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- Essential oil is any concentrated, hydrophobic (immiscible with water), typically lipophilic (oil or fat soluble) liquid of plants that contains ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Military Guerrilla warfare (also spelled guerilla) is a method of combat by ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
- Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader) of the Nizārī Muslims( الطائفة ...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 ...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 ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Punch.jpg|thumb|250 px|right| Punch magazine cover, 1867]] ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- Intifada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from Arabic for "shaking off") is an Arabic term for "uprising." The word was first ...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 ...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 ...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 ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 18:54, 21 May 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- in 1979). More recently, Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network carried out the attacks against targets in the United States September 11, 2001. These ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Marchantiophyta, characterized by a gametophyte ...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 ...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 ...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, ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- The term carotene refers to a class of related organic compounds with the formula C40H56. Carotenes exist in several isomers that have the same ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- Baghdad ( بغداد Baġdād ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also coterminous with. With a municipal population ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1040? – July 1099), was a Castilian military and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the Spanish nobility and ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- Papaya is a palm-like, soft-stemmed, evergreen tree, Carica papaya, that is native to the tropics of the Americas, but which is now cultivated ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 07:31, 18 November 2022
- Birefringence, or double refraction, is the splitting of a ray of light into two rays when it passes through certain types of material, such ...9 KB (1,136 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living organisms or inorganic matter. However, what specifically is included as ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder, (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1949) (from Ryder's esteemed ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (3,473 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- Arabic literature (Arabic ,الأدب العربي ) Al-Adab Al-Arabi, is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers (not necessarily ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Measles, also known as rubeola, is a very highly contagious [[virus|viral] disease caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus, and ...18 KB (2,539 words) - 09:34, 10 March 2023
- Aisha, Ayesha, 'A'isha, or 'Aisha 1 (Arabic عائشه `ā'isha, "she who lives") was a wife of the prophet Muhammad ...25 KB (4,166 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- Harvestmen is the common name for any of the eight-legged invertebrate animals comprising the order Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) in the arthropod ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- The hajj ( حج , transliterated Ḥaǧǧ; "greater pilgrimage") Cyril Glassé, The New Encyclopedia of Islam (Lanham, MD: Rowman & ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- Trichoptera is an order of moth-like, holometabolous insects, known commonly as caddisflies (or caddis flies), with aquatic, silk-spinning, caterpillar ...12 KB (1,840 words) - 16:48, 2 May 2023
- Sufism (from Arabic (صوف), Suf meaning "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- Rhododendron is the common and genus name for a large and diverse group of woody shrubs and small (rarely large) trees in the flowering plant ...16 KB (2,229 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- A wetland is a transitional environment between permanently aquatic and terrestrial environments that shares characteristics of both environments ...25 KB (3,675 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- Mangabey is the common name for the various Old World monkeys comprising the genera Lophocebus ( crested mangabeys), Cercocebus (white-eyelid ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 06:45, 5 November 2022
- Tapir (pronounced as in "taper," or IPA "təˈpɪər," pronounced as in "tap-ear") are large, browsing, mammals ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- Ermine is the common name for a small, northern weasel, Mustela erminea, characterized by a short, black-tipped tail, a long body with short ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:45, 6 September 2023
- Tardigrade, or water bear, is any of the various very small, segmented invertebrates comprising the phylum Tardigrada, characterized by bilateral ...13 KB (1,883 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein I of Jordan, 1997]] Hussein bin Talal (حسين بن طلال ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- Radiolaria is a diverse grouping of amoeboid protozoa that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule of cytoplasm ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae that are characterized ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- century with rise of Islamic terrorism. That al-Qaeda's target on September 11, 2001, was New York City's World Trade Center was no coincidence. ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 17:40, 23 May 2024
