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- John Michael Argyle (August 11, 1925 – September 6, 2002) was one ... Argyle's academic career was based at the University of Oxford ...16 KB (2,228 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- he is most celebrated in Russia. My Sister Life, written by Pasternak in 1917 ... painter and professor at the Moscow School of Painting, who converted to ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- was born in Rajapur, India in the district of Banda in Uttar Pradesh, during ... Tulsidas is considered a Prophet of Hinduism. His work, the Rāmacaritamānasa ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:42, 2 May 2023
- a philosophical model. He was a close friend of the U.S. German-born theologian ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair ... where her parents opened a drive-in movie theater on the corner of ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- The text of the first part of the Shema is as follows: diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- [[Image:Beit Sur1.jpg|thumb|320px|Beth-Zur, one of the sites in the ... archaeologist, known as a key figure of the twentieth century biblical ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- Gedaliah (died c. 585 B.C.E. or later) was the Jewish governor of ... Gedaliah had been a member of the minority faction in Judah, along ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 21:06, 20 July 2021
- Douglass and Nat Turner, she offered one of the only autobiographical narratives ... Her personal narrative stood apart from the majority of slave narratives ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 20:40, 29 January 2022
- missionary involved in the evangelization of Ireland. Born in Britain but ... The exact location of St. Patrick's birthplace is uncertain. ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 00:49, 23 December 2022
- and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine ... other western churches, and is seen as one of the clearest creedal expressions ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... Cambridge Magazine with his own funds. Many of his later collection of poems ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- she published under the androgynous name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated ... == Life == Edith Nesbit was born in 1858 Kennington, Surrey (now part ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Linus (d. c. 67 - 80) was the second bishop of Rome, succeeding the first ... #039; dates and his position in the order of the early Roman bishops. Some ...11 KB (1,675 words) - 04:02, 26 November 2022
- the evolutionary approach to the study of economic institutions. His ... 30, 1857 in Cato, Wisconsin, into a family of Norwegian immigrants. His nephew ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 23:02, 30 April 2023
- Hampshire. In addition to his literary body of work, Kingsley was a Protestant ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- that derives from the Augustinian doctrine of original sin and is advocated ... It is the teaching that, as a consequence of the Fall of Man, every ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh (Epic of Kings ... Ferdowsi traced the history of Persia from its earliest days to the ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- within the school system and as a professor of education at the college level ... The "Peter Principle" was first published in a humorous ...14 KB (2,060 words) - 17:51, 25 October 2022
- [[Image:Petrarch by Bargilla.jpg|right|thumb|250px|From the Cycle ... the sonnet. He was a primary initiator of the philosophical movement ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the ... What the nature of the resurrected body is may still be an issue. ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species ... For example, the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) of Africa and ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... traditionally credited with the composition of the epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- right|thumb|Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.]] in large cities due to the rapid influx of large numbers of people, Howard ...10 KB (1,579 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram ... only be achieved through an internal reform of Hinduism, and strove to lay ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- 24, 1575 (Safed, Ottoman Empire)) was one of the most significant writers ... Karo's personal spirituality is a matter of controversy due the ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 21:32, 4 June 2023
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Eden) is described by the Book ... ashamed among animals and a great variety of fruit-bearing trees. They could ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- his work on Aristotle. He also published a book on Plato's theory of ... Ross also wrote books on Kant's ethics, each of Aristotle's ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- ), 1903–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s ... Both books follow exploits of Bender and his associates looking for ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
- 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
- A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it ... sold in bookstores and specialty comic book shops rather than at newsstands. ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- the Holocaust. It reflects on the sense of alienation and cruelty in modern ... ==Early life, teaching, and marriage== Kosinski was born Josek Lewinkopf ...21 KB (3,001 words) - 23:50, 14 April 2023
- bibliographic citation is a reference to a book, article, web page, or other ... such as the author's last name, year of publication, and page number ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 22:25, 10 December 2023
- was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford, Bedfordshire), in ... He preferred to face and endure years of imprisonment at great sacrifice ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 04:30, 3 August 2022
- Levi ben Gershon ("Levi son of Gerson"), better known as ... commentaries which became a fundamental part of Jewish theology, but his philosophical ...18 KB (2,668 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- #039;s newspaper, reporting instances of racism in the community. She ... Daisy was raised by friends of the family, Orlee and Susie Smith, ...13 KB (1,959 words) - 07:47, 12 January 2024
