Orthodox Brahmanical scholasticism makes the attainment of final emancipation (mukti, moksha) dependent on perfect knowledge of the divine essence, Brahman. This knowledge can only be obtained by complete detachment of the mind from external objects and intense meditation on the divine, which again presupposes the total extinction of all sensual instincts by means of austere practices (tapas). The chosen few who succeed in gaining complete mastery over their senses and a full knowledge of the divine nature become absorbed into the universal ...

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Brahmanism, Brahmanism - Theology, Brahmanism - Pantheism, Brahmanism - Caste, Brahmanism - Sub castes, Brahmanism - Maharashtrian sub-castes:, Brahmanism - South Indian brahmin sub-castes:, Brahmanism - The four stages of life, Brahmanism - Sacramental rites, Brahmanism - Vegetarianism, Brahmanism - Moksha, Brahmanism - Evolution of Brahminism, Brahmanism - Brahmin Supremacy, Brahmanism - Trimurti, Brahmanism - Challenge To Brahmin Supremacy and Caste System, Brahmanism - Buddhism, Brahmanism - Charvaka, Brahmanism - B.R. Ambedkar, Brahmanism - Famous Brahmins

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mukti (moksha)

Liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

(See also: mukti, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

Florian Znaniecki characterized the world as caught within two contrary modes of reflection; these were idealism and realism. Znaniecki proposed a third way, which he labeled culturalism (Polish kulturalizm). His focus and subsequent impact lay mainly in the realms of sociology, philosophy, and secondarily psychology. According to the culturalist perspective, sociology should deal with the affects of culture, as sociology is a study of human meaning, and subsequently dualistic with a locus of empirical reality. Znaniecki respon ...

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Florian Znaniecki, Florian Znaniecki - Biography, Florian Znaniecki - Achievements, Florian Znaniecki - Bibliography

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Billboard Hot 100 Madonna has had twelve number-one singles on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart; the same number as Diana Ross and The Supremes, and behind only Mariah Carey's seventeen among female artists. Madonna's US Number Ones (12) LIKE A VIRGIN (1984) - 6 weeks CRAZY FOR YOU (1985) - 1 week LIVE TO TELL (1986) - 1 week PAPA DON'T PREACH (1986) - 2 weeks OPEN YOUR HEART (1987) - 1 week WHO'S THAT GIRL (1987) - 1 week LIKE A PRAYER (1989) ...

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The Qianlong emperor was also a major patron of the arts. The most significant of his commissions was a catalogue of all important works on Chinese culture, the Siku quanshu (四庫全書). Produced in 36,000 volumes, containing about 3450 complete works and employing as many as 15,000 copyists, the entire work took some twenty years. It preserved many books, but it was also intended as a means of ferreting out and suppressing those deemed offensive. Some 2,300 works were listed for total suppression and another 350 for partial suppre ...

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Qianlong Emperor, Qianlong Emperor - Early years, Qianlong Emperor - Ascension to the throne, Qianlong Emperor - Frontier Wars, Qianlong Emperor - Artistic achievements, Qianlong Emperor - Later years, Qianlong Emperor - Legends, Qianlong Emperor - Family, Qianlong Emperor - Consorts, Qianlong Emperor - Children

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The Qianlong emperor was also a major patron of the arts. The most significant of his commissions was a catalogue of all important works on Chinese culture, the Siku quanshu (四庫全書). Produced in 36,000 volumes, containing about 3450 complete works and employing as many as 15,000 copyists, the entire work took some twenty years. It preserved many books, but it was also intended as a means of ferreting out and suppressing those deemed offensive to the rulling manchurians. Some 2,300 works were listed for total suppression and ano ...

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Qianlong Emperor, Qianlong Emperor - Early years, Qianlong Emperor - Ascension to the throne, Qianlong Emperor - Frontier Wars, Qianlong Emperor - Artistic achievements, Qianlong Emperor - Later years, Qianlong Emperor - Legends, Qianlong Emperor - Family, Qianlong Emperor - Consorts, Qianlong Emperor - Children

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The Kaiserliche Marine achieved some important operational feats. It inflicted the first major naval defeat on the Royal Navy for over 100 years at the Battle of Coronel. It also emerged from the fleet action of the Battle of Jutland having destroyed more ships than it lost. It is a common misconception that the High Seas Fleet never again came out from port after Jutland. In fact it performed several sweeps and actions, although the Germans never planned, either before or a ...

