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- to World Wide Web content that is not part of the surface Web, which is indexed ... Password-protected log-in required databases are a type of deep web ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 18:13, 4 June 2020
- During thirty years at Princeton University, he studied the cultures ... Clifford Geertz was born in San Francisco, California in 1926. He ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- observatory located in San Diego County, California, 90 miles southeast of ... celestial discoveries, including hundreds of asteroids; the Eris dwarf planet; ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume ... As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines ...24 KB (3,505 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- Lama) in the Gelugpa (Dge-lugs-pa) sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The Panchen ... The current (eleventh) incarnation of the Panchen Lama is a matter ...11 KB (1,374 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
- Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide ... and social issues. Due to the global nature of a web environment, complex ...15 KB (2,211 words) - 23:25, 3 May 2023
- to the preservation, education, and study of computers. Computer museums ... Some computer museums are part of science museums, while some are ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 02:34, 8 January 2024
- Boysenberry is the common name for a hybrid plant of the blackberry/raspberry ... (which work as antioxidants), and a source of iron. The boysenberry is a ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 22:33, 20 November 2023
- open access archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields ... In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers ...14 KB (1,942 words) - 20:17, 11 August 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
- in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution, particularly ... For a university, this would include materials such as research journal ...16 KB (2,155 words) - 22:54, 5 February 2023
- June 3, 1953, with inventing the modern game of baseball. Abner Doubleday was once credited with the invention of baseball, ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 09:07, 18 July 2023
- 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer ... the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế ... from the fifteenth century during the reign of Le Thanh Thong, one of the ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- ), located in southwest Sichuan province of China, serves as the home ... Approximately 1,600 Panda, a revered national symbol of China, live ...13 KB (1,731 words) - 20:05, 21 April 2023
- organization dedicated to the public purpose of furthering access to the world ... eContent provider, in 2002 and owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a ...15 KB (2,039 words) - 00:39, 18 November 2022
- Methodic doubt is a systematic process of withholding assent regarding ... ===Aim of Descartes’s Methodic Doubt === Descartes exemplified his ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 16:27, 9 November 2022
- 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
- prehistory, which he combined with his love of Africa, developing the idea ... East Africa (now Kenya), into the family of Harry and Mary Leakey, Christian ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 02:54, 4 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was a leader ... In his book, Soul on Fire, he renounced many of his former attitudes ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2024
- |image = [[Image:Stanford University Hoover Tower.JPG|165px]] ... |name = Leland Stanford Junior University |motto = de|Die ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- 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
- 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
- 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
- She is considered one of the twentieth century's greatest classical ... in Adelaide, South Australia, the youngest of four children born to Jessie ...26 KB (3,842 words) - 18:10, 24 January 2024
- and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film of the same name starring Jodie ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- best be described as a female embodiment of enlightened energy. Although ... functions, are linked with the revelation of the Anuttara Yoga Tantras or ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- in the earliest-known religious system of the Han Chinese people. The ... seemingly understood as a composite ancestor of the ruling dynasty. From the ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 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
- 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
- psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology. He ... His humanistic model allowed psychologists and students of psychology ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
- [[Image:Glieseupdated.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Artist's impression ... Extraterrestrial life is the term used to define any form of life ...28 KB (4,265 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to ... to have been the author of the phrase "Information Superhighway ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- the Indo-Aryan language. Populations of Dravidian speakers live mainly ... The origins of the Dravidian people and language has been difficult ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- Brown dwarfs are celestial objects ranging in mass between that of ... Early theories concerning the nature of the lowest mass stars and ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise in Mie prefecture, in southeastern ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- An otter is any member of 13 extant species of semi-aquatic and aquatic ... being generally at or near the top of food chains, consuming fish ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- 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
- John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one ... conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth century. His ...27 KB (4,116 words) - 07:52, 3 August 2022
- - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... on another whaling ship and in the California Gold Rush, Manjiro risked ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- reason for the survival and prosperity of the Korean people in the face ... Although a variety of different Asian peoples had migrated to the ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 6 March 2024
- States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... Hempel wrote, "Carnap's ingenious and illuminating methods ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal ... term held by ancient Indians to be redolent of fecundity and the many blessings ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- Iðunn (romanized "Idun") is one of the goddesses of the ... Despite the lack of any evidence of extensive cultic worship, Idun ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began ... The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 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
- – January 24, 1965) was a Russian philosopher, representative of ... concerned with theology than with the task of working out a system of metaphysics ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination. The underlying ... admissions, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination|right ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- 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
- travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... Wilder attended school. After dropping out of the University of Vienna, Wilder ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- Thomas Jefferson following the acquisition of vast western territories from ... with the Native Americans with the help of the Shoshone Indian woman Sacajawea ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained ... ==Usage of the term "engine"== Originally, an engine was ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Gazelle is the common name for any of the various small, swift antelopes ... running ability requires stealth on the part of the predators to get close ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- goddess married to Shiva (the ascetic god of destruction). She is seen as ... Mythologically, Parvati is considered a representation of Shakti, ...16 KB (2,503 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2022
- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- Cantor dedicated much of his life for caring for others needs. He ... Cantor was born Israel Iskowitz in New York City, the son of Russian ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- {{Infobox University-Jen | name = Kyoto University | native_name = 京都大学 | ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- material, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity ... mid-twentieth century that it became a part of western mainstream culture ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- 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
- Matchmaking is the process of introducing a couple as potential partners ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- reverence for Mother nature, and worship of the Goddess. The movement received ... claimed that Wicca had secretly existed for thousands of years, originating ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- :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
- 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
- to describe the rapidly increasing amount of published information and the ... ==Use of the term "Information explosion"== The Online Oxford ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 22:50, 5 February 2023
- explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions ... economic growth and emergence as centers of technological innovation, and ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family ... a distinct species, C. hircus. It was one of the first animals domesticated ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- 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
- [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...20 KB (2,817 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- state, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... over 4,600 acres (7.2 mi² or 18.6 km²) of ski-able terrain; Timberline ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- she was understood as the protector of the Lower Kingdom, and represented ... In classical Egyptian religion, Bast was the subject of considerable ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- 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
- |death_place=Whittier, California, U.S. |occupation=Photographer ... 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- western traditions. Like many other types of dances it has certain rules ... Like America itself, country/western dancing is a melting pot of many ...30 KB (4,759 words) - 14:54, 17 April 2024
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century Romanticism ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- face. The most widely distributed member of the bear family, Ursidae, it ... concern species with a total population of approximately 200,000. Its ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,250 words) - 20:22, 11 September 2021
- 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
- 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
- psychiatric hospitals. He also had a number of hits covering old R & B ... Taylor was part of a wave of singer-songwriters of the time that also ...20 KB (2,798 words) - 16:08, 8 February 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
- In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is a major component of ... According to present observations of structures larger than galaxies ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 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
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University ... a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon. There has ...23 KB (3,215 words) - 21:58, 21 October 2022
- A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction ... geometrically accurate representations of three-dimensional space, while ...20 KB (3,039 words) - 03:02, 6 November 2022
- |flag=[[File:Flag of the Comanche Nation.svg|center|225px]] ... |popplace=United States (Oklahoma, Texas, California) |rels=Christianity ...41 KB (6,731 words) - 00:03, 8 January 2024
- Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was the author ... Castaneda's descriptions of psychedelic experiences stood apart ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 15:23, 27 November 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
- ) 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
- 26, 1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical ... Nevertheless, in 1918 he entered the University of Warsaw intending to ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- 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
- largest by mass. It is 17 times the mass of Earth and slightly more massive ... ) is a stylized version of Poseidon's Trident. Neptune's ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- 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
- 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
- نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo-Assyrian Empire ... c. 612 B.C.E. In the Bible, it was the site of Jonah's famous preaching ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles ... entirely autobiographical. As the title of his column suggested (Notes ...22 KB (3,383 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean ... early explorations settled on the island of Hispaniola. He founded the ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first child of the painter Orazio Gentileschi ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- in the late eleventh century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern ... Surrounded by enemies, Hassan dispatched teams of trained assassins ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- pan out, and she would later retract some of them, but they were always ... fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosis when Susan was ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 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
- Asia. He is credited with the translation of some 1,330 fascicles of scriptures ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- 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
- goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose worship ... Additionally, she was worshiped as a deity of rebirth in connection with ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze ... Pure crystals of garnet are used as gemstones. In addition, garnet ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- 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
- which supported the general allegations of espionage by Julius, though ... tried to match the military capacity of the other in pursuance of the ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and ... for Best Actor for his role in East of Eden. Upon receiving a second ...56 KB (8,516 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- Open access publishing is a form of publishing that allows users free ... , music, fine arts, or any product of intellectual activity. In this ...20 KB (2,877 words) - 00:47, 18 November 2022
- 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
