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- Foraminifera, abbreviated as forams, are single-celled amoeboid protists comprising the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera of supergroup Rhizaria), characterized by reticulating ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a pre-colonial West African trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is now central Mali ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- Cellular differentiation is an embryological process by which an unspecialized cell becomes specialized into one of the many cell types that make up the body. Cell differentiation ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- Frances Coralie "Fannie" Perkins (April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the first ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- The Seljuqs (also Seljuk or Seljuq Turks) were a Muslim dynasty of originally Oghuz Turkic descent that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the eleventh to fourteenth ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic shrine and a ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- A suicide attack is an attack on a military or civilian target, in which an attacker intends to kill others, and knows that he or she will most likely die in the process. The ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- Saladin, Salah ad-Din, or Salahuddin al Ayyubi (so-lah-hood-din al-aye-yu-be) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim general and warrior from Tikrit ...16 KB (2,458 words) - 00:59, 23 December 2022
- The Van Allen radiation belt (or Van Allen belt) is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. Energetic electrons ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2023
- The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada ...19 KB (2,735 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- Fructose (or levulose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) with the same chemical formula as glucose (C6H12O6) but a different atomic arrangement. Along with glucose and galactose ...12 KB (1,703 words) - 09:20, 21 June 2021
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: شیعه) is the second largest school within Islam. Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old World bats comprising the suborder Megachiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized by true wings ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth Fatimid caliph ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- Denisovans are an extinct hominid group more closely related to the Neanderthals than modern humans and identified from the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences of the roughly ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially for purposes of capturing ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- Dendrochronology (from Greek grc|δένδρον , dendron, "tree"; grc|χρόνος , khronos, "time"; and grc|-λογία , -logia) or tree-ring dating is ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- Corn syrup is any of a variety of forms of syrup (thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, with little tendency to deposit crystals) made using corn ...18 KB (2,609 words) - 23:23, 6 April 2022
- The genus Rhinoceros of the family Rhinocerotidae includes the one-horned rhinoceroses, of which there are two extant species: the Indian rhinoceros (R. unicornis) and the Javan ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