- an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely ... A friend of Charles Dickens who published in Dicken's journal ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- 21, 1843) was an English poet and writer of the Romantic school. Southey ... his poetry but on his prose. Although many of Southey's contemporaries ...13 KB (2,061 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- purify”) is the Roman Catholic doctrine of an intermediary state between ... In considering the end of human life, mainstream Christianity accepts ...14 KB (2,345 words) - 14:29, 2 July 2022
- in 1633 and became a teacher and eventually of the Jesuit college of Tarragona ... Gracian wrote a number of literary works, including political commentary ...13 KB (1,963 words) - 05:58, 26 August 2023
- May 20, 1989) was a British economist, one of the most influential economists ... Hicks was not a follower of a particular school of economics, but ...15 KB (2,155 words) - 07:42, 3 August 2022
- Herakleitos) (c. 535 – 475 B.C.E.) is one of the most important pre-Socratic ... His words resemble those of a prophet, rather than those of a philosopher ...11 KB (1,556 words) - 09:50, 22 January 2024
- cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends. His book, A Light in the Attic, in ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- Energy independence is self-sufficiency in terms of the availability ... amounts to meet the needs (consumption) of a particular entity. ...14 KB (1,937 words) - 20:52, 8 February 2023
- ) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books that makes up part of ... According to tradition, the Five Classics were written before the ...20 KB (2,978 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- which is now an acknowledged classic of English literature, and is ... Brontë possessed a powerful understanding of the society in which she lived ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- occupies a primary place in the anthologies of English church music, and is ... ==Early Life and Career== Little is known about his early life, but ...6 KB (933 words) - 22:55, 30 April 2023
- "Salvation is the Lord) is one of the greatest prophets of the ... seventh century B.C.E., he advised several of the kings of Judah. He warned ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- 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
- , was a leading Russian satirist of the nineteenth century. At ... == Early life == A scion of the ancient Saltykov family, Mikhail Saltykov ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- colleague, C. Wright Mills, Riesman's book The Lonely Crowd (1950) is ... The character of society, like that of an individual, naturally goes ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- philosopher whose successful reorganization of the state of Ch'in or ... reforms by first establishing the authority of law (fa), which was to be enforced ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目金之助 ... just one year and a half before the start of the Meiji Reformation, in Edo ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- The Book of Kells (less widely known as the Book of Columba) is an ... The Book of Kells is the high point of a group of manuscripts produced ...38 KB (6,352 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... ===Early life and first marriage=== Gilman was born Charlotte Anna ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures ... death, as Dreiser did not live to see many of his novels published in their ...16 KB (2,526 words) - 17:57, 30 April 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
- 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder ... most exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music, food, and wine; nurtured ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- and short story writer who became one of the most popular authors of ... Comparisons aside, Wharton is one of the most significant American ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- #039;s law, represents the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis. Ohm offers a good example of the working of science through his experimental ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- thereof, such as the Holy Spirit. (The study of the Holy Spirit in Christian ... quot; in the Latin Vulgate instead of anima (soul), which was rendered ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... are truly by the Apostle, due to issues of style, circumstance, and references ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- politician, and a provocative proponent of Deism. A wealthy landowner ... Collins was a friend of the philosopher John Locke. He loved books ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- Cranmer and Matthew Parker, as a co-founder of Anglican theology. He was also ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
- In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral ... as an important virtue in various aspects of social life. ...6 KB (958 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... United States in 1846. An early supporter of reforms such as mixed-gender ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- , was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the ... to have been composed in the second half of the twelfth century B.C.E. ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- modernist writer, is often viewed as one of the principal leaders and catalysts ... By bringing a number of disaffected artists and writers together within ...10 KB (1,473 words) - 18:29, 21 May 2024
- whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, ... In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 19:41, 7 February 2023
- Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the ... science and history represent compendia of the state of learning in these ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- The formlessness which characterizes much of his writing reflects the fluid ... == Life == Kawabata was born June 14, 1899, in Osaka, Japan, into a ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- iconic black and white landscape photographs of the national parks and especially ... for decades both to foster public awareness of photography as a fine art and ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- the fifth century B.C.E. However, a dearth of historical evidence for Lie ... from spontaneous action to the limitations of worldly knowledge, though all ...18 KB (2,907 words) - 22:49, 25 October 2022
- an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he ... The Structure of Science (1961), an examination of the logical structure ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- 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
