Search results for "An-Nas" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • In several Eastern religions (such as Hinduism, Tantra, Zen and Sikhism), the Guru-Disciple relationship plays a critically important role in ...
    14 KB (2,161 words) - 07:58, 24 July 2023
  • The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the Great Rift Valley. They include Lake Victoria, the second largest freshwater ...
    16 KB (2,498 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
  • Category:Public color = pink | name = Fish image = [[image:herring2.jpg|Atlantic herring]] | caption = Atlantic herring, Clupea harengusThe most ...
    18 KB (2,549 words) - 06:51, 17 May 2021
  • A nebula (pl. nebulae, nebulæ, or nebulas; derived from the Latin word for "mist" or "cloud" Online Etymology Dictionary ...
    9 KB (1,435 words) - 16:07, 11 November 2022
  • The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The battle in southern Afghanistan ...
    22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
  • 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
  • The Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited island group in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is located about 667|km|sp=us ...
    22 KB (3,070 words) - 05:59, 10 May 2024
  • Kāma (Devanagari: काम) is the Indian notion of pleasure, which encompasses a wide variety of concepts including sensual gratification ...
    13 KB (1,937 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
  • Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) are microscale devices and systems that integrate electronic components with mechanical ones. They are ...
    14 KB (2,096 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
  • In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country," a "nation," or a "state." But technically ...
    38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
  • Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of ...
    22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
  • Cassowary is the common name for any of the very large, flightless birds comprising the ratite genus Casuarius, characterized by powerful legs ...
    17 KB (2,480 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living ...
    74 KB (10,725 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
  • Bulguksa, one of Korea's largest and most often visited temples, sits on the side of T'oham-san (T'oham mountain) directly east ...
    18 KB (2,761 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
  • A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority ...
    15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
  • Ellesmere Island is the largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Belonging to the Nunavut territory of Canada ...
    20 KB (2,966 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
  • James "Jim" Bowie (April 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth century American pioneer and soldier who took a prominent part ...
    34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
  • Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (French IPA: [ʒak la'kɑ̃] ) (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist ...
    49 KB (7,514 words) - 08:30, 18 March 2024
  • The Gurmukhī (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) script is derived from the Later Sharada script and was standardized by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad ...
    20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
  • The Flavian dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96 C.E., encompassing the reigns of Vespasian ...
    53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after ...
    15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
  • Thutmose IV (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV and meaning Thoth is Born) was the Eight Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt ...
    7 KB (1,124 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
  • Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet. Born in France, she lived in England and Normandy during the late twelfth century. Due ...
    12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
  • Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings throughout history. However, the ...
    11 KB (1,477 words) - 16:16, 7 December 2022
  • Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertily, as well as ploughlands and gardens. She was considered ...
    13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
  • Category:Image wanted Georges Poulet (1902 - 1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism ...
    12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
  • Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. Sontag was ...
    21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
  • Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Along with her husband, she is a ...
    8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
  • Category:Psychologists McDougall, William William McDougall (June 22, 1871 – November 28, 1938) was a British-born, American psychologist who ...
    13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group| |group=Yupik |image=[[Image:Edward S. Curtis ...
    30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
  • Anarchist communism advocates the abolition of the state, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership or control of the means ...
    42 KB (6,266 words) - 22:50, 14 September 2023
  • Mary II (April 30, 1662 – December 28, 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from February 13, 1689, and as Queen of Scots (as Mary ...
    22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:05, 16 December 2022
  • Boris I or sometimes Boris-Mihail (Michael) ( Борис I (Михаил) ), also known as Bogoris (died May 2, 907) was the ruler of Bulgaria ...
    16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
  • Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...
    12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
  • 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
  • Spearfishing is a form of fishing that has been popular throughout the world for centuries. Early civilizations are familiar with the custom ...
    23 KB (3,586 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Category:Public Le Monde (The World) is a French daily evening newspaper with ...
    10 KB (1,429 words) - 18:00, 25 October 2022
  • Olivier Messiaen ( mɛsjɑ̃ or /mɛsjɛ̃/ ; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was an influential French composer, organist, and ornithologist ...
    42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:PDIFaubertHerbert.png|thumb|right|The PDI introduced by Faubert ...
    4 KB (637 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
  • Hippopotamus, or hippo, is the common name for a very large, semi-aquatic African mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, of the Hippopotamidae family ...
