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- James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal framers of the U.S. Constitution, a Virginia representative to Congress ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a multi-talented French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and how they can be implemented in computer systems. ...20 KB (2,897 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- Si Shu ( t=四書|p=Sì Shū ; literary "four books") or The Four Books of Confucianism (not to be confused with the Four Great Classical ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- Stigmata (from Greek: stizo, “to prick”) refers to the five wounds that were said to be inflicted on Jesus' body during his crucifixion ...21 KB (3,372 words) - 18:00, 21 October 2022
- Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation of the oppressed ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- 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
- Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop ...61 KB (9,033 words) - 20:13, 12 September 2023
- Prunus is an economically important genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, characterized by a fruit in the form of a drupe, usually ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 01:24, 12 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Jakarta_slumlife65.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A boy from an East ...23 KB (3,286 words) - 22:07, 30 November 2022
- Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces, joining the confederation on September 1, 1905. It is located in western Canada, bounded by ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:LearningTheCountriesOfAsia.jpg|thumb|right|250px| A child learning the countries ...47 KB (6,690 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1745 – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important ...15 KB (2,382 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- Ginger is the common name for the monocotyledonous perennial plant Zingiber officinale, an erect plant in the Zingiberaceae family that is widely ...24 KB (3,593 words) - 22:30, 1 January 2023
- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations' (UN) global development network, is the largest multilateral source ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937-September 9, 1945) was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan before ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- Khajuraho (Hindi खजुराहो), a village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, located in Chhatarpur District, about 385 miles (620 ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- ( anatɔl fʁɑ̃s|lang ; born fr|François-Anatole Thibault|italic=unset , frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo| ; April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) was ...18 KB (2,551 words) - 20:05, 29 June 2023
- Charles Lamb (February 10, 1775 –- December 27, 1834) was an English poet, fiction writer, literary critic, and essayist of the English Romantic ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 19:35, 4 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Historical Sites {{Infobox_nrhp | name =New York Stock Exchange | nrhp_type = nhl ...22 KB (3,309 words) - 21:49, 14 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an influential American deep soul singer, best known ...13 KB (2,075 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- Derbent ( Дербе́нт ; Azeri: Dərbənd; Lezgian: Дербент; Avar: Дербенд; Persian: دربند, Darband) is a city in the Republic ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest states in Europe. At 180 square miles (468 sq. km.), it is about half ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- Absolution is the act of receiving forgiveness for one's sins or wrongdoings, by being set free from guilt or penalty. Most religions have ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:253 Mathilde small.jpg|thumb|250px|right|253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. This image was taken by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 05:10, 18 August 2023
- The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed to the Allies. The three major Axis powers, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Madeira is an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal. It belongs politically and culturally ...32 KB (4,286 words) - 10:48, 9 March 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
- Chichen Itza ("At the mouth of the well of the Itza") is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located ...32 KB (4,966 words) - 20:59, 9 December 2023
- Category:Sociologists Coleman, James S. James Samuel Coleman (born May 12, 1926 – died March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, a pioneer ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- A session musician, studio musician, or backing musician is a musician hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. The term ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- Matsuri is the Japanese word for a festival or holiday. Some festivals have their roots in Chinese festivals but have undergone dramatic changes ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- The Monroe Doctrine is a United States doctrine which, on December 2, 1823, proclaimed that European powers would no longer colonize or interfere ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- The golden calf (עגל הזהב), in Jewish tradition, was an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites during Moses' absence on Mount Sinai ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- The City of Vigan is the capital city of the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 47,246 ...13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
- The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- The Willis Tower, built and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower, is a 108-storey, 1,451-foot (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United ...13 KB (2,043 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- A furnace (from the Latin word fornax, meaning "oven") is an appliance that produces heat. The heat in a furnace is usually produced ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 09:57, 18 October 2022
- Anorexia nervosa is a complex condition, involving psychological, neurobiological, and sociological components.B. Lask and R. Bryant-Waugh (eds ...25 KB (3,785 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- The Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea existed from approximately 1270 (beginning of Solomonid Dynasty ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Fang Xuanling (房玄齡) (579–648), formal name Fang Qiao (房喬) but went by the courtesy name of Xuanling, That Fang's formal name ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 22:43, 13 July 2022
- A forest is a type of ecosystem in which there is high density of trees occupying a relatively large area of land. An ecosystem is an ecological ...22 KB (3,182 words) - 06:31, 1 April 2024
- Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal figures of the Ramayana, a famous Hindu scripture of epic proportions, which ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- Tardigrade, or water bear, is any of the various very small, segmented invertebrates comprising the phylum Tardigrada, characterized by bilateral ...13 KB (1,883 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- Category:Public Johnson, Lyndon Baines {{Infobox_President | name=Lyndon Baines Johnson | image name=Portrait.jpg | order=36th President of the ...44 KB (6,749 words) - 03:18, 5 November 2022
- An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it. An arch can either support the load above it or perform a purely ...55 KB (8,185 words) - 23:26, 18 March 2024
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [ˈpruːd ɒn] in British English, [pʁu dɔ̃] in French) (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) was a French ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 19:38, 31 March 2023
- Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian Пётр Леонидович Капица) (July 9, 1894 – April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 03:36, 7 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Linguistics [[Image:Interp.jpg|thumb|right|400 px|Two sign language Interpreters ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical theories whose subject is the implied agreements by which people form states ...28 KB (4,260 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje ) (August 18, 1922 – February 18, 2008), was a French writer and filmmaker. He was along with ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 04:24, 17 June 2023
- The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India and the Indian subcontinent. Folklore is the body of expressive culture, ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- Category:Economists Ohlin, Bertil [[Image:Bertil Ohlin.jpg|thumb|Bertil Ohlin at Arosmässan in Västerås (late 1950s).]] Bertil Ohlin (April ...27 KB (4,103 words) - 17:22, 29 September 2023
- Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC (June 24, 1850 – June 5, 1916) was an Irish-born ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- A business plan is a formal, written statement of a set of business goals, the financial background and nature of the business, and the strategy ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 18:51, 22 November 2023
- The term interreligious dialogue (or interfaith dialogue) refers to positive interaction between people of different faith communities, mostly ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- Category:Public Sharia (شريعة; also Sharī'ah, Shari'a, Shariah or Syariah) is the Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei. They are the largest of the many moons of Jupiter and have been ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. It is widespread in nature and is ...8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:52, 28 July 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
