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  • John LaFarge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was one of the most innovative and versatile American artists of the nineteenth century. ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Category:Economists Meyer, Eugene Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 - July 17, 1959) was an American financier ...
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  • John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter, as well as a gifted landscape ...
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  • Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (March 30, 1746 – April 16, 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the ...
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  • category:image wanted [[Image:Mondriaan 1924.jpg|thumb|250px|Piet Mondrian, 1924]] Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, (pronounced: ...
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  • Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, May 17, 1866 – Paris, July 1, 1925) was a French composer, pianist, and writer. Dating from his first composition ...
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  • of European Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but significant individualism flourished within "regional" styles of watercolor painting ...
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  • Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence ...
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  • Percy Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957) was a Canadian-born British painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist ...
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  • De Stijl (in English, generally də ˈstaɪl , after style; from the Dutch for "The Style"— də ˈstɛɪl ), also known as neoplasticism ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Trygve Halvdan Lie (July 16, 1896 – December 30, 1968) was a Norwegian politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first ...
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  • Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author who is considered to be one of the foremost figures ...
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  • Edvard Munch (IPA: [ˈɛdvɑɖ muŋk] ) (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and graphic artist ...
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  • simply mean what is today understood to be post-impressionism. In 1934, Spaniard Federico de Onis used the word postmodernismo as a reaction against ...
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  • The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque ( bɛlepɔk|lang ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and European history, usually ...
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  • Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1554 to 1557 – August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The New York Daily News is the sixth largest daily newspaper in the United ...
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  • Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early third century B.C.E. - after 246 B.C.E.), was an epic poet, scholar, and director ...
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  • Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the ...
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  • Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts ...
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  • Korean painting includes paintings made in Korea or by overseas Koreans on all surfaces, and art dating from the paintings on the walls of Goguryeo ...
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  • William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (March 5, 1879 – March 16, 1963) was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals category:biography Patterson, Eleanor Medill Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson (November 7, 1881 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person in the time period between ...
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  • Post-structuralism refers to the intellectual developments in continental philosophy and critical theory that were outcomes of twentieth-century ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Graham, Katharine [[File:Katherine Graham (48426191266).jpg|300px|thumb|right|Katherine Graham ...
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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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  • Category:Media Professionals Harmsworth, Harold [[Image:Lord Rothermere.jpg|thumb|250px|Lord Rothermere]] Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount ...
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  • Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician whose best-known accomplishment is the proposal ...
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  • Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was one of the most famous and admired American illustrators and painters of ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1533 – 1586) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle of the somewhat ...
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  • Category:Public In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German Ding an sich), and transcendental object are nearly synonymous ...
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  • Andrew Marvell (March 31, 1621 – August 16, 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, who was largely ignored during his lifetime. He rose to ...
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  • Georg Simon Ohm was a German physicist who clarified the fundamental relationships between electric current, voltage, and resistance. This relationship ...
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Arabic: بطرس بطرس غالي) (November 14, 1922 - February 16, 2016) was an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth ...
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  • A neurotransmitter is a chemical that relays information across the gap (synapse) between one neuron (nerve cell) and an adjacent neuron or a ...
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  • John Raleigh Mott (May 25, 1865 – January 31, 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student Christian Federation(WSCF) ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Daily Telegraph, The The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper ...
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  • Heinrich Schütz (October 8, 1585 in Bad Köstritz; November 6, 1672 in Dresden) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the ...
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  • Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) was the pen name of Geōrgios Seferiádēs (March 13, 1900 - September 20, 1971), one of the ...
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  • Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative music" is particularly favored over "alternative rock" ...
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  • John Blow (1649 – October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant English composer of his time. ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Patterson, Alicia Alicia Patterson (October 15, 1906 – July 2, 1963) was the founder and editor of Newsday, one ...
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  • Ise Shinto Shrine or Ise Shrine (Ise-jingū 伊勢神宮) is a Shinto shrine to the goddess Amaterasu ōmikami(天照大神). The Ise Shrine ...
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  • Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German philosopher who developed a unique theistic existential philosophy ...
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  • Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr (September 25, 1822 – February 25, 1877) was a Prussian army officer who emigrated to the ...
