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- Californium (chemical symbol Cf, atomic number 98) is a chemical element in the periodic table. A radioactive transuranic element, ...11 KB (1,466 words) - 18:27, 25 November 2023
- Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre that emerged from the Transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America. Transcendentalism ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 20:30, 19 May 2020
- Radioactive decay is the process by which an excited, unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by emitting radiation in the form of particles or ...30 KB (4,559 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are forms of valid inferences. By Modus Ponens, from a conditional statement and its antecedent, the consequent ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an unsaturated chemical compound containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 22:30, 4 January 2023
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- Macular degeneration is a medical condition in which there is deterioration in the macula area of the retina, leading to a corresponding loss ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (July 27, 1871, Berlin, German Empire – May 21, 1953, Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany) was a German mathematician ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- In mathematics, a fraction (from the Latin fractus, broken) is a concept of a proportional relation between an object part and the object whole ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- 6 (six) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...19 KB (2,695 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged. The ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- A metalloid is a chemical element with properties that are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. The following elements are generally ...7 KB (910 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Lee, Ivy [[Image:Ivy Lee.jpg|thumb|Ivy Lee]] Ivy Ledbetter Lee ...11 KB (1,658 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना) in (Sanskrit) means "insight" and is often used to describe a type of ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 20:31, 3 May 2023
- A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device (described as an "analog shift register") made up of semiconductors that enables the transmission ...19 KB (2,914 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- Mink is the common name for semiaquatic carnivorous mammals of the two extant Mustelidae species Mustela lutreola (European mink) and Neovison ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Mystery plays, sometimes also called miracle plays (though these tended to focus more on the lives of saints), are among the earliest formally ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- Ningxia ( s=宁夏 |t=寧夏 |p=Níngxià |w=Ning-hsia ; Postal map spelling: Ningsia), full name Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- Lanthanum (chemical symbol La, atomic number 57) is a soft, silvery white metallic element. Found in combination with other rare earth elements ...11 KB (1,398 words) - 22:23, 22 October 2022
- The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular display of the chemical elements. It is perhaps the icon of Chemistry and expresses ...13 KB (1,942 words) - 00:40, 24 November 2022
- The Altay Mountains, Russian Altay, Mongolian Altayn Nuruu, Chinese (Wade-Giles romanization) A-erh-t'ai Shan; Russian Алтай; Алтай ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 08:35, 23 July 2023
- Category:Public {| class="toccolours" border="1" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border-collapse: ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old World bats comprising the suborder Megachiroptera of the order Chiroptera ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- An atom (Greek άτομον from ά: non and τομον: divisible) is a submicroscopic structure found in all ordinary matter. Originally the ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- Papaya is a palm-like, soft-stemmed, evergreen tree, Carica papaya, that is native to the tropics of the Americas, but which is now cultivated ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 07:31, 18 November 2022
- In physics, there are two kinds of dipoles (from the Greek terms di(s)-, meaning "two," and polos, meaning "pivot" or "hinge ...20 KB (3,037 words) - 15:26, 29 January 2024
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya ( Надежда Константиновна Крупская , scientific transliteration ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 23:02, 10 November 2022
- Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 C.E.), the Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester and, later, Archbishop of Canterbury ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- Vibration refers to mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic, such as the motion of a pendulum, or ...35 KB (5,669 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- A nonmetal is a chemical element with several properties that are opposite those of a metal. Based on their properties, the elements of the periodic ...6 KB (785 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- A covalent bond is a type of chemical bond characterized by the sharing of a pair of electrons between two atoms. In general, a chemical bond ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 06:13, 11 January 2024
- North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and the CIA asserts that it has a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons. North Korea, a member ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (September 15, 1830 – July 2, 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 05:38, 30 November 2022
- Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one in the group located entirely within the United States. It is ...12 KB (1,735 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- In physics, torque (or often called a moment) can informally be thought of as "rotational force" or "angular force" which ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:22, 28 June 2023
- Category:Image wanted Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev (March 8, 1866 – March 1, 1912) is considered to be the first world-level Russian physicist ...6 KB (842 words) - 03:37, 7 December 2022
- Mangabey is the common name for the various Old World monkeys comprising the genera Lophocebus ( crested mangabeys), Cercocebus (white-eyelid ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 06:45, 5 November 2022
- Serampore College, located in Serampore Town, in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India, consists of a theological college and a college of arts ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- Opal is a mineraloid A mineraloid is a mineral-like material that does not have a definite chemical formula or crystal form. that can form or ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- Methylene blue (or MB) is a basic aniline dye with the molecular formula C16H18N3SCl. At room temperature, it appears as a solid, odorless, dark ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- |- | colspan="6" align="center" | *Boron-10 content may be as low as 19.1% and ashigh as 20.3% in natural samples. Boron-11 ...16 KB (2,239 words) - 19:45, 20 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Omaha |image=[[Image:Bandera Omaha Nation ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 00:35, 18 November 2022
- In general, an amplifier (or simply amp) is a device that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a signal. The "signal" is usually ...18 KB (2,580 words) - 09:26, 18 June 2021
- Ammonoid or Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals of the subclass Ammonoidea in the class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca. Ammonoidea ...20 KB (3,015 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- Indian Standard Time (IST) represents the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+5:30. India does not observe daylight saving ...13 KB (1,858 words) - 18:36, 4 March 2024
- St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- |- | colspan="6" align="center" | 6Li content may be as low as 3.75% innatural samples. 7Li would thereforehave a content ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 04:29, 29 October 2022
- Praseodymium Praseodymium is frequently misspelled as praseodynium. (chemical symbol Pr, atomic number 59) is a soft silvery metallic element ...12 KB (1,535 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (October 18, 1926 - March 18, 2017) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In terms ...20 KB (3,002 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language ...45 KB (6,537 words) - 15:24, 25 February 2023
- Selenium (chemical symbol Se, atomic number 34) is a chemical element that is classified as a nonmetal. It is chemically related to sulfur and ...23 KB (3,335 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- In physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple atomic particles join together to form a heavier nucleus. It ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- 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
- Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- In common terminology, transition metals (or transition elements) are chemical elements that lie in groups 3 through 12 of the periodic table ...17 KB (2,462 words) - 04:39, 5 November 2022
- Guarana is the common name for a South American woody vine or sprawling shrub, Paullinia cupana in the Sapindaceae family, with large, pinnately ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- The South Pole, also known as the geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, on ...23 KB (3,208 words) - 15:38, 4 February 2023
- <!-- Glitch in calculations equations under Notable Features. --> {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Nanda Devi and Valley of ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 01:17, 11 November 2022
- Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface (in a direction perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeological sites Category:Anthropology [[Image:Lascaux 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Lascaux cave painting ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- The term bioethics was first coined by American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology, ecology ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 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
- Benzene (also known as benzol or [6]-annulene) is a colorless, flammable, sweet-smelling liquid. It is a natural constituent of crude oil but ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 10:44, 28 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A consumption tax is a tax on spending on goods and services. The term refers to a system ...30 KB (4,669 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- A transistor is a semiconductor device that uses a small amount of voltage or electrical current to control a larger change in voltage or current ...30 KB (4,329 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law :This article is concerned with the legal system known as Civil law. For the area of law in ...15 KB (2,321 words) - 22:28, 10 December 2023
- |- align = "center" | |width = "25"| | [[Image:Potentiometer symbol.svg|50px]] |- align = "center" | ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
- Coenzyme is any of a diverse group of small organic, non-protein, freely diffusing molecules that are loosely associated with and essential for ...22 KB (2,903 words) - 07:19, 6 June 2023
