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The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth ... Adherents of the verifiability principle claimed that all statements ...

of inductive sciences at the University of Vienna. In the same year ... Schlick, however, stayed on at the University of Vienna where he taught from ...

to gymnasium before entering the University of Vienna at 17. There he studied ... Mach returned to the University of Vienna as professor of inductive ...

|Origin = Vienna, Austria |Died = March 15, 1942United ... teacher who efficiently perfected the art of composition as well as becoming ...

The term "logical positivism" itself originated in the Vienna ... Logical positivism held that philosophy should aspire to the same ...

and then working in operatic venues in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Leipzig ... As a renowned conductor, Bruno Walter understood the actions of giving ...

of the University of Munich and the University of Vienna. In 1892 both his ... ceiling of the Great Hall in the University of Vienna. Not completed until ...

after Weininger's suicide at the age of 23. Today, the book is often ... in July 1898 he registered at the University of Vienna. He studied mainly ...

was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders ... 1919, after the war, the Marxist governments of Bavaria and Saxony employed ...

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pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...

Johann Strauss I (German: Johann Strauß) born in Vienna (March 14 ... Beginning his career in the string quartet of Joseph Lanner, Strauss ...

medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology ... He trained as a doctor at the University of Vienna Medical School and ...

III. He graduated from the University of Vienna, earning a doctorate ... Morgenstern started work at the University of Vienna, first as a lecturer ...

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first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... for Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna, in 1850. During his ...

Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... As Niccola Abbagnano has put it: The characteristic theses of positivism ...

Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland. Mackintosh ... Glen's School in Scotland. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed ...

non-partisan. Later he attended the University of Vienna, where he graduated ... finishing his studies in law at the University of Vienna. He served as first ...

arcade of the main building, University of Vienna, Austria. ... | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = Friedrich ...

was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School ... Along with Schoenberg and Webern he was one of the pivotal composers of the ...

Boltzmann studied physics at the University of Vienna, starting in ... In 1873, Boltzmann joined the University of Vienna as Professor of ...

tone and expressive phrasing, he was one of the most famous violinists ... debut the following year. He had become one of the world's leading performers ...

His work in systematizing the languages of Southeast Asia revealed connections ... Schmidt served as a professor at the University of Vienna from 1921 ...

The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...

to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5 ... called to a professorship at the University of Vienna in 1922, and organized ...

was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese ... eventually composed utilizing the techniques of dodecaphonic writing. ...

very popular with the Viennese public. Son of the composer Johann Strauss ... building on his father's foundation of popularizing the waltz in Vienna ...

composer and organist, the younger brother of (Franz) Joseph Haydn who lived ... Michael Haydn was born in 1737 in the Austrian village of Rohrau near ...

| alma_mater = University of Vienna (PhD, 1929) }} ... He received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Vienna ...

Oktay (c. 1186 – 1241), was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great ... As the Mongols arrived on the edge of the European space, then entered ...

29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... in 1754. She also demanded that the University of Vienna be given money to ...

a professor at what is now Columbia University in 1826, he was the first ... he took the name Lorenzo Da Ponte, the name of the bishop of Ceneda who administered ...

October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... history and philosophy at the University of Vienna, Kautsky became a ...

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9, 1982) was the sixth and last child of Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund ... received an honorary M.D. from the University of Vienna, and an honorary Ph ...

period, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. Brahms was considered ... eschewing the more popular genres of opera and symphonic poems. ...

in 1923, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, and later specialized ... him a teaching appointment at the University of Vienna Medical School. In ...

very young. In 1450 he entered the University of Vienna, where he became a ... entered the Alma Mater Rudolfina, University of Vienna, on April 14, 1450 ...

*Medical University of Vienna *PEF Private University of Management Vienna ... *University of Vienna *University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna ...

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poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...

The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into ... The horn, as a member of the brass instrumental family, is a powerful ...

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Papyrus (The plural of papyrus is papyri) is an early form of thick ... The study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, and ...

February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...

States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... Moritz Schlick, a professor at the University of Vienna, who offered Carnap ...

Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure ... Hempel was a major theorist of logical positivism, but, at later stage ...

31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... Freud also helped him to enter the University of Vienna, where Rank obtained ...

was baptized on December 17, 1770. Children of that era were usually baptized ... counterpoint to his majestic compositions. Of irritable temperament and physically ...

Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in ... Mascagni wrote a total of fifteen operas, plus an operetta, several ...

Saint Giovanni da Capestrano, known as John of Capistrano in English ... sick in the hospitals, and preached the word of God. He became a disciple of ...

His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... class Jewish family. He entered the University of Vienna, but in order to take ...

and playwright who became the founder of modern political Zionism. His ... from anti-Semitism and that the creation of a Jewish state was the only ...

