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- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion is rewarded by miraculous ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
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- | name = Paul | class = vcard | pretitle = Part of a series of articles on | title = Paul in the Bible ...1 KB (176 words) - 22:14, 29 January 2024
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... The letter indicates that some of the Galatians had been influenced ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion is rewarded by miraculous ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... While the letter is addressed from Paul, many scholars today doubt ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- The First Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles ... While Paul is traditionally recognized as the author of 1Timothy, ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the fifth or sixth century ... he uses Plotinus' well-known analogy of a sculptor’s cutting away ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- The Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the New Testament ... The primary theme of Ephesians is the church, its basic nature and ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher ... disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts, in which he is quoted ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- is a book in the New Testament, written by Paul the Apostle. Paul's most ... Paul also asks the Corinthians to renew their efforts to collect a ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 16:52, 10 February 2024
- John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of ... According to the New Testament, John came from a family of fisherman ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human ... anthropology seeks to understand the nature of the human being through its ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian ... was permissible under the doctrine of Christian freedom from the ...9 KB (1,490 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... including the Acts of Thomas, the Acts of Paul (and Thecla), the Acts ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- disciples of Jesus. Together with the Acts of Paul, it is considered one ... * Acts of Paul and Thecla ==References== * Bremmer, Jan N. The Apocryphal ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Peter, and Cephas—original name Simeon son of Jonah—was one of the Twelve ... by Jesus, who reportedly gave him the keys of heaven and called him the ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- The New Testament is the name given to the second and final portion ... collected into a single volume over a period of several centuries. They consist ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The son of Agrippa I ... the right to name the important post of high priest of Jerusalem. Agrippa ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; "Gift of Yahweh"—first century ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- being vacant"), refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular ... ==Vacancy of the Holy See== In the context of the papacy, sede vacante ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- (10 B.C.E. – 44 C.E.), was the last king of the Jews. He was the grandson ... but suffered several dramatic changes of fortune until the ascension ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- have even suggested that James the brother of Jesus (and perhaps Jesus himself ... has led to divergent interpretations of the Nazirites among Talmudic ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- refers to ecstatic utterances, often as part of religious practices, commonly ... The origin of the modern Christian concept of speaking in tongues ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... In its early history, one of the Church's earliest ecclesiological ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The ... a later writer who was not a direct disciple of Jesus. Its date has been estimated ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the ... What the nature of the resurrected body is may still be an issue. ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- The Epistle of Barnabas, also known as Pseudo-Barnabas, is a Christian ... Today, it is included in most collections of the Apostolic Fathers. ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament ... #039;s sins, superseding the sacrifices of the "old covenant" ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...29 KB (4,732 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- #039;s will remains free under the action of divine grace. Molina developed ... One of the most controversial thinkers in the history of Catholic ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- [[Image:Ponzo illusion.gif|250px|thumb|right|An example of the Ponzo ... The Ponzo illusion is an optical illusion where a pair of converging ...4 KB (658 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- meanings. The first describes the members of the early Christian movement ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic ... Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation of Plato's Republic. The ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- three different but related meanings, all of them derived from the word ... theology and mysticism recognizes the limits of conceptual understanding or ...11 KB (1,539 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency ... The classical approximation of the force of friction, known as Coulomb ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of Paul in the stichometrical ... was done by the original author as a sign of the authenticity of the translation ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 14:09, 27 January 2023
- The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of ... As part of the canon of the New Testament, they are foundational texts ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of ... Most Christian denominations accept the doctrine of infant baptism ...16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- by God to spread the "good news" of the Christian message to the ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- Confession of sins is the public or spoken acknowledgment of either ... The practice of confession in the Judeo-Christian tradition goes back ...20 KB (3,112 words) - 18:56, 15 May 2020
- 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot, whose ... still a child, mostly due to his uncle Paul Janet, a professor of philosophy ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- The notion of an Ego or self that precedes all experiences and makes ... ==Kant and the transcendental unity of apperception== "Transcendental ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus ... John the Baptist also had disciples, as did some of the Old Testament ...15 KB (2,501 words) - 03:45, 31 July 2022
- The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city ... The temple was described by Philo of Byzantium: I have seen the walls ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating money or goods, or providing ... Philanthropy is the voluntary act of donating extensive financial ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 03:17, 24 November 2022
- ordinary washing, hand washing, or washing of the body. By extension, ablutions ... Ablutions of one sort or another are practiced in nearly every religious ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament attributed ... The dating of this epistle has proved very difficult. Commentaries ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- The Apocalypse of Peter or Revelation of Peter is an example of popular ... the Revelation of Peter along with the Acts of Paul and the Shepherd of Hermas ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 06:02, 11 August 2023
- affirms that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. ... who live under the visible representative of Christ. However, there are ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- , in theology, is the idea that members of a particular religious group ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- Paul of Tarsus (originally Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul ... There is also the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla. However, scholars ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... a reed or a fipple. A woodwind may be made of any material, not just wood ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... stories on these themes, such as the Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Parable ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... who settled among the Jews. The Book of Leviticus thus commands: "The ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- Didymus, meaning "Twin") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus ... the nations. While Saints Peter and Paul were said to have brought ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... Throughout his adult life, Hancock gave of himself tirelessly to the cause ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- 1946) is a Catholic Saint, the second person of Indian origin to be canonized ... Claims of her intervention began almost immediately upon her death ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- "a time in between," a moment of undetermined period of time ... Kairos time is usually perceived as a time of crisis. With this in ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai's school became known as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ... Ficino introduced the concept of the immortality of the soul into ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- In Christianity, a gospel is generally one of four canonical books ... been printed in the Bible is not the order of their composition, and that ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- | name = History of Christianity | title = History of Christianity | bodyclass = hlist | state = autocollapse ...11 KB (1,221 words) - 01:35, 2 August 2022