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  • Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (Russian: Николай Онуфриевич Лосский) ( December 6|1870|November 24 – January 24, 1965) ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Wolpe, Joseph Joseph Wolpe (April 20, 1915 – December 4, 1997) was a South African-born American psychologist, famous ...
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  • Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. His ironic novels ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Scripps, E. W. [[Image:E_W_Scripps.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|E.W. Scripps, ca.1912]] Edward Wyllis Scripps (June 18 ...
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  • The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as a broadsheet at 3600 New York Avenue NE, Washington, D.C., the paper covers ...
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  • collectors.John Rewald, Studies in Post-Impressionism (Harry N. Abrams, 1986 ... * Rewald, John. Studies in Post-Impressionism. Harry N. Abrams, 1986 ...
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  • The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the Scroll of Ruth") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Classified ...
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  • Julius Rosenwald (August 12, 1862 – January 6, 1932) was an American clothier, manufacturer, business executive, and philanthropist. He is ...
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  • Estonian literature refers to literature written in the Estonian language (c. 1,100,000 speakers). The domination of Estonia after the Northern ...
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  • William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Jones, Ernest [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle of the back row ...
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  • category:image wanted Leiber and Stoller Jerry Leiber (April 25, 1933 - August 22, 2011) and Mike Stoller (March 13, 1933 - ) were a songwriting ...
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  • category:image wanted Erich Honecker (August 25, 1912 – May 29, 1994) was an East German Communist politician who led the German Democratic ...
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  • The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom of Benin, was a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria. There ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Reith, John John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (July 20, 1889 – June 16, 1971) was ...
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  • The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located in the southern cone of South America. It is bordered by the nations of Brazil ...
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  • Hussein bin Ali (1852 – 1931) (حسین بن علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917 ...
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  • The theology of the Death of God, also known as Radical Theology, is a contemporary theological movement challenging traditional Judeo-Christian ...
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  • "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition of a French slogan, "l'art pour l'art'," which was ...
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  • The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic descent who have lived the majority of their lives outside Korea or, simply ...
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  • Agricultural technology refers to technology for the production of machines used on a farm to help with farming. Agricultural machines have been ...
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  • General Lucius Dubignon Clay (April 23, 1897 – April 16, 1978) was an American general and military governor best known for his administration ...
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  • Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted ...
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  • Frances Coralie "Fannie" Perkins (April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years of Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
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  • Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese philosophy was inextricably associated with religion, ethics, aesthetics, political organization and ...
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  • Jaundice, also known as icterus, is a condition in which there is a yellowish discoloration of a person's skin, the whites of the eyes ...
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  • Václav Havel (IPA: [ˈvaːʦlaf ˈɦavɛl] ) (October 5, 1936 - December 18, 2011) was a Czech writer, dramatist, and later a politician. He ...
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  • The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. They ...
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  • The Khitan (or Khitai, c=契丹|p=Qìdān ), are an ethnic group that dominated much of Manchuria (Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese ...
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  • The Warsaw Pact, or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially named the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, ( Договор ...
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  • Category:Media Professionals Pulitzer, Joseph [[Image:Pulitzer.jpg|thumb|250px|Joseph Pulitzer]] Joseph Pulitzer (April 18, 1847 – October 29 ...
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  • The Ilkhanate (also spelled Il-khanate or Il Khanate in سلسله ایلخانی ), was one of the four khanates within the Mongol Empire. It ...
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  • Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (first name alternatively spelled as Vassily or Vasiliy, Василий Семёнович Гроссман ...
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  • James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete. He participated in the ...
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  • The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, who helped create soul music with gospel-style vocals. The Drifters began in 1953 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Powell, John Wesley [[Image:John Wesley Powell USGS.jpg|thumb|John Wesley Powell ...
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  • A shofar ( ˈʃoʊfər —Heb: שופר) is a horn that is used as a musical instrument for Jewish religious purposes. It is intimately connected ...
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  • Tōju Nakae (April 21, 1608 – October 11, 1648) was a Japanese Confucian philosopher known as "the sage of Ōmi." Nakae was a feudal ...
