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- Egyptian soul (5527 bytes)
2: ...the Akh, the Sheut, and the Ren. During life, the soul, including those of animals, and of gods, was th...
5: ... placing it in large amounts of writings. For example, part of the [[History of Greek and Roman Egypt|...
8: ...as represented as a small human figure painted completely black.
16: == Ba (soul/personality) ==
18: ...e often called the ''ba'' of their owner). Like a soul, the ''ba'' is a part of a person that lives afte...
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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...n from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[log...
7: ...ome and includes the Greek philosophers such as [[Plato]]. The Medieval period runs until roughly the ...
12: ...ruth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argue fallaciously to prove whatever conclusi...
14: ...thens had a direct [[democracy]]. It's known from Plato's writings that many sophists maintained schoo...
16: ...d truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples. He was executed in [[399 BCE]] on the charge t... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
12: ...ries, as tending in her opinion to prevent the complete amalgamation of [[Scandinavia]]. But with her ...
24: ... the condition that [[Roman Mass|Masses]] for her soul would be said regularly in all future. At the [[R... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...ct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concen...
14: ...d begun to discuss the problems faced by young people (especially women) as they pass through adolesce...
18: ...tudy among a small group of [[Samoa]]ns -- 600 people -- in which she got to know, lived with, observe...
28: ...the same ethnocentric sexual puritanism as the people Boas and Mead once shocked. In 1983, the [[Ameri...
33: ...e high-population density areas were not, for example, present in the same way in Oksapmin, West Sepik... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...oul and sheer conviction. She is renowned for her soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at [[jazz]],...
8: ... Franklin had earned the nickname ''"The Queen of Soul"'', having become an internationally famous artis...
14: ...",'' written by her sister Carolyn which became a soul classic.
33: *[[1956]] ''[[The Gospel Soul of Aretha Franklin]]''
46: *[[1968]] ''[[Lady Soul]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ..., her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. S...
26: *''Hour of the Soul'' poem by Marina Tsvetaeva for large wind orchest... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...e:Janis Joplin-In Concert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live ...
2: ...sional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for ...
4: ... in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and ...
6: ...ovement was still in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues h...
10: ...together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the la... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...t as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...e, where he was found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this perio...
17: ...ster Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other women (John 19:26). Mary cr...
19: Of the roughly 100 people in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day...
27: ...was conceived. They took her to live in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] when she was three years old, muc... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: She was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]] in [[1973]] , the [[Nobel Peace Prize...
22: ...nted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are...
24: ... she converted an abandoned [[Hinduism|Hindu]] temple into the [[Kalighat Home for the Dying]], a free...
29: ...ity Brothers was founded in [[1963]], and a contemplative branch of the Sisters followed in [[1976]]. ...
35: ... we do to promote world peace?" Her answer was simple: "Go home and love your family." In the same yea... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
10: ... to fine cuisine. She learned to cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. ...
14: ... Times]]'' [[newspaper]] as "an opening up of the soul and spirit for me". In Paris, she attended the fa...
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34: ...rs during a series of [[stroke]]s in 1989. The couple did not have children. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
8: ...ven. The Bolenders were a religious couple who supplemented their meager income by being foster parent...
15: ...3.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']]
22: By 1952 Zanuck was nearly convinced and she played her first role as a leading lady in ''Don't B...
23: ...l, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her unique connect...
25: ...ppeared in the first edition of his new magazine, Playboy in December 1953. It was a smash hit. And wh... - Brain (22060 bytes)
5: ...n neurons. The [[human brain]] is particularly complex and enlarged.
9: ...y [[complex]] brains: the [[arthropod]]s (for example, [[insect]]s and [[crustacean]]s), the [[cephalo...
11: ... known as [[allocortex]] (Martin, 1996). More complex vertebrates like mammals have developed six-lay...
25: ...the brain. [[Artificial intelligence]] seeks to replicate brain function (although not necessarily bra...
30: ...rimental) artificial vision for deaf and blind people, and [[brain pacemaker]]s are now common to regu... - Pineal gland (4403 bytes)
7: ...gland is a midline structure and is often seen in plain skull [[X-ray]]s as it is often calcified.
23: ...ogeous chemical in the human brain is believed to play a role in dreaming and possibly near-death expe...
29: ...omy of the human brain in being a structure not duplicated on the right and left sides. This observati... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...began with the discoveries of [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], and others at t...
9: ...irely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. That is, at that tim...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though ...
24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler)
33: ...beyond real dispute. If you measure what either Kepler or Galileo discovered against everything discov... - Nose flute (4426 bytes)
1: The '''nose flute''' is a musical instrument played in [[Polynesia]] and the [[Pacific rim]] coun...
3: In [[Zaire]], [[southern Africa]], it is played by eight different ethnic groups,(see entry i...
5: ...inst the bottom of the nostril itself, (as in the playing position used for the ''kaleleng'').
7: ...ic factor in acceptance or rejection of the flute player's attentions.
9: ...ode to vent hole so two alternating scales can be played, one scale at a time. - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
27: ...ng|fishers]] and [[hunter-gatherer|gathering]] peoples using [[stone tool]]s (see [[10th millennium BC...
29: ...y lakes that resulted from seasonal rains. The people who settled there must have realized the benefit...
31: The descendants of these people may well have begun Egyptian civilization in the...
39: ...t Egyptians considered themselves to be '''The People of Two Lands''', these lands being Lower and Upp...
41: ...the central government were typically open-air temples constructed of wood or sandstone. - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...name ''Africa terra'' — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern...
37: ...[[Prester John]], [[14th century]] [[European]] explorers arrived in Africa.
51: ...side by side with no buffer between them. For example, the [[Congo River]], although it appears to be ...
53: ...hat had substantial European populations, for example [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], systems of se...
55: ...the region later. The terms to the indigenous peoples eventually came to describe a persons economic ... - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
9: ... most widely accepted estimate for its date of completion is [[26th century BC|2580 BC]]; it is the ol...
17: ...-metre tall spire of [[Lincoln Cathedral]] was completed in around [[1300]]CE. The accuracy of work is...
24: ...optical precision many of which being off of true plane for their entire surface area by as little as ...
28: ...in the construction of the structures on the Giza plateau and elsewhere in Northern Egypt, is made of ...
32: ...anism for the release of a huge stone block which plugged the ascending passage. The entire upper part... - Body (1664 bytes)
1: ...' material of an individual, and contrasts with [[soul]], [[personality]] and [[behavior]].
3: [[Plant]]s composed of more than one [[cell (biology)|... - Egyptian pyramids (20601 bytes)
11: ...gned to serve as a gigantic stairway by which the soul of the deceased pharaoh could ascend to the heave...
25: ...configuration was found to be less stable than simply stacking horizontal courses on top of each other...
27: ...ds was much reduced, and poor quality limestone replaced granite as the chief building material. Infil...
41: ...haelogicical consensus is that not only was it completed, but that it was originally about the same si...
49: ''Main article:'' [[Giza pyramid complex]] - Horus (19927 bytes)
10: ...Due to [[Egyptian soul|Egyptian beliefs about the soul]], the bodies of the deceased royalty were [[mumm...
12: ...aning ''(ones) of the djeba'' (the reason for the plural is not understood, and may just have been a r...
17: ... that the moon was not as bright as the sun was explained by a tale, known as the ''contestings of Hor...
19: ...orus' right eye had also been gouged out, which explained why the moon, which it represented, was so w...
21: ... hellenic era. Consequently Ra and Horus never completely merged into a single falcon-headed sun god.
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