- " Traditionally, the office of deacon originated in the selection ... Saint Lawrence, and Saint Francis of Assisi. Others became powerful ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- Marcion of Sinope (ca. 110-160 C.E.) was a Christian theologian who ... Marcion was deemed a heretic for his rejection of the whole Hebrew ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- In physics, mechanical work is the amount of energy transferred by ... Positive and negative signs of work indicate whether the object exerting ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 03:50, 9 November 2022
- The Eucharist is a sacramental or memorial reenactment of the Last ... Christians generally recognize a special presence of Christ in this ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church and ... throughout the world, despite the objections of small groups of traditionalists ...21 KB (3,268 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
- :This article is about the Gnostic Valentinus. For the martyr of the ... he professed a neo-Platonic version of gnostic theology, stressing ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... those that can no longer be observed because of the destruction of the Temple ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- ], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth day") is one of ... derives from the Greek name for Shavuot, one of the three Jewish Pilgrimage ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... tenth child. President John Adams was one of his cousins. Adams was a baptized ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- 'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic religions ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. Influenced by the philosophy ... In September, 1874 he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. Based ... He entered the University of West Virginia at the age of fifteen, ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 07:17, 5 October 2022
- ) is the common name of a brief early Christian treatise (c. 50–160 ... "Let there be placed among the spurious works the Acts of Paul ...25 KB (3,964 words) - 14:24, 29 January 2024
- Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- spelled Halacha) is the collective corpus of Jewish religious law, including ... Halakha. Reflecting the cultural diversity of Jewish communities, slightly ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- The Third Council of Constantinople, also known as the Sixth Ecumenical ... for opposing Monothelitism during the reign of Emperor Constans II. ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- teacher who efficiently perfected the art of composition as well as becoming ... entire family converted to the religion of his grandfather, Judaism, and ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod around the beginning ... hearted approach to interpreting the spirit of the law, Hillel and his followers ...16 KB (2,728 words) - 13:17, 22 January 2024
- a Christian Apostle and the younger brother of Saint Peter. He was renowned ... It is also held that Andrew founded the See of Byzantium in 38 C.E ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- experience with God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as described ... "On the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus' resurrection ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 07:23, 23 November 2022
- The Pharisees were a religious and political movement of ancient Israel ... During the early years of the Common Era, a major internal debate ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- to reveal a plot and the personalities of characters on stage to the ... Massenet was born in Montaud, then an outlying hamlet and now a part ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- like John Prine and Steve Goodman, each of whom, like Van Zandt, regularly ... country musicians and was an integral part of the Texas musical culture which ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- activities, most commonly for the purpose of generating substantial profit ... Organized crime takes advantage of social conditions or laws, such ...12 KB (1,649 words) - 10:42, 11 March 2023
- According to the Christian Gospels, Joseph of Arimathea is the person ... 'was searching') for the Kingdom of God" (Mark 15:43), and ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 05:03, 7 May 2024
- The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman ... It entrusted to the Pope the completion of some sections of its work ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- is engaged in the ministry and leadership of religious group. Within the ... Members of holy orders, as leaders of their religious communities ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- together" or "council") is an assembly of 23 ... The Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin) identifies two classes of rabbinical ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The word limbo (late Latin limbus) is a word of Teutonic derivation ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- The Acts of Thomas is is one of the New Testament apocrypha, describing ... *Acts of Paul and Thecla *Acts of John ==References== * Bremmer, Jan ...27 KB (4,575 words) - 05:44, 15 June 2023
- Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular ... it manifests in certain interpretations of the concepts of the Chosen ...15 KB (2,291 words) - 10:03, 29 July 2022
- The Gospel of Thomas is an important but long lost work of the New ... biblical gospels in that the resurrection of Jesus plays no part in it, ...20 KB (3,346 words) - 20:09, 11 September 2021
- Commedia dell'Arte (Italian: "The art of comedy") is ... status. In a similar way, universal forms of entertainment have continued ...16 KB (2,341 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- [[Image:london.bankofengland.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Bank of ... The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom, and ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 03:34, 17 September 2023
- community. The word literally means out of communion, or no longer in ... Excommunication is the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. ...24 KB (3,632 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- The saxophone is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family ... sound, the saxophone is the result of its inventor's realization ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- for one's actions. The concept of autonomy is also found in education ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- Male Circumcision is a surgical procedure that removes some or all ... it include that circumcision is a form of ritual sacrifice or offering ...30 KB (4,501 words) - 22:23, 10 December 2023
- Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins ... Ancient Jewish religion involved rites of priestly sacrifice of animal ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- The historicity of Jesus concerns the historical authenticity of Jesus ... of biblical scholars argue that Jesus never existed as a historical ...44 KB (6,589 words) - 16:59, 22 February 2023
- Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... There is a degree of belief and certainty. While faith often includes ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ... sought to characterize the notion of value in general, of which ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,766 words) - 15:09, 21 May 2024
- quot;the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that ... Scholarly knowledge of the Ebionites is limited and fragmentary, deriving ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- Gregory of Nyssa (Latin:Gregorius Nyssenus, Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος ... and Roman Catholic Christianity, all of which celebrate his memory ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 18:10, 31 January 2023
- Leo Tolstoy he was nevertheless a writer of considerable accomplishment ... Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famous family of Count ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- that serve the spiritual aspirations of its adherents, and mark dispensational ... defines a sacrament as “an outward sign of an inward (invisible) grace ...20 KB (3,310 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
- their substance into the body and Blood of Christ. The doctrine of Transubstantiation ... The doctrine of Transubstantiation was criticized or misinterpreted ...30 KB (4,681 words) - 02:14, 2 May 2023
- Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- – February 3, 1959), was the stage name of Charles Hardin Holley, an American ... Holley and Ella Pauline Drake, the youngest of four boys. The Holleys were ...11 KB (1,803 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of ... lift, a push, or a pull. A familiar example of force is the weight of an object ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... Folk rock had antecedents in the labor movement of the 1930s, notably ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having ... ==The elements of conscience== Conscience refers to a person’s sense ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major philosophical ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Veneration of Saint Barbara was common from the ninth century until ... Today Barbara is perhaps best known as the patron saint of artillerymen ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1878 until his death ... but he is most noted for his "Theory of Objects" (Über Gegenstandstheorie ...14 KB (1,974 words) - 06:46, 20 July 2023
- ) was the governor of the Roman Iudaea province from 26 -36 C.E. He ... Although sometimes portrayed sympathetically because of his reported ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 20:06, 9 April 2023
- and which cannot be explained in terms of another interaction. Currently ... In the conceptual model of fundamental interactions, matter consists ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 09:25, 18 October 2022
- The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...36 KB (5,268 words) - 08:35, 3 April 2024
- Inquisition, (capitalized I) as broadly used, refers to the judgment ... to the modern mindset. However, the notion of religious liberty and of freedom ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, commonly called the Thirty-Nine ... Established by Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction ...23 KB (3,516 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and ... which state that Jesus "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- known for his novels, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... father’s regiment was disbanded on the day of Sterne’s birth, and within ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 17:53, 25 October 2022
- during the 1870s. There he befriended many of the leading French artists ... language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 14:49, 21 May 2024
- "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of ... One question asks the kinds of practical rules people actually use ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- Nazi medical doctors and officials accused of criminal human experimentation ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- was a first-century CE Jewish-Idumean ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore ... The son of Herod the Great, Antipas ruled as a client king of the ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 14:56, 12 February 2022
- and is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian ... The Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are generally ...10 KB (1,549 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2020
- to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one ... Sexual behavior is related to the very purpose of human existence: ...18 KB (2,684 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- clear and forceful singing, his powerful use of the 12-string guitar, and the ... Lead Belly was one of the most colorful, albeit notorious figures ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a ... In the case of a rigid body, the position of its center of mass is ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... but beneficial event (such as the survival of a natural disaster), or even ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but ... made opera, a typically dense and epic form of entertainment, available to ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars ... Crosby's recording of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 17:48, 31 October 2023
- Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes. Cumberland ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review of Federal ... Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of the Peace in the District of ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- observation statements, and judgments of perception have also been used ... A number of questions arose about such alleged protocol sentences: ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- The Book of Obadiah is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible (and the ... The text of the Book of Obadiah is singularly focused on one theme: ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of rockabilly music, a mix of ... After the huge success of "Blue Suede Shoes," Perkins was ...15 KB (2,405 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- In physics, the angular momentum of an object rotating about some ... The concept of angular momentum is important in physics because it ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and the hermeneutic ... Normale Supérieure, where he met Jean-Paul Sartre. Afterwards Merleau ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- by the belief that while one set of beliefs is absolutely true ... Broadly speaking, there are two schools of Inclusivist thought: ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Under normal conditions of room temperature and pressure, it is a ... can significantly increase the power output of automobile internal combustion ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 02:28, 16 November 2022
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... Together with the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Jeremiah ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- often referred to as the "Father of Bluegrass Music." Bluegrass ... his brother Charlie in the 1930s, as one of the Monroe Brothers. Bluegrass ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:06, 31 October 2023
- involve movements that are a combination of difficult feats of balance ... flips, and other tricks to entertain large groups of people. ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- cultivator that works the soil by means of rotating tines or blades. Rotary ... tillers have been used to clean the exterior of oilfield pipes and to prepare ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:27, 16 December 2022
- was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford, Bedfordshire), in ... He preferred to face and endure years of imprisonment at great sacrifice ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 04:30, 3 August 2022
- The original group (1967-1976) consisted of Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel ... the time, has become a much-covered classic of the era. ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- also general council) is a conference of the bishops of the whole Church ... inhabited," and was originally a figure of speech referring to the territory ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- Divination is the attempt of ascertaining information by interpretation ... The biblical prophets used various forms of divination in reading the future ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert ... steels, and the mineral lodestone (an oxide of iron). Objects with such properties ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... for modern philosophy. The great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ... Suicide occurs for any number of reasons, often relating to depression ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was ... Rome, it continued to enjoy a high degree of autonomy as a client-state ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- these tended to focus more on the lives of saints), are among the earliest ... The Catholic church eyed mystery plays warily. Until the beginning ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient ... Originally, it contained the whole of both Testaments. The Greek Old ...31 KB (4,479 words) - 22:23, 7 January 2024
- and Beelzebus) was reportedly the name of a deity worshiped in the Philistine ... In the Old Testament, the Israelite king Ahaziah inquired of Ba‘al ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 - April 29, 1380) was a Dominican ... many letters to popes and men and women of influence for peace between ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- thereof, such as the Holy Spirit. (The study of the Holy Spirit in Christian ... quot; in the Latin Vulgate instead of anima (soul), which was rendered ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status ... It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- [[File:Drawing of William de Marisco.jpg|right|thumb|300px|As illustrated ... penalty ordained in England for the crime of treason. It is considered by ...18 KB (2,928 words) - 19:19, 14 August 2020
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- regarded as the "Founding Father" of the Hudson River School, an ... His historical and allegorical paintings of the 1820s and 1830s gave ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- 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
- It is a time of somber reflection, fasting, and spiritual preparation ... from foods and festivities, and by other acts of penance. Historically, ...19 KB (2,974 words) - 20:02, 25 October 2022
