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101art and architecture, Mesopotamian — Introduction the art and architecture of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. The name Mesopotamia has been used with varying connotations by ancient writers. If, for convenience, it is to be considered synonymous with the modern… …
102Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: Mount Olympus Meets the Middle Kingdom — Introduction officially Games of the XXIX Olympiad The Games of the XXIX Olympiad, involving some 200 Olympic committees and as many as 13,000 accredited athletes competing in 28 different sports, were auspiciously scheduled to begin at 8 …
103Ethereal being — Water nymph by John Collier, 1923. Ethereal beings, according to some belief systems and occult theories, are mystic entities that usually are not made of ordinary matter. Despite the fact that they are believed to be essentially incorporeal,… …
104Domestic policy of Evo Morales — Evo Morales addressing the Bolivian congress in 2008 The domestic policy of Evo Morales refers to the domestic policy initiatives of the current President of Bolivia, including past pre presidential advocacies by Morales …
105Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …
106Rafael Caldera — Infobox President | name=Rafael Caldera order= 54th President of Venezuela term start=March 11, 1969 term end=March 12, 1974 predecessor=Raúl Leoni successor=Carlos Andrés Pérez order2=60th President of Venezuela term start2=February 2, 1994 term …
107poetry — poetryless, adj. /poh i tree/, n. 1. the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. 2. literary work in metrical form; verse. 3. prose with poetic qualities. 4. poetic… …
108eastern Africa — ▪ region, Africa Introduction part of sub Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.… …
109Psychology — (from Greek gr. ψῡχή, psȳkhē , breath, life, soul ; and gr. λογία, logia ) is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. Psychologists study such phenomena as perception, cognition, emotion …
110Rubén Darío — Infobox Writer name = Félix Rubén García Sarmiento imagesize = 150px caption = Rubén Darío has been praised as The prince of Castilian letters and Father of Modernism pseudonym = Rubén Darío birthdate = January 18, 1867 birthplace = Metapa, today …
