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- power of the former USSR. Russia managed to make the other ex-Soviet republics ... past, as the transition from communism to democracy and capitalism has ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United ... state. Vermont became the 14th state to join the United States, following ...45 KB (6,488 words) - 23:23, 5 March 2023
- 23, 1800. The McGuffey family had immigrated to America from Scotland in 1774 ... #039;s passions. He had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could commit ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- later Leningrad (1924–1991; see below), is the second-largest city in ... In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- or simply alternative) is a branch of the rock music genre that became ... The name "alternative" was coined in the 1980s to describe ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- This cultural group has often been referred to in archaeology as the Anasazi ... The origin and exact size and location of this group of people is ...40 KB (6,073 words) - 19:47, 26 July 2023
- secret police. The Bolsheviks wished to prevent any possibility that ... and extended family were disappointed to have a fourth daughter. Tsar ...45 KB (6,850 words) - 00:19, 3 January 2024
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. His grandfather and uncle ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa with ... and then Omani Arabs were the first to establish trading rights along ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- Party United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political ... moved away from the Moscow party line to emphasize revolutionary internationalism ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic ... also include three monastic works belonging to the Corpus Hermeticum and a ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism ... original document, the textual critic seeks to reconstruct the original text ...67 KB (9,999 words) - 15:03, 30 April 2023
- second - third century B.C.E.) is the compiler of the Yoga Sutra ... , although many scholars do not consider these two texts to have ...18 KB (2,929 words) - 09:05, 18 November 2022
- The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub ... and humans as food. The pomegranate usually is sliced up by people, and the ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- religious teachings. This method of teaching is considered to be one of the ... ) to a 'śiṣya' (disciple, hi | शिष्य ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 07:58, 24 July 2023
- dynamis, meaning "power") is a branch of physics that studies ... in transit" and dynamics relates to "movement;" thus ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- of his famous father J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach is often overlooked as a composer ... Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar, Germany, to Maria Barbara ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... Utopianism refers to the various ways in which people think about ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- every genre from screwball comedies to historical drama. Throughout ... the transition from stage and silent film to "talkies" and later ...28 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- "wandering") and often shortened to plane, is a heavier-than-air ... small trainers and recreational aircraft, to large airliners and military ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 2023
- the development of American government, he is not as widely known as many ... Despite his many great contributions to early American society, Rush ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- career that helped prepare his compatriots to be competitive in a modern ... Achieving success with the short stories, Prus decided to employ a ...24 KB (3,556 words) - 07:13, 17 November 2023
- Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island ... Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands, two of which—Matthew and ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- rule over France (1805–1815). They formed to some extent an extension of ... The Napoleonic Wars brought great changes to Europe. Though Napoleon ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- anti-war verse during World War I. He helped to discover another war poet, ... the human dimension, the cost of war to the combatants in both physical ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
- Krochmal believed that Judaism could only be understood in conjunction with ... The concept that the Jewish mission was to spread knowledge of the Absolute ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ... Worshiped by the ancient Greeks and said to come from the earth, they ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- Male Circumcision is a surgical procedure that removes some or all ... regarding it include that circumcision is a form of ritual sacrifice ...30 KB (4,501 words) - 22:23, 10 December 2023
- The impossible cube or irrational cube is one of several impossible ... research into human perceptual processes and to bring joy and fascination to ...5 KB (696 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States-based online ... JSTOR was originally funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, but ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 07:45, 27 February 2023
- centuries. Originally, the site had 2000 to 3000 tumuli, but owing to quarrying ... A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- novelist during the early Soviet period. He is considered one of the greatest ... at the University of Novorossiya from 1916 to 1918. Three authors that influenced ...7 KB (1,003 words) - 10:31, 7 June 2023
- As commonly defined, the human body is the physical manifestation ... tissues, and cells. The study of tissues is the focus of histology, and ...25 KB (3,706 words) - 21:55, 23 December 2020