- was a British general and commander in chief of the British North American ... Gage was born in Firle, England the second son of the first Viscount ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- The Manhattan Center building, built in 1906 and located in the heart ... From its first incarnation as the Manhattan Opera House, home of Oscar ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 06:48, 5 November 2022
- French criminologist and sociologist, is one of the founding fathers of sociology ... Based on his view of the importance of the individual, Tarde analyzed ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- (the Dialogist) in Eastern Orthodoxy because of the Dialogues he wrote. Gregory ... A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
- (c. 311 - 380 C.E.) was the apostle of the Goths, missionary, translator ... Constantius II to immigrate with part of his flock of converts to Moesia ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the ... Due to the extraordinary talents of Michelangelo (1475-1564), the ...23 KB (3,674 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest ... Hard rock became a template of society and reflected the many views ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was ... The era is often characterized as a long period of peace, known as ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Portrait of Galileo ... whose career coincided with that of Johannes Kepler. His work constitutes ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ... speech represented a milestone in his work of turning the United States away ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- Saint Agnes (291–304 C.E.) was a virgin martyr and saint of the ... Traditionally, Agnes was martyred for her faith during the persecution ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- balance between reason and religion in light of the philosophical developments ... Rosmini founded a religious order called the Institute of the Brethren ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- that can form or replace fossils. The resulting fossils, though not ... Opals range in quality from gemstone, composed of tightly arranged ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- Terrorism is a term used to describe violence or other harmful acts ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- Cream was a 1960s British rock band consisting of bassist/vocalist ... "Strange Brew" and "Tales of Brave Ulysses." Cream ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 06:17, 11 January 2024
- The Veil of Veronica, known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy ... origins are more likely to be found in image of Jesus associated with the Eastern ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- Roman Catholic Church elects a new Bishop of Rome (Pope) at a time when ... In the early centuries of Christianity, the bishop of Rome (like other ...41 KB (6,415 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was a ... theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness a bit too ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- ) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo ... The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (located in western part of Turkey ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- themes from the spiritual tradition of Judaism. Malamud's stories ... schoolhood friends. He was especially fond of Charlie Chaplin's comedies ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- telegraphy traffic. Subsequent generations of cables carried telephone traffic ... their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one ... Throughout most of his 92 years, Dewey was an internationally renowned ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- , Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) (Alternative transliterations of ... musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- one’s decisions and actions. The interest of free will in philosophy primarily ... The principle of free will has scientific and religious implications ...51 KB (8,066 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- "Salvation is the Lord) is one of the greatest prophets of the ... seventh century B.C.E., he advised several of the kings of Judah. He warned ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular ... Subjects relevant to deconstruction include the philosophy of meaning ...49 KB (7,258 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- be a powerful, evil entity and the tempter of humankind. The name "Devil ... The Hebrew Bible does not assign this level of personification to ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Bauer was also a pioneering figure in the development of biblical ... Thuringia in Saxe-Altenburg, the son of a painter in a porcelain factory ...21 KB (3,103 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under ... Forms of nonviolence draw inspiration from both religious or ethical ...51 KB (7,370 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of ... jurisdiction, may include execution, loss of liberty, government supervision ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins ... First, philosophers of language inquire into the nature of meaning ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... exclusion, expropriation, and extermination of Jews. In the decades after ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- The phrase Son of God is a title that was applied to different figures ... Many figures in the ancient world used the phrase "Son of God ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- history. The innovative music and style of John Lennon (1940–1980), ... The Beatles popularity led the "British Invasion" of United ...38 KB (5,974 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... President Andrew Jackson after the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... As a result of Musil's background, he is an instrumental figure ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- " referring to the academic title of Master of Theology that he ... Meister Eckhart can be considered a symbol of the intellectual spirit ...18 KB (2,801 words) - 04:17, 9 November 2022
- novel and signaled his emergence as one of the world's great writers ... original creation. Torn in two (the root of his name, "raskol' ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the ... Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s ... to hold public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- Charles II (May 29, 1630 – February 6, 1685) was the King of England ... due to the uncertain political situation of the time. His father was executed ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- athleticism and comedy to create one of the best-known sports entertainment ... Their warm-up routine, done to the tune of Brother Bones' whistled ...13 KB (1,878 words) - 09:11, 19 January 2024
- revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- John Chrysostom (349– ca. 407 C.E.) was the archbishop of Constantinople ... Catholic Church as a saint and a Doctor of the Church. Churches of the ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... from the copyright holder. A violation of the terms of [http://en.wikipedia ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- perform other tasks such as keeping records of humans' actions, acting ... beings is an ancient and common feature of most world religions, but only ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- Apostolic succession refers to the Christian practice of appointing ... Due to the sacramental theology of these churches, only bishops and ...31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
- best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny ... current affairs and on events in the worlds of show business and of celebrity ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 19:16, 3 August 2022
- church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great Cathedrals ... (seat or chair), and refers to the presence of the bishop's or archbishop ...26 KB (4,257 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- et de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the ... and joined a Carmelite convent at the age of 15. Never a physically strong ...22 KB (3,790 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- in 1919 after serving on the city council of Metz, he was arrested in 1940 ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth of The Federalist Papers. Like ... and first appeared in a newspaper on June 14 of the same year. It was written ...16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
- Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered from ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- The Gospel of Mary is an ancient Christian text rediscovered by scholars ... Two Greek fragments of the Gospel of Mary were discovered (Papyrus ...15 KB (2,491 words) - 18:05, 27 December 2022
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- was an American-born French entertainer, and international star of ... 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Carrie McDonald. Her father ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... Mass killings of over one million Jews occurred before the plans of ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Although this ... 20 kHz) is caused by the middle ear, which acts as a low-pass filter. Ultrasonic ...27 KB (3,908 words) - 11:29, 18 April 2023
- Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern region of the ... The majority of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis ...43 KB (5,977 words) - 17:20, 12 May 2024
- date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- the "True Self" or "Essence of the Self" within all sentient ... because this suchness is already inside of them. ==Etymology== ...16 KB (2,284 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- Maronites are members of one of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches ... Before the conquest of Lebanon by Arabian Muslims, which resulted ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... social, and economic problems. As a result of mismanagement, very few natural ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, some forms ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- as the Lost Son, is about the inner nature of grace, and the transcendent ... These three parables address not only Jesus' reaction to the ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- order to facilitate the study and analysis of history, understanding current ... continuous and not generalized, all systems of periodization are more or less ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States ... possibly for San Marino's Statutes of 1600, whose status as a true ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ... arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created ... to its failure to avoid, with accusations of contributing to, the Great ...32 KB (4,861 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- Crucifixion was an ancient method of execution practiced in the Roman ... The purpose of crucifixion was to provide a gruesome public way to ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most ... by undermining the Augustinian concept of divine illumination of the ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... system which eventually made it the target of a zealous, impoverished French ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- than any other woman, and only three male acts (Elvis Presley, Ray Charles ... Dynamite, as the explosive sound pouring out of her diminutive, pre-teenage ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- and are thought to embody ancient ideals of nobility, strength and chivalrous ... There are no weight classes. The object of a match is to get an opponent ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 19:59, 9 November 2022
- [[Image:Rembrandt-The return of the prodigal son.jpg|thumb|300px|right ... Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting ...31 KB (4,680 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- Winnipeg is both the largest city and capital city of the province ... Prairies, on a flood plain at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers ...32 KB (4,701 words) - 23:10, 17 May 2023
- The Sacred Heart is a devotional representation of Jesus' physical ... Churches, where, however, it remains a point of controversy as an example of ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 18:34, 22 December 2022
- The term Biblical canon refers to a definitive list of inspired, authoritative ... These lists of authoritative scriptures emerged through a prolonged ...22 KB (3,254 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- and later a politician. He was one of the founding members of Charter ... Havel became the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia and the first ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 14:08, 3 May 2023
- British Poor Laws were a body of laws designed during the Elizabethan ... sick, and infant poor, and the establishment of supportive work programs for ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to ... XI, and was later declared the patron saint of statesmen and lawyers. He shares ...28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and ... Attempts to understand what causes individuals to commit criminal ...34 KB (4,876 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England ... Several significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which 16 have reached number one. Travis is considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music ...14 KB (2,016 words) - 00:35, 8 December 2022
- The legends of Prester John (also Presbyter John), popular in Europe ... At first, Prester John was imagined to be in India, with tales of ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- developed to explain the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ... Son was officially confirmed at the Council of Nicea in 325, while the consubstantiality ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
- that they will lessen the stress and anxiety of the sufferer. While all of ... OCD is distinguished from other types of anxiety, including the routine ...25 KB (3,597 words) - 16:09, 27 November 2022
- and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... Europe as well as his homeland. His vision of founding a European army to ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... in that the latter refers to the corruption of specific religious doctrines ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- identities. The term is used in a variety of ways to describe phenomena ... Many contemporary advocates of identity politics take an intersectional ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- to describe a group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those ... Some promote change that serves the interest of a small, vocal minority; some ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- for his barbed and clever wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights ... As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:Aatsista-Mahkan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Chief of the Blackfoot]] who lived on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains of North America ...34 KB (5,411 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian ... As king, Nabonidus was maligned by the priests of the chief Babylonian ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials (notably crystals ... in response to applied mechanical stress. This may take the form of ...25 KB (3,464 words) - 06:13, 24 November 2022
- 1894 – August 25, 1956), was a professor of entomology and zoology, who ... With the air of scientific respectability, Kinsey's publications ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ... Moses was one of greatest miracle-workers of all time, and his dramatic ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- As a "woman of letters" who published successfully in mulitple ... politics, and she herself provided a model of the female writer for contemporary ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
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- | order=38th President of the United States | date1=August 9, 1974 ... | date of birth=July 14, 1913 | place of birth=Omaha, Nebraska ...30 KB (4,483 words) - 16:46, 21 May 2024
- It is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior, which ... Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the National Park ...24 KB (3,262 words) - 14:57, 11 November 2022
- popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and an ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- [[Image:Nez-perce-couple-teepee-1900.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|A tipi ... A tipi (also teepee, tepee) is a conical tent originally made of ...15 KB (2,483 words) - 23:39, 30 April 2023
- ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... subcultural divisions among themselves; two of the largest are White Hmong ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- 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
- instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a head ... Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple of the classical ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- A "glider" is an unpowered aircraft. The most common types ... use engines occasionally. The manufacturers of high-performance gliders now ...22 KB (3,495 words) - 08:00, 24 January 2023
- Arnold earlier distinguished himself as a hero through acts of cunning ... an alliance with France. Disaffected because of this and other grievances, ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- The Servant of God Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, ... the San Francisco earthquake. Her memories of her mother helping victims ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- "soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023
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- for God (or the gods), with the purpose of delivering a divinely inspired ... the Mari tablets, discovered on the banks of the Euphrates in northern Mesopotamia ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
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- is marred by a notable paucity of biographical details, a fanciful ... Though Sebastian's name is the subject of an elaborate etymology ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes ... The legal requirements of proving defamation are often difficult to ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. In some cases ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- Dance Theater. Ailey was a gifted creator of dance expressing the African ... times in Ailey's early years. One of the constants in Alvin's ...17 KB (2,746 words) - 08:42, 23 July 2023
