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The Paleozoic era (from the Greek palaio, meaning "old" and zoion, "animals", meaning "ancient life") is an interval of about 291 million years defined on the geologic timescale as spanning roughly from 542 to 251 million years ago (mya), and as being the earliest of three eras of the Phanerozoic era. |
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Dario Fo (March 24, 1926 - ) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. |
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Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. |
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Cookware and bakeware are categories of food preparation utensils commonly found in the kitchen. |
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The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that comprises a deep water basin (the Aleutian Basin) that rises up through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves. |
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A kohen (or cohen, Hebrew: כּהן, "priest;" pl: kohanim) is a Jewish priest, a direct male descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses. |
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In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its kinetic energy is equal to the magnitude of its gravitational potential energy, as calculated by the equation U_g = -Gm_1m_2/r. |
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Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. |
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White Tea is the least processed form of tea, made only from buds and select leaves of the tea plant. |
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Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo-Assyrian Empire. |
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Vilém Mathesius (August 3, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was a Czech linguist, co-founder of the influential Prague School of Linguistics. |
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A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and who incorporate some type of marching or other movement with musical performance. |
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The history of Sicily has seen it usually controlled by greater powers—Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Islamic, Hohenstaufen, Catalan, Spanish—but also experiencing periods of independence as under the Greeks and later as the Emirate then Kingdom of Sicily. |
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The Bay of Fundy () is located on the Atlantic Ocean coastline of North America, at the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. |
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Robert Joseph "Bob" Cousy (August 9, 1928 - ) is a former American professional basketball player who, as point guard with the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics from 1951 to 1963, led the team to six NBA championships. |
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A corona is a type of plasma "atmosphere" of the Sun or other celestial body, extending millions of kilometers into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse but also observable in a coronagraph. |
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The Tuscarora are an American Indian tribe originally in North Carolina, which moved north to New York, and then partially into Canada. |
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Johann Strauss II (Also, Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Sebastian Strauss) (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899) was an Austrian composer known especially for his waltzes and operettas or light comedies which were very popular with the Viennese public. |
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Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 – February 27, 2006) was best known as the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980. He was the son of Norman Chandler, his predecessor as publisher, his family having owned the newspaper since Harrison Gray Otis founded the company in the 1880s. |
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The Devonian is a geologic period of the geologic time scale, extending from the end of the Silurian period about 416.0 million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Carboniferous period about 359. |
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Asphalt is a sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most types of crude petroleum and in some natural deposits sometimes known as asphaltum. |
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The Ordovician period is the second of the six (seven in North America) periods of the Paleozoic era. |
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The Oneida (Onyota'a:ka or Onayotekaono, meaning "the People of the Upright Stone, or standing stone," are a Native American/First Nations people and are one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee) in the area of upstate New York. |
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A scroll is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper which has been written, drawn or painted upon for the purpose of decoration or preserving or transmitting information. |
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Henry II of England (March 5, 1133 – July 6, 1189) ruled as King of England (1154–1189), Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France. |
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The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) is a widely known list of seven remarkable constructions of antiquity. |
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The Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the national library of the United States, and represents the research arm of the U. |
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Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that arose from obscure origins in the late sixteenth to early seventeenth century. |
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In physics, the space surrounding an electric charge or in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field has a property called an electric field (that can also be equated to electric flux density). This electric field exerts a force on other electrically charged objects. |
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Chakra (Sanskrit: meaning circle or wheel) is a widely used concept in Indian religion and politics that underpins many spiritual practices and philosophical systems. |
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Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (November 9, 1888 – March 16, 1979) is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity. |
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The Onondaga (Onöñda'gega' or the People of the Hills) are one of the original five constituent nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee). Their traditional homeland is in and around Onondaga County, New York. |
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An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic periodical publication. |
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Excalibur, or Caliburn, is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain. |
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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Order of the Garter (KG), Order of New Zealand (ONZ), Order of the British Empire (KBE) (July 20, 1919 – January 11, 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. |
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Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer, and actor. |
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Plate tectonics (from Greek τέκτων, tektōn "builder" or "mason") describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. |
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Seismology (from the Greek seismos (), meaning "earthquake," and -logia (), meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth. |
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Ögedei Khan, Ögedei; also Ogotai or Oktay (c. 1186 – 1241), was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire by succeeding his father. |
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Land pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces often caused by human activities and its misuse. |
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Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations that developed between 3000-1200 B.C.E. |
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Prince Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetskoy (Russian: (or Nikolai Trubetzkoy) (April 15, 1890 – June 25, 1938) was a Russian linguist whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. |
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