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- An ILS is usually comprised of a relational database, software to ... General information retrieval systems have become more advanced. Search ...16 KB (2,219 words) - 22:54, 5 February 2023
- King Cheoljong (1831 - 1863) (r. 1849-1863) was the 25th king of the ... When he took the throne in the middle of the nineteenth century, the ...11 KB (1,646 words) - 07:55, 13 January 2023
- Category:Education jpg|thumb|300 px|Walton Hall, headquarters of the Open University. (Artist: ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- by Charles Findley in the 1980s as part of his research on future trends ... in various fields toady, including education and business. While professional ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- to as ADS) is a digital library portal of over 7,000,000 astronomy and ... had a significant impact on the efficiency of astronomical research since ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 18:28, 19 August 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
- documents, files, publications, or a group of publications. It is often listed ... The traditional back-of-the-book index is a list of words that point ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks ... HM Stanley Hospital, St Asaph) until the age of 15. After completing an elementary ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:07, 8 February 2022
- 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
- - October 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... sympathy for the vision in God and aspects of occasionalism and Berkeley ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- mystic and poet who is now revered as one of the most influential Persian ... its early part; there is a great deal of more or less mythical anecdote ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution, particularly ... articles, peer reviews, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but ...16 KB (2,155 words) - 22:54, 5 February 2023
- artifacts. Although he received no formal education of any sort, Carter became ... a new trend in archaeological practices of preservation, which together ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... watched Public Broadcasting Service program in history. ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... most recognizable structure on the campus of Kyoto University]] ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (JOKB) Korea's largest denomination ... The Jogye order came fully into prominence following the end of the ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 06:43, 5 April 2024
- educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ... From 1839 to the mid-1840s she organized discussion groups of women ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- 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
- A computer museum is a museum devoted to the preservation, education ... Some computer museums are part of science museums, while some are ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 02:34, 8 January 2024
- – December 9, 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from May 8, 1978 ... to educate peacemakers. He was the founder of the University for Peace, established ...13 KB (1,884 words) - 14:31, 28 June 2023
- who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... He saw the family as the first social setting in which education takes ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- Category:Education [[Image:New_York_Public_Library_030616.jpg|300px ... The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading libraries ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:49, 14 November 2022
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |name = University of Tokyo |native_name = 東京大学 (Tōkyō ...19 KB (2,825 words) - 22:33, 23 June 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- ) is a province of China located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze ... Chongqing to the northwest. The capital city of the province is Changsha. ...18 KB (2,479 words) - 12:20, 4 February 2023
- ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... individual piety and submission to the will of "heaven," or "Shang ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- Bimbisara (ruled 544-491 B.C.E.) was a king of the Magadha empire ... peaceful relations with most if not all of his peers. He is legendary ...11 KB (1,687 words) - 17:43, 31 October 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
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
- to maintaining an online library and archive of Web and multimedia resources ... historians, and scholars. It is a member of the American Library Association ...28 KB (4,060 words) - 10:40, 6 March 2024
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- 1772 – September 27, 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the ... movement that has given birth to a number of leaders of the Bengali social ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources, and ... quot; aspect, or improve the popular image of librarians. ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- Online shopping is the process of researching and purchasing products ... ” and pays with a credit card or some form of electronic payment. The products ...28 KB (4,204 words) - 00:40, 18 November 2022
- total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- famous for his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- leader from Friesland (today a province of The Netherlands). His followers ... 'Free' Frisians to accept the duke of Saxony-Meissen as their head ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 04:32, 9 November 2022
- 30, 1969) was a British psychologist, one of the pioneers of cognitive and ... England. After receiving a private education, he entered St. John's ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 10:25, 11 April 2024
- Category:Education [[Image:Tee-ball wity Peace Corps volunteer, Honduras ... Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and wrote ... He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- 29, 1618) is famed as a writer and poet. One of the last true "Renaissance ... primarily for his poems, yet only 560 lines of his verse remain. He is not ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:28, 3 May 2023
- at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute ... a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon. There has ...23 KB (3,215 words) - 21:58, 21 October 2022
- Category:Education Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences ... unfettered by concerns about conditions of their employment will be more ...21 KB (3,170 words) - 03:41, 30 April 2023
