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- research. Often referred to as the "father of modern parapsychology ... Rhine was trained in the scientific method and applied this to what ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, ... This planet is heavily cratered and appears similar to the Moon. It ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Anthropology in Great Britain) is one of the four branches of general anthropology ... deemed morally reprehensible by the observer's own culture. ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- body of water, or other physical obstacle. The design and structure of a ... The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024
- Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in ... Masonry is commonly used to make the walls of buildings, retaining ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of ... or a pull. A familiar example of force is the weight of an object, which ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... human capacity, not to be found elsewhere in the animal world. However, recent ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- much as 110 kilograms was reported by the Observer newspaper in 2006. Officials ... to the brink by deep-sea trawlers]. The Observer January 8, 2006. Retrieved ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- is nothing morally good about taking a walk. The theory of value is concerned ... these questions involves explaining the meaning of evaluative judgments ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- 250 px|A traditional, formal presentation of the bride price at a Thai engagement ... Afghans sell girls of eight as brides]. The Observer, January 7, 2007. Retrieved ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- are commensurable if both can be measured in the same unit of measurement. ... truth is conceptual and objective and the observer is uninvolved in the object ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- , are considered largely responsible for the revival of the study of logic ... Whately was a liberal theologian and actively supported the removal ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- Diodorus Cronus (fourth century, B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of ... today if the proposition is correct: The observer must wait for the contingent ...17 KB (2,681 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- Irish elk is the common name for an giant, extinct deer, Megaloceros ... may be due more to their impact on the observer than any actual property ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 18:59, 7 February 2023
- is a global news agency, headquartered in the United States. The company ... Newspaper publisher Edward W. Scripps (1854 — 1926) created the ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- Spider monkey is the common name for the arboreal, tropical New World ... behaviors, spider monkeys add greatly to the human enjoyment of nature ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 15:22, 27 April 2023
- Guardian, The The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian ... In June 1993, The Guardian bought The Observer, thus gaining a serious ...15 KB (2,174 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- forelegs (adapted to capturing prey). The closest relatives of mantids ... any member of Mantodea (although sometimes the term is limited to the family ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- Daniel Kahneman, he was a key figure in the discovery of systematic human ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- was an American baseball pitcher during the 1890s and 1900s. Known by ... Widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers of all time, the Cy ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- favorable and comprehensive analysis within the contexts of diverse art forms. ... memorable for the truth it brings to the observer. However, the face of ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- members predominate in positions of power. The term "patriarchy" ... Anthropologists studying cultures around the world, and at different ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- Emotivism is the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical ... Such a revelation would likely change the observer's belief about Edward ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- and chemical compositions. Many minerals are the raw materials from which metals ... structure are grouped together. For example, the feldspar group of minerals ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- hostility towards her ideas. She was the first Englishwomen to climb ... Kingsley was courageous to challenge the imperial order and to cross ...29 KB (4,571 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- Sparke and J.S. Gallagher III, Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction ... based on the viewing angle of the observer. Possibly related to active ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- physical measurements already made, or to the unknown. The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- In regular usage, the term sound is applied to any stimulus that excites ... Certain sounds of nature and music have the power to calm the mind and ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel is a historic hotel located at 481 Eighth ... Due to its noticeable marquee and proximity to the Empire State Building ...16 KB (2,157 words) - 21:59, 14 November 2022
