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- Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut ... and support personnel. Women were admitted to the graduate school in 1892 ...40 KB (5,720 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
- was an English physician and scientist who is most recognized for introducing ... known for centuries in China and had spread to the Ottoman Empire and then ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- Tell (opera))—the end of the overture is popularly known for being the ... Rossini's father was sympathetic to the French, and welcomed ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- , nicknamed "The Golden City," is a town in the state of Rajasthan ... The town is named after its founder Rawal Jaisal, and the full name ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 12:43, 6 November 2021
- used as a derisive term by Kazimir Malevich to describe the work of Alexander ... Constructivist artists attempted to create a new type of utilitarian ...9 KB (1,167 words) - 18:57, 19 May 2020
- societies. His work brought attention to the religious veneration of ... patriarchal societies dominated, the need to bring out the feminine aspect ...10 KB (1,351 words) - 14:47, 1 August 2022
- an American existential psychologist. May is often associated with humanistic ... May is best known for his work on the human struggles of living in ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 02:44, 16 December 2022
- The word Magi refers to a class of ancient Zoroastrian astrologer ... The word Magi is the origin of the English words magic and magician. ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- ) is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Hiroshima, Japan ... and was the first company in the world to begin commercial leasing of ...29 KB (4,390 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- located in the western Caribbean Sea. It is comprised of three islands ... popular tourist attractions in the world due to its pristine beaches and scuba ...26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
- of Jewish life in America and worked to create an environment in which ... Though Gratz was considered to be among the more beautiful and educated ...8 KB (1,118 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- Samsāra refers to the state of perpetual reincarnation or rebirth ... religions typically assert that rebirth is an ongoing and beginningless ...14 KB (2,256 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Samuel L. Kuhn, an industrial ... editorship of the Harvard Crimson, he came to the attention of then Harvard ...29 KB (4,408 words) - 22:54, 30 April 2023
- Categorization is the process in which ideas and objects are classified ... The study of categorization is pertinent in various areas including ...16 KB (2,305 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- A dowry is a gift of money or valuables given by the bride's ... in India, China, and Africa, there is controversy over the role it ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- authors like Dickens and Collins helping to draw attention to social injustice ... At 17 he left school and was apprenticed to a firm of tea merchants, but ...9 KB (1,258 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- A fishing net or fishnet is a net that is used for fishing. Fishing ... " Fishing industries are now beginning to develop nets with larger mesh ...17 KB (2,692 words) - 17:32, 28 March 2024
- the beginning of the twentieth century up to about the 1970s or 1980s, and ... Central to logical positivism and logical empiricism were the Vienna ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- (Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415933978), 114. to members of the anti-communist ... The government attempted to break the union with martial law in 1981 ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- main body of the Rocky Mountains, the region is something of a geological anomaly— ... The name "Black Hills" is a translation of the Lakota Paha ...27 KB (4,267 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- in a small plane crash while touring America to sell War Bonds at the onset ... that he could bring depth and sensitivity to a characterization, reflecting ...25 KB (3,981 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- Qing Dynasty, and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China. The fourth ... Myanmar and Annam in the south were forced to recognize Chinese suzerainty ...28 KB (4,243 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2023
- reason, colonial powers considered it vital to keep the canal out of Egyptian ... and by 1954 the United Kingdom had agreed to pull out. ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- The movement has made important contributions to Hinduism throughout ... They attribute the founding of the sect to the mythological Panchacharyas ...20 KB (2,822 words) - 04:17, 29 October 2022
- city on the southern coast of Italy. He is reported to have been a student ... and self-sufficiency of truth. That is truth exists by itself without ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- film productions. They are widely considered to be the most prestigious award ... abbreviation "Screenies"; tributes to film and television legends ...36 KB (5,123 words) - 19:13, 25 November 2023
- space humanization, or space habitation) is the concept of permanent, autonomous ... others argue that the first colonies will be in orbit. Several design groups ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- warlord Yuan Shao ( 袁紹), and escaped to the capital Xuchang, where ... who brought a new dimension and vitality to scholarly poetry by introducing ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- meaning "clear," or "brought to light") is in the center ... Delos is a 15-square-mile island, rocky and barren, where light dominates ...9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... Settled for more than 2,800 years, Tonga is part of the cradle of ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- The term "Great Lakes" in the African context is a rather ... Contrary to early European explorers' assumptions that one lake ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- :This article is about the former administrative divisions of China. ... in the early seventeenth century and grew to become the core elite of the ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
- Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin apis, a "bee") is ... harmoniously interact with nature. In order to receive the product of honeybees ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 10:23, 26 September 2023
- where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical ... mathematics and physics and devoted himself to reflection and writing about ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор Мошнин), is one of the most renowned Russian ... he began a life that was very devout to the Orthodox Church at a young ...6 KB (862 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- of Shiloh, who commissioned Jeroboam I to become the king of Israel in ... the origin of the Elohist source according to the documentary hypothesis ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- of human society in Modernity when God is not present, while emphasizing ... She was born Muriel Sarah Camberg in Edinburgh, to a Jewish father ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts ... Nuclear fission produces energy for nuclear power and to drive the ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- Vitamin B6 (vitamin B6) is an organic nutrient of the vitamin B complex ... Vitamin B6 is essential in the metabolism of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- of Britain's greatest living poets next to Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard ... scholars because of her consistent effort to deal with the conflict between ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- Semi-Pelagianism is a Christian theological understanding about salvation ... Semi-Pelagian teaching is derived from the earlier teaching of Pelagius ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. He is best remembered as the inventor ... Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- of Changes" (often spelled I Ching) is the oldest of the Chinese classic ... Though the Yi Jing is often cryptic to the point of obscurity (especially ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- electrical current. Usually, the process is used to deposit an adherent ... The process used in electroplating is called electrodeposition and ...13 KB (1,984 words) - 17:16, 29 December 2021
- The Gospel of Thomas is an important but long lost work of the New ... While believed by many scholars to have been written quite early, ...20 KB (3,346 words) - 20:09, 11 September 2021
- Arthritis (plural, "arthritides") is a group of conditions ... Arthritis often is defined as inflammation of a joint. (Inflammation ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- An elastomer is a polymer with the property of elasticity. In other ... general molecular form has been likened to a "spaghetti and meatball ...7 KB (1,017 words) - 07:38, 10 August 2023
- The term Community College is used almost exclusively in the United ... inferior and their funding would be better-used supporting traditional ...21 KB (3,019 words) - 00:18, 8 January 2024
- in these interrelated fields led him to become a personal consultant ... prolific academic career early, lecturing to crowded halls at the University ...34 KB (5,268 words) - 02:25, 9 February 2023
- solo Make 'Em Laugh, that allowed him to show off his multi-faceted ... Illinois. He was the seventh child born to John Edward "Chuck" ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 17:21, 30 January 2024
- for "The Hammer of Witches") is arguably the most infamous ... The main purpose of the Malleus was to systematically refute all skepticism ...29 KB (4,393 words) - 10:59, 9 March 2023
- he inspired has made a major contribution to aid, development, poverty relief ... ==Birth to priesthood== Menno Simonszoon (Simon's son) was born ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 04:32, 9 November 2022
- Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city, as well as the ... of systematization was promoted as a way to build a "multilaterally ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- 1935. Davis moved with his wife, Annie Bell, to New York in 1940, where he ... Davis' location in New York City placed him in a position to ...11 KB (1,811 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- pleasures that was essentially Romantic. It is the predecessor of modern horror ... The term "gothic" was originally a disparaging term applied ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated ... Tourmaline belongs to the trigonal crystal system and occurs as long ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a ... In the case of a rigid body, the position of its center of mass is ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- Dred Scott v. Sandford,John Vishneski, "What the Court Decided ... whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony ... over the emotions, and while intellect is necessary to musical creation ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- Altamira (Spanish for “high view”) is a cave in Spain famous for ... Although no longer open to the public—a measure necessary to protect ...10 KB (1,634 words) - 08:36, 23 July 2023
