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8 hours ago · Zora Neale Hurston. Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1] : 17 [2] : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3]
8 hours ago · Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky in the early 1920s Born (1882-06-17) 17 June 1882 Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Died 6 April 1971 (1971-04-06) (aged 88) New York City, US Occupations Composer conductor pianist Works List of compositions Spouses Yekaterina Stravinsky (m. 1906 ; died 1939) Vera de Bosset (m. 1940) Children Théodore Ludmila Soulima Maria Milena Signature Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with ...
1 day ago · Sigmund Freud (/ f r ɔɪ d / FROYD, German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfrɔʏt]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
8 hours ago · Beliefs The Shang people's religious perception was polytheistic. They believed in a supreme being leading smaller spirits, including natural gods and ancestral deities, and focused on a cosmological concept centered around a celestial northern pole, which housed the most sacred gods in the Shang pantheon. Dì Main article: Shangdi Oracle script of 帝 ; Dì as the celestial pole. The highest of the Shang gods was Shàngdì ̣ 上帝, full form Dì 帝. [b] In many oracle bone inscriptions ...
1 day ago · The Yoruba calendar (Kojoda) year starts from 3 to 2 June of the following year. According to this calendar, the Gregorian year 2021 is the 10,063th year of Yoruba culture, which starts with the creation of Ìfẹ̀ in 8042 B.C. [171] To reconcile with the Gregorian calendar, Yoruba people also often measure time in seven days a week and four weeks a month:
1 day ago · The Ayutthaya Kingdom ( / ɑːˈjuːtəjə /; Thai: อยุธยา, RTGS : Ayutthaya, IAST: Ayudhyā or Ayodhyā, pronounced [ʔā.jút.tʰā.jāː] ⓘ) or the Empire of Ayutthaya [23] was a Mon and later Siamese kingdom that existed in Southeast Asia from 1351 [1] [24] [25] to 1767, centered around the city of Ayutthaya, in Siam, or ...
8 hours ago · Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( / d ( ə) ˈvɔːrʒɑːk, - ʒæk / d (ə-)VOR-zha (h)k; Czech: [antoˈɲiːn ˈlɛopold dvoˈr̝aːk] ⓘ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example ...