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  • Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 - October 15, 1965) was an American poet and literary critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American ...
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  • Estrogens (also oestrogens) are a group of steroid (type of lipid) compounds that function as the primary female sex hormone. Estrogens are named ...
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  • Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 – March 2, 1949), known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom fighter ...
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  • John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 – 1606) was an English writer and playwright, best known for his prose romance Euphues and his comedic ...
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  • The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ...
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  • St. Thomas Mount is a small hillock located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, near Guindy. The mount is known locally as "Peria Malai" ...
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  • A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the radio gained popularity worldwide, and new media and technologies were developed ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically ...
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  • Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 - November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer especially noted for his work with the Berlin ...
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  • Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...
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  • A muckraker is a journalist, author, or filmmaker who investigates and exposes issues that are generally shocking to the public. Generally, muckraking ...
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  • Anthony Trollope ( April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882 ) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Alimony, maintenance, or spousal support is an obligation established by law in many countries ...
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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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  • Ahn Jung-Geun or An Jung-Geun (September 2, 1879 - March 26, 1910) (Baptismal name: Thomas) was a Korean independence activist. In 1909, during ...
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  • Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny Микола Вікторович Підгорний, Mykola Viktorovych PidhornyyНикола́й Ви́кторович ...
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  • Peter Carl Fabergé (original name Carl Gustavovich Fabergé) (May 30, 1846 – September 24, 1920) was a Russian jeweler, best known for the ...
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  • Cardinals are high ranking ecclesiastical officials in the Roman Catholic Church (and some other Episcopalian organizations) who play key roles ...
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  • Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As ...
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  • Frederik Willem de Klerk (March 18, 1936 – November 11, 2021) was the last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September ...
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  • Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (January 3, 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:IVE Tsing Yi.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education ...
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  • Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Analytical psychology is the movement started by Carl Jung and his followers ...
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  • The Decadent movement (Fr. décadence, “decay”) was a late-nineteenth-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe ...
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  • Julia Child (August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was a famous American cook, author, and television personality who brought French cuisine and ...
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  • Harriet Tubman (c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an abolitionist. As a self-freed slave, she worked as a lumberjack, laundress, nurse, and cook ...
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  • (Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий, November 23, 1890 – December 30, 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Эль Лисицкий ...
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  • (Les) Cahiers du cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze ...
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  • Excalibur, or Caliburn, is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty ...
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  • Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (October 16, 1863 – March 17, 1937), was a British statesman, politician, and recipient of the Nobel Peace ...
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  • Category:Public Hayes, Rutherford B. {{Infobox_President | name=Rutherford Birchard Hayes | image name=President Rutherford Hayes 1870 - 1880.jpg ...
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  • Historicism is a position that holds that all knowledge and cognition are historically conditioned. It is also widely used in diverse disciplines ...
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  • Rodrigo José Ramón Francisco de Jesús Carazo Odio (December 27, 1926 – December 9, 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from May 8, 1978 ...
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  • Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; March ...
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  • Eratosthenes (Greek Ἐρατοσθένης ; 276 B.C.E. – 194 B.C.E.) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Education A school counselor is a counselor and educator who works in schools ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was most well known for his work and involvement in the American Civil Liberties Union ...
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  • Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are ...
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  • Edward Pococke (1604 - 1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being by another. The penalty for ...
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  • Henry Timrod, (December 8, 1828—October 7, 1867), was called The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy by famed Victorian era poet Alfred Lord Tennyson ...
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  • In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, individual or group. Often the artifact--or object ...
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  • Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793– June 27, 1848), archbishop of Paris from 1840, was born at Saint Rome, in the department of Tarn. ...
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  • Sir Surendranath Banerjee (November 10, 1848 – August 6, 1925) was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Raj. He ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City and ...
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  • Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and ...
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  • Analytic philosophy has been the dominant academic philosophical movement in English-speaking countries and in the Nordic countries from about ...
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  • Robert Schuman (June 29, 1886 - September 4, 1963) was a noted French Statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent ...
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  • John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of Zebedee, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Christian tradition identifies ...
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  • Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 – November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, and short story writer. He ...
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  • Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. Known for his humorous personality, Johnson ...
