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- Francesco Cavalli (February 14, 1602 – January 14, 1676), Italian composer, was born at Italy. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 – March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of baroque operas and opera seria. He was also a teacher ...5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- category:image wanted Giovanni Croce (also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis) (1557 – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- Antonio Genovesi (November 1, 1712 – September 22, 1769) was an Italian philosopher and political economist who played a pivotal role in modernizing ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- category:image wanted Ottorino Respighi (Bologna, July 9, 1879 – Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, pianist, violist ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- Lorenzo Da Ponte, born Emanuele Conegliano (March 10, 1749 – August 17, 1838) was an Italian librettist and poet born in Ceneda (now Vittorio ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- | [[Image:DTBP.png|75px|Di-tert-butyl peroxide]]Di-tert-butyl peroxide |- | Benzene derivative | Phenyl | RC6H5 | [[Image:Phenyl-group.png|75px ...13 KB (1,621 words) - 07:19, 15 April 2024
- Count Francesco Algarotti (December 11, 1712–3 May, 1764) was an Italian philosopher and art critic. After studying at the University of Bologna ...8 KB (1,181 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (November 29, 1797 – April 8, 1848) was an Italian opera composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's ...18 KB (2,665 words) - 03:45, 18 April 2024
- Category:Image wanted Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical 12-tone compositions ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 02:43, 5 November 2022
- Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) (c. 1386 – December 13, 1466) was a famous early Renaissance Italian sculptor and artist from ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- The Yongle Encyclopedia ( t=永樂大典|s=永乐大典|p=Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn ; literally “The Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Era” ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 16:59, 4 June 2023
- Evangelista Torricelli (October 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- The Medici family was a powerful and influential Florentine family from the thirteenth to seventeenth century closely associated with the Renaissance ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 04:04, 9 November 2022
- Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 – January 12, 1674) was an Italian composer and one of the most celebrated masters of the early ...7 KB (995 words) - 20:11, 26 May 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:Anthropoid sarcophagus discovered at Cadiz - Project ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply The Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the ...8 KB (1,257 words) - 18:48, 25 October 2022
- Niccolò Jommelli (September 10, 1714 – August 25, 1774) was an Italian composer. As a student of the Neapolitan School and a follower of Gluck ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1554 to 1557 – August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 16:30, 14 November 2021
- the X and Y ions, micas can be classified as di-octahedral (when Y = 4) or ... ===Di-octahedral micas=== Common micas: *Muscovite *Paragonite ...9 KB (1,317 words) - 16:34, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name =University of ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- Shangdi (上帝, pinyin: Shàngdì, Wade-Giles Shang Ti), or simply Di (帝), is the High God (or Clan Ancestor) postulated in the earliest-known ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- Category:Image wanted Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1533 – 1586) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle of the somewhat ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542, or c. 1551), born and also known as Lisa Gherardini and Lisa di Antonio Maria (Antonmaria ...18 KB (2,836 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- * Li, Ming. Di-zi the history and performance practice of the Chinese bamboo transverse flute. Thesis (Mus. D.), Florida State University, 1995. ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- Pietro Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian composer, most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria rusticana ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 05:28, 24 November 2022
- Assisi is a small city in the Perugia province of the Umbria region of Italy. It is situated on the western flank of Monte Subasio at an elevation ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- [[Image:Isolda-di-lolando-site-photo-3.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Eighty-year-old sea wall pilings from the failed Isola di Lolando construction project ...9 KB (1,326 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2023
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists Category:Biography Beccaria, Cesare [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) His first name is usually spelled as Gioacchino but currently the [http://www ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (September 29, 1912 – July 30, 2007) was an Italian modernist film director whose films ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 17:12, 9 November 2022
- Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- Melchiorre Gioja (September 10, 1767 - January 2, 1829), was an Italian philosopher, political economist, and statistician who played an important ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 — May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of French Grand Opera ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 20:19, 14 December 2023
- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance ...21 KB (3,322 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important ...15 KB (2,382 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- The Yongle Emperor or “Yung-lo Emperor” (永楽帝 ) May 2, 1360 – August 12, 1424), born Zhu Di (Chu Ti; 朱棣; Pinyin Yonglo (reign ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 22:49, 28 August 2021
- Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (March 30, 1727 – April 6, 1779) was an Italian composer in the Classical era who was influential ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists category:biography Panizzi, Antonio [[Image:Panizzi.jpg|thumb|200px| Anthony Panizzi]] ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- atoms. An example of a tertiary ether is di-tert-butyl ether, (CH3)3C-O ... (diisopropyl ether); and a tertiary ether (di-tert-butyl ether). ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- Gabriele d'Annunzio (March 12, 1863, Pescara – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- Gaetano Mosca (April 1, 1858 Palermo, Italy – November 8, 1941 Rome, Italy) was an Italian political philosopher, political scientist, journalist ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c 1525 – February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 20:39, 29 August 2021
- Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (November 3, 1801 – September 23, 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins in the frottola, and was also ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- Tuscany ( Toscana ) is a region in west-central Italy on the shores of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas. It has an area of 22990|km2|sqmi ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- Dario Fo (March 24, 1926 - October 13, 2016) was an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 21:43, 25 June 2022
- Umberto Eco (January 5, 1932 - February 19, 2016) was an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 23:29, 14 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. The Titans (Greek: ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- * Di-esters such as diethyl malonate react as nucleophile with alkyl halides in the malonic ester synthesis after deprotonation. * Specific esters ...11 KB (1,427 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 00:28, 25 March 2024
- Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist, and singer considered a crucial figure ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished ...27 KB (4,092 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Beverly Sills |Img = |Img_capt = Beverly Sills ...18 KB (2,846 words) - 03:30, 1 October 2023
- Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("little barrels"; March 1, 1445 – May ...28 KB (4,094 words) - 03:13, 23 December 2022
- Enrico Caruso (February 25 1873 – August 2 1921) was an Italian opera singer of the verissmo style, and one of the most famous tenors in history ...13 KB (1,957 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religious tradition that has been passed down for centuries in oral or ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as just Correggio (/kəˈrɛdʒioʊ/, also UK: /kɒˈ-/, US: /-dʒoʊ/ ...26 KB (3,834 words) - 19:48, 9 April 2024