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Kaiserliche Marine, Kaiserliche Marine - Achievements, Kaiserliche Marine - History

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Franco Columbu - Bodybuilding Titles. 1968: NABBA Mr. Universe (Most Muscular) 1969: IFBB Mr. Europe (Medium) 1969: NABBA Mr. Universe (Most Muscular) 1969: NABBA Mr. Universe (Short) 1969: IFBB Mr. Universe (Short) 1970: IFBB Mr. Europe (Short & Overall) 1970: AAU Mr. World (Pro Short) 1970: IFBB Mr. World (Short) 1970: IFBB Mr. Universe (Short & Overall) 1971: IFBB Mr. World (Short & Overall) 1974: Mr. Ol ...

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Franco Columbu, Franco Columbu - Achievements, Franco Columbu - Bodybuilding Titles, Franco Columbu - Powerlifting titles, Franco Columbu - Powerlifting world records, Franco Columbu - Weightlifting records, Franco Columbu - Boxing, Franco Columbu - Trivia

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Being born into a higher class family is the greatest determinant of educational achievement in Britain, understood as success in national GCSE and A level examinations, with the average child of a higher class family doing far better than an average working class child. There are many factors that may be involved in this effect: Achievement in British Education - Financial factors. Wealthy families can send their children to private schools, where the achievement rates are far higher than eve ...

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Achievement in British Education, Achievement in British Education - The effect of intelligence, Achievement in British Education - The effect of class, Achievement in British Education - Financial factors, Achievement in British Education - Cultural factors, Achievement in British Education - The effect of gender

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Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement. In correcting the elements of Delambre's solar tables he had been led to suspect an inequality overlooked by their constructor. The cause of this he did not long seek in vain; Eight times the mean motion of Venus is so nearly equal to thirteen times that of the earth that the difference amounts to only a small fraction of the earth's mean motion, and from the fact that the term depending on this difference, although ...

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George Biddell Airy, George Biddell Airy - Early years, George Biddell Airy - Major achievements

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Sanger determined the complete amino acid sequence of insulin. In doing so, he proved that proteins have specific structures. He began by degrading insulin into short fragments by mixing the trypsin enzyme (which splits protein) with an insulin solution. He then applied a spot of the mixture to a sheet of filter paper. He passed a solvent through the filter paper in one direction, and passed an electric current through the paper in the opposite direction. Depending on their solubility and electric charge, the different fragments of insulin m ...

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Frederick Sanger, Frederick Sanger - Education, Frederick Sanger - Achievements, Frederick Sanger - Titles and honours, Frederick Sanger - Shorthand titles

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Max Weber was – along with Karl Marx, Vilfredo Pareto and Émile Durkheim – one of the founders of modern sociology. Whereas Pareto and Durkheim, following Comte, worked in the positivist tradition, Weber created and worked – like Werner Sombart, his friend and then the most famous representative of German sociology – in the antipositivist, idealist and hermeneutic tradition. Those works started the antipositivistic revolution in social sciences, which stressed the difference between the social sciences and natural sciences, especial ...

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Max Weber, Max Weber - Life and career, Max Weber - Weber and German politics, Max Weber - Achievements, Max Weber - Sociology of religion, Max Weber - Sociology of politics and government, Max Weber - Economics, Max Weber - Works, Max Weber - Attacks from conservatives

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It was mainly through Michael Davitt's unceasing efforts that more Land Acts followed Gladstone's First Land Act of 1870. The most important of these was the Land Act of 1881, which finally granted "the three Fs" under Davitt's "Irish Democratic Land Federation". This was later followed by the Wyndham Land Act (1903), a purchase act which offered generous inducement to the landlords to sell their estates to the Irish Land Commission who would then collect land annuities instead of rents. At long last ownership of the land would be transferre ...

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Michael Davitt, Michael Davitt - Early years, Michael Davitt - Fenians, Michael Davitt - The Land War, Michael Davitt - Achievements, Michael Davitt - See Also, Michael Davitt - Notes

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Daryl Gates - SWAT. Gates is considered the father of SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics), which established specialized units dealing with hostage rescue and extreme situations involving armed and dangerous suspects. Ordinary line officers, with light armament, limited weapons training, and no instruction on group fighting techniques, had been shown to be ineffective in combating snipers, bank robberies by heavily armed persons, and other high-intensity situations. In 1965, Officer Joh ...