October 11, 1896) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic era who used his ... He later accepted a post at the University of Vienna in 1875, where he ...

neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was also one ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...

and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from ... Lang briefly attended the Technical University of Vienna, where he studied ...

Austrian philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1878 until ... Gymnasium, Vienna and later the University of Vienna where he studied history ...

tragedies were belatedly recognized as some of the finest plays in the tradition ... Grillparzer entered in 1807 the University of Vienna as a student of jurisprudence; ...

and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World War II ... Tiso's role in the treatment of Slovak Jews during the war has ...

and the Berlin Philharmonic. A conductor of great stature, his unorthodox ... Although most of his recorded legacy was accomplished prior to the ...

Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The ... as a librarian in the Technical University of Vienna, and then in an editorial ...

publisher, and owner. Patterson was one of the first women to head a major ... and using their talents for the benefit of society, their family life ...

Republic. He was trained in the University of Vienna as a lawyer. There ... During his time at the University of Vienna, he became good friends ...

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...

Carl Menger (February 28, 1840 – February 26, 1921) was the founder ... Poland on February 28, 1840. He was the son of a wealthy family; his father ...

Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...

most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism and president ... secular branches of learning in the University of Vienna. After receiving his ...

1, 1914 - June 13, 2004), an Oxford University philosopher, literary critic ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...

1494 – September 5-6,1566) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Caliph ... under his rule. His rule represented one of the most just and orderly periods ...

Union and the United States and a thawing of the Cold War that occurring ... in tensions. Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt ...

The Veil of Veronica, known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy ... origins are more likely to be found in image of Jesus associated with the Eastern ...

composer considered to be the last master of the Viennese Classical school ... or at least, assist in the process of invoking the presence of God. ...

Empire. It ended in 1676, with the Treaty of Żurawno and the Commonwealth ... The Commonwealth, however, was terminally weakened as a result of ...

history is very ancient, the formal role of cantor did not emerge until ... #039;s role to Jewish males over the age of 13. Non-Orthodox Jewish movements ...

first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide ... Bernstein was one of the first classical musicians to recognize the ...

In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is ... Chair of Inductive Sciences at the University of Vienna, a position Schlick ...

Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...

11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...

theatre, greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in German ... Weber was the eldest of the three children of Franz Anton von Weber ...

long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from ... The primary aspect of the art of conducting can be said to be bringing ...

French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential ... At the young age of eleven, Duhem entered the Collège Stanislas. ...

(March 31 or April 1, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was one of the most prominent ... A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as ...

Mesmer's technique of healing was met with great enthusiasm by ... While a medical student at the University of Vienna, Mesmer had been ...

or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... chair of Slavic Philology at the University of Vienna (1922–1938). On ...

research revolutionized our understanding of the sensory perception of fish ... as a student of medicine at the University of Vienna, where his uncle taught ...

1791) was a prolific and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous ... The young Mozart toured as a child and won the patronage of both nobility ...

influences = Hume, Vienna Circle, Popper, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kant | ... British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly ...

27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against ... He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member ...

The degree Celsius is also a unit increment of temperature for use in indicating ... temperature measurements by most countries of the world and by the entire ...

and an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis with children ... Melanie Klein (née Reisez) was born in Vienna, in 1882. Her father ...

he was regarded as a rival and contemporary of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst ... Vikhvatinets (now in Transnistria, Republic of Moldova). He learned the piano ...

Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...

26, 1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical ... In 1930 Tarski visited the University of Vienna, where he lectured ...

in the percussion family. It consists of wooden bars of various lengths ... Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ...

| education = University of Vienna (MD, 1922) | known_for ... entered the medical school at the University of Vienna. As an undergraduate ...

[[Image:Eugen Bleuler.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of Eugen Bleuler.]] psychiatrist, was a pioneer in the treatment of psychoses, particularly schizophrenia ...

and his contributions to the development of theories of culture within ... he studied anthropology at the University of Vienna and was exposed to ...

society was not based on market principles of exchange but rather on relationships ... Karl Paul Polanyi was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1886. His younger ...

is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major philosophical ... Modern philosophy discarded the framework of thought of medieval philosophy ...

whose work centered around theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal ... Martin Buber was born on February 8, 1878, in Vienna, into a Jewish ...

Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera. sincere manner about him. He carried a sense of responsibility to nurture and ...

and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism in the United ... secular studies in Prague and the University of Vienna. ...

composer, virtuoso violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. He was regarded ... concertos, for the violin and a variety of other musical instruments, ...

An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ... At the beginning of his Critique of Pure Reason, following the distinction ...

Wchinitz und Tettau, died June 21 1914 in Vienna (Austria), was an Austrian ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...

Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being ... is generally considered the most important of the few that survive. ...

| alma_mater = University of Vienna | children = Maria Romana De Gasperi ... and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ...

best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and ... Gesellen (usually rendered as 'Songs of a Wayfarer', but literally ...

and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among ... origins. He was educated at the University of Vienna. His father was a ...

a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... his father, eventually the first Bishop of Liverpool, had raised him." ...

played a major role in shaping the fields of personality psychology and ... laws alone could never tell the whole story of the diversity and uniqueness ...

and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ... In 1923, Carl Grungberg was invited from the University of Vienna ...

literature and society, and the impact of The Holocaust. ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...

The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...

In mathematics and set theory, an axiomatic system is any set of specified ... A system will be called independent if each of its underlying axioms is independent ...

activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...

instrumental in the development of biofeedback. His productive ... support to behavior modification techniques of altering an individual's ...

public. Beyond recreation, other functions of zoos include research, education ... observing nature and have a role as stewards of creation, have, in the ideal ...

Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...

Ljubljana is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is regarded ... position. Ljubljana lies at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin, and Slavic ...

and psychologist. He contributed to a number of different areas in philosophy ... from 1874 to 1895 he taught at the University of Vienna. Among his students ...

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with ... Bratislava was a key economic and administrative center of the Kingdom ...

the first among the great German dramatists of the nineteenth century. The ... Kleist was born of aristocratic descent at Frankfurt an der Oder, ...

The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848 was a major event in the Europe ... peoples, which had to do with what area of the Empire they were under ...

Nordic countries from about the beginning of the twentieth century up to ... The main founders of analytic philosophy were the Cambridge philosophers ...

The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...

He was the preeminent Romanian musician of the twentieth century, one ... Enescu exhibited a profound understanding of the large-scale form ...

Friedrich August von Hayek (May 8, 1899 in Vienna – March 23, 1992 ... Ludwig Wittgenstein. At the University of Vienna he earned doctorates ...

author, gentleman philosopher, and patron of the arts. From c. 1305 to 1328 ... Metochites was a man of great learning and political acumen, with ...

to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and ... French composers and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition. Pachelbel ...

c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of ... Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke ...

, a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic ... Schumann, can be said to be one of the first truly Romantic composers ...

and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ... . His most iconic images are his woodcuts of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ...

Marietta Robusti (1560? - 1590) was a female Venetian painter of the ... (1527–1576) and King King Philip II of Spain (1527-1598) to work at ...

is a bread product traditionally made of yeasted wheat dough in the ... Jewish specialty, in part because its method of preparation made it popular ...

a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was ... Liszt studied and played at Vienna and Paris and for most of his early ...

a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...

Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason ... born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. ...

tradition with the folk idioms and melodies of his native Bohemia. Widely regarded as the most distinguished of Czech composers, Dvorák ...

the modern libertarian movement and revival of classical liberalism. Prominent ... doctorate in 1906. He taught at the University of Vienna without pay as Privatdozent ...

28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry ... 1879, in Frankfurt am Main, the youngest son of the glazier and entrepreneur ...

after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...

until his death in 117. He was the second of the Five Good Emperors of the ... building program, which reshaped the city of Rome and left enduring landmarks ...

a colonial global empire outside of continental Europe. Their skills ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...

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

was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High ... Raphael apprenticed with Perugino, studied the work of Michelangelo ...

polystylistic musician and composer because of his talent in combining the ... Schnittke's father was born in Frankfurt to a Jewish family of ...

opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera. His nineteenth ... considered him amongst the greatest virtuosi of his period. In his youth Beer ...

new elements. It also led to the discovery of nuclear fission and its uses ... Chadwick was the leader of the British technical team that helped ...

to his death in 2002, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...

50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... school. After dropping out of the University of Vienna, Wilder became a journalist ...

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

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... and was marked by the military leadership of notable generals such as the ...

short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ... Andrić was born on October 9, 1892 of Croatian parentage in the village ...

and the United States. He was a student of French physician Jean Marc ... Seguin's approach was influenced by utopian ideas, such as those ...

staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital ... In accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were ...

The Austrian School, also known as the “Vienna School” or the ... As professor of economics at the University of Vienna, Menger restored ...

who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...

) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal composition. It begins ... century from several earlier types of contrapuntal compositions such ...

philosopher who wrote widely in the areas of sociology, social psychology ... Facing the problems of the Holocaust by the Nazis and the mass murders ...

painter who is often said to be the greatest of the Northern Baroque artists ... heritage. Rubens expressed the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which ...

is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to ... positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ("unified science ...

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– March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet ... ego, sensuous pleasure, and glorification of self, exalt a certain type ...

2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council ... At the height of its power in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely ...

Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...

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 ...

, was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, a Jewish author ... he had experienced, in the redeeming power of art and language, and although ...

” Widely considered to be the father of modern management, his many ... Having experienced the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, observed ...

book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a study of "sexual perversity," ... Strasbourg, University of Graz, and University of Vienna. Krafft-Ebing was ...

was the primary strategist and general of Genghis Khan (Temüjin) and ... When Batu returned to Mongolia for the election of the new Great Khan ...

