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- early doxographer who compiled biographies of ancient Greek philosphers in ... == Life == Almost nothing is known about the life of Diogenes Laertius ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- day Spain, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome ... Knowledge of Martial's life is derived almost entirely from his ...9 KB (1,468 words) - 16:29, 6 November 2022
- Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers ... work as court composer to the Prince-elector of Saxony. ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- singing. As a vital composer during the time of a creative rebirth in human ... Very little is known about Thomas Robinson's life, but it is ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the ... Ruth is one of the shortest books in both Jewish and Christian scripture ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- imperfect competition. He is regarded as one of the most influential American ... With his work Chamberlin indebted us with important knowledge of economic ...8 KB (1,083 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- figures who lived during the generation of Adam. The first Enoch was the ... (Genesis 5:5-6), and great great grandfather of Enoch (Genesis 5:9-18). ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- The Book of Wisdom (also known as the Wisdom of Solomon or simply ... According to Saint Melito in the second century C.E., the Book of ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the "Writings" ... The Book of Proverbs belongs to the group of Ḥokmah, or "Wisdom ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection ... The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous and widespread work ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem where ... this day, a man or a woman's own book of life will be opened, and they ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New ... The author of 2 John is traditionally believed to be Apostle John ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- was a Flemish composer and music theorist of the Renaissance era. Tinctoris ... He is known to have studied in Orleans, and to have been master of ...4 KB (573 words) - 07:20, 5 April 2024
- a Renaissance Roman Catholic monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one ... Thomas was born at Kempen in the duchy of Cleves in Germany around ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the ... According to his relative of the same name, the Gibran family's ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- contribution to peace was his analysis of the issues surrounding disarmament ... ==Early life and athletic career== Born Philip Baker, he was born to ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- Compleat Angler, a classic guide to the joys of fishing with over 300 new printings ... scholars. Until 1643, he lived in the parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism ... == Life and Works == Almost nothing is known of Sextus Empiricus’s ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- C.E. Israelite prophet who lived in the time of King David. His actions are ... God first delivered the Messianic promise of an eternal kingdom based on ...11 KB (1,891 words) - 01:30, 11 November 2022
- 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
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian ... The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Tarkington's works often centered on life in the mid-west among everyday ... middle-class family in Indianapolis, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... than towards an uncertain future, than that of many of his contemporaries ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- that was published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all ... childhood, it seems, was spent in the laps of Civil War veterans and of her ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 04:02, 6 November 2022
- work on urban sociology at the University of Chicago. He pioneered efforts ... == Life == Ernest Watson Burgess was born in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada ...8 KB (1,123 words) - 12:16, 21 January 2023
- November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early nineteenth century ... His famous home of Sunnyside just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of ... The Book of Micah is also notable for its more hopeful passages, portraying ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was ... When the book took the name "Domesday" (Middle English spelling ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus) (ca. 262 B.C.E. – ca. 190 B.C.E. ... by which they are now known. The hypothesis of eccentric orbits, or deferent ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Methuselah or Metushélach (מְתוּשָׁלַח - "Man of ... In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, Methuselah becomes a channel through ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, the ... assumes that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- and epistemology. His highly influential book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...12 KB (1,858 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- the golden flower: the classic Chinese book of life. [San Francisco, Calif ... Secret of the golden flower, a Chinese book of life. New York: Harcourt, Brace ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizer persuasion and critic ... Belinsky was the first prominent literary critic of after the development ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:08, 18 November 2022
- analogy, an argument for the existence of God in his book Natural Theology ... Born in Peterborough, Paley was educated at Giggleswick School, of ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- journalist who is now considered to be one of the most important writers ... In addition to his fiction, Crane was also the author of some of the ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- to fiction, but as he became more critical of the Soviet regime, his work ... ==Early life and career== Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman in Berdichev ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- in Islam as Jahannam. The powerful imagery of Gehenna originates from a ancient ... (גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society, the unique ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- 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
- The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Roman ... and beautiful widow. During the final stages of an Assyrian siege which has ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, the Book of Haggai ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- Manna was miraculously produced food of the Israelites in the desert ... substances that may have been the source of the legend of manna from heaven ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 02:56, 6 November 2022
- he wrote De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of ... the Renaissance the work emerged as a source of inspiration for numerous scholars ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of ... figure who probably lived during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 B.C.E ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- actor and playwright. At the age of 12 he attracted the attention ... the Noh theater, as well as Fūshi kaden, a book of instruction for Noh actors ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- dogmatism in general, and the concept of an institutional church. He ... with individuals through the portion of the divine remaining in each ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the philosophers of Ionia ... inquired into the unchanging principle of being that can uniformly explain ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- whose works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great ... Tindal was born in 1653 to the Rev. John Tindal, Rector of Beer Ferrers ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 16:56, 7 November 2022
- † 443 B.C.E. in Argos), was one of the canonical nine poets of ... a poet that, although only a tiny fraction of his works have survived, what ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 06:16, 24 November 2022
