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- Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ...onius of Perga|Apollonius]]'s ''Conics'' and on [[Ptolemy]]'s works, but none have survived. Letters ...
8: ...gans and tolerant Christians on the one side, and dogmatic Christians who demanded the final destruction ...
14: ...s were rewritten to suit the prevailing Christian dogma, which may also relate to the difficulty of findi...
47: ...aps informed by after-the-fact romanticized descriptions of her which imply youth. Many authors presum... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
38: ...me'', her follow-up to ''Alanis''. The album attempted to move Morissette away from her debut album's ...
113: ..."You Learn" and "Head Over Feet", respectively, kept ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'' in the [[Billboard mag...
138: .... Morissette didn't release ''Jagged Little Pill, Pt. 2'', which would have been the commercially savv...
162: ...God]] in the [[motion picture]] ''[[Dogma (movie)|Dogma]]'', directed by [[Kevin Smith]]. Smith, who clai...
166: ==''Under Rug Swept'' era (2002-2004)== - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
2: ...ים''' '''Maryām''' "Bitter"; [[Septuagint]] [[Greek language|Greek]] '''Μα&...
6: ...azareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothing of the account of his l...
8: ...rch Fathers, and their interpretations of the Scriptures[[#Footnotes|¹]].
15: ... presentation in the temple, the flight into [[Egypt]], and their return in the following year and res...
21: Her death is not recorded in Scripture. - Cartography (10500 bytes)
9: ...P/PUB93/NSC/NSCFIG7.html]. The [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]]ians later used geometry to survey land and to r...
11: ...earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
19: ...rojection around [[200s BCE|200 BCE]]. [[Claudius Ptolemy]] developed map projections as well, includi...
21: ...nd Islamic philosophers adhered to the Greek conception of a spherical earth.
30: ... accurate reproductions from more accurate data. Optical technology, such as the [[telescope]], [[sext... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
5: | date1=[[September 20]], [[1881]]
18: ... seeker, on July 2, [[1881]]. Garfield died on September 19th, and Arthur became [[President of the U...
20: ..." for his commitment to fashionable attire. He kept 80 pairs of pants in his wardrobe,and changed pan...
35: ...Convention. Failing in that, they reluctantly accepted the nomination of Arthur for the Vice Presidenc...
37: ...thur became President of the United States on [[September 20]], [[1881]]. - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
15: He attempted, not without success, to give a scientific acco...
18: ...ted on a charge of contravening the established [[dogma]]s of religion (some say the charge was one of [[...
37: No one thing in the world is ever abruptly separated, as by the blow of an axe, from the r...
47: ... only mean a new aggregation (sugkrisis) and disruption
57: The conception of reason in the world passed from him to Aris... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
1: [[Image:aristotle.jpg|right|framed|Aristotle (sculpture)]]
10: ...cal ethics, his most famous works expressed a synoptic view of ethics, metaphysics, reason, knowledge ...
19: ...confiscation or destruction; finally, the manuscripts were rediscovered in [[70 BC]]. [[Andronicus of ...
25: ...ge|Greek]] and [[Arabic language|Arabic]] manuscripts to produce Latin translations. Aristotle's works...
27: ...cholasticism|scholastic]] philosophy. It was this dogma that was rejected by the philosophers of the earl... - DNA (29095 bytes)
10: ...hat this is not necessarily a very accurate description, and that it's only meant as a generic overvie...
30: ...the [[DNA sequence|sequence]] itself is the description for genes;
55: description = Animation of a section of DNA rotating. (1...
63: ...icular through control of replication and transcription. These sequences are frequently called [[regul...
65: Sequence also determines a DNA segment's susceptibility to cleavage by [[restriction enzyme]]s, th... - Christianity (47078 bytes)
6: ...tral and some would argue the most contested concept is " '''The Greatest Command''' " or the "'''New...
14: ...s [[Jesus]] pursuant to the [[Old Testament]] scriptures, was crucified by humanity, died and was buri...
27: ...dicate that the Roman charge was actually an attempt to appease the Jewish authorities, although some ...
35: * via [[Egypt]] into [[North Africa]], [[Sudan]] and [[Ethiopia...
39: ...circumcision]], dietary restrictions and the concept of purity, [[sabbath]], [[quartodecimanism]]) pej... - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: ...d by [[Cicero]] to describe the repetition of scripture. The second interpretation, favoured by more ...
54: * Maintenance and study of scripture, or [[sacred text|texts they hold as sacred]] ...
56: ...er to celebrate holy days, to recite or chant scripture, to [[pray]], to worship, and provide spiritua...
65: ... Christian denominations hold this, with some exceptions, e.g. [[Oneness Pentecostals]], [[Jehovah's W...
