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- Category:Economists Cantillon, Richard Richard Cantillon (1680 – May, 1734) was an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- The B vitamins or vitamin B complex are a group of eight, chemically distinct, water-soluble vitamins that were once considered a single vitamin (like Vitamin ...10 KB (1,497 words) - 20:40, 3 May 2023
- Roy David Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), known as Roy Eldridge and nicknamed Little Jazz, was a foremost jazz trumpet player. He is considered ...9 KB (1,351 words) - 02:28, 17 December 2022
- As a medical term, stress refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli or conditions, both physiological and psychological, impinging on an individual. ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 16:01, 23 September 2022
- The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei. The feudal ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two extant families: the golden moles comprising the Chrysochloridae family and the tenrecs ...21 KB (2,748 words) - 20:46, 29 December 2022
- Guarana is the common name for a South American woody vine or sprawling shrub, Paullinia cupana in the Sapindaceae family, with large, pinnately compound evergreen ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- Category:Image wanted John Dunstaple or Dunstable (c. 1390 – December 24, 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval and early Renaissance ...9 KB (1,459 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- Cao Pi (Ts'ao P'ei.曹丕, 187-June 29, 226 [http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/kiwi1/luso.sh?lstype=2&dyna=%ABe%C3Q&king=%A4%E5%AB%D2&reign ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 19:30, 25 November 2023
- A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. Compression of a gas naturally increases its temperature. ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens. Born in Damascus about 460 C.E., he studied rhetoric in Alexandria ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) ( ˈwʊdhaʊs ) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect allows insects ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, porcelain, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 23:34, 30 April 2023
- A hominid is any member of the primate family Hominidae. Recent classification schemes for the apes place extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and ...5 KB (766 words) - 11:34, 2 February 2024
- Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016) was an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- Saint Antonio Maria Claret y Clarà (December 23, 1807—October 24, 1870) was a nineteenth-century Catalan Roman Catholic archbishop, missionary, and confessor ...9 KB (1,350 words) - 19:06, 22 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Educators and Educational theorists Parrish, Celestia Susannah Celestia (Celeste) Susannah Parrish (September 12 ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- Pope Saint Telesphorus was bishop of Rome c. 128 to 138 C.E., during the reigns of Roman Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was Greek by birth, he is said ...4 KB (637 words) - 11:50, 13 February 2022
- Edwin Smith Papyrus, or Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is a preserved medical document from ancient Egypt that traces to about the sixteenth to seventeenth century ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
