Search results for "University of Vienna search" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • 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
  • 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...
    41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
  • from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") ... are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven ...
    52 KB (7,685 words) - 01:50, 27 February 2024
  • an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...
    51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
  • educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...
    49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
  • ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World ...
    38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
  • physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most significant scientists ... that energy is transmitted not in the form of an unbroken (infinitely subdivisible ...
    30 KB (4,449 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
  • Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... imposed by France and England at the Treaty of Versailles. The economic disaster ...
    75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
  • 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was ... Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, ...
    31 KB (4,736 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
  • Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...
    47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
  • modern life. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors ... Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter ...
    26 KB (4,124 words) - 21:08, 30 April 2023
  • to the color era, Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular ... Hitchcock was the quintessential master of suspense. One aspect that ...
    29 KB (4,441 words) - 08:14, 20 July 2023
  • in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and ... Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated ...
    78 KB (12,353 words) - 18:18, 21 May 2024
  • Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...
    53 KB (8,079 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
  • century Gujarati literature, and was one of several Gujarati writers and ... rule. Manilal's beliefs led him to search for perfection and love in ...
    44 KB (6,296 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
  • are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...
    75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
  • born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...
    56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
  • Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...
    53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
  • [[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|thumb|right|250 px ... cities formed in locations where a number of people were gathered to live ...
    41 KB (6,075 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
  • Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...
    50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
  • June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...
    42 KB (6,393 words) - 17:01, 20 May 2024
  • that it stays aloft primarily by means of a large cavity filled with ... Airships were the first form of aircraft to make controlled, powered ...
    40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
  • #039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...
    46 KB (7,008 words) - 06:33, 6 May 2024
  • The history of economic thought concerns thinkers and theories in ... Following Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, classical economists ...
    51 KB (7,537 words) - 12:02, 1 February 2024
  • Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...
    58 KB (8,390 words) - 00:12, 25 October 2021
  • Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...
    48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
  • that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...
    66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
  • mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...
    78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
  • the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...
    59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
  • The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...
    76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
  • Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...
    62 KB (10,177 words) - 20:44, 3 May 2023
  • and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...
    200 KB (27,687 words) - 00:08, 13 March 2023
  • |+Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |Periods in Office: ... |Place of Birth: |Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire|Woodstock ...
    65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
  • fullerite. Its hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial ... stm "Chinese made first use of diamond,"] BBC News (May ...
    81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
  • Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing ... which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to ...
    101 KB (14,057 words) - 17:18, 7 May 2024
  • a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... for her day. She sought the attention of those who could influence her ...
    103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
  • There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...
    199 KB (24,192 words) - 20:08, 19 September 2022

View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)