- French Polynesia, or as it is known in Tahitian language, Porinetia Farani, is a French "overseas country" in the southern Pacific ...18 KB (2,636 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Psychology Giftedness in a child is an ability significantly higher than other ...27 KB (3,964 words) - 11:58, 22 May 2024
- Brass is the term used for alloys of copper and zinc. It has a yellow color, somewhat similar to gold. The proportions of zinc and copper can ...6 KB (938 words) - 13:23, 11 February 2022
- Category:Public Protagoras (in Greek Πρωταγόρας) (c. 481 B.C.E. – c. 420 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in Abdera ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Oregon Country ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- In chemistry, a base is thought of as a substance which can accept protons or any chemical compound that yields hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 11:03, 20 September 2023
- Potassium (chemical symbol K, atomic number 19) is a member of a group of chemical elements known as alkali metals. It is a soft metal and is ...18 KB (2,538 words) - 05:52, 30 November 2022
- Hickory is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the genus Carya of the Juglandaceae family, characterized by pinnately compound ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:46, 25 January 2023
- In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons) is often defined as a three-dimensional object with flat, polygonal faces and straight ...42 KB (6,082 words) - 00:20, 12 April 2023
- Rhodium (chemical symbol Rh, atomic number 45) is a rare, silvery-white, inert metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements and is ...13 KB (1,685 words) - 20:04, 8 December 2022
- Canning is a method of preserving food by first sealing it in air-tight jars, cans or pouches, and then heating it to a temperature that destroys ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- 0 (zero) is both a number and a numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. As a number, zero means nothing—an absence of other ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- Waseda University (早稲田大学, Waseda daigaku), often abbreviated to Sōdai (早大, Sōdai), is one of the top universities in Japan. Founded ...16 KB (2,213 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species whereby each species is indicated by a two-part name, a capitalized ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- Sumer (or Šumer) was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- Horseshoe crab is the common name for various marine chelicerate arthropods of the family Limulidae, and in particular the extant species Limulus ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- Category:Image wanted René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He is well known ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 04:07, 8 December 2022
- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of an object. This definition was given by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 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 Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely accepted in western Christianity ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is a Grammy Award-winning American early rock and roll guitarist famous for his "twangy guitar" style ...12 KB (1,822 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2024
- Category:Economists Fisher, Irving [[Image:Irvingfisher.jpg|thumb|Irving Fisher]] Irving Fisher (February 27, 1867 — April 29, 1947) was an ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- category:Image wanted Resnais, Alain {{Infobox Actor | name = Alain Resnais | birthdate = 1922|6|3 | location = Vannes, Morbihan, ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 04:23, 17 June 2023
- 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
- 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
- The Van Allen radiation belt (or Van Allen belt) is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2023
- Bakelite is a material based on a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin developed in 1907–1909, by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland ...6 KB (839 words) - 05:49, 26 August 2023
- In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its kinetic energy is equal to the magnitude of its gravitational potential energy ...18 KB (2,947 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- Health professionals (or healthcare professionals) provide health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. They study ...24 KB (3,245 words) - 17:08, 17 June 2020
- Reductio ad absurdum, Latin for "reduction to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη (hê ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- Mahavira (599 – 527 B.C.E.) (meaning: "'Great Hero") is a central figure in the religion of Jainism, revered as the twenty-fourth ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- Cesium (also spelled caesium, chemical symbol Cs, atomic number 55) is a member of the group of chemical elements known as alkali metals. Soft ...14 KB (1,931 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- The ozone layer is a layer in Earth's atmosphere that contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3). It is mainly located in the ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- – ferromagnetic 62.4 n 100 13.0 4720 209 75 180 0.31 5.0 1043 700 7440-48-4 isotopesof=cobalt | color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black mn=56 | sym=Co ...13 KB (1,769 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It borders Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 18:51, 21 May 2024
