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- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- 1812 – March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States of America ... The causes of the Civil War remain the subject of debate and it is ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 21:02, 28 November 2023
- the United Kingdom as well as other areas of Europe and North America, and ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- membership, known as Salvationists, of over 1 million consisting of ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...30 KB (4,473 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- 1689) was a prolific dramatist and novelist of the Restoration period who ... on the Suriname River, on the coast east of Venezuela, in a region later ...12 KB (1,861 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- body language, and lip patterns instead of sound to convey meaning—simultaneously ... Although often misconceived of as an imitation or simplified version ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- consider a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of ... The Cuckoo's Nest. Despite the success of Cuckoo's Nest, his next ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 17:21, 5 October 2022
- sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the greatest American painters ... Eakins works upheld values of sincerity and truth, by depicting the ...17 KB (2,520 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- and photographic supplies, and made the art of photography accessible to the ... Eastman was born in Waterville, Oneida County, New York. He was the ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 11:03, 6 November 2022
- He is known for his work in the field of motivation and especially his ... McClelland's model of motivation is based on three needs: Achievement ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality ... The term is also used in a wider sense in several fields of philosophy ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of southeastern France, located ... The coastal area of Provence was settled by Greeks and Phoenicians ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- also. It is a benefit society composed of a body of people who join together ... The history of friendly societies is entwined with benefit societies ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 06:44, 15 April 2024
- east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... The System traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to ... In March of 1955, Mrs. Dorothy Chandler began fundraising toward a ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- Skyscrapers are amazing feats of architecture and construction technology ... Comparing this definition with the somewhat loose definition of skyscraper ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- 8256/full/html A conceptual history of entrepreneurial thought] Journal ... the inherent risks involved. In the context of the creation of for-profit ...16 KB (2,206 words) - 22:07, 4 July 2020
- right|frame|Official White House photograph of Vice President Rockefeller, 1975]] Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), of ...23 KB (3,392 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- War. He gained early fame as the commander of "Hill's Light Division ... Academy in 1847, ranking 15th in a class of 38 graduates. He was appointed ...11 KB (1,694 words) - 06:51, 13 June 2023
- The Battle of Charleston was a Confederate victory in Kanawha County ... Civil War. Troops led by Major General William W. Loring defeated a Union ...38 KB (5,738 words) - 19:45, 30 March 2024
- by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth of The Federalist Papers. Like ... and first appeared in a newspaper on June 14 of the same year. It was written ...16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
- The Battle of Saratoga in September and October 1777, was a decisive ... The capture of an entire British army secured the northern American ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2023
- Public libraries exist in most nations of the world and are often ... well as educational and nonfiction materials of interest to the general public; ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- self-taught, he excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil painting ... Although he is often remembered for his pictures of bucolic scenes ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 23:11, 17 May 2023
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... with Russia and Spain. By Article III of the Anglo-American Convention ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- , Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was a founder of ... 039;s father, Lewis Reid, came from a family of clergymen and government official ...15 KB (2,355 words) - 22:50, 30 April 2023
- 24, 1775 – November 7, 1862) was the last of the Moghul emperors in India ... as an Urdu poet. He is recognized as one of the greatest poets in this ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- the most influential person in the history of Western architecture. Palladianism ... He was born Andrea di Pietro della Gondola in Padua, then part of ...30 KB (4,521 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- 250px|thumb|Egyptian hieroglyphs typical of the Graeco-Roman period, sculpted ... scripts; they evolved independently of one another. Hieroglyphs were ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- editor, novelist, and critic, who was part of the early stages of the Romantic ... Tieck was born in Berlin, the son of a rope-maker. He was educated ...10 KB (1,394 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment ... that those shot at were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God ... actual vowels. Based on a literal reading of this pointing (יְהוָֹה ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- 15, 1984) was a Tony Award winning star of stage and film musicals, well ... #039;s house in Astoria, Queens, New York. Her parents were of German ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote ... Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish American parents ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- Spiritualism is the belief that the spirits of the dead can be contacted ... These spirits are thought to be capable of providing helpful advice ...26 KB (3,720 words) - 15:24, 27 April 2023
- Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting ... have a responsibility to maintain standards of ethics, both in their choice ...14 KB (2,031 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- those universals really exist in some sense of "exist," either independently ... realism. It is basically with the spirit of nominalism that empiricism ...19 KB (2,997 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career, starting as a ... After 34 years as a NASA engineer, she become manager of both the ...16 KB (2,224 words) - 08:41, 10 March 2023
- to follow a single conversation in the midst of other conversations and background ... effect" inspired over half a century of research. The results of such ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- As the founder and artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet—a company ... from such rock ballets as Joffrey's hit of 1967, Astarte, to distinguished ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- It is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior, which ... Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the National Park ...24 KB (3,262 words) - 14:57, 11 November 2022
- and Prince Rupert, on the north coast of British Columbia and the southernmost ... prosperous relationship with settlers of European descent. However, ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- |state = New York |country = United States |undergrad = 8,430 ... three campuses located in and around New York City. Founded by the Roman ...33 KB (4,668 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- University Severance Hospital and School of Medicine. In 1887, he accompanied ... appointed on a mission to Korea by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian ...8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
