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- Artichoke, or globe artichoke, is a perennial thistle, Cynara cardunculus ... There are two other plants for which the term artichoke is applied ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is the range of all possible electromagnetic ... modern radio (at the long-wavelength end) to gamma radiation (at the short ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 15:55, 13 February 2024
- He studied law at Harvard but soon turned to writing and a career in public ... Both in his books and on the lecture platform, Fiske endeavored to ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- The Sacred Heart is a devotional representation of Jesus' physical ... Predecessors to the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart existed to ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 18:34, 22 December 2022
- Deep Ecology is a philosophical perspective in environmental philosophy ... of all sentient beings and the need to cultivate the spirituality ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
- The exploits of the "Red Baron" helped to popularize not ... Freiherr (literally "Free Lord") is not a given name but ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 17:23, 7 December 2023
- Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid ... Messenger RNA is synthesized on a DNA template in a process known ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- of the honky tonk singers and the first to achieve national recognition ... In 1948-49, Tubb was the first singer to record a hit record of "Blue ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence ... in numerous manuscripts. It contributed to Saint Thecla's veneration ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- pursuit of the good of the whole contributes to the good of each and brings ... degree of BA in 1653; and, having proceeded to his MA in 1656, was the next ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- more than fifty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos ... with much scholarly research devoted to his work. Many of Vivaldi& ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- under various other formulations) refers to the self that must underlie ... statements based on faith in God came to be challenged as dogmatic. ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- search for a mentor, and the struggle to bridge the gap between Orthodox ... Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Benjamin Max (d. 1958 ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- The Great Basin is a huge heart-shaped area that covers parts of six ... The Great Basin Culture Area, home to several Shoshonean Great Basin ...18 KB (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... A colony of Portugal until 1974, with the Philippines, East Timor ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- Rakugo (落語 literally, "fallen words") is a form of Japanese ... sermons. The priests used dramatic stories to illustrate the spiritual principles ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- of the United States National Forest system, is located in the Arrowhead Region ... woods and waters. The majority of the forest is multiple-use, including both ...20 KB (2,971 words) - 23:47, 26 February 2023
- a divine and a human will, corresponding to his two natures. The council is also notable in that it condemned a pope, Honorius ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- traditionally non-academic and only related to a specific trade, occupation ... with the lower social classes as compared to the classical education that ...18 KB (2,528 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China. It is home to a number of Turkic ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- a wider education, at 26 he travelled to Venice to study. In 1570 he ... in the twentieth century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of ...77 KB (11,557 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Josaphat, he changed his name when he moved to England and converted to Christianity ... An innovator in the field, he still recognized the need to cooperate ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world ... The Yangtze is one of the world's busiest waterways, flanked ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- Germaine Greer (January 29, 1939 - ) is an Australian-born writer ... her both adulation and opposition. She is also the author of many other ...21 KB (3,238 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... was the first country in the world to have a female head-of-state ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- There is lack of consensus over what range of animals is encompassed ... , the main distinction between mice and rats is a matter of size, with relatively ...17 KB (2,522 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin came to power ... Yeltsin was not able to accomplish many of his social and economic ...42 KB (6,205 words) - 19:43, 20 November 2023
- Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking ... Berber tribes could never unite long enough to rid themselves of the numerous ...26 KB (3,865 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- included "Hip Hug-Her," "Time is Tight," and an instrumental ... Jr., were in the Stax studio in Memphis to back up former Sun Records ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 19:23, 20 November 2023
- made the earliest extant European world map to incorporate the territories ... people everywhere are aware that they belong to a single human family. ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 15:30, 1 February 2023
- A committed socialist, she aimed to raise the standard of living ... the political arena. Although she failed to gain the Presidency in 1988 ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- of the Korean War, South Korea has sought to improve its economy, shrugging ... of South Korea have brought many changes to Korean's lives. In the ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- its demise in 1991. The first Soviet leader to be born after the revolution ... allowing the Berlin Wall and Iron curtain to fall without Soviet military ...27 KB (3,969 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- White Tea is the least processed form of tea, made only from buds ... from the camellia sinensis plant. White tea is a specialty of the Chinese ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:15, 4 May 2023