- Fullerenes are a family of carbon allotropes (other allotropes of carbon are graphite and diamond) consisting of molecules composed entirely ...28 KB (4,196 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- In physics and chemistry, a plasma is one of the four principal states of matter. Plasma is typically an ionized gas, but it is usually considered ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 07:58, 24 November 2022
- Adam Willis Wagnalls (September 24, 1843 – September 3, 1924) was an American publisher who was the co-founder of the Funk & Wagnalls Company ...7 KB (985 words) - 05:46, 15 June 2023
- Category:Sociologists Parsons, Talcott Category:Public Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist who established ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813) was an Italian who made major contributions to mathematics and physics. One of the ...29 KB (4,634 words) - 07:15, 10 August 2022
- Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation (formerly Enron Corporation, former NYSE ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston ...31 KB (4,550 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Fig wasp is the common name for wasps of the family Agaonidae, which pollinate the blossoms of fig trees or are otherwise associated with fig ...15 KB (2,451 words) - 19:44, 26 March 2024
- Andrei Rublev (Russian: Андре́й Рублёв, also transliterated Andrey Rublyov, born in the 1360s, died 1427 or January 29, 1430) is ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- Shri Madhvacharya (shortened as Madhva) (1238 – 1317 C.E.) was a Indian philosopher-sage who founded the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Hindu ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- SI Units are the most widely used system of units. They are the most common system for everyday commerce in the world, and are almost universally ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 18:28, 22 December 2022
- In biology, tapeworms or cestodes comprise a class (Cestoda) of ribbon–like endoparasitic flatworms that live in the digestive tract of vertebrates ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
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- The Epistle of Barnabas, also known as Pseudo-Barnabas, is a Christian work of the late first or early second century, written to dissuade its ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Acoustics is a branch of physics that studies sound, or more precisely, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. It is concerned with ...7 KB (998 words) - 07:44, 14 June 2023
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- Yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse grouping of single-celled fungi. As members of the Kingdom Fungi, which also includes mushrooms, molds ...24 KB (3,421 words) - 09:54, 23 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Yeti ill artlibre jnl.png|thumb|200px|The Himalayan ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "a country dweller or rustic") is a term that has been used from antiquity to derogatorily denote ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- Chloroform, also known as trichloromethane and methyl trichloride, is a chemical compound with the formula CHCl3. At room temperature, it is ...14 KB (1,907 words) - 17:08, 10 December 2023
- Antimony (chemical symbol Sb, atomic number 51) is a metalloid with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metal ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- Fluorescein (chemical formula C20H12O5) is a highly fluorescent substance, absorbing light mainly in the blue range and emitting light mainly ...6 KB (892 words) - 17:45, 28 March 2024
- Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2SO. This colorless liquid is an important polar aprotic solvent that ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 16:50, 22 July 2020
- Chlorine (chemical symbol Cl, atomic number 17) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. At ordinary temperatures ...15 KB (2,040 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (February 26, 1725 – October 2, 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical ...6 KB (974 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- Vancouver Island is located off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is named in ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was one of the most famous and admired American illustrators and painters of ...20 KB (2,916 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- George Farquhar (1677 or 1678 The explanation for the dual birth year appears in Louis A. Strauss, ed., [http://books.google.com/books?id=mB1MAAAAMAAJ ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 15:46, 20 May 2024
- The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, said by some to date back to the ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Cyclamate is an artificial sweetener that is 30-50 times sweeter than sugar, making it the least potent of the commercially available artificial ...7 KB (974 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- Tantalum, formerly tantalium (chemical symbol Ta, atomic number 73) is a rare, blue-gray, lustrous metal. It is very hard, has a high melting ...14 KB (1,813 words) - 03:03, 19 April 2023
- Boris Fyodorovich Godunov ( Бори́с Фёдорович Годуно́в ) (c. 1551 – 23 April|1605|13 April ) was de facto regent of Russia ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- 4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- A state religion (also called an official religion, established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- An azeotrope is a mixture of two or more liquid substances in such a ratio that the composition of the mixture is not changed by simple distillation ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 07:29, 23 August 2023
- Hallasan (한라산, 漢拏山), a shield volcano on Jeju Island of South Korea, is the highest mountain in South Korea. Along with Jirisan and ...6 KB (934 words) - 22:48, 3 August 2023