- military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ... on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of Richard and ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- writer, and essayist, who is regarded as one of the most important African ... Baldwin was born in New York's Harlem neighborhood in 1924, the ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ... Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was a ... to be directly elected President of the United States. He was the ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- Of the five Great Lakes of North America, it is the fourth largest ... microenvironment in the bordering areas of Ontario, Ohio, Pennsylvania ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 23:16, 21 October 2022
- The Burning of Washington is the name given to the burning of Washington ... to the elements, except for portions of the south wall. A legend emerged ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- B.C.E. and beyond. High places consisted of a stone or earthen altar, often ... other high places until at least the period of the ministry of the Elijah ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 22:24, 2 May 2024
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- refer to the structural and functional unit of living organisms and designed ... from his microscope design and drawing of cells in cork to major buildings ...11 KB (1,559 words) - 17:09, 15 March 2024
- painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as well as its ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He attended ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute the ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- is considered the most important precursor of Neo-Confucianism, the ethical ... known text was the brief "Explanation of the Diagram of the Supreme ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 06:02, 13 June 2023
- a colonial global empire outside of continental Europe. Their skills ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- The Mongol invasions of Korea (1231 - 1273) consisted of a series ... they later rose during Japan's invasion of Korea in the late 1500s, monks ...9 KB (1,252 words) - 19:58, 9 November 2022
- – May 19, 1954) was an American composer of European classical music. He ... were central to the worship service. Many of theses "old time" ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and ... A Calvinist, Mather combined mystical recognition of an invisible ...26 KB (3,857 words) - 08:24, 10 January 2024
- poet, whose verse has been the subject of more critical study than perhaps ... His relation to Modernism (or any particular school of poetry) is ...19 KB (3,090 words) - 20:56, 18 November 2022
- January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the ... Stephen Collins Foster, the ninth of William B. and Eliza T. Foster ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of ... Bateson is most closely associated with the concept of the double ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- amateur poet. While watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War ... there were no schools nearby. At the age of ten he was sent to Annapolis ...9 KB (1,528 words) - 04:51, 9 April 2024
- John William Heisman (October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936) was a ... Clemson University, Georgia Tech, University of Pennsylvania, Washington & ...22 KB (3,381 words) - 06:56, 8 April 2024
- He is famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial ... From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of ... but he, more than anyone, seemed to be aware of his shortcomings and was willing ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
- Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the ... Biopsychology has been a prominent field of psychology from the start ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 17:55, 31 October 2023
- novelist and spy, who is considered one of the earliest practitioners ... Famous for his wicked sense of irony (Defoe's penchant for satire ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 14:40, 5 August 2013
- 19, 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of ... he might have attained the significance of such central German literary ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United States from 1973 ... Despite being recognized as one of the most influential legal ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey ... Upon the rise of analytic philosophy after World War II, the classical ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- [[File:Phi Beta Kappa Key.png|thumb|300px|Keychain of Phi Beta Kappa ... These can include a close knit group of friends, access to on campus ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe ... At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India, with tales of ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- on colonial attitudes, encouraging a sense of cultural superiority that had ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a magical order of the late ... Thelema, and other forms of magical spirituality popular today, were ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 14:46, 12 February 2022
- General. He also was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding ... role for the federal government in the area of economic regulation, Taney ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- The Battle of the Alamo was a nineteenth century battle between the ... for rights under the Mexican Constitution of 1824. By the time of the battle ...19 KB (3,079 words) - 23:51, 30 October 2023
- George III (George William Frederick; June 4, 1738 – January 29 ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... War and all its bloodshed (3.09 percent of the population) could have ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- poetry in the late 1800s from the imitation of French models. Although it ... Perhaps because of its formal complexity, the villanelle has become ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- influenced the entire postwar development of American folk music. He was ... Guthrie's body of music consists of hundreds of songs, ballads ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 23:31, 17 May 2023
- The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ... The development of the office of Prime Minister coincides with the ...42 KB (6,582 words) - 21:49, 26 April 2023
- an American artist, widely regarded as one of the greatest painters of the ... done with where I have been that should be of interest…I have picked flowers ...23 KB (3,732 words) - 07:37, 24 January 2023
- |name = University of Pennsylvania |image = [[Image:Collegegreen ... The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private, ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- Thoreau believed nature to be an expression of God and a symbolic reflection ... by embedding his ideas in the context of descriptive narrative prose ...27 KB (3,979 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2024
- journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures ... death, as Dreiser did not live to see many of his novels published in their ...16 KB (2,526 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- Douglass and Nat Turner, she offered one of the only autobiographical narratives ... Her personal narrative stood apart from the majority of slave narratives ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 20:40, 29 January 2022
- 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously Tanganyika ... He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 09:54, 12 May 2024
- |region2 = United States (New York, Oklahoma) |pop2 = ... The Cayuga were members of a powerful confederacy of tribes of the ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:34, 3 December 2023
- Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one ... Born at Penshurst, Kent, Sidney was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- in the United States. All adult residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ... With public support and the help of significant contributions by numerous ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 19:51, 20 November 2023
