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- Realism is a widely used term in the arts. In literature, it came into being as a response to Romanticism. While Romanticism focused on the inner ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 01:40, 8 December 2022
- Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko ( Александр Михайлович Родченко ), December 5|1891|23 November – December 3, 1956 ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- quot; television programs and photo-realism in art. This artistic ... quot; television programs and photo-realism in art. He appeared in ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- Changdeokgung (Changdeok Palace or Palace of Prospering Virtue) is a palace set within a large park in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the ...8 KB (1,063 words) - 01:18, 4 December 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
- goal here is primarily speed and not photo-realism. In fact, here exploitations ... When the goal is photo-realism, techniques are employed such as ray ...34 KB (4,961 words) - 02:33, 8 January 2024
- of a photo, a taste of what would become Photo-Realism 30 years later. ===Regionalism, the Mid-West and South-West=== Grant Wood's Fall Plowing ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 – February 21, 1894), was a wealthy and generous French painter. Caillebotte originally sought a career ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 01:24, 27 July 2023
- Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg ( Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг ) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Biography Category:Communication Seymour, David [[Image:Bill-lang-LIFE-staff.jpg|thumb|right|200 ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that ...14 KB (2,031 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- Computer animation is the art of creating moving images through the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. It ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 00:25, 8 January 2024
- category:image wanted Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photojournalist most famed for ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- Nikon Corporation (株式会社ニコン; Kabushiki-gaisha Nikon) ( 7731 ), also known as Nikon or Nikon Corp., is a Japanese company specializing ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 – December 10, 1882) was an American photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- Tettigoniidae is a major family of "long-horned grasshoppers" in the suborder Ensifera of the order Orthoptera, characterized by strong ...11 KB (1,513 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The Serengeti Plain, located in north-central Tanzania, (Africa) is world renowned as an ideal location for wildlife and nature photography. ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer whose ground-breaking technical advances and attention to principles ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 18:19, 20 July 2023
- Constructivist architecture was a form of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. It combined advanced ...17 KB (2,374 words) - 02:43, 8 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- Knossos, also spelled Knossus, Cnossus, Gnossus (in traditional Greek Κνωσός, in Mycenaean Greek ko-no-so, and ku-ni-su in Minoan), is ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
- 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
- Korean empress Queen Min was assassinated in the early hours of October 8, 1895, at Okho-ru (옥호루, 玉壺樓) Pavilion in the Geoncheonggung ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the commune of Pompeii. It ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель ( 13 July|1894|1 July – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- Edward Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was an American pioneer in the history of photography and its struggle to be accepted as ...20 KB (3,055 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in ...21 KB (3,460 words) - 01:27, 19 March 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Capa, Robert Robert Capa (October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was ...13 KB (2,002 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. More than ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823 - January 15, 1896), was a celebrated American photographer whose rise to prominence occurred largely in the years ...9 KB (1,405 words) - 16:51, 7 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
- Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American scholar and writer who is considered to be one of the most important ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- Tikal (or Tik’al, according to the more current orthography) is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Mayan peoples—a people who ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 23:34, 30 April 2023
- The uncertainty principle, sometimes called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, states that interaction and mechanical action come in quanta ...26 KB (4,014 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Canon, Inc. (キヤノン株式会社, Kyanon Kabushiki Gaisha 7751 , CAJ ) is a Japanese multinational corporation that specializes in imaging ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library, ...13 KB (1,876 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria and a city within that territory which serves as the nation's capital ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter of the American Old ...32 KB (5,281 words) - 16:31, 29 January 2024
- About eight hundred Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of trees (rarely shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. There are ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 12:22, 21 January 2023
- The Harmandir Sahib (Punjabi: ਹਰਿਮੰਦਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ) or Darbar Sahib (Punjabi: ਦਰਬਾਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ), also known as ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 18:54, 23 June 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Philosophy [[Image:Hogarth-satire-on-false-pespective-1753.jpg|thumb|right ...52 KB (7,802 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- The Bolshoi Theater ( Большой театр , Bol'shoy Teatr, Large Theater) is a theater and opera company in Moscow, Russia, which ...6 KB (876 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Reuters-Building-30SC.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Reuters Building in ...17 KB (2,456 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after İstanbul. The city is located in the northwestern part of the ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- A caterpillar is the larval stage of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are essentially ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- Category:Media Organizations [[Image:450px-The_associated_press_building_in_new_york_city.jpg|thumb|250px|The Associated Press Building in ...15 KB (2,343 words) - 05:02, 18 August 2023
- Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American dancer, singer, and actor. Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 14:44, 23 July 2022
- Founded perhaps as early as the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic location in ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- Gravel is rock that is of a certain particle size range. In geology, gravel is any loose rock that is larger than two millimeters (mm) (about ...6 KB (948 words) - 18:27, 20 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Optical grey squares orange brown.svg|thumb|200 px|An optical ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (December 2, 1924 - February 20, 2010) was an American statesman and military leader. He retired as a general from the ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein ( Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн ) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- Hallasan (한라산, 漢拏山), a shield volcano on Jeju Island of South Korea, is the highest mountain in South Korea. Along with Jirisan and ...6 KB (934 words) - 22:48, 3 August 2023
- Parsnip is a hardy, biennial, strongly-scented plant (Pastinaca sativa), which is a member of the parsley family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae), ...7 KB (1,014 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts ...7 KB (1,029 words) - 15:22, 10 December 2023
- Dorothea Lange (May 25, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her ...14 KB (2,023 words) - 17:26, 30 January 2024