- #039;akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 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
- and Gulag survivor. Shalamov was a victim of Stalin's Great Purges ... ==Early life and first arrest== Varlam Shalamov was born in Vologda ...8 KB (1,126 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- and influential African-American novelist of the first half of the twentieth ... also a political activist. He spent a number of years in his early career championing ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 18:49, 11 August 2022
- feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... ==Early life and Education== Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- War II. After experiencing the excesses of Stalinism, he became a critic ... His novel, The Thaw, gave expression to many of the problems of Soviet ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 23:54, 22 January 2023
- February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the ... Palestrina was born in Palestrina, a town near Rome, then part of ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- Krafft-Ebbing is famous for his book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) ... , and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque ... Although the place (or date) of his birth is not reliably documented ...11 KB (1,822 words) - 09:39, 11 April 2024
- The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary ... One component of the text that has received extensive scholarly attention ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, ... Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- :For Saint Bridgid of Sweden, see Bridget of Sweden. {{Infobox Saint ... Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (also: Brigit, Bridget ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- animal magnetism. He recognized the veracity of the phenomena but believed ... in 1795. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he finished ...8 KB (1,149 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years ... moved to Worcester when she was two years of age. Perkins' father opened ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the ... Ezekiel taught that people of Judah must not resist the Babylonian ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- poetry, marked by understatement, the use of plain (and at times vulgar ... from Oxford he was appointed to the position of librarian at Wellington, Shropshire ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- a leading scholastic theologian and bishop of the twelfth century. His philosophical ... Peter Lombard upheld the use of reason in interpreting dogma, while ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- artist, painter, wood engraver and maker of ukiyo-e, author of the 13-volume ... new images. His art was an important source of inspiration for many European ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 00:06, 25 August 2023
- and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental ... in philosophy in 1897. Following the advice of his mentor William James, Woodworth ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- thereby offering practical solutions to one of the many problems facing women ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- to be published in the United States. Her book Poems on Various Subjects ... to her personal circumstances or to issues of race. Rather her poems are ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- is remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language, wide-ranging ... Karl Huysmans," using an approximation of the Dutch equivalent of his ...9 KB (1,248 words) - 03:25, 6 August 2022
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... The book takes up the story of the Maccabean martyrs told in 2 Maccabees ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- The Tree of Life is a universal symbol found in many religious traditions. In the Hebrew Bible it is directly mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- authors. She is known for her depictions of life in the United States in ... The first two are part of the so-called "prairie trilogy," ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He founded and served ... Gallaudet was a Congregationalist preacher, and his faith guided his ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- German chemist who ushered in the age of biochemistry by clarifying ... Hermann Emil Fischer was born in Euskirchen, Germany, the son of Laurenz ...7 KB (1,041 words) - 23:02, 22 June 2023
- She was both the daughter and the wife of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governors ... ==Early Life in England== Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in Northhampton ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- [[Image:Goldenlocks.jpg|thumb|250px|Twelfth century icon of Archangel ... or Jibril; Arabic: جبريل; "Hero of God") is a prominent angel ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent ... had their origins in the royal collections of the sovereign or some other ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 04:12, 11 March 2023
- mystical writings. He is known both as one of the "Scythian monks" ... by Christian struggles, and visited a number of monastic foundations. Later ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish ... Born in Spain, he spent much of his life traveling in North Africa ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique, numerical ... As of January 1, 2007, International Standard Book Numbers have been ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- American novelist, who is now considered one of the most important American ... As a result of his uniqueness, Gaddis was largely misunderstood by ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 12:11, 8 May 2023
- and Northern Zhou (北周) Dynasties of northern China, and their successor ... also with literature, the arts, and problems of life and death. Yan stressed ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- 1980) was a popular wildlife conservationist of the 1960s and an author, best ... as her own country, living on the shores of Lake Naivasha. It was with ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 02:00, 8 September 2022
- The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of ... The Kama Sutra is the most notable example of a group of texts known ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the early chapters of the book, Hosea marries the unfaithful "woman ...12 KB (1,912 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers. He considered himself ... Henry Morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrhymny ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ... In addition to the general importance of the text for Christian and ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- the first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational ... His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter of the Duke of Kent and his father ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- philosopher, and economist. In light of the ideological struggles in ... Sergei Bulgakov was born to the family of an Orthodox priest in the ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He attended ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated ... an illuminated manuscript was also a time of religious devotion and prayer; ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- a leading figure in the study of human fossils. A strong supporter ... 5, 1866 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the sixth of 10 children to John Keith and ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 11:11, 16 August 2023
- 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists ... However, he believed that the main point of The Jungle was lost on ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... The author of Chronicles, termed "the Chronicler," may also ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was one of the major German mathematicians ... from a certain inherent creative capacity of the mind, which were some of ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely ... From its original Hebrew, The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 18:51, 9 November 2022
