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- :This article focuses on modern scientific research on the age of Earth. ... Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the age of Earth to be ...34 KB (5,149 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- The Battle of the Alamo was a nineteenth century battle between the ... The battle took place at a turning point in the Texas Revolution, ...19 KB (3,079 words) - 23:51, 30 October 2023
- Wall Street Journal, The The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an influential international daily ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 17:37, 30 April 2023
- Saint John of the Cross (June 24, 1542 – December 14, 1591), born ... Best known for his introspective poetry and writings on the growth ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ... A typical mutiny in the Royal Navy during the eighteenth century involved ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- The Battle of the Boyne was a turning point in the Williamite war ... its symbolic importance has made it one of the most infamous battles in British ...20 KB (3,207 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- is a masterpiece of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese ... Genji, as the work is commonly called, was written for the women of ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- The War of the Pacific, also called the Saltpeter War in reference ... The War of the Pacific grew out of a dispute between Chile and Bolivia ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament ... a sermon than a letter. It portrays Jesus as the high priest who sacrificed ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's ... Much of the letter is personal in nature, expressing Paul's joy ...12 KB (1,921 words) - 17:23, 28 March 2024
- Bel and the Dragon is an apocryphal Jewish story which appears as ... Bel and the Dragon and other deuterocanonical books were included ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- #REDIRECT Epistle to the Philippians ...40 bytes (5 words) - 15:00, 15 January 2024
- The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes ... The Ardennes attack was planned in total secrecy in almost total radio ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- The Storming of the Bastille ( Prise de la Bastille pʁiz də la bastij| insurgents storming and seizing control of the medieval armory, fortress ...35 KB (5,341 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- 041-058.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Location of the valley in the Theban Hills ... The Valley of the Kings (Arabic: وادي الملوك Wadi Biban ...45 KB (7,190 words) - 20:00, 27 April 2020
- The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- #REDIRECT Epistle to the Galatians ...38 bytes (5 words) - 20:39, 17 May 2023
- #REDIRECT First Epistle to the Thessalonians ...48 bytes (6 words) - 15:01, 15 January 2024
- The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal was ... intervention by a woman, countering the more widespread view that ...27 KB (4,726 words) - 02:43, 26 September 2023
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the ... His works are mystical and are characterized by the Neoplatonic tendencies ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- #REDIRECT Epistle to the Philippians ...40 bytes (5 words) - 20:39, 17 May 2023
- The Gospel of the Hebrews is a lost Jewish Christian gospel known ... This Gospel of the Hebrews may have been used in Jewish Christian ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 14:45, 30 December 2022
- The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the ... offshore reserves has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy, which ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- Christian Science Monitor, The The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is an international newspaper ...9 KB (1,395 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Eventually, the entire Western Hemisphere would come under the domination ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... The IWW contends that all workers should be united within a single ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- :This article is about the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas ... and development of writing is counted among the many achievements and innovations ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... The islands' proximity to South America has influenced its culture ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:queenvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Queen Victoria at the ... 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...55 KB (8,686 words) - 14:59, 10 May 2024
- Saint Teresa of the Andes, known formally as Saint Teresa of Jesus ... written to friends and family after entering the convent, which bear eloquent ...8 KB (1,399 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- of the Technical School and the Five-Year Frame (Leningrad, RU: ... in one country," demanding the five-year plan be exceeded.Ilya ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a famous New Testament parable ... ). It is one of the most frequently quoted of Jesus' parables. ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- The Prodigal Son, also known as the Lost Son, is about the inner nature ... These three parables address not only Jesus' reaction to the ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era ... The Spanish had been the greatest power in the world during the late ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The organization faced controversy on several occasions over its discriminatory ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written ... It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl ...56 KB (8,538 words) - 21:33, 6 June 2023
- Symeon the New Theologian (949 – 1022) was a Byzantine monk and ... 14 but was directed by his spiritual father, the abbot of the monastery at ...8 KB (1,279 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... The effects spread throughout Western Europe and North America during ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; Simplified ... The novel is a detailed, episodic record of the lives of the members ...35 KB (5,738 words) - 17:35, 30 January 2024
