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- the cloud chamber for visualizing the tracks of electrically charged particles ... Wilson was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian, near Edinburgh ...8 KB (1,235 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the ... philanthropic efforts and establishment of various educational and medical ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay ... needed, and the job was given to University of Edinburgh Professor Vere Gordon ...24 KB (3,569 words) - 22:43, 29 January 2023
- ) is the anglicized spelling of Bealtaine or Bealltainn, the Gaelic ... School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Since then the ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 08:55, 27 September 2023
- who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and the best known ... Chair of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, although influential ...16 KB (2,543 words) - 03:14, 15 December 2022
- sparkling wit and dialogue. He was also one of the early pioneers of what ... Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- fiction and is generally cited as the father of the historical novel. His novels ... Scott Digital Archive] at the University of Edinburgh library: includes ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- a herbaceous plant, Dianthus caryophyllus, of the Caryophyllaceae family ... name carnation is also often applied to some of the other species of Dianthus ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 00:27, 29 November 2023
- Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies ... As a part of the once powerful British Empire, Great Britain played ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- sometimes referred to as the "Father of Assyriology." Rawlinson ... in Great Britain. He was the second son of Abram Tyack Rawlinson, and ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, normally called Westminster ... Since the Christmas Day coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066 ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes who lived to the north of ...35 KB (5,272 words) - 05:13, 24 November 2022
- science. Although he was a close confidant of the Lake School of Poets, and ... not just for their preoccupation with some of the seedier issues of London ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which is ... history. His desire was to open the study of religion to a broader discourse ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- Calvinist lines following his experience of working with John Calvin in ... He died in Edinburgh on November 24, 1572. According to one biographer ...27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
- also published a book on Plato's theory of ideas (or forms) that understands ... High School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh. In 1895, he gained ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- to impose a single Mu'tazili version of Islam. On the one hand, he ... rule, which lacked the generosity and piety of his brother and the intellectual ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- by defective bone growth resulting from lack of vitamin D or calcium. Insufficient ... htm Red hair genetics]. University of Edinburgh Department of Dermatology ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 18:53, 11 August 2022
- during the Peasants' War and a leader of a radical Christian movement ... Muentzer was born in the small village of Stolberg in the Hartz Mountains ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions that ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- on colonial attitudes, encouraging a sense of cultural superiority that had ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- ,(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King ... participate in a global community. For much of its history, Scotland struggled ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- 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
- ministry. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian ... Calvinism. After attending the University of Edinburgh, Carlyle became ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 18:40, 30 April 2023
- September 10, 1382, Nagyszombat/Trnava) was King of Hungary, King ... He shared the privations and hardships of camp life with his soldiers ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... Honorary degrees, University of Strathclyde, 1971, University of Edinburgh ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- {{Infobox University-Jen | name = Kyoto University | native_name ... Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2005. ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- in a chain, stretching backward. The cause of the cat you see today, for ... the "Prime Mover" that is a deity of "pure form" without ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher ... Little was known until recently about much of Blanchot's life ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- He also served as the first Architect of the Capitol and first Superintendent ... as a medical student in the University of Edinburgh in 1781. The architecture ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- was a British baroque portrait painter. Wright trained in Edinburgh ... Wright is currently rated as one of the leading indigenous British ...28 KB (4,229 words) - 02:57, 2 May 2024
- John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most ... by undermining the Augustinian concept of divine illumination of the ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- a Christian Apostle and the younger brother of Saint Peter. He was renowned ... It is also held that Andrew founded the See of Byzantium in 38 C.E ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- to introduce rigor into the theorems of the infinitesimal calculus ... Cauchy was a devout Catholic, and, toward the end of his life, dedicated ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- curriculum is taught in preparation for university. In the past, subjects ... education for the most able irrespective of their social or economic background ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA ... Academy Awards. The awards are in the form of a theatrical mask. ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
- Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets ... – issued the manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. The 1912 movement ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and ... title=Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh|years=1953–2010 ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- September 18, 2008. founded by a dynasty of Turkic mamluk (soldier-slaves ... when he succeeded to the ruler-ship of territories centered around ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 16:57, 8 December 2022
- a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- James Watt (January 19, 1736 – August 25, 1819)Although a number ... Watt was born on January 19, 1736, in Greenock, a seaport on the Firth ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author and one of the most versatile English ... channel to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After concluding ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- scientist, engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first television; ... Baird's work was part of the great advance in technology that ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 20:54, 1 May 2024
