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- early doxographer who compiled biographies of ancient Greek philosphers in ... == Life == Almost nothing is known about the life of Diogenes Laertius ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- day Spain, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome ... Knowledge of Martial's life is derived almost entirely from his ...9 KB (1,468 words) - 16:29, 6 November 2022
- Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers ... work as court composer to the Prince-elector of Saxony. ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- singing. As a vital composer during the time of a creative rebirth in human ... Very little is known about Thomas Robinson's life, but it is ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the ... Ruth is one of the shortest books in both Jewish and Christian scripture ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- imperfect competition. He is regarded as one of the most influential American ... With his work Chamberlin indebted us with important knowledge of economic ...8 KB (1,083 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- figures who lived during the generation of Adam. The first Enoch was the ... (Genesis 5:5-6), and great great grandfather of Enoch (Genesis 5:9-18). ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- The Book of Wisdom (also known as the Wisdom of Solomon or simply ... According to Saint Melito in the second century C.E., the Book of ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the "Writings" ... The Book of Proverbs belongs to the group of Ḥokmah, or "Wisdom ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection ... The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous and widespread work ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem where ... this day, a man or a woman's own book of life will be opened, and they ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New ... The author of 2 John is traditionally believed to be Apostle John ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- was a Flemish composer and music theorist of the Renaissance era. Tinctoris ... He is known to have studied in Orleans, and to have been master of ...4 KB (573 words) - 07:20, 5 April 2024
- a Renaissance Roman Catholic monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one ... Thomas was born at Kempen in the duchy of Cleves in Germany around ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the ... According to his relative of the same name, the Gibran family's ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- contribution to peace was his analysis of the issues surrounding disarmament ... ==Early life and athletic career== Born Philip Baker, he was born to ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- Compleat Angler, a classic guide to the joys of fishing with over 300 new printings ... scholars. Until 1643, he lived in the parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism ... == Life and Works == Almost nothing is known of Sextus Empiricus’s ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- C.E. Israelite prophet who lived in the time of King David. His actions are ... God first delivered the Messianic promise of an eternal kingdom based on ...11 KB (1,891 words) - 01:30, 11 November 2022
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... Together with the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Jeremiah ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian ... The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Tarkington's works often centered on life in the mid-west among everyday ... middle-class family in Indianapolis, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... than towards an uncertain future, than that of many of his contemporaries ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- that was published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all ... childhood, it seems, was spent in the laps of Civil War veterans and of her ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 04:02, 6 November 2022
- work on urban sociology at the University of Chicago. He pioneered efforts ... == Life == Ernest Watson Burgess was born in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada ...8 KB (1,123 words) - 12:16, 21 January 2023
- November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early nineteenth century ... His famous home of Sunnyside just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of ... The Book of Micah is also notable for its more hopeful passages, portraying ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was ... When the book took the name "Domesday" (Middle English spelling ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus) (ca. 262 B.C.E. – ca. 190 B.C.E. ... by which they are now known. The hypothesis of eccentric orbits, or deferent ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Methuselah or Metushélach (מְתוּשָׁלַח - "Man of ... In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, Methuselah becomes a channel through ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, the ... assumes that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- and epistemology. His highly influential book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...12 KB (1,858 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- the golden flower: the classic Chinese book of life. [San Francisco, Calif ... Secret of the golden flower, a Chinese book of life. New York: Harcourt, Brace ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizer persuasion and critic ... Belinsky was the first prominent literary critic of after the development ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:08, 18 November 2022
- analogy, an argument for the existence of God in his book Natural Theology ... Born in Peterborough, Paley was educated at Giggleswick School, of ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- journalist who is now considered to be one of the most important writers ... In addition to his fiction, Crane was also the author of some of the ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- to fiction, but as he became more critical of the Soviet regime, his work ... ==Early life and career== Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman in Berdichev ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- in Islam as Jahannam. The powerful imagery of Gehenna originates from a ancient ... (גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society, the unique ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Roman ... and beautiful widow. During the final stages of an Assyrian siege which has ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, the Book of Haggai ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- Manna was miraculously produced food of the Israelites in the desert ... substances that may have been the source of the legend of manna from heaven ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 02:56, 6 November 2022
