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Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com

The human body is the physical manifestation of a human being, including the chemical elements, cells, and extracellular materials and the organization of these materials into tissues, organs, and systems.


Great Seal of the United States

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states and the District of Columbia located primarily in central North America.


A map of countries of Europe, where the ideal of the "nation-state" arose.

In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country," a "nation," or a "state."


A flight of Junkers Ju 87 -Stuka dive-bombers prepares to attack.

World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945.


Map of the division of the states during the Civil War

The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil War (1861–1865), fought in North America between 24 mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states.


The Ancient Pyramids of Egypt that still rise above the desert were designed with the intention that spirits of deceased rulers could more easily return to their bodies.

Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization of the Lower Nile Valley (or the Great Rift Valley) between the First Cataract and the mouths of the Nile Delta, from circa 3300 B.C.E. until the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E..


A view of Machu Picchu, "the Lost city of the Incas," now an archaeological site.

The Inca Civilization (called Tawantinsuyu in modern spelling, and Quechua, or Tahuantinsuyu in old spelling), was an empire located in South America from 1438 c.e. to 1533 c.e.


Great Tit, Parus major

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, oviparous (egg-laying) vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and a bony beak without teeth.


Increasingly the world is thought of as a whole

Globalization, as a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" of the world and the increased consciousness of the world as a whole.


A map of Constantinople. Also see a more detailed map.

Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and, following its fall in 1453, of the Ottoman Empire until 1930, when it was renamed Istanbul as part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's Turkish national reforms.

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Flag of the Netherlands

Netherlands is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is formed by the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.


Diagram of the carbon cycle. The black numbers indicate how much carbon is stored in various reservoirs, in billions of tons ("GtC" stands for GigaTons of Carbon). The blue numbers indicate how much carbon moves between reservoirs each year.

Carbon (chemical symbol C; atomic number 6) is a remarkable chemical element that plays a vital role in the structures and processes of the living and nonliving worlds.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon (문선명, 文鮮明), born February 25, 1920 (lunar: January 6, 1920), in North Pyeongan Province, which is now part of North Korea, is the founder of the Unification Church.


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The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople.


The main group elements of the periodic table are groups 1, 2 and 13 through 18. Elements in these groups are collectively known as main group or representative elements.


Gall bladder

The gallbladder (also gall bladder), or cholecyst, is a pear-shaped organ that stores and concentrates bile until it is needed to aid with fat digestion.


Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud introduced what would later come to be called the "structural theory" of psychoanalysis in his 1923 book The Ego and the Id.


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Intelligent design (ID) is the view that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.


Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912, from La Gazette du bon ton, the most influential fashion magazine of its era.

In general, the term fashion refers to a prevailing mode of expression, whether it be custom, style of dress, speech, or other.


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Oxygen (chemical symbol O, atomic number 8) is the second most common element on Earth and the third most common element in the universe.