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- |region2 = United States (New York) |pop2 = 15,000 ... The Mohawk were one of the five core tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- It was initially created as the Badge of Military Merit by General George ... Designed by Washington in the form of a purple heart, it was intended ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January ... large part because he instilled the virtues of self-sacrifice, hard work and ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, ... The use of the Commerce Clause by Congress to justify its legislative ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... USS John Howland, commanded by Captain William H. Whitfield. Whitfield ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- developed by Edmund Husserl, to the field of ethics and established phenomenological ... his doctoral thesis, titled An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- A chart or graph is a type of information graphic or graphic organizer ... Certain types of charts are more useful for presenting a given data ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- and writer who is considered to be one of the most important writers ... Among the African-American writers of his time, Ellison stands out ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television, and theater. regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary ...21 KB (3,286 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- record the pyromantic (divination by means of fire) divinations of the royal ... The study of oracle bone script is an important source for understanding ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
- horticulturist, botanist, and co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural ... He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 22:29, 25 October 2022
- The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- by Fletcher Christian against the captain, William Bligh. Bligh was then cast ... some demand was met, such as the receipt of overdue pay, and they most ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- 1937 - ) is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense ... regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors ...33 KB (4,941 words) - 22:49, 30 April 2023
- Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is ... and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, it is one of the principal official residences ...30 KB (4,758 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- 039;s work incorporated statistical analysis of large quantities of data, allowing ... for and was instrumental in the development of the Eleven-Plus examination ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent ... Sometimes exceptions are made to some of these duties in exceptional ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- played a pivotal role in the establishment of the oil industry and defined ... He was bitterly attacked by the media of his day, newspapers and the ...24 KB (3,700 words) - 18:48, 5 April 2024
- June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... for the largest expansion in total land area of the nation's boundaries ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31 ... In the ring, Dempsey employed a two-fisted attack. He boxed out of ...17 KB (2,668 words) - 08:39, 13 March 2024
- A Morality play is a type of dramatic allegory, performed in a theater ... Morality plays survived the disenchantment of the church and the wrath ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- ) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations ... was an important military and security arm of the Bolshevik communist government ...23 KB (3,169 words) - 07:52, 13 January 2023
- The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... France (including the North American colony of New France and the French East ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theaters in 1660 signaled ... The era of Restoration Comedy is seen as the high point for literary ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 19:57, 8 December 2022
- known as the Communist Party United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist ... "peace" platform during the years of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, and ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- The White House is the residence and official office of the president ... The White House is well known throughout the world as a symbol of ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- to protect the United States from citizens of enemy powers during the turmoil ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government ... The building was originally designed by William Thornton. This plan ...23 KB (3,473 words) - 01:21, 3 May 2023
- for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. ... and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Covington, Indiana. In 1853 ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- de Liberacion Nacional) Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction following ... all support. The Contras became the center of both the struggle between Marxism ...20 KB (2,936 words) - 02:50, 8 January 2024
- meteorology, geography, jurisprudence, study of the Bible, mathematics, anatomy ... alike, he was burnt at the stake by order of the Geneva governing council ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Buena Vista (February 23, 1847), also known as the Battle ... After the Battle of Monterrey in September 1846, most of Major General ...9 KB (1,403 words) - 03:51, 2 January 2022
- armaments manufacturer, and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, ... and Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell. By the time of his birth, his family already ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- gatherings that became a prominent feature of the nineteenth century American ... James McGready c. 1797-1800. By the turn of the nineteenth century, the ...15 KB (2,238 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- require a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber. Dyeing is the process of imparting color to a textile material in ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are ... Pictograms are still in use as the main medium of written communication ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- first to realize and develop the potential of film as an extended dramatic ... Legendary actress Lillian Gish called Griffith "the father of ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- best known as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- ) were a songwriting team that created some of the defining sounds of rock ... In the mid 1950s, Leiber and Stoller created a string of ground-breaking ...10 KB (1,625 words) - 08:02, 3 April 2024
- and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on the theoretical ... Although Carnot operated outside the mainstream of the scientific ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- to describe some paintings and other works of art which use optical illusions ... "Optical Art is a method of painting concerning the interaction ...8 KB (1,285 words) - 00:44, 18 November 2022
- NCAA victories and led his teams to unheard of dominance. ... Warner was an innovator that helped shape the game of football. A ...11 KB (1,567 words) - 09:23, 24 November 2022
- A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates ... and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are thus closely tied ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- 13, 1896) was a German organic chemist. One of the most prominent organic ... Kekulé was born in Darmstadt, Germany, the son of a civil servant ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... Mayo has become associated with celebration of Mexican-American culture. ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Throughout six ... performance in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of John ...20 KB (3,018 words) - 15:04, 16 July 2022
