Avatar Posted by lanerough 15 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Rumi was a great Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His Masnavi-ye Manavi is a six-volume poem regarded by many Sufis as second in importance only to the Qur'an and is often called "Qur'an-e Farsee," meaning "The Persian Qur'an." Rumi's influence spread to Persian-speakers in Afghanistan, central Asia, Turkey, and beyond. His followers founded the Mevlevi order, whose members use dancing and music as part of their spiritual method and are popularly known by what name?
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Looking for information about public schools in America. Then you have come to the right place. This site lists all of them and lets you compare vital data. read more »
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 68 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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During the Mexican Revolution, Zapata led the Liberation Army of the South, whose slogan "Land and Liberty" represented its goal of repossessing the indigenous Mexican lands taken by the Spanish. Though Zapata's family lived comfortably on their own land, he was a born leader who keenly felt the injustices suffered by his people. Zapata's soldiers, mainly peasants recruited from plantations and villages, occupied Mexico City three times between 1914 and 1915. How did Zapata die?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 69 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, this Dutch courtesan, dancer, and probable spy went by the stage name Mata Hari. During WWI, she had intimate relationships with many high-ranking Allied military officers and government officials. In January 1917, French intelligence intercepted German messages about a spy that the former identified as Mata Hari. Less than a year later, she was executed by the French on espionage charges. What is she rumored to have done while standing before the firing squad?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 70 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Motivated by the devastating infection he saw in battlefield hospitals during WWI, Fleming, an English bacteriologist, set about searching for an effective antiseptic. In 1922, he discovered lysozyme, an antibacterial enzyme present in saliva, nasal secretions, and tears. In 1928, he isolated the antibiotic substance penicillin, a finding that earned him a Nobel Prize and has forever changed modern medicine. In what accidental way did Fleming discover penicillin?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 71 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Cruz was a Brazilian physician, scientist, and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, a scientific institution for research and development in biomedical sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As the Director General of Public Health, Cruz took strong measures to combat the bubonic plague, smallpox, and yellow fever. What happened when he tried to reinstate a law imposing mandatory smallpox vaccination?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 72 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Shelley was an English Romantic poet who is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language. He studied at Oxford, where his collaboration on the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism led to his expulsion. He married Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, now famed as Mary Shelley, after his first wife drowned herself in 1816. Shelley himself drowned on July 8, 1822. Why do some think his death was not accidental?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 73 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Friedrich Wilhelm III ruled Prussia from 1797-1840. He was an honest and well-intentioned man, but proved ineffectual as a ruler. Despite attempts at neutrality, he was drawn into the bitter struggle between two of Europe's greatest powers, Napoleon's France and Alexander I's Russia. Defeated by the French in 1806, he allied with Russia, and his troops played an important role in Napoleon's defeat soon after. According to rumor, which other royal was in love with Friedrich's beautiful wife?
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