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- Wu Zetian (625 – December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor although ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2022
- The Aswan Dam, located in Aswan, Egypt, tames the Nile River and utilizes the power of the river for a variety of social and economic causes ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 18:40, 19 August 2023
- Abu Simbel (Arabic أبو سنبل or أبو سمبل) is an archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- Ibn Hazm (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064 456 AH) in full Abū Muhammad ‘Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa’īd ibn Hazm (Arabic :أبو محمد ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather. In temperate and polar regions, four ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 17:37, 25 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Phrenology1.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|A 19th century phrenology chart. The ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- Federalist Paper No. 54 is an essay by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published ...15 KB (2,066 words) - 01:55, 26 March 2024
- Crown ethers are heterocyclic chemical compounds that consist of a ring containing several ether groups. The most common crown ethers are oligomers ...6 KB (841 words) - 23:38, 5 May 2022
- John Fletcher (1579 – 1625) was a Jacobean playwright, and indisputably one of the most accomplished and influential playwrights of the seventeenth ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 06:38, 8 April 2024
- Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 – June 1, 1965) was a founder, a player, and the first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 06:46, 12 January 2024
- Chen Duxiu (陳獨秀) (October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) Wade-Giles romanization Ch'en Tu-hsiu, original name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng ...26 KB (3,844 words) - 14:50, 5 December 2023
- Albert Hoyt Taylor, Ph.D. (January 1, 1879 - December 11, 1961) was an American electrical engineer who made important early contributions to ...7 KB (1,005 words) - 05:01, 17 June 2023
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire (KBE) (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Life sciences Category:Food Chai [[Image:a cup of chai.JPG|thumbnail|190px|right ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- An audiobook is an audio recording of a book, speech, or any form of content that is not music. In the U.S., the Library of Congress initiated ...17 KB (2,579 words) - 18:27, 21 August 2023
- Category:Image wanted Philip Massinger (1583 - March 17, 1640) was an English dramatist famous for his plays throughout the 1600s. Born the second ...24 KB (3,692 words) - 03:47, 24 November 2022
- The South Pole, also known as the geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, on ...23 KB (3,208 words) - 15:38, 4 February 2023
- Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunciation: ohr'-fee-uhs) The mythological name "Orpheus" is commonly pronounced "ohr' ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- Sabellius, a Christian priest, theologian, and teacher, was active during the first decades of the third century, propounding a Christological ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 18:31, 22 December 2022
- category:image wanted National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) The National Digital Information Infrastructure ...13 KB (1,802 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (December 31, 1738 – October 5, 1805) was a British military commander and colonial governor. In ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- Sāmarrā (Arabic,سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient times may have been the world's largest city. With its majestic mosques ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- Chert is a fine-grained, silica-rich, microcrystalline, cryptocrystalline or microfibrous sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils. It ...10 KB (1,548 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- Hampi (Kannada: ಹಂಪೆ, Hampe) refers to a village in northern Karnataka. The name "Hampi" comes from the anglicized version ...12 KB (1,695 words) - 17:01, 21 January 2024
- Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant-like mammals comprising the family Mammutidae (syn. Mastodontidae) of the ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- 8 (eight) 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 ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 - November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic ...44 KB (6,977 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one of the most prominent poets of the Elizabethan era. Like his close friend ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- The Grameen Bank ( গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক ) is a microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh ...25 KB (3,568 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1922 - June 6, 2013) was a United States competitive swimmer and 1940s and 1950s movie star. Known as "America ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation (formerly Enron Corporation, former NYSE ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston ...31 KB (4,550 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space. It is distinguished from other manned spacecraft by its ...12 KB (1,622 words) - 17:12, 14 October 2022
- Murali Kartik (born September 11, 1976 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India), an Indian cricketer who occasionally represented the Indian cricket team ...17 KB (2,489 words) - 18:58, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Hijacking is the assumption of control of a vehicle through some means of coercion, often the ...26 KB (3,897 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- Category:Economists Friedman, Milton {{Infobox Economist |color = #B0C4DE | name = Milton Friedman |image_name ...27 KB (3,928 words) - 20:26, 6 February 2024
- Dayi Daoxin (Chinese: 道信, Wade-Giles: Tao-hsin) (Japanese: Dōshin) (580 - 651) was the fourth Chán Buddhist Patriarch, following Jianzhi ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 19:44, 22 May 2020
