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- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of America's greatest military leaders who was instrumental in defeating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Stephen Arnold Douglas nicknamed the "Little Giant" (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
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- Fir is the common name for any of the evergreen trees comprising the genus Abies of the family Pinaceae, characterized by erect, cylindrical ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Vancouver Island is located off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is named in ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- Stephen Arnold Douglas nicknamed the "Little Giant" (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano in Washington state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce County, it is contained ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in United States created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 02:44, 5 October 2022
- the mid-elevations with Blue Spruce and Douglas-fir in water-rich areas and ... * Douglas-fir and White Fir along with Aspen and Engelmann Spruce ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- thumb|Pinaceae: needle leaves and bud of Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)]] The leaves of many conifers are long, thin, and needle-like ...19 KB (2,759 words) - 20:26, 15 May 2020
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:WilliamPaley.jpg|thumb|right|William Paley]] William Paley (July 1743 – May 25, 1805) was an English divine, Christian ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the southern end of Idaho's Albion Mountains. It is located in the south ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- Redwood is a common name used for three species of trees with red or reddish colored wood, which are part of the subfamily Sequoioideae of the ...28 KB (4,391 words) - 18:22, 27 July 2022
- ** Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga species ** Fir, Abies species ... # Coast Douglas-fir Pseudotsuga menziesii: 100.3 m, Brummit Creek ...33 KB (4,675 words) - 12:40, 18 April 2023
- forest types (e.g., ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forest). ===UNEP-WCMC;s forest category classification=== A number of global forest classification ...22 KB (3,182 words) - 06:31, 1 April 2024
- Another large tree commonly found in the forest is the Douglas-fir, which has been measured at heights of over 300 feet (90 m). Sitka Spruce ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- Muir Woods National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Marin County, California, 12 miles north of San Francisco. It is part ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- Bitterroot National Forest comprises 1600000|acre|km2 of forest formed from a patchwork of public lands in the northwestern United States. The ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- Mount Hood (known as Wy'east to the Multnomah tribe), is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanoes Arc in northern Oregon state, in the Pacific ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the First Lady of the United States when her husband, Abraham Lincoln, served ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:14, 7 November 2022
- Nikon Corporation (株式会社ニコン; Kabushiki-gaisha Nikon) ( 7731 ), also known as Nikon or Nikon Corp., is a Japanese company specializing ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- Carolina, Baroness Nairne (August 16, 1766 – October 26, 1845), Scottish songwriter, was born in the auld hoose of Gask, Perthshire to Jacobite ...8 KB (1,337 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- The western slopes are densely covered with Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock, and Red alder, while the drier eastern slopes are mostly Ponderosa Pine ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). He was the only bachelor president ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Bangla:বিমান বাংলাদেশ এয়ারলাইনস) designates the National Flag Carrier ...23 KB (3,204 words) - 17:42, 31 October 2023
- Electrical resistivity (also known as specific electrical resistance) is a measure of how strongly a material opposes the flow of electric current ...10 KB (1,366 words) - 04:13, 8 December 2022
- spruce, willow, aspen, occasional Douglas-fir and a few Douglas maple interspersed. Englemann spruce are more common in the subalpine regions ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. It is named after ...24 KB (3,641 words) - 19:45, 19 September 2021
- Tenzing Norgay George Medal (GM) (May 15, 1914 – May 9, 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese/Tibetan mountaineer. Near ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 03:46, 30 April 2023
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- Glacier National Park is a stunningly beautiful ice-carved terrain of ridges, peaks, and valleys located in the U.S. state of Montana, bordering ...38 KB (5,805 words) - 13:33, 16 December 2022
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Shoshone National Forest was the first federally protected National Forest established in the United States and covers nearly 2.5 million acres ...41 KB (6,175 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is a Grammy Award-winning American early rock and roll guitarist famous for his "twangy guitar" style ...12 KB (1,822 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2024
- Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), Findlaw, [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=381&invol=479 Full ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 05:50, 25 February 2023
- Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He was elected ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- Electric power is defined as the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. When electric current flows through a ...5 KB (743 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Frobenius, Leo [[Image:Leo Frobenius.jpg|thumb|220px|Leo Frobenius]] ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:785px-Kwakwaka'wakw big house.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Kwakiutl (kwakwaka ...10 KB (1,450 words) - 05:54, 30 November 2022
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. The ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are forms of valid inferences. By Modus Ponens, from a conditional statement and its antecedent, the consequent ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Entelechy is a philosophical concept stemming from Aristotle's metaphysics, and generally used to identify whatever it is that makes the ...6 KB (836 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- category:image wanted Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including philosophy, statistics, economics, ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- The Tung-lin Movement (Dong-lin Movement; 東林) (c.1530 – c. 1630) was a political reform movement organized among the bureaucratic elite ...12 KB (1,805 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- Estrogens (also oestrogens) are a group of steroid (type of lipid) compounds that function as the primary female sex hormone. Estrogens are named ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 00:20, 19 March 2022
- Yosemite National Park (pronounced "Yo-SEM-it-ee"), is a U.S. national park largely in Mariposa and Tuolumne counties in the state ...40 KB (6,041 words) - 21:33, 4 June 2023