- as a practicing physician his entire life. In his early writings, Williams ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes ... all actions and decisions. Applications of personal wisdom include one ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- 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
- interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- poetry belonging to the confessional school of poets in the style of other ... and precise wording that covered a spectrum of feelings that many people can ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... The book has two distinct parts: a series of six narratives (chapters ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ... represented a class of devotional manuals popular among medieval Catholic ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible whose title is derived ... identified as wisdom literature, consists of a loosely-organized collection ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows ... five years later, in 1834. Various forms of concertina are used for classical ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, ... to be dated to "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian ... 5, 1817 in Paris, France, into a family of Huguenot descent. His father ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] Common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... worldwide. An thought provoking aspect of his literary legacy is that ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical ... Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. He was seemingly preordained ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes ... in central Russia. He came from a long line of landed gentry and serf owners ...7 KB (1,081 words) - 06:34, 11 March 2024
- Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely ... The Apostles' Creed was esteemed as an example of the apostles ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- L. Kroeber with Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi tribe, (1911).]] was an influential figure in the development of modern American anthropology ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | notableworks = Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. 1130 - July 25, ... Herrad was a contemporary of several other remarkable women, including ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- 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
- Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Book of Revelation, as well as ... refers to the stereotypical depictions of cherubim in western art. As ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- ; literary "four books") or The Four Books of Confucianism ... classical Confucian texts and a point of reference for the Neo-Confucian ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B.C.E.–283 ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- was a popular and prolific British author of children's books. Blyton ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American poetry, ... may have gone unnoticed, ironically, because of his even greater talents in ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, little is known of ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- Coulomb was born in Angoulême, France. He was the son of Henry Coulomb ... During this time, Coulomb submitted some of his first work to the Society ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- and economist. Best known as the father of the influential economist John ... == Life == John Neville Keynes was born on August 31, 1852, in Salisbury ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, is considered one of the three founders of Dvaita ... 1486-1498 C.E., before moving, at the behest of the king and ministers, to ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- The Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather ... Released the second Tuesday in September of the year prior to the ...19 KB (2,821 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
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- and physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded ... Le Bon's thesis that the behavior of crowds was based on emotion ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 12:46, 24 January 2023
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- Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398 C.E.), the founder of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ... military treatise that outlined the use of Chinese military technology ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- and cooking technique into the kitchens of American families everywhere. for her 1961 cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking as well as for ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution ... British society in his day, the "Rule of Law" cannot be absolute ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible ... The Book of Job has been called the most difficult book of the Bible ...21 KB (3,491 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- the Lynds pioneered applying the methods of cultural anthropology to the ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- (1364 – 1430) was a writer and analyst of the Medieval era, who strongly ... 74). Her success stems from a wide range of innovative writing and rhetorical ...13 KB (2,108 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... the Ketuvim (Writings) as the second last book of the Bible, and the latter ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
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- among Japanese intellectuals. As a scholar of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied ... == Life == Watsuji Tetsuro was born in 1889 in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was an Irish ... Bede's meticulous and detailed account of Saint Aidan's ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- philosopher, and biographer whose use of dialectical philosophy, emphasizing ... Strauss was one of the first to make a clear distinction between Jesus ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 07:54, 28 January 2024
- University, he studied the cultures of Southeast Asia and North Africa ... California in 1926. He was the editor of his high school newspaper and ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
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- chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- the founder and first General (1878-1912) of The Salvation Army. Originally ... Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, England, the only son of four ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 6 May 2023
- and writer who is considered to be one of the most important writers ... Among the African-American writers of his time, Ellison stands out ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- 1851 – July 22, 1926) was an early member of the Austrian School of economics ... Wieser was born in Vienna, Austria on July 10, 1851. He was the son ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 03:17, 1 December 2023
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Given the lack of historical details present in the text itself, scholars ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 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
- who made major contributions to the field of organic chemistry and was awarded ... Baeyer was born on October 31, 1835, in Berlin, the son of Johann ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera. His nineteenth ... considered him amongst the greatest virtuosi of his period. In his youth Beer ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- was a Greek Presocratic philosopher and one of the three prominent Pythagoreans ... that the Earth was not the stationary center of the cosmos, but moved around ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, ... Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology ... Although controversial in its comparison of Christianity to other ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest twentieth-century ... and her meticulous precision in her choice of just the right words and images ...8 KB (1,277 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- 13, 1896) was a German organic chemist. One of the most prominent organic ... Kekulé was born in Darmstadt, Germany, the son of a civil servant ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- clergyman generally regarded as the founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church ... Irving is sometimes referred to as a forerunner of the Charismatic ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- 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
- Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose ... The purpose of Jikji was to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen ...14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
- 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... Catholic Spark reacted by accusing him of seeking publicity to further ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- ) - February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of ... Sholokhov was born in the Kamenskaya region of Russia, in the "land ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 04:04, 25 March 2023
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- (November 26, 1731 – April 25, 1800) Date of birth is given in New Style ... In addition to being renowned as one of the greatest nature poets ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p ... and can also be seen as a process of transformation. The concept ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- in 1962 with his idealized, lyrical book about the Mbuti Pygmies, The ... was known to point out admirable qualities of various disadvantaged people ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and ... Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna Radin. His ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- an Italian-born British librarian and a man of letters. He was exiled from ... best remembered for his role in the design of the Circular Reading Room within ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... Sagan also wrote a bestselling book supporting the Cosmos series and ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- Brautigan wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the nineteenth century. He ... William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- practice various tantric rituals as part of a sadhana, or spiritual practice ... The ganachakra, or 'tantric feast', can be seen as a mandala ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death ... Knowledge and understanding of the process of death and dying, and ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ... and there are extant works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- and in English; but is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living ... Her memoirs of pioneering a coffee farm in Africa, where she had an ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- (or The Little Princess) is the story of a little girl living in an ... The rags-to-riches themes of her stories echo her own rise from impoverished ...16 KB (2,561 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
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- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... In his personal life, the author was known by friends as an enthusiastic ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...10 KB (1,422 words) - 07:18, 5 October 2022
- with Alfred Lord Tennyson is perhaps one of the most well-remembered poets ... Men and Women, and The Ring and the Book, are all mammoth volumes of ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- naturalistic, and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings ... Wang Chong deplored the degeneration of Confucianism and Daoism into ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered ... At the age of 30, suffering from a severe illness and believing she ...13 KB (2,141 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
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- [[Image:Destruction of Leviathan.png|right|300px|thumb|"Destruction ... a mythical creature referred to in sections of the Old Testament, and while ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro ... ) (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
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- ) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of ... and the editing, revising, and collating of them was organized under official ...31 KB (4,609 words) - 00:37, 3 May 2023
- waiting in the imperial court at the height of the Heian period (795–1185 ... The name “Lady Murasaki” refers both to the author of The Tale ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- an American educator and editor. A critic of pragmatism and progressive ... 15, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of William Chase and Ruth Walker ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- The Midianites were a biblical people who occupied territory east ... During the time of the Exodus, their territory apparently also included ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous ... at 16 and studied theology at the University of Glasgow. He admired the works ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost ... Morley was one of the first composers of madrigals to utilize the ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
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- contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some ... used it to describe a theoretical blending of leftist culturalism and Marxist ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") is the name of two related ... walls and the beautiful stained glass images of cathedral windows served a ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was one of the most significant German ... Heine is often labeled the first of the "post-Romantic" ...13 KB (2,100 words) - 08:29, 21 January 2024
- Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a ... == Life and work == Hašek was born in Prague, Bohemia (then within ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:09, 8 February 2023
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- 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
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- 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature ... view the conflict between the two sides of his personality, the narrow ...14 KB (1,915 words) - 20:02, 26 July 2023
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- John Michael Argyle (August 11, 1925 – September 6, 2002) was one ... Argyle's academic career was based at the University of Oxford ...16 KB (2,228 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
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- Gedaliah (died c. 585 B.C.E. or later) was the Jewish governor of ... Gedaliah had been a member of the minority faction in Judah, along ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 21:06, 20 July 2021
- he is most celebrated in Russia. My Sister Life, written by Pasternak in 1917 ... painter and professor at the Moscow School of Painting, who converted to ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
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- from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine ... other western churches, and is seen as one of the clearest creedal expressions ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
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- 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
- [[Image:Petrarch by Bargilla.jpg|right|thumb|250px|From the Cycle ... the sonnet. He was a primary initiator of the philosophical movement ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
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- The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Eden) is described by the Book ... ashamed among animals and a great variety of fruit-bearing trees. They could ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
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- May 20, 1989) was a British economist, one of the most influential economists ... Hicks was not a follower of a particular school of economics, but ...15 KB (2,155 words) - 07:42, 3 August 2022
