Search results for "The Five K's" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana ... In addition, kana were borrowed into Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire ... The empire's participation in and profit from the immoral slave ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... His name does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, though he was known by ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- Cadmium-containing ores are rare. The only cadmium mineral of importance ... Zinc sulfide ores are roasted in the presence of oxygen, thereby converting ...16 KB (2,248 words) - 10:14, 25 November 2023
- of infectious agent made only of protein. At the most basic level, the lack ... The functionality of a protein is dependent upon its ability to fold ...17 KB (2,526 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar ... The L-isomer of valine, which is the only form that is involved in ...8 KB (1,183 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- cell becomes specialized into one of the many cell types that make ... The process of cell differentiation is a remarkable phenomena. Starting ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- :This article is about the chemical element. number=16 | symbol=S ... stable compounds with all elements except the noble gases. Abundant in nature ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- safeguard the taiga for future generations. The world's largest terrestrial biome, the taiga ( ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:48, 27 February 2023
- best known for his invention of the barometer. In addition he ... Torricelli was born in Faenza Papal States, near Ravenna, Italy. The ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- state material derived from a gel in which the liquid component of the gel ... treatments. Carbon aerogels are used in the manufacture of small electrochemical ...18 KB (2,574 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- Moss is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular ... or seeds, and their simple leaves cover the thin wiry stems. At certain ...21 KB (3,181 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- As white dwarfs have mass comparable to the Sun's and their volume ... White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- viral] disease caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus, and characterized ... about one million deaths annually during the 1990s and a fatality rate ...18 KB (2,539 words) - 09:34, 10 March 2023
- The Hetmanate or officially Viysko Zaporozke ( Гетьманщина ... ) was a Cossack state in the central and north-eastern regions of ...25 KB (3,590 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2022
- give rise through further differentiation to the various structures (organs ... layers). Those that produce two germ layers (the ectoderm and endoderm), the ...10 KB (1,511 words) - 18:03, 28 August 2021
- In anatomy, the heart is the muscular, pumping organ of the closed ... The term "cardiac" (as in cardiology and cardiovascular ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 15:12, 25 January 2023
- Watershed has traditionally designated the dividing line, or drainage ... People live particular watersheds (in the sense of drainage basin ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre, was a ... The massacre is of note for a number of reasons, but primarily due ...47 KB (6,938 words) - 20:13, 4 June 2024
- and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers" ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
