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  • In 2009 he was awarded the Welt-Literaturpreis of the German newspaper Die Welt. Roth was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by U.S. ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Ratzel, Friedrich [[Image:Friedrich Ratzel.jpg|thumb|right]] Friedrich Ratzel ...
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  • Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of the dominant German philosophers during the first half of the twentieth century ...
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  • Roman Witold Ingarden (February 5, 1893 - June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers for phenomenological ...
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  • Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas ...
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  • Alfonso de Albuquerque (or Afonso d'Albuquerque - disused) ( ɐˈfõsu dɨ aɫbuˈkɛɾk(ɨ) ) (treated with a Don by some although his birth ...
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  • Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf; also known as Wolfius) (January 24, 1679 - April 9, 1754) was the most eminent German philosopher between ...
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  • Lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is a concept used in philosophy and some social sciences, meaning the world "as lived" prior to reflective ...
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  • Being and existence in philosophy are related and somewhat overlapping with respect to their meanings. Classical Greek had no independent word ...
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  • Karl Friedrich Benz, for whom an alternate French spelling of Carl is used occasionally, (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, Germany – April 4, ...
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  • Theodor Herzl (May 2, 1860 – July 3, 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and playwright who became the founder of modern political ...
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  • The Berlin International Film Festival ( Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin ), usually called the Berlinale, is a film festival held annually ...
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  • Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891 – September 14, 1970) was an influential philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United ...
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  • Saint Hippolytus of Rome (died 235 C.E.), sometimes called Ypolitus (Ippolito ) was one of the most prolific writers of the early Church. He was ...
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  • Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Schopenhauer portrait1.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Arthur Schopenhauer]] The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (February ...
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  • Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria and a city within that territory which serves as the nation's capital ...
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  • category:image wanted Bruno Walter (September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. He was born in Berlin ...
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest twentieth century poet ...
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  • Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian, Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered around theistic ...
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  • Paul Hindemith (November 16, 1895 – December 28, 1963) was an outstanding twentieth-century German composer, as well as a violist, teacher ...
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  • Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance (or aid) provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to an event or series ...
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  • Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of ...
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  • The Veil of Veronica, known in Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy Face, is a Roman Catholic relic, which, according to legend, bears the likeness ...
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  • Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom ...
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  • Category:Psychologists category:biography Wundt, Wilhelm [[File:Wilhelm Wundt.jpg|225px|thumb|right|Wilhelm Wundt]] Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt ...
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  • The Upanishads (Devanagari: उपनिषद्, IAST: upaniṣad), often regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ...
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  • Virtual reality (VR) is technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment through one's senses. The term ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Philosophers Steiner, Rudolf [[Image:Steiner_Berlin_1900_big.jpg|thumb|Rudolf Steiner 1900]] ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Mesmer, Franz [[Image:Franz_Anton_Mesmer.jpg|thumb|300 px|Franz Anton Mesmer]] Franz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March ...
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  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. A premier representative of the ...
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  • A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known ...
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  • The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean ...
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  • Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods of tolerance and spasms of antisemitic violence. In the nineteenth century ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Eingang Mathematisches Kolloquium.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse ...
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  • Faust (German for "fist") or Faustus (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German ...
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  • Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted ...
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  • Johann Pachelbel (IPA: [ paˈxɛlbəl ]) (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and ...
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  • Antifa is a political movement, expecially in Germany and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous, militant groups ...
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  • The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great Calamity or the Armenian Massacre—refers to the forced mass evacuation ...
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  • The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent from 180 B ...
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