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- Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... from the copyright holder. A violation of the terms of [http://en.wikipedia ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians ... despite the fact that it is composed of multiple churches or denominations ...73 KB (10,603 words) - 12:23, 7 May 2024
- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- ) was a series of protests and political events that took place in ... public perception that the results of the run-off vote of November ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional ... Because of his profound effect on subsequent Christian thought, he ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...41 KB (6,043 words) - 16:44, 14 May 2024
- Polycarp of Smyrna (ca. 69 - ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna ... and the patristic period. After many decades of service to the nascent Christian ...21 KB (3,429 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- with two neighboring islands, forms one of Australia's external dependent ... Norfolk Island is the main island of the island group the territory ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- order to facilitate the study and analysis of history, understanding current ... continuous and not generalized, all systems of periodization are more or less ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- [[Image:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Portrait of Galileo ... whose career coincided with that of Johannes Kepler. His work constitutes ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted ... War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated ...28 KB (4,129 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- represent its content or origins. The act of creating a counterfeit is called ... This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:32, 10 January 2024
- "Covent Garden," is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal ... and ballet. In the nearly three centuries of its history, the Royal Opera ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The Constitution ... The original mechanics of presidential elections were established ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- "true words") is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the ... The teachings of Shingon are based on esoteric Vajrayana texts, the ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- :This article covers the political aspects of the American Revolution ... The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half ...47 KB (6,905 words) - 06:45, 25 July 2023
- and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (Latin: Disputatio ... is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 ...38 KB (5,692 words) - 21:06, 29 January 2024
- that creates money and enables the expansion of an economy. It is used by most ... other, and depositors have a minimum amount of deposits guaranteed by insurance ...40 KB (6,064 words) - 16:22, 18 June 2023
- fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ... and is determined by usage, the effect of a civil war upon the population ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature ... intent on promoting the Established Church of Britain and on teaching young ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer ... ==The cause of surface tension== [[Image:WassermoleküleInTröpfchen ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger overall concern over ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and an ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute ...48 KB (7,492 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- C-Double-A") is a voluntary association of about 1,200 institutions, conferences ... athletic organization in the world. Because of the great popularity of college ...28 KB (3,819 words) - 04:10, 11 March 2023
- Clinical psychology is the application of psychology to assess mental ... to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions ...40 KB (5,433 words) - 18:22, 30 January 2024
- Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self ... channeling, prayer, and altered states of consciousness. The person may ...33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- any person anointed by a prophet or priest of God, especially a Davidic king ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ... or minimized, depending on the agenda of the commentator. Shi'a ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...78 KB (10,754 words) - 22:08, 30 March 2023
- is an entity responsible for the money of its country or of its group ... Though the primary purpose of a central bank is to act as a financial ...30 KB (4,733 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- and successful general. During the course of the American Civil War he quickly ... After the war he was alleged to have participated in the founding ...54 KB (8,703 words) - 02:44, 11 March 2023
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- such as the Trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature ... in all who undertake it. An unending array of colors, textures and sometimes ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- (أبو عمّار). Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ... of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004). Arafat ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean ... The Divine Principle follows the format of systematic theology, basing ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 20:52, 9 February 2024
- his career as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University, after ... His writing on Islam pioneered, in the English-speaking world, use ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- identities. The term is used in a variety of ways to describe phenomena ... Many contemporary advocates of identity politics take an intersectional ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of ... Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years. ...49 KB (7,998 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel Death of a Hero, and the controversy ... interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they achieved ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 20:12, 8 December 2022
- Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before ... A divorce must be certified by a court of law, as a legal action is ...63 KB (9,390 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- ; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere ... Lovelock hypothesized that the living matter of the planet functioned in many ...30 KB (4,599 words) - 11:57, 4 December 2023
- (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- a single note being played. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard ... Cage was a long-term collaborator and romantic partner of choreographer ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...44 KB (6,570 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- Ahmadiyya) refers to the followers of a controversial religious movement ... Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting ... Aruba seceded in 1986 as a separate country within the Kingdom of ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- ), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... United Kingdom, or the same as the island of Great Britain, which consists ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests ... precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government. As ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- until 1910, lasted for five centuries as one of the world's longest running ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...39 KB (5,700 words) - 15:30, 6 May 2024
- Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island ... it became known as the "Birthplace of Confederation" for having ...27 KB (3,922 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to ... when people had no scientific understanding of natural phenomena, such as ...43 KB (6,539 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2023
- ) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October ... He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- enormous popular success during a career of more than 70 years and continues ... and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- process in which critical thinking faculties of the human mind are bypassed ... theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a ...52 KB (7,367 words) - 16:49, 27 October 2022
- Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the ... The major themes of his work were social: Radical individualism, libertarianism ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- a generic term referring to the continuation of existence after death, typically ... Is death the end, or is there something of people that survives after ...65 KB (10,516 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different ... life, and lineage, is commodified, the value of a human being is inevitably ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- 039;s Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States, serving ... United States experienced the longest period of peacetime economic expansion ...54 KB (7,922 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created ... to its failure to avoid, with accusations of contributing to, the Great ...32 KB (4,861 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- parents, Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la ... she was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. ...68 KB (10,504 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- , is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ... Despite these disparities, the common feature of apartment construction ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- Protestant Reformation and is the namesake of the system of Christian theology ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...41 KB (6,580 words) - 14:04, 7 May 2024
- the subject is asked and answers a series of questions, on the basis that ... . Several other technologies are also used in the field of lie detection ...34 KB (5,091 words) - 00:19, 12 April 2023
- together to challenge the immoral system of racial segregation. The movement ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- Canada is an institution that is part of Corrections Canada. Opened ... she is denied or unable to meet conditions of bail, or is unable to post ...31 KB (4,789 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book, namely, Jews and ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- the molecular level, liquid ethanol consists of hydrogen-bonded pairs of ethanol ... Ethanol has a refractive index of 1.3614. Ethanol is a versatile solvent ...49 KB (7,279 words) - 04:30, 22 March 2024
- The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ... Historically, sociology of religion was of central importance to sociology ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the ... Sheridan prosecuted the latter years of the Indian Wars of the Great ...46 KB (7,083 words) - 03:18, 24 November 2022
- injustice and tyranny. His band consists of a "seven score" group ... He has been the subject of numerous movies, television series, books ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 17:08, 16 August 2023
- Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... ferocity and pillaging raids, the voyages of the Vikings also linked different ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement ... His work made use of frequent homages and references to film history ...63 KB (9,163 words) - 20:22, 22 September 2023
- are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... Sinai, and to share them with the people of Israel in the third month after ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...58 KB (8,390 words) - 00:12, 25 October 2021
- Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase ... life or to learn to live for the sake of others. The role of parents ...37 KB (5,556 words) - 01:00, 23 February 2021
- The City of Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and the ... On April 1, 1996, the government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the four ...34 KB (5,199 words) - 16:57, 21 January 2024
- Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...62 KB (10,177 words) - 20:44, 3 May 2023
- was principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's ... He was a pioneer of modern sports ownership and is remembered for ...36 KB (5,317 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