- he wrote De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of ... the Renaissance the work emerged as a source of inspiration for numerous scholars ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of ... figure who probably lived during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 B.C.E ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- actor and playwright. At the age of 12 he attracted the attention ... the Noh theater, as well as Fūshi kaden, a book of instruction for Noh actors ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- dogmatism in general, and the concept of an institutional church. He ... with individuals through the portion of the divine remaining in each ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the philosophers of Ionia ... inquired into the unchanging principle of being that can uniformly explain ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- whose works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great ... Tindal was born in 1653 to the Rev. John Tindal, Rector of Beer Ferrers ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- † 443 B.C.E. in Argos), was one of the canonical nine poets of ... a poet that, although only a tiny fraction of his works have survived, what ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- #039;akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- and Gulag survivor. Shalamov was a victim of Stalin's Great Purges ... ==Early life and first arrest== Varlam Shalamov was born in Vologda ...8 KB (1,126 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- and influential African-American novelist of the first half of the twentieth ... also a political activist. He spent a number of years in his early career championing ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 18:49, 11 August 2022
- feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... ==Early life and Education== Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- War II. After experiencing the excesses of Stalinism, he became a critic ... His novel, The Thaw, gave expression to many of the problems of Soviet ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the ... Palestrina was born in Palestrina, a town near Rome, then part of ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- Krafft-Ebbing is famous for his book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) ... , and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque ... Although the place (or date) of his birth is not reliably documented ...11 KB (1,822 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
- 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
- A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, ... Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- :For Saint Bridgid of Sweden, see Bridget of Sweden. {{Infobox Saint ... Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (also: Brigit, Bridget ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- animal magnetism. He recognized the veracity of the phenomena but believed ... in 1795. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he finished ...8 KB (1,149 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years ... moved to Worcester when she was two years of age. Perkins' father opened ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the ... Ezekiel taught that people of Judah must not resist the Babylonian ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- poetry, marked by understatement, the use of plain (and at times vulgar ... from Oxford he was appointed to the position of librarian at Wellington, Shropshire ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- a leading scholastic theologian and bishop of the twelfth century. His philosophical ... Peter Lombard upheld the use of reason in interpreting dogma, while ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- artist, painter, wood engraver and maker of ukiyo-e, author of the 13-volume ... new images. His art was an important source of inspiration for many European ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 00:06, 25 August 2023
- and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental ... in philosophy in 1897. Following the advice of his mentor William James, Woodworth ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- thereby offering practical solutions to one of the many problems facing women ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- to be published in the United States. Her book Poems on Various Subjects ... to her personal circumstances or to issues of race. Rather her poems are ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging ... Karl Huysmans," using an approximation of the Dutch equivalent of his ...9 KB (1,248 words) - 03:25, 6 August 2022
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- authors. She is known for her depictions of life in the United States in ... The first two are part of the so-called "prairie trilogy," ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- German chemist who ushered in the age of biochemistry by clarifying ... Hermann Emil Fischer was born in Euskirchen, Germany, the son of Laurenz ...7 KB (1,041 words) - 23:02, 22 June 2023
- acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He founded and served ... Gallaudet was a Congregationalist preacher, and his faith guided his ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- [[Image:Goldenlocks.jpg|thumb|250px|Twelfth century icon of Archangel ... or Jibril; Arabic: جبريل; "Hero of God") is a prominent angel ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- She was both the daughter and the wife of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governors ... ==Early Life in England== Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in Northhampton ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent ... had their origins in the royal collections of the sovereign or some other ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 04:12, 11 March 2023
- mystical writings. He is known both as one of the "Scythian monks" ... by Christian struggles, and visited a number of monastic foundations. Later ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numerical ... As of January 1, 2007, International Standard Book Numbers have been ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- or 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
- American novelist, who is now considered one of the most important American ... As a result of his uniqueness, Gaddis was largely misunderstood by ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 12:11, 8 May 2023
