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  • Category:Education Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences ... unfettered by concerns about conditions of their employment will be more ...
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  • 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...
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  • India. He is best known as the founder of the Arya Samaj "Society ... who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda advocated ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |caption= Shield of Emory University |motto=Cor prudentis possidebit ...
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  • Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...
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  • economist and political theorist, and one of the founders of the Saint-Simonian ... Paris, France, on February 8, 1796, the son of a banker from Dauphiné. After ...
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  • [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...
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  • was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...
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  • | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America ... | death_place = Covington, Louisiana, United States of America ...
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  • The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to ... In March of 1955, Mrs. Dorothy Chandler began fundraising toward a ...
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  • #039;s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...
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  • Noguchi was born into poverty and became handicapped when, at the ... Noguchi received a number of awards during his lifetime and after ...
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  • a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... little scholarly attention in the histories of the period. As a stateswoman ...
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  • known for propagating the Vaishnava doctrine of bhedabheda dvaitadvaita, duality ... and non-duality. He defines three categories of existence, God (Isvara), souls ...
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  • modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...
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  • known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products ... A small percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically ...
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  • first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...
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  • was the co-founder, with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People ... Corrigan gained recognition as a promoter of peace and justice that has ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ...
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  • German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...
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  • Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) which sold over two million ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...
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  • worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...
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  • Category:Education Category:Law Category:Sociology in employment, housing, or education—but also to redress the ...
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  • which is the organization and management of information services or materials ... today are required to have a high degree of diversified and specialized ...
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  • South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together with ... Influenced by the ideals of the United States Declaration of Independence ...
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  • name Jalalu'ddin has the meaning Majesty of Religion. Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...
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  • architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...
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  • The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Devanāgarī: ... and technology-oriented institute of higher education established ...
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  • 1945) 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 ...
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  • AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, ... was not a fraud. He died during the Imamat of Imam Ja'far al- Sadiq ...
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  • on many spiritual topics, including history, astrology, and health. ... he was a prophet pointing to hidden depths of, and new possibilities for ...
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  • those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...
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  • the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Born into a prosperous ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...
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  • to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or into poor families ... At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million ...
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  • known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...
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  • (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal, located at ... at an average elevation of 1,247 m (4,100 feet). The town serves as ...
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  • in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was one of the leading figures of modernity ... family in a village with the curious name of Caos (Chaos), a poor suburb ...
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  • 5) served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers—the ... the next several years until the outbreak of World War I, which would ultimately ...
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  • الدین ایبک) was a Turkic ruler of medieval India, the first Sultan ... Muslim conflict, violence and persecution of one community by the other ...
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  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...
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  • novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...
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  • Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution ... Book Review and Booklist affect the sales of the book and critics play an ...
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  • energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...
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  • , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...
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  • and technology toward benefiting the lives of everyday people. Despite the ... Carver said that in his search for truth he embraced both faith and ...
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  • The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... The Caymans are one of the most popular tourist attractions in the ...
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  • The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...
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  • Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...
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  • was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...
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  • Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... Malta has had a long and turbulent history. Situated in the middle ...
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  • for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...
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  • Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...
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  • Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... manufacturing, communications, and education center. It serves as a ...
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  • Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...
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  • playwright, and essayist. With the end of Realism and its attempt to ... Sologub had much in common with the French writers of the fin de siècle ...
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  • "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews ... by the Ottoman government in 1666. Some of his followers quickly interpreted ...
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  • potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...
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  • is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...
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  • historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... His observations represented the excitement of sociological discovery, made ...
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  • The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras ... A major city of Hindu learning, Varanasi is commonly referred to as ...
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  • served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the Court for many of her final ...
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  • or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...
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  • Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...
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  • Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city of the South American nation of ... financial, and political center of Colombia. As with many large ...
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  • perception, and suggested that all knowledge of objects outside the self comes ... work “La citta del sole” (The City of the Sun). == Life == ...
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  • Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...
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  • Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary ... Our understanding of the nature of physical existence derives in large ...
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  • This concept of a "Dark Age" was first created by Italian ... out that this idea was based on ignorance of the period combined with popular ...
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  • ) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ... Huangbo developed the concept of oneness of beings, one of the central ...
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  • Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz (975-996) at the age of 11 on October 14, 996 with ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...
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  • objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...
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  • traditional societies in certain regions of the world, particularly among ... rulings against it, is the existence of an "outcaste" group ...
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  • the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ... involves political science, economics, history, anthropology, and many ...
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  • office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...
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  • Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes ... Researchers in this field analyze states of happiness, flow, values ...
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  • Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...
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  • a Major League club when he became manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1978. us/Culture062003.html Larry Doby, part of history, “courage, dignity ...
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  • movement occurring in the last years of the nineteenth century and ... even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude ...
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  • for buttons would be eliminated and the size of the device would be further reduced. ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...
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  • (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...
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  • [[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...
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  • , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...
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  • The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...
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  • he has now come to be regarded as one of the four or so most important ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...
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  • takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... Aristotelian concepts in their theories of ethics and politics. Aristotle ...
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  • Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...
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  • The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula ... Shilla, numbered among the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Beginning as a chiefdom ...
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  • that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...
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  • in England. He is most famous as a student of Peter Paul Rubens and for his ... By the age of 15 he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his ...
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  • Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...
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  • Ecotourism, or ecological tourism, is a type of tourism in which the ... tourism supports conservation through education by offering tourists insight ...
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  • strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...
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  • and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following the ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...
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  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... === Childhood and education === Rudolf Steiner was born on February ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...
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  • St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...
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  • Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...
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  • by the Germans, though remained a prisoner of war and was not sent to a concentration ... other things, such issues as the meaning of life, death, love, and the ...
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  • Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with ... Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering ...
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  • ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... back to the mid nineteenth century as part of a British development of the ...
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