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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Othellopainting.jpeg|thumb ...
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  • Gedaliah (died c. 585 B.C.E. or later) was the Jewish governor of Judah under Babylonian rule after the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah in ...
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  • A pickled cucumber, most often simply called a pickle in the United States and Canada, is a cucumber that has been preserved and flavored in ...
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  • The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States which was active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and ...
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  • Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II. He was the publisher of the ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Nobel Peace Prize Winners Butler, Nicholas M. [[Image:NMButler.jpg|thumb|right|250 px|Nicholas ...
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  • Moshe ben Maimon (March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204) was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher. Moshe ben Maimon's Hebrew name is ...
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  • Elisha ben Abuyah ( אלישע בן אבויה ) (spelled variously, including Elisha ben Avuya), also known as Acher ( he|אחר meaning the ...
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  • Concupiscence usually refers to sinful physical desire, especially sexual longing or lust. The term is derived from the Latin word concupiscentia ...
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  • Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 - November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Manasseh ben Israel (also spelled "Menasseh"), was a ...
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  • Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-exile Jewish culture and was popular among early Christians. ...
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  • Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525 – 1609) was a major Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher. He is widely known to scholars of Judaism ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Sociologists Weber, Max [[Image:Max Weber 1894.jpg|thumb|right|Max Weber]] Maximilian Weber (April 21, 1864 – June ...
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  • Max Simon Nordau (July 29, 1849 - January 23, 1923), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld, Südfeld Simon Miksa in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper, first published in 1896. It ...
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  • The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which divided France during the 1890s and early 1900s. It involved the wrongful conviction of Jewish ...
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  • Pope Saint Pius I was bishop of Rome for about 14 years during the mid-second century. His dates are uncertain due to conflicting sources, with ...
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  • George Mason IV (December 11, 1725 – October 7, 1792) was a United States patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional ...
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  • ad-Dajjal sometimes spelled Dajal, (Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), also known as the false Messiah ...
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  • The Atlas Mountains ( جبال الأطلس ) are a series of mountain peaks that run along the northwestern portion of the African continent ...
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  • Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 — May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera ...
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  • Category:Educators and Educational theorists category:biography McGuffey, William Holmes [[image:William Holmes McGuffey.jpg|thumb|William Holmes ...
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  • Shimon bar Yochai, (Aramaic: רבן שמעון בר יוחאי), also known as Simeon son of Yohai, or Rashbi (from Rabbi Shimeon bar Yochai ...
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  • Anti-clericalism is a historical movement that opposes religious institutional power and influence in public and political life. In its more ...
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  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the ...
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  • Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of ...
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  • Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, among others, from the Hebrew: חסידות Chassidus, meaning "piety") is a Haredi Jewish religious ...
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  • Herod Antipas (before 20 B.C.E. – after 39 C.E.) was a first-century CE Jewish-Idumean ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials ...
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  • The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation ...
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  • Scholasticism, from the Latin word scholasticus ("that [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ...
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  • In Judaism, a Sanhedrin (Hebrew: סנהדרין; Greek: συνέδριον, meaning "sitting together" or "council") is an ...
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  • Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель ( 13 July|1894|1 July – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet ...
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  • Predestination (from Latin 'praedestinare,' "fore-ordain") is a religious idea especially among the monotheistic religions ...
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  • anti-Semitism (sometimes called anti-Judaism) usually did not affect ... recycled. Josephus records the anti-Judaism of his time in his defense ...
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  • Otto Weininger (April 3, 1880 – October 4, 1903) was an Austrian philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex ...
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  • Scriptures (from the Latin scriptura, meaning "a writing") are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual and ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Linguists and lexicographers Sapir, Edward Edward Sapir (January 26, 1884 ...
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  • Federalist No. 68 is the 68th essay of The Federalist Papers, and was published on March 12, 1788. It was probably written by Alexander Hamilton ...
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  • Category:Public Fundamentalism refers to any sect or movement within a religion that emphasizes a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the ...
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  • Creation is a theological notion or position in many religions or religious myths which teaches that a single God, or a group of gods or deities ...
