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- or “spiritual energy” that pervades the natural world. It constitutes ... The idea of qi represents one of the unique and foundational elements ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- Micheri, Italy) was a marine biologist with a great interest in anthropology ... Heyerdahls's voyages across the Atlantic and across the Pacific ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- bar. Pole jumping competitions date back to the ancient Greeks, as well as ... over natural obstacles in places such as the marshy provinces of Friesland ...22 KB (3,728 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- book, Silent Spring, is often credited with having launched the global ... Her first three books, “Under the Sea Wind”, “The Sea Around ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵, ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- perennial and aromatic herbs and shrubs in the daisy family Asteraceae, characterized ... Many of the plant components that are so vital to the survival and ...26 KB (3,665 words) - 12:12, 7 November 2021
- Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, the country's second ... Like many cities, Wellington's urban area extends well beyond ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- winning Italian-American film director and the creative force behind a string ... after=Victor Flemingfor Gone with the Wind |- before=Billy Wilderfor ...21 KB (3,350 words) - 05:01, 9 April 2024
- (0.2 - 2 inches) in diameter, and with even larger stones coming ... golf ball. They form inside thunderclouds as the result of updraft and down ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- mystic and poet who is now revered as one of the most influential Persian poets ... have had a good education, or instead found the means to educate himself. ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Bourges. It is based on the Notre-Dame in Paris but with significant differences ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- body of poetry, Gray is considered to be the most important poet of the ... to a number of other poets; most notably the Romantics Coleridge and Wordsworth ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the twentieth ... Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- In Norse mythology, Njord or Njordr (Old Norse Njörðr) is one of ... The mother of these two gods was, according to the Heimskringla (a ...22 KB (3,533 words) - 02:30, 16 November 2022
- was a popular US jazz saxophonist and one of the premier saxophonists of the ... in his own right) grew up jamming regularly with their father (Segell 2005 ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 16:53, 9 November 2022
- :This article is about plasma in the sense of an ionized gas. The ... In physics and chemistry, a plasma is one of the four principal states ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 07:58, 24 November 2022
- In general terms, geothermal energy is thermal energy (the energy ... In terms of alternative energy, geothermal energy is the energy that ...43 KB (6,447 words) - 16:43, 21 May 2024
- Moss is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular ... or seeds, and their simple leaves cover the thin wiry stems. At certain ...21 KB (3,181 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- day Bratislava, Slovakia. His music reflects the transition from the Classical ... As the bridge between the classical and romantic eras, Hummel showed ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 14:45, 1 August 2022
- Her family was artistically talented and the four siblings included brothers ... Although Rossetti's poetry was largely overlooked in the wake ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa. There are more than ... Roses are members of the family Rosaceae, which is one of the largest ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- and public figure. He is considered among the most influential figures in ... Yeats came to maturity at the beginning of the twentieth century and ...21 KB (3,324 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- Flight is the process by which an object achieves sustained movement ... In eighth century Cordoba, Ibn Farnas studied the dynamism of flight ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- The Yi Jing ("Book of Changes" or "Classic of Changes ... Though the Yi Jing is often cryptic to the point of obscurity (especially ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae ... Albatrosses range widely in the Southern Ocean (South Pole Ocean or ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical poet produced ... He was the one of the leading figures of the Russian Symbolist movement ...11 KB (1,565 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- :This article is about the device. [[Image:Apollo 15 descends to splashdown ... A parachute is a device used to slow the descent of a person or object ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- The plow (British spelling plough) is a tool used in farming for initial ... by horses. In industrialized countries, the first mechanical means of ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- are used to harden, burn, or dry materials. The firing of kilns requires a ... Primitive kilns date back to the early days of civilization and are ...23 KB (3,896 words) - 23:03, 3 March 2023
- or contracts to a certain extent, and when the force is released, the spring ... Simple, non-coiled springs, such as the bow (used with an arrow), ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America ... A north central state, it forms a bridge between the forests of the ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- In chemistry, isomers are molecules that share the same chemical formula ... fulminic acid (prepared by Justus von Liebig the previous year), its properties ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 05:56, 11 March 2024
- " meaning "to burn from the Sun"), are circular raised ... The Zoroastrians place a great deal of importance on maintaining ritual ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- Han Shan, was a legendary figure associated with a collection of poems from ... on tree trunks or rock faces, or written on the walls of caves or houses. ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- Hydroelectricity is electricity produced by hydropower—that is, ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 11, 1957) was the pseudonym ... quot; after death; and, hence, liberation from the world. ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 07:38, 15 April 2024