- A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose of the teeth being to mesh with similar teeth on another mechanical device—usually ...33 KB (5,689 words) - 06:30, 18 April 2024
- John Byron Nelson, Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946. A Texas native, Nelson ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 19:11, 24 November 2023
- Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), better known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and, as a Mexican ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- ( s=甘肃 |t=甘肅 |p=Gānsù |w=Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest region ...21 KB (2,969 words) - 04:27, 18 April 2024
- The small island nation of Saint Lucia (pronounced "saint LOO-shuh") lies between the eastern side of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic ...18 KB (2,530 words) - 23:24, 1 August 2023
- Category:Public number=8 | symbol=O | name=oxygen | left=nitrogen | right=fluorine | above=- | below=S | color1=#a0ffa0 | color2=green ...23 KB (3,469 words) - 06:02, 18 November 2022
- Gonorrhea is a common, highly contagious, sexually transmitted diseases (STD) that is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 11:56, 24 January 2023
- Biochemistry (once known as physiological chemistry or biological chemistry) is the study of chemicals and chemical processes that occur in living ...24 KB (3,603 words) - 23:47, 11 January 2023
- The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- Mount Ararat (Turkish: Ağrı Dağı, Armenian: Արարատ, Kurdish: Agirî, Greek: Ἀραράτ, Persian: آرارات, Georgian: არარა ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo gulo, of the weasel family (Mustelidae), characterized by a large and stocky ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Oneida |image = [ ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 00:38, 18 November 2022
- Rubidium (chemical symbol Rb, atomic number 37) is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. Rb-87, a naturally occurring ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- A ganachakra (Sanskrit: gaṇacakra, or 'gathering circle'; Tibetan: tshogs kyi 'khor lo), also known as tsog, ganapuja, chakrapuja ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- John Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – November 8, 1308) was one of the most important Franciscan theologians and the founder of Scotism, a special form ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- Dread or Angst as a philosophical term originated primarily through the work of the nineteenth century Danish existential philosopher and theologian ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two atomic nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- Category:Economists Ely, Richard T. Richard Theodore Ely (April 13, 1854 – October 4, 1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- Chöd (Tibetan meaning, "cutting through") is an advanced spiritual practice and discipline arising from confluences of Bonpo, Mahasidda ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- The Ohio River is the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles (1,579 km) long and is located in the ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- Gene Sarazen (born Eugenio Saraceni) (February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999) is one of only five golfers (along with Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 21:10, 23 October 2022
- Food packaging is the enclosing of food to protect it from damage, contamination, spoilage, pest attacks, and tampering, during transport, storage ...8 KB (1,092 words) - 06:17, 1 April 2024
- An explosive material is a material that either is chemically or otherwise energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material ...41 KB (6,258 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- A Tautology is a statement that is always true because of its structure—it requires no assumptions or evidence to determine its truth. A tautology ...9 KB (1,481 words) - 16:04, 23 June 2023
- Newts (also called efts when terrestrial) are an informal grouping of salamanders within the Salamandridae family that may have rough-textured ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the nineteenth century. He was famous for his satirical ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was ...17 KB (2,514 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Red blood cell, or erythrocyte, is a hemoglobin-containing blood cell in vertebrates that transports oxygen and some carbon dioxide to and from ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 02:30, 8 December 2022
- The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, fought near the village of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, from ...21 KB (3,314 words) - 11:37, 20 September 2023
- Category:Economists Walras, Léon [[Image:Walras.gif|right|200px|thumb|Léon Walras]] Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (December 16, 1834 – January ...17 KB (2,726 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- Category:Public number=6 | symbol=C | name=carbon | left=boron | right=nitrogen | above=- | below=Si | color1=#a0ffa0 | color2=black ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 22:12, 25 November 2023
- Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), that is most recognizable as the national bird and ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- Thermodynamics (from the Greek θερμη, therme, meaning "heat" and δυναμις, dynamis, meaning "power") is a branch ...25 KB (3,670 words) - 18:29, 30 April 2023
- Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 - May 9, 2020), better known by the stage name Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and ...23 KB (3,362 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Playground.jpg|thumb|250 px|A children's playground]] A playground or play ...16 KB (2,295 words) - 08:03, 24 November 2022
