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- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious ... cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of NDEs reported continually increases ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- 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
- by the Sunni Muslims as the fourth and last of the Khulafā-i-Rāshidūn ... Thus, although often cited as the cause of contention between Sunni ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter ... White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- interest in others." It is one of the ten pāramitās of the ... The object of mettā meditation is loving kindness (love without attachment ...28 KB (4,040 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- Consciousness at its simplest refers to sentience or awareness of ... Beyond the problem of how to define consciousness, there are also ...56 KB (7,936 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- to consider) refers to any doctrine or way of thought denying the ability ... Originating in the human tendency to question the reliability of any ...31 KB (4,697 words) - 22:44, 29 January 2023
- Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method ... A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- goff), was an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister ... However, despite the brevity of his premiership, his government left ...39 KB (5,698 words) - 00:11, 3 January 2024
- the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- Advertising is the business of drawing public attention to goods and ... as all those involved in the field of communication must recognize ...19 KB (2,738 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ... ==History of Service Learning== Service learning can be traced back ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- an 'a' at the end) was the ruler of the Maurya Empire from 273 ... in Sanskrit. Ashoka was the first ruler of ancient Bharata (India), after ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- ,(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King ... participate in a global community. For much of its history, Scotland struggled ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- command to save Noah, his family, and a pair of all animals from the Great ... These texts state that God decided to destroy humankind due to its ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. In music, the Baroque ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- is the paraphilia, or sexual deviation, of being sexually attracted, primarily ... children, either prepubescent or at the beginning of puberty ...22 KB (3,151 words) - 07:11, 23 November 2022
- Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural ... An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- energy by emitting radiation in the form of particles or electromagnetic ... The atomic nucleus comprises certain combinations of protons and neutrons ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- == Evolution of the glyph == J upside down. The main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs was ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- face. The most widely distributed member of the bear family, Ursidae, it ... concern species with a total population of approximately 200,000. Its ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- – February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ... Most accurate sources put the total deaths during the fifteen years ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- refers to the simultaneous sale and purchase of identical securities or other ... to profit by exploiting price differences of identical or similar financial ...24 KB (3,749 words) - 21:31, 11 August 2023
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, §3). ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...35 KB (5,252 words) - 06:40, 28 February 2023
- Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo. Bowie is also known ... He was born in Kentucky and spent most of his life in Louisiana. Bowie ...34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- baseball player. Speaker is considered one of the greatest players in the ... to its first World Series title. In seven of his eleven seasons with Cleveland ...47 KB (6,717 words) - 20:17, 28 April 2024
- Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel ... a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- opinion about the general orientation of his system, it must be acknowledged ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. Barrès referred to a particular group of writers as Decadents. It emerged ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments among historians ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- in Indian culture and based on teachings of the Vedas. Hinduism is the ... taught at universities results from the work of the theosophist, Annie Besant ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) is one of the ... brother Theo, an art dealer with the firm of Goupil & Cie, who continually ...53 KB (8,229 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- as the Branch Davidians — were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church ... 28, 1993, when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- for their own existence. It is the sum total of a being's knowledge and ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range ... through the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts, to northern ...33 KB (4,756 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...33 KB (4,933 words) - 21:55, 31 January 2024
- jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- quot;) refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical doctrines about ... Rabbis) as a reference to the full body of Judaism's oral law. Over ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- whose assassination led to the first of the Great Purges. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States, comprising ... The origin and exact size and location of this group of people is ...40 KB (6,073 words) - 19:47, 26 July 2023
- sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric ... models, the celestial sphere was thought of as a physical reality rather ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In the early 1970s ...85 KB (12,298 words) - 05:39, 11 August 2023
- 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore (now ... Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Jamaica. Little ...33 KB (5,257 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in ... Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the colonial British army, was the spearhead ...43 KB (6,818 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 04:02, 8 December 2022
- al-Quds) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions ... From 1948 until the Six-Day War of 1967, Jerusalem was a divided city ...43 KB (6,543 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science. A longtime ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- grand jury indicted Hiss on two counts of perjury; Chambers admitted ... 1950, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 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
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... ) is an Eurasian island nation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- research ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous ... social status and the social structures of society, social change, social ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- [[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...31 KB (4,884 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- January 31, 1969), was an Irani (Indian of Persian descent) born in Poona ... spiritual matters. However, at the age of 19, contact with an old Muslim ...32 KB (4,996 words) - 04:10, 9 November 2022
- nationwide. They captivated the attention of the American press and its ... to be a full partner in the gang, the role of Bonnie Parker in the Barrow ...42 KB (6,735 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings ... was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater ...52 KB (7,928 words) - 12:38, 1 August 2022
- bin Suleiman,Ana Laguna, "In the Name of Love: Cervantes's Play ... as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic ...45 KB (6,828 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- best known for his single-handed composition of a new Latin translation of ... (the Vulgate) is the most important version of the text ever composed, as ...33 KB (5,192 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Revolutions in 1917 caused a total collapse of the Russian Empire, and the ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- philosophy refers to the belief that a part of a living being survives death ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally ...49 KB (7,494 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious ... In the first sense, creationism (not to be confused with the doctrine ...31 KB (4,607 words) - 06:18, 11 January 2024
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... sense to refer to the successive Soviet State Security organizations before ...41 KB (6,060 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- as an inventor and scientist. At the age of 56 he entered into a spiritual ... his theology as for his mysticism, for much of it was centuries ahead of its ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at the age of 12 that he was going to be ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan. Their Pashto ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- Arabic: سليمان Sulayman) was the son of king David and the third king ... Nathan is Jedidiah, meaning "friend of God" (2 Samuel 12:25) ...29 KB (4,624 words) - 00:50, 4 February 2023
- 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
- Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes ... Researchers in this field analyze states of happiness, flow, values ...40 KB (5,742 words) - 16:04, 12 September 2023
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- Ants are insects of the family Formicidae. They, along with the related ... Ants are one of the world's most successful and diverse animal ...39 KB (6,124 words) - 01:55, 9 January 2023
- Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- [[Image:Caslon-schriftmusterblatt.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|A specimen ... Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design ...43 KB (6,355 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and ... Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived by major ...77 KB (11,899 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- identified as a secular holiday albeit of historical, legendary, and ... The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” in Pali "śakamuṇi ... Etymologically, the term Buddha is the past participle of the Sanskrit ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- or Der Hexenhammer (Latin/German for "The Hammer of Witches" ... The text was the culmination of a long history of medieval theological ...29 KB (4,393 words) - 10:59, 9 March 2023
- 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
- – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- ==Evolution of the glyph== as the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but 3 continues ...42 KB (5,963 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... Considered the "father of evolutionary theory," Darwin made ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question of whether ... synergetics. He also created a large number of inventions, mostly in the fields ...36 KB (5,646 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