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- "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
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- The Book of Kells (less widely known as the Book of Columba) is an ... The Book of Kells is the high point of a group of manuscripts produced ...38 KB (6,352 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- which is now an acknowledged classic of English literature, and is ... Brontë possessed a powerful understanding of the society in which she lived ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
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- colleague, C. Wright Mills, Riesman's book The Lonely Crowd (1950) is ... The character of society, like that of an individual, naturally goes ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目金之助 ... just one year and a half before the start of the Meiji Reformation, in Edo ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- 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
- 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder ... most exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music, food, and wine; nurtured ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- #039;s law, represents the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis. Ohm offers a good example of the working of science through his experimental ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- , was a leading Russian satirist of the nineteenth century. At ... == Early life == A scion of the ancient Saltykov family, Mikhail Saltykov ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- , was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in the ... to have been composed in the second half of the twelfth century B.C.E. ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... are truly by the Apostle, due to issues of style, circumstance, and references ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the ... ===Early life and first marriage=== Gilman was born Charlotte Anna ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures ... death, as Dreiser did not live to see many of his novels published in their ...16 KB (2,526 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- occupies a primary place in the anthologies of English church music, and is ... ==Early Life and Career== Little is known about his early life, but ...6 KB (933 words) - 22:55, 30 April 2023
- politician, and a provocative proponent of Deism. A wealthy landowner ... Collins was a friend of the philosopher John Locke. He loved books ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- and short story writer who became one of the most popular authors of ... Comparisons aside, Wharton is one of the most significant American ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... United States in 1846. An early supporter of reforms such as mixed-gender ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- Cranmer and Matthew Parker, as a co-founder of Anglican theology. He was also ... Hooker believed that the Church of England should be a broad, tolerant ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
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- whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, ... In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 19:41, 7 February 2023
- Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the ... science and history represent compendia of the state of learning in these ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- The formlessness which characterizes much of his writing reflects the fluid ... == Life == Kawabata was born June 14, 1899, in Osaka, Japan, into a ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- the fifth century B.C.E. However, a dearth of historical evidence for Lie ... from spontaneous action to the limitations of worldly knowledge, though all ...18 KB (2,907 words) - 22:49, 25 October 2022
- 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
- iconic black and white landscape photographs of the national parks and especially ... for decades both to foster public awareness of photography as a fine art and ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral ... as an important virtue in various aspects of social life. ...6 KB (958 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he ... The Structure of Science (1961), an examination of the logical structure ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- referring to the exposition, or exegesis, of a biblical text. The term can ... The two basic types of midrash are known as Midrash Aggadah, regarding ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles ... entirely autobiographical. As the title of his column suggested (Notes ...22 KB (3,383 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- The most popular line is monofilament line made of a single fiber ... hazardous to fish, birds, and other marine life. Toray Industries, Japan, ...12 KB (1,938 words) - 17:31, 28 March 2024
- novelist. He is known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology ... #039;s mind, but also created a new kind of protagonist, the urban social ...15 KB (2,490 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- Warhol made a name for himself in the world of avant-garde film, music, publishing ... is thought to result from complications of scarlet fever. Warhol suffered ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 18:00, 27 July 2023
- influenced by Marxist thought and a pioneer of "popular education." ... Freire's methods were successful in raising the level of literacy ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas ... also the Chief Administrator to the ruler of Damascus. Today, he is renowned ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 ... first name, Amerigo. In an accompanying book, Waldseemüller published ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- ), also known as the Adi Granth, is the primary Holy Book of the Sikhs ... Composed during the period of Sikh Gurus, from 1469 to 1708, the Guru ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- and motivational speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly ... man, not just in his career but also in his life of faith, his family life ...25 KB (3,579 words) - 19:59, 9 February 2023
- physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of ... reader. There La Mettrie wrote his major book Discours sur le bonheur (1748 ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- 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
- He was the one of the leading figures of the Russian Symbolist movement ... == Early Life and Influences == Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, ...11 KB (1,565 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- movement that began three years after the book was published. the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance resounded ... the Jewish faith while advancing the cause of reason. Towards the end of ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... the Nazis seized power, he became a leader of the representative Jewish body ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- was an American anthropologist and pioneer of African-American studies. He ... in Bellefontaine, Ohio, into the family of Herman Herskovits and Henrietta ...10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Metatron is the name of an angel that is described primarily in Jewish ... Odeberg,Hugo Odeberg, 3 Enoch Or The Hebrew Book Of Enoch (Ktav Pub. House ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier." He ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- newspaper publisher, and former owner of The New York Times. Under his ... == Life == Adolph Simon Ochs was born on March 12, 1858 to German-Jewish ...10 KB (1,585 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- present-day Iraq). His work resulted in some of dramatic discoveries, including ... Woolley's work also included findings of sediment that he believed ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- Cantor dedicated much of his life for caring for others needs. He ... Cantor was born Israel Iskowitz in New York City, the son of Russian ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction ... Cheever's main themes include the duality of human nature: Sometimes ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