- Obsidian is an igneous rock with a glassy form that is produced during the rapid cooling of volcanic lava. It is sometimes classified as a mineraloid ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- Silver (chemical symbol Ag, atomic number 47) is a soft metal with a brilliant white luster that can take a high degree of polish. Along with ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- Essential oil is any concentrated, hydrophobic (immiscible with water), typically lipophilic (oil or fat soluble) liquid of plants that contains ...16 KB (2,270 words) - 12:06, 5 March 2021
- Technopark Kerala refers to a technology park in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India dedicated to electronics, software, and other Information ...28 KB (3,882 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- Ajmer Ajmer.ogg|pronunciation ( अजमेर /ədʒmeːr/ ) is a city in Ajmer District in India's Rajasthan state. The city gave its ...14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023
- Déjà vu (from French, meaning "already seen;" also called paramnesia, from Greek παρα para, "near" + μνήμη mnēmē ...17 KB (2,710 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- ( s=贵州 |t=貴州 |p=Gùizhōu |w=Kuei-chou ; also spelled Kweichow) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the southwestern ...15 KB (2,085 words) - 08:18, 8 January 2024
- Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (Russian: Денис Иванович Фонвизин) (April 14, 1744? – December 1, 1792) is the only playwright ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus przewalskii, characterized by a stocky built, a dark brown mane and tail, ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Marchantiophyta, characterized by a gametophyte ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar ( ஸ்ரீனிவாச ராமானுஜன் ) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician ...35 KB (5,270 words) - 16:14, 5 November 2023
- Edward B. Jenner (May 17, 1749 – January 26, 1823) was an English physician and scientist who is most recognized for introducing and popularizing ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872 – ca. June 18, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. Amundsen interacted with ...24 KB (3,885 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites Location=Saqqara | Left=105 | Top=46 [[Image:Saqqara ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- Kenosis (from the Greek κένωσις: meaning "emptying") is an ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] term found primarily in Christian ...8 KB (1,166 words) - 17:24, 5 October 2022
- Lake Ontario is the smallest and most easterly of the Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north by the Canadian province of Ontario ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces creating sounds of a soothing, romantic, mood-elevating and sometimes sensual ...8 KB (1,225 words) - 16:29, 11 November 2022
- Category:Public Organic chemistry is the scientific study of the structures, properties, and methods of syntheses of chemical compounds that are ...8 KB (1,161 words) - 01:13, 18 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Carter, Howard (archaeologist) [[Image:Howard carter.jpg ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot (4,322-meter) stratovolcano, is the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range and the fifth highest peak in California ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- Fertilizers (also spelled fertilisers) are compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake ...33 KB (4,735 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- category:fix cite refs [[Image:LewisCarrollSelfPhoto.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)--believed to be a self-portrait]] ...15 KB (2,406 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- The term chiral is used to describe an object that is not superposable on its mirror image. Human hands are perhaps the most universally recognized ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 17:06, 10 December 2023
- The All Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учредительное Собрание, Vserossiiskoe Uchreditelnoe Sobranie ...40 KB (5,691 words) - 16:00, 22 July 2022
- Greenhouse gases (GHGs) is the name given to a number of gases present in the earth's atmosphere which reduce the loss of heat into space ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 17:16, 16 February 2023
- Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. The city is located in the northwestern part of the ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- A caterpillar is the larval stage of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are essentially ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje ) (August 18, 1922 – February 18, 2008), was a French writer and filmmaker. He was along with ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 04:24, 17 June 2023
- Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than soft X-rays. The name ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:30, 18 April 2023
- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20 percent of the Earth's water surface. It ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation and thus the electromagnetic ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its southern ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- Carbon monoxide, with the chemical formula CO, is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. It is the product of the incomplete combustion of ...20 KB (2,871 words) - 19:08, 26 November 2023
- Category:Media Organizations [[Image:450px-The_associated_press_building_in_new_york_city.jpg|thumb|250px|The Associated Press Building in ...15 KB (2,343 words) - 05:02, 18 August 2023
