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- The Septuagint (or simply "LXX") is the name commonly given in the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context. Historically, entheogens are derived ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Eastern Africa is a region of sub–Saharan Africa containing the easternmost region of the continent, composed of two distinct regions: ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- "ASTRA" National Museum Complex ( Complexul Naţional Muzeal "ASTRA" ) is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- Category:Public Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- The Creative Commons (CC) is a U.S. non-profit corporation founded by Lawrence Lessig in 2001, devoted to expanding the range of creative works ...14 KB (1,898 words) - 06:20, 11 January 2024
- Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) (pronounced "Casey") was an American psychic who could channel answers to questions ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 18:08, 12 February 2024
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Economics Market research is the process of systematic gathering, recording ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :Arawak redirects here [[Image:Reconstruction of Taino village ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Tejon Serrano.jpg|thumb|200 px|A Tejon Serrano]] ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- South America [[Image:LocationSouthAmerica.png|190px]] {| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; table-layout: auto; border-collapse: ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Mariette, Auguste [[Image:Auguste Mariette statue, Boulogne ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. They are ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on ...13 KB (1,807 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- The term Absolute denotes unconditioned and/or independence in the strongest sense. It can include or overlap with meanings implied by other ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh). It defines not just the books of the Jewish canon, but also the precise ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Sir William Empson (September 27, 1906 – April 15, 1984) was an English critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 17:20, 4 October 2020
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death is disputed) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Wallenberg ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- The World Cup, sometimes called the FIFA World Cup, is an international soccer competition contested by the men's national soccer teams ...41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American suffragist who was publicized in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 06:00, 8 May 2020
- The Rastafari movement (or "Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican religion that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- An air bag, also known as an Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS) or Supplemental Restraint System (SRS), is an automobile safety device that ...35 KB (5,475 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of enlightened rule”) (November 3, 1852 – July 30, 1912) was the 122nd imperial ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religious tradition that has been passed down for centuries in oral or ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- Carrie Amelia Nation, later Carry A. Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ...12 KB (1,895 words) - 14:52, 27 April 2023
- In horticulture, cultivar refers to a group of plants of the same species that have been selected, maintained through cultivation, and given ...14 KB (2,107 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- The Ten Years' War, (Guerra de los Diez Años) (also known as the Great War) began on October 10, 1868. On this date, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ...12 KB (1,919 words) - 05:40, 27 February 2023
- Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial arts. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring ...25 KB (3,699 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2023
- Georges-Pierre Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891) was a French painter and the founder of Neo-Impressionism. His large work Sunday ...12 KB (1,923 words) - 22:59, 24 November 2022
- Category:Sociologists Mills, C. Wright Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist. His writings addressed ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 21:17, 24 November 2023
- Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 - January 29, 1962) was an Austria-born American violinist and composer. Noted for his sweet tone and expressive ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth (Hebrew Elisheva, אֱלִישֶׁבַע—"An oath to my God") was the mother of John the Baptist ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 09:20, 30 December 2021
- Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four species in the genus Cucurbita of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae: C. pepo ...13 KB (1,929 words) - 18:11, 14 October 2022
- The Meiji period (明治時代, Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in the Gregorian calendar, from October 23 ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings Originally "van Dijck," with the "IJ" digraph, in Dutch. Anthony is the English ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- Shinbutsu shūgō (Japanese for the "fusion of kami and Buddhas") refers to a form of cultural-religious syncretism that arose in Japan ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 20:48, 31 December 2023
- Pulakesi II (Kannada: ಇಮ್ಮಡಿ ಪುಲಿಕೇಶಿ) (r. 610 - 642 C.E.) reigned over the Chalukyas of Badami an Indian royal dynasty ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 23:43, 2 December 2022
- A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- Snorri Sturluson (1178 – September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician, considered to be one of the most important poets ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Bates, Daisy Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – ...13 KB (1,959 words) - 07:47, 12 January 2024
- A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- Lake Huron, bounded on the west by Michigan, USA, and on the east by Ontario, Canada, is the third largest (by volume) of the the five Great ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” is a Sanskrit word meaning ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- A wind instrument (or aerophone) is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set ...37 KB (5,471 words) - 15:52, 11 March 2024
- Category:Public Samsāra refers to the state of perpetual reincarnation or rebirth, in which all beings are ensnared, according to the Indian ...14 KB (2,256 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918) is widely recognized as boxing's first modern world heavyweight champion ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 17:28, 1 May 2024
- The Atacama Desert of Chile covers the northern third of the country stretching more than 600 miles (1,000km), and straddles the southern border ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:40, 19 August 2023
