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- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom under construction.]] ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. He was ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Uzalagh ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur and reigned for ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- Al Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also created the comic strips Abbie and ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabian poet ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 12:38, 4 March 2024
- Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided) (c. 763 – ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري|translit=ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī Al-Zawahiri is also sometimes transliterated ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who reigned from ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual teachers within ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Arabic: جعفر الصادق, in full, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn) (702 – 765 C.E.) is believed ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, was an eighteenth century ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- Umar ibn al-Khattab (in Arabic, عمر بن الخطاب) (c. 581 - November, 644), sometimes referred to as Umar Farooq or just as Omar or Umar, was from the Banu Adi clan of ...21 KB (3,473 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 17:05, 11 April 2020
- Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi أبو بكر البغدادي ; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, ar|إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( أبومصعب الزرقاوي , ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his death in June 2006 ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed Gurey in Somali and Gragn in ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth Fatimid caliph ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- ruled by the caliph (spiritual and political leader) al-Ma’mun. The caliph, who himself was an enthusiastic scholar and philosopher, soon turned the city into an important intellectual ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
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- #REDIRECTUmar ibn al-Khattab ...32 bytes (4 words) - 18:18, 31 December 2022
- #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ...47 bytes (7 words) - 18:00, 31 December 2022
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 17:05, 11 April 2020
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...42 bytes (5 words) - 17:10, 11 April 2020
- The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University ... of Al-Jahiz into the Religious Policy of al-Ma’mun.” Muslim World 69 (2001): 8-17. ...9 KB (1,426 words) - 17:53, 10 November 2022
- ruled by the caliph (spiritual and political leader) al-Ma’mun. The caliph, who himself was an enthusiastic scholar and philosopher, soon turned the city into an important intellectual ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur'an. Literally ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabian poet ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 12:38, 4 March 2024
- Sāmarrā (Arabic,سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient times may have been the world's largest city. With its majestic mosques, gardens, and ruins of royal palaces ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- category:image wanted Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق Mīšīl `Aflāq) (1910 – June 23, 1989) was the ideological founder of Ba’athism, a form of secular Arab nationalism ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- Ibn Hazm (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064 456 AH) in full Abū Muhammad ‘Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa’īd ibn Hazm (Arabic :أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أحمد بن حنبل Ahmad bin Hanbal ) (780 C.E./ 164 AH - 855 C.E./ ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Newts (also called efts when terrestrial) are an informal grouping of salamanders within the Salamandridae family that may have rough-textured skin when terrestrial, unlike other ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual teachers within ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Arabic: جعفر الصادق, in full, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn) (702 – 765 C.E.) is believed ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- In Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ( ar|مهدي Mahdī , also Mehdi; "Guided One") is the prophesied redeemer of Islam. The advent of Mahdi is not a universally accepted ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters) as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal ...8 KB (1,287 words) - 00:55, 23 December 2022
- The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, said by some to date back to the time of Adam and Eve. ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Recombinant DNA is a form of genetically engineered DNA that is created by taking DNA strands from one organism and combining or inserting these strands into the DNA of a host ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 21:12, 23 July 2022
- A centriole is a small, barrel-shaped, sub-cellular structure typically consisting of nine triplet microtubules (nine groups of three fused microtubules) arranged in a hollow ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 01:44, 13 January 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Uzalagh ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- The ability of a chemical to behave as both an acid and a base is called amphoterism, and this type of substance is known as an amphoteric substance. According to the Brønsted ...5 KB (789 words) - 17:25, 26 July 2023
- The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish [http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Saladin.html Saladin]. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Retrieved May 17, 2008. ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسدين al-ʿAbbāsidīn ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Muslim ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- Odonata is an order of insects (class Insecta) encompassing dragonflies and damselflies, with members characterized by large, compound eyes, chewing mouth parts, a long and slender ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 00:22, 29 December 2023
