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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work [[Image:LARC-hi.jpg|thumb|275 px|A Light Amphibious Reconnaissance Craft used in disaster ...28 KB (4,048 words) - 15:27, 29 January 2024
- Afonso I, King of Portugal, more commonly known as Afonso Henriques, (July 25, 1109 – December 6, 1185), also known as the Conqueror, was the ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group Anasazi [[Image:mesaverde cliffpalace 20030914.752.jpg|thumb ...40 KB (6,073 words) - 19:47, 26 July 2023
- Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that spanned the course of two centuries. Flourishing in France, it formed from the Romanesque period ...29 KB (4,407 words) - 15:08, 30 December 2022
- Cowpox is a rare, mildly contagious skin disease caused by the cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- Ethnobotany is the systematic study of the relationships between plants and people. It is not simply the study of the human "use" of ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, known as Ceylon before 1972, is a predominantly Buddhist island nation ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer. He also won an Academy ...59 KB (9,500 words) - 19:51, 9 February 2023
- Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an immensely talented Italian Renaissance polymath: architect, anatomist ...29 KB (4,455 words) - 08:02, 6 March 2023
- Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeology Category:Art [[Image:Newspaper rock.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Petroglyphs on Newspaper ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- Preservation, in library and information science, is activity concerned with maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records ...34 KB (4,751 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- Category:Image wanted Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American soul and R&B singer, born in ...11 KB (1,721 words) - 01:11, 8 February 2023
- Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn) is the chief god in Norse mythology whose role in the Norse pantheon is complex and multivalent: he is known as the ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration of Independence]] The Declaration of Independence is the ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- Amelia Mary Earhart, born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a foundational document of modern international human rights law. It was adopted ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers—Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, they were raised in ...20 KB (3,173 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- The saxophone is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- Kathakali (കഥകളി, kat̪ʰəkaɭi ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian state of Kerala during the late ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- The Mitsubishi Group (三菱グループ; Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese conglomerate ...21 KB (2,798 words) - 19:21, 9 November 2022
- Neptunium (chemical symbol Np, atomic number 93) is a silvery radioactive metallic element, belonging to the actinide series. It is the first ...11 KB (1,451 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Euripides (Greek: Ευριπίδης) (c. 480 – 406 B.C.E.) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. In contrast with ...22 KB (3,638 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 – April 25, 1840) was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist whose mathematical skills enabled ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- James A. Naismith, (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts (postgraduate), Doctor of Medicine, and Doctor of ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 08:49, 18 March 2024
- Wu Zetian (625 – December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor although ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2022
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21,1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer, who is ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- The First World War, known as the Great War before 1939 and as World War One after 1950, lasted from August 1914 to the final Armistice with ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story ...29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation) was the governing constitution of the ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- Electrical engineering (sometimes called electrical and electronics engineering) is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the ...26 KB (3,608 words) - 15:50, 13 February 2024
- Cyrus (Old Persian Kourosh or Khorvash, modern Persian: کوروش, Kourosh) (ca. 576 – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the eponymous ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Battle strike 1934.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Teamsters, armed with pipes ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- In rail transport, a train consists of rail vehicles that move along guides to transport freight or passengers from one place to another. The ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- Mary Henrietta Kingsley (October 13, 1862 – June 3, 1900) was an English writer and explorer whose writing on her travels and observations ...29 KB (4,571 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. ...80 KB (12,653 words) - 04:49, 16 December 2022
- Bamboo comprises more than 1200 species of usually woody, perennial plants in the true grass family Poaceae, occurring primarily in tropical ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- Henry Habberley Price (May 17, 1899 – November 26, 1984) was a British philosopher and logician, known for his work on perception and thinking ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- Chemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure, or incapacitate ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- 1 (one) is a number, numeral, and the glyph that represents the number. It represents a single entity and is commonly regarded as the fundamental ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:paulnabrone.jpg|right|thumb|280px| Poulnabrone dolmen ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 16:38, 29 January 2024
- An earth lodge is a semi-subterranean building covered partially or completely with earth, best known from the Native American cultures of the ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- The Anglican Communion is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- The Temple in Jerusalem was originally built in ancient Jerusalem in c. tenth century B.C.E. Also known as Solomon's Temple, it was the ...30 KB (4,697 words) - 20:29, 9 May 2024
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vellum Online Etymological Dictionary] ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- Saint Martin is a tropical island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 186 miles (300 km) east of Puerto Rico. The island is divided into ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- Qu Yuan ( c=屈原|p=Qū Yuán , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring ...16 KB (2,703 words) - 07:48, 3 July 2022