- In the Judeo-Christian tradition, as well as in Confucianism and other ... 20:12). The rabbis also emphasized that the observer of this commandment would ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- 200 px|An optical illusion. Both circles are the same shade of yellow, just ... deliberately use illusion to entertain the observer by creating impossible ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- speed by measuring apparent changes in the periods of the revolution ... Christen Pedersen had taken to using the name Rømer, which means that ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- interview is a conversation between two or more people (the interviewer ... thoughts, and so forth between them. When the individuals involved maintain ...17 KB (2,644 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- to ruin glories of Angkor"] The Observer. == Religious History ... threatens to ruin glories of Angkor]. The Observer, 2007-02-25. Retrieved ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- Russians consider their greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian ... Before the seventeenth century, Russian literature consisted mainly ...14 KB (2,242 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- that can be explained by processes lower on the evolutionary scale, without ... and anti-anecdotal and rather as promoting the use of accurate observation ...18 KB (2,586 words) - 21:54, 12 February 2024
- is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject. Her most famous photo appeared on the front cover of Rolling Stone ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Chagall is ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself ... =| pages =| language =| publisher = The Observer| date = February 25, 2001 ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- [[Image:DSCF0003.jpg|thumb|right|325px|Introspection entails the inward ... or of the world as it appears to the observer. According to phenomenological ...17 KB (2,469 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2024
- studies, and moral development. Much of the research in this field is ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...35 KB (4,855 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- was a French novelist recognized as one of the founders of realism in European ... This is notable because Balzac wrote during the Romantic era, a period in ...30 KB (4,901 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- sometimes poetic writing style marked the major themes in his work: ... family. Buber spent much of his childhood in the house of his grandfather, ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 16:30, 6 November 2022
- droplets, frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface ... light is being reflected or transmitted back to the observer. ...17 KB (2,628 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- Dame Muriel Spark, (February 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) was the greatest ... first award in the literature field was the Observer short story prize (1951 ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- | birth_place = The Hague, Netherlands | residence = [[Image:Flag_of_the_Uni ... zoologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen ... covering Stalin's implementation of the New Economic Policy and other ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- artillerie) refers to any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles ... firing data were often calculated by the observer who then adjusted the ...76 KB (11,884 words) - 17:42, 16 August 2023
- and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism ... cabin. Thompson and the editors at the Observer eventually had a falling ...43 KB (6,622 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2024
- The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учред ... By the time it finally met, the Bolsheviks had already overthrown ...40 KB (5,691 words) - 16:00, 22 July 2022
- is Being Unjustly Ignored,"] The Observer(UK), 2007-04-08. Hakluyt Has Not Been Forgotten," The Observer (UK), 2007-04-15. ...37 KB (5,465 words) - 20:16, 8 December 2022
- a Russian ballet dancer, frequently cited as the greatest ballerina of the ... Maya chaffed against the oppressive regime of the Soviet Union. During ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- column of air that is in contact with the base of a cumulonimbus cloud ... same tornado, viewed with the sun at the observer's back, may appear ...56 KB (8,507 words) - 00:50, 20 February 2024
- The llama is a domesticated, gregarious, South American ungulate, ... The llama has long been used as a pack animal, including by the Incas ...18 KB (2,774 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- The nomenklatura ( номенклату́ра|p=nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə ... ) was a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern ...21 KB (2,829 words) - 18:54, 31 May 2023
- Perón and his wife Eva were immensely popular among a portion of ... better than average progress through the officer ranks. A strongly ...17 KB (2,640 words) - 06:03, 10 May 2024
- 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
- German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late ... Kant argued that knowledge is constituted by the sensible contents ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 18:19, 21 May 2024
- George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03-26 ... He has written extensively about the relationship between language ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- questions, nor was he willing to accept the limitations incurred by the ... The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- Realism is a widely used term in the arts. In literature, it came ... as if it were happening in front of the observer, without any reference ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 01:40, 8 December 2022
- Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, Order of the Nation (ON), Member of ... Miller has had a reputation as a voice for the poor and unemployed, as an ...21 KB (2,959 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites ... The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known ... co-founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the company was called "Apple ...56 KB (7,806 words) - 15:54, 11 August 2023
- historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... Tocqueville's insights into what made the United States successful ...22 KB (3,185 words) - 06:41, 20 July 2023
