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- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (August 26, 1875 – February 11, 1940), was a Scottish novelist, best known for his novel ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- Romanesque art refers to the art of Western Europe from approximately 1000 C.E. to the rise of Gothic Art, beginning in the thirteenth century ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 04:56, 16 December 2022
- Matilda of Scotland (c. 1080 – 1 May 1118) was the first wife and queen consort of King Henry I of England. The daughter of Scottish royalty ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- A monk (from Greek: monos meaning "alone") is a term denoting any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest recorded ...40 KB (6,197 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia, the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist Khmer Empire, which ruled ...32 KB (4,636 words) - 18:49, 25 November 2023
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance to human beings. Its outstanding historical example was Renaissance humanism ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- Christiaan Huygens (April 14, 1629 – July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist best known for his astronomical discoveries ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- A windmill is a machine with rotating blades that is designed to convert the energy of the wind into more useful forms. The term also refers ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall… deny ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- Gabriel Urbain Fauré May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- Anodizing is a technique used to coat the surface of a metal with an oxide layer. It may be used to increase corrosion resistance, increase wear ...10 KB (1,610 words) - 05:12, 31 July 2023
- ---- {{Pharaoh Infobox | Name=Ramesses II| Image=RamsesIIEgypt.jpg| Caption=Ramesses II: One of four external seated statues at Abu Simbel| ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- Damascus ( ar|دمشق Dimashq , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is thought to be among the oldest ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Tārā (meaning "Star" or “Saviouress”), also known as Jetsun Dolma in Tibetan, is a popular female deity and Bodhisattva primarily ...26 KB (4,258 words) - 04:30, 27 February 2023
- Lymphoma is any of a diverse group of cancers that originate in lymphocytes of the lymphatic system, a secondary (but open) circulatory system ...16 KB (2,166 words) - 03:16, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Linguistics A pictogram or pictograph is a symbol representing a concept ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It developed out of the work of ...23 KB (3,260 words) - 18:19, 21 May 2024
- A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. It may be either an elementary (or fundamental) particle, or a composite particle, also ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- Total depravity (also called total inability and total corruption) is a theological doctrine that derives from the Augustinian doctrine of original ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1, 1993, saw Czechoslovakia split into two separate countries: The Czech Republic ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 09:17, 15 January 2023
- Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches Western political society and culture. It emerged from the Western ...43 KB (6,032 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- Bowling is a sporting activity in which players attempt to score points by rolling a ball to knock down target objects. Bowling has been popular ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
- Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme northwest portion of the North American continent, is the largest U.S ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = Fordham University ...33 KB (4,668 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner), born June 9, 1843 in Prague (now Czech Republic) as Gräfin (Countess ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Economists Simon, Herbert A. [[Image:Herbert Simon, RIT NandE Vol13Num11 1981 Mar19 Complete.jpg|right|thumb|250px ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- Vernon Watkins (June 27, 1906 — October 8, 1967), was a Welsh poet, commonly known for his friendship with his fellow Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- Shandong ( s=山东 |t=山東 |p=Shāndōng |w=Shan-tung ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on the eastern coast ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—consisting of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков , Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most recognized figures in twentieth century ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[File:Haggis cooked.jpg|thumb|250 px|A cooked haggis]] ...18 KB (2,829 words) - 16:42, 21 January 2024
- The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment of governance or authority through the creation of settlements by another ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Jan Hus, also known as John Huss (c. 1369 - 1415) was a Czech (living in the area then known as Bohemia) religious thinker, philosopher, and ...28 KB (4,685 words) - 08:56, 1 April 2024
- Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. He is generally ...13 KB (1,878 words) - 18:10, 12 February 2024
- Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (May 26, 1908 - June 12, 1976) was a Vietnamese politician who was the first Prime Minister of South Vietnam, serving from ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 23:35, 15 December 2022
- Accra is the capital, the largest city, and the administrative, communications, and economic center of Ghana. Located on the Gulf of Guinea near ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- The State of Georgia is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that rebelled against the United Kingdom and ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:18, 21 May 2024
- Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument that uses a reed, in addition to air provided by the player, to create a distinctive, pleasant, and ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi minority and the moderates of its Hutu majority, in 1994. This was both ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- Category:Public Suárez, Francisco [[Image:Franciscus_Suarez%2C_S.I._%281548-1617%29.jpg|thumb|250 px|right|Francisco Suárez]] Francisco Suárez ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a world champion heavyweight fighter from Germany whose ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown, outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan ("Motor ...27 KB (4,046 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- SI Units are the most widely used system of units. They are the most common system for everyday commerce in the world, and are almost universally ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 18:28, 22 December 2022
- Casablanca (Spanish for "whitehouse"; Amazigh: Anfa; Standard Arabic: الدار البيضاء; Moroccan Arabic: dar beïda) is a ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- Árpád (c. 845 – c. 907) was the second Grand Prince of the Magyars (c. 895 – c. 907). Under his rule the Magyar people moved from Etelkoz ...14 KB (1,600 words) - 16:21, 13 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Lévi-Strauss, Claude [[Image:Levi-strauss 260.jpg|thumb|Claude Lévi-Strauss in 2005]] ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute mystic who founded the Ghost Dance movement. ...9 KB (1,467 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection and to promote awareness ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 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
