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- Axolotl (or ajolote) is the common name for the salamander Ambystoma mexicanum, which is the best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 06:05, 10 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Optical grey squares orange brown.svg|thumb|200 px|An optical ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain, commonly caused by a viral infection. An inflammation that includes both the brain and the ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 18:32, 13 February 2024
- Robert Schuman (June 29, 1886 - September 4, 1963) was a noted French Statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- Ichthys (Greek: grc|ἰχθύς , capitalized grc|ΙΧΘΥΣ ; also transliterated and Latinized as icthus, ichthus or ikhthus), is the Ancient ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- Yin Xu ( c=殷墟|p=Yīnxū|l=Ruins of Yin ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.E.-1046 B.C.E.), also known ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- The sonnet is one of the most important and enduring poetic forms in all of European literature. First invented by Italian poets in the thirteenth ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- Cryptography (or cryptology; derived from Greek κρυπτός kryptós "hidden," and the verb γράφω gráfo "write" ...47 KB (6,889 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- Bird migration refers to the regular (and often seasonal) journeys to and from a given area undertaken by all or part of a bird population. Not ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- Ewha Womans University (Korean: 이화여자대학교, Hanja: 梨花女子大學校), refers to a private women's university in central ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the shape of which has been compared to a raised arm and fist or to a flaming ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Totem_Park_pole_1.jpg|thumb|right|100px|A totem pole located in Totem Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.]] ...20 KB (3,178 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- A neutron star is an extremely dense, compact star with an interior that is thought to be composed of mainly neutrons. It is formed from the ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and the first ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- The metric system is a decimalized system of measurement based on the meter and the gram. It exists in several variations, with different choices ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- Category:Public Perry, Matthew C. [[Image:Matthew Calbraith Perry.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry|Matthew Calbraith Perry]]]] ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into the past, throughout a vast number of cultures and nations. Women have played ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- A halo ( ἅλως ; also known as a nimbus, glory, or gloriole) is a ring of light used in religious art, sculpture, and iconography to depict ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral virtue. In the history of philosophy, the concept of courage as a moral virtue ...6 KB (958 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- Pyridine is a fundamentally important chemical compound with the formula C5H5N. It is a liquid with a distinctively putrid, fishy odor. Its molecules ...11 KB (1,458 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- The Secret of the Golden Flower ("Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi",《太乙金華宗旨》), is one of the most important Daoist classics ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal) is a gas with a pungent smell. It is the simplest aldehyde. Its chemical formula ...18 KB (2,445 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- Pika is the common name for small mammals comprising the family Ochotonidae of the rabbit order Lagomorpha, characterized by relatively large ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- Pope Saint Sylvester I, also called Silvester, was pope from January 31, 314 to December 13, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. The son of a Roman ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- The Quit India Movement (Bharat Chhodo Andolan or the August Movement) was a civil disobedience movement in India launched in August 1942, in ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- 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
- Arlington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Arlington, Virginia, near The Pentagon, and directly across the Potomac ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- The term Christus Victor (meaning "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking book, first published in ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- The Trimurti (meaning "three forms" of God), also known as the Hindu Trinity, is an iconographic representation of God in Hinduism ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- Harvestmen is the common name for any of the eight-legged invertebrate animals comprising the order Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) in the arthropod ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy, was founded ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E. P. Wigner among physicists) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. His ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Playground.jpg|thumb|250 px|A children's playground]] A playground or play ...16 KB (2,295 words) - 08:03, 24 November 2022
- Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a class of short-chain, non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules in which each variety attaches to and transfers a ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- Microbiology is the study of microorganisms (microbes), which are organisms (forms of life) that are microscopic; that is, too small to be visible ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- See text Cotton can refer to members of the genus Gossypium of flowering plants or to the fiber produced from some species of these plants. ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- Sloth is the common name for any of the slow-moving, New World arboreal mammals comprising the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths) and ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living organisms or inorganic matter. However, what specifically is included as ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- Category:Psychologists Janet, Pierre Pierre Marie Félix Janet (May 30, 1859 – February 24, 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or both ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Niccolò di Bernado dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Katherine Johnson (born Creola Katherine Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020), also known as Katherine Goble, was an American mathematician ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- Betelgeuse (also called Alpha Orionis, α Orionis, or α Ori) is one of the brightest and largest known stars, though it is not one of the most ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations of North Korea and South Korea, which were created out of the occupation ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- A crane is a mechanical lifting device equipped with a winder, wire ropes, and sheaves that can be used to lift and lower materials and to move ...36 KB (5,771 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- Brown bear is the common name for a large bear, Ursus arctos, ranging in color from a common brown to yellowish or black fur and having a noticeable ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is located some ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- Ivan Alexander ( Иван Александър , transliterated Ivan Aleksandǎr; This article uses the United Nations-authorized scientific transliteration ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid or vitamin B3, is a vitamin whose derivatives NAD, NADH, NAD+, and NADP play essential roles in energy metabolism ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Submitted The collective unconscious refers to that part of ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Robin George Collingwood (February 22, 1889 – January 9, 1943) was a British philosopher and historian whose work has had considerable influence ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- Wade-Giles ( ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz ; s=威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音|t=威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音|p=wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn ), sometimes abbreviated ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- Sòng Qìnglíng or Soong Ch'ing-ling ( s=宋庆龄|t=宋慶齡|p=Sòng Qìnglíng|w=Sung Ch'ing-ling ) (January 27, 1893 – May 29 ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- Auxins are a class of naturally occuring or synthetic organic (carbon-containing) plant growth substances (often called phytohormones or plant ...15 KB (2,169 words) - 05:59, 10 January 2023
- Serampore College, located in Serampore Town, in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India, consists of a theological college and a college of arts ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- Vicuña is the common name for a rare, wild, gregarious South American camelid, Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes ...11 KB (1,797 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Edouard-Isidore-Buguet-PK-spirit-photographer.jpg|thumb ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- Deborah, or Dəvora (literally "Bee" in the Hebrew language), was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- According to the Hindu religion, Shakti (Sanskrit: meaning force, power or energy) refers to the active, creative and dynamic feminine principle ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- 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
- A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—consisting of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War. The name refers to the two main enemies ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of geography—that ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), often called "America's foremost revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- Library science is an interdisciplinary science incorporating the humanities, law and applied science to study topics related to libraries, the ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- Toothed whale is the general term for any of the various aquatic mammals comprising the suborder Odontoceti, characterized in extant species ...13 KB (1,677 words) - 05:01, 4 November 2022
- Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- Methylene blue (or MB) is a basic aniline dye with the molecular formula C16H18N3SCl. At room temperature, it appears as a solid, odorless, dark ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- Electronegativity is one of the fundamental concepts for an understanding of chemical bonding. The first modern definition was suggested by Linus ...16 KB (2,171 words) - 15:58, 13 February 2024
- Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer. Lamour began her ...28 KB (4,290 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. Image:Animexample.gif This animation moves at 10 frames per second. ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- An airship or dirigible is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. It is classified as an aerostatic craft, to ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Nitric-oxide-2D.png|150px|Nitric oxide]] ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2022
- Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were notorious outlaws, robbers, and criminals ...42 KB (6,735 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- Subclass Nautiloidea *†Plectronocerida *†Ellesmerocerida *†Actinocerida *†Pseudorthocerida *†Endocerida *†Tarphycerida ...18 KB (2,469 words) - 01:46, 13 January 2023
- Alligator is the common name for large, primarily aquatic reptiles that belong to the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae and order Crocodilia ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 18:37, 21 July 2023
- Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- A caterpillar is the larval stage of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are essentially ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a twentieth-century French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Measures of national income and output are used in economics to measure a nation's ...33 KB (5,148 words) - 19:46, 7 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[File:Cure juvenile delinquency in the slums by planned housing 3b48917r ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942, and February 9, 1943, in the Pacific theater ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- Calcarea Hexactinellida Demospongiae The sponges or poriferans (from Latin porus meaning "pore," and ferre meaning "to bear" ...15 KB (2,195 words) - 18:05, 14 October 2022
- Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) (January 12, 1893 October 15, 1946) was a German politician, military leader and a leading member ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- Sir Joseph John “J.J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (December 18, 1856 – August 30, 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited with ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- The Purple Heart is an American military decoration that was the first award made available to the common soldier. It was initially created as ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy, natural science ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- 4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Psychologists Morgan, C. Lloyd [[File:C. Lloyd Morgan. Photogravure by Synnberg ...18 KB (2,586 words) - 21:54, 12 February 2024
- Xenocrates ( Ξενοκράτης ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third scholarch or rector of the Academy from ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