- novelist. He is known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology ... #039;s mind, but also created a new kind of protagonist, the urban social ...15 KB (2,490 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- movement that began three years after the book was published. the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- The most popular line is monofilament line made of a single fiber ... hazardous to fish, birds, and other marine life. Toray Industries, Japan, ...12 KB (1,938 words) - 17:31, 28 March 2024
- Warhol made a name for himself in the world of avant-garde film, music, publishing ... is thought to result from complications of scarlet fever. Warhol suffered ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 18:00, 27 July 2023
- influenced by Marxist thought and a pioneer of "popular education." ... Freire's methods were successful in raising the level of literacy ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of ... reader. There La Mettrie wrote his major book Discours sur le bonheur (1748 ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 ... first name, Amerigo. In an accompanying book, Waldseemüller published ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- was an American anthropologist and pioneer of African-American studies. He ... in Bellefontaine, Ohio, into the family of Herman Herskovits and Henrietta ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- He was the one of the leading figures of the Russian Symbolist movement ... == Early Life and Influences == Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, ...11 KB (1,565 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- and motivational speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly ... man, not just in his career but also in his life of faith, his family life ...25 KB (3,579 words) - 19:59, 9 February 2023
- referring to the exposition, or exegesis, of a biblical text. The term can ... The two basic types of midrash are known as Midrash Aggadah, regarding ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... the Nazis seized power, he became a leader of the representative Jewish body ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance resounded ... the Jewish faith while advancing the cause of reason. Towards the end of ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- newspaper publisher, and former owner of The New York Times. Under his ... == Life == Adolph Simon Ochs was born on March 12, 1858 to German-Jewish ...10 KB (1,585 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- ), also known as the Adi Granth, is the primary Holy Book of the Sikhs ... Composed during the period of Sikh Gurus, from 1469 to 1708, the Guru ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas ... also the Chief Administrator to the ruler of Damascus. Today, he is renowned ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier." He ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- present-day Iraq). His work resulted in some of dramatic discoveries, including ... Woolley's work also included findings of sediment that he believed ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- Metatron is the name of an angel that is described primarily in Jewish ... Odeberg,Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch Or The Hebrew Book Of Enoch (Ktav Pub. House ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... a later writer who was not a direct disciple of Jesus. Its date has been estimated ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- 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
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction ... Cheever's main themes include the duality of human nature: Sometimes ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
- in analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century. He made ... he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell, Ludwig ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- and best-selling author whose landmark book, Silent Spring, is often credited ... “The Sea Around Us”, and “The Edge of the Sea” were immense successes ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- wrote in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy ... Broad was born at Harlesden, a suburb of London, as the only child ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures ... preparatory school Stonyhurst at the age of nine, and by the time he left ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 11:09, 16 August 2023
- was an American author who wrote a series of historical fiction books for ... Laura and her pioneer family never dreamed of, and yet she was to experience ...19 KB (2,983 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- poet, whose verse has been the subject of more critical study than perhaps ... His relation to Modernism (or any particular school of poetry) is ...19 KB (3,090 words) - 20:56, 18 November 2022
- the world in order to spread the "art of silence" (L'art du ... developed his art amid the chaos and hurt of the World War. He used it to ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre ... " which began with the rise of Realism in the nineteenth century ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- anthropologist and writer. A founder of American anthropology, he is ... While Morgan's unilinear model, particularly of the development ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- 1943) was an English author and illustrator of children's books. Her ... Beatrix Potter's first passion in life was science. She only ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:21, 26 September 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
- [[Image:Thomas-Cranmer-ez.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Painting of Thomas ... Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) was the Archbishop ...22 KB (3,583 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- The Great Learning, refers to a short text of indeterminate authorship that ... been a single chapter in the Classic of Rites. ==The Text of the Da Xue== ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 14:25, 13 May 2020
- Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him ... Theophrastus was wrote a great number of books on a wide variety of ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- developed by the established Church of England. Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- remains obscure in comparison to the giants of his time such as Walt Whitman ... ==Early life and war== Sidney Clopton Lanier was born February 3, 1842 ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- their numbers and threatened the loss of their culture. Those who have ... ‘nentsy’ (pl.) in Russian), one group of the various peoples that inhabit ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- was an American poet, writer, Librarian of Congress, and three-time winner ... would be tried for treason, MacLeish was one of the few poets of his generations ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length ... plural: “novelle”) meaning a tale; piece of news. Novellas as a literary ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- playwright to create a realistic portrayal of African-American urban family ... after her death. Her works dealt with many of the social issues of the 1950s ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 02:44, 4 November 2022
