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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image= [[Image:Reynoldsclub ...51 KB (7,192 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
- The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- The Twenty-Four Histories ( c=二十四史|p=Èrshísì Shǐ|w=Erhshihszu Shih ) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period ...31 KB (4,609 words) - 00:37, 3 May 2023
- Mechanism is a philosophical perspective that holds that phenomena are solely determined by mechanical principles, therefore, they can be adequately ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- The Mughal Empire, (Persian language: مغل بادشاۿ) was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled parts of Afghanistan, ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- Polycarp of Smyrna (ca. 69 - ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey) in the second century. Alhough he is not noted ...21 KB (3,429 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- Chaim Azriel Weizmanz (Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 16:52, 21 January 2024
- A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes from the càrn (plural gd|càirn ). Cairns are found all over the world ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Indiana. His works include the musical comedies ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American farmer, teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- Physical fitness is used in the context of two meanings: General fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (the ability ...19 KB (2,829 words) - 05:08, 24 November 2022
- Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Garnets are most often seen in red, but are ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (March 25, 1797 - July 1, 1855) was an Italian philosopher and theologian who set out to re-define the balance between ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- The term fiber (or fibre The spelling "fibre" is used in Commonwealth countries and sometimes in the United States as well. ...10 KB (1,428 words) - 17:32, 26 March 2024
- John Norris (1657 – 1711), Anglican priest, philosopher and poet, is remembered as a Cambridge Platonist and as the sole English proponent ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Gennadios II Scholarios or Gennadius II (in Greek, Γεννάδιος Β') (lay name Georgios Kourtesios Scholarios, in Greek, Γεώργιος ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 06:49, 18 April 2024
- The Mali Empire or Manding Empire or Manden Kurufa was a medieval West African state of the Mandinka from c. 1235 to c. 1600. The empire was ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτίνος)(ca. 205–270), the ancient philosopher, is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' philosophy ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- Rattlesnake is the common name for any of the venomous snakes comprising the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the pit viper subfamily Crotalinae ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- Hypatia of Alexandria (in Greek: Υπατία) (c. 370 C.E. – 415 C.E.) was a popular Hellenized Egyptian female philosopher, mathematician ...11 KB (1,782 words) - 16:39, 10 February 2024
- The Coasters are a rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll vocal group that had a string of memorable hits in the late 1950s. Beginning with "Searchin ...13 KB (1,946 words) - 15:33, 30 April 2023
- Category: Image wanted Donald Malcolm Campbell, C.B.E. (March 23, 1921 – January 4, 1967), was a British car and motorboat racer who broke eight ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 17:19, 30 January 2024
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining to the Church itself as a community or organic entity, and of how the ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. In older usage, it referred to the scientific ...12 KB (1,754 words) - 06:35, 11 January 2024
- Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов) (January 15, 1795 – February 11, 1829 ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. Until discovering his birth ...27 KB (4,049 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Erbium (chemical symbol Er, atomic number 68) is a silvery metallic rare earth element. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare ...11 KB (1,419 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. It operates in the ...35 KB (5,142 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free space, refers to a region of space where there is a theoretically "perfect ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- Superman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular such characters ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = University of Bridgeport ...30 KB (4,093 words) - 17:06, 15 September 2023
- The Kingdom of Norway, commonly known as Norway, is a Nordic country occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula in Europe, bordered ...44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Parochial school is a term used (particularly in the United States) to describe a school ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Greeley, Horace [[Image:Greeley-Horace-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|Photographic portrait ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu, Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú) is a majestic area of cataracts ...10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- Wat Phou (Vat Phu) is a Khmer ruined temple complex in southern Laos located at the base of Mount Phu Kao, 6|km from the Mekong river in Champassak ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- The Contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional) Sandinista ...20 KB (2,936 words) - 02:50, 8 January 2024
- Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Marathi: बाबासाहेब भीमराव रामजी आंबेडकर) (April 14, 1891 - December ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based narratives and traditions, relating the travels and miraculous deeds of John ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[Image:Hanging Meat at a Street Fair 2.JPG|thumb ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- Hamlet: Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is one of his best-known works, and also one of the most-quoted writings in ...40 KB (6,336 words) - 16:59, 21 January 2024
