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21Egypt, ancient — Introduction civilization in northeastern Africa dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Its many achievements, preserved in its art and monuments, hold a fascination that continues to grow as archaeological finds expose its secrets. This article… …
22Society of the People's Republic of China — The People s Republic of China, the world s largest society, is united by a set of values and institutions that cut across extensive linguistic, environmental, and subcultural differences. Chinese society, since the second decade of the twentieth …
23Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
24Viet Cong and PAVN strategy, organization and structure — US caricature of Ho Chi Minh During the Second Indochina War, better known as the Vietnam War, a distinctive land warfare strategy and organization was used by the Main Force of the People s Liberation Armed Forces (better known as the Viet Cong… …
25military technology — Introduction range of weapons, equipment, structures, and vehicles used specifically for the purpose of fighting. It includes the knowledge required to construct such technology, to employ it in combat, and to repair and replenish it.… …
26Augustine — Gerard O’Daly 1 LIFE AND PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS Augustine was born in Thagaste (modern Souk Ahras in Algeria) in Roman North Africa in AD 354. He died as bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) in 430. His education followed the standard Roman… …
27Computer-adaptive testing — A computer adaptive testing (CAT) is a method for administering tests that adapts to the examinee s ability level. For this reason, it has also been called tailored testing . How CAT worksCAT successively selects questions so as to maximize the… …
28Jacques Lacan — Jacques Marie Émile Lacan Full name Jacques Marie Émile Lacan Born 13 April 1901 Paris, France Died 9 September 1981(1981 09 09) (aged 80) Pari …
29Coping (psychology) — Coping has been defined in psychological terms by Susan Folkman and Richard Lazarus as constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing [1] or exceeding the… …
30motion picture, history of the — Introduction history of the medium from the 19th century to the present. Early years, 1830–1910 Origins The illusion of motion pictures is based on the optical phenomena known as persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon. The first …