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- Altruism is the selfless concern for the welfare of others. Altruism ... Altruism can be distinguished from a feeling of loyalty and duty. ...27 KB (4,209 words) - 08:39, 23 July 2023
- post-war writing and the circumstances of his ritual suicide in public ... Mishima actively engaged in martial arts and tried to live a life ...26 KB (3,997 words) - 18:56, 9 November 2022
- April 23, 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated ... In Christian hagiography, Saint George is the patron saint of Aragon ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- first discussed by Sigmund Freud as part of his psychoanalytic theory and ... is to address the underlying causes of the pain these mechanisms are ...32 KB (4,936 words) - 09:11, 28 January 2024
- Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information ... computer programming involves the use of specific programming languages ...20 KB (2,897 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric ... models, the celestial sphere was thought of as a physical reality rather ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age of William Shakespeare and proved ... Jonson was undoubtedly one of the most well-read men in the England ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation, expatriates ... Barney was an early advocate of "free love." She opposed ...46 KB (7,032 words) - 01:28, 11 November 2022
- that creates money and enables the expansion of an economy. It is used by most ... other, and depositors have a minimum amount of deposits guaranteed by insurance ...40 KB (6,064 words) - 16:22, 18 June 2023
- American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- |Caption=The statue of Art Rooney outside Heinz Field. |Color=black ... - August 25, 1988) was the founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- pop singer who, among the female artists of the British Invasion of the ... O'Brien, Springfield was a major fan of American soul music, and created ...17 KB (2,683 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...26 KB (3,787 words) - 03:37, 27 July 2023
- was principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's ... He was a pioneer of modern sports ownership and is remembered for ...36 KB (5,317 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- 1844 – August 25, 1900) is known as one of the main representatives of ... If a philosopher is to be a pioneer of thought, trying to open up ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- In its human-powered form, the canoe is propelled by the use of paddles ... Sailing canoes are propelled by any of a variety of sailing rigs. ...28 KB (4,725 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- , Modest Petrovič Musorgskij) (March 9, 1839 – March 16, 1881) ... Mussorgsky was born in Karevo in the province of Pskov, 400 kilometers ...18 KB (2,697 words) - 19:26, 9 November 2022
- ) was a series of protests and political events that took place in ... public perception that the results of the run-off vote of November ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- and the cosmic levels. The driving force of seeking answers to such a twofold ... On the level of the purpose for the individual, it is the end of physical ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good ... and Aristotle dealt with virtues in terms of character traits of the soul ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of two payroll clerks. accusing the prosecution and presiding judge of improper conduct, and of allowing ...47 KB (7,315 words) - 18:33, 22 December 2022
- Shaivism (also spelled Śaivism) refers to a cluster of religious ... With approximately 200 million adherents, Shaivism is one of the most ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 19:47, 14 April 2020
- divided into two very distinct stages, that of a lost and disillusioned youth ... Waugh "the greatest English novelist of the century." Time magazine ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- Europe and prepared it for an explosion of complex refugee issues. He ... Born in Paris, France, he was the son of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- These religions account for more than half of the world's total population ... The Prophet Abraham is claimed by Jews as the ancestor of the Israelites ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ... They first settled the island of Aquidneck, which is now part of Rhode ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] and people broadly fighting for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...37 KB (5,369 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople) (c. 580 - August ... instructed him in the theological teachings of Gregory of Nazianzus and Pseudo ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 01:06, 9 November 2022
- 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995, and ... centrist position. He was a strong supporter of European integration and did ...37 KB (5,492 words) - 09:38, 11 April 2024
- to the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews, other minority groups ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and, as a Mexican ... The professional career of Ritchie Valens lasted a period of eight ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- :This article elaborates on the central technology of generating nuclear ... the chain reaction occurs in a fraction of a second and is uncontrolled ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it reflects ... neutral or colorless material that acts as a binder. == Pigments versus ...29 KB (4,213 words) - 06:14, 24 November 2022
- The TVA's jurisdiction covers most of Tennessee, parts of Alabama ... It was promoted as an example of local democracy, cheap power, environmental ...28 KB (4,146 words) - 03:01, 19 April 2023
- Fasting refers to the act of willingly abstaining from the consumption ... Fasting for religious and spiritual reasons has been a part of human ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October ... Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer ...55 KB (7,618 words) - 00:27, 26 February 2023
- The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic ... to literary interdependence. The question of the precise nature of their ...41 KB (5,932 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2024
- the rule, and the period, from 1858 to 1947, of the British Empire on the Indian ... by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown. Prior to ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide ... Bernstein was one of the first classical musicians to recognize the ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was a German ... Heidelberg University in 1921, on the basis of a doctoral thesis on eighteenth ...34 KB (5,445 words) - 21:47, 6 May 2024
- The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a historic landmark which consists of ... The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce ...43 KB (6,309 words) - 19:40, 23 July 2022
- different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians ... despite the fact that it is composed of multiple churches or denominations ...73 KB (10,603 words) - 12:23, 7 May 2024
- 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still ... sheet music for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march, it ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts ... for nuclear power and to drive the explosion of nuclear weapons. Both uses ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- ::See herbalism for the non-Chinese tradition of herbology. ... ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution, and ... overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French ...20 KB (3,217 words) - 15:13, 21 May 2024
- Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... the "Writings" or Ketuvim, one of the three main sections into ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many ... Goering was one of the central figures in the Nazi regime that was ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- there has come about, in Parade, a kind of super-realism ('sur-réalisme ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...46 KB (6,796 words) - 23:55, 26 February 2023
- that every person is the absolute owner of their own life and should be ... and freedom. Libertarians are suspicious of the ability of government and ...55 KB (8,054 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- which male members predominate in positions of power. The term "patriarchy ... patriarchy suggests, this categorization of societal structure is developed ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- , "Prince Potemkin of Taurida") was a pre-dreadnought battleship ... I, Panteleimon participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914. She ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- radiation that falls on it, without any of the radiation passing through ... When heated, the black body becomes an ideal source of thermal radiation ...23 KB (3,522 words) - 18:09, 31 October 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
