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Alhamazad the Wise - see List of Greyhawk characters; Ansem the Wise, one the characters of Kingdom Hearts; Darth Plagueis the Wise, mentioned in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith; Fintan mac Bóchra, a seer in Irish mythology; the title character of the play Nathan the Wise; Russano the Wise, from several Redwall novels
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
Plutarch's The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men, in the Loeb Classical Library. Seven Sages of Greece with illustrations and further links. Jona Lendering's article Seven Sages includes a chart of various canonical lists. Sentences of the Seven Sages; Fragment of a poem in which the Seven Wise Men were mentioned together, from Oxyrhynchus Papyri
He attended but never completed high school. While he was able to study commercial art at the Chicago Art Institute later in life, he got most of his knowledge in libraries and was able to produce many books based on race, history, sociology, and anthropology. He also mastered other languages such as Spanish, German, and French.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel introduced the concept of the "world-historical figure".. The German philosopher Hegel defined the concept of the world-historical figure, who embodied the ruthless advance of Immanuel Kant's World Spirit, often overthrowing outdated structures and ideas.
AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.
Reconstruction of the Oikumene (inhabited world) ancient map from Herodotus, c. 450 BC. The Macrobians were an ancient people and kingdom situated in the Horn of Africa (Somalia) around the 1st millennium BC. According to Herodotus, the Macrobians practiced an elaborate form of embalming.
Homo narrans ('storytelling human') is one of a number of binomial names for the human species modelled on the commonly used term Homo sapiens ('wise human'). The term posits the primacy of storytelling over, for example, language or reasoning, in differentiating Homo sapiens from other species of the genus Homo.