- Niccolò di Bernado dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- A Passion play is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Christ. It includes the trial, suffering, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- Samuel Osborne Barber (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was a prominent, twentieth century American composer of classical music who was best ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists category:biography Pareto, Vilfredo [[Image:Vilfredo Pareto.jpg|right|frame|Vilfredo Pareto.]] ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- John of Montecorvino, or Giovanni Da/di Montecorvino in Italian, also spelled Monte Corvino (1246, Montecorvino, Southern Italy - 1328, Peking ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- Category:Image wanted Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental music work ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 B.C.E. – 19 B.C.E.), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Florence (Italian: Firenze, Old Italian: Fiorenza, Latin: Florentia) is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany, ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:40, 28 March 2024
- An example of a quadruple bond is also found in di-tungsten tetra(hpp). # Quintuple bonds have been found in certain dichromium compounds. ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 06:13, 11 January 2024
- Lucrezia Borgia (April 18, 1480 - June 24, 1519) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance figure who later became Pope Alexander ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- In historiography the phrase the Dark Ages (or Dark Age) is most commonly known in relation to the European Early Middle Ages (from about 476 ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- Elias Canetti ( Елиас Канети ; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; k|ə|ˈ|n|ɛ|t|i|,_|k|ɑː|- ; [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/canetti ...17 KB (2,352 words) - 21:30, 5 September 2023
- 3, when Yusof bin Ishak was inaugurated as the Yang di-Pertuan Negara, Singapore's head of state. At the same occasion, which also marked the launch ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 00:16, 22 October 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Petrarch by Bargilla.jpg|right|thumb|250px|From the Cycle of Famous Men and Women. Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla (c. 1423 ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was the most influential composer of the nineteenth century Italian ...22 KB (3,400 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- Pietro Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, (January 13, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet best known for his songs ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- Milan ( Milano ; Milan ) is the capital city of the Province of Milano and of Lombardy region (Lombardia) in northern Italy. Milan was first settled ...27 KB (3,967 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- Saint Bonaventura also Bonaventure (born Giovanni di Fidanza) (1221 - July 15, 1274), was a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- Rome ( roʊm ; Roma , ˈroma ; Roma ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy's largest and most populous city. ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Deoxyribose, also known as D-Deoxyribose and 2-deoxyribose, is a pentose sugar (monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms) that is a key component ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 05:24, 25 August 2020
- Stanley Matthews, (February 1, 1915 - February 23, 2000) was a soccer player known for his dribbling abilities and the longevity of his professional ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 19:52, 9 February 2023
- Pietro d'Abano (1257 - 1315) (his date of birth is also given as 1250 and 1246), also known as Petrus de Apono or Aponensis, was an Italian ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- Padua ( Padova 'padova , Latin: Patavium, Padoa ) is the capital city and the economic and communications hub of Padova province, in the ...25 KB (3,594 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna or Lepcis Magna, (also Lpqy or Neapolis), located on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- Ribose, primarily seen as D-ribose, is a water-soluable, pentose sugar (monosaccharide with five carbon atoms) that is an important component ...7 KB (1,027 words) - 09:19, 10 August 2022
- Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia, Latin: Venetia) is a city in northern Italy, the capital of region Veneto. For one-thousand years ...34 KB (5,043 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- Dah-dah dah-dah-dah di-dah-dit di-di-dit dit, Dah-di-dah-dit dah-dah-dah dah-di-dit dit Note that there is little point in learning to read written ...27 KB (4,108 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, classical scholar, reformer, and educator. He ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 02:44, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:The speaking portrait.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Illustration from "The Speaking ...14 KB (1,919 words) - 06:17, 31 July 2023
- Kong Rong (153 – 208) was a bureaucrat, poet, and minor warlord during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He was ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula NO2. It is one of the several nitrogen oxides. At ordinary temperatures and atmospheric ...7 KB (934 words) - 02:27, 16 November 2022
- [[Image:Bronzino-Giovanni-di-Medici-cropped.jpg|thumb|300px|Giovanni de' Medici]] In the late-fourteenth century, Florence's leading ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- Chao Cuo ( c=晁錯|p=Cháo Cuò , d. 154 B.C.E.) was a Chinese political adviser and official of the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), renowned ...20 KB (3,183 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- Raphael or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance ...21 KB (3,084 words) - 00:38, 8 December 2022
- The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based narratives and traditions, relating the travels and miraculous deeds of John ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Francesco Borromini, also Francesco Castelli (September 25, 1599 – August 3, 1667) was a prominent and revolutionary Neapolitan and Sicilian ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 06:44, 1 April 2024
- Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante, (c. June 1, 1265 – September 14, 1321) was an Italian and Florentine poet. His greatest work ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 22:11, 25 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Curtius, Ernst [[Image:Ernst Curtius.JPG|right|thumb|Ernst Curtius]] ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[File:Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png|thumb|400px|Chinese ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866 - November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- The Basilica of Saint Petrus, commonly called Saint Peter's Basilica, is considered one of the holiest of all Christian sites in the Catholic ...25 KB (3,946 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2022
- 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
- Antonio Lucio Vivaldi John C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 3rd ed. (London, UK: Longman, 2008, ISBN 978-1405881180). Peter Roach, Cambridge ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- Category:Image wanted Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (August 14, 1892 – October 15, 1988) was a prolific British composer, music journalist, essayist ...18 KB (2,515 words) - 22:23, 4 October 2022
- Pope Innocent III (c. 1161 C.E. – June 16, 1216 C.E.), born Lotario de' Conti di Segni, was Pope from January 8, 1198 until his death ...15 KB (2,410 words) - 19:30, 5 March 2024
- A basilica, in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, is a church building that is especially honored either because of its antiquity, association ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 03:32, 1 January 2022
- 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
- dynamic, changing relationship, and God is a di-polar entity. While traditionalists ... This di-polar concept is part of Hartshorne's panentheistic view ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- Category:Sociologists Category:biography Lombroso, Cesare [[Image:Lombroso.JPG|thumb|Cesare Lombroso]] Cesare Lombroso (November 6, 1835 – October ...15 KB (2,164 words) - 01:47, 13 January 2023
- The Jade Emperor (玉皇 (Yù Huáng) or 玉帝 (Yù Dì)), known informally as Heavenly Grandfather (天公 (Tiān Gōng)) and formally as the ...18 KB (2,861 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- * [http://curious-places.blogspot.com/2011/01/cave-dwellings-sassi-di-matera-italy.html Cave dwellings (Sassi di Matera / Italy)] Cliff-dwelling ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- Willow is the common name for any of the deciduous trees and shrubs comprising the genus Salix of the flowering plant family Salicaceae, characterized ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 21:53, 25 November 2022
- Images of the Madonna and Madonna and Child are among the central icons of Christianity, representing the Madonna or Mary, mother of Jesus, by ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- The Alps ( Alpen ; Alpes ; Alpi ; Alpe ) are a great mountain system of Europe, forming parts of nine nations: stretching from Bosnia and Herzegovina ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 08:34, 23 July 2023
- Pope Boniface VIII (c. 1235 – October 11, 1303), born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303. Related to ...14 KB (2,378 words) - 07:22, 17 November 2023
- Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 - April 29, 1380) was a Dominican tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order and a later Catholic ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- Francesco Filelfo (July 25, 1398 - July 31, 1481), was an Italian Renaissance humanist who played an important role in reviving classical learning ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- Bali is an Indonesian island positioned in a chain with Java to the west and Lombok to the east. The Balinese people are descendants of a prehistoric ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one of several gas laws and a special case of the ideal gas law. Boyle's law ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- Gija Joseon (? - 194 B.C.E.) describes the period after the legendary arrival of Gija in northern (or in the northwest of) Korean Peninsula. ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – October 4, 1226) is for many people the most Christ-like Christian of all ages. For many, he is an iconic, ...33 KB (5,300 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- Alcide De Gasperi (April 3, 1881 – August 19, 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- category:image wanted Simonides of Ceos (ca. 556 B.C.E. – 469 B.C.E.), Greek lyric poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea. He was included, along with ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- Pope Saint Hormisdas was pope from July 20, 514, to 523. He is best known for his role in ending the Acacian schism between Rome and Constantinople ...17 KB (2,672 words) - 00:00, 13 February 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
- Silane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula SiH4. It is the silicon analog of methane and, like methane, it is a gas at ordinary ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 22:02, 29 January 2023
- Qin Shi Huang (November / December 260 B.C.E. – September 10, 210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 ...27 KB (4,481 words) - 23:18, 3 November 2023
- The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian art (paintings, carvings, mosaics, and stained glass) that were used primarily ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for "time," from Latin Tempus) is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is a crucial element ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental questions concerning the social or communal life of human beings. It ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino Repubblica di San Marino , also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is a country ...26 KB (3,871 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 01:44, 10 December 2022
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Curaçao 18 miles north of the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Mohism ( c=墨家|p=Mòjiā ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded by Mozi in the fifth century B.C.E.. It evolved ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- Carpe diem, usually translated as "seize the day" (literally, “pluck the day”), is an expression found in a Latin poem by Horace ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571 when a galley fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of the Republic of Venice, the Papacy ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- Category:Public In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German Ding an sich), and transcendental object are nearly synonymous ...9 KB (1,461 words) - 22:14, 16 November 2022
- John Michael Wright (May 1617 – July 1694) exact dates are unknown, the probable date of baptism is May 25, 1617 and he was buried on August 1, 1694 ...28 KB (4,229 words) - 02:57, 2 May 2024
- Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) was a United States soldier, famous as a World War I hero. He was awarded the Medal ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- The Fugitive Slave Act was a federal law in the United States providing for the return of escaped slaves to their owners regardless of where ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 07:11, 15 April 2024
- Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (French Lac Léman, le Léman, or Lac de Genève) is the second largest freshwater lake in central Europe (after Lake ...16 KB (2,589 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- Federico Fellini or Frederico Rimini-Fellini, as his contemporaries referred to him, (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was one of the most ...35 KB (5,656 words) - 01:57, 26 March 2024
- Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher of his day in the first half of the first century C.E. He was the grandson ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- An antipope (from Latin: meaning "rival-pope" or "counter-pope") [http://dictionary.oed.com Oxford English Dictionary: Antipope ...20 KB (3,042 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- The Shaolin Monastery or Shaolin Temple ( c=少林寺 |p=Shàolínsì ), is a Chan Buddhist temple at Song Shan in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 21:14, 16 June 2023
- In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in countour and rhythm, and interdependent in harmony ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence") was the political and social movement that unified different states ...54 KB (8,375 words) - 06:28, 11 March 2024
- category:image wanted The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School of names" or “School of semantics”) was a classical ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- Saint Dominic ( Domingo ), often called Dominic de Guzmán (1170 – August 6, 1221), was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:37, 22 December 2022
- The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian War is better known, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the very first king of the gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- 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
- Coenzyme is any of a diverse group of small organic, non-protein, freely diffusing molecules that are loosely associated with and essential for ...22 KB (2,903 words) - 07:19, 6 June 2023
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (January 25, 1743 – March 10, 1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins are often traced back to the I Ching (the Book of Changes,) an ancient ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Saint Clare of Assisi (also Claire of Assisi), born Chiara Offreduccio, (July 16, 1194 – August 11, 1253) was one of the first followers of ...19 KB (3,232 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- Fauvism got both its start and its name at a 1905 exhibition held at the Paris Salon d'Automne where it was heralded as a new style under ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 01:43, 26 March 2024
- Sede vacante (Latin for "the seat being vacant"), refers to the vacancy of the episcopal see of a particular church in the Canon law ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- In geometry, a polygon is a plane figure that is bounded by a closed path or circuit, composed of a finite sequence of straight line segments ...23 KB (3,520 words) - 08:42, 24 November 2022
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- Isaiah or Yeshayáhu (יְשַׁעְיָהוּ "Salvation is the Lord) is one of the greatest prophets of the Hebrew Bible. [[Image:Isaiah ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Sutton.hoo.helmet.JPG|thumb|right|225px|Sutton ...29 KB (4,604 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
- Italian Fascism (in Italian, fascismo) was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- Lycopene is a bright red, fat-soluble carotenoid pigment and phytochemical, C40H56, found in tomatoes, watermelon, guava, and other red fruits ...20 KB (2,797 words) - 10:39, 9 March 2023
- category:image wanted Enzo Anselmo Ferrari (February 18, 1898 - August 14, 1988) was the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing ...10 KB (1,512 words) - 19:03, 13 February 2024
- Siger de Brabant (also Sigerus, Sighier, Sigieri, or Sygerius), (c. 1240 – 1280s), a thirteenth-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- Allianz SE (formerly AG, ALV , AZ ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, and the largest insurer in Europe. Headquartered ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- Saint Clement I was a bishop of Rome from 88 to 99 C.E. Also called Clement of Rome and Clemens Romanus, he was the fourth pope according to ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 – 524 or 525 C.E.) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- category:fix cite refs Mussolini, Benito [[Image:Benito Mussolini colored.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini]] ...40 KB (6,139 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- An Indulgence, in Roman Catholic theology, is the full or partial remission of punishment for sins. The indulgence is granted by the Church after ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 19:36, 8 October 2020
- William Dampier (baptised September 5, 1651 – died March 1715) was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries ( s=四川大熊猫栖息地|t=四川大熊貓棲息地|p=Sìchuān Dàxióngmāo Qīxīdì ), located in ...13 KB (1,731 words) - 20:05, 21 April 2023
