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- novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of The New Criticism ... Warren's work focused on the moral and spiritual conflicts in ...8 KB (1,091 words) - 02:13, 16 December 2022
- in every pulse-beat," and he is one of the most indubitably American ... was raised in a relatively poor family of Swedish immigrants in a rural ...10 KB (1,491 words) - 12:48, 27 November 2023
- an American poet whose works brought about the Confessionalist movement in ... Lowell was born into the Boston Brahmin Lowell family, and was raised ...8 KB (1,303 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- poet and literary critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American ... may have gone unnoticed, ironically, because of his even greater talents in ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- to be a great but underexposed writer of his age. During his lifetime ... he was highly praised by peers. Employed in the financial field, his writing ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- hymns, and personable poems celebrating the lighter side of life. Like ... Anacreon was born at Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- a Russian emigre poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature ... ===In the Soviet Union=== Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- years he remains obscure in comparison to the giants of his time such as ... Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English and American ancestry ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- and writer, increasingly regarded as one of the finest twentieth-century ... as a poet are her tremendous dedication to the craft (her notebooks reveal ...8 KB (1,277 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- 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
- has never been as wide-spread as that of many of her Modernist peers; ... style. She was, and remains, one of the most difficult poets to ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 04:13, 6 November 2022
- 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
- 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives ... Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet in the late nineteenth and early ... Dunbar largely failed to convince white critics and patrons of his ...8 KB (1,360 words) - 17:08, 21 November 2022
- closely associated with Robert Lowell and the confessionalist school of ... Indeed, Berryman did as much as possible to conceal and complicate ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 04:15, 3 August 2022
- a playwright. She is best known for her poetry belonging to the confessional ... Sexton's poetry was characterized by incisive metaphors, unexpected ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- poet, novelist and jazz critic. His poetry, marked by understatement ... Eva Larkin in Coventry, a provincial city in the Midlands. He was educated ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- was an American poet, writer, Librarian of Congress, and three-time winner ... and Pound, who supported Mussolini during the Second World War and would ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- literary fame at age 17, after writing the poem, "Thanatopsis." ... In addition to his contribution to romantic poetry, his essays promoted ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- Williams associated himself closely with the then-emergent movement of ... Later in life, however, Williams moved away from the excessively abstract ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 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
- Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 11, 1957) was the pseudonym ... Mistral published over 30 collections of poetry in her lifetime. Some ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 07:38, 15 April 2024
- 28, 1925) was a famous Russian lyrical poet of the Silver Age of Russian poetry ... Yesenin's roots were in the Russian countryside. His poetry showed ...12 KB (1,781 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- an American anthropologist, who pioneered the ethnohistorical research technique ... In 1900, Swanton received his Ph.D. and started his fieldwork on the ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- to be regarded alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets ... Ever the recluse, Dickinson's poetry is hard to classify. She ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- 29, 1963) was an American poet, arguably the most recognized American poet ... Modernist poetry largely abandoned conventional poetic forms as obsolete ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- Anne Bradstreet (circa 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the first ... Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in Northhampton England. She was the ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize ... was involved in agrarian reform following the revolution, activities which ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential poets ... Auden was a poet of prodigious talent and output, living at a time ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- and short story writer, who is arguably the most prominent and influential ... Wright's early works, most notably the autobiographical work ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 18:49, 11 August 2022
- for writing pithy and funny light verse. At the time of his death in 1971 ... Light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous. Poems considered ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 23:56, 17 November 2022
- Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to ... The art of improvisation often focuses on bringing one's personal ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first African ... Although her poetry about the colonies' struggle for freedom ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one ... Leading artists of the movement included Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne ...7 KB (1,061 words) - 15:09, 3 July 2023
- December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) was the pen name of ... Seferis helped to introduce the poetry of Symbolism to the Greek language ...11 KB (1,573 words) - 20:33, 29 August 2021
- wrote in a neat, clean style that made his poetry readily accessible at a time ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- (July 19, 1893 – April 14, 1930) was among the foremost representatives for ... He was born the third child and only son to his family in Bagdadi ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- 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
- The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation ... The core group consisted of the American poets Zukofsky, Williams ...24 KB (3,660 words) - 19:52, 17 November 2022
- A Pulitzer Prize is an award regarded as the highest national honor ... legacy, his effort to establish and maintain the highest standards in the profession ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 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
- memoirist. She is best known today for her poetry, and particularly her work ... her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained ... The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters ... During the nineteenth century the novel become the leading form of ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- is now Columbia University in 1826, he was the first faculty member to have ... to Roman Catholicism in 1763, he took the name Lorenzo Da Ponte, the ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- was an influential and important figure in the development of sports journalism. In 1922 Rice became the first play-by-play announcer carried live ...14 KB (2,078 words) - 14:51, 31 December 2022
- lawyer and amateur poet. While watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry ... because there were no schools nearby. At the age of ten he was sent to ...9 KB (1,528 words) - 04:51, 9 April 2024
- composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature ... The period from the fourteenth century up to the nineteenth is considered ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved ... modern art movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- and newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the ... and poets, as well as to American poets of all races and creeds. He has ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- الدین محمد رومی), known to the English-speaking world simply ... Rumi wrote over 65,000 verses of intoxicated poetry on the Sufi path ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 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