- Aśoka; pronounced Ashok, even though there is an 'a' at the end ... (India), after the famed Mahabharata rulers, to unify such a vast territory ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- meaning "green gemstone") is a green variety of the mineral ... Although the possession of emeralds is indicative of wealth and luxury ...10 KB (1,413 words) - 15:17, 31 December 2021
- the empirical method before him, John Locke is considered the first of the ... thinker, whose Second Treatise on Government is credited with influencing Thomas ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure ... #039;s reproductive organs, and its function is to produce seeds through sexual ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 15:42, 21 January 2023
- vision, giving his support in 1943 to the pioneering notion of a ... as chaplain (meaning private secretary) to Archbishop Randall Davidson ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- Metatron is the name of an angel that is described primarily in Jewish ... Merkabah texts, such as 3 Enoch, and may be a magical word like Adiriron ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity ... still more luminous than giants are referred to as supergiants and hypergiants ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... World War II in 1945, while communism spread to other continents, maintaining ...76 KB (10,337 words) - 22:00, 28 January 2023
- Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is one of the most important cultural ... Schönbrunn was built to be on a par with the Palace of Versailles ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- Mongols sent armies under the general Bayan to invade the Song, and as Song ... , a historical diary in poetry of his flight to Yangzhou. Wen Tianxiang is ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- and his grandfather was Abraham. According to the biblical account, Jacob ... In the Book of Genesis, Jacob overcomes many adversities to win God ...29 KB (4,809 words) - 08:01, 18 March 2024
- or Peshwa and by neutralizing others. What had started as a commercial ... the end of the Maratha wars, India was ready to be possessed, mapped, defined ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 05:59, 28 July 2023
- Crown races. He also was the first jockey to win over $100 million. Shoemaker ... the age of 54, he became the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. He ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- The Leviathan is a Biblical sea monster, a mythical creature referred ... atruechurch.info/leviathan.html Leviathan Is A Dragon] A True Church. Retrieved ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- perfection and grace of his paintings. He is most well known for his Madonnas ... more robust figures. At 25, he moved to Rome and was commissioned by ...21 KB (3,084 words) - 00:38, 8 December 2022
- compound leaves and a stout, erect trunk up to seven meters (23 feet) high ... that gives them a fruit-like nature similar to the true fruits produced by ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- The son of Igor of Kiev and Olga, Sviatoslav is famous for his incessant campaigns ... Sviatoslav was the first ruler of Kievan Rus' whose name is indisputably ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- Thorium (chemical symbol Th, atomic number 90) is a naturally occurring ... Thorium is found in small amounts in most rocks and soils, where it ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- Studies and work took him to several European countries, where he ... were composed in the Czech language in order to resurrect the glory of the ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- New Economic Policy. The policy aimed to integrate individual landholdings ... other assets. The collectivization era led to significant peasant resistance ...62 KB (8,577 words) - 22:34, 7 January 2024
- Computers, the first African-American woman to supervise a group of staff ... She later was promoted officially to the position. During her 28-year ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- periods showing that the human experience is similar regardless of the time ... provoking aspect of his literary legacy is that on the one hand he found ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- Federalist No. 55 is an essay attributed sometimes to either James ... The essay addresses critics' objections to the relatively small ...13 KB (1,792 words) - 01:55, 26 March 2024
- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- founder of the Aztec imperial dynasty. He is considered to be the first ... the empire. The aim of conquest was not to destroy and plunder but to ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- Amman, sometimes spelled Ammann (Arabic عمان ʿAmmān), is the ... Amman is a city of contrasts, a unique blend of old and new; its modern ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- Beryl is a mineral with the chemical name beryllium aluminum cyclosilicate ... may range in size from very small up to several meters in width. This ...5 KB (674 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- the author of a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional ... were not uncommon. This was partly due to the fact that they were conducted ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with ... Today, midwifery is a recognized health profession with education ...32 KB (4,799 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- August 13, 1912) was a French composer. He is best known for his operas, ... Loire. When he was eleven his family moved to Paris so that he could study ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- during the American Revolutionary War. Hale is best remembered for his "I ... of Frederick MacMonnies' statue of Hale is located outside the headquarters ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2022