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  • Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ...
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  • Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בר כוכבא, also transliterated as Bar Kokhva or Bar Kochba) was a messianic Jewish leader who led ...
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  • Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a broader sense, blasphemy is irreverence toward something considered sacred ...
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  • Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg ( Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг , ɪˈlʲja grʲɪˈgorʲɪvɪtɕ ɪrʲɪnˈburk ...
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  • An armored fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle that is protected by armor and armed with weapons. Most AFVs are equipped for driving ...
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  • Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר ‎ August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al ...
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  • Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means out of communion ...
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  • Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and ...
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  • Religion plays a major role in life in Indonesia, which has the largest population of Muslims in the world. Many different religions are practiced ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood Fac simile of a ...
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  • Category: Politics and social sciences Category: Sociology Category: Submitted [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square ...
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  • Agrippa II (b. 27/28 C.E.), was a Roman client king who sided with Rome against his Jewish countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The ...
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  • Anti-tank warfare refers to any method of combating military armored fighting vehicles, particularly tanks. The most common anti-tank weapons ...
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  • John Chrysostom (349– ca. 407 C.E.) was the archbishop of Constantinople known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family The term polygamy ...
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  • Chişinău ( ki.ʃi.'nəw ) (also known as Kishinev, Кишинёв , Kishinyov) is the capital city, the industrial and commercial center ...
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  • at Trypho: Christian Apologetic as Anti-Judaism in Justin's Dialogue ... at Trypho: Christian Apologetic as Anti-Judaism in Justin's Dialogue ...
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  • The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab ) generally refers to those persons who speak Arabic as their native tongue. There are estimated to be over ...
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  • The Doctors' plot (Russian language: дело врачей (doctors' affair), врачи-вредители (doctors-saboteurs) or ...
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  • Ephrem the Syrian (306 – 373) was a deacon, prolific writer of hymns, and theologian of the fourth century. He is venerated by Christians throughout ...
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  • Kristallnacht kr,ɪst.aɫ.n'ɒxt (literally Crystal night [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kristallnacht/frame.htm Kristallnacht ...
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  • In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding ...
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  • Jozef Tiso (October 13, 1887 – April 18, 1947) was a Roman Catholic priest and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Parochial school is a term used (particularly in the United States) to describe a school ...
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  • Yuli Markovich Daniel ( Юлий Маркович Даниэль ) (November 15, 1925 – December 30, 1988) was a Soviet dissident writer, poet ...
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  • Philip Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was, for over 35 years, one of America's leading anti-war and anti-nuclear activists ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Rank, Otto category:image wanted Otto Rank (April 22, 1884 – October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund ...
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  • Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist, textual critic and anti-Manchu revolutionary. His philological works ...
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  • The term bard (бард) refers to popular poets who put their verses to song. It came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s (and ...
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  • Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist and pacifist. He was an ordained minister who ...
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  • stands as a shameful reminder of Christian anti-Judaism for which the Catholic Church only recently was compelled to apologize. Nor can Cyril be excused ...
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  • The Truman Doctrine was a proclamation by United States President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947. It stated that the U.S. would support Greece ...
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  • Federalist No. 2, titled "Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence", is a political essay written by John Jay. It was the ...
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  • Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c. 300 – 368 C.E.), also known as Hilarius, was bishop of Poitiers in Gaul (today's France) and an eminent doctor ...
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  • Franjo Tuđman (May 14, 1922 - December 10, 1999) was the first president of Croatia from 1990 until 1999. He was reelected twice and remained ...
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His prolific and ...
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  • Maurice Blanchot (September 27, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher, literary theorist and ...
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  • The term frigate has been used for warships of many sizes and roles. In the eighteenth century, the term referred to ships that were as long ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:ColoredDrinking.jpg|thumb|275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored ...
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  • category:image wanted Meir David Kahane (Kahane being a variation on Cohen or "priest") also known by the pseudonym Michael King, David ...
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  • The Arab-Israeli conflict ( الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي , הסכסוך הישראלי ערבי ) spans nearly a century of ...
