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- a Mumbai (Bombay) underworld don, who begins to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi ... cms Gandhigiri, a cool way to live]. Times Internet Limited ...43 KB (6,480 words) - 05:34, 4 March 2023
- Tasmania is an Australian island and a state of the same name. The ... long from the northernmost point to the southernmost point and ...42 KB (6,077 words) - 04:33, 27 February 2023
- The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism ... a New York Times reporter. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- dynasty. He forced Emperor Xian( 漢獻帝) to abdicate the throne and proclaimed ... (洛陽), with no hint that he would go on to the great campaigns that he ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 19:30, 25 November 2023
- According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman ever created ... Afterwards, she tried to close the lid but it was too late; however ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- In zoology, the placenta is a temporary vascular organ that forms ... of nutrients and oxygen from the mother to the fetus and the removal of ...25 KB (3,557 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov." ... the New Economic Policy of the 1920s, prior to the institution of Socialist ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
- scam, such as the sample pictured here, is one form of cybercrime]] Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe activity in which computers ...24 KB (3,483 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Cytochrome c, or cyt c is a small, water soluble heme protein associated ... and its water solubility permit researchers to isolate it from other mitochondrial ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- Magellan in August 1519, only 18 managed to return to Spain and thereby ... Magellan was the first to reach Asia by sailing westward from Europe ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- An Ames room is a distorted room used to create an optical illusion ... Upon viewing people or objects within an Ames room, there is a loss ...7 KB (1,155 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- are necessary for a market-based society to flourish; vice and greed are ... as a physician. The exact date of his birth is uncertain, but he was baptized ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- and, finally, Personalism, of which Bowne is the dominant figure. being with the "person" which is the spiritual reality, irreducible ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- typically given as the first lessons to anyone being introduced to ... Why have I declared (the four noble truths)? Because it is beneficial ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- , Urdu: لدّاخ; "land of high passes") is a province ... Ladakh's independence came to an end in 1834 C.E. when Gulab ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the ... Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and in the ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- Mount St. Helens is an active volcano in Skamania County, Washington ... Mount Saint Helens is known for its volcanic ash explosions and pyroclastic ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- Nominalism is the philosophical view that abstract concepts, general ... Nominalism is best understood in contrast to philosophical or ontological ...19 KB (2,997 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- :This page is about the number and digit 0 or "zero." ... 0 (zero) is both a number and a numerical digit used to represent ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- "rough" throughout Latin America to study and spread medicine, ... 9, 1967. Participants in, and witnesses to, the events of his final hours ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
- nineteenth century. Greeley used the paper to promote the Whig and Republican ... of a poor farmer. He declined a scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy and ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college situated ... For Vassar graduates, both men and women, to advance the world of ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- Council, hold decision making power, subject to the approval of the National ... may also establish ad hoc committees to consider questions of special ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- or exiting of a people from an area") is the second book of the Old ... rescue of the infant Moses from the Nile, to the scene of Moses meeting ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- 275px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus ... literally, "law of the stars") is the science of celestial phenomena ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- of Islam or the "Gateway" (Báb) to him. After his death he became ... Shi'a Islam. However, sources differ as to whether Siyyid `Alí Muhammad ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- extensive research on animal behavior, but is perhaps best known for having ... John Broadus Watson was born in 1878 in Greenville, South Carolina ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 20:40, 1 April 2024
- comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular ... marriages garnered publicity but failed to provide support for her increasingly ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 15:56, 6 November 2022
- A magnetic field is an invisible physical phenomenon caused (“induced” ... in its various forms, from visible light to X-rays and radio waves. ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- Measurement is the estimation of the magnitude of some attribute of ... Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. In measurement theory ...18 KB (2,732 words) - 14:42, 5 December 2023