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... philosophy. Ancient philosophy in the West is distinguished from Medieval ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by ... were required for uplift and climate change to drain the seas then elevate ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- [[File:PatrickBreenDiaryPage28.jpg|thumb|alt=Refer to caption|The ... a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train ...73 KB (11,798 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- the war and was the chief military advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. of state in 1947 because he wanted above all to remove the causes of war "insofar ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- journalist and activist. She was married to actor Ossie Davis until his ... in films and television. Roles for which she is best known include A Raisin ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 21:03, 21 December 2022
- inscriptions. This work formed the basis of what are now known as the Pyramid ... export of Egyptian antiquities, contributing to the introduction of a series ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- The Band was an influential rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 ... instrumentalist, enabling the musicians to create various configurations ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- of Virginia before making various trips to Paris in the 1930s. He studied ... was a cold and domineering parent, opposed to any form of play or entertainment ...32 KB (4,975 words) - 16:49, 21 November 2022
- Hilary) was the bishop of Rome from 461 to February 28, 468. Earlier he ... a saint in the western church, his feast day is celebrated on November 17 or ...11 KB (1,751 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella ... over all royal subjects. Between 3000 to 5000 people died during the ...61 KB (9,267 words) - 12:36, 18 September 2023
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old ... These flying mammals are also referred to as fruit bats, old world fruit ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- bishops summoned by Emperor Theodosius I to confirm his earlier decree ... Nicene orthodoxy over Arianism with regard to the doctrine of the Trinity ...21 KB (3,217 words) - 17:20, 28 March 2024
- :This article is about mental health or well-being. For mental illness ... The state of mental health is generally understood to be a state of ...28 KB (3,695 words) - 16:10, 9 November 2022
- An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to deploy and, in most cases ... and form the core of a fleet designed to operate far from home. Amphibious ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) is a well ... may not have been correct at the time but it is universally understood that ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- Boiling is the process of rapidly converting a liquid to its gaseous ... The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which it can ...13 KB (2,088 words) - 05:24, 17 November 2023
- Fuel is any material that is burned or altered to obtain energy. Fuel ... All known life forms, from microorganisms to humans, depend on and ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 00:50, 18 October 2022
- Free verse (occasionally referred to as vers libre) is a term describing ... medium for a number of poets who hoped to revolutionize poetry and literature ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated ... was not until 1988 that South Africa agreed to end its administration of Namibia ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
- the Great, beginning around 518 B.C.E. To the ancient Persians, the city ... Persepolis has a long and complex history, designed to be the central ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- in Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a town on the site of an ancient ... Krishna devotees make a pilgrimage annually to Vrindavan, participating in ...13 KB (1,859 words) - 21:50, 3 May 2023
- Clove is the common name for a small, tropical evergreen tree, Syzygium ... all over the world. The essential oil is also valued for its use in ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a province of the People's ... According to Hanyu Pinyin rules, if tone marks are not written, both ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- #039;s Czech Republic before emigrating to the United States in 1846. ... In addition to his successful ministry as rabbi to Cincinnatti's ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- those that remained were forcibly relocated to the Yurok Indian Reservation ... the Yurok ranging from 2,500 (Kroeber 1925) to 3,100 (Cook 1956) in the 1770s ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... Amsterdam is the capital city (hoofdstad), and The Hague (Dutch: Den ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. Born ... Israel Ehrenberg, he later changed his name to "Montague Francis Ashley ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 04:42, 18 August 2023
- six months, the Patriarch Sophronius agreed to surrender, on condition that ... control over Judea, which would not again be threatened until the First ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- The University of Cambridge (or Cambridge University), is located ... an association of scholars that had escaped to the town of Cambridge from ...34 KB (4,989 words) - 13:06, 3 May 2023
- the empirical method before him, John Locke is considered the first of the ... thinker, whose Second Treatise on Government is credited with influencing Thomas ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- The focal length of an optical system is a property that provides ... Knowledge of this property is useful for the construction of various ...10 KB (1,614 words) - 20:48, 19 October 2022
- mother; at the age of nine he was introduced to his first piano professor. ... and mystical subjects. Falla was known to have strong religious convictions ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- Nations/Native American people, indigenous to northeastern New England, Canada ... appear fierce and warlike, they were early to adopt Christian teachings from ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- protector") among many other names, is one of the most beloved and ... child, spiritual master) indicate that he is a syncretic deity. However ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person ... of victim's rights. One example of this is conflict between the right ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market ... wrote about the square during her visit to Brussels on September 5, 1599: ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- of the almighty dollar," "the pen is mightier than the sword," ... of Lytton was viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880. His daughter Lady Emily ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- was based on traditional beliefs, as opposed to the religious tendencies arising ... Though a Presbyterian and a Calvinist, he refused to entertain the ...15 KB (2,292 words) - 19:10, 4 December 2023
- ), is a controversial Daoist classic allegedly written by a disciple ... The Wenzi is written in a question-and-answer format, with Wenzi as ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial ... The object closest to the star is called the occulting object, as ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- the Roman Catholic form of the faith brought to England by Augustine of Canterbury ... Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic. It is often seen as a bridge between ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... Japan had made the most recent attempt to colonize the entire Southeast ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- of God), also known as the Hindu Trinity, is an iconographic representation ... This Trimurti concept is a tenet most strongly held in Hindu denomination ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- Hazing refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating ... Hazing is seen in many different types of social groups, including ...40 KB (5,725 words) - 16:55, 30 June 2022
- strikingly modern and realistic. Jarrell is often considered one of the ... another literary genre: Criticism. Jarrell is unanimously believed to be ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either ... The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit word svastik (in Devanagari ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... the vascular networks; their primary role is to recycle red blood cells ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- The Penrose triangle, also known as the tribar or impossible triangle ... research into human perceptual processes and to bring joy and fascination to ...8 KB (1,193 words) - 23:03, 17 March 2024
- of People's Commissars from 1930 to 1941 and as Minister of Foreign ... 30 years, and whose reputation he continued to defend after Stalin's ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- group, a fact many believe contributed to his relative lack of success ... Wilson led a troubled life due in part to his habitual womanizing ...11 KB (1,721 words) - 01:11, 8 February 2023
- Since the 1949 Act became law, doubts were raised by legal scholars ... *The continued ability of the House of Lords to veto a bill to prolong ...24 KB (3,606 words) - 20:48, 26 March 2024
- by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon) is a person who undertakes and ... about a market opportunity and are willing to accept a high level of personal ...16 KB (2,206 words) - 22:07, 4 July 2020
- Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries ... The sport of field hockey has a rich tradition that dates back to ...33 KB (5,580 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- and aryl groups. An important exception to this rule is that compounds ... when one of three hydrogen atoms in ammonia is replaced by an organic substituent ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 07:02, 25 July 2023
- Russell wrote works that were of interest to professional philosophers, ... he would sometimes insist on being referred to as "Lord Russell" ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- The Eocene epoch (56-34 million years ago) is a major division of ... The start of the Eocene is marked by the emergence of the first modern ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- experimental novels and short stories who is considered to be one of the ... Along with Borges, Cortazar is often considered to be one of the most ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not ... of a particular group, or subculture, to communicate freely and intelligibly ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) is a national strategic program ... for libraries and archives who seek to preserve a certain intellectual ...13 KB (1,802 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- Although a good portion of Goldsmith's vast oeuvre is considered ... two writers often exchanged ideas, leading to perhaps one of the most fruitful ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 – October 29, 1618) is famed as a writer ... Raleigh is remembered as a literary figure primarily for his poems ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:28, 3 May 2023
- Concubinage refers to the state of a woman or youth (known as the ... when the wife of a leader was unable to bear children, concubines have ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Silk is a fine, soft and yet strong proteinaceous fiber that is naturally ... While the best-known and commercially important silk is obtained from ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- of whether it exists with the purpose to permit the emergence of human ... The ultimate question here is whether there is or was some special ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- An eye is an organ of vision that detects light. Different kinds of ... aids in fulfilling the human desire to realize beauty. For birds and ...29 KB (4,749 words) - 03:52, 22 June 2022