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles (6,695 kilometers) generally regarded as the longest river in the world and ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue.jpg|thumb|240px|Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu]] Padmasambhava ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- Diatomaceous earth (also known as DE, diatomite, diahydro, kieselguhr, kieselgur, and celite) is a soft, chalk-like sedimentary rock. It consists ...8 KB (1,106 words) - 12:00, 29 January 2024
- The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa, roughly the size of France. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan ...29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic institutions to pursue ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- Louse (plural: Lice) is any of the small, wingless, dorsoventally flattened insects comprising the neopteran order Phthiraptera. This order of ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 09:08, 9 March 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
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive and repulsive forces on other materials. It arises whenever ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, about 130 miles (200 km) southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- Francium (chemical symbol Fr, atomic number 87) is a radioactive metal found in minute amounts in uranium and thorium ores. Although many isotopes ...6 KB (795 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the preeminent songwriter ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus przewalskii, characterized by a stocky built, a dark brown mane and tail, ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Wertheimer, Max Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the founders of Gestalt ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- Mount Carmel is a coastal mountain range of modest height in northern Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Its name is derived from the ...10 KB (1,644 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- Saigyō Hōshi (Japanese: 西行法師, also called Sato Norikiyo) (1118 – 1190) was a Japanese Buddhist priest-poet of the late Heian and ...14 KB (2,344 words) - 18:56, 22 December 2022
- Vishnu is a Supreme God in Hinduism. Vishnu is known also as Narayana and Hari. He is venerated as the Supreme Being in Vaishnavism and as Purushottama ...50 KB (7,445 words) - 20:39, 3 May 2023
- category:image wanted [[Image:David trimble.jpg|thumb|right|200px|David Trimble]] William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (born October 15, 1944 ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 08:32, 28 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work Category:Economics Workers' compensation provides insurance to cover medical care ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 16:31, 10 October 2020
- Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. He was born to Amenhotep III and ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- Gandhinagar (Gujarati: ગાંધીનગર, Hindi: गाँधीनगर) - the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India. One ...12 KB (1,834 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- Antoine Arnauld, (1612 – August 8, 1694) was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mathematician. Though his primary interests ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress and singer, best known for ...34 KB (5,336 words) - 21:04, 4 October 2022
- Raphael (רפאל, Hebrew for "God has healed," "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- 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 (4,313 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024
- The Grigori (from Greek egrḗgoroi, "The Watchers") are a group of fallen angels described in biblical apocrypha, who mated with women ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- Stephen Robert Irwin (February 22, 1962 – September 4, 2006), known simply as Steve Irwin and nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter," was ...16 KB (2,294 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake, took place on November 1, 1755, at 9:40 in the morning. It was one of ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- Trichinosis, also called trichinellosis or trichiniasis, is a parasitic disease caused by the roundworm Trichinella spiralis,, which humans generally ...13 KB (1,997 words) - 12:40, 18 April 2023
- Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. Originally the term referred to a genre that arose in the United ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- 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
- Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875 – December 29, 1926) is generally considered the German language's greatest twentieth century poet ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 00:08, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = Bryn Mawr College ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 16:50, 22 November 2023
- 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
- Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest city in Syria after Damascus, and one of the oldest inhabited cities in history. ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :This article is about the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- Bibliography (from Greek: βιβλιογραφία, bibliographia, literally book writing), as a practice, is the academic study of books as ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- The Epistle to Philemon is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Philemon is now generally regarded as one of the undisputed works ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (September 30, 1715 – August 3, 1780) was a Roman Catholic Abbé and a leading philosopher and psychologist of ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name =University of ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Military A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- ( s=甘肃 |t=甘肅 |p=Gānsù |w=Kan-su, Kansu, or Kan-suh ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest region ...21 KB (2,969 words) - 04:27, 18 April 2024
- Federalist No. 3, titled "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence," is a political essay by ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics, is a system of classifying living and extinct organisms based on evolutionary ancestry as determined ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Nondirective psychotherapy was developed by the humanistic psychologist ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Papias (d. mid-second century) was one of the early literary figures of the Christian church. Recognized as a saint and martyr, his five-volume ...14 KB (2,122 words) - 07:32, 18 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Parents with child Statue Hrobakova ...34 KB (4,978 words) - 07:57, 18 November 2022
- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, c. 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region ...36 KB (5,441 words) - 00:40, 25 March 2024
- The Atlas Mountains ( جبال الأطلس ) are a series of mountain peaks that run along the northwestern portion of the African continent ...12 KB (1,891 words) - 06:24, 21 August 2023
- The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country of Mali that rises almost 1,640 feet (500 m) above the lower sandy flats ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- William Felton "Bill" Russell (born February 12, 1934 in Monroe, Louisiana) is a retired American professional basketball player who ...74 KB (11,022 words) - 16:07, 31 October 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
- Saint George (ca. 275/281 – April 23, 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated saints in the Anglican Church ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- Saint Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (c. 390– 2 September, 459) was a Christian ascetic saint who achieved fame for a life of increasingly ...22 KB (3,506 words) - 20:42, 21 April 2023
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards North Korea until Lee Myung-bak's election to the South Korean presidency ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- The Thugs (originally called Thuggee or Tuggee meaning "deceivers") were an Indian network of secret fraternities engaged in murdering ...16 KB (2,481 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- Mehrgarh (Urdu: مﮩرگڑھ , also spelled as Mehrgahr, Merhgarh, or Merhgahr) is one of the most important Neolithic (7000 B.C.E. to ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- Mumtāz Mahal (April 1593 - June 17, 1631) (Persian, Urdu: ممتاز محل; pronunciation / mumtɑːz mɛhɛl /; meaning "beloved ornament ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Santeria (Santería in Spanish, meaning "Way of the Saints") is a set of related religious systems that fuse Roman Catholic beliefs ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- Völund is a mythical smith-god of the Nordic and Germanic peoples, whose shocking and brutal tale of revenge is relayed in the Völundarkviða ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:God2-Sistine Chapel.png|500px|thumb|right|Michelangelo's Creation from the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo shows God ...23 KB (3,861 words) - 20:30, 28 May 2020
- Xuanzang (玄奘, Xuán Zàng, Hsüan-tsang, Xuanzang, original name Ch'en I, honorary epithet San-tsang, also called Mu-ch'a T'i ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Sigmund Freud introduced what would later come to be called the "structural ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- Baptism, from Greek βαπτίζω (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated with admission to a Christian church ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- Charles VI the Well-Beloved, later known as Charles VI the Mad (French: Charles VI le Bien-Aimé, later known as Charles VI le Fol) (December ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 00:35, 5 December 2023