- category:fix cite refs {{Infobox Writer | name = Osip Mandelstam | image = Osip Mandelstam.jpg | imagesize = 150px | caption = ...14 KB (1,927 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- A halo ( ἅλως ; also known as a nimbus, glory, or gloriole) is a ring of light used in religious art, sculpture, and iconography to depict ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- In the arts, Baroque is a period as well as the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged ...18 KB (2,561 words) - 01:36, 11 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Banshee.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Banshee. photo by ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 07:29, 20 September 2023
- Algiers ( الجزائر or Al Jaza'ir, Alger ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the second largest country on ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically as possible ...23 KB (3,448 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and ...10 KB (1,531 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Hyperopia or hypermetropia, commonly known as farsightedness or longsightedness, is an abnormal eye condition whereby there is better visual ...9 KB (1,278 words) - 13:21, 4 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Loch-Ness-Monster.jpg|thumb|400px|Loch Ness Monster ...23 KB (3,593 words) - 16:55, 6 November 2023
- Martha Jane Canary-Burke, better known as Calamity Jane (May 1, 1852 - August 1, 1903), was a frontiers woman and professional scout. She gained ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- A cathedral is an impressive Christian church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great Cathedrals of the world represent ...26 KB (4,257 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- Mongolia (Mongolian: Монгол Улс) is a landlocked country located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia is ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- The Aswan Dam, located in Aswan, Egypt, tames the Nile River and utilizes the power of the river for a variety of social and economic causes ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 18:40, 19 August 2023
- Sohn Kee-Chung (August 29, 1912 – November 15, 2002) became the first Korean athlete to win an Olympic medal when he won the gold medal in ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 15:58, 14 October 2022
- The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, refers to an article by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 13:50, 2 February 2023
- An artificial island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed by natural processes. Such islands have been created ...9 KB (1,326 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2023
- Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the "Texas Troubadour," was an American singer and songwriter ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and conservationist remembered for his iconic black and ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. UNCTAD is the ...10 KB (1,369 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in many parts of the world, which directs honor and reverence towards ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was an American bank robber and alleged killer, romanticized ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR ...20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:18, 5 December 2022
- Molds (American English) or moulds (British English) are microscopic, multicellular fungi. They are generally composed of hyphae (filamentous ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- Katō Hiroyuki (加藤弘之,Katō Hiroyuki August 5, 1836 – February 9, 1916) was an educator, political theorist, statesman, and leader of ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Website | name = Live Search | logo = | screenshot = | caption = | url ...23 KB (3,241 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox_Person | name = Walker Percy | other_names = | image = | caption = | birth_date = May 28, 1916 | birth_place ...9 KB (1,310 words) - 18:46, 17 April 2023
- Ashdod ( אַשְׁדּוֹד ; إسدود , Isdud), located in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea coast, is a city of over ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- <!-- Glitch in calculations equations under Notable Features. --> {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Nanda Devi and Valley of ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 01:17, 11 November 2022
- The Semmering Railway, in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering pass to Mürzzuschlag, was the first mountain railway ...10 KB (1,532 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- Crazy Horse (Lakota: Thašųka Witko, literally "his-horse is-crazy"), ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877, was a major war leader of the ...19 KB (3,137 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAF (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Percy Aldridge Grainger (July 8, 1882 – February 20, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer and champion of the saxophone and the Concert ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- (Лазарь Маркович Лисицкий, November 23, 1890 – December 30, 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Эль Лисицкий ...38 KB (5,595 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City and ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- Category:Media Professionals Otis, Harrison Gray :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States Representative and Senator ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- The Samaritan Pentateuch is the text of the the first five books of the Bible, also called the Torah or Books of Moses, that is used by the Samaritans ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1,700 islands in the southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida ...27 KB (4,181 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body and an opening at the top, called the mouth. It may be made of glass, clay ...10 KB (1,456 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:I samma ögonblick var hon förvandlad till en ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- Sanchi refers to a small village in India located 46 km north-east of Bhopal, and ten km from Besnagar and Vidisha in the central part of the ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 03:10, 23 December 2022
- Molasses is generally defined as a thick, dark syrup that is the final liquid residue obtained in the preparation of sucrose (commercial sugar ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 13:05, 10 March 2023
- John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- Conway Twitty (September 1, 1933 - June 5, 1993) was one of the United States' most successful rock and country music artists of the twentieth ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 02:52, 8 January 2024
- James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, ...25 KB (3,865 words) - 16:36, 30 January 2023
- The Potawatomi (also spelled Pottawatomie or Pottawatomi) are a Native American people originally of the Great Lakes region. They traditionally ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 00:29, 12 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:1903sweatshopchicago.jpg|thumb|350 px|Photo taken ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of views concerned with the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the ...21 KB (2,883 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) invented roll film and an easy-to-operate camera that he brand-named the Kodak. He founded ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 11:03, 6 November 2022
- 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
- The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven ( t=天壇|s=天坛|p=Tiāntán ; Manchu: Abkai mukdehun) is a complex of Taoist buildings ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- Alvin Langdon Coburn (June 11, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an early twentieth century photographer who became a key figure in the development ...23 KB (3,410 words) - 08:45, 23 July 2023
- Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In the post ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- Category:Biography Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Anthropology Curtis, Edward S. {{Infobox Person |name=Edward Sheriff ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- In physics, acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity—that is, the change of velocity with time. An object is said to undergo ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern Europe. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it ...40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- Samaritans today are both a religious and an ethnic group located in the Palestinian territory and Israel. Ethnically, they are descendents of ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- The Joint Security Area (JSA) or Panmunjom, often called the "Truce Village" in both the media Lee Jong-Heon, Panmunjom, South Korea ...29 KB (4,546 words) - 06:45, 27 February 2023
- Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- French Guiana is an overseas department of France, located on the northern coast of South America. Like the other French departments, French ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 10:54, 11 April 2024
- Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 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
- Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province in the southern part of the People's Republic of China. The city ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- Achille-Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer who created within the style referred to as Impressionist music ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- Rosh Hashanah ( ראש השנה , literally "head of the year") is a Jewish holiday, commonly referred to as the "Jewish New Year ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- |- align = "center" | |width = "25"| | [[Image:Potentiometer symbol.svg|50px]] |- align = "center" | ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
- The Andersonville prison, located at Camp Sumter, was the largest Confederate military prison during the American Civil War. The site of the ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 19:58, 26 July 2023
- Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 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
- Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit (OM), Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) (November 22, 1913 Lowestoft, Suffolk – ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in and around Ji'an, Jilin in the People's Republic of China, received ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- Hermann Hesse ( [ˈhɛr.man ˈhɛ̞.sɘ] ) (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a Nobel Prize–winning German-Swiss novelist and poet. Hesse ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- Baghdad ( بغداد Baġdād ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also coterminous with. With a municipal population ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Category:Economists Commons, John R. John Rogers Commons (October 13, 1862 – May 11, 1945) was an American political economist, sociologist ...13 KB (1,864 words) - 07:07, 3 August 2022
- Salamander is the common term for any member of the order Caudata (also called Urodela) of the class Amphibia. Although lizard-like in external ...12 KB (1,655 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asian earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005, designates a major earthquake with ...24 KB (3,487 words) - 06:41, 13 June 2023
- Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was a Tony Award winning star of stage and film musicals, well known for her powerful voice ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton—formerly île Royale, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn, Míkmaq: Únamakika, simply: ...26 KB (3,747 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- Chive, generally used in the plural as chives, is the common name for a bulbous, fragrant, herbaceous plant, Allium schoenoprasum, which is characterized ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 23:56, 13 January 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death is disputed) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Wallenberg ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- 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
- Effa Manley (March 27, 1897 - April 16 1981) was an American sports executive and the first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. She ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 02:46, 17 January 2023
- Samuel Wilberforce (September 7, 1805 – July 19, 1873) was an English bishop, third son of William Wilberforce the anti-slave campaigner and ...12 KB (1,800 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, porcelain, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 23:34, 30 April 2023
- O ahu (usually Oahu outside Hawaiian and Hawaiian English) is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- William Henry Seward, Sr. (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Times, The (London) The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 17:36, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The Daily Mirror, often referred to simply as The Mirror, is a British tabloid ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- A meteoroid is a small body of debris in the Solar System, roughly ranging in size from a sand grain to a boulder. If the body is larger, it ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- A compass (or mariner's compass) is a navigational instrument for finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized pointer free ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- A neurotransmitter is a chemical that relays information across the gap (synapse) between one neuron (nerve cell) and an adjacent neuron or a ...16 KB (2,070 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Chicago-ChicagoTribuneBuilding01.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Chicago Tribune building]] The Chicago Tribune, founded ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- Category:Public {| class="infobox" style="width: 25em;" |----- align=center bgcolor="#9966FF" !colspan=2 align=center ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- Earl Kenneth Hines, known as Earl "Fatha" (for "Father") Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983), was an African-American ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa. Its hilly terrain, which gives it the title "Land ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- Gunung Mulu National Park near Miri, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, encompasses remarkable caves and karst formations in a mountainous equatorial ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 17:58, 12 July 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Biometrics.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|At Disney World, biometric measurements are taken from the fingers of multi-day pass ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 17:56, 31 October 2023
- Teotihuacán was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas in the first half of the first millennium C.E.. It was also one of the largest ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe. It involves studies of the physical properties (luminosity ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 18:28, 19 August 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
- Fax (short for facsimile, from Latin fac simile, "make similar," that is, "make a copy") is a telecommunication technology ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 01:51, 26 March 2024
- Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 - April 1, 1991), an American dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- Abstraction is the process of generalization by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically in order ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology Gulag (ГУЛАГ) is an acronym used to describe the system of prison camps ...26 KB (3,838 words) - 12:39, 24 January 2023
- Category:Psychologists Hall, G. Stanley [[Image:G_Stanley_Hall.jpg|thumb|250px|Granville Stanley Hall, c. 1910]] Granville Stanley Hall (February ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Kilimanjaro with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawensi, and Shira, is an inactive stratovolcano in north-eastern Tanzania. Although it does ...13 KB (1,915 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at the age of 12 that he was going to be a writer. He became one of the most ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- Ashgabat (Aşgabat) is the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, and is situated between the Kara Kum desert and ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vellum Online Etymological Dictionary] ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- The field of electronics comprises the study and use of systems that operate by controlling the flow of electrons (or other charge carriers) ...15 KB (2,062 words) - 16:04, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:UnitedPressInternational.jpg|right|thumb|400 px|Front of UPI Headquarters ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- A transistor is a semiconductor device that uses a small amount of voltage or electrical current to control a larger change in voltage or current ...30 KB (4,329 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2023
- The dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument of two main varieties. In the case of the hammered dulcimer, the strings are stretched over a trapezoidal ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- 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