- The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that ... As music in the Christian Church in Europe evolved, the practice of ...40 KB (6,257 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- entity mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian ... The correct plural can be written as cherubim or cherubs; the former ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- The potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping of round ... The techniques of jiggering and jolleying can be seen as an extension ...12 KB (2,032 words) - 05:56, 30 November 2022
- New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern ... In one of the earliest English settlements in the New World, English ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- less than standard atmospheric pressure. The root of the word vacuum is ... The quality of a vacuum is measured by how closely it approaches a ...37 KB (5,624 words) - 20:38, 21 April 2020
- and was once its state religion. It involves the worship of kami, which can ... (a form of drawing lots), visitation to the shrine celebrating the New ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- which will takes precedence over intellect. The will is traditionally understood ... Voluntarism (from the Latin: voluntas, meaning ‘will’) is a theory ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
- having directed several great classic films, The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt ... put it. Paul Newman once called Huston "the eccentric's eccentric ...23 KB (3,526 words) - 06:02, 3 August 2022
- wore black dresses and posed for a portrait with his statue following his death ... The sequence in the book and film of Gone with the Wind in which the heroine ...23 KB (3,744 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- Mount Everest--also known as Sagarmatha or Chomolungma--is the highest ... The most famous of the previous challengers was the British adventurer ...31 KB (4,841 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- Enlil (EN = Lord+ LIL = Air, "Lord of the Wind") ... was the name of a major Mesopotamian deity. In early Sumerian inscriptions ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah ... ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur& ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- for his flowing melodic lines, Bellini was the quintessential composer of ... a highly musical family, not unusual for the child of an organist and both ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- The Brooklyn Bridge (originally the New York and Brooklyn Bridge) ... Construction began in January 3, 1870. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- using his photojournalistic talents to help the less fortunate in New York ... reforms toward better living conditions for the thousands of people living ...11 KB (1,754 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- and a Grammy Award nomination―making him the only Canadian recipient of ... time top-grossing film, eclipsing Gone with the Wind. He said he disliked ...51 KB (7,432 words) - 21:43, 10 December 2023
- from fixed-wing aircraft (or airplanes). The word "helicopter" ... land vertically, and fly in reverse or to the side. Their range is subject ...42 KB (6,643 words) - 23:04, 3 February 2022
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. A Presidential proclamation ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- ::Note: For the Roman god Jupiter please click here. : Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar ...33 KB (5,016 words) - 16:30, 14 May 2024
- An inuksuk, plural inuksuit, (from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ ... When Nunavut became a separate Canadian territory in 1999, the people ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 11:05, 6 March 2024
- The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the ... algae, plants, fungi, and animals, lives in the sea, which offers a wide range ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948 ... The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
- used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the ... air through nearly-closed lips (called the player's embouchure) ...34 KB (5,196 words) - 19:49, 28 June 2023
- ) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed ... Essentially, the samizdat copies of texts, such as Mikhail Bulgakov ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- a woman, and yet becoming president of both the American Psychological Association ... In her early work in psychology she developed the paired-associate ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- ) is generally considered the last of three great Romantic poets of ... years were spent in Moscow, where he joined the classicist academy of Professor ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Korean mythology represents Dangun Wanggeom as the founder of Gojoseon ... Although myth shrouds the origins of the Korean people, the message ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- myths and legends, and myths concerning the founding of Chinese culture ... Chinese myths are thought to have originated around the twelfth century ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... music, even jazz and swing. Dylan performs with the guitar, keyboard, and ...41 KB (6,363 words) - 05:45, 16 November 2023
- The American film industry, often referred to as Hollywood (from the ... such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith ...22 KB (3,307 words) - 22:38, 4 July 2022
- Ice is the name given to water in the solid state. In nature, it is ... (phases) and several amorphous forms of ice. The most abundant type of ice ...24 KB (3,832 words) - 17:09, 10 February 2024