92: ...logy|mythologies]] of ancient [[Greece]] and [[Egypt]], and modern [[Paganism|Pagan]] revivals such as... - Pope Zosimus (7180 bytes)
10: ...ent maintained with all authority the traditional dogma of the Church, and protected the truth of the Chu...
12: ...t an independent title, while the African manuscripts contained only the genuine canons of Nicaea, so ... - Niccolo Machiavelli (11084 bytes)
17: The word was also adopted by some of Machiavelli's contemporaries, often ...
25: ... having carefully described the New Epoch without dogmatic constraints! His insight truly is novel!
29: ...ssibility within Modernity through which we are kept awake at night...
33: ...e]]'' (''The Prince''). It was written in an attempt to return to politics as an advisor to [[Lorenzo ...
35: ...e. (Machiavelli references this in the second chapter of The Prince, which begins with the line: "Se... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
30: ...ticus, and having seen that the first general reception of his work had not been favorable, Copernicus...
46: ...ted Aristarchus and Philolaus in an early manuscript of his book which has survived, stating: "Philola...
51: ...other motion to the Earth, by which the axis is kept pointed throughout the year at the same place in ...
53: ...hemerides]] than the then current tables based on Ptolemy's model. Furthermore, he badly underestimate...
55: ... [[Tycho Brahe]], and [[Johannes Kepler]], who adopted, championed and (especially in Kepler's case) i... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
6: ... on belief and piety. Some of its proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence...
12: ...ers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think of them conjoined as one long period...
14: ... and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry into the nature of "knowledge."...
16: ...tise On Wisdom ". . . identified the central concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its theoretical...
20: ...cts, such as Kepler's planetary motion, and the "opticks" which had explained lenses, and began to cre... - Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
1: ...[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed churches]], and [[Anabaptist]]s. It also led to the [[Counter-Reformation]]...
5: * [[Avignon Papacy]] ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), [[Avignon]], [[Western Schi...
15: ...rmers -- [[Thomas_Muentzer|Müntzer]], [[Anabaptists]], [[Menno Simons]]
20: ...ng the population to the financial and moral corruption of the secular [[Renaissance]] church.
32: ...mony and ritual. Going back to ancient texts, scriptures, from this viewpoint the greatest culmination... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
16: ...ass]], and Einstein realized that something in "empty" space acted upon the needle; he would later des...
22: ...hool, where he received his diploma in [[1896]] September. During this time he lodged with Professor J...
26: ...''Eidgen?sche Technische Hochschule'' and was accepted as a Swiss citizen in [[1901]]. During this tim...
31: ...ence of applications despite sometimes poor descriptions, and was taught by the director how "to expre...
43: ...idea of "energy quanta" (which underlies the concept of what is now called [[photon]]s) and showed how... - Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
7: ...dus, and in many other ways) is said to be a corruption of Habélardus, substituted by Abélard himsel...
11: ...iddle Ages]] (to be replaced by Abélard's [[Conceptualism]], or by [[Nominalism]], the principal riva...
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22: ...to pressure. The secret of the marriage was not kept by Fulbert; and when Héloïse boldly denied it, ...
25: ...erpretation of the [[Trinitarianism|Trinitarian]] dogma. Charging him with the heresy of [[Sabellianism|... - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
6: ...iverse array of belief systems, practices and scriptures. It has its origin in the ancient [[Indo-Arya...
8: ... the Hindu spirit of unity in diversity is best captured in a line from the ancient [[Rig Veda]]:
21: ...sa, which means "non-violence." Through this concept, strict movements of vegetarianism and tolerance ...
23: ...m, specifically, [[Smartism]], is most widely accepted to consist of a Holy Trinity. This is comprise...
27: ...trictly and more closely adhere to a Western perception of what a monotheistic faith is. Additionally,... - Judaism (54799 bytes)
8: ..., Daniel Boyarin has argued that "Jewishness disrupts the very categories of identity, because it is n...
14: ...rd your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt..." The belief in the existence of God, that God...
15: ...have no other gods besides Me...Do not make a sculpted image or any likeness of what is in the heavens...
24: ...ite]]s from slavery. After [[the Exodus]] from Egypt, God led them to [[Mount Sinai]] and gave them th...
28: ...e point that God allowed the [[Philistines]] to capture the tabernacle in Shiloh. - Shinto (25829 bytes)
7: ...om [[central Asia]] or [[Indonesia]] that are accepted by most scholars to speculation that links the ...
13: ...ith the introduction of Buddhism and its rapid adoption by the court, it was necessary to explain the ...
15: ... compared to [[yin and yang]].) However, the attempt did set the stage for the arrival of state Shinto...
19: The era of state Shinto came to an abrupt close with the end of [[World War II]]. It appear...
24: ...ing for the next. Shinto has no binding set of [[dogma]], no holiest place for worshippers, no person or...
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