- In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi ( c=伏羲|p=fúxī ; aka Paoxi ( s=庖牺|t=庖犧|p=páoxī )), mid-2800s B.C.E., was the first of the ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- Pyridine is a fundamentally important chemical compound with the formula C5H5N. It is a liquid with a distinctively putrid, fishy odor. Its molecules ...11 KB (1,458 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- Aphrodite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη) is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. She is primarily associated with selfish sexual ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas of patronage included crafts, poetry, medicine, and music. Like many of the ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Pope Leo X, born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (December 11, 1475 - December 1, 1521) was Pope from 1513 to his death. He is known primarily ...28 KB (4,490 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 – 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, also known as José de Ribera in Spanish and as ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- Pope Saint Leo IV was pope from April 10, 847 to July 17, 855. A Roman by birth, Leo had been a Benedictine monk and served in the papal curia ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 09:41, 24 November 2022
- Futurism was a twentieth-century artistic movement. Although a nascent futurism can be seen surfacing throughout the very early years of the ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 07:23, 15 April 2024
- In epistemology and the philosophy of perception, phenomenalism is the view that physical objects do not exist as things in themselves but only ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- Pope Adrian, or Hadrian I, (d. December 25, 795) was Pope from February 9, 772 to December 25, 795. He was the son of Theodore, a Roman nobleman ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 06:17, 15 June 2023
- The Hail Mary or Ave Maria (Latin) is a traditional Christian prayer asking for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. In ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- Estrogens (also oestrogens) are a group of steroid (type of lipid) compounds that function as the primary female sex hormone. Estrogens are named ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 00:20, 19 March 2022
- 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
- category:image wanted Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 07:19, 10 August 2022
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- Freeze-drying (also known as lyophilization or cryodesiccation) is a dehydration process typically used to preserve a perishable material or ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 10:50, 11 April 2024
- Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is one of the world's largest karst regions with 300 caves and grottoes ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 23:56, 18 September 2023
- The Xia Dynasty, ca. 2070 B.C.E. – 1600 B.C.E. Eric Eckholm, "In China, Ancient History Kindles Modern Doubts," The New York Times ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- The Last Supper was the final meal Jesus shared with his Twelve Apostles before his death, according to Christian tradition. Described in the ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the most extensive collection of ancient ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on ...13 KB (1,807 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Sir Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA, (July 30, 1898 – August 31, 1986) was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 07:50, 22 January 2024
- Gwangjong (광종 光宗) (949 – 975) was the fourth Emperor of the Goryeo dynasty which ruled Korea from the fall of Silla in 935 until the ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- Thomas Kyd (1558 – 1594) was an English dramatist who gained great popularity in his own day but faded into almost complete obscurity after ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a black basalt monument bearing an inscription by the ninth century B.C.E. Moabite King ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- (Les) Cahiers du cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 10:18, 25 November 2023
- A Garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- A relic (from Latin: reliquiae meaning 'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical significance, often the human ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- Leon Battista Alberti or Leone Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- Zu Chongzhi ( t=祖沖之|s=祖冲之|p=Zǔ Chōngzhī|w=Tsu Ch'ung-chih , 429–500), courtesy name Wenyuan (文遠), was a prominent Chinese ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- (George) Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright who, at the height of his fame, won the Nobel Prize in Literature ...12 KB (1,761 words) - 07:04, 18 April 2024
- (Tamil: இளையராஜா, ɪləjəɹɑːdʒɑː ) (born June 2, 1943 as Gnanadesikan), an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist, ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place in 1565, when the Ottoman Empire invaded the island, then held by the ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- category:image wanted Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης) (November 2, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was a Greek poet, considered ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- Zōu Yǎn or Tsou Yen ( c=鄒衍/邹衍|p=Zōu Yǎn|w=Tsou Yen ; 305 B.C.E. - 240 B.C.E.) was the representative thinker of the School of Yin ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional ...29 KB (4,117 words) - 21:00, 9 December 2023
- of the membrane to create the active intermediaries di-acyl glycerol (DAG), inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3), and phosphatidlyinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 18:36, 24 October 2022
- with trace amounts of the antioxidant BHT (2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol), which reduces the formation of peroxides. Storage over NaOH precipitates ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:33, 29 January 2024
- The America’s Cup is the most famous and most prestigious regatta and Match Race in the sport of sailing, and the oldest active trophy in international ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of Zebedee, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Christian tradition identifies ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- Saint George (ca. 275/281 – April 23, 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated saints in the Anglican Church ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit, over which a black scapular ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- The Rhine (German: Rhein; French: Rhin; Dutch: Rijn) is one of the major European rivers. At about 1230|km|abbr=on , it is the second-longest ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c. 577 C.E.), also known as "the Navigator," "the Voyager," ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- Xiang Yu (項羽, 项羽, Xiàng Yǔ, Hsiang Yü, original name Hsiang Chi) (232 B.C.E. - 202 B.C.E.) was a prominent general during the fall ...27 KB (4,419 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- Saint Hippolytus of Rome (died 235 C.E.), sometimes called Ypolitus (Ippolito ) was one of the most prolific writers of the early Church. He was ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 15:50, 25 January 2023
- Diodorus Cronus (fourth century, B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Megarian school who made important contributions to the development of ...17 KB (2,681 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- Frederick Earl Sontag (October 2, 1924 – June 14, 2009) was an American scholar, a professor of philosophy and prolific author. He taught at ...15 KB (2,047 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free space, refers to a region of space where there is a theoretically "perfect ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- Category:life sciences Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[Image:Melon jambon cru.jpg|thumb|250 px|right ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- Pope Pelagius II was pope from 579 to 590. His papacy was much troubled by difficulties with the Lombards and the increasingly ineffectual alliance ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 11:39, 13 February 2022
- Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580), was an Italian architect, widely considered the most influential person in the history ...30 KB (4,521 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging) — or sonar — is a technique that uses sound propagation under water (primarily) to navigate, communicate ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- Bismuth (chemical symbol Bi, atomic number 83) is a brittle, white crystalline metal with a pink tinge. It acquires an iridescent oxide tarnish ...14 KB (1,891 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- Tardigrade, or water bear, is any of the various very small, segmented invertebrates comprising the phylum Tardigrada, characterized by bilateral ...13 KB (1,883 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- Ruthenium (chemical symbol Ru, atomic number 44) is a rare, hard, white metal. It is a member of the platinum group of elements and is found ...13 KB (1,814 words) - 18:24, 22 December 2022
- Totila (died July 1, 552) was king of the Ostrogoths from 541 until his death. He waged the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire for the mastery ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than soft X-rays. The name ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:30, 18 April 2023
