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- Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
1: [[Image:Margaret_Mead.jpg|frame|Margaret Mead]]
5: ...r, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Colum...
7: ...y enough for the general public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
20: She concluded that the passage from childhood to adulthood--the period of "adolesce... - Proletariat (3268 bytes)
1: The '''proletariat''' (from [[Latin]] ''proles'', offspring) is a term used...
17: ...]], as well as a warning on the effect of trading freedom for security in future societies. George Orw... - Space (10661 bytes)
6: ...damental [[abstract]] mathematical [[concept]]ual framework (together with [[time]] and [[number]]) wi...
16: * That which separates objects from one another
47: ... think (and talk) about the world. Another way to frame this is to ask, "Can space itself be measured,...
49: ...s, but rather both are elements of a systematic [[framework]] we use to structure our experience. Spa...
51: ...en by [[Isaac Newton]] (space is absolute), [[Gottfried Leibniz]] (space is relational), and [[Henri P... - Art (11479 bytes)
11: ... some extent, and [[child art]] is created by all from about the first birthday.
52: The word ''art'' derives from the [[Latin]] ''ars'', which, loosely translate...
74: ... is often described as a lay critique and derives from the fact that in [[Western culture]] at least, ...
84: From one [[point of view|perspective]], art is a gen...
92: ...f art and [[aesthetic]] arguments usually proceed from one of several possible perspectives. Art may b... - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: The word religion is thought to derive from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The fi...
25: ...sion, see [[approaches to distinguishing religion from non-religion]].
38: *An ethical framework, including a definition of activities whic...
53: ... Commandments]] of the [[Old Testament]], flowing from the beliefs rather than being defined by the be...
54: ...xt|texts they hold as sacred]] uniquely different from other writings, and which records or is the bas... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...d by the ideas of [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]], [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]...
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - Philosophy (30964 bytes)
1: The term '''philosophy''' derives from a combination of the [[Greek language|Greek]] w...
5: ...is tradition distinct and distinct field of study from Western philosophy. This article will discusse...
15: ...t to be beautiful? How do beautiful things differ from the everyday? What is [[Art]]?
19: [[Image:laozi3.jpg|frame|right|[[Lao Zi]] ]]
25: The word "philosophy" is derived from the ancient Greek (''Φιλο&#... - Theatre (9476 bytes)
5: ...g arts]] concerned with [[acting]] out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, g...
8: ...is that branch of theatre in which speech, either from written text ([[play]]s), or [[improvisation|im...
10: .... According to [[Aristotle]]'s seminal theatrical critique ''[[Poetics]]'', there are six elements necessary...
25: "[[Comedy]]" Comes from the Greek word ''komos'' which means celebratio...
60: ...e today is such that its practitioners can borrow from all of these elements and more, and present som... - Samuel Bellamy (2712 bytes)
3: Whydah was the name of a trading post in Africa near ivory coast. Gally is spelled galley toda...
7: ...Bey]]'s [[Temporary Autonomous Zone]], which is a Free text.
15: :''"You are a devilish conscience rascal, I am a free prince, and I have as much authority to make wa...
17: ...nd W.R. Owens (1994). ''Defoe De-Attributions : A Critique of J.R. Moore's Checklist''. London: Hambledon Pr... - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
7: ...me, Soviet-era management practices, a decaying infrastructure, and inefficient supply systems hinder ...
9: ... Economic policy was made according to directives from the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Commu...
13: ...e fulfilled. Responsibility for production flowed from the top down. At the national level, some seven...
19: ...od. But other fundamental parts of the economic infrastructure, such as commercial banking and authori...
21: ...ake it difficult to convert economic measurements from rubles to dollars to make statistical compariso... - Comic book (4367 bytes)
14: **[[Franco-Belgian comics]] - ''Bande Dessin饬 BD''
27: * ''[[Asterix]]'' ([[France|French]])
30: ...n|Clifton]]'' ([[the Netherlands|Dutch]]/[[France|French]]) [http://www.clifton.nl]
62: *[[Prix de la critique]] - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
16: ...ps in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ... - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (15483 bytes)
1: ... [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]], and by the [[French Revolution]]. Many consider Hegel's thought ...
5: ...the [[French Revolution]] and collaborated in a [[critique]] of the [[idealist]] philosophies of [[Immanuel ...
7: ...tics, and the history of philosophy were compiled from the lecture notes of his students and published...
9: ...al [[government]] and the revolutionary ideals of freedom and equality.
11: ...is formal existence-for-self, personality, formal freedom, such as belongs to Spirit only."'' - Buddhist philosophy (14386 bytes)
6: ... and non-being, and this critique is inextricable from the founding of Buddhism.
25: ... process of maturation and that we - regarding it from without - can call morality."''
33: Decisive in distinguishing [[Buddhism]] from what is commonly called [[Hinduism]] is the iss...
41: ====Issues arising from the doctrine of anatta====
52: ...grates and that which carries the burden of karma from one life to another. Other schools made unsurpr... - Quran (41479 bytes)
6: ...umbers, but by an Arabic name derived in some way from the sura. (See [[sura|List of sura names]].) Th...
14: ...1; Arabic. There are few other examples of Arabic from that time. (The ''[[Mu'allaqat]]'', or ''Suspen...
24: ...e, exhortation, and legal prescription. The suras frequently combine all these modes, not always in wa...
46: ...-final consonants. Some suras also include a [[refrain]] repeated every few verses, for instance [[ar...
52: ...ndness. And it is not lawful for you that ye take from women aught of that which ye have given them; e... - New Deal (82408 bytes)
2: ...ams implemented between 1933-37 under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] with the goal of relief, rec...
7: ...nses to the critical situation."<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky People'' (1998) p. 59.</ref>
11: ... Milton. [http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/friedman.php ''Interview with John Hawkins''. Right ...
13: ...y, big city machines, labor unions, European and African-American minorities (now called "ethnics"), s...
18: ... 1929–1933, unemployment in the U.S. soared from 4% of the workforce to 25%, while manufacturing... - Time (15299 bytes)
9: ...ndard [[unit]] for time is the [[SI]] [[second]], from which larger units are defined like the [[minut...
23: ... is part of a fundamental [[abstract]] conceptual framework (together with [[space]] and [[number]]) w...
27: ... think (and talk) about the world. Another way to frame this is to ask, "Can time itself be measured, ...
31: ...tention between [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]. Newton believed time was, l...
33: ...s, but rather both are elements of a systematic [[framework]] we use to structure our experience. Spa... - Democracy (24363 bytes)
4: ...μοκρατ�mp;alpha; from δημος meaning "the ...
10: ...|slaves]], and foreigners being excluded from the franchise. Only an estimated 16% of the total popula...
14: ...various forms of non-democratic rule. [http://www.freedomhouse.org/reports/century.html]
24: *voting which is not truly free and fair (e.g., through intimidation of those v...
32: ... [[civil rights|individual rights]] are protected from a simple majority vote, inversely; in [[illiber... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
1: ...pic Games''', runners relay the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] to the opening cere...
3: ...e|French]] nobleman, [[Pierre de Coubertin|Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin]] in the late [[19t...
15: From that moment on, the Games slowly became more im...
25: ...t few centuries, similar events were organized in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale an...
27: ...0–1871). He thought the reason was that the French had not received proper physical education, a... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
8: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
14: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
18: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
20: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c...
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