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- Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 16:38, 29 July 2023
- Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was the first Methodist missionary to Korea. He and the American Presbyterian ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- George Edward Moore (November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958), usually known as G. E. Moore, was a distinguished and influential English philosopher ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 07:29, 15 April 2024
- Category:Psychologists Hall, G. Stanley [[Image:G_Stanley_Hall.jpg|thumb|250px|Granville Stanley Hall, c. 1910]] Granville Stanley Hall (February ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) ( ˈwʊdhaʊs ) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923 ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for ...27 KB (3,964 words) - 00:40, 29 November 2023
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His prolific and ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Category:Psychologists Boring, Edwin G. Edwin Garrigues Boring (October 23, 1886-July 1, 1968) was an American experimental psychologist and ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
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- #REDIRECTCarter G. Woodson ...30 bytes (4 words) - 15:26, 20 July 2020
- Centrifugation is a process that involves the use of the centrifugal force for the separation of mixtures, used in industry and in laboratory ...7 KB (963 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- In the physical sciences, the weight of an object is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on the object. Although the term "weight ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- A centrifuge is a piece of equipment, generally driven by a motor, that puts objects in rotation around a central, fixed axis, applying a force ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- Mass, in classical mechanics, is the measure of an object's resistance to change in motion, that is, its inertia, which is unchanging regardless ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface (in a direction perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- In physics, torque (or often called a moment) can informally be thought of as "rotational force" or "angular force" which ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:22, 28 June 2023
- surface of the earth. Weightlessness means a zero g-force or zero apparent weight; acceleration is only due to gravity, as opposed to the cases where ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- In physics, acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity—that is, the change of velocity with time. An object is said to undergo ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of an object. This definition was given by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,947 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid-liquid, solid-gas ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- In physics, the angular momentum of an object rotating about some reference point is the measure of the extent to which the object will continue ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- In music, modulation is usually the act or process of changing from one key to another. This may or may not be accompanied by a change in key ...13 KB (2,131 words) - 19:27, 9 November 2022
- Bernardino Telesio (1509 – 1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist. Opposing the Aristotelianism which characterized medieval ...7 KB (1,115 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the last major battle of the Peloponnesian War. In the battle, a Spartan fleet ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- The Doctors' Trial is the unofficial name for the particular Nuremberg Trial held before a U.S. military court for 23 Nazi medical doctors ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
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- Category:Psychologists Boring, Edwin G. Edwin Garrigues Boring (October 23, 1886-July 1, 1968) was an American experimental psychologist and ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- Limnology is a discipline that concerns the study of inland aquatic ecosystems (whether freshwater or saline, natural or manmade), including ...8 KB (1,108 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Seligman, Charles Gabriel Charles Gabriel Seligman (December ...11 KB (1,543 words) - 19:06, 4 December 2023
- The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), an African even-toed ungulate mammal, has a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2023
- In astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, are hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- Ammonium sulfate is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula (NH4)2SO4. It contains 21 percent nitrogen in the form of ammonium ...6 KB (752 words) - 07:39, 25 July 2023
- A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction, wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into ...12 KB (1,989 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle that does not have a substructure, as far as is known; that ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with the formula SO2. This important gas is the main product from the combustion ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 21:44, 26 February 2023
- In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a specific point at which the system's mass behaves (for many purposes) ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- George Edward Moore (November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958), usually known as G. E. Moore, was a distinguished and influential English philosopher ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 07:29, 15 April 2024
- Gazelle is the common name for any of the various small, swift antelopes of Africa and Asia comprising the genus Gazella and the related genera ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Largs was an military engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present-day town of Largs in North ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- Ann Radcliffe (July 9, 1764 - February 7, 1823) was an English author of the early Romantic period whose fiction pioneered the genre of the gothic ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- In chemistry, anthracene is a solid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of three benzene rings derived from coal-tar. Anthracene is used ...4 KB (576 words) - 05:54, 31 July 2023
- Tritium (chemical symbol Tritium or Hydrogen|3 ) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (sometimes called a triton) contains ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 16:50, 5 November 2022
- Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 04:50, 14 June 2023
- Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Early was trusted and ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential Indian Buddhist thinker after Gautama Buddha, who founded the Madhyamaka ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Telugu:సర్వేపల్లి రాధాకృష్ణ, Tamil:சர்வபள்ளி ராதாகிரு ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan to infiltrate the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Category:Psychologists Hall, G. Stanley [[Image:G_Stanley_Hall.jpg|thumb|250px|Granville Stanley Hall, c. 1910]] Granville Stanley Hall (February ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Henry Cavendish (October 10, 1731 - February 24, 1810) was a British scientist best known for being the first to measure the average density ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Frazer, James [[File:JamesGeorgeFrazer.jpg|300px|right|James George Frazer]] ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- The naturalistic fallacy is an alleged fallacy of moral reasoning. The British philosopher George Edward Moore (1873-1958) introduces the naturalistic ...14 KB (2,113 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity with a value that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and to remain unchanged ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was the first Methodist missionary to Korea. He and the American Presbyterian ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- category:image wanted Kilgour, Fred Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914—July 31, 2006) was a pioneer of library and information science ...14 KB (2,025 words) - 23:13, 7 October 2022
