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- 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
- In plane (Euclidean) geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four sides. It may also be thought of as a special case of a rectangle, as ...6 KB (904 words) - 16:16, 8 February 2023
- The Song of Roland ( La Chanson de Roland ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various different manuscript versions ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist, and music teacher of Belgian origin ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- The term diaspora (in Ancient Greek, διασπορά – "a scattering or sowing of seeds") refers to any people or ethnic population ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinical discussions pertaining to Jewish law, biblical interpretation, ethics, customs, and ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866 - November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music, is based on the use of 'blue' notes or the intentional aberration ...51 KB (7,870 words) - 05:43, 16 November 2023
- The Science Museum (London) is one of many major science museums in the world and is a part of the National Museum of Science and Industry. England ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 02:36, 21 April 2023
- The Kenites were a nomadic tribe of the ancient Levant, many of whom became affiliated with the Israelites. The Kenites are described as showing ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United States of America. Known as the Land of Enchantment, it became the 47th state ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an American theater and film director, and theater, radio and film actor. He gained ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- The Afar Depression (also called the Afar Triangle, the Danakil Depression, or the Denakil Plain) is a geological depression in the Horn of ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 05:57, 16 June 2023
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, (November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924) was an English–American playwright and author. She is best known for her children ...16 KB (2,561 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- A smoke detector or smoke alarm is a device that detects smoke and issues an alarm to alert nearby people that there is a potential fire. A household ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Sarnoff, David David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- 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
- Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary critics and philosophers. He was a master of the Kula school of Shaivism ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- Valentinus (ca. 100–ca. 160) was the best known and, for a time, most successful theologian in early Christian Gnosticism. In his Alexandrian ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2023
- Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant family Asparagaceae, as well as a type of vegetable obtained from one species ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- Embryophyta is a major grouping of plants, sometimes known as "land plants," that includes both the non-vascular bryophytes (mosses ...11 KB (1,564 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
- Category:Public Kepler, Johannes {{Infobox_Biography | subject_name=Johannes Kepler | image_name=JKepler.jpg | image_caption= | dead=dead | ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher and, from 1998 to his death in 2002, Joseph Pellegrino University ...12 KB (1,858 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- Johann Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773 – April 28, 1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who was part of the early ...10 KB (1,394 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen |name = Massachusetts ...42 KB (5,941 words) - 09:17, 10 March 2023
- Monad is an English term meaning "one," "single," or "unit," especially in technical contexts. It comes from the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- category:image wanted Cram schools (also known as crammers) are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 01:09, 7 April 2022
- The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). More than two dozen GPS ...54 KB (8,113 words) - 20:37, 29 December 2023
- Category:Public number=20 | symbol=Ca | name=calcium | left=potassium | right=scandium | above=Mg | below=Sr | color1=#ffdead | color2=black ...18 KB (2,626 words) - 18:21, 25 November 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
- Category:Image wanted Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער) (November 21, 1904 – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- Category:Image wanted Tubman, William {{Infobox Officeholder | name=William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman | image = | order=19th President of Liberia ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- Ambrose Powell Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander ...11 KB (1,694 words) - 06:51, 13 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Tuscarora |image = ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 00:36, 3 May 2023
- Anna Akhmatova ( А́нна Ахма́това , real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) (June 23, 1889 (June 11, Old Style ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 06:43, 28 July 2023
- The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom of Benin, was a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria. There ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was a major U.S. political figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- Category:Public Tagore, Rabindranath [[Image:Tagore3.jpg|thumb|200px|Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- 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
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos) was a tower built in the third century B.C.E. (between 285 and 247 B.C.E.) on the island of Pharos in Alexandria ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- Luis Molina (born 1535 in Cuenca, Spain; died October 12, 1600 in Madrid) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and philosopher who devised the theological ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Phosphoric-acid-2D-dimensions.png|160px|Phosphoric acid]] ...23 KB (3,466 words) - 04:24, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Laguna Pueblo Indians.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|Laguna ...29 KB (4,495 words) - 18:09, 14 April 2023
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara Desert. Geographically, the ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- Category:Image wanted Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 — April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish meteorologist and physicist who developed the cloud chamber ...8 KB (1,235 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Hyundai car assembly line.jpg|thumb|250 px|Assembly line at ...26 KB (4,018 words) - 18:21, 1 August 2023