    43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
  • Huitzilíhuitl (Nahuatl language; English: Hummingbird Feather, Spanish: Pluma de colibrí) was the second tlatoani of the Mexica (Aztecs), governing ...
    6 KB (967 words) - 16:11, 9 February 2024
  • An altar is a structure, like a table or platform, for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes ...
    49 KB (7,532 words) - 23:19, 9 May 2024
  • Dendroclimatology is the science of determining past climate conditions from trees, primarily tree rings. In general, tree rings are wider when ...
    10 KB (1,555 words) - 00:41, 27 July 2022
  • Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland. Founded as a Viking settlement, Dublin has been Ireland's primary ...
    29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
  • Ailred or Ælred or Ailred of Rievaulx, Abbot of Rievaulx (b. Hexham 1110 – d. Rievaulx January 12, 1167), is a Christian saint and historian ...
    14 KB (2,184 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
  • Alpha decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle. An alpha particle (or α particle, named after ...
    13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
  • Crocodile is the common name for any species belonging to the reptile family Crocodylidae (order Crocodilia). The term also is used to refer ...
    25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
  • The Battle of Vicksburg, or Siege of Vicksburg, was the final significant battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series ...
    17 KB (2,734 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
  • In thermodynamics and molecular chemistry, the enthalpy or heat content (denoted as H, h, or rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic ...
    18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
  • São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the ...
    27 KB (4,031 words) - 02:25, 21 April 2023
  • Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968), from Switzerland, was the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century that changed ...
    13 KB (1,944 words) - 18:11, 14 May 2024
  • Category:Economists Hershey, Milton [[Image:Hershey Pennsylvania 1.JPG|thumb|250px|right| Hershey, Pennsylvania, named in honor of Milton Hershey ...
    10 KB (1,508 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
  • Typha is a genus of perennial herbaceous plants in the Typhaceae family, characterized by long, spongy, strap-like leaves, clusters of minute ...
    10 KB (1,542 words) - 15:57, 11 November 2022
  • Saint Teresa of the Andes, known formally as Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, (July 13, 1900 – April 12, 1920) was a Chilean nun canonized ...
    8 KB (1,399 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
  • Chandragupta II (referred to as Vikramaditya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) stands as one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire. His ...
    13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
  • For other uses see Conductor [[Image:full score.jpg|thumb|250px|A conductor's score and batons]] Conducting is the act of directing a musical ...
    17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
  • A calculator is a device for performing calculations. Modern calculators often incorporate a general-purpose computing system, but they are often ...
    24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
  • Category:Psychologists Category:Scientists and Mathematicians Cherry, Colin Edward Colin Cherry, known as Colin Cherry, (1914 – November 23 ...
    15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
  • Daniel Boone (October 22, 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American frontiersman whose wilderness exploits made him one of the first folk ...
    44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
  • Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( Никола́й II , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...
    28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
  • A eunuch is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those deliberately castrated in order to perform specific social duties that were once ...
    18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
  • |- | Critical temperature || 1673 K (gray) 24.44 ? 34.76 24.64 553 | 596 | 646 | 706 | 781 | 874 | comment= color1=#cccc99 | color2=black ...
    21 KB (2,920 words) - 04:00, 15 August 2023
  • Habakkuk or Havakuk (Hebrew: חֲבַקּוּק, Standard Ḥavaqquq Tiberian Ḥăḇaqqûq ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth ...
    13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti, (May 12, 1895–February 17, 1986) was a noted writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual topics ...
    52 KB (7,928 words) - 12:38, 1 August 2022
  • Category:Media Professionals [[Image:Joseph Medill.jpg|thumb|300px|Joseph Medill]] Medill, Joseph Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899 ...
    26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
  • Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in Western Africa. From its 32-mile (51 km) coastline on the Gulf of Guinea ...
    26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
  • Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's ...
    39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
  • In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising the order Rajiformes (or Batoidea), characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral ...
    10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
  • Crown ethers are heterocyclic chemical compounds that consist of a ring containing several ether groups. The most common crown ethers are oligomers ...
    6 KB (841 words) - 23:38, 5 May 2022
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Precognition (from the Latin praecognitio, or "to know beforehand ...
    11 KB (1,690 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
  • Tanning is the process by which raw animal skins and hides are converted into leather. This process permanently alters the protein structure ...