- the Spanish and French Crowns should never be united. This was part of British ... The Treaty of Utrecht brought a period of peace in what is sometimes ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- Germanic, and Brittonic tribes fought to defend their homelands against ... chieftain Vercingetorix's attempt to unite the Gauls under a single ...77 KB (12,113 words) - 23:58, 4 March 2024
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... * (a) Its relationship to several other related concepts such as: ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- ) can be translated as "tradition" or a "religious ... Hinduism, rather than a schism, points to complimentary views. No animosity ...15 KB (2,058 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- (Note regarding personal names: Graf is a title, translated as Count ... Taaffe contributed significantly to the democratization process in ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- A zoological garden, zoological park, or zoo is a facility in which ... Zoos trace to at least 4,000 years ago (Reichenbach 2002). Modern ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey ... of high academic standards. Its seminary is of particular note. Yet, the ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- he took part in three Shogunate missions to Europe and the United States ... of knowledge, he led the struggle to introduce Western ideas in ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- of historical cross-national pressures to unify the German populations ... Although he expected Austria to vote in favor of maintaining autonomy ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- for the screen, including "Welcome to Hard Times" (1967) starring ... by mathematically gifted children, he fled to the office of the school literary ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia ... All ancient ethical theorists understand eudaimonia to be the highest ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- meaning "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male ... In the Hindu tradition, the term gandharva is used in both the singular ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- teacher. Trilling was a frequent contributor to the Partisan Review and member ... becoming the first Jewish professor to receive tenure in the Department ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 04:21, 29 October 2022
- an English Jacobean playwright and poet who is notable for his mastery of ... the son of a bricklayer who had been raised to the status of a gentleman. ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- name of the country was changed from Joseon to the Korean Empire, and was ... ==Early Joseon monarchs: Taejo to Seongjong== A military leader in ...95 KB (11,477 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- Parochial school is a term used (particularly in the United States ... While parochial schools have offered a valuable alternative to secularized ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- and ethnic discontent, and continues to evolve as a federal republic ... the option (and the use) of military force to ensure the primacy of the Central ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on ... Inference is studied within several different fields. * Human inference ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 22:38, 5 February 2023
- department at Gallaudet University from 1955 to 1971 and was a researcher there ... imitation or simplified version of English, to that of a complex and thriving ...13 KB (1,991 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- meaning "Sky dancer/walker") is a tantric deity that might ... Vajrayogini appears as his yab-yum consort, to become a stand-alone practice ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- Demolition is the opposite of construction: The tearing-down of buildings ... only two or three stories high, demolition is a rather simple process. The ...11 KB (1,595 words) - 23:13, 24 August 2020
- ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ... ) are used in combinations to treat patients according to traditional ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate ... flight software, and aircraft systems. It is much safer to perform these ...23 KB (3,448 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- has caught the attention of archaeologists, is that the paintings represent ... and fauna, bearing a significant resemblance to similar rock art sites such ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 03:37, 1 October 2023
- Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions ... invited Indian and Chinese Buddhist scholars to his court. According to the ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- in the popular style of Rococo, led to great works that were consistently ... preliminary drawing for the studio painting to a bona fide and finished art ...11 KB (1,576 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- Shingon Buddhism (眞言, 真言 "true words") is a major ... Sutra (Diamond Crown Sutra). According to Shingon, enlightenment is not ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Roman ... and dedicated to the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity, and ...33 KB (5,125 words) - 23:21, 3 March 2023
- for patron use. Use of such materials may be limited to specific patron ... For example, the University of Virginia Library provides access to ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 19:07, 10 November 2022
- consist of a nitrogen-containing base bonded to a five-carbon (pentose) sugar. also are important in cell metabolism (ATP is the energy currency of the ...6 KB (865 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 and 2007, and ... government allocated over $900 billion to special loans and rescues related ...40 KB (5,653 words) - 11:59, 3 May 2023
- Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... Christian meaning. The phoenix would come to stand for the Resurrection ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose ... or defense of a third person) convert what would otherwise have been ...26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
- was an Italian who made major contributions to mathematics and physics. One ... of 11 children (only two of whom survived to adulthood) of Giuseppe Francesco ...29 KB (4,634 words) - 07:15, 10 August 2022
- Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "long ... quot; although this designation often is limited to members of the family ...11 KB (1,512 words) - 12:04, 21 January 2023
- prophet in Islam. The story of his life is told in the Book of Genesis ... Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are sometimes referred to as the ...30 KB (4,873 words) - 16:27, 23 December 2022
- acquire oxygen from water and lack limbs, to a four-legged, air-breathing ... with much of the reduction attributed to anthropomorphic (human-induced ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- A ball bearing, an engineering term, refers to a type of rolling-element ... Ball bearings tend to have lower load capacity for their size than ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:21, 11 January 2023
- on his own observations, and contributed to the development of photography ... the planet Uranus in 1881, and who continued to make many contributions to ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- The Sacred Heart is a devotional representation of Jesus' physical ... Predecessors to the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart existed to ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 18:34, 22 December 2022
- Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation ... not have been conceived earlier since up to that time, Cuban and American ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- (chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80), is a chemical element and transition ... throughout the world. Elemental mercury is used in the manufacture of ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all ... the player varies the length of the tube to change pitches, although the ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 17:59, 2 May 2023
- Ibis is the common name for any of the long-legged wading birds of ... red-tailed hawks, etc.). They also help to aerate the soil as a result ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:58, 10 February 2024
- among the Paiute. Wovoka prophesied an end to white American expansion while ... among the Nevada Paiute, the Ghost Dance is built on the foundation of ...15 KB (2,439 words) - 18:52, 21 May 2024
- Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor ... Flawed decisions due to confirmation bias have been found in a wide ...53 KB (7,755 words) - 16:46, 10 May 2023
- and music administrator. In addition to a highly successful career ... remained fairly conventional in relation to the more abstract and atonal ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- 9 (nine) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 8 and precedes 10. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- Dublin is both the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland ... The Dubh Linn was a lake used by the Vikings to moor their ships and was connected ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- 54 C.E. One of his most famous sayings is "Secure a teacher for ... Gamaliel is known to the Christian world as the Pharisaic leader who ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- with John Dalton and Jöns Jakob Berzelius, is considered a "father of ... an elementary text on chemistry;helped to introduce the metric system; ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth ... fashion. In the Catholic tradition, it is connected with the principal ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:56, 21 January 2023
- his falling spirits and introduced him to the literary press. Soon Baratynsky ... Through the interest of friends he obtained leave from the tsar to ...7 KB (1,089 words) - 18:40, 31 May 2022
- The Sun is the star at the center of the Earth's solar system ... About 74 percent of the Sun's mass is hydrogen, 25 percent is ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom ... title after 940 editions on January 1, 1788, to The Times. John Walter also ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 17:36, 30 April 2023
- opera comique and the Italian opera seria to create a more emotional and ... Jommelli. From here on in, Traetta seems to have had regular commissions ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- psychologist, and social advocate. She is famous for her promotion of ... at a time when women were not yet allowed to be formally admitted as students ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- post-World War II era. Celan's poetry is among some of the darkest written ... Like the Surrealists, Celan attempted to reinvent poetry from the ground ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- According to Medieval legend, Pope Joan (also known as Pope Joanna ... She is described as being a very theologically gifted orator with ...24 KB (4,035 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- the space environment may allow one to perform industrial processes ... Economic requirements of space manufacturing imply a need to collect ...17 KB (2,555 words) - 19:04, 7 February 2023