- A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen-containing base, a pentose (five-carbon) sugar (relatively simple carbohydrates ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Christine de Pizan (also seen as de Pisan) (1364 – 1430) was a writer and analyst of the Medieval era, who strongly challenged the clerical ...13 KB (2,108 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora (c. 1135 – March 30, 1202), was a Christian visionary and abbot whose teaching of a three ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla, whose devotion is rewarded by miraculous ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Foot washing (also known as pedilavium) is a religious rite observed by several faiths including Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. Within Christianity ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Galileo.arp.300pix.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Giusto Sustermans.]] Galileo Galilei (February ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- Fascism is a term used to describe authoritarian nationalist political ideologies or mass movements that are concerned with notions of cultural ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600, and encompassing works such as new pedagogy ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- Lech Wałęsa born September 29, 1943) is a Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist who served as President of ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- Tengri is the supreme god of the old Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar, Mongolian, Hunnic and Altaic religion named Tengriism. For the ancient ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it. An arch can either support the load above it or perform a purely ...55 KB (8,185 words) - 23:26, 18 March 2024
- Entomology is the scientific study of insects. Insects are arthropods (phylum Arthropoda) belonging to the Class Insecta. With around 925,000 ...14 KB (2,060 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- category:image wanted Archival science is a systematic study of record preservation, appraisal, and management. It deals with the safe storage ...17 KB (2,431 words) - 06:20, 12 August 2023
- Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one of the founding members of one of the most important movements in all of ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- In physics, there are two kinds of dipoles (from the Greek terms di(s)-, meaning "two," and polos, meaning "pivot" or "hinge ...20 KB (3,037 words) - 15:26, 29 January 2024
- Eugène Ysaÿe ( øʒɛn iza.i ) (July 16, 1858 - May 12, 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor. He was regarded in his day as ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 18:51, 11 September 2023
- Josquin des Prez Josquin des Prez (French rendering of Dutch "Josken Van De Velde," diminutive of "Joseph Van De Velde;" latinized ...26 KB (3,990 words) - 01:31, 8 September 2022
- Turgut Reis (1485 - June 23, 1565) was a Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey later Pasha ...33 KB (5,326 words) - 18:45, 6 November 2022
- Godiva (or Godgifu) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Category:Sociologists Michels, Robert Robert Michels (January 9, 1876 – May 3, 1936) was a German sociologist who wrote on the political behavior ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:43, 16 December 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:Food Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Pepperoni pizza.jpg|thumb|250 px|A homemade pepperoni pizza.]] ...33 KB (5,022 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- Mozi or Mo-tzu (墨子, Lat. as Micius, Pinyin Mozu,, original name Mo Ti, also spelled Motze, Motse, or Micius), (ca. 470 B.C.E. –ca. 390 ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- * [http://www.gooristano.com/content/casa-natale-di-antonio-gramsci Monumento Casa natale di Antonio Gramsci, Ales, Sardinia] ===Institutes=== ...43 KB (6,140 words) - 05:41, 11 August 2023
- The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- Corn syrup is any of a variety of forms of syrup (thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, with little tendency ...18 KB (2,609 words) - 23:23, 6 April 2022
- category:image wanted Bruno Walter (September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. He was born in Berlin ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- category:Image wanted Girard, Rene [[File:René Girard.jpg|thumb|200px|René Girard during a colloquium in Paris, 2007]] René Girard (December ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works. Founded in 1971, by Michael ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely Sirach), also called Ecclesiasticus (not to be confused with Ecclesiastes ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- ( c=福建 |p=Fújiàn |w=Fu-chien ; Postal map spelling: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- Saint Francis Xavier (Basque: San Frantzisko Xabierkoa; Spanish: San Francisco Javier; Portuguese: São Francisco Xavier; Chinese: 聖方濟各沙勿略 ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 - 1653) was an early Baroque Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a multi-talented French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- Sofonisba Anguissola (also spelled Anguisciola; c. 1532 - 1625) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. After her initial training, she met ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 22:03, 30 January 2023
- Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη) was a Phrygian goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose worship spread to the cities of ancient ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Lucian of Antioch, also known as “Saint Lucian of Antioch” (c. 240–January 7, 312. January 7 was the calendar day on which his memory was ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Temple of Zeus.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece]] Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Category:Psychologists Assagioli, Roberto Roberto Assagioli (February 27, 1888 - August 23, 1974) was an influential Italian psychiatrist, the ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- Landscape Painting depicts the scenery of the European natural world with the views that impact the artist's eye. In an effort to represent ...29 KB (4,569 words) - 20:24, 12 October 2021
- Pope Clement V (1264 – April 20, 1314), born Bertrand de Goth (also occasionally spelled "Gouth" and "Got"), was Pope from ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an iconic American actress, singer and model. Decades after her death, she remains one of ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 15:56, 6 November 2022
- The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement that originated in mid eighteenth century England. In the nineteenth century, increasingly serious ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- * [https://www.umbriatourism.it/en-US/web/umbria/-/basilica-di-san-valentino-a-terni Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni] * [https://www.pravmir ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
- Eggplant is the common name for a perennial plant, Solanum melongena, of the potato or nightshade family Solanaceae, characterized by large leaves ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 23:58, 12 February 2024
- Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900 ...35 KB (5,340 words) - 10:04, 14 December 2022
- Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer who is considered one of the foremost ...30 KB (4,821 words) - 06:22, 6 May 2024
- Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog) is a reciprocal conversation between two or more entities. The etymological origins of the word (in Greek ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- The Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代, Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- The Liezi (列子 in Chinese characters, Lièzĭ in pinyin) is a Daoist text attributed to Lie Yukou, a philosopher conventionally thought to ...18 KB (2,907 words) - 22:49, 25 October 2022
- * It is used in the manufacture of mono- and di-glycerides, which act as emulsifiers. * Used in manufacture of polyglycerol esters going into ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 18:22, 30 August 2021
- In Greek mythology, Achilles (also Akhilleus or Achilleus; Ancient Greek: Άχιλλεύς ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- A complex in chemistry usually is used to describe molecules or ensembles formed by the combination of ligands and metal ions. Originally, a ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist ...37 KB (5,789 words) - 09:21, 13 March 2024
- Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (1668 – 1744) was an Italian philosopher, historian, and jurist. Vico presented his philosophical ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- |leader_title1 = Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) ... The federal head of state is the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, commonly referred ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- Cristina Elizabet Fernández de Kirchner (February 19, 1953 - ), commonly known as Cristina Fernández or Cristina Kirchner, is a lawyer and ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- Herod Antipas (before 20 B.C.E. – after 39 C.E.) was a first-century CE Jewish-Idumean ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 14:56, 12 February 2022
