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- Category:Psychologists Boring, Edwin G. Edwin Garrigues Boring (October 23, 1886-July 1, 1968) was an American experimental psychologist and ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- Limnology is a discipline that concerns the study of inland aquatic ecosystems (whether freshwater or saline, natural or manmade), including ...8 KB (1,108 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Seligman, Charles Gabriel Charles Gabriel Seligman (December ...11 KB (1,543 words) - 19:06, 4 December 2023
- The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), an African even-toed ungulate mammal, has a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2023
- In astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, are hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- Ammonium sulfate is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula (NH4)2SO4. It contains 21 percent nitrogen in the form of ammonium ...6 KB (752 words) - 07:39, 25 July 2023
- A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction, wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into ...12 KB (1,989 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle that does not have a substructure, as far as is known; that ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with the formula SO2. This important gas is the main product from the combustion ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 21:44, 26 February 2023
- In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a specific point at which the system's mass behaves (for many purposes) ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- George Edward Moore (November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958), usually known as G. E. Moore, was a distinguished and influential English philosopher ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 07:29, 15 April 2024
- Gazelle is the common name for any of the various small, swift antelopes of Africa and Asia comprising the genus Gazella and the related genera ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Largs was an military engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present-day town of Largs in North ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- Ann Radcliffe (July 9, 1764 - February 7, 1823) was an English author of the early Romantic period whose fiction pioneered the genre of the gothic ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- In chemistry, anthracene is a solid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of three benzene rings derived from coal-tar. Anthracene is used ...4 KB (576 words) - 05:54, 31 July 2023
- Tritium (chemical symbol Tritium or Hydrogen|3 ) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (sometimes called a triton) contains ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 16:50, 5 November 2022
- Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 04:50, 14 June 2023
- Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Early was trusted and ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential Indian Buddhist thinker after Gautama Buddha, who founded the Madhyamaka ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Telugu:సర్వేపల్లి రాధాకృష్ణ, Tamil:சர்வபள்ளி ராதாகிரு ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan to infiltrate the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Category:Psychologists Hall, G. Stanley [[Image:G_Stanley_Hall.jpg|thumb|250px|Granville Stanley Hall, c. 1910]] Granville Stanley Hall (February ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Henry Cavendish (October 10, 1731 - February 24, 1810) was a British scientist best known for being the first to measure the average density ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Frazer, James [[File:JamesGeorgeFrazer.jpg|300px|right|James George Frazer]] ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- The naturalistic fallacy is an alleged fallacy of moral reasoning. The British philosopher George Edward Moore (1873-1958) introduces the naturalistic ...14 KB (2,113 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity with a value that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and to remain unchanged ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was the first Methodist missionary to Korea. He and the American Presbyterian ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- category:image wanted Kilgour, Fred Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914—July 31, 2006) was a pioneer of library and information science ...14 KB (2,025 words) - 23:13, 7 October 2022
- A vortex (plural vortices) is a rapidly spinning, circular or spiral flow of fluid around a central axis. The swirling motion tends to suck everything ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 21:04, 3 May 2023
- In mathematics, an average, mean, or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or "expected value" ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Cumin (IPA pronunciation [ˈkʌmɪn] The pronunciations /ˈkuːmɪn/ and /ˈkjuːmɪn/ are becoming increasingly common. sometimes spelled cummin ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- The book of 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part of the deuterocanonical books, but Protestants, Catholics, and Jews regard ...9 KB (1,497 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- Charles George Gordon, C.B. (January 28, 1833 – January 26, 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive and repulsive forces on other materials. It arises whenever ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Category:Anthropologists Gennep, Arnold van [[File:Arnold Van Gennep.jpg|thumb|300px|Arnold Van Gennep]] Charles-Arnold Kurr van Gennep (April ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- Chloroethane or monochloroethane, commonly known by its old name ethyl chloride, is a chemical compound once widely used in producing tetra-ethyl ...7 KB (906 words) - 17:08, 10 December 2023
- Parsnip is a hardy, biennial, strongly-scented plant (Pastinaca sativa), which is a member of the parsley family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae), ...7 KB (1,014 words) - 08:54, 18 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
- Mica is an important group of rock-forming silicate minerals, belonging to the subgroup called phyllosilicates. The group consists of more than ...9 KB (1,317 words) - 16:34, 9 November 2022
- Pecan is the common name for a large, North American deciduous hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, characterized by alternate, pinnately compound ...12 KB (1,631 words) - 07:10, 23 November 2022
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (Николай Александрович Бердяев) (March 18, 1874 – March 24, 1948) was a Russian religious ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- The Fula or Fulani is an ethnic group residing in many countries of West Africa. They are concentrated principally in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 14:26, 3 December 2023
- 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
- Geochronology is the science of determining the absolute ages of rocks, fossils, and sediments found on Earth. This field of science relies on ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- Category:Media Professionals Otis, Harrison Gray :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States Representative and Senator ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- 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
