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- Chronicles, Books of The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew ... amp;letter=C&search=chronicles Chronicles, Books of]. www.jewishencyclopedia ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
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- Chronicles, Books of The Book(s) of Chronicles are part of the Hebrew ... amp;letter=C&search=chronicles Chronicles, Books of]. www.jewishencyclopedia ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 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
- an acronym for the Hebrew Bible consisting of the initial Hebrew letters ... "The five"; "The five books of Moses." Also called ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- 1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint Greek translation of Hebrew ... "Ezra," and it is from the Book of Ezra that 1 Esdras borrows ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- his grandfather David. He was the third king of the House of David and, after ... Rehoboam's reign has been dated to roughly the last quarter of ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 19:23, 23 June 2023
- 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
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... Ketuvim (Writings) as the second last book of the Bible, and the latter situating ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- Bethel (בית אל, "House of God")—also written as Beth ... During the period of divided kingdoms, Bethel was an official shrine ...13 KB (2,035 words) - 10:23, 4 March 2023
- Uzziah of Judah ( עֻזִּיָּהוּ ), also known as Azariah, was the king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- word for king, nswt. Although the rulers of Egypt were usually male, the ... and a double crown—to symbolize the unity of Upper and Lower Egypt. The ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old ... In describing the initial stages of the rebuilding of the Temple of ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- Jeroboam II (ירבעם השני) was the the fourteenth king of the ... The son and successor of Jehoash, Jeroboam's long reign, which ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 08:00, 3 April 2024
- A Levite (from Levi, "attached") is a member of the Hebrew ... When the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, the Levites received ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, ... Appointed by King Solomon as the leader of forced labor gangs in Jerusalem ...17 KB (2,812 words) - 18:48, 23 June 2023
- (Lost) Brothers for Me") was the son of Sargon II, whom he succeeded ... In response Sennacherib sacked a number of cities in Judah. He laid siege ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- The Book of Jubilees (ספר היובלים), sometimes called the ... The Book of Jubilees claims to present "the history of the division ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- known to all who were close to her, is one of Canada's most beloved ... She lived a remarkably sincere, humble, and sacrificial life of Christian ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 02:29, 5 November 2022
- the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Book of Revelation, as well as often ... refers to the stereotypical depictions of cherubim in western art. As ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- and early tenth centuries B.C.E.. One of David's nephews, he was ... won David's trust as commander-in-chief of his armies, he also earned ...18 KB (2,943 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- was a famous Irish author, novelist, and one of the great spokespersons for ... As a youth, the untimely death of his mother, the cruelty of his schoolmates ...27 KB (4,330 words) - 19:28, 24 November 2023
- Anthony Trollope ( April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882 ) became one ... Baretshire is focused on the inner workings of an imaginary cathedral ...17 KB (2,461 words) - 05:26, 31 July 2023
- " Hebrew: יהוֹיָקִים) was one of the last kings of Judah. The ... During Jehoiakim's reign as a vassal of Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 20:02, 4 November 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
- 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
- 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
- The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at the age of 12 that he was going to be ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- Pixies (singular Pixie or Pixy) are mythical creatures of English ... While many of these depictions are considered purely fictional, creatures ...8 KB (1,284 words) - 06:21, 24 November 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
- strengthened") was the thirteenth king of independent Judah in the Bible ... B.C.E. Hezekiah ruled the southern Kingdom of Judah during the conquest and ...20 KB (3,298 words) - 11:58, 22 January 2024
- David, was the second and most famous king of ancient Israel, as well as ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- directions as well as promoting the art of Cubism. As a writer of periodicals ... Among the foremost poets of the early twentieth century, he is credited ...11 KB (1,569 words) - 23:21, 11 July 2023
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English ... Nine manuscripts survive in whole or in part, though not all are of ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 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 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
- the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often called ... to its authors. It formed the basis of the Old Latin versions and ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- 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
- , Zərubbāvel; Greek: ζοροβαβελ, Zŏrobabel) was the leader ... decades. It was he who laid the foundation of the Second Temple in Jerusalem ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- she published under the androgynous name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated ... Edith Nesbit was born in 1858 Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race of mythical creatures that are ... his baser instincts and rise to the level of enlightened humanity, symbolizing ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- Review, were instrumental in the development of early twentieth century English ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- history is very ancient, the formal role of cantor did not emerge until ... #039;s role to Jewish males over the age of 13. Non-Orthodox Jewish movements ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- , was a ninth-century B.C.E. prophet of the Hebrew Bible whose name ... Elijah is considered to be one of the great prophets of the Abrahamic ...18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- Samaria was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Israel. It was also ... ninth century BCE. It was the residence of the northern kingdom's ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand ... Sima Qian’s style of writing was easy to read, full of humor and ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- A fairy (fey or fae; collectively wee folk, good folk, people of peace ... While many of these depictions are considered purely fictional, creatures ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- 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