- in 1876, building on the pioneering efforts of Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci ... following year, he attended the University of Edinburgh, but he graduated ...26 KB (4,070 words) - 13:48, 18 July 2023
- Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy ... Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in medieval ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- His peaceful reign continued the policies of his predecessors, including ... The cosmopolitan city of Baghdad, founded by his father, blossomed ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously Tanganyika ... he got a scholarship to attend the University of Edinburgh (he was the first ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 09:54, 12 May 2024
- his parents prepared him for the University of Edinburgh by enrolling him ... He entered the University of Edinburgh at seventeen, but soon discovered ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- having authored An Inquiry into the Cause of the Wealth of Nations (1776 ... however, his writings span a broad spectrum of topics ranging from astronomy ...16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- discoveries, including the rings of the planet Saturn and Saturn ... Born in The Hague, Christiaan Huygens was the second son of Constantijn ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries ... a poor, working class Scottish family in Edinburgh, still Connery never forgot ...44 KB (6,554 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- who contributed to mapping the source of the Niger River and was the ... Laing was born in Edinburgh. He was educated by his father, William ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of ... ==Frontiers of Hungary== The Hungarian government terminated the personal ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 14:59, 2 May 2023
- acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He founded and served ... their place in human society. Gallaudet University, the first university in ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- is marred by a notable paucity of biographical details, a fanciful ... Though Sebastian's name is the subject of an elaborate etymology ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a ... Northcote was elected lord rector of the University of Edinburgh in ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any ... The Jewish diaspora began with the conquests of the eighth to the ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- parties in relation to the devolution of power to Northern Ireland. ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 17:25, 12 May 2024
- His family sent him to the University of Edinburgh at the unusually ... - 1790 A Hotbed of Genius. The University of Edinburgh. Paperback edition ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- publisher, and politician. He was the editor of the Manchester Guardian newspaper ... Scott was an advocate of universal suffrage as shown through the support ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- Scottish historian, a co-founder and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ... as well as Farsi, drew on a wide range of Indian sources. Aspects of ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- She was a notable first female in a variety of additional positions, including ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:42, 2 April 2024
- Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument that uses a reed, in addition ... Perhaps because of the ancient nature of their sound, the bagpipes ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- economist who occupied the first chair of political economy in England ... Compton, Berkshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- – November 4, 1918) was an English poet of the early twentieth century ... innovations to form. Owen is considered one of the first poets in English ...8 KB (1,341 words) - 18:46, 4 May 2023
- Oswald (ca. 604–August 5, 642 C.E.)While Bede gives the year of ... Oswald's assessment in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of ...27 KB (4,245 words) - 13:29, 5 September 2022
- generally followed the comedic misadventures of well-meaning but unscrupulous ... Smollett was born at Dalquhurn, now part of Renton, in present-day ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
- Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions." Carey ... Among those who assisted in the task of Bible translation was Ram ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- , was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary positions ... was born at his family's ancestral seat of Knutstorp Castle, Denmark to ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn). Midwives may ... with education and training similar to that of nursing. The profession is ...32 KB (4,799 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- 814) was a classical Arabic poet, and the foremost representative ... Abu Nuwas was born in the province of Ahvaz (modern Khuzestan Province ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- An azeotrope is a mixture of two or more liquid substances in such ... mixture is boiled, their vapor consists of a fixed ratio of the two and ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 07:29, 23 August 2023
- ) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism and Phenomenology ... 1927, after which he taught at the University of Edinburgh. In 1952, Poulet ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- 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
- Edinburgh: 1998 (Thesis (M.Phil)—University of Edinburgh, 1999) ... Judaism Edinburgh: Thesis (M.Phil) University of Edinburgh, 1999. ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- 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 ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- editor, novelist, and critic, who was part of the early stages of the Romantic ... Tieck was born in Berlin, the son of a rope-maker. He was educated ...10 KB (1,394 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of ... As part of the canon of the New Testament, they are foundational texts ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- biologist and archaeologist was born the son of Sir John William Lubbock, Bart ... the Act that established the dates of Bank Holidays. In the academic ...22 KB (3,231 words) - 02:32, 9 February 2023
- May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several public holidays ... the social and economic achievements of the labor movement. Thus, May ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 ... After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as well as its ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- Cedar is the common name for a number of trees in different genera ... The term cedar applies not only to the trees but also to the wood ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- 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
- and characters are rivaled only by those of Johnson in their depth, insight ... Hazlitt came from a branch of Irish Protestant stock that moved in ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- Forsythia is the genus and common name for a taxon of deciduous shrubs ... Forsythia comprise a small genus of about 11 species, mostly native ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- Skyscrapers are amazing feats of architecture and construction technology ... Comparing this definition with the somewhat loose definition of skyscraper ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- 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
