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- Sir Thomas Malory (c.1405 – March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler ... Few facts are certain in Malory's history. The antiquary John ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... Spenser's poetry, likewise, is more Romantic in the sense that ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders of modern cultural ... The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919), a masterpiece of cultural history ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- is a Christian theologian celebrated in the Western and Eastern Churches ... He was born around 360, possibly in the eastern Roman Empire. Whether ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") is the name of two related ... and biblical lessons. In this light, the art covering Cathedral walls ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- The term "Minor Prophets" refers to the reported authors ... The Minor Prophets, whose exhortations were recorded on a single scroll ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- is best known for her poetry belonging to the confessional school of poets ... people can relate to. Her poetry challenged the myths and superficial values ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- 1851) was an acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He ... those he perceived to be in greater need, the deaf. His care and concern ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- author and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented ... monasteries. As with other religious works, the creative process involved ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the ... The name sitar comes from the Persian language سیتار sehtar; ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- Energy independence is self-sufficiency in terms of the availability ... having useful energy available in adequate amounts to meet the needs ...14 KB (1,937 words) - 20:52, 8 February 2023
- was also important as an early proponent of the Anglo-American system of constitutional ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- The Three Jewels (also called the Three Treasures or Triple Gem) are ... * I take refuge in the Buddha ("The Enlightened" or "Awakened ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- has been written, drawn or painted upon for the purpose of decoration or preserving ... paper, papyrus, or parchment, a codex is a book made of bound sheets; in a ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- and spent much of his productive life in the United States. He is best ... According to his relative of the same name, the Gibran family's ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate ... Using the Cartesian coordinate system, geometric shapes (such as curves ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also ... Consider the set R of all sets that do not contain themselves as members ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 18:15, 22 December 2022
- ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom ... The two earliest biographical sources that mention Jabir are from ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions ... According to Genesis, partaking of the fruit of the Tree of Life would ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- | 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ; "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
- 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
- (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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- [[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
- 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
- Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- 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
- In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or Anti-Christ is a powerful ... Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse ... The "curse of Ham" had been used by some members of Abrahamic ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- The Book of Kells (less widely known as the Book of Columba) is an ... The Book of Kells is the high point of a group of manuscripts produced ...38 KB (6,352 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- He was born around 735 C.E. and became the student of Egbert at York ... He was made abbot of the monastery of Saint Martin of Tours in 796 ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 05:08, 17 June 2023
- The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur ... or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- served in India and Egypt and became one of the most well known colonial officials ... Lord Cromer was one of the most experienced and famous colonial administrators ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy ... The Stoic school flourished in Greece and Rome for almost five centuries ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- Pinyin: Huìnéng) (638 – 713) was one of the most important figures in ... Huineng is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- of text on a medium such as paper or cloth. The machine applies pressure to ... spread rapidly first across Europe and then the rest of the world. Books became ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature ... The period from the fourteenth century up to the nineteenth is considered ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- Lent" in Eastern Orthodxy) is the forty-day period prior to ... and spiritual preparation to commemorate the death and resurrection of ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- psychotherapist of Jewish descent. He coined the term "Gestalt Therapy ... At Gestalt Therapy's core is the promotion of awareness, the ...13 KB (1,898 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- any strict criteria. Some geographers divide the world into six, five, or fewer ... The term "the Continent" (capitalized)—used predominantly ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- is a Chinese Philosophy founded by Mozi in the fifth century B.C.E.. It evolved ... Mohism presented a challenge to the dominant Confucian thought, emphasizing ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. The user, called an abacist, slides ... The abacus is a simple, inexpensive, yet powerful tool for calculation ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- Isaiah or Yeshayáhu (יְשַׁעְיָהוּ "Salvation is ... In his long career spanning the late eighth and early seventh century ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- Apocrypha (from the Greek: ἀπόκρυφα , meaning "hidden" ... ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- activist. Sontag was an original, who broke the mold, creating a new role ... from North Hollywood High School at the age of 15. She began her undergraduate ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it ... formats than familiar comic magazines, using the same materials and methods ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- "god" or "God." In the English Bible, the derivative ... In the Bible, El was the deity worshiped by the Hebrew patriarchs ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Satan (meaning "accuser") represents the arch enemy of God ... The concept of an anthropomorpized demonic figure (or archetype) is ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- both tertiary and quaternary education. The word university is derived ... of great personal development, but have the reputation of isolation or ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism ... Godwin held the optimistic view that every individual, as a rational ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne ... Aquinas, with whom he worked closely at the Studium Generalein (Dominican ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- to transmit Tantric Buddhism to Tibet during the eighth century, and, according ... Many details about the life of Padmasambhava are debated including ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- April 26, 1938), philosopher, is known as the "father" of phenomenology ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theater ... Born in Stockholm, Strindberg was the fourth son of Carl Oscar Strindberg ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- Hermiae and of Damascius, was one of the last of the Greek Neoplatonists ... on Aristotle's De caelo (“On the Heavens”), Physics, De anima ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- 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
