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- Carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed in small amounts when carbon dioxide is dissolved ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- Upāsaka (masculine) or Upāsikā (feminine) (from Sanskrit: meaning "attendant") refers to Buddhists who are not monks, nuns or novices belonging ...9 KB (1,341 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the fifth or sixth ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- Orangutan (also written orang-utan, orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- Pope Clement V (1264 – April 20, 1314), born Bertrand de Goth (also occasionally spelled "Gouth" and "Got"), was Pope from 1305 to his ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Phosphoric-acid-2D-dimensions.png|160px|Phosphoric acid]] ...23 KB (3,466 words) - 04:24, 24 November 2022
- Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 B.C.E. – ca. 370 B.C.E.) Greek: Ἱπποκράτης Hippokrátēs, was an ancient Greek physician of ...33 KB (4,488 words) - 14:32, 13 July 2023
- The categorical proposition is a basic concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic or categorical logic). Aristotelian logic ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Soekarnoputri (January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to October 20, 2004. She was the country's ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- A spring is a flexible, elastic device used to store mechanical energy. When a force is applied to a spring, it expands or contracts to a certain extent, and ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- In biblical scholarship, the documentary hypothesis proposes that the Pentateuch (also called the Torah, or first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was not literally ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- Hoolock gibbon is the common name for any of the arboreal, tailless, Asian apes belonging to the gibbon genus Hoolock, characterized by long limbs, thick and ...12 KB (1,738 words) - 16:17, 25 January 2023
- Populus is a genus of deciduous trees in the flowering plants family Salicaceae, characterized by flowers in the form of long, drooping catkins and by spirally ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (July 17, 1714 – May 26, 1762) was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- Crantor (ca. 330 – 270 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, a pupil of Xenocrates and fellow student of Polemo. Crantor was known for his poetic ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for any of the large, gregarious, wading birds comprising the family Phoenicopteridae, characterized ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of blood vessel that is abnormally narrowed (stenosis) or totally obstructed (occlusion). Angioplasty has come to include ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary, and the first ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- Angkor Wat (meaning: "Capital Temple") is an ancient temple complex (originally Hindu but later becomming Buddhist) dating from the twelfth century ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 01:44, 9 January 2023
- Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. He was one ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- Category:Image wanted Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed in philosophical arguments in general, which states that anything that happens does ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 21:33, 26 February 2023
- Carneades (c. 214 - 129 B.C.E.) was one of the most prominent Academic skeptics. Head of the Academy from 167 to 137 B.C.E., he not only argued against the ...11 KB (1,736 words) - 00:29, 29 November 2023
- Yantra (from the Sanskrit root sa|यन्त्र् yam, meaning "to restrain, curb, check") refers to "any instrument [or machine] for holding ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the greatest American ...17 KB (2,520 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- In physics and chemistry, an atomic orbital is a region in which an electron may be found within a single atom. J. Daintith, Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (New ...33 KB (5,193 words) - 01:09, 18 November 2022
- In regular usage, the term sound is applied to any stimulus that excites our sense of hearing. The cause of sound is vibratory movement from a disturbance, communicated ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- Dagon was an ancient northwest Semitic god worshiped by the early Amorites and by the people of Ebla and Ugarit. He was also a major god, perhaps the chief god ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- Category:Psychologists Pavlov, Ivan [[Image:Ivan Pavlov nobel.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Ivan Pavlov]] Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов ...11 KB (1,563 words) - 07:43, 12 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bjorn Borg Hollow Face.jpg|200px|thumb|right|This face of Björn Borg appears ...7 KB (1,100 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single global community. The word derives from Greek cosmos ("Κόσμος," the Universe ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- In recursion theory and computational complexity theory, a decision problem is a yes-or-no question on specified sets of inputs. For example, the problem "given ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- Gandharvas (from the Sanskrit: गंधर्व, gandharva, possibly meaning "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male nature dieties that ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes ( 莫高窟|p=mò gāo kū ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves), forms a system of 492 temples ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Sycamore is a common name that is applied used at various times and places to three very different taxa of trees, Ficus sycomorus, Acer pseudoplatanus, and all ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 01:53, 27 February 2023
- Christian August Crusius (January 10, 1715 – October 18, 1775) was a German philosopher and theologian. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in Germany during ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: Tratado de Tordesillas), signed at Tordesillas (now in Valladolid province, Spain), June ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface (in a direction perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface. If the force ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) is considered by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one of the leading ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican priest and ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- The First Italo–Ethiopian War was fought between Italy and Ethiopia in 1895-1896. Ethiopia's military victory over Italy secured it the distinction of ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Breckinridge, Sophonisba {{Infobox person | name = Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- In electronics, a diode is a component that allows an electric current to flow in one direction but blocks it in the opposite direction. Thus, the diode can ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Category:Image wanted Stumpf, Carl Carl Stumpf (April 21, 1848 – December 25, 1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- Federalist No. 68 is the 68th essay of The Federalist Papers, and was published on March 12, 1788. It was probably written by Alexander Hamilton under the pseudonym ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 17:11, 8 October 2023
- Pistachio is a common name for a small, deciduous tree, Pistacia vera, of western and central Asia, that produces a commercially popular "Pistachio nut ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Funk is a musical style advanced primarily by African-American artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone in the late 1960s, ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- In mathematics, an average, mean, or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or "expected value" of the data set ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- The Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms) was a general assembly (a Diet) of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, a small town on the ...7 KB (1,119 words) - 14:32, 29 January 2024
