Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein: Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955) was a Jewish theoretical physicist, born in Ulm, Germany, who is widely regarded as the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Einstein - Personality
Albert Einstein was much respected for his kind and friendly demeanor rooted in his pacifism. He was modest about his abilities, and had ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Einstein - Personality
Albert Einstein was much respected for his kind and friendly demeanor rooted in his pacifism. He was modest about his abilities, and had ...   » Read the article

Article - Peace On Earth: Are Religious People Social Misfits?  
The materialist often views a religious person as being unsociable, dogmatic and lacking in intellectual insight.There is a certain pe...   » Read the article

Article - Peace: Golden Rule And You
When I was small, my grandmother told me there was only one main rule in life upon which all others rested. Then she looked me in the eye...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Pais: Encyclopedia - Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais (May 19, 1918 - August 4, 2000) was a Dutch-born physicist. In 1946, Pais served as a personal assistant to Niels Bohr at th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Willem Jacob Van Stockum: Encyclopedia - Willem Jacob Van Stockum
Willem Jacob van Stockum (November 20, 1910-June 10, 1944) was a physicist who made an important contribution to the early development of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Schweitzer: Encyclopedia - Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer, OM, (January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965) was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was bor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General Relativity: Encyclopedia - General Relativity
General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. It unifies special relativity and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autodidacticism: Encyclopedia - Autodidacticism
Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. An autodidact is a mostly self-taught person (also know...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Citizen: Encyclopedia - World Citizen
A world citizen (or citizen of the world) is a person who wishes to transcend the geopolitical divisiveness inherent in the national citi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prediction: Encyclopedia - Prediction
A prediction is a statement or claim that a particular event will occur in the future. The etymology of this word is Latin (from præ- "b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Arrest And Trial
Kaczynski's younger brother David recognized Ted's writing style from the published manifesto and notified authorities. After a team of f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Early Life
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ted Kaczynski was intellectually gifted as a child and known to be extremely shy and aloof. While an infant, K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Early Life And Mathematical Career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ted Kaczynski was intellectually gifted as a child and known to be extremely shy and aloof. While an infant, K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Von Neumann: Encyclopedia Ii - John Von Neumann - Politics And Social Affairs
Von Neumann had experienced a lightning-like academic career similar to the velocity of his own intellect, obtaining at the age of twenty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Von Neumann: Encyclopedia Ii - John Von Neumann - Politics And Social Affairs
Von Neumann had experienced a lightning-like academic career similar to the velocity of his own intellect, obtaining at the age of twenty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conscription: Encyclopedia Ii - Conscription - Conscientious Objection
"It is debasing human dignity to force men to give up their life, or to inflict death against their will, or without conviction as to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conscription: Encyclopedia Ii - Conscription - Conscientious Objection
Main articles: Conscientious objection, Antimilitarism, and Conscientious objection throughout the world "It is debasing human dignity to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mahatma Gandhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Mahatma Gandhi - Recognition
Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, though he was nominated for it five times between 1937 and 1948. Decades later however, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leó Szilárd: Encyclopedia Ii - Leó Szilárd - The Manhattan Project
Szilárd was instrumental in the development of the Manhattan Project. It was his idea to send a confidential letter to Franklin D. Roose...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoda: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoda - Bringing The Character To Life
Yoda's appearance was originally designed by British makeup artist Stuart Freeborn, who based Yoda's face partly on his own and partly on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Manifesto
In 1995, Kaczynski mailed several letters, some to his former victims, outlining his goals and demanding that his 35,000-word paper Indus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Arrest And Trial
Kaczynski's younger brother David recognized Ted's writing style from the published manifesto and notified authorities, who sent officers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - In Prison
Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in ADX Florence, the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Bombings
The first mail bomb was sent in late May 1978 to Prof. Buckley Crist at Northwestern University. The package was found in a parking lot a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Bombings
The first mail bomb was sent in late May 1978 to Prof. Buckley Crist at Northwestern University. The package was found in a parking lot a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Manifesto
In 1995, Kaczynski mailed several letters, some to his former victims, outlining his goals and demanding that his 35,000-word paper Indus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theodore Kaczynski: Encyclopedia Ii - Theodore Kaczynski - Life In Prison
Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in ADX Florence, the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David Cohen: Encyclopedia Ii - David Cohen - Death And Summation Of Career
David Cohen died on October 3rd, 2005, at the age of 90, after a recent hospitalization at Albert Einstein Medical Center, a few blocks f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - People Speculated To Have Been Autistic: Encyclopedia Ii - People Speculated To Have Been Autistic - Historical Figures Who Displayed Behavioral Patterns Associated With The Autistic Spectrum
Note: This is a speculative list. It includes people who died before the work done by Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner in classifying autism ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seaborgium: Encyclopedia Ii - Seaborgium - History
Element 106 was discovered almost simultaneously by two different laboratories. In June 1974, a Soviet team led by G. N. Flerov at the Jo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Time Magazine: Encyclopedia Ii - Time Magazine - The Person Of The Year
Main Article: Person of the Year The magazine's most famous feature over its 80 years has been the annual Person of the Year (formerly Ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modeling Nlp: Encyclopedia Ii - Modeling Nlp - Criticisms Of Modeling
Some NLP proponents have criticised modeling from other than a living person, and believe that with no access to the model (nor quality v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malaclypse The Younger: Encyclopedia Ii - Malaclypse The Younger - Illuminatus!