- Antisthenes (c. 444 - 365 B.C.E.), is one of the founders of the Cynic School of philosophy. In his youth he studied rhetoric under Gorgias, ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 06:38, 31 July 2023
- Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 - October 15, 1965) was an American poet and literary critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- Category:Economists Law, John (economist) [[Image:Law2.jpg|thumbnail|John Law]] John Law (baptized April 21, 1671 - March 21, 1729) was a Scottish ...21 KB (3,378 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:22, 29 October 2022
- The geological history of Earth began 4.567 billion years ago, when the planets of the Solar System were formed out of the solar nebula, a ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- Pio of Pietrelcina (May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968) was a Capuchin priest from Italy who is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church ...40 KB (6,382 words) - 17:02, 2 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Law [[Image:Rex theatre.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Rex Theatre for Colored People ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American actress and singer. In a career spanning ...63 KB (9,615 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient, using a variety of different principles. The word thermometer is ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- Easter Island, known in the native language as "Rapa Nui" ("Big Rapa") or "Isla de Pascua" in Spanish, is an island ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov Александр Александрович Богданов (born Alexander Malinovsky) (August 22 (Old ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- Category:Economists Fetter, Frank [[Image:Fetter.jpg|right|frame|Frank A. Fetter]] Frank Albert Fetter (March 8, 1863 – 1949) was an American ...21 KB (3,304 words) - 05:01, 9 April 2024
- The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James, traditionally understood as James the ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer. She has won Emmy and Tony awards, and currently works as a choreographer ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- The name king Vikramaditya ( विक्रमादित्य ) is a Sanskrit tatpurusha, from विक्रम ( vikrama ) meaning "valour ...12 KB (1,714 words) - 20:21, 3 May 2023
- The Shunzhi Emperor (顺治帝, Shunzhi (reign name, or nien-hao), personal name Fu-lin, temple name (miao-hao) Shih-tsu, posthumous name (shih ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 20:04, 21 April 2023
- Hermann Julius Oberth (June 25, 1894 – December 28, 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born, German and Romanian physicist, whose writings in the ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 10:20, 22 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-18.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kazakh nomads ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- The papacy is the office of the pope (from Latin: "papa" or "father"), the bishop of Rome, who is the leader of the Roman ...30 KB (4,691 words) - 14:08, 7 May 2024
- Hinduism is an umbrella term for various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced all around the world, though more ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists [[Image:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- The Delaware Crossing was declared to be the moment of George Washington’s brightest laurels by Charles Cornwallis. It was also a great and ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 23:10, 3 May 2023
- In music, a fugue [fjuːg] ) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal composition. It begins with a theme stated by one of the voices playing ...30 KB (4,799 words) - 07:12, 15 April 2024
- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. UNCTAD is the ...10 KB (1,369 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834—August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German zoologist best known ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Ashrama, in the Hindu religion (from Sanskrit āśramaḥ: meaning "penance, austerity"), [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ashram ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday |holiday_name=Groundhog Day |image=Groundhogday2005.jpg ...21 KB (3,219 words) - 06:16, 25 February 2023
- Ban Ki-moon ( hangul=반기문 ; born June 13, 1944) is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 - February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians, brought this form of music into the American ...21 KB (3,146 words) - 16:05, 31 October 2023
- The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration which may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- Food chemistry is the study of chemical processes and interactions of the biological and nonbiological components of foods. It overlaps with ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 06:16, 1 April 2024
- Franjo Tuđman (May 14, 1922 - December 10, 1999) was the first president of Croatia from 1990 until 1999. He was reelected twice and remained ...32 KB (4,830 words) - 06:17, 23 January 2023
- Mehmed VI, original name in Turkish Latin alphabet Mehmed Vahdettin (January 14, 1861 – May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Muller-Lyer illusion.svg|thumb|the Müller-Lyer optical illusion ...5 KB (795 words) - 18:00, 10 November 2022
- Federalist No. 68 is the 68th essay of The Federalist Papers, and was published on March 12, 1788. It was probably written by Alexander Hamilton ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 17:11, 8 October 2023
- The Chalukya dynasty (Kannada: ಚಾಲುಕ್ಯರು ʧaːɭukjə ) refers to an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern ...41 KB (5,966 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- The Caduceus, also known as the wand of Hermes, was a symbol of the Greek god Hermes, who carried a staff (or rod) in his various exploits. This ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Lincoln's coffin, replica.JPG|right|thumb|250px|A replica of the coffin ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki Jōyaku"), known as the Treaty of Maguan ( t=馬關條約|s=马关条约 ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- Yad Vashem (Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority) is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust ...14 KB (2,168 words) - 09:59, 22 May 2023
- In physics, the space surrounding an electric charge or in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field has a property called an electric field ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- Gene Sarazen (born Eugenio Saraceni) (February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999) is one of only five golfers (along with Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 21:10, 23 October 2022
- Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-exile Jewish culture and was popular among early Christians. ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- Atra-Hasis, also spelled Atrahasis, is an eighteenth century B.C.E. Akkadian epic, named after its human hero. It contains both a creation myth ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- Lily is the common name for any of the herbaceous flowering plants comprising the genus Lilium of the Liliaceae family, characterized by large ...20 KB (2,868 words) - 08:42, 8 March 2023
- John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts. He is famous for his portraits of important ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- Theobald Wolfe Tone, commonly known as Wolfe Tone (June 20, 1763 – November 19, 1798), was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