- Хождение в народ ("Going to the people"). The Narodniks ... had replaced landowners. Narodism aimed to become the political force ...11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant ... he worked as a ghostwriter, Mirbeau began to publish under his own name ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of ... and smaller sub-methods, which are built up to the program as a whole. In ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first ... the Amorites ("the Mar.tu land") is associated with the lands west ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- A coin is a metal token, usually in the shape of a disc, often of ... Forms of money have developed from coins made from precious metals ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- Shellfish is a a broad term for various aquatic mollusks, crustaceans ... grown up around them. Shellfish aquaculture is a rapidly growing enterprise ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- Macedonia). At the age of 18, she left home to become a Roman Catholic nun ... Her supporters sometimes referred to her as the "Angel of Mercy ...24 KB (3,633 words) - 20:00, 15 March 2023
- The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, sometimes referred to as the ... were blamed for their inaction in failing to exercise appropriate control ...67 KB (10,179 words) - 23:19, 30 March 2024
- Assateague Island is a 37|mi|km|adj=on long barrier island located ... Assateague is separated from the mainland by the Chincoteague Bay ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... flourished for over a thousand years due to the emphasis it placed on commerce ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for the play The ... Catholic peasants of rural Ireland and with what he saw as the essential paganism ...12 KB (2,009 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- he renounced his marriage and resolved to serve God. After his release ... promulgated heterodox opinions and went to Rome to justify his teachings ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- of water around, over, and through the Earth is called the water cycle.]] The water cycle, or the hydrologic cycle, is the continuous circulation ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- Marble is a metamorphic rock, composed mainly of crystalline calcium ... meaning "shining stone." This stem is also the basis for the English ...8 KB (1,153 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- as "Marktrichter," an office akin to village mayor. Haydn's ... :Reutter was so captivated by [Joseph]'s talents that he declared ...7 KB (1,073 words) - 17:05, 9 November 2022
- Crow is the common name for various large passerine birds in the genus ... dark plumage, unnerving calls, and tendency to eat carrion. They are commonly ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with studying ... and hard drive heads. Town planners need to consider aerodynamics to reduce ...26 KB (3,914 words) - 06:23, 15 June 2023
- that few have equaled, and helped to raise the genre's standards ... relationships. His iconoclastic approach to these themes led to wildly ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged ... The cycle is usually thought of as four main reservoirs of carbon ...17 KB (2,593 words) - 23:46, 20 April 2023
- Russian symbolism. The story of her marriage to Dmitri Merezhkovsky, which ... it as a cultural disaster, and in 1919 emigrated to Poland. ...40 KB (5,765 words) - 22:46, 29 June 2023
- which sparked a controversy in her day, is her best known work. The tale ... Beecher Hooker. Her mother was forced to move often and lived with various ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- and one of the last remaining areas open to colonization was on the African ... unlike Germany her colonies were limited to Africa. By the outbreak of ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- Evil is a term used to describe something that brings about harmful ... of evil centering on a good God and tend to stress the seriousness of moral ...41 KB (6,708 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- life, during which he had become devoted to the cause of revolution against ... His exile over, in 1900 he moved to Western Europe, where he joined ...47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
- bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) is the name of two Chinese mythological ... and Huang female, the Feng-Huang can also be regarded as a female entity ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- Symbiosis (plural: "symbioses") is the close, interactive ... In a symbiosis, the larger partner (macrospecies) is known as the ...33 KB (5,007 words) - 07:43, 24 October 2022
- Loki (sometimes referred to by his full name, Loki Laufeyjarson) is ... Despite significant scholarly research, Loki seems to have been a ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 21:01, 3 November 2022
- about preaching apostolic poverty as the way to perfection. They were persecuted ... into the snare that was set for them...It is absolutely false, that these ...32 KB (4,791 words) - 23:19, 17 January 2024
- asking the Patriarch of Constantinople to appoint a Metropolitan for ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- was the king of the Franks from 768 C.E. to 814 C.E. and king of the Lombards ... on Christmas Day, 800 by Pope Leo III and is therefore regarded as the founder ...56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- one of the major English Romantic poets and is esteemed by some scholars as ... first wife and children, Shelley was married to the novelist Mary Shelley, ...20 KB (3,154 words) - 00:32, 24 November 2022
- Post-structuralism refers to the intellectual developments in continental ... While post-structuralism is difficult to define or summarize, it can ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- Glycogen is the principal storage form of glucose (Glc) in animal ... Glycogen is found in the form of granules in the cytosol, the internal ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 18:24, 30 August 2021
