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- Vagrancy is the condition of being a vagrant, defined as a person ... While societies have made efforts to deal with the large numbers of ...25 KB (3,643 words) - 14:08, 3 May 2023
- American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Following the post-World War II division of Germany, he was elected to ... during the Cold War (specifically the deaths of 192 Germans who tried to escape ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the conflicts in the Horn of ... also engaged in civil wars) is a tragedy of immense proportion. ...22 KB (3,294 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- circumference displaying the first example of the successful amalgamation ... Rohtasgarh, situated on the upper course of the river Son, 20 37’ ...24 KB (3,894 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes ... quot; of wage increases, because of cost-of-living adjustments and these ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- of Political and Social Science, The Cost of Living (Philadelphia, 1913) ... *American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Cost of Living ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- 1839 – October 24, 1922), the third son of the Quaker tea and coffee dealer ... program for their benefit. Through ownership of several newspapers, he promoted ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 08:39, 6 November 2022
- Bolivia located in the northeastern portion of the Santa Cruz Department. ... industrialized nor polluted. The isolation of its cerrado habitats provides ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- Genome is one complete set of hereditary information that characterizes ... genetic content stored on a complete set of nuclear DNA (i.e., the "nuclear ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
- 16, 1774) was a French economist, founder of the Physiocratic school. He ... economic state as a balanced, circular flow of funds—a system he saw as ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 03:39, 4 June 2021
- 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... He guarded information about his private life and instead focused ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- The gorilla, the largest of the living primates is a ground-dwelling ... pounds). Females are about half the weight of males. Gorillas' facial ...12 KB (1,781 words) - 07:13, 1 January 2024
- city in Africa, it has the highest cost of living of any city in North ... euros. The city had the highest cost of living of any city in North ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine ... fail to place their skills at the service of humanity. Instead, what they ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- Caviar is the processed, salted roe of certain species of fish, most ... in the United States, high consumption of caviar led to over-fishing ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- has been shaped by the passionate pursuit of modernization. Since the end ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of ... Extinction has occurred throughout the history of living organisms ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
- The name roughly translates as "Sea of Islands," referring ... 50 percent its original size in a matter of decades. This reduction came ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- for Literature. She is considered to be one of the most prominent writers ... taught English literature at the University of Nanking. In 1926, she left ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the ... is FDG ([18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose), an analog of glucose, the concentrations ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- also known as division Coniferae, are one of 13 or 14 division-level taxa ... Conifers are of immense economic value, primarily for timber and paper ...19 KB (2,759 words) - 20:26, 15 May 2020
- Colitis (or colonitis) is inflammation of the colon (or more generally ... challenges to homeostasis as the presence of disease, infection, or injury ...11 KB (1,475 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert ... steels, and the mineral lodestone (an oxide of iron). Objects with such properties ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 05:09, 5 November 2022
- December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- 8, 1978) was a Scottish painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Grant was a cousin of John Grant, Lord Huntingtower, and a grandson ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- Plastics have become an indispensable part of our technological society.]] The term plastic is applied to a wide range of synthetic and semi ...34 KB (5,272 words) - 07:59, 24 November 2022
- The Physiocrats were a group of economists who believed that the wealth ... The most significant contribution of the physiocrats was their emphasis ...22 KB (3,407 words) - 05:10, 24 November 2022
- | order=General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ... | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- for buttons would be eliminated and the size of the device would be further reduced. ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- 29, 1947) was an American economist, one of the early American neoclassical ... social issues, and promoting healthy living and world peace, an early ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- Public libraries exist in most nations of the world and are often ... well as educational and nonfiction materials of interest to the general public; ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- growth in Tokyo and the high cost of living there. Unit as the most expensive (highest cost-of-living) city in the world for ...39 KB (5,420 words) - 03:54, 1 May 2023
- January 31, 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student ... From 1920 until 1928, he was the Chairperson of the WSCF. For his labors in ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 03:51, 3 May 2024
- UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State Parties (countries ... The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- Jannai/Yannai) was king and high priest of Judea from (103 B.C.E. to 76 ... The third son of John Hyrcanus, Jannaeus came to the throne after ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 14:25, 18 July 2023
- recently and from the metabolic by-products of living organisms. They include ... sources are photosynthetic plants. A number of agricultural crops are being ...36 KB (5,134 words) - 17:54, 31 October 2023
- Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases ... for "study of." However, today the term neuroscience is ...20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain, commonly caused ... Encephalitis often is accompanied by an inflammation of the brain ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 18:32, 13 February 2024
- in the Lesser Antilles islands. They are one of the two main tribes of Amerindian ... Like most of the indigenous peoples of the New World, the Carib suffered ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... and Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil, of the royal Hashemite family ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... by Nikita Khrushchev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- Potala Palace is the traditional residence of the Dalai Lama (the ... Thirteen stories of buildings—containing over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- ethics, or as biomedical ethics, is a field of applied ethics (see the article ... back to antiquity, especially with the work of Hippocrates. Today the field ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering ... incorporates elements from a wide range of disciplines, including chemistry ...12 KB (1,649 words) - 19:00, 13 February 2024
- valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being taxed. There ... and assessment, with various methods of assessing property value in ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- Corrosion is the deterioration of a material's essential properties ... The rusting of iron is a well-known example of corrosion. Other metals ...20 KB (3,072 words) - 03:36, 8 January 2024