- of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural (and its relationship ... The social structure of the world's religious traditions can ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- The Danegeld ("Dane gold") was an English tribute raised ... The term has come to be used as a warning and a criticism of any coercive ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
- Denisovans are an extinct hominid group more closely related to the ... fossils of ancient hominins the DNA cannot be recovered, in the case of the ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- electronic form today. Sensors are connected to a control unit via either a ... The desired result of an alarm system is to cause an appropriate alarm ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- toward the mean." Galton was the first to apply statistical methods to ... exhibited "good" characteristics to marry and produce offspring ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- Ham is the thigh and rump of any animal that is slaughtered for meat ... religious prohibitions, and was introduced to the North American continent ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- According to Catholic tradition, Saint Linus (d. c. 67 - 80) was the ... of Rome, being appointed by Saint Paul to that office before Peter came ...11 KB (1,675 words) - 04:02, 26 November 2022
- spawned numerous imitators, leading to a brief profusion of stylitism ... as “athletes of Christ” and strove to emulate their founder’s actions ...22 KB (3,506 words) - 20:42, 21 April 2023
- sacred city was Ur, and temples dedicated to him have been found throughout ... goddess Ninlil. Nanna's origin myth is a story of his father's ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- मंडलः "circle," "completion") refers ... The mandala's symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (March 26, 1940 - ) is an American ... United States House of Representatives. She is also the first Italian-American ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- of modern science gave a strong impetus to modern philosophers to re-establish ... Dilthey attempted to establish a philosophical framework within which ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- Uraninite is a uranium-rich, radioactive mineral that is composed ... decay products of uranium. In addition, it is often mixed with UO3 and oxides ...4 KB (526 words) - 13:35, 3 May 2023
- the world. His work has contributed greatly to the understanding of how various ... of his high school newspaper and wanted to become a journalist and novelist ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago ... in a bloodless coup in 1977 and continues to rule, dominating politics by ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- structure of R-N2+ X- where R can be any organic residue such alkyl ... The process of forming diazoniums compound is called diazotation, ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 13:34, 15 July 2020
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... warfare, and disease, after being taken to neighboring islands by the Spanish. ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- Abu Simbel (Arabic أبو سنبل or أبو سمبل) is an archaeological ... century B.C.E., as a lasting monument to himself and his queen Nefertari ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- them offends the other, eventually reconcile to each other. It usually contains ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal ... Barbershop music is famous and renowned for its "ringing" ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was ... His early reign was marked by his opposition to Communism, and he ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- he renounced his marriage and resolved to serve God. After his release ... promulgated heterodox opinions and went to Rome to justify his teachings ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... It should be noted that the term Mao Zedong Thought has always been ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- five official minority groups in China. Miao is a Chinese term and does not ... “Miao” has been applied inconsistently to a variety of non-Han peoples ...23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Born in Uppsala, Sweden, to a Lutheran minister, Bergman grew up surrounded ... techniques of European cinema in contrast to Hollywood, stressing the visual ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- living rooms. From TV stardom he went on to sign a record contract, with ... and began touring internationally. Refusing to become a mere nostalgia act ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- used in the United Kingdom and Australia, is a secondary school in which ... Grammar schools were established to provide an academic education ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency, located ... The head of state is King Charles III, who holds the title of Lord ...38 KB (5,944 words) - 21:52, 8 March 2024
- The horse or domestic horse (Equus caballus) is a sizable ungulate ... Horses, one of the most historically vital domesticated animals to ...30 KB (4,944 words) - 19:37, 21 February 2022
- In Judaism, Gehenna (or Ge-hinnom) is a fiery place where the wicked ... that stretches from the foot of Mt. Zion to the Kidron Valley. It is first ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- designates an individual commissioned by God to spread the "good news ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- [[Image:Rolandfealty.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Roland pledges his fealty ... Feudalism is a political system of power dispersed and balanced between ...38 KB (6,097 words) - 01:33, 21 July 2022
- into films. Greene's stylistic work is known for its explorations ... traveler, would often seek out adventure to fuel his stories and experience ...28 KB (4,089 words) - 10:04, 31 December 2022