- publishers and others have sometimes echoed the unconventional capitalization ... for his poems and their unorthodox usage of capitalization, layout, punctuation ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties ... MacNeice was born in Belfast, the youngest son of John Frederick and ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- Henry Timrod, (December 8, 1828—October 7, 1867), was called The ... In addition to the perspective Timrod offers to historians and those ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- 1984) was an American writer, best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- poet. He also directed several films. Before the appearance of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ... subjects, Yevtushenko was never a member of the Soviet dissident community ...20 KB (2,819 words) - 11:11, 24 May 2023
- and dramatist who is widely considered to be the most important Spanish poet ... In his early years, García Lorca's poetry was marked by the ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- Lapis lazuli, also referred to as lapis, is a stone with one of the ... jewelry, carvings, mosaics, and a variety of ornamental pieces. In addition ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- described by John Stuart Mill as one of the seminal minds of his age ... Coleridge's close friendship with the poet William Wordsworth ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- famous for her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar and her advancements ... In 1982, Plath became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously ...19 KB (3,157 words) - 01:56, 27 February 2023
- Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of ... political power, but he presided over the Westernization of Japan by ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- ; June 6 1236 – January 9 1283), also Man Tin Cheung, Duke of Xingguo ... his achievements as a poet. A dozen of his lyric poems are extant ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- to such an association. One such poem is the frequently anthologized “The ... baptized by Jacob Tekahionwake Johnson on the encouragement of Sir William ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- and public figure. He is considered among the most influential figures in ... Yeats came to maturity at the beginning of the twentieth century and ...21 KB (3,324 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- An American abolitionist, she was most famous as the author of The ... In 1868, she helped establish the New England Suffrage Association ...13 KB (2,163 words) - 09:30, 12 May 2024
- most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement and ... Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), an epic poem about the self ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the ... degree in 1856. That same year he initiated The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian ... Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- Waka (和歌), or Yamato uta, is a genre of Japanese poetry. Waka ... Traditionally, waka has had no concept of rhyme (certain arrangements ...23 KB (3,429 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- - January 9, 2014) was an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and ... sexual politics. His most famous play, "The Dutchman," addresses ...18 KB (2,687 words) - 07:05, 25 July 2023
- George Steiner] Contemporary Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03-26 ... He has written extensively about the relationship between language ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant journalist ... Dana was best known for his association with Ulysses S. Grant during ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- , better known as José Martí, was a leader of the Cuban independence movement ... were his books for children, La Edad de Oro (The Golden Age) being the most ...19 KB (3,059 words) - 06:30, 6 May 2024
- and literary criticism, often esteemed the greatest English literary ... Hazlitt came from a branch of Irish Protestant stock that moved in ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel ... Aldington is associated with the poetic group around Ezra Pound, the ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 20:12, 8 December 2022
- inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... He won the three Pulitzer Prizes (both fiction and drama), numerous ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America ... Edgar Allan Poe, whose poetry had been included in Griswold's ...41 KB (6,146 words) - 17:44, 22 December 2022
- October 21, 1969), also known as "King of the Beatniks" and "Father ... writings and in his novels that he rejected the values of the time and was ...22 KB (3,414 words) - 21:03, 25 December 2022
- 2004) was a Polish poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. A well-known critic of the Polish Communist government, Milosz was ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been ... County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- colonial roots in his writing. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Walcott was born and raised in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West ...47 KB (6,423 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2024
- his first literary works in Russian under the pseudonym of Sirin, but rose ... #039;s affair with a 12-year-old girl, and the uniquely structured Pale Fire ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- philosopher and poet. His most famous work, the Kuzari, defended Judaism against ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets ... Russian Futurism began roughly in the early 1910s; in 1912, a year ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- a teacher and educational reformer, founder of the Kindergarten system in ... in Massachusetts. Peabody's father was the dentist Dr. Nathaniel Peabody ...11 KB (1,579 words) - 10:20, 21 January 2023
- and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...21 KB (3,278 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... As African Americans' place in American society has changed over ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- Scottish novelist, best known for his novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Unionist ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- musician and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... in style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- 250px|right|A 19th century phrenology chart. The inscription on the neck reads ... personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the ... Because the border with the Saudi kingdom is simply a line on the ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among ... The first two are part of the so-called "prairie trilogy," ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 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
- an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized ... raised by his great-uncle's family in the small town of Villars, in ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays ... Le Guin was one of the pioneers of a sub-genre of science fiction ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is ... Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and associated ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- | field = painting, sculpture, poetry | training = ... graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Largely self-taught, he excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil ... Although he is often remembered for his pictures of bucolic scenes ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 23:11, 17 May 2023
- singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. He was the lead singer and predominant ... Of Scottish and Irish ancestry, Jim Morrison was the son of United ...31 KB (4,948 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ... The Hokku of early Japanese poets like Matsuo Basho and Ueshima Onitsura ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams ... Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the Gothic writing style, unique ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 06:10, 27 February 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
