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:This article is about the hypothetical class of particles. ... as one possible solution to the dark matter problem. They are considered ...

A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, ... Traditionally, some of the objects in a still life were likely to ...

In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy ... (a) Regular ("baryonic") matter, made of electrons and quarks; ...

mystic and poet who is now revered as one of the most influential Persian ... its early part; there is a great deal of more or less mythical anecdote ...

known for propagating the Vaishnava doctrine of bhedabheda dvaitadvaita, duality ... and non-duality. He defines three categories of existence, God (Isvara), souls ...

Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary ... Our understanding of the nature of physical existence derives in large ...

and psychiatrist. He was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential ... Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria, the second of three children ...

In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... assuming the existence or non-existence of the supernatural. Materialists ...

An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...

In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free ... ==Properties of free space== Free space is characterized by the defined ...

that denotes the genuine, original, true state of human existence. The concept ... which often emphasize the restoration of an authentic self and society ...

March 30, 1964) was a mixed-race novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, an ... race protagonists, Larsen displayed clarity of vision despite the complexities ...

[[Image:Glieseupdated.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Artist's impression ... Extraterrestrial life is the term used to define any form of life ...

The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person ... Promotion of the rights of the accused sometimes comes into conflict ...

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the United States, Brunner became professor of systematic theology at the ... At first a close friend and ally of Karl Barth, Brunner split with ...

hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in ... "telekinesis" or "mind over matter," is the ability to ...

A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact ... A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ...

economist and political theorist, and one of the founders of the Saint-Simonian ... Paris, France, on February 8, 1796, the son of a banker from Dauphiné. After ...

Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of ... , Pope Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Catholic Church cannot ...

temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise in Mie prefecture, in southeastern ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...

German philosopher, known for his critique of religious belief. He is commonly ... Feuerbach emerged in the 1840s as a leader of the Young Hegelians ...

Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are one of ... there is increasing evidence that the type of glia known as astrocytes may ...

William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... a precedent and my God will Make it the Seed of a Nation. That an example may ...

In Islamic tradition, he was the ancestor of the prophet Muhammad and the ... In the Book of Genesis, Ishmael was the first of Abraham's household ...

educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. ... the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while his The World’s ...

AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, ... was not a fraud. He died during the Imamat of Imam Ja'far al- Sadiq ...

make special distinction for the experiences of women of color. She has written ... The style of the text was that of a traditional epistolary novel, ...

"soul" denotes the inner essence of a being comprising its locus ... Throughout history, the belief in the existence of a soul has been ...

December 4, 1952) was a German psychoanalyst of Norwegian and Dutch descent ... on September 16, 1885 in the German city of Hamburg. Her father, Berndt ...

Matchmaking is the process of introducing a couple as potential partners ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...

those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...

) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves ... ) or the Dunhuang Caves. -->Construction of the Buddhist cave ...

Unemployment is the condition of willing workers lacking jobs or ... is because there are many different types of unemployment, which overlap ...

founded the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of Mahāyāna (Great Vehicle) ... major influence not only on the development of Mahayana Buddhist thought, ...

fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...

General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed ... Previously, Newton's law of universal gravitation (1686) had ...

worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...

Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the ... There are about 2,500 species of mayflies worldwide, including about ...

Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first child of the painter Orazio Gentileschi ...

Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus ... During the Independence War of 1877-1878, Prince Charles personally ...

existentialist philosopher. Tillich was one of the most influential Protestant ... Paul Tillich appeared on the scene at the beginning of the twentieth ...

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

The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...

The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... Hotel on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing Empire of China ...

The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...

He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...

and influential thinker in the history of Western thought. He was a student ... Among the most famous of his philosophical contributions are the accounts ...

total) is the idea that all the properties of a given system (biological ... The general principle of holism was concisely summarized by Aristotle ...

storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Information science ... understanding problems from the perspective of the stakeholders involved and ...

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

Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... The use of monsoon winds, which enabled a voyage safer than a long ...

As with all paranormal or "psi" phenomena, the existence ... == Types of ESP == The term Extra-sensory perception (ESP) was used ...

, marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... The holiday that developed from these beginnings blended the culture ...

Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ... While disasters are by definition tragic, resulting in great loss ...

The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...

material, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity ... mid-twentieth century that it became a part of western mainstream culture ...

Fig wasp is the common name for wasps of the family Agaonidae, which ... Typically, one species of fig wasp is capable of fertilizing the flowers ...