- and Northern Zhou (北周) Dynasties of northern China, and their successor ... also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death. Yan stressed ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- 1980) was a popular wildlife conservationist of the 1960s and an author, best ... as her own country, living on the shores of Lake Naivasha. It was with ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:00, 8 September 2022
- The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of ... The Kama Sutra is the most notable example of a group of texts known ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the early chapters of the book, Hosea marries the unfaithful "woman ...12 KB (1,912 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ... In addition to the general importance of the text for Christian and ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers. He considered himself ... Henry Morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrhymny ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- philosopher, and economist. In light of the ideological struggles in ... Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox priest in the ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He attended ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated ... an illuminated manuscript was also a time of religious devotion and prayer; ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- a leading figure in the study of human fossils. A strong supporter ... 5, 1866 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the sixth of 10 children to John Keith and ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 11:11, 16 August 2023
- 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists ... However, he believed that the main point of The Jungle was lost on ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... The author of Chronicles, termed "the Chronicler," may also ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely ... From its original Hebrew, The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- 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
- as a practicing physician his entire life. In his early writings, Williams ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... The book has two distinct parts: a series of six narratives (chapters ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- poetry belonging to the confessional school of poets in the style of other ... and precise wording that covered a spectrum of feelings that many people can ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ... represented a class of devotional manuals popular among medieval Catholic ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived ... identified as wisdom literature, consists of a loosely-organized collection ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows ... five years later, in 1834. Various forms of concertina are used for classical ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, ... to be dated to "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian ... 5, 1817 in Paris, France, into a family of Huguenot descent. His father ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] Common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... worldwide. An thought provoking aspect of his literary legacy is that ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical ... Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. He was seemingly preordained ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes ... in central Russia. He came from a long line of landed gentry and serf owners ...7 KB (1,081 words) - 06:34, 11 March 2024
- Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely ... The Apostles' Creed was esteemed as an example of the apostles ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- L. Kroeber with Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi tribe, (1911).]] was an influential figure in the development of modern American anthropology ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, ... Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Book of Revelation, as well as ... refers to the stereotypical depictions of cherubim in western art. As ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- ; literary "four books") or The Four Books of Confucianism ... classical Confucian texts and a point of reference for the Neo-Confucian ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B.C.E.–283 ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- was a popular and prolific British author of children's books. Blyton ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American poetry, ... may have gone unnoticed, ironically, because of his even greater talents in ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, little is known of ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ... During this time, Coulomb submitted some of his first work to the Society ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- and economist. Best known as the father of the influential economist John ... == Life == John Neville Keynes was born on August 31, 1852, in Salisbury ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, is considered one of the three founders of Dvaita ... 1486-1498 C.E., before moving, at the behest of the king and ministers, to ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- 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
- and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics ... in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he and his younger sister ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 08:52, 18 March 2024
- An audiobook is an audio recording of a book, speech, or any form ... a synonym for audiobooks when the majority of audiobooks (then called "spoken ...17 KB (2,579 words) - 18:27, 21 August 2023
- and physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded ... Le Bon's thesis that the behavior of crowds was based on emotion ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 12:46, 24 January 2023
