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- The Greek word λόγος, or logos, is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word," but can also mean thought, speech, meaning, reason, proportions, principle, standard, or ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:31, 12 March 2025
- The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a black basalt monument bearing an inscription by the ninth century B.C.E. Moabite King Mesha. Discovered in 1868 at Dhiban, Jordan (biblical "Dibon," the ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 11:49, 29 April 2025
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were found especially near Alexandria, the capital city of Ptolemaic Egypt. ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists Maine, Henry Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (August 15, 1822 – February 3, 1888) was an English comparative jurist and legal historian. Influenced by his experiences in India, Maine compared ...12 KB (1,853 words) - 10:23, 14 July 2024
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite subatomic particle comprising one quark and one antiquark. Mesons are part of the hadron particle family--particles made of quarks. The other members ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 11:50, 29 April 2025
- The Transcendental Ego (or its equivalent under various other formulations) refers to the self that must underlie all human thought and perception, even though nothing more can be said about it than the fact that it ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Nastika ( sa|नास्तिक , nāstika ; "heterodox") and Astika (Sanskrit: sa|आस्तिक , IAST: āstika ; "orthodox") are technical terms used in Indian philosophy to classify philosophical ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests are combined United States National Forests that form one of the largest areas of public land in the Eastern United States. The forests cover 1.8 million acres (7 ...15 KB (2,117 words) - 11:03, 13 December 2023
- Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus about 241 B.C.E. He left no extant works and little is known about his life. Biographical information about ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 21:20, 7 March 2025
- The Noble Eightfold Path (Pāli: Ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo; Sanskrit:Ārya 'ṣṭāṅga mārgaḥ; Chinese: 八正道, Bāzhèngdào; Japanese: 八正道, Hasshōdō) is the concise summary of the early Buddhist ...22 KB (3,259 words) - 02:48, 17 January 2023
- Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856, his ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:12, 15 June 2023
- Category:Psychologists Terman, Lewis Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 - December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, noted as a pioneer in cognitive psychology. He is best known as the creator of the Stanford ...14 KB (2,037 words) - 20:11, 11 March 2025
- Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-346), also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom, is generally recognized as the founder of cenobitic (communal) Christian monasticism. His innovative monastic structure and teaching methods made ...11 KB (1,740 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Image wanted Peabody, Elizabeth Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, (May 16, 1804-January 3, 1894) was a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- Barracuda is the common name for the various marine, ray-finned fish comprising the family Sphyraenidae of the order Perciformes, characterized by a long, fairly compressed, elongated body covered with small, smooth ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- The Second Council of Constantinople, also known as the Fifth Ecumenical Council was a meeting of mostly Eastern church leaders convened by Emperor Justinian I from May 5 to June 2, 553. Presided over by Patriarch Eutychius ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- George Meredith, OM (February 12, 1828 – May 18, 1909) was an English Victorian novelist and poet. His novels are noted for their sparkling wit and dialogue. He was also one of the early pioneers of what would later ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 14:48, 21 May 2024
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 09:30, 23 December 2024
- Emotivism is the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another. Richard T. Garner ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, known as the Commerce Clause, states that Congress has the exclusive authority to manage commerce between the states, with foreign nations, and Indian ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
