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- Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Optical grey squares orange brown.svg|thumb|200 px|An optical ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (December 2, 1924 - February 20, 2010) was an American statesman and military leader. He retired as a general from the ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein ( Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн ) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 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
- 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
- Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts ...7 KB (1,029 words) - 15:22, 10 December 2023
- Dorothea Lange (May 25, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her ...14 KB (2,023 words) - 17:26, 30 January 2024
- category:fix cite refs {{Infobox Writer | name = Osip Mandelstam | image = Osip Mandelstam.jpg | imagesize = 150px | caption = ...14 KB (1,927 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- A halo ( ἅλως ; also known as a nimbus, glory, or gloriole) is a ring of light used in religious art, sculpture, and iconography to depict ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- In the arts, Baroque is a period as well as the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged ...18 KB (2,561 words) - 01:36, 11 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Banshee.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Banshee. photo by ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 07:29, 20 September 2023
- Algiers ( الجزائر or Al Jaza'ir, Alger ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the second largest country on ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically as possible ...23 KB (3,448 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and ...10 KB (1,531 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Hyperopia or hypermetropia, commonly known as farsightedness or longsightedness, is an abnormal eye condition whereby there is better visual ...9 KB (1,278 words) - 13:21, 4 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Loch-Ness-Monster.jpg|thumb|400px|Loch Ness Monster ...23 KB (3,593 words) - 16:55, 6 November 2023
- Martha Jane Canary-Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), was a frontiers woman and professional scout. She gained ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- A cathedral is an impressive Christian church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great Cathedrals of the world represent ...26 KB (4,257 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- Mongolia (Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked country located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia is ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- The Aswan Dam, located in Aswan, Egypt, tames the Nile River and utilizes the power of the river for a variety of social and economic causes ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 18:40, 19 August 2023
- Sohn Kee-Chung (August 29, 1912 – November 15, 2002) became the first Korean athlete to win an Olympic medal when he won the gold medal in ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 15:58, 14 October 2022
- The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, refers to an article by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- An artificial island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed by natural processes. Such islands have been created ...9 KB (1,326 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2023
- Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the "Texas Troubadour," was an American singer and songwriter ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and conservationist remembered for his iconic black and ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- 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
- The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in many parts of the world, which directs honor and reverence towards ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was an American bank robber and alleged killer, romanticized ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- Molds (American English) or moulds (British English) are microscopic, multicellular fungi. They are generally composed of hyphae (filamentous ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- Katō Hiroyuki (加藤弘之,Katō Hiroyuki August 5, 1836 – February 9, 1916) was an educator, political theorist, statesman, and leader of ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Website | name = Live Search | logo = | screenshot = | caption = | url ...23 KB (3,241 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox_Person | name = Walker Percy | other_names = | image = | caption = | birth_date = May 28, 1916 | birth_place ...9 KB (1,310 words) - 18:46, 17 April 2023
- Ashdod ( אַשְׁדּוֹד ; إسدود , Isdud), located in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea coast, is a city of over ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 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
- The Semmering Railway, in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering pass to Mürzzuschlag, was the first mountain railway ...10 KB (1,532 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- Crazy Horse (Lakota: Thašųka Witko, literally "his-horse is-crazy"), ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877, was a major war leader of the ...19 KB (3,137 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAF (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Percy Aldridge Grainger (July 8, 1882 – February 20, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer and champion of the saxophone and the Concert ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- (Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий, November 23, 1890 – December 30, 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Эль Лисицкий ...38 KB (5,595 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City and ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- The Samaritan Pentateuch is the text of the the first five books of the Bible, also called the Torah or Books of Moses, that is used by the Samaritans ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1,700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida ...27 KB (4,181 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body and an opening at the top, called the mouth. It may be made of glass, clay ...10 KB (1,456 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:I samma ögonblick var hon förvandlad till en ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- Sanchi refers to a small village in India located 46 km north-east of Bhopal, and ten km from Besnagar and Vidisha in the central part of the ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 03:10, 23 December 2022