    11 KB (1,861 words) - 04:26, 27 February 2023
  • The evacuation from Dunkirk was the large evacuation of Allied soldiers, from May 26 to June 4, 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk. It was also ...
    14 KB (2,148 words) - 15:36, 30 April 2023
  • Edom (אֱדוֹם, ʾĔḏôm, "red") was a nation in the southern Levant from the eleventh century B.C.E until Roman times. The region ...
    18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
  • Zhuge Liang or Chu-ko Liang or Zhuge Kong Ming (born 181 C.E., Yangdu, Shandong province, China—died August 234, Wuzhangyuan, Shaanxi province ...
    18 KB (2,855 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
  • André-Gustave Citroën (November 2, 1878 - July 3, 1935) was a French Jewish entrepreneur of Dutch and Polish descent. He is remembered chiefly ...
    12 KB (1,874 words) - 20:01, 26 July 2023
  • Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress ...
    22 KB (3,252 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
  • Bowling is a sporting activity in which players attempt to score points by rolling a ball to knock down target objects. Bowling has been popular ...
    13 KB (2,040 words) - 20:02, 20 November 2023
  • George Pratt Shultz (/ʃʊlts/; December 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021) was an American economist, diplomat, and businessman. He served in various ...
    47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
  • The tale of the Forty-Seven Ronin, also known as the Forty-Seven Samurai, the Akō vendetta, the Akō Wandering Samurai|赤穂浪士|Akō rōshi ...
    34 KB (5,606 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
  • The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply The Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the ...
    8 KB (1,257 words) - 18:48, 25 October 2022
  • Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna or Lepcis Magna, (also Lpqy or Neapolis), located on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what ...
    13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Orbison illusion.svg|thumb|right|225px|Orbison illusion]] ...
    4 KB (510 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2022
  • Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small, dome-shaped cactus whose native region extends from the southwestern United States through central ...
    12 KB (1,764 words) - 02:54, 24 November 2022
  • Horace Newton Allen (1858 - 1932), a Protestant, medical missionary from the United States, who later also served as a diplomat, made a remarkable ...
    8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
  • Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg ( Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг ) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov ...
    13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
  • Apostolic succession refers to the Christian practice of appointing bishops in lineages of uninterrupted lines that trace back to the original ...
    31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
  • Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite ˤAmmurāpi, "the kinsman is a healer," from ˤAmmu, "paternal kinsman," and Rāpi, "healer; ...
    13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
  • In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced in English as [ fʊŋ'ʃweɪ ] ("fung shway"), was known as ...
    33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
  • Category:Media Organizations [[File:New abc dark grey.png|thumb|225px]] The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio ...
    19 KB (2,902 words) - 00:51, 9 January 2023
  • Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, and drawing. He is generally ...
    13 KB (1,878 words) - 18:10, 12 February 2024
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology Category:Linguistics [[Image:BehistunInscriptionSketch.jpg|thumb ...
    13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
  • Blackberry is the common name for any of the various perennial plants of the genus Rubus and subgenus Rubus (or Eubatus) with compound leaves ...
    19 KB (2,739 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
  • Science fiction (also, sf, SF, or sci-fi) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or ...
    54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
  • Katsu Kaishū (勝 海舟 Awa Katsu; Kaishū; Rintaro; Yoshikuni 1823-1899) was a Japanese naval officer and statesman during the Late Tokugawa ...
    16 KB (2,496 words) - 17:15, 5 October 2022
  • Moai, or mo‘ai, are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and ...
    33 KB (5,262 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
  • Nevada is a state located in the western region of the United States of America. The state's nickname is "The Silver State" due ...
    34 KB (5,052 words) - 04:36, 11 March 2023
  • Vitamin C (or ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble vitamin required for a number of metabolic processes in living organisms. As a vitamin, ascorbic ...
    31 KB (4,437 words) - 20:15, 17 April 2023
  • Sir Samuel White Baker (June 8, 1821 - December 30, 1893) was an English explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ...
    9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Template:Infobox Ethnic group| |group=Chickasaw ...
    14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:20, 10 December 2023
  • category:Image wanted {{Infobox Actor | name = Carl Theodor Dreyer | birthdate = 1889|2|3 | birthplace = Copenhagen, Denmark | deathdate = 1968 ...
