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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image= [[Image:Reynoldsclub ...51 KB (7,192 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
- The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5-mile long tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and the borough of Manhattan at West Thirty ...7 KB (1,127 words) - 04:15, 29 October 2022
- Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, was one of the most important cities of medieval Europe. Situated at ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in Central Europe, is a modern great power, the world's third largest economy ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- Category:Public[[Image:Putuoshan_guanyin.JPG|thumb|right|280px|right|Statue of Guan Yin on Mount Putuo]] Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials (notably crystals and certain ceramics) to generate an electric potential Douglas A. Skoog, ...25 KB (3,464 words) - 06:13, 24 November 2022
- The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the Qutub Minar standing out as the most famous. ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern Coast Bantu languages. Swahili ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov ( Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв , commonly anglicized as Gorbachev; March 2, 1931 - August ...27 KB (3,969 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- The White Rose ( die Weiße Rose ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of a number of students from the University ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- Jasmine or Jessamine is any of the more than two hundred species of shrubs and vines comprising the plant genus Jasminum of the olive family ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
- The traditional culture of Korea has its mythical beginnings 5000 years ago. The legend of Dangun, the mythical founder of Korea, makes an impact ...29 KB (4,255 words) - 06:48, 11 January 2024
- Shinran Shonin (親鸞聖人) (1173-1262) was a pupil of Honen and the founder of the Jodo Shinshu (or True Pure Land) sect in Japan. He was ...16 KB (2,491 words) - 14:15, 27 January 2023
- Larch is the common name for any of the deciduous coniferous trees comprising the genus Larix of the pine family (Pinaceae), characterized by ...12 KB (1,828 words) - 06:55, 4 March 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 ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary will of another.F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (University of Chicago ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- Ricardo Alonso González or Richard Gonzalez (May 9, 1928 – July 3, 1995), who was generally known as Pancho Gonzales or, less often, as Pancho ...25 KB (3,993 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
- Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- Utagawa Hiroshige, (歌川広重; 1797 in Edo (Tokyo) – October 12, 1858, also had the professional names "Andō Hiroshige" (安藤広重 ...13 KB (2,024 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2024
- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, historically known as the French Calvinists. Calvinism, and ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional connection to some greater power in the universe through deliberate ...32 KB (4,977 words) - 18:50, 5 May 2024
- Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for all known forms of life. Laurence D. Barron, Lutz Hecht, and Gary Wilson, [https://pubs ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His artistry is grounded ...66 KB (10,062 words) - 21:06, 11 January 2024
- Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- Anekāntavāda (Devanagari: अनेकान्तवाद), meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ...30 KB (4,673 words) - 18:01, 27 July 2023
- Cowpox is a rare, mildly contagious skin disease caused by the cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- A flower, (Old French flo(u)r; Latin florem, flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 15:42, 21 January 2023
- Marxism-Leninism is an adaptation of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin, which led to the first successful communist revolution in Lenin's ...15 KB (2,166 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection of fables identified ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :This article is about the Algonquin of Quebec and the Ottawa ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed on a member of the U. S. Military ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- Muhammad ( محمد , also Arabic transliterated Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammed, and sometimes Mahomet, following the Latin or Turkish), is the ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 on Breed's Hill, as part of the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie fantastique, first performed ...23 KB (3,532 words) - 08:21, 21 January 2024
- Polycarp of Smyrna (ca. 69 - ca. 155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey) in the second century. Alhough he is not noted ...21 KB (3,429 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- Chaim Azriel Weizmanz (Hebrew: חיים עזריאל ויצמן, November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 16:52, 21 January 2024
- Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. After a Celtic and ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- Theravada (Pāli: theravāda; Sanskrit: स्थविरवाद sthaviravāda; literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the ...32 KB (4,844 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社,Yamaha Kabushiki Gaisha) ( 7951 ) is one of the most diversified companies in Japan, offering a ...25 KB (3,604 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- An electrical generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy, generally using electromagnetic induction. The source ...16 KB (2,450 words) - 15:52, 13 February 2024
- The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung der Judenfrage) refers to the Nazis' plan to engage in systematic genocide ...14 KB (2,250 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Swanton, John R. John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the twentieth century. The official name was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Thanatology is the academic, and often scientific, study of death among human beings ...12 KB (1,762 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Maliseet (Malecite) |image= ...16 KB (2,389 words) - 06:38, 5 November 2022
- Henry V of England (September 16, 1387 – August 31, 1422) was one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages. He was born at Monmouth, ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 15:24, 22 February 2022
- The guitar is a musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, as acoustic and electric models, in both classical and contemporary ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτίνος)(ca. 205–270), the ancient philosopher, is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Plotinus' philosophy ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- Rattlesnake is the common name for any of the venomous snakes comprising the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus of the pit viper subfamily Crotalinae ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- Hypatia of Alexandria (in Greek: Υπατία) (c. 370 C.E. – 415 C.E.) was a popular Hellenized Egyptian female philosopher, mathematician ...11 KB (1,782 words) - 16:39, 10 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming) is the process of producing food, feed ...27 KB (3,893 words) - 06:48, 16 June 2023