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation in most cultures. The problem of desire has been a fundamental obstacle ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
- The Apostle Peter, also known as Saint Peter, and Cephas—original name Simeon son of Jonah—was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. His life ...28 KB (4,305 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shofetim ספר שופטים) refers to one of the books of the Hebrew Bible that is also included in the Christian ...19 KB (3,100 words) - 00:20, 19 November 2023
- Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American actress and singer. In a career spanning ...63 KB (9,615 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient, using a variety of different principles. The word thermometer is ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- Mendelevium (chemical symbol Md (formerly Mv), atomic number 101), also known as unnilunium (symbol Unu), is a synthetic element in the periodic ...6 KB (778 words) - 04:30, 9 November 2022
- A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Use of such materials may be limited to specific patron groups, especially in ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- Samizdat ( самиздат , Bibuła , самиздат ) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- Category:Sociologists Thomas, W. I. William Isaac Thomas (August 13, 1863 – December 5, 1947), was an American sociologist, noted for his pioneering ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- Deborah, or Dəvora (literally "Bee" in the Hebrew language), was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- category:image needed Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll and soul singer known ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 14:47, 17 April 2023
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically dated to 1492, although there was at least one earlier colonization effort ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:BrickStore BathNewHampshire.JPG|250px|thumb|The ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 00:35, 29 October 2022
- April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom on April 1, consisting of practical ...22 KB (3,192 words) - 15:56, 11 August 2023
- Category:Sociologists Comte, Auguste [[Image:Auguste_Comte.jpg|thumb|right|Auguste Comte]] Auguste Comte (full name Isidore Marie Auguste François ...22 KB (3,359 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- Redox (shorthand for reduction/oxidation reaction) describes all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state ...12 KB (1,809 words) - 02:49, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Powell, John Wesley [[Image:John Wesley Powell USGS.jpg|thumb|John Wesley Powell ...11 KB (1,704 words) - 01:23, 10 February 2023
- Hinduism is an umbrella term for various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced all around the world, though more ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists [[Image:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (May 8, 1937 - ) is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. ...33 KB (4,941 words) - 22:49, 30 April 2023
- Category:Sociologists Simmel, Georg [[Image:Simmel 01.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Georg Simmel]] Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918 ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted George Carl Johann Antheil (June 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer and pianist who was ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- Polonium (chemical symbol Po, atomic number 84) is a rare, extremely toxic, and highly radioactive chemical element. It is found in small amounts ...11 KB (1,554 words) - 08:39, 24 November 2022
- Reductio ad absurdum, Latin for "reduction to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη (hê ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists Category:biography Blackstone, William [[Image:WilliamBlackstone.jpg|thumb|right|William Blackstone as illustrated ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- Category:Psychologists Binet, Alfred [[Image:Alfred_Binet.jpg|thumb|Alfred Binet]] Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911) was a French ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 07:14, 20 July 2023
- Arcangelo Corelli (February 17, 1653 – January 8, 1713) was an influential Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- Geom-mu refers to a traditional sword dance practiced in Korea. Korean folk dancers perform Geom-mu with special costumes, dance motions, and ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- Category:Communication Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Meese Report cover.gif|thumb|250px|right]] Pornography, often ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment ...56 KB (8,516 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- Chaetognatha is a phylum of small, slender, marine worms, generally characterized by a largely transparent body, fins on both the tail and the ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- Vaishnavism (Sanskrit for "belonging to Vishnu") is one of the principal traditions of Hinduism that is distinguished from other schools ...42 KB (6,471 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- In biology, skin is a flexible organ (group of tissues which perform a specific function) that serves as the outer covering of an animal. As ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 22:09, 12 October 2022
- A sweet potato. color = lightgreen taxon = Plantae taxon = Magnoliophyta taxon = Magnoliopsida taxon = Solanales taxon = Convolvulaceae ...11 KB (1,640 words) - 07:24, 24 October 2022
- The Caduceus, also known as the wand of Hermes, was a symbol of the Greek god Hermes, who carried a staff (or rod) in his various exploits. This ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- "Cogito, ergo sum" (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist," or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Nutrition is the combination of elements consumed by a person that nourishes the body, enabling it to sustain in an efficient manner all of its ...56 KB (8,181 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- Indian Standard Time (IST) represents the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+5:30. India does not observe daylight saving ...13 KB (1,858 words) - 18:36, 4 March 2024
- The Doctors' plot (Russian language: дело врачей (doctors' affair), врачи-вредители (doctors-saboteurs) or ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:33, 29 January 2024
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian Old Testament. Also known to Jews as the Megillah (Scroll) it is the basis ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- Adrian II (also known as Hadrian II), (792–872), pope from December 14, 867 to December 14, 872, was a member of a noble Roman family, and ...9 KB (1,412 words) - 06:17, 15 June 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Alfred Tennyson 2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|caption|Alfred, Lord TennysonBritish Poet Laureate, 1850]] Alfred Tennyson, 1st ...9 KB (1,502 words) - 16:53, 20 July 2023
- Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional comic book superhero co-created by ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1896 - November 25, 1997) was the leader of Malawi and its predecessor state, Nyasaland, from 1961 to 1994. After receiving ...24 KB (3,748 words) - 08:44, 20 January 2024
- Turmeric is the common name for a herbaceous perennial plant, Curcuma longa, of the ginger family Zingiberaceae, characterized by a tuberous ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American, a painter of portraits and historic scenes, and is credited with ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 12:03, 6 September 2022
- Cardinal József Mindszenty (March 29, 1892 - May 6, 1975) was the head of the Roman Catholic Church of Hungary during the Cold War, whose trial ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 16:42, 14 May 2024
- category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Tammy Wynette |Img = |Background = solo_singer |Birth_name ...18 KB (2,712 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- A "Thangka," also known as "Tangka," "Thanka" or "Tanka" (Pronunciation: tänkä (the "a" as ...6 KB (950 words) - 15:07, 30 April 2023
- Mezuzah (Heb. מזוזה, literally "doorpost"; pl. mezuzot) refers to a small kosher parchment inscribed with two sections from the ...13 KB (2,058 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2022
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), (May 19, 1879 – May 2, 1964) was the first woman to serve as a Member of ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- category:image wanted Gospel literally translated means "good news," deriving from the Old English "god-spell" translated ...17 KB (2,705 words) - 18:26, 26 December 2022
- Wang Chong (Wade-Giles: Wang Chong, 王充) (27 – 97 C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- The Warsaw Pact, or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially named the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, ( Договор ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 22:57, 3 May 2023
- Yi Hwang (李滉, 이황 1501-1570) was one of the two most prominent Korean Confucian scholars of the Joseon Dynasty, the other being his younger ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- Human subject research may be considered a systematic investigation designed to contribute to generalizable knowledge in which the focus for ...43 KB (6,319 words) - 17:27, 28 September 2021