    19 KB (2,998 words) - 15:20, 27 November 2023
  • Honolulu is the capital and most populous city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern ...
    22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based membership organization ...
    16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
  • The history of North Korea formally begins with the establishment of Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948. In the aftermath of the ...
    33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
  • Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسدين al-ʿAbbāsidīn ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two ...
    16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
  • Category:Image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Arturo Toscanini | Background = classical_ensemble ...
    28 KB (4,180 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
  • Electron capture (sometimes called Inverse Beta Decay) is a decay mode for isotopes that will occur when there are too many protons in the nucleus ...
    5 KB (705 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
  • Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ...
    24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
  • Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (February 22, 1857 – January 8, 1941), also known as B-P, ...
    20 KB (2,990 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
  • The Munich Agreement ( Mnichovská dohoda ; Mníchovská dohoda ; Münchner Abkommen ) was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis among ...
    18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
  • Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955) was a tireless educator and civil rights activist born to former slaves in Mayesville ...
    20 KB (2,970 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday |holiday_name = Remembrance Day |official_name ...
    26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
  • The Oligocene epoch is a division of the geologic time scale and the third and final epoch of the Paleogene period. It extends from about 34 ...
    6 KB (898 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
  • The Juche Ideology (Juche Sasang 주체사상 in Korean; or Chuch'e; approximately, "joo-chey") is the official state ideology ...
    20 KB (3,127 words) - 06:36, 28 February 2023
  • Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer. Fats Waller is one ...
    12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Smith, William Robertson William Robertson Smith (November 8 ...
    12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
  • 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses on the Jewish revolt against Antiochus IV and concludes with the defeat of ...
    12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
  • The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between Britain and the Zulus. From complex beginnings, the war is notable for several particularly bloody ...
    42 KB (6,753 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
  • New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States of America. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, ...
    44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
  • James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that ...
    7 KB (1,046 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
  • James Francis Durante, better known as Jimmy Durante or Schnozzle (Snozzle) Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980), was an American ...
    15 KB (2,360 words) - 13:22, 1 August 2022
  • Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless ...
    33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
  • A librarian is an information professional trained in library and information science, which is the organization and management of information ...
    23 KB (3,189 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2023
  • The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom located in the western Caribbean Sea. It is comprised of three islands, Grand ...
    26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
  • Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 B.C.E. – c.35 B.C.E.) was an Epicurean philosopher and epigrammatic poet who studied with Zeno of Citium, head ...
    9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
  • Semantics (Greek semantikos, giving signs, significant, symptomatic, from sema, sign) is a theory of the aspects of meanings of various forms ...
    13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
  • In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of young children or infants. In theological discussions, the practice is sometimes ...
    16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
  • The dictator novel ( novela del dictador ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role of the dictator in Latin American ...
    35 KB (5,274 words) - 15:31, 5 July 2023
  • Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, refers to events of the Carnival celebration, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings ...
    24 KB (3,459 words) - 03:52, 6 November 2022
  • The story of a Great Flood sent by God or the gods to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution is a widespread theme among many cultural ...
    29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
  • Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. There are two distinct parts to Malaysia: peninsular Malaysia and east Malaysia. ...
    33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
  • The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. UNCTAD is the ...
    10 KB (1,369 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
  • Bentonite is an absorbent clay consisting mostly of the mineral montmorillonite. It is formed by the weathering of volcanic ash, most often in ...
    9 KB (1,324 words) - 10:17, 28 September 2023
  • A bog is a freshwater wetland characterized by acidic peat deposits and by moisture provided by precipitation (rain and snow) rather than groundwater ...
    13 KB (1,940 words) - 00:02, 12 January 2023
  • Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely considered ...
    38 KB (6,157 words) - 21:43, 30 January 2023
  • Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm), located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, is the capital of Sudan and of ...
    22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
  • Nicole Oresme or Nicolas d'Oresme (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers of the fourteenth century, developing concepts ...
    30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
  • Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He received the 1944 Nobel ...
    24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
  • Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along ...
    13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
  • 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
  • Category:Public [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein I of Jordan, 1997]] Hussein bin Talal (حسين بن طلال ...
    22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
  • Dayi Daoxin (Chinese: 道信, Wade-Giles: Tao-hsin) (Japanese: Dōshin) (580 - 651) was the fourth Chán Buddhist Patriarch, following Jianzhi ...
