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  • Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology ...
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  • Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...
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  • Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an American singer and actress. She is probably most remembered for her role as matchmaker ...
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  • The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites dedicated to the Roman god Bacchus (a variant of the Greek Dionysus). These ...
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  • Walter Duranty (May 25, 1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New ...
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  • William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was the first of the thirteenth century theologians ...
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  • Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. The term comes from the Latin jus, meaning "right" or "law ...
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  • Frank Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American film director and the creative force behind a ...
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  • William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) (c. 1285 – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher ...
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  • Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect ...
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  • Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 – August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity ...
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  • Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz) (خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی in Persian ...
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  • Rashbam (רשב"ם) is a Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Shmuel ben Meir (c. 1085 - c. 1158). He was the grandson and student of the great Jewish ...
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  • Naguib Mahfouz ( نجيب محفوظ , Nagīb Maḥfūẓ ) (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 ...
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  • Category: Image wanted Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий) (January 25, 1938 – July 25 ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue.jpg|thumb|240px|Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu]] Padmasambhava ...
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  • Abolitionism (from "abolish") was a political movement in late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that sought to end the practice ...
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  • The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Euaion.jpg|thumb|right|A portrait from a vase of a Greek actor performing in Sophocles' lost play Andromeda.]] ...
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  • James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. His ...
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  • Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...
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  • Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for ...
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  • In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is one of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, infamously known as the betrayer ...
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  • Ichthys (Greek: grc|ἰχθύς , capitalized grc|ΙΧΘΥΣ ; also transliterated and Latinized as icthus, ichthus or ikhthus), is the Ancient ...
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  • The sonnet is one of the most important and enduring poetic forms in all of European literature. First invented by Italian poets in the thirteenth ...
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  • Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding discrimination from multiple sources. It identifies advantages and disadvantages ...
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  • The Decadent movement (Fr. décadence, “decay”) was a late-nineteenth-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe ...
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  • Ewha Womans University (Korean: 이화여자대학교, Hanja: 梨花女子大學校), refers to a private women's university in central ...
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  • The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization ...
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  • category:image wanted Divine command theory is the metaethical theory that an act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is commanded by ...
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  • In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...
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  • Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Lee, Ivy [[Image:Ivy Lee.jpg|thumb|Ivy Lee]] Ivy Ledbetter Lee ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Stanisław Szczepanowski or Stanislaus of Kraków (July 26, 1030 – April 11?, 1079) is the patron saint of Poland. In life, he was the Bishop ...
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  • Biblical criticism is a form of literary criticism that seeks to analyze the Bible through asking certain questions about the text, such as who ...
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  • Saint Martín de Porres (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639) was a Catholic monk of mixed raced from Peru and the first "black" ...
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  • Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes judgment for its proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom ...
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  • Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk, theologian and reformer from the British Isles who taught that human beings were free and ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Image wanted Peabody, Elizabeth Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, (May 16, 1804-January 3, 1894 ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Category:Economists Category:biography Dow, Charles Charles Henry Dow (November 5, 1851 – December 4, 1902) was ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Garrison, William Lloyd [[Image:william_garrison.jpg|thumb|240px|William Lloyd ...
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  • Annie Wood Besant (October 1, 1847 – September 20, 1933) was born in Clapham, London and died in Adyar, India where she was President of the ...
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  • The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is a Christian denomination that ...
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  • The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. Africa's oldest republic ...
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  • Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings throughout history. However, the ...
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  • The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, who helped create soul music with gospel-style vocals. The Drifters began in 1953 ...
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  • Wulfila (Gothic: "Little wolf" or Latin: Ulfilas/Ulphilas) (c. 311 - 380 C.E.) was the apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator ...
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  • Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. With ...
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  • Loyalists were British North America colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolution. They were also ...
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  • Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...
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  • Earwig is the common name for any of the insects comprising the order Dermaptera, characterized by chewing mouthparts, incomplete metamorphosis ...
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  • John Wycliffe (also Wyclif, Wycliff, or Wickliffe) (c.1320 – December 31, 1384), an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the ...
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  • Roger Eliot Fry (December 14, 1866 – September 9, 1934) was an English artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:WWII daycare Richmond CA.jpg|thumb|400 px|A woman worker drops off her child ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[File:The Fox and the Grapes.jpg|thumb|300px|In the fable of "The Fox and the ...
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  • Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 – 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar, physician, philosopher, and political ...
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  • Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 C.E.), the Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester and, later, Archbishop of Canterbury ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophers | era = Nineteenth-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = Nietzsche1882 ...