- politics in December 2005, but continued to comment on and participate ... developing. In office, he continued to open up the economy, a move ...47 KB (6,896 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- also known as Changbai Mountain in Chinese, is a volcanic mountain on the ... minor eruptions in 1702 and 1903, and it is now considered to be dormant ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- a native of France, was Pope from 1362 to 1370. Before his election, ... with his first papal mission. He was sent to Milan, followed by missions ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- John Taverner (around 1490 – October 18, 1545) is regarded as the ... appointments, nor can any of his known works be dated to after that time, so ...5 KB (789 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- (Surrealism as a visual movement sought to expose psychological truth ... Greatly imaginative, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, and leader of the Conservative ... lower taxation, and of encouraging citizens to exercise choice in buying services ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- Midrash (מדרש; plural midrashim) is a Hebrew word referring to ... of a text, and Midrash Halakhah, referring to the exegesis of biblically ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- left behind no writings of his own, he is known mainly through Plato ... eternal, unchanging, and absolute compared to opinions which are temporal ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- church and decided that he wanted to become a missionary, and in ... (1815–23) for the use of westerners. Due to imperial edicts against the ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- behavior. At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one ... The word "emotion" dates back to the 1570s, when it was ...51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- Chloral hydrate is a colorless, solid chemical compound with the formula ... The name chloral hydrate suggests that it is the hydrate of chloral ...12 KB (1,697 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- or appreciated during his lifetime except to a few curators and other artists ... of big Paris department stores. He was said to be short-tempered and eccentric ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 04:42, 22 March 2024
- who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto ... Grieg is known as a "nationalist" composer and his "nationalist ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- fire, earth, metal, and water). According to his system, the five elements ... Zou Yan is regarded as the founder of natural science in China. His ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Fur seal is the common name for eared seals comprising the genera ... includes the seal spending its time close to the Antarctic ice. ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- :This page is about Anthony Collins the philosopher. For the British ... He was strongly motivated by an aversion to religious persecution, and ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- language are both making a comeback. It can be hoped that these people will ... B.C. ("Old Metlakatla"), is not associated with any one ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- the first specimens of early hominid remains to be found outside of Europe ... hid the fossils, refusing any access to them for 20 years. He was totally ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- Hispanic actors at the time, Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one ... As an actress, she pushed the envelope on what was acceptable in terms ...30 KB (4,610 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- A tank is an armored, tracked vehicle designed to engage enemies in ... First used in World War I to break the deadlock of the trenches, tanks ...57 KB (9,115 words) - 04:01, 27 February 2023
- Renge Kyō; Korean: Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong) is one of the most popular and ... The Lotus Sutra is well-known for its extensive instruction on the ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- philosophers who practiced and promoted what was known as "Oxford ... Strawson began teaching at Oxford in 1947, and from 1968 to 1987, ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Preservation, in library and information science, is activity concerned ... While conservation is used interchangeably with preservation and their ...34 KB (4,751 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- Platypus is the common name for a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal ... hoax. Despite a limited distribution, it is one of the more well-known ...38 KB (5,579 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- the name implies, Formalism focused not on what the content of the story was ... (with ancestors from Shklov) who converted to Russian Orthodoxy. His mother ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
- Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy to be canonical parts of the Christian ... between these different terms contributes to the confusion between the Roman ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- The Dutch Empire is the name given to the various territories controlled ... A cultural flowering during the century is known as the Dutch Golden Age ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- ) generally refers to those persons who speak Arabic as their native ... The Arab world should not be confused with the term "Middle East ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes ... Flounders contribute value to ecosystem and humans. They are integral ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- literally book writing), as a practice, is the academic study of books ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the ... main one being the Winter Palace which used to be the official residence of ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 14:53, 12 February 2022
- Kamakura (Japanese: 鎌倉市; -shi) is a city located in Kanagawa ... and cultural environment and its proximity to Tokyo. Kamakura has a beach ...27 KB (3,754 words) - 07:04, 28 February 2023
- The Sonata (from Latin and Italian sonare, "to sound"), ... The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a variety of works, including ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- The Negev Desert is located in modern day Israel, expanding nearly ... The triangular-shaped desert's apex is on the south. ...13 KB (2,056 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore is a way for a society ... In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- In mathematics, curvature refers to any of a number of loosely related ... The primordial example of extrinsic curvature is that of a circle ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- A smoke detector or smoke alarm is a device that detects smoke and ... major life saving device by alerting people to the danger of fire. ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- music and lyrics, Foster insisted that they be treated with sympathy and respect. ... as the "baby" of the family to be indulged by older brothers ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in ... achievement. The goal of Dartmouth education is to prepares students for a ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia or pædophilia) is the ... *the sexual interest is toward children, either prepubescent or at ...22 KB (3,151 words) - 07:11, 23 November 2022
- The Abrahamic religions refer to three sister monotheistic religions ... The Prophet Abraham is claimed by Jews as the ancestor of the Israelites ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
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- of the Jesuit college of Tarragona. Gracián is the most representative writer ... Criticón, an allegorical and pessimistic novel with philosophical overtones ...13 KB (1,963 words) - 05:58, 26 August 2023
- B.C.E. The term "Sumerian" applies to all speakers of the Sumerian ... The history of Sumeria dates back to the beginning of writing and ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... of the 15 cradle-of-civilization nations and is thus the home to many historical ...51 KB (7,712 words) - 07:36, 27 February 2023
- of the Masses (1930), described the rise to power and action of the “masses” ... a doctorate in philosophy. From 1905 to 1907, he continued his studies ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- in Rome between 86 and 103 C.E. Martial is considered the father of the ... Knowledge of Martial's life is derived almost entirely from his ...9 KB (1,468 words) - 16:29, 6 November 2022
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- Counterculture is a term used to describe a group whose values and ... On the other hand, countercultures can be detrimental to society, ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- Mrs. Parks is one of the two individuals most often associated with ... quot; on her way home from work, refusing to give up her seat on the bus ...35 KB (5,782 words) - 21:42, 16 April 2023
- Business ethics is a form of applied ethics (see the article metaethics ... more ethical business processes and actions is increasing. Many colleges and ...55 KB (8,456 words) - 18:51, 22 November 2023
- Born an only child in Cork (city), Ireland, to Minnie O'Connor and Michael ... that instead of wrestling, Frank preferred to read. As a result, O'Connor ...11 KB (1,818 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- Clam is an imprecisely defined common name variously used for certain ... The term clam can be more precisely equated to any bivalve other than ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977, and was named to the Major League Baseball All ... Banks is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. He began ...48 KB (7,068 words) - 20:11, 27 April 2024
- General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant ... Commanding General of the Army from 1869 to 1883. As such, he was responsible ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- author, and founder of Summerhill School. He is best known as an advocate of ... inculcate positive values. Yet for students to govern themselves requires ...15 KB (2,308 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation ... in high energy regions of the universe. Due to their high energy content, ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- enthusiasm by composers in the years prior to World War II, this atonal syntax ... This revolutionary approach to composing offered modern composers ...12 KB (1,713 words) - 06:59, 31 July 2023
- A Turtle ship was a large warship belonging to the Panokseon class ... invading navy and army, Korea had little to oppose him with. The Korean ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- Lucille Ball was born to Henry Durrell Ball and Desiree "DeDe ... Lucille had moved many times, from Jamestown to Anaconda, Montana, and then ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- Arenas is well-known for his autobiography Before Night Falls, which ... Arenas was sent to prison after being convicted of "ideological ...25 KB (4,012 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- Gomez was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. ... Louis Gomez won 189 games and lost 102 and is ranked 13th on the career list ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 19:03, 25 October 2022
