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- [[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
- (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Ming and early Ch'ing ... Like other great thinkers of the transition era between the Ming and ...11 KB (1,753 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- who was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy ... and transition in China, experiencing the Sino-Japanese War of 1907 ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- February 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke ... 9, 1867, just one year and a half before the start of the Meiji Reformation ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- The Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather ... Released the second Tuesday in September of the year prior to the ...19 KB (2,821 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- was a highly revered Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh ... Ferdowsi traced the history of Persia from its earliest days to the ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- who popularized European evolution theory in the United States. He studied ... Both in his books and on the lecture platform, Fiske endeavored to ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper, first published in ... something of a phrase in its own right in the UK. The stereotypical Daily ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 07:46, 12 January 2024
- collections of folklore. He was also one of the first African-American professors ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- jewelry and other beautiful, valuable items. The discovery of her well-preserved ... sediment that he believed were evidence of The Flood recorded in the Bible ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining ... Although theoretically, any piece of information on a given book is ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean ... a system of latitude and longitude for the maps he created, and was the ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- [[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
- 1950) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the ... Millay lived and wrote during the early decades of the twentieth-century ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Richardson is widely considered to be the inventor of the epistolary ... in a printer’s shop, where he earned the nicknames “Gravity” and ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- " Bagley published chiefly on the topics of teacher education ... on March 15, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of William Chase and Ruth ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- ) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site ... (Hebrew) and Tel al-Mutesellim (Arabic), the word tel meaning "hill ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- c. 484 – c. 577 C.E.), also known as "the Navigator," "the ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- it has specific rules and etiquette for the dancers to follow. different types of dance, with origins in the many kinds of dances that ...19 KB (2,953 words) - 16:29, 27 April 2024
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... Opinions are divided both as to its authorship—whether by James ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and grew up in the Bishopston ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- Amulets were originally objects worn about the neck or other parts of the ... Closely related to the amulet is the talisman (from Arabic tilasm; ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide historical time ... To the extent that history is continuous and not generalized, all ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic and the founder of the Bridgettine Order. ... Bridget lived in the time of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) with ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 23:04, 20 November 2023
- ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and ... and practiced in many schools around the globe. Its popularity is not ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world and have sold over 400 ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- Khayyám contributed a number of insights to the development of geometry, algebra ... known as a poet, and particularly for the volume The Rubaiyat of Omar ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691 ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...20 KB (3,111 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- Hellenistic Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B ... Although best-known for its exposition of geometry, the Elements also ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