- Gull is the common name for any of the aquatic birds comprising the family Laridae, characterized by long and narrow wings, strong bills that ...12 KB (1,696 words) - 04:38, 7 December 2021
- Category:Image wanted Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- The Battle of Badr ( غزوة بدر ), fought March 17, 624 C.E. (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) in the Hejaz of western Arabia (present ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- Artichoke, or globe artichoke, is a perennial thistle, Cynara cardunculus (or C. scolymus) of the Asteraceae family, characterized by pinnately ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- Maronites are members of one of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches, with a heritage reaching back to Saint Maron in the early fifth century ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- Yantra (from the Sanskrit root sa|यन्त्र् yam, meaning "to restrain, curb, check") refers to "any instrument [or ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- Ribozyme (from ribonucleic acid enzyme) is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule that can catalyze biochemical reactions, just as as certain protein ...13 KB (1,885 words) - 20:53, 16 April 2023
- Tuber is a botanical term for an enlarged, fleshy, generally underground stem of certain seed plants, in which the typical stem parts are represented ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- by harboring Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network. During the Taliban ... a military campaign to destroy the Al-Qaeda terrorist network operating ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- Genome is one complete set of hereditary information that characterizes an organism, as encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). That ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo gulo, of the weasel family (Mustelidae), characterized by a large and stocky ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207 - 1273 C.E.) (مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی), known to the English-speaking ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Impossible_cube_illusion_angle.svg|200px|thumb|right|An impossible ...5 KB (696 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on ...13 KB (1,807 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) to make it unreadable to anyone except those ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 16:34, 5 January 2021
- Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a distinct member of the herpesvirus family (Herpesviridae) of DNA viruses and one of the ...25 KB (3,646 words) - 15:14, 15 April 2022
- Diphtheria is a highly-contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, an aerobic Gram-positive bacterium. It is generally an upper ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 00:38, 26 August 2020
- At least 57 people died and 115 were wounded. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, a group led by terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a native Jordanian, claimed responsibility. ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- Ichneumonidae is a diverse family of wasps, typically characterized by a parasitic component to the life cycle, antennae with 16 or more segments ...15 KB (1,966 words) - 13:28, 4 February 2023
- Tunis ( تونس, Tūnis ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is the center of Tunisian commerce, as well as focus of ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- category:image wanted Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- Pumpkin is the common name for large-fruited varieties of several species of trailing and climbing plants of the genus Cucurbita, characterized ...20 KB (2,919 words) - 14:19, 2 July 2022
- Mani (c.216–274 A.D.) was an Iranian religious prophet and preacher who founded Manichaeism, an ancient dualistic religion that was once prolific ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Sayyid Abul Ala al-Maududi (Urdu: سيد ابو الاعلى مودودی, Arabic: سيد أبو الأعلى المودودي; ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- Viperidae, whose members are commonly known as vipers, is a family of venomous snakes characterized by a head that is distinct from the body ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- Exoskeleton is a hard, external structure that covers, supports, and protects an animal's body, such as the chitinous covering of a crab ...22 KB (3,138 words) - 06:10, 13 September 2023
- The nervous system is the network of specialized cells, tissues, and organs in a multicellular animal that coordinates the body's interaction ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo. It is the country's largest seaport, serving ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- In religious discourse, Inclusivism designates a particular theological position regarding the relationship between religions. This position ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Capuchin monkey is the common name for the tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Cebus of the primate family Cebidae, characterized ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 22:10, 25 November 2023
- * Tucker, Jonathan B. Chemical Warfare From World War I to Al-Qaeda. New York, NY: Anchor, 2006. ISBN 1400032334. * Werth, Nicolas, Karel Bartošek ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- Strep throat, also known as Streptococcal pharyngitis or Streptococcal sore throat, is a contagious infection of the mucous membranes of the ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 23:26, 21 October 2022
- The Ghana Empire or Wagadou Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 18:51, 21 May 2024