- Burglar (or intrusion), fire, and safety alarms are found in electronic form today. Sensors are connected to a control unit via either a low ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor. In his acting, he gave ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- 10 (ten) is a natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive integer, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Often, the number 0 ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- 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
- Lee Shapiro (1949–1987) was an American documentary filmmaker. His one feature-length film, Nicaragua Was Our Home, was released in 1986. It ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 23:50, 25 September 2023
- Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בר כוכבא, also transliterated as Bar Kokhva or Bar Kochba) was a messianic Jewish leader who led ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 07:58, 20 September 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
- The beloved leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi (often affectionately referred to as either "Aunty," or "The ...32 KB (4,792 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December 21, 1804 – April 19, 1881) was an English statesman and literary figure ...28 KB (4,114 words) - 23:17, 11 January 2023
- David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987), was a Golden Globe-winning American actor, singer, and comedian ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
- Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833–October 1, 1911) was a German philosopher and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- 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
- Melodeons are very small pressure type reed organs, sometimes called "lap organs," which were built in the United States around 1840 ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- Lúcia de Jesus Rosa Santos—"Sister Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart," better known as Sister Lúcia of Jesus (March 22 ...15 KB (2,588 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- Diwali, also called Deepavali, known as the "Festival of Lights," is a major Hindu festival that symbolizes the victory of good over ...17 KB (2,633 words) - 15:51, 29 January 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
- Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (October 2, 1949 - ) is an American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), written by the eponymous prophet ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- A librarian is an information professional trained in library and information science, which is the organization and management of information ...23 KB (3,189 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2023
- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961) was an Austrian-Irish physicist who achieved fame for his contributions ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 21:27, 20 March 2024
- Walter Rauschenbusch (October 4, 1861 – July 25, 1918) was a Christian Theologian and a Baptist Minister. He pioneered the social gospel movement ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- Gilbert Ryle (Aug. 19, 1900, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. – Oct. 6, 1976, Whitby, North Yorkshire), was a philosopher and a founding representative ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- iran-press-service.com/articles_2003/Oct-2003/ebadi_wins_nobel_peace_101003.html Iranians Celebrated With Joy Ebadi's Nonel Prize] retrieved ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882 – April 28, 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. He converted to Catholicism and is the author of more ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and how they can be implemented in computer systems. ...20 KB (2,897 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 - October 23, 1946) was born in England of Scottish parents. He was raised in Canada and became a naturalized ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- The Banc d'Arguin National Park lies on the west coast of Mauritania between Nouakchott and Nouadhibou. Fringing the Atlantic coast, the ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Economics [[Image:Bankrupt computer store 02.jpg|thumb|Notice of closure attached ...20 KB (3,097 words) - 03:35, 17 September 2023
- Sigismund III Vasa ( Zygmunt III Waza ) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Polish, a monarch of the united ...20 KB (2,908 words) - 15:22, 7 October 2022
- Juvenal, an Anglicized form derived from the Latin (Decimus Iunius) Iuvenalis, was a Roman poet active in the late first century and early second ...19 KB (2,900 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022
- Faust (German for "fist") or Faustus (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German ...35 KB (5,273 words) - 01:42, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Pawnee |image=[[Image:Pawnee flag.svg|272px]] ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 01:45, 23 November 2022
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Phosphoric-acid-2D-dimensions.png|160px|Phosphoric acid]] ...23 KB (3,466 words) - 04:24, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Religion [[Image:D056449.png|300px|thumb|right|D056449. Design patent for toys (D21/813) which ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish priest, essayist, political writer, and poet, considered the foremost ...20 KB (3,110 words) - 19:48, 4 May 2024
- The Orange Revolution ( Помаранчева революція|translit=Pomarancheva revoliutsiia ) was a series of protests and political ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged at the Institute for Social ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- The climate of India comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large geographic scale and varied topography, making generalizations ...54 KB (7,582 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- [[Image:Harrris Museum, Preston 1-Oct-07 232-0021.jpg|thumb|right|220px|[[The Harris Museum|(Preston) Harris Library]]]] In the early years of ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- Amenhotep I (sometimes read as Amenophis I and meaning "Amun is satisfied") was the second Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. His ...23 KB (3,603 words) - 02:51, 24 July 2023
