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- did-people-change-in-the-axial-age "Why Did People Change in the Axial Age?"] Psychology Today. Retrieved June 28, 2011. ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- A ball bearing, an engineering term, refers to a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the moving ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:21, 11 January 2023
- A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. Compression of a gas naturally increases ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- Karl Theodor Jaspers (February 23, 1883 – February 26, 1969) was a German philosopher who developed a unique theistic existential philosophy ...13 KB (1,830 words) - 07:16, 5 October 2022
- Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is the third largest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. Uranus is similar in composition to ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- Fossil range: Cambrian-Permian image = [[Image:Asaphiscuswheelerii.jpg|200px|Asaphiscus wheeleri]] | caption = Asaphiscus wheeleri, a trilobite ...16 KB (2,412 words) - 17:20, 2 May 2023
- |- align = "center" | |width = "25"| | [[Image:Potentiometer symbol.svg|50px]] |- align = "center" | ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
- The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the plane perpendicular to the Earth's axis of rotation and containing ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 07:25, 6 September 2023
- A fan is a device used to induce airflow and generally made from broad, flat surfaces which revolve or oscillate. The most common applications ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather. In temperate and polar regions, four ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 17:37, 25 January 2023
- A propeller is a device used for the propulsion of a vehicle such as an aircraft, ship, or submarine though a medium such as air or water. By ...19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose of the teeth being to mesh with similar teeth on another mechanical device—usually ...33 KB (5,689 words) - 06:30, 18 April 2024
- Galactosemia is a rare genetic metabolic disorder that affects an individual's ability to properly metabolize the sugar galactose. The disease ...8 KB (1,106 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that combines the tasks of harvesting, threshing, and cleaning grain crops. ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 00:04, 8 January 2024
- A solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is most oriented toward or away from the ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
- An embryo (Greek: ἔμβρυον , plural ἔμβρυα ) is a multicellular eukaryote organism in its early stages of development. In humans ...8 KB (1,283 words) - 18:00, 13 February 2024
- An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. When an eclipse occurs in a stellar ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- Supramolecular chemistry refers to an area of chemistry that specializes in the study of noncovalent interactions within and between molecules. ...20 KB (2,678 words) - 17:36, 23 October 2022
- A spring is a flexible, elastic device used to store mechanical energy. When a force is applied to a spring, it expands or contracts to a certain ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- Category:Public Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth in order of size. It is the largest ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- An optical fiber (or optical fibre) is a glass or plastic fiber designed to guide light along its length by confining as much light as possible ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- Baobab is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Adansonia, a taxa of eight extant species native ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 05:47, 15 June 2023
- Tōju Nakae (April 21, 1608 – October 11, 1648) was a Japanese Confucian philosopher known as "the sage of Ōmi." Nakae was a feudal ...13 KB (2,132 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the design of structures that support or resist loads. Structural engineering is ...56 KB (8,392 words) - 21:05, 26 February 2023
- ] Computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging method employing tomography. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional ...61 KB (9,364 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- The term chiral is used to describe an object that is not superposable on its mirror image. Human hands are perhaps the most universally recognized ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 17:06, 10 December 2023
- The North Pole is defined as one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface (the other being the ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- Bourges Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges) is a cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the seat ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the world's oldest and most complex civilizations covering a history of over ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Socrates.png|thumb|right|Socrates]] Socrates (ca. 469 – 399 B.C.E.) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs) was an ancient ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the solar system,[http://www.iau.org/news/press ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- The ecliptic is the apparent path that the Sun traces out in the sky during the year. As it appears to move in the sky in relation to the stars ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and sustain life. As the existence ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Angkor Wat (meaning: "Capital Temple") is an ancient temple complex (originally Hindu but later becomming Buddhist) dating from the ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 01:44, 9 January 2023
- The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- Ardhanarisvara (also known as Ardhanari and Mohiniraaj) is an androgynous Hindu deity consisting of Shiva and his consort, Parvati (viz. Shakti ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- The lung is either of the two primary respiratory organs in air-breathing vertebrates. Its principal function is to transport oxygen from the ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 03:04, 5 November 2022
- Starfish, or sea stars (a less confusing designation, since they are only very distantly related to fish), are marine invertebrates belonging ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 04:39, 28 April 2023