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Pietro d'Abano (1257 - 1315) (his date of birth is also given as 1250 and 1246), also known as Petrus de Apono or Aponensis, was an Italian ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- Ubuntu ùbúntú , is a traditional African concept. The word ubuntu comes from the Zulu and Xhola languages, and can be roughly translated as ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- Bethel (בית אל, "House of God")—also written as Beth El or Beth-El—was an ancient Israelite town, located about ten miles ...13 KB (2,035 words) - 10:23, 4 March 2023
- Winnipeg is both the largest city and capital city of the province of Manitoba located in Western Canada. The metropolis is located near the ...32 KB (4,701 words) - 23:10, 17 May 2023
- Barley is any annual cereal grass of the genus Hordeum, and in particular the species Hordeum vulgare. The term also is used for the edible grain ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 08:08, 20 September 2023
- David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886 – December 1, 1973) was the first and third prime minister of Israel. A tough and uncompromising leader ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 22:27, 25 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted Gosvāmī Tulsīdās (1532 — 1623; Devanāgarī: तुलसीदास) was an Awadhi poet and philosopher. He was ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:42, 2 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :This article is about the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- The dizi ( c=笛子]]|p=dízi ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also sometimes known as the di (笛) or hengdi ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- In logic, a theorem is formally meant to be a formula that can be transformed by applying inferential rules to axioms in a deductive system. ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 18:26, 30 April 2023
- A compass (or mariner's compass) is a navigational instrument for finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized pointer free ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78 ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- The Shimabara Rebellion|島原の乱|Shimabara no ran was an uprising of Japanese peasants, most of them Christians, in 1637–1638 during the ...25 KB (3,619 words) - 19:58, 21 April 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
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Earth Western Hemisphere.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Increasingly the ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- Arnold of Brescia (c. 1090 – c.1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was a monk from Italy who called on the Catholic ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 03:56, 15 August 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Submitted Lawrence Kohlberg (October 25, 1927 – January 19, 1987) was born in Bronxville, New York. He served ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 19:19, 23 May 2023
- Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội, Hán Tự: 河内), estimated population 3,145,300 (2005), is the capital of Vietnam. From 1010 until 1802, it ...24 KB (3,621 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- An adhesive is a material that can adhere (stick) to other materials and help attach them together. The state of attachment is known as adhesion ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 05:51, 15 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Atsugewi |image = ...12 KB (1,758 words) - 18:13, 21 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:BCCYMCA Waterfront.JPG|thumb|250 px|Students and fathers at "Dads' ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox Engineer |name = Thomas Telford |nationality = British |birth_date =1757|8|9,|mf=y ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern East Africa. A former colony of Italy, it fought a thirty-year war with ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- The Comoros (officially the Union of the Comoros) is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The country consists of three islands in the volcanic ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- Wu Zetian (625 – December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor although ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2022
- New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and the only constitutionally bilingual province ...32 KB (4,639 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- The Rus' Khaganate (sometimes called Volkhov Rus, Ilmen Rus, or Novgorod Rus) was a polity that flourished during a poorly documented period ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- A carcinogen is any substance or agent that can cause cancer. A carcinogen can be a chemical, radiation, radionuclide (an atom with an unstable ...14 KB (1,935 words) - 19:12, 26 November 2023
- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (May 25, 1878 The year of his birth is also given as 1877, the date which appears on his gravestone. Robinson ...12 KB (1,783 words) - 03:51, 1 October 2023
- Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. French Symbolism was in large part ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 and 1707 by, respectively, the Parliament of England and the Parliament of ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- Cycads (division Cycadophyta) are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout, erect trunk ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- Diethyl ether, also known as ether and ethoxyethane, is a clear, colorless, and highly flammable liquid with a low boiling point and a characteristic ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:33, 29 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Biometrics.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|At Disney World, biometric measurements are taken from the fingers of multi-day pass ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 17:56, 31 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Morgan, Lewis H. [[Image:Morgan.jpg|thumb|140px|Lewis H. Morgan]] Lewis Henry Morgan ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of technology and science [http://travel.nytimes.com/travel ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak); Danish: Søslaget ved Jylland / Søslaget om Skagerrak) was the largest ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 – July 23, 1923), better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro (善日麿), later Zeshō-bō Renchō (是生房蓮長), and finally ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום הכיפורים ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- In the United States, the Presidential library system is a nationwide network of libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries ...19 KB (2,492 words) - 22:38, 30 November 2022
- A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort (industry, occupation) by humans to catch and/or process, normally for sale, fish, shellfish ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- Millennialism or millenarianism is a Christian belief, based on the Book of Revelation 20:1-6, that Christ will establish a kingdom on earth ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