- He was a student at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, ... He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- the world. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion ... While there is a great deal of diversity in nature, the rarity of ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- quot;) is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting from the ... Human ability to harness electricity is one of the keys for the establishment ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- called by Pindar "the minstrel father of songs." ... or Hesiod, though he was known by the time of Ibycus (c. 530 B.C.E.). ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island ... comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- named for its primary component. It consists of a pigment dissolved in water ... The technique of water-based painting dates to ancient times, and ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 23:18, 3 May 2023
- Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate ... An image of the west front of Monticello was featured on the reverse ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- death_place=Syracuse, New York }} American Craftsman movement, a descendent of the British Arts and Crafts ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 23:59, 26 July 2023
- Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... In the woods, is perpetual Youth. The currents of the Universal Being ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- Sudetenland Crisis among the major powers of Europe after a conference held ... The Sudetenland was an area of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- Ethology is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of animal ... The study of animal behavior touches upon the fact that people receive ...16 KB (2,274 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- kernel), and implies the primary grain crop of a country, which in England ... These laws are often viewed as examples of British mercantilism and ...16 KB (2,539 words) - 03:04, 8 January 2024
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- The Cyrus Cylinder (c.539-530 B.C.E) is an ancient artifact consisting ... ancient texts to provide independent support of the historicity of one of ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- was an iconic American actor, voted King of Hollywood by an adoring public ... His most iconic role was that of Rhett Butler in the 1930 epic film ...25 KB (3,981 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
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- and activist, co-founder with Jane Addams of the Hull House social settlement ... Ellen Gates Starr was born in 1959 near Laona, Illinois, as the third ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- He is now considered by scholars to be one of the most influential dramatists ... Through his play Spanish Tragedy, Kyd introduced the genre of "revenge ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
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- Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between ... The struggle for Mexican independence dates back to the conquest of ...15 KB (2,102 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
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- and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The ... Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolition of slavery in ...23 KB (3,597 words) - 10:27, 11 April 2024
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- Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God ... Some thus see the term "Alpha and Omega" as a paraphrase ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
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- Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was one of the foremost ... Massachusets his art focused on watercolors of sailboats, lighthouses, seascapes ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The compromise was possible after the death of President Zachary Taylor, who ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- - January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels ... distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex. Pioneered ...19 KB (2,838 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- began in London, England, with the founding of Toynbee Hall, emerged from ... The settlement movement began in 1884, with the founding of London’s ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
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- Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first president ... a fine setting for a country gentleman out of five hundred acres. His carefully ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
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- would quickly renounce these views in favor of a life-long, if sometimes cynical ... Walter Lippmann was born on September 23, 1889 in New York City to ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- William Howard "Willie" Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931) is ... third all time home run hitter at the time of his retirement, and currently ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 15:22, 14 May 2023
- clearly formulate the fundamental principles of thermodynamics. He also placed ... Clausius was born in Köslin in the Province of Pomerania, the son ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
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- Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological movement ... guide each person to understand the meaning of human life in all its contexts ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- 6, 2007) was an Italian tenor and one of the most popular contemporary ... Pavarotti was one of those unique artistic personalities (much like ...22 KB (3,379 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
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- William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
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- 2, 1990) was an American classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental ... Much of the greatness of Copland's art is due to the ways he ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
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- novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- Sir Raymond William Firth (March 25, 1901 - February 22, 2002) was ... Firth connected to the heart of the people whose culture he studied ...14 KB (2,002 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- Time magazine is a weekly publication, based in New York City, bringing ... ==The Many Faces of TIME== Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME ...20 KB (2,824 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
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- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- Charles II (May 29, 1630 – February 6, 1685) was the King of England ... due to the uncertain political situation of the time. His father was executed ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
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- Polycarp of Smyrna (ca. 69 - ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna ... and the patristic period. After many decades of service to the nascent Christian ...21 KB (3,429 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascony and Countess ... Her contemporaries included Hildegard of Bingen, Heloise, (Peter Abelard ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
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- - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... who died in 1927 prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, was not ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts ... resolved to devote himself to the practice of law. He contributed to the ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
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- have been rediscovered by a number of literary, feminist, and post ... Tekahionwake Johnson on the encouragement of Sir William Johnson, superintendent ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) was a series of civil wars fought ... The Wars were fought largely by the landed aristocracy and armies ...33 KB (5,447 words) - 22:07, 18 November 2022