(Korean: 신미양요 ,Western Disturbance of the Year Sinmi) started out ... Korea had maintained a relationship of tribute with China. In exchange ...

The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...

travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing ...

Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman ... She was born in the major Mesopotamian city of Ur and moved with her clan ...

silence") is an eremitic tradition of prayer that developed in Eastern ... Rooted in the ancient tradition of Christian asceticism and contemplation ...

a Dutch painter who specialized in scenes of ordinary people going about ... lifetime he was relatively unknown outside of his hometown of Delft where ...

which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...

The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the ... === First Assembly of Notables and peasants === The suggestion to summon ...

penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment, by means of ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...

Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, "People" + Mapu, "of the ... so, they reorganized their traditional way of life, gathering together previously ...

States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...

chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...

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

, as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...

A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction ... geometrically accurate representations of three-dimensional space, while ...

physics theory with a similar name, see Theory of Relativity evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of, for example, their historical ...

for Africa." Italy as a unified state had only existed since 1861 ... were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Italy ...

in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was one of the leading figures of modernity ... family in a village with the curious name of Caos (Chaos), a poor suburb ...

The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere ... Lovelock hypothesized that the living matter of the planet functioned ...

quot;deceivers") were an Indian network of secret fraternities engaged ... passed into common English during the time of British Imperial rule of India ...

Brown dwarfs are celestial objects ranging in mass between that of ... Early theories concerning the nature of the lowest mass stars and ...

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... to be very adept at the family business of iron manufacturing, and acquired ...

German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...

The arts of Africa constitute one of the most diverse legacies on ... in Africa have included representations of animals and hunters. From the ...

Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...

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

in Latin as Ambrosius, was successful bishop of Milan, who was later recognized ... In the beginning of his life, Ambrose embarked upon a career in law ...

images tend to focus on the problems of Christianity in an age of disbelief ... one must "get behind" the thinkers of the past, and achieve a state ...

and early tenth centuries B.C.E.. One of David's nephews, he was ... won David's trust as commander-in-chief of his armies, he also earned ...

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Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the ... Biopsychology has been a prominent field of psychology from the start ...

The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ... The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...

A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around ... to orbit in a plane containing our line of sight, they will eclipse each ...

a herbaceous perennial plant, Curcuma longa, of the ginger family Zingiberaceae ... for human beings in their experience of nature. Turmeric, which has ...

The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... is whether it over-emphasizes the role of conflict in development. In ...

Penicillin (sometimes abbreviated PCN) refers to a group of β-lactam ... are often viewed negatively as causes of food spoilage and plant and ...

A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...

The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...

French philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) of decision theory to the belief ... :"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, ...

that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that ...

A lake (from the Latin word lacus) is an inland body of water, not ... There is, however, a lack of consensus on definitions used to distinguish ...

A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious ... cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of NDEs reported continually increases ...

de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...

by the Sunni Muslims as the fourth and last of the Khulafā-i-Rāshidūn ... Thus, although often cited as the cause of contention between Sunni ...

dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter ... White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all ...

interest in others." It is one of the ten pāramitās of the ... The object of mettā meditation is loving kindness (love without attachment ...

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...

Consciousness at its simplest refers to sentience or awareness of ... Beyond the problem of how to define consciousness, there are also ...

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

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Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method ... A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ...

goff), was an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister ... However, despite the brevity of his premiership, his government left ...

the scientific revolution. His theory of 'observation and experimentation ... as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. ...

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A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...

Advertising is the business of drawing public attention to goods and ... as all those involved in the field of communication must recognize ...

Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ... ==History of Service Learning== Service learning can be traced back ...

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,(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King ... participate in a global community. For much of its history, Scotland struggled ...

command to save Noah, his family, and a pair of all animals from the Great ... These texts state that God decided to destroy humankind due to its ...

1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. In music, the Baroque ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...

century as a humanitarian and advocate of peace. Schweitzer received ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...

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is the paraphilia, or sexual deviation, of being sexually attracted, primarily ... children, either prepubescent or at the beginning of puberty ...

Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural ... An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ...

energy by emitting radiation in the form of particles or electromagnetic ... The atomic nucleus comprises certain combinations of protons and neutrons ...

but known to his friends as Van, was one of the most influential American ... while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is ...

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

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

until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ... Most accurate sources put the total deaths during the fifteen years ...

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Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, §3). ...

(1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...

1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...

Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo. Bowie is also known ... He was born in Kentucky and spent most of his life in Louisiana. Bowie ...

Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel ... a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker ...

opinion about the general orientation of his system, it must be acknowledged ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...

Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality. Barrès referred to a particular group of writers as Decadents. It emerged ...

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Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...

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in Indian culture and based on teachings of the Vedas. Hinduism is the ... taught at universities results from the work of the theosophist, Annie Besant ...

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

as the Branch Davidians — were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church ... 28, 1993, when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms ...

for their own existence. It is the sum total of a being's knowledge and ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...

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The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics ... practiced in the Classical Anglo-Saxon world of Ricardo and John Stuart Mill ...

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whose assassination led to the first of the Great Purges. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...

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on the present-day Four Corners area of the United States, comprising ... The origin and exact size and location of this group of people is ...

physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...

was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In the early 1970s ...

6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore (now ... Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Jamaica. Little ...

The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in ... Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the colonial British army, was the spearhead ...

writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...

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and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science. A longtime ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...

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The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...

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January 31, 1969), was an Irani (Indian of Persian descent) born in Poona ... spiritual matters. However, at the age of 19, contact with an old Muslim ...

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through self knowledge, by being aware of their thoughts and feelings ... was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater ...

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best known for his single-handed composition of a new Latin translation of ... (the Vulgate) is the most important version of the text ever composed, as ...

The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Revolutions in 1917 caused a total collapse of the Russian Empire, and the ...

philosophy refers to the belief that a part of a living being survives death ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally ...

Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious ... In the first sense, creationism (not to be confused with the doctrine ...

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...

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1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at the age of 12 that he was going to be ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...

by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...

Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan. Their Pashto ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... Turkey invoked its role as a guarantor under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee ...

Arabic: سليمان Sulayman) was the son of king David and the third king ... Nathan is Jedidiah, meaning "friend of God" (2 Samuel 12:25) ...

to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests ... precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government. As ...

Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes ... Researchers in this field analyze states of happiness, flow, values ...

an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...

Ants are insects of the family Formicidae. They, along with the related ... Ants are one of the world's most successful and diverse animal ...

Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...

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in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and ... Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated ...

The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived by major ...

identified as a secular holiday albeit of historical, legendary, and ... The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic ...

born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...

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or Der Hexenhammer (Latin/German for "The Hammer of Witches" ... The text was the culmination of a long history of medieval theological ...

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...

physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...

The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...

– September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...

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naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... Considered the "father of evolutionary theory," Darwin made ...

Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question of whether ... synergetics. He also created a large number of inventions, mostly in the fields ...

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Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...

The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...

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musician and critic who was a major figure of the modernist movement in early ... in style and technique, Pound rejected much of the modern world, especially ...

in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and his discovery of ... Eventually, in 1891, he gained a Bachelors of Arts degree in physics at the ...

British Army officer and creator of special military units in World ... Perhaps the most important aspect of Wingate's legacy is that ...

The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and ... Truth is also understood not only as a matter of conceptual understanding ...

Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...

Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... and sexual expression between individuals of the same sex. Today attitudes ...

magic and the occult, he also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination ... Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as the two disciplines ...

and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciati ... Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. ...

named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily ... quot; style while creating a film persona of the world-weary tough guy with ...

26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953 ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...

Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...

for Special Effects. He was the director of a number of critically lauded ... interpretations in viewers and critics. Many of Kubrick's films just as ...

generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... family in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy, France. His father, ...

16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...

; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom HaKipurim ... 26, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab nations led by Egypt and ...

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...

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In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Psychologically, humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract ...

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Social psychology is a branch of psychology that studies cognitive ... impact not only on the academic worlds of psychology, sociology, and ...

Business ethics is a form of applied ethics (see the article metaethics ... In the increasingly conscience-focused marketplaces of the twenty ...

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music inspired by or attempting ... In the history of rock music, psychedelic rock is a bridge from early ...

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

Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...

Dinosaurs are an extinct, diverse, largely terrestrial group of vertebrate ... The finding of fossils of the "terrible lizards" presented ...

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

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The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...

The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal ... the war. The campaign marked the beginning of the transition by Allied forces ...

mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...

Slavery has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years ... The primary reason for the enterprise of slave trade and human trafficking ...

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Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... imposed by France and England at the Treaty of Versailles. The economic disaster ...

von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was one of the leading ... Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Province of Posen, in the German ...

from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's ... deeply implicated in the worst atrocities of the Stalin years – the forced ...

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The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...

and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...

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actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern ... wrote poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete ...

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

and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime ... and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response ...

Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... ranges from Costa Rica through most areas of South America east of the Andes ...