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- who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- mountain range, forming a continuous chain of highland along the western ... feet (6,960 m) above sea level. The summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean ...15 KB (2,126 words) - 19:59, 26 July 2023
- , is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- A "glider" is an unpowered aircraft. The most common types ... use engines occasionally. The manufacturers of high-performance gliders now ...22 KB (3,495 words) - 08:00, 24 January 2023
- 24 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre, ... attorney, and his wife, Sophie. The oldest of the family's five children ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products ... A small percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically ...21 KB (3,064 words) - 16:00, 13 February 2024
- east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... The System traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- Online shopping is the process of researching and purchasing products ... ” and pays with a credit card or some form of electronic payment. The products ...28 KB (4,204 words) - 00:40, 18 November 2022
- 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- #039;s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...14 KB (2,168 words) - 09:59, 22 May 2023
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- It comes in many allotropic forms, of which the yellow, black, and ... in history by murderers, including members of the ruling class, to gain wealth ...21 KB (2,920 words) - 04:00, 15 August 2023
- with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metal ... semiconductor industry for the manufacture of diodes and infrared detectors ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- battle occurred incidental to the mission of the General Sherman to attempt ... and passed a law that prohibited the return of shipwrecked seaman, especially ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore petroleum reserves ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- somewhat raccoon or bear-like face. A member of the Carnivora order, generally ... They generally are found in the slopes of the south of the Himalayas ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
- Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it has ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...33 KB (4,933 words) - 21:55, 31 January 2024
- Cookware and bakeware are categories of food preparation utensils ... but they vary in shape. The size and shape of a utensil is typically determined ...24 KB (3,711 words) - 20:23, 7 June 2023
- Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- art dating from the paintings on the walls of Goguryeo tombs to post-modern ... influenced by Chinese art and the exchange of cultural influences between ...22 KB (3,315 words) - 22:03, 5 January 2024
- during snowy, winter conditions. This member of the mammal family Mustelidae ... being a significant predator especially of small rodents, while falling ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:45, 6 September 2023
- 023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- " is the wireless communication of signals by transmitting electromagnetic ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral ... In psychology, personality is a collection of emotional, thought, ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks ... hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). ...48 KB (7,277 words) - 23:46, 30 November 2022
- pot. Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty of China (c. 1700)]] archeology outside the United States) is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology ...28 KB (4,112 words) - 06:15, 12 August 2023
- ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... Thailand. Many were resettled in Western countries, including the United States ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes.] ... Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe ... At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India, with tales of ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- Quebec City or Québec (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of ... the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... in the eighteenth century, among a group of men including John Wesley and ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955. Affiliated ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- large passerine birds in the genus Corvus of the family Corvidae, typically ... and mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...35 KB (5,252 words) - 06:40, 28 February 2023
- for buttons would be eliminated and the size of the device would be further reduced. ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature ... Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