- Sycamore is a common name that is applied used at various times and ... Ficus sycomorus is the sycamore (or sycomore) of the Bible. It is ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 01:53, 27 February 2023
- In mathematics, the logarithm (or log) of a number x in base b is ... In general terms, if x = b'n, then the logarithm of x in base ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- The Book of Hosea is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... #039;s command even though she now belongs to another man. In this, Hosea ...12 KB (1,912 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- things are divided by biologists. A fungus is a eukaryotic organism that ... of beer and bread, and mushroom farming is a large industry in many countries. ...13 KB (1,974 words) - 08:09, 4 December 2023
- ; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham and the ... scholars. Also, in Islam, Isaac's role is significantly different than ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- The Penobscot (Panawahpskek) are a sovereign people indigenous to ... ledges" and originally referred to the portion of the Penobscot ...23 KB (3,545 words) - 07:18, 23 November 2022
- Jesuit priest. Hopkins sought and struggled to unite his spiritual yearnings ... Bridges that would become important not only to Hopkins development as a poet ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 16:49, 21 May 2024
- British writer and university professor who is best known as the author of ... fabulists have used folk and fairy tales, to tell stories that contain timeless ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]] is one of the most famous social ... , and increased mobility of labor due to the industrialization and urbanization ...19 KB (2,677 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept ... that he has always and will always exist to lead beings to their salvation ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- 10, 1882) was an American photographer who is best known for his photographs ... for Harper's Weekly and distributed to a national audience, serving ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- The term fraternity, often colloquially shortened to "frat," ... Fraternities and sororities often use the Greek alphabet to depict ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- Sufi Order International. He initially came to the West as a representative ... whose encouragement he left India in 1910, to come the West. He traveled ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple compound in Indonesia, and one ... with the main building completed in 1953. What caused Hindu devotees to abandon ...15 KB (2,259 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous ... blue or bluish-gray in color, but may be red-brown or orange, are used ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- Sloth is the common name for any of the slow-moving, New World arboreal ... exclusively arboreal existence, descending to the ground only rarely to urinate ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- The name nylon is given to a family of synthetic polymers first produced ... that the name was originally intended to be "No-Run" (where ...10 KB (1,452 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- In 1920, France married for the second time, to Emma Laprévotte.Marie ... (Paris, FR: Baudinière, 1924). He died in 1924 and is buried in the ...18 KB (2,551 words) - 20:05, 29 June 2023
- in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit ... program combating geographic illiteracy. It is estimated that it reaches more ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- in the science and technology that led to the development of radio. Besides ... of Oliver Lodge, a vendor of supplies to the local pottery industry ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- #039;s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February ... Today, Valentine's Day is recognized as a significant cultural ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
- ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... and Haiti. When Guinea's corruption is resolved its abundant resources ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- Silicon (chemical element symbol Si, atomic number 14) is a member ... Although only tiny traces of it appear to be required by animals, it ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in ... the violin's normal bridge will be replaced with a bridge with ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- 1922. Lloyd George was the first Welshman to serve as Prime Minister. A ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, is a Southern European ... within Italian territory. Also belonging to the republic is the commune ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- and accurate timing. While considered to be a performing art, it is ... somersaults, back flips, and other tricks to entertain large groups of people. ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- the classical poetry of the medieval world to the new emerging styles of ... Cavalcanti chose to write in the vernacular, or "vulgar" ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second ... A combination of deception and brilliant administration—designed ...50 KB (7,770 words) - 11:32, 20 September 2023
- mystical literature. In particular, he is the renowned author of the ... as a saint in 1762 by Pope Benedict XIII and is one of the thirty-three Doctors ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... has taken on a semi-mythological status and is often cited as truly representing ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering ... Chadwick and Anne Mary Knowles. He went to Bollington Cross C of E Primary ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 21:08, 20 March 2024