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is ... Like the Earth, Mars has a rocky surface and polar ice caps. Its rotational ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- mythology and Jewish folklore, associated with sexual temptation, storms ... Historically, the figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic of the Victorian age. He is often ... Arnold was also a major cultural critic, and his views on the moral ...12 KB (1,996 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface ... Our understanding of the concept of pressure and our ability to manipulate ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- and blues and gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United States. Rhythm and blues (a combination of blues and jazz) arose in the 1940s ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- , ostrov Vrangelya) is an island in the Arctic Ocean, between the ... Humans lived as early as 1700 B.C.E. in the region, at the end of ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 14:01, 20 May 2023
- The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental ... wide, with an area nearing 750000|km2|sqmi . A large part of the European ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- 29 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists ... and a brief visit to Metz on family matters in the 1840s. ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... Since its formation, the Earth has been transformed through various ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- first modern world heavyweight champion and the last of the great bare-knuckle ... a turning point in boxing history. It was the final world-title bout fought ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 17:28, 1 May 2024
- in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme ... D’Abano charged exorbitant fees for his services, and this, along ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- ethnographer who gained prominence in 1962 with his idealized, lyrical book ... of various disadvantaged people, much to the consternation of various relatives ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured prominently ... As an official poet to the court of three successive rulers, Hitomaro ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- Barley is any annual cereal grass of the genus Hordeum, and in particular ... in health food. Barley ranks fourth among the cereals in terms of total ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 08:08, 20 September 2023
- religion, nature, science, math, and the ethnic origins of man. He ... topics that are not often associated with modern music of the early ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- 29, 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ... profound tragedies. His first wife, unhappy with her marriage and with his ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 07:04, 15 April 2024
- Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the largest tree in the world ... Trees are the largest plants. They are not a single taxon (unit of ...33 KB (4,675 words) - 12:40, 18 April 2023
- Ilaiyaraaja had been the most prominent composer of film music in ... broader Western musical sensibilities into the South Indian musical mainstream ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- The dizi ( c=笛子]]|p=dízi of bamboo. It is also sometimes known as the di (笛) or hengdi (橫笛 ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- The Gospel of Matthew (literally, "according to Matthew"; ... The Christian community traditionally ascribes authorship to Matthew ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- dance artist and theorist, whose work laid the foundations for Laban Movement ... One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is ... The literary legacy, however, does take us back to one of very earliest ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers ... Much of the greatness of Copland's art is due to the ways he ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- |Origin= The term was invented by researcher Colin Andrews in the ... |Definition= A Geometric or abstract pattern formed by the flattening ...27 KB (4,030 words) - 06:27, 11 January 2024
- coastal areas. However, some boats, such as the whaleboat, were historically ... Notable exceptions to this size concept are the Great Lakes freighter, riverboat ...13 KB (1,916 words) - 05:44, 16 November 2023
- jen; Japanese: Daiman Konin) (601 - 674) was the fifth Chan (Buddhist) patriarch ... Hongren emphasized meditation practice, teaching that the Pure Mind ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- vehicle powered by an engine. It is among the least expensive and most widespread ... uses. They have been a source of unity in the formation of motorcycle clubs ...41 KB (6,307 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- of Lake Huron, located in Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies ... Georgian Bay was the first area of the Great Lakes to be visited by ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 16:41, 21 May 2024
- a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting. The Sarawak chamber, in Gua Nasib ... The park, famous for its caves, has been renown for the expeditions ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 17:58, 12 July 2023
- 6, 1492) was a French composer and poet of the early Renaissance era and ... largely conjectural, he was probably from the vicinity of Béthune in the ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl ... A Royal Navy fleet of 27 ships of the line destroyed an allied French ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the ... Structural engineers are most commonly involved in the design of buildings ...56 KB (8,392 words) - 21:05, 26 February 2023
- Ayurveda (Devanāgarī: आयुर्वॆद, the 'science ... system of medicine in South Asia. The earliest literature of Ayurveda ...26 KB (3,585 words) - 06:06, 10 January 2023
- A harmonica is a free reed wind instrument which has roots that may ... The harmonica's first large-scale success came at the hands of ...28 KB (4,396 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likable characters that he ... Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and ...40 KB (6,390 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- in Central Africa that is estimated to be the second largest freshwater ... Located at the southern end of the Western Rift Valley, the lake is ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- Parque Nacional Los Glaciares (The Glaciers) is a national park in ... Its name refers to the giant ice cap in the Andes mountain range that ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- Tengriism (Tengerism, Tengrianism, or Tengrianizm) was the major belief ... The other deities were Umai (a life-giving deity), Erlik (god of the ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- is made up of two electrodes, each coated with a catalyst, separated by an ... on hydrogen can be compact and lightweight, with no major moving parts. In ...40 KB (5,810 words) - 07:10, 15 April 2024