- William Carey (August 17, 1761 – June 9, 1834) was an English missionary and Baptist minister, known as the "father of modern missions ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as ...49 KB (6,562 words) - 21:38, 13 October 2023
- Gear ratio is the ratio between the number of teeth on two gears that are meshed together, or two sprockets connected with a common roller chain ...10 KB (1,615 words) - 06:30, 18 April 2024
- Cyrus (Old Persian Kourosh or Khorvash, modern Persian: کوروش, Kourosh) (ca. 576 – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265) was the principal leader of the baronial opposition to King Henry III of ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- Supramolecular chemistry refers to an area of chemistry that specializes in the study of noncovalent interactions within and between molecules. ...20 KB (2,678 words) - 17:36, 23 October 2022
- An Lushan ( t=安祿山|s=安禄山|p=Ān Lùshān ) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China ...11 KB (1,832 words) - 18:40, 26 July 2023
- The ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba; '銀杏' in Chinese; plural ginkgoes), also known as the maidenhair tree, is a unique tree with no close ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Parochial school is a term used (particularly in the United States) to describe a school ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- The Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)Benjamin. A. Valentino, Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca, NY: Cornell ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Greeley, Horace [[Image:Greeley-Horace-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|Photographic portrait ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu, Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú) is a majestic area of cataracts ...10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- The Book of Obadiah is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible (and the Christian Old Testament), where it holds the honor of being the shortest ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- Watermelon refers to both the edible fruit and vine-like plant (Citrullus lanatus of the family Cucurbitaceae) of a climbing and trailing herb ...20 KB (2,988 words) - 23:18, 3 May 2023
- Category:Media Organizations The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television news network that first aired in 1980 ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 10:13, 25 November 2023
- Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct concerns. (1) What is coercion? (2) Is coercion ever morally or politically ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- Kobe Bean Bryant (/ˈkoʊbiː/ KOH-bee; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard ...95 KB (13,365 words) - 03:58, 4 March 2023
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vellum Online Etymological Dictionary] ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The most popular of these worldwide is association football (also known as soccer ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning "nonviolence" or "non-injury" (literally: the avoidance of himsa: violence). The principle ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 06:51, 16 June 2023
- In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a black basalt monument bearing an inscription by the ninth century B.C.E. Moabite King ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- Mythology (from the Greek μῦθος (mythos), meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning speech or argument) refers to a body of stories that attempt ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: Ryojunkō Heisoku Sakusen, February 8-9, 1904) was the starting battle of the Russo-Japanese War. It began ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 10:20, 22 September 2023
- The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full title An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major eighteenth century writer, primarily known for his three monumental novels Pamela ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest in the Midwest. With a population of nearly 3 million people, the city is ...42 KB (6,247 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- Ujjain ( उज्जैन ) (also known as Ujain, Ujjayini, Avanti, Avantikapuri), an ancient city of Malwa in central India on the eastern ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- The Terracotta Army ( t=兵馬俑|s=兵马俑|p=bīngmǎ yǒng|l=soldier and horse funerary statues ) or Terracotta Warriors and Horses is a collection ...13 KB (1,945 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- Yochanan ben Zakai ( יוחנן בן זכאי , died 80-90 C.E.), also spelled Johanan b. Zakki, was an important rabbinical sage in the final ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 11:15, 24 May 2023
- Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- Fisheries management refers to a governmental system of management for the protection and sustainable development of biological resources. ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- Category:Public Appleseed, Johnny [[File:JohnnyAppleseedHowe.gif|thumb|250px|right| Drawing of John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, from Howe& ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
- An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater from one or more rivers or streams mixes with saltwater from the sea. Estuaries ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 04:23, 22 March 2024
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument preserves the site of the June 25, 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, near Crow Agency, Montana ...20 KB (3,068 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines and one of the municipalities that comprise ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- An armored fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle that is protected by armor and armed with weapons. Most AFVs are equipped for driving ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- Charles-Marie-Gustave Le Bon (May 7, 1841 – December 13, 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and physicist. He was the author ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 12:46, 24 January 2023
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- A relic (from Latin: reliquiae meaning 'remains') is a venerated object of religious and/or historical significance, often the human ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length and breadth than a novel, but longer than a short story. Typically, novellas ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- Drug, broadly defined, is a term used for any chemical substance that when introduced to the body of a living organism has a non-food impact ...18 KB (2,517 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
