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- 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
- moral philosophy, philosophy of science, and the philosophical aspects of psychical ... Broad was born at Harlesden, a suburb of London, as the only child ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- :This page is about Anthony Collins the philosopher. For the British ... controversial books and pamphlets defending the cause of rational theology ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- Nathanael West (October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was the pen ... West saw the American dream as having been betrayed, both spiritually ...8 KB (1,339 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- his work with mental patients, he discounted the unconscious postulated by ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- The ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that means life or ... The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... In ancient biblical times, the Israelites were strictly warned to ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- figure, House was a well known performer in the Mississippi blues scene in ... The middle of seventeen children, Son House was born in Riverton, ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 01:11, 4 February 2023
- Greece and raised in Wales, he emigrated to the United States at the age of ... in Matsue, a town in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- other herbs or plants are used or added and the leaves are usually bound with ... and it has been practiced all over the world, its modern incarnation ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- far as it goes, it does not entirely capture the meaning of the Greek word ... All ancient ethical theorists understand eudaimonia to be the highest ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- remembered primarily for three major works, the Speculum Meditantis, Vox Clamantis ... Gower was very popular in his own times, and his influence on the ...27 KB (4,375 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Confucian philosopher and cosmologist during the Song Dynasty. He is considered ... a Neo-Confucian cosmology which explained the relationship between human ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 06:02, 13 June 2023
- writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual teachers ... on succeeding generations, deeply affecting the subsequent course of spiritual ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- The Book of Enoch is an apocraphal and pseudopigraphal collection ... ), which describes a group of fallen angels (called "the Grigori ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- [[File:911-Panel.JPG|thumb|300px|A panel in the Newseum in Washington ... Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- By definition, the Prehistory of Korea lacks written records. Records ... and History of South Korea for accounts of the Korean history from the Three ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
- Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) was the Archbishop ... #039;s, Cranmer deserves to be regarded as the father of English Protestantism ...22 KB (3,583 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- " His work was intended to empower the oppressed through literacy ... Freire's methods were successful in raising the level of literacy ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- Garuda (from the Sanskrit: Garuḍa myth, Garuda is a lesser divinity, usually the vehicle (or vahana) of Vishnu ...14 KB (2,324 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or Anti-Christ is a powerful ... Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse ... The "curse of Ham" had been used by some members of Abrahamic ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- The Book of Kells (less widely known as the Book of Columba) is an ... The Book of Kells is the high point of a group of manuscripts produced ...38 KB (6,352 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- He was born around 735 C.E. and became the student of Egbert at York ... He was made abbot of the monastery of Saint Martin of Tours in 796 ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 05:08, 17 June 2023
- The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur ... or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- served in India and Egypt and became one of the most well known colonial officials ... Lord Cromer was one of the most experienced and famous colonial administrators ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ... The Stoic school flourished in Greece and Rome for almost five centuries ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- Pinyin: Huìnéng) (638 – 713) was one of the most important figures in ... Huineng is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- of text on a medium such as paper or cloth. The machine applies pressure to ... spread rapidly first across Europe and then the rest of the world. Books became ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- 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
- composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature ... The period from the fourteenth century up to the nineteenth is considered ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- Lent" in Eastern Orthodxy) is the forty-day period prior to ... and spiritual preparation to commemorate the death and resurrection of ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- is a Chinese Philosophy founded by Mozi in the fifth century B.C.E.. It evolved ... Mohism presented a challenge to the dominant Confucian thought, emphasizing ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- psychotherapist of Jewish descent. He coined the term "Gestalt Therapy ... At Gestalt Therapy's core is the promotion of awareness, the ...13 KB (1,898 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- any strict criteria. Some geographers divide the world into six, five, or fewer ... The term "the Continent" (capitalized)—used predominantly ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Isaiah or Yeshayáhu (יְשַׁעְיָהוּ "Salvation is ... In his long career spanning the late eighth and early seventh century ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. The user, called an abacist, slides ... The abacus is a simple, inexpensive, yet powerful tool for calculation ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- Apocrypha (from the Greek: ἀπόκρυφα , meaning "hidden" ... ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- activist. Sontag was an original, who broke the mold, creating a new role ... from North Hollywood High School at the age of 15. She began her undergraduate ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it ... formats than familiar comic magazines, using the same materials and methods ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- "god" or "God." In the English Bible, the derivative ... In the Bible, El was the deity worshiped by the Hebrew patriarchs ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Satan (meaning "accuser") represents the arch enemy of God ... The concept of an anthropomorpized demonic figure (or archetype) is ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism ... Godwin held the optimistic view that every individual, as a rational ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- both tertiary and quaternary education. The word university is derived ... of great personal development, but have the reputation of isolation or ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne ... Aquinas, with whom he worked closely at the Studium Generalein (Dominican ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- to transmit Tantric Buddhism to Tibet during the eighth century, and, according ... Many details about the life of Padmasambhava are debated including ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- April 26, 1938), philosopher, is known as the "father" of phenomenology ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theater ... Born in Stockholm, Strindberg was the fourth son of Carl Oscar Strindberg ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- Hermiae and of Damascius, was one of the last of the Greek Neoplatonists ... on Aristotle's De caelo (“On the Heavens”), Physics, De anima ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- Influenced by Hegel, he maintained that the history of any people or culture ... Krochmal was leading figure of the Haskalah Jewish enlightenment and ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Greek) was a serpent demon who represented the forces of chaos, death, and ... As counter-examples, one should note that the creator god Atum was occasionally ...22 KB (3,545 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- , was an Indian philosopher and statesman, the second president of India ... Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- meaning "Could-be-ism") is the Jain doctrine of epistemological ... complex, no single proposition can express the nature of reality fully. Thus ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 00:56, 21 April 2023
- in a pioneer family. Her best known book from The 'Little House ... and yet in her lifetime she witnessed all the major changes that transformed ...19 KB (2,983 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- The Gospel of Mary is an ancient Christian text rediscovered by scholars ... Two Greek fragments of the Gospel of Mary were discovered (Papyrus ...15 KB (2,491 words) - 18:05, 27 December 2022
- satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic ... Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War satirists ...20 KB (3,184 words) - 17:07, 19 December 2022
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Sheba may be derived from the ancient Egyptian word for star. According ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- and philosopher, who pioneered bridging the Far Eastern world and the ... tradition also helped Asians to recapture the values of their religious ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- wedding"), or Hierogamy, refers to the coupling of a god and goddess ... The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce ... County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- instrument for finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized ... a magnetic device using a needle to indicate the direction of the magnetic ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle ... was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst of the Freudian school. He contributed ...11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
- technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal ... Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, grew up in the midst of poverty. The suffering ... democracy, that it was meant to ensure the promises of life, liberty ...25 KB (3,909 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- :This article is about the wooden implement. [[Image:Boomerang.jpg ... or tribal origin and intended function. The most recognizable type is ...18 KB (2,904 words) - 19:33, 20 November 2023
- that seeks to portray common values of the ordinary individual, as opposed ... In theater, the naturalism movement developed in the late nineteenth ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- Egyptologist who served as director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, ... He became involved in fighting against the illegal export of Egyptian ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device ... The most intensively studied traditions of alliterative verse are ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses may ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- Joseph (also Joseph the Betrothed, Joseph of Nazareth, and Joseph ... According the Matthew's Gospel, Joseph agonized over Mary's ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- published in 1907. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because ... a trilogy about life in Norway in the Middle Ages, portrayed through ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym of the twentieth century Irish novelist ... O'Brien's works are considered classics of the modernist ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period. The figured ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- conversation between two or more entities. The etymological origins of the ... by non-verbal signals, behaviors, as the etymology connotes, dialogue ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for ... Hobbes was one of the first political philosophers who tried to explain ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτίνος)(ca. 205–270), the ancient philosopher ... six years old when he died in 270 c.e., the second year of the reign of ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- collaborated closely with Karl Marx in the foundation of modern Communism ... 2 and 3 from Marx's drafts and notes (the final volume was completed ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 11:02, 11 April 2024
- gender, race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of ... That change, often known as the Copernican revolution, had important ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal ... was written of in ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Greek τραγωδία, "song for the goat," is any event with ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ... Al-Kindī established the tradition that was later developed by Avicenna ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided ... Hārūn was the son of al-Mahdi, the third 'Abbasid caliph (ruled ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- In Jewish folklore, a golem (from the Hebrew "gelem" ((גלם ... However, in many tales the golem outgrows his master physically, becoming ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- interest in others." It is one of the ten pāramitās of the Theravāda ... The object of mettā meditation is loving kindness (love without attachment ...28 KB (4,040 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- critic whose life spans two major phases in the development of French literature ... Gautier's eclectic output and changing opinions makes him one ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- for defensive jihad by Muslims to help the Afghan mujahideen against ... Azzam moved to Saudi Arabia in the 1970s, teaching at King Abdul Aziz ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey ... Chaucer is generally considered not only the father of English literature ...31 KB (5,016 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- Miyamoto Bennosuke or Miyamoto Musana), was the best-known Japanese swordsman ... but he gradually came to realize that the strategic principles and practical ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the ... In the Hebrew Bible, Edom is a name given to Esau in the as well as ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- dance artist and theorist, whose work laid the foundations for Laban Movement ... One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published ... Under Budge's directorship, the British Museum came to hold arguably ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, the Mount Hermon ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts ... The terms used for courtly love during the medieval period itself ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
