Search results for "Exponent" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • to help lead the Civil War. Sumner was a leading exponent of abolishing slavery to weaken the Confederacy. Although he kept on good terms with Abraham ...
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  • by H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891), the most important exponent of Theosophy in modern times. Theosophical theory postulates that creation is a geometrical ...
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  • Expert Aaron Beck Going Strong at 96] Jewish Exponent (October 18, 2017). Retrieved February 6, 2024. Kevin A. Fall, Janice Miner Holden, and ...
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  • Robert Dale Owen, the eldest (1801-1877), was for long an able exponent in his adopted country of his father's doctrines. In 1836-1839 and ...
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  • headed by the Karmapa Lama. Its most famous exponent was Milarepa, an eleventh century mystic who meditated for many years in mountain caves before ...
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  • Colbert is cited as a leading female exponent of screwball comedy, along with such actresses as Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, ...
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  • " Boulainvilliers, for example, was an exponent of nobility rights. He claimed that the French nobility were the racial descendants of the Franks ...
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  • of limelight; Gurney its first exponent. * According to A History of The Growth of The Steam-Engine by Robert H Thurston, Gurney was a proponent ...
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  • became more hostile, Johannes Stark, prominent exponent of Deutsche Physik ("German Physics," also called "Aryan Physics") attacked ...
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  • Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali, is an exponent of this style of Yakshagana. He was the first Yakshagana artist to receive the Rashtrapati Award. ...
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  • A number is an abstract mathematical object represented by a symbol that is used in counting and measuring. A symbol that represents a number ...
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  • settle permanently in Barisal. He was an early exponent of the reformist Brahmo Samaj movement in Barisal, and was highly regarded in the town for his ...
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  • cohesive tonal logic. Haydn was also the principal exponent of the double variation form, known as variations on two alternating themes, which are often ...
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  • not an advocate of black supremacy, but was an exponent of black race uplift and improvement. Driven by his vision of a permanent, black homeland in ...
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  • David Friedrich, 1774–1840, was the exception and the greatest exponent of the Romantic landscape in northern Europe. Mountain Landscape with ...
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  • Under these conditions, probably the best-known exponent of land-alone tax was the nineteenth-century American economist, Henry George. ...
    37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
  • ignored, I send some reminiscences that will be an exponent of the extraordinary merit of the Choctaw Indian on the American Continent. My connection ...
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  • serious film scholars and cineastes today as an exponent of Modernism, devoted to formal complexity. It must not be overlooked that Eisenstein ...
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  • Beccaria, who preceded Jeremy Bentham as an exponent of utilitarianism, aimed to demonstrate not only the injustice, but even the futility from the point ...
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  • The most lyrical exponent of American Impressionism was John Henry Twatchman. A large painting in France, Arques-la-Bataille, 1885 (oil on canvas ...
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