- 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- India. He is best known as the founder of the Arya Samaj "Society ... who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda advocated ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University ... |caption= Shield of Emory University |motto=Cor prudentis possidebit ...26 KB (3,754 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression. While most ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- economist and political theorist, and one of the founders of the Saint-Simonian ... Paris, France, on February 8, 1796, the son of a banker from Dauphiné. After ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...16 KB (2,495 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America ... | death_place = Covington, Louisiana, United States of America ...9 KB (1,310 words) - 18:46, 17 April 2023
- The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to ... In March of 1955, Mrs. Dorothy Chandler began fundraising toward a ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- #039;s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...14 KB (2,168 words) - 09:59, 22 May 2023
- Noguchi was born into poverty and became handicapped when, at the ... Noguchi received a number of awards during his lifetime and after ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- known for propagating the Vaishnava doctrine of bhedabheda dvaitadvaita, duality ... and non-duality. He defines three categories of existence, God (Isvara), souls ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... little scholarly attention in the histories of the period. As a stateswoman ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products ... A small percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically ...21 KB (3,064 words) - 16:00, 13 February 2024
- modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- was the co-founder, with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People ... Corrigan gained recognition as a promoter of peace and justice that has ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University ... |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) which sold over two million ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- which is the organization and management of information services or materials ... today are required to have a high degree of diversified and specialized ...23 KB (3,189 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2023
- Category:Education Category:Law Category:Sociology in employment, housing, or education—but also to redress the ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together with ... Influenced by the ideals of the United States Declaration of Independence ...15 KB (2,196 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- name Jalalu'ddin has the meaning Majesty of Religion. Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and ... While the details of his claims regarding locations mentioned in Homer ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Devanāgarī: ... and technology-oriented institute of higher education established ...32 KB (4,594 words) - 21:31, 11 November 2021
- 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- on many spiritual topics, including history, astrology, and health. ... he was a prophet pointing to hidden depths of, and new possibilities for ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 18:08, 12 February 2024
- AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, ... was not a fraud. He died during the Imamat of Imam Ja'far al- Sadiq ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...30 KB (4,393 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Born into a prosperous ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- to orphanages, such as children born out of wedlock or into poor families ... At the beginning of the twenty-first century more than 200 million ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
- known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 16:38, 29 July 2023
- 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 ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 02:44, 5 November 2022
- (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal, located at ... at an average elevation of 1,247 m (4,100 feet). The town serves as ...23 KB (3,408 words) - 02:28, 5 October 2022
- 5) served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers—the ... the next several years until the outbreak of World War I, which would ultimately ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 20:10, 16 January 2024
- الدین ایبک) was a Turkic ruler of medieval India, the first Sultan ... Muslim conflict, violence and persecution of one community by the other ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- and technology toward benefiting the lives of everyday people. Despite the ... Carver said that in his search for truth he embraced both faith and ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution ... Book Review and Booklist affect the sales of the book and critics play an ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023
- energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... The Caymans are one of the most popular tourist attractions in the ...26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... Malta has had a long and turbulent history. Situated in the middle ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...29 KB (4,299 words) - 07:54, 24 January 2023
- Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... manufacturing, communications, and education center. It serves as a ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- playwright, and essayist. With the end of Realism and its attempt to ... Sologub had much in common with the French writers of the fin de siècle ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 07:25, 15 April 2024
- Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews ... by the Ottoman government in 1666. Some of his followers quickly interpreted ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... His observations represented the excitement of sociological discovery, made ...22 KB (3,185 words) - 06:41, 20 July 2023
- The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras ... A major city of Hindu learning, Varanasi is commonly referred to as ...18 KB (2,802 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism. He was a political ... Bentham argued in favor of individual and economic freedom, including ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 07:56, 3 April 2024
- potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...35 KB (4,855 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the Court for many of her final ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 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
- Santa Fe de Bogotá, is the capital city of the South American nation of ... financial, and political center of Colombia. As with many large ...33 KB (4,818 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- perception, and suggested that all knowledge of objects outside the self comes ... work “La citta del sole” (The City of the Sun). == Life == ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary ... Our understanding of the nature of physical existence derives in large ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 08:56, 18 November 2022