- The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming silicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks. They share a common structure comprised of single chains of ...9 KB (1,340 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur and reigned for ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom under construction.]] ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- ad-Dajjal sometimes spelled Dajal, (Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), also known as the false Messiah (see also: Antichrist) is an evil ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- The Kaabah, Kaaba or Ka'bah (Arabic: الكعبة meaning: "Cube") is a building located inside Islam's holiest mosque (al-Masjidu’l-Ḥarām) found in Mecca ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- Amphibole defines an important group of generally dark-colored, rock-forming silicate minerals. Some are constituents of igneous rocks, and others are part of metamorphic rocks ...6 KB (934 words) - 17:24, 26 July 2023
- Lysosome is an organelle of eukaryotic cells that contains hydrolytic enzymes active under acidic conditions and involved in intracellular digestion. This membrane-bound sub-cellular ...11 KB (1,480 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make up as much as 60 percent of the Earth's crust. Feldspars crystallize from magma in both intrusive and extrusive ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism), chewing/biting mouthparts ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية, also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah) refers to heavenly angels, splendid beings, Surah Al-Waqiah (56): 38, note 15. In Muhammad Asad, The ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- Isma'il bin Jafar (Arabic: إسماعيل بن جعفر, c. 721 C.E./103 AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq. Isma ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- In zoology, skipper or skipper butterfly is the common name for any of the butterflies comprising the family Hesperiidae, characterized by antennae clubs hooked backward, stocky ...12 KB (1,517 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- Physiology (Greek Φυσιολογία, physis, meaning "nature") can refer either to the parts or functions (mechanical, physical, and biochemical) of living organisms ...6 KB (856 words) - 05:11, 24 November 2022
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in the family Artemiidae of the order ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- Jahannam ( جهنم ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem where ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was an artist, poet ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber, Muslim dynasty that was founded ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is an Old World monkey (family Cercopithecidae), characterized by large size, long limbs, stubby upright tail, light brown or olive-colored fur, and ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 06:44, 5 November 2022
- Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- Category:Image wanted Sakhr ibn Harb, (Arabic: صخر بن حرب ) more commonly known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca and arch-enemy of Muhammad. He ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 06:56, 14 June 2023
- Galliformes is an order of chicken-like birds, characterized by stocky built, small head, strong feet, and often short bills and wings, and adult males have sharp horny spur on ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- 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 form the site of ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- Once thought of as a single mineral species, lepidolite has been recently redefined as a series of minerals in the mica group. [http://www.mindat.org/min-2380.html Lepidolite] ...4 KB (543 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families Bothidae (lefteye flounders), Pleuronectidaea ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- The Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch a softer material. It was created ...5 KB (710 words) - 13:04, 10 March 2023
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided) (c. 763 – ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Rook is the common name for members of the Old World bird species Corvus frugilegus of the crow family (Corvidae), characterized by black feathers (often with a glossy blue or ...10 KB (1,526 words) - 21:41, 16 April 2023
- Exocytosis is the process by which a cell packages materials in membrane-bound secretory vesicles inside the cell and directs these secretory vesicles to fuse with the cell membrane ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 04:40, 7 April 2021
- Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Garnets are most often seen in red, but are available in a wide variety of colors ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine. He was born ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Fatimah binte Muhammad or popularly Fatimah Zahra (Fatima the Gracious) (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء) (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada al-akhir in Mecca – fourteenth Jumada ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other members of the family, known as ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey). The closest relatives of mantids ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical, practical ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- Impala (plural impala or impalas) is the common name for a light-built, swift-running, powerful-jumping African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, characterized by a reddish brown ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:37, 12 February 2024
- Nerve cord is a term that can refer to either (1) the single, hollow, fluid-filled, dorsal tract of nervous tissue that is one of the defining characteristics of chordates (dorsal ...7 KB (1,053 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2022
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. Typically, its crystals are wine or straw-yellow in color, but they can also come ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated groups of silicate minerals. It is a complex silicate of aluminum and boron, but because of isomorphous ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located on the southern shore of Kuwait ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- Allosaurus was a large (up to 9.7 m long) bipedal (moving on two legs), carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period, 155 to 145 million years ago. Allosaurus ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Piranha, or piraña, is the common name for various South American, freshwater, tropical fish of the order Charciformes known for their pointed, razor-sharp teeth in a pronounced ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae, and includes the four, well-known living species of the lion (Panthera leo), the tiger (Panthera tigris ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the legal sources, the ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate against the Byzantine Empire ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens , of high altitude areas in Central Asia, characterized by long, upcurved, black horns and a long, shaggy outer ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 May 2023
- Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a class of short-chain, non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules in which each variety attaches to and transfers a specific amino acid to a polypeptide ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- The Samanids (819–999)Sāmāniyān) were a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan, named after its founder Saman Khuda who converted to Sunni Islam despite being ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 11:36, 6 September 2022
- A planarian is any flatworm (phylum Platyhelminthes) of the suborder (or order) Tricladida of the class Turbellaria. Primarily free-living, planarians are characterized by a soft ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who reigned from ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- category:image wanted Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial court for several centuries. It ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Osama bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن) (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda movement, best known ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- Falcon is the common name for birds of prey comprising the genus Falco in the family Falconidae, characterized by a short, curved, notched beak, and thin, long, tapered and powerful ...17 KB (2,440 words) - 01:46, 29 June 2022
- Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. He was ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important Arabic scientific works of astrology ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- Lemur is the common name for any of the prosimian primates belonging to the infraorder Lemuriformes, which comprises the families Lemuridae (lemurs), Lepilemuridae (sportive lemurs ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 19:36, 25 October 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Weatheringcartoon.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This illustration shows various components of space weathering]] Space weathering is a term used for a number of ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 17:14, 14 October 2022
- Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals comprising the family Cynocephalidae and the order Dermoptera, characterized by a wide, fur-covered membrane ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- A Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك (singular), مماليك (plural), "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, or mamluke) was a slave-soldier who converted to Islam ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed Gurey in Somali and Gragn in ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Rotifers comprise a phylum, Rotifera, of microscopic and near-microscopic, multicellular aquatic animals. The name rotifer is derived from the Latin word for "wheel-bearer ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 21:46, 16 April 2023
- Guarana is the common name for a South American woody vine or sprawling shrub, Paullinia cupana in the Sapindaceae family, with large, pinnately compound evergreen leaves with ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- Viperinae is a subfamily of terrestrial and arboreal venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized by a lack of the heat-sensing pit organs that characterize their sister group ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- Category:Public Abu Bakr (alternative spellings, Abubakar, Abi Bakr, Abu Bakar) (c. 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs (632–634). Abu Bakr was a ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- Al Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also created the comic strips Abbie and ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Zenobia ( زنوبيا ) was a Syrian queen (240-after 274 C.E.). After her husband's death, she became a powerful military leader in her own right, conquering both Egypt ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising the order Rajiformes (or Batoidea), characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral fins continuous with the head ...10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- Salmonella (plural salmonellae, salmonellas, or salmonella) are any of the various rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that comprise the genus Salmonella (family Enterobacteriaceae ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 01:52, 23 December 2022
- The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Tigris River. The two rivers have their sources within 50 miles of each ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- Doha ( الدوحة , Ad-Dawḥah or Ad-Dōḥah ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 80 percent of Qatar’s ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- Chaetognatha is a phylum of small, slender, marine worms, generally characterized by a largely transparent body, fins on both the tail and the body, and grasping bristles or hooks ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- A Plastid is any member of a family of organelles found in the cells of all living plants and algae, but not in animals, and characterized by having their own copies of genetic ...12 KB (1,679 words) - 16:58, 14 October 2021
- Aquamarine (Lat. aqua marina, "water of the sea") is a gemstone-quality transparent variety of beryl, having a delicate blue or turquoise color, suggestive of the tint ...5 KB (716 words) - 15:58, 11 August 2023
- Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rabiʿa al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) was a female Muslim Sufi saint, considered by ...18 KB (3,164 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- Sight, the sense of vision or visual perception, describes the capability to detect electromagnetic energy within the visible range (light) by the eye, and the ability of the ...14 KB (2,075 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- 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 massive. Located approximately ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- Notochord is a flexible, rod-shaped supporting structure that is one of the distinguishing features of the phylum Chordatas, being found at some point in the life cycle of all ...6 KB (850 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Oleander is the common and species name for a poisonous evergreen shrub or small tree, Nerium oleander, in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, characterized by dark green, lanceolate ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- Narwhal is the common name for an Arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, of the cetacean suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales), characterized by mottled gray color, no dorsal fin, a ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- Silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of various species of moths, in particular, Bombyx mori, the domesticated silkmoth, whose silk cocoons can be used in the production of silk. ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- Mecca (Makkah al-Mukarramah, مكة المكرمة ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in the historic Hejaz region. It sits in a valley surrounded ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the 16th-most-populous metropolitan area in the world, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 15.2 ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- Salamander is the common term for any member of the order Caudata (also called Urodela) of the class Amphibia. Although lizard-like in external appearance, salamanders can be ...12 KB (1,655 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (variant: Al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī 'Abd al-Awal al-Ṣabāḥ, Abū 'Alī ( ar| الحسن بن هانئ بن عبد الأول ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort (industry, occupation) by humans to catch and/or process, normally for sale, fish, shellfish, or other aquatic organisms. ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ʻ arb) is a peninsula in Southwest ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- Pope Saint Marcellus I was pope from May 308 to 309. He succeeded Marcellinus, after a considerable interval, in May or June 308. Marcellus is credited with having reorganized ...10 KB (1,623 words) - 04:04, 26 November 2022
- The Libyan Desert, also known as Great Sand Sea or Western Desert, is an African desert that is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies southwestern ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- In genetics, an allele (pronounced al-eel or al-e-ul) is any one of a number of viable DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) codings occupying a given locus (position) on a chromosome. ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 18:27, 21 July 2023
- Foraminifera, abbreviated as forams, are single-celled amoeboid protists comprising the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera of supergroup Rhizaria), characterized by reticulating ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a pre-colonial West African trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is now central Mali ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- Cellular differentiation is an embryological process by which an unspecialized cell becomes specialized into one of the many cell types that make up the body. Cell differentiation ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- Frances Coralie "Fannie" Perkins (April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the first ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- The Seljuqs (also Seljuk or Seljuq Turks) were a Muslim dynasty of originally Oghuz Turkic descent that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the eleventh to fourteenth ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic shrine and a ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- A suicide attack is an attack on a military or civilian target, in which an attacker intends to kill others, and knows that he or she will most likely die in the process. The ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- Saladin, Salah ad-Din, or Salahuddin al Ayyubi (so-lah-hood-din al-aye-yu-be) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim general and warrior from Tikrit ...16 KB (2,458 words) - 00:59, 23 December 2022
- The Van Allen radiation belt (or Van Allen belt) is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. Energetic electrons ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2023
- The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada ...19 KB (2,735 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- Fructose (or levulose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) with the same chemical formula as glucose (C6H12O6) but a different atomic arrangement. Along with glucose and galactose ...12 KB (1,703 words) - 09:20, 21 June 2021
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: شیعه) is the second largest school within Islam. Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old World bats comprising the suborder Megachiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized by true wings ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth Fatimid caliph ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- Denisovans are an extinct hominid group more closely related to the Neanderthals than modern humans and identified from the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences of the roughly ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially for purposes of capturing ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- Dendrochronology (from Greek grc|δένδρον , dendron, "tree"; grc|χρόνος , khronos, "time"; and grc|-λογία , -logia) or tree-ring dating is ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- Corn syrup is any of a variety of forms of syrup (thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, with little tendency to deposit crystals) made using corn ...18 KB (2,609 words) - 23:23, 6 April 2022
- The genus Rhinoceros of the family Rhinocerotidae includes the one-horned rhinoceroses, of which there are two extant species: the Indian rhinoceros (R. unicornis) and the Javan ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
- Glycine is one of the 20 most common, natural, "proteinogenic" (literally, protein building) standard amino acids. It is the simplest of the amino acids in terms of ...10 KB (1,540 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ibn ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- Astrochemistry, representing an overlap of the disciplines of astronomy and chemistry, is the study of chemicals found in outer space, including their identity, formation, interactions ...7 KB (940 words) - 18:21, 19 August 2023
- 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. Galliforms or gallinaceous ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Ibn Sina, Abu- ‘Ali- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو علي الحسين بن عبد ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- Monera, in some systems of biological classification, is a kingdom that comprises most living things with a prokaryotic cell organization. For this reason, the kingdom also has ...8 KB (1,051 words) - 13:09, 10 March 2023
