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- Cyril of Alexandria (c. 378 - 444 C.E.) was the Christian patriarch ... controversy against Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, in which Cyril ...19 KB (2,930 words) - 07:26, 12 January 2024
- The Second Council of Ephesus was a church synod in 449 C.E. It was ... had been deposed by Patriarch Flavian of Constantinople on account of ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 17:40, 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
- 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
- The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites ... The Amalekites are unknown historically and archaeologically outside ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... The original Seven Wonders of the World consists of: The Great Pyramid ...19 KB (2,688 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- leader) often seen as the instigator of the Monophysite heresy. He ... The head of an influential monastery near Constantinople, Eutyches ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 05:26, 5 April 2021
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- 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
- quot;), or Hierogamy, refers to the coupling of a god and goddess or their ... The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- 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
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- Dioscorus of Alexandria was the twenty-fifth bishop of Alexandria ... A disciple of Saint Cyril of Alexandria, whom he succeeded as patriarch ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 09:38, 24 November 2022
- May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific ... Geographic Magazine has, through its use of photojournalism and quality ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- "Warrior Lion"), was the brother of Moses and Miriam and founder ... for his leadership during the early stages of the Exodus, and especially ...22 KB (3,503 words) - 07:12, 13 June 2023
- people who first occupied the country west of the Euphrates from the second ... them as enemies and left several records of their defeat by Israelite heroes ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae. It is ... it is described as "among the best of fruits," and in Numbers ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024
- Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology ... Basilides was a pupil of a hearer of St. Peter, Glaucias by name, ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle ... musical expression. In the ancient cultures of China, Africa, Greece, the ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area of ... pillar known as the "stone of witness." Shechem was ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- civilization museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation ... for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People") ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- Brautigan wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- "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
- Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval ... is integral to ancient Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict ...56 KB (8,963 words) - 04:38, 18 November 2022
- 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
- Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire DBE ... is often cited, by the Guinness Book of World Records and others, as ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 06:43, 16 June 2023
- The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... During the Roman Empire, the cross was an instrument of capital punishment ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles George Gordon in the ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- The Council of Chalcedon, also known as the Fourth Ecumenical Council ... Following the lead of Pope Leo I, the council sought a middle path ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 08:25, 10 January 2024
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... #039;. The Phoenicians often traded by means of a galley, a man-powered sailing ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- and sociologist, famous for his theory of matriarchy and his work on ... the need to bring out the feminine aspect of God and human beings was real. ...10 KB (1,351 words) - 14:47, 1 August 2022
- plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature, human attributes while ... that they were handed down as an oral form of storytelling, sometimes recorded ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and ... the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael, in particular, had ...16 KB (2,149 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- that is especially honored either because of its antiquity, association ... building, usually located at the center of a Roman town (forum). Public ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 03:32, 1 January 2022
- embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant ... go much further back into history. A version of it is told in many cultures ...20 KB (3,064 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... preservation standards. As with the case of other notable museums, the ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- empire, particularly in Syria, the Levant, Egypt, and Anatolia, while western ... Monophysitism received new life again during the reign of Justinian ...23 KB (3,529 words) - 20:01, 9 November 2022
- |name = University of Pennsylvania |image = [[Image:Collegegreen ... The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private, ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- armoracia, Armoracia lapathifolia)) of the mustard or cabbage family ... often mixed with vinegar, the sharp taste of horseradish offers a unique ...16 KB (2,357 words) - 14:25, 7 February 2024
- any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy in order ... There are several specific categories of monks including cenobites ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the ... Due to the extraordinary talents of Michelangelo (1475-1564), the ...23 KB (3,674 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- A dream is the experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, ... or heaven giving warnings or announcements of fortune that is to come. For ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:34, 30 January 2024
- The First Council of Constantinople (381), also known as the Second ... Although the council represented the triumph of Nicene orthodoxy over ...21 KB (3,217 words) - 17:20, 28 March 2024
- arts, and film. This movement was an amalgam of many different styles and movements ... 1930s and early 1940s, and soon fell out of public favor. The time frame ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 04:01, 15 August 2023
- first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
