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- Sir Thomas Malory (c.1405 – March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler ... Few facts are certain in Malory's history. The antiquary John ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... Spenser's poetry, likewise, is more Romantic in the sense that ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders of modern cultural ... The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919), a masterpiece of cultural history ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- is a Christian theologian celebrated in the Western and Eastern Churches ... He was born around 360, possibly in the eastern Roman Empire. Whether ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") is the name of two related ... and biblical lessons. In this light, the art covering Cathedral walls ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- The term "Minor Prophets" refers to the reported authors ... The Minor Prophets, whose exhortations were recorded on a single scroll ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- is best known for her poetry belonging to the confessional school of poets ... people can relate to. Her poetry challenged the myths and superficial values ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- 1851) was an acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He ... those he perceived to be in greater need, the deaf. His care and concern ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- author and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented ... monasteries. As with other religious works, the creative process involved ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the ... The name sitar comes from the Persian language سیتار sehtar; ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- Energy independence is self-sufficiency in terms of the availability ... having useful energy available in adequate amounts to meet the needs ...14 KB (1,937 words) - 20:52, 8 February 2023
- was also important as an early proponent of the Anglo-American system of constitutional ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- The Three Jewels (also called the Three Treasures or Triple Gem) are ... * I take refuge in the Buddha ("The Enlightened" or "Awakened ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- has been written, drawn or painted upon for the purpose of decoration or preserving ... paper, papyrus, or parchment, a codex is a book made of bound sheets; in a ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- and spent much of his productive life in the United States. He is best ... According to his relative of the same name, the Gibran family's ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate ... Using the Cartesian coordinate system, geometric shapes (such as curves ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also ... Consider the set R of all sets that do not contain themselves as members ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 18:15, 22 December 2022
- ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom ... The two earliest biographical sources that mention Jabir are from ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions ... According to Genesis, partaking of the fruit of the Tree of Life would ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" ... A principle is fundamental in the sense that it generally cannot be ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential ... Nagarjuna's writings had a major influence not only on the development ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- after his death by his friend and mentor, the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus ... A detailed biography attached to the manuscripts of Persius’ satires ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- and economist. His monumental History of the Italian Republics in the Middle ... and all his ancestors seem to have borne the name Simonde, at least from ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary ... One component of the text that has received extensive scholarly attention ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- than a metaphor and often appeals to the imagination, whereas an analogy ... The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature ... Gide's work exposes to public view the conflict between the two sides ...14 KB (1,915 words) - 20:02, 26 July 2023
- A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book ... and dispute particularly regarding the Old Testament and other theological ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה) is a sacred candelabrum used in Jewish ... The menorah continues to play an important role in modern Judaism ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ... The authority of the Geonim began in 589 C.E. (Hebrew date: 4349) ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- for more than three decades, theologian, the last of the Western Latin ... otherwise would not have survived. Until the twelfth century brought translations ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- The Diatessaron (c 150 - 160 C.E.) (meaning "Harmony of Four ... who combined the four canonical gospels into a single harmonious narrative ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied with the individualism of Martin Heidegger ... in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the second son of a physician ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... When Betty's mother took over running the shop after her husband fell ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or ... The term 'book' may also refer to a literary work, or a ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least ... God's omniscience is related to the issue of predestination, ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- intelligence officer who coordinated the Central Intelligence Agency ... However, the Shah's regime was oppressive and rode roughshod ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- , and diplomat, who is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales ... psychological insight. No other author of the Middle English period demonstrates ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- prose. His books, written during the Great Depression show an almost ... In his personal life, the author was known by friends as an enthusiastic ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical ... These statements are paradoxical because there is no way to assign ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... Observant Jews still follow the laws contained in Leviticus, except ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- they had graduated. He spoke not only to the academic ivory tower intellectuals ... Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), written ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ... contents were relatively variable, each Book typically contained a detailed ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ... The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species ... For example, the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) of Africa and ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- or deductive reasoning is inference in which the premises, if true, purport ... We do need to say that in a deductive inference the premises "purport ...16 KB (2,607 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- British social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern ... to other religions, his work opened a new way of looking at the rituals ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- [[File:Isaac Pitman.jpg|thumb|300px|Sir Isaac Pitman, from 'The ... British phonographer, famous for developing the most widely used system of ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- American sociologist. His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals ... Even though he recognized that there is an inter-relationship between ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 21:17, 24 November 2023