- In mathematics, an average, mean, or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or "expected value" ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- A vortex (plural vortices) is a rapidly spinning, circular or spiral flow of fluid around a central axis. The swirling motion tends to suck everything ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 21:04, 3 May 2023
- Cumin (IPA pronunciation [ˈkʌmɪn] The pronunciations /ˈkuːmɪn/ and /ˈkjuːmɪn/ are becoming increasingly common. sometimes spelled cummin ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- The book of 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part of the deuterocanonical books, but Protestants, Catholics, and Jews regard ...9 KB (1,497 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- Charles George Gordon, C.B. (January 28, 1833 – January 26, 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive and repulsive forces on other materials. It arises whenever ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Category:Anthropologists Gennep, Arnold van [[File:Arnold Van Gennep.jpg|thumb|300px|Arnold Van Gennep]] Charles-Arnold Kurr van Gennep (April ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- Chloroethane or monochloroethane, commonly known by its old name ethyl chloride, is a chemical compound once widely used in producing tetra-ethyl ...7 KB (906 words) - 17:08, 10 December 2023
- Parsnip is a hardy, biennial, strongly-scented plant (Pastinaca sativa), which is a member of the parsley family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae), ...7 KB (1,014 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo gulo, of the weasel family (Mustelidae), characterized by a large and stocky ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Mica is an important group of rock-forming silicate minerals, belonging to the subgroup called phyllosilicates. The group consists of more than ...9 KB (1,317 words) - 16:34, 9 November 2022
- Pecan is the common name for a large, North American deciduous hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, characterized by alternate, pinnately compound ...12 KB (1,631 words) - 07:10, 23 November 2022
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (Николай Александрович Бердяев) (March 18, 1874 – March 24, 1948) was a Russian religious ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- The Fula or Fulani is an ethnic group residing in many countries of West Africa. They are concentrated principally in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 14:26, 3 December 2023
- Gonorrhea is a common, highly contagious, sexually transmitted diseases (STD) that is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 11:56, 24 January 2023
- Geochronology is the science of determining the absolute ages of rocks, fossils, and sediments found on Earth. This field of science relies on ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- Category:Media Professionals Otis, Harrison Gray :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States Representative and Senator ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses on the Jewish revolt against Antiochus IV and concludes with the defeat of ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- Wildebeest (plural, wildebeest or wildebeests), also called gnu, is the common name for an antelope of the genus Connochaetes, characterized ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 21:08, 21 November 2022
- Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. Its chemical formula may be written as CO(NH2)2, CON2H4, or CN2H4O. It ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Cytochrome c, or cyt c is a small, water soluble heme protein associated with the inner membrane of the mitochondrion. It is an essential link ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov ( Александр Константинович Глазунов , Aleksandr Konstantinovič Glazunov; ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. J. Mann, et al., Natural Products: Their Chemistry and Biological ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. It may be either an elementary (or fundamental) particle, or a composite particle, also ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- There were two Battles of the Marne fought during World War I. The first (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a battle fought from September ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- The Western European Union (WEU) is a partially dormant European defense and security organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Necker cube.svg|thumb|The Necker cube: a wire frame cube with ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 16:07, 11 November 2022
- G. E. M. Anscombe (March 18, 1919 – January 5, 2001) (born Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, also known as Elizabeth Anscombe) was a British ...23 KB (3,440 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists Sumner, William Graham Category:Public [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva mitzvot b'nei Noach), also called the Brit ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Military [[Image:ROTCFTX1.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|Army ROTC cadets on a field ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 19:43, 16 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 term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- Viperinae is a subfamily of terrestrial and arboreal venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized by a lack of the heat-sensing pit organs ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of blood vessel that is abnormally narrowed (stenosis) or totally obstructed (occlusion). Angioplasty ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- Epinephrine or adrenaline (sometimes spelled "epinephrin" or "adrenalin" respectively) is a hormone that is secreted principally ...13 KB (1,794 words) - 16:18, 15 February 2021
- Leucine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to isoleucine and valine in being ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 22:03, 25 October 2022
- Carl Gustav Hempel (January 8, 1905, Oranienburg, Germany - November 9, 1997, Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- Fowl is the common name for any of the gamefowl or landfowl comprising the bird order Galliformes, or any of the waterfowl comprising the order ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Phenol, also known under an older name of carbolic acid, is a toxic, colorless crystalline solid with a distinctive sweet tarry odor. Its chemical ...8 KB (1,204 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- Ethyl acetate is an organic compound that is an ester derived from the combination of ethanol and acetic acid. Its chemical formula may be written ...8 KB (1,113 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- Crystallization is the (natural or artificial) process of formation of solid crystals from a homogeneous solution or melt, or more rarely directly ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 06:32, 11 January 2024
- Activated carbon (also called active carbon, activated charcoal, or activated coal) is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- Metamorphic rock is produced deep beneath the Earth's surface when a pre-existing rock type, called the protolith, is transformed under ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- The First Italo–Ethiopian War was fought between Italy and Ethiopia in 1895-1896. Ethiopia's military victory over Italy secured it the ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