- The Albigensian Crusade, or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a twenty year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate ...18 KB (2,843 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are 236 described species of Melaleuca, all of which occur in ...18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
- Bluefin tuna is the common name for three of the eight species of tuna in the Thunnus genus (family Scombridae): the Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- Saint Nicholas ( Νικόλαος , Nikolaos, "victory of the people") was Bishop of Myra during the fourth century C.E., well known ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated island nation comprising an archipelago of seven islands in the Mediterranean ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. The English word "oboe" is a corruption of the French word for ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316, Savaria, Pannonia – November 8, 397, Candes, Gaul) was a bishop of Tours who has become one of the most famous ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827)(Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770. Children of that era were ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- Francis George Steiner [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FGSNR The Papers of George Steiner] Janus |quote=[Steiner ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- 2 (two) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- An example of a quadruple bond is also found in Di-tungsten tetra(hpp). Quintuple Bonds are found to exist in certain chromium dimers. ...25 KB (3,936 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- The Xiongnu ( c=匈奴|p=Xiōngnú|w=Hsiung-nu ); were a nomadic people from Central Asia, generally based in present day Mongolia and China. ...37 KB (5,668 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The most popular of these worldwide is association football (also known as soccer ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- Robert Schuman (June 29, 1886 - September 4, 1963) was a noted French Statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged. The ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter, as well as a gifted landscape ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Pio of Pietrelcina (May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968) was a Capuchin priest from Italy who is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church ...40 KB (6,382 words) - 17:02, 2 October 2023
- The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-late-fourteenth century (1347–1351 ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence ...19 KB (2,696 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- *Micrurus silviae Di-Bernardo et al., 2007 *Amazon Coral Snake, Micrurus spixii :*Micrurus spixii spixii (Wagler, 1824) :*Micrurus spixiii martiusi ...24 KB (3,201 words) - 19:02, 14 January 2023
- Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It comprises the ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- A traditional fountain is an arrangement where water issues from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away. Fountains ...20 KB (2,954 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica ( s=中药学|t=中藥學|p=Zhōngyào xué ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative music" is particularly favored over "alternative rock" ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- Jules Henri Poincaré (April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912), generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- A hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicle (ACV), is a vehicle or craft that can be supported by a cushion of air ejected downwards against a surface ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- A laser (an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an electronic-optical device that emits coherent radiation ...41 KB (6,333 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed from ...78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
- Wallis and Futuna, is a group of three volcanic tropical islands—Wallis Island (Uvea), Futuna Island, and Alofi Island—with fringing reefs ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 – October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, best known for attempting ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- A solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is most oriented toward or away from the ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
- Opera is a form of theater in which the drama is conveyed wholly or predominantly through music and singing. Opera emerged in Italy around the ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Emperor Kangxi of China, also known as K'ang-hsi, May 4, 1654 – December 20, 1722) was the fourth Emperor of China of the Manchu Qing ...20 KB (3,209 words) - 02:38, 5 October 2022
- Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- The term Biblical canon refers to a definitive list of inspired, authoritative books that "constitute the recognized and accepted body of ...22 KB (3,254 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- Edson Arantes do Nascimento ( (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈɛtsõ aˈɾɐ̃tʃiz du nasiˈmẽtu]; October 23, 1940 – December 29, 2022), better ...132 KB (18,506 words) - 20:27, 15 February 2024
- Lothal (Gujarātī: લોથલ, ˈloːtʰəl , Eng: Mound or Tell of the Dead) was one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley ...37 KB (5,691 words) - 16:48, 25 October 2023
- Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, (Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי), better known by the acronym Rashi (February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105), was a rabbi ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- Qi, also commonly spelled ch'i (in Wade-Giles romanization) or ki (in romanized Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- A miracle (from Latin: miraculum, "something wonderful") refers to an act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Guru Gobind Singh ( ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ ) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna, India, son ...43 KB (7,122 words) - 06:18, 10 January 2024
- Wheat includes any agricultural cereal grass of the genus Triticum in the grass family Poaceae. Wheat is one of the top three cereal crops in ...21 KB (3,052 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- The term True Cross denotes the actual cross on which Jesus was crucified. According to legend, the True Cross was hidden following Jesus’ ...22 KB (3,738 words) - 18:26, 2 May 2023
- A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body of singers who perform together is called a choir or chorus. The former ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Jakarta_slumlife65.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A boy from an East ...23 KB (3,286 words) - 22:07, 30 November 2022
- Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (June 2, 1857 – February 23, 1934) was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral ...21 KB (3,203 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- The Second Italo–Ethiopian War (also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War) was a brief war, begun in October 1935, between the Fascist ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- Catherine de' Medici (April 13, 1519 – January 5, 1589) was born in Florence, Italy, as Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de' Medici ...68 KB (10,504 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- Mahmud of Ghazni (October 2, 971 – April 30, 1030 C.E.), also known as Yamin ad-Dawlah Mahmud (in full: Yamin ad-Dawlah Abd al-Qasim Mahmud ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (December 18, 1913 – October 8, 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974 ...21 KB (3,209 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 – September 6, 2007) was an Italian tenor and one of the most popular contemporary vocal performers in ...22 KB (3,379 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:253 Mathilde small.jpg|thumb|250px|right|253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. This image was taken by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 05:10, 18 August 2023
- Frog is the common name for any of the members of the amphibian order Anura, whose extant species are characterized by an adult with longer hind ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- In electronics, a diode is a component that allows an electric current to flow in one direction but blocks it in the opposite direction. Thus ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- The Sistine Chapel ( Cappella Sistina ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Its fame rests ...23 KB (3,674 words) - 22:35, 29 January 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
- Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French militant, institutional psychotherapist, and philosopher. Guattari is ...23 KB (3,142 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- The Louvre Museum ( Musée du Louvre ) in Paris, France, is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous art galleries and museums in the world ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- Crete ( Κρήτη , el|Kríti ; Ancient Greek: grc|Κρήτη , Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest ...64 KB (9,298 words) - 20:14, 29 April 2024