- was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty ... amusements while neglecting the problems of the Roman city and empire and ...39 KB (6,311 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- "Covent Garden," is the home of The Royal Opera, The Royal ... and ballet. In the nearly three centuries of its history, the Royal Opera ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- The First Council of Nicaea was the earliest ecumenical council (meaning ... church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.Richard Kieckhefer ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- crisis, the "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line," ... Eagle Claw, which failed, causing the deaths of eight servicemen. Some historians ...27 KB (3,935 words) - 13:01, 6 March 2024
- syndicate dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcoholic beverages during ... By the end of the 1920s, Capone had gained the attention of the Federal ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- composer, and pianist. John has been one of the dominant forces in rock ... and over 100 million singles, making him one of the most successful artists ...19 KB (3,014 words) - 17:42, 13 February 2024
- Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...29 KB (4,671 words) - 22:22, 25 October 2022
- Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus, is ... As might be expected with a man of this stature, partial understandings ...78 KB (12,289 words) - 02:54, 1 August 2022
- Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...78 KB (10,754 words) - 22:08, 30 March 2023
- the “Psychological School,” is a school of economic thought that advocates ... from the method advocated by the majority of contemporary economists, the ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment ... that those shot at were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture ... The idea of qi represents one of the unique and foundational elements ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...23 KB (3,373 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing ... countries, the first mechanical means of pulling a plow used steam-power ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self ... channeling, prayer, and altered states of consciousness. The person may ...33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- Pole vaulting, a part of track and field, is a rigorous and demanding ... sophisticated sport requiring a high degree of both athletic skill and mind ...22 KB (3,728 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ... and is determined by usage, the effect of a civil war upon the population ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- any person anointed by a prophet or priest of God, especially a Davidic king ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- The North Pole is defined as one of the two points where the Earth ... the North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. There is ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- thrust. The most common propellants consist of a fuel and an oxidizer that ... The development of extremely powerful rocket propellants has enabled ...24 KB (3,649 words) - 02:28, 16 December 2022
- who was saddened by the oppressive state of the world in which he lived ... Beckett is a unique figure in the history of Western literature. Born ...30 KB (4,732 words) - 01:16, 21 April 2023
- Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder ... was instrumental in the development of Mithraism, which—in Cumont ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- as the sample pictured here, is one form of cybercrime]] networks are the tool, target, or place of criminal activity. These categories ...24 KB (3,483 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin ... evidently stirred up a sufficient quantity of controversy (either through ...34 KB (5,421 words) - 21:24, 4 October 2022
- meaning Thoth is Born) was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient ... Thutmose III was the son of Pharaoh Thutmose II and Aset (sometimes ...45 KB (7,145 words) - 14:03, 14 January 2024
- A pyramid's design, with the majority of the weight closer to the ground ... Civilizations in many parts of the world have built pyramids, generally ...37 KB (5,368 words) - 21:28, 9 November 2023
- Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was one ... Davis was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ... refers to scriptural texts that fall outside of the Biblical canon. However ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). While differing ... Africa and India, but are now, because of migration, found also in Western ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- a generic term referring to the continuation of existence after death, typically ... Is death the end, or is there something of people that survives after ...65 KB (10,516 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under ... Supporters of deprogramming portray the practice as an antidote to ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- hi2NdHdOQdZ0nDTk Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit]) Retrieved December ... which have experienced most if not all of these characteristics, the ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... 780,000 residents between 1940 and 1954. Of them, an estimated 120,000 ...40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement ... His work made use of frequent homages and references to film history ...63 KB (9,163 words) - 20:22, 22 September 2023
- twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ray ... Cosmic rays originate from a wide variety of sources--ranging from ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, of which he was the first great ... enemies. By the next year, after a career of little more than a decade, ...56 KB (8,917 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- Pedagogy, literally translated, is the art or science of teaching ... able to embrace both the art and science of pedagogy, acting as "parents ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- Lady Jane Grey (July 1536 – February 12, 1554), a granddaughter ... Lady Jane had a reputation as one of the most learned women of her ...32 KB (5,051 words) - 22:48, 21 October 2022
- known for their plain dress and avoidance of modern conveniences such as ... divided into separate fellowships consisting of geographical districts or congregations ...35 KB (5,323 words) - 07:31, 25 July 2023
- Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz (975-996) at the age of 11 on October 14, 996 with ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- by one or more horizontal rotors—each of which comprises two or more ... Their range is subject only to availability of a refueling site and limitations ...42 KB (6,643 words) - 23:04, 3 February 2022
- British Army officer and creator of special military units in World ... Perhaps the most important aspect of Wingate's legacy is that ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- Slavery has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years ... The primary reason for the enterprise of slave trade and human trafficking ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- ; 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
- Cremation, or the practice of burning the dead, refers to the disposal ... Cremation practices may be used for a variety of reasons. Some cultures ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- (a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of ...50 KB (7,105 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- refers in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the existence ... or not God exists received from him one of his famous "silences. ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (Latin: Disputatio ... is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 ...38 KB (5,692 words) - 21:06, 29 January 2024
- Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry involving the study of interrelationships ... or to measure glucose levels in the blood of diabetics. In nature, the generation ...56 KB (8,590 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around the world ... avatar (a "descent" or incarnation of God). His alleged miracles ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 15:00, 23 October 2023
- worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- Saint Teresa of Ávila (known in religion as Teresa de Jesús, baptized ... permission to found a separate province of Descalced (shoeless) Carmelites ...22 KB (3,548 words) - 03:48, 30 April 2023
- The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...44 KB (6,668 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi ... and overthrew the Hutu regime. Hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking ... During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous ...36 KB (5,482 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- is an ad valorem tax where only the value of land itself is taxed. This ... in their current form, by taxing the value of both land and buildings, penalize ...37 KB (5,677 words) - 23:33, 3 July 2023
- "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices ... The social structure of the world's religious traditions can ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- is the directly elected parliamentary body of the European Union (EU). Together ... it is the "first institution" of the European Union (mentioned ...60 KB (8,687 words) - 04:34, 23 March 2024
