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  2. Humility - Wikipedia

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    Humility is the quality of being humble. [1] The Oxford Dictionary, in its 1998 edition, describes humility as low self-regard and a sense of unworthiness. [ 2 ] However, humility involves having an accurate opinion of oneself and expressing oneself modestly as situations demand, with clear goal orientation, openness, broad-mindedness, and a ...

  3. Art in the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation

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    The Lutheran churches, as they developed, accepted a limited role for larger works of art in churches, [1] [2] and also encouraged prints and book illustrations. Calvinists remained steadfastly opposed to art in churches, and suspicious of small printed images of religious subjects, though generally fully accepting secular images in their homes.

  4. Hummel figurines - Wikipedia

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    The German art publisher Ars Sacra was involved in the early popularization of the art on postcards. Hummel's "art cards" became popular throughout Germany, catching the eye of Franz Goebel, porcelain maker and head of W. Goebel Porzellanfabrik. Goebel acquired rights to turn Hummel's drawing into figurines, producing the first line in 1935. [1]

  5. Intellectual humility - Wikipedia

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    Intellectual humility is a metacognitive process characterized by recognizing the limits of one's knowledge and acknowledging one's fallibility. It involves several components, including not thinking too highly of oneself, refraining from believing one's own views are superior to others', lacking intellectual vanity, being open to new ideas, and acknowledging mistakes and shortcomings.

  6. The Slave Market (Gérôme painting) - Wikipedia

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    She is nude and being displayed by the djellab, who has the fine head of a brigand accustomed to every sort of abduction and violence; the idea of the eternal soul must not very often have tormented such a bandit. The poor girl is standing, submissive, humble, resigned, with a fatalistic passivity that the painter has very skillfully rendered ...

  7. Declaration of Independence (painting) - Wikipedia

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    The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, John Trumbull, (1786–1820), Yale University Art Gallery. Trumbull painted a smaller version (only 20.875 by 31 inches (53.02 cm × 78.74 cm)) entitled The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 (1786–1820) that is now on view at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. [1]

  8. Nickelodeon's splat is back, after more than a decade. Its ...

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    Its original designer shares humble origin story of the channel's changing logo, drawn with a Sharpie on a coffee cup. ... a channel that was an anomaly in being all about kids — but the cabler ...

  9. List of Dickensian characters - Wikipedia

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    Raised in humble circumstances by his abusive sister and her kind-hearted husband Joe, Pip is exposed to the high-class, disdainful beauty Estella at Satis House. Once content to be a blacksmith like Joe, Pip finds himself ashamed of his poverty and lack of education.