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The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... was founded in England in the seventeenth century as a Christian religious ...

Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...

George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...

Catholic theologian who helped to shape the new thought of the late sixteenth ... Charron’s theories were notably well-received during the seventeenth ...

and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism ... Godwin held the optimistic view that every individual, as a rational ...

:This article is about the philosopher. See also Chrysippus (mythology ... Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280 B.C.E. - c. 207 B.C.E.) is considered to ...

She became known for her portraits of celebrities of her day, and ... in her life. Her work had a major impact on the development of modern photography ...

abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is ... Mott's Philadelphia home was a stop on the Underground Railroad ...

, (May 3, 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian novelist during the ... was brought up in Odessa where he moved with the family in 1902. He studied ...

7, 1709After Britain's change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...

and insurance, whose writings influenced the philosophy and public life ... Two pamphlets which he published in 1771, Appeal to the Public on ...

revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ... Finnney ignited a wave of spiritual transformation among a sector ...

and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...

Lacydes of Cyrene, Greek philosopher, became head of the Platonic ... When skepticism emerged in Plato's academy around the third to ...

for writing a sophisticated diary describing the American Civil War and her ... As the daughter of a governor and senator from South Carolina and ...

writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual ... not only among his immediate circle of friends and disciples (many ...

The First Great Awakening (often referred by historians as the Great ... a large following." Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," ...

|motto = Veritatem Dilexi (Cherish Truth) |established = 1885 ... Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles northwest of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn ...

, Modest Petrovič Musorgskij) (March 9, 1839 – March 16, 1881) ... Mussorgsky was born in Karevo in the province of Pskov, 400 kilometers ...

– February 21, 1677), is considered one of the great rationalists of seventeenth ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...

John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the ... The Romantics prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism ...

Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...

wing causes, she was a vigorous proponent of social justice and critic of ... Louisiana into a Jewish family. During most of her childhood she spent half ...

Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of ... Since environmental issues are considered as outcomes of modernity ...

physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most significant scientists ... In 1900, to solve a vexing problem concerning the radiation emitted ...

) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed ... Essentially, the samizdat copies of texts, such as Mikhail Bulgakov ...

in Canton) was a Scottish missionary, and the first Protestant missionary ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...

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 ...

spiritualist. Dubbed by one biographer as “The Last Great Imperial Adventurer ... brother, Robert Shaw, was a noted explorer of Central Asia. ...

25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly ... Norris was particularly influenced by the optimistic thread of Darwinist ...

colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the ... be by a King at least, and not by a parcel of upstart lawless Committeemen ...

missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions ... Among those who assisted in the task of Bible translation was Ram ...

writings were highly influential during the Victorian era. Coming from ... Carlyle held that the universe was ultimately good and directed by ...

to publish and distribute leaflets under the group name of the White Rose ... http://www.shoaheducation.com/whiterose.html The White Rose.] Retrieved July ...

1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of ... to determine "scientifically" the underlying forces (i.e. the ...

religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ... They first settled the island of Aquidneck, which is now part of Rhode ...

) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... Perhaps the fact that Blavatsky was not in any way affiliated with ...

11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... Feyerabend lived, worked, and taught in Austria, England, the United ...

was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties ... Darrow remains notable for his oratory utilizing the wit, compassion ...

and logician. His logical analysis of mathematical problems made ... family in Prague, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father ...

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam ... Erasmus attacked many abuses committed by the Church, but was unsympathetic ...

was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...

colonist, an early and courageous proponent of the separation of church and ... A religious separatist, Williams questioned the right of the colonists ...

1967. Tracy is still widely considered one of the most skillful actors of ... In 1999, the American Film Institute named Tracy among the Greatest ...

The term interreligious dialogue (or interfaith dialogue) refers to ... The rise of interreligious dialogue has been made possible by the ...

theologian and socialist recognized as one of the most important thinkers ... His friends included some of the leading intellectuals of his time ...

a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series ... 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature ...

introduced Christianity and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire in the sixteenth ... In 1601, Ricci became the first foreigner from the West to enter the ...

to consider) refers to any doctrine or way of thought denying the ability ... Originating in the human tendency to question the reliability of any ...

