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The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular display of ... :Main article: History of the periodic table The original table was ...

Neon (chemical symbol Ne, atomic number 10) is the fourth most abundant ... meaning "new") was discovered by Scottish chemist William Ramsay ...

Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of ... The isotope protactinium-231 occurs in pitchblende to the extent of ...

Thulium (chemical symbol Tm, atomic number 69) is the least abundant ... techniques have led to easier separation of the rare earths, which has ...

Terbium (chemical symbol Tb, atomic number 65) is a silvery-white ... Nd,Y)PO4, which contains up to 0.03 percent of terbium), xenotime (YPO4) and ...

Dysprosium (chemical symbol Dy, atomic number 66) is a rare earth ... with erbium, holmium, and other rare earth elements. == History == ...

Bromine (chemical symbol Br, atomic number 35) is a nonmetal that ... Bromine is an important resource for the production of a wide range ...

Lutetium (chemical symbol Lu, atomic number 71) is a silvery white ... Found with almost all other rare-earth metals but never by itself ...

Europium (chemical symbol Eu, atomic number 63) is the most reactive ... has also been identified in the spectra of the Sun and certain stars. ...

Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with ... in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United ...

Ytterbium (chemical symbol Yb, atomic number 70) is a soft silvery ... associated with yttrium or other related elements and is used in certain steels ...

Samarium (chemical symbol Sm, atomic number 62) is a bright silvery ... in nature, but, like other rare earth elements, it is contained in many ...

Erbium (chemical symbol Er, atomic number 68) is a silvery metallic ... It is associated with several other rare earth elements in the mineral ...

:For other meanings of the abbreviation Pr, see PR. number=59 | symbol ... (chemical symbol Pr, atomic number 59) is a soft silvery metallic ...

Argon (chemical symbol Ar, atomic number 18) is a member of the noble ... The inertness of argon is a very useful property for a number of applications ...

(chemical symbol Nd, atomic number 60) is a silvery metallic element ... It constitutes about 38 parts per million (ppm) of the Earth’s crust. ...

Promethium (chemical symbol Pm, atomic number 61) is a metallic element ... Promethium can be formed as a product of uranium fission. Only trace ...

Rhenium (chemical symbol Re, atomic number 75) is a silvery-white ... This mineral, however, is not an economically viable source of the element. ...

Fluorine (chemical symbol F, atomic number 9) is a nonmetal that belongs ... Fluorine and its compounds are useful for a wide range of applications ...

Rhodium (chemical symbol Rh, atomic number 45) is a rare, silvery ... it is a symbol of wealth and is occasionally used in the presentation ...

Lanthanum (chemical symbol La, atomic number 57) is a soft, silvery ... Lanthanum, its alloys, and its compounds have a wide range of applications ...

In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite ... Since mesons are composed of quarks, they participate in both the ...

the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...

Scandium (chemical symbol Sc, atomic number 21) is a soft, silvery ... with aluminum for minor components needed by the aerospace industry and ...

Gadolinium (chemical symbol Gd, atomic number 64) is a silvery white ... Today, gadolinium is isolated by techniques such as ion exchange and ...

Hafnium (chemical symbol Hf, atomic number 72) is a lustrous, silvery ... the two difficult to separate. About half of all hafnium metal manufactured ...

Yttrium (chemical symbol Y, atomic number 39) is a lustrous, silvery ... Interestingly, lunar rock samples retrieved by Apollo space missions were ...

Cesium (also spelled caesium, chemical symbol Cs, atomic number 55 ... This element has many isotopes, of which the single stable isotope ...

Cerium (chemical symbol Ce, atomic number 58) is a silvery metallic ... Cerium, its alloys, and its compounds are valuable for a variety of ...

Palladium (chemical symbol Pd, atomic number 46) is a rare, silver ... addition, this element is useful in a number of other applications, including ...

Germanium (chemical symbol Ge, atomic number 32) is a lustrous, hard ... The development of the germanium transistor opened the door to numerous ...

Manganese (chemical symbol Mn, atomic number 25) is a gray-white metal ... The greatest demand for manganese is for the production of iron and ...