- VI, who promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction to allow her to succeed to the ... conflict with the Kingdom of Prussia led to the Seven Years' War and ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- of God and the meaning of life could not be found, Unamuno decided that ... was deeply religious, but in Madrid he began to read the works of liberal writers ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- Turmeric is the common name for a herbaceous perennial plant, Curcuma ... which has a bitter, pungent flavor, commonly is used as a spice in curries ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- Socialist Party. As a result he was unable to work in Germany, and moved ... military subject of his thesis came naturally to him. As a young man ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the ... The primary focus of this article is human behavior, which includes ...40 KB (5,552 words) - 21:51, 20 March 2023
- The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote ... of magnificent rock outcroppings juxtaposed to the stark, lunar-like landscape ...7 KB (1,078 words) - 20:04, 20 January 2023
- the British were the Emperor’s agents. What residual political authority ... Zafar was his nom de plume (takhallus) as an Urdu poet. He is recognized ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- Writing is a form of communication through the act of preserving text ... for words of similar sound, and may evolve to develop syllabaries; an alphabet ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- Physical fitness is used in the context of two meanings: General fitness ... Physical fitness is the capacity of the heart, blood vessels, lungs ...19 KB (2,829 words) - 05:08, 24 November 2022
- 14, 1932) invented roll film and an easy-to-operate camera that he brand ... in Rochester, and the Eastman family moved to Rochester in 1860. Two years ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 07:36, 15 May 2024
- The Arctic Circle is the parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33' ... the whole area of the Arctic Circle, the Sun is above the horizon for at least ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- is the ruler of Heaven (Tian) in Chinese mythology and is among the ... In addition to the myriad Chinese myths and popular tales that reference ...18 KB (2,861 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- Προμηθεύς, "forethought") is the Titan honored chiefly for ... in cunning and deceit. He would go on to become the father of Deucalion ...12 KB (1,993 words) - 23:54, 1 December 2022
- by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an electronic-optical device ... dollar industry. Their most widespread use is in optical storage devices ...41 KB (6,333 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV and meaning Thoth is Born) was the Eight Pharaoh ... and is ascribed a reign of nine years and eight months by Manetho ...7 KB (1,124 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name ... of differing sizes and pitches. It is the largest such instrument ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- 15, 1683) was an English biographer, who is best known for The Compleat ... of an idyllic and now-lost rural life to promote the preservation of ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- composer of the Romantic era. Tchaikovsky is one of the world's most ... European melodies. Tchaikovsky's name is most frequently associated ...33 KB (4,939 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Preschool education is education that focuses on educating children ... The proliferation of preschool education in the twentieth century ...23 KB (3,350 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- Earl Hines is one of jazz music’s most legendary pianists and one ... a church organist. Hines at first intended to follow his father's example ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- a small town on the Rhine River located in what is now Germany. It was conducted ... from other writings and sayings attributed to him. Luther was summoned by ...7 KB (1,119 words) - 14:32, 29 January 2024
- the first Roman Catholic and Irish-American to run for President as a major ... Smith was born to Alfred Emanuel Smith and Catherine Mulvihill and ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- made two contributions of enormous impact to the idea of evolution. First ... voyage on the HMS Beagle that began his road to eminence. His biological observations ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- "part" or "portion") is one of two stereoisomers that ... The situation is analogous to a person's left and right hands ...6 KB (731 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- 794 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. It is considered the cultural center ... Kyoto is known as one of the academic centers of Japan, and is home ...36 KB (5,281 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- quot;; also rendered as Kalki or Kalika) is the tenth and final Avatar ... Jesus depicted in the Book of Revelation. It is possible that, historically ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:29, 5 October 2022
- South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... England granted the Lords Proprietor title to all of the land from the southern ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- Theodoric the Great (454 – August 30, 526), known to the Romans ... harmony. While he allowed the Romans to practice their own customs ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- personal name was Yi Hon (李琿). He came to the throne amid controversy ... Gwanghaegun endeared himself to generations of Koreas for guiding ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 08:20, 27 July 2023
