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- Oakley's amazing talent and luck led to her timely rise to fame and ... September 12, 2020. Her birthplace is situated equally about five ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 05:10, 31 July 2023
- The telephone (or phone) (from Greek: tele = far away; phone = voice ... * each subscriber's equipment, which converts sound to electrical ...25 KB (3,620 words) - 02:57, 19 April 2023
- A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, ... form spread rapidly, first in Italy and up to the end of the century to several ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- Athens. The site of the academy was sacred to Athena and other immortals ... In the mid-fifteenth century, Gemistos Plethon introduced Plato to ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- Rationalism is a broad family of positions in epistemology. Perhaps ... rationalism/empiricism distinction revolves is one of the oldest and most ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- Telemetry is a technology that allows the remote measurement and reporting ... Telemetry typically refers to wireless communications (i.e. using ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to discuss the goals of the new ... 16, 1929. The statuettes that were presented to the first Academy Awards winners ...19 KB (2,964 words) - 07:16, 14 June 2023
- was a German painter and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest ... was, in effect, the first non-Italian artist to associate the humanistic disciplines ...24 KB (3,763 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established ... open all year, with annual tourism visits to Banff increasing to over 5 ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- Halibut is the common name for any flatfish (order Pleuronectiformes ... The Atlantic halibut is native to the temperate waters of the northern ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 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
- nation with strong isolationist tendencies to an urbanized superpower. of exceeding and abusing his authority. He is known to have investigated ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism ... Chateaubriand was the first to define the focus on human passions ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- ganapuja, chakrapuja or ganachakrapuja, is a generic term for various ... The ganachakra, or 'tantric feast', can be seen as a mandala ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge ... of the a priori / a posteriori distinction is Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- and Northern Germanic tribes, which tend to reflect a focus on physical ... the modern understanding of Norse mythology is the Poetic Edda (also known ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ... The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- in northeastern Arizona. The reservation is surrounded by the Navajo reservation ... The Hopi have generally maintained their culture, which is based on ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- According to Christian legend, the Image of Edessa, known to Orthodox ... of Edessa (now Urfa). The image was moved to Constantinople in the tenth ...13 KB (2,215 words) - 15:25, 4 February 2023
- Identity politics refers to the idea that socially constructed identities ... from their various identities. According to many who describe themselves ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- Canada, and the U.S. state of Minnesota to the north, and the states of ... With an average depth approaching 500 feet, it is also is the coldest ...18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually ... Apatite is distributed widely in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- atmospheres of Earth and other planets. It is a branch of atmospheric science ... Earth's atmosphere is composed of about 78 percent nitrogen, ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of Great ... and glory in nearby Britain. Its name is also used to describe the set ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- Radish is the common name for herbaceous plant, Raphanus sativus, ... Radishes belong to the flowering plant family Brassicaceae (or Cruciferae ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- After the war, he wrote a best-selling novel, Battle Cry based on his ... Uris, author of 'Exodus', novel of founding of Israel, and ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- The Circus World Museum is a large museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin ... Baraboo, Wisconsin, was home to the Ringling Brothers Circus, the ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- anti-immigrant, and anti-anarchist sentiment to prejudice the jury. Prominent ... "any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names ...47 KB (7,315 words) - 18:33, 22 December 2022
- correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is a term used by proponents, ... Since the late 1980s, advocates of the term use it to describe a preference ...38 KB (4,999 words) - 19:46, 31 October 2022
- bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American ... After an earlier attempt to acquire Texas by treaty had failed to ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- of Alfred Bernhard Nobel. They are awarded to people, and some organizations ... have received awards). A prize may be given to two works if they ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- With a single kiss on Merwan's forehead, he was said to have ... who he said "brought him down" to normal consciousness and revealed ...32 KB (4,996 words) - 04:10, 9 November 2022
