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21 hours ago · Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence. It may be based on moral, religious or spiritual principles, or the ...
21 hours ago · Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
21 hours ago · Arthur Schopenhauer's paternal great-grandfather through paternal grandmother, Hendrik Soermans [de] (1700–1775), was a Dutch merchant and Ambassador of the Netherlands in Gdansk. Arthur Schopenhauer's paternal great-greatgrandfather, Johann Schopenhauer (1630–1701), was farmer in Petershagen and son of Simon Schopenhauer (1580–1660) and ...
21 hours ago · Sixteen faces expressing the human passions – colored engraving by J. Pass, 1821, after Charles Le Brun. Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. [1][2][3][4] There is no scientific consensus on ...