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- was a Seychellois politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. 1984, for Best Children’s Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends. His book, A ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing ... Sufis believe that excessive rationalism blocks human understanding ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are ... Pictograms are still in use as the main medium of written communication ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...37 KB (5,309 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- #039;s writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of ... is almost entirely autobiographical. As the title of his column suggested ...22 KB (3,383 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... Stevenson was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and the New England Transcendentalists ... In search of adventure, the young Melville left his native Massachusetts ...26 KB (4,121 words) - 10:03, 22 January 2024
- American artist whose works initiated the first indigenous art movement ... His historical and allegorical paintings of the 1820s and 1830s gave ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 21:34, 7 September 2023
- and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900, and produced for stage ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- is legendary, and she is known today as one of the most brilliant writers ... Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; ...18 KB (2,914 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- A cowboy is an animal herder, usually in charge of the horses and/or ... in rodeos, while some work exclusively in the rodeo. Cowboys also spawned ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:14, 11 January 2024
- is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement ... Her first three books, “Under the Sea Wind”, “The Sea Around ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- 1900) in Haicheng County, Fengtian province of China – October 14, 2001 ... In the X’ian Incident of December 1936, Zhang kidnapped Chiang Kai ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Swan is any of various large, long-necked water birds of the family ... The swan is one of the largest, fastest swimming, and fastest flying ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- He composed over 300 works comprised of operas, symphonies, oratorios ... Camille Saint-Saëns's sensitive renderings of using instruments ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- structural linguistics. He is arguably the most influential figure in ... in Poland) to an orthodox Jewish family of Lithuanian origins. His parents ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 23:51, 12 February 2024
- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... his work with mental patients, he discounted the unconscious postulated by ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and ... The Symbolist movement in literature has its roots in Les Fleurs du ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- and ethnographer, famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and ... 1883, in Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural ... Works of philosophy, history, economics, journalism, and most fiction ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye ...80 KB (11,371 words) - 23:33, 1 August 2023
- and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... His wife and daughter survived during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- modernist writer, is often viewed as one of the principal leaders and catalysts ... By bringing a number of disaffected artists and writers together within ...10 KB (1,473 words) - 18:29, 21 May 2024
- may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace - Psalms ... Female Seminary on November 8, 1837, it is the "first of the Seven Sisters ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary ... degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology ...25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- |birthplace=Chicago, Illinois, United States |deathdate =1959|3|26|1888|7|23 |deathplace=San Diego, California, United States |occupation =Novelist ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet ... ideas, arising from a philosophy based on the ego, sensuous pleasure, and ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely ... Although several species are often considered weeds, people around ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism ... Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...17 KB (2,462 words) - 20:01, 26 July 2023
- was a well-known mime. He performed all over the world in order to spread the ... hat topped with a red flower. Marceau showed the world every emotion imaginable ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- Library science is an interdisciplinary science incorporating the ... terms, perhaps adopted to increase the "science" aspect ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and grew up in the Bishopston ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre that emerged from the Transcendental ... Works in the dark romantic spirit were influenced by Transcendentalism ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 20:30, 19 May 2020
- innovator, armaments manufacturer, and the inventor of dynamite. He owned ... inventor, and Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell. By the time of his birth, his family ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost figures in world ... and theology, but he was less concerned with the social and psychological anomie ...30 KB (4,821 words) - 06:22, 6 May 2024
- – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science ... 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- , was a philosopher, essayist, poet, critic of culture and novelist. Santayana ... Santayana's main philosophical works are The Sense of Beauty ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 14:56, 21 May 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
- novelist, poet, and critic. Scott was among the first to draw upon history ... Scott’s works follow the transition from the eighteenth century ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- Ephrem the Syrian (306 – 373) was a deacon, prolific writer of hymns ... Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and homilies in verse ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 17:16, 20 May 2024
- Bedouin, derived from the Arabic badawī بدوي, a generic name ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
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- She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet ... An eloquent writer and speaker, she used these talents to further ...24 KB (3,721 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the ... ). From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day has been associated ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
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- 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
- Dame Muriel Spark, (February 1, 1918 – April 13, 2006) was the greatest ... had left Sydney and Robin. She returned to the United Kingdom in 1944 and ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage ... in Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1909. He was one of two sons. His father was a ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
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- novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east ... An advocate of Christian socialism, he published several novels about ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
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- , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ... The Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the national ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- - January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels ... distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex. Pioneered ...19 KB (2,838 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
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- The United Nations Children's Fund (or UNICEF) was created by ... The organization's programs emphasize developing community level ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 11:42, 3 May 2023
- writer who played an important part in the development of twentieth century ... Henry Aaron Budington but used a variety of names during his life, including ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
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- philosopher, and scientist. He was one of the major Islamic philosophers ... Avicenna is also well known for his medical work, The Canon of Medicine ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- The Decadent movement (Fr. décadence, “decay”) was a late-nineteenth ... The Decadent movement first flourished in France and then spread throughout ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- was a French physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist ... He was received in Berlin by Frederick the Great, who allowed him ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans Baptized Mary Anne ... 22, 1880) an English novelist who was one of the leading writers of the ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 07:37, 15 May 2024
