| Anarchism Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory government,*Errico Malatesta, "Towards Anarchism", MAN!. Los Angeles: International Group of San Francisco. Anarchism
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| Abraham Lincoln |birth_place =Hardin County, Kentucky Abraham_Lincoln
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| Aristotle , Aristotélēs Aristotle
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| Ayn Rand | birthplace = Saint Petersburg, Russia Ayn_Rand
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| Alchemy Alchemy, a part of the Occult Tradition, is both a philosophy and a practice with an ultimately unknown aim, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties. The practical aspect of alchemy generated the basics of inorganic chemistry, namely concerning procedures, equipment and the identification and use of many current substances. Alchemy
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| Aldous Huxley | birthplace = Godalming, Surrey, England Aldous_Huxley
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| A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a satirical essay written and published by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift appears to suggest in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. A_Modest_Proposal
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| Arthur Schopenhauer (Frankfurt-am-Main) Arthur_Schopenhauer
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| Agatha Christie | birthplace = Torquay, Devon, England Agatha_Christie
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| Hercule Poirot Former Retired DetectiveFormer Police officer Hercule_Poirot
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| Aristophanes Aristophanes (, in English, ca. 446 BC – ca. Aristophanes
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| Anatole France | image = Anatole FranceA.jpg Anatole_France
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| André Gide | image = Gide 1893.jpg André_Gide
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| Aleister Crowley | birth_place = Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England Aleister_Crowley
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| Afterlife The terms afterlife, life after death, and hereafter refer to the supposed continuation of the soul, spirit or mind of a being after physical death. The major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics. Afterlife
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| American (word) Use of the word American in the English language differs according to the historic, geographic, and political context in which it is used. It derives from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World (also the Americas), and its usage has evolved. American_(word)
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| Abbotsford House Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott. Abbotsford_House
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| Alfred Russel Wallace | birth_place = Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales Alfred_Russel_Wallace
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| Agapanthus africanus Agapanthus africanus (African lily; syn. Agapanthus umbellatus) is a member of the family Alliaceae and a native of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Agapanthus_africanus
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| Agathon Agathon () (ca. 448–400 BC) was an Athenian tragic poet and friend of Euripides and Plato. Agathon
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| Andrew Jackson first TN Congressman (statehood) Andrew_Jackson
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| Andrew Johnson |birth_place=Raleigh, North Carolina Andrew_Johnson
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| Ainu people Talk:Ainu_people
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| Amazons The Amazons (in Greek, ) are a nation of all-female warriors in Classical and Greek mythology, who were possibly historical. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia. Amazons
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| An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist and philosopher David Hume, published in 1748. It was a simplification of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739–1740. An_Enquiry_concerning_Human_Understanding
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| Acetylene | Section2 = Acetylene
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| Apuleius Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (c. 123/125-c. Apuleius
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| Adam Smith Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland Adam_Smith
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| Archimedes Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek: He used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series, and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of Pi. He also defined the spiral bearing his name, formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and an ingenious system for expressing very large numbers. Archimedes
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| Alfred Jarry Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side. Alfred_Jarry
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| Acetylene Talk:Acetylene
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| Andrew Carnegie | birth_place = Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom Andrew_Carnegie
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| Arbor Day Arbor Day is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees. Arbor Day originated in Nebraska City, Nebraska, United States and is celebrated in several countries. Arbor_Day
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| Aeschylus Aeschylus ( or , Greek: Ασχύλος, Aischylos, 525 BC/524 BC 456 BC/455 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus
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| Anne Brontë | birthplace = Thornton, Yorkshire, England Anne_Brontë
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| Amerigo Vespucci | birth_place = Florence, Italy Amerigo_Vespucci
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| Atlantis Atlantis (in Greek, , "island of Atlas") is the name of a legendary island, first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias.Atlantis: the Myth by Alan G. Atlantis
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| Arthur Conan Doyle Talk:Arthur_Conan_Doyle
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| Acadia University and Acadia_University
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| Avery Hopwood Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 - July 1, 1928), who was born in Cleveland and graduated from the University of Michigan, was one of the most successful playwrights of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. Avery_Hopwood
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| Albert Pike Albert Pike (December 29, 1809–April 2, 1891) was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D. Albert_Pike
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| Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh () () or AP, the "Rice Bowl of India", is a state in southern India. It lies between 12°41' and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude, and is bordered by Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the East, Tamil Nadu to the south and Karnataka to the west. Andhra_Pradesh
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| Anode An anode is an electrode through which electric current flows into a polarized electrical device. Mnemonic: ACID (Anode Current Into Device). Anode
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| Albrecht Dürer | location = Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire Albrecht_Dürer
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| A cappella A cappella (ItalianWilliam C. Holmes. A_cappella
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| Anton Chekhov | birthplace = Taganrog, Russian Empire Anton_Chekhov
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| Arthur Phillip Kingdom of Great Britain Arthur_Phillip
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| Ant }} Ant
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| A Vindication of the Rights of Woman A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to the educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who wanted to deny women an education. A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman
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| Anabaptist Talk:Anabaptist
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