- In Greek mythology, Ares, the Olympian god of war, was the son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Hera. Among the Greeks, Ares was always mistrusted ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- Autonomy (Greek: Auto-Nomos—nomos meaning "law:" One who gives oneself his own law) means freedom from external authority. In moral ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- Category:Musicians [[Image:JohnnyCash1969.jpg|thumb|250px|Johnny Cash in 1969]] J. R. Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), better ...23 KB (3,723 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- The respiratory system is an integrated network of organs and tubes that coordinates the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between an organism ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 19:44, 16 April 2023
- Hoover Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between Arizona and Nevada. The dam, located ...19 KB (3,049 words) - 13:41, 2 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Housing [[image:Iglu 1999-04-02.jpg|thumb|200 px|Large igloo in front of [[Cape ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 13:41, 4 February 2023
- Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the conventional name of the author of the treatise, On the Sublime (Περὶ ὕψους), a work which ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 21:04, 3 November 2022
- A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and who incorporate some type of marching or other movement ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 03:09, 6 November 2022
- Pope Saint Pius I was bishop of Rome for about 14 years during the mid-second century. His dates are uncertain due to conflicting sources, with ...7 KB (1,124 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- Category:Economists Cantillon, Richard Richard Cantillon (1680 – May, 1734) was an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Vannevar Bush (pronounced van-NEE-ver) (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists category:biography McGuffey, William Holmes [[image:William Holmes McGuffey.jpg|thumb|William Holmes ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied the country west ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- The German Resistance refers to those individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. Some ...78 KB (12,369 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. It is its country's largest city, and is home to approximately twenty percent of the nation's ...27 KB (3,960 words) - 16:54, 22 November 2023
- Olexandr Petrovych Dovzhenko ( Олександр Петрович Довженко , Александр Петрович Довженко ...12 KB (1,532 words) - 00:07, 18 November 2022
- Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as the twenty-first President. Arthur ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), written by the eponymous prophet ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- Soil is the mixture of minerals, organic matter, liquids, and gases covering most of the Earth's land surface and that serves, or has the ...27 KB (4,112 words) - 15:59, 14 October 2022
- Tammuz (also known as Dumuzi) was the name of an ancient Near Eastern deity who was best known for his patronage of herdsmen and his romantic ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- Carl August Nielsen (June 9, 1865 – October 3, 1931) was a conductor, violinist, and the most internationally known composer from Denmark. ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- Holography is the science of producing holograms; it is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 10:54, 2 February 2024
- Odonata is an order of insects (class Insecta) encompassing dragonflies and damselflies, with members characterized by large, compound eyes, ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 00:22, 29 December 2023
- The Peasants' Revolt, Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381, was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and ...8 KB (1,321 words) - 07:09, 23 November 2022
- The Weimar Republic ( Weimarer Republik , IPA: [ ˈvaɪ̯marər repuˈbliːk ]) is the common name for the republic that governed Germany from ...56 KB (8,410 words) - 23:27, 3 May 2023
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers to the time of the guiding intellectual movement, called The Enlightenment ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- Alienation refers to the estrangement that occurs in the relation between an individual and that to which he or she is relating. This break in ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 18:22, 21 July 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
- Bismuth (chemical symbol Bi, atomic number 83) is a brittle, white crystalline metal with a pink tinge. It acquires an iridescent oxide tarnish ...14 KB (1,891 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a leader of the Indian independence ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a famous New Testament parable appearing only in the Gospel of Luke ( |Luke|10:25-37|31 ). It is one of the ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in United States created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 02:44, 5 October 2022
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Website | logo = [[Image:JSTOR.jpg|50x50px]] | name = JSTOR | screenshot = [[Image:JSTOR new front page.png|200px]] ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 07:45, 27 February 2023
- Thomas Chatterton (November 20, 1752 – August 24, 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing suicide by arsenic ...14 KB (2,111 words) - 18:41, 30 April 2023
- Midge is the common name for a small, fragile, flying insects belonging to the order Diptera ("true flies"). They are generally grouped ...13 KB (1,785 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 06:09, 31 December 2022
- Cusco (also spelled Cuzco, and in the Quechua language as Qusqu 'qos.qo ) is a city in southeastern Peru near the Sacred Valley in the Andes ...22 KB (3,238 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- Category:Public Deism (from Latin: deus = God) refers to the eighteenth-century movement in modern Christianity which taught that reason—rather ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 09:13, 28 January 2024
- Magyars or Hungarians In contexts where it is necessary to disambiguate between ethnic Hungarians and inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary, ethnic ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- The Mesozoic (from the Greek prefix meso meaning “between” and zoon, animal or "living being") era is an interval of about 186 ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- Jahannam ( جهنم ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave (October 26, 1926 – February 15, 2015) was a Belgian-American journalist who specialized in ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 03:52, 15 August 2023
- category:image wanted Leiber and Stoller Jerry Leiber (April 25, 1933 - August 22, 2011) and Mike Stoller (March 13, 1933 - ) were a songwriting ...10 KB (1,625 words) - 08:02, 3 April 2024
- Joseph Butler (May 18, 1692 – June 16, 1752) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, moral philosopher and the author of Fifteen Sermons ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 17:47, 6 May 2024
- Seiko Holdings Corporation (セイコーホールディングス株式会社; Seikō Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha) ( 8050 ) (more commonly known ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the Franco-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War and the ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- The Tibetan people are indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the North and West to Myanmar and China Proper ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- The Mariinsky Theater ( Мариинский театр , also spelled Maryinsky Theater) is a historic theater of opera and ballet in St Petersburg ...11 KB (1,538 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2022
- José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (September 15, 1830 – July 2, 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 05:38, 30 November 2022
- Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990) was a British novelist, short story author, and screenwriter famous as a writer for both ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 03:07, 15 December 2022
- category:Image wanted White, E.B. [[image:EB White and his dog Minnie.png|thumb|250px]] Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, NY – ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- The ecliptic is the apparent path that the Sun traces out in the sky during the year. As it appears to move in the sky in relation to the stars ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 18:02, 12 February 2024
- The Zambezi (also spelled Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean. The area of its basin ...22 KB (3,457 words) - 21:14, 31 January 2024
- Anatomy may refer either to the internal structure and organization of an organism, to any of the parts of an organism, or to the branch of biology ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 19:02, 26 July 2023
- Go or Igo in Japanese (囲碁), Weiqi in Chinese (圍棋, 围棋), and Baduk in Korean (바둑), is a strategic board game. It was played in ...59 KB (9,909 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Sewage treatment, or domestic wastewater treatment, is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater and household sewage, both runoff ...40 KB (5,900 words) - 10:11, 26 January 2023
- A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of fallacies, corresponding to the distinction between formal and informal logic ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- Chromium (chemical symbol Cr, atomic number 24) is a hard, shiny, steel-gray metal that takes a high polish and does not tarnish. It is therefore ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes all business profit ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- Sperm whale or cachalot is the common name for a large toothed whale, Physeter macrocephalus (or Physeter catodon), characterized by a enormous ...27 KB (4,253 words) - 15:20, 27 April 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