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  • Joseph Addison (May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719) was an English politician and writer. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long ...
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  • Kalkin (meaning "eternity" or "time"; also rendered as Kalki or Kalika) is the tenth and final Avatar of the Hindu God Vishnu ...
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  • category:image wanted Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович ...
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti, (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a noted writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual topics ...
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  • In linguistics, logic, and mathematics etc., quantification is the kind of linguistic construction that specifies the quantity of individuals ...
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  • Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned and described by the ...
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  • category:image wanted In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that some sense-data (for example, of primary qualities ...
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  • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (July 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803) was a German epic and lyric poet. His more subjective approach initiated a break ...
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  • Category:Public [[File:Heidegger 2 (1960).jpg|thumb|200px|Martin Heidegger]] Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) is considered ...
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  • The naturalistic fallacy is an alleged fallacy of moral reasoning. The British philosopher George Edward Moore (1873-1958) introduces the naturalistic ...
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  • Raphael (רפאל, Hebrew for "God has healed," "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ...
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  • The Holy Spirit refers to the third person of the Trinity in Christianity. In Judaism the Holy Spirit refers to the life-giving breath or spirit ...
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  • The Ostrogoths ( Ostrogothi or Austrogothi ) were a branch of the Goths, an East Germanic tribe that played a major role in the political events ...
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  • Joséphine de Beauharnais (nee Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte ...
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  • category:image wanted Anamnesis (Greek: αναμνησις recollection, reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ...
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  • The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of the verb ειναι, "to be"; Latin, esse; German, Sein; French ...
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  • In Hinduism, Brahmā (Sanskrit: meaning "swelling" or "expansion") is God in his manifestation as Creator of the universe ...
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  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [ freɪ'nel ] or fray-NELL in American English, [ fʁɛ'nɛl ] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14 ...
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  • Category:Public Copernicus, Nicolaus [[image:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Nicolaus Copernicus]] Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sakhr ibn Harb, (Arabic: صخر بن حرب ) more commonly known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca ...
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  • Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French ...
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  • Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:RIAN archive 25981 Academician Sakharov.jpg|thumb|right]] Dr. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Андре́й Дми́триевич ...
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  • Kantianism refers to a line of thought that is broadly based on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The term can also refer directly to Kant’s ...
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  • Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528) was a German painter and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ...
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  • Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small, dome-shaped cactus whose native region extends from the southwestern United States through central ...
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  • A dilemma (Greek δί-λημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ...
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  • Analytic philosophy has been the dominant academic philosophical movement in English-speaking countries and in the Nordic countries from about ...
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  • Leo Baeck (May 23, 1873 – November 2, 1956) was a twentieth-century German-Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader ...
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  • In many religious and philosophical systems, the word "soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus of sapience ...
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  • Hua Tuo (華佗, 華陀, 华陀, Huá Tuó) (? - 208) was a renowned physician during the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China ...
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  • Category:Social workers Category:Politicians and reformers Hobhouse, Emily [[Image:Hobhouse.jpg|right|frame|Emily Hobhouse.]] Emily Hobhouse ...
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  • Category:Public Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather ...
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  • Hinduism, known as Sanātana Dharma, (सनातन धर्म) and Vaidika-Dharma by most Hindus, is a worldwide religious tradition rooted ...
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  • Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...
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  • Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov Александр Александрович Богданов (born Alexander Malinovsky) (August 22 (Old ...
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  • Bede (IPA: /biːd/ ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: /beda/ ), (ca. 672 or 673 – May 27, 735), was a Benedictine ...
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  • The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...
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  • The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder--for there were five surviving brothers, among them Ludwig Emil Grimm, the ...
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  • Saint Barbara (d. c. 306 C.E.) was a Christian saint and martyr who died at Nicomedia in today's Turkey c. 306 C.E. Known in the Eastern ...
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  • The Great Purge ( Большая чистка , tr: Bolshaya chistka) is the name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in ...
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  • Situational ethics, or situation ethics, is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome of an action as opposed ...
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  • A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to ...
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  • Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (December 17, 1778 – May 29, 1829) was an esteemed British chemist and physicist, who vastly expanded chemical ...
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  • Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly ...
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  • The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works. The best known of these portrays the last prophecies of Moses, given to ...
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  • The Damascus Document, also called the Zadokite Fragments, is one of the works found in multiple fragmentary copies in the caves at Qumran, and ...
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  • Sarah Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were Nineteenth century American Quakers, educators ...
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  • Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals ...