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often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ... ) was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as the second of ...

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit (OM), Order ... are considered among the finest examples of vocal writing in the twentieth ...

for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...

, derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ... and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...

Gestalt school. He is considered to be one of social psychology's pre ... Heider's theoretical position began from the concept of what ...

, also known as Kipchak Khanate or the Ulus of Jochi, was a Mongol state established ... that Batu Khan established to mark a place of his future capital on the Volga ...

The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch ... was a movement centering on the University of Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s ...

6, 2007) was an Italian tenor and one of the most popular contemporary ... Pavarotti was one of those unique artistic personalities (much like ...

country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. Glinka ... Mikhail Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye, a village ...

eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini ... Volcano: Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis (Cambridge University ...

; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French ... Antoinette Laurent, was the daughter of a clothing salesman,Pierre ...

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

23, 1443 – April 6, 1490) was king of Hungary and Croatia, ruling ... as Matthias Corvinus House, the second son of John Hunyadi--a successful ...

music student in Canada, for the creation of a virtual library of public ... since multiple and historical editions of a single composition can be ...

civilization museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation ... for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People") ...

von Taaffe; 11th Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote, in the peerage of ... Although himself an aristocrat and a member of the social elite, he extended ...

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a philosophical model. He was a close friend of the U.S. German-born theologian ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...

which was to become a controversial symbol of Westernization in the Meiji ... the need for Westernization in the areas of technology, science, infrastructure ...

Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression ... of Wild Animals and Ecology at the University of Vienna and Gerhard Heldmaier ...

politician, who ruled Hungary, as the leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic ... Although Kun was hostile to all forms of religion, his Jewish roots ...

was an American historian and philosopher of science who wrote extensively ... Kuhn entered Harvard University in 1940 and obtained his bachelor ...

or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...

), was an Italian Renaissance painter, the foremost painter of the ... His main works focused on religious themes, with many paintings of ...

athleticism and comedy to create one of the best-known sports entertainment ... Their warm-up routine, done to the tune of Brother Bones' whistled ...

a silvery metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical ... It constitutes about 38 parts per million (ppm) of the Earth’s crust. ...

authors. Strindberg is known as one of the fathers of modern theater ... Born in Stockholm, Strindberg was the fourth son of Carl Oscar Strindberg ...

2, 1754 – May 17, 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand ... peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville and with Britain ...

in the Roman Catholic faith, is a piece of metal, often worn around the ... These medals have their roots in the very beginnings of Christianity ...

about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. These ... Saroyan was born in Fresno, California, the son of an Armenian immigrant ...

), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... the Gothic style, and founded the University of Vienna (1365). Rudolf is ...

strives to remain "A national network of like-minded state and territorial ... Despite the urgency of environmental issues, nations are not taking ...

philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ... provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology and Newtonianism. ...

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg ... He began composing at the young age of ten, producing short pieces ...

The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy ... New Academy (beginning under the leadership of Arcesilaus). Cicero listed ...

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Literature in 1924. Reymont was the author of novels such as the ironic The ... to protect him in the Russian-occupied area of Poland from any trouble for ...

quot;) is a cross with a representation of Jesus' body, or corpus ... The crucifix is a reminder of the trials and tribulations that human ...

who is best known for pioneering works of Bengali poetry. He is popularly ... as a muezzin at a local mosque. He learned of poetry, drama, and literature ...

An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning ... The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded ...

but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...

Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ... but her doctrine has become an integral part of the "collective unconsciousness” ...

claim that "moral judgments are capable of being objectively true, because ... the ontological and epistemological assumptions of theism. ...

Pope Saint Victor I was bishop of Rome (from about 189 to 199 C.E ... all Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus on Sunday, rather than ...

in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... his death: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Of Time and River (1935); and ...

Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose ... The purpose of Jikji was to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen ...

ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and ... Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism ...

Deuterium (chemical symbol D or ²H) is a stable isotope of hydrogen ... Scientists have developed a variety of applications for deuterium ...

considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures ... preparatory school Stonyhurst at the age of nine, and by the time he left ...

" or other variations on the theme of "Ethical." Ethical ... Ethical Culture Society initiated a number of projects to improve the lives ...

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an English dramatist, known for his creation of the comedy of intrigue and ... Etherege was one of the early examples of Restoration Comedy, which ...

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... a reed or a fipple. A woodwind may be made of any material, not just wood ...

also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...

1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure ... accolades for his work in and leadership of intelligence services and his ...

a comedian. During his years at Harvard University, Johnson interrupted his ... In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA ...

to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to Ghettos ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...

6, 1884) was an Austrian monk whose studies of the inheritance of traits in ... priest. In 1851, he was sent to the University of Vienna to study, returning ...

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