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  • Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov ( Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв ) (October 1, 1912 – June 15, 1992), also known as Lev Gumilev, was ...
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  • Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian"Niemöller, (Friedrich ...
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  • An ulcer (from Latin ulcus) is a lesion or eroded area on the surface of the skin or mucous membranes characterized by tissue disintegration ...
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  • Nelly Sachs, (December 10, 1891 – May 12, 1970) was a German poet and dramatist, whose Nazi experience transformed her into a poignant spokesperson ...
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  • Federalist No. 10 (Federalist Number 10) is an essay by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers, a series arguing for the ratification ...
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  • Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known for his contributions to the ...
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  • The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation of the Channel Islands by the Third Reich during World War II which lasted ...
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  • Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was the bishop of Rome from 461 to February 28, 468. Earlier he was Pope Leo I's envoy to the ...
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  • Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald ...
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  • category:image wanted Lutuli, Albert John Albert John Lutuli (also known by his Zulu name "Mvumbi"; his surname is sometimes and probably ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Singer, Margaret Margaret Thaler Singer (July 29, 1921 – November 23, 2003) was a clinical psychologist ...
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  • Atheism (from Greek: a + theos + ismos "not believing in god") refers in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the ...
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  • Mechanism is a philosophical perspective that holds that phenomena are solely determined by mechanical principles, therefore, they can be adequately ...
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  • Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of what exists, and, more specifically, what exists by itself, underlying the ...
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  • Ida Bell Wells, also known as Ida B. Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931), was an African-American journalist, civil rights activist ...
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  • Michael Servetus (also Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto) (September 29, 1511 – October 27, 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, and humanist. ...
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  • The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United States on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Garrison, William Lloyd [[Image:william_garrison.jpg|thumb|240px|William Lloyd ...
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  • Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1861 - 1916) was a French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential work in the philosophy ...
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  • An antiproton (symbol Antiproton , pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton. An antiproton is relatively stable, but it is typically ...
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  • André-Gustave Citroën (November 2, 1878 - July 3, 1935) was a French Jewish entrepreneur of Dutch and Polish descent. He is remembered chiefly ...
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  • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) is a well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme Court. He ...
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  • The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas ...
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  • In philosophy, metaethics—sometimes known as analytic ethics—is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties ...
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  • inquisitor, crusader, and inciter of anti-Judaism. He was born at Capistrano, near Naples in Italy, in 1385. He studied and practiced both secular ...
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  • Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868), was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. With Charles ...
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  • The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the belief in a religious (and often political) savior figure who inaugurates ...
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  • Amiri Baraka (October 7, 1934 - January 9, 2014) was an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. Writing in the generation ...
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  • Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to in history as Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a sequence of violent events involving anti-slavery ...
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  • Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (also transliterated as Boulat Okudjava/Okoudjava/Okoudzhava; Булат Шалвович Окуджава ...
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  • Ammunition, often referred to as ammo, is a generic term meaning the assembled set of components that makes up whatever is to be fired from a ...
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  • Ockham's razor is a principle attributed to the fourteenth century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally ...
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  • The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: Tratado de Tordesillas), signed at Tordesillas (now in Valladolid province ...
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  • Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to the nature of sums of simpler ...
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  • Béla Kun (February 20, 1886 – August 29, 1938), born Béla Kohn, was a Hungarian Communist politician, who ruled Hungary, as the leader of ...
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  • A fishing reel is a device used for the deployment and retrieval of fishing line using a spool mounted on an axle. Fishing reels are traditionally ...
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  • Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods of tolerance and spasms of antisemitic violence. In the nineteenth century ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Lionel Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. Trilling was a ...
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  • The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics, religion, and technology ...
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  • Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ...
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  • Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French militant, institutional psychotherapist, and philosopher. Guattari is ...
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  • William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall or Tyndall) (ca. 1494–September 6, 1536) was a sixteenth century Protestant reformer and scholar ...
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  • In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is one of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, infamously known as the betrayer ...
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery ...
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  • Incense is a material composed of aromatic organic materials that release fragrant smoke when burned. The term incense refers to the substance ...