- for the International Marketing Council of South Africa, dated 9 July ... The Zulu are a South African ethnic group of an estimated 17-22 million ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a ... The primary functions which distinguish money are as a medium of exchange ...51 KB (7,687 words) - 16:23, 18 June 2023
- parents, Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la ... she was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. ...68 KB (10,504 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- Luksemburg) was a Polish revolutionary of Jewish ancestry. She rose up ... and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party ...25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
- and libertarian attitude. He was an exemplar of the communitarian, drug-positive ... his family in 1919 from the Galicia region of northwest Spain to San Francisco; ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
- The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... the "Black Pope" after the color of the Jesuit habit) has occasionally ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- to as Hollywood (from the place name of its birth), is the industry ... a new visual culture. The immediacy of the medium created a system ...22 KB (3,307 words) - 22:38, 4 July 2022
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... ) is an Eurasian island nation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in ... revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- talk therapy, or just therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly ... There are hundreds of psychotherapy techniques, some minor variations; ...38 KB (4,942 words) - 17:25, 24 February 2024
- for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature ... in all who undertake it. An unending array of colors, textures and sometimes ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- during World War II and the 34th President of the United States. During the ... with the communist Soviet Union. During the height of the ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- Egyptian Christian after the bulk of the Egyptian population converted ... In modern usage, it is frequently applied to members of the Coptic ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- Germany from 1919 to 1933. This period of German history is often known ... The phrase Weimar Republic is an invention of historians, and was not used ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... as the Sandwich Islands, form an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... intelligence (internal security) division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...41 KB (6,043 words) - 16:44, 14 May 2024
- The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean ... The Divine Principle follows the format of systematic theology, basing ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 20:52, 9 February 2024
- institution which has formed the foundation of the family throughout history ... Challenges to the institution of marriage in the twentieth century ...46 KB (7,206 words) - 14:15, 7 May 2024
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is a major component of ... According to present observations of structures larger than galaxies ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 January 2024
- 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 ... One of the most significant British politicians in recent political ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- Hijacking is the assumption of control of a vehicle through some means ... the ultimate solution to the problem of hijacking is to resolve the ...26 KB (3,897 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- – February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... The 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics recognized the work of three men ...30 KB (4,403 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- process in which critical thinking faculties of the human mind are bypassed ... theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a ...52 KB (7,367 words) - 16:49, 27 October 2022
- The harmonica's first large-scale success came at the hands of ... jazz. It has become ingrained in the culture of the world and continues to ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and ... reformation may not have met with the level of success it enjoyed. ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- John Wesley (June 17, 1703-March 2, 1791) was the central figure of ... life bridged the Reformation and modern eras of Christianity. His near death ...47 KB (7,298 words) - 14:06, 7 May 2024
- regatta and Match Race in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active ... During the year of the first World's Fair, American boatbuilders ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality as well ... and blasphemy against Christianity. Many of the characters in his works ...57 KB (8,573 words) - 17:01, 30 June 2023
- votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The Constitution ... The original mechanics of presidential elections were established ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- Age circa 800 C.E. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around ... (late eighteenth century), the first writer of burlesque ballads; and August ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kaptan ... A series of smaller victories followed over French and Spanish adversaries ...38 KB (6,070 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2022
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... " (Mark 12:17) fostered the development of separate rival Church and State ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel Death of a Hero, and the controversy ... interest that Pound shared. The compression of expression that they achieved ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 20:12, 8 December 2022
- Country music, the first half of Billboard's country and western ... ==Genres of Country music== However, country music is actually a catch ...40 KB (5,977 words) - 08:35, 10 January 2024
- Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before ... A divorce must be certified by a court of law, as a legal action is ...63 KB (9,390 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... During the course of the revolution, the church was nationalized with ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- 1945) was the prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943 ... Mussolini entered World War II in June, 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany ...40 KB (6,139 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- ("to yoke")) refers to a series of interrelated ancient Hindu ... During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- energy by emitting radiation in the form of particles or electromagnetic ... The atomic nucleus comprises certain combinations of protons and neutrons ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. He was a leading ... they had been viewed as a single body of work, when in fact Marx had ...30 KB (4,391 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- The Boer Wars were fought between British and Dutch settlers of the ... in England. It aimed to bring the whole of Southern Africa under British ...38 KB (5,998 words) - 05:19, 17 November 2023
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... United Kingdom, or the same as the island of Great Britain, which consists ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- others to help bridge the racial divisions of the time. the 1960s, working within the constraints of the creatively restrictive ...27 KB (4,247 words) - 08:37, 10 March 2023
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... weeks before the expedition which warned of an impending British search ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s ... Hospital in Beech Grove, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. McQueen, of Scottish ...50 KB (7,471 words) - 00:44, 26 February 2023
- A transistor is a semiconductor device that uses a small amount of ... field effect transistors (FETs). Application of current in BJTs and voltage ...30 KB (4,329 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2023
- Satan (meaning "accuser") represents the arch enemy of God ... The concept of an anthropomorpized demonic figure (or archetype) is ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- that identifies the chemical composition of a compound or sample based ... The design of a mass spectrometer has three essential modules: an ...44 KB (6,414 words) - 16:19, 7 November 2022
- sliding past one another. Varying the amount of alloying elements and their ... The maximum solubility of carbon in iron is 1.7 percent by weight ...29 KB (4,547 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- , represents the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ ... between North and South Korea and a source of incidents. The truce that called ...29 KB (4,482 words) - 19:40, 4 May 2024
- Brainwashing refers to the systematic application of coercive techniques ... human beings are susceptible to many forms of social influence, they are ...29 KB (4,296 words) - 22:37, 20 November 2023
- Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... When Britain acquired an Empire of its own, reference to His or Her ...53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