- Saints Cyril and Methodius ( Κύριλλος και Μεθόδιος , Old Church Slavonic: кѵрилъ и меѳодии New Church Slavonic: ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828–March 24 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre, best known for novels such ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group category:geography [[Image:Trobriand.png|right|350px|thumb|Trobriand ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- Category:Economists Category:Biography Miller, Merton Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was an American economist. He won a ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Licorne Edimbourg Scotland.JPG|thumb|right|300px ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major eighteenth century writer, primarily known for his three monumental novels Pamela ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest in the Midwest. With a population of nearly 3 million people, the city is ...42 KB (6,247 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (March 8, 1714 – December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second surviving son of five sons from ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- Hominidae is a taxonomic family of primates that today is commonly considered to include extant (living) and extinct humans, chimpanzees, gorillas ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 11:38, 2 February 2024
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- An electric shock is the effect of passing an electric current through the body. The minimum current a human can feel is thought to be about ...22 KB (3,364 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- The Arab-Israeli conflict ( الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي , הסכסוך הישראלי ערבי ) spans nearly a century of ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), bishop of Hippo, was one of the most important figures in the development ...65 KB (10,155 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- 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
- Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas, "the golden speaker") (c. 676 – December 5, 749) was a Syrian ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|right|300px|The tectonic plates of the Earth's lithosphere.]] The lithosphere (from the ...8 KB (1,174 words) - 00:35, 3 November 2022
- Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States had a mission to expand westward across the North American continent, ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- A relic (from Latin: reliquiae meaning 'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical significance, often the human ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length and breadth than a novel, but longer than a short story. Typically, novellas ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) became an American legend for his success in prosecuting organized crime in New York ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered among the ...21 KB (3,324 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- Category:Anthropologists Budge, Wallis Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (July 27, 1857 – November 23, 1934) was an English Egyptologist ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- Brachiosaurus is an extinct genus of huge, sauropod dinosaurs that lived during the late Jurassic period. Sauropods comprise a suborder or infraorder ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 02:00, 12 January 2023
- Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (ca. 1501/1507 – May 19, 1536) A birth year of ca. 1504 is given only as an approximation as it is ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- George Cadbury (September 19, 1839 – October 24, 1922), the third son of the Quaker tea and coffee dealer John Cadbury, was the co-founder ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 08:39, 6 November 2022
- The Portuguese Colonial War, also known as the Overseas War in Portugal or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, was fought between ...54 KB (8,315 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- Maya Angelou ( ˈmaɪə ˈændʒəloʊ ), (born Marguerite Johnson, April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, actress and ...37 KB (5,309 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Law [[Image:Slaves Zadib Yemen 13th century BNF Paris.jpg|thumb|right|250px ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- Category:Public [[image:Common_clownfish.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in their magnificent sea anemone (Heteractis ...33 KB (5,007 words) - 07:43, 24 October 2022
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the very first king of the gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. The English word "oboe" is a corruption of the French word for ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, a Jewish author who ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- Selenium (chemical symbol Se, atomic number 34) is a chemical element that is classified as a nonmetal. It is chemically related to sulfur and ...23 KB (3,335 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 22:36, 5 February 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:1849 - Karikatur Die unartigen Kinder.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"The naughty children ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571 when a galley fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of the Republic of Venice, the Papacy ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- Advaita Vedanta (IAST Advaita Vedānta ; Sanskrit अद्वैत वेदान्त ; IPA /əd̪vait̪ə veːd̪ɑːnt̪ə/ ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Image wanted Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket massacre) on Tuesday May 4, 1886, in Chicago, began as a rally in support ...46 KB (6,999 words) - 15:07, 25 January 2023
- Joséphine de Beauharnais (nee Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 19:55, 7 September 2022
- <!-- --> {{Infobox Former Country |native_name = ಬನವಾಸಿ ಕದಂಬರು |conventional_long_name = Kadambas of Banavasi ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 21:31, 7 September 2023
- The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched of the brass instruments. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large ...17 KB (2,861 words) - 18:39, 2 May 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 Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan covers the years from about 710 to 784 C.E., during which the Empress Genmei ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- 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
- Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280 B.C.E. - c. 207 B.C.E.) is considered to be a co-founder of Stoicism, one of the most influential schools of Hellenistic ...9 KB (1,399 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- Hussein bin Ali (1852 – 1931) (حسین بن علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917 ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p=yīnyáng ; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Georges Braque (May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963) was a major twentieth-century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed ...6 KB (896 words) - 18:10, 26 August 2021
- Elia Kazan, (Greek: Ηλίας Καζάν) (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American film and theater director, film and ...26 KB (3,942 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- 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