- Courtly love was a medieval European conception of ennobling love ... It can be seen as a combination of complex factors: Philosophical ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel ... The Books of Samuel originally formed a single text, which probably ...37 KB (5,923 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023
- Christian eschatology named for its denial of a future thousand-year, physical ... existed even in the first three centuries of the Christian era, during which ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- and Israel. Ethnically, they are descendents of the inhabitants of ancient ... Judean Jews; however, Jesus used the parable of the "Good Samaritan" ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- for Literature. She is considered to be one of the most prominent writers ... taught English literature at the University of Nanking. In 1926, she left ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- 15, 628 C.E. corresponds to the Seventh Day of the Third Month of 628 C.E ... with good governance and the promotion of a value based social system ...9 KB (1,420 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- fiction and is generally cited as the father of the historical novel. His novels ... elevation among men and women regardless of class, religion, politics, ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- was a rabbi from France, famed as the author of the first comprehensive commentaries ... Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the texts ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 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
- ) 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
- 3, 1368 – October 21, 1422) was King of France (1380–1422) and a ... The agreement he made with England, which passed the crown to Henry ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 00:35, 5 December 2023
- March 30, 1964) was a mixed-race novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, an ... race protagonists, Larsen displayed clarity of vision despite the complexities ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- 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
- was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- was a prolific and popular American writer of the early nineteenth century ... but he successfully captured the spirit of "rugged individualism ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 01:33, 8 February 2023
- 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
- to being a woman, and yet becoming president of both the American Psychological ... her greatest interest becoming the study of self. Calkins is deservedly ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. His books for children are perennially on booksellers shelves. He ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 19:56, 21 April 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
- 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
- The Books of Kings (Hebrew: Sefer Melachim ספר מלכים) are ... Throughout the narrative, the author looks back to the golden age ...60 KB (9,862 words) - 21:32, 6 February 2024
- ) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books that makes up part of ... According to tradition, the Five Classics were written before the ...20 KB (2,978 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo-Assyrian Empire ... c. 612 B.C.E. In the Bible, it was the site of Jonah's famous preaching ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- pioneered important concepts in the fields of cell biology and microbial ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...19 KB (2,756 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- West from the unique Christian perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Together ... Endo’s greatest work, Silence, portrays the courage of Japanese ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- 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
- A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- IAST Ayodhyā), an ancient city of India, holds a cherished place ... With the rise of the Gupta Empire (320 to 550 C.E.), Hinduism again ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
- revolutionary. She was the daughter of a Military officer. She married ... at a young age and met Lenin as a result of her revolutionary activity ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- 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
- (c. 1,100,000 speakers). The domination of Estonia after the Northern ... is a bilingual German-Estonian translation of the Lutheran catechism by S ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 23:59, 18 March 2022
- ) is a sort of processed animal hide that is thin, smooth, durable ... the Torah in particular, to remind those of the Jewish faith of their ancestors ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... Cambridge Magazine with his own funds. Many of his later collection of poems ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- The Book of Zechariah is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... The eleventh of the 12 books of the minor prophets, the Book of Zechariah ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- 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
- The Royal Library of Alexandria, part of a museum and library modeled ... The city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 06:39, 20 July 2023
- Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350 - 428), was bishop of Mopsuestia (modern ... topics and was elevated to the position of bishop of Mopsuestia, circa 392. ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- 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
- collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the ... service. He became a close confidant of the Yongle Emperor. Between ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- The Árpáds or Arpads was the ruling dynasty of the federation of ... Seven members of the dynasty were canonized or beatified by the Roman ...26 KB (3,604 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