- The Ojibwa or Chippewa (also Ojibwe, Ojibway, Chippeway) is one of ... technology from the British, they were able to defeat and push back the Sioux ...46 KB (6,830 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- power based on prowess. They were moved to reservations in the 1860s following ... when given peyote by a Ute medicine man to cure the infections of his ...41 KB (6,731 words) - 00:03, 8 January 2024
- An integrated library system, or ILS, is an enterprise resource planning ... An ILS is usually comprised of a relational database, software to ...16 KB (2,219 words) - 22:54, 5 February 2023
- 25,000–30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps. ... in Germany who could trace their ancestry to Roman times, and served as ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- :This article is about the astronomer. {{Infobox Person ... their time. He was the last major astronomer to work without the aid of a telescope ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- the world as synonymous with evil. The need to prevent the recurrence of such ... Hitler used charismatic oratory and propaganda, appealing to economic ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Age novelist and short story writer, who is generally regarded as one of ... Fitzgerald is considered to be the spokesman for the "Lost Generation ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian ... Today, however, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- and was one of the three Chinese emperors to prohibit Buddhism. mercy of foreign enemies. They were unable to defend themselves against the ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 10:25, 21 January 2023
- of many years, Sutter traveled from Europe to New York City, St. Louis, and ... at Sutter's Mill, brought ruin to his plans for a utopian society ...21 KB (3,394 words) - 04:21, 3 May 2024
- the poorest, who needed able-bodied women to work the fields. Women with ... pressure of the bandages caused the bones to break and force the arch upward ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 06:18, 1 April 2024
- C.E.–46 B.C.E.), known as Cato the Younger to distinguish him from his great ... He is remembered for his legendary stubbornness and tenacity, especially ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 03:51, 6 November 2022
- Microbat is the common name for any of the bats comprising the suborder ... not all microbats feed on insects, there is one genus of megabats that ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- writing poetry strictly in meter and rhyme to the end of his days. Although ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- his Russian compositions, and gave rise to nationalism and pride in Russian ... United States, and died in Paris. He came to be acknowledged as a great ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- of the United States, Berg traveled to Yugoslavia to gather intelligence ... was three and a half, he begged his mother to let him start school. ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- believed that the purpose of sociology was to bring about social reform, ... and interdependencies were the key to bringing about a peaceful and ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and as Prime Minister ... Bhutto could easily have devoted himself to a legal career but entered ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. He is best remembered as the inventor ... Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- A furnace (from the Latin word fornax, meaning "oven") is ... In American English, the term furnace generally refers to the central ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 09:57, 18 October 2022
- wife and the mother of Ishmael. Her history is narrated in the Book of Genesis. According to the account in Genesis, since Sarah could not have children ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... by the former colonial powers. Pan Somalism is an ideology that advocates ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945. He was popularly known ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Chinese Chán monastic tradition. Huineng is the Sixth Patriarch of Chán ... Huineng is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- end, as intended. Syria and Iran continue to fund various groups, while ... The background to the Taif Agreement consists of both the Lebanese ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- Greek scholar Aristotle in an attempt to classify the world's climatic ... system. However, climate classification is a multidimensional concept ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 08:03, 23 January 2023
- Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral ... ==What is personality?== In psychology, personality is a collection ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- Gerbil is the common name for any of the small to medium-sized rodents ... gerbil, also provide a particular value to humans as a popular house pet ...22 KB (2,988 words) - 15:28, 30 November 2022
- The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world ... The full name of the museum in English is The German Museum of Masterpieces ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- ) formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation ... word "Computer" on January 9, 2007 to reflect the company's ...56 KB (7,806 words) - 15:54, 11 August 2023
- Athletics also known as track and field is a collection of sporting ... race or "stade." While 776 B.C.E. is the official start date for ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five ... born in Vilnius (the capital of Lithuania), to a Roman-Catholic family, as ...25 KB (3,264 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- Valerian I, was the Roman Emperor from 253 to 260. Valerian is mainly remembered ... What Valerian failed to recognize was that the tide of history was ...18 KB (2,788 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain ... 039;s social welfare campaigns and campaigns to speed up independence from ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
