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- print or electronic periodical publication. The ISSN system was adopted as ... identification methods. ISSN and SICI are the outcome of international collaboration ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- jobs and helped elect politicians during the Great Depression, becoming ... and had nine brothers and sisters. In the 1890s, he worked in his brother ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 22:46, 30 April 2023
- The National Archives (TNA) is a British Governmental organization ... There is a separate National Archives of Scotland (formerly the Scottish ...18 KB (2,677 words) - 15:40, 30 April 2023
- long distance runner, and at one point held the American record in every running ... quot;front-running" racing style and at the University of Oregon's ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- The sport of Fencing is a sport of armed combat that is one of the ... The sport traces its origin to ancient times as fencing was an ancient ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom ranks second only to the Medal of ...9 KB (1,283 words) - 22:24, 30 November 2022
- for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American ... as a "cheery elf," rather than the common image of the austere ...17 KB (2,608 words) - 06:30, 15 January 2023
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status ... It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name ... of differing sizes and pitches. It is the largest such instrument family ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- The Creative Commons (CC) is a U.S. non-profit corporation founded ... The Creative Commons licenses enable copyright holders to grant some ...14 KB (1,898 words) - 06:20, 11 January 2024
- that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or ... The origins of slang are usually found in the desire of those members ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- The Field Museum of Natural History (commonly abbreviated to FMNH ... The Field Museum has contributed to the advancement of museums in ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 19:38, 26 March 2024
- rock with abrasive grit, in a rotating drum. The biggest pebble here is 40 ... used in jewelry and decorative items. Among the most highly valued gemstones ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 06:40, 18 April 2024
- Embezzlement is the illegal transfer of money or property for personal ... The punishment for embezzlement usually takes into account the amount ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from the vocal or chest register (or ... In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
- The Common Rule is a federal policy governing the protection of human ... Initially fifteen Federal departments adopted the regulations in 1991 ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 18:58, 25 July 2021
- before puberty. This is done in order for the child to be more physically ... Castrati were rarely referred to as such. More common was the term ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- Singapore, with its teachings derived from the books of Buddhism, Taoism ... #039;s predominance has been indicated by the concern for the preservation ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 20:14, 13 September 2023
- famous as a World War I hero. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion ... Regarded by many as a brutal sport, boxing has often provided the ...12 KB (1,913 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- Lobbying is the practice of trying to persuade legislators or officials ... system, has received particular attention in the United States, where numerous ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large ... The five Great Lakes of North America are: *Lake Superior (the largest ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family. It is related ... The kantele has a long history in Finnish balladry and is experiencing ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- English author and doctor, who lived during the time of Sir Francis Bacon ... to any of his contemporaries, but also in the history of thought in general ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- made up of semiconductors that enables the transmission of analog signals ... In 1961, Eugene F. Lally of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory published ...19 KB (2,914 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- and a women's rights activist, and the first woman in the United ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- Muir Woods National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service ... Muir Woods has been preserved, allowing the natural benefits of climate ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- The field of electronics comprises the study and use of systems that ... The study of new semiconductor devices and surrounding technology ...15 KB (2,062 words) - 16:04, 13 February 2024
- The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more ... Because of the ease of carrying and the direction of sound, it is ...19 KB (2,980 words) - 22:02, 24 February 2024
- known or reasonably ascertainable to the public, by which a business ... means to keep their special knowledge out of the hands of competitors, such ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 04:53, 1 May 2023
- is, "at random." In addition, the speed at which a set of data ... In today's computers, the main memory takes the form of a RAM ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- established for charitable purposes only. The law favors charities because ... A charity goes beyond giving relief to the poor or homeless, extending ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- Day) is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther ... King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to ... political figure, and Mary Allyne. He was the second of thirteen children ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... The text also occupies a different place in the Jewish and Christian ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live. Aliens ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- The xylophone (from the Greek meaning 'wooden sound') is ... Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
- referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as The Rock, is a small island located ... Due to its isolation by the cold, strong, hazardous currents of San ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- Pioneers traveled in wagons across the Oregon Trail, one of the main ... The first well-mapped land route across what is now the United States ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- The Estates General of 1789 was a general assembly representing the ... == The decision to summon the Estates == === First Assembly of Notables ...27 KB (4,325 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the ... air through nearly-closed lips (called the player's embouchure) ...34 KB (5,196 words) - 19:49, 28 June 2023
- of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument currently ... A musician who plays the harpsichord is called a harpsichordist. ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 20:32, 29 January 2022
- United States, 86 miles (138 km) west of the state capitol of Columbia ... The noted states rights advocate John C. Calhoun was born just outside ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- and social, self-centered greed on the part of those in authority ... The supermarket typically comprises meat, produce, dairy, and baked ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 13:56, 28 April 2023
- The Boston Public Library is the largest municipal public library ... With public support and the help of significant contributions by numerous ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 19:51, 20 November 2023
- In the physical sciences, the weight of an object is a measurement ... Recognition of the difference between weight and mass is a relatively ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents ... literature, primarily in Hinduism, and the fact that most modern Indian ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- miles (9.8 km²) in land area, belonging to the U.S. state of Michigan. It ... In the late nineteenth century, Mackinac Island became a popular tourist ...24 KB (3,463 words) - 22:57, 7 May 2023