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- Division of Labor is the specialization of cooperative labor in specific ... The division of labor can apply to any field. Division of labor may ...26 KB (4,018 words) - 18:21, 1 August 2023
- philanthropist. He introduced the concept of “salesmanship” into print ... efforts eventually resulted in the creation of the National Institutes of ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
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- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... in the eighteenth century, among a group of men including John Wesley and ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- October 21, 1969), also known as "King of the Beatniks" and "Father ... in his novels that he rejected the values of the time and was seeking to ...22 KB (3,414 words) - 21:03, 25 December 2022
- [[Image:Outline of cave paintings, Altamira.png|thumb|right|300px ... drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands ...10 KB (1,634 words) - 08:36, 23 July 2023
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English ... Nine manuscripts survive in whole or in part, though not all are of ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
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- Britannica (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993, ISBN 978-0852295717 ... imprisonment due largely to the intervention of the Bishop of Chichester, George ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... America as they have developed independent of African traditions from which ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
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- on Easter Sunday, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington ... Overcoming the odds of poverty, racism and the loss of her father ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 23:31, 1 September 2023
- William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984 ... band. Basie brought to perfection the union of opposites characteristic of ...17 KB (2,747 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965 ... not in his literary style, but in the themes of his stories, which demonstrated ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians ... Maine, on December 14, 1897, the daughter of Carrie Murray and George Emery ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
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- The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: Tudur) was a series of ... The kings and queens of this era ruled England from 1485 - 1603. During ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- The Gospel of Mark is an ancient koine Greek document that describes ... According to early Church tradition, c. 140 C.E., the author of the ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- His peaceful reign continued the policies of his predecessors, including ... The cosmopolitan city of Baghdad, founded by his father, blossomed ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née ... the most admired and sought after celebrity of her time: a fashion icon, an ...23 KB (3,638 words) - 11:53, 29 January 2024
- "The Georgia Peach," was a Hall of Fame baseball player. When ... Cobb also received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural ...28 KB (4,394 words) - 20:36, 4 January 2024
- The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation ... The core group consisted of the American poets Zukofsky, Williams ...24 KB (3,660 words) - 19:52, 17 November 2022
- Newfoundland. They also held sway over parts of Britain (known as Danelaw and ... The only remaining vestige of this empire, and its only substantial ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- 3, 1958) was an Anglican theologian, Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Chichester ... Hampshire, where his father was a Church of England clergyman. Bell attended ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which ... has captured public imagination as a symbol of freedom, and figures prominently ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized ... became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He fought ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
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- "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah ... Berlin's essay analyzes Tolstoy's refutation of the view ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- best known for his books The Meaning of Revelation (1941), Christ and ... H. Richard Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the youngest of five children ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
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- The most popular line is monofilament line made of a single fiber ... A fishing hook will pierce the mouth parts of a fish and may be barbed to ...12 KB (1,938 words) - 17:31, 28 March 2024
- Hêphaistos) was the Greek god of fire, metals and metallurgy, and ... Though his forge traditionally lay in the heart of Lemnos, Greece ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
- Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating ... Book collecting can be easy and inexpensive: there are millions of ...12 KB (1,694 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- Spiritualism and séances were the object of intense curiosity.]] to be used in English to refer to a meeting of people trying to receive spiritualistic ...22 KB (3,512 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
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- ,(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King ... participate in a global community. For much of its history, Scotland struggled ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of ... David Hartley was born in June 1705 in the vicinity of Halifax, Yorkshire ...9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral ... The son of a musician (his father was a church organist) Elgar was ...21 KB (3,203 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a ... Hungary, now the Czech Republic), the son of middle-school math teacher ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:09, 8 February 2023
- identified as a secular holiday albeit of historical, legendary, and ... The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- In his acting, he gave a new life to some of the greatest classics in the ... English gentlemen, a true knight of the stage. On the other hand ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's ... morally and legally, consuming the flesh of one already dead raises different ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- away from the fussy, frilly, corseted styles of post World War I and towards ... Like other modernists of the 1920s, such as Diaghilev, Picasso, Stravinsky ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- wrote in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy ... Broad was born at Harlesden, a suburb of London, as the only child ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- Ann Radcliffe (July 9, 1764 - February 7, 1823) was an English author ... Ann Radcliffe was born Ann Ward in London. She married William Radcliffe ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. While the ... populated state, with a population density of 320 more people per square ...25 KB (3,617 words) - 09:17, 28 January 2024
- Lapis lazuli, also referred to as lapis, is a stone with one of the ... jewelry, carvings, mosaics, and a variety of ornamental pieces. In addition ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- in Ugaritic as Athirat. She was the consort of the chief deity El and the ... a false Canaanite deity and a major source of temptation to the Israelites ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...35 KB (5,244 words) - 09:51, 12 May 2024
- Jambalaya (ˌdʒʌmbəˈlaɪə or ) is a casserole-style dish of Spanish ... The origin of both the name and the dish known as "jumbalaya ...19 KB (2,856 words) - 22:44, 16 December 2021
- Indonesia, which has the largest population of Muslims in the world. Many ... free to choose and to practice the religion of his/her choice" and "guarantees ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- |region1 = United States -->(New York, Oklahoma)--> ... The Seneca are a group of indigenous people native to North America ...28 KB (4,085 words) - 15:59, 26 October 2023