- The Soviet Union introduced the collectivization ( Коллективизац ... February 20, 1930, we had overfulfilled the five-year plan of collectivization ...62 KB (8,577 words) - 22:34, 7 January 2024
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection ... The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous and widespread work ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- First Lady of the United States is the unofficial title of the hostess ... To date, no women have served as president of the United States. Presumably ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- The development of the periodic table of the elements parallels the ... As science developed through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 15:59, 25 January 2023
- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... The war lasted over a decade, and was marked by the military leadership ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ( c=竹林七賢 writers, and musicians who came together in the bloody third century C.E. ...14 KB (2,127 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary ... One component of the text that has received extensive scholarly attention ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- The War of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War ... and N M Rothschild & Sons. During the five years of war, Brazilian ...35 KB (5,486 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) or ... ), a Nazi paramilitary organization. Adolf Hitler moved against the ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 04:05, 15 November 2022
- the people indigenous to the United States|broader uses of "Native ... quot;In combination with one or more of the other races listed." ...60 KB (8,901 words) - 04:20, 11 March 2023
- Arguments or proofs for the Existence of God have been proposed by ... If God is conceived as the Supreme Being, Being-itself, the source ...81 KB (12,883 words) - 08:12, 24 January 2023
- 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ... often interfering in politics, especially in the matter of Catholic emancipation ...44 KB (6,632 words) - 10:49, 13 December 2023
- 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ... During his youth, he served in the Royal Navy; he was, both during ...36 KB (5,444 words) - 21:27, 8 February 2024
- The dechristianization of France during the French Revolution describes ... During the course of the revolution, the church was nationalized with ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- January 1, 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ... many of its colonies in North America in the wake of the American Revolution ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ... The development of the office of Prime Minister coincides with the ...42 KB (6,582 words) - 21:49, 26 April 2023
- The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... musical score, and memorable characters, The Wizard of Oz was considered ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- special costumes, dance motions, and music. The dance has earned a reputation ... Geom-mu originated during the later portion of the Three Kingdoms ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is an extensive 16.3|acre|m2 ... this goal with performances throughout the five boroughs, and was the first ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of ... facade there is a symbol that resembles the five wounds Saint Francis of ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward VIII held the titles of ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- #REDIRECTElizabeth II ...25 bytes (3 words) - 21:28, 28 July 2023
- (June 3, 1865 – January 20, 1936) was the first British monarch belonging ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ( Пятилетние планы ...52 KB (7,308 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The Supreme Court is the only court established by the United States ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a magical order of the late ... to establish a Golden Dawn temple to work the five grades outlined in the manuscripts ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 14:46, 12 February 2022
- This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... ==De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev era== After Stalin died in March ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a U.S. National Park ... gneiss plummet as much as 2,700 feet along the narrow gorge known as the ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:04, 31 October 2023
- Based largely on these figures, the Five Year Industrial Production ... a tremendous leap in industrial capacity, the Five Year Plan was extremely ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... seemingly bottomless, huge cups in which the five-story Owyhee hotel might ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...199 KB (24,192 words) - 20:08, 19 September 2022
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation ... The islands were too small to serve as a launching pad for an invasion ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (identified on ... Designed by famed New York architect Edward Durell Stone, the Kennedy ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 23:38, 5 July 2023
- [[File:President John F. Kennedy Meets with National Association for ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 23:05, 31 October 2023
- Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties hold the royal remains ... , patterned in an arc-shape at the foot of the Jundu Mountains south ...24 KB (3,553 words) - 16:44, 12 February 2024
- The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation ... These tribes were peaceful, except for historical enmity with the ...33 KB (4,861 words) - 19:50, 28 November 2023
- Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in ... The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the turning away from communism ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation ... The role of religion in American public life remains an unresolved ...29 KB (4,563 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- #REDIRECT Tuskegee Syphilis Study ...37 bytes (4 words) - 21:12, 16 August 2021
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, ... Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- #REDIRECTChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...56 bytes (8 words) - 12:33, 5 May 2024
- The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against ... it came into force on September 3, 1981. The United States is the only ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- #REDIRECTBritish House of Commons ...37 bytes (5 words) - 15:51, 28 September 2022
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово ... The plot of this classic work is based on a failed raid of Kniaz Igor ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- Booker T. & the M.G.'s were an instrumental soul band popular ... Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones (organ, piano) ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 19:23, 20 November 2023
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
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- with Nature, and is said to rule over the myriad sentient beings that ... However, in the post-Vedic period, as Hindu religion became more internalized ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- , is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise ... The case resulted from a petition to the Court by William Marbury ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- The Pontifex Maximus (which literally means "Greatest Pontiff ... The title of "Pontifex Maximus," dating back to the times ...31 KB (4,749 words) - 00:22, 12 April 2023
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance ... The increasing reliance on the interval of the third as a consonance ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- of God") is a prominent angel in the Abrahamic religions, who serves ... The angel Gabriel is first mentioned in the Book of Daniel in the ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- Watercolor painting is a painting method. A watercolor is either the ... The technique of water-based painting dates to ancient times, and ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 23:18, 3 May 2023
- colonial officials. His minute resulted in the policy of only funding education ... Indian independence, since it was members of the Indian English-speaking educated ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- Carboxylic acids are organic acids characterized by the presence of ... long chain carboxylic acids are obtained by the hydrolysis of triglycerides ...13 KB (1,872 words) - 19:11, 26 November 2023
- steps move up or down on tracks that keep the surfaces of the individual ... In both cases, riders can walk or stand. The walkways are often supplied ...37 KB (6,013 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ... The theory of anamnesis is a version of theory of innate ideas. Rationalists ...15 KB (2,367 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth-century ... Palestrina was born in Palestrina, a town near Rome, then part of ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- The Burmese Buddhist Temple (also known as Maha Sasana Ramsi; ... walking distance of another historical site, the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- There is a range of other uses, depending on the context. For example, fact ... Although the term fact often implies objectivity and truth, it is ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- The Shahnameh or Shahnama ( شاهنامه|Šāhnāme| lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron ) (Also romanized as ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- ) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at ... Solidarity was the first non-communist trade union in a Communist ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- Tamil people, a Dravidian people from the Indian subcontinent, have ... include the Tirukkural, by Tiruvalluvar, the five great Tamil epics, and the ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- #039;) was an ancient ceremonial capital of the second Iranian dynasty, the ... Persepolis has a long and complex history, designed to be the central ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- cubism, and surrealism. He and his friend, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky ... Hans Klee, was a German music teacher at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar near ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- Corals are those marine invertebrates of the phylum Cnidaria and the ... reason are usually found not far beneath the surface, although in clear ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with ... Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The five ASME symbols are for inspection ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 22:36, 5 February 2023
- The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed ... Nations once it was agreed that each of the five permanent members of the ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- The electric chair is an execution method in which the person being ... Since the late twentieth century use of the electric chair has been ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
- Aihole (Kannada ಐಹೊಳೆ) is a town in the Bagalkot district ... The temples fall broadly into two groups, the Kontigudi and Galaganatha ...10 KB (1,455 words) - 06:56, 16 June 2023
- Alms or almsgiving is the general practice of charitable giving to ... In Islam, zakat, or the giving of alms, is the third of the five pillars ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- The Battle of Quebec, also known as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ... The culmination of a three-month siege by the British, the battle ...33 KB (5,197 words) - 10:21, 22 September 2023