- 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
- The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince-electors, kings, and emperors of Prussia, Germany, and Romania. It originated ...30 KB (4,097 words) - 18:41, 7 February 2024
- The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a "nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the ...15 KB (2,039 words) - 00:39, 18 November 2022
- Peter Edward Rose, Sr. (born April 14, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former player and manager in Major League Baseball. Rose played from 1963 ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 01:04, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Ouroboros_1.jpg|thumb|right|250px| Engraving of ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- 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
- An airport is a facility where aircraft, such as airplanes and helicopters, can take off and land. A military airport is known as an airbase ...33 KB (5,029 words) - 20:47, 27 October 2023
- Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative music" is particularly favored over "alternative rock" ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- The First Battle of Bull Run (named after the closest creek), also known as the First Battle of Manassas (named after the closest town), took ...22 KB (3,387 words) - 02:45, 26 September 2023
- The Henotikon (or "act of union") was a document issued by the Byzantine emperor Zeno in 482 in an attempt to reconcile the supporters ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 18:33, 7 February 2022
- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, known as the Commerce Clause, states that Congress has the exclusive authority ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- Sarnath (also Mrigadava, Migadāya, Rishipattana, Isipatana) refers to the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, and where ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 03:29, 23 December 2022
- Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a revolutionary activist, a prolific writer and Marxism's key ideologue. Trained ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- Kristallnacht kr,ɪst.aɫ.n'ɒxt (literally Crystal night [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/kristallnacht/frame.htm Kristallnacht ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- Tin (chemical symbol Sn, atomic number 50) is a silvery, malleable metal that is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion. It is obtained ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 23:38, 30 April 2023
- Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 - April 29, 1380) was a Dominican tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order and a later Catholic ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals and other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ...18 KB (2,752 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Stećak.jpg|thumb|250px|Radimlja necropolis of stećak in Bosnia and Herzegovina]] ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of the United ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- Weightlessness is the experience (by people and objects) during free-fall, of having no apparent weight. This condition is also known as microgravity ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 23:27, 3 May 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
- 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
- Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 - 1653) was an early Baroque Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- Eidetic reduction is a technique in Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the given phenomenon or experience ...9 KB (1,238 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers (September 8, 1897 – May 26, 1933) was the first great country music recording artist. Known as "The ...23 KB (3,146 words) - 13:11, 1 August 2022
- Dr. Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775) was an American patriot who died a hero's death in the American Revolutionary War. A ...7 KB (1,126 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
- Sewage is the mainly liquid waste containing some solids produced by humans, typically consisting of washing water, urine, feces, laundry waste ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- The Iran hostage crisis lasted from November 4, 1979 until January 20, 1981, a 444-day period. During the crisis, the "Muslim Student Followers ...27 KB (3,935 words) - 13:01, 6 March 2024
- Many - see section below. Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous (egg-laying) vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1445 – 1517) was an Italian mathematician, educator, and Franciscan friar. He wrote one ...14 KB (2,158 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- The Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather forecasts, tide tables, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, ...19 KB (2,821 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 - February 23, 1915) was a mulatto slave in the United States who freed himself and his family in May 1862, and ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- The Creative Commons (CC) is a U.S. non-profit corporation founded by Lawrence Lessig in 2001, devoted to expanding the range of creative works ...14 KB (1,898 words) - 06:20, 11 January 2024
- Edvard Munch (IPA: [ˈɛdvɑɖ muŋk] ) (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and graphic artist ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Zollner_illusion.svg|thumb|right|225px|Zöllner illusion]] ...4 KB (537 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский) (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Russian ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- Informed consent, as used in human subject research or healthcare, refers to an active decision of a subject/patient to agree to a certain action ...42 KB (6,238 words) - 14:39, 10 October 2021
- {| class="infobox biography" style="width: 21em; text-align: center;" |- ! colspan="2" style="font-size: larger; ...93 KB (14,349 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- Pumpkin is the common name for large-fruited varieties of several species of trailing and climbing plants of the genus Cucurbita, characterized ...20 KB (2,919 words) - 14:19, 2 July 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Village school in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan.jpg|thumb|250 px|Village school ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 22:24, 7 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:JapaneseFuneralArrangementTokyo.jpg|thumb|250 px|Funeral arrangement in a ...37 KB (6,189 words) - 14:58, 3 December 2023
- Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov ( Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв ) (October 1, 1912 – June 15, 1992), also known as Lev Gumilev, was ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Phi_phenomenom_no_watermark.gif|thumb|250px|right|This example ...6 KB (828 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- Prohibition In the United States (1920-1933) was the era during which the United States Constitution outlawed the manufacture, transportation ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 23:11, 30 November 2022
- In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus during his ministry, although the term can also be used to refer to anyone ...15 KB (2,501 words) - 03:45, 31 July 2022
- Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful of Reeds") was tlatoani (king, or Great Speaker) of the Aztecs ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- The American Library Association (ALA) is a library association in the United States, the oldest and largest library association in the world ...22 KB (3,187 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- Beltane ( ˈbɛltən ) is the anglicized spelling of Bealtaine or Bealltainn, the Gaelic names for either the month of May or the festival that ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 08:55, 27 September 2023
- On Sunday January 30, 1972, in an incident since known as Bloody Sunday, 28 Irish Civil Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership (HJI), formerly Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), is an accredited ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:CopanNSouthCatherwood.jpg|thumb|300px|Stela N, depicting ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- Kigali has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda. The city became Rwanda's capital in 1962 when independence was gained ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 23:00, 3 March 2023
- Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings Originally "van Dijck," with the "IJ" digraph, in Dutch. Anthony is the English ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act of disobedience, as well as the ongoing fallen state of humanity bound in ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- Confession of sins is the public or spoken acknowledgment of either personal or collective guilt, seen as a necessary step to receive divine ...20 KB (3,112 words) - 18:56, 15 May 2020
- Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. It is located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit ...33 KB (4,747 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was the third Vice-President of the United States (1801–1805) and one of the most ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
- Abdus Salam (Urdu: عبد السلام) (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab – November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 14 June 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
- Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a prolific and versatile German composer and organist of the Baroque era, whose ...38 KB (5,977 words) - 19:57, 7 May 2024