- and teacher who efficiently perfected the art of composition as well ... Alexander's entire family converted to the religion of his grandfather ...12 KB (1,584 words) - 06:31, 20 July 2023
- related materials. It is found on Earth, the Moon, some asteroids, and ... it is found to host many minerals and is the zone through which aquifers ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 03:04, 8 December 2022
- Land pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces often ... The Industrial Revolution set in motion a series of events which impinged ...12 KB (1,940 words) - 21:14, 22 October 2022
- :This article is about the astronomical object. [[Image:Pleiades large ... that is held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- integration of rock and pop elements into the country genre has earned him ... and live performances, Brooks dominated the country charts in the early ...30 KB (4,330 words) - 07:48, 23 January 2023
- person or “immortal." References to the term “xian” appeared in ... their own concepts of physical immortality. The Eight Immortals ( ...38 KB (6,009 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- Ethylene (or IUPAC name ethene) is a chemical compound with the formula ... Ethylene acts as a hormone in plants, regulating the ripening of fruit ...26 KB (3,781 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- deity whose cult originated at Thebes, in the Upper Kingdom of classical ... cosmological belief system that developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it ... formats than familiar comic magazines, using the same materials and methods ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed," "pursuit ... He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, encompasses the ... not have records of individual lives or of the achievements of individual ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... #039;s lush score for the film, Gone with the Wind provides an example ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- ) was a Indian philosopher-sage who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school ... Little is known about the actual life of Shri Madhvacharya, save for ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- Goldwyn-Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal ... role, but lost to Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind. She received critical ...27 KB (3,873 words) - 22:37, 26 July 2022
- The yeti is an alleged ape-like animal said to inhabit the Himalayan ... Nevertheless, the yeti remains one of the most famous creatures of ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- Transport or transportation is the movement of people and goods from ... The development of transport vehicles has had an incredible impact ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 02:08, 2 May 2023
- Miyamoto Bennosuke or Miyamoto Musana), was the best-known Japanese swordsman ... but he gradually came to realize that the strategic principles and practical ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... ) in China, was signed at the Shunpanrō Hotel on April 17, 1895, ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- The evacuation from Dunkirk was the large evacuation of Allied soldiers ... -were rescued from Dunkirk, France, and the surrounding beaches by a hastily ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 15:36, 30 April 2023
- Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are hydrocarbon fuels found within the ... The term "fossil fuels" is based on the widely accepted ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- gambling, sandy beaches, spectacular view of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the ... Native Lenape inhabited the area prior to the arrival of English settlers ...28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... politics, similar to which Adolf Hitler and the National Socialism emerged ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- was a well-known mime. He performed all over the world in order to spread the ... paint, soft shoes and a battered hat topped with a red flower. Marceau showed ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized ... raised by his great-uncle's family in the small town of Villars, in ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng ... built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 3rd century B.C.E. and the ...14 KB (2,322 words) - 07:41, 4 January 2024
- Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate ... An image of the west front of Monticello was featured on the reverse ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- Yankari National Park is a large wildlife park located in the south ... The park, at an elevation of about 500 meters (1,600 ft) in the heartland ...13 KB (1,893 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- :This page is about the number and digit 0 or "zero." ... It plays a central role in mathematics as the identity element of the integers ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- Antigua and Barbuda is a three-island nation located in the eastern ... The islands' indigenous people became virtually extinct not long ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- and dramatist who is widely considered to be the most important Spanish poet ... In his early years, García Lorca's poetry was marked by the ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in ... Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the colonial British army, was the spearhead ...43 KB (6,818 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: ... = astron + nomos, literally, "law of the stars") is the science ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany ... The city also enjoyed frequent periods of prosperity. The current ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- The Globe Theatre normally refers to one of three theaters in London ... # The original Globe Theatre, built in 1599 by the playing company ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- Arches National Park preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches—the ... The area, administered by the National Park Service, was originally ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 06:16, 12 August 2023
- , Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. ... Prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- This article is about the form of dwelling {{multiple image|perrow ... concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along ... reality in a corporeal world. Along with Schoenberg and Webern he was ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- The Delaware Crossing was declared to be the moment of George Washington’s ... General Washington was faced with overwhelming military odds and the ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 23:10, 3 May 2023
- The Faeroe Islands (or Faroe Islands, sometimes simply called Faroes ... The Faroes have close traditional ties to Iceland, Shetland, Orkney ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- [[Image:642px-John Bauer 1915.jpg|thumb|256px|Trolls with an abducted ... The troll is a mythical creature of Scandinavian origin that has become ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
- Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name. Nestled in the ... years after its founding, it became known as the "Birthplace of Confederation ...27 KB (3,922 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse ... The "curse of Ham" had been used by some members of Abrahamic ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- The Song of Solomon (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim ... the Tanakh (and Christian Old Testament), which celebrates and interprets ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 01:14, 4 February 2023
- photograph was taken by Maria Reiche, one of the first archaeologists to study ... | Region = Latin America and the Caribbean | Year = 1994 ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:59, 11 November 2022
- Ozone (molecular formula O3) is a minor constituent of the Earth& ... About 90 percent of the ozone in our atmosphere is contained in the ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- The Dialogue of the Saviour is one of the ancient works of the New ... The Dialogue of the Saviour teaches that the physical body and the ...17 KB (2,741 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- mystic whose writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced ... Böhme’s ideas about the process of Creation, the primacy of will ...15 KB (2,409 words) - 12:46, 6 November 2021
- Tengri is the supreme god of the old Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar ... Tengri is a probable precursor of the Chinese deity Tian, which became ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression ... His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among ...28 KB (4,366 words) - 18:53, 22 November 2023
- The term concerto (plural is concerti or concertos) usually refers ... The etymology of the word "concerto" is somewhat problematic ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- major German lyric poet whose work draws on the classical style of Johann ... Hölderlin was a profoundly spiritual man. The stresses of being a ...14 KB (2,228 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" ... :(a) is in orbit around the sun; :(b) has sufficient mass for its self ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- ::For the Roman god Neptune please click here. : Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our solar ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Acorn is the fruit (a nut) of the oak tree (the flowering plant genus ... The acorn provides an important food resource for many animals, including ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 17:31, 16 February 2023
- and a specific period of jazz, known as the Swing Era (roughly the 1930s ... a form of jazz music that developed during the 1920s and had solidified as ...14 KB (2,375 words) - 01:51, 27 February 2023
- Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224 ... planet” or “Earth’s twin,” as the two are similar in size and ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the ... against Darwinism, which culminated in the Scopes Trial in 1925. Like ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites ... The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... city. When Nigeria's independence from the United Kingdom necessitated ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one ... Europe. A devout Jew and defender of the Jewish position, he was a ...14 KB (2,182 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known ... ==History of the Recorder== The recorder was popular from medieval ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage ... today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 17:50, 14 November 2022
- Jewish men, although some men and women in the egalitarian Conservative and ... According to the Talmud, a Jewish man is required to cover his head ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- in Chinese, is a volcanic mountain on the border between North Korea ... The Korean name, Baekdu-san, means "white-headed mountain." ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- material of commercial importance and for the common names of two trees ... People have learned to harvest cork in a way that is not harmful to ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:36, 23 May 2020
- radioactive noble gas. It is formed by the disintegration of radium and ... isolated it in 1908 and named it niton (from the Latin word nitens, meaning ...15 KB (2,200 words) - 22:50, 7 December 2022
- popular "Pistachio nut." The term also is used for this ... The pistachio plant has been known and appreciated for centuries as ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April ... On April 5, the IV Corps of Brigadier General Erasmus D. Keyes was ...15 KB (2,213 words) - 01:43, 26 September 2023
- Uisang (의상625 - 702) was one of the most eminent early Silla scholar ... peopkye to (An Explanatory Diagram on the Garland World System.) He ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 11:28, 18 April 2023