Osmium (chemical symbol Os, atomic number 76) is a hard, brittle, ... The compound osmium tetroxide is very toxic but has a number of important ...

Bismuth (chemical symbol Bi, atomic number 83) is a brittle, white ... This element expands on freezing and was long an important component ...

samples. 7Li would thereforehave a content of up to 96.25%. ... Lithium (chemical symbol Li, atomic number 3) is the lightest solid ...

Ruthenium (chemical symbol Ru, atomic number 44) is a rare, hard, ... platinum group metals in the Ural Mountains of western Russia and in parts ...

Rubidium (chemical symbol Rb, atomic number 37) is a soft, silvery ... and zinnwaldite, which contains traces of up to one percent of its oxide ...

Strontium (chemical symbol Sr, atomic number 38) is a soft, silvery ... is widely used in the glass screens of color television sets. Strontium ...

Thallium (chemical symbol Tl, atomic number 81) is a soft, malleable ... for low-temperature measurements. Crystals of thallium bromide-iodide have ...

Cobalt (chemical symbol Co, atomic number 27) is a hard, lustrous ... Cobalt compounds are used in the production of inks, paints, and varnishes ...

Gallium (chemical symbol Ga, atomic number 31) is a rare, soft, silvery ... Gallium is most commonly used in the form of the compound gallium ...

Platinum (chemical symbol Pt, atomic number 78) is a silvery gray ... Naturally occurring platinum appears to have been used by the craftsmen ...

Thorium (chemical symbol Th, atomic number 90) is a naturally occurring ... as lead. Soil commonly contains an average of around 12 parts per million ...

Copper (symbol Cu, atomic number 29) is one of the oldest known metals ... used in hospitals to prevent the transfer of germs, and copper (II) sulfate ...

Tellurium (chemical symbol Te, atomic number 52) is a relatively rare ... with care. Exposure to even small amounts of tellurium can generate a garlicky ...

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Chlorine (chemical symbol Cl, atomic number 17) is a nonmetal that ... in nature and necessary for most forms of life, including human life ...

Molybdenum (chemical symbol Mo, atomic number 42) is a silvery white ... free in nature. The main commercial source of molybdenum is the mineral molybdenite ...

Xenon (chemical symbol Xe, atomic number 54) is a colorless, odorless ... This element can be extracted by fractional distillation of liquid ...

[[Image:Medieval writing desk.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of a scribe ... Writing is a form of communication through the act of preserving text ...

Antimony (chemical symbol Sb, atomic number 51) is a metalloid with ... and solder. Recently, it is being used by the semiconductor industry ...

Niobium or columbium (chemical symbol Nb, atomic number 41) is a rare ... often also contain tantalum. Large deposits of niobium have been found associated ...

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Tin (chemical symbol Sn, atomic number 50) is a silvery, malleable ... This metal is an important component of many alloys, including bronze ...

Zirconium (chemical symbol Zr, atomic number 40) is a strong, lustrous ... The purified metal is primarily used by the nuclear industry to form ...

Barium (chemical symbol Ba, atomic number 56) is a soft, silvery chemical ... Barium and its compounds have a variety of applications. For instance ...

Potassium (chemical symbol K, atomic number 19) is a member of a group ... The ions, alloys, and compounds of potassium have a wide range of ...

Cadmium (chemical symbol Cd, atomic number 48) is a relatively rare ... plastics stabilizers, and many kinds of solder. In nuclear reactors ...

Lead (chemical symbol Pb, atomic number 82) is a soft, heavy metal ... and arsenic. Lead is mentioned in the Book of Exodus. Lead pipes that bear ...

Tungsten (formerly wolfram) is a chemical element with the symbol ... Tungsten was first hypothesized to exist by Peter Woulfe in 1779, ...

Vanadium (chemical symbol V, atomic number 23) is a rare, silver-gray ... Vanadium was originally discovered by Andrés Manuel del Río, a Spanish ...

traditional homes (Indonesian: Rumah adat) of the Minangkabau (also known ... painted floral carvings. Every aspect of the house has a symbolic significance ...