- He emerged in the late sixties among the renaissance in country music ... country musicians and was an integral part of the Texas musical culture which ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South ... Bangladesh's rank among the most densely populated countries ...30 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman ... music, and magic. He had no visible means of support, but no lack of resources ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
- Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were Nineteenth ... The Grimké sisters were born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. ...25 KB (4,265 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- an Irish writer and poet, regarded as one of the seminal figures of modernism ... Joyce pushed the limits of the "stream-of-consciousness" ...32 KB (5,105 words) - 21:18, 20 March 2024
- The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab to be over 300 million people living in the Arab world. There are 22 nations ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- [[Image:Tea House.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Japanese style tea house at ... A tea house or tearoom is a venue designed for people to gather for ...29 KB (4,641 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a "nonprofit, membership ... The organization was founded by Fred Kilgour, and its offices are ...15 KB (2,039 words) - 00:39, 18 November 2022
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- writer, lecturer, and social reformer during the early 1900s. She was born ... Gilman was born Charlotte Anna Perkins in Hartford, Connecticut, the ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
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- The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an ... The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe ... They flourished from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history ... James I ruled at a time when the fallout from the Reformation was ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- poet, and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience of the American ... #039;s first female playwright. She was also the first woman to publish an ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2022
- Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter ... Hans Klee, was a German music teacher at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar near ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
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- and guru. He was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation and ... He brought a more spiritual, as opposed to dogmatic, understanding ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" ... ) is a sort of processed animal hide that is thin, smooth, durable ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982) was the sixth and ... for children who had become homeless due to the war or were suffering serious ...12 KB (1,678 words) - 06:43, 28 July 2023
- |popplace=United States (New Mexico) |rels=Christianity (incl. syncretist ... The Zuni (also spelled Zuñi) or Ashiwi are a Native American tribe ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
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- Big Sur is a 100-mile stretch of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along ... Big Sur's boundaries are loosely defined; many definitions of ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- from Mississippi who is regarded as one of America's most influential ... Williams, Faulkner is often considered one of the most important writers ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- Founded in 1971, by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most ... are independent organizations which share the same ideals, and have been ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- be expressed with either, both, or neither of these words. The definition ... documented, albeit controversially, over the centuries and numerous cultures ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- As a "woman of letters" who published successfully in mulitple ... politics, and she herself provided a model of the female writer for contemporary ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- Free schools have their roots in the anarchist Modern Schools of Spain ... A variety of free schools and affiliated organizations are found throughout ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 06:52, 23 January 2023
- and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciati ... Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" ... , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...44 KB (6,485 words) - 18:07, 12 February 2024
- The Shoshone (also spelled Shoshoni) are a Native American tribe with ... Possibly the most famous member of the Shoshone tribe was Sacagawea ...26 KB (4,027 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- and novelist. His artistry is grounded in the relationship between the sensual ... Award in 2010. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- painter who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Chagall is ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most prominent of Founders ... He published the famous stories of Poor Richard's Almanack and ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 09:50, 28 September 2023
- Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets. Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, ...22 KB (3,380 words) - 18:13, 24 July 2023
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the ... and the third most spoken language in India after Hindi and Bengali. ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea ... Slave labor brought from Africa to work the sugarcane fields in the ...26 KB (3,654 words) - 02:55, 26 February 2023
- Automatic writing is the process or product of writing without using ... Automatic writing first became popular during the golden age of Spiritualism ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:04, 23 August 2023
- a moral theory according to which welfare is the fundamental human good. Welfare ... back to Plato and ancient Greek discussions of eudaimonia. The most important ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
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- and educator. As an educator, he promoted the teaching of history, science ... gases becoming famous for his co-discovery of oxygen, which he called "dephlo ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
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- and their demure conversation. Evolving in the mid-eighteenth century, from ... The geisha saw their peak numbers in the 1920s, with over 80,000 practicing ...30 KB (4,689 words) - 06:34, 18 April 2024
- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... Djibouti's main advantage is its strategic location near the ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... often wrote as an ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was one of the most famous and admired ... through space exploration. And although most of his themes were about everyday ...20 KB (2,916 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly ... such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, the Century, and Harper's ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- Juggling is a form of skillful, often artful, object manipulation ... The word "juggling" derives from the Middle English jogelen ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 09:05, 12 May 2024
- New Yorker, The The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern ... Southeast African lingua franca, making it the most widely spoken language ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- In spiritualism, the term Medium refers to a person with a psychic ... ==History of mediumship== Human beings have attempted to contact spirits ...19 KB (2,785 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties ... Darrow remains notable for his oratory utilizing the wit, compassion ...21 KB (3,485 words) - 22:33, 10 December 2023
