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23 hours ago · t. e. The Hyksos ( / ˈhɪksɒs /; Egyptian ḥqꜣ (w) - ḫꜣswt, Egyptological pronunciation: heqau khasut, [4] "ruler (s) of foreign lands"), in modern Egyptology, are the kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt [5] (fl. c. 1650–1550 BC). [a] Their seat of power was the city of Avaris in the Nile Delta, from where they ruled over Lower ...
23 hours ago · Early life Main article: Early life of Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before. Born prematurely, Newton was a small ...
23 hours ago · Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ ˈ s ɒr ə n ˈ k ɪər k ə ɡ ɑːr d / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /-ɡ ɔːr /-gor, Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
23 hours ago · The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun ...
23 hours ago · Sulfur is an essential component of all living cells. It is the eighth most abundant element in the human body by weight, [98] about equal in abundance to potassium, and slightly greater than sodium and chlorine. [99] A 70 kg (150 lb) human body contains about 140 grams (4.9 oz) of sulfur. [100]
23 hours ago · Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') [1] [2] is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, [1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that ...
23 hours ago · John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
