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- An optical fiber (or optical fibre) is a glass or plastic fiber designed to guide light along its length by confining as much light as possible ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- Baobab is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Adansonia, a taxa of eight extant species native ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 05:47, 15 June 2023
- Tōju Nakae (April 21, 1608 – October 11, 1648) was a Japanese Confucian philosopher known as "the sage of Ōmi." Nakae was a feudal ...13 KB (2,132 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the design of structures that support or resist loads. Structural engineering is ...56 KB (8,392 words) - 21:05, 26 February 2023
- ] Computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging method employing tomography. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional ...61 KB (9,364 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- 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 North Pole is defined as one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface (the other being the ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- Bourges Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges) is a cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the seat ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the world's oldest and most complex civilizations covering a history of over ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Socrates.png|thumb|right|Socrates]] Socrates (ca. 469 – 399 B.C.E.) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs) was an ancient ...30 KB (4,718 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the solar system,[http://www.iau.org/news/press ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- The ecliptic is the apparent path that the Sun traces out in the sky during the year. As it appears to move in the sky in relation to the stars ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and sustain life. As the existence ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Angkor Wat (meaning: "Capital Temple") is an ancient temple complex (originally Hindu but later becomming Buddhist) dating from the ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 01:44, 9 January 2023
- The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- Ardhanarisvara (also known as Ardhanari and Mohiniraaj) is an androgynous Hindu deity consisting of Shiva and his consort, Parvati (viz. Shakti ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- The lung is either of the two primary respiratory organs in air-breathing vertebrates. Its principal function is to transport oxygen from the ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 03:04, 5 November 2022
- Starfish, or sea stars (a less confusing designation, since they are only very distantly related to fish), are marine invertebrates belonging ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 04:39, 28 April 2023
- A flagellum (plural, flagella) is a long, whip-like projection or appendage of a cell composed of microtubules (long, slender, protein tubes ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 17:34, 28 March 2024
- Auxins are a class of naturally occuring or synthetic organic (carbon-containing) plant growth substances (often called phytohormones or plant ...15 KB (2,169 words) - 05:59, 10 January 2023
- Category:Public [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases of the nervous system. In the past the term has been used more generally ...20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- The Colosseum or Coliseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheater (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is named after the Roman god of war. It is also known as the "Red Planet ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide historical time into discrete named blocks. This is usually done in order to facilitate ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human history. It examines the origin ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...18 KB (2,642 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites of other planets are also called moons, although they usually have their ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- A helicopter is an aircraft that is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors—each of which comprises two or more rotor blades ...42 KB (6,643 words) - 23:04, 3 February 2022
- A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a ...17 KB (2,749 words) - 00:22, 3 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
- __NOTOC__ ==History as Providential== Unification thought sees history as a theater in which God works voluntarily constrained by self-imposed ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. Its brightness ranges from about -2.0 ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:nervoussystem.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com]] As commonly defined, the human body is ...25 KB (3,706 words) - 21:55, 23 December 2020
- The Timurids, self-designated GurkānīThe Columbia Encyclopedia, [http://www.bartleby.com/65/ti/Timurids.html Timurids.] Retrieved October 23 ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- A magnetic field is an invisible physical phenomenon caused (“induced”) by an electric current. The current may be as small as an orbiting ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- The Palace of Versailles (in French: Château de Versailles, or simply Versailles) is a royal chateau in Versailles, France. When the chateau ...36 KB (5,934 words) - 06:18, 18 November 2022
- Confucius (Kong Fuzi or K'ung-fu-tzu, lit. "Master Kong") (traditionally September 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- In chemistry and mineralogy, a crystal is defined as a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered ...24 KB (3,432 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- In astronomy, equinox can have two meanings: * The moment when the Sun is positioned directly over the Earth's equator, and the apparent ...25 KB (4,132 words) - 19:17, 13 February 2024
- X-rays (or Röntgen rays) are a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies ...25 KB (3,822 words) - 14:14, 20 May 2023
- Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988; IPA: /ˈfaɪnmən/ ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Campbell, Joseph [[Image:Joseph Campbell (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Joseph ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 17:54, 6 May 2024
- Serpent (from Latin: serpens, serpentis) is a word used in mythological or religious contexts to denote a being that looks like a snake but has ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- The spinal cord is the long, tubular structure in vertebrates that consists of a bundle of nervous tissue and support cells, connects with the ...37 KB (5,767 words) - 21:40, 7 February 2023
- Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- 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
- Renewable energy is a term for any useable energy that is harnessed from natural resources that are either essentially inexhaustible (such as ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- A capacitor (or condenser "Condenser" is now considered an antiquated term for capacitor. ) is an electrical device that can store energy ...30 KB (4,519 words) - 19:31, 25 November 2023