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  • René Descartes (French ʁə'ne de'kaʁt ) (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form) ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sir William Empson (September 27, 1906 – April 15, 1984) was an English critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest ...
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  • Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet of the early Renaissance who, along with his close contemporary William Shakespeare ...
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  • Isma'il bin Jafar (Arabic: إسماعيل بن جعفر, c. 721 C.E./103 AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a ...
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  • Śūnyatā, शून्यता (Sanskrit meaning "Emptiness" or "Voidness"), is an important Buddhist teaching which claims ...
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, c. 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian ...
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  • Chang Tsai or Zhang Zai ( c=張載/长载|p=Zhāng Zǎi| w=Chang Tsai Chang Heng-ch'ü. 1020-1077) was a Chinese Neo-Confucian moral philosopher ...
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  • Category:Sociologists Mills, C. Wright Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist. His writings addressed ...
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  • Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerd) (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the ...
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  • The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James, traditionally understood as James the ...
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  • Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...
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  • Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Hebrew Elisheva, אֱלִישֶׁבַע—"An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist ...
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  • Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as just Correggio (/kəˈrɛdʒioʊ/, also UK: /kɒˈ-/, US: /-dʒoʊ/ ...
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  • Meher Baba (Devanagari: मेहेर बाबा ), (February 25, 1894– January 31, 1969), was an Irani (Indian of Persian descent) born ...
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  • Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. He is generally ...
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  • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) is a well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme Court. He ...
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  • The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians or simply 2 Thessalonians, is a short book ...
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  • Satya Sai Baba (also Sathya Sai Baba) (November 23, 1926 - April 24, 2011) is a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around ...
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  • category:image wanted Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United ...
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  • Pentecostalism is a movement within Evangelical Christianity that places special emphasis on having a direct personal experience with God through ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image=[[Image:Gilmanhall ...
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  • Bruce Jun Fan Lee (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), was a Chinese-American martial artist, instructor, and actor widely regarded as one ...
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  • Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbár, (alternative spellings include Jellaladin, Celalettin) also known as Akbar the Great (Akbar-e-Azam) (October 15, ...
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  • Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, sometimes spelled Esenin (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Есе́нин; October 3, 1895 ...
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  • Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was an influential philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United ...
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  • Kurt Josef Waldheim (December 21, 1918 – June 14, 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal In parapsychology, clairvoyance (meaning "clear-seeing" ...
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  • Anna Akhmatova ( А́нна Ахма́това , real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23, 1889 (June 11, Old Style ...
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  • William Carey (August 17, 1761 – June 9, 1834) was an English missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The Daily Mirror, often referred to simply as The Mirror, is a British tabloid ...
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  • Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1745 – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and ...
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  • The Minoan eruption was a major catastrophic volcanic eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini) in the mid ...
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  • Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg ( Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг ) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Capa, Robert Robert Capa (October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was ...
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  • Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary will of another.F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (University of Chicago ...
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  • Category:Public Johnson, Samuel [[Image:Samuel Johnson.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.]] ...
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  • Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German philosopher who developed a unique theistic existential philosophy ...
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  • Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was an Algerian-French writer and philosopher. He is best known for the existential themes ...
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  • Krishna (meaning "dark" or dark-blue"), also known as Govinda ("cow-protector") among many other names, is one of the ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Munsterberg, Hugo Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 - December 19, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was a pioneer ...
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  • The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred ...
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  • The arXiv (pronounced "archive," as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, or Χ) is an open access archive for electronic ...
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  • Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher, literary theorist and ...
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  • The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as a broadsheet at 3600 New York Avenue NE, Washington, D.C., the paper covers ...
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  • Category:Image wanted René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He is well known ...
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  • Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the first century C.E., and an important figure in Judaism's core work of ...
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  • Chen Duxiu (陳獨秀) (October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) Wade-Giles romanization Ch'en Tu-hsiu, original name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng ...
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  • Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most ...
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  • category:image wanted Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family of mathematical models used for strategic analysis of ...
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  • Wu Zetian (625 – December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor although ...
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  • Dvaita (Devanagari:द्बैत, Kannada:ದ್ವೈತ) is a dualist school of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. For definition of Dvaita as a dualistic ...
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  • Yonsei University (IPA: / 'jənsɛː /) a private, coeducational university located in Seoul, South Korea, has earned recognition as one ...
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  • Orvon 'Gene' Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998) was an American cowboy singer and actor who gained fame as the first "Singing ...
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  • The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that is best known for its teaching that Saturday, rather than Sunday, is the Sabbath ...
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  • Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ...
