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- Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" ... A principle is fundamental in the sense that it generally cannot be ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential ... Nagarjuna's writings had a major influence not only on the development ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- after his death by his friend and mentor, the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus ... A detailed biography attached to the manuscripts of Persius’ satires ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary ... One component of the text that has received extensive scholarly attention ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- and economist. His monumental History of the Italian Republics in the Middle ... and all his ancestors seem to have borne the name Simonde, at least from ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- than a metaphor and often appeals to the imagination, whereas an analogy ... The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book ... and dispute particularly regarding the Old Testament and other theological ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature ... Gide's work exposes to public view the conflict between the two sides ...14 KB (1,915 words) - 20:02, 26 July 2023
- Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה) is a sacred candelabrum used in Jewish ... The menorah continues to play an important role in modern Judaism ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- ) were the presidents of the two great rabbinical colleges of Sura ... The authority of the Geonim began in 589 C.E. (Hebrew date: 4349) ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- for more than three decades, theologian, the last of the Western Latin ... otherwise would not have survived. Until the twelfth century brought translations ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- The Diatessaron (c 150 - 160 C.E.) (meaning "Harmony of Four ... who combined the four canonical gospels into a single harmonious narrative ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied with the individualism of Martin Heidegger ... in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the second son of a physician ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... When Betty's mother took over running the shop after her husband fell ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or ... The term 'book' may also refer to a literary work, or a ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least ... God's omniscience is related to the issue of predestination, ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- intelligence officer who coordinated the Central Intelligence Agency ... However, the Shah's regime was oppressive and rode roughshod ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- , and diplomat, who is best known as the author of The Canterbury Tales ... psychological insight. No other author of the Middle English period demonstrates ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- prose. His books, written during the Great Depression show an almost ... In his personal life, the author was known by friends as an enthusiastic ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical ... These statements are paradoxical because there is no way to assign ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... Observant Jews still follow the laws contained in Leviticus, except ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- they had graduated. He spoke not only to the academic ivory tower intellectuals ... Together with White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951), written ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ... contents were relatively variable, each Book typically contained a detailed ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ... The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 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
- or deductive reasoning is inference in which the premises, if true, purport ... We do need to say that in a deductive inference the premises "purport ...16 KB (2,607 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- British social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern ... to other religions, his work opened a new way of looking at the rituals ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- [[File:Isaac Pitman.jpg|thumb|300px|Sir Isaac Pitman, from 'The ... British phonographer, famous for developing the most widely used system of ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- American sociologist. His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals ... Even though he recognized that there is an inter-relationship between ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 21:17, 24 November 2023
- Poetry) encompasses verse written during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period ... riddles, and short lyrics. Some of the most important works from ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] an English jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define ... They form a great river system, an alluvial salt marsh ecoregion of ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- known for being an outspoken critic of the Aristotelian philosophy which ... Ramus objected to the way in which young students were made to memorize ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864 ... In 1844, Hong and his follower Feng Yun-shan founded the "God ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ... she worked as an editor for Random House in the 1960s and 1970s, where she ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- and/or historical significance, often the human remains of an important ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of ... cultural traditions and introduced them to the West. His witty, sharp analysis ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- Perdix. He is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing ... . Homer refers to Ariadne by her Cretan title, the "Lady of the ...11 KB (1,708 words) - 07:41, 12 January 2024
- is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks to summon ... conjuration. Necromancy is communing with the spirits of the dead, rather ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- was an influential Italian psychiatrist, the founder of the psychological ... using a more complete method that the Freudian psychoanalysis with ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- number of major critics and theorists of the present-day. He is regarded ... his own thought derives critically from the works of the seminal philosopher ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- an early Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers ... Titus Flavius Clemens was born sometime during the middle of the second ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the ... Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area of ... In the Bible, Shechem was the first place where the patriarch Abraham ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the Democratic ... Tweed left school at the age of 11 to learn his father’s trade of ...9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- ), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside ... Mikhail Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye, a village ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