Silver (chemical symbol Ag, atomic number 47) is a soft metal with ... electronic products. The nitrate and halides of silver are valuable in photography ...

The Red Fort has become a symbol for Indian independence from British ... The Red Fort stands at the eastern edge of Shahjahanabad, receiving its ...

Chromium (chemical symbol Cr, atomic number 24) is a hard, shiny, ... used in paints and pigments. The red color of rubies derives from the presence ...

founded, being the first to adopt the title of "emperor" (huangdi ... officials in his administration as a means of controlling the Han people ...

Arsenic (chemical symbol As, atomic number 33) is a notoriously poisonous ... surreptitiously, arsenic was used in history by murderers, including members ...

language did not have a writing system of its own. Chinese characters ... Kanji includes new characters created in Japan, and modifications ...

Tantalum, formerly tantalium (chemical symbol Ta, atomic number 73 ... for metalworking, and for the production of superalloys for jet engine ...

Boron (chemical symbol “B,” atomic number “5”) is a chemical ... antiseptics, adhesives, and a variety of other products. The isotope ...

Magnesium (chemical symbol Mg, atomic number 12) is the eighth most ... In its ionic form, magnesium is one of the most essential elements ...

The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of ... In 1994 UNESCO designated these fourteen monasteries, part of a much ...

Concepts are the categorization of objects, events, or people that ... While research on learning in animals has been used by some psychologists ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs are a formal writing system used by the ancient ... Egyptian hieroglyphs constitute one of the oldest known writing systems ...

lost textual source for the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke. Testament scholars noted that the gospels of Matthew and Luke shared much ...

Sulfur or sulphur (see spelling below) (chemical symbol S, atomic ... This element is essential for living organisms, particularly as part ...

Sodium (chemical symbol Na, atomic number 11) is a member of a group ... bright illumination at low cost. An alloy of sodium and potassium (NaK) ...

Beryllium (chemical symbol Be, atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest ... Alloys of beryllium with copper or nickel are strong and wear-resistant ...

There are not specific matsuri days for all of Japan; dates vary from area ... and still others around contests where many of the participants sport loin ...

true to the Genesis account, this is one of the most famous depictions ... covenants underpin the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and ...

Selenium (chemical symbol Se, atomic number 34) is a chemical element ... This element and its compounds have a wide range of applications. ...

Oxygen (chemical symbol O, atomic number 8) is the second most common ... Oxygen is essential for the respiratory function of humans, animals ...

The Majapahit empire was the last of the major Hindu empires of the ... Little physical evidence of Majapahit remains, Jean Gelman Taylor, ...

sense, it is a three-dimensional example of the more general structure ... interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only ...

Helium (chemical symbol He, atomic number 2) is a minor component ... almost all new helium is created as a result of the nuclear fusion of hydrogen ...

== Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution4glyph.png tiresome. The Brahmin Indians simplified 4 by joining its four lines into ...

Calcium (chemical symbol Ca, atomic number 20) is the fifth most plentiful ... state. Rather, it occurs in the form of various compounds: calcium ...

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design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally ... and legally protected for a specific period of time, a trade secret can only ...

Zinc (chemical symbol Zn, atomic number 30) is a bluish-white metal ... sunburn and diaper rash. The chloride of zinc is a deodorant, and the ...

"Angkor Wat" is the modern name of the temple; its original name ... and capital city, Angkor Wat was the epitome of the high classical style of ...

and for his Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem) of 1837, with its tremendous orchestral ... law, but he dared to disrespect the wishes of his family in order to pursue ...

Phosphorus (chemical symbol P, atomic number 15) is a multivalent ... When purified artificially, several different allotropic forms of ...

Technetium (chemical symbol Tc, atomic number 43) is a silvery gray ... Before the element was discovered, many of the properties of element ...

The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman ... It entrusted to the Pope the completion of some sections of its work ...

mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic, that he ... was scant until after World War II. Much of his huge output is still unpublished ...

period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...

the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons ... mausolea are almost universally places of religious and/or national significance ...