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Daryl Gates, Daryl Gates - Early life, Daryl Gates - LAPD career, Daryl Gates - Achievements, Daryl Gates - SWAT, Daryl Gates - DARE, Daryl Gates - Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums CRASH, Daryl Gates - Force enlargement, Daryl Gates - Administrative style and personality, Daryl Gates - Operation Hammer, Daryl Gates - Los Angeles riots, Daryl Gates - Post-LAPD career, Daryl Gates - Songs referencing Gates

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In 2000, Bonds' teammate Shawon Dunston told Sports Illustrated (June 5 issue), "He's not going to hit 70 homers, but he believes he can. That's frightening." The next year, Bonds set the single-season home run record, hitting 73 to break Mark McGwire's 70-homer mark set in 1998. Some analysts consider Bonds' 2001 performance among the greatest hitting seasons in history. Besides the home run record, he set single-season marks for walks (177) and slugging percentage (.863) (topping Ruth's records of 170 and .847, set in 1923 and 1920 ...

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Barry Bonds, Barry Bonds - Background, Barry Bonds - Achievements, Barry Bonds - Resurgence, Barry Bonds - 2005 injury problems, Barry Bonds - Career Statistics as of September 29 2005, Barry Bonds - The BALCO scandal, Barry Bonds - Salary

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Definition and meaning of mean:

mean - a statistical measure of central tendency. The sum of a set of observations divided by the number of observations. It is also referred to as 'arithmetic mean' and 'sample mean'

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Matej Zmajević (a.k.a Matija Zmajević) (1680-1735) was a Bokelj. He was the admiral of Baltic navy and the ship-builder of the famous Russian tsar Peter I the Great, and for whom he built a fleet in Voronezh. Matej Zmajević had great successes in maritime battles against Sweden, and for this reason he was decoreated with the order of Aleksandar Nevski. Zmajević was burried with greatest military honours in the Catholic church in Moscow. As a result of Zmajević's victory Peter the Great sent some of his young officers (bolyars) to the ...

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Bokelji, Bokelji - Origin, Bokelji - Population, Bokelji - History & Monuments made by Bokeljs, Bokelji - Famous Bokeljs and their achievements, Bokelji - External link

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At present, the prototype's engine is normally aspirated, and hence is limited to just 320 hp (240 kW) and the fastest Carter Aviation Technologies prototype has achieved is about 173 mph (270 km/h); which is still ~40% faster than a conventional autogyro. A helicopter to go the same speed would need almost twice this power. Thus the CarterCopter seems to be about twice as efficient. The maximum mu that has been achieved (mu is the ratio of rotor tip speed to airspeed) is 1.0 for a brief moment on June 17, 2005, the first time ...

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CarterCopter, CarterCopter - Takeoff, CarterCopter - Cruising, CarterCopter - Achievements, CarterCopter - Potential, CarterCopter - External link

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Istanbulspor has no championship in Turkish League yet, but it has some achievements: Turkish Premier Super League: 4th placed (1998) Old Turkish Cup: Winner (1932) Turkish 2. League: Winner (1968, 1994) Turkish 3. League: Winner (1992) Istanbul League: Winner (1932), 3rd placed (1957, 1958) ...

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Istanbulspor AS, Istanbulspor AS - Colours and Emblem, Istanbulspor AS - Achievements, Istanbulspor AS - Famous Istanbulspor Players, Istanbulspor AS - Contact Information

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The interquartile mean is a specific example of a truncated mean. It is simply the arithmetic mean after removing the lowest and the highest quarter of values. assuming the values have been ordered. ...

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Mean, Mean - Arithmetic mean, Mean - An example, Mean - Geometric mean, Mean - An example, Mean - Harmonic mean, Mean - An example, Mean - Generalized mean, Mean - Weighted mean, Mean - Truncated mean, Mean - Interquartile mean, Mean - Mean of a function, Mean - Other means

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Bellamy was recently #29 in Total Guitar magazine's top 100 guitar players in the world - above The Edge (U2), Pete Townshend and Chuck Berry and his riff from Plug in Baby came 13th in in Total Guitar's poll of the Top 20 Riffs. The same riff was mentioned among the best-ever riffs in Q Magazine's Rock and Pop Miscellany In April 2005, Kerrang! magazine ranked him #28 in their 50 Sexiest People In Rock poll, ...

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Matthew Bellamy, Matthew Bellamy - Background, Matthew Bellamy - Musical equipment, Matthew Bellamy - Achievements, Matthew Bellamy - Interests

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The weighted mean is used, if one wants to combine average values from samples of the same population with different sample sizes: The weights wi represent the bounds of the partial sample. In other applications they represent a measure for the reliability of the influence upon the mean by respective values. ...

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Mean, Mean - Arithmetic mean, Mean - An example, Mean - Geometric mean, Mean - An example, Mean - Harmonic mean, Mean - An example, Mean - Generalized mean, Mean - Weighted mean, Mean - Truncated mean, Mean - Interquartile mean, Mean - Mean of a function, Mean - Other means

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