- <!-- New version: {{Number|number=9 | 9 | prev = 8 | next = 10 | range = (digits) | cardinal = 9 nine | ordinal = 9th | ordinal_text = ninth ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- Sun Zi (Chinese: 孫, 子, Sūn Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu) (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵, 法) ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Centro-fotografico-students.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|Public libraries are useful ...24 KB (3,446 words) - 06:19, 15 June 2023
- Doris May Lessing CH, OBE (née Tayler; October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013) was a British writer, author of novels including The Grass is Singing ...22 KB (3,145 words) - 21:11, 26 March 2024
- 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
- category:image wanted Jiří Trnka (February 24, 1912 Plzeň – December 30, 1969 Prague) was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture ...21 KB (3,254 words) - 02:02, 9 February 2023
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the 16th-most-populous metropolitan area in the world, with a metropolitan area ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Paranormal, meaning "outside the norm," is an umbrella ...25 KB (3,499 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- Åke Pettersson, "Letters," Sailplane & Gliding 57 (5)(Oct-Nov 2006):6 British Gliding Association. MacCready theory solves the ...22 KB (3,495 words) - 08:00, 24 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:crematorium.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 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
- Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and is often referred to as the "father of modernism ...24 KB (3,459 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- Philip IV (1268 – November 29, 1314), called the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King of France from 1285 ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after its inventor ...52 KB (7,562 words) - 23:57, 12 March 2023
- Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio commentator. He invented the "gossip column" ...22 KB (3,440 words) - 22:30, 3 May 2023
- Since the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan in 1947, the two neighboring nations have engaged in four wars. The first conflict ...51 KB (7,827 words) - 00:17, 28 July 2023
- A Copt refers to a native Egyptian Christian. The word "Coptic" was originally used in Classical Arabic to refer to Egyptians in general ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 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
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. It borders Afghanistan to the south, ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- North Korean defectors are Koreans who have fled North Korea seeking asylum in South Korea or other nations. Immediately following the truce ending ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:NBC, NewYork.jpg|thumb| The front entrance of the NBC Tower at 454 ...26 KB (4,061 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2022
- Deuterium (chemical symbol D or ²H) is a stable isotope of hydrogen, found in extremely small amounts in nature. The nucleus of deuterium, called ...31 KB (4,687 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30 1912), were two Americans credited ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
- category:Image wanted A graphic novel is a type of comic book. As the name suggests, it features the use of graphic art, but in a narrative form ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- Category:Law Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences [[File:-The Blackmail.png|thumb|250px|The harasser threatens the victim]] ...29 KB (4,311 words) - 10:14, 26 January 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:John Locke.jpg|right|300px|thumb|John Locke]] John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was a seventeenth-century ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- The New Economic Policy (NEP) ( новая экономическая политика (НЭП)|r=novaya ekonomicheskaya politika ) was an economic ...28 KB (4,055 words) - 00:29, 26 January 2023
- Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз Тито, May 7, 1892 – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (September 21, 1929 – June 10, 2003) was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria ...26 KB (3,658 words) - 20:09, 3 May 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Egypt is ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = University ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial ...25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. Until discovering his birth ...27 KB (4,049 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Banana is the common name for any of the very large, tree-like, herbaceous plants comprising the genus Musa of the flowering plant family Musaceae ...28 KB (4,308 words) - 04:25, 11 January 2023
- Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient copies of the Greek Bible. It was written in the fourth century C.E., in uncial ...31 KB (4,479 words) - 22:23, 7 January 2024
- Mahabalipuram (Tamil: மகாபலிபுரம்) (also known as Mamallapuram), a town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of ...31 KB (4,590 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany – February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German language novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century, ...29 KB (4,338 words) - 09:35, 11 April 2024
- William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- The term interreligious dialogue (or interfaith dialogue) refers to positive interaction between people of different faith communities, mostly ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:IQ_curve.png|thumb|350px|IQ tests are designed to give approximately this Gaussian ...35 KB (5,016 words) - 12:47, 7 February 2023
- Lady Jane Grey (July 1536 – February 12, 1554), a granddaughter of Henry VII and a grandniece of Henry VIII of England, reigned as uncrowned ...32 KB (5,051 words) - 22:48, 21 October 2022
- In Greek mythology, Athena (Greek: Άθηνά , Athēnâ, or Ἀθήνη , Athénē; Latin: Minerva) was a multifaceted Greek goddess whose spheres ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:ac-parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- Sydney is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.28 million. Sydney is the state capital ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- File:Parade-5-Oct-1831---Gregory.png|Parade at Tsaritsyn Meadow by Gregory Chernetsov (detail) File:Krylov_by_Olenin.jpg|Ivan Krylov by Peter ...31 KB (4,830 words) - 07:40, 12 March 2024