- Greek) was a serpent demon who represented the forces of chaos, death, and ... As counter-examples, one should note that the creator god Atum was occasionally ...22 KB (3,545 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- , was an Indian philosopher and statesman, the second president of India ... Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- meaning "Could-be-ism") is the Jain doctrine of epistemological ... complex, no single proposition can express the nature of reality fully. Thus ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 00:56, 21 April 2023
- The Gospel of Mary is an ancient Christian text rediscovered by scholars ... Two Greek fragments of the Gospel of Mary were discovered (Papyrus ...15 KB (2,491 words) - 18:05, 27 December 2022
- in a pioneer family. Her best known book from The 'Little House ... and yet in her lifetime she witnessed all the major changes that transformed ...19 KB (2,983 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Sheba may be derived from the ancient Egyptian word for star. According ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic ... Heller is widely regarded as one of the best post-World War satirists ...20 KB (3,184 words) - 17:07, 19 December 2022
- and philosopher, who pioneered bridging the Far Eastern world and the ... tradition also helped Asians to recapture the values of their religious ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- wedding"), or Hierogamy, refers to the coupling of a god and goddess ... The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- instrument for finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized ... a magnetic device using a needle to indicate the direction of the magnetic ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce ... County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, grew up in the midst of poverty. The suffering ... democracy, that it was meant to ensure the promises of life, liberty ...25 KB (3,909 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal ... Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle ... was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst of the Freudian school. He contributed ...11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
- :This article is about the wooden implement. [[Image:Boomerang.jpg ... or tribal origin and intended function. The most recognizable type is ...18 KB (2,904 words) - 19:33, 20 November 2023
- that seeks to portray common values of the ordinary individual, as opposed ... In theater, the naturalism movement developed in the late nineteenth ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device ... The most intensively studied traditions of alliterative verse are ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- Egyptologist who served as director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, ... He became involved in fighting against the illegal export of Egyptian ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses may ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- published in 1907. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because ... a trilogy about life in Norway in the Middle Ages, portrayed through ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- Joseph (also Joseph the Betrothed, Joseph of Nazareth, and Joseph ... According the Matthew's Gospel, Joseph agonized over Mary's ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym of the twentieth century Irish novelist ... O'Brien's works are considered classics of the modernist ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- conversation between two or more entities. The etymological origins of the ... by non-verbal signals, behaviors, as the etymology connotes, dialogue ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- 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
- an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for ... Hobbes was one of the first political philosophers who tried to explain ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτίνος)(ca. 205–270), the ancient philosopher ... six years old when he died in 270 c.e., the second year of the reign of ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- gender, race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- collaborated closely with Karl Marx in the foundation of modern Communism ... 2 and 3 from Marx's drafts and notes (the final volume was completed ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 11:02, 11 April 2024
- Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of ... That change, often known as the Copernican revolution, had important ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- Greek τραγωδία, "song for the goat," is any event with ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal ... was written of in ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- In Jewish folklore, a golem (from the Hebrew "gelem" ((גלם ... However, in many tales the golem outgrows his master physically, becoming ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ... Al-Kindī established the tradition that was later developed by Avicenna ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 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
- critic whose life spans two major phases in the development of French literature ... Gautier's eclectic output and changing opinions makes him one ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- interest in others." It is one of the ten pāramitās of the Theravāda ... The object of mettā meditation is loving kindness (love without attachment ...28 KB (4,040 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- for defensive jihad by Muslims to help the Afghan mujahideen against ... Azzam moved to Saudi Arabia in the 1970s, teaching at King Abdul Aziz ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey ... Chaucer is generally considered not only the father of English literature ...31 KB (5,016 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the ... In the Hebrew Bible, Edom is a name given to Esau in the as well as ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published ... Under Budge's directorship, the British Museum came to hold arguably ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- Miyamoto Bennosuke or Miyamoto Musana), was the best-known Japanese swordsman ... but he gradually came to realize that the strategic principles and practical ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, the Mount Hermon ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- dance artist and theorist, whose work laid the foundations for Laban Movement ... One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts ... The terms used for courtly love during the medieval period itself ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... early Greek poet traditionally credited with the composition of the epic poems ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... than 2,500 years. It is renowned as one of the founding cities of Western ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- As a refusenik and dissident, he became a member of the Moscow Helsinki ... 2005, he was a Minister without portfolio in the Israeli government, responsible ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- of Christian Socialism. Tawney influenced the British Labour Party through ... on November 30, 1880, in Calcutta, India, the son of a respected Sanskrit ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- :This article is about the French utopian socialist. For the mathematician ... reconstruction of society based on idea that the natural passions of man would ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- Christian doctrine, which claims that during the Eucharistic meal, the sacramental ... The doctrine of Transubstantiation was criticized or misinterpreted ...30 KB (4,681 words) - 02:14, 2 May 2023