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  • The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: Ryojunkō Heisoku Sakusen, February 8-9, 1904) was the starting battle of the Russo-Japanese War. It began ...
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  • Margaret Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in ...
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  • Mahavira (599 – 527 B.C.E.) (meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists category:biography McGuffey, William Holmes [[image:William Holmes McGuffey.jpg|thumb|William Holmes ...
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  • Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955) was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement ...
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  • Sir Thomas Browne (October 19, 1605 – October 19, 1682) was an English author and doctor, who lived during the time of Sir Francis Bacon and ...
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  • Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit philosopher, prose writer and baroque moralist. After receiving ...
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  • Paradigm, (Greek:παράδειγμα (paradigma), composite from para- and the verb δείχνυμι "to show," as a whole -roughly ...
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  • The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors, led by Stepan Petrichenko, against the government of the early Russian SFSR. ...
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  • Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: ar|فرنسيس بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش , ar|Fransīs bin Fatḥ ...
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  • Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular faith, or group of faiths, will attain salvation while groups that do ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties. Contract ...
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  • The Social Gospel is a Protestant Christian theological teaching that formed the basis for a prominent social movement in the late nineteenth ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests and obtains from ...
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  • Annie Oakley, (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's ...
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  • Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - August 21, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. The ...
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  • Tommaso Campanella (September 5, 1568 – May 21, 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, Counter-Reformation ...
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  • Shays' rebellion was an armed uprising in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebels, led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites ...
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  • The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, encompasses the first widespread use of technology—as humans progressed from simpler to more ...
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  • Dönmeh, a derogatory term meaning "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews of the Near East who were originally ...
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  • Francis Herbert Bradley (January 30, 1846 – September 18, 1924) was a leading member of the philosophical movement known as British idealism ...
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  • Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance to human beings. Its outstanding historical example was Renaissance humanism ...
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  • Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen ...
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  • The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1900, as well as music written ...
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  • The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable organization structured in a quasi-military fashion. The organization reports ...
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  • Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth ...
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  • Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (May 31, 1863 - July 31, 1942) was a British Army officer in India, explorer, and spiritualist ...
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  • category:image wanted Gospel literally translated means "good news," deriving from the Old English "god-spell" translated ...
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  • Nebkheperure Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon, Egyptian egy|twt-ˁnḫ-ı͗mn; *tuwt-ʕankh-yamān ) was a Pharaoh ...
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  • Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 – March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom fighter ...
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  • Baron Samuel von Pufendorf (January 8, 1632 – October 13, 1694), was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Philosophers Steiner, Rudolf [[Image:Steiner_Berlin_1900_big.jpg|thumb|Rudolf Steiner 1900]] ...
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  • General Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-twentieth century. During ...
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  • The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing the adventures and martyrdom of the Apostle Thomas, whom it portrays ...
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  • Category:Public Henotheism (from the Greek heis theos or “one god”) refers to religious belief systems that accept the existence of many gods ...
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  • Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first ...
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  • Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" (as first name), "Gothart" or "Neithardt" (as surname), (c. 1470? – August 31 ...
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  • Grenada is a group of three larger islands (Grenada, Carriacou, and Petit Martinique) and several tiny islands in the southeastern Caribbean ...
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  • Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in Kiowa County, Colorado near the towns of Eads and Chivington, commemorating ...
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  • The World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian agency, provides food to more than ninety million people in eighty countries ...
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  • Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (French IPA: [ʒak la'kɑ̃] ) (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist ...
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  • David John Moore Cornwell (October 19, 1931 - December 12, 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré (pronounced /ləˈkæreɪ/), was ...
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  • Space tourism (or spaceflight) is the recent phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space. As of 2008, orbital space tourism opportunities ...
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  • John Knox (1514?–1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines following ...
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  • Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה, metzuda, "fortress") is the name for a site of ancient palaces ...
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  • Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was the first American playwright to create a realistic portrayal of African-American urban ...
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  • Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman of high rank") was a great woman of faith and the fore-mother of the ...
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  • Huángbò Xīyùn (simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运 traditional: 黄檗希運 Wade-Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün; Japanese: Ōbaku Kiun) (d. 850) ...
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  • Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Lionel Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. Trilling was a ...
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  • Abu Simbel (Arabic أبو سنبل or أبو سمبل) is an archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the ...
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  • The Rapture is a controversial religious belief, held by some Christians, that claims that at the end of time when Jesus Christ returns, descending ...
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  • John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president, and political philosopher from ...
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  • Category:Economists Leontief, Wassily Wassily Leontief (August 5, 1905 – February 5, 1999) has been associated with the quantitative economics ...