- and part of its Golden Age. She was one of the few actors or actresses of ... Garbo's love secret is exposed] The Observer, September 10, 2005. Retrieved ...20 KB (3,159 words) - 16:14, 18 July 2022
- The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس, Qanā al-Suways), is ... The canal allows two-way water transportation between Europe and Asia ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- to generalizable knowledge in which the focus for gathering data is ... of human behavior; and so forth. However, the history of human subject research ...43 KB (6,319 words) - 17:27, 28 September 2021
- novelist. He is best known for his novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being ... Lies and Literary Confusion," The Observer, April 2, 1995. Wiesel ...21 KB (3,001 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2023
- There is a range of other uses, depending on the context. For example, fact ... believed to be independent from the observer in that no matter which ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three great British Empiricists ... George Berkeley’s name in the history of philosophy is linked to ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 07:03, 18 April 2024
- A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body (sporocarp or ... While the term mushroom is often associated with fungi that have a ...22 KB (3,256 words) - 19:06, 10 November 2022
- by-side and aligned to point accurately in the same direction, allowing the ... is formed. It determines the distance the observer must position his or her ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2023
- Arianism was a major theological movement in the Christian Roman Empire ... The controversy involved not only emperors, priests, and bishops, ...25 KB (3,876 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- of concresence," by which he meant the coming together of all that ... to develop Whitehead's metaphysics at the University of Chicago where ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. He was among the first ... was not his literary skill. Influenced by The Enlightenment ideas he encountered ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 20:28, 23 June 2020
- using a variety of different principles. The word thermometer is derived ... thus remaining stationary in the tube. The observer can then read the maximum ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- activist. Sontag was an original, who broke the mold, creating a new role ... co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1381943,00.html The Observer] ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- risked destabilizing all of Lebanon. The Observer newspaper claimed that ... revolt over Blair's Israel policy] The Observer, July 29, 2006. Retrieved ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is an alto string ... The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- 20,000 known species of winged insects of the superfamily Apoidea of the ... large hind feet, and hair-like extensions on the head and thorax. Almost all ...24 KB (3,674 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- a prolific and popular American writer of the early nineteenth century. ... offenses," but he successfully captured the spirit of "rugged individualism ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 01:33, 8 February 2023
- is often practiced to strengthen muscles and the cardiovascular system, and ... Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system and ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... Cybernetics is always and only involved when the system under scrutiny ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- Urbanization is the increase over time in the population of cities ... At the same time, the rise of computer technology, and particularly ...23 KB (3,351 words) - 13:43, 3 May 2023
- entomology and zoology, who in 1947, founded the Institute for Research in ... With the air of scientific respectability, Kinsey's publications ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- or community is deprived of, or lacks, the essentials for a minimum standard ... 'rob Africa of $150bn every year] The Observer, January 20, 2007. Retrieved ...23 KB (3,286 words) - 22:07, 30 November 2022
- for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian ... Italy, and other countries in Europe and the Middle East. Some articles ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the ... The original native people of Aruba and surrounding islands were the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- He is commonly regarded as a bridge between the philosophies of Hegel and ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... 00.html The land that time forgot] The Observer. Retrieved December 30, 2008. ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- a radical departure in poetics and framed the American experience in terms ... Whitman's poetry advanced a new aesthetic that boldly fused the ...22 KB (3,515 words) - 22:10, 3 May 2023
- was a Polish-born British novelist, one of the most important and respected ... Conrad's works draw on the symbolism of the Romantics and the ...22 KB (3,429 words) - 21:20, 6 May 2024
- the ennobling power of art to cause the observer to apply knowledge to ... Born at Penshurst, Kent, Sidney was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- song writer and folk musician who influenced the entire postwar development ... After his discovery and first recordings by the American folklorist Alan Lomax ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 23:31, 17 May 2023
- been published in digital formats. Use of the term "sheet" is ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- The term Attitude as well as the concepts "attitude formation ... Affect, cognition, and action are the three aspects of an attitude ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- Ham United for more than ten years and was the captain of the England national ... *Corbett, James. "The last Days of Bobby Moore." The Observer ...23 KB (3,813 words) - 05:17, 17 November 2023