- The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created ... to its failure to avoid, with accusations of contributing to, the Great ...32 KB (4,861 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- he was the first official Secretary-General of the United Nations. As a representative ... troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950. Prior to this ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế ... from the fifteenth century during the reign of Le Thanh Thong, one of the ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- centuries that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave ... are created equal, apparent to the framers of the U.S. Constitution, has ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- among the most recognized monastic figures of the twentieth century. His ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...21 KB (3,278 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- a major influence on the playing and singing of legendary bluesman, Robert ... The middle of seventeen children, Son House was born in Riverton, ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- In Norse mythology, Brunhild or Brynhildr is one of the Valkyries ... The mythological figure of Brunhild was probably inspired by the real ...18 KB (2,858 words) - 16:28, 30 April 2020
- for their own existence. It is the sum total of a being's knowledge and ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen ... Cole Porters' songs and thoughts are about the many aspects of ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- . Their language, Mvskoke, is a member of the Creek branch of the Muskogean ... to cooperate with settlers, and the efforts of those such as Benjamin Hawkins ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- The Diatessaron (c 150 - 160 C.E.) (meaning "Harmony of Four ... narrative. Tatian attempted to resolve some of the contradictions found in ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following the ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, ... to be dated to "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- descendants, the Du Pont family, were one of America's richest and ... The DuPont Company was a major producer of war supplies in both World ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 21:44, 29 December 2021
- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century, even ...21 KB (3,149 words) - 03:34, 24 July 2023
- "Covent Garden," is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal ... and ballet. In the nearly three centuries of its history, the Royal Opera ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), was a member of the Woman's Christian ... from alcoholism. This caused the dissolution of their marriage and his early ...12 KB (1,895 words) - 14:52, 27 April 2023
- instrumental in the development of biofeedback. His productive ... support to behavior modification techniques of altering an individual's ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 16:01, 11 November 2022
- high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ... denounced Stalin's "cult of personality." He helped ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty ... concern for civil society, and for the lives of the underprivileged, that marks ...18 KB (2,990 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana, the daughter of former slaves, she was raised ... for African-Americans, especially women, of her day. At a time when women ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- A tool may be defined as a device or piece of equipment that is used ... between the carpenter and the piece of wood being cut. A crowbar functions ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:21, 18 April 2023
- scientific circles, serving as the a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- , in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (C.E.) was a failed attempt by a group ... The Gunpowder Plot was one of a series of unsuccessful assassination ...20 KB (3,229 words) - 04:40, 7 December 2021
- tradition. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University ... Bowne identified the essence of a human being with the "person ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America ... His ancestors originally came from the north of Spain in the late 1700s. The ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. Located at a distance ... The Crab Nebula acts as a source of radiation for studying celestial ...23 KB (3,450 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies ... :* What are the sources of mathematical subject matter? ...31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
- an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...26 KB (3,787 words) - 03:37, 27 July 2023
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ... suffered in prison but he earned the respect of fellow inmates for helping ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- crisis, the "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line," ... Eagle Claw, which failed, causing the deaths of eight servicemen. Some historians ...27 KB (3,935 words) - 13:01, 6 March 2024
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) ... was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian ... 5, 1817 in Paris, France, into a family of Huguenot descent. His father ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- worldwide in scope. By contrast, during most of the nineteenth and twentieth ... toward a more inclusive and integrated view of geologic events, reflecting ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Perkins (formerly Mary ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- A propeller is a device used for the propulsion of a vehicle such ... oar sculling, a practice with a history of unknown length. It is part ...19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- armoracia, Armoracia lapathifolia)) of the mustard or cabbage family ... often mixed with vinegar, the sharp taste of horseradish offers a unique ...16 KB (2,357 words) - 14:25, 7 February 2024
- Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the ... What the nature of the resurrected body is may still be an issue. ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century). The ... De Musset was a republican. He opposed the July Revolution of 1830 ...25 KB (3,656 words) - 17:50, 4 May 2023
- primarily in Germany, held by a number of thinkers in diverse disciplines ... Historicism also often challenged the concept of truth and the notion ...14 KB (2,067 words) - 15:55, 25 January 2023
- The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known ... The bureau was put into effect to protect the best interests of former ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German ... The first report of the fire came shortly after 9:00 p.m., when a Berlin ...45 KB (6,712 words) - 21:11, 28 September 2023
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM GCVO PC PRS FRSE (June 26, 1824 ... William Thomson was born on June 26, 1824 in Belfast. His father was ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- and U.S. Senator. In the Senate, he was one of the leaders of a group known ... Wade gained his reputation as a strong and outspoken opponent of slavery ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- #039;s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...14 KB (2,168 words) - 09:59, 22 May 2023
- estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually ... sense is done very often in the presence of a priestly figure who appeases ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its ... The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- to impose a single Mu'tazili version of Islam. On the one hand, he ... rule, which lacked the generosity and piety of his brother and the intellectual ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste.]] Feudalism is a political system of power dispersed and balanced between ...38 KB (6,097 words) - 01:33, 21 July 2022
- Art Nouveau (French for 'new art') is an international style ... At the end of the nineteenth century, Art Nouveau transformed neighborhoods ...15 KB (1,991 words) - 04:02, 15 August 2023