- sociology. He made significant contribution to sociology through his studies ... groups in society. Although not subscribing to Marxist theory, he built upon ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- remarked that depredation was for him what daffodils were for Wordsworth ... Larkin was born to Sydney and Eva Larkin in Coventry, a provincial ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- Protagoras is best known for his dictum: "Man is the measure ... the art of rhetoric and his philosophy to mostly wealthy Greek citizens ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- breakdown in 1930, ended his aspirations to play for the New York Yankees. ... He then turned his attention to his father's fiddle and began ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- the Siege of Charleston. He was the last to survive among the South Carolina ... He was born to Daniel Heyward and Maria Miles at Old House Plantation ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- Narcissism is a self-centered personality style characterized as having ... Narcissism can be described as a continuum that ranges from normal ...31 KB (4,187 words) - 17:00, 16 November 2023
- A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines ... court-martial which convenes whenever a ship is lost; this does not necessarily ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- This page is about the legendary race, for the medical condition see ... A dwarf is a mythical creature, appearing most frequently in Norse ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 15:51, 24 September 2020
- was a Prussian-born American physicist. He is best remembered for his work ... Michelson, the son of a Jewish merchant, was born in what is today ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2022
- He rose to prominence as a delegate in 1775, to the South Carolina ... he fought against, and as a result Marion is considered one of the fathers ...20 KB (3,146 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- (sometimes referred to as Hǎnnibal Barca) was a Carthaginian politician ... Capua, but he lacked the strength necessary to attack the city of Rome itself ...41 KB (6,779 words) - 19:11, 29 January 2022
- Poppy is the common name for any of the plants comprising the Papaver ... other colors ranging from dark solid colors to soft pastel shades. Poppies ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- works both in Danish and in English; but is best known for Out of Africa ... style of writing. She particularly loved to tell stories with rhyme because ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four ... as well as autumn squash (another name is cheese squash) depending on ...13 KB (1,929 words) - 18:11, 14 October 2022
- New Jersey is one of the Mid-Atlantic states located in the Northeastern ... War, British and American armies seeking to control the two important cities ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- Earnest. He was also the author of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. ... Wilde was born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- following the Spanish-American War. It is also known as the Philippine ... quot; which it had earlier vowed to avoid. This is also referred ...65 KB (9,572 words) - 20:45, 23 September 2023
- Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is an optical disc storage media ... formatted and structured video content is a DVD-Video. DVDs with properly ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing ... The name "Cyrillic" can be confusing for those who are ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled ... polities in India was largely in response to Alexander the Great's ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- The term day care or child care refers to the care of a child during ... While the purpose of day care is to enable the parents to be free ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 21:27, 29 March 2024
- البحرين Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn), is an island country in the Persian ... Bahrain has a unique, indigenous middle class, which contributes to ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- Abyssinian cats--affectionately referred to as Abys--are short-haired ... The origin of the Abyssinian is shrouded in mystery. Early cat books ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest urban area of the ... Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the ...35 KB (5,077 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- the beginning and end points). This era is said to begin in music after ... the ancients in China and Greece) held to the idea that music, mathematics ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- The Book of Tobit (or Book of Tobias in older Catholic Bibles) is ... deportation of the northern tribes of Israel to Assyria in 721 B.C.E. under ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate ... Dick, were born six weeks premature to Dorothy Kindred Dick and Joseph ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 03:22, 24 November 2022
- Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is a National Historic ... The creation of the memorial site is, as stated by Secretary of the ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2022
- Owners often used blacklists and violence to intimidate workers and prevent ... fighter, was hanged; her father was forced to flee to America in 1835. He ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- Deganawida The Great Peacemaker, united to bring the original tribes together ... The Mohawk, led by Joseph Brant moved to Canada following the victory ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- . Ty Cobb called him "the nearest thing to a perfect ballplayer." ... record for most hits in a single season. He is also one of only three men ...12 KB (1,757 words) - 10:58, 13 December 2023
- appropriated from the Greek tradition, Venus is very similar to Aphrodite, ... Like the Greek goddess Aphrodite, Venus is described as a beautiful female ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- Nearly all known carbonatite deposits are intrusives—that is, they ... through the Earth's history, from Archean to present. ...7 KB (933 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- or halogenoalkane, and alkyl halide is a chemical compound derived ... Freon is a trade name for a group of chlorofluorocarbons used primarily ...35 KB (5,199 words) - 23:36, 3 August 2023
- Cobalt (chemical symbol Co, atomic number 27) is a hard, lustrous ... varnishes. Its radioactive isotope cobalt-60 is used for radiotherapy, sterilization ...13 KB (1,769 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- are a tribe of Native Americans, native to what are now Wisconsin and ... for nature. They had rituals dedicated to war, and were quite dangerous ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 11:01, 15 May 2023
- Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest ... its adherents and fans as they attempted to achieve a stronger connection ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- means "man" or "person") is a general term for a group ... Prior to the arrival of Europeans, and even after their arrival since ...53 KB (8,160 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- ) is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist ... court servants of Indra. They dance to the music made by their husbands ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- (원효 元曉617-686 ). In 661, he traveled to Tang China and studied the ... Uisang’s major work was Hwaeom ilseung peopkye to (An Explanatory ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 11:28, 18 April 2023
- ideas of Socrates, contributed significantly to the Stoic system of ethics ... They lived by the precept that virtue is the only good, and emphasized ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our solar ... ) is a stylized version of Poseidon's Trident. Neptune's ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- In physics, a lever (from French lever, meaning "to raise" ... and oars were conceived and constructed to enhance human effort. ...8 KB (1,282 words) - 22:06, 25 October 2022
- Writers in the UK. accessdate 2008-03-26 ), is an influential ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania ... This is believed to be first of at least three great empires that ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 23:55, 6 December 2022
- eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate ... There are, though, real issues related to his long internment. Churchill ...23 KB (3,538 words) - 17:39, 22 December 2022
- , was the founder of the Akkadian Empire. He is only the third king in recorded ... Sargon's vast empire is known to have extended from Elam to the ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- School, Hassler maintained that service to the community was in the conscientious ... many German composers of the time, he went to Italy to continue his studies; ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- Dinosaur Provincial Park is located in the valley of the Red Deer ... park is well known for being one of the largest known dinosaur fossil ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- Portugal from Castille, which was reluctant to recognize its independence ... settling that region, would later continue to drive and to inspire Portuguese ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- playwright, and composer. As a writer, he is recognized as a homo unius ... at the Moscow State University from 1810 to 1812. During the Napoleonic ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that arose from obscure origins ... The fraternity is administratively organized into Grand Lodges (or ...59 KB (8,933 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- figure who left a promising baseball career to embrace Christianity. Not content ... in America's largest cities, preaching to tens of thousands and (not ...47 KB (7,375 words) - 22:05, 3 February 2022
- would follow him. Such an influence helped to cultivate a personal maturity ... Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas to Lawrence ...11 KB (1,803 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and ... Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon. Her calculations ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- Josef Stalin, consolidated power to become the absolute ruler of ... of millions of lives as an impediment to the achievement of this goal ...78 KB (11,862 words) - 20:16, 24 October 2022
- Ozone (molecular formula O3) is a minor constituent of the Earth& ... About 90 percent of the ozone in our atmosphere is contained in the ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- of gravitation by his imaginative solutions to mathematical problems. He contributed ... a farm-laborer. He owed his education to the interest excited in some ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- the traditional lineage of Chinese Chan. He is said to have received dharma ... awareness of one’s natural enlightenment is maintained. A compilation of ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- Most Hui are similar in culture to Han Chinese except that they practice ... of the Hui people and began a program to restore mosques. Under the ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by ... Aquinas brought the Aristotelian notion back to the forefront of modern thought ...9 KB (1,406 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- and international film and television. It is an annual awards ceremony held ... entertainment industry. The ceremony is normally held every January ...36 KB (5,125 words) - 21:44, 6 January 2024
- Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs that have been ... they have left. The work of epigraphers to ensure that the materials are ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... south. Nevertheless, it has provided shelter to about two hundred thousand ...18 KB (2,606 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas ... from the most primitive tribal society to the modern nation-state and ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- that effectively ended the war. According to Martin Windrow Dien Bien Phu ... making process, the French undertook to create an air-supplied base ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 2023
- Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked nation ... C.E., peoples in present-day Transvaal began to coalesce into three main linguistic ...20 KB (2,852 words) - 19:53, 20 November 2023
- and influence over the community. He rose to the status of a political and ... of the Book of Mormon, which claimed to document the history of the ...44 KB (6,932 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- Scallop is the common name for any of the marine bivalve mollusks ... rays. The intricate harmony of the ecosystem is exhibited in the fact that ...19 KB (2,833 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- is the largest city in the province of Quebec and the second-largest ... by Toronto in the mid-1970s), Montreal is the second largest French-speaking ...44 KB (6,520 words) - 21:16, 9 November 2022
- political philosopher. He was often referred to as a Christian existentialist ... where his father's library allowed him to read widely. In fact, when ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- A crucifix (from Latin cruci fixus, meaning "one fixed to a cross ... The crucifix is a reminder of the trials and tribulations that human ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering ... The CIA is restricted from operating inside the United States, although ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- ::Note: This page is about the species Hippopotamus amphibius. ... Hippopotamus, or hippo, is the common name for a very large, semi ...43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
- is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 ... required by Christ in order for sins to be forgiven involves inner ...38 KB (5,692 words) - 21:06, 29 January 2024
- from Christians of Anatolia who were brought to Europe after being captured ... In 348, to escape religious persecution by a Gothic chief, probably ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- Irving is sometimes referred to as a forerunner of the Charismatic ... He was engaged in 1812, to Isabella Martin but fell in love with Jane ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- rebounding, shot blocking, and his talent to shoot over smaller defenders ... MVP trophy, three scoring titles, and named to the first four NBA All-Star ...19 KB (3,019 words) - 16:27, 15 August 2021
- one of the best regarded vocalists ever, due to her ability to inject her songs ... talented gospel singer in her own right. It is mistakenly believed that Barbara ...28 KB (4,152 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il ... His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- A fan is a device used to induce airflow and generally made from broad ... vacuum cleaner), drying (usually in addition to heat) and to provide draft ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- placed on blacks from exercising their right to vote. quot; Rice, a white English migrant to the U.S. and the first popularizer ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief ... The four main highways of Zambia; the Great North Road to Tanzania ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Count Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent, Belgium to a wealthy ... In September, 1874 he was sent to the Jesuit College of Sainte-Barbe ...15 KB (2,277 words) - 16:59, 7 November 2022
- A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes ... Rainbows can be observed whenever there are water drops in the air ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- charge of combating the "heresy" to practice a more exemplary standard ... established by Pope Honorius III in 1216, to preach in conquered Cathar ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:37, 22 December 2022
- He did not argue initially for a return to the land of Israel, although ... was a desolate, barren land waiting for Jews to bring civilization to the few ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- and sixteenth centuries. Cardinal Cajetan is best known for his opposition ... and highly educated, his primary concern was to uphold the Roman Catholic church ...15 KB (2,393 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- a meter-high, flightless bird native only to the island of Mauritius, located ... Extinction is a natural part of the history of life, and some researchers ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... The Earth's upper layer (lithosphere) is divided into several tectonic ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), which is often cited as a ... Jarry's response was to create a sometimes grotesque parody of ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy ... Rome's history spans more than 2,500 years. It is renowned as ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Engraving is the practice of cutting a design into a hard surface ... of the difficulty of learning the technique, is much less common in printmaking ...11 KB (1,710 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- the same laws. In addition, he contributed to the fields of geology, astronomy ... surveyor for Uppsala University, moving up to a supervisory position. At ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through ... If she is the same Godgifu who appears in the chronicles of Ely, Liber ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Technetium (chemical symbol Tc, atomic number 43) is a silvery gray ... its isotope 97Tc became the first element to be artificially produced, hence ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- The panda or giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a mammal native ... The term panda is also used for the red panda, Ailurus fulgens, another ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- The Place Stanislas, known colloquially as the place Stan', is ... the New Town in the south, Place Stanislas is the true heart of the city ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- Tao or Dao (道, Pinyin: Dào, Cantonese: Dou) is a Chinese character ... religio-philosophical texts onward, Tian Dao is explained using the concepts ...21 KB (3,367 words) - 19:34, 7 July 2023
- An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented ... prayer; monks used bright colors in order to illustrate the religious truth ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... According to the Hebrew Bible, Moses was called by God to receive ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- Cucumber is the common name for a widely cultivated creeping vine ... They are eaten raw or cooked, or they can be pickled, providing a nutritional ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 06:43, 11 January 2024
- the disciplines of astronomy and chemistry, is the study of chemicals found ... study of chemicals within the Solar System is usually called cosmochemistry. ...7 KB (940 words) - 18:21, 19 August 2023
- church historian who pioneered the effort to free Christianity from what ... Christian writings and called on Christians to question the authenticity of ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- his youthful interest in painting led him to study under Léon Bonnat. Caillebotte ... While Caillebotte's own style belongs to the school of Realism ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 01:24, 27 July 2023
- The few eyewitness accounts are contradictory. What is known is that ... governed by the Teutonic Order, but which is now in Poland. ...42 KB (6,381 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John ... Education that official funds should only be spent on English and Western ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- Theodosius II as an ecumenical council to deal with unresolved issues ... christological view, an early version of what later became known as Monophysitism ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 17:40, 25 January 2023
- Labor Day, or Labour Day in Canada, is a an annual holiday in the ... Today, in both countries, the holiday is generally viewed as a time ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San ... is located at this observatory. Operating some 290 nights a year in ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- Noh or Nō (Japanese: 能) is the oldest surviving form of classical ... by flute and drum music. The stage is almost bare, and the actors ...16 KB (2,586 words) - 19:45, 5 March 2023
- royal patronage allowed pre-Muslim India to become a land of many viharas ... it was considered an act of merit not only to feed a monk but also to shelter ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the common name for a long-legged, fast ... The unique adaptations of the cheetah allows them to capture fast ...32 KB (4,927 words) - 07:51, 13 January 2023
- side of the aristocracy of his period. His novel, The Castle of Otranto, heralded ... with his friend Thomas Gray from 1739 to 1741, when the two quarreled ...13 KB (1,897 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- and his grandfather was Abraham. According to the biblical account, Jacob ... In the Book of Genesis, Jacob overcomes many adversities to win God ...29 KB (4,809 words) - 08:01, 18 March 2024
- 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
- Adult education, also known as continuing education, is a broad term ... as technology has advanced leading workers to continue to update their skills ...24 KB (3,446 words) - 06:19, 15 June 2023
- the history of photography and its struggle to be accepted as a recognized ... in New York City that would expose Americans to unknown European artists who ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- started on December 16, 1944. Contrary to popular belief, it was not ... Army. Allied intelligence failed completely to detect the upcoming offensive ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the ... later, in September, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire ...19 KB (3,020 words) - 05:48, 27 September 2022
- meaning "Source of happiness," is a mythical kingdom or hidden ... army will arise out of the Shambhala kingdom to restore the earth at a future ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- exemplar of Chicago blues style, which is typified by an electrified ... part of a major migration of southern blacks to northern cities, notably Detroit ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered ... photo-realism in art. This artistic strategy is suitable for a mass audience ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- Vinegar is a sour liquid produced from the fermentation of diluted ... Crucially, vinegar must be derived from a sugar-containing source ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 20:25, 3 May 2023
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... are known for applying economic analyses to a broad spectrum of issues ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- Scientific notation is a compact form of writing numbers that are ... Each number is expressed in the form of a power of 10. For example ...9 KB (1,279 words) - 17:25, 25 January 2023
