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- *Pu-239 + neutron -> fission fragments + 2.95 neutrons + 200 MeV. This excludes 10 MeV for unusable and hardly detectable neutrinos. ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- The Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代, Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- 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
- Astronomy in China has a very long history. Oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty (second millennium B.C.E.) record eclipses and novae. Detailed ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Li Houzhu ( c=李後主|p=Lǐ Hòuzhǔ|l=The Latter Lord Li , 936–978), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (南唐後主, literally "the ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[File:A print from 1845 shows cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.jpg ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: Fǎjiā; Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four main schools of thought ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Samarium (chemical symbol Sm, atomic number 62) is a bright silvery metal that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. It ...11 KB (1,437 words) - 02:07, 23 December 2022
- The Eight Banners (In Manchu: [[Image:jakūn gūsa.png|jakūn gūsa|20px]] jakūn gūsa, In Chinese: 八旗 baqí) were administrative military ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
- Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" in "Jizi" comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. Specific ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Zhou Dunyi (Chinese: 周敦颐/周敦頤; Pinyin: Zhōu Dūnyí; Wade-Giles: Chou Tun-yi; 1017-1073 C.E.), or Zhou Lianxi (周濂溪; Chou Lien ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 06:02, 13 June 2023
- Gu Kaizhi ( t=顧愷之|s=顾恺之|p=Gù Kǎizhī|w=Ku K'ai-chih ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded as ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- Huang Taiji (November 8, 1592 – September 21, 1643; reigned 1626 – 1643) ( c=皇太極|p=Huáng Tàijí ; transliteration from Manchu: Hong ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 17:48, 27 January 2022
- Oolong ( c=烏龍 → wūlóng) is a traditional Chinese tea somewhere between green (no oxidation) and black (fully oxidized) teas in oxidation ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- Electronegativity is one of the fundamental concepts for an understanding of chemical bonding. The first modern definition was suggested by Linus ...16 KB (2,171 words) - 15:58, 13 February 2024
- In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced in English as [ fʊŋ'ʃweɪ ] ("fung shway"), was known as ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- A modem (from modulate and demodulate) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates ...43 KB (6,933 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 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
- Qi Baishi ( s=齐白石|t=齊白石|p=Qí Báishí , also Ch'i Pai-shih or Ch'i Huang) (January 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 04:01, 7 December 2022
- 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
- The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), or Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор), was one of the largest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian ...40 KB (5,918 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- The guqin ( c=古琴|p=gǔqín|w=ku-ch'in ; kutɕʰin ; literally "ancient stringed instrument") is the modern name for a plucked ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- Empress Dowager Cixi1 ( c=慈禧太后|p=Cíxǐ Tàihòu|w=Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou ) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), (pronounced ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the supreme deva (god) of the Rigveda scripture. Known as the god of storms and ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- <!-- 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
- Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- Jin Shengtan ( t=金聖歎|s=金圣叹|p=Jīn Shèngtàn|w=Chin Shêng-t'an ) (1610?－ August 7, 1661), former name Jin Renrui (金人瑞 ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
- Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is one of the world's largest karst regions with 300 caves and grottoes ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 23:56, 18 September 2023
- Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religious tradition that has been passed down for centuries in oral or ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial arts. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring ...25 KB (3,699 words) - 06:17, 10 January 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
- Baekje (October 18 B.C.E. – August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally named Sipje, comprised the Three ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- Emperor Taizong of Tang ( c=唐太宗|p=táng tàizōng , January 23, 599 – July 10, 649), personal name Lǐ Shìmín ( c=李世民 ...60 KB (9,319 words) - 21:30, 31 December 2021
- Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Tea House.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Japanese style tea house at The Irish National ...29 KB (4,641 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- Bamboo comprises more than 1200 species of usually woody, perennial plants in the true grass family Poaceae, occurring primarily in tropical ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- ( c=福建 |p=Fújiàn |w=Fu-chien ; Postal map spelling: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by Korean writers. For much of history, it was written both in classical Chinese ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- The Konbaung Dynasty, 1752-1885, also known as Third Burmese Empire and sometimes called the Alaungpaya Dynasty, was the last dynasty in the ...38 KB (5,866 words) - 22:29, 15 September 2023
- Category:Public {{Infobox_President | name=Woodrow Wilson | image name=Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Harris & Ewing bw photo portrait, 1919.jpg ...37 KB (5,512 words) - 23:30, 17 May 2023
- Except for modern and contemporary visual arts, Lao artistic traditions developed around religion and the political and social circumstances ...42 KB (6,594 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- A fairy tale is a story featuring folkloric characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals, and usually ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- Kolkata ( কলকাতা , IPA: 'kolkat̪a]), formerly Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in ...53 KB (7,578 words) - 04:08, 4 March 2023
- Sanskrit ( sa|संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk , for short sa|संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam ) is an ancient ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