- was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... Mill formulated the “greatest happiness principle,” which held ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper ... The Times has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes; this includes four in editorial ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a ... He was known as one of Britain's kindest politicians, owing much ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- by Vietnamese artists, from ancient times to the present. Vietnamese art has ... The golden age of Vietnamese art occurred during the Ly dynasty (1010 ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading ... Barney was an early advocate of "free love." She opposed ...46 KB (7,032 words) - 01:28, 11 November 2022
- quot; or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German ... The historical origin of Faust's name and persona remains unclear ...35 KB (5,273 words) - 01:42, 26 March 2024
- for his barbed and clever wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights ... As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the ...52 KB (8,358 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ... reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late ninteenth and early twentieth ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... ascribing all such development as rooted in the birth trauma, has found wide ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- in rural Florida and wrote novels describing the richly detailed natural settings ... pioneer environmentalist who reacted against the growing urbanization around ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 15:59, 6 November 2022
- and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers" ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- fleeing New York City following a number of legal difficulties and eventually ... His uncles decided he should be sent to the United States where they felt ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes ... Doyle and Mary Doyle. He was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 11:09, 16 August 2023
- , was a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's ... Though thought of as French, Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Bruxelles ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement that originated in ... Gothic architecture aims to create an experience of the sublime or ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- |popplace= Canada (Alberta)United States (Montana) |rels=Christianity, other ... The Blackfoot confederacy of Alberta in Canada and Montana in the ...26 KB (3,951 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
- Trnka graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design ... He was dubbed "the Walt Disney of the East" Edgar Dutka ...21 KB (3,254 words) - 02:02, 9 February 2023
- Sports journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics ... While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
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- 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
- [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. It is based ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Scriptures (from the Latin scriptura, meaning "a writing" ... Around the world, scriptures are held in the highest regard and often ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque ( bɛlepɔk|lang ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
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- 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
- Trilling was a frequent contributor to the Partisan Review and member ... with Columbia University, becoming the first Jewish professor to ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 04:21, 29 October 2022
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (December 25, 1924 - August 16, 2018) was the ... in his native language, Hindi. His vision of India was that of an ancient ...47 KB (6,896 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- Palm Sunday is a Christian feast day which falls on the Sunday before ... The holiday is celebrated with processions in which Christians carry ...17 KB (2,712 words) - 06:25, 18 November 2022
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife ... During the Civil Rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s she worked ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- poet, critic, and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- in both classical and popular productions on the London stage, including various ... in films like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) and Fried Green ...17 KB (2,512 words) - 20:21, 19 November 2022
- Heimdall is the sentry of Asgard and a member of the Aesir (the gods ... have been drawn between Heimdall and the Vedic deity Dyaus, and also ...18 KB (2,781 words) - 22:43, 3 February 2022
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- but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a ... rights. False gender distinctions corrupted the relationships between men ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 16:16, 7 November 2022
- conductor, Rachmaninoff is remembered as one of the true artistic geniuses ... his own works as soloist. He was one of the greatest pianists of his ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 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
- actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern ... cricket, acted in school plays and wrote poetry. He attended the Royal Academy ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- editor, and critic, who has been called the master of Vernacular Chinese ... Jin asserted that the writer's intention is less important than ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
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- The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, known simply as Nakhichevan, ... Armenian tradition holds that Nakhichevan was founded by Noah, of ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
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- John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest ... His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 03:01, 2 May 2024
- Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, ... Chinese myths are thought to have originated around the twelfth century ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan ... The location of human and pre-human habitation dating back two million ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- The Asuka period (飛鳥時代, asuka jidai), lasting from 538 to ... The Yamato state evolved considerably during the Asuka period, borrowing ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 18:29, 19 August 2023
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- December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the nineteenth century. He ... Thackeray, was a high-ranking official in the British East India Company ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- a German neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- bison hunter and showman. He was born in the American state of Iowa, near ... The West was regarded as territory that needed to be tamed, settled ...27 KB (4,199 words) - 12:10, 8 May 2023
- Derived from the term "ototeman" in the Ojibwe language ... This form of religious activity is most commonly found within tribal ...20 KB (3,178 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- satirist, and social critic, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" ... He is well-known as the journalist who covered the Scopes Trial, which ...28 KB (4,252 words) - 18:12, 29 July 2023
- The beloved leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu ... General Aung San, the country's founding father, broke with his ...32 KB (4,792 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency ... The defense of all these islands is the responsibility of the United ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- track and field athletics, is a collection of sports events that involve ... A stadium-length foot race was the original event at the first Olympics ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring ... The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamel ...37 KB (5,930 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... Despite its natural resources, East Timor has the lowest per capita ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
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- An audiobook is an audio recording of a book, speech, or any form ... The term "books on tape" was frequently and erroneously ...17 KB (2,579 words) - 18:27, 21 August 2023
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- The “Fulani Empire” is now known as the Sokoto Caliphate or “Sultanate ... Founded by Usman dan Fodio in 1804, it was one of the most powerful ...23 KB (3,525 words) - 07:17, 15 April 2024
- Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... fought. Invaders and conquerors included the Persian Empire, Alexander ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- March 25, 1973) was an American pioneer in the history of photography and ... artists who eventually became legends of modern art, as well as eventual ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... era that saw popes leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- known as Diarmaid na nGall or "Dermot of the Foreigners"), anglicized ... What followed, Ireland's history of oppression under British ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- on colonial attitudes, encouraging a sense of cultural superiority that had ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... An Islamic nation, it is home mainly to the Tajiks, who share culture ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy ... In different forms, as drama, opera, poetry, and prose, the tale has ...29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- in eastern and southern Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province ... Pashtuns have rarely been politically united. "Biography Khushal ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... The term aesthetics comes from the Greek αἰσθητική ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque ... In the strict sense satire is a literary genre, but the larger notion ...31 KB (4,584 words) - 15:56, 18 December 2022
- Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... The country is infamous for the 1994 genocide that resulted in the ...25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
- recognition as art. Every culture since the beginning of human existence ... As intelligence develops the human ability to use the materials of ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ... As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- ) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in ... as it evolved under Western influence, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...19 KB (3,030 words) - 16:15, 9 February 2024
- SurrealismIn 1917, Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term "Surrealism ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...46 KB (6,796 words) - 23:55, 26 February 2023
- Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... non-verbal doctrine communicated directly by the Buddha to his followers. It ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- weht(German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- Gadamer. Ricoeur published a large body of work on a variety of philosophical ... philosophical investigations centered upon the human person. In doing this ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- winning Italian-American film director and the creative force behind a string ... Capra films usually carry a message about the basic goodness of human ...21 KB (3,350 words) - 05:01, 9 April 2024
- , was an Austrian novelist, pacifist and the first woman to win the Nobel ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial Japan who were ... Samurai gradually developed Bushido (武士道), or the “Samurai ...49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
- ) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary ... Simplified Chinese characters are officially used in the People's ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean ... Burgess's fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- enormous popular success during a career of more than 70 years and continues ... Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native ... Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Santeria (Santería in Spanish, meaning "Way of the Saints" ... The Yorùbá people originated from Western Africa in the area known ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Order of the British Empire (January 3, ... Tolkien used fantasy in the same way fabulists have used folk and ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- conversation between two or more entities. The etymological origins of the ... A dialogue as a form of communication has a verbal connotation. While ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- [[Image:Salishan_langs.png|thumb|222px|Pre-contact distribution of ... The Coast Salish tribe consists of three geographically divided areas ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- "Talking boards" came into existence during the late 1800s ... ==Precursors to the Ouija== ===Ancient Ouija Boards?=== ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Yoga (from the Sanskrit root yuj ("to yoke")) refers to ... During the twentieth century, the philosophy and practice of Yoga ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...43 KB (5,937 words) - 05:04, 18 August 2023
- The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- quot; in Hindi) or British India, officially the British Indian Empire, and ... (contemporaneously, "British India") as well as the princely ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... The nation's traditions draw on its nomadic past and are centuries ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- Radulescu was a prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian ... Among his many accomplishments, Radulescu is considered one of the ...64 KB (9,591 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 13:06, 20 May 2024
- Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- composer, pianist, and conductor. He was the first conductor born in the ... Bernstein was one of the first classical musicians to recognize the ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- The dictator novel ( novela del dictador ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 15:31, 5 July 2023
- German philosopher and logician during the second half of the nineteenth ... Lotze combined the monads of Gottfried Leibniz's spheres of individual ...24 KB (3,658 words) - 16:57, 22 December 2022
- The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music ... It evolved in the United States in the communities of former African ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study ... The term "social science" did not appear until the nineteenth ...53 KB (7,429 words) - 21:46, 30 January 2023
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12 ... prominent figures in Philadelphia society. The family was well-known and ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... As a constitutional sultanate, Brunei was, in 2007, the only country ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... only by natural causes without assuming the existence or non-existence ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- 17, 2013) was a British writer, author of novels including The Grass ... (1944–1956), when she was writing on the theme of radical social issues ...22 KB (3,145 words) - 21:11, 26 March 2024
- which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities, is responsible ... The resemblance of the "created" to the "creator" ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية , al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Saʻūdiyya) is the largest country ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- al-Quds) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions ... From 1948 until the Six-Day War of 1967, Jerusalem was a divided city ...43 KB (6,551 words) - 12:27, 7 May 2024
- The dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is usually considered ... The word "dog" also is used to refer to some other members ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- neurologist and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- et de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the ... family and joined a Carmelite convent at the age of 15. Never a physically ...22 KB (3,790 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... Some classical examples of Tricksters in various mythologies are Mercurius ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- was a French novelist recognized as one of the founders of realism in ... This is notable because Balzac wrote during the Romantic era, a period in ...30 KB (4,901 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- |country = United States |campus = 1755|acre|km2|0 Columbus ... The Ohio State University (OSU) is a public research university in ...40 KB (5,731 words) - 10:21, 11 March 2023