- Category:Paranormal [[File:Bermuda Triangle.png|thumb|300px|right|One version of the Bermuda Triangle area]] The Bermuda Triangle, also known ...20 KB (3,000 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the star pupil ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 22:57, 10 November 2022
- Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (April 26, 1894 – August 17, 1987) was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler ...23 KB (3,538 words) - 17:39, 22 December 2022
- Rolls-Royce Limited was an English car and, later, aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Sir Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls on ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 02:47, 16 December 2022
- Aristophanes (Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης ) (c. 446 B.C.E. – c. 388 B.C.E.) was a Greek dramatist of the Old and Middle Comedy period. He ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. He is generally ...13 KB (1,878 words) - 18:10, 12 February 2024
- Viperidae, whose members are commonly known as vipers, is a family of venomous snakes characterized by a head that is distinct from the body ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 – December 14, 1947) was a British statesman and was elected three times ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968), from Switzerland, was the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century that changed ...13 KB (1,939 words) - 07:14, 5 October 2022
- Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- category:Image wanted Crichton, Michael {{Infobox Writer | name = Michael Crichton | image = | pseudonym = John Lange Jeffery Hudson ...24 KB (3,558 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It stretches from the Canadian province of British ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- A bleach is a chemical that can remove or lighten the color of an object, often by a process known as oxidation. Common chemical bleaches include ...7 KB (964 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament attributed to Saint Peter, the Apostle, although scholars doubt this attribution. ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. She ...32 KB (4,715 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- The term supersonic is used to define a speed that exceeds the speed of sound—a speed that is referred to as Mach 1. However, supersonic airflow ...7 KB (968 words) - 23:49, 26 February 2023
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of America's greatest military leaders who was instrumental in defeating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Joan Crawford (March 23, 1904 - May 10, 1977) was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest ...17 KB (2,572 words) - 13:41, 1 August 2022
- Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The park ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 10:33, 10 March 2023
- Jadeite is one of the minerals recognized as the gemstone jade. The other mineral recognized as "jade" is nephrite, a green amphibole. ...7 KB (945 words) - 12:38, 6 November 2021
- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according to the United Nations Statistics Division, [https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country musician, vocalist, songwriter, and fiddler, who was known ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10, 1894 – December 29, 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Middle school, also known as Junior High school, is a school in the secondary educational ...19 KB (2,829 words) - 17:33, 9 November 2022
- A printing press is a mechanical device to print many copies of text on a medium such as paper or cloth. The machine applies pressure to an inked ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- William Whewell (May 24, 1794 - March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- Godiva (or Godgifu) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- category:Image wantedNash, Ogden {{Infobox Person | name = Ogden Nash | birth_date = 1902|8|19 | birth_place = Rye, New York | death_date = 1971 ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 23:56, 17 November 2022
- The term nèijiā usually refers to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which Sun Lutang identified in the 1920s ...24 KB (3,729 words) - 16:11, 11 November 2022
- The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical center of the British Isles. ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje ) (August 18, 1922 – February 18, 2008), was a French writer and filmmaker. He was along with ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 04:24, 17 June 2023
- Stephen Robert Irwin (February 22, 1962 – September 4, 2006), known simply as Steve Irwin and nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter," was ...16 KB (2,294 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- An argument is an attempt to demonstrate the truth of an assertion called a conclusion, based on the truth of a set of assertions called premises ...9 KB (1,514 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland, of which it is the capital. It is situated on the Brisbane ...24 KB (3,443 words) - 02:23, 22 November 2023
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands that lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and statesman from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer but a powerful ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- The South Pole, also known as the geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, on ...23 KB (3,208 words) - 15:38, 4 February 2023
- Aaron Montgomery Ward (February 17, 1844 – December 7, 1913) was an American businessman notable for the invention of mail order, which he ...7 KB (1,133 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. It became the 29th state when it joined the Union in 1846. Des Moines ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Swanton, John R. John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- The Golden Rule is a cross-cultural ethical precept found in virtually all the religions of the world. Also known as the "Ethic of Reciprocity ...18 KB (2,926 words) - 05:37, 20 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence ...18 KB (2,702 words) - 17:02, 10 November 2022
- In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to a boy's coming-of-age ceremony held upon (or shortly after) his thirteenth ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
- The Battle of Inchon (also Romanized as "Incheon;" 인천 상륙 작전 Incheon Sangryuk Jakjeon; code name: Operation Chromite) was ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, (July 8, 1892 – July 27, 1962) was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 20:12, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Raymond, Henry Jarvis [[Image:Henry Jarvis Raymond.jpg|thumb ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:crematorium.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- John Knox (1514?–1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines following ...27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
- In aerodynamics, the sound barrier usually refers to the point at which an aircraft moves from transonic to supersonic speed. The term came into ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 15:12, 27 April 2023
- Sir Samuel White Baker (June 8, 1821 - December 30, 1893) was an English explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