- Ramadan (also spelled Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer, reflection ...25 KB (3,551 words) - 00:32, 8 December 2022
- Grasshoppers are long and slender insects belonging to the order Orthoptera, typically exhibiting long, strong hind limbs for leaping and powerful mouth-parts for chewing. The ...20 KB (2,942 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- The Battle of Karbala was a military engagement that took place on 10 Muharram, 61 A.H. (October 10, 680) in Karbala (present day Iraq) between a small group of supporters and ...12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 - March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George," was an American star left-handed first basemen in Major League Baseball (MLB). Ty ...12 KB (1,757 words) - 10:58, 13 December 2023
- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (1941 - November 24, 1989) was a highly influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, and a central figure in preaching for defensive jihad ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in the late eleventh century in the ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- Saadia Ben Joseph Gaon (882-942 C.E.), (Hebrew:סעדיה בן יוסף גאון ) also known by his Arabic name Said al-Fayyumi, was a prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- Clove is the common name for a small, tropical evergreen tree, Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Eugenia aromaticum or Eugenia caryophyllata) and for its aromatic, dried, unopened flower ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Purine is a heterocyclic, aromatic, organic compound, consisting of a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring. Heterocyclic compounds are organic compounds (containing carbon ...7 KB (928 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying messenger RNAs (mRNAs) used ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- Balsa is the common name for a fast-growing, tropical American tree, Ochroma pyramidale (synonym O. lagopus), characterized by soft and light wood. The name also is used for the ...6 KB (941 words) - 04:22, 11 January 2023
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for any of the large, gregarious, wading birds comprising the family Phoenicopteridae, characterized by long legs ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: ar|فرنسيس بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش , ar|Fransīs bin Fatḥ Allāh bin Naṣr Allāh Marrāsh ...35 KB (4,995 words) - 17:16, 29 November 2023
- Coenzyme is any of a diverse group of small organic, non-protein, freely diffusing molecules that are loosely associated with and essential for the activity of enzymes, serving ...22 KB (2,903 words) - 07:19, 6 June 2023
- Giant anteater is the common name for the largest species of anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, characterized by a long, narrow, tapered snout without teeth, very long tongue ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 07:42, 24 January 2023
- Slime mold is the common name for any of the members of a polyphyletic grouping of heterotrophic, fungi-like amoeboid (that is, like an amoeba) organisms that have an alternation ...12 KB (1,726 words) - 21:15, 30 January 2023
- The Assassins (originally called Hashashim, Hashishin, or Hashashiyyin) were a religious sect of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims (from the Nizari lineage) originating in Persia, during ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
- Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically characterized by swelling of the ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest city in Syria after Damascus, and one of the oldest inhabited cities in history. Originating in the early ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- Category:Image wanted Georges Poulet (1902 - 1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism and Phenomenology (such as ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- Mica is an important group of rock-forming silicate minerals, belonging to the subgroup called phyllosilicates. The group consists of more than 30 members, the most common among ...9 KB (1,317 words) - 16:34, 9 November 2022
- The Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) is a cornerstone document outlining ethical principles for conducting medical research with human subjects. Originally adopted in Helsinki, Finland ...23 KB (3,386 words) - 00:17, 27 December 2021
- Frank Robinson (born August 31, 1935), is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder, most notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles. ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 05:08, 9 April 2024
- Uracil is one of the five main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. The others are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. However, while the other four are found ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:37, 12 November 2022
- Jack "J.L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born John Leonard Warner in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish–Jewish family, was the president and driving ...9 KB (1,211 words) - 08:50, 13 March 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 form the site of ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are 236 described species of Melaleuca, all of which occur in Australia. About 230 species are endemic ...18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
- Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Prunus is an economically important genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, characterized by a fruit in the form of a drupe, usually white to pink perigynous flowers ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 01:24, 12 April 2023
- Rubella, commonly known as German measles and also called three-day measles, is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the rubella virus (Rubivirus). Symptoms are typically ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- Flight is the process by which an object achieves sustained movement through the air, as in the case of aircraft, or beyond Earth's atmosphere, as in the case of spaceflight ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- DEET is a chemical, N, N-Diethyl-m-toluamide, that acts as an insect repellent to prevent bites from mosquitoes, fleas, biting flies, and other insects, as well as ticks (arachnids ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- Ibis is the common name for any of the long-legged wading birds of diverse genera comprising the subfamily Threskiornithinae of the family Threskiornithidae, characterized by ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:58, 10 February 2024