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  • Yury Olesha ( Юрий Карлович Олеша , (May 3, 1899 – May 10, 1960) was a Russian novelist during the early Soviet period. He ...
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  • Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (March 25, 1797 - July 1, 1855) was an Italian philosopher and theologian who set out to re-define the balance between ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based membership organization ...
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  • Adam Smith, FRS (Baptized June 5, 1723 – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish political economist, lecturer and essayist who is principally known ...
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  • Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021) was an American baseball player whose consistently high level of play over a career ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Free verse (occasionally referred to as vers libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using ...
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  • Malachi (מַלְאָכִי, Mál'akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally believed to be written by ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work Category:Sociology Category:Public Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty ...
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  • Nominalism is the philosophical view that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names ...
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  • Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the first president of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991. He played a major role in ...
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  • Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (March 30, 1727 – April 6, 1779) was an Italian composer in the Classical era who was influential ...
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  • The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is, in practice, the political leader of the United Kingdom. He ...
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  • Pietro Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, (January 13, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet best known for his songs ...
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  • Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (July 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore (now the Republic of Singapore) ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Flathead Family.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Flathead family]] ...
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  • Ray Charles, born Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), was a pioneering American pianist, musician and entertainer who ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Itsukushima torii angle.jpg|thumb|200px|A torii at Itsukushima Shrine]] Shinto (Kanji: 神道 Shintō) (sometimes called ...
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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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  • Saadia Ben Joseph Gaon (882-942 C.E.), (Hebrew:סעדיה בן יוסף גאון ) also known by his Arabic name Said al-Fayyumi, was a prominent ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Burt, Cyril [[File:Cyril Burt 1930s.jpg|thumb|Cyril Burt in 1930]] Cyril Lodowic Burt (March 3, 1883 – October 10, 1971 ...
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  • William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was ...
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  • Khan Abdul Wali Khan (Pashto: خان عبدالولي خان) (January 11, 1917 – January 26, 2006) was a Pashtun freedom fighter against the ...
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  • John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America, from ...
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  • Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet Union, bordering Russia, Romania and the Black Sea. From at least the ninth ...
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  • Sei Shōnagon (清少納言), (c. 965 C.E. - c. 1010 C.E.) was a Japanese author and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book ...
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  • An herbicide is an agent used to kill unwanted plants. Selective herbicides kill specific target plants while leaving the desired crop relatively ...
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  • Accra is the capital, the largest city, and the administrative, communications, and economic center of Ghana. Located on the Gulf of Guinea near ...
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  • Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (May 8, 1937 - ) is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. ...
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  • Jibanananda Das (Bangla: জীবনানন্দ দাশ) (February 17, 1899 - October 22, 1954) is the most popular Bengali poet after ...
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  • Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and statesman from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer but a powerful ...
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  • Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war ...
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  • Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (329–January 25, 389 C.E.), also known as Saint Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen, was a fourth century ...
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  • Robert von Ranke Graves (July 24 , 1895 – December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves lived through the developments ...
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  • Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1926 – May 28, 1971) was an American soldier in World War II, who later became an actor, appearing in 44 American ...
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  • Morton A. Kaplan (May 9, 1921 – September 26, 2017) was Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at the University of ...
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  • Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18, 1745) was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the ...
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  • Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunciation: ohr'-fee-uhs) The mythological name "Orpheus" is commonly pronounced "ohr' ...
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  • Thomas Lynch, Jr. (August 5, 1749 – 1779) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina ...
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  • Michael Polanyi (born Polányi Mihály) (March 11, 1891 – February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended ...
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  • Kamo no Chōmei (鴨長明, 1155–1216) was a Japanese author, (waka) poet, essayist, and critic of Japanese vernacular poetry, one of the major ...
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  • Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (June 2, 1857 – February 23, 1934) was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral ...
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  • Relativism is the view or claim that there is no absolute referent for human beliefs, human behaviors, and ethics. Relativists claim that humans ...
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  • William Godwin (March 3, 1756 – April 7, 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first ...
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  • category:image wanted General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Urdu:محمد ضياء الحق) (August 12, 1924 – August 17, 1988) was the president and ...
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  • William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator ...
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