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters ... On the morning of Friday, February 14, St. Valentine's Day, six ...8 KB (1,287 words) - 00:55, 23 December 2022
- a Jacobean playwright, and indisputably one of the most accomplished and influential ... particular, Fletcher is considered to be one of the most important authors ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 06:38, 8 April 2024
- ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Greece, on multiple terraces along the slope of Mount Parnassus. This semicircular ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 B.C.E. – ca ... Hippokrátēs, was an ancient Greek physician of the "Age of ...33 KB (4,488 words) - 14:32, 13 July 2023
- :This page is about the biblical person Joshua. For the book, see ... whose life is described in the books of Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy ...17 KB (2,859 words) - 19:56, 7 September 2022
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- (Old Style) - March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and ... Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- The cuneiform script (kjuːˈniːəfɔrm) is the earliest known form ... The Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Elamite ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide ... Bernstein was one of the first classical musicians to recognize the ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- | Birth_name = William James Dixon | Alias = ... William James "Willie" Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29 ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- accolades, and the moniker "The Hero of Upper Canada." Known as ... from the United States during the War of 1812. While many in Canada ...28 KB (4,513 words) - 18:55, 7 March 2024
- The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing ... On the first day of battle, the Confederates struck with the intention ...42 KB (6,568 words) - 01:34, 26 September 2023
- syndicate dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcoholic beverages during ... By the end of the 1920s, Capone had gained the attention of the Federal ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- A centrifuge is a piece of equipment, generally driven by a motor ... for separating materials in certain types of mixtures. If a liquid (or solution ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- Chim (pronounced shim) was the pseudonym of David Seymour (November ... A founding member of Magnum Photos, together with Robert Capa and ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- painter who was called the "Father of Impressionism" ... and his contribution to the formation of the genre's style, practices ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 18:56, 25 November 2023
- | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... | date of birth= March 15, 1767 | place of birth= Waxhaw, South Carolina ...39 KB (5,930 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2023
- Bootlegging is an informal term for the smuggling, sale, or transport ... unauthorized audio or video recording, often of a concert, distributed without ...25 KB (3,823 words) - 17:51, 27 April 2020
- North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known for his contributions ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic ... The Tale of the Heike was compiled in 1240 by an unknown author from ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual dissociation ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- The Counts of Cilli The house should be referred to in English by the ... the house died out its head held the rank of prince of the Holy Roman Empire ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 08:36, 10 January 2024
- critic, and activist. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature ... Academically speaking, Said was a follower of Post-structuralist theory ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... as the relationship between distribution of income and production, which ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- played an important part in the development of twentieth century English language ... Barnes was born in a log cabin in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- advanced support for the wave theory of light. He invented a specialized ... Fresnel was one of four children of an architect, born at Broglie ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- The Delaware Crossing was declared to be the moment of George Washington’s ... military odds and the certain destruction of the American colonies' ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 23:10, 3 May 2023
- born American Academy Award-winning actress of film and theater whose versatility ... World War II, Colbert embodied the ideal of the independent, resourceful ...28 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- voyage, in 1912. This event ranks as one of the worst peacetime maritime ... In the early part of the twentieth century, White Star Line sought ...33 KB (4,881 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution ... published book reviews such as The New York Times Book Review and Booklist ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023
- also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the ... The almanac is a natural byproduct of the calender and serves as ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- and is known as the "Father of Railways." The Victorians ... west of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the second child of Robert and ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 00:40, 14 November 2022
- בר מצוה) refers to a boy's coming-of-age ceremony held upon (or ... According to Jewish law, when Jewish children reach the age of maturity ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions ... positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a priori knowledge ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Korean empress Queen Min was assassinated in the early hours of October ... instigated the assassination. The course of Korean history took a tragic ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- ; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost ... Cape Horn is widely considered to be the most southerly point of South ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- arts at an early age. It is an extreme form of a gift. One generally accepted ... After they reach physical adulthood, many of their peers have caught up ...26 KB (3,861 words) - 01:14, 12 April 2023
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, ... In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 19:41, 7 February 2023
- an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA ... were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- Romanesque art refers to the art of Western Europe from approximately ... Medieval sculptors and architects of southern France and Spain had ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 04:56, 16 December 2022
- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- Kenya. Established in 1946, it was a project of Mervyn Cowie, a conservationist ... south of the center of Nairobi, the nation's capital and largest ...18 KB (2,633 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo. Bowie is also known ... He was born in Kentucky and spent most of his life in Louisiana. Bowie ...34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- A well-known critic of the Polish Communist government, Milosz was ... with the most incomprehensible quality of God-created things.” Without ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- the “Psychological School,” is a school of economic thought that advocates ... from the method advocated by the majority of contemporary economists, the ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- John (December 24, 1166 – October 18, 1216) reigned as King of England ... his unpopularity with the popularity of his brother, Richard I, for ...28 KB (4,489 words) - 17:02, 4 May 2024