- theorist, and philosopher. Although he is often mentioned as the associate ... a first-rate education, and sent him first to the parish school and then ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- In the field of parapsychology, psychometry (soul-measuring) is defined ... The past is entombed in the present, the world is its own enduring ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 18:01, 14 April 2023
- Alcatraz Island, commonly referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally ... Due to its isolation by the cold, strong, hazardous currents of San ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- This article is about the city in the West Bank. Bet Lehem meaning “House of Bread”) is a Palestinian city in Israel ...17 KB (2,648 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- A brief or factum (Latin for "act" or "deed") ... writ. In England and Wales, a barrister is the one upon whom devolves ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons ... For many people justice is overwhelmingly important: "Justice ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- Snake is any of the numerous elongate, limbless, scaled, carnivorous ... range in size from the tiny thread snake to pythons and anacondas over ...54 KB (8,016 words) - 05:10, 13 October 2022
- Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an African American scholar ... West is known for his combination of political and moral insight and ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- The chicken (Gallus gallus) is one of humankind's most common ... good qualities of chickens and have worked to create useful and beautiful ...29 KB (4,637 words) - 15:23, 10 December 2023
- The dulcimer is a stringed musical instrument of two main varieties ... The word dulcimer is Graeco-Roman, meaning "sweet song," ...15 KB (2,441 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- Meiji Era. Soseki, along with Mori Ogai, is considered one of the two greatest ... “the shame of woman.” Chie was ashamed to have a child at her advanced ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- settling on reservations where they continue to live, and many Oneida moved ... and crafts, and the raising of livestock is now a rarity on the Oneida ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 00:38, 18 November 2022
- Allosaurus was a large (up to 9.7 m long) bipedal (moving on two ... E. D. Cope. Competition can spur individuals to greater accomplishment. However ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Anatomy may refer either to the internal structure and organization ... Since the function of a part is related to its structure, anatomy ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 19:02, 26 July 2023
- miles (554,260 square kilometers). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off ... The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from space and is sometimes referred ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 01:04, 21 January 2023
- :This article is concerned with the methodology of iconography, principally ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- scientist, Polanyi turned his attention to the philosophy of science. ... Polanyi was born into a Jewish family. His older brother Karl is known ...17 KB (2,500 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- . During his reign, most of Armenia was lost to the Roman Empire and Emperor ... by good fortune more than skill was able to pass on to those who followed ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- of the Bible in one complete edition and is considered a precursor of the ... of reform that Wycliffe planted were not to blossom until a couple hundred ...43 KB (7,079 words) - 08:06, 3 August 2022
- ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... has taken on a semi-mythological status and is often cited as truly representing ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of ... forms of electromagnetic radiation, there is variation in the strength of ...6 KB (857 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- or, Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676. Although he is not well-known in modern times ... Comedy, which emerged largely as a reaction to the collapse of the Puritan ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- authors of the ninteenth century. The novel demonstrates how the Cossacks ... of a Cossack. She was illiterate but learned to read and write in order to ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 04:04, 25 March 2023
- of the Sauk Native American tribe in what are now the states of Iowa ... in the 1832 Black Hawk War in an attempt to regain his tribe's traditional ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 19:44, 14 August 2021
- Upon taking the throne as queen, she launched a campaign to rid her ... places including Dwarka in Gujarat east to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 06:51, 16 June 2023
- Yerkes worked with John D. Dodson to develop the Yerkes-Dodson Law ... The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, which he established ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Hrafnkels saga (ˈr̥apncɛls ˌsaːɣa) is one of the Icelanders ... The saga remains widely read today and is appreciated for its logical ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 01:26, 4 February 2023
- and 1760s, standing out in stark opposition to the then-dominant rationalist ... Only recently have Kant scholars begun to fully realize the profound ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- Fluorescence is a luminescence that is mostly found as an optical ... Fluorescence is named after the mineral fluorite, composed of calcium ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 17:45, 28 March 2024
- In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or Anti-Christ is a powerful ... Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- German and other Southwest German dialects to English as "jumping or ... The rumspringa experience allows teenagers to spend some time, with various ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 18:14, 22 December 2022
- Red panda is the common name for a mostly herbivorous, bamboo specialized ... The red panda is endemic to the Himalayas in Bhutan, southern China ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
