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- Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth ... celebrated in a religious fashion. In the Catholic tradition, it is ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:56, 21 January 2023
- of God") is a prominent angel in the Abrahamic religions, who serves ... The angel Gabriel is first mentioned in the Book of Daniel in the ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- direct personal experience with God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit ... "On the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus' resurrection ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- December 13, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. The son of a Roman named Rufinus ... During Sylvester's pontificate, Christianity became the favored ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- :This page is about the biblical person Joshua. For the book, see ... Joshua or Yehoshúa (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ—"The LORD is help ...17 KB (2,859 words) - 19:56, 7 September 2022
- in India, and now are practiced all around the world, though more than 90 ... types of religious leaders. According to the strict interpretation of the ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...31 KB (4,680 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- Crantor (ca. 330 – 270 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Old ... was that life is punishment, and death the release of the soul. He followed ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- The Boston Public Library is the largest municipal public library ... With public support and the help of significant contributions by numerous ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 19:51, 20 November 2023
- Fatimah binte Muhammad or popularly Fatimah Zahra (Fatima the Gracious ... men, and many have exercised power. The royal houses of Jordan and ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England ... == The Historical figure == Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric (968–1057 ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- her work written in close association with the Imagist movement of Ezra Pound ... embrace H.D.'s prolific reading of the Latin and Greek classics, ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, ( Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres 50 miles from Paris, is considered one of the world's finest examples ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- ], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth day") is one of ... Pentecost is also called Whitsun, Whitsunday, or Whit Sunday in the ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- black and white landscape photographs of the national parks and especially ... in photography after his encounter with the ground-breaking photographer ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- Japanese 公案) is a story, dialog, question, or statement from the ... some aspect of Zen teaching, and a test of the student’s understanding; ...33 KB (5,103 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- 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
- thumb|right|345px|The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of ... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the ...28 KB (4,522 words) - 21:59, 10 December 2023
- feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... When Betty's mother took over running the shop after her husband fell ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the ... Besides its joyful character, the letter is also unique in its attitude ...10 KB (1,691 words) - 20:40, 17 May 2023
- 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is renowned for its ... As a Southern Gothic novel and a bildungsroman, the primary themes ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and his ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ...30 KB (4,439 words) - 14:09, 7 May 2024
- The Holy Spirit refers to the third person of the Trinity in Christianity ... The Trinitarian doctrine of the Holy Spirit as a distinct "person ...27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics and ... At the age of 30, suffering from a severe illness and believing she ...13 KB (2,141 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- conductor, band leader, and author of the late nineteenth and early ... effects that became emblematic of the genre. Among his best known ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 03:59, 2 May 2024
- Matthew the Evangelist (Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- his exhortations toward chastity and purity. The medieval church was itself ... and then sent him to spend several years at the court of King David I of Scotland ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author ... were not uncommon. This was partly due to the fact that they were conducted ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- of social science. His work belongs to the tradition of anthropological ... began with his discovery of mimetic desire, the tendency of people to imitate ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title "King of ... and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- Carpe diem, usually translated as "seize the day" (literally ... Carpe Diem is an exhortation to value the moment over the uncertainties ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival ... In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah is written he|חנֻכה or ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- August 4, 1598) was an English politician, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth ... a wise counselor, with a rare and natural gift for avoiding dangers. He served ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- was a French physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist ... He was received in Berlin by Frederick the Great, who allowed him ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ... Precognition is the most frequently reported type of ESP, occurring ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- Esau (עֵשָׂו, Esav) was the oldest son of Isaac and Rebekah ... Although he stood first in the line of inheritance, Esau sold his ...18 KB (2,951 words) - 22:23, 20 February 2022
- including genre subjects, portraits, and the still lifes common in the ... Leyster's style reflected the Utrecht School, or "Caravaggists ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 21:00, 4 October 2022
- 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
- C.E.) was a Christian missionary involved in the evangelization of Ireland ... in Ireland including a story that he used the three-leaf shamrock to teach ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 00:49, 23 December 2022
- 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
- An Indulgence, in Roman Catholic theology, is the full or partial ... Prior to the modern period, indulgences could be obtained by offering ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 19:36, 8 October 2020
- in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America ... at a higher salary than Poe's. Later, the two competed for the attention ...41 KB (6,146 words) - 17:44, 22 December 2022
- , which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theater of the ... Alfred Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- The Blue Nile is a river originating in natural springs above Lake ... Today, dams along the Blue Nile in Sudan produce 80 percent of that ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- The Rev. Dr William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA (November 7, 1687 – ... Trained in the medical profession and turning later in life to the ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 20:32, 13 May 2023