- The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full ... The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...13 KB (1,876 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... star at the center of the flag represents the five major island groups, and ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- sage (rishi) traditionally considered to be the original proponent of the ... According to the oldest available Samkhya work, Isvarakrsna's ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- Microbat is the common name for any of the bats comprising the suborder ... Microbats provide a valuable role in the ecosystem through limiting ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American ... ==Before the war== The son of a Quaker farmer and smith, he was born ...24 KB (3,805 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- The Chrysler Building is an iconic Art Deco skyscraper in New York ... Featuring automobile-related designs around its facade, the Chrysler ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 21:55, 10 December 2023
- Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... transfers of power. It successfully made the transition from a one-party ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- Duck is the common name for any member of a variety of species of ... The term "duck" sometimes is specifically for adult females ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 17:18, 12 February 2024
- William Byrd (c. 1540 – July 4, 1623) was one of the most celebrated ... very early age. He almost certainly sang in the Chapel Royal during Mary Tudor ...10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. Houses may ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- 1939) a Swiss psychiatrist, was a pioneer in the treatment of psychoses, particularly ... from psychoses was a radical departure from the prevailing view that these ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg ... He began composing at the young age of ten, producing short pieces ...35 KB (5,095 words) - 03:55, 15 August 2023
- Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- The Jesus myth hypothesis, or simply Jesus myth, refers to the theory ... The hypothesis was first proposed by historian and theologian Bruno ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- 50 protein molecules, interconnected to form the site of protein synthesis ... proteins from a set of genetic instructions. The ribosome's enzymatic ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- Louis I the Great Croatian: Ludovik I) (March 5, 1326, Visegrád and of King of Poland from 1370. Louis was the head of the senior branch ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans Baptized Mary Anne ... 22, 1880) an English novelist who was one of the leading writers of the Victorian ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 07:37, 15 May 2024
- significantly higher than other children of the same age. The focus was initially ... is often distributed unevenly across the various intellectual spheres ...28 KB (4,026 words) - 06:24, 11 December 2022
- for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain ... without formal hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states ...78 KB (10,754 words) - 22:08, 30 March 2023
- Wang Xizhi (Wang Hsi-chih, 王羲之) (303 – 361) was the most celebrated ... Wang Xizhi’s most famous work is Lantingji Xu (Preface to the Poems ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 22:52, 3 May 2023
- ice hockey player. Nicknamed "The Great One," he is considered ... a stellar youth career, Gretzky signed with the Indianapolis Racers of the ...25 KB (3,378 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- as kettledrums) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type ... Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple of the classical ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- The Categorical Imperative is the central concept in Kant’s ethics ... Kant formulates the Categorical Imperative in several different ways ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- Andalusia, located in the southern portion of Spain, is one of the ... Andalusia lies to the south of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
- The Gospel of the Hebrews is a lost Jewish Christian gospel known ... This Gospel of the Hebrews may have been used in Jewish Christian ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 14:45, 30 December 2022
- years; its origins are often traced back to the I Ching (the Book of Changes ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- * Stress (mechanics), the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other * Occupational stress, stress ...695 bytes (97 words) - 16:21, 1 July 2022
- less than standard atmospheric pressure. The root of the word vacuum is ... The quality of a vacuum is measured by how closely it approaches a ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- Spider monkey is the common name for the arboreal, tropical New World ... behaviors, spider monkeys add greatly to the human enjoyment of nature ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 15:22, 27 April 2023
- Kampf, Adolf Hitler detailed his belief that the German people needed Lebensraum ... The idea of a Germanic people without sufficient space dates back ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:49, 25 October 2022
- mainly of iron-nickel sulfide, in which the ratio of nickel to iron is ... This mineral is the most common terrestrial nickel sulfide mineral ...8 KB (1,093 words) - 17:53, 26 March 2023
- a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Growing out ... to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism requires ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- Vapor pressure (or vapour pressure) is the pressure of a vapor in ... In meteorology, the term vapor pressure is used to mean the partial ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- Irish elk is the common name for an giant, extinct deer, Megaloceros ... The common name of Irish elk for Megaloceros giganteus is misleading ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 18:59, 7 February 2023