- and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the ... His Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. to attempt a systematic integration of Aristotelianism into Jewish ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality ... As a Southern Gothic novel and a bildungsroman, the primary themes ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- 1988) was an American geneticist who was one of three major pioneers in the ... in 1955 and moved from the University of Chicago to the University of ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- or simply 1 Thessalonians, is a book of the New Testament in the ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual dissociation ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ... == Early life == D. T. Suzuki was born as Teitarō Suzuki in Honda ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- ... The Little Prince was and remains one of the most popular children& ... Saint-Exupéry disappeared on the night of July 31, 1944 while flying ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960 National Book Award), ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- Papias (d. mid-second century) was one of the early literary figures ... The bishop of Hierapolis, Phrygia (in modern Turkey), Papias was highly ...14 KB (2,122 words) - 07:32, 18 November 2022
- Filial piety is the virtue of a child to his or her parents or parental ... ) is one of the virtues to be cultivated and denotes a love and respect ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- province. T'ao Yüan-ming , was one of the most influential pre-Tang ... Qian is now regarded as the greatest poet of his era and was a major influence ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
- and early second century C.E., author of the Satires of Juvenal. The ... “London” on Satire III and his “Vanity of Human Wishes” on Satire X ...19 KB (2,900 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym ... O'Brien's works are considered classics of the modernist ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- ethical or sexual themes, treating issues of good and evil which are played ... was from a middle class Anglican Church of Ireland family from Dublin ...8 KB (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 2024
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... ===Early life and background=== Inayat Khan was born into a princely ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases ... He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- along with illustrator W.W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900, and produced for stage ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- work on this tribe, and her studies of West Indian and African American ... 27, 1875, in New York City, as the eldest of three children of Henry Clews ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in ... played an important role in the lineage of Jesus. Her story involves life ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one ... == Statement of Boyle's law == Boyle's law can be stated ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- used in Jewish ritual practice, and one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish ... role in modern Judaism both as a symbol of God's boundless light ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- changed to Baumfree) in the Dutch settlement of Hurley in upstate New York ... The painful experiences of being a child, wife, and mother who had ...14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
- title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing ... sport, boxing has often provided the way out of poverty for many of its most ...12 KB (1,913 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- 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
- 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
- Crantor (ca. 330 – 270 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Old ... to be controlled rather than eradicated. One of his arguments, reminiscent ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Pietro d'Abano (1257 - 1315) (his date of birth is also given ... medicine and philosophy at the University of Paris, he taught medicine at ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a ... true virtue. Virtue, which consisted of imitating God, could only be ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- before being appointed as Wykeham professor of logic at New College, Oxford ... His earliest book, Perception (1932), rejected causal theories of ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- B.C.E. and beyond. High places consisted of a stone or earthen altar, often ... other high places until at least the period of the ministry of the Elijah ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 22:24, 2 May 2024
- Gwangjong (광종 光宗) (949 – 975) was the fourth Emperor of ... Gwangjong eliminated many of his powerful rivals by sending them to ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- recognized it as an important component of art and aesthetics. However ... the highest value, which exist independently of and transcend the phenomenal ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- " Legend maintains that St. Thomas, one of the Twelve apostles of Christ ... The Portuguese built the shrine of Mother Mary, a small relic-filled ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 16:21, 8 February 2023
- The Epistle to the Colossians is a book of the Bible's New Testament ... Colossians represents an example of "high Christology," ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:41, 7 January 2024
- Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora (c. 1135 – March ... The son of a court official in Calabria, Italy, Joachim followed at ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- scientist, astronomer, and mathematician of the Ming Dynasty. Born in Shanghai ... texts, including the first six chapters of Euclid’s Elements, into Chinese ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- views on womanhood and equality of people helped to move a nation ... Louisa May Alcott was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson ...17 KB (2,709 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- , was a philosopher, essayist, poet, critic of culture and novelist. Santayana ... Santayana's main philosophical works are The Sense of Beauty ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024
- instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology. McDougall ... in Lancashire, England, as the second son of Isaac Shimwell McDougall and ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- a serious actor who appeared in a number of movies and television shows ... He was the first recipient of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- 1970), born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature ... Agnon, called by many "a man of unquestionable genius" and ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- Composite bosons are important in superfluidity and other applications ... to commemorate the contribution of Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 17:22, 22 December 2022
- considered a crucial figure in the history of music. His work bridged the ... quot; and introduced the Baroque method of declamation with continuo accompaniment ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Entomology is the scientific study of insects. Insects are arthropods ... Insects have many kinds of interactions with humans and other forms ...14 KB (2,060 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Literature in 1924. Reymont was the author of novels such as the ironic The ... to protect him in the Russian-occupied area of Poland from any trouble for ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 23:19, 17 May 2023
- The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School ... Chinese thinkers of the period were preoccupied with the use of terminology ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman ... She was born in the major Mesopotamian city of Ur and moved with her clan ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- and author. He survived the horror of Nazi imprisonment in a Jewish ... scholarly world, and is remembered as one of very few political scientists ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- He was the preeminent figure at the center of the Third Great Awakening. ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- work in economics, especially his criticism of the railroad system, helped ... in Medford, Massachusetts, into the family of Nathaniel L. Ripley and Estimate ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- nature and dominant play, Hoad was part of an especially successful era ... Often referred to as the "Golden Boy" of tennis, blond, ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 22:18, 25 October 2022
- 7, 1867), was called The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy by famed Victorian ... and those interested in the history of the United States, Timrod is ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 ... Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad, who took the title of the Báb (Arabic; meaning ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American ... popular television miniseries in 1977. The book and film were both successful ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- quot; and blot their names from the Book of Life. In contrast, to the church ... the final judgment takes place; the Book of Life is opened, and everyone ...34 KB (5,503 words) - 00:39, 19 November 2023
- Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American ... ==Early life and career== Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... grow and decline, much as all organic life does, noting three phases ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- and spelling reformer. He was the co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls. Pulpit. In 1877, Adam Willis Wagnalls, one of Funk's classmates at Wittenberg ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 19:40, 7 February 2023
- advanced support for the wave theory of light. He invented a specialized ... Fresnel was one of four children of an architect, born at Broglie ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- 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
- 1860 - October 23, 1946) was born in England of Scottish parents. He was raised ... He was founder of the Woodcraft Indians and one of the founding pioneers ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... his father, eventually the first Bishop of Liverpool, had raised him." ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- and phenomena by appealing to some kind of universal knowledge or schema ... skepticism toward the totalizing nature of "metanarratives" ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- quot;) refers to most important scriptures of Judaism that are the foundation ... oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- during the 1870s. There he befriended many of the leading French artists ... language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 14:49, 21 May 2024
- Near East. Budge was was a strong proponent of liberal Christianity and was ... came to hold arguably the best collection of Ancient Near East artifacts ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... == Life == [[File:Dawna oficyna folwarczna z ok. poł. XVIII w., ul ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one of the earliest compendia of mathematical ... Pacioli was a man of deep faith coupled with a great love for knowledge ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- 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
- Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist of the Song dynasty, who is credited ... and Zhu Xi, who honored Zhang as one of the founders of the Study of ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ... in Gudbrandsdal. He was the fourth son of Peder Pedersen and Tora Olsdatter ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- with Frank Hyneman Knight he was one of the leading figures at the ... He made significant contributions to the theories of cost and production ...10 KB (1,485 words) - 01:12, 8 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
- Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with ... in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United States—for ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- ) is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist ... Apsaras are supernatural beings who appear as young women of great ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- editor. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education ... Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- only with lies as statements—not lies of demeanor or costume or some ... by philosophers, by jurists, and others. One of the Ten Commandments, for example ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- A. A. Milne, was a prolific English author of books, plays, and poems. He ... Kingdom. The program is operated by one of Milne's favorite charities ...15 KB (2,362 words) - 06:49, 13 June 2023