- The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd ... The first notable pharaoh of the Old Kingdom was Djoser (2630–2611 ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived ... The work, which can be typologically identified as wisdom literature ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- on various days in many places around the world. Officially recognized ... a forerunner of today's holiday, the contemporary Mother's ...22 KB (3,311 words) - 17:00, 10 November 2022
- Harpy is the singular form for the mythical creatures called Harpies ... The word Harpy in English comes from Old French harpie from the Latin ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- a certain legitimacy, justification, and the right to exercise it. Authority ... Since the emergence of the social sciences, authority has been a subject ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- short fiction, and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime ... and short stories were also adapted for the screen, including "Welcome ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh ... Ferdowsi traced the history of Persia from its earliest days to the ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- his first literary works in Russian under the pseudonym of Sirin, but rose ... #039;s affair with a 12-year-old girl, and the uniquely structured Pale Fire ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- rank") was a great woman of faith and the fore-mother of the Israelites ... Sarah was originally called Sarai. She was born in the major Mesopotamian ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the ... The library was created based on Pope Nicholas V's vision of ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo ... His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, ... The main theme running through the Book of Numbers is the people& ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the College ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,778 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2022
- socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah in the Bible. She became Abraham ... According to the account in Genesis, since Sarah could not have children ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the ... she is often enthroned and crowned with the polos, the high cylindrical ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... admission to a Christian church. Although the primary meaning of the Greek ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- class of its own far above that possessed by the vast majority of people. The ... intellectual ability identified as a gift for some skill or area of ...20 KB (2,859 words) - 06:48, 18 April 2024
- Kringle, or simply "Santa," is the mythical figure who, in most ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- Bartholomew was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus. He is mentioned as ... , transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Aramaic ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- " 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
- an individual commissioned by God to spread the "good news" of the ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- A Pulitzer Prize is an award regarded as the highest national honor ... legacy, his effort to establish and maintain the highest standards in the profession ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 2022
- scholar, administrator, and waka poet of the Nara period. Little is documented ... was 16 when he was sent to China as one of the young students that the Japanese ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- early teacher in music was his mother; at the age of nine he was introduced ... a fascination with spiritual phenomenon. The narrative of his well-know ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the ... ). From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day has been associated ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
- ) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring ... is seen both as a true prophet of God for the Gentiles and as a heathen ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- novelist, and dramatist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance ... research, however, was too far removed from the mainstream style of academic ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- Hanuman (from the Sanskrit "having a large jaw") is an important ... Hanuman is one of the more popular deities in the Hindu pantheon, ...19 KB (3,063 words) - 19:40, 29 January 2022
- You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco ... a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and the first philosopher to attempt ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- rights. She is sometimes credited with being the first American feminist but ... Mott's Philadelphia home was a stop on the Underground Railroad ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ... in Lom, Norway in Gudbrandsdal. He was the fourth son of Peder Pedersen ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- Founded in 1971, by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most ... are independent organizations which share the same ideals, and have been ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- and Romanian physicist, whose writings in the 1920s sparked a surge of interest ... Oberth was the son of Dr. Julius Oberth, the head of a Saxon family ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 10:20, 22 January 2024
- is commonly associated with Neo-orthodoxy or the dialectical theology movement. After being educated in both Europe and the United States, Brunner ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- quot;Captivating") was the wife of the patriarch Isaac ... Rebekah was instrumental in Jacob's winning, by deception, the ...13 KB (2,094 words) - 01:43, 8 December 2022
- satirist. Apart from professional work in the field of logic, Zinovyev was ... of Communism (and successive leaders of the Soviet Union), he later became ...15 KB (2,070 words) - 15:29, 18 July 2023
- Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...29 KB (4,732 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." ... Cheever's main themes include the duality of human nature: Sometimes ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
- 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
- He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ... a number of controversial books, including The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- publisher best known for establishing the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes ... His younger brother, Albert, was trained for the priesthood but never attained ...20 KB (2,932 words) - 04:55, 7 May 2024
- Suleiman I, in Turkish language Süleyman and in the Arabic alphabet ... Known as Suleiman the Magnificent but also, especially among Muslims ...10 KB (1,667 words) - 19:26, 22 October 2022
- is a central and much revered figure in the majority of [Hinduism|Hindu ... Vyasa is the author of, and an important character in, the Mahabharata ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- The State Hermitage Museum ( Государственный Эрмитаж ... ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 14:53, 12 February 2022
- Anarchist communism advocates the abolition of the state, private ... sometimes, libertarian communism, advocates the abolition of government, which ...42 KB (6,266 words) - 22:50, 14 September 2023
- 1845) was an English prison reformer who was the driving force in legislation ... May 21, 1790, in Norwich, Norfolk, England; the third child of a Quaker family ...14 KB (2,286 words) - 16:17, 13 February 2024
- significantly higher than other children of the same age. The focus was initially ... is often distributed unevenly across the various intellectual spheres ...28 KB (4,026 words) - 06:24, 11 December 2022
- Mountain. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology ... clear skies at 5,600 feet above sea level, the Hale Telescope and other Palomar ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for his ... Saadia was born in Dilaz, in upper Egypt in 882 c.e.. The name "Saadia ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