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  • Sòng Qìnglíng or Soong Ch'ing-ling ( s=宋庆龄|t=宋慶齡|p=Sòng Qìnglíng|w=Sung Ch'ing-ling ) (January 27, 1893 – May 29 ...
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  • Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 - November 29, 2023) was a German-born U.S. diplomat, Nobel laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of ...
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  • Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин яр, Babyn yar; Russian: Бабий яр, Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, located between ...
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  • Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 30, 1971) and Richard A. Loeb ...
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  • General Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San) ( MY=Image:BogyokeAungSan.png|MLCTS=buil hkyup aung hcan: ; bòʊdʒoʊʔ àʊn sʰán ); February 13, 1915 ...
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  • The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the ...
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  • Mozi or Mo-tzu (墨子, Lat. as Micius, Pinyin Mozu,, original name Mo Ti, also spelled Motze, Motse, or Micius), (ca. 470 B.C.E. –ca. 390 ...
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  • Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (April 8, 1859 – April 26, 1938), philosopher, is known as the "father" of phenomenology, a major ...
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  • Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American politician and a long-time member of the United ...
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  • Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and government official. Dana was in many ways ...
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  • Euthanasia (from Greek: ευθανασία -ευ, eu, "good," θάνατος, thanatos, "death") is the practice of terminating ...
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  • Anneliese Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929—February/March, 1945) was a German born Jewish refugee who died in Bergen-Belsen. Her ...
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  • Menachem Begin ( מְנַחֵם בְּגִין , (August 16, 1913 - March 9, 1992) was head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, a Nobel ...
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  • In Christian theology, fideism is the position that reason is irrelevant to religious faith. Fideism can be both a response to anti-religious ...
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  • Federalist No. 78 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth of The Federalist Papers. Like all of The Federalist papers, it was published ...
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  • Antitrust laws, or competition laws, are laws which prohibit anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices. The laws make illegal certain ...
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  • Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, 1728 – October 19, 1814) was an American writer, poet, and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience ...
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  • Nadine Gordimer (November 20, 1923 - July 13, 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and Nobel laureate. Her writing dealt with ...
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  • Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were American Communists ...
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  • Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, Librarian of Congress, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer ...
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  • General Rubén Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, better known as Fulgencio Batista (pronounced fulˈɣensio baˈtista̩ )—January 16, 1901 – ...
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  • Lavender is the common name for any of the various plants of the flowering plant genus Lavandula of the mint family (Lamiaceae). In particular ...
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  • Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich ( Ла́зарь Моисе́евич Кагано́вич ) (November 22, 1893 - July 25, 1991) was a Soviet politician ...
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  • François Villon (ca. 1431 - ca. 1474) was a French poet, thief, and general vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade ...
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  • Steve Bantu Biko (December 18, 1946 – September 12, 1977) was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s ...
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  • The term Ahmadi (Urdu: احمدیہ Ahmadiyya) refers to the followers of a controversial religious movement that emerged in Qadian ...
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  • Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 – March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of baroque operas and opera seria. He was also a teacher ...
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  • Ahn Chang Ho, or An Chang-ho, pen name Dosan, (November 9, 1878 – March 10, 1938) was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders ...
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  • The Spanish Inquisition was founded in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and was under the direct ...
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  • Sciatica, otherwise known as sciatic nerve dysfunction, is a condition of pain or discomfort associated with the sciatic nerve. It is caused ...
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  • Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things or actions with an inner meaning the expression of Christian ideas. In a greater ...
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  • Seán O'Casey (March 30, 1880 – September 18, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed nationalist and socialist, ...
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  • Mircea Eliade (March 9, 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, and novelist notably ...
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  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in United States created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed ...
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  • Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Martinique-born French author and essayist. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of ...
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  • Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain, commonly caused by a viral infection. An inflammation that includes both the brain and the ...
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  • Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the Balfour Declaration led to the creation of the modern State of Israel as ...
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  • category:image wanted The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia ...
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  • Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was among the first female attorneys in the United States and in 1879, she became ...
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  • Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Frank O’Connor (born Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan) (September 17, 1903 – March 10, 1966) was an Irish ...
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  • Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum ...
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