- leaves with five leaflets, clusters of small flowers, and red to brown ... The high concentration of caffeine in the seeds, which is more concentrated ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- 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
- ) 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
- teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western ... as Earp gained iconic status to counter that of the outlaws against whom they ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- 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
- [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... accompanied by the claim that the blood of victims is used in various ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at the age of 12 that he was going to be ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ... ==History of Service Learning== Service learning can be traced back ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- 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
- The Cretan War (205 B.C.E.–200 B.C.E.) was fought by King Philip ... and economy suffering from the depredations of the pirates, Philip believed ...30 KB (4,711 words) - 00:32, 27 December 2021
- Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... Chinese dominate almost all the economies of Southeast Asia, and have sometimes ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- 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
- Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval ... is integral to ancient Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict ...56 KB (8,963 words) - 04:38, 18 November 2022
- de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. appeared in the December 17, 2002, issue of Publishers Weekly, Shel Silverstein ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- Setesh, Seteh) was originally the god of the desert, one of the two ... beliefs threatened by foreigners, that many of their myths, legends and religious ...29 KB (4,585 words) - 10:05, 26 January 2023
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- Broadly defined, wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder ... they offer a natural biocontrol of agricultural pests, since so ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 23:13, 3 May 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
- Kelly was a major exponent of twentieth century filmed dance, known ... Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and ...40 KB (6,390 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- 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
- large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal ... predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... in the lower 48 states at 35 square miles of snow and glaciers. It also ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 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
- 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
- she was prominent as the wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus. Isis' origins are uncertain but the first mention of the deity ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- distinctive cinema that arose in the context of the changing era of the Bolshevik ... ) into a family of Jewish intellectuals in Białystok, Congress Poland ...19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
- 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
- traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy (書聖). Wang ... is the most well-known and most-copied piece of Chinese calligraphy. It describes ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 22:52, 3 May 2023
- The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York ... often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
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- There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the speed of light in a vacuum c * the electric constant ε0, ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
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- Paleoanthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology and paleontology ... Of great interest to this field is the theory of human evolution, ...20 KB (2,921 words) - 11:00, 11 March 2023
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- 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
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- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 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
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- Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow ... news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- [[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
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- late seventeenth century. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement ... harboring messianic pretensions at the age of 22, he gathered followers and ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:16, 26 January 2023
- 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
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- 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
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- Northern India with the life and teachings of Guru Nanak and nine successive ... As a religion, philosophy and way of life, Sikhism is centered on ...38 KB (5,913 words) - 22:00, 29 January 2023
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- by the growing hegemonic influence of Athens, which undermined the ... The Peloponnesian War reshaped the Ancient Greek world. On the level ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...63 KB (9,343 words) - 03:27, 24 July 2023
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- was one of the most important deities in Norse mythology. He was said ... Freyr was also one of the esteemed Vanir (a race of Norse gods) and ...27 KB (4,366 words) - 02:39, 1 December 2023
- The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere ... Lovelock hypothesized that the living matter of the planet functioned in many ...30 KB (4,599 words) - 11:57, 4 December 2023
- used in nuclear medicine for a wide variety of diagnostic tests. 99Tc is used ... Before the element was discovered, many of the properties of element ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
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- The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...33 KB (4,933 words) - 21:55, 31 January 2024
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- all are independent. Arabs form the majority of the populations of Algeria ... designation birthed during the days of the British Empire, and encompasses ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Skambōnidēs) meaning Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, from the deme of ... During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method ... A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ...73 KB (11,277 words) - 04:18, 24 November 2022
- 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
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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 ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... to orbit in a plane containing our line of sight, they will eclipse each ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... Characterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
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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 ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
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- opinion about the general orientation of his system, it must be acknowledged ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. A graduate of Purdue ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
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