- Pope Saint Alexander I was the bishop of Rome for seven to ten years ... longer lists him as a martyr, as his cause of death cannot be historically ...6 KB (917 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398 C.E.), the founder of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ... military treatise that outlined the use of Chinese military technology ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- and cooking technique into the kitchens of American families everywhere. for her 1961 cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking as well as for ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution ... British society in his day, the "Rule of Law" cannot be absolute ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible ... The Book of Job has been called the most difficult book of the Bible ...21 KB (3,491 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- the Lynds pioneered applying the methods of cultural anthropology to the ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... the Ketuvim (Writings) as the second last book of the Bible, and the latter ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- (1364 – 1430) was a writer and analyst of the Medieval era, who strongly ... 74). Her success stems from a wide range of innovative writing and rhetorical ...13 KB (2,108 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ... refers to scriptural texts that fall outside of the Biblical canon. However ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- would quickly renounce these views in favor of a life-long, if sometimes cynical ... lived a comfortable, if not privileged, life. Annual family trips to Europe ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- among Japanese intellectuals. As a scholar of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied ... == Life == Watsuji Tetsuro was born in 1889 in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was an Irish ... Bede's meticulous and detailed account of Saint Aidan's ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- philosopher, and biographer whose use of dialectical philosophy, emphasizing ... Strauss was one of the first to make a clear distinction between Jesus ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 07:54, 28 January 2024
- chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- science. Although he was a close confidant of the Lake School of Poets, and ... not just for their preoccupation with some of the seedier issues of London ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- University, he studied the cultures of Southeast Asia and North Africa ... California in 1926. He was the editor of his high school newspaper and ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- the founder and first General (1878-1912) of The Salvation Army. Originally ... Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, England, the only son of four ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 6 May 2023
- and writer who is considered to be one of the most important writers ... Among the African-American writers of his time, Ellison stands out ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- 1851 – July 22, 1926) was an early member of the Austrian School of economics ... Wieser was born in Vienna, Austria on July 10, 1851. He was the son ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 03:17, 1 December 2023
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Given the lack of historical details present in the text itself, scholars ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- themes from the spiritual tradition of Judaism. Malamud's stories ... schoolhood friends. He was especially fond of Charlie Chaplin's comedies ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- who made major contributions to the field of organic chemistry and was awarded ... Baeyer was born on October 31, 1835, in Berlin, the son of Johann ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera. His nineteenth ... considered him amongst the greatest virtuosi of his period. In his youth Beer ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, ... Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- was a Greek Presocratic philosopher and one of the three prominent Pythagoreans ... that the Earth was not the stationary center of the cosmos, but moved around ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology ... Although controversial in its comparison of Christianity to other ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- 13, 1896) was a German organic chemist. One of the most prominent organic ... Kekulé was born in Darmstadt, Germany, the son of a civil servant ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest twentieth-century ... and her meticulous precision in her choice of just the right words and images ...8 KB (1,277 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- The New Testament is the name given to the second and final portion ... collected into a single volume over a period of several centuries. They consist ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- clergyman generally regarded as the founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church ... Irving is sometimes referred to as a forerunner of the Charismatic ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose ... The purpose of Jikji was to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen ...14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
- 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... Catholic Spark reacted by accusing him of seeking publicity to further ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- ) - February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of ... Sholokhov was born in the Kamenskaya region of Russia, in the "land ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 04:04, 25 March 2023
- by Herbert Spencer's application of the evolution theory of Charles ... American history, promoting the concept of the United States as the climax ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years ... mother, née Alice Nimmo, was the daughter of Scottish immigrants and their ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p ... and can also be seen as a process of transformation. The concept ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- (November 26, 1731 – April 25, 1800) Date of birth is given in New Style ... In addition to being renowned as one of the greatest nature poets ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- in 1962 with his idealized, lyrical book about the Mbuti Pygmies, The ... was known to point out admirable qualities of various disadvantaged people ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and ... Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna Radin. His ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- an Italian-born British librarian and a man of letters. He was exiled from ... best remembered for his role in the design of the Circular Reading Room within ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- Brautigan wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... Sagan also wrote a bestselling book supporting the Cosmos series and ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the nineteenth century. He ... William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- practice various tantric rituals as part of a sadhana, or spiritual practice ... The ganachakra, or 'tantric feast', can be seen as a mandala ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ... and there are extant works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- and in English; but is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living ... Her memoirs of pioneering a coffee farm in Africa, where she had an ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- the richly detailed natural settings of the Florida backcountry and ... the growing urbanization around her. Many of her works explored the importance ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 15:59, 6 November 2022
