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- Porphyry is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music, which has its earliest roots in early-1960s garage and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride, NaCl, commonly known as rock salt. Halite occurs as cubic crystals that are typically colorless ...5 KB (705 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- Slate is a fine-grained, homogeneous, metamorphic rock. It is derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ...5 KB (686 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is a mineral composed of calcium fluoride (chemical formula CaF2). It is present in large deposits in many parts ...8 KB (1,085 words) - 17:48, 28 March 2024
- In music, a riff is an ostinato figure (a repeated chord progression, pattern, or melodic fragment), often played by instruments in the rhythmic ...6 KB (949 words) - 01:36, 15 December 2022
- Amethyst is a violet or purple variety of quartz often used as an ornamental stone. The name comes from the Greek words a (not) and methuskein ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 06:54, 25 July 2023
- A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- Jadeite is one of the minerals recognized as the gemstone jade. The other mineral recognized as "jade" is nephrite, a green amphibole. ...7 KB (945 words) - 12:38, 6 November 2021
- Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Garnets are most often seen in red, but are ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Sipuncula or Sipunculida is a phylum of bilaterally symmetrical, unsegmented marine invertebrates, characterized by a worm-like body divided ...11 KB (1,484 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | Background = group_or_band | Name = Cream | Img = ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 06:17, 11 January 2024
- Category:Public {| class="infobox" style="width: 25em;" |----- align=center bgcolor="#9966FF" !colspan=2 align=center ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s. Its roots are firmly entrenched in hard rock bands ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- Sea urchin is the common name for various spiky echinoderms within the class Echinoidea, characterized by pentamerous radial symmetry; a hard ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 17:33, 25 January 2023
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite (or hydroxyapatite), fluoroapatite (or fluorapatite ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- General Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-twentieth century. During ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:07, 9 November 2022
- Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942, Seattle, Washington – September 18, 1970, London, England) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Hendrix ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Nunavut (Inuktitut syllabics: [[Image:Nunavut.png|55px|The word "Nunavut" in Inuktitut syllabics]] ) is the largest and newest territory ...26 KB (3,796 words) - 01:18, 17 November 2022