- and best-selling author whose landmark book, Silent Spring, is often credited ... “The Sea Around Us”, and “The Edge of the Sea” were immense successes ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- in analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century. He made ... he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell, Ludwig ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars of comparative religion ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- wrote in, many areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy ... Broad was born at Harlesden, a suburb of London, as the only child ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- was an American author who wrote a series of historical fiction books for ... Laura and her pioneer family never dreamed of, and yet she was to experience ...19 KB (2,983 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures ... preparatory school Stonyhurst at the age of nine, and by the time he left ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 11:09, 16 August 2023
- poet, whose verse has been the subject of more critical study than perhaps ... His relation to Modernism (or any particular school of poetry) is ...19 KB (3,090 words) - 20:56, 18 November 2022
- the world in order to spread the "art of silence" (L'art du ... developed his art amid the chaos and hurt of the World War. He used it to ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre ... " which began with the rise of Realism in the nineteenth century ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- anthropologist and writer. A founder of American anthropology, he is ... While Morgan's unilinear model, particularly of the development ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- 1943) was an English author and illustrator of children's books. Her ... Beatrix Potter's first passion in life was science. She only ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:21, 26 September 2023
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- [[Image:Thomas-Cranmer-ez.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Painting of Thomas ... Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489 – March 21, 1556) was the Archbishop ...22 KB (3,583 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- The Great Learning, refers to a short text of indeterminate authorship that ... been a single chapter in the Classic of Rites. ==The Text of the Da Xue== ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 14:25, 13 May 2020
- and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the ... His Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- developed by the established Church of England. Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length ... plural: “novelle”) meaning a tale; piece of news. Novellas as a literary ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality ... As a Southern Gothic novel and a bildungsroman, the primary themes ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- was an American poet, writer, Librarian of Congress, and three-time winner ... would be tried for treason, MacLeish was one of the few poets of his generations ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- 1988) was an American geneticist who was one of three major pioneers in the ... in 1955 and moved from the University of Chicago to the University of ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. to attempt a systematic integration of Aristotelianism into Jewish ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- playwright to create a realistic portrayal of African-American urban family ... after her death. Her works dealt with many of the social issues of the 1950s ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 02:44, 4 November 2022
- Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him ... Theophrastus was wrote a great number of books on a wide variety of ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- their numbers and threatened the loss of their culture. Those who have ... ‘nentsy’ (pl.) in Russian), one group of the various peoples that inhabit ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- ... The Little Prince was and remains one of the most popular children& ... Saint-Exupéry disappeared on the night of July 31, 1944 while flying ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- remains obscure in comparison to the giants of his time such as Walt Whitman ... ==Early life and war== Sidney Clopton Lanier was born February 3, 1842 ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual dissociation ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- or simply 1 Thessalonians, is a book of the New Testament in the ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ... == Early life == D. T. Suzuki was born as Teitarō Suzuki in Honda ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960 National Book Award), ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Filial piety is the virtue of a child to his or her parents or parental ... ) is one of the virtues to be cultivated and denotes a love and respect ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- Papias (d. mid-second century) was one of the early literary figures ... The bishop of Hierapolis, Phrygia (in modern Turkey), Papias was highly ...14 KB (2,122 words) - 07:32, 18 November 2022
- and early second century C.E., author of the Satires of Juvenal. The ... “London” on Satire III and his “Vanity of Human Wishes” on Satire X ...19 KB (2,900 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one ... == Statement of Boyle's law == Boyle's law can be stated ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- ethical or sexual themes, treating issues of good and evil which are played ... was from a middle class Anglican Church of Ireland family from Dublin ...8 KB (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 2024
- His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- along with illustrator W.W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900, and produced for stage ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym ... O'Brien's works are considered classics of the modernist ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases ... He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- best be described as a female embodiment of enlightened energy. Although ... functions, are linked with the revelation of the Anuttara Yoga Tantras or ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- province. T'ao Yüan-ming , was one of the most influential pre-Tang ... Qian is now regarded as the greatest poet of his era and was a major influence ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
- "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in ... played an important role in the lineage of Jesus. Her story involves life ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was the founder ... ===Early life and background=== Inayat Khan was born into a princely ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- used in Jewish ritual practice, and one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish ... role in modern Judaism both as a symbol of God's boundless light ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- 1904 – September 24, 1991) is the author of several classic children's ... war effort against Nazi Germany, and some of his children's books are ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- work on this tribe, and her studies of West Indian and African American ... 27, 1875, in New York City, as the eldest of three children of Henry Clews ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- B.C.E. and beyond. High places consisted of a stone or earthen altar, often ... other high places until at least the period of the ministry of the Elijah ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2022
- title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing ... sport, boxing has often provided the way out of poverty for many of its most ...12 KB (1,913 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- changed to Baumfree) in the Dutch settlement of Hurley in upstate New York ... The painful experiences of being a child, wife, and mother who had ...14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