- Bukhara ( Buxoro , Бухоро , بُخارا , Бухара ), also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian βuxārak ("lucky ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Penguin (PEN-gwin or PENG-gwin) is the common name for any of the aquatic, gregarious, flightless birds comprising the family Spheniscidae, living ...36 KB (5,093 words) - 17:12, 26 March 2023
- Poison dart frog (also poison arrow frog, dart frog, or poison frog) is the common name for any of the very small, diurnal frogs of the Dendrobatidae ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 02:10, 10 April 2023
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- Lymphoma is any of a diverse group of cancers that originate in lymphocytes of the lymphatic system, a secondary (but open) circulatory system ...16 KB (2,166 words) - 03:16, 5 November 2022
- An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained from a fuel) into useful mechanical power or motion. If the engine produces ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, called an aldehyde group, consists of a carbon ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers between the Mediterranean ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- Bell pepper is the common name for a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum, widely cultivated for their edible, bell-shaped fruits, which ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 18:58, 11 January 2023
- Dendrite is a highly branched, generally tapering extension of a neuron (nerve cell) that typically receives signals from other neurons and transmits ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 02:26, 25 August 2020
- In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species whereby each species is indicated by a two-part name, a capitalized ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was also worshiped in ancient Egypt. In Ugaritic her name appears as ‘nt and ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- Chrysanthemum is the common name and genus name for a group of erect, herbaceous perennial plants in the flowering plant family Asteraceae (aster ...17 KB (2,581 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- Feliformia is one of two suborders within the order Carnivora and consists of the "cat-like" carnivores, such as the felids (true cats ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 12:58, 21 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia or pædophilia) is the paraphilia, or ...22 KB (3,151 words) - 07:11, 23 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox MLB retired |name=Larry Doby |position=Outfielder |bats=Left |throws=Right |birthdate=December 13, 1923Camden ...22 KB (3,428 words) - 17:46, 25 October 2022
- A steroid is any of a group of natural or synthetic, fat-soluble, organic compounds belonging to the class of lipids and characterized by a molecular ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 20:04, 9 February 2023
- Qumran ( חירבת קומראן , Khirbet Qumran) is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea ...18 KB (2,848 words) - 16:03, 7 December 2022
- Colitis (or colonitis) is inflammation of the colon (or more generally the large intestine). Various types of colitis have been identified, such ...11 KB (1,475 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- Alpaca is the common name for a domesticated, gregarious, high-altitude South American ungulate, Vicugna pacos (syn. Lama pacos), of the camel ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 08:21, 23 July 2023
- Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two extant families: the golden moles comprising the Chrysochloridae family and ...21 KB (2,748 words) - 20:46, 29 December 2022
- The Song of Roland ( La Chanson de Roland ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various different manuscript versions ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- The Gurmukhī (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) script is derived from the Later Sharada script and was standardized by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox MLB retired |name=Whitey Ford |position=Pitcher |bats=Left |throws=Left |birthdate=1928|10|21New York, New York ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 18:40, 4 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Grid illusion.svg|thumb|200px|right|An example of the scintillating ...5 KB (754 words) - 12:27, 24 January 2023
- Fruit fly may refer to: * Tephritidae, the family of large fruit flies. * Drosophilidae, the family of small fruit flies or vinegar flies, including: ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 09:54, 3 December 2023
- A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- Dubai (in Arabic: دبيّ, Dubayy, /dʊ'baɪ/ in English) is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
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- Naguib Mahfouz ( نجيب محفوظ , Nagīb Maḥfūẓ ) (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis and typically characterized ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings, mostly ...31 KB (4,719 words) - 11:15, 19 May 2023
- A neutron star is an extremely dense, compact star with an interior that is thought to be composed of mainly neutrons. It is formed from the ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- Moshe ben Maimon (March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204) was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher. Moshe ben Maimon's Hebrew name is ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), an African even-toed ungulate mammal, has a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2023
- Lycopene is a bright red, fat-soluble carotenoid pigment and phytochemical, C40H56, found in tomatoes, watermelon, guava, and other red fruits ...20 KB (2,797 words) - 10:39, 9 March 2023
- Testosterone is a steroid hormone that acts in vertebrates to regulate many sexually dimorphic traits and express many fitness related traits ...21 KB (3,056 words) - 15:00, 30 April 2023
- Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of philosophy took shape in the third century C.E. with the philosopher Plotinus ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- Electron capture (sometimes called Inverse Beta Decay) is a decay mode for isotopes that will occur when there are too many protons in the nucleus ...5 KB (705 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- Rhubarb is the common name for perennial plants comprising the genus Rheum of the Polygonaceae family, and in particular the garden rhubard, ...14 KB (2,051 words) - 09:17, 10 August 2022
- Blueberry is the common name for flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus of the heath family Ericaceae, characterized by bell ...22 KB (3,038 words) - 18:15, 31 October 2023
- Rosemary is the common name for a woody, perennial herbaceous plant, Rosmarinus officinalis, characterized by fragrant, evergreen needle-like ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- This article is about the city in the West Bank. Bethlehem (Arabic: Bayt Lahm meaning “House of Meat” and Hebrew: Bet Lehem meaning “House ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 12:00, 9 May 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Gray1095-gall bladder.png|thumb|Gall bladder]] [[Image:gallbladderop.jpg|thumb|Cholecystectomy seen through a laparoscope]] ...11 KB (1,595 words) - 14:53, 27 June 2021
- Eared seal is the common name for any of the marine mammals comprising the pinniped family Otariidae, characterized by presence of a pinna (external ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- The monarch butterfly is a large butterfly, Danaus plexippus, that is noted for its long migrations and which is characterized by reddish-brown ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- Damascus ( ar|دمشق Dimashq , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is thought to be among the oldest ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely perennial) plants of the flowering plant genus Amaranthus, characterized ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- Allah (Allah (/ˈæl.lə, ˈɑːl.lə, əˈl.lɑː/; Arabic: ٱللَّٰه, romanized: Allāh,) is the common Arabic word for God. In the ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Petra (from πέτρα "petra-πέτρα," cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Butrā) is an archaeological site ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- Emerald (from the Greek word smaragdos, through the French esmeralde, meaning "green gemstone") is a green variety of the mineral beryl ...10 KB (1,413 words) - 15:17, 31 December 2021
- Fig wasp is the common name for wasps of the family Agaonidae, which pollinate the blossoms of fig trees or are otherwise associated with fig ...15 KB (2,451 words) - 19:44, 26 March 2024
- Āryabha ṭ a (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 C.E.) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Clam is an imprecisely defined common name variously used for certain bivalve mollusks or for all bivalve mollusks. As a member of the class ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- Theophrastus (c. 372 - 278 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him his successor as leader ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך mlk) is a Canaanite god in the Old Testament associated with human sacrifice ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 00:28, 25 March 2024
- Diatom is the common name for a major group of unicellular or (less commonly) colonial algae comprising the protist taxon Bacillariophyceae ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vellum Online Etymological Dictionary] ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Attention is defined as a readiness on the part of the organism to perceive stimuli ...32 KB (4,749 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic سقطرى ; Suquṭra ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with ...38 KB (5,659 words) - 01:30, 8 February 2023
- Eagle is the common name for various diurnal birds of prey in the family Accipitridae of the bird order Falconiformes, characterized by large ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression in animals, typically in cold weather, and characterized by lower ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:53, 5 February 2023
- Mulberry is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the genus Morus of the flowering plant family Moraceae, characterized by ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
- Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of mostly perennial and aromatic herbs and shrubs in the daisy family Asteraceae, characterized by alternate ...26 KB (3,665 words) - 12:12, 7 November 2021
- Ginger is the common name for the monocotyledonous perennial plant Zingiber officinale, an erect plant in the Zingiberaceae family that is widely ...24 KB (3,593 words) - 22:30, 1 January 2023
- In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite god, often portrayed as the primary enemy of the Hebrew God Yahweh. The ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- Israel in 1979) and Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network, which regards the West as Islam's enemy (thus, all Westerners are legitimate targets ...71 KB (11,340 words) - 17:01, 18 March 2022
- Yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse grouping of single-celled fungi. As members of the Kingdom Fungi, which also includes mushrooms, molds ...24 KB (3,421 words) - 09:54, 23 May 2023
- Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a polymer or chain of nucleotide units, each comprising a nitrogenous base (adenine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Pangolin, or scaly anteater, is the common name for African and Asian armored mammals comprising the order Pholidota, characterized by a long ...14 KB (1,993 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- Aluminum (or aluminium) (chemical symbol Al, atomic number is 13) is a soft, lightweight metal with a silvery appearance and the ability to resist ...38 KB (5,676 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- The prostate or prostate gland is a exocrine gland of the male mammalian reproductive system, located at the base of the urinary bladder. It ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 08:14, 2 December 2022
- An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is an annual publication that contains tabular information in a particular field organized according ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- Kenya (/ˈkɛnjə/; locally [ˈkɛɲa]), officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa with its capital ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- Beryl is a mineral with the chemical name beryllium aluminum cyclosilicate (chemical formula Be3Al2(SiO3)6). It has a vitreous (glassy) luster ...5 KB (674 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- Mahmud of Ghazni (October 2, 971 – April 30, 1030 C.E.), also known as Yamin ad-Dawlah Mahmud (in full: Yamin ad-Dawlah Abd al-Qasim Mahmud ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- In anatomy, the heart is the muscular, pumping organ of the closed circulatory system of all vertebrates and some invertebrates (annelids and ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 15:12, 25 January 2023
- The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches of the Western tempered scale. All the other scales in traditional Western music ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- Chickenpox (or chicken pox), also known as varicella, is a common and very highly contagious viral disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus ...16 KB (2,365 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- Human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens; that is, the hereditary information that genetically characterizes human beings as encoded on the ...21 KB (3,045 words) - 17:02, 18 September 2020
- Eritrea, officially State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern East Africa. A former colony of Italy, it fought a thirty-year war with ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 – March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of baroque operas and opera seria. He was also a teacher ...5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Category:Public number=12 | symbol=Mg | name=magnesium | left=sodium | right=aluminium | above=Be | below=Ca | color1=#ffdead | color2=black ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- Category:Public Sharia (شريعة; also Sharī'ah, Shari'a, Shariah or Syariah) is the Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- Predestination (from Latin 'praedestinare,' "fore-ordain") is a religious idea especially among the monotheistic religions ...26 KB (4,098 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- Sea lion is the common name for various eared seals currently comprising five genera and distinguished from fur seals in the same pinniped family ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- Horseshoe crab is the common name for various marine chelicerate arthropods of the family Limulidae, and in particular the extant species Limulus ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged between the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the ...17 KB (2,593 words) - 23:46, 20 April 2023
- Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 km south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 120,000 Palestinians and 600-800 ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- Entelechy is a philosophical concept stemming from Aristotle's metaphysics, and generally used to identify whatever it is that makes the ...6 KB (836 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Brown bear is the common name for a large bear, Ursus arctos, ranging in color from a common brown to yellowish or black fur and having a noticeable ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent on every Muslim," consisting of the shahadah (profession of faith), ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- In zoology, cricket is the common name for any of the grasshopper-like insects in the family Gryllidae of the orthopteran suborder Ensifera ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 00:20, 15 January 2023
- In mathematics, a fraction (from the Latin fractus, broken) is a concept of a proportional relation between an object part and the object whole ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- Fullerenes are a family of carbon allotropes (other allotropes of carbon are graphite and diamond) consisting of molecules composed entirely ...28 KB (4,196 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the thirteenth century. He is noted for his works ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of well-defined instructions for accomplishing some task that, given an initial ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- A metalloid is a chemical element with properties that are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. The following elements are generally ...7 KB (910 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Military Category:Public Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- Logical positivism (later referred to as logical empiricism, rational empiricism, and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Cytochrome c, or cyt c is a small, water soluble heme protein associated with the inner membrane of the mitochondrion. It is an essential link ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- The Khitan (or Khitai, c=契丹|p=Qìdān ), are an ethnic group that dominated much of Manchuria (Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- Ablution is a term referring to washing, and can mean ordinary washing, hand washing, or washing of the body. By extension, ablutions can refer ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Bedouin_Resting.