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  • Maya Angelou ( ˈmaɪə ˈændʒəloʊ ), (born Marguerite Johnson, April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, actress and ...
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  • Pythagoras (c. 570 B.C.E. – 496 B.C.E., Greek: Πυθαγόρας) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, a mystic, and a mathematician, known ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American Communists ...
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  • Sarnath (also Mrigadava, Migadāya, Rishipattana, Isipatana) refers to the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, and where ...
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  • Confucius (Kong Fuzi or K'ung-fu-tzu, lit. "Master Kong") (traditionally September 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the ...
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  • Category:Public Blake, William [[Image:William Blake by Thomas Phillips.jpg|244px|thumb|right|William Blake (1807)]] William Blake (November 28 ...
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  • The filioque clause is a heavily disputed part of Christian trinitarian theology and one of the core differences between Catholic and Orthodox ...
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  • Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, who, in a long career spanning several decades, ...
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  • Category:Linguists and lexicographers Harris, Zellig Zellig Sabbetai Harris (October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was an American linguist. Originally ...
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  • Ailred or Ælred or Ailred of Rievaulx, Abbot of Rievaulx (b. Hexham 1110 – d. Rievaulx January 12, 1167), is a Christian saint and historian ...
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  • Deontological ethics recognizes a number of distinct duties, such as those proscribing the killing of innocent people (murder) and prohibitions ...
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  • Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 – November 2, 1083) was Queen consort of England and the wife of William I the Conqueror. She and William had ...
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  • Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists of his era, was a prolific American ...
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  • The Buddha most commonly refers to Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhāttha Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (July 11, 1916 - October 21, 2014), known as Gough Whitlam ( ˈɡɒf goff), was an Australian former politician and ...
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  • Yequan Shenxiu (神秀) (606? – 706) (Wade-Giles: Shen-hsiu; Japanese: Jinshū) was one of the most influential Chan Buddhist masters of his ...
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  • Mount Ararat (Turkish: Ağrı Dağı, Armenian: Արարատ, Kurdish: Agirî, Greek: Ἀραράτ, Persian: آرارات‎, Georgian: არარა ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an influential American deep soul singer, best known ...
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  • Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced "Tawney") (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also ...
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  • Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society ...
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  • Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre that emerged from the Transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America. Transcendentalism ...
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  • Category:Public Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was an American poet, arguably the most recognized American poet of the twentieth ...
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  • Isa Ibn Maryam (Arabic: عيسى بن مريم‎, translit. ʿĪsā ibn Maryām; Jesus, son of Mary ), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered ...
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  • Pope Urban VIII (April 1568 – July 29, 1644), born Maffeo Barberini, was Pope from 1623 to 1644. He was the last Pope to expand the papal territory ...
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  • John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford, ...
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  • Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr, better known as Belle Starr (February 5, 1848 – February 3, 1889), was a famous American female outlaw. She ...
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  • Yáng Guìfēi ( t=楊貴妃|s=杨贵妃|p=Yáng Guìfēi ) (literally means, "precious princess consort") (June 1, 719 — July 15 ...
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  • Archimedes (Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης ) (c. 287 B.C.E. –212 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and ...
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  • Jan Hus, also known as John Huss (c. 1369 - 1415) was a Czech (living in the area then known as Bohemia) religious thinker, philosopher, and ...
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  • In Roman Catholicism, the Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, are a list of the worst vices that cut a person ...
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  • Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (November 8, 1848, Wismar – July 26,925, Bad Kleinen) was a German mathematician who became a logician and philosopher ...
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  • Yogācāra (Sanskrit: "Yoga practice;" "one whose practice is yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed ...
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  • John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English ...
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, who was best known in his own time ...
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  • Pope Boniface VIII (c. 1235 – October 11, 1303), born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303. Related to ...
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  • Sir Roger Vernon Scruton FBA FRSL (February 27, 1944 - January 12, 2020) was an English philosopher and writer who specialized in aesthetics ...
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  • Jeremiah or Yirmiyáhu (יִרְמְיָהוּ, Standard Hebrew Yirməyáhu), was one of the "greater prophets" of the Old Testament ...
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  • Peter (or Pyotr) Berngardovich Struve (January 26, 1870, Perm - February 22, 1944, Paris) was a Russian political economist, philosopher and ...
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  • Shinran Shonin (親鸞聖人) (1173-1262) was a pupil of Honen and the founder of the Jodo Shinshu (or True Pure Land) sect in Japan. He was ...