- bulk goods, materials, or equipment. The word "truck" comes ... Lorry is a British term for a truck, but it is used only for the medium ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- South American herb, Chenopodium quinoa in the goosefoot genus (Chenopodium ... Quinoa has been a popular food for people of the higher Andes since ...14 KB (2,175 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- ; also spelled Kweichow) is a province of the People's Republic ... Guizhou sat on the fringe of the Chinese empire until the Ming dynasty ...15 KB (2,085 words) - 08:18, 8 January 2024
- Surfing is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried ... James Cook during his third expedition to the Pacific, that led the group ...15 KB (2,531 words) - 23:54, 26 February 2023
- The Bay of Fundy ( Baie de Fundy ) is located on the Atlantic Ocean coastline of North America, at ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- Chrysanthemum is the common name and genus name for a group of erect ... in China over 3,000 years ago and reaching the importance of serving as the ...17 KB (2,581 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- are a protected area of IUCN category II. The largest national park in the ... The first national park to be established in the world was Yellowstone ...17 KB (2,403 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- 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
- historic national treasure that covers the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains ... of 311 square miles (805 square km) in the northern Virginia Blue Ridge ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- education of any sort, Carter became one of the foremost archaeologists of ... practices of preservation, which together with respect for descendants of ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- struggled to unite his spiritual yearnings with his love of poetry, and the ... Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex, as the eldest of nine children ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 16:49, 21 May 2024
- The Gospel of Mark is an ancient koine Greek document that describes ... According to early Church tradition, c. 140 C.E., the author of the ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- weht(German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... Stanford, California. Situated adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, California ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- , which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theater of the ... Alfred Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives ... Lewis fulfilled many critical roles in the civil rights movement and ...59 KB (8,081 words) - 20:53, 1 May 2024
- ), a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar ... through architecture. He stands as one of the greatest Mughal leaders in ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 00:44, 25 March 2024
- of playing Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). Olivier found ... Academy Award for Best Actress for Gone with the Wind, and the couple suddenly ...43 KB (6,624 words) - 17:52, 25 October 2022
- of functional group that contain nitrogen as the key atom. Structurally amines ... As displayed in the images below, primary amines arise when one of ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 07:02, 25 July 2023
- fields and traveled widely throughout the Roman Empire. His school in ... Posidonius was the first Stoic to admit that passions were an inherent ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- | 3He || 0.000137%* || colspan="4" | He is stable with 1 neutron ... Helium (chemical symbol He, atomic number 2) is a minor component ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:19, 25 January 2023
- The Grand Banks is a large area of submerged highlands southeast of ... Extensive marine life flourishes in the Grand Banks, whose range extends ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 20:24, 13 September 2021
- Ephrem the Syrian (306 – 373) was a deacon, prolific writer of hymns ... These were works of practical theology for the edification of the Church ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- well-known mainly for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished ... Hašek was born in Prague, Bohemia (then within Austria-Hungary, now ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:09, 8 February 2023
- South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United ... Located in the north-central United States, South Dakota is bisected ...41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
- St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the ... Many believe St. Lawrence Island is one of the last remaining non ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- that uses radio waves to determine and map the location, direction, and/or ... The term RADAR was coined in 1941 as an acronym for Radio Detection ...32 KB (4,862 words) - 22:43, 7 December 2022
- The monarch butterfly is a large butterfly, Danaus plexippus, that ... The monarch butterfly is perhaps the most well-known of all the butterflies ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic ... and from the Pacific by the 147° east meridian. The northernmost ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- ::This article is about the traditional culture of Korea. For the ... The traditional culture of Korea has its mythical beginnings 5000 ...29 KB (4,255 words) - 06:48, 11 January 2024
- Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, is the attempt to change ... Silver iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) are the most commonly ...17 KB (2,393 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- and economist. His monumental History of the Italian Republics in the Middle ... and all his ancestors seem to have borne the name Simonde, at least from ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- theorist and publisher, and was probably the most influential man outside ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the basis of that similarity. ... An analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- refers to an act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, ... proven to be fraudulent, others (such as the Paschal Fire in Jerusalem ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Iðunn (romanized "Idun") is one of the goddesses of the ... Despite the lack of any evidence of extensive cultic worship, Idun ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest sister of the remarkable ... nineteenth-century England, acutely aware of the limitations of Romantic thought ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Medieval music/early ... From the evidence of his will, he was probably born in Beersel, in ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 03:20, 25 February 2023