- The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- Genome is one complete set of hereditary information that characterizes an organism, as encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). That ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- Lake Titicaca is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world, at 12,507 feet (3,812 m) above sea level, and the largest freshwater lake ...14 KB (2,293 words) - 05:37, 4 March 2023
- Scorpion is the common name for any of the carnivorous arthropods comprising the order Scorpiones within class Arachnida, characterized by a ...32 KB (4,433 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood in 1959. It is the only island U.S. state, and sits in a strategic position ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- Emperor Wen of Sui (541 C.E. – 604 C.E.), known as Wen·di, personal name Yang Jian, was the founder and first emperor of China's Sui ...8 KB (1,229 words) - 12:57, 31 January 2022
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Writer | name = Tudor Arghezi | image = Tudor Arghezi.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Arghezi ...22 KB (3,385 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists category:biography Pareto, Vilfredo [[Image:Vilfredo Pareto.jpg|right|frame|Vilfredo Pareto.]] ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- In population genetics, genetic drift is the phenomenon of change in the frequency of alleles (variants of a gene) in a population of organisms ...10 KB (1,609 words) - 11:31, 3 August 2021
- The Battle of Charleston was a Confederate victory in Kanawha County, Virginia, on September 13, 1862, during the American Civil War. Troops led ...38 KB (5,738 words) - 19:45, 30 March 2024
- Boxing Day is a secular holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. It originated in the United Kingdom and is celebrated in a number of ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, CBE ( சந்திரசேகர வெங்கடராமன் ) (November 7, 1888 – November 21, ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 19:55, 24 November 2023
- 5 (five) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Levi ben Gershon ("Levi son of Gerson"), better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag (1288 - 1344), was a rabbi, philosopher, mathematician ...18 KB (2,668 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- Ichthyosaurs (Greek for "fish lizard"—ιχθυς or ichthyos, meaning "fish" and σαυρος or sauros, meaning "lizard ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 17:21, 10 February 2024
- Category:Public number=29 | symbol=Cu | name=copper | left=nickel | right=zinc | above=- | below=Ag | color1= | color2=black transition metals ...21 KB (3,086 words) - 17:35, 21 May 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:Supermarket_check_out.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Supermarket ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 13:56, 28 April 2023
- Samuel Jackson "Sam" Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American golfer who won 81 tournaments on the PGA Tour, and 80 more ...26 KB (3,799 words) - 02:03, 23 December 2022
- Juan de la Cosa (c. 1460 – February 28, 1510) was a Spanish cartographer, conquistador, and explorer. He made the earliest extant European ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 15:30, 1 February 2023
- Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis but also called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll ...31 KB (4,709 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- In chemistry, a silicate is a compound containing an anion in which one or more central silicon atoms are surrounded by electronegative ligands ...9 KB (1,269 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province in the southern part of the People's Republic of China. The city ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances, develops, or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is often practiced to ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Titanium (chemical symbol Ti, atomic number 22) is a silvery-white, lustrous metal. Light and strong, it is resistant to corrosion, including ...27 KB (3,874 words) - 03:49, 1 May 2023
- Lucian of Antioch, also known as “Saint Lucian of Antioch” (c. 240–January 7, 312. January 7 was the calendar day on which his memory was ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Prion ( ˈpriːɒn ; 'prē,än The Oxford American College Dictionary (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002). ; "pree-on" ...17 KB (2,526 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern Coast Bantu languages. Swahili ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- The English word "axiology" (Greek: axios = worth; logos = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Swanton, John R. John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- Upāsaka (masculine) or Upāsikā (feminine) (from Sanskrit: meaning "attendant") refers to Buddhists who are not monks, nuns or novices ...9 KB (1,341 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler) (April 15, 1707 – September 18, 1783) was a prolific Swiss mathematician and physicist who applied his expertise ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- Frances Coralie "Fannie" Perkins (April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years of Franklin D. Roosevelt ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- Blueberry is the common name for flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus of the heath family Ericaceae, characterized by bell ...22 KB (3,038 words) - 18:15, 31 October 2023
- Rights entitle one to perform certain acts (or be in certain states) and to (not) have others perform certain acts, they govern ways of acting ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical importance. A brilliant ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