- This concept of a "Dark Age" was first created by Italian ... out that this idea was based on ignorance of the period combined with popular ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- ) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ... Huangbo developed the concept of oneness of beings, one of the central ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 20:57, 7 February 2024
- objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz (975-996) at the age of 11 on October 14, 996 with ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- traditional societies in certain regions of the world, particularly among ... rulings against it, is the existence of an "outcaste" group ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ... involves political science, economics, history, anthropology, and many ...31 KB (4,566 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes ... Researchers in this field analyze states of happiness, flow, values ...40 KB (5,742 words) - 16:04, 12 September 2023
- Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- a Major League club when he became manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1978. us/Culture062003.html Larry Doby, part of history, “courage, dignity ...22 KB (3,428 words) - 17:46, 25 October 2022
- movement occurring in the last years of the nineteenth century and ... even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude ...15 KB (2,276 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- for buttons would be eliminated and the size of the device would be further reduced. ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- [[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- he has now come to be regarded as one of the four or so most important ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...16 KB (2,250 words) - 20:22, 11 September 2021
- The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... Aristotelian concepts in their theories of ethics and politics. Aristotle ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- Ecotourism, or ecological tourism, is a type of tourism in which the ... tourism supports conservation through education by offering tourists insight ...36 KB (5,227 words) - 15:44, 5 July 2023
- that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
- The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula ... Shilla, numbered among the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Beginning as a chiefdom ...16 KB (2,364 words) - 22:07, 29 January 2023
- in England. He is most famous as a student of Peter Paul Rubens and for his ... By the age of 15 he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... === Childhood and education === Rudolf Steiner was born on February ...49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
- and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following the ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...33 KB (4,943 words) - 18:26, 26 February 2024
- by the Germans, though remained a prisoner of war and was not sent to a concentration ... other things, such issues as the meaning of life, death, love, and the ...17 KB (2,583 words) - 18:22, 13 February 2024
- ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... back to the mid nineteenth century as part of a British development of the ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with ... Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 22:36, 5 February 2023
- Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ... While disasters are by definition tragic, resulting in great loss ...28 KB (4,048 words) - 15:27, 29 January 2024
- 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition ... The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic ...36 KB (5,546 words) - 10:43, 9 March 2023
- conflict caused by the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces ... which resulted in a humanitarian crisis of huge proportion. Images of ...31 KB (4,828 words) - 22:13, 28 November 2023
- Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes ... transitions from print to electronic formats of publication; publications on ...19 KB (2,769 words) - 07:11, 14 June 2023
- Penicillin (sometimes abbreviated PCN) refers to a group of β-lactam ... are often viewed negatively as causes of food spoilage and plant and ...17 KB (2,357 words) - 07:15, 23 November 2022
- Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in search of a direct sea route to ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- 2019) was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving ... state sector industries, ended subsidization of loss-making industries, sold ...25 KB (3,662 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... ) is an Eurasian island nation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... power for the first and only time in its history, an occupation that lasted ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- :Note: This article is about the institution and office of the Dalai ... The Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") is an institution ...29 KB (4,223 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- Maine and Vermont were considered part of other colonies at the time ... freedom. Massachusetts was also one of the key colonies in the events ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ... refugee protection is the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado ... During the period of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Gadamer. Ricoeur published a large body of work on a variety of philosophical ... himself from a more modern understanding of the knowing subject as limited ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- and administrator and a close associate of Joseph Stalin. Kaganovich was ... As a trusted lieutenant, Stalin used Kaganovich to implement some ...19 KB (2,687 words) - 06:04, 6 March 2023
- and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement ... to philosophy and criticized his lack of understanding about the role ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- — is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná ... widest estuary in the world. It forms part of the border between Argentina ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- novelist, and dramatist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best ... Hurston's uniquely autobiographical style of relaying her anthropological ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor ... bias have been found in a wide range of political, organizational, ...53 KB (7,755 words) - 16:46, 10 May 2023
- Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious ... In the first sense, creationism (not to be confused with the doctrine ...31 KB (4,607 words) - 06:18, 11 January 2024
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- Quebec City or Québec (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of ... the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- referred to the animal by the feminine name of Nessie. sightings as hoaxes or misidentification of known creatures or natural ...23 KB (3,593 words) - 16:55, 6 November 2023
- Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...37 KB (5,078 words) - 17:20, 15 April 2021
- – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science ... Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- Category:Education Category:Library and information science ... The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 02:43, 22 November 2023
- [[Image:Paper 450x450.jpg|thumb|right|Sheet of paper]] Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibers ...25 KB (4,009 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an ... based on historic events and individuals of the fifth century and sixth ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- research ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous ... social status and the social structures of society, social change, social ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... engineer. Those licensed in specific areas of engineering may have formal ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... in 1948. Although it enjoyed a stable period of democracy and economic progress ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- 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 ...29 KB (4,338 words) - 09:35, 11 April 2024
- main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... to believe” doctrine, the pragmatic theory of truth, radical empiricism, ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in ... The Federated States of Micronesia is located in the region known ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish ... or Ayyoubides. Under Saladin, founder of the dynasty, Egypt became the ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor, and she still holds ...19 KB (3,058 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2024
- The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking ... During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous ...36 KB (5,482 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- ) is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated ... land" in Innuktitut, the language of Inuit. It is one of the most ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- volume Latin dictionary in the University Library of Graz.]] and other information; or a list of words in one language with ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- ::See herbalism for the non-Chinese tradition of herbology. ... ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- – February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population, known ... incredible geological diversity in the form of snowcapped mountains to well ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- ) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary ... used in the People's Republic of China on Mainland China, Singapore ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... in the eighteenth century, among a group of men including John Wesley and ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks ... hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). ...48 KB (7,277 words) - 23:46, 30 November 2022
- Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... social, and economic problems. As a result of mismanagement, very few natural ...32 KB (4,684 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...35 KB (5,252 words) - 06:40, 28 February 2023
- 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ... Invited to join anthropological expeditions as a photographer of native ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, St. Catherine of Siena, and Girolamo Savonarola ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most important twenieth ... Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract style did not come about ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- 1904 – September 24, 1991) is the author of several classic children's ... war effort against Nazi Germany, and some of his children's books are ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- Behavior therapy is a form of psychotherapy used to treat depression ... The history of behavior therapy progressed during the same time that ...21 KB (3,092 words) - 16:57, 2 February 2024
- Ahmadiyya) refers to the followers of a controversial religious movement ... Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam (Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... subcultural divisions among themselves; two of the largest are White Hmong ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- 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 ...30 KB (4,449 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- most famous and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- - 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 ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- American cultural anthropologist, a pioneer of the feminist movement in America ... and an emphasis on the importance of early childhood development ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 03:56, 6 November 2022
- is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan and northern Guangdong ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the Popes of the Renaissance ... He was renowned for his mistresses but also for his patronage of the ...30 KB (4,978 words) - 14:44, 18 July 2023
- American public intellectual, was a scholar of extraordinary range who made ... energy to developing and promoting his style of libertarianism, developing ...36 KB (5,322 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (329–January 25, 389 C.E.), also known ... The promulgation of his (at times contested) theological perspectives ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 17:26, 17 February 2023
- Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and ... markets for consumer goods and services of all kinds tend to expand and ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the conflicts in the Horn of ... For both countries, whose people needed education and development and health ...22 KB (3,294 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and ... rule. Manilal's beliefs led him to search for perfection and love in ...44 KB (6,296 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore petroleum reserves ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of ... Thompson himself became a central figure in the 1960s and 1970s ethos ...43 KB (6,622 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2024
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... eighteenth century Boston was the location of several major events surrounding ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... people. They have been at the forefront of the cultural clash that came ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
- ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder ... The discovery of gold on January 24, 1848, by Sutter's carpenter ...21 KB (3,406 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- Category:Education Category:library and information science ... [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...43 KB (6,032 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... Long the seat of culture within Ireland, it has been at the center ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
