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Most generally, there are two ways of understanding encyclopedia (from Greek kúklos, "circle," and paideía, "education"), namely: (1) after Hippias of Elis, a Sophist of the fifth century bce, as a term denoting a universal education, subsequently the everyday education that prepares for the universal education (Isocrates, 436 – 338 bce).
BIBLIOGRAPHY. The concept of the general will involves the moral values and the political aspirations that are shared by the members of a community and to which the policies of its government must broadly conform if that government is to be considered legitimate.
When Denis Diderot published an entry on "natural law" in his Encyclopédie in 1755, the general will held a central place. He wrote that only humanity, and not any individual, can "determine the nature of justice and injustice. …. Private wills are suspect; they may be either good or bad.
Since 1979 General Electric Co. (GE) had relied on one of the most successful branding slogans in history: "We bring good things to life." But along the way the company had become almost exclusively associated with its lighting and appliance products, which by the end of the twentieth century represented only a small percentage of the company's ...
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The first of the UN organs established by the charter, the General Assembly is the pivot of the organization. All member states are represented. Each country, large or small, has one vote, and each country chooses its own representatives.
It also states that mass and energy can be transformed into each other and that movement faster than the speed of light is impossible. General relativity describes the effects of accelerated (non-constant or curving) motion and of gravitational fields on mass, size, and time.
The convening of the Estates-General in May 1789 is generally thought of as the opening act of the French Revolution. The Estates-General was the Old Regime assembly of delegates from the three estates of the kingdom: the clergy, or First Estate; the aristocracy, or Second Estate; and the commoners, or Third Estate.
States-General or Estates-General, diet or national assembly in which the chief estates (see estate [1]) of a nation—usually clergy, nobles, and towns (or commons)—were represented as separate bodies.
New General Catalog (NGC), standard reference list of nebulae (see nebula). It is based on the General Catalog, published in 1864, which included 2,500 nebulae cataloged by William Herschel and an additional 2,500 cataloged by his son, John Herschel.