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- Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of the actinide series of chemical elements. It is a toxic, highly radioactive ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- The sitar (Urdu: ستار, Hindi: सितार) is probably the best-known South Asian instrument in the West. A Hindustani stringed instrument ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 22:36, 29 January 2023
- In regular usage, the term sound is applied to any stimulus that excites our sense of hearing. The cause of sound is vibratory movement from ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- The Panchen Lama (Tibetan: པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ་; Chinese: 班禪喇嘛) is the second-highest-ranking religious figure (after ...11 KB (1,374 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
- The New Zealand Wars, sometimes called the Land Wars and also once called the Māori Wars, were a series of conflicts that took place in New ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 09:40, 11 March 2023
- Bakelite is a material based on a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin developed in 1907–1909, by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland ...6 KB (839 words) - 05:49, 26 August 2023
- Vajra (Sanskrit: meaning thunderbolt and diamond) refers to an important sacred tool and ritual implement in Vajrayana Buddhism, Hinduism and ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Murdock, George Peter George Peter Murdock (May 11, 1897 – March 29, 1985) was ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:54, 21 May 2024
- Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface (in a direction perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- The gas constant (also known as the molar, universal, or ideal gas constant) is a physical constant that is featured in a number of fundamental ...9 KB (1,458 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- Neptunium (chemical symbol Np, atomic number 93) is a silvery radioactive metallic element, belonging to the actinide series. It is the first ...11 KB (1,451 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Saint Odo of Cluny (ca. 878 –– November 18, 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the second abbot of Cluny Abbey. He enacted various ...3 KB (519 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Afrobeat developed in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and blends elements of Yoruba music, jazz and funk rhythms with an instrumentation ...4 KB (552 words) - 06:08, 16 June 2023
- In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free space, refers to a region of space where there is a theoretically "perfect ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- The Battle of Kosovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Косовски бој or Бој на Косову was fought on St Vitus' Day (June 15, now celebrated ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- When William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and himself a Quaker, encouraged European settlers who wished to escape religious ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia, Anu (also An—from Sumerian An = sky, heaven) was a sky-god and the ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- Category:Public {|style="border: 1px solid; float: right; width: 250px;" !colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background: ...10 KB (1,452 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- The Imperial examinations or Keju ( t=科舉|p=kējǔ ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration from their introduction ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- Marietta Robusti (1560? - 1590) was a female Venetian painter of the Renaissance period. Trained by her father, Jacopo Tintoretto, she worked ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 15:54, 6 November 2022
