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Coca 27 Aug 2013 | 08:32 am
Coca is the common name for four domesticated varieties of tropical plants belonging to the two species Erythroxylum coca and E. novogranatense, whose leaves are used for a variety of purposes, includ...
Inca Civilization 27 Aug 2013 | 08:32 am
The Inca Empire (called Tawantinsuyu in modern spelling, Aymara and Quechua, or Tahuantinsuyu in old spelling Quechua), was an empire located in South America from 1438 C.E. to 1533 C.
Marie Antoinette 27 Aug 2013 | 08:09 am
Marie Antoinette (November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, as the queen consort and wife of Loui...
Ego, superego, and id 26 Aug 2013 | 11:22 pm
Sigmund Freud introduced what would later come to be called the "structural theory" of psychoanalysis in his 1923 book, The Ego and the Id.
Resurrection 26 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the spirit and body of a person in that person's afterlife, or simply with the raising of a person from death back to life.
Guillaume Dufay 26 Aug 2013 | 06:28 am
Guillaume Dufay (sometimes Du Fay or Du Fayt) (August 5, 1397 – November 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Medieval music/early Renaissance music period.
Due process 26 Aug 2013 | 06:26 am
In United States law, adopted from the Magna Carta, due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that the government must respect all the legal rights, not just some or most of those l...
Duck 26 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
Duck is the common name for any member of a variety of species of relatively short-necked, large-billed waterfowl in the Anatidae family of birds, and especially those in the subfamily Anatinae ("true...
Dubrovnik 26 Aug 2013 | 06:23 am
Dubrovnik, formerly Ragusa, is a city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik.
Eugène Dubois 26 Aug 2013 | 06:21 am
Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (January 28, 1858 – December 16, 1940) was a Dutch anatomist, who earned worldwide fame with his discovery of the first specimens of early hominid remains to be fou...