- (or The Little Princess) is the story of a little girl living in an ... The rags-to-riches themes of her stories echo her own rise from impoverished ...16 KB (2,561 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... In his personal life, the author was known by friends as an enthusiastic ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- with Alfred Lord Tennyson is perhaps one of the most well-remembered poets ... Men and Women, and The Ring and the Book, are all mammoth volumes of ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- naturalistic, and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings ... Wang Chong deplored the degeneration of Confucianism and Daoism into ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered ... At the age of 30, suffering from a severe illness and believing she ...13 KB (2,141 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- [[Image:Destruction of Leviathan.png|right|300px|thumb|"Destruction ... a mythical creature referred to in sections of the Old Testament, and while ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- author and doctor, who lived during the time of Sir Francis Bacon and the emergence ... bearing almost no resemblance to any of his contemporaries, but also ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro ... ) (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- essays taken while traversing the globe for Life Magazine. In addition to being ... whether that required sitting on top of a gargoyle on the Chrysler ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- who is best remembered today as one of the world's most beloved ... culture, and he has influenced a wide range of artists, from other children ...15 KB (2,406 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- ) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of ... and the editing, revising, and collating of them was organized under official ...31 KB (4,609 words) - 00:37, 3 May 2023
- waiting in the imperial court at the height of the Heian period (795–1185 ... The name “Lady Murasaki” refers both to the author of The Tale ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- an American educator and editor. A critic of pragmatism and progressive ... 15, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of William Chase and Ruth Walker ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- The Midianites were a biblical people who occupied territory east ... During the time of the Exodus, their territory apparently also included ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost ... Morley was one of the first composers of madrigals to utilize the ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous ... at 16 and studied theology at the University of Glasgow. He admired the works ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some ... used it to describe a theoretical blending of leftist culturalism and Marxist ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...13 KB (1,876 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") is the name of two related ... walls and the beautiful stained glass images of cathedral windows served a ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was one of the most significant German ... Heine is often labeled the first of the "post-Romantic" ...13 KB (2,100 words) - 08:29, 21 January 2024
- Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a ... == Life and work == Hašek was born in Prague, Bohemia (then within ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:09, 8 February 2023
- novel continued in his other books. The book was partly based on Heller ... Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War satirists ...20 KB (3,184 words) - 17:07, 19 December 2022
- In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus ... John the Baptist also had disciples, as did some of the Old Testament ...15 KB (2,501 words) - 03:45, 31 July 2022
- :This page is about the biblical person Joshua. For the book, see ... help") is a biblical character, whose life is described in the books ...17 KB (2,859 words) - 19:56, 7 September 2022
- to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute the ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who long ... Geronimo embodied the very essence of the Apache values—aggressiveness ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith from ... structure. Before he assumed the leadership of the Faith, the Bahá'í ...19 KB (3,025 words) - 14:24, 27 January 2023
- A scroll is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper which has been ... While a scroll is a roll of paper, papyrus, or parchment, a codex ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author ... He was known for his academic research into a wide range of philosophical ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- faith for strength through the many trials of his somewhat eccentric life. ... Ampère was born near Lyon, France, the son of Jeanne-Antoinette Desutieres ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- 28, 1612) was co-founder, with Thomas Helwys of the modern Baptist denomination ... #039;s College, Cambridge and was a Fellow of the College between 1594 and ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- among the greatest archaeological finds of the modern era, providing many ... Although the existence of the geniza (a Hebrew word meaning a "hiding ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
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- 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature ... view the conflict between the two sides of his personality, the narrow ...14 KB (1,915 words) - 20:02, 26 July 2023
- ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of ... == Life == Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- two brothers were among the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Although Rossetti's poetry was largely overlooked in the wake ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- John Michael Argyle (August 11, 1925 – September 6, 2002) was one ... Argyle's academic career was based at the University of Oxford ...16 KB (2,228 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- The text of the first part of the Shema is as follows: diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- [[Image:Beit Sur1.jpg|thumb|320px|Beth-Zur, one of the sites in the ... archaeologist, known as a key figure of the twentieth century biblical ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
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