- A flagellum (plural, flagella) is a long, whip-like projection or appendage of a cell composed of microtubules (long, slender, protein tubes ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 17:34, 28 March 2024
- Auxins are a class of naturally occuring or synthetic organic (carbon-containing) plant growth substances (often called phytohormones or plant ...15 KB (2,169 words) - 05:59, 10 January 2023
- Category:Public [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases of the nervous system. In the past the term has been used more generally ...20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- The Colosseum or Coliseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheater (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is named after the Roman god of war. It is also known as the "Red Planet ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide historical time into discrete named blocks. This is usually done in order to facilitate ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human history. It examines the origin ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...18 KB (2,642 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites of other planets are also called moons, although they usually have their ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- A helicopter is an aircraft that is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors—each of which comprises two or more rotor blades ...42 KB (6,643 words) - 23:04, 3 February 2022
- A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a ...17 KB (2,749 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic") is a term that has been used from antiquity to derogatorily denote ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- __NOTOC__ ==History as Providential== Unification thought sees history as a theater in which God works voluntarily constrained by self-imposed ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. Its brightness ranges from about -2.0 ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:nervoussystem.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com]] As commonly defined, the human body is ...25 KB (3,706 words) - 21:55, 23 December 2020
- The Timurids, self-designated GurkānīThe Columbia Encyclopedia, [http://www.bartleby.com/65/ti/Timurids.html Timurids.] Retrieved October 23 ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- A magnetic field is an invisible physical phenomenon caused (“induced”) by an electric current. The current may be as small as an orbiting ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- The Palace of Versailles (in French: Château de Versailles, or simply Versailles) is a royal chateau in Versailles, France. When the chateau ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- Confucius (Kong Fuzi or K'ung-fu-tzu, lit. "Master Kong") (traditionally September 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- In chemistry and mineralogy, a crystal is defined as a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered ...24 KB (3,432 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- In astronomy, equinox can have two meanings: * The moment when the Sun is positioned directly over the Earth's equator, and the apparent ...25 KB (4,132 words) - 19:17, 13 February 2024
- X-rays (or Röntgen rays) are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies ...25 KB (3,822 words) - 14:14, 20 May 2023
- Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988; IPA: /ˈfaɪnmən/ ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Campbell, Joseph [[Image:Joseph Campbell (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Joseph ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 17:54, 6 May 2024
- Serpent (from Latin: serpens, serpentis) is a word used in mythological or religious contexts to denote a being that looks like a snake but has ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- The spinal cord is the long, tubular structure in vertebrates that consists of a bundle of nervous tissue and support cells, connects with the ...37 KB (5,767 words) - 21:40, 7 February 2023
- Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced in English as [ fʊŋ'ʃweɪ ] ("fung shway"), was known as ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- Renewable energy is a term for any useable energy that is harnessed from natural resources that are either essentially inexhaustible (such as ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- A capacitor (or condenser "Condenser" is now considered an antiquated term for capacitor. ) is an electrical device that can store energy ...30 KB (4,519 words) - 19:31, 25 November 2023
- Electronic engineering is a discipline that utilizes the behavior and effects of electrons for the production of electronic devices (such as ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The angiosperms (also called flowering plants) are a major group of land plants, with 250,000 species ...33 KB (5,220 words) - 01:41, 9 January 2023
- Snake is any of the numerous elongate, limbless, scaled, carnivorous reptiles comprising the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia) of the order Squamata ...54 KB (8,016 words) - 05:10, 13 October 2022
- Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. It is considered ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. The day ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
- Alternative energy is a term for any nontraditional energy form, source, or technology differing from the current popular forms, sources, or ...73 KB (10,796 words) - 08:37, 23 July 2023
- The Solar system (or solar system) Capitalization of the name varies. The IAU, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies ...60 KB (9,448 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. After Earth's Moon, it is the brightest object in the ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken shape in Asia over the centuries. The structural principles of Chinese ...41 KB (6,198 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Nature, broadly defined, refers to the physical (natural, material) world at all levels (subatomic to cosmic), especially when regarded as distinct ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. Caused by infection with the ...45 KB (6,567 words) - 16:55, 21 December 2023
- Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with molecular structures that are tubular in shape, having diameters on the order of a few ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
