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- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- is a form of traditional Japanese theater. Kabuki theater is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by its ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 22:22, 4 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:YosemitePaiutewomenandchildren.jpg|right|thumb|200 px ...23 KB (3,614 words) - 06:17, 18 November 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
- 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
- Category:Public [[Image:Nishida_kitaro.jpg|thumb|Nishida Kitaro]] Nishida Kitaro (西田 幾多郎, Nishida Kitarō') (1870 – 1945) was ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a ...17 KB (2,749 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a distinct member of the herpesvirus family (Herpesviridae) of DNA viruses and one of the ...25 KB (3,646 words) - 15:14, 15 April 2022
- Terpene is any of a large and varied class of hydrocarbons, with the molecular formula (C5H8)n, that are produced by a wide variety of plants ...11 KB (1,643 words) - 14:57, 30 April 2023
- The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic account of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- Sulfur or sulphur (see spelling below) (chemical symbol S, atomic number 16) is a yellow crystalline solid at ordinary temperatures and pressures ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Itsukushima torii angle.jpg|thumb|200px|A torii at Itsukushima Shrine]] Shinto (Kanji: 神道 Shintō) (sometimes called ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- 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
- Dioscorus of Alexandria was the twenty-fifth bishop of Alexandria, known in Oriental Orthodox tradition as Pope St. Dioscorus the Great. In Catholic ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 09:38, 24 November 2022
- Mono-substitution of naphthalene has two possible isomeric products, corresponding to substitution at an alpha or beta position, respectively ...13 KB (1,879 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- collapse resulted in the formation of mainly mono-cultural states. As the world becomes more inter-dependent, lessons on how people of different faith ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that was created in the mid-1980s by bands from the American ...30 KB (4,642 words) - 10:14, 25 February 2023
- Mount St. Helens is an active volcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located 128 ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- 1 (one) is a number, numeral, and the glyph that represents the number. It represents a single entity and is commonly regarded as the fundamental ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- 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
- Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari) (June 14, 1899 – April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- (with 10 percent of this saturated and 50 percent mono-unsaturated). The seed is a good source of protein (19 percent) and carbohydrate (19 percent ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- Mochi (Japanese: ja|餅 ; Chinese: zh-TW|麻糬 ) is a Japanese rice cake made by pounding glutinous rice into a paste and molding it into shapes ...16 KB (2,504 words) - 12:55, 10 March 2023
- 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
- DVD (a common initialism for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- Yosemite National Park (pronounced "Yo-SEM-it-ee"), is a U.S. national park largely in Mariposa and Tuolumne counties in the state ...40 KB (6,041 words) - 21:33, 4 June 2023
- Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 - c. December 15, 1944), was an American jazz musician and bandleader in the swing era. He became one of the ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- in numerous states, many of which are mono-cultural. ===Historical context=== From the mid-nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire began to decline ...16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- purity of glycol used for hydrate suppression (mono-ethylene glycol) is typically around 80 percent, whereas the purity of glycol used for dehydration ...16 KB (2,258 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- include the poly-crystalline silicon solar array, mono-crystalline silicon solar array, and amorphous silicon solar array. Poh Ern Shih thus heats its ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- Glycerol, also known as glycerin or glycerine, is a sugar alcohol. Its formula may be written as C3H8O3. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 18:22, 30 August 2021
- The Great Basin is a huge heart-shaped area that covers parts of six western United States. Its boundaries depend on how it is defined. Its most ...18 KB (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- nation-states. Skeptics argue that only mono-cultural states can thrive, that wherever a linguistic-ethnic group forms a majority, it ought to ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- the total area of forest worldwide. Commonly mono-specific and/or composed of introduced tree species, these ecosystems are not generally important ...22 KB (3,182 words) - 06:31, 1 April 2024
- György Széll, best known by his anglicized name, George Szell (June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), was a conductor and composer. He is remembered ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- Mount Hood (known as Wy'east to the Multnomah tribe), is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanoes Arc in northern Oregon state, in the Pacific ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- of which 10 percent is saturated and 75 percent is mono-unsaturated (Bender and Bender 2005). Walnuts need to be kept dry and refrigerated to ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest and most influential American conservationists, sometimes called the ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 03:01, 2 May 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
- Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning "one" and physis meaning "nature") is the christological position that Christ ...23 KB (3,529 words) - 20:01, 9 November 2022
- Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot (4,322-meter) stratovolcano, is the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range and the fifth highest peak in California ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- chose to stress their European, Christian and mono-cultural heritages as opposed to some, especially in Bosnia, who saw their legacy as in terms of ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- have two engines while a similar sized mono-hull would only one engine. All mid-size and larger cats will have two engines. [[Image:Base-sous ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 17:50, 30 November 2023
- Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, December 12, 1903 – December 12, 1963), an influential Japanese film director, is regarded as one of the masters ...21 KB (3,096 words) - 09:52, 23 May 2023
- Prominent in Japanese cuisine, sushi is a food made of vinegared rice balls combined with various toppings or fillings, which are most commonly ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 00:29, 27 February 2023
- The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy mountain range") is a major mountain range of the western United States. It is also known informally ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- Crater Lake National Park is a United States National Park located in southern Oregon; the only national park in the state. It was established ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- still seen on some instruments as wraps of nylon mono-filament. Such frets are tied tightly enough that moving them during performance is impractical ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- Often made from woven plastic, they also be mono-filament encased in an airtight plastic tube, or made from stretchable bungee cord. ...23 KB (3,586 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- Yamaha. Yamaha was the first to build a production mono-shock motocross bike (250 cc and 400 cc, in 1975, and 125 cc in 1976), and one of the first ...25 KB (3,604 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- point to make food grade phosphates. These include mono-calcium phosphate which is employed in baking powder and sodium tripolyphosphate and other sodium ...25 KB (3,622 words) - 22:45, 28 March 2023
- The Nicene Creed, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed or Icon/Symbol of the Faith, is an ecumenical Christian statement of faith accepted in the ...31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- Toxicity of coplanar PCBs (such as dioxin) and mono-ortho-PCBs are thought to be primarily mediated via binding to aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). ...24 KB (3,627 words) - 08:41, 24 November 2022
- Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano in Washington state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce County, it is contained ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- fat is about 20 percent saturated and 50 percent mono-unsaturated (Bender and Bender 2005). According to reports in the journal Science, farmed ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from Canada's British Columbia through the U.S. states of ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese philosophy was inextricably associated with religion, ethics, aesthetics, political organization and ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- Mono-crystal silicon wafers (or for special applications, silicon on sapphire or gallium arsenide wafers) are used as the substrate. Photolithography ...29 KB (4,001 words) - 06:15, 6 March 2024
- large-scale intensive cultivation of land, mono-cropping, organized irrigation, and use of a specialized labor force. Roman agriculture was built ...27 KB (3,893 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- only one mode is called single-mode or mono-mode fiber. The behavior of larger-core multimode fiber can also be modeled using the wave equation ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in Western Africa. From its 32-mile (51 km) coastline on the Gulf of Guinea ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- Kimono (Japanese: 着物, literally "something worn," i.e., "clothes") From the verb 'to wear (on the shoulders)' ...33 KB (5,356 words) - 17:09, 19 May 2023
- of: Higher taxation rates, a high percentage of mono-lingual French-speakers, a mismatch between education and labor market needs, a high percentage ...30 KB (4,219 words) - 04:45, 22 November 2023
- Fujiwara no Teika (Japanese: 藤原定家), also known as Fujiwara no Sadaie after another Kanji Kun'yomi (Japanese reading) of 定家, ...30 KB (4,827 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- will meet in the centre of the ring to hold a mono-ii (lit: a talk about things). After reaching a consensus they can uphold or reverse the gyojis ...39 KB (6,360 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- It was the rise of local mono-cultural nationalisms that led to the break-up of the Empire, when Slav nationalism resulted in the assassination ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery of the natural world with the views that impact the artist's eye. In an ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- includes large scale intensive cultivation of land, mono-cropping, organized irrigation, and use of a specialized labor force, the title "inventors ...39 KB (5,853 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2020
- 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
- California is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is the most populous state in the nation. The four ...42 KB (5,921 words) - 18:24, 25 November 2023
- can. Tin is a metal that rapidly corrodes to form a mono-molecular oxide coating that prevents further corrosion of the tin. The tin prevents the electrolyte ...56 KB (8,590 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- for many years El Salvador was considered a mono-export economy (one that depended heavily on one type of export). During colonial times, the ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- 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
- Braid coined the term "mono-ideodynamic" to refer to the theory that hypnotism operates by concentrating attention on a single idea ...52 KB (7,367 words) - 16:49, 27 October 2022
- Russian landmass, was the sizable number of "mono-industrial" regional economies (regions dominated by a single industrial employer) that Russia ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper ...78 KB (11,609 words) - 09:53, 1 April 2024