- is considered the most important precursor of Neo-Confucianism, the ethical ... can master their “qi” ("vital life energy") in order to ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 06:02, 13 June 2023
- especially well-known for his study of Maori culture. He was a pioneer ... Firth connected to the heart of the people whose culture he studied ...14 KB (2,002 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah ... Berlin's essay analyzes Tolstoy's refutation of the view ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during ... were and that remain popular for their ease of singing and performing. Croce ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- The Sacred Heart is a devotional representation of Jesus' physical ... Churches, where, however, it remains a point of controversy as an example of ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 18:34, 22 December 2022
- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- In Islamic tradition, he was the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad and the ... In the Book of Genesis, Ishmael was the first of Abraham's household ...15 KB (2,619 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of ... Refutations, there have been many systems of classifying fallacies. In this ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- the Negev Desert and the Aravah valley of what is now southern Israel ... descended from him. Esau was the brother of Jacob, the ancestor of the ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- and educationalist who advanced the study of psychology with his work on ... For 20 years Bain was professor of logic and English literature at ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- [[image:Baptism-christ.jpg|thumb|The Baptism of Christ, by Piero della ... Christians as being a prophet and forerunner of Jesus Christ. The New Testament ...19 KB (3,211 words) - 17:11, 4 May 2024
- renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... up to the task and worried about the amount of luggage she would carry. In ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- #039; to spread Gnostic teachings. Author of over 60 books, Samael Aun Weor ... sexual practices as the highest form of religious devotion and articulated ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- The Book of Joshua (Hebrew: Sefer Y'hoshua—ספר יהושע ... In Jewish tradition, the Book of Joshua is the first of the books ...26 KB (4,240 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- Reference Book|New Student's Reference Book]] as "Hottentot."]] The Khoikhoi ("men of men") or Khoi, in standardised Khoekhoe/Nama ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 03:58, 6 October 2022
- from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln ... Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member ...20 KB (3,093 words) - 04:41, 3 May 2024
- He achieved his greatest fame as the title character of the children ... As his career developed Keeshan became an advocate, book author, lecturer ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 08:42, 16 November 2023
- the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number ... Possibly, they would question the teaching of the Church and the authority ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... from the copyright holder. A violation of the terms of [http://en.wikipedia ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- and spiritual perception as surer denoters of the truth than sentiment or ... Blake's explorations of good and evil, heaven and hell, knowledge ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- philosopher who advocated a reconstruction of society based on idea that ... in units called “phalanxes” composed of male and female representatives ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- :This article is about the Gnostic Valentinus. For the martyr of the ... he professed a neo-Platonic version of gnostic theology, stressing ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- poet, and instrument maker. He was one of the most famous and revered ... Details of his life are sketchy, but a few facts can be established ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- ) (April 1, 1929 - July 1, 2023) was a Czech and French writer of ... Kundera took part in the Prague Spring of 1968, a period of "socialism ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 12:12, 24 August 2023
- work on monetary economics and development of undeveloped countries. Her ... "oversights" given the quality of her work and her contributions ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- Robert Lowell and the confessionalist school of poetry, who is increasingly ... and complicate the autobiographical nature of his poetry, and it is unclear ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 04:15, 3 August 2022
- Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was ... Clement of Alexandria was, and still is, a highly unorthodox and controversial ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- inventor who achieved fame for his invention of the technology of printing ... The exact origin of Gutenberg's first press is apparently unknown ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 15:05, 1 August 2022
- played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- and poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío. He was a gifted ... stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. He is known for his ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry ... nor an autobiography, but combines elements of both to create a compelling ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 20:52, 18 November 2022
- He served as the U.S. Commissioner of Education, during which time ... In 1859, he became a principal in one of the public schools in St ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- most stable isotope is 262Lr, with a half-life of approximately four hours ... The origin of the name, preferred by the American Chemical Society ...6 KB (798 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- The theology of the Death of God, also known as Radical Theology, ... For Nietzsche, the supposed death of the Christian concept of God ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system in ... ==Early Life and Influences== Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was born in ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