- The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the Qutub Minar standing out as the most famous. ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- Niagara Falls is a set of massive waterfalls located on the Niagara River in eastern North America, on the border between the United States and ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- 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
- Marcel Mangel (March 22, 1923 – September 22, 2007), better known by his stage name Marcel Marceau, was a well-known mime. He performed all ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng|l=10,000 Li (里) long wall ) is a series of stone and earthen ...14 KB (2,322 words) - 07:41, 4 January 2024
- Irrigation is an artificial application of water to the soil, usually to assist with the growth of crops. In crop production, it is mainly used ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 13:24, 6 March 2024
- Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology to aid in the design and drafting (drafting involves the production of technical ...14 KB (2,113 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist who is widely considered to be the most important ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- Peter Carl Fabergé (original name Carl Gustavovich Fabergé) (May 30, 1846 – September 24, 1920) was a Russian jeweler, best known for the ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- North Carolina is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that ...37 KB (5,288 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- Kang Kam-chan or Gang Gam-chan (948 – 1031) was a medieval Korean government official and military commander during the early Goryeo Dynasty ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 07:45, 23 January 2023
- Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National Monument and national preserve located in the Snake River Plain of central ...35 KB (5,657 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 - November 16, 1960) was an iconic American actor, voted King of Hollywood by an adoring public throughout the ...25 KB (3,981 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- Nevada is a state located in the western region of the United States of America. The state's nickname is "The Silver State" due ...34 KB (5,052 words) - 04:36, 11 March 2023
- Mount Ararat (Turkish: Ağrı Dağı, Armenian: Արարատ, Kurdish: Agirî, Greek: Ἀραράτ, Persian: آرارات, Georgian: არარა ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving one term from 1889 to 1893 ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world's second largest island after Greenland, having become separated from ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- The Nilgiris District is in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Nilgiri (Tamil : நீலகிரி or Blue Mountains when translated into English ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – 250 C.E.) was arguably the most influential Indian Buddhist thinker after Gautama Buddha, who founded the Madhyamaka ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- John Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:minerals.jpg|right|frame|An assortment of minerals. Photo from [http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/mineral.html ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 22:37, 22 June 2022
- Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- Truman García Capote (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels, and plays are recognized ...40 KB (6,280 words) - 18:27, 2 May 2023
- Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor who appeared in 74 films from ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- 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
- The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that comprises a deep water basin (the Aleutian Basin) that rises up through a narrow ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- The Great Pyramid is the oldest and the largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt in Africa. The ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 20:54, 26 September 2023
- Robert James Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004) was an American television producer and actor. His first TV appearance was in 1948 ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 08:42, 16 November 2023
- Audrey Hepburn (May 4, 1929—January 20, 1993) was an Academy Award winning actress, a favorite leading lady during an era when the Golden Years ...27 KB (4,189 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Natural satellites of other planets are also called moons, although they usually have their ...39 KB (6,162 words) - 13:13, 10 March 2023
- Jodhpur (जोधपुर), is the second largest city in the state of Rajasthan in north India. It was formerly the seat of a princely state ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 06:32, 5 April 2024
- Tahiti is the largest island of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The capital ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 02:52, 27 February 2023
- Nebraska is a state located on the Great Plains of the United States of America. Once considered part of the Great American Desert, it is now ...48 KB (6,855 words) - 04:25, 11 March 2023
- William Motter Inge ( ˈɪndʒ "inj"; [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Inge Inge at Dictionary.com] Retrieved May 22, 2008. ...13 KB (2,098 words) - 11:04, 9 May 2023
- 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
- Pistachio is a common name for a small, deciduous tree, Pistacia vera, of western and central Asia, that produces a commercially popular "Pistachio ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 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
- Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet Union, bordering Russia, Romania and the Black Sea. From at least the ninth ...72 KB (10,102 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- Betelgeuse (also called Alpha Orionis, α Orionis, or α Ori) is one of the brightest and largest known stars, though it is not one of the most ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (April 14, 1904 – May 21, 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an English theater and film actor particularly ...34 KB (5,145 words) - 05:10, 3 August 2022
- Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954) was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant, and original ...14 KB (2,268 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- Photocopying is a process that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply. Most current photocopiers use a technology ...16 KB (2,312 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Seminole |image=[[Image:Osceola.jpg|240px ...17 KB (2,474 words) - 16:40, 24 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites Location=Saqqara | Left=105 | Top=46 [[Image:Saqqara ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- Edward Albert Shils (July 1, 1910 – January 23, 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American actress, comedian, and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- Fatehpur Sikri ( फतेहपूर सिकरी , فتحپور سیکری ), a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 00:44, 25 March 2024
- The Chennakesava Temple (Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಚೆನ್ನಕೇಶವ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ), originally called Vijayanarayana Temple ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- Drug, broadly defined, is a term used for any chemical substance that when introduced to the body of a living organism has a non-food impact ...18 KB (2,517 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Psychologists Morgan, C. Lloyd [[File:C. Lloyd Morgan. Photogravure by Synnberg ...18 KB (2,586 words) - 21:54, 12 February 2024
- Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin' Wolf or sometimes, The Howlin' Wolf, was an influential ...14 KB (2,286 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- Utah, a state located in the western United States, was the 45th state admitted to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation and thus the electromagnetic ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Life is an American magazine that publishes interviews, essays, cartoons, and ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 22:50, 25 October 2022
- The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer), an iconic symbol of the Cold War, was initially constructed starting on August 13, 1961, and dismantled ...32 KB (5,068 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists Sumner, William Graham Category:Public [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- Ray Charles, born Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), was a pioneering American pianist, musician and entertainer who ...14 KB (2,284 words) - 01:32, 8 December 2022
- Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- Ethane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula C2H6. It is classified as an alkane, that is, an aliphatic hydrocarbon. It is the only ...16 KB (2,309 words) - 01:40, 19 March 2022
- The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the Soviet forces and the Mujahideen insurgents that were fighting to overthrow ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- 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
- Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Hitler (February 6, 1912 – April 30, 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and briefly his wife. ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 04:47, 23 March 2024
- The Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) was an armed struggle during the Second World War by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to liberate ...33 KB (5,102 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- 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
- Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an American sportswoman who, on August 22, 1950, became the first African-American ...19 KB (2,597 words) - 08:38, 23 July 2023
- A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:Supermarket_check_out.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Supermarket ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 13:56, 28 April 2023
- Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), was a French writer, best known for the numerous ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- 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
- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21,1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer, who is ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Refugees arrive in Travnik, ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- Xu Guangqi ( t=徐光啟|s=徐光启|p=Xú Guāngqǐ|w=Hsu Kuang-ch'i , Christian name Paul Hsü) (1562 – 1633), courtesy name Zixian ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels describing ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 15:59, 6 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Photo 37.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Experimental work in progress in a chemistry laboratory.]] Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:MetCemBrunswigSphynx.jpg|thumb|300 px|Marble sphinx ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Goya War3.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Etching by Goya.]] Hanging is the suspension of a person ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- The basic principle behind the particle accelerator is simple: Collide things together at high energy and detect what comes out. In 1909, Ernest ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (Polish: [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska]; July 2, 1923 – February 1, 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on earth. It is an active shield volcano, with a volume estimated at approximately 18,000 cubic miles (75,000 km³), ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. The process is capable of producing multiple copies of the same ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 22:59, 30 November 2022
- Alvin Ailey, Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an African American modern dancer, dance teacher and choreographer, who founded the ...17 KB (2,746 words) - 08:42, 23 July 2023
- Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Martinique-born French author and essayist. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- Zion National Park is a United States national park located in the southwestern part of the country, near Springdale, Utah. It is a part of the ...32 KB (4,872 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Bean," or simply "Hawk," was the first important ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- Particulates, also referred to as particulate matter (PM), aerosols, or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in a ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2022
- Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 – July 23, 1923), better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- Fire apparatus (or firefighting apparatus) is a generic term that refers to a vehicle designed to fight fires, such as a fire engine or fire ...18 KB (2,795 words) - 19:52, 26 March 2024
- The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British overseas territory (formerly a British ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for his taciturn New England ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- Alfred A. Knopf (September 12, 1892 – August 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder of Alfred A. Knopf ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was an American college football coach and owner of 323 victories ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox baseball player no image | name=Joe DiMaggio | | birthdate= November 25, 1914 | birthplace= | dead=dead ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 13:46, 1 August 2022
- The Bering Strait ( Берингов пролив Beringov proliv) is a formidable sea strait linking the icy Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- Dr. Muhammad Yunus ( মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস , pronounced bn-Latn|Muhammôd Iunus ) (born June 28, 1940), is a Bangladeshi banker ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was a dancer, singer, and actor who was discovered at the age of ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 17:21, 30 January 2024
- Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona. ...18 KB (2,655 words) - 02:03, 9 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- Antimony (chemical symbol Sb, atomic number 51) is a metalloid with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metal ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- Category:Paranormal [[File:Bermuda Triangle.png|thumb|300px|right|One version of the Bermuda Triangle area]] The Bermuda Triangle, also known ...20 KB (3,000 words) - 11:18, 28 September 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
- Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was a prominent American actor who transformed Hollywood with his innovative practice of ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 45th by total area, and 43rd by land ...45 KB (6,488 words) - 23:23, 5 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = Clark University ...22 KB (3,029 words) - 10:50, 19 December 2023
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃.tɛg.zy.pe.ʀi] ) (June 29, 1900 – presumably July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was also worshiped in ancient Egypt. In Ugaritic her name appears as ‘nt and ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument preserves the site of the June 25, 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, near Crow Agency, Montana ...20 KB (3,068 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- Mount Fuji (富士山; Fuji-san in Japanese) is the tallest volcano and the highest mountain in Japan. Mount Fuji is still considered an active ...18 KB (2,819 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- Percy Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957) was a Canadian-born British painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- 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
- A castrato is a male, artificially produced soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto singer whose voice is artificially changed through castration before ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that played in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. The brothers were Chico (Leonard ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into an electrical current, which is then made ...20 KB (2,960 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:800px-Smithsonian Building NR.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Smithsonian Institution ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 - November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer especially noted for his work with the Berlin ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- Sun Myung Moon ( ko|문선명 , ko|文鮮明 ), (February 25, 1920 (lunar: January 6, 1920) – September 3, 2012), was born in North Pyeongan ...69 KB (10,533 words) - 13:50, 28 April 2023
- Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range ...19 KB (2,931 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923 ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 - May 18, 1955) was a tireless educator and civil rights activist born to former slaves in Mayesville ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson ...20 KB (3,091 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- Pluto, also designated (134340) Pluto or 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and the tenth largest observed ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 17:02, 26 September 2023
- Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress whose life encompassed a true rags-to-riches story. Born ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 07:08, 23 August 2023
- Category:Public Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth in order of size. It is the largest ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- The photoelectric effect is a quantum electronic phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic ...23 KB (3,443 words) - 04:26, 24 November 2022
- Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With 3,579,212 residents in 2006, it was the 28th most ...50 KB (7,185 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an important twentieth century female American pop singer, drummer, and with her ...18 KB (2,813 words) - 07:12, 5 October 2022
- The Brazilian Atlantic Islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves are part of Brazil's Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828–March 24 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre, best known for novels such ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American statesman and politician. He was known for his intellectual demeanor ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- category:image wanted {{Thoroughbred racehorse infobox |horsename= Seabiscuit |image= [[Image:Seabiscuit statue.png|right|thumb|350px]] ...19 KB (3,089 words) - 17:34, 25 January 2023
- The Chesapeake Bay is the largest inlet in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and forms the largest estuary in the United States. It is one of the most ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 18:31, 8 December 2023
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (or Walmart as written in its new logo) is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department ...58 KB (8,209 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Beverly Sills |Img = |Img_capt = Beverly Sills ...18 KB (2,846 words) - 03:30, 1 October 2023
- A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits incoherent, narrow-spectrum light when it is electrically biased in the forward ...41 KB (6,290 words) - 01:16, 26 October 2022
- The Chechen Republic or, informally, Chechnya, (sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but lighter in terms of both music and subject matter. Because it is closely related ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- George Catlett Marshall, Jr. (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, general of the army, secretary of state ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish-born actress who was prominent during Hollywood ...20 KB (3,159 words) - 16:14, 18 July 2022
- Taejo Lee Sung-gye founded Joseon (July 1392 - August 1910) (also Chosun, Choson, Chosŏn) in 1392. The dynasty continued until 1910, lasted ...39 KB (5,704 words) - 03:49, 6 August 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
- The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس, Qanā al-Suways), is a large, artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Osama bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن) (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- 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
- A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument currently called a harpsichord, but also the ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 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
- *For the history of the Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The History of South Korea formally begins with the establishment of ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:47, 1 February 2024
- is a masterpiece of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- Nathu La (Nepali: नाथू ला, IAST: Nāthū Lā) a mountain pass in the Himalayas located on the Indo–China border connecting the ...20 KB (2,900 words) - 23:53, 29 May 2023
- Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania–born zoologist, biologist, ecologist and best-selling ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre, was a mass execution of Polish citizens by the order of Soviet authorities in 1940. ...48 KB (7,094 words) - 22:04, 3 March 2023
- Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. Sontag was ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- Khaleda Zia ( খালেদা জিয়া ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, the first woman ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016) was an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- Andrew Warhola, (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), or Andy Warhol as he is known to the world, was an American renaissance man. Known primarily ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 18:00, 27 July 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
- Lassen Volcanic National Park is a United States National Park in northeastern California. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak; the ...22 KB (3,291 words) - 17:48, 25 October 2022
- Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, a Jewish author who ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- Bukhara ( Buxoro , Бухоро , بُخارا , Бухара ), also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian βuxārak ("lucky ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Subclass Labyrinthodontia - extinct Subclass Lepospondyli - extinct Subclass Lissamphibia Order Anura (or (Salientia) Order Caudata (or ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, social critic, and political activist. Rising to national prominence ...20 KB (2,905 words) - 05:30, 17 December 2022
- Category:Image wanted John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 19:16, 3 August 2022
- Category:Public color = lightgreen| name = Rose image = [[Image:Wild rose flower.jpg|250px]]| caption = Rosa canina (Dog Rose) flower ...22 KB (3,504 words) - 21:40, 15 August 2022
- The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the nineteenth-century United States attempted to escape ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland of South America. The city is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere, the fourth-largest ...23 KB (3,613 words) - 12:54, 22 January 2023
- Category:Public Tagore, Rabindranath [[Image:Tagore3.jpg|thumb|200px|Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- 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
- Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 04:01, 15 August 2023
- William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi who is regarded as one of ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 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
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is regarded by most, if not all, Latter Day Saint groups as ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- Germaine Greer (January 29, 1939 - ) is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist, and scholar of early modern English literature, widely ...21 KB (3,238 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Housing [[Image:Hohokam cliff dwelling (Montezuma Castle), Arizona.jpg|thumb ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- Category:image wanted [[File:Abbott and Costello circa 1940s.JPG|thumb|200px|Photo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello from their NBC Radio program.]] ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- Lin Biao ( c=林彪|p=Lín Biāo|w=Lin Piao ) (December 5, 1907 - September 13, 1971) was a Chinese Communist military leader who was instrumental ...22 KB (3,630 words) - 04:11, 29 October 2022
- Arlington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Arlington, Virginia, near The Pentagon, and directly across the Potomac ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties hold the royal remains of emperors from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644–1912 ...24 KB (3,553 words) - 16:44, 12 February 2024
- Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, at the intersection of the borders of the provinces ...24 KB (3,489 words) - 17:08, 10 November 2022
- The Cologne Cathedral ( Kölner Dom , officially de|Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only works, Les Chants ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- Category:Public Rockefeller, Nelson [[Image:Rockefellerportrait.jpg|right|frame|Official White House photograph of Vice President Rockefeller, 1975]] ...23 KB (3,392 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831–September 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was a strong opponent of slavery ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- The Falkland Islands ( Islas Malvinas ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles from the coast of Argentina, 671 miles ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- 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 Pythia (Gr. Πύθια) was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. The Pythia ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- The Timurids, self-designated GurkānīThe Columbia Encyclopedia, [http://www.bartleby.com/65/ti/Timurids.html Timurids.] Retrieved October 23 ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far and graphein = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Zulus |image ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- In geology and environmental science, erosion is the displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock and other particles) by the agents of wind, water ...24 KB (3,723 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- Makarios III (Greek: Μακάριος Γ, born Mihail Christodoulou Mouskos) (August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