- a restored Arab State, stretching from Yemen to Syria. This would be governed ... the kingdom and other secular titles to his eldest son Ali. Two sons ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major ... However, the initial design was scaled back to the current one: three decks ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- Reed was not only a witness to the revolution, but an enthusiastic ... his maternal grandparents' mansion in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- [[Image:Glass-Ball.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Glass can be made transparent ... From tiny beads to large sculptures, and from ordinary bottles to ...28 KB (4,417 words) - 07:52, 24 January 2023
- An armored fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle that is protected ... The tank is an all-terrain, armored fighting vehicle, designed primarily ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- The United Arab Emirates (also the UAE or the Emirates) is a Middle ... Coast" was used from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him (only 35 paintings are ... of appreciation for Vermeer's work can be seen in popular culture. For ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- Contrary to the popular conception of an either-or dichotomy between ... Fisher was born in East Finchley, London to George and Katie Fisher ...23 KB (3,500 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2022
- "Great Awakening Temple") refers to a Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya ... most holy spot in creation for Buddhism. It is considered the navel of the ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 05:24, 5 November 2022
- death prompted President John F. Kennedy to ask Congress for a comprehensive ... about racial intolerance, being a witness to murder of a black man for talking ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- Brown bear is the common name for a large bear, Ursus arctos, ranging ... The brown bear is a massive animal, weighing between 100 and 700 kilograms ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts ... example, key logical positivists attempted to achieve the unity of science ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- into Hebrew, making them accessible to European Jewish scholars. He ... Samuel ibn Tibbon was the first to translate Aristotle and Averroes ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- Thulium (chemical symbol Tm, atomic number 69) is the least abundant ... The element is never found in nature in pure form, but it is found ...9 KB (1,135 words) - 23:14, 30 April 2023
- nitrogen. This process in turn could be used to manufacture fertilizers ... power in Germany, the Nazis forced him to leave the country in 1933 because ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- Lange's photographs gave a human face to a dark chapter in American ... In 1941, Lange became the first woman to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship ...14 KB (2,023 words) - 17:26, 30 January 2024
- and as a true Renaissance man, he cannot be easily categorized. He lived ... #039;s reign (1553–1558), "bred up to music under Thomas Tallis. ...10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- In genetics, an allele (pronounced al-eel or al-e-ul) is any one of ... An individual's genotype for that gene is the set of alleles ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 18:27, 21 July 2023
- range who made major contributions to economics, history, political ... Austrian economics with a fervent commitment to individual liberty. Rothbard ...36 KB (5,322 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- Transylvania is a Central European region located in the eastern half ... Outside Romania, Transylvania is strongly associated with Bram Stoker ...47 KB (6,836 words) - 02:15, 2 May 2023
- de Versailles, or simply Versailles) is a royal chateau in Versailles ... Versailles is famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, to a middle-class family. He was ... Valentino was born to Marie Berthe Gabrielle Barbin (1856 - 1919) ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- known as the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes is best remembered today as a ... Hughes remains a major influence to African-American writers and poets ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- : This article is about the chemical element lithium. number=3 | symbol ... | colspan="6" align="center" | 6Li content may ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 04:29, 29 October 2022
- but an accurate count remains elusive due to the nomadic nature of many ... in an area stretching from western Pakistan to southwestern Afghanistan. Additional ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- :This article is about the forensic instrument. [[Image:Polygraaf.PNG ... A polygraph (commonly referred to as a lie detector) is an instrument ...34 KB (5,091 words) - 00:19, 12 April 2023
- ) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation ... with over 350,000 employees worldwide, it is the largest information technology ...48 KB (6,957 words) - 06:47, 6 March 2024
- (1,300 km) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula ... in 1855, and 20 years later they laid claim to the entire chain. The islands ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- to get this template or go to Template:Chembox_simple_organic. --> ... Cytosine is one of the five main nucleobases used in storing and transporting ...5 KB (742 words) - 07:29, 12 January 2024
- Eastern and Western thought showing each to be comprehensible within the ... In India, his birthday is celebrated as Teacher's Day in his ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- of Rome and Saint Ines (or Santa Ynez), she is one of seven women, besides ... before her death, she was forcibly taken to a house of prostitution to ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- Virginia, and provided valuable information to Confederate generals Turner ... College in Baltimore, Maryland from 1856 to 1860. Before the Civil War ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 20:18, 20 January 2022
- A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical ... The blueprint process is essentially the cyanotype process developed ...5 KB (743 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- Geochronology is the science of determining the absolute ages of rocks ... Geochronology differs in application from biostratigraphy, which is ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- Death Valley and Panamint Valley. This group is sometimes called the Panamint ... of their expedition was due in no small part to the willing support of Sacagawea ...26 KB (4,027 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- Mystici Corporis Christi is a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius ... According to the encyclical, the Church has two aspects, a visible ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- or the Elvis of the East, Ustad Nusrat is credited with taking the tradition ... Qawwali is traditionally an artistry passed down through a lineage ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 01:20, 17 November 2022
- of art." Like many artists seeking to make art more utilitarian, ... He was born the third child and only son to his family in Bagdadi ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- song-writing, and guitar playing, Berry is considered one of, if not the ... string of hits in the mid-late 1950s came to an end when he ran afoul of ...20 KB (3,002 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- The Septuagint (or simply "LXX") is the name commonly given ... and Josephus ascribed divine inspiration to its authors. It formed the ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- a new system for teaching his students to practice Stoicism in their ... in that he emphasized that happiness could be found in maintaining one's ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- "Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate ... Several references to the Yonas are found in ancient Indian documents ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Death and Dying, where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler ... physicians, psychiatrists, and scientists to take a new look at the meaning ...18 KB (2,757 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- at Johns Hopkins University from 1910 to 1938, Lovejoy founded and long ... of human perception of them, and promoted what he called “temporalistic ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: A field ... generates a magnetic field. A magnetic field is produced by the motion of electric ...14 KB (1,902 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- Electricity (from Greek ήλεκτρον (electron) "amber" ... Human ability to harness electricity is one of the keys for the establishment ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- in his own right. In particular, Fletcher is considered to be one of the ... before his death) as well as chaplain to Queen Elizabeth. Richard fell ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 06:38, 8 April 2024
- Sacred fig (Ficus religiosa) is a species of banyan fig, characterized ... who later became known as Gautama Buddha, is said to have been sitting underneath ...10 KB (1,612 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
- Mangabey is the common name for the various Old World monkeys comprising ... ripening on the ground and providing food to other species. ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 06:45, 5 November 2022
- The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Dedekind argued that the numbers system can be independently developed ... research in Germany. Thus Dedekind went to Berlin for two years of study ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- In Canada, the term "prairie" is more common, and the region ... east to west and 3000|mi|km north to south. Much of the region was ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- Transcendental idealism is the name given by eighteenth century German ... the reliability of science and the inability to know what transcends observable ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- Chalcedony is one of the cryptocrystalline—a term which refers to ... materials used in human history. It was used to make various tools, weapons ...7 KB (962 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... The rebuilt church is considered a landmark symbol of reconciliation ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 06:08, 3 August 2023
- notable_ideas = The “will to believe” doctrine, the pragmatic ... as pragmatism. His research and teachings, done mostly at Harvard University ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely ... While it is not a true grain or cereal because the plant does not ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- in the 1360s, died 1427 or January 29, 1430) is considered to be the greatest ... An icon is a religious image or representation of an object, deity ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The region is home to 60 million people. ... Spanning more than 750 miles (1,200 km) from west to east, these vast ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- Health is a term that refers to a combination of the absence of illness ... In any organism, health can be said to be a "state of balance ...21 KB (3,080 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005 in the immediate ... observers, the second run-off was declared to be "free and fair." ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- Rain is a form of precipitation—other forms of which include snow ... condenses into clouds, precipitates back to earth, and eventually returns ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 00:07, 8 December 2022