- to 1874. Elected offices included membership of the New York State Senate and ... He received the Medal of Honor, although very late in his career. ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- he is often mentioned as the associate of Jeremy Bentham and as the father ... James Mill was born April 6, 1773, at Northwater Bridge, in the parish ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- Protestant missionary in China. At the age of 16 he joined the Presbyterian ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- brought her fame and marked the beginning of her image as the "Sarong ... appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring ...28 KB (4,290 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length ... plural: “novelle”) meaning a tale; piece of news. Novellas as a literary ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- modern life. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors ... Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter ...26 KB (4,124 words) - 21:08, 30 April 2023
- 250px|The Associated Press Building in New York City. The AP left this building ... Press is governed by an elected board of directors chosen from the heads ...15 KB (2,343 words) - 05:02, 18 August 2023
- The North Pole is defined as one of the two points where the Earth ... the North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. There is ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- the Butler Act, which forbade the teaching of any theory of evolution in ... ... that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities ...29 KB (4,801 words) - 17:27, 25 January 2023
- bordered on recklessness. Arguably one of the best brigade and division ... in Bath County, Kentucky, and was the son of John W. Hood, a doctor, and ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 05:57, 3 August 2022
- Bix holds a unique place in the early history of jazz. Among the white ... Beiderbecke was born in Davenport, Iowa, to a middle-class family ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 18:01, 31 October 2023
- in Chicago, began as a rally in support of striking workers. The strikes ... important role in establishing the tradition of May Day. The Haymarket affair ...46 KB (6,999 words) - 15:07, 25 January 2023
- refers to ecstatic utterances, often as part of religious practices, commonly ... The origin of the modern Christian concept of speaking in tongues ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most ... Edward was crowned at the age of 14, following the deposition of his ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- capital, Halifax, is a major economic center of the region. It is the fourth ... The province includes several regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder ... and union organizing. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
- the Purāṇas. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems ... lived near the Himalayas, in the vicinity of Ujjain, and in Kalinga. This ...29 KB (4,367 words) - 18:38, 26 January 2023
- in the late twelfth century as the Poor Men of Lyons, a band organized by ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...32 KB (4,791 words) - 23:19, 17 January 2024
- a French journalist, the founder and editor of the radical newspaper Le Père ... Hébert's thousands of followers were known as the Hébertists ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- theologian and socialist recognized as one of the most important thinkers ... His friends included some of the leading intellectuals of his time ...29 KB (4,360 words) - 10:32, 11 April 2024
- – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving ... Vietnam War. He is also noted for his middle-of-the-road domestic policy that ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- James Watt (January 19, 1736 – August 25, 1819)Although a number ... Watt was born on January 19, 1736, in Greenock, a seaport on the Firth ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia ... "marching swastika" in the center of the cross and reinstituted ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with ... by French critic Nino Frank in 1946. Many of those involved in the making ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 19:47, 26 March 2024
- civil-rights activist, a field secretary of the National Association for ... near Decatur, Mississippi, as the third of four children of a small farm ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- least, his stature can be compared to that of Louis Armstrong and Charlie ... An impressive number of great soloists passed through the ranks of ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... among the Jurchens, and began a process of sinicization which ultimately ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and ... semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- and political figure, and the father of President John F. Kennedy and ... to the United Kingdom at the start of World War II. His term as Ambassador ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther ... by many as the greatest American leader of the twentieth century. His ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- data, recipes, and articles on a number of topics including gardening ... Released the second Tuesday in September of the year prior to the ...19 KB (2,821 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was ... Norris was particularly influenced by the optimistic thread of Darwinist ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 05:06, 9 April 2024
- lower levels, the Source itself loses none of its perfection and is not diminished ... Emanationism differs from the Christian doctrine of creation, which ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that applies scientific ... Chemical engineering is applicable to a wide range of technologies ...15 KB (2,143 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- the United States. In 2007, the population of the city proper was estimated ... and the social and geographical center of the original 13 American colonies. ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- Avanti, Avantikapuri), an ancient city of Malwa in central India on the ... Ujjain has served as a center of science and culture in northern India ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet ... to further the above causes, as well as that of the Christian Temperance Movement ...24 KB (3,721 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- diverse explanations about the structure of the universe that open the ... special intention or plan for the appearance of humans in the universe, and ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- and vice versa. On the measurement-scale of everyday life, a thermoelectric ... them or cook them. Because the direction of heating and cooling is determined ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- in prosecuting organized crime in New York City. Dewey later was elected ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey ... Chaucer is generally considered not only the father of English literature ...31 KB (5,016 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- The Colossus of Rhodes was a giant statue of the Greek god Helios ... approximately 11 miles (18 kilometers) west of Turkey's shores, situated ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 22:42, 7 January 2024
- Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (ca. 1501/1507 – May 19, 1536) ... was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... Classical chamber music, or music written during the period of 1750 ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne ...38 KB (6,119 words) - 06:49, 28 July 2023
- Oklahoma where they are enrolled in either of two federally recognized tribes ... American education and recommended use of Indian reservations to protect ...23 KB (3,542 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- Supporting Actress. She was the recipient of Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk ... Dee and her husband, Ossie Davis, stood in the forefront of changing ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 21:03, 21 December 2022
- was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement ... and self-improvement. He was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- " which remained his nickname for the rest of his life. A founding figure of modern jazz, or bebop, Parker's innovative ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred ... The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