American psychologist. He is regarded as one of the most significant social ... precise methodologies. Although committed to the scientific method, he rejected ...

The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... The first attempt by Jesuits to reach China was made in 1552 by Saint ...

Rishipattana, Isipatana) refers to the deer park where Gautama Buddha ... The Buddha mentions Isipatana as one of the four places of pilgrimage ...

28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...

was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of ... Stirner was a member of a group of German intellectuals calling themselves ...

12, 1989) was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...

Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...

when they pass through a crystal, similar to the pattern light exhibits when ... near Koblenz, in what was then Prussia, the son of Julius von Laue, a ...

topics. For nearly 60 years he traveled the world, pointing out to people ... India, and in 1909 met C.W. Leadbeater on the private beach at the Theosophical ...

poet, critic, and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...

"wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing ... Sufis believe that excessive rationalism blocks human understanding ...

The Honorable Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627 – December 30, 1691 ... At the same time, Boyle was convinced of the existence of God and ...

Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name ... he absorbed local culture while realizing the extent of Slavic oppression ...

Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...

The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur ... or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ...

writer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest American writers ... Fitzgerald is considered to be the spokesman for the "Lost Generation ...

and essayist who is best known for leading the scientific revolution. His ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...

Protestantism encompasses forms of Christian faith and practice that ... Protestants generally may be divided among four basic groups: The ...

historian and writer] He was a champion of the nineteenth-century ideals ... Tocqueville's insights into what made the United States successful ...

A. A. Milne, was a prolific English author of books, plays, and poems. He ... Milne's generosity lives beyond him. Royalties from the Pooh ...

Realism is a widely used term in the arts. In literature, it came ... popular art form, not only in France but the in rest of Europe as well ...

died in Adyar, India where she was President of the Theosophical Society from ... more than satisfied if I could have touched the hem of [her] garment" ...

The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which ... to 100,000 people escaped enslavement via the Underground Railroad, though ...

1889 (June 11, Old Style) - March 5, 1966) the pen name of Anna Andreevna ... Akhmatova's work ranges from her short lyric poems from the early ...

John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous ... Protestantism at 16 and studied theology at the University of Glasgow. He ...

She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet ... An eloquent writer and speaker, she used these talents to further ...

The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...

Shammai (50 B.C.E. – 30 C.E.) was a famous Jewish scholar of the ... Shammai's school became known as the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai ...

and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...

and nineteenth centuries that sought to end the practice of slavery and the ... The truth, self-evident, that all men are created equal, apparent ...

30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...

and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... His wife and daughter survived during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution ...

The Rhodes Scholarship is an international award for study at the ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...

architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...

Justin Martyr (also Justin the Martyr, Justin of Caesarea, Justin ... evidently stirred up a sufficient quantity of controversy (either through ...

Carpetbaggers in the United States were Northerners who moved to the ... "Carpetbagger" was a term originated to describe the luggage ...

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 ...

a Christian spiritual movement that arose in the later Middle Ages. The sect ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...

Bogardus and propelled her to become one of the first American female superstars ... put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground. ...

in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebels, led by Daniel Shays ... The United States may be unique as a nation because it was formed ...

who, along with Abraham Maslow, founded the humanistic approach to psychology ... Rogers was born on January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb ...

The Society of the Friends of the Constitution ( Société des amis ... ), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality ( ...

He painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...

philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth ... war with Britain in 1812 and a vast program of internal improvements afterwards ...

and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology ... Campbell's recognition of the universality of human stories allows ...

American realistic acting has remained at the heart of mainstream Western ... Building on the directorially-unified aesthetic and ensemble playing ...

, an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic ... The itinerant preachers, called Lollards, Wycliffe sent throughout ...

close friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the influential figures in ... a provincial town some miles north of Stuttgart. Schiller was the ...