- A dye can generally be described as a colored substance that has a chemical affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied. The dye is ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- The colon is the longest portion of the large intestine of vertebrates; in mammals, this section of the gastrointestinal tract extends from the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 22:38, 7 January 2024
- Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre. Flamenco embodies a complex musical and cultural tradition. Although considered part of the culture of Spain ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023
- Frances Burney (1752 – 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after marriage as Madame d’Arblay, was born in King’s Lynn, England, on June ...31 KB (4,786 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an intellectual, scholar, revolutionary, deist and idealist social philosopher. A radical ...26 KB (4,114 words) - 22:45, 30 April 2023
- Lake Erie is the eleventh largest lake on Earth by surface area. Factmonster.com. [http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001777.html Large Lakes of ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 23:16, 21 October 2022
- Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of the dominant German philosophers during the first half of the twentieth century ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Ovidius Metamorphosis - George Sandy's 1632 edition.jpg|thumb|right|Engraved frontispiece of George Sandys's ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also known as the Danelagh (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- Solanaceae is a family of flowering plants in the Solanales order, characterized by five-petaled flowers, typically conical or funnelform, and ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
- Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto language: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, or Persian ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- Azerbaijan [ɑ:zɚbai'ʤɑ:n] (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası) ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark June 10, 1921 – April 9, 2021) was a member of the British royal ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name is derived from the Latin Liber Leviticus and the Greek (το) Λευιτικόν ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- In Greek mythology, Athena (Greek: Άθηνά , Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη , Athénē; Latin: Minerva) was a multifaceted Greek goddess whose spheres ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин яр, Babyn yar; Russian: Бабий яр, Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, located between ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- Category:Image wanted John Dunstaple or Dunstable (c. 1390 – December 24, 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval ...9 KB (1,459 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- Rugby league football (usually shortened to rugby league, football, league) is a full-contact, outdoor sport played by two teams of 13 players ...29 KB (4,628 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Seneca |image = [ ...28 KB (4,085 words) - 15:59, 26 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Paramore Mausoleum.JPG|right|thumb|200px|The Paramore family mausoleum in ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; December 24, 1845 – March 18, 1913) was King of Greece from 1863 to 1913 ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- Crucifixion was an ancient method of execution practiced in the Roman Empire and neighboring Mediterranean cultures, such as the Persian Empire ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13, 1812 – August 27, 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold ...41 KB (6,146 words) - 17:44, 22 December 2022
- Carp is a common name for various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fishes that dominates the fish faunas of Eurasia ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 00:56, 13 January 2023
- Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His artistry is grounded ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker. Largely self-taught, he excelled ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 23:11, 17 May 2023
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the vertebrate kidney, with numerous such filtering units carrying out nearly all the ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Galago, or bushbaby (bush baby), is the common name for any of the relatively small, African prosimian primates comprising the family Galagidae ...11 KB (1,571 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:The speaking portrait.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Illustration from "The Speaking ...14 KB (1,919 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- Fauvism got both its start and its name at a 1905 exhibition held at the Paris Salon d'Automne where it was heralded as a new style under ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 01:43, 26 March 2024
- Línjì Yìxuán (臨済義玄; Wade-Giles: Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: Rinzai Gigen) (?–866) was the founder of the Linji school of Chán ...11 KB (1,835 words) - 04:11, 29 October 2022
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Breckenridge, Madeline McDowell Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (May 20, 1872 – November ...7 KB (1,006 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- Pietro Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian composer, most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria rusticana ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- Quinoa ( ˈkinwɑ KEEN-wah or /ˈkinoʊə/ KEE-no-uh, Spanish quinua) is a tall South American herb, Chenopodium quinoa in the goosefoot genus ...14 KB (2,175 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 13:57, 28 April 2023
- Theravada (Pāli: theravāda; Sanskrit: स्थविरवाद sthaviravāda; literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the ...32 KB (4,844 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous Korean religion, one that had enormous impact on the unfolding of ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II, ending Japan's 35-year occupation ...20 KB (2,911 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[File:Hombre Shuar.jpg|thumb|250px|A Shuar man in traditional ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 17:14, 27 October 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Lasker, Albert Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 - May 30, 1952 ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- Fox is the general term applied to any of small to medium-sized canids (mammalian family Canidae) placed in the Carnivora tribe vulpini, characterized ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Beverly Sills |Img = |Img_capt = Beverly Sills ...18 KB (2,846 words) - 03:30, 1 October 2023
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- 10 (ten) is a natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive integer, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Often, the number 0 ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- Land value taxation (LVT) (or site value taxation) is an ad valorem tax where only the value of land itself is taxed. This ignores buildings ...37 KB (5,677 words) - 23:33, 3 July 2023