- Common characteristics of birds include the laying of hard-shelled eggs ... The only animals covered with feathers, most birds are characterized ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... Rediscovered in 1899, Yin Xu numbers among the oldest and largest ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Taiji) was responsible for consolidating the empire that his father, Nurhaci ... Realizing that the Han people would always be the majority and the ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 17:48, 27 January 2022
- 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. He ... to Christianity, Mendelssohn benefited from the best education, was handsome ...31 KB (4,782 words) - 17:14, 26 March 2024
- meaning "Amun is satisfied") was the second Pharaoh of the 18th ... from available evidence. He inherited the kingdom formed by his father ...23 KB (3,603 words) - 02:51, 24 July 2023
- a mattress is usually placed on top of it. The second layer is the box spring ... A dust ruffle, bed skirt, or valance sheet may be used to make the ...23 KB (3,768 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was the first Methodist missionary ... Just as important as establishing the Methodist Church in Korea, which ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı or Türk yazını) is ... The history of Turkish literature spans a period of nearly 1,500 years ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- In the strict sense satire is a literary genre, but the larger notion ... Although satire is usually intended to be funny, the purpose of satire ...31 KB (4,584 words) - 15:56, 18 December 2022
- research revolutionized our understanding of the sensory perception of fish ... Karl von Frisch was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a university ...15 KB (2,290 words) - 10:47, 28 February 2023
- ::This article is about the physical universe. Natural|Natural World ... Nature, broadly defined, refers to the physical (natural, material ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:COINCOLLECTIONCOINS.jpg|thumb|200 px|Coins from around the world]] A coin is a metal token, usually in the shape of a disc, often of ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- quot;) is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- found to contain heroin when inspected by the US [[Drug Enforcement Administration ... or heedlessness (the fifth precept of The Five Precepts). ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ... During his youth, he served in the Royal Navy; he was, both during ...36 KB (5,444 words) - 21:27, 8 February 2024
- speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". ... Several references to the Yonas are found in ancient Indian documents ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... 1364–1365, he was offered employment by the Christian king of Seville ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- a wooden frame with beads sliding on wires. The user, called an abacist, slides ... The abacus is a simple, inexpensive, yet powerful tool for calculation ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory ... The major goals of elementary education are achieving basic literacy ...23 KB (3,445 words) - 10:17, 21 January 2023
- history kindled tremendous expectations for the reform of the Catholic Church ... The son of a court official in Calabria, Italy, Joachim followed at ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- company of Dutch and British origins. It is the second largest private sector ... The company's main business is the exploration for and the production ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- August 16, 1518) was a French composer of the Renaissance period. From the ... Not only was the stylism light and without the turbulance and dynamicism ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It ... The city is abundantly rich in water, with over twenty lakes and wetlands ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 ... respective ressorts, the Six Ministries, the Five Military Commissions (wu ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- military officer who participated in both the American and French revolutions ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 2022
- 100 pieces of music many of which endure to the present age. ... The first of his nine symphonies premiered in 1882 when Glazunov was ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- Sometimes the prokaryotic cyanobacteria, given their aquatic and photosynthetic ... Cyanobacteria are some of the oldest organisms to appear in the fossil ...12 KB (1,656 words) - 17:46, 12 May 2020
- elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont ... Born on the same day in Bulgaria and Morocco, respectively, the pair ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- daily or weekly) in newspapers and on the Internet. In the UK and Europe ... with words, has existed at least since the ancient Egyptians, and examples ...19 KB (2,982 words) - 07:56, 14 January 2023
- space in a regular pattern, often involving the transfer of energy. When thinking ... have frequencies that are detectable by the human ear. Scientists, however ...13 KB (2,010 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Celsius (or centigrade) is a temperature scale named after the Swedish ... The Celsius scale has been adopted as a standard for regular temperature ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the ... Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 ... other people take for granted. The advancement of thought is ...52 KB (7,901 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- practice of method acting, inspiring the likes of James Dean and Robert ... In the 1960s Brando was one of the first actor-activists to march ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- mystic, and a mathematician, known best for the Pythagorean theorem. The earliest Greek philosophers in Ionia, known as the Ionians, such ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- The term Bride of Christ is normally a metaphorical reference to the ... In the Roman Catholic Church, the image of the Church as Christ's ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 23:02, 20 November 2023