Malaclypse the Younger also appears in The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. According to the Iluminatus!, he ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philip Taylor Kramer: Encyclopedia Ii - Philip Taylor Kramer - Total Multimedia
Kramer and his father had been working together with their company Total Multimedia on a data compression and transmission project which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equivalence Principle: Encyclopedia Ii - Equivalence Principle - History
The origins of the equivalence principle begin with Galileo demonstrating in the late 16th century that all objects are accelerated towar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General Relativity: Encyclopedia Ii - General Relativity - Overview
In this theory, spacetime is treated as a 4-dimensional Lorentzian manifold which is curved by the presence of mass, energy, and momentum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vulcan Planet: Encyclopedia Ii - Vulcan Planet - Argument For Vulcan's Existence
Vulcan was proposed to explain a small perturbation in Mercury's orbit from the path predicted by classical mechanics, technically called...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Big Bang: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Big Bang - Early 20th Century
Observationally, in the 1910s, Vesto Slipher and later Carl Wilhelm Wirtz determined that most spiral nebulae were receding from Earth. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Controversies In Autism: Encyclopedia Ii - Controversies In Autism - Genetics And Autism
There is evidence that autism has a genetic component, and ongoing research focuses on finding the biomarkers that determine autistic phe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nonviolence: Encyclopedia Ii - Nonviolence - Living Nonviolence
The embeddedness of violence in most of the world's populous societies causes many to consider it an inherent part of human nature, but o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prediction: Encyclopedia Ii - Prediction - Scientific Prediction
In a scientific context, a prediction is a rigorous (often quantitative) statement about what will happen under specific conditions, typi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prediction: Encyclopedia Ii - Prediction - Anticipatory Science Forecasts
In a scientific context, a prediction is a rigorous (often quantitative) statement forecasting what will happen under specific conditions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asperger Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Asperger Syndrome - A Gift And A Curse
With the increase of Asperger syndrome diagnoses, its image continues to shift from that of a disease to a more complex view of a syndrom...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modeling Nlp: Encyclopedia Ii - Modeling Nlp - Overview
In a way, modeling is the core skill in NLP, which was itself created based primarily on models by John Grinder and Richard Bandler of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy: Encyclopedia Ii - Heresy - Contemporary Heresy
Today, heresy can be without a religious context as the holding of ideas that are in fundamental disagreement with the status quo in any ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: Encyclopedia Ii - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs - Counterpositions
While Maslow's theory was regarded as an improvement over previous theories of personality and motivation, it has its detractors. For exa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Western Philosophy Russell: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Western Philosophy Russell - Reviews And Reactions
"History of Western Philosophy remains unchallenged as the perfect introduction to its subject. Russell ... writes with the kind of verve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person Of The Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Person Of The Year - Controversy
The title is frequently mistaken as being an honor. Many, including some members of the American media, continue to wrongly perpetuate th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wilhelm Reich: Encyclopedia Ii - Wilhelm Reich - Bibliography
Books by Wilhelm Reich Der triebhafte Charakter : eine psychoanalytische Studie zur Pathologie des Ich, 1925 Die Funktion des Orgas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Five Enneagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Five Enneagram - Wings
Five Enneagram - Five With A Four Wing: The Iconoclast. The four wing produces an emotional "charge" that complements the five's men...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nonviolence: Encyclopedia Ii - Nonviolence - The Methods Of Nonviolent Action
Hunger strikes, pickets, vigils, petitions, sit-ins, tax refusal, go slows, blockades, draft refusal and demonstrations are some of the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scientific Method: Encyclopedia Ii - Scientific Method - Evaluations And Iterations
Scientific method - Testing and improvements. The scientific process is iterative. At any stage it is possible that some consideration ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Command & Conquer: Encyclopedia Ii - Command & Conquer - Red Alert Series
The Red Alert series is set in an alternate timeline, created when Albert Einstein travels back in time and makes contact with Adolf Hitl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bahá'í Divisions: Encyclopedia Ii - Bahá'í Divisions - Shoghi Effendi As Guardian Of The Faith
Bahá'í divisions - Appointment. At 24, Shoghi Effendi was particularly young when he assumed leadership of the religion in 1921, as p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Valéry: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Valéry - Life
