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- Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" ... A principle is fundamental in the sense that it generally cannot be ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential ... Nagarjuna's writings had a major influence not only on the development ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- after his death by his friend and mentor, the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus ... A detailed biography attached to the manuscripts of Persius’ satires ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary ... One component of the text that has received extensive scholarly attention ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- and economist. His monumental History of the Italian Republics in the Middle ... and all his ancestors seem to have borne the name Simonde, at least from ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- than a metaphor and often appeals to the imagination, whereas an analogy ... The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book ... and dispute particularly regarding the Old Testament and other theological ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature ... Gide's work exposes to public view the conflict between the two sides ...14 KB (1,915 words) - 20:02, 26 July 2023
- Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה) is a sacred candelabrum used in Jewish ... The menorah continues to play an important role in modern Judaism ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ... The authority of the Geonim began in 589 C.E. (Hebrew date: 4349) ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- for more than three decades, theologian, the last of the Western Latin ... otherwise would not have survived. Until the twelfth century brought translations ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- The Diatessaron (c 150 - 160 C.E.) (meaning "Harmony of Four ... who combined the four canonical gospels into a single harmonious narrative ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied with the individualism of Martin Heidegger ... in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the second son of a physician ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 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
- A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or ... The term 'book' may also refer to a literary work, or a ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least ... God's omniscience is related to the issue of predestination, ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- intelligence officer who coordinated the Central Intelligence Agency ... However, the Shah's regime was oppressive and rode roughshod ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- , and diplomat, who is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales ... psychological insight. No other author of the Middle English period demonstrates ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- prose. His books, written during the Great Depression show an almost ... In his personal life, the author was known by friends as an enthusiastic ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical ... These statements are paradoxical because there is no way to assign ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... Observant Jews still follow the laws contained in Leviticus, except ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- they had graduated. He spoke not only to the academic ivory tower intellectuals ... Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), written ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ... contents were relatively variable, each Book typically contained a detailed ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ... The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- or deductive reasoning is inference in which the premises, if true, purport ... We do need to say that in a deductive inference the premises "purport ...16 KB (2,607 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species ... For example, the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) of Africa and ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- British social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern ... to other religions, his work opened a new way of looking at the rituals ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- [[File:Isaac Pitman.jpg|thumb|300px|Sir Isaac Pitman, from 'The ... British phonographer, famous for developing the most widely used system of ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- American sociologist. His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals ... Even though he recognized that there is an inter-relationship between ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 21:17, 24 November 2023
- Poetry) encompasses verse written during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period ... riddles, and short lyrics. Some of the most important works from ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] an English jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define ... They form a great river system, an alluvial salt marsh ecoregion of ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- known for being an outspoken critic of the Aristotelian philosophy which ... Ramus objected to the way in which young students were made to memorize ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864 ... In 1844, Hong and his follower Feng Yun-shan founded the "God ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ... she worked as an editor for Random House in the 1960s and 1970s, where she ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- and/or historical significance, often the human remains of an important ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of ... cultural traditions and introduced them to the West. His witty, sharp analysis ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- Perdix. He is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing ... . Homer refers to Ariadne by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- The Jurassic period is an interval of about 55 million years defined ... The start of the Jurassic period is marked by the major Triassic-Jurassic ...11 KB (1,508 words) - 16:34, 14 May 2024
- is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon ... conjuration. Necromancy is communing with the spirits of the dead, rather ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- was an influential Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological ... using a more complete method that the Freudian psychoanalysis with ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- number of major critics and theorists of the present-day. He is regarded ... his own thought derives critically from the works of the seminal philosopher ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ... Titus Flavius Clemens was born sometime during the middle of the second ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the ... Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area of ... In the Bible, Shechem was the first place where the patriarch Abraham ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the Democratic ... Tweed left school at the age of 11 to learn his father’s trade of ...9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- ), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside ... Mikhail Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye, a village ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Ming and early Ch'ing ... Like other great thinkers of the transition era between the Ming and ...11 KB (1,753 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- who was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy ... and transition in China, experiencing the Sino-Japanese War of 1907 ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- February 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke ... 9, 1867, just one year and a half before the start of the Meiji Reformation ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- The Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather ... Released the second Tuesday in September of the year prior to the ...19 KB (2,821 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- 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
- was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- who popularized European evolution theory in the United States. He studied ... Both in his books and on the lecture platform, Fiske endeavored to ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper, first published in ... something of a phrase in its own right in the UK. The stereotypical Daily ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 07:46, 12 January 2024
- collections of folklore. He was also one of the first African-American professors ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- jewelry and other beautiful, valuable items. The discovery of her well-preserved ... sediment that he believed were evidence of The Flood recorded in the Bible ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining ... Although theoretically, any piece of information on a given book is ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean ... a system of latitude and longitude for the maps he created, and was the ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- 1950) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the ... Millay lived and wrote during the early decades of the twentieth-century ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Richardson is widely considered to be the inventor of the epistolary ... in a printer’s shop, where he earned the nicknames “Gravity” and ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- " Bagley published chiefly on the topics of teacher education ... on March 15, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of William Chase and Ruth ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- ) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site ... (Hebrew) and Tel al-Mutesellim (Arabic), the word tel meaning "hill ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- c. 484 – c. 577 C.E.), also known as "the Navigator," "the ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- it has specific rules and etiquette for the dancers to follow. different types of dance, with origins in the many kinds of dances that ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... Opinions are divided both as to its authorship—whether by James ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and grew up in the Bishopston ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- Amulets were originally objects worn about the neck or other parts of the ... Closely related to the amulet is the talisman (from Arabic tilasm; ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide historical time ... To the extent that history is continuous and not generalized, all ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic and the founder of the Bridgettine Order. ... Bridget lived in the time of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) with ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023
- ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ... and practiced in many schools around the globe. Its popularity is not ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world and have sold over 400 ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- Khayyám contributed a number of insights to the development of geometry, algebra ... known as a poet, and particularly for the volume The Rubaiyat of Omar ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691 ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- 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