- The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo-jidai), also called the Tokugawa ... The Edo period is known as the beginning of the early modern period ...38 KB (5,709 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- A Benedictine is an adherent of the teachings of Saint Benedict of ... Beyond its religious influences, the Rule of St Benedict has been ...25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- elves), playing with Tomtebobarnen (children of the forest). From Children ... role in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic work The Lord of the Rings, elves have ...21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023
- and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology ... Campbell's recognition of the universality of human stories allows ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 17:54, 6 May 2024
- teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western ... serves as a corrective over-and-against the way in which such outlaws ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites ... The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... == The American landscape == In The Beginning, All the World was America ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- Arthur is a legendary British "king" of mythical proportions ... The historical background to Arthur is extremely scarce. From a fifth ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
- | order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ... | date of birth=February 12, 1809 | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- |city = USA Borough of Princeton,Princeton Township,and West Windsor ... located in Princeton, New Jersey. It is one of eight universities that belong ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- कॅशीर; Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the ... (comprising Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh), the Pakistani administered regions ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- traditions developed around religion and the political and social circumstances ... Little is known about the earliest cultures in the region. The Plain ...42 KB (6,594 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- Journalism is the reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting ... Many news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government ...45 KB (6,779 words) - 14:13, 9 September 2023
- Þórr) was a widely worshipped deity among the Viking peoples and revered ... Thor was the focus of numerous Norse folk tales and he was seen to ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- [[Image:Friedrich_II_transparent.png|266px|thumb|right|Friedrich II ... Frederick II of Prussia, also known as Frederick the Great (January ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's ... Jiangsu has a coastline that extends over a thousand kilometers along ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- Samaritans today are both a religious and an ethnic group located ... In the New Testament, Samaritans were despised by the Judean Jews; ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... The Klan's first appearance was shortly after the American Civil ...52 KB (7,797 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... Pakistan's partition from India in 1947 had arisen from the ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... The word Thai (ไทย) means "freedom" in the Thai language ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- 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
- are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase ... Initialism originally described abbreviations formed from the initial ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- Latvia (historically Lattonia, Lettonia, or Lettland), officially ... Latvia shares land borders with Estonia to the north and Lithuania ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- [[Image:Eingang Mathematisches Kolloquium.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance ... The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers ...34 KB (4,936 words) - 20:14, 3 May 2023
- physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist ... Some time later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
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- The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... ), commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia. The name India ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire DBE ... Her appeal is so large that Christie is often cited, by the Guinness ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 06:43, 16 June 2023
- Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... Edward II was the first monarch to establish colleges in the universities ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body ... "Choir" has the secondary definition of a subset of an ensemble; ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 2023
- Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian legends ... some traditions have been maintained until the present day. This rich mythological ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Slovenská ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...34 KB (4,824 words) - 22:31, 15 May 2024
- novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely-read book in modern ... Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in south ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- January 31, 1969), was an Irani (Indian of Persian descent) born in Poona ... toward spiritual matters. However, at the age of 19, contact with an ...32 KB (4,996 words) - 04:10, 9 November 2022
- Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg ... He began composing at the young age of ten, producing short pieces ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- is a dharmic religion with its origins in the prehistory of India, still ... actions. Jains see their faith as teaching the individual to live, think ...28 KB (4,275 words) - 12:42, 6 November 2021
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India ... First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- koku) is an island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan ... Archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...46 KB (7,008 words) - 06:33, 6 May 2024
- Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a Middle Eastern country ... Considered one of the original "Cradle of Civilization" ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- Tamil people, a Dravidian people from the Indian subcontinent, have ... Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... some might say arbitrarily partitioned by the former colonial powers. Pan ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah ... (die "Endlösung der Judenfrage"). The commonly used figure ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- |popplace=United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, California and ... The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ... and Korea. When Japan came into contact with the Western world during the nineteenth ...78 KB (11,609 words) - 09:53, 1 April 2024
- Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador ... in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region close to the French ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the eighteenth ... emphasized reason, despised democracy as the rule of the mob, and believed ...27 KB (4,100 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρα ... ), is a country in Southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- for Fidel Castro's revolution against the dictatorship of Fulgencio ... Before Night Falls, which was on the New York Times list of top ...25 KB (4,012 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth ... Alternative spellings of his first and last names include Saïd, Syed ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman ... Although today part of the Republic of Italy, it has its own distinct ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- Alfred (also Ælfred from the Old English: Ælfrēd) (c. 849 – October ... One reason for Alfred's greatness was the magnanimity with which ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- A novel is a longer work of narrative fiction compared to a novella ... for "new," "news," or "short story of something ...82 KB (12,058 words) - 20:51, 27 February 2023
