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- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian ... The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- Tarkington's works often centered on life in the mid-west among everyday ... middle-class family in Indianapolis, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... than towards an uncertain future, than that of many of his contemporaries ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- that was published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all ... childhood, it seems, was spent in the laps of Civil War veterans and of her ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 04:02, 6 November 2022
- work on urban sociology at the University of Chicago. He pioneered efforts ... == Life == Ernest Watson Burgess was born in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada ...8 KB (1,123 words) - 12:16, 21 January 2023
- November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early nineteenth century ... His famous home of Sunnyside just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of ... The Book of Micah is also notable for its more hopeful passages, portraying ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was ... When the book took the name "Domesday" (Middle English spelling ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus) (ca. 262 B.C.E. – ca. 190 B.C.E. ... by which they are now known. The hypothesis of eccentric orbits, or deferent ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- John of Patmos is the name given to the author of the Book of Revelation ... John of Patmos is traditionally identified with John the Apostle and ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 17:05, 4 May 2024
- " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Methuselah or Metushélach (מְתוּשָׁלַח - "Man of ... In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, Methuselah becomes a channel through ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- and epistemology. His highly influential book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...12 KB (1,858 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, the ... assumes that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizer persuasion and critic ... Belinsky was the first prominent literary critic of after the development ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:08, 18 November 2022
- the golden flower: the classic Chinese book of life. [San Francisco, Calif ... Secret of the golden flower, a Chinese book of life. New York: Harcourt, Brace ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- analogy, an argument for the existence of God in his book Natural Theology ... Born in Peterborough, Paley was educated at Giggleswick School, of ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- journalist who is now considered to be one of the most important writers ... In addition to his fiction, Crane was also the author of some of the ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- to fiction, but as he became more critical of the Soviet regime, his work ... ==Early life and career== Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman in Berdichev ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society, the unique ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- in Islam as Jahannam. The powerful imagery of Gehenna originates from a ancient ... (גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- Josiah (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ, Yošiyyáhuv, "supported of ... reform that centralized the worship of the Hebrew God Yahweh in Jerusalem ...13 KB (2,117 words) - 05:07, 7 May 2024
- The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Roman ... and beautiful widow. During the final stages of an Assyrian siege which has ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, the Book of Haggai ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- he wrote De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of ... the Renaissance the work emerged as a source of inspiration for numerous scholars ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- Manna was miraculously produced food of the Israelites in the desert ... substances that may have been the source of the legend of manna from heaven ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 02:56, 6 November 2022
- actor and playwright. At the age of 12 he attracted the attention ... the Noh theater, as well as Fūshi kaden, a book of instruction for Noh actors ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of ... figure who probably lived during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 B.C.E ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- dogmatism in general, and the concept of an institutional church. He ... with individuals through the portion of the divine remaining in each ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the philosophers of Ionia ... inquired into the unchanging principle of being that can uniformly explain ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- whose works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great ... Tindal was born in 1653 to the Rev. John Tindal, Rector of Beer Ferrers ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- and Gulag survivor. Shalamov was a victim of Stalin's Great Purges ... ==Early life and first arrest== Varlam Shalamov was born in Vologda ...8 KB (1,126 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- † 443 B.C.E. in Argos), was one of the canonical nine poets of ... a poet that, although only a tiny fraction of his works have survived, what ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- and influential African-American novelist of the first half of the twentieth ... also a political activist. He spent a number of years in his early career championing ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 18:49, 11 August 2022
- #039;akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... ==Early life and Education== Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- War II. After experiencing the excesses of Stalinism, he became a critic ... His novel, The Thaw, gave expression to many of the problems of Soviet ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the ... Palestrina was born in Palestrina, a town near Rome, then part of ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- Krafft-Ebbing is famous for his book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) ... , and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