Nitrogen (symbol N, atomic number 7) is the chief constituent of the ... In living organisms, nitrogen atoms are part of the molecular structures ...

and artistic movement predominant at the end of the nineteenth and beginning ... and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir ...

date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...

Titanium (chemical symbol Ti, atomic number 22) is a silvery-white ... forms and five naturally occurring isotopes of this element—46Ti through ...

Plutonium (chemical symbol Pu, atomic number 94) is a radioactive ... naturally in uranium ores. These come about by a process of neutron capture ...

is the oldest and most fundamental branch of mathematics. It is used by ... In common usage, arithmetic refers to a branch of mathematics that ...

is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, ... . The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid ("People of Monotheism ...

Mercury, also called quicksilver (chemical symbol Hg, atomic number ... Natural deposits of mercury-bearing minerals, usually in the form ...

In mathematics, the logarithm (or log) of a number x in base b is ... In general terms, if x = b'n, then the logarithm of x in base ...

The Historic Centre of Lima is the portion of the city of Lima, Peru ... important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, established by Charles ...

and mechanics. He introduced some of the familiar notation still ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...

developed from the logographic characters of Chinese origin, known in Japan ... into Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters like furigana ...

syndicate dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcoholic beverages during ... By the end of the 1920s, Capone had gained the attention of the Federal ...

discovered. Approximately one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto ... because they are closer in size than any of the other known celestial pair ...

This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or ...

Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian ... Holberg contributed to the common literature of Denmark-Norway. With the advent ...

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Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... occur along plate boundaries. The interior of the planet is also active, ...

Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic ... 235 (0.72 percent), and a very small amount of uranium-234 (0.0058 percent ...

a Romanian historian, philosopher, theorist of religion, literary critic, ... His most significant contributions to the study of religion are his ...

one") is a principal deity of Hinduism who is especially ... or dancing the Tandava upon the demon of ignorance in his manifestation ...

lit. “capital capital,” or “capital of capitals") was the Imperial ... Kyoto is known as one of the academic centers of Japan, and is home ...

worldwide Scouting movement founded in 1908 by Robert Baden-Powell. A parallel ... fitness through a structured program of outdoor activities. The Scout ...

CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United ... One of the pioneer radio networks, from its earliest days CBS established ...

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... A number of non-harp-like instruments are colloquially referred to ...

injustice and tyranny. His band consists of a "seven score" group ... He has been the subject of numerous movies, television series, books ...

The cuneiform script (kjuːˈniːəfɔrm) is the earliest known form ... The Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Elamite ...

Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the ... and most vibrant Hindu empire outside of India. The Khmer name has become ...

She was a notable first female in a variety of additional positions, including ... Sauvé's main objective was to see to the fulfillment of national ...

to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which ... Neijia styles teach awareness of the spirit, mind, chi (breath), and ...

The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... in Philadelphia, and was twice recast by local workmen John Pass and ...

Space tourism (or spaceflight) is the recent phenomenon of tourists ... Among the primary attractions of space tourism are the uniqueness ...

The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh ... Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ...

movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...

nanometers (nm) (15.7-27.6 millionths of an inch)). In a scientific ... The study of light and its interaction with matter is termed optics ...

The Storming of the Bastille ( Prise de la Bastille pʁiz də la bastij| insurgents storming and seizing control of the medieval armory, fortress ...

a fictional comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer ... miniseries Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, by writer-artist Frank Miller ...

) are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary ... used in the People's Republic of China on Mainland China, Singapore ...

(CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...

The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign ... ) which refers to Hitler's, rather than Napoleon's, invasion ...

) is the capital city and the economic and communications hub of Padova ... the poet Dante lived, where Saint Anthony of Padua is buried, and as the ...

[[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...

quot;) is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical ... # a family of organized Chinese religious movements, such as the Zhengyi ...

Traditional Thai art was heavily influenced by Buddhist and Hindu ... In ancient Thailand, as in most parts of Southeast Asia, artists typically ...

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...

Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... a wealthy nation. With a per capita GDP of $25,300 in 2006, Bahrain was ...

Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) is a province of China located on the southeast ... center and pristine nature. The ecology of the province has been threatened ...

doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meaning of Freud’ profoundly changed ... Lacan's work has had a profound impact on the development of ...