- Poetry) encompasses verse written during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period ... riddles, and short lyrics. Some of the most important works from ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] an English jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define ... They form a great river system, an alluvial salt marsh ecoregion of ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- known for being an outspoken critic of the Aristotelian philosophy which ... Ramus objected to the way in which young students were made to memorize ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864 ... In 1844, Hong and his follower Feng Yun-shan founded the "God ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ... she worked as an editor for Random House in the 1960s and 1970s, where she ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- and/or historical significance, often the human remains of an important ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of ... cultural traditions and introduced them to the West. His witty, sharp analysis ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- Perdix. He is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing ... . Homer refers to Ariadne by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon ... conjuration. Necromancy is communing with the spirits of the dead, rather ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- number of major critics and theorists of the present-day. He is regarded ... his own thought derives critically from the works of the seminal philosopher ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- was an influential Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological ... using a more complete method that the Freudian psychoanalysis with ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the ... Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ... Titus Flavius Clemens was born sometime during the middle of the second ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area of ... In the Bible, Shechem was the first place where the patriarch Abraham ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the Democratic ... Tweed left school at the age of 11 to learn his father’s trade of ...9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- ), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside ... Mikhail Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye, a village ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- February 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke ... 9, 1867, just one year and a half before the start of the Meiji Reformation ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Ming and early Ch'ing ... Like other great thinkers of the transition era between the Ming and ...11 KB (1,753 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- who was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy ... and transition in China, experiencing the Sino-Japanese War of 1907 ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- The Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather ... Released the second Tuesday in September of the year prior to the ...19 KB (2,821 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh ... Ferdowsi traced the history of Persia from its earliest days to the ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper, first published in ... something of a phrase in its own right in the UK. The stereotypical Daily ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 07:46, 12 January 2024
- who popularized European evolution theory in the United States. He studied ... Both in his books and on the lecture platform, Fiske endeavored to ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- collections of folklore. He was also one of the first African-American professors ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- jewelry and other beautiful, valuable items. The discovery of her well-preserved ... sediment that he believed were evidence of The Flood recorded in the Bible ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining ... Although theoretically, any piece of information on a given book is ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean ... a system of latitude and longitude for the maps he created, and was the ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- 1950) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the ... Millay lived and wrote during the early decades of the twentieth-century ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Richardson is widely considered to be the inventor of the epistolary ... in a printer’s shop, where he earned the nicknames “Gravity” and ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- " Bagley published chiefly on the topics of teacher education ... on March 15, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of William Chase and Ruth ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- ) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site ... (Hebrew) and Tel al-Mutesellim (Arabic), the word tel meaning "hill ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- c. 484 – c. 577 C.E.), also known as "the Navigator," "the ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- it has specific rules and etiquette for the dancers to follow. different types of dance, with origins in the many kinds of dances that ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... Opinions are divided both as to its authorship—whether by James ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and grew up in the Bishopston ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide historical time ... To the extent that history is continuous and not generalized, all ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- Amulets were originally objects worn about the neck or other parts of the ... Closely related to the amulet is the talisman (from Arabic tilasm; ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic and the founder of the Bridgettine Order. ... Bridget lived in the time of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) with ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023
- ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ... and practiced in many schools around the globe. Its popularity is not ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world and have sold over 400 ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- Khayyám contributed a number of insights to the development of geometry, algebra ... known as a poet, and particularly for the volume The Rubaiyat of Omar ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691 ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- Hellenistic Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B ... Although best-known for its exposition of geometry, the Elements also ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