- ,(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King ... participate in a global community. For much of its history, Scotland struggled ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 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
- 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana ... An accomplished storyteller, Berton was one of Canada's most ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- known for the numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made ... Aisne, near Paris, France. He was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a French ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- highly original, impressionistic prose. His books, written during the Great ... his death: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Of Time and River (1935); and ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- "The Georgia Peach," was a Hall of Fame baseball player. When ... Cobb also received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural ...28 KB (4,394 words) - 20:36, 4 January 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
- or Tengrianizm) was the major belief of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic ... The other deities were Umai (a life-giving deity), Erlik (god of the ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- A private library is a library under the care of private ownership ... Private libraries often reflect the interests of the owner and the ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
- and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...41 KB (6,363 words) - 05:45, 16 November 2023
- Incense is a material composed of aromatic organic materials that ... Incense is available in various forms and degrees of processing. Depending ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- She was known as the "Conscience of the American Revolution." to publish an anti-Federalist interpretation of the American Revolution. Her ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:13, 9 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
- The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew מַלְכוּת יְהוּדָה, Standard ... it from the Northern Kingdom (the Kingdom of Israel) after the two entities ...27 KB (4,065 words) - 16:48, 25 February 2024
- was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. He is today regarded ... gossip. Basho, drawing on his own studies of Zen Buddhism, revolutionized ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 16:53, 7 November 2022
- (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985), was one of the first American teen idols ... a creative renaissance at the outset of the 1970s, when he formed the ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, has earned ... Founded in the fourth century B.C.E., Anuradhapura served as of the ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- cartoons for frescoes in the new Palace of Westminster (1843), and which ... A cartoon is a form of expression, or communication, that refers to ...17 KB (2,492 words) - 00:46, 29 November 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
- Danelagen), is a name given to a part of Great Britain, now northern ... held predominance over those of the Anglo-Saxons. Its origins lie ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents ... the language and its literature are of great importance in Indian ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories ... Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- ) is a major Jewish festival, also known as Succoth, Sukkos, the Feast ... in the wilderness under the leadership of Moses. However, it may have ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period of English history from the ... English monarchs bear the title "Duke of Normandy." England also ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev (East Slavic: Святослав, ca. 942 – ... Sviatoslav was the first ruler of Kievan Rus' whose name is indisputably ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a frequently ... Latinised as Meroveus or Merovius), leader of the Salian Franks from c. 447 ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- formal term for the earliest surviving canon of Buddhist scriptures, also called ... # Sutta Pitaka, (contains discourses of the Buddha and his disciples) ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 17:41, 2 May 2023
- [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes who lived to the north of ...35 KB (5,272 words) - 05:13, 24 November 2022
- Magadha (मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit ... from circa 684 B.C.E. to 424 B.C.E. Two of India's major religions ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... to establish colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; he founded ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- the nineteenth century with the translation of the Rosetta Stone. Yet interest ... this culture, including the great Pyramids of Giza, reveal not only their ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- Arthur is a legendary British "king" of mythical proportions ... eventually developed into a mythic warrior of heroic legend, eventually evolving ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
- Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels ... by Jews near Warsaw in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, probably ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times for fourteen ... It is for his series of articles published in June 1931 covering Stalin ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- identified as a secular holiday albeit of historical, legendary, and ... The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of ... a feast day that bewails the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. It ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
- Hampshire), called Ælfgifu, was daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke ... (1002-1016); and then to Canute the Great of Denmark (1017-1035). ...42 KB (6,697 words) - 18:48, 31 December 2021
- writer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest American writers ... for the "Lost Generation" of Americans born in the 1890s ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- 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
- 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