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... a hotbed of right-wing politics, similar to which Adolf Hitler and the ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- #039;s change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in 1752 ... English Language (1755), which adopted the novel approach of documenting the ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- 5, 1829, although he sometimes claimed to be born in 1830. His parents ... in the roadway. Pretty soon, he would be ordering this one to bring ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- A typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device ... No single person can be credited with the invention of the typewriter ...36 KB (5,574 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- Carlyle. His interests were not limited to theoretical issues but extended ... He is also considered as one of the founder of the trades union movement ...29 KB (4,360 words) - 10:32, 11 April 2024
- Two Powers, insisting that the emperor bow to the will of the pope in spiritual ... some significant documents once attributed to him but now thought to be of ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 06:35, 18 April 2024
- Persian Empire, where a person was nailed to a large wooden cross or stake ... The purpose of crucifixion was to provide a gruesome public way to ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- {{Unification Aspects|A physician or medical doctor is a professional ... vary, the common purpose of all physicians is to use their skill and knowledge ...1 KB (217 words) - 19:56, 15 May 2020
- and many others. Their album Pet Sounds is considered by many critics ... Murry, play piano and listened intently to the harmonies of vocal groups ...21 KB (3,336 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in southwestern ... while the country granted independence to its overseas territories in Africa. ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- fac simile, "make similar," that is, "make a copy") is ... The fax machine is an example of a democratizing technology, allowing ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 01:51, 26 March 2024
- making it difficult for other musicians to play with him. Thus, during ... his numerous siblings were only permitted to listen to religious songs, ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:45, 1 May 2024
- text=Beijing opera or Peking opera is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century and became fully developed and recognized ...740 bytes (117 words) - 20:08, 14 August 2021
- Texas is a state located in the south-central United States. Austin ... and has a steadily growing population of 23.9 million. Houston is ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- that they and their suffering were invisible to the American mainstream. pretense of a just American society would be tolerated no longer. His ministry ...49 KB (7,838 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- The term polygyny (neo-Greek: poly+gyne woman) is used in related ... a man has more than one wife simultaneously, is the most common form of polygamy ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- event it commemorates) or Veterans Day – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices ... After World War II the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica ... In the early twenty-first century, the migration of unemployed people ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 23:13, 3 March 2023
- Social psychology is a branch of psychology that studies cognitive ... social beings, and thus, social interaction is vital to the health of each ...46 KB (6,640 words) - 21:45, 30 January 2023
- used as a derisive term by Kazimir Malevich to describe the work of Rodchenko ... Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Revolution ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of ... A more technical (and broader) definition is that it is a subatomic ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge ... so that the Puritan colony would not have to rely on immigrant pastors, ...32 KB (4,558 words) - 16:50, 30 January 2022
- had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at an extremely low ... . The two wed in January 1914 and went on to settle in Grand Rapids, Minnesota ...34 KB (5,336 words) - 21:04, 4 October 2022
- should intervene in the economy in order to stabilize output and avoid ... the "Tobin tax." This was designed to reduce speculation on currency ...10 KB (1,470 words) - 08:52, 1 April 2024
- psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories ... He is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" ...58 KB (8,678 words) - 21:59, 29 January 2023
- 16, 1962) was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious ... Bachelard proposed that the history of science is replete with "epistemological ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South ... On average, Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- Buddhism the state religion, but continued to use their own written script ... gave them the organizational structure to extend their power. Over a ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- example of Elizabethan literature, and is still required reading in seminaries ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- Selenium (chemical symbol Se, atomic number 34) is a chemical element ... For example, selenium (or selenium dioxide) is used to impart a red color ...23 KB (3,335 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- junk, orbital debris, and space waste refer to human-made objects in space ... collisions at orbital velocities can be highly damaging to functioning ...13 KB (1,862 words) - 15:16, 27 April 2023
- his deathbed Peuerbach asked Regiomontanus to complete an abridged translation ... 1472, which enabled later astronomers to make comparisons. He also observed ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 03:03, 8 December 2022
- The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- of Germany, a country in Central Europe, is a modern great power, the world ... Germany is a democratic parliamentary federal republic, historically ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional Chinese: 觀音) is known ... Historically, worship of Guan Yin originated from earlier devotion ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- Denisovans are an extinct hominid group more closely related to the ... fossils of ancient hominins the DNA cannot be recovered, in the case of the ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- scattering or the Raman effect. This effect is useful for analyzing the compositions ... 7, 1888, in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu to a Tamil Brahmin family. Raman’s ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 19:55, 24 November 2023
