Search results for "The Five" - New World Encyclopedia
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- was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga ... languages and Haley won a Special Award from the Pulitzer Board in 1977. Roots ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in ... France and Prussia, which was backed by the North German Confederation ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant ... Brine shrimp comprise a genus with the subphylum Crustacea, a group ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- Ethylene (or IUPAC name ethene) is a chemical compound with the formula ... Ethylene acts as a hormone in plants, regulating the ripening of fruit ...26 KB (3,781 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- The Shawnee, or Shawano, are a people native to North America. They ... organization within the Shawnee, each of the five Shawnee divisions operated ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 13:23, 27 January 2023
- and later became a naturalized citizen of the United States. ... He served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1937 until his ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 ... Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- | birth_place = The Hague, Netherlands | residence = [[Image:Flag_of_the_Uni ... zoologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately ... Beginning as simply the city of Oyo, it rose to prominence through ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- 1884) was an Austrian monk whose studies of the inheritance of traits in pea ... monitored more than 20,000 pea plants inside the walls of his monastery. He ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
- and Marxist theoretician. Serving as the People's Commissar for ... The daughter of an Imperial Russian Army general, Kollontai embraced ...55 KB (7,707 words) - 20:09, 30 July 2023
- quot; or "mason") describes the large scale motions of Earth ... The outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
- a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize ... Andrić was born on October 9, 1892 of Croatian parentage in the village ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 07:47, 12 March 2024
- was a nuclear physicist who became known as the "father" of nuclear ... Ernest Rutherford was the son of James Rutherford, a farmer who had ...17 KB (2,514 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in ... Present concerns include large-scale unemployment, overfishing, the ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- of woven or laminated fibers, protects the wearer's torso from projectiles ... spread its force over a larger portion of the vest fiber. A deformable handgun ...58 KB (9,062 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- II and Bhaskara Achārya ("Bhaskara the teacher"), was an Indian ... In many ways, Bhaskara represents the peak of mathematical and astronomical ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 16:27, 21 January 2022
- Salamander is the common term for any member of the order Caudata ... skin, although rough-skinned species exist. The moist skin of the amphibians ...12 KB (1,655 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- synthetically from sodium silicate. Despite the name, silica gel is a solid ... of silica gel usually bear warnings for the user not to eat the contents ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to ... After many debates amongst Christian leaders, the consubstantiality ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