Born of a Corsican father and Genoese mother, he grew up in Sète, a town on the Mediterranean coast of the Hérault. After a good tradit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Federal Bureau Of Investigation: Encyclopedia Ii - Federal Bureau Of Investigation - History Of The Fbi
The FBI originated from a force of Special Agents created on July 26, 1908, by Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte during the presi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frau Solf Tea Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Frau Solf Tea Party - The Tea Party And Betrayal Of The Solf Circle
On September 10, 1943, the Solf circle met at a birthday party given by Elisabeth von Thadden, the Protestant headmistress of a famous gi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Darwin's Illness: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Darwin's Illness - Contribution To Darwin's Work
Interestingly enough, it seems that Darwin's maladies actually may have contributed a lot to what many believe was a long and fruitful cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Federal Bureau Of Investigation: Encyclopedia Ii - Federal Bureau Of Investigation - History Of The Fbi
The FBI originated from a force of Special Agents created on July 26, 1908, by Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte during the presi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paradigm: Encyclopedia Ii - Paradigm - Other Uses
Probably the most common use of the word paradigm is in the sense of Weltanschauung. For example, in social science, the term is used to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Telepathy: Encyclopedia Ii - Telepathy - Recent Experiments
Ganzfeld experiments have received widespread attention in recent times, and some believe they provide strong experimental evidence. Othe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Time Magazine: Encyclopedia Ii - Time Magazine - Style
Time has always had its own writing style, parodied most famously in 1938 by Wolcott Gibbs in an article in The New Yorker: "Backward ran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Time Magazine: Encyclopedia Ii - Time Magazine - Time For Kids
Written by young reporters, Time For Kids is a division magazine of Time Magazine that is especially published for children and is mainly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Royal Astronomical Society: Encyclopedia Ii - Royal Astronomical Society - Presidents
The first person to hold the title of President of the Royal Astronomical Society was William Herschel, though he never chaired a meeting...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subject-object Problem: Encyclopedia Ii - Subject-object Problem - In 20th Century Philosophy
Karl Marx's philosophy of dialectical materialism is founded on Hegel's doctrine of dialectics; although Marx, being concerned mostly wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subject-object Problem: Encyclopedia Ii - Subject-object Problem - In 20th Century Philosophy
Karl Marx's philosophy of dialectical materialism is founded on Hegel's doctrine of dialectics; although Marx, being concerned mostly wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pantheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pantheism - Varieties Of Pantheism
This article distinguishes between two divergent groups of pantheists: Classical pantheism, which is expressed in the immanent God of Ka...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yousuf Karsh: Encyclopedia Ii - Yousuf Karsh - Work
Karsh was a master in the use of studio lights. One of Karsh's distinctive practices was lighting the subject's hands separately. He phot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speed Of Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Speed Of Light - Physics
Speed of light - Constant velocity from all reference frames. It is important to realise that the speed of light is not a "speed limit"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person Of The Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Person Of The Year - History
The tradition of selecting a Man of the Year began in 1927, when Time editors contemplated what they could write about during a slow news...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autism Rights Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Autism Rights Movement - Activist Methods And Activities
Autism rights movement - Speculation of autism in famous people. There has been speculation that well-known contemporary and historical...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Church Controversy
Psalms 93 and 104, and Ecclesiastes 1:5 speak of the motion of celestial bodies and the suspended position of the earth. Galileo defended...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autism Rights Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Autism Rights Movement - Activist Methods And Activities
Autism rights movement - Activist campaigns. In the early 2000s, activist campaigns started, mostly over the Internet. In April 2000, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goodness And Value Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Goodness And Value Theory - Types Of The Good
Goodness and value theory - Moral natural and economic goods. There is a difference between moral and natural goods. Moral goods are th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baptism For The Dead: Encyclopedia Ii - Baptism For The Dead - Christian Opposition
Other Christian denominations generally do not accept the Latter-day Saint interpretation of baptism for the dead contemplated in 1 Corin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ellen Degeneres: Encyclopedia Ii - Ellen Degeneres - Personal Life