- require a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber. Dyeing is the process of imparting color to a textile material in ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- Berengaria of Navarre ( Berenguela , Bérengère the Lionheart. She was the eldest daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- and Rhine Rivers. Antwerp, an integral part of an enormous harbor complex ... boom-and-bust cycles and inflationary cost-of-living squeezed less-skilled workers. ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- century C.E., following the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by ... Most of what is known about the Sadducees (also known as "Zadokites ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- Coal is a black or brownish-black sedimentary rock composed primarily ... into nearby water courses. The process of burning of coal generates waste ...32 KB (4,888 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- communications, and economic center of Ghana. Located on the Gulf ... Among the attractions of Accra are the National Museum, with a display ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of ... ruler Charles the Simple had allowed a group of Vikings, under their leader ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- in Portuguese, and meaning “big mirror of waters” in the native Guaraní ... The Pantanal, one of the most pristine and biologically rich environments ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 07:45, 18 November 2022
- urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...41 KB (6,131 words) - 00:41, 13 January 2024
- all become the guiding principles of American identity. Emerson ... "no longer interested" in the rite of communion, Emerson left the ...20 KB (2,972 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- or space habitation) is the concept of permanent, autonomous (self ... Many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, but others ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- a furnace is usually produced by combustion of a fuel such as oil, wood, or ... for kiln, a device used in the production of ceramics. In British English ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 09:57, 18 October 2022
- have been made with varying degrees of realism by engineers as well ... Several reasons have been given in support of space colonization. ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- or public even if the consequences of that activity are not conclusively ... appropriate precautions even in the absence of scientific consensus that the ...46 KB (6,708 words) - 18:54, 17 February 2022
- thumb," which is really an extension of the wrist bone. It has reddish ... Panda is also a genus of the plant family Pandaceae. The word panda ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- quot;Dads' Weekend" at Camp Becket of the Becket Chimney Corners ... quot;campers") participate in a variety of activities, many of which are ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The term ... made it more profitable to smuggle. The cost of enforcing prohibition was ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 23:11, 30 November 2022
- only been applied to the energy and forms of energy harnessed but also to ... could be classified under the category of alternative energy; however ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- Dance Theater. Ailey was a gifted creator of dance expressing the African ... times in Ailey's early years. One of the constants in Alvin's ...17 KB (2,746 words) - 08:42, 23 July 2023
- The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature ... passions that would become a commonplace of Romanticism: "One inhabits ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- 28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... While attending a meeting of the British Commonwealth in 1971, he ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- Uttar Pradesh, India, is a town on the site of an ancient forest believed ... Although all branches of Hinduism consider Vrindavan sacred, Vaisnavisisim ...13 KB (1,859 words) - 21:50, 3 May 2023
- , is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ... Despite these disparities, the common feature of apartment construction ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around the world ... avatar (a "descent" or incarnation of God). His alleged miracles ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 15:00, 23 October 2023
- Fideism emphasizes the importance of faith over reason in understanding ... ==The “Rationale” of Fideism== Despite the fact that fideism is ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ... policies, and that a greatly enlarged system of social services would be created ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... brief, somewhat turbulent history as capital of a French colony, then of a ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first president ... a fine setting for a country gentleman out of five hundred acres. His carefully ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- hydrocarbon fuels found within the top layer of the Earth’s crust. They range ... they were formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants and animals, during ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- often established in an underdeveloped part of a state’s territory, to detain ... where unpaid prisoners labored on behalf of their country’s colonial ...21 KB (3,190 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the ... Stephen Collins Foster, the ninth of William B. and Eliza T. Foster ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- owner who became infamous in the final years of his life, when he lived as ... a giant, eight-engined, flying boat made of wood that flew only once, in 1947. ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- Nuclear power is a type of nuclear technology involving the controlled ... The use of nuclear power has also engendered much debate. Critics ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- particularly affected by a very high cost of living, due to a combination ... particularly affected by a very high cost of living, due to a combination ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels, mostly ... "Desiree's Baby," a tale of miscegenation in antebellum ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- first to realize and develop the potential of film as an extended dramatic ... Legendary actress Lillian Gish called Griffith "the father of ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... 1, 2004, the pension is subject to cost-of-living increases. ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- ) refers to a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, ... ornate pepperpot towers. The Fort, like most of the forts in Sri Lanka, sits ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Carpets are made of natural and synthetic fibers, such as wool, nylon ... == Types of carpets == [[Image:Swatches of berber carpet.jpg|thumb ...28 KB (4,327 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- organization, set up in 1873, operates one of India's largest fleets ... a ferry service in the northern reaches of the city. The electricity division ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- Examples in which white pigment, consisting of titanium oxide, is used, are ... forms and five naturally occurring isotopes of this element—46Ti through ...27 KB (3,874 words) - 03:49, 1 May 2023
- Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology which emphasizes ... Researchers in this field analyze states of happiness, flow, values ...40 KB (5,742 words) - 16:04, 12 September 2023
- birds in the family have the common name of martin. While the name "martin ... used in a collective sense for all members of the family, including species ...25 KB (3,606 words) - 01:30, 28 May 2021
- boundaries and challenge the status quo cost him his position and acceptance ... The thesis of his work was that individuals live in terror of their ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including ... ) was born on June 13, 1935, in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, as the second of ...37 KB (5,196 words) - 21:40, 10 December 2023
- from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado south into Mexico ... Prior to the construction of major dams along its route, this river ...24 KB (3,618 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- and is known as the "Father of Railways." The Victorians ... west of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the second child of Robert and ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 00:40, 14 November 2022
- to Australia. According to the Mercer cost of living survey, Sydney is Australia’s ... Intelligence Unit's Worldwide cost of living survey, Sydney is the ...33 KB (4,682 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- was trusted and supported by the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia ... was soon aroused by the aggressive movements of the Federal government (President ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
