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- ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French ... Antoinette Laurent, was the daughter of a clothing salesman,Pierre ...30 KB (4,372 words) - 16:49, 21 May 2024
- the Latin or Turkish), is the founder of Islam—the world's second ... and Medina are cities in the Hejaz region of present day Saudi Arabia. He ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 03:42, 24 May 2024
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- identities. The term is used in a variety of ways to describe phenomena ... Many contemporary advocates of identity politics take an intersectional ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- when the last Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings), Yazdegerd III (632 ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- Landscape Painting depicts the scenery of the natural world with the ... was for effect. Tintoretto, Saint Mary of Egypt in Meditation, 1585 ...61 KB (9,394 words) - 08:50, 10 June 2024
- Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...60 KB (8,560 words) - 12:29, 1 February 2024
- a table or platform, for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices ... historical-medieval faiths also made use of them, including the Roman, ...49 KB (7,532 words) - 23:19, 9 May 2024
- site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be ... Eastern Orthodox until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It ...218 KB (31,706 words) - 16:46, 13 June 2024
- religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. It is the world ... concerning justification and the nature of salvation, ecclesiology, ordination ...283 KB (39,423 words) - 20:00, 23 June 2024
- physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist ... Some time later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- and a national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder ... As a fiery, socio-political critic of American Christianity's ...49 KB (7,838 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... for her day. She sought the attention of those who could influence her ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- was cited as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World ... while in high school. With the guidance of Arista Records chairman Clive ...197 KB (27,840 words) - 23:40, 20 June 2019
- (The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together ... composition and many other properties of a star by observing its spectrum ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