- The BEST (Marathi: बृहन्मुंबई विद्युतपुरवठा आणि परिवहन उपक्रम / बेस्ट ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (March 25, 1797 - July 1, 1855) was an Italian philosopher and theologian who set out to re-define the balance between ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe. Beginning with William IX of Aquitaine, the troubadours ...21 KB (3,432 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- The Gospel of Judas, a second century Gnostic gospel, was discovered in the twentieth century and publicly unveiled in 2006. It portrays the ...24 KB (3,824 words) - 19:38, 8 June 2023
- Eliezer Wiesel (commonly known as Elie) (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a world-renowned Hungarian Romanian Jewish novelist, philosopher ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- Thomism is the philosophical school that followed in the legacy of Thomas Aquinas. The word comes from the name of its originator, whose summary ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 22:59, 30 April 2023
- Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern China. Although this city is famous for its extreme proximity with the boundary ...24 KB (3,404 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- A religious, or devotional medal, in the Roman Catholic faith, is a piece of metal, often worn around the neck, commemorating some aspect of ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 05:56, 25 August 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :Arawak redirects here [[Image:Reconstruction of Taino village ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- The Miao ( c=苗|p=Miáo ; Vietnamese: Mèo or H'Mông; Thai: แม้ว (Maew) or ม้ง (Mong); Burmese: mun lu-myo) are a linguistically ...23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian-born ...47 KB (7,315 words) - 18:33, 22 December 2022
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh). It defines not just the books of the Jewish canon, but also the precise ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- Speed skating (also long track speedskating or long track speed skating) is an Olympic sport where competitors are timed while crossing a set ...27 KB (4,168 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- |align=right|Vietnamese Name:||Di-lặc Bồ Tát |- |align=right|Tibetan Name:||byams pa |- |align=right|Korean Name:||미륵보살(Mirug Bosal) ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Writer | name = Tudor Arghezi | image = Tudor Arghezi.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Arghezi ...22 KB (3,385 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- The Yongzheng Emperor ( 雍正 born Yinzhen 胤禛) (December 13, 1678 - October 8, 1735) was the fourth emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 17:48, 15 October 2020
- Phosphorus (chemical symbol P, atomic number 15) is a multivalent nonmetal that belongs to the nitrogen group of chemical elements. Given its ...25 KB (3,622 words) - 22:45, 28 March 2023
- The Baroque style began as somewhat of a continuation of the Renaissance. Later, however, scholars of the time began to see the drastic differences ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 10:50, 20 September 2023
- category:image wanted A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- may be mediated by the AhR receptor. For example, di-ortho-substituted non-coplanar PCBs interfere with intracellular signal transduction dependent ...24 KB (3,627 words) - 08:41, 24 November 2022
- 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
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre of dance music, familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Jiangsu ( s=江苏 |t=江蘇 |p=Jiāngsū |w=Chiang-su ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's Republic of China located ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- integral digital cameras ("디카" or "di-ka," the first syllables of digital and camera) as well, that hold up to six full mega-pixels ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- do it himself. He spoke in grunts, groans, and la-di-das, and he needed musicians to translate that language into music and actual songs in order to ...25 KB (3,918 words) - 21:04, 20 March 2024
- Category:Anthropology Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Burne-Jones-le-Vampire.jpg|thumb|200 px|The Vampire ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- La Paz, also known by the full name Nuestra Señora de La Paz (“Our Lady of Peace”), is the administrative capital of Bolivia. La Paz, which ...25 KB (3,650 words) - 05:31, 4 March 2023
- Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay ( al.fʁɛd də my.sɛ|lang ; December 11, 1810 – May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist ...25 KB (3,656 words) - 17:50, 4 May 2023
- Romanesque architecture is the term that describes the architecture of Europe which emerged from the dark ages of the late tenth century and ...63 KB (10,037 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- Curry (from Tamil: கறி) is the English term for a general variety of spicy dishes, usually associated with Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan ...30 KB (4,736 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- Brasília is the capital of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. It is the seat of the main federal government: the president ...27 KB (4,135 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor whose theater ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Brainwashing refers to the systematic application of coercive techniques to change the ...29 KB (4,296 words) - 22:37, 20 November 2023
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern era stands as one of the notable events in the early history of relations ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:Harrods at night.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The exterior ...29 KB (4,395 words) - 09:47, 29 January 2024
- Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish painter who is often said to be the greatest of ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- Mary (מרים, Maryām, "Bitter") was the mother of Jesus Christ. Tradition names her parents as Joachim and Anne. According to the ...30 KB (4,633 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. The term comes from the Latin jus, meaning "right" or "law ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- William Seward Burroughs II ( 1914|2|5 — 1997|8|2 ; ˈbʌroʊz ), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs was an American novelist, essayist ...53 KB (8,079 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is one of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, infamously known as the betrayer ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multisystem hereditary disease that mainly affects the lungs and digestive system, causing progressive disability and ...56 KB (8,332 words) - 07:29, 12 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 003.jpg|thumb|400 px|Pierre-Cécile Puvis ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:34, 30 January 2024
- The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824 - 12 May 12, 1884) is considered one of the greatest Czech composers of the nineteenth century and the country ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- Category:Public Bonaparte, Napoleon [[Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David (1812)]] ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. This mode of belief is ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- The Yi Jing ("Book of Changes" or "Classic of Changes" (often spelled I Ching) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- Diesel, or diesel fuel, is any fuel that is used to operate a diesel engine. Most commonly, it refers to a specific liquid fuel obtained by the ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- (Ge-Bai-Ni), Galileo (Jia-li-lüe), and Tycho Brahe (Di-gu) were formally introduced to China.Needham, 445. There were also Jesuits in China who were ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE, known as Diana Rigg, (July 20, 1938 - September 10, 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her ...38 KB (5,401 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
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- The Qianlong Emperor (乾隆帝) (born Hongli, September 25, 1711 – February 7, 1799) was the fifth emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and ...28 KB (4,243 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2023
- Saints Cyril and Methodius ( Κύριλλος και Μεθόδιος , Old Church Slavonic: кѵрилъ и меѳодии New Church Slavonic: ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- Suharto, also spelled Soeharto (June 8, 1921 – January 27, 2008) was an Indonesian military leader, and from 1967 to 1998 the second President ...58 KB (8,552 words) - 13:46, 28 April 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
- Christianity in China (called 基督教 Jī dū jiào, or Christ religion) is a growing minority religion that comprises Protestants, Catholics ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category of experience may ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- Seamus Justin Heaney country=GBR|MRIA ( ˈ|ʃ|eɪ|m|ə|s|_|ˈ|h|iː|n|i ; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and ...80 KB (11,371 words) - 23:33, 1 August 2023
- Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a sixteenth century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian ...32 KB (4,849 words) - 15:32, 25 May 2023
- Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000), usually cited as W.V. Quine or W.V.O. Quine but known to his friends as Van, was ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- The Etruscan civilization is the name given today to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy whom ancient Romans called Etrusci ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- An air bag, also known as an Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS) or Supplemental Restraint System (SRS), is an automobile safety device that ...35 KB (5,475 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) Alternate references are "Hungarian Revolt" and "Hungarian Uprising ...73 KB (10,504 words) - 12:26, 4 February 2023
- Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian language|Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor' Fëdorovič Stravinskij ...32 KB (4,790 words) - 16:04, 12 February 2024
- A wind instrument (or aerophone) is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set ...37 KB (5,471 words) - 15:52, 11 March 2024
- The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) which is used to write one or more languages based on the general ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (July 27, 1768 – July 17, 1793), known as Charlotte Corday ( kɔʁdɛ|lang ), was a figure of the ...30 KB (4,620 words) - 00:41, 5 December 2023
- A dam is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs, or slows the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake, or impoundment. In Australian ...36 KB (5,567 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Samael Aun Weor (March 6, 1917 - December 24, 1977) was a spiritual teacher, occultist, esotericist, and author. He established himself in Mexico ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- name is found on Mycenean Linear B tablets as "DI-WO-NI-SO-JO", John Paul Adams, Professor of Classics, 2005, Dionysos website. [http://www ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- category:image wanted Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 10:49, 20 September 2023
- Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals, characterized by a transparent, round, plate-like body of but a few ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- A pyramid (from πυραμίς pyramís) is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the ...37 KB (5,368 words) - 21:28, 9 November 2023
- Simplified Chinese Characters ( s=简化字|t=簡化字|p=Jiǎnhuàzì or s=简体字|t=簡體字|p=Jiǎntǐzì ) are one of two standard sets ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha or Hızır Hayreddin Paşa; also Hızır Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kaptan-ı ...38 KB (6,070 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2022
- Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who was a major figure ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- self-assembly techniques such as those employing di-block copolymers. However, all of these techniques preceded the nanotech era, and are extensions ...39 KB (5,416 words) - 02:44, 11 March 2023
- are a class of supernatural creatures found in Japanese folklore, art, theater, literature and religious mythology. They are one of the best ...37 KB (5,598 words) - 02:59, 19 April 2023
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 9,926 square miles (25,708 sq km) and ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- Silk is a fine, soft and yet strong proteinaceous fiber that is naturally produced by certain arthropods, and with some forms, particularly that ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- Japanese folklore is heavily influenced by the two primary religions of Japan, Shinto and Buddhism. Japanese mythology is a complex system of ...36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
- Harold Pinter CH CBE (October 10, 1930 – December 24, 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- Kochi <!--( Kochi.ogg|pronunciation -->; Malayalam: കൊച്ചി [ koˈʧːi ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including present day Spain and Portugal) as well as the ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Hagia Sophia ( lk=yes 'Holy Wisdom'; Ayasofya ; Ἁγία Σοφία|Hagía Sofía ; Sancta Sapientia ), officially the Hagia Sophia ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
- Marie Antoinette (November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, Marie Antoinette, Queen ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based primarily upon the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic ...42 KB (6,476 words) - 10:52, 22 January 2024
- Johann Pachelbel (IPA: [ paˈxɛlbəl ]) (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and ...46 KB (6,947 words) - 14:51, 1 August 2022
- Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, born Eugene Louis Vidal, (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was a prolific liberal American author, playwright, essayist ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- Christopher Columbus, commonly rendered in Spanish as Cristóbal Colón (1451 - May 20, 1506) was a Genoese-born navigator, explorer, and colonizer ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- Mercury, also called quicksilver (chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80), is a chemical element and transition metal that at room temperature ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, by placing oneself ...46 KB (6,306 words) - 17:47, 28 December 2023
- A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or mic, is a device that converts sound into electrical signals. In more technical terms, it may ...49 KB (7,389 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes Mountains ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. A number of psychosocial ...52 KB (7,118 words) - 05:48, 15 June 2023
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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Caslon-schriftmusterblatt.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|A specimen of roman typefaces ...43 KB (6,355 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
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- Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for Analytic ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Nile Valley between the First Cataract and the mouths of ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- The guqin ( c=古琴|p=gǔqín|w=ku-ch'in ; kutɕʰin ; literally "ancient stringed instrument") is the modern name for a plucked ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and ...51 KB (8,034 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- Volleyball is a globally recognized sport that found its origins in the United States of America. In fact, worldwide, volleyball is second on ...62 KB (10,612 words) - 21:01, 3 May 2023
- Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several related fat-soluble organic compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, that act ...53 KB (7,528 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. It has been in continual use in ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge , is an international humanitarian ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history. For contemporary countries, see the People's Republic of China (mainland ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- Traditional Chinese medicine (also known as TCM, s=中医学|t=中醫學|p=zhōngyī xué ) is a range of traditional medical practices originating ...53 KB (7,935 words) - 04:54, 1 May 2023
- On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were ...54 KB (8,276 words) - 04:54, 18 August 2023
- Emperor Taizong of Tang ( c=唐太宗|p=táng tàizōng , January 23, 599 – July 10, 649), personal name Lǐ Shìmín ( c=李世民 ...60 KB (9,319 words) - 21:30, 31 December 2021
- Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide ...61 KB (8,753 words) - 02:22, 16 December 2022
- Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- Romeo and Juliet is a world-renowned tragedy by William Shakespeare concerning two young "star-cross'd lovers" and the role played ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between ...56 KB (8,917 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- Daoism (Wade-Giles: "Taoism") is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical traditions that have developed ...58 KB (8,657 words) - 22:14, 25 January 2024
- The Shroud of Turin is an ancient linen cloth which some believe is the cloth that covered Jesus of Nazareth when he was placed in his tomb. ...62 KB (9,799 words) - 14:29, 27 January 2023
- Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His artistry is grounded ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga (1571 – 1622) ( 支倉六右衛門常長 , also spelled Faxecura Rocuyemon in period European sources, reflecting ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
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- Alcibiades Cleiniou Scambonides ( ˌælsɨˈbaɪədiːz , Greek: Ἀλκιβιάδης Κλεινίου Σκαμβωνίδης , transliterated ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
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- Greece ( Ελλάδα [eˈlaða] or Ελλάς [eˈlas] ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
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- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and France, with a short coastline ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
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- Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
- George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army ...100 KB (15,023 words) - 13:47, 12 November 2022
- Sarah Bernhardt ( saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt|lang ; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; October 22 or 23, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a French stage actress ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