- The Modern Jazz Quartet (also known as the MJQ) was established in ... The MJQ is the most perfect example of chamber music jazz. Composed ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- an American poet whose works brought about the Confessionalist movement in ... Lowell was born into the Boston Brahmin Lowell family, and was raised ...8 KB (1,303 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant ... Brine shrimp comprise a genus with the subphylum Crustacea, a group ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... Debate continues about whether the Civil War and all its bloodshed ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... are now commonplace in popular culture. The sex discrimination that has ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- Marty Robbins (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982) was one of ... An avid stock car racer, Robbins also made many starts in the NASCAR ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- is considered a historical figure announcing the transition between swing and ... Roy Eldridge was both an innovator on trumpet and one of the great ...9 KB (1,351 words) - 02:28, 17 December 2022
- The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family ... Because the oboe's penetrating sound and expressive abilities ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program ... The preservation of digital content has become a major challenge for ...13 KB (1,802 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English ... historical value, and not one of them is the original version. The oldest ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements ... Thompson's writing helped expose the role of class, elitism, ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington ... The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope and completed ...9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
- 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809), was a signer of the United States Declaration ... He served in the last four Royal Assemblies in the colony and in its ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- music teacher of Belgian origin, was one of the great figures in classical ... become a concert pianist, and he studied at the conservatoire in Liège before ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder ... attention, with critics accusing the prosecution and presiding ...47 KB (7,315 words) - 18:33, 22 December 2022
- The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV ... The Edict aimed primarily to end the long-running, disruptive French ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket ... In the internationally publicized legal proceedings that followed ...46 KB (6,999 words) - 15:07, 25 January 2023
- logician whose best-known accomplishment is the proposal about the notion ... Other relevant contributions by Church are the proofs of the undecidablility ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- represents an algorithm or process, showing the steps as boxes of various ... or programs in various fields. They help the viewer understand and get ...10 KB (1,512 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- institutions that form part of the criminal justice system of ... to post bail. This may also occur where the court determines that the ...31 KB (4,789 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- A central processing unit (CPU), or sometimes simply processor, is ... The term "central processing unit" is a description of a ...48 KB (7,311 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- Sede vacante (Latin for "the seat being vacant"), refers ... Sede vacante occurs when the diocesan bishop has either died, resigned ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 20:19, 26 December 2023
- In his acting, he gave a new life to some of the greatest classics in the English ... Shy in private, he played roles that dominated the stage and screen ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- The Skoptsy ( скопцы ritual castration of their men, and the removal of their women's ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 22:47, 29 January 2023
- air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's ... vibratory length of tubing, thus changing the available harmonic series ...34 KB (4,980 words) - 16:54, 26 March 2022
- for his light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- 17, 1927) was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts ... and Eleanor Kinzie Gordon shortly before the beginning of the Civil War ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- judges, and their law clerks in finding the legal resources necessary ... The processes of legal research vary according to the country and ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- The War of the Pacific, also called the Saltpeter War in reference ... The War of the Pacific grew out of a dispute between Chile and Bolivia ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is a stock exchange based in New ... The NYSE began in 1792 when the Buttonwood Agreement was signed by ...22 KB (3,309 words) - 21:49, 14 November 2022
- publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and ... Prize for 1905), Fried became interested in the peace movement and co-founded ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- The electrical resistance of an object (or material) is a measure ... electrical resistance shares some conceptual parallels with the mechanical ...12 KB (1,798 words) - 15:52, 13 February 2024
- : This article is about Dr. William Ellery Channing, the Unitarian ... Dr. William Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842) was ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism ... Godwin held the optimistic view that every individual, as a rational ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- as Gando, refers to northeastern parts of the People's Republic of ... Today, most of the region resides in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 08:52, 3 April 2024
- Second Polish-Ottoman War was a war between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ... The Commonwealth, however, was terminally weakened as a result of ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also referred to as: Bosnian Conflict ... Since the war in Bosnia is a consequence of events in the wider region ...36 KB (5,522 words) - 14:58, 9 February 2022
- An e-book (for electronic book, ebook, or ecobook) is the digital ... During the late 1990s, developments in information technology and ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 21:37, 25 September 2020
- 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was the most influential composer ... With the death of national Italian poet Alessandro Manzoni in 1874 ...22 KB (3,400 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- The Mississippi River, derived from the Ojibwa (Chippewa Indian) language ... The longest river in North America is its tributary, the Missouri ...31 KB (4,768 words) - 11:11, 10 March 2023
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from ... It resembles a trumpet, and the tube has the same length but a wider ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- (phonetic notation and transcription) for the Mandarin language used in ... Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- and adept playing, one of them being the young Robert Johnson, who ... other bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
- written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the ... The quartet became popular in the beginning of the Classical period ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi ... With the genocide, and the resurgence in the civil war, Rwanda's ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- The Brooklyn Bridge (originally the New York and Brooklyn Bridge) ... Construction began in January 3, 1870. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as ... Burke was taken up by the literary and artistic circles of London ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- forms. Early electronic computers were the size of a large room, consuming ... The ability to store and execute programs makes computers extremely ...50 KB (7,240 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- is now considered by scholars to be one of the most influential dramatists ... Through his play Spanish Tragedy, Kyd introduced the genre of "revenge ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- Lynx (plural lynxes or lynx) is both the common and scientific name ... There are four extant species of lynx: The Canadian lynx (Lynx canadensis ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 04:38, 5 November 2022