- (the first day of the month), from calō (to announce solemnly, to call ... # Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years. ...2 KB (274 words) - 00:22, 1 February 2024
- 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated saints ... In Christian hagiography, Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- in Lyon, where her husband was elected to the city council. During this ... and was in charge of a bureau set up to influence public opinion in ...54 KB (8,542 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- The World Cup, sometimes called the FIFA World Cup, is an international ... The tournament's final phase is often called the World Cup Finals ...41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
- , IPA: 'mumbəi), formerly known as Bombay, is the the most populous ... Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India, and houses ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Metanarrative or grand narrative or mater narrative is a term developed ... In this context, the narrative is a story that functions to legitimize ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first ... el-Gamaleyya, from where they moved in 1924 to el-Abbaseyya, then a new Cairo ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- The Gospel of Matthew (literally, "according to Matthew"; ... The Christian community traditionally ascribes authorship to Matthew ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- A chromosome is an organized structure of DNA and protein that is ... material (the complex of DNA and protein) is called chromatin. During mitosis ...15 KB (2,079 words) - 00:18, 14 January 2023
- first young intellectuals sent by Catherine to study in the West. Upon his ... West, he brought Enlightenment ideas back to Russia. Peter the Great built ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 20:28, 23 June 2020
- fragmentation. Adopting Islam, they oversaw what has been described as a Renaissance ... and the Sultanate of Rum became a vassal of what would later become the Ilkhanate ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
- well as composed and inspired his students to do the same. His most popular ... in his childhood. His father presented him to the professor and composer ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 15:03, 20 May 2024
- patronage enabled fine arts and literature to reach new heights in the languages ... Raya I, the founders of the empire, belonged to the Telugu people first associated ...55 KB (7,789 words) - 20:20, 3 May 2023
- The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, is based on events involving a ... frequently moved when Felice was transferred to new postings. Felice was also ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 21:43, 25 June 2022
- New York was the first state in the nation to enact laws prohibiting racial ... His interaction with Taft and Eisenhower led to a crucial role in moving the ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- The Platte River is an approximately 310 mile (499 km) long river ... , a large portion of the central Great Plains. It is a tributary of ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- for 47 years as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President ... When the attempt to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- John Andrew Smith (1579 or 1580–1631), known to history as Captain ... In 1614, Smith returned to the New World in a voyage to coasts of ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 04:04, 3 May 2024
- transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city ... century by a group of families who migrated to the coast from the interior ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- god" of the Nordic pantheon, only to be displaced (in rather late ... Thor was the focus of numerous Norse folk tales and he was seen to ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- Manitoba is one of Canada's 10 provinces; it is the easternmost ... It is known that there are several possible sources for the name ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- She was the first woman in Canadian history to become Governor General. She ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise ... our Western society emerged," attests to the role that Christian thought ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- 擂台 “Beat (a drum) Platform”) is a raised fighting platform ... the lei tai a unique fighting arena. There is no opportunity to trap an opponent ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 07:42, 6 March 2023
- paper with sales of over one million, and is credited with winning ninety ... Adolph Simon Ochs was born on March 12, 1858 to German-Jewish immigrants ...10 KB (1,585 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- former Communist Party member, testified to the House Un-American Activities ... espionage, which each had denied under oath to HUAC. A federal grand jury ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- being one of the first football players to succeed as a wrestler. In professional ... Trophy has been awarded annually since 1993 to the best all-around defensive ...14 KB (1,992 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- It was deemed extremely risky, but today is considered one of the most ... began a counterattack by UN forces that led to the recapture of Seoul. The ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- Birefringence, or double refraction, is the splitting of a ray of ... Silicon carbide, also known as Moissanite, is strongly birefringent. ...9 KB (1,136 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's ... Despite their diversity, rites of passage all serve the same purpose: ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- thinker. He has often been referred to as a “Christian existentialist ... which paradoxically makes the self available to others for genuine inter-subjective ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