2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was one of the most important leaders ... As a member of a privileged and wealthy family, he studied law in ...

was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford, Bedfordshire), in ... He preferred to face and endure years of imprisonment at great sacrifice ...

The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता ... , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...

for his writings as C. S. Lewis and by his friends and associates as Jack, ... As a youth, the untimely death of his mother, the cruelty of his schoolmates ...

a prominent figure in what became known as the Enlightenment, and the editor ... The Encyclopédie, conceived as a compendium of all available knowledge ...

actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement ... Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President ...

revolutionary. Although he was successful in the traditional Confucian system ... Chen was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) and was selected ...

was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...

essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books ... old, he read a Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and ...

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...

Zoroastrianism (or Mazdaism) refers to the religion developed from ... was tremendously influential on the history, culture, and art ...

so great during his own time that he became the first Englishman to earn the ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...

(May 6, 1758 – July 28, 1794) was one of the primary leaders of the ... Politically, Robespierre was a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ...

Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology covering ... Despite the apparent simplicity of this definition, nanotechnology ...

The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 ... If a philosopher is to be a pioneer of thought, trying to open up ...

Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were Nineteenth ... The Grimké sisters were born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. ...

lawyer but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...

known for having authored An Inquiry into the Cause of the Wealth of Nations ... however, his writings span a broad spectrum of topics ranging from astronomy ...

/ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...

The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848 was a major event in the Europe ... There were many dividing issues among the individual Slavic peoples ...

and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist ... Scruton embraced conservatism after witnessing the May 1968 student ...

Japanese film director, is regarded as one of the masters of Japanese cinema ... unorthodox techniques, including training the camera directly on the actors ...

Tamil literature refers to literature in the Tamil language. Tamil ... A revival of Tamil literature took place from the late nineteenth ...

writer and philosopher. He is best known for the existential themes in his ... Though Camus’ work is often associated with that of another important ...

in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America ... grew when Griswold succeeded Poe as editor of Graham's Magazine at a ...

author, self-declared feminist and womanist—the latter a term she herself ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...

Restoration Comedy is the name given to English comedies written and ... The era of Restoration Comedy is seen as the high point for literary ...

As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made ... Though Thomas Hobbes and especially Francis Bacon had pioneered the ...

The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...

) (c. 446 B.C.E. – c. 388 B.C.E.) was a Greek dramatist of the Old ... The place and exact date of his birth are unknown, but he was around ...

January 1, 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration era. He was ... After Charles II was crowned, the theater became a place in which ...

emotion that involves a subjective character of unpleasantness, aversion, harm ... or emotion that is linked primarily to the body or to the mind. Examples ...

Opus Dei (Latin for "Work of God"), formally known as The ... Opus Dei was founded in Spain in 1928 by the Roman Catholic priest ...

Popularly, Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related ... The ancient Greeks described love with a number of different words: ...

an Irish writer and poet, regarded as one of the seminal figures of modernism ... Joyce pushed the limits of the "stream-of-consciousness" ...

The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; ... is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, ...

influenced = The Frankfurt School, The Praxis School, Lucien ... critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of ...

best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during ... Italy, and other countries in Europe and the Middle East. Some articles ...

known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ... Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, producing ...

is a central and much revered figure in the majority of [Hinduism|Hindu ... Vyasa is the author of, and an important character in, the Mahabharata ...

and extraordinary cultural versatility, in the process becoming a highly ... Pasolini's work focused on the underside of modern life, especially ...

[[Image:Virgil Solis - Tereus Philomela.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rape ... Rape is a form of assault involving the non-consensual use of the ...

thanatos, "death") is the practice of terminating the ... Euthanasia refers both to the situation when a substance is administered ...

Бакунин, Michel Bakunin—on the grave in Bern), (May 18 (May ... he was sent as punishment for promoting the revolution against the Russian ...