- and educationalist who advanced the study of psychology with his work on ... degree of doctor of laws by the University of Edinburgh in 1871. Next came ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term often ... Essay in Philosophical Cosmology. University of Edinburgh, 1982. ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- in the twentieth century as a coalition of like-minded groups seeking ... quot; was originally used in the context of large ecumenical councils that ...23 KB (3,375 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- and Fruma Zachs referred to an obituary of Marrash published in an 1897 ... Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analyzed ...35 KB (4,995 words) - 17:16, 29 November 2023
- Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (February ... Contrary to the popular conception of an either-or dichotomy between ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- Switches have been built in a wide range of sizes and types, from subminiature ... The switch may also take the form of a "logic gate." Logic ...28 KB (4,495 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- to 1831, the hall was crowded as the hall of no philosophical teacher in ... In 1840, when Cousin became Minister of Public Instruction in France ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... obtained a medical degree at the University of Edinburgh. While in Europe ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually ... Emeritus of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, who surveys as ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... studying for a law degree from the University of Edinburgh. His family spent ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p ... and can also be seen as a process of transformation. The concept ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as ... The school considered itself the intellectual heirs of past figures ...27 KB (3,885 words) - 08:56, 5 September 2023
- one novel, one play, and only a small volume of poems—his intellectual breadth ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- was the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century that ... His theology, emphasizing the importance of divine revelation given ...13 KB (1,944 words) - 18:11, 14 May 2024
- , Scottish philosopher, and a contemporary of David Hume, was a founder of ... 039;s father, Lewis Reid, came from a family of clergymen and government official ...15 KB (2,355 words) - 22:50, 30 April 2023
- is the name sometimes given to a period of heightened religious activity ... large following." Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," is his ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution, particularly ... OCLC, University of Cambridge, and University of Edinburgh. Later two further ...16 KB (2,155 words) - 22:54, 5 February 2023
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. Eccles was the recipient of many honors, including a knighthood ... in Natural Theology, a sweeping view of the scientific understanding ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 17:05, 5 April 2024
- Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of ... , Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 22:59, 30 April 2023
- Press 1956). Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1952-1953. ... Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh in the years 1952 ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- he developed an interest in the development of customs associated with marriage ... Pursuing this he gathered large quantities of material and developed ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 05:07, 3 August 2022
- of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was an Irish ... Bede's meticulous and detailed account of Saint Aidan's ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from ... administrator, who enjoyed the respect of his men. Most of those whom ...25 KB (3,839 words) - 16:21, 9 August 2023
- Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ... or minimized, depending on the agenda of the commentator. Shi'a ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- the most important British moral philosopher of his time.[https://www.thetimes ... for his attempt to return the study of moral philosophy to its foundations: ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- as British Resident in the princely state of Kashmir. Having won the Gold ... brother, Robert Shaw, was a noted explorer of Central Asia. ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- deeply 5-lobed corolla clustered at the end of the branches, and fruit in ... an adverse reaction. Even a small amount of ingestion can cause lethal ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- a German chemist who ushered in a new age of organic chemistry when he demonstrated ... Eschersheim, near Frankfurt am Main, the son of August Anton Wöhler, who was ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:37, 17 October 2022
- instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings, usually ... as a solo instrument as well as being part of a larger section or entity ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic ... From the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Velázquez's ...37 KB (5,925 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ... or The Fables of Bidpai/Pilpai (in various European languages) ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes ... balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering and ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period ... For composers of the Baroque period, music was not primarily an exercise ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the nineteenth ... his diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...44 KB (6,570 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- from other developed nations because of its national credo, historical ... also be used in a negative sense by critics of American policies to refer ...29 KB (4,328 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2023
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century). The ... De Musset was a republican. He opposed the July Revolution of 1830 ...25 KB (3,656 words) - 17:50, 4 May 2023
- to magnify the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum experiments to the ... the prospect of a position at the University of Edinburgh but visa delays ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. His mother was ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- for his contribution to the phenomenology of religious consciousness and ... Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, Otto ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2022
- flies), midges have a single pair of true wings, which are used ... Non-biting midges are generally harmless, while the females of most ...13 KB (1,785 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in ... than Oxford, but also from the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere. The ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- In 1794, the Qajar family took full control of Iran as they had eliminated ... empire. Britain also established control of the Trucial States. In the ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- bin Suleiman,Ana Laguna, "In the Name of Love: Cervantes's Play ... as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic ...45 KB (6,828 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- 2, 1927) was a Swedish chemist and one of the founders of the science ... district near Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Svante Gustav and Carolina ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- also refer to the biological phenomenon of outbreeding or inbreeding. or endogamous rules concerning the selection of marriage partners. In the case ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