DeGeneres's long-term lesbian relationship with former Another World actress Anne Heche turned into material for the lurid tabloid press....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luminiferous Aether: Encyclopedia Ii - Luminiferous Aether - Aether And Classical Mechanics
The key difficulty with the aether hypothesis arose from the juxtaposition of the two well-established theories of Newtonian dynamics and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People Of The 20th Century: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People Of The 20th Century - The List
List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century - Leaders and revolutionaries. David Ben-Gurion Ho Chi Minh Si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henri Poincaré: Encyclopedia Ii - Henri Poincaré - Life
Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854 in Cité Ducale neighborhood, Nancy, France into an influential family (Belliver, 1956). His father ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Controversies In Autism: Encyclopedia Ii - Controversies In Autism - The Autism Rights Movement
Some autistic people have started to speak and/or write about their experience. The use of the Internet has made it possible for autistic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Controversies In Autism: Encyclopedia Ii - Controversies In Autism - 'autistic' Vs. 'has Autism'
Individuals who describe themselves as autistic on the internet have repeatedly stated their preference for the word autistic to be used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supernatural: Encyclopedia Ii - Supernatural - Arguments In Favor Of A Supernatural Reality
Following are some common arguments in support of belief in supernatural phenomena. Many believers note that the complexities and myster...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bertrand Russell: Encyclopedia Ii - Bertrand Russell - Russell Summing Up His Life
Admitting to failure in helping the world to conquer war and in winning his perpetual intellectual battle for eternal truths, Russell wro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Time: Encyclopedia Ii - Time - Psychology
Different people may judge identical lengths of time quite differently. Time can "fly"; that is, a long period of time can seem to go by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rabindranath Tagore: Encyclopedia Ii - Rabindranath Tagore - Biography
Rabindranath Tagore - Early life. Tagore was born in Jorasanko, Kolkata (Calcutta; Bangla: কলকাতা), the son of Debendranath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rabindranath Tagore: Encyclopedia Ii - Rabindranath Tagore - Late Life 1901–1941
In 1901, Tagore left Shilaidaha and moved to Shantiniketan, about one hundred miles to Calcutta's northwest in what is now West Bengal. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christian Opposition To Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - Christian Opposition To Anti-semitism - Sicut Judaeis Non Bull
This "Constitution for the Jews" was the official position of the papacy regarding the Jews throughout the Middle Ages and later. Alexand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baruch Spinoza: Encyclopedia Ii - Baruch Spinoza - Life
Born to a great family of Sephardic Jews, among the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam, he gained fame for his positions of pantheism and neutr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autism Rights Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Autism Rights Movement - History
Shortly after Autism Network International was founded in 1993, the world wide web began to emerge and autistic people started to make w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs: Encyclopedia Ii - Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs - Deficiency Needs
The deficiency needs (also termed 'D-needs' by Maslow) are: The physiological needs of the organism, those enabling homeostasis, take fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctors' Plot: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctors' Plot - An Article In Pravda
On January 13, 1953, some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors in the USSR were accused of taking part in a vast plot to poison ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian American: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian American - Politics
Indians are starting to make headway in American politics. Examples include Bobby Jindal, a Republican Congressman from Louisiana and Sat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Institute For Advanced Study: Encyclopedia Ii - Institute For Advanced Study - The School
The Institute consists of a School of Historical Studies, a School of Mathematics, a School of Natural Sciences, a School of Social Scien...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Einstein - Biography
Albert Einstein - Youth and college. Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 at Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 100 km east of St...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Einstein - Biography
Albert Einstein - Youth and college. Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 at Ulm in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 100 km east of St...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Einstein - Popularity And Cultural Impact
Einstein's popularity has led to widespread use of Einstein in advertising and merchandising, including the registration of "Albert Einst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Einstein - Popularity And Cultural Impact
Einstein's popularity has led to widespread use of Einstein in advertising and merchandising, including the registration of "Albert Einst...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap V - A
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages V - A . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. &...   » Read the article