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- 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
- Wildebeest (plural, wildebeest or wildebeests), also called gnu, is the common name for an antelope of the genus Connochaetes, characterized ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 21:08, 21 November 2022
- Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. Its chemical formula may be written as CO(NH2)2, CON2H4, or CN2H4O. It ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Cytochrome c, or cyt c is a small, water soluble heme protein associated with the inner membrane of the mitochondrion. It is an essential link ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov ( Александр Константинович Глазунов , Aleksandr Konstantinovič Glazunov; ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. J. Mann, et al., Natural Products: Their Chemistry and Biological ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. It may be either an elementary (or fundamental) particle, or a composite particle, also ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- There were two Battles of the Marne fought during World War I. The first (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a battle fought from September ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- The Western European Union (WEU) is a partially dormant European defense and security organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Necker cube.svg|thumb|The Necker cube: a wire frame cube with ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 16:07, 11 November 2022
- G. E. M. Anscombe (March 18, 1919 – January 5, 2001) (born Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, also known as Elizabeth Anscombe) was a British ...23 KB (3,440 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists Sumner, William Graham Category:Public [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva mitzvot b'nei Noach), also called the Brit ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Military [[Image:ROTCFTX1.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|Army ROTC cadets on a field ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 19:43, 16 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 term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense or commonsensical), based on a strict deconstruction ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- Viperinae is a subfamily of terrestrial and arboreal venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized by a lack of the heat-sensing pit organs ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of blood vessel that is abnormally narrowed (stenosis) or totally obstructed (occlusion). Angioplasty ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- Epinephrine or adrenaline (sometimes spelled "epinephrin" or "adrenalin" respectively) is a hormone that is secreted principally ...13 KB (1,794 words) - 16:18, 15 February 2021
- Leucine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to isoleucine and valine in being ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 22:03, 25 October 2022
- Carl Gustav Hempel (January 8, 1905, Oranienburg, Germany - November 9, 1997, Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- Fowl is the common name for any of the gamefowl or landfowl comprising the bird order Galliformes, or any of the waterfowl comprising the order ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Phenol, also known under an older name of carbolic acid, is a toxic, colorless crystalline solid with a distinctive sweet tarry odor. Its chemical ...8 KB (1,204 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- Ethyl acetate is an organic compound that is an ester derived from the combination of ethanol and acetic acid. Its chemical formula may be written ...8 KB (1,113 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- Crystallization is the (natural or artificial) process of formation of solid crystals from a homogeneous solution or melt, or more rarely directly ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 06:32, 11 January 2024
- Activated carbon (also called active carbon, activated charcoal, or activated coal) is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- Metamorphic rock is produced deep beneath the Earth's surface when a pre-existing rock type, called the protolith, is transformed under ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- The First Italo–Ethiopian War was fought between Italy and Ethiopia in 1895-1896. Ethiopia's military victory over Italy secured it the ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