- John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous ... at 16 and studied theology at the University of Glasgow. He admired ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- and politician. Aung San entered Rangoon University in 1933 and quickly became ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- later developed into the Aligarh Muslim University. His work gave rise to ... Company. Personally affected by the turmoil of the Indian rebellion of 1857 ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 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
- ) is a sort of processed animal hide that is thin, smooth, durable ... the Torah in particular, to remind those of the Jewish faith of their ancestors ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- form, as seen in his symphonies, is one of gradual abandonment. In considering ... Nielsen was born one of twelve children in a poor peasant family in ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her novels ... Chelsea, which was then on the outskirts of London. Gaskell was the eighth ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 16:19, 13 February 2024
- representatives for the poetic futurism of early twentieth-century Tsarist ... forest ranger. Both parents were descendants of Cossacks. At the age of 14 ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- {{Infobox University-Jen |name = The Open University ... Innovation in Genomics (with the University of Edinburgh)] ...25 KB (3,516 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... title=Rector of the University of Edinburgh|years=1923—1926|before ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- executive. As the general manager of the BBC, he established the ... Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Reverend ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of ... it travels (in vacuum) at the speed of light (c). Photons are vital ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- Walter gained a reputation for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German ... As a renowned conductor, Bruno Walter understood the actions of giving ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- novelist and spy, who is considered one of the earliest practitioners ... Famous for his wicked sense of irony (Defoe's penchant for satire ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 14:40, 5 August 2013
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- Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern ... Remains of one of the oldest known hominids, dated to over one million ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- he became known as the "Father of Advertising." He also ... his insights into the purpose and method of advertising brought incredible ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 20:00, 19 May 2023
- 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs (632–634). Abu Bakr was a towering figure in the development and early survival ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- Basil of Caesarea (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.) (Latin: Basilius ... In addition to being recognized as one of the Cappadocian Fathers ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 03:31, 1 January 2022
- , is an outdoor sport played by two teams of 15 players each with a oval ... An adult-level rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes, consisting ...32 KB (5,080 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- progressive educator, author, and founder of Summerhill School. He is best ... for students to govern themselves requires of them considerable moral responsibility ...15 KB (2,308 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- philosopher, and, for ten years, minister of state for the republic of Weimar. principle literary figure through a series of movements and upheavals in ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Order of the Garter (KG), Order of New ... major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier. He served in ...37 KB (5,516 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- Helena Lewis, Dada Turns Red (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press ... Turns Red. Edinburgh, Scotland: University of Edinburgh Press, 1990. ISBN ...46 KB (6,796 words) - 23:55, 26 February 2023
- Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Church of St Matthew ... Built 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar, the structure ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 22:26, 16 December 2022
- Up, about Peter, Wendy and the Lost Boys of Never Never Land. Barrie was ... at Dumfries Academy, and the University of Edinburgh. He became a journalist ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 08:18, 13 March 2024
- the Mediterranean coast, reaching the height of its civilization from about ... dates back to 6000 B.C.E., making it one of the earliest known urban centers ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- (c. 1,100,000 speakers). The domination of Estonia after the Northern ... is a bilingual German-Estonian translation of the Lutheran catechism by S ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 23:59, 18 March 2022
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... themselves and even support certain rulers of the "other side." ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- the United Kingdom as well as other areas of Europe and North America, and ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- inventions and discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism and magnetic ... 17, 1799, in Albany, New York, the son of Ann Alexander Henry and William ...17 KB (2,654 words) - 04:14, 7 May 2024
- remains are buried, usually with some form of marker to establish their identity ... A cemetery is generally a place of respect for the dead where the ...16 KB (2,305 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- 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
- As an educator, he promoted the teaching of history, science, and the arts ... received his LL.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1765. ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation ... The advent of the printed Bible ushered in an age in which Bibles ...21 KB (3,123 words) - 02:56, 27 July 2023
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- " referring to the academic title of Master of Theology that he ... Meister Eckhart can be considered a symbol of the intellectual spirit ...18 KB (2,801 words) - 04:17, 9 November 2022
- The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute ...48 KB (7,492 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- who is best remembered today as one of the world's most beloved ... culture, and he has influenced a wide range of artists, from other children ...15 KB (2,406 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... as a constitutional monarch, the reigns of his successors would prove ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ... Koestler Parapsychology Unit] at the University of Edinburgh. ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around the world ... avatar (a "descent" or incarnation of God). His alleged miracles ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 15:00, 23 October 2023
