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- American mainland in 1497. Cabot's use of Celtic legend confirms that ... Newfoundland, which Cabot claimed on behalf of Henry VII of England. This ...9 KB (1,380 words) - 04:35, 3 August 2022
- and technology that led to the development of radio. Besides his work in ... Born in Penkull, Staffordshire, Lodge was the eldest of eight children ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- with Frank Hyneman Knight he was one of the leading figures at the ... He made significant contributions to the theories of cost and production ...10 KB (1,485 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural. Materialists ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- time Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Britain, and France had already ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- Slidell. The envoys were bound for Great Britain and France in order to press ... States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c. 300 – 368 C.E.), also known as Hilarius, was bishop of Poitiers in Gaul (today's France) and ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 13:14, 22 January 2024
- poet, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems. In 1761 Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was also one ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- Arthur is a legendary British "king" of mythical proportions ... eventually developed into a mythic warrior of heroic legend, eventually evolving ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
- His writings, particularly his advocacy of the "single tax" ... George's motivation was to address the problem of poverty that ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 07:25, 22 January 2024
- The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... Mass killings of over one million Jews occurred before the plans of ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous ... at 16 and studied theology at the University of Glasgow. He admired the works ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a law passed ... on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- to gamma radiation, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation and ... By comparison, visible light occupies the middle range of the electromagnetic ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- way into his novels, both in their subject matter and in his matter of fact ... father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, was the head of the post office in Dublin in ...19 KB (3,017 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- (the Dialogist) in Eastern Orthodoxy because of the Dialogues he wrote. Gregory ... A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
- The Cypriot Orthodox Church was granted autocephaly by the Council ... One step short of autocephaly is autonomy. A church that is autonomous ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 19:40, 22 August 2023
- philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