- Superman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered ... were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective Comics, Inc. in 1938 ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- December 29, 1170) Lord Chancellor from 1154 to 1162 and Archbishop of Canterbury ... interests of the church. His unwillingness to compromise and see the merits ...22 KB (3,489 words) - 20:22, 31 October 2022
- organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. later exonerated. After the war, he returned to his silversmith trade and quickly ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland ... and architectural gems which lent greatly to the city's character. ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- composer of European classical music. He is widely regarded as one of the ... in which Christian hymns were central to the worship service. Many of ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- Mussel is the common term for members of several families of freshwater ... Zebra mussel (genus Dreissena, native to Black and Caspian seas) and ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February ... The failure of Parliamentary efforts to exclude James from the succession ...41 KB (6,020 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of trees (rarely shrubs), the members ... Eucalypts, as they are also called, can be found in almost every part ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 12:22, 21 January 2023
- the world over, ranging from George Lucas to Sergio Leone. film festival in 1951, and opened the world to Japanese cinematography. Kurosawa ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- Amenhotep I (sometimes read as Amenophis I and meaning "Amun ... Although his reign is poorly documented, it is possible to piece together ...23 KB (3,603 words) - 02:51, 24 July 2023
- ) (c. 1165 – December 23, 1230) was queen consort to King Richard ... She married Richard when at Limassol, Cyprus while he was on his way ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution ... Books were traditionally brought to customers through several distinct ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023
- Robert E. Lee. Lee affectionately referred to Early as his "Bad Old ... the Union victory. Later studies show this to be largely untrue. Early's ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the ... Due to the extraordinary talents of Michelangelo (1475-1564), the ...23 KB (3,674 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- Narwhal is the common name for an Arctic whale, Monodon monoceros ... The narwhal also is known as the unicorn whale because of its unique ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- his interest in Marxism waned as it failed to deliver on its promise. His ... country was undergoing a revolution. Born to Josefina Lozano, a religious ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- that all children born on French soil could be conscripted for military service ... would follow in their footsteps. Events were to ensure this was not to be, ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after ... of Magnus, Saint Ursula, and those believed to be of the Three Wise Men. ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- "Hear, [O] Israel") refers to the most important prayer in ... The text of the first part of the Shema is as follows: Hear, O Israel: ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- inventiveness seen in his works is analogous to the contemporary ... Details of his early education are sparse, but he likely learned to ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 08:04, 18 March 2024
- Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... According to tradition, Zen originated in India as a non-verbal doctrine ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- Greece. Eleusis (modern-day Elefsina) is a small town located about ... ancient Mediterranean world, these were held to be the ones of greatest importance ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- The European Parliament (Europarl or EP) is the directly elected parliamentary ... like most national parliaments. While it is the "first institution ...60 KB (8,687 words) - 04:34, 23 March 2024
- Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions ... As with all crimes, the tendency of human beings to cause harm to ...11 KB (1,639 words) - 05:00, 18 August 2023
- Zinovievna Rosenbaum in Russia and emigrated to the United States to become ... reason. The express goal of her fiction was to delineate in stark relief these ...20 KB (2,901 words) - 07:26, 23 August 2023
- A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or ... The term 'book' may also refer to a literary work, or a ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- and, most enduringly, author of what is widely considered the greatest ... the fiery prince of demons. The poem goes on to depict the temptation of Adam ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 06:59, 3 August 2022
- Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered ... These visions, 20 years later, would be the source of her major work ...13 KB (2,141 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- , is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise ... The case resulted from a petition to the Court by William Marbury ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- mathematics, anatomy, and medicine. He is renowned in the history of ... at the hands of Protestants did much to strengthen the case for religious ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- A Copt refers to a native Egyptian Christian. The word "Coptic ... In modern usage, it is frequently applied to members of the Coptic ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- designer, and furniture designer. He is famous for his light, elegant ... He is considered by many to be the greatest architect of the late ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- Carbon (chemical symbol C; atomic number 6) is a remarkable chemical ... world. While efforts are now being made to clean up the environment and ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 22:12, 25 November 2023
- Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, 41 to his death in 54. Born in Lugdunum ... Claudius was considered a rather unlikely man to become emperor. He ...58 KB (9,002 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- ), located in Chartres, about 50 miles from Paris, is considered one ... Long a site of holy pilgrimage due to its housing of a garment believed ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- as Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian ... However, the emperor was later unable to cope with the mounting incursions ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford (October 21, 1928 - ) is a ... Ford holds the record for most wins in Yankee history, and is best ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 18:40, 4 May 2023
- Edith Abbott (September 26, 1876 – July 28, 1957), older sister ... political activism. Her parents had moved to the western plains and embodied ...7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- Hsueh Liang Chang); June 3, 1901 (according to other accounts in 1898 or 1900 ... him captive for two weeks, until he agreed to form an alliance between the ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Animal husbandry, also known as animal science, is the agricultural ... of economics throughout the centuries prior to and after the Industrial Revolution ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 06:10, 28 July 2023
- African state of modern Nigeria. There is still an Oba, or king, although ... Within his own community, the Oba is symbolic of a long cultural and ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- A tropical cyclone is a meteorological term for a storm system characterized ... The adjective "tropical" refers to both the geographic origin ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- purge of the Girondins. She devised a plan to assassinate Jacobin leader ... Seigneur d'Armont (1737–1798), unable to cope with his grief over their ...30 KB (4,620 words) - 00:41, 5 December 2023
- Fennec or fennec fox is the common name for a small, nocturnal canid ... birds and insects. Much of the its diet also is desert vegetation, from which ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 23:29, 20 July 2022
- and Realism, movements which attempted to capture reality in its particularity ... Symbolists believed that art should aim to capture more absolute truths ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- Lollards from the late fourteenth century to early in the time of the English ... It taught that piety was a requirement for a priest to be a "true ...12 KB (1,874 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- music from cultures that might not otherwise be well known. By utilizing the ... syphilis from his father, who then returned to London. Grainger's mother ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- A postal system is a system wherein written documents typically enclosed ... In principle, a postal service can be private or public. Governments ...32 KB (4,926 words) - 05:47, 30 November 2022
- neighborhoods was implemented as an effort to eliminate racial segregation ... warned that this method was failing due to "white flight" from ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- Pole vaulting, a part of track and field, is a rigorous and demanding ... Pole vaulting is a dangerous and sophisticated sport requiring a high ...22 KB (3,728 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- Goethe, one of the influential figures in what would become known as the ... he was forced, at the command of Duke Eugen, to attend Karlscchule, a military ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- , -logia) or tree-ring dating is a method of scientific dating based ... Growth rings, also referred to as tree rings or annual rings, can ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood ... "black film"), was first applied to Hollywood movies by French ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 19:47, 26 March 2024
- Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers ... of the physical body, gives a different view to aging and reduces the stress ...31 KB (4,318 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was ... " was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Harlow Morrell Davis and Ruth ...21 KB (3,286 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- of several convents and a school. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic ... after whom she was apparently named. Brigid is still a popular saint in Ireland ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- an early Christian apologist and saint. Born to a pagan family and trained ... through his writings or through his school) to be seen as a threat to the ...34 KB (5,421 words) - 21:24, 4 October 2022
- The Snake River is the largest tributary of the Columbia River in ... ranging in size from small diversion dams to major high dams. While the ...26 KB (3,775 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- or in discrete elongated pieces, similar to pieces of thread. They are ... Natural fibers may be obtained from plant, animal, and mineral sources ...6 KB (832 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- Onion is the common name for the herbaceous, cold season plant Allium ... without qualifiers, onion usually refers to Allium cepa. It is also known ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- Communism refers to a theory for revolutionary change and political ... early twentieth century, modern communism is generally associated with the ...45 KB (6,718 words) - 00:12, 8 January 2024
- Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies ... Great Britain is an island off the north-west coast of continental ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus ... Tertullian is the first Christian writer to use the term trinity, ...57 KB (8,333 words) - 20:17, 31 January 2024
- and Winston Churchill from November 28th to December 1st, 1943, following ... was the Western Allies' commitment to open a second front against ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- word: Abba, meaning "Father") is a clerical title given to the ... English abbad, ; German Abt; French abbé) is the head and chief governor ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 04:42, 14 June 2023
- until deposed in January, 1327. His tendency to ignore his nobility—in favor ... Edward II was the first monarch to establish colleges in the universities ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- of the Bahá'í Faith who claimed to fulfill the eschatological ... He died in Bahjí in present-day Israel, and is buried there. ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- Utility, in a philosophical context, refers to what is good for a ... Britain although its central ideas may be traced back to Plato and ancient ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
- as Vatican II, although he did not live to see it to completion. He took ... in opening up the Roman Catholic Church to reform by launching Vatican ...21 KB (3,310 words) - 08:07, 3 August 2022
- Sāmarrā (Arabic,سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient ... From the time it was built by Caliph Al-Mu'tasim in 836 C.E. ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- expansionist and its influence had to be "contained" in ... as official U.S. policy, Kennan began to criticize the policies that ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- March 17, 1856 - April 14, 1910, all n.s.) is usually regarded as the greatest ... In 1884, he was summoned to replace the lost twelfth-century murals ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 17:54, 9 November 2022
- Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film used primarily ... evaporation of the solvent but quickly begin to cure, undergoing successive ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western ... University with a B.A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- An allergy is an abnormally high or misguided reaction by the immune ... The immune system is the system of specialized cells and organs that ...22 KB (3,374 words) - 00:41, 9 January 2023
- and physicist. He was the first to quantify the change in frequency ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- After leaving Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys to form their own ... occasionally. Flatt and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 06:13, 1 April 2024
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for ... Phoenicopterus, with six extant species is recognized, with four of the ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- civilians and army officers. The attempt to encourage a coup d'état ... viewed as a triumph of covert action), is now regarded as a mistake that ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- dramatist and daredevil, who went on to have a controversial role in ... name was originally Francesco Rapagnetta, to which he legally added d'Annunzio ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward ... plots in which Jews were acting in concert to dominate the world became a ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- of Akbar. Tulsidas wrote twelve books and is considered the greatest and ... Tulsidas is considered a Prophet of Hinduism. His work, the Rāmacaritamānasa ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:42, 2 May 2023
- A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's ... Despite their diversity, rites of passage all serve the same purpose: ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on ... Then in early 2006, the colored rains of Kerala suddenly rose to worldwide ...21 KB (3,061 words) - 19:10, 16 April 2023
- Each brought talents from his solo career to the team. ... Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 1945 to 1950, they did not appear on ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- in the Tiananmen Square Massacre (referred to in Chinese as the June Fourth ... official, Hu Yaobang, whom protesters wanted to mourn. By the eve of Hu's ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- Petrology is a field of geology that focuses on the study of rocks ... and chemical analyses to describe the structure and composition of ...5 KB (724 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- A child prodigy is an individual who masters one or more skills or ... Some child prodigies continue to excel as adults, developing their ...26 KB (3,861 words) - 01:14, 12 April 2023
- Minister of the United Kingdom from 1783 to 1801, and again from 1804 until ... Wars. Pitt, although often referred to as a Tory, always considered ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of ... His work made use of frequent homages and references to film history ...63 KB (9,163 words) - 20:22, 22 September 2023
- quot; and were renowned for their dedication to the band's music. Some ... the Grateful Dead established an approach to their craft outside the standard ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2023
- Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה, also spelled Halacha) is the collective ... Orthodox Jews still adhere fairly strictly to traditional halakhic ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- Princeton University is a private coeducational research university ... on providing students with ample opportunity to explore and then deepen their ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- Food packaging is the enclosing of food to protect it from damage ... Food packaging serves many important functions. They may be broken ...8 KB (1,092 words) - 06:17, 1 April 2024
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951, having served under the ... the assumption that full employment would be maintained by Keynesian policies ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- in the Bible. The son of King Ahaz, who is portrayed in the narrative ... Biblical historian William F. Albright has dated Hezekiah's reign ...20 KB (3,298 words) - 11:58, 22 January 2024
- ruled by the Saf dynasty from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. It ... The Kanem Empire is estimated to have originated around 800 C.E. to ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to ... These structures have allowed astronauts to live in space for periods of ...12 KB (1,622 words) - 17:12, 14 October 2022
- Self-concept or self identity is the mental and conceptual understanding ... develop and as one becomes better able to assess them. Such self-evaluation ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- of competing British and American claims to the Oregon Country, a region ... United Kingdom and the United States agreed to what has since been described ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... Cybernetics is always and only involved when the system under scrutiny ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- of Darius the Great (i. 16). Sogdiana is "listed" as the second ... by the Arabs. Though the Sogdian language is extinct, there remains a large ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. It may be ... It may be helpful to think of fermions as "pixels of matter"—fundamental ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- was an American social psychologist. He is known for his work in the field ... McClelland's model of motivation is based on three needs: Achievement ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- known formally as the Republic of Angola, is on the west coast of Southern ... In 1482, when the Portuguese first landed in what is now northern ...17 KB (2,316 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- The Faroes have close traditional ties to Iceland, Shetland, Orkney ... Its area is 540 square miles (1,399 square km), with no major lakes ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- scintillating grid illusion. Dark dots seem to appear and disappear at intersections ... A grid illusion is any kind of grid that deceives a person's ...5 KB (754 words) - 12:27, 24 January 2023
- or the Bangladesh Liberation War refers to an armed conflict between West ... between Bengal and the peoples of what became West Pakistan. When ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- planted” or "potted plant") is the art of aesthetic miniaturization ... during the Han dynasty and was introduced to Japan during the Kamakura period ...25 KB (3,891 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop after ... One of the most obvious preventive actions is addressing the original ...14 KB (1,938 words) - 20:01, 8 December 2022
- exist; they were from Nanyue/Nam Viet. It is not known for certain exactly ... A district in Hanoi called the Hai Ba Trung district is named after ...14 KB (2,364 words) - 23:51, 5 November 2022
- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province ... high minaret, surrounded by mountains that reach up to 2400|m|ft ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- fourteenth century B.C.E., it encompassed what is today southeastern Turkey ... some deities with the Vedas and appear to have bridged the Indic and ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- Although a military officer, Eisenhower was also deeply committed ... Cold War, Eisenhower sought to counter Soviet expansionism yet rejected ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The ... east of the Canadian Rockies. Calgary is well-known as a destination ...52 KB (7,693 words) - 18:23, 25 November 2023
- Grasshoppers are long and slender insects belonging to the order Orthoptera ... For the purposes of this article, "grasshopper" refers to ...20 KB (2,942 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who ... The instrument is played by compressing or expanding the bellows while ...52 KB (7,685 words) - 01:50, 27 February 2024
- own works. However, these pieces soon came to be accepted on their own merit ... of the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- Great Awakening. His sermons were known to be colloquial, simple, and ... success of the YMCA movement and did much to spread the Christian message ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- Labyrinthodontia is an extinct, traditional group (superorder or subclass ... The name Labryinthodonita, which is from the Greek for "maze ...10 KB (1,382 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- relatively obscure before 1966, but rose to prominence during the Cultural ... of Four" and charging them with a plot to overthrow the Chinese government ...19 KB (2,985 words) - 04:24, 18 April 2024
- Pradesh, India. Their language belongs to the Sino-Tibetian family (see ... animals or machines, have been striving to protect their traditional ways ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- debates surrounding his teachings led to the Nestorian schism, separating ... Nestorianism originated in the fifth century out of an attempt to ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- criticism and personal letters. Lawrence is primarily remembered today ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 07:34, 12 January 2024