- output was scant, critical consensus is that what she wrote was of ... were sometimes criticized for selling out to white bohemians who associated ...12 KB (1,881 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- Orangutan (also written orang-utan, orang utan, and orangutang) is ... apes," while all other apes belong to the family Hylobatidae and ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... except for those that can no longer be observed because of the destruction ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- new religious movement, its core philosophy is based on scriptures such as ... status and began planning for a journey to America in order to spread ...34 KB (5,270 words) - 13:23, 7 February 2023
- In medieval terms, a crypt is a stone chamber or vault, usually beneath ... designed for practical purposes, as well as to honor the dead, for many their ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 02:11, 15 January 2023
- of reviving Christian theology according to the teachings of Augustine ... against the Jesuits. Jansenists held that it is impossible for a person to ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- An adjective, in grammar, is a word whose main syntactic role is to ... parts of speech, often verbal constructions, to serve the same semantic function ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- The national park presents a challenge to explorers who choose to travel ... been renown for the expeditions conducted to explore them and their surrounding ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 17:58, 12 July 2023
- June 6, 1944 (commonly known as D-Day), and is held to end on June 30, 1944 ... The objective of the operation was to create a lodgement that would ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Cancer, or "malignant neoplasm," is a large category of ... If the spread of cancer is not controlled, it can result in death ...90 KB (13,223 words) - 19:16, 25 November 2023
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... ten provinces and three territories, Canada is a parliamentary democracy and ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- Universe theory or continuous creation) is a model developed in 1948 by ... theory asserts that although the universe is expanding, it nevertheless ...10 KB (1,466 words) - 19:55, 9 February 2023
- on January 22, 1727. His most famous piece is the Messiah, an oratorio set ... the composition of Messiah stand as a legacy to Handel's Christian faith ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 15:57, 20 May 2024
- She is said to have been a disciple of Shri Guru Ravidas. She composed ... passionately praised Lord Krishna. Bhakti is one of the most intimate and ...8 KB (1,235 words) - 18:54, 9 November 2022
- of the Republic of India. Popularly referred to as Panditji (Scholar), Nehru ... was also an exponent of socialism as a means to address long-standing national ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- A business is an entity that is formed in order to carry out activities ... In addition to different types of activity, such as manufacturing ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 18:50, 22 November 2023
- of neo-classical economics, and contributor to the development of statistical ... private tutors until 1862, when he went on to study classics and languages ...20 KB (3,082 words) - 06:16, 23 January 2023
- preeminent scholar on labor law. From 1914 to his appointment to the Supreme ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation ... that Pakistan's politicians had failed to maintain national unity or ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- An electric shock is the effect of passing an electric current through ... To avoid injury by an electric shock, untrained personnel should not ...22 KB (3,364 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- height of his fame and powers, he traveled to Paris, remaining there until ... of Saint Peter's. He preferred to embellish existing structures ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 18:55, 21 May 2024
- late nineteenth century. Offenbach sought to explore a universe of flamboyant ... prolific composer with over 100 stage works to his credit. The galop from ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- from the end of the fourteenth century to about 1600, marking the transition ... literally means “rebirth,” and the era is best known for the renewed ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- of the culture-historical approach to ethnology. Frobenius introduced ... in his time. Thus, Frobenius contributed to our understanding of the connections ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... pressure, has taken tentative steps to include the opposition in the ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- A citation index is an index of citations between publications, allowing ... Citation Index (SCI), and later expanding to produce the Social Sciences ...17 KB (2,536 words) - 22:25, 10 December 2023
- Addams' commitment to the needs of others and her international ... Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the eighth child born ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
- Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of ... The isotope protactinium-231 occurs in pitchblende to the extent of ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- plow (rotary plough in British English), is a motorized cultivator that ... are used in domestic gardens. When attached to two-wheel or four-wheel tractors ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:27, 16 December 2022
- could sit inside, and which were intended to harness the energy for what ... His realization that sexual energy is potent rings true; it is harnessing ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 20:11, 17 November 2023