- Khadijah (between 555-570 C.E. – about 630 C.E.) was the first wife of the Muslim prophet, Muhammad. Khadijah al-Kubra, the daughter of Khuwaylid ibn Asad and Fatimah bint Za ...7 KB (1,148 words) - 03:33, 6 October 2022
- Vacuoles are membrane-bound compartments within some eukaryotic cells that serve a variety of secretory, excretory, and storage functions. These organelles are found in the cytoplasm ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 23:00, 13 November 2022
- Booker T. & the M.G.'s were an instrumental soul band popular in the 1960s and 70s associated with Stax Records in the subgenre of Memphis soul. Best known for their ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 19:23, 20 November 2023
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or both. Although traditionally eutrophication ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are one of two major classes of cells in neural tissues, the other being neurons, for which the glial cells provide support ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 07:55, 24 January 2023
- Trachoma, also known as granular conjunctivitis, is an infectious eye disease caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis and characterized by inflammation of the conjunctiva ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 17:42, 4 November 2022
- Estrogens (also oestrogens) are a group of steroid (type of lipid) compounds that function as the primary female sex hormone. Estrogens are named for their importance in the estrous ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 00:20, 19 March 2022
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things, so that an inference (reasoning from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the basis of that similarity. So if ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between philosophy (reason) and the religious ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- Geckos are small to average sized lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae, which comprises dozens of genera and several hundred different species found in warm climates throughout ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 06:31, 18 April 2024
- The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; דרוזים , Druzim; also transliterated Druz or Druse) are a Middle Eastern religious community whose ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Orbison illusion.svg|thumb|right|225px|Orbison illusion]] An Orbison illusion is an optical ...4 KB (510 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2022
- Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha), comprising species with elongated ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal was a battle that took place at Basra, Iraq in 655 C.E. between forces allied to Ali and the superior forces of ...27 KB (4,726 words) - 02:43, 26 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Whites illusion.svg|thumb|225px|White's illusion]] White's illusion is an optical ...3 KB (488 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- Vicuña is the common name for a rare, wild, gregarious South American camelid, Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes mountains and characterized by a ...11 KB (1,797 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- Nemertea is a phylum of largely aquatic invertebrate animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms and characterized by long, thin, unsegmented body that is flattened ...11 KB (1,500 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (1120 - c. 1229), much better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn ( فریدالدین ) and ‘Attār ( عطار —"the pharmacist ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American genus, Eriogonum. In particular, ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- Cobra is the common name for a number of Asian and African snakes in several genera of the family Elapidae, characterized by smooth scales, large shields covering the head, eyes ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 07:35, 14 January 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 any collision ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum vulgare of the mint family (Lamiaceae), characterized by opposite, aromatic leaves and purple flowers. Another ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger from 1389 to 1893. It was a continuation of the great Kanem-Bornu Kingdom founded centuries earlier by the Sayfawa ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332/732AH – March 19, 1406/808AH) was a famous historiographer and historian born in present-day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Queen Noor (Arabic: الملكة نور born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan. Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby was ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- Kairouan (Arabic القيروان) (also known as Kirwan, and Al Qayrawan) is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in the nation of Tunisia, about 160 kilometers (100 mi) south ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- Iguana is both the common name for several of the larger members of tropical lizards in the family Iguanidae, and the scientific name of the genus within Iguanidae comprised of ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 23:45, 4 October 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Zollner_illusion.svg|thumb|right|225px|Zöllner illusion]] The Zöllner illusion is a classic ...4 KB (537 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- Irish elk is the common name for an giant, extinct deer, Megaloceros giganteus, characterized by enormous antlers. This is the largest deer known to have ever lived. Megaloceros ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 18:59, 7 February 2023
- In Christian theology, fideism is the position that reason is irrelevant to religious faith. Fideism can be both a response to anti-religious arguments, and a counterbalance to ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- The nucleolus (plural nucleoli) is a large, distinct, spheroidal subcompartment of the nucleus of eukaryote cells that is the site of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) synthesis and assembly ...21 KB (3,018 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- Toucan is the common name for any of the large-billed, long-tailed, tropical birds comprising the New World family Ramphastidae of the near-passerine order Piciformes, characterized ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 1 May 2023