- Robert Herrick (August 24, 1591 – October 1674) was a seventeenth century English poet and cleric, known as the most famous of the "Sons ...8 KB (1,326 words) - 05:06, 15 December 2022
- The spinels are an important group of oxide minerals with similar crystalline structures. Their general chemical formula may be written as (X ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 15:23, 27 April 2023
- Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name of any marine creatures of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole family ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- Category:Public Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 B.C.E. - 55 B.C.E.) was a Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher. During the first century B.C.E. he ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Life sciences Category:Food Chai [[Image:a cup of chai.JPG|thumbnail|190px|right ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, was an ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- Rosicrucianism (meaning "Rose Cross") refers to a family of secret societies formed in late medieval Germany, which taught esoteric ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 19:19, 16 December 2022
- Victor Witter Turner (May 28, 1920 – December 18, 1983) was a British anthropologist who studied rituals and social change and was famous for ...16 KB (2,369 words) - 20:08, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Constitutional law is the foundational body of law of nation states and other political organizations ...11 KB (1,572 words) - 16:59, 21 April 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists category:biography Stukeley, William [[Image:Stukeley William ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 20:32, 13 May 2023
- Shechem, also called Sichem, (Hebrew: שְׁכֶם / שְׁכָם, Šəḵem ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. Image:Animexample.gif This animation moves at 10 frames per second. ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- Gibbons are apes that are highly adapted to arboreal life and are found in tropical and subtropical rainforests in Southeast Asia. Also called ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 23:18, 10 December 2022
- Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- Dame Frances Margaret Anderson AC, DBE (February 10, 1897 - January 3, 1992), known professionally as Judith Anderson, was an Australian actress ...26 KB (3,842 words) - 18:10, 24 January 2024
- Electronic waste, "e-waste," or "Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment" ("WEEE") is a waste type consisting ...10 KB (1,429 words) - 16:03, 13 February 2024
- Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He ...40 KB (6,273 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to its west and by Austria to its east ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- Lughnasadh or Lughnasa (pronounced LOO-nə-sə; Lúnasa ; Lùnastal ; Manx: Luanistyn) is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 02:42, 5 November 2022
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to as the She-Wolf of France, was the Queen consort of Edward II of England ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plains of what is now Lebanon ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Public opinion is the aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the adult ...30 KB (4,541 words) - 18:05, 14 April 2023
- Brass is the term used for alloys of copper and zinc. It has a yellow color, somewhat similar to gold. The proportions of zinc and copper can ...6 KB (938 words) - 13:23, 11 February 2022
- Human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens; that is, the hereditary information that genetically characterizes human beings as encoded on the ...21 KB (3,045 words) - 17:02, 18 September 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Gandhi Salt March.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Gandhi during the Salt March ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- Freeze-drying (also known as lyophilization or cryodesiccation) is a dehydration process typically used to preserve a perishable material or ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 10:50, 11 April 2024
- 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
- Saint Bonaventura also Bonaventure (born Giovanni di Fidanza) (1221 - July 15, 1274), was a Franciscan theologian, philospher, general of the ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- An anchor is an object that is used to attach a ship or boat to a specific point at the bottom of a body of water. The anchor prevents the vessel ...30 KB (5,219 words) - 01:04, 9 January 2023
- The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. These amendments limit the powers of ...36 KB (5,472 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- A fractal is an irregular geometric shape that can be divided into parts in such a manner that the shape of each part resembles the shape of ...19 KB (2,648 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. last1 = Baum | first1 ...56 KB (8,538 words) - 21:33, 6 June 2023
- The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, ( Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres ), located in Chartres, about 50 miles from Paris, is considered one ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- Niccolò Jommelli (September 10, 1714 – August 25, 1774) was an Italian composer. As a student of the Neapolitan School and a follower of Gluck ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:CircleOfFriends.jpg |thumbnail|250px|A group of Outward Bound participants with ...21 KB (3,090 words) - 05:58, 18 November 2022
- The Deuterocanonical books of the Bible are books considered by the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy to be canonical parts of the ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- Aruba is a 32 kilometer-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Curaçao 18 miles north of the ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- In electronics, printed circuit boards (PCBs) are used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 22:58, 30 November 2022
- The Aswan Dam, located in Aswan, Egypt, tames the Nile River and utilizes the power of the river for a variety of social and economic causes ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 18:40, 19 August 2023
- Emotivism is the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 17:50, 14 November 2022
- Category:Public John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) is regarded as one of the most important philosophers in American history. His ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 02:26, 9 February 2023
- The Royal Opera House, the United Kingdom's most important performing arts venue, is located in London's Covent Garden district. The ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 20:56, 21 December 2022
- Stalinism is the name given to the political and economic system which Joseph Stalin implemented in the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1953, while ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- The Sanskrit word Kalpa has several distinct meanings in the context of Indian religious tradition: first, it can refer to a measurement of time ...10 KB (1,446 words) - 22:19, 3 April 2023
- Ockham's razor is a principle attributed to the fourteenth century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (February 29, 1896 – April 10, 1995) was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from ...17 KB (2,426 words) - 00:04, 16 December 2022
- Category:Psychologists Dreikurs, Rudolf Rudolf Dreikurs (February 8, 1897 – May 25, 1972) was an American psychiatrist and educator who developed ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- Category:Image wanted Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American ...16 KB (2,531 words) - 20:23, 3 May 2023
- Dark romanticism is a literary subgenre that emerged from the Transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America. Transcendentalism ...15 KB (2,145 words) - 20:30, 19 May 2020
- Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo gulo, of the weasel family (Mustelidae), characterized by a large and stocky ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Charles I (November 19, 1600 – January 30, 1649) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from March 27, 1625 until his execution ...42 KB (6,645 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere in which life as a whole fosters and maintains suitable conditions for ...30 KB (4,599 words) - 11:57, 4 December 2023
- Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American stage and screen actor, ...20 KB (2,895 words) - 05:25, 31 July 2023
- The muskrat or musquash (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra, is a medium-sized semi-aquatic rodent native to North America ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- Raku (樂) or Rakuyaki (樂焼き) is a form of Japanese pottery characterized by simple, hand-formed bowls, low firing temperatures resulting ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- Hōryū-ji (法隆寺; Temple of the Flourishing Law) is a Buddhist temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Its full name is Hōryū Gakumonji ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- Sodium chloride, also known as common salt or table salt, is a chemical compound with the formula NaCl. Its mineral form is called halite. It ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 15:04, 27 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
- Macbeth is among the best known of William Shakespeare's plays, as well as his shortest surviving tragedy. It is frequently performed at ...40 KB (6,125 words) - 04:47, 5 November 2022