- main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... In his Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh he provided a wide ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ... As one of the most popular of the Olympian deities and the patron ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px ... James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (Charles James ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age of William Shakespeare and proved ... Jonson was undoubtedly one of the most well-read men in the England ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In her day ... deep anguish. Eventually she shook free of her family's expectations ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- oval sausage. The haggis was the subject of the Robert Burns' poem ... The haggis is an example of human ingenuity in using every part of ...18 KB (2,829 words) - 16:42, 21 January 2024
- meteorology, geography, jurisprudence, study of the Bible, mathematics, anatomy ... alike, he was burnt at the stake by order of the Geneva governing council ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- in the "National System" type of capitalism. Although greatly ... in 1789. Unwilling to follow the occupation of his father, who was a prosperous ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
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- novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne ...38 KB (6,119 words) - 06:49, 28 July 2023
- Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements ... Historians of feminism have identified three “waves” of feminist ...71 KB (9,858 words) - 17:15, 26 March 2024
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- outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the nineteenth century widely ... father was Dr. James Thomson, a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- Polycarp of Smyrna (ca. 69 - ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna ... and the patristic period. After many decades of service to the nascent Christian ...21 KB (3,429 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
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- Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most ... Edward was crowned at the age of 14, following the deposition of his ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
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- and logician during the second half of the nineteenth century. He ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... October 1788, Park started at the University of Edinburgh, attending for four ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- in the British Army, writer, and founder of the World Scouting Movement. the surrounding city during the long Siege of Mafeking. ...20 KB (2,990 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... of that year studying at the University of Edinburgh under, amongst others ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- 1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three ... George Berkeley’s name in the history of philosophy is linked to ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 07:03, 18 April 2024
- The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom ... to climate change and to defeat at the hands of Judith, a legendary Jewish Queen. ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... Gandhi but was unable to avoid the Partition of India, although he would have ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... but beneficial event (such as the survival of a natural disaster), or even ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to ... ), the plural of which is mujahideen ( ar|مجاهدين ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 ... One of the most significant British politicians in recent political ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
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- movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Kevin Passmore. Fascism: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford University ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- century in Europe, particularly as a result of the Industrial Revolution. ... have been successful in a number of fields, including retailing ...22 KB (3,153 words) - 02:54, 8 January 2024
- Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... churches, and the Restorationist movements of the late eighteenth and nineteenth ...23 KB (3,274 words) - 08:17, 2 December 2022
- center-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
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- Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1896 - November 25, 1997) was the leader of ... of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Edinburgh in 1941. His studies ...24 KB (3,748 words) - 08:44, 20 January 2024
- Category:Biographies of Scientists and Mathematicians [[Image:Thomas_Young_ ... scientist who conclusively demonstrated many of the wave properties of light ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- #039; label for the material culture of Britain in Late Antiquity. ... While the history of Roman Britain is reasonably well covered by contemporary ...51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- India, who contributed to the foundations of experimental science there ... He is also considered the father of Bengali science fiction. ...24 KB (3,668 words) - 12:40, 6 November 2021
- was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, and distinguished among ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- /ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Fiction winners] The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved January ...30 KB (4,264 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
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- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that maintain ... the University of Virginia and the University of Edinburgh). ...34 KB (4,699 words) - 14:38, 29 January 2024
- #039;s idealism is based upon the notion of Absolute Spirit, his idealism ... His philosophy can be best understood within the contexts of German ...29 KB (4,323 words) - 17:06, 17 December 2022
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical ... In aquatic environments, enhanced growth of choking aquatic vegetation ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- and critic, who has been called the master of Vernacular Chinese (standard ... Confucius avoided being named the author of the Spring and Autumn Annals ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
- the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- is the central religious text or Scripture of Islam. Muslims believe the ... The Qur’an is fundamental to every aspect of Islam. It informs Muslim ...49 KB (7,703 words) - 20:37, 24 January 2023
- November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- , literally "without breeches") were the common people of ... The sans-culottes, most of them urban laborers, served as the driving ...31 KB (4,299 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- balance between reason and religion in light of the philosophical developments ... Rosmini founded a religious order called the Institute of the Brethren ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces ... Defeat at the Battle of Hakodate broke this last holdout and left ...49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
- widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century. He is ... India, during the period when India was part of the British Empire under the ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