- Cille or Columcille (meaning "Dove of the Church"). He was renowned ... In 521 C.E., Colm Cille (the future Columba) was born to Fedlimid ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 19:21, 22 December 2022
- ) is a city in south-central Poland on the Warta River. It was formed ... The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons ... Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- " His work included development of the concept of anomie, derived ... Jewish immigrant family. Educated in the South Philadelphia High School ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born into ... theory, based on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, it ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- Latinized as icthus, ichthus or ikhthus), is the Ancient and Classical Greek ... and now known colloquially as the "sign of the fish" or ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- theory, to sociology and anthropology. The most notable aspects of Bourdieu ... Bourdieu studied philosophy in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure ...23 KB (3,373 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- or Shabbes in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between individuals ... Despite the work of these intellectual heavyweights, the value of ...31 KB (4,685 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- been published in digital formats. Use of the term "sheet" is ... Although the role of sheet music, as a recording medium, is similar ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- Calligraphy (from the Greek meaning κάλλος kallos "beauty" + ... found in various cultures throughout the world and whose origins date ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- and optics. He is particularly known for the unit of magnetism that bears ... and righteousness. He believed in a life beyond the grave. ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during ... Thomas' sensationalized reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- The term medieval music encompasses European music written during ... The only medieval music which can be studied is that which was written ...36 KB (5,655 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties ... MacNeice was born in Belfast, the youngest son of John Frederick and ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- lower levels. Most commonly, rivers flow on the surface of the land, but there ... spring, lake, from damp, boggy places where the soil is waterlogged, from ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- was alive, with unfortunate consequences for the mothers of autistic children ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- uses a reed, in addition to air provided by the player, to create a distinctive ... Perhaps because of the ancient nature of their sound, the bagpipes ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- was a fourth century Roman historian. His is the last major historical account ... He lacked the linguistic style of Tacitus, being at times turgid and ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 07:33, 25 July 2023
- Bonduca) (d. 60 - 61 C.E.) is a heroine of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni people ... Suetonius Paulinus was leading a campaign on the island of Anglesey in north ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 19:55, 20 November 2023
- [[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...31 KB (4,884 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- 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
- August 4, 1598) was an English politician, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth ... avoiding dangers. He served as Secretary to the Protector of King Edward, ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- German for "Master," referring to the academic title of Master of ... Meister Eckhart can be considered a symbol of the intellectual spirit ...18 KB (2,801 words) - 04:17, 9 November 2022
- Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas ... Her name is virtually identical to that Menrva, the Etruscan goddess ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- [[Image:Universum.jpg|thumb|300px|Colorized version of the Flammarion ... The term panentheism (meaning "all-in-God") was coined by ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- a German religious leader and participant in the resistance movement against ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- and geographer who helped to introduce the new scientific principles ... most significant work, De naturis rerum (On the Natures of Things), a compendium ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- a time when other modernists were describing the dread, alienation, and absurdity ... and spiritual realization were explored in the genre-expanding Steppenwolf ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- to al-Biruni he was born in Rayy, Iran in the year 865 C.E. (251 a.h.), ... The modern-day Razi Institute in Tehran, and Razi University in Kermanshah ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Eden) is described by the Book ... Eden is described as a paradise where the first man and woman lived ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost ... Austria, and Italo Svevo in Italy is one of the seminal figures of Modernist ...21 KB (3,300 words) - 03:06, 6 November 2022
- Trnka graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design ... He was dubbed "the Walt Disney of the East" Edgar Dutka ...21 KB (3,254 words) - 02:02, 9 February 2023
- Shute's engineering background found its way into his novels ... Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, he was educated at the Dragon ...19 KB (3,017 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- Pedagogy, literally translated, is the art or science of teaching ... on teachers being able to embrace both the art and science of pedagogy ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- novelist, poet, and critic. Scott was among the first to draw upon history ... Scott’s works follow the transition from the eighteenth century ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- 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
- 1, consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. The player of the joke or hoax ... beneficial or harmful. Laughter is good for the individual, and the coming ...22 KB (3,192 words) - 15:56, 11 August 2023
- allegedly reigned for less than two years in the 850s C.E. under the name Pope ... from Saint Peter's Basilica to the Lateran. She was apparently ...24 KB (4,035 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- Owl is the common name for any of the birds of prey comprising the ... They are found in all regions of the Earth except Antarctica, most ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 19:47, 20 July 2023
- The Ohio River is the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi ... The Hopewell culture developed on its shores 2,000 years ago. By the ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- The island of Delos (Greek: Δήλος, Dhilos, meaning "clear ... Legend states that Delos, the island of sun, appeared from amid the ...9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance ... More broadly, the term entheogen is used to refer to such substances ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
