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- ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... E., making him a candidate to be the founder of the earliest religion based ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- Crow is the common name for various large passerine birds in the genus ... and mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- where the notations are not entered by buttons but are written on ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic, that he ... was scant until after World War II. Much of his huge output is still unpublished ...60 KB (9,018 words) - 22:24, 4 December 2023
- that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... either optically (visual binaries) or by indirect techniques, such as ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
- country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... the Dominican Republic has a long history of violence and tyranny, including; ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant ... was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel ... The Books of Samuel originally formed a single text, which probably ...37 KB (5,923 words) - 19:27, 20 November 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
- ) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary ... used in the People's Republic of China on Mainland China, Singapore ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960. The core of ... the British always represented as a series of lawless acts by dangerous criminal ...44 KB (6,886 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- an unrelated physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 ... Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the ... " emphasizing the participatory aspect of the web as opposed to the web ...39 KB (5,412 words) - 23:24, 3 May 2023
- and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost figures in world ... with the social and psychological anomie of modern life than were many ...30 KB (4,829 words) - 03:14, 6 August 2022
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 22:49, 3 February 2022
- 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
- discovered. Approximately one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto ... because they are closer in size than any of the other known celestial pair ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 17:02, 26 September 2023
- Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...41 KB (6,363 words) - 05:45, 16 November 2023
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... "aisthetike" and was coined by the philosopher Alexander ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Peck described human life as a series of obstacles to be overcome ... While Peck promoted a life of discipline, true love, and honest relationships ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- quot;) refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical doctrines about ... among the Geonim (early medieval Rabbis) and by Rishonim (later medieval Rabbis ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- 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
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting ... In the history of rock music, psychedelic rock is a bridge from early ...40 KB (6,210 words) - 08:25, 2 December 2022
- the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- The Paris Commune during the French Revolution was the government ... By 1792, the Commune was dominated by those Jacobins who were not ...32 KB (4,786 words) - 22:20, 25 June 2022
- ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... with the imperial project in India freed her of the obligation to value everything ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- ) is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated ... land" in Innuktitut, the language of Inuit. It is one of the most ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
- ==Evolution of the glyph== as the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but 3 continues ...42 KB (5,963 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter ... White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- == Evolution of the glyph == J upside down. The main contribution of the western Ghubar Arabs was ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 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
- The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... Characterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...45 KB (6,401 words) - 05:50, 30 November 2022
- Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow ... news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question of whether ... synergetics. He also created a large number of inventions, mostly in the fields ...36 KB (5,646 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. Barrès referred to a particular group of writers as Decadents. It emerged ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- ]) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from ... "Deutsches Reich," the same name used by the German monarchy ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and his discovery of ... Eventually, in 1891, he gained a Bachelors of Arts degree in physics at the ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 19:55, 24 November 2023
- French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃], or Girondists, were a group of loosely affiliated ... Like the Montagnards, they initially were part of the Jacobin movement ...34 KB (4,885 words) - 16:31, 15 December 2022
