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- largest by mass. It is 17 times the mass of Earth and slightly more massive ... ) is a stylized version of Poseidon's Trident. Neptune's ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together with ... Influenced by the ideals of the United States Declaration of Independence ...15 KB (2,196 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan and northern Guangdong ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo-Assyrian Empire ... c. 612 B.C.E. In the Bible, it was the site of Jonah's famous preaching ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first child of the painter Orazio Gentileschi ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... contexts, particularly in the areas of personal growth and self-actualization ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean ... early explorations settled on the island of Hispaniola. He founded the ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles ... entirely autobiographical. As the title of his column suggested (Notes ...22 KB (3,383 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- in the late eleventh century in the heart of the Alborz Mountains of northern ... Surrounded by enemies, Hassan dispatched teams of trained assassins ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- pan out, and she would later retract some of them, but they were always ... fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosis when Susan was ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- Asia. He is credited with the translation of some 1,330 fascicles of scriptures ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to ... In March of 1955, Mrs. Dorothy Chandler began fundraising toward a ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose worship ... Additionally, she was worshiped as a deity of rebirth in connection with ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze ... Pure crystals of garnet are used as gemstones. In addition, garnet ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- which supported the general allegations of espionage by Julius, though ... tried to match the military capacity of the other in pursuance of the ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- Open access publishing is a form of publishing that allows users free ... , music, fine arts, or any product of intellectual activity. In this ...20 KB (2,877 words) - 00:47, 18 November 2022
- actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and ... for Best Actor for his role in East of Eden. Upon receiving a second ...56 KB (8,516 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Born into a prosperous ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- 1904 – September 24, 1991) is the author of several classic children's ... war effort against Nazi Germany, and some of his children's books are ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- leaves with five leaflets, clusters of small flowers, and red to brown ... The high concentration of caffeine in the seeds, which is more concentrated ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- ) is a province of China located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze ... Chongqing to the northwest. The capital city of the province is Changsha. ...18 KB (2,479 words) - 12:20, 4 February 2023
- teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western ... as Earp gained iconic status to counter that of the outlaws against whom they ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... accompanied by the claim that the blood of victims is used in various ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of ... Thompson himself became a central figure in the 1960s and 1970s ethos ...43 KB (6,622 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2024
- 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at the age of 12 that he was going to be ... short stories, novels, and poems are full of thought provoking "what ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ... ==History of Service Learning== Service learning can be traced back ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Maine and Vermont were considered part of other colonies at the time ... freedom. Massachusetts was also one of the key colonies in the events ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... Chinese dominate almost all the economies of Southeast Asia, and have sometimes ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- The Cretan War (205 B.C.E.–200 B.C.E.) was fought by King Philip ... and economy suffering from the depredations of the pirates, Philip believed ...30 KB (4,711 words) - 00:32, 27 December 2021
- a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... little scholarly attention in the histories of the period. As a stateswoman ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval ... is integral to ancient Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict ...56 KB (8,963 words) - 04:38, 18 November 2022
- de France, giving it the title "History of Systems of Thought," and ... Michel Foucault is best known for his critical studies of various ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books. appeared in the December 17, 2002, issue of Publishers Weekly, Shel Silverstein ...18 KB (2,704 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- Setesh, Seteh) was originally the god of the desert, one of the two ... beliefs threatened by foreigners, that many of their myths, legends and religious ...29 KB (4,585 words) - 10:05, 26 January 2023
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
- Broadly defined, wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder ... they offer a natural biocontrol of agricultural pests, since so ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population, known ... incredible geological diversity in the form of snowcapped mountains to well ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- Kelly was a major exponent of twentieth century filmed dance, known ... Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and ...40 KB (6,390 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in search of a direct sea route to ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... in the lower 48 states at 35 square miles of snow and glaciers. It also ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal ... predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- she was prominent as the wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus. Isis' origins are uncertain but the first mention of the deity ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- distinctive cinema that arose in the context of the changing era of the Bolshevik ... ) into a family of Jewish intellectuals in Białystok, Congress Poland ...19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
- Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... rejects the modernist assumptions of Western philosophy, including ...43 KB (6,032 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy (書聖). Wang ... is the most well-known and most-copied piece of Chinese calligraphy. It describes ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 22:52, 3 May 2023
- The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York ... often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet ... treasures ever discovered. Many of the scrolls today are housed ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- Category: History of the Americas jpg|thumb|alt=Refer to caption|The 28th page of Patrick Breen's diary ...73 KB (11,798 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. At the time of his ... Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer ...55 KB (7,618 words) - 00:27, 26 February 2023
- There are many physical constants in science. Some of the most widely ... * the speed of light in a vacuum c * the electric constant ε0, ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of ... as the most important naval engagement of World War IIU.S. Navy, [http://www ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers ... It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily ... quot; style while creating a film persona of the world-weary tough guy with ...51 KB (8,176 words) - 12:20, 4 February 2023
- Paleoanthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology and paleontology ... Of great interest to this field is the theory of human evolution, ...20 KB (2,921 words) - 11:00, 11 March 2023
- 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy ... and liberal, his strong endorsement of freedom, his commitment to ...49 KB (7,803 words) - 19:01, 25 October 2022
- American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall ... ideas took many years to come to any sort of fruition, his tenure as the ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz (975-996) at the age of 11 on October 14, 996 with ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- ::See herbalism for the non-Chinese tradition of herbology. ... ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- Fake news, also known as junk news or pseudo-news, is a type of yellow ... news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- [[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...31 KB (4,884 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ... many other social sciences. Among many forms of creating social change are ...31 KB (4,566 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. ... processing, transportation and marketing of hydrocarbons (oil and gas) ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- texts developed an elaborate hierarchy of physically immortal beings ... "immortality." Some scholars of Taoism allege that later practitioners ...38 KB (6,009 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusk foot into the form ... characterized by simple suckers, the suckers of squids also are armed by hooks ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 10:16, 11 March 2023
- as the Branch Davidians — were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church ... 28, 1993, when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- Horus is one of the most archaic gods of the classical Egyptian pantheon ... man. He was also characterized as the ruler of the living (both humans and ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 18:16, 7 February 2024
- energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- ) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...54 KB (8,060 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- late seventeenth century. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement ... harboring messianic pretensions at the age of 22, he gathered followers and ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:16, 26 January 2023
- Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... eighteenth century Boston was the location of several major events surrounding ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Thomas Jefferson, believed to be the mother of several children belonging ... that the Hemings children were the offspring of a nephew of Jefferson. ...27 KB (3,996 words) - 01:50, 23 December 2022
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... by the Heisei period (1990– ), neither of these is widely associated ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- film director. Working within the medium of narrative cinema, he created ... Bresson dispensed with spectacle and drama in favor of a lean and ...22 KB (3,559 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in ... The Federated States of Micronesia is located in the region known ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking ... During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous ...36 KB (5,482 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- Spearfishing is a form of fishing that has been popular throughout ... and is illegal in many others. Because of the belief of lack of sport ...23 KB (3,586 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ... The art and architecture of the Tamil people encompass some of the ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural ... An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- Northern India with the life and teachings of Guru Nanak and nine successive ... As a religion, philosophy and way of life, Sikhism is centered on ...38 KB (5,913 words) - 22:00, 29 January 2023
- base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan's Imperial Japanese ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- | order=26th President of the United States | date1=September 14, 1901 ... | date of birth=October 27, 1858 | place of birth=New York City, New York ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric ... models, the celestial sphere was thought of as a physical reality rather ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of ... but he, more than anyone, seemed to be aware of his shortcomings and was willing ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