- Dhaka (previously Dacca; Ḍhākā; ɖʱaka ) is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka District. Located on the banks of the ...34 KB (4,736 words) - 20:15, 21 January 2023
- A contact lens (also known simply as a "contact") is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication [[Image:carelesstalk.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A U.S. propaganda poster that warns against ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born American actress, singer, and entertainer. She is regarded as being the ...31 KB (4,546 words) - 16:02, 6 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law A contract is a legally binding exchange of promises or agreement between parties. Contract ...41 KB (6,819 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- John Adams (October 30, 1735—July 4, 1826) was a revolutionary patriot, Massachusetts delegate to the First and Second Continental Congress ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- Sin is a term used to describe either an action that is prohibited in religious ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province ...33 KB (5,092 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
- The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest urban area of the country. With over 1 ...35 KB (5,077 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777]] ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 09:50, 28 September 2023
- Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; June 23, 1894 – May 28, 1972) was ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 - April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- Kulintang is a modern term for an instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied ...41 KB (6,102 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday |holiday_name = HalloweenHallowe'en ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 Gibbon's birthday is April 27, 1737 of the old style (O.S.) Julian calendar; England adopted the new style ...36 KB (5,457 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less ...43 KB (6,163 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945) was the United States capture of the island of Iwo Jima from Japan, producing some ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava River in central Bohemia, it is home to ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- The Chinese Civil War ( t=國共內戰|s=国共内战|p=Guógòng Neìzhàn|l=Nationalist-Communist Civil War ) or ( t=解放战争|s=解放战争 ...40 KB (5,930 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 - December 1, 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- Sumer (or Šumer) was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- An airship or dirigible is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. It is classified as an aerostatic craft, to ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 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
- A fairy tale is a story featuring folkloric characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals, and usually ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and the largest city in Pakistan. Located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, north ...42 KB (6,146 words) - 08:28, 28 February 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
- Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- Athens (ancient Greek: αἱ Ἀθῆναι (plural), evolving into the modern αι Αθήναι in Greek until recently, and η Αθήνα now (IPA ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- at the University of California at Berkeley, Oct-Nov. 1983. Retrieved November 10, 2007. |- |} ===Anthologies=== In French, almost all of Foucault ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been ...46 KB (6,869 words) - 10:00, 11 March 2023
- Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (IPA: [kruŋtʰeːp mahaːnakʰɔn] , Th-Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.ogg|กรุงเทพมหาน ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S ...49 KB (7,803 words) - 19:01, 25 October 2022
- The Solar system (or solar system) Capitalization of the name varies. The IAU, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies ...60 KB (9,448 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice President, he ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- Sir Roger Vernon Scruton FBA FRSL (February 27, 1944 - January 12, 2020) was an English philosopher and writer who specialized in aesthetics ...58 KB (8,069 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- Magna Carta (Latin for "Great Charter," literally "Great Paper"), also called Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional comic book superhero co-created by ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- <!-- --> group = Pashtuns پښتون {{unicode|Paṣtun |image = [[Image:Pashtuns (ethnic group).jpg|300px|]] |caption ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- J. Robert Oppenheimer The meaning of the "J" in J. Robert Oppenheimer has been the source of confusion among many. Historians Alice ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription ...67 KB (9,999 words) - 15:03, 30 April 2023
- In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians or the original ...73 KB (10,603 words) - 12:23, 7 May 2024
- Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods of tolerance and spasms of antisemitic violence. In the nineteenth century ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil War (1861–1865), fought in North America within the territory of the United ...63 KB (9,343 words) - 03:27, 24 July 2023
- The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers and also called in Arabic ar| بلاط الشهداء (Balâṭ al-Shuhadâ’) ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied invasion of Normandy, part of the Normandy Campaign. It began on June 6, ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region ("Région ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- Hernán(do) Cortés, Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish explorer, military commander, and colonizer whose ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the mammalian species Homo sapiens, a group of ground-dwelling, tailless primates ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- Thessaloniki (/ˌθɛsələˈniːki/; Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη [θesaloˈnici]), also known as Thessalonica (English: /ˌθɛsələˈnaɪkə ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024