    14 KB (2,072 words) - 19:44, 22 May 2020
  • Antigua and Barbuda is a three-island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The area of Antigua ...
    27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
  • Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence ...
    19 KB (2,696 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
  • The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki Jōyaku"), known as the Treaty of Maguan ( t=馬關條約|s=马关条约 ...
    14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
  • Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial ...
    10 KB (1,442 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
  • Ayodhya (Hindi: अयोध्या, Urdu: ایودھیا, IAST Ayodhyā), an ancient city of India, holds a cherished place in the faith of ...
    16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
  • Category:Public [[Image:John Calvin - Young.jpg|right|thumb|Young John Calvin]] John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a prominent Christian ...
    41 KB (6,580 words) - 14:04, 7 May 2024
  • Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an iconic American actress, singer and model. Decades after her death, she remains one of ...
    30 KB (4,676 words) - 15:56, 6 November 2022
  • Category:Public Perry, Matthew C. [[Image:Matthew Calbraith Perry.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry|Matthew Calbraith Perry]]]] ...
    32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
  • Montevideo is the largest city, capital, and chief port of Uruguay. It is the only city in the country with a population over 1 million. It has ...
    15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
  • The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise term in referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions ...
    41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
  • Category:Public [[Image:Retinol.png|thumb|250px|right|Retinol (Vitamin A)]] Vitamins are organic (carbon-containing) nutrients obtained through ...
    16 KB (2,456 words) - 20:40, 3 May 2023
  • The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, are a volcanic island archipelago that stretches approximately 750 ...
    30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
  • Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder of the Arshakuni Dynasty which ruled until 428. The dates of his birth and ...
    29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
  • A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some have suggested that the term 'cave' should be reserved ...
    13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
  • The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended ...
    17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
  • Annie Wood Besant (October 1, 1847 – September 20, 1933) was born in Clapham, London and died in Adyar, India where she was President of the ...
    34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His prolific and ...
    21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
  • Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian medieval philosopher, theologian, and church official who held the office ...
    33 KB (5,289 words) - 05:15, 31 July 2023
  • Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ...
    28 KB (3,844 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology [[Image:Paquin3.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Fashion illustration by George ...
    22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
  • General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, an American multinational corporation, is consistently the world's largest auto company by ...
    40 KB (5,886 words) - 06:44, 18 April 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
  • Bucharest (Romanian: Bucureşti) is the capital city, as well as the economic, administrative, and cultural center of Romania. It is located ...
    32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
  • Pierre Francis Berton, (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history ...
    22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
  • Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago nation of 155 islands in the Indian Ocean. Seychelles has the smallest population ...
    23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
  • The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany, which was established by King Frederick William III ...
    23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
  • Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542, or c. 1551), born and also known as Lisa Gherardini and Lisa di Antonio Maria (Antonmaria ...
    18 KB (2,836 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
  • Category:Public [[Image:Infrared_dog.jpg|thumb|right|332px|Image of a small dog taken in mid-infrared ("thermal") light (false color).]] ...
    10 KB (1,429 words) - 19:21, 5 March 2024
  • Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose full title can be translated as, The Monk Baegun's Anthology of the ...
    14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
  • Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well ...
    10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
  • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...
    44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Submitted Marriage is a universal ...
    46 KB (7,206 words) - 14:15, 7 May 2024
  • Bessie "Queen Bess" Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was a famous African American aviator. She became well known not ...
    9 KB (1,369 words) - 17:27, 29 September 2023
  • Botany is the branch of biology dealing with the scientific study of plant life. It is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant ...
    17 KB (2,438 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the ...
    67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
  • Subhas Chandra Bose ( সুভাষ চন্দ্র বসু , Oriya- ସୁଭାଷ ଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ବୋଷ; (January 23, 1897 - ...
    36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
  • Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil ...
    29 KB (4,661 words) - 09:48, 11 March 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
  • The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the body of salty water that covers approximately 71 percent of the Earth's ...
    69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
  • The Cologne Cathedral ( Kölner Dom , officially de|Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic ...
    24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
  • Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical notation. Sheet music typically is printed on paper (or, in earlier times ...
    26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
  • Environmental science is the study of interactions among the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment. It provides an ...