26, 1902) was an activist and a leader of the early women's rights ... Until their disagreement over ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ...

Muslim minister and a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also ... As a fiery, socio-political critic of American Christianity's ...

and actor. A premier representative of the New German Cinema. Famous ... Fassbinder was distinguished for the strong provocative current underlying ...

The Baptist Church is a Christian denomination—or group of denominations—that ... The focus of Baptist church services is the proclamation of the Gospel ...

novelist, editor, and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian ... She began writing at an early age, and by the time she met Dmitri ...

and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement ... The darkness that characterized many of Poe's writings appears ...

philosopher, and physician, renowned in the twentieth century as a humanitarian ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...

owned by Thomas Jefferson, believed to be the mother of several children ... became an issue in American politics in the early 1800s. Hemings' ...

Greater Syria: Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period (London ... Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analyzed ...

philosopher, and, for ten years, minister of state for the republic of Weimar. principle literary figure through a series of movements and upheavals in ...

philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the eighteenth ... emphasized reason, despised democracy as the rule of the mob, and believed ...

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 ...

) (or generally referred to as Lunar New Year globally) is the Chinese ... ) and is one of several Lunar New Years in Asia. Observances traditionally ...

is best known for In Cold Blood (1965) and the novella, Breakfast at Tiffany ... aunt, Marie Rudisill, became known as "The Fruitcake Lady" on the ...

evil, and, resultantly, that people require the positive influence of teachers ... Little is known of the historical Xunzi, save that he was born in ...

poetry prefigured, and came to influence, the Romantic movement. and spiritual perception as surer denoters of the truth than sentiment or ...

Conflict is a state of disagreement between two or more parties. This ... While differences are natural, the ways to resolve them can be violent ...

to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic ... was scant until after World War II. Much of his huge output is still unpublished ...

He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger ... The Chambers-Hiss saga was an important case in the 1950s "Red ...

whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film ... Antonioni's films reflected the intellectual milieu of his day ...

engineer, and outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the nineteenth ... father was Dr. James Thomson, a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical ...

1812 – March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States of America ... The causes of the Civil War remain the subject of debate and it is ...

A hierarchical Sinocentric model of international relations, dominated ... The central position was not always held by the same ethnic group; ...

North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea. He founded the ... religious teachings are published as the Exposition of the Divine Principle ...

Hearst acquired and developed a series of influential newspapers, starting ... Hearst served two terms in the United States Congress, and had great ...

comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan ... Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light ...

notable_ideas = Problem of causation, Induction, Is-ought problem | ... Scottish philosopher and historian. Hume was the third, the most radical and ...

1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to ... Marcos initially had laudable intentions: to improve the economy, ...

1847) (Irish: Dónal Ó Conaill), known as The Liberator, ... or The Emancipator, A Short History of Ireland: Monster Meetings. BBC. ...

), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...

an Indian freedom fighter, considered one of the most famous revolutionaries ... He had been one of the leaders and founders of the Hindustan Socialist ...

November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth ... Building on the foundation laid by Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich ...

Identity politics refers to the idea that socially constructed identities ... Many contemporary advocates of identity politics take an intersectional ...

The Cathari (also known as Cathars, Albigensians, or Catharism) were ... in their theology, espousing a stark distinction between the physical ...

song writer and folk musician who influenced the entire postwar development ... Guthrie's body of music consists of hundreds of songs, ballads ...

(April 25, 1840—November 6, 1893 by the Julian calendar or May 7, ... largely to satisfy societal conventions; the marriage did not survive a ...

Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... work reached beyond a narrow understanding of Christianity, embracing people ...

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 ...

and mathematician, working mostly in the twentieth century. He and ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...

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 ...

Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...

May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... He was the Labor Party's longest-serving Prime Minister and the ...

The afterlife, or life after death, is a generic term referring to ... While in this life, people ask the questions: Is death the end, or ...

an American actress and comedian. A pioneer of early television, with a career ... A staple panelist of American game shows, dubbed "the first lady ...

Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ... situations, propaganda involves deception of the audience, for a purpose ...

The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to ... After many debates amongst Christian leaders, the consubstantiality ...

apartheid in South Africa. She was active in the anti-apartheid movement, joining ... East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg, the daughter of Isidore and Nan ...

and sometime film producer (producing the films of some other directors ... Luis Buñuel was born in Calanda, Teruel in the province of Aragón ...

Hamlet: Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It ... Hamlet has been called "the first great tragedy Europe had produced ...

Marriage is a universal human institution which has formed the foundation ... Challenges to the institution of marriage in the twentieth century ...

to contemporary philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the ... Wittgenstein is widely regarded as having been one of the most influential ...

April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw and the most famous member of the ... Jesse Woodson James was born in Clay County, Missouri, near the site ...

screenplays for Hollywood, and in turn, many of his works, which are full of ... adventure to fuel his stories and experience the political world of various ...

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...

Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was the first ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...

| order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | date of birth=September 15, 1857 | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio ...

The precautionary principle is the concept that establishes it is ... and take appropriate precautions even in the absence of scientific consensus ...

actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern ... school plays and wrote poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic ...

Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874 ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...

Ashoka the Great (304 B.C.E. - 232 B.C.E.; also known as Asoka, Sanskrit: ... The name ‘Ashoka’ translates as “without sorrow” in Sanskrit ...

Brainwashing refers to the systematic application of coercive techniques ... Whether any techniques exist that change thought and behavior to the ...

The beloved leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu ... General Aung San, the country's founding father, broke with his ...

and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism ... Thompson himself became a central figure in the 1960s and 1970s ethos ...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...

and mechanics. He introduced some of the familiar notation still ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...

Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... == The American landscape == In The Beginning, All the World was America ...

Marie Antoinette (November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793), the Archduchess ... she was executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent ...

The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range ... The Metacomet Ridge extends from New Haven and Branford, Connecticut ...

critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement ... His work made use of frequent homages and references to film history ...

Chandos portrait that is believed to be of William Shakespeare]] poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English ...

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 ...

and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. ... His literary career began in the early 1860s with the publication ...

performed live and later televised, to honor the American Military who were ... a favorite target for his particular brand of humor were United States Presidents ...

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15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature ... school programs and to write for children and the poor. ...

poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye ...

them). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable ... 1814 his mother, Johanne Pätz, married the actor Ludwig Geyer, and moved ...

and Marxist theoretician. Serving as the People's Commissar for ... The daughter of an Imperial Russian Army general, Kollontai embraced ...

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 ...

pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of progressive ... alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the saxophone melody for the Dave ...

October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the ... Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew ...

Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...

and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace ... young man and a committed Whig, he was part of the scheme to overthrow James ...

naval leader noted for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Japanese ... Yi is also known for his innovation of the Turtle ships (거북선 ...

somber contemplation, and endless debate as the topic of God. In the English ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...

The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... ). The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia ...

The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a ... The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of ...

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 ...

The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... There were about 1.5 million Mennonites worldwide as of 2006. Mennonite ...

The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...

SurrealismIn 1917, Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term "Surrealism ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...

Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during ... The chronological anchors of the era are generally vague, largely ...

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and ... toured internationally and fraternized with the Rat Pack and President John ...

Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) is one of the ... was his brother Theo, an art dealer with the firm of Goupil & Cie, ...

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948 ... The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of ...

Radulescu was a prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian ... Among his many accomplishments, Radulescu is considered one of the ...

The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United ... American populations and has been part of the Spanish viceroyalty of ...

revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...

Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... in World War I in which many people resented the humiliating terms imposed ...

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Cuba is the most populous country in the Caribbean. Its people, culture ...

The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Although the rioting was widely reported around the United States ...

he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the ... The all-time leading scorer in Lakers history, Bryant was the first ...

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 ...

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Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus, is ... As might be expected with a man of this stature, partial understandings ...

and naval officer. He was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War ... exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the ...