- and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- recognized it as an important component of art and aesthetics. However ... the highest value, which exist independently of and transcend the phenomenal ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a ... true virtue. Virtue, which consisted of imitating God, could only be ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- Pietro d'Abano (1257 - 1315) (his date of birth is also given ... medicine and philosophy at the University of Paris, he taught medicine at ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- " Legend maintains that St. Thomas, one of the Twelve apostles of Christ ... The Portuguese built the shrine of Mother Mary, a small relic-filled ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 16:21, 8 February 2023
- scientist, astronomer, and mathematician of the Ming Dynasty. Born in Shanghai ... texts, including the first six chapters of Euclid’s Elements, into Chinese ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Gwangjong (광종 光宗) (949 – 975) was the fourth Emperor of ... Gwangjong eliminated many of his powerful rivals by sending them to ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- before being appointed as Wykeham professor of logic at New College, Oxford ... His earliest book, Perception (1932), rejected causal theories of ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora (c. 1135 – March ... The son of a court official in Calabria, Italy, Joachim followed at ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- The Epistle to the Colossians is a book of the Bible's New Testament ... Colossians represents an example of "high Christology," ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:41, 7 January 2024
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- views on womanhood and equality of people helped to move a nation ... Louisa May Alcott was the second of four daughters born to Amos Bronson ...17 KB (2,709 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- Crantor (ca. 330 – 270 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Old ... to be controlled rather than eradicated. One of his arguments, reminiscent ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School ... Chinese thinkers of the period were preoccupied with the use of terminology ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- considered a crucial figure in the history of music. His work bridged the ... quot; and introduced the Baroque method of declamation with continuo accompaniment ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Composite bosons are important in superfluidity and other applications ... to commemorate the contribution of Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 17:22, 22 December 2022
- around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology. McDougall ... in Lancashire, England, as the second son of Isaac Shimwell McDougall and ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman ... She was born in the major Mesopotamian city of Ur and moved with her clan ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- Entomology is the scientific study of insects. Insects are arthropods ... Insects have many kinds of interactions with humans and other forms ...14 KB (2,060 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- 1970), born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature ... Agnon, called by many "a man of unquestionable genius" and ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- a serious actor who appeared in a number of movies and television shows ... He was the first recipient of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- Literature in 1924. Reymont was the author of novels such as the ironic The ... to protect him in the Russian-occupied area of Poland from any trouble for ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 23:19, 17 May 2023
- quot; and blot their names from the Book of Life. In contrast, to the church ... the final judgment takes place; the Book of Life is opened, and everyone ...34 KB (5,503 words) - 00:39, 19 November 2023
- بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 ... Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad, who took the title of the Báb (Arabic; meaning ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- He was the preeminent figure at the center of the Third Great Awakening. ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- work in economics, especially his criticism of the railroad system, helped ... in Medford, Massachusetts, into the family of Nathaniel L. Ripley and Estimate ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- and author. He survived the horror of Nazi imprisonment in a Jewish ... scholarly world, and is remembered as one of very few political scientists ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- and phenomena by appealing to some kind of universal knowledge or schema ... skepticism toward the totalizing nature of "metanarratives" ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American ... popular television miniseries in 1977. The book and film were both successful ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- quot;) refers to most important scriptures of Judaism that are the foundation ... oral law, encompassing the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American ... ==Early life and career== Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- 7, 1867), was called The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy by famed Victorian ... and those interested in the history of the United States, Timrod is ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- advanced support for the wave theory of light. He invented a specialized ... Fresnel was one of four children of an architect, born at Broglie ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- nature and dominant play, Hoad was part of an especially successful era ... Often referred to as the "Golden Boy" of tennis, blond, ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 22:18, 25 October 2022
- and spelling reformer. He was the co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls. Pulpit. In 1877, Adam Willis Wagnalls, one of Funk's classmates at Wittenberg ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 19:40, 7 February 2023
- a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... his father, eventually the first Bishop of Liverpool, had raised him." ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- 1860 - October 23, 1946) was born in England of Scottish parents. He was raised ... He was founder of the Woodcraft Indians and one of the founding pioneers ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Religions (originally titled The Religions of Man) which sold over two million ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... grow and decline, much as all organic life does, noting three phases ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- 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) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... == Life == [[File:Dawna oficyna folwarczna z ok. poł. XVIII w., ul ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one of the earliest compendia of mathematical ... Pacioli was a man of deep faith coupled with a great love for knowledge ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- Near East. Budge was was a strong proponent of liberal Christianity and was ... came to hold arguably the best collection of Ancient Near East artifacts ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- novelist, and dramatist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best ... Hurston's uniquely autobiographical style of relaying her anthropological ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist of the Song dynasty, who is credited ... and Zhu Xi, who honored Zhang as one of the founders of the Study of ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with ... in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United States—for ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- ) is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist ... Apsaras are supernatural beings who appear as young women of great ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature ... in Gudbrandsdal. He was the fourth son of Peder Pedersen and Tora Olsdatter ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- with Frank Hyneman Knight he was one of the leading figures at the ... He made significant contributions to the theories of cost and production ...10 KB (1,485 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- editor. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education ... Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks ... HM Stanley Hospital, St Asaph) until the age of 15. After completing an elementary ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:07, 8 February 2022
