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- The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, comets, ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- Sun Zi (Chinese: 孫, 子, Sūn Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu) (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵, 法) ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Sun Myung Moon ( ko|문선명 , ko|文鮮明 ), (February 25, 1920 (lunar: January 6, 1920) – September 3, 2012), was born in North Pyeongan ...69 KB (10,533 words) - 13:50, 28 April 2023
- Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Traditional Chinese: 孫中山 or 孫逸仙; Pinyin: Sūn Zhōngshān; or "Sun Yixian") (November 12, 1866 – March ...36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
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- Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg ...230 bytes (29 words) - 14:50, 31 December 2022
- In Mesopotamian religion Shamash was the Akkadian name of the sun god, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. In mythology, Shamash was the son of the ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- The astronomical unit (abbreviated variously as AU, au, a.u. or ua) is a unit of length roughly equal to the mean distance of the Earth from ...8 KB (1,072 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- Nanna, also called Sîn (or Suen) was a Sumerian god who played a longstanding role in Mesopotamian religion and mythology. He was the god of ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- In common terminology, twilight is the time interval shortly before sunrise or right after sunset, when sunlight strikes the Earth's upper ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 20:41, 17 January 2024
- The ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that means life or living. Ancient Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia, Anu (also An—from Sumerian An = sky, heaven) was a sky-god and the ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- Tommaso Campanella (September 5, 1568 – May 21, 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, Counter-Reformation ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- Ishtar, a goddess of both fertility and war, is the Akkadian name of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and the Semitic goddess Astarte, the three names ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- Richard Lowell Rubenstein (January 8, 1924 - May 16, 2021) was a renowned American educator in religion, rabbi, and writer, noted particularly ...16 KB (2,308 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- The ecliptic is the apparent path that the Sun traces out in the sky during the year. As it appears to move in the sky in relation to the stars ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- in the hall of Alcinous (Odyssey viii.300ff) the Sun-God, Helios, once spied Ares and Aphrodite enjoying each other secretly in the hall of Hephaestus ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- Category:Public Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The late Dr. Sang Hun Lee, a disciple of Reverend Moon, ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- Frederick Earl Sontag (October 2, 1924 – June 14, 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author. He taught at ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- The Oort cloud, alternatively termed the Öpik-Oort cloud, is a hypothetical spherical cloud of comets situated about 50,000 to 100,000 astronomical ...10 KB (1,441 words) - 10:34, 11 March 2023
- The Peace Cup is a football (soccer) tournament held every two years in South Korea. The eight-team event, began in 2003, capitalizing on South ...12 KB (1,783 words) - 07:06, 23 November 2022
- Agnosticism is the philosophical or religious view that the truth value of certain claims — particularly claims regarding the existence of ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- Total depravity (also called total inability and total corruption) is a theological doctrine that derives from the Augustinian doctrine of original ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- Nimbarka (Śrī Nimbārkācārya श्री निम्बार्काचार्य), was a Hindu philosopher and commentator, known ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