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Bedouin resting ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- Mink is the common name for semiaquatic carnivorous mammals of the two extant Mustelidae species Mustela lutreola (European mink) and Neovison ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United States ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- category:image wanted Collaborative Learning-Work (CLW) was a concept first presented by Charles Findley in the 1980s as part of his research ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات) (August 24 or August 4, 1929 – November 11, 2004) was born in CairoIrwin Abrams (ed.), [http://nobelprize ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- Khaleda Zia ( খালেদা জিয়া ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, the first woman ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. In older usage, it referred to the scientific ...12 KB (1,754 words) - 06:35, 11 January 2024
- A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims (followers of Islam). Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, masjid (Arabic: مسجد ...42 KB (6,416 words) - 12:31, 7 May 2024
- The Beach Boys are one of the most successful American rock and roll bands. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies ...21 KB (3,336 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- Submit to get this template or go to Template:Chembox_simple_organic. --> {|class="infobox" width="225" style="float:right; ...5 KB (742 words) - 07:29, 12 January 2024
- Moray eel is the common name for any of the marine eels comprising the family Muraenidae of the order Anguilliformes. They are characterized ...12 KB (1,839 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of women in Islam. It aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- Fur seal is the common name for eared seals comprising the genera Callorhinus (one extant species) and Arctocephalus (eight extant species), ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- Maple syrup is a sweet syrup (thick, sticky solution of sugar and water) made by concentrating the sap of maple trees. In particular, maple syrup ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 11:09, 9 March 2023
- Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad along the Sudanese western border. It is divided into ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- thumb | A 24-year-old man infected with leprosy {{Taxobox | color = lightgreen | name = Mycobacterium leprae | regnum = Bacteria | phylum = Firmicutes ...31 KB (4,435 words) - 21:58, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National Geographic ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- Towers of Silence (from Avestan "Daz," noun-"Dakhma," meaning "to burn from the Sun"), are circular raised structures ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- Trigonometry (from Greek Τριγωνομετρία "tri = three" + "gon = angle" + "metr[y] = to measure") is ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, among others, from the Hebrew: חסידות Chassidus, meaning "piety") is a Haredi Jewish religious ...28 KB (4,280 words) - 08:41, 20 January 2024
- An alloy is the combination of metal with other chemical elements (metallic or nonmetallic), forming a solution or chemical compound that retains ...17 KB (2,388 words) - 08:10, 23 July 2023
- The hypothalamus, also known as the "master gland," is a supervising center in the brain that links the body's two control systems ...21 KB (2,814 words) - 13:22, 4 February 2023
- Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom of belief and freedom of worship for individuals and groups. It is generally ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye or caustic soda, is a caustic metallic base. Its chemical formula is NaOH. Forming a strongly alkaline solution ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:EducationCategory:Psychology [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP) ...20 KB (2,928 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- Whale shark is the common name for a very large, slow, filter-feeding shark, Rhincodon typus, characterized by a large, terminal mouth with small ...14 KB (2,223 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- Marmot is the common name for the stocky, short-legged, diurnal, and typically short-furred and burrowing ground squirrels comprising the genus ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 16:05, 6 November 2022
- Vitamin B6 (vitamin B6) is an organic nutrient of the vitamin B complex that appears in three natural, related, water-soluble forms: the alcohol ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- Grebe is the common name for any of the swimming and diving birds comprising the family Podicipedidae, characterized by a pointed bill, short ...15 KB (2,144 words) - 19:50, 24 May 2024
- category:image wanted {{Infobox baseball player no image | name=Mickey Mantle | | birthdate= October 20, 1931 | birthplace= Spavinow, Oklahoma ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 17:26, 9 November 2022
- Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. J. Mann, et al., Natural Products: Their Chemistry and Biological ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- Gustav Albert Lortzing (October 23, 1801 - January 21, 1851) was a German Romantic composer of comic and romantic operas as well as oratorios ...5 KB (752 words) - 08:29, 7 December 2021
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born in Scotland where he ended his career as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Cougar (Puma concolor) is a very large, New World wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