- Clyde Jackson Browne (October 9, 1948 - ) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician, whose introspective lyrics made him the leading ...19 KB (2,645 words) - 09:05, 13 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Montet, Pierre Pierre Montet (June 27, 1885 – June 19 ...8 KB (1,137 words) - 05:24, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name = Brown University ...30 KB (4,416 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist ...41 KB (6,221 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his large realistic landscapes of the American ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- Swallow is the common name for various small, swift-flying passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae, characterized by long, pointed, narrow ...25 KB (3,606 words) - 01:30, 28 May 2021
- Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), born Ruth Elizabeth Davis, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television ...21 KB (3,286 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- Boysenberry is the common name for a hybrid plant of the blackberry/raspberry genus Rubus and characterized by a relatively large fruit, with ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 22:33, 20 November 2023
- California is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is the most populous state in the nation. The four ...42 KB (5,921 words) - 18:24, 25 November 2023
- The United States expedition to Korea in 1871, which came to be known in Korea as Sinmiyangyo (Korean: 신미양요 ,Western Disturbance of the ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Sherpa_carrying_woods.JPG|thumb|200px|right|Sherpa porter ...16 KB (2,467 words) - 14:10, 27 January 2023
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located in north-western India in what is now Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Found ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance to human beings. Its outstanding historical example was Renaissance humanism ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- Christiaan Huygens (April 14, 1629 – July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist best known for his astronomical discoveries ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- (September 1, 1862 – October 15, 1933) was a Christian, agricultural economist, author, educator, diplomat, and politician during the Meiji ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain is the name under which 18 caves located in different regions of northern Spain are ...25 KB (4,047 words) - 06:22, 18 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Military A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti or Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northern Europe ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- Acetic acid, also known as ethanoic acid, is an organic chemical compound best recognized for giving vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell ...35 KB (5,135 words) - 07:33, 14 June 2023
- Betsy Ross (January 1, 1752 - January 30, 1836) was an American woman who is said to have sewn the first American flag. Three members of a secret ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- The Balance of Payments (BOP) is a measure of all the financial transactions flowing between one country and all other countries during a specific ...22 KB (3,159 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to explain the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit described in ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
- The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet Communist dominance over the People's Republic of Poland following World ...65 KB (9,745 words) - 00:13, 25 January 2024
- Silesia is a historical region in east–central Europe spanning the territory named Magna Germania by Tacitus. It is encircled by the upper ...32 KB (4,656 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. It may be either an elementary (or fundamental) particle, or a composite particle, also ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- Total depravity (also called total inability and total corruption) is a theological doctrine that derives from the Augustinian doctrine of original ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- ( 7261 ) is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Hiroshima, Japan. Mazda began in 1920 as Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd.(東洋コルク工業株式会社 ...29 KB (4,390 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first president of the United States, George Washington. Built of wood in a neoclassical ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- Saint Bernadette Soubirous (January 7, 1844 – April 16, 1879) was a shepherd girl from the town of Lourdes in southern France. She was canonized ...11 KB (1,754 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky ( Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский ) (December 30, 1942 - October 27, ...20 KB (2,721 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- David and Jonathan were heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, whose relationship was recorded the Old Testament books of Samuel. Jonathan ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 05:57, 9 July 2023
- Wuhan ( s=武汉|t=武漢|p=Wǔhàn ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city in central China. It lies at the east end ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- Category:Sociologists Parsons, Talcott Category:Public Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist who established ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, in current usage, engage ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 08:52, 23 October 2022
- Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (June 25, 1852 – June 12, 1926) – sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí – ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 07:00, 31 July 2023
- In particle physics, fermions are a group of elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. In the Standard Model ...16 KB (2,185 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- John Michael Wright (May 1617 – July 1694) exact dates are unknown, the probable date of baptism is May 25, 1617 and he was buried on August 1, 1694 ...28 KB (4,229 words) - 02:57, 2 May 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Life sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Food [[File:Haggis cooked.jpg|thumb|250 px|A cooked haggis]] ...18 KB (2,829 words) - 16:42, 21 January 2024
- The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...61 KB (8,412 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- 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
- Maitreya, the "future Buddha" in Buddhist eschatology, is a Bodhisattva that many Buddhists believe will eventually appear on earth ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- Category:Economists Say, Jean-Baptiste [[Image:Jean-baptiste Say.jpg|thumb|Jean-Baptiste Say]] Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 – November ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 16:56, 2 April 2024
- A planetarium (plural form: planetariums or planetaria) is a theater built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about ...27 KB (4,171 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- Randy Travis (born Randy Bruce Traywick, May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina) is an American multiple Grammy- and Dove Award-winning American ...14 KB (2,016 words) - 00:35, 8 December 2022
- Budgerigar is the common name for small parrots belonging to the species Melopsittacus undulatus. Though budgerigars are often called parakeets ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions and churches that developed in Greece, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- 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
- 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
- Herod Antipas (before 20 B.C.E. – after 39 C.E.) was a first-century CE Jewish-Idumean ruler of Galilee and Perea, who bore the title of tetrarch ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 14:56, 12 February 2022
- Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on the Horn of Africa in East Africa. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- Cartagena de Indias ( kaɾtaˈhena ) is a large seaport city on the northern coast of Colombia. Founded in 1533, by Spaniard Don Pedro de Heredia ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists of his era, was a prolific American ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- Sikkim (Nepali: Sikkim.ogg|सिक्किम , also Sikhim) - a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. The least populous state ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- Gazelle is the common name for any of the various small, swift antelopes of Africa and Asia comprising the genus Gazella and the related genera ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- Árpád (c. 845 – c. 907) was the second Grand Prince of the Magyars (c. 895 – c. 907). Under his rule the Magyar people moved from Etelkoz ...14 KB (1,600 words) - 16:21, 13 January 2024
- Pope Clement V (1264 – April 20, 1314), born Bertrand de Goth (also occasionally spelled "Gouth" and "Got"), was Pope from ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian legends and religious beliefs of the Scandinavian people and Northern Germanic tribes ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- Paramahansa Yogananda (Pôromôhongsho Joganondo, Hindi: परमहंस योगानन्द; (January 5, 1893–March 7, 1952), was ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- Dinosaur Provincial Park is located in the valley of the Red Deer River in southeastern Alberta, Canada. The area is noted for its striking badlands ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- An escalator is a conveyor transport device for transporting people, consisting of a staircase whose steps move up or down on tracks that keep ...37 KB (6,013 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- Category:Public Philosophy of action is chiefly concerned with human action, intending to distinguish between activity and passivity, voluntary ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 05:40, 15 June 2023
- Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky ( Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский , Aleksandr Fjëdorovich Kerenskij) ( ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[File:Phi Beta Kappa Key.png|thumb|300px|Keychain of Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- Hiawatha (also known as Hienwentha, Ayonwatha (He Who Combs), Aiionwatha, or A-yo-went-ha) is believed to have lived circa 1525 to 1575. Recent ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 23:04, 12 February 2022
- Rumspringa also spelled Rumschpringe or Rumshpringa, translated from originally Palatine German and other Southwest German dialects to English ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 18:14, 22 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeology Category:Art [[Image:Laas Geel cow herd.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Detail of the Laas Geel ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 16:21, 3 December 2023
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (June 14, 1736 – August 23, 1806), a French engineer and physicist, discovered the relationship between the force ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- Nanna, also called Sîn (or Suen) was a Sumerian god who played a longstanding role in Mesopotamian religion and mythology. He was the god of ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- 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
- A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- Category:Public [[File:Immanuel Kant (painted portrait).jpg|300px|thumb|300px|Immanuel Kant]] Kant, Immanuel Born in Königsberg, East Prussia ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- Michel de Nostredame (latinzed as Nostradamus) (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566) is the famed French prognosticator who is best known for ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Parsley is the common name for a bright green, biennial herb of European origin, Petroselinum crispum, which is extensively cultivated for its ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. It was the largest and ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- Astrochemistry, representing an overlap of the disciplines of astronomy and chemistry, is the study of chemicals found in outer space, including ...7 KB (940 words) - 18:21, 19 August 2023
- Adam Willis Wagnalls (September 24, 1843 – September 3, 1924) was an American publisher who was the co-founder of the Funk & Wagnalls Company ...7 KB (985 words) - 05:46, 15 June 2023
- Barley is any annual cereal grass of the genus Hordeum, and in particular the species Hordeum vulgare. The term also is used for the edible grain ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 08:08, 20 September 2023
- Hank Snow, born Clarence Eugene Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999), was a Hall of Fame country music singer and songwriter. Canadian born ...7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:10, 22 January 2024
- Sant Tukaram (तुकाराम) (c.1608 – c.1650), also Shri Tukaram, and colloquially referred to as "Tuka" (तुका) ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- Foraminifera, abbreviated as forams, are single-celled amoeboid protists comprising the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera of supergroup Rhizaria ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- Flavius Claudius Iulianus (331–June 26, 363), was a Roman Emperor (361–363) of the Constantinian dynasty. He was the last pagan Roman Emperor ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 09:46, 12 May 2024
- Swedish literature refers to literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden. For example, both Birgitta of Sweden (fourteenth ...37 KB (5,478 words) - 16:22, 12 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Daily Telegraph, The The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper ...11 KB (1,656 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite subatomic particle comprising one quark and one antiquark. Mesons are part ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- Médecins Sans Frontières (pronounced mɛtsɛ̃ sɑ̃ fʁɔ̃tjɛʁ), or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental ...42 KB (6,193 words) - 17:12, 25 February 2024
- Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 03:02, 23 December 2022
- Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 20:52, 18 November 2022
- Commedia dell'Arte (Italian: "The art of comedy") is a form of improvisational theater that began in Italy in the sixteenth century ...16 KB (2,341 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- Yankari National Park is a large wildlife park located in the south-central part of Bauchi State in east-central Nigeria. It covers an area of ...13 KB (1,893 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- Beelzebub, also Ba‘al Zebûb or Ba‘al Zəvûv (Hebrew בעל זבוב, with numerous variants--in addition to Beelzebub, Ba‘al Zebûb, and ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- Lagos, is the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. The city began on Lagos Island in the fifteenth century, but has spread onto the mainland ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2022
- Edward Wadie Said (November 1, 1935 – September 25, 2003) ( إدوارد سعيد ) was a well-known Palestinian-American literary theorist ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- The Dialogue of the Saviour is one of the ancient works of the New Testament apocrypha that was unearthed among the texts of the Nag Hammadi ...17 KB (2,741 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- 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
- This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division of Korea in the 1940s. See History of North Korea and History of South ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- The siege of Sparta took place in 272 B.C.E. and was a battle fought between Epirus, led by King Pyrrhus, ( r.|reigned 297–272 B.C.E.) and an ...24 KB (3,591 words) - 22:02, 26 February 2024
- Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ceremony. It includes a number of traditions, both ancient and modern ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- Manitoba is one of Canada's 10 provinces; it is the easternmost of the three Prairie Provinces. Initially dominated by the fur trade, which ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America's most admired novelists and short story writers. His most commendable ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. This mode of belief is ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Jean René Lacoste (July 2, 1904 - October 12, 1996) was a famous French tennis player and businessman, nicknamed "the ...8 KB (1,243 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- Gaiänt'wakê (c. 1750 – 1836) or Kaintwakon, generally known as Cornplanter, was the son of a Seneca (Indian) mother and a Dutch-American ...15 KB (2,354 words) - 19:04, 14 January 2023
- William Cowper (pronounced Cooper /'ku:pə(r)/) (November 26, 1731 – April 25, 1800) Date of birth is given in New Style (Gregorian calendar ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- George II (George Augustus; 10, November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- Posidonius (or Poseidonus; Greek: Ποσειδώνιος) "of Rhodes" (ο Ρόδιος) or, alternatively, "of Apameia" ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky is normally included in the group of Southern ...39 KB (5,531 words) - 22:12, 3 March 2023
- Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and government official. Dana was in many ways ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which marked the end of the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a coastal Alpine country bordering Italy and the Adriatic Sea. Slovenia has been part of the ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Religion [[Image:Spirit rappings coverpage to sheet music 1853.jpg|thumb ...22 KB (3,512 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Charles Camille Saint-Saëns ( /ʃaʁl ka.mij sɛ̃.sɑ̃s/ ) (October 9, 1835 – December 16, 1921) was a French composer and performer. He ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Submitted The collective unconscious refers to that part of ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- A scientific observatory is a structure or place that is equipped to conduct observations of terrestrial events or celestial events or both. ...10 KB (1,374 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French artist, a post-impressionist painter whose work, along with the work of Vincent ...18 KB (2,795 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is a Catholic religious order created by Saint Dominic in the early thirteenth ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- Aeschylus (525 B.C.E. – 456 B.C.E.; Greek: Α ἰ σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest of the three greatest Greek ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 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
- The Battle of Buena Vista (February 23, 1847), also known as the Battle of Angostura, in February 1847 saw the U.S. Army use heavy artillery ...9 KB (1,403 words) - 03:51, 2 January 2022
- Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 km south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 120,000 Palestinians and 600-800 ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of ...31 KB (4,592 words) - 17:31, 12 February 2024
- Josiah Wedgwood (July 12, 1730 - January 3, 1795) was a fourth generation English potter, who became the most well-respected pottery designer ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 05:23, 7 May 2024
- Kairouan (Arabic القيروان) (also known as Kirwan, and Al Qayrawan) is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in the nation of Tunisia ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist from the swing era. His sophisticated ...6 KB (859 words) - 04:40, 27 February 2023
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
