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  • The etymology of the German Hünenbett or Hünengrab and Dutch Hunebed all invoke the imagery of giants building the structures. Of other Celtic ...
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  • fundamental to the philosophical work of German mathematician and rationalist ... German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) transformed the notion ...
    12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
  • supporting the development of creativity, language, and social skills.[http://www ... While the German idealism and Christian aspects that Froebel and other ...
    23 KB (3,350 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
  • es Salaam remained a small port until the German East Africa Company established ... The British captured German East Africa during World War I (1914-1918 ...
    19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
  • was during this period that ninety-three German intellectuals, including ... Hitler’s “Evangelical Church of the German Nation,” arguing that all ...
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  • and is related to: Greek poros, Latin portus, German Furt. As a loanword from Norwegian, it is the only word in the English language ...
    16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
  • Russell—were heavily influenced by the German philosopher and mathematician ... Logic and philosophy of language were central strands of analytic ...
    27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German ... is now considered authoritative. The German-language edition of Gadamer& ...
    17 KB (2,611 words) - 05:03, 25 June 2024
  • Arabic, and the Ancient Egyptian writing language of hieroglyphs. The coins ... The Egyptian Museum of Berlin (German: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung ...
    12 KB (1,932 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
  • Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... in World War I, of "an insult to the German heroes of the great war" ...
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  • Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher ... Edith Stein was born in Breslau, in the German Empire's Prussian ...
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  • the period of the Cold War. Prior to German reunification, East Germany ... Europe was defined by nineteenth-century German nationalists to be synonymous ...
    17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
  • "God is dead" (German: "Gott ist tot") is a widely-quoted and sometimes misconstrued statement by German philosopher Friedrich ...
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  • weekly in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French (plus a monthly ... The Vatican has no set official language, it can be changed at any ...
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  • and has the strongest economy of any German city. It ranks consistently ... is derived from the Old German word mönche, which means "monks ...
    26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
  • 18, 1777 – November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist ... He was by far the most important North German dramatist of the Romantic ...
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  • The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its ... Ierosolimitanorum, or "Order of the German House of St. Mary in Jerusalem ...
    34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
  • duchy, were styled dukes by decree of the German king, and exercised imperial ... The ethnic make-up of Switzerland is German 65 percent, French 18 ...
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  • theologian and religious scholar in the German Protestant tradition. He ... and early twentieth century liberal German academia. In spite of his ...
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  • Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after ... The name Cologne derives from the German name Köln, which in turn ...
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