Search results for "Man" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • actor who portrayed admirable characters, but as a man of paradox. As a symbol of the American hero who ultimately triumphs over evil and "saves ...
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  • ruled around 120 C.E. His name means "the man with the charred leg," an injury he received during a fight to escape capture from a scheming ...
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  • Peking Man (sometimes called Beijing Man), is a prominent example of Homo erectus, an extinct species of the genus to which modern humans also ...
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  • claimed that a white woman was raped by a black man. This was an old trope of racism, the kind of story used to gin up hatred and racial violence. A ...
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  • prevent further bloodshed if she could kill the man she held most responsible. Unfortunately, her action only fueled a backlash and help promote the ...
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  • General John Burgoyne's 8,000-man army occupied high ground above the fort, and nearly surrounded the defenses. These movements precipitated ...
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  • to lead the charge, it was the common man who responded most readily to the call. Along the way there were massacres of Jews. While the massacres ...
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  • + mann (person, human being, whence English man); thus equivalent to wife ... to comparisons of the words to "woe man" or "we men.") ...
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  • means to express the fullness of love between a man and a woman. Biologically, it is the means through which a child is conceived and the lineage is ...
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  • Anatole France was a French man of letters. He was a member of the Adademie Francaise who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. France ...
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  • image_desc=Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man| text=The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great ...
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  • The World Jones Made Eye in the Sky The Man Who Japed A Time for George ... |list2 = A Handful of Darkness (1955) The Variable Man (1956) The ...
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  • Creation · Fall of Man · Covenant · Law Grace · Faith · Justification · Salvation Sanctification · Theosis · Worship Church · Sacraments ...
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  • Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut, became the first man in space. Together with the launch of Sputnik 1, it created a real concern in the United States and ...
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  • image_desc=Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) by Vincent van Gogh| text=Clinical Depression, also known as Major Depressive Disorder ...
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  • bias has been described as an internal "yes man," echoing back a person's beliefs like Charles Dickens' character Uriah Heep| ...
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  • Java Man was one of the first specimens of Homo erectus to be discovered, having been located first in 1891, in Java (Indonesia). It was originally ...
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  • Nikita Khrushchev era, which continued the one man rule of his predecessor, Joseph Stalin. Along with Anastas Mikoyan and after his death, Nikolai Podgorny ...
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  • known as the nomenklatura. He was a loyal party man who rose through the ranks to hold enormous power within the Soviet system. Known for not only ...
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  • In his ethical system Ferguson treats man as a social being, illustrating ... example, given the commercial state he finds man to be reduced to viewing others ...
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