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- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- John Blow (1649 – October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant English composer of his time. ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- Jakob Böhme (also Boehme or Behme) (1575-1624) was a German Christian mystic whose writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- Ereshkigal (lit. "Great Lady under the Earth") was the goddess of the land of the dead, the Underworld, in Mesopotamian mythology. ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- The Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Elegantly written as a summary of many of the core ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Cao Dai (Cao Đài) is an Asian new religious movement that emerged in Vietnam in 1926 and was founded by Ngô Văn Chiêu (1878 – 1932). Caodaiists ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- The Arctic Circle is the parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33' 39," or roughly 66.5°, north of the Equator. Approximately 15,000 ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- Levi ben Gershon ("Levi son of Gerson"), better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag (1288 - 1344), was a rabbi, philosopher, mathematician ...18 KB (2,668 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and ...10 KB (1,531 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its kinetic energy is equal to the magnitude of its gravitational potential energy ...18 KB (2,947 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- bathed in the water of the well, and the Greek sun-god Apollo stopped his chariot (the sun) in order to listen to its song. [[Image:Mosaïque ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- Modern Philosophy refers to an especially vibrant period in Western European philosophy spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- Among Jews and Christians, the burning bush is a biblical representation of the numinosity of God, where Moses encounters a fiery bush on a mountain ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and government official. Dana was in many ways ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- Sòng Qìnglíng or Soong Ch'ing-ling ( s=宋庆龄|t=宋慶齡|p=Sòng Qìnglíng|w=Sung Ch'ing-ling ) (January 27, 1893 – May 29 ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600) was an Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist. He is known for his system of mnemonics ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 12:50, 22 May 2024
- A corona is a type of plasma "atmosphere" of the Sun or other celestial body, extending millions of kilometers into space, most easily ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:34, 8 January 2024
- Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