    11 KB (1,440 words) - 19:02, 13 February 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
  • Category:Public Cranmer, Thomas [[Image:Thomas-Cranmer-ez.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Painting of Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke (1545), National ...
    22 KB (3,583 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
  • An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's ...
    16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New ...
    8 KB (1,360 words) - 05:05, 5 November 2022
  • Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, southeastern New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk, casino gambling, sandy beaches ...
    28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
  • Bahá'u'lláh (Persian بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 - May 29, 1892), was the founder of ...
    32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
  • Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian-born ...
    47 KB (7,315 words) - 18:33, 22 December 2022
  • Political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is a term used by proponents, usually on the political left ...
    38 KB (4,999 words) - 19:46, 31 October 2022
  • Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (May 6, 1758 – July 28, 1794) was one of the primary leaders of the French Revolution. His ...
    30 KB (4,512 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
  • Mount Fuji (富士山; Fuji-san in Japanese) is the tallest volcano and the highest mountain in Japan. Mount Fuji is still considered an active ...
    18 KB (2,819 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
  • Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative ...
    11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
  • Voluntarism is fundamentally a theory of action according to which will takes precedence over intellect. The will is traditionally understood ...
    13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
  • Category:Image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | | Name = Charles Mingus | Landscape = | Background = non_vocal_instr ...
    23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
  • The Char Dham ('the four abodes/seats') constitutes the most important Hindu pilgrimage circuit in the Indian Himalayas. Located in ...
    11 KB (1,617 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
  • The World Cup, sometimes called the FIFA World Cup, is an international soccer competition contested by the men's national soccer teams ...
    41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
  • Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( Lá Fhéile Pádraig|lit=the Day of the Festival of Patrick ), is a cultural and religious ...
    52 KB (7,483 words) - 20:49, 17 April 2023
  • Checkers, also called English draughts, American checkers, or straight checkers, is a form of the draughts board game played on an eight-by-eight ...
    11 KB (1,707 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
  • Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 – May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman who, along with John Dalton and Jöns Jakob Berzelius, is ...
    17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
  • Raspberry or red raspberry is the common term for the plant Rubus idaeus in the rose family (Rosaceae). The term is also applied to the edible ...
    12 KB (1,835 words) - 05:25, 17 July 2022
  • John Logie Baird FRSE (August 14, 1888 - June 14, 1946) was a Scottish scientist, engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first ...
    26 KB (3,809 words) - 20:54, 1 May 2024
  • |- | 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
  • The Mahabodhi Temple (Literally: "Great Awakening Temple") refers to a Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, the location where Siddhartha ...
    12 KB (1,844 words) - 05:24, 5 November 2022
  • Krishna (meaning "dark" or dark-blue"), also known as Govinda ("cow-protector") among many other names, is one of the ...
    13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Brown Willy Bodmin Moor.jpg|thumb|250 px|right ...
    8 KB (1,284 words) - 06:21, 24 November 2022
  • Ivy (plural ivies) is the common name for any of the evergreen woody vines and, rarely, shrubs that comprise the genus Hedera of the family Araliaceae ...
    11 KB (1,636 words) - 03:54, 13 March 2024
  • Neoptera is a major taxonomic group of insects that includes almost all the winged insects and specifically those considered to be related by ...
    10 KB (1,256 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
  • Dorothea "Dolley" Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison, who served from 1809 ...
    12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
  • Wisdom is a type of knowledge, similar to phronesis, that includes judgment for its proper applications to a given situation. The status of wisdom ...
    11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
  • The Aleutian Islands (possibly from the Chukchi language aliat, meaning "island") are a chain of more than 150 mostly volcanic islands ...
    24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
  • François Couperin (French IPA: [fʀɑ̃'swa ku'pʀɛ̃] ) (November 10, 1668 – September 11, 1733) was a French Baroque composer ...
    10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Tokyo |name = University of Tokyo ...
    19 KB (2,825 words) - 22:33, 23 June 2023
  • Big Foot (Si Thanka ) (ca 1820/1825 - December 29, 1890), also known as Spotted Elk, was a Minneconjou-Teton Sioux chief. He is not to be confused ...
    12 KB (1,889 words) - 16:24, 27 December 2023
  • The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament canon attributed to Saint Paul the Apostle. Often referred to simply as Romans ...