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg ... He began composing at the young age of ten, producing short pieces ...

Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...

Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...

are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... According to the Hebrew Bible, Moses was called by God to receive ...

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... "aisthetike" and was coined by the philosopher Alexander ...

Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...

Japanese folklore is heavily influenced by the two primary religions ... Japanese folklore has been influenced by foreign literature. Some ...

its sour taste and pungent smell. It is one of the simplest carboxylic acids ... chemical useful for the production of various synthetic fibers and ...

seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family (中華絃樂噐 ... While certain rules of acoustics were followed in the construction ...

a multifaceted Greek goddess whose spheres of influence centered around wisdom ... She was known as the companion of heroes, protector of cities, and ...

produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical ... With the decline of Rome and the ascendancy of Christianity in Europe ...

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Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...

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Madeira is an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is one ... was rediscovered, possibly accidentally, by Portuguese sailors and settled ...

Mo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory ... Many theorists agree that we can distinguish between two senses of ...

Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... For much of its existence, Sicily has stood at a crossroads of international ...

quot; or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used ... Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts ...

the forward direction. This effect is a form of electroluminescence. LEDs are ... LEDs have a broad range of uses. Many are used for a variety of signs ...

Tasmania, and uniquely characterized by a snout like a duck's ... The bizarre appearance of this egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, ...

religion with its origins in the prehistory of India, still practiced today ... that respect and honor the spiritual nature of every living being. Jainism ...

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Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...

tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment ... Education means "to draw out," facilitating the realization ...

Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...

in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...

Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...

the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...

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genetic studies indicate that the ancestors of the Tibetan people diverged ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...

began her film career in 1932 at the age of three. In 1934, she found international ... to represent the United States at a session of the United Nations General ...

Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken ... Confucian preoccupation with hierarchy dictated the placement of rooms ...

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dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter ... White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all ...

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to the systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews, other minority groups ... . The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million ...

(Latin: regnum Francorum, "Kingdom of the Franks"), Frankish ... The idea behind the Holy Roman Empire was of a Christian Europe united ...

The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...

that converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes ... " meaning electric, from the name of the Italian physicist Volta ...

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government ...

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...

Jewish rebels who fought against the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the ... They consolidated their power by centralizing authority in Jerusalem ...

island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ... that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as 35,000 B ...

The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ... and Germany was forced to come to the aid of its ally. Operation Marita ...

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...

A laser (an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission ... The first working laser was demonstrated in May 1960 by Theodore Maiman ...

physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...

(a form of individualist anarchism) Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today ... capitalism. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of ...

and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous ... Antifaschistische Aktion inspired a variety of different movements, groups ...

book superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular ... Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist Joe ...

revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...

(香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...

is known as the "national pastime" of the United States, although ... The game also involves a unique combination of individual competitiveness ...

refers to the ocean or world ocean, the body of salty water that covers approximately ... A wide variety of organisms, including bacteria, protists, algae, ...

Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest ... in a little over 30 years, from a collection of poor desert-coast sheikdoms ...

is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the ... The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the ...

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing ... which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to ...

Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during ... The chronological anchors of the era are generally vague, largely ...

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... American Civil War in 1866. It was founded by veterans of the Confederate ...

The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ... Asia and South America, Portugal was one of the world's major economic ...

gave lasting influences on the development of intellectual, technological ... Zhang was one of the best known writers in literature and poetry in ...

site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be ... Eastern Orthodox until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It ...

Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...

fullerite. Its hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial ... abrasives because they can be scratched only by other diamonds, Borazon, ultrahard ...

in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...

Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ... The art and architecture of the Tamil people encompass some of the ...

1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...

The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived by major ...

October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the ... Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew ...

and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime ... and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade ...

The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...

) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous ... Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centers ...

(The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...

) is an ancient Indo-European classical language of South Asia, a ... The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of ...

painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now ... Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents ...

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. It is the second ... it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighborhoods ...

1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who ... He saw action in World War I as part of the new United States Tank ...

transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). The largest country in the world by land area, Russia has the world ...