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  • Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886), better known as Mary Boykin Chesnut, was a South Carolina author noted for ...
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  • Category:Economists Polanyi, Karl Karl Paul Polanyi (October 21, 1886 – April 23, 1964) was a Hungarian intellectual known for his opposition ...
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  • Mozi or Mo-tzu (墨子, Lat. as Micius, Pinyin Mozu,, original name Mo Ti, also spelled Motze, Motse, or Micius), (ca. 470 B.C.E. –ca. 390 ...
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  • Adam Smith, FRS (Baptized June 5, 1723 – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish political economist, lecturer and essayist who is principally known ...
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  • Antonio Francesco Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian Marxist writer and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political ...
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  • Hamlet: Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is one of his best-known works, and also one of the most-quoted writings in ...
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  • Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts to solve The Problem of Evil—the problem that arises when trying to ...
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  • Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher and the founding father of the Vienna Circle; he was also one of the ...
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  • The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...
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  • John Chrysostom (349– ca. 407 C.E.) was the archbishop of Constantinople known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation ...
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  • A Bhikkhu (Pāli), or Bhiksu (Sanskrit), is a fully ordained male Buddhist monastic. Female monastics are called Bhikkhunis. The holy orders ...
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  • Nicholas of Cusa (born in 1401 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany – died August 11, 1464 in Todi) was a German cardinal of the Catholic Church, a ...
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  • John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous for his biography of Adolf Hitler. John Toland (November 30, 1670 - March 11 ...
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  • Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices, social structures ...
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  • Emperor Haile Selassie I (born Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge'ez, Amh. pronounciation lij teferī mekōnnin, July 23, 1892 – August 27, 1975) ...
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  • Category:Public Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 B.C.E. – December 7, 43 B.C.E.) Cicero was a Roman lawyer, statesman, philosopher and ...
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  • Saint Francis Xavier (Basque: San Frantzisko Xabierkoa; Spanish: San Francisco Javier; Portuguese: São Francisco Xavier; Chinese: 聖方濟各沙勿略 ...
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  • Restoration Comedy is the name given to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1700. After public stage ...
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  • Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 - 1653) was an early Baroque Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the ...
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  • Aristophanes (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης ) (c. 446 B.C.E. – c. 388 B.C.E.) was a Greek dramatist of the Old and Middle Comedy period. He ...
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  • A koan (pronounced /ko.an/ Japanese 公案) is a story, dialog, question, or statement from the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally ...
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  • Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21,1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer, who is ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Rank, Otto category:image wanted Otto Rank (April 22, 1884 – October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund ...
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  • Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1888 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed Shoeless Joe, was an American baseball player who played in the American ...
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  • The history of Solidarity begins in September 1980, at the Gdańsk Shipyards, where Lech Wałęsa and others formed Solidarity ( Solidarność ...
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  • The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. In the Hebrew version, it often appears as the last book ...
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  • Qi Baishi ( s=齐白石|t=齊白石|p=Qí Báishí , also Ch'i Pai-shih or Ch'i Huang) (January 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a ...
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  • Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (December 1, 1580 – June 24, 1637) was a French astronomer, antiquary, and a successful organizer of scientific ...
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  • Narwhal is the common name for an Arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, of the cetacean suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales), characterized by mottled ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Gennadios II Scholarios or Gennadius II (in Greek, Γεννάδιος Β') (lay name Georgios Kourtesios Scholarios, in Greek, Γεώργιος ...
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  • In anatomy, the heart is the muscular, pumping organ of the closed circulatory system of all vertebrates and some invertebrates (annelids and ...
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  • Uchimura Kanzō, 内村鑑三, (March 26, 1861 – March 28, 1930) was a Japanese author, Christian evangelist, essayist, Biblical scholar, and ...
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  • Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂, October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer, linguist ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Huston Cummings Smith (May 31, 1919 – December 30, 2016) was a religious studies scholar in the United States. He wrote more than a dozen books ...
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  • The United Nations Children's Fund (or UNICEF) was created by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 1946. In 1953, its name was shortened ...
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  • The Gospel of John, (literally, According to John; Greek, Κατά Ιωαννην, Kata Iōannēn) is the fourth gospel in the canon of the New ...
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  • Alan Alexander Milne (January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956), also known as A. A. Milne, was a prolific English author of books, plays, and poems ...
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  • Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered ...
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  • Mohism ( c=墨家|p=Mòjiā ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded by Mozi in the fifth century B.C.E.. It evolved ...
