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- :This article is about the hypothetical class of particles. ... as one possible solution to the dark matter problem. They are considered ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, ... Traditionally, some of the objects in a still life were likely to ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy ... (a) Regular ("baryonic") matter, made of electrons and quarks; ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- mystic and poet who is now revered as one of the most influential Persian ... its early part; there is a great deal of more or less mythical anecdote ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- known for propagating the Vaishnava doctrine of bhedabheda dvaitadvaita, duality ... and non-duality. He defines three categories of existence, God (Isvara), souls ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary ... Our understanding of the nature of physical existence derives in large ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 08:56, 18 November 2022
- and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural. Materialists ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... ==Properties of free space== Free space is characterized by the defined ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- that denotes the genuine, original, true state of human existence. The concept ... which often emphasize the restoration of an authentic self and society ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- March 30, 1964) was a mixed-race novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, an ... race protagonists, Larsen displayed clarity of vision despite the complexities ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- [[Image:Glieseupdated.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Artist's impression ... Extraterrestrial life is the term used to define any form of life ...28 KB (4,265 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person ... Promotion of the rights of the accused sometimes comes into conflict ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- Britannica (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993, ISBN 978-0852295717 ... imprisonment due largely to the intervention of the Bishop of Chichester, George ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- the United States, Brunner became professor of systematic theology at the ... At first a close friend and ally of Karl Barth, Brunner split with ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in ... "telekinesis" or "mind over matter," is the ability to ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact ... A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- economist and political theorist, and one of the founders of the Saint-Simonian ... Paris, France, on February 8, 1796, the son of a banker from Dauphiné. After ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of ... , Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 22:59, 30 April 2023
- temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise in Mie prefecture, in southeastern ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are one of ... there is increasing evidence that the type of glia known as astrocytes may ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 07:55, 24 January 2023
- William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... a precedent and my God will Make it the Seed of a Nation. That an example may ...16 KB (2,612 words) - 10:39, 11 May 2023
- In Islamic tradition, he was the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad and the ... In the Book of Genesis, Ishmael was the first of Abraham's household ...15 KB (2,619 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, ... was not a fraud. He died during the Imamat of Imam Ja'far al- Sadiq ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- "soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
- December 4, 1952) was a German psychoanalyst of Norwegian and Dutch descent ... on September 16, 1885 in the German city of Hamburg. Her father, Berndt ...26 KB (3,913 words) - 16:28, 15 November 2023
- Matchmaking is the process of introducing a couple as potential partners ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...30 KB (4,393 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves ... ) or the Dunhuang Caves. -->Construction of the Buddhist cave ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Unemployment is the condition of willing workers lacking jobs or ... is because there are many different types of unemployment, which overlap ...30 KB (4,434 words) - 02:16, 18 April 2023
- founded the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahāyāna (Great Vehicle) ... major influence not only on the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought, ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed ... Previously, Newton's law of universal gravitation (1686) had ...66 KB (9,838 words) - 15:01, 26 September 2022
- worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the ... There are about 2,500 species of mayflies worldwide, including about ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first child of the painter Orazio Gentileschi ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... Hotel on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing Empire of China ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was a student ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...37 KB (5,078 words) - 17:20, 15 April 2021
- also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... The use of monsoon winds, which enabled a voyage safer than a long ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- As with all paranormal or "psi" phenomena, the existence ... == Types of ESP == The term Extra-sensory perception (ESP) was used ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ... While disasters are by definition tragic, resulting in great loss ...28 KB (4,048 words) - 15:27, 29 January 2024
- The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- material, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity ... mid-twentieth century that it became a part of western mainstream culture ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- Fig wasp is the common name for wasps of the family Agaonidae, which ... Typically, one species of fig wasp is capable of fertilizing the flowers ...15 KB (2,451 words) - 19:44, 26 March 2024
- (Korean: 신미양요 ,Western Disturbance of the Year Sinmi) started out ... Korea had maintained a relationship of tribute with China. In exchange ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman ... She was born in the major Mesopotamian city of Ur and moved with her clan ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- silence") is an eremitic tradition of prayer that developed in Eastern ... Rooted in the ancient tradition of Christian asceticism and contemplation ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 11:44, 22 January 2024
- a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the ... === First Assembly of Notables and peasants === The suggestion to summon ...27 KB (4,325 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment, by means of ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, "People" + Mapu, "of the ... so, they reorganized their traditional way of life, gathering together previously ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 16:38, 29 July 2023
- , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction ... geometrically accurate representations of three-dimensional space, while ...20 KB (3,039 words) - 03:02, 6 November 2022
- physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- for Africa." Italy as a unified state had only existed since 1861 ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was one of the leading figures of modernity ... family in a village with the curious name of Caos (Chaos), a poor suburb ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 02:44, 5 November 2022
- The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere ... Lovelock hypothesized that the living matter of the planet functioned ...30 KB (4,599 words) - 11:57, 4 December 2023
- quot;deceivers") were an Indian network of secret fraternities engaged ... passed into common English during the time of British Imperial rule of India ...16 KB (2,481 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- Brown dwarfs are celestial objects ranging in mass between that of ... Early theories concerning the nature of the lowest mass stars and ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... to be very adept at the family business of iron manufacturing, and acquired ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- The arts of Africa constitute one of the most diverse legacies on ... in Africa have included representations of animals and hunters. From the ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- in Latin as Ambrosius, was successful bishop of Milan, who was later recognized ... In the beginning of his life, Ambrose embarked upon a career in law ...27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
- images tend to focus on the problems of Christianity in an age of disbelief ... one must "get behind" the thinkers of the past, and achieve a state ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 00:08, 8 December 2022
- and early tenth centuries B.C.E.. One of David's nephews, he was ... won David's trust as commander-in-chief of his armies, he also earned ...18 KB (2,943 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the ... Biopsychology has been a prominent field of psychology from the start ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 17:55, 31 October 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
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... to orbit in a plane containing our line of sight, they will eclipse each ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- a herbaceous perennial plant, Curcuma longa, of the ginger family Zingiberaceae ... for human beings in their experience of nature. Turmeric, which has ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... is whether it over-emphasizes the role of conflict in development. In ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- Penicillin (sometimes abbreviated PCN) refers to a group of β-lactam ... are often viewed negatively as causes of food spoilage and plant and ...17 KB (2,357 words) - 07:15, 23 November 2022
- A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the belief ... :"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, ...20 KB (3,286 words) - 08:59, 18 November 2022
- that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- A lake (from the Latin word lacus) is an inland body of water, not ... There is, however, a lack of consensus on definitions used to distinguish ...31 KB (4,835 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