- Vivien Mary, Lady Olivier (November 5, 1913 – July 8, 1967), known as Vivien Leigh, was an English actress who won two Academy Awards for her ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 17:29, 16 August 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
- Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in the country's northwest situated about 30 miles (~50 km) south of the ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula, Africa's westernmost point. It is Senegal's political, ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- Crocodile is the common name for any species belonging to the reptile family Crocodylidae (order Crocodilia). The term also is used to refer ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- Category:Public {{Infobox_President | name=Theodore Roosevelt | nationality=american | image name=President Theodore Roosevelt 1904.jpg ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ...28 KB (3,844 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi أبو بكر البغدادي ; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, ar|إبراهيم عواد ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- The Murray River, or River Murray and sometimes informally referred to as the "Mighty Murray," is Australia's largest river. It ...26 KB (4,062 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- Haiku (俳句) is a mode of Japanese poetry initiated through a late ninteenth century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku (発句) ...26 KB (4,075 words) - 16:44, 21 January 2024
- Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within the park is Bryce Canyon. Despite ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- A carburetor (North American spelling), or carburettor (Commonwealth spelling), is a device that blends air and fuel (usually gasoline) for an ...26 KB (4,190 words) - 19:11, 26 November 2023
- The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (in Korean, Wolli Kangron, hangul: 원리강론, hanja: 原理講論) is the main ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 20:52, 9 February 2024
- Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The park ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 10:33, 10 March 2023
- Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image=[[Image:Gilmanhall ...29 KB (4,229 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội, Hán Tự: 河内), estimated population 3,145,300 (2005), is the capital of Vietnam. From 1010 until 1802, it ...24 KB (3,621 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (June 4, 1867 – January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defense Forces, Marshal of ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- Diatom is the common name for a major group of unicellular or (less commonly) colonial algae comprising the protist taxon Bacillariophyceae ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- José P. Rizal (full name: José Prota Prota, not Protacio. Prota is a version of San Protasio (Saint Protasius/Protase). The name Protasio was ...46 KB (7,054 words) - 22:16, 9 December 2023
- 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
- category:image wantedSchindler, Oskar Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 - October 9, 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist who saved his Jewish ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area which takes up about one sixth ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- A machine gun is a fully-automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Military A prisoner of war (POW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy power ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- The Pagan Kingdom (849-1287) is considered to be the first Burmese empire. During the time of the Pyu kingdom, between about 500 and 950, the ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Henan ( c=河南 |p=Hénán |w=Ho-nan ), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the central part of the country. Its ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 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
- Santiago, officially Santiago de Chile, is the federal capital of Chile, and the center of its largest metropolitan area, known as "Greater ...25 KB (3,606 words) - 18:44, 25 January 2024
- Giant squid is the common name for any of the very large squid comprising the genus Architeuthis of the cephalopod family Architeuthidae, characterized ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 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
- A capacitor (or condenser "Condenser" is now considered an antiquated term for capacitor. ) is an electrical device that can store energy ...30 KB (4,519 words) - 19:31, 25 November 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the early twentieth century. In the face of mounting opposition and disastrous ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government whose primary mission today is collecting ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- Mount Tambora (or Tomboro) is an active stratovolcano on Sumbawa island, Indonesia. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic ...27 KB (3,837 words) - 17:13, 6 December 2023
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK), is an East Asian country in the northern half of the Korean ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox Celebrity | name = James Joseph Brown, Jr. | image = James Brown Live Hamburg 1973 1702730029.jpg ...25 KB (3,918 words) - 21:04, 20 March 2024
- Electronic engineering is a discipline that utilizes the behavior and effects of electrons for the production of electronic devices (such as ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson CBE (September 29, 1904 – April 6, 1996) was a British-American actress and singer. She was a major star at Metro ...27 KB (3,873 words) - 22:37, 26 July 2022
- William Howard "Willie" Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931) is a retired American baseball player who played the majority of his career with ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 15:22, 14 May 2023
- 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
- 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
- Nova Scotia ( ˌnəʊvəˈskəʊʃə ) (Latin for New Scotland; Alba Nuadh ; Nouvelle-Écosse ) is a Canadian province located on Canada's ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark June 10, 1921 – April 9, 2021) was a member of the British royal ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Zürich ( [ˈtsyːʁɪç] , Zürich German: Züri [ˈtsyɾi] , Zurich [zyʁiʃ] , in English generally Zurich, Zurigo [dzu'ɾiːgo] ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- Dolphins are largely marine cetaceans (order Cetacea) with many teeth that belong to the "toothed whales" suborder Odontoceti, along ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- Jonestown was a Marxist settlement in northwestern Guyana founded by Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple, mostly comprised of emigres from the Unites ...27 KB (4,143 words) - 00:03, 30 January 2024
- Munich ( München ˈmʏnçən Minga ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city in the country, with approximately 1.35 ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- Hokkaidō |北海道||literally "North Sea Circuit" , formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- Alcyonaria Zoantharia See text for orders. Corals are those marine invertebrates of the phylum Cnidaria and the class Anthozoa that have external ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group| |group=Yupik |image=[[Image:Edward S. Curtis ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), born Nathaniel Adams Coles, was a popular American jazz singer-songwriter and pianist. ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, as well as astronomical ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Mahadevi Verma (March 26, 1907 – September 11, 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer, and an eminent personality ...33 KB (4,286 words) - 22:07, 30 October 2023