- Post-structuralism refers to the intellectual developments in continental ... it can be broadly understood as a body of distinct reactions to structuralism ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States during ... more frequently than robbing banks. Though the public at the time believed ...42 KB (6,735 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the ... A wide variety of organisms, including bacteria, protists, algae, ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- 5, 1912USA Los Angeles, California, United States 12, 1992 (age 79)New York City, New York, United States ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 ... If a philosopher is to be a pioneer of thought, trying to open up ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- The guqin ( c=古琴|p=gǔqín|w=ku-ch'in ; kutɕʰin ; literally "ancient stringed instrument") is the modern ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- ) is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital ... Much of Lahore's architecture from the Mughal and colonial eras ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- The Rigveda (Sanskrit: sa|ऋग्वेद , meaning "verses of wisdom") is the oldest translatable ...41 KB (6,083 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John ... A close study of the history of the company shows how the British ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... According to Jewish thought, God established a covenant with the Jewish ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... Jesuits are required to pledge allegiance to the Pope but their intellectual ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- Greek τραγωδία, "song for the goat," is any event with ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland, is a country of northwestern ... Iceland has been inhabited since about the year 874 when, according ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- Europe bordering Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and Moldova ... Many Romanians take pride in being the most eastern Romance people ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- – July 14, 1881) was better known as Billy the Kid, but also known ... He was reputed to have killed 21 men, one for each year of his life. ...32 KB (5,164 words) - 17:41, 31 October 2023
- Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown, outside of the United ... Jr. as Tamla Records, Motown has, over the course of its history, owned ...27 KB (4,046 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- and Orientalist who virtually created the discipline of comparative ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... reality acts within history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... The Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human history ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic ... was dominated by foreign powers through much of its history. The past eight ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...53 KB (8,079 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation ... The adjective (language, ethnicity and citizenship) derived from Madagascar ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of the ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- 29, 1932 - September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May ... His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition ... By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon. In the United ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... in surgery. He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- and mechanics. He introduced some of the familiar notation still ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- anglicized as Freya or Freja), sister of Freyr and daughter of Njord ... Simultaneously, Freyja was also a goddess of war, death, and wealth ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first ... Värmland, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- The Norse pantheon consisted of numerous minor dieties that were often ... Norse Mythology is renowned for its rich tapestry of colorful stories ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Cuba is the most populous country in the Caribbean. Its people, culture ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- to aboriginal people who, together with the related Aleuts, inhabit the ... area, there are many commonalities among the different Inuit and Yupik ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- religion, nature, science, math, and the ethnic origins of man. He ... Several of Messiaen's early works are especially notable in that ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... The Italian Republic shares its northern alpine boundary with France ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the ... The 1960s and 1970s saw a cultural revolution, with Amsterdam at the ...29 KB (4,176 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history ... and nation in East Asia. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- a Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful ... and has works in every major category of the Dewey Decimal System except ...53 KB (8,012 words) - 13:28, 6 March 2024
- |popplace = New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Canada ... The word Māori refers to the indigenous people of New Zealand and ...37 KB (5,756 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- Tofu, also tōfu (the Japanese Romaji spelling), doufu (the Chinese ... Tofu originated in ancient China, but little else is known about the ...37 KB (5,817 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... These cultural achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western ... Malwa has experienced wave after wave of empires and dynasties ruling ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- Kaziranga National Park, a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon ... Kaziranga hosts a vast expanse of tall elephant grass, marshland and ...31 KB (4,349 words) - 22:14, 15 September 2023
- , is a democratic republic in Central America. It is the largest nation ... The country's name is derived from "Nicarao," the name ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- Lady Jane Grey (July 1536 – February 12, 1554), a granddaughter ... Lady Jane had a reputation as one of the most learned women of her ...32 KB (5,051 words) - 22:48, 21 October 2022
- Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...41 KB (6,580 words) - 14:04, 7 May 2024
- a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... on how to portray emotion and connect with the audience. She played several ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- Macbeth is among the best known of William Shakespeare's plays ... is often seen as an archetypal tale of the dangers of the lust for ...40 KB (6,125 words) - 04:47, 5 November 2022
- The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता ... , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- The Czech Republic also known by its short-form name, Czechia, is ... As Czechoslovakia, independence was gained after World War I, but ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- ::This article is about the physical universe. Natural|Natural World ... Nature, broadly defined, refers to the physical (natural, material ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- 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 (13,999 words) - 16:07, 16 May 2024
- and entertainer. She is regarded as being the first German actress to become ... in 1920s Berlin; Hollywood movie star in the 1930s; World War II frontline ...31 KB (4,546 words) - 16:02, 6 November 2022
- (March 6, 1508 – February 22, 1556), the second Mughal Emperor, ruled ... who became a rather bitter rival, obtained the sovereignty of Kabul and Lahore ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," ... Israel declared its independence in 1948. With a diverse population ...69 KB (10,208 words) - 15:25, 19 March 2023
- was a German philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church ... The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church and the largest ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- (April 25, 1840—November 6, 1893 by the Julian calendar or May 7, ... largely to satisfy societal conventions; the marriage did not survive a ...33 KB (4,939 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan ... The French Republic is a unitary semi-presidential republic with more ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), ... The country, which by the end of the twentieth century resembled that ...44 KB (6,383 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... The collection dates back to 405, when Saint Mesrop Mashtots created ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... England is often mistakenly considered the same as the United Kingdom ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- |+ The Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill |align="center" colspan ... |+Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |Periods in Office: ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England ... Several significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
