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  • and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...
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  • first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...
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  • He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...
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  • 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...
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  • States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... Hempel wrote, "Carnap's ingenious and illuminating methods ...
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  • Empire. It ended in 1676, with the Treaty of Żurawno and the Commonwealth ... The Commonwealth, however, was terminally weakened as a result of ...
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  • Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...
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  • theatre, greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in German ... Weber was the eldest of the three children of Franz Anton von Weber ...
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  • or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...
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  • research revolutionized our understanding of the sensory perception of fish ... Karl von Frisch was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a university ...
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  • 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...
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  • and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among ... Popper was born in Vienna (then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1902 to ...
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  • a philosophical model. He was a close friend of the U.S. German-born theologian ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...
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  • who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...
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  • Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...
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  • influences = Hume, Vienna Circle, Popper, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kant | ... British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly ...
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  • 26, 1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical ... Nevertheless, in 1918 he entered the University of Warsaw intending to ...
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  • Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...
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  • in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... his death: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Of Time and River (1935); and ...
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  • Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...
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  • a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...
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  • 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... in America). Soon the family moved to Vienna, where Wilder attended school ...
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  • an English dramatist, known for his creation of the comedy of intrigue and ... Etherege was one of the early examples of Restoration Comedy, which ...
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  • also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...
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  • images tend to focus on the problems of Christianity in an age of disbelief ... one must "get behind" the thinkers of the past, and achieve a state ...
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  • Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...
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  • 1989) was an American classical pianist of Ukrainian birth. In his prime ... Untouched by the upheavals and prejudices of the time, growing up in a middle ...
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  • Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha ... believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until ...
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  • often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ... ) was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as the second of ...
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  • Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...
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  • ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French ... Antoinette Laurent, was the daughter of a clothing salesman,Pierre ...
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  • in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was one of the leading figures of modernity ... family in a village with the curious name of Caos (Chaos), a poor suburb ...
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  • The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...
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  • to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to Ghettos ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...
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  • who is best known for pioneering works of Bengali poetry. He is popularly ... as a muezzin at a local mosque. He learned of poetry, drama, and literature ...
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  • The Banc d'Arguin National Park lies on the west coast of Mauritania ... It is a major breeding site for migratory birds. A wide range of species ...
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  • a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...
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  • ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...
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  • Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...
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  • The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, St. Catherine of Siena, and Girolamo Savonarola ...
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  • | work_institution = University of Vienna | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = Jean-Martin ...
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  • Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German ... His most famous pieces of writing include his short story Die Verwandlung ...
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  • but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is ...
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  • century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...
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  • - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... who died in 1927 prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, was not ...
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  • Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... 1500), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice. Inspired by the new ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...
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  • He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during ... A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow's work continued ...
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  • 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...
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  • The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks ... hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). ...
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  • from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") ... are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven ...
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  • an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...
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  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...
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  • ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World ...
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  • physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most significant scientists ... that energy is transmitted not in the form of an unbroken (infinitely subdivisible ...
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  • Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... imposed by France and England at the Treaty of Versailles. The economic disaster ...
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  • Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...
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  • modern life. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors ... Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter ...
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  • 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was ... Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, ...
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  • to the color era, Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular ... Hitchcock was the quintessential master of suspense. One aspect that ...
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  • in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and ... Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated ...
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  • Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...
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  • century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and ... rule. Manilal's beliefs led him to search for perfection and love in ...
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  • are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...
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  • born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...
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  • Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...
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  • [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...
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  • Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...
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  • June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...
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  • that it stays aloft primarily by means of a large cavity filled with ... Airships were the first form of aircraft to make controlled, powered ...
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  • #039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...
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  • The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...
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  • Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...
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  • Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...
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  • that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...
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  • The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...
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  • mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...
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  • the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...
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  • Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...
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  • and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...
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  • |+Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |Periods in Office: ... |Place of Birth: |Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire|Woodstock ...
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  • fullerite. Its hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial ... stm "Chinese made first use of diamond,"] BBC News (May ...
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  • a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... for her day. She sought the attention of those who could influence her ...
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  • There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...
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