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- Glycine is one of the 20 most common, natural, "proteinogenic" (literally, protein building) standard amino acids. It is the simplest of the amino acids in terms of ...10 KB (1,540 words) - 17:44, 23 May 2024
- You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ibn ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- Astrochemistry, representing an overlap of the disciplines of astronomy and chemistry, is the study of chemicals found in outer space, including their identity, formation, interactions ...7 KB (940 words) - 18:21, 19 August 2023
- Fowl is the common name for any of the gamefowl or landfowl comprising the bird order Galliformes, or any of the waterfowl comprising the order Anseriformes. Galliforms or gallinaceous ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Ibn Sina, Abu- ‘Ali- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو علي الحسين بن عبد ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- Monera, in some systems of biological classification, is a kingdom that comprises most living things with a prokaryotic cell organization. For this reason, the kingdom also has ...8 KB (1,051 words) - 13:09, 10 March 2023
- The Jurassic period is an interval of about 55 million years defined on the geologic time scale as spanning roughly from 200 to 145 million years ago (mya), from the end of the ...11 KB (1,508 words) - 16:34, 14 May 2024
- Ramadan (also spelled Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer, reflection ...25 KB (3,551 words) - 00:32, 8 December 2022
- Grasshoppers are long and slender insects belonging to the order Orthoptera, typically exhibiting long, strong hind limbs for leaping and powerful mouth-parts for chewing. The ...20 KB (2,942 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 - March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George," was an American star left-handed first basemen in Major League Baseball (MLB). Ty ...12 KB (1,744 words) - 14:57, 21 May 2024
- The Battle of Karbala was a military engagement that took place on 10 Muharram, 61 A.H. (October 10, 680) in Karbala (present day Iraq) between a small group of supporters and ...12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (1941 - November 24, 1989) was a highly influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, and a central figure in preaching for defensive jihad ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in the late eleventh century in the ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- Saadia Ben Joseph Gaon (882-942 C.E.), (Hebrew:סעדיה בן יוסף גאון ) also known by his Arabic name Said al-Fayyumi, was a prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- Clove is the common name for a small, tropical evergreen tree, Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Eugenia aromaticum or Eugenia caryophyllata) and for its aromatic, dried, unopened flower ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Giant anteater is the common name for the largest species of anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, characterized by a long, narrow, tapered snout without teeth, very long tongue ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 18:57, 21 May 2024
- Purine is a heterocyclic, aromatic, organic compound, consisting of a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring. Heterocyclic compounds are organic compounds (containing carbon ...7 KB (928 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying messenger RNAs (mRNAs) used ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- Balsa is the common name for a fast-growing, tropical American tree, Ochroma pyramidale (synonym O. lagopus), characterized by soft and light wood. The name also is used for the ...6 KB (941 words) - 04:22, 11 January 2023
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for any of the large, gregarious, wading birds comprising the family Phoenicopteridae, characterized by long legs ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
