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- Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev (March 8, 1866 – March 1, 1912) is considered to be the first world-level Russian physicist ...6 KB (842 words) - 03:37, 7 December 2022
- Category:Economists Category:Media Professionals Bagehot, Walter [[Image:Walter Bagehot.jpg|thumb|Walter Bagehot.]] Walter Bagehot (February 3 ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- Tai chi chuan ( t=太極拳|s=太极拳|p=tài jí quán|w=t'ai4 chi2 ch'üan2 ) is an internal (neijia, Wudangquan) Chinese martial ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- includes both physical-education classes, physical-fitness testing, and competitive athletics. The head of DPE holds the title of Master of the Sword ...49 KB (7,478 words) - 11:57, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence ...18 KB (2,702 words) - 17:02, 10 November 2022
- 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
- Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1861 - 1916) was a French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. His most influential work in the philosophy ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Yukawa.jpg|thumb|Hideki Yukawa]] Yukawa, Hideki Hideki Yukawa FRSE (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 – September 8, 1981 ...3 KB (480 words) - 13:02, 22 January 2024
- James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey ...12 KB (1,913 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. Typically, its crystals are wine or straw-yellow ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- If a sample of material decays at a certain rate over time, its half-life is defined as the time it takes for the sample to decay to half its ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 16:04, 3 August 2023
- Sexual reproduction is a process of biological reproduction by which organisms create descendants that have a combination of genetic material ...31 KB (4,574 words) - 06:48, 5 October 2022
- Zebra is the common name for various wild, horse-like odd-toed ungulates (Order Perissodactyla) of the family Equidae and the genus Equus, native ...20 KB (3,083 words) - 00:52, 17 April 2023
- In geology, evaporites are water-soluble, mineral sediments that result from the evaporation of restricted bodies of water on the Earth's ...6 KB (841 words) - 07:00, 12 September 2023
- 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:Economics [[Image:Auction.jpg|thumb|360px|An auctioneer and her assistants scan the crowd for bidders]] ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 05:57, 10 January 2023
- Shale is the most common sedimentary rock. [http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_lutgens_foundations_3/0,6540,354318-,00.html Rocks: Materials of the Lithosphere: ...4 KB (524 words) - 12:21, 27 January 2023
- Mechanics (from the Greek term Μηχανική ) is a branch of physics involving study of the movement of physical bodies when subjected to ...11 KB (1,457 words) - 03:51, 9 November 2022
- Photochemistry, a sub-discipline of chemistry, is the study of the interactions between atoms, molecules, and light (or electromagnetic radiation). ...4 KB (569 words) - 04:25, 24 November 2022
- Henry Habberley Price (May 17, 1899 – November 26, 1984) was a British philosopher and logician, known for his work on perception and thinking ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- The term nèijiā usually refers to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which Sun Lutang identified in the 1920s ...24 KB (3,729 words) - 16:11, 11 November 2022
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. Specific ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ...27 KB (3,778 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- Fluorescein (chemical formula C20H12O5) is a highly fluorescent substance, absorbing light mainly in the blue range and emitting light mainly ...6 KB (892 words) - 17:45, 28 March 2024
- Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one of several gas laws and a special case of the ideal gas law. Boyle's law ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- Samkhya, also Sankhya, (Sanskrit for "Enumeration") is one of the orthodox or astika schools of Indian philosophy that recognizes the ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 02:13, 23 December 2022
- The term "dualism" can be used for any theory according to which two entities, properties or types of facts are given equal status—that ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 21:17, 30 January 2024
- 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
- Asceticism describes a life characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures. Those who practice ascetic lifestyles often perceive their practices ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- In the religions of India, Maya (Sanskrit māyā, from mā "not" and yā "this") is a term denoting three interrelated concepts: ...13 KB (2,085 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was born at Abdera in Thrace and lived from around 460 B.C.E. to 370 B.C.E. Democritus developed ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- A bicycle (or bike) is a pedal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels, one behind the other, attached to a frame. The basic shape and ...29 KB (4,462 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 22, 1985) was an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he emigrated ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an American sportswoman who, on August 22, 1950, became the first African-American ...19 KB (2,597 words) - 08:38, 23 July 2023
- The Trikaya doctrine (Sanskrit, meaning "Three Bodies" of the Buddha) refers to an important Mahayana Buddhist teaching about the nature ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- The term Holy Orders comes from the Latin Ordo (order) and the word holy referring to the church. Historically, an order refers to an established ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- 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
- The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is the shortest book of the Bible, ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Determinism is the philosophical view that past events and the laws of nature fix or set future events. The interest of determinism in analytic ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- Broadly defined, biological evolution is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes may be slight or large, but must ...68 KB (10,248 words) - 19:33, 21 October 2021
- A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies. Used in a more ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- 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
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia naturalis), has several applications, according to its historical ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Panpsychism is the view that all of the fundamental entities in the universe possess some degree of mentality or consciousness, where this mentality ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr (September 25, 1822 – February 25, 1877) was a Prussian army officer who emigrated to the ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
- If a chemical element can exist in two or more different forms, the forms are known as allotropes of the element, and this type of behavior is ...5 KB (685 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- In mathematics, curvature refers to any of a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Water cycle.png|right|thumb|400px|The movement of water around, over, and through the Earth is called the water cycle.]] ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- David Hartley (June 21, 1705 – August 28, 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. He provided ...9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian Пётр Леонидович Капица) (July 9, 1894 – April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 03:36, 7 December 2022