- strings, and vocalists may also be included. The term refers more to the set ... The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamel ...37 KB (5,930 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- a rock and roll classic that illustrates the close relationship between ... After the huge success of "Blue Suede Shoes," Perkins was ...15 KB (2,405 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- author and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Loon is the common name for fish-eating, aquatic birds comprising ... taxonomic group also provides a function for the ecosystem and for humans. ...16 KB (2,427 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- (McLean & Elkind, 2003) and was one of the world's leading electricity ... At the end of 2001 it was revealed that Enron’s reports of high ...31 KB (4,550 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- a shortened form of Amasiah, meaning "the Lord carries") is one ... Amos is regarded as the first of the "literary prophets," ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... Texas by treaty had failed to receive the necessary two-thirds approval ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- The South Pole, also known as the geographic South Pole or Terrestrial ... The South Pole is a central site for environmental research and provides ...23 KB (3,208 words) - 15:38, 4 February 2023
- A Turtle ship was a large warship belonging to the Panokseon class ... and army, Korea had little to oppose him with. The Korean army lacked the ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- droplets, frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface ... On Earth, clouds play an important part in the water cycle (hydrologic ...17 KB (2,628 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- building covered partially or completely with earth, best known from the ... Earth lodges are well-known from the more sedentary tribes of the ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- The Belize Barrier Reef is a series of coral reefs straddling the ... offshore in the north and 40|precision=0 in the south within the country ...15 KB (2,336 words) - 08:54, 27 September 2023
- The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization ... With the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911, there was ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh ( t=水滸傳|s=水浒传|p=Shuǐhǔ ... ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- :This article is about tides in the Earth's oceans. ... Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of the Earth's ocean ...37 KB (5,992 words) - 23:32, 30 April 2023
- The English word spirit comes from the Latin "spiritus" ... In Christian theology, the term spirit is used to describe God, or ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon ... Zeus is arguably the most identifiable character in all the world ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system ... The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from space and is sometimes referred ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 01:04, 21 January 2023
- and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of progressive ... * Gone with the Wind (1959) Columbia Records * Time Out (1959) Columbia ...37 KB (5,167 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- kingdom by around fourth century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong ... " distinguishes Gojoseon from the later Joseon Dynasty, also ...18 KB (2,662 words) - 09:14, 19 December 2022
- to a very high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as rotational ... Most FES systems use electricity to accelerate and decelerate the ...17 KB (2,549 words) - 06:12, 1 April 2024
- Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on earth. It is an active shield ... Kea, another of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii. The Hawaiian ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- such as Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ... | before=Victor Flemingfor Gone with the Wind | after=William Wylerfor ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- The Río de la Plata (Spanish: "Silver River") — which ... from the rivers' confluence to the Atlantic Ocean. ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was one of the most successful coaches in ... , a butcher, and Brooklyn-born Matilda Izzo, the daughter of a barber, whose ...16 KB (2,531 words) - 20:23, 3 May 2023
- The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due ... a non-moving observer has kinetic energy in the reference frame of this observer ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- also Man Tin Cheung, Duke of Xingguo, "The Song Dynasty's Top Ranking ... Yangzhou. Wen Tianxiang is considered one of the most famous symbols of loyalty ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- record-setting test pilot. In 1947 he became the first pilot in history confirmed ... In recognition of his achievements he was awarded the Harmon Trophy ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting ... Human ability to harness electricity is one of the keys for the establishment ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant ... was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- of Shinano and Kai Provinces, was one of the preeminent daimyo (feudal ... by Tokugawa Ieyasu and incorporated in the Tokugawa shogunate which united ...17 KB (2,596 words) - 03:54, 27 February 2023
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the ... The City of Rocks is an extraordinary granite encirclement of rock ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the ... and almost mystical love of nature. Like the Arts and Crafts Movement, ...16 KB (2,277 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- said about God. This approach, often called the via negativa, is a favorite ... based on two common presuppositions: Given the vast magnitude of divinity ...18 KB (2,832 words) - 16:09, 11 November 2022