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942, Seattle, Washington – September 18, 1970, London, England) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Hendrix ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- The Commonwealth of Dominica, commonly known as Dominica, is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. It is distinct and separate from the Dominican ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 17:13, 30 January 2024
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation of the Channel Islands by the Third Reich during World War II which lasted ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- {{ Infobox Settlement |official_name=Baku |native_name=Bakı |image_skyline =Baku Montage.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_flag = ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. An independent city until its consolidation into ...28 KB (4,109 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- William Ben Hogan (August 13, 1912 – July 25, 1997) was an American golfer who is generally considered one of the greatest golfers in the history ...31 KB (4,762 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- 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
- Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. It is the most densely populated area in the United ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, the country's second largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. It ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park lies in Australia's Northern Territory, east of the Petermann Ranges and the Petermann Aboriginal Land ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 01:31, 3 May 2023
- Toshirō Mifune ( ja|三船 敏郎 Mifune Toshirō [miɸɯne toɕiɺoː] , April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 04:42, 1 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- The Faeroe Islands (or Faroe Islands, sometimes simply called Faroes or Faeroes), meaning "Sheep Islands," are a group of islands in ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1926 – May 28, 1971) was an American soldier in World War II, who later became an actor, appearing in 44 American ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 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
- 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
- category:image wanted Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that maintain information stored in digital formats in order to ...34 KB (4,699 words) - 14:38, 29 January 2024
- 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
- Snake is any of the numerous elongate, limbless, scaled, carnivorous reptiles comprising the suborder Serpentes (or Ophidia) of the order Squamata ...54 KB (8,016 words) - 05:10, 13 October 2022
- A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services, organized for use, and maintained by a public body, an institution ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- A geisha is a traditional Japanese entertainer. Often confused with a courtesan, or a prostitute, geisha instead are known for their distinct ...30 KB (4,689 words) - 06:34, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[File:President John F. Kennedy Meets with National Association for the Advancement ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 23:05, 31 October 2023
- Category:Public Gould, Stephen Jay [[Image:Tyrannosaurus AMNH 5027.jpg|frame|250px|right]] Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002 ...30 KB (4,344 words) - 04:42, 28 April 2023
- Preservation, in library and information science, is activity concerned with maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records ...34 KB (4,751 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in unethical and deadly human experimentation ...57 KB (8,103 words) - 19:47, 9 February 2022
- Desmond Mpilo Tutu (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) was a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Norske nobelinstiutt 1.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|The Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.]] ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 11:39, 19 October 2023
- Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, formerly ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern New England, United States, is a narrow and steep fault-block ...33 KB (4,756 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- John von Neumann (Hungarian Margittai Neumann János Lajos) (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a mathematician who made contributions ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- The Tāj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. The Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān commissioned it as the final resting place for his favorite ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 03:53, 27 February 2023
- Western Sahara, located in northwestern Africa, is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. ...31 KB (4,505 words) - 17:20, 4 May 2023
- Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America that is rich in bauxite, although gold and oil reserves ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential and acclaimed American film director and producer. He also won an Academy ...59 KB (9,500 words) - 19:51, 9 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Memphis ...33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, soul, and spirit. ...60 KB (8,560 words) - 12:29, 1 February 2024
- Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev Григорий Евсеевич Зиновьев|p=ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj (j)ɪfˈsʲe(j)ɪvʲɪdʑ zʲɪˈnovʲjɪf ...36 KB (4,951 words) - 20:53, 31 January 2023
- Mount Everest--also known as Sagarmatha or Chomolungma--is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level ...31 KB (4,841 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Order of the Garter (KG), Order of New Zealand (ONZ), Order of the British Empire (KBE) (July 20, 1919 – January ...37 KB (5,516 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- 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
- RADAR is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine and map the location, direction, and/or speed of both moving and fixed objects ...32 KB (4,862 words) - 22:43, 7 December 2022
- Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. Jupiter and the other gas giants—Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—are ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located in the southern cone of South America. It is bordered by the nations of Brazil ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) (December 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability. Submarines ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Blacktriangle.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artist's depiction ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 01:37, 3 May 2023
- The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a crusading ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It is located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, 150 miles (240 kilometers ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Anneliese Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929—February/March, 1945) was a German born Jewish refugee who died in Bergen-Belsen. Her ...32 KB (5,043 words) - 06:52, 28 July 2023
- Category:Public Taft, William Howard {{Infobox_President | name=William Howard Taft | nationality=american | image name=William Howard Taft, Bain ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev (East Slavic: Святослав, ca. 942 – 972) was the warrior prince (or konung) of Kievan Rus'. The son of Igor ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity ...39 KB (5,412 words) - 23:24, 3 May 2023
- Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was a prominent United States businessman and political ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
- Morris Berg (March 2, 1902 – May 29, 1972) was an American professional baseball catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served ...35 KB (5,280 words) - 23:09, 26 April 2024
- The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's many regions, nations, and ethnic groups. The African continent comprises approximately ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 Richard W. Etulain, "From Billy the Kid: Thunder in the West," in With Bullets & Badges: Lawmen ...32 KB (5,164 words) - 17:41, 31 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Housing [[Image:Theiroquoislonghouse.png|thumb|250 px| An Iroquois longhouse]] ...35 KB (5,411 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis but also called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll ...31 KB (4,709 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- Walter Duranty (May 25, 1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born Anglo-American journalist who served as Moscow bureau chief of The New ...38 KB (5,441 words) - 22:25, 3 May 2023
- Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
