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- Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April ... Earth Day grew out of the recognition by young people that the earth ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- :"Crude oil" redirects here. [[Image:Oil well.jpg|thumb|right ... petra) - rock + έλαιον (Latin oleum) - oil) or crude oil is a naturally ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- refers to a specific liquid fuel obtained by the fractional distillation of ... == History == === Etymology === The word "diesel" is derived ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- Pioneers traveled in wagons across the Oregon Trail, one of the main ... The first well-mapped land route across what is now the United States ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- An audiobook is an audio recording of a book, speech, or any form ... The term "books on tape" was frequently and erroneously ...17 KB (2,579 words) - 18:27, 21 August 2023
- The Falkland Islands ( Islas Malvinas ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- The Royal Opera House, the United Kingdom's most important performing ... The current Royal Opera House is the third theater built on the Covent ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston, Texas ... At the end of 2001 it was revealed that Enron’s reports of high ...31 KB (4,550 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- industrialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg), in what is now ... high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. They patented ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- ) is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and one of the principal ... Caracas is located in the north of the country, contained within and ...33 KB (4,619 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- The General Electric Company, or GE ( GE and services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. ...27 KB (3,816 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- A ceiling fan is a device suspended from the ceiling of a room, with ... In the summer, the direction of rotation of the blades is set to blow ...35 KB (5,762 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- Several railways had been built in the mountainous regions of India ... The collective designation refers to the current project by the Indian ...33 KB (4,994 words) - 17:47, 10 November 2022
- 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American ... Long created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934, with the motto ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- and casino owner who became infamous in the final years of his life, when ... Hughes also gained fame as a record-setting pilot, flying around the ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... The nation's traditions draw on its nomadic past and are centuries ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- politician, elected three times as president of Argentina. He served from 1946 ... Perón and his wife Eva were immensely popular among a portion of ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 20:34, 4 October 2022
- Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America ... metropolitan area, the sixth-largest in the United States with a population ...38 KB (5,412 words) - 18:57, 7 February 2024
- Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, and its ... center. It plays host to a year round slate of world-class festivals, earning ...47 KB (6,763 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) [https://www.plantnames ... is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