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  • category:image wanted Scholl, Sophie [[Image:Sophie Scholl2.jpg|thumb|200px|]] Sophia Magdalena Scholl (May 9, 1921 – February 22, 1943) helped ...
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  • Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mondarte Villaseñor (May 8, 1753 – July 30, 1811), also known as Cura Hidalgo ...
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  • Federalist No. 10 (Federalist Number 10) is an essay by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers, a series arguing for the ratification ...
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  • Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave (October 26, 1926 – February 15, 2015) was a Belgian-American journalist who specialized in ...
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  • Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (March 1, 1897 – November 4, 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith ...
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  • Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a career United States Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army, a ...
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  • The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. This text ...
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  • Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Martinique-born French author and essayist. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of ...
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  • Samael Aun Weor (March 6, 1917 - December 24, 1977) was a spiritual teacher, occultist, esotericist, and author. He established himself in Mexico ...
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  • Among Christians, Lent (known as "Great Lent" in Eastern Orthodxy) is the forty-day period prior to Easter (lasting, in Roman Catholicism ...
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  • Takeda Shingen 武田信玄 original name Takeda Harunobu, (December 1, 1521 – May 13, 1573) of Shinano and Kai Provinces, was one of the preeminent ...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent and influential architects of the twentieth century. Wright ...
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  • Vyāsa (Devanāgarī: व्यास) is a central and much revered figure in the majority of [Hinduism|Hindu]] traditions. He is also sometimes ...
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  • Santeria (Santería in Spanish, meaning "Way of the Saints") is a set of related religious systems that fuse Roman Catholic beliefs ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A savings and loan association (S&L) is a financial institution which specializes ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work Category:Law Sexual abuse (also referred to as molestation) is defined by the forcing ...
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  • In Hinduism, the Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa . With more than 74,000 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Campbell, Joseph [[Image:Joseph Campbell (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Joseph ...
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  • Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, ( Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин , Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin ˈjurʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksʲeɪvʲɪtɕ ...
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  • Popularly, Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. Depending on context ...
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  • Suffering is usually described as a negative basic feeling or emotion that involves a subjective character of unpleasantness, aversion, harm ...
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  • The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization, a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian ...
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  • Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the ...
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  • The Noble Eightfold Path (Pāli: Ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo; Sanskrit:Ārya 'ṣṭāṅga mārgaḥ; Chinese: 八正道, Bāzhèngdào; ...
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  • The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Έλευσίνια Μυστήρια) were initiation ceremonies held every year for the cult of Demeter and ...
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  • Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He was born to Amenhotep III and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:GermanWoodcut1722.jpg|thumb|300 px|German woodcut ...
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  • Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was a leader of the militant leftist Black Panther Party and author of the influential ...
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  • The Liezi (列子 in Chinese characters, Lièzĭ in pinyin) is a Daoist text attributed to Lie Yukou, a philosopher conventionally thought to ...
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  • Namdev (occasionally Nam Dev or Sant Namdev) (c. 1270 - c. 1350 C.E.) was a prominent Bhakti poet of Maharashtra and among the earliest of those ...
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  • Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rabiʿa al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) was a female ...
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  • Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the spirit and body of a person in that person's afterlife, or simply with ...
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  • Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie Kt. (June 19, 1947 - ) is an Indian-born British-American novelist novelist and essayist. He first achieved wide recognition ...
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  • John Andrew Smith (1579 or 1580–1631), known to history as Captain John Smith, was an English soldier and seaman, and one of the most colorful ...
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  • Raghavendra Swami (1595 - 1671), also known as Guru Raya and Rayaru, was an influential saint in Hinduism. He advocated Vaishnavism (worship ...
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  • Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, (January 10, 1869 – December 29, 1916) was a controversial Russian mystic who influenced the latter days of the ...
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  • Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist, and lecturer. Both deaf and blind, she changed the public ...
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  • Publius Licinius Valerianus (c. 200 - after 260), commonly known in English as Valerian or Valerian I, was the Roman Emperor from 253 to 260 ...
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  • Jeremy Bentham (February 15, 1748 - June 6, 1832), jurist, philosopher, legal and social reformer, and English gentleman, is best known as an ...
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  • The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848 was a major event in the Europe of upheavals of 1848. It was a time of revolution. Individual nations oppressed ...
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  • Paul Revere (December 22, 1734 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. Because he was immortalized ...
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  • Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius) (January 24, 1679 - April 9, 1754) was the most eminent German philosopher between ...
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  • Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, who is now widely ...
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  • In particle physics, a quark is one of the elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. Elementary particles ...
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  • Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean poet Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Neruda is considered ...
