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11Gervase Markham — For Mozilla Foundation employee, see Gervase Markham (programmer). Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (ca. 1568 – February 3, 1637) was an English poet and writer, best known for his work The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues… …
12Carl Ludwig — Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (29 December 1816 ndash; 23 April 1895) was a German physician and physiologist. In 1842 Ludwig became a professor of physiology and in 1846 of comparative anatomy. From professorhips in Zurich and Vienna he went in… …
13Valerian Kalinka — Valerian Kalinka † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Valerian Kalinka Polish historian, born near Cracow in 1826; died at Jaroslaw in 1886. He fled from Poland in 1846 on account of political entanglements, worked on the Czas newspaper in 1848 …
14experience — n. & v. n. 1 actual observation of or practical acquaintance with facts or events. 2 knowledge or skill resulting from this. 3 a an event regarded as affecting one (an unpleasant experience). b the fact or process of being so affected (learnt by… …
15United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
16metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …
17PHILOSOPHY, JEWISH — This article is arranged according to the following outline: WHAT IS JEWISH PHILOSOPHY? recent histories of jewish philosophy biblical and rabbinic antecedents bible rabbinic literature hellenistic jewish philosophy philo of alexandria biblical… …
18Philosophy — • Detailed article on the history of the love of wisdom Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Philosophy Philosophy † …
19BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …
20Mesopotamia, history of — ▪ historical region, Asia Introduction history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world s earliest civilization developed. The name comes from a Greek word meaning “between rivers,” referring to the land between the Tigris and… …