- Category:Psychologists Woodworth, Robert S. Robert Sessions Woodworth (October 17, 1869 – July 4, 1962) was an American psychologist. He wrote numerous textbooks ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- Edward Caird (March 23, 1835 – November 1, 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in Britain. He was one of the first generation ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha), comprising species ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate system) is used to determine each point uniquely in a plane through two numbers, usually ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Black powder is the original gunpowder; it was one of the few known propellants and explosives until the middle of the nineteenth century. Since then it has ...14 KB (2,154 words) - 14:28, 8 February 2022
- Voluntarism is fundamentally a theory of action according to which will takes precedence over intellect. The will is traditionally understood as a capacity for ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 2023
- An antiproton (symbol Antiproton , pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton. An antiproton is relatively stable, but it is typically short-lived because ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main sequence star of the same surface temperature. It is, therefore, placed above ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- Category:Economists Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard de [[Image:Jean Charles Simonde de Sismondi (1773-1842).png|300px|thumb|right|Jean Charles Leanord de Sismondi]] ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- In metaphysics, a universal is a type, a property, or a relation. The term derives from the Latin word universalia and is often considered to be a mind-independent ...9 KB (1,457 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring develop from unfertilized eggs. A common mode of reproduction in arthropods, such as insects ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, soon after shooting in the American ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- Category:Anthropologists Category:Sociologists Category:Biography Parsons, Elsie Clews Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941 ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- Category:Economists Walker, Francis Amasa [[Image:Francis Amasa Walker.jpg|right|200px|thumb| Francis Amasa Walker]] Francis Amasa Walker (July 2, 1840 – January ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to the nature of sums of simpler or more fundamental ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts. He is famous for his portraits of important figures in ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- Fowl is the common name for any of the gamefowl or landfowl comprising the bird order Galliformes, or any of the waterfowl comprising the order Anseriformes ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- The ancient Korean kingdom of Silla used the aristocratic bone rank system to segregate society, particularly the layers of the aristocracy. The bone rank determined ...8 KB (1,213 words) - 07:22, 17 November 2023
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, who is now widely recognized as ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- Pope Saint Fabian was bishop of Rome from January 236 to January 20, 250 C.E., succeeding Anterus. He is famous for the miraculous nature of his election, in ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- Category:Economists Bastiat, Claude Frederic [[Image:Bastiat.jpg|right|frame|Frédéric Bastiat]] Claude Frédéric Bastiat (June 30, 1801 - December 24, 1850 ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 10:54, 19 December 2023
- A paradox was originally something that was contrary to received or common opinion. The term paradox comes from the Greek para ("contrary to") and ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- The term bioethics was first coined by American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology, ecology, medicine, and ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542, or c. 1551), born and also known as Lisa Gherardini and Lisa di Antonio Maria (Antonmaria) Gherardini, also ...18 KB (2,836 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of her day, and for ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- The gas constant (also known as the molar, universal, or ideal gas constant) is a physical constant that is featured in a number of fundamental equations in ...9 KB (1,458 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- A ribosome is a small, dense granular particle comprising usually three or four ribosomal RNA molecules and more than 50 protein molecules, interconnected to ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- Category:Public Zeno of Elea (Greek. Ζήνων)(c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- Anne Brontë ( ˈbrɒnti ) (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. ...38 KB (6,119 words) - 06:49, 28 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Electric chair.jpg|thumb|250 px|The first electric chair, which was used to execute William Kemmler ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
- African African Journals OnLine (AJOL) [http://www.ajol.info African Journal Online official site] Retrieved November 22, 2017. is a non-profit scholarly journal ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the major modes of ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- The Bagrationi dynasty (bagrationt'a dinastia) was the ruling family of Georgia. Their ascendancy lasted from the early Middle Ages until the early nineteenth ...21 KB (3,136 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture the intuitive idea of a geometrical one-dimensional and continuous object. A simple example is the circle ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 21:42, 23 June 2022
- Ambrose Powell Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander of "Hill ...11 KB (1,694 words) - 06:51, 13 June 2023
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon, known as the elephant-headed deity. He is usually praised with affection at the start ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Along with her husband, she is a saint in the Orthodox ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a type of non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is a primary and permanent component of ribosomes, the small, cellular particles that ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name of one of the six astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy, whose primary ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- Michael Servetus (also Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto) (September 29, 1511 – October 27, 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, and humanist. ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that applies scientific and mathematical principles to design and develop processes by which available chemicals ...15 KB (2,143 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) or "Operation Hummingbird," took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934 ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 04:05, 15 November 2022
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its kind in the United States. It honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were touched ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation (Смоленская ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- Caelifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "short-horned" orthopterans with the common names of grasshoppers and locusts, characterized ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- Pope Adrian V (c. 1205 – August 18, 1276), born Ottobuono de' Fieschi was Pope in 1276 for only 38 days before his sudden death following a short illness ...11 KB (1,739 words) - 23:29, 17 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Montet, Pierre Pierre Montet (June 27, 1885 – June 19, 1966) was a French ...8 KB (1,137 words) - 05:24, 24 November 2022
- Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that are unique among cnidarians in that they do not do not have a medusa stage in their ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 01:56, 9 January 2023