    13 KB (2,049 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
  • Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia) is reached through virtue (aretê). Eudaimonia and aretê are two ...
    33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
  • The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place in 1565, when the Ottoman Empire invaded the island, then held by the ...
    33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
  • Gas is one of the four major states or phases of matter, along with solid, liquid, and plasma. Each state is characterized by distinct physical ...
    20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
  • Category:Sociologists Elias, Norbert Norbert Elias (June 22, 1897 - August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist, famous for his development of Process ...
    13 KB (1,741 words) - 02:41, 16 November 2022
  • In mathematics, the parabola (from the Greek word παραβολή) is a conic section generated by the intersection of a right circular conical ...
    17 KB (2,651 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
  • The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. They are ...
    32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
  • Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French novelist, philosopher, and feminist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies ...
    19 KB (2,875 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
  • Ishtar, a goddess of both fertility and war, is the Akkadian name of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and the Semitic goddess Astarte, the three names ...
    12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
  • In horticulture, cultivar refers to a group of plants of the same species that have been selected, maintained through cultivation, and given ...
    14 KB (2,107 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
  • Equilibrioception or sense of balance is one of the physiological senses. Broadly defined, a sense is a mechanism or faculty by which a living ...
    13 KB (2,004 words) - 20:01, 16 February 2021
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Social psychology is a branch of psychology that studies cognitive, affective, and behavioral ...
    46 KB (6,640 words) - 21:45, 30 January 2023
  • Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations that developed between 3000-1200 B.C.E. in Greece and the basin of the ...
    21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
  • The atomic mass (ma) is the mass of a single atom, when the atom is at rest at its lowest energy level (or "ground state"). Given that ...
    13 KB (2,025 words) - 06:26, 21 August 2023
  • Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (IPA: [kruŋtʰeːp mahaːnakʰɔn] , Th-Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.ogg|กรุงเทพมหาน ...
    46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
  • Hail is precipitation that falls as hailstones, which are balls or irregular lumps of ice typically measuring between five and 50 millimeters ...
    10 KB (1,508 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
  • Saint Jerome (ca. 342 – September 30, 419; Ευσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ιερόνυμος , Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus ...
    33 KB (5,192 words) - 19:50, 22 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
  • Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are 236 described species of Melaleuca, all of which occur in ...
    18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
  • The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage ...
    51 KB (8,065 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
  • Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced "Tawney") (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also ...
    15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
  • Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half ...
    61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
  • Walter Reginald "Wally" Hammond (born June 19, 1903 in Dover, Kent, died July 1, 1965 in Kloof, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) was an ...
    9 KB (1,521 words) - 22:26, 3 May 2023
  • The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew מַלְכוּת יְהוּדָה, Standard Hebrew Malkut Yəhuda) was the nation formed from the territories of ...
    27 KB (4,065 words) - 16:48, 25 February 2024
  • Chemical bond is the term used to describe the linkages between atoms joined together to form molecules or crystals. Chemical bonds are the result ...
    25 KB (3,936 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
  • Category:Public Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (also known as Ibn Ezra, or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093 – 1167) was one of the most distinguished ...
    14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
  • El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Venetian language for "The Greek", A|a|none B|b|none 1541 – April 7, 1614 ...
    77 KB (11,557 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
  • 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
  • Apollonius of Tyana (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς ; ca. 1 – 97 C.E.) was a Greek neo-Pythagorean philosopher, ascetic teacher ...
    13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
  • Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929—January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award winning actress, a favorite leading lady during an era when the Golden Years ...
    27 KB (4,189 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
  • Fire apparatus (or firefighting apparatus) is a generic term that refers to a vehicle designed to fight fires, such as a fire engine or fire ...
    18 KB (2,795 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
  • Johann August Suter (February 28 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder of California and for his association ...
    21 KB (3,394 words) - 04:21, 3 May 2024
  • St. Thomas Becket (December 21, 1118 – December 29, 1170) Lord Chancellor from 1154 to 1162 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170 ...
    22 KB (3,489 words) - 20:22, 31 October 2022
  • Manganese (chemical symbol Mn, atomic number 25) is a gray-white metal that combines with other elements in various proportions. In nature, it ...
    14 KB (1,946 words) - 11:03, 9 March 2023
  • Propositional calculus or Sentential calculus is a calculus that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ("not ...
    21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022

View (previous 250 | next 250) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)