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- A corona is a type of plasma "atmosphere" of the Sun or other celestial body, extending millions of kilometers into space, most easily ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:34, 8 January 2024
- Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- Dvaita (Devanagari:द्बैत, Kannada:ದ್ವೈತ) is a dualist school of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. For definition of Dvaita as a dualistic ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- Methuselah or Metushélach (מְתוּשָׁלַח - "Man of the dart," or alternatively "when he dies, it will be sent" ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- Hua Tuo (華佗, 華陀, 华陀, Huá Tuó) (? - 208) was a renowned physician during the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China ...11 KB (1,818 words) - 01:27, 4 February 2023
- In Egyptian mythology, Apep (also spelled Apepi, and Aapep, or Apophis in Greek) was a serpent demon who represented the forces of chaos, death ...22 KB (3,545 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- In Māori mythology, the primal couple Rangi (Sky-Father) and Papa (Earth Mother), also called Ranginui and Papatuanuku, refer to the first primordial ...8 KB (1,301 words) - 00:36, 8 December 2022
- Eratosthenes (Greek Ἐρατοσθένης ; 276 B.C.E. – 194 B.C.E.) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- Amaterasu (天照), Amaterasu-ōmikami (天照大神 or 天照大御神, Japanese: “Great Divinity Illuminating Heaven”) or Ōhiru-menomuchi ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between appearance and reality is, and has always been, one of the principal focal ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- Horus is one of the most archaic gods of the classical Egyptian pantheon, one whose longevity is at least partially attributable to the syncretic ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 18:16, 7 February 2024
- According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram shows the relationship between absolute magnitude, luminosity, classification ...10 KB (1,492 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is the third largest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. Uranus is similar in composition to ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- Sodom—together with its companion Gomorrah and two other towns—was a city destroyed by God for its sins: a complete disregard for the tradition ...14 KB (2,337 words) - 22:02, 30 January 2023
- The linga (also known as "Lingam") is the primary symbol of the Hindu god Shiva and the main cultic object of devotion in Shaivism ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 23:15, 18 April 2020
- When a celestial object is in an elliptical orbit around another body, an apsis (plural apsides) is a point on the orbit at greatest or least ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the very first king of the gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- A solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth's axis is most oriented toward or away from the ...25 KB (3,968 words) - 19:48, 28 August 2023
- The Book of Joel is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the eponymous ...19 KB (3,075 words) - 00:18, 19 November 2023
- Rockabilly is one of the earliest forms of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It flourished in the mid 1950s based mainly in the American ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 21:31, 16 April 2023
