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- ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in ... The city is revered by Muslims for containing the holiest site of ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
- 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
- who contributed to mapping the source of the Niger River and was the ... his father, William Laing, a private teacher of classics, and at Edinburgh ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology. He ... His humanistic model allowed psychologists and students of psychology ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
- " Monk is often regarded as a founder of bebop, although his playing ... 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- ) was a co-recipient, with Mairead Corrigan, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 ... Williams led a women's movement for peace that consisted of ordinary ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 23:29, 11 January 2023
- S. Census Bureau, covers nine states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- name Jalalu'ddin has the meaning Majesty of Religion. Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- Matchmaking is the process of introducing a couple as potential partners ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... work, Al-Madina al-fadila (The Virtuous City), describes a hierarchical ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey ... Nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of the ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 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
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | deathplace = New York City, U.S. | occupation = Novelist, editor ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- Up, about Peter, Wendy and the Lost Boys of Never Never Land. Barrie was ... Critics have speculated that Peter Pan was a reflection of Barrie ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 08:18, 13 March 2024
- was the co-founder, with Betty Williams, of the Community of Peace People ... Corrigan gained recognition as a promoter of peace and justice that has ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise in Mie prefecture, ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- themes from the spiritual tradition of Judaism. Malamud's stories ... Bernard Malamud was born April 26, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York to ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- famous for his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- | Died = November 5, 1989 (age: 86)New York, New York, USA ... 1989) was an American classical pianist of Ukrainian birth. In his prime ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to ... to have been the author of the phrase "Information Superhighway ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- Cliff-dwelling is the general archaeological term for the habitations ... inhabited. They are common among the canyons of the Southwestern United States ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- 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
- make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- Boysenberry is the common name for a hybrid plant of the blackberry/raspberry ... (which work as antioxidants), and a source of iron. The boysenberry is a ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 22:33, 20 November 2023
- نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo-Assyrian Empire ... center and was Assyria's capital city from the ninth through the ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) which sold over two million ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- state, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... over 4,600 acres (7.2 mi² or 18.6 km²) of ski-able terrain; Timberline ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose worship ... Additionally, she was worshiped as a deity of rebirth in connection with ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- remains obscure in comparison to the giants of his time such as Walt Whitman ... Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English and American ancestry ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century Romanticism ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 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
- by the Ptolemaic period, he was "a kind of national mascot." ... The worship of Apis was certainly the most popular of the three great ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- 1860 - October 23, 1946) was born in England of Scottish parents. He was raised ... He was founder of the Woodcraft Indians and one of the founding pioneers ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest ... Ancient Alexandria was a thriving Greco-Roman city, one of the most ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- {{Infobox University-Jen | name = Kyoto University | native_name = 京都大学 | ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- Thomas Jefferson following the acquisition of vast western territories from ... with the Native Americans with the help of the Shoshone Indian woman Sacajawea ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of ... a feast day that bewails the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. It ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
- the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ... From 1839 to the mid-1840s she organized discussion groups of women ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science ... Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Cantor dedicated much of his life for caring for others needs. He ... Cantor was born Israel Iskowitz in New York City, the son of Russian ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