- Food chains, along with food webs and food networks, describe the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community. In other words, they show the transfer of material ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 10:18, 10 November 2023
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth year as 1903) – August 29, 1966) was an Egyptian intellectual author, and Islamist associated with the Egyptian ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations {{Infobox Newspaper | name = The Jerusalem Post| image = [[Image:19480516 PalestinePost Israel is born.jpg|200px]]| ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- Sipuncula or Sipunculida is a phylum of bilaterally symmetrical, unsegmented marine invertebrates, characterized by a worm-like body divided into a trunk and retractable introvert ...11 KB (1,484 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an African trading empire ruled by the Saf dynasty from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. It encompassed, at varying times, the areas belonging ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- Essential oil is any concentrated, hydrophobic (immiscible with water), typically lipophilic (oil or fat soluble) liquid of plants that contains highly volatile aroma compounds ...16 KB (2,270 words) - 12:06, 5 March 2021
- The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the eleventh century. They created the ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Ehrenstein color.jpg|thumb|right|180px]] The Ehrenstein illusion is an optical illusion in which ...4 KB (549 words) - 07:14, 10 August 2023
- The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically and commonly known as the Persian ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 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 human values. ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work Category:Law Sexual abuse (also referred to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one ...18 KB (2,684 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- Box jellyfish is the common name for any of the radially symmetrical, marine invertebrates comprising the Cnidarian class Cubozoa, characterized by generally well-developed eyes ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with the formula HCN. It is a colorless, very poisonous, and highly volatile liquid that boils slightly above room temperature. The gas ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 13:19, 4 February 2023
- Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader) of the Nizārī Muslims( الطائفة الإسماعيلية), a sect ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- A savanna or savannah is a tropical or subtropical woodland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close, above ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- 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 (P. tigris), the ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( أبومصعب الزرقاوي , ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his death in June 2006 ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Punch.jpg|thumb|250 px|right| Punch magazine cover, 1867]] Punch was a British weekly magazine of humor ...8 KB (1,281 words) - 23:46, 2 December 2022
- Dugong is the common name for a large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine mammal, Dugong dugon, characterized by gray-colored, nearly hairless skin, paddle-like forelimbs, no hind ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Hussein bin Ali (1852 – 1931) (حسین بن علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917, when he proclaimed himself king of ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna or Lepcis Magna, (also Lpqy or Neapolis), located on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what is now Libya, was originally a Phoenician ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- Coral snake, or coralsnake, is the common name for often colorful venomous snakes belonging to several genera of the Elapidae family. Traditionally, six genera have been known ...24 KB (3,201 words) - 19:02, 14 January 2023
- Ali ibn Abi (or Abu) Talib ( علي بن أبي طالب ) (ca. 21 March 598 – 661) was an early Islamic leader. He is seen by the Sunni Muslims as the fourth and last of the ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- Ricin ( ˈraɪsɨn ) is a protein derived from the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) that is highly toxic to humans, as well as to other animals, including insects ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz) (خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی in Persian) was a Persian mystic and poet who ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni Islam is also referred to as Sunnism or as Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h (Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Intifada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from Arabic for "shaking off") is an Arabic term for "uprising." The word was first widely used to describe the popular ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding together of quarks and gluons ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- 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 development. These ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 01:56, 9 January 2023
- Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 01:44, 10 December 2022
- The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte and local Mamluk forces. It was the first of many battles ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated in southern Sudan, the civil war ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Marchantiophyta, characterized by a gametophyte-dominant life cycle and single ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Resembling in shape a figurehead on a ship's prow, the Sultanate of Oman juts sharply from the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula into the Arabian Sea. It is the world ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- Mohammed Anwar Al Sadat (Arabic: محمد أنورالسادات Muḥammad 'Anwar as-Sādāt) (December 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981) was an Egyptian statesman who served ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Category:Image wanted Etiology (alternately aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation. Derived from the Greek grc|αιτιολογία, "giving a reason for" (grc ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi أبو بكر البغدادي ; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, ar|إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- The term carotene refers to a class of related organic compounds with the formula C40H56. Carotenes exist in several isomers that have the same formula but different molecular ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