- The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ... a Web browser, or by following a hyperlink to that page or resource. The ...31 KB (4,531 words) - 13:58, 20 May 2023
- A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort (industry, occupation ... The focus of a fishery may be fish, but the definition is expanded ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- during the Tang Dynasty in China. He rose to prominence by fighting during ... ). In 756, he took the capital of Chang’an and forced the Emperor ...11 KB (1,832 words) - 18:40, 26 July 2023
- and American industry, contributing to the urbanization that changed ... brought the means of personal transportation to ordinary people and changed ...32 KB (4,898 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar ... of massive strikes that spread quickly to the industrial centers of the ...25 KB (3,757 words) - 18:34, 25 April 2022
- According to Barth, a new divine revelation given in our faith now ... day before his confirmation at the age of 15 to become a theologian in order ...13 KB (1,944 words) - 18:11, 14 May 2024
- St. Louis is an independent city, separate from St. Louis County ... The city of St. Louis is named for King Louis IX of France and lies ...33 KB (4,943 words) - 18:26, 26 February 2024
- or bean curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made ... Tofu originated in ancient China, but little else is known about the ...37 KB (5,817 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- from Foreign Force and Influence," is a political essay by John Jay ... Federalist No. 3 considers whether a federal government is better ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- (hence the name of their journal, Apollo) to "Dionysian frenzy" ... Wachtel. The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry. (Cambridge ...14 KB (1,927 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- Several popular tracks such as "Rags to Riches" followed in early ... #039;s disease in 2016, he continued to record, tour, and perform until ...61 KB (9,033 words) - 20:13, 12 September 2023
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... Latin School in 1635. Boston was also home to the first subway system in ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea ... Slave labor brought from Africa to work the sugarcane fields in the ...26 KB (3,654 words) - 02:55, 26 February 2023
- Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline ... It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a ... term has stuck and has now, in fact, come to embrace a general trend within ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- a princely state which traces its lineage to the Kulasekhara empire. Heralded ... entered a period of economic growth, leading to a spurt in the city's ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two ... The term Afrosoricida is a Latin-Greek compound name that means "looking ...21 KB (2,748 words) - 20:46, 29 December 2022
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- A bed is a piece of furniture (or a location) primarily used as a ... A dust ruffle, bed skirt, or valance sheet may be used to make the ...23 KB (3,768 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence ... It is the eastern cornerstone of the Ka'bah (the "cube" ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- A ribosome is a small, dense granular particle comprising usually ... A ribosome can be thought of as a giant enzyme that builds proteins ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- the Hebrew Bible. Sarah's story is told in the Book of Genesis ... city of Ur and moved with her clan to Haran, where she lived with ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- :This article is about the chemical element. number=16 | symbol=S ... below) (chemical symbol S, atomic number 16) is a yellow crystalline solid ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- called septa. They are genetically similar to yeasts (single-celled fungi). ... Molds do not form a specific taxonomic grouping. They can be found ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- the seven sacred cities within Hindu belief, is a constant attraction for devout ... A major city of Hindu learning, Varanasi is commonly referred to as ...18 KB (2,802 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- content of silica. The Earth's mantle is thought to be composed of ultramafic ... more than 90 percent mafic minerals—that is, they have a high content of ...7 KB (892 words) - 01:30, 3 May 2023
- width of a human hair) and lengths that can be as much as several millimeters ... and are efficient conductors of heat. Their novel properties make them potentially ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride, NaCl, commonly known ... lakes, playas, and seas. Salt beds may be up to 350 meters (1150 feet ...5 KB (705 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- The Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part ... The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, between Cuba and ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- ), a text once attributed to Bodhidharma. McRae (1986), 148. One of the best known stories in Chan history is the verse writing ...14 KB (2,174 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, France to Charles and Augustine ... Paris, and painted there until 1904 thanks to funding from his parents, who ...6 KB (896 words) - 15:12, 21 May 2024
- and trading enterprise extending stability to large areas of Russia. The name "Golden Horde" referring to a sovereign state is ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of jazz ... A remarkable prodigy, Tatum learned to play by copying piano roll ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
