2021
- In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker," and ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen |name = Ohio State University ...40 KB (5,731 words) - 10:21, 11 March 2023
- Preservation, in library and information science, is activity concerned with maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records ...34 KB (4,751 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 – April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It provides a simple and standardized set ...13 KB (1,902 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and motivational speaker. His most popular ...25 KB (3,579 words) - 19:59, 9 February 2023
- Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French poet closely associated with the Symbolist movement who ...10 KB (1,586 words) - 22:18, 4 March 2023
- himself about acquiring virtue through self-knowledge. Aeschines presents Aspasia as a teacher and inspirer of excellence, connecting these virtues ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- Category:Public The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, originating in ancient Greek philosophy, that stresses development ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular display of the chemical elements. It is perhaps the icon of Chemistry and expresses ...13 KB (1,942 words) - 00:40, 24 November 2022
- category:Image wanted A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, Cacotopia (κακό, caco = bad) was the term ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus (January 24, 76 C.E. – July 10, 138 C.E.), known as Hadrian, was Roman emperor from 117 C.E.–138 C.E., ...23 KB (3,703 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- Mite is the common name for various minute (often microscopic) arachnids (class Arachnida) in the subclass Acarina (or Acari), a taxon of arthropods ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 19:20, 9 November 2022
- The Kenites were a nomadic tribe of the ancient Levant, many of whom became affiliated with the Israelites. The Kenites are described as showing ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- Astronomy in China has a very long history. Oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty (second millennium B.C.E.) record eclipses and novae. Detailed ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German polymath—a painter, novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- Muhammad bin Suleyman (also spelled in various sources as Muhammad bin Suleiman,Ana Laguna, "In the Name of Love: Cervantes's Play ...45 KB (6,828 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- François Boucher (September 29, 1703 – May 30, 1770) had an unparalleled career as a French painter. His versatility in the popular style ...11 KB (1,576 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- The term monism (from the Greek: μόνος monos or "one")—first used by the eighteenth-century German philosopher Christian Wolff ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist, textual critic and anti-Manchu revolutionary. His philological works ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- Microbiology is the study of microorganisms (microbes), which are organisms (forms of life) that are microscopic; that is, too small to be visible ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The physical processes which produce radio waves ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-18.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kazakh nomads ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- Responsibility is a duty or obligation for which a person is held accountable. It is the human condition that people are responsible or held ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- Saint Jerome (ca. 342 – September 30, 419; Ευσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ιερόνυμος , Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus ...33 KB (5,192 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers especially to humans, many other animals, and fungi. In the broader sense, ...31 KB (4,318 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- Pierre Abélard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (in English, Peter Abelard) or Abailard (1079 – April 21, 1142) was a preeminent French ...23 KB (3,725 words) - 01:06, 24 November 2022
- Leif Ericson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson) (c. 970 – c. 1020 C.E.) was a Norse explorer thought to be the first European to have landed in ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 19:05, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National Geographic ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- Category:Psychologists Janet, Pierre Pierre Marie Félix Janet (May 30, 1859 – February 24, 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian medieval philosopher, theologian, and church official who held the office ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 05:15, 31 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Layard, Austen Henry Austen Henry Layard (March 5, 1817 – July 5, 1894) was a ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Website | logo = [[Image:JSTOR.jpg|50x50px]] | name = JSTOR | screenshot = [[Image:JSTOR new front page.png|200px]] ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 07:45, 27 February 2023
- Antoine Arnauld, (1612 – August 8, 1694) was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician. Though his primary interests ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ Shānzhuāng; literally: Mountain Resort for Avoiding the Heat; Manchu: ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 14:51, 5 December 2023
- Play is an amusing interaction with people, animals, or things. Play may involve pretend or imaginary interpersonal and intrapersonal interactions ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian who has often been called ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
- Geckos are small to average sized lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae, which comprises dozens of genera and several hundred different ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 06:31, 18 April 2024
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately 14060000|km2|abbr=on ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- Xún Zǐ (Wade-Giles: Hsün Tzu) (Chinese: 荀子) (c.310– 237 B.C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher whose notoriety is derived mainly from his ...24 KB (3,958 words) - 14:34, 20 May 2023
- Fr. Bernard Lonergan, S.J. (December 17, 1904 – November 26, 1984) was a Canadian Jesuit Priest, philosopher-theologian in the Thomist tradition ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 04:02, 6 November 2022
- In linguistics, logic, and mathematics etc., quantification is the kind of linguistic construction that specifies the quantity of individuals ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 04:04, 7 December 2022
- Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method to the subject matter of religion. Accordingly, it is the rational study ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = Eighteenth-Century Philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = DavidHume ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Raphael (רפאל, Hebrew for "God has healed," "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini, (June 8, 1625 – September 14, 1712) was an Italian-French astronomer, engineer ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 20:28, 26 September 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Schopenhauer portrait1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Arthur Schopenhauer]] The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (February ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Woolley, Leonard Sir Leonard Charles Woolley (April 17, 1880 – February 20, 1960 ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- Serpent (from Latin: serpens, serpentis) is a word used in mythological or religious contexts to denote a being that looks like a snake but has ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- In geology, the term crust is used for the outermost solid shell of a planet or moon. It is chemically and mechanically different from underlying ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- Hinduism, known as Sanātana Dharma, (सनातन धर्म) and Vaidika-Dharma by most Hindus, is a worldwide religious tradition rooted ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- The Didache ( Διδαχὴ , Koine Greek for "Teaching" See [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?strongs=1322&page ...25 KB (3,964 words) - 14:24, 29 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted Georg Philipp Telemann (March 14, 1681 – June 25, 1767) was a German Baroque composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- Voluntarism is fundamentally a theory of action according to which will takes precedence over intellect. The will is traditionally understood ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
- Āryabha ṭ a (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 C.E.) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- According to Medieval legend, Pope Joan (also known as Pope Joanna or La Papessa) was a female pope who allegedly reigned for less than two years ...24 KB (4,035 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- Mudrās (Sanskrit, मुद्रा, literally "seal") are religious gestures, normally made with the hands or fingers, used in meditation ...13 KB (2,114 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- The Common Rule is a federal policy governing the protection of human research subjects as uniformly codified in separate regulations of numerous ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 18:58, 25 July 2021
- Category:Economists Ohlin, Bertil [[Image:Bertil Ohlin.jpg|thumb|Bertil Ohlin at Arosmässan in Västerås (late 1950s).]] Bertil Ohlin (April ...27 KB (4,103 words) - 17:22, 29 September 2023
- Category:Image wanted Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, at the intersection of the borders of the provinces ...24 KB (3,489 words) - 17:08, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education the building intended for indoor sports or exercise|gym A gymnasium is a type of school ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of what exists, and, more specifically, what exists by itself, underlying the ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Edward S. Curtis Collection ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 19:50, 20 May 2023
- Freudian psychoanalysis and in related "self-knowledge" studies, where it is seen as a means of gaining insight into the mind of the automatic ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- * Requires self-knowledge. * Alters radically one's relationships with others (God and/or people). * Carries with it its own set of moral ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- Category:image wanted {{Infobox Saint |name=Saint Lawrence of Brindisi |birth_date=July 22, 1559 |death_date=July 22, 1619 |feast_day=July 21 ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Nisse_d_apres_nature_ill_jnl_fal.png|thumb|right ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted Category:Media Professionals Category:Economists Category:Biography Barron, Clarence W. Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