- only with lies as statements—not lies of demeanor or costume or some ... by philosophers, by jurists, and others. One of the Ten Commandments, for example ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 03:12, 5 November 2022
- A. A. Milne, was a prolific English author of books, plays, and poems. He ... Kingdom. The program is operated by one of Milne's favorite charities ...15 KB (2,362 words) - 06:49, 13 June 2023
- the Negev Desert and the Aravah valley of what is now southern Israel ... descended from him. Esau was the brother of Jacob, the ancestor of the ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 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 Book of Joshua (Hebrew: Sefer Y'hoshua—ספר יהושע ... In Jewish tradition, the Book of Joshua is the first of the books ...26 KB (4,240 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- is considered the most important precursor of Neo-Confucianism, the ethical ... can master their “qi” ("vital life energy") in order to ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 06:02, 13 June 2023
- "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah ... Berlin's essay analyzes Tolstoy's refutation of the view ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- especially well-known for his study of Maori culture. He was a pioneer ... Firth connected to the heart of the people whose culture he studied ...14 KB (2,002 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... up to the task and worried about the amount of luggage she would carry. In ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of ... Refutations, there have been many systems of classifying fallacies. In this ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- #039; to spread Gnostic teachings. Author of over 60 books, Samael Aun Weor ... sexual practices as the highest form of religious devotion and articulated ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- In Islamic tradition, he was the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad and the ... In the Book of Genesis, Ishmael was the first of Abraham's household ...15 KB (2,619 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- and educationalist who advanced the study of psychology with his work on ... For 20 years Bain was professor of logic and English literature at ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln ... Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member ...20 KB (3,092 words) - 08:05, 3 August 2022
- [[image:Baptism-christ.jpg|thumb|The Baptism of Christ, by Piero della ... Christians as being a prophet and forerunner of Jesus Christ. The New Testament ...19 KB (3,228 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- 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
- – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during ... were and that remain popular for their ease of singing and performing. Croce ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- Reference Book|New Student's Reference Book]] as "Hottentot."]] The Khoikhoi ("men of men") or Khoi, in standardised Khoekhoe/Nama ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 03:58, 6 October 2022
- He achieved his greatest fame as the title character of the children ... As his career developed Keeshan became an advocate, book author, lecturer ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 08:42, 16 November 2023
- :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
- and spiritual perception as surer denoters of the truth than sentiment or ... Blake's explorations of good and evil, heaven and hell, knowledge ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number ... Possibly, they would question the teaching of the Church and the authority ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- philosopher who advocated a reconstruction of society based on idea that ... in units called “phalanxes” composed of male and female representatives ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...24 KB (3,623 words) - 02:37, 5 November 2022
- ) (April 1, 1929 - July 1, 2023) was a Czech and French writer of ... Kundera took part in the Prague Spring of 1968, a period of "socialism ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 12:12, 24 August 2023
- Karl Jaspers (1883 - 1969) pioneered the idea of the Axial Age. According ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- The theology of the Death of God, also known as Radical Theology, ... For Nietzsche, the supposed death of the Christian concept of God ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- work on monetary economics and development of undeveloped countries. Her ... "oversights" given the quality of her work and her contributions ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was ... Clement of Alexandria was, and still is, a highly unorthodox and controversial ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- inventor who achieved fame for his invention of the technology of printing ... The exact origin of Gutenberg's first press is apparently unknown ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 15:05, 1 August 2022
- played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry ... Solovyov did not think of himself as a philosopher, but as a prophet ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- Robert Lowell and the confessionalist school of poetry, who is increasingly ... and complicate the autobiographical nature of his poetry, and it is unclear ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 04:15, 3 August 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
- poet, and instrument maker. He was one of the most famous and revered ... Details of his life are sketchy, but a few facts can be established ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art ... was cited by El Lissitzky as one of the major forerunners of the ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- pan out, and she would later retract some of them, but they were always ... fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosis when Susan was ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry ... nor an autobiography, but combines elements of both to create a compelling ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 20:52, 18 November 2022
- and poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío. He was a gifted ... stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. He is known for his ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- 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
- physical medium for commercial audio recordings as of 2007. Standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimeters (mm) and can hold ...19 KB (3,102 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- Oswald (ca. 604–August 5, 642 C.E.)While Bede gives the year of ... Oswald's assessment in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of ...27 KB (4,245 words) - 13:29, 5 September 2022
- he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination and his lifelong ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...17 KB (2,401 words) - 22:23, 27 June 2023
- He served as the U.S. Commissioner of Education, during which time ... In 1859, he became a principal in one of the public schools in St ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system in ... ==Early Life and Influences== Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was born in ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area of ... pillar known as the "stone of witness." Shechem was ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- Joseph (also Joseph the Betrothed, Joseph of Nazareth, and Joseph ... he then fled to Egypt to avoid the wrath of Herod the Great, returning ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