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  • Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайкoвский, Pjotr Il’ič Čajkovskij; (April 25, 1840—November 6 ...
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  • Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. It depended for its effect on the pleasing terror ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Schopenhauer portrait1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Arthur Schopenhauer]] The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (February ...
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  • Category:Paranormal [[File:Bermuda Triangle.png|thumb|300px|right|One version of the Bermuda Triangle area]] The Bermuda Triangle, also known ...
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  • Wystan Hugh Auden, known more commonly as W. H. Auden, (February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential ...
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  • Joan Crawford (March 23, 1904 - May 10, 1977) was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest ...
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  • Johannes Eckhart (1260 – 1328), also known as Eckhart von Hochheim and widely referred to as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher ...
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  • Marie Curie (or Maria Skłodowska-Curie, born as Maria Skłodowska; November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist. She was born ...
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  • Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French painter whose portrayals of peasants and scenes of everyday ...
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  • Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was a prominent American actor who transformed Hollywood with his innovative practice of ...
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  • Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the Christian denominations that follow the religious traditions developed by ...
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  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century ...
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  • The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking," was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in and ...
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  • Matteo Ricci (October 6, 1552 – May 11, 1610) (利瑪竇, |利玛窦 Lì Mǎdòu, Li Ma-tou, Li Madou; courtesy name: 西泰 Xītài) was an ...
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  • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher ...
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  • Intelligent design (ID) is the view that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that "certain features of the universe and of living ...
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  • Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and ...
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃.tɛg.zy.pe.ʀi] ) (June 29, 1900 – presumably July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator ...
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  • Proclus Lycaeus (February 8, 412 - April 17, 485), surnamed "The Successor" or "diadochos" (Greek Πρόκλος ὁ Διάδοχος ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער) (November 21, 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel ...
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  • category:image wanted Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993) was a British novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel ...
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  • Obafemi Awolowo (March 6, 1909 - May 9, 1987) was a Nigerian politician and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in the Ogun State of ...
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  • Yaroslav I the Wise (c. 978 - February 20, 1054) (East Slavic: Ярослав Мудрый; Christian name: George; Old Norse: Jarizleifr) was ...
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  • Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology covering a broad range of topics. The main unifying theme is the control of matter ...
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat, who is best known ...
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  • You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben ...
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  • Saint Dominic ( Domingo ), often called Dominic de Guzmán (1170 – August 6, 1221), was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called ...
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  • Physical fitness is used in the context of two meanings: General fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (the ability ...
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  • Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean ...
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  • Paternalism refers to acting for the good of another person against their will or without their consent (most commonly by the law, but also in ...
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  • Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September ...
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  • Calligraphy (from the Greek meaning κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental ...
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  • Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski ( Константин Сергеевич Станиславский ) ( January 17|1863|5 January|January 5 ...
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  • John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a self-taught American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted ...
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  • The Pentateuch (from Greek: Πεντετεύχως [meaning "five books"]) refers to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism ...
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  • A catechism (κατηχητικός in Greek) is a summary or exposition of doctrine, traditionally used in Christian religious teaching. Catechisms ...
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  • Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE MC (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical ...
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  • Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Bulgakov.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Mikhail Bulgakov]] Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (or Bulhakov, Михаил Афанасьевич ...
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  • Sun Myung Moon ( ko|문선명 , ko|文鮮明 ), (February 25, 1920 (lunar: January 6, 1920) – September 3, 2012), was born in North Pyeongan ...
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  • Atheism (from Greek: a + theos + ismos "not believing in god") refers in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the ...
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  • The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range ...
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  • Carpetbaggers in the United States were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1877. They formed a coalition ...
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  • The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan covers the years from about 710 to 784 C.E., during which the Empress Genmei ...
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  • Euthanasia (from Greek: ευθανασία -ευ, eu, "good," θάνατος, thanatos, "death") is the practice of terminating ...
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  • The Veil of Veronica, known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy Face, is a Roman Catholic relic, which, according to legend, bears the likeness ...
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  • Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology whose hieroglyphic version is more accurately spelled ...
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  • Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method to the subject matter of religion. Accordingly, it is the rational study ...
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  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்) (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British ...
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  • The rhinoceros (plural rhinoceros, rhinoceroses, or rhinoceri) or rhino is any of the odd-toed ungulates (order Perissodactyla) comprising the ...
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  • Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist, who, along with Abraham Maslow, founded the ...
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  • Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a broader sense, blasphemy is irreverence toward something considered sacred ...
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  • Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author of a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional ...
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