- main_interests = Democracy, Race, Philosophy of religion, Ethics| ... Harvard University, West became a professor of Religion and director of African ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... by 30 percent on average; in the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi, theoretician of mysticism, and hagiographer ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... ferocity and pillaging raids, the voyages of the Vikings also linked different ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state ... After World War II, Shinto lost its status of state religion; some ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- , also known as Cyrus the Great and Cyrus II of Persia,, was the founder of ... In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- Hampshire. In addition to his literary body of work, Kingsley was a Protestant ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- ) is a form of sacred theater traditionally performed in Hindu temples ... Until the 1950s, Koodiyattam was performed only by men of the Chakyar ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- ) 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
- a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of seventeenth-century Rome. The ... conceits include the piazza and colonnades of Saint Peter's. He preferred ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- /ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...30 KB (4,264 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- A well-known critic of the Polish Communist government, Milosz was ... Yet Milosz proclaimed in his Nobel acceptance speech that the books ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- 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
- to the Indian Ocean to protect the ships of the British East India Company ... claim to be from Greenock. After the death of his father when he was five ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- , also called Haakon the Old, was king of Norway from 1217 to 1263. Under ... a single (rather than two co-rulers) king of legitimate birth succeeded ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
- #039;s Temple, it was the national center of Israelite religious life, especially ... Temple, served as the religious center of Jewish life in the post-exilic ...30 KB (4,700 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Onjo of Baekje, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- astronomer, and philosopher, considered one of the greatest mathematicians ... after Eutocius brought out editions of some of his works, with commentaries ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place ... The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- In Japan, manga are widely read by people of all ages, and include ... Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Peoples Republic of China, but since the mid-1990s ...39 KB (5,688 words) - 21:37, 11 January 2024
- and raised in Norway, Undset had her first books of historical fiction published ... Ages, portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- Chandos portrait that is believed to be of William Shakespeare]] dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian ... Holy Spirit was not the orthodox position of the Catholic Church. He also ...57 KB (8,333 words) - 20:17, 31 January 2024
- 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
- and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the Spanish nobility and nicknamed ... The nickname "El Cid Campeador" is a compound of two separate ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- a poorly documented period in the history of Eastern Europe (roughly the ... According to contemporaneous sources, the population centers of the ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Venetian ... a prominent painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He ...77 KB (11,557 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- from August 1, 527 until his death. One of the most important rulers of ... and was the emperor who reconquered the city of Rome from the Ostrogoths. He ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. At the time of his ... Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer ...55 KB (7,618 words) - 00:27, 26 February 2023
- , Urdu: لدّاخ; "land of high passes") is a province ... came to an end in 1834 C.E. when Gulab Singh of Jammu conquered it. The British ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- dæmon, or daimon) is a supernatural being of malevolent intent, or a fallen ... Most religions and cultures of the world accept the existence of demons ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious ... historical-medieval faiths also made use of them, including the Roman, ...59 KB (9,526 words) - 15:05, 2 May 2024
- 899) is often considered to be the founder of the English nation. As king ... Danes, after defeating them at the Battle of Edington. Realizing that it ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- swordsman. He is believed to have been one of the most skilled swordsmen ... discovered were applicable to diverse phases of human life. He constantly tested ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- 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
- wide readership for his lyrical explorations of spirituality and psychology ... XVI, because it "exposes the problem of modernity's isolated and ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. Founded in 1831 ... 31 Nobel Prize winners; 9 National Medal of Science recipients; 12 Pulitzer ...33 KB (4,775 words) - 09:32, 11 March 2023
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... the entire peninsula. Following a series of insurrections, its territory ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- an internal wick rising through the center of a column of solid fuel. Prior ... With the advent of kerosene lamps and electric lights, candles are ...26 KB (4,080 words) - 19:18, 25 November 2023
- #039; label for the material culture of Britain in Late Antiquity. ... While the history of Roman Britain is reasonably well covered by contemporary ...51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- The Majapahit empire was the last of the major Hindu empires of the ... Little physical evidence of Majapahit remains, Jean Gelman Taylor, ...26 KB (3,833 words) - 05:33, 5 November 2022
- Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 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
- Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; Simplified ... The novel is a detailed, episodic record of the lives of the members ...35 KB (5,738 words) - 17:35, 30 January 2024
- The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers ... The Court of Martyrs Henry Coppée writes, "The same name (see ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne ...38 KB (6,119 words) - 06:49, 28 July 2023
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron 977 and 1010 C.E. and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- . Their language, Mvskoke, is a member of the Creek branch of the Muskogean ... to cooperate with settlers, and the efforts of those such as Benjamin Hawkins ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- for the Wounded Knee Creek, a tributary of the White River, which runs ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Japanese folklore is heavily influenced by the two primary religions ... by foreign literature. Some stories of ancient India were influential ...36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
- an 'a' at the end) was the ruler of the Maurya Empire from 273 ... in Sanskrit. Ashoka was the first ruler of ancient Bharata (India), after ...35 KB (5,661 words) - 04:44, 18 August 2023
- Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...62 KB (10,177 words) - 20:44, 3 May 2023
- the ninth century, who became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavs ... named Leon. Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers, according to ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- The Taj Mahal is considered by many to be the finest example of Mughal ... the building has been the source of an admiration that has transcended ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 03:53, 27 February 2023
- Joan of Arc, also Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc's name was written ... – May 30, 1431), is a national heroine of France and a saint of ...41 KB (6,624 words) - 13:42, 1 August 2022
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... in 1948. Although it enjoyed a stable period of democracy and economic progress ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors ... for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in ...51 KB (8,034 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- Chichen Itza ("At the mouth of the well of the Itza") is ... Terminal Classic and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period ...32 KB (4,966 words) - 20:59, 9 December 2023
- island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ... that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as 35,000 B ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- the period generally known as The Silver Age of Russian literature. The Golden ... Naturalism was a later development of Realism that was influenced ...37 KB (5,536 words) - 16:30, 7 September 2023
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Order of the British Empire (January 3, ... His works address the inner struggle of good and evil within each of ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- available to non-Muslims who were People of the Book, namely, Jews and ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... Cortés adopted methods in the conquest of Mexico like those of other ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- face off in a circular area. The sport is of Japanese origin and is surrounded ... many ritual elements, such as the use of salt for purification, from ...39 KB (6,360 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- command to save Noah, his family, and a pair of all animals from the Great ... take on board his family and representatives of all the animals and birds. ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- 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
- 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
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (March 9, 1749 - April ... A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among ...44 KB (6,937 words) - 18:06, 5 December 2022
- Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan. Their Pashto ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- a royal Indian dynasty ruling large parts of southern, central and northern ... The clan that ruled from Elichpur had been a feudatory of the Badami ...53 KB (7,699 words) - 00:10, 14 November 2023
- ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island ... Northern Ireland has been for many years the site of a violent and ...84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
- Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... infantry advances. However, a combination of entrenchments, machine gun ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ) ruled most of the western Deccan, South India ... For over a century, the two empires of southern India, the Western ...49 KB (7,018 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- The Kingdom of Mysore (Kannada ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ... Sheshanna and T.Chowdiah, became a center of Carnatic music. During this ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- opportunity in the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire. The dynasty ... civilization—equal to or surpassing that of the Han Dynasty—as well as ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when ... During the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the government was split ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- system and is named after the Roman god of war. It is also known as the ... and seasonal cycles are similar to those of the Earth. Of all the planets ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- 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
- is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes ... Similarly, the term may be presented in terms of allele frequency ...68 KB (10,248 words) - 19:33, 21 October 2021
- " and Janapada "foothold of a tribe," "country ... Most of the historical details about the Mahajanapadas are culled ...50 KB (7,467 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- 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
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... Salem, and Boston, which soon became the hub of the region, then the Pioneer ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- reflecting the contemporary pronunciation of Japanese) ... was a Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyo of ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
- The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...93 KB (13,994 words) - 13:49, 15 April 2024
- Since the script was conceived and popularized by the followers of ... known as azbuka, derived from the old names of the first two letters of most ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- the people indigenous to the United States|broader uses of "Native ... Native'One race: 2.5 million Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics ...60 KB (8,901 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- 1961 for his career achievements. He was one of the top 10 film personalities ... He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- 1878 until 1918, Montenegro was later a part of various incarnations of Yugoslavia ... Based on the results of a referendum, Montenegro declared independence ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Category: History of the Americas jpg|thumb|alt=Refer to caption|The 28th page of Patrick Breen's diary ...73 KB (11,798 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ... Much of the sea's coastal features are the result of glacial ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
