Search results for "Figure" - New World Encyclopedia
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- American rights to education. She was a prominent figure within the Transcendentalism Movement publishing their literary journal, The Dial, in 1842 and ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- 39. Retrieved July 17, 2021. Mary, a minor figure for early Christians, gained ... a Dutch folk tale based on the historical figure Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas ...30 KB (4,439 words) - 14:09, 7 May 2024
- on the shadowy early Christian figure John the Presbyter of Syria ... the Presbyter. However, little links this figure to the Prester John legend ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker," and ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- 277.jpg|thumb|right|200 px| Gorgons. Attic black-figure lekythos, ca. 530 B.C.E.]] Generally, the Gorgons are identified as female, with scaly ...11 KB (1,816 words) - 04:21, 24 May 2024
- stock rose to ninety dollars per share, at which figure we sold out to an English company. That proved to be the means of saving us from loss. The ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- became a tireless public speaker and intellectual figure in French society, touring Europe and giving conferences on cultural and social issues as well ...10 KB (1,586 words) - 22:18, 4 March 2023
- ensured that he will remain a controversial figure. For many musicians, however, his flawless technique, broad musical and human sympathies and ability ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- quasi-religious rituals about a central figure, usually a head of state ... citizens of City 17 rally around the figure of Gordon Freeman and overthrow ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- of the school and of the historical figure is murky. Pyrrhonism became influential during the past few centuries when the modern scientific worldview ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 03:54, 7 December 2022
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading figure in the development of the impressionist ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- triangle, whose exact definition is a three-sided figure whose angles add up to precisely 180 degrees. All particular triangles that are drawn on paper ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- Johnson was also a significant figure in the transition of Delta blues ... Robert Johnson was an extremely minor figure, and very little that happened ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- of an artist with the reincarnation of a figure related to King Gesar. ... tsha, is a brave warrior and important figure in the epic. He is sometimes ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- He remains as iconic figure that lived an adventurous life in turbulent ... Cid, either physically or as an important figure. In 1081, now a mercenary ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- on painting. He is considered the first figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and is often described as a great influence ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- to be an influential and controversial figure. Years after his death he ... ====Figure and ground==== McLuhan's statement that the content ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- and brave. Never more than a marginal figure in the politics of his time ... the poet as an almost supernatural creator-figure, partaking in the divine ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- in Roman Times as a Universal and merciful mother figure. Though the Virgin Mary is not worshiped (only venerated) in Catholicism and Orthodoxy, her role ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- the prehistory of this particular mythological figure. ==Mythology== Orion is mentioned in the oldest surviving Greek literature. His legend is ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