- In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or a higher taxonomic unit (taxon), such as a phylum or class. The ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences [[File:John Beattie Eugene Rochas seance.jpg|thumb|300px|Séance conducted by John Beattie, Bristol, England ...19 KB (2,785 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Qi, also commonly spelled ch'i (in Wade-Giles romanization) or ki (in romanized Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title between ...17 KB (2,668 words) - 08:39, 13 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Tokyo |name = University of Tokyo ...19 KB (2,825 words) - 22:33, 23 June 2023
- In chemistry, an enantiomer (from the Greek words ἐνάντιος, meaning "opposite," and μέρος, meaning "part" or ...6 KB (731 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- Bee is any member of a group of about 20,000 known species of winged insects of the superfamily Apoidea of the order Hymenoptera, an order that ...24 KB (3,674 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Centro-fotografico-students.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|Public libraries are useful ...24 KB (3,446 words) - 06:19, 15 June 2023
- Petrology is a field of geology that focuses on the study of rocks and the conditions under which they are formed. It utilizes the classical ...5 KB (724 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- In Indian philosophy and religion, Samadhi (Sanskrit: समाधि, lit. "establish, make firm") is a term used in a variety of ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 02:04, 23 December 2022
- Category:Law Category:Politics and social sciences For the electrical battery see Battery (electricity) Assault is a crime of violence against ...11 KB (1,639 words) - 05:00, 18 August 2023
- Consciousness at its simplest refers to sentience or awareness of internal or external existence. Despite centuries of analyses, definitions ...56 KB (7,936 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- 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
- Seattle is a coastal port city and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the state of Washington ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- In common usage, dimension (from Latin dimensio, meaning "measured out") is a parameter or measure of spatial characteristics of an ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is the view that physical objects do not exist as things in themselves but only ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and the first ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- A metalloid is a chemical element with properties that are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. The following elements are generally ...7 KB (910 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (August 30, 1852 - March 1, 1911), a Dutch physical and organic chemist, was the first to propose a three-dimensional ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 17:33, 9 March 2022
- Digital audio is a technology that uses digital signals for sound reproduction. It includes analog-to-digital conversion, digital-to-analog conversion ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 03:54, 29 July 2022
- Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916) was an Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher. He is the namesake for the "Mach number ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- In thermodynamics and molecular chemistry, the enthalpy or heat content (denoted as H, h, or rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Eurojam_song.jpg|thumb|right|float|300px|Scouts coming from various nations sing ...39 KB (5,942 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an unsaturated chemical compound containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 22:30, 4 January 2023
- Arnold Geulincx (1624 - 1669), sometimes known by the pseudonym Philaretus, was a Flemish philosopher and logician. Known primarily for "occasionalism ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
- A ketone (pronounced as key tone) is either the functional group characterized by a carbonyl group (O=C) linked to two other carbon atoms or ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 03:31, 6 October 2022
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox NFLretired |name=Otto Graham |image= |width= |position=Quarterback |number=14, 60 |birthdate=1921|12|6Waukegan ...20 KB (3,076 words) - 04:46, 18 November 2022
- Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (January 16, 1838 – March 17, 1917) was a philosopher and psychologist. He contributed to a number ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- In psychology, stress is a feeling of emotional strain and pressure. Some stress may be beneficial, motivating people to perform better. Such ...42 KB (5,944 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
- Andesite is a type of igneous rock that is found in most volcanic regions of the world, especially around volcanoes that line the Pacific Basin ...6 KB (761 words) - 19:59, 26 July 2023
- Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency of such motion of two surfaces in contact. It is not, however, a fundamental ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- Arthritis (plural, "arthritides") is a group of conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body, typically involving ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- A virtual museum is a museum that houses collections in digital form and exhibits them via the Internet. Most virtual museums are part of physically ...12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:The-Winged-Horse.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Pegasus ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 07:12, 23 November 2022
- Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to the nature of sums of simpler ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- Swimming is self-propulsion through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through ...26 KB (3,876 words) - 13:41, 23 March 2023
- Asymmetronidae Branchiostomidae Cephalochordata (or lancelets, traditionally known as amphioxus, plural amphioxi) is a subphylum of marine invertebrates ...7 KB (1,039 words) - 01:45, 13 January 2023
- Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- Vaisheshika, also Vaisesika (Sanskrit: वैशॆषिक, IAST Vaiśeṣika), is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic ...19 KB (2,996 words) - 14:10, 3 May 2023
- category:image wanted Bellow,Saul [[Image:Saul Bellow (Herzog portrait).jpg|thumb|200px|right|]] Saul Bellow (June 11, 1915 – April 5, 2005 ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- In mathematics, the parabola (from the Greek word παραβολή) is a conic section generated by the intersection of a right circular conical ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- In chemistry, esters are organic compounds in which an organic group (symbolized by R' in this article) replaces the hydrogen atom of a ...11 KB (1,427 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- The Nuremberg Code is a landmark document that delineates a set of fundamental ethical standards for research with human subjects and arose as ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 15:28, 10 October 2021
- The gas constant (also known as the molar, universal, or ideal gas constant) is a physical constant that is featured in a number of fundamental ...9 KB (1,458 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- Weathering is the process of disintegration of rocks and soils and the minerals they contain through direct or indirect contact with the atmosphere ...18 KB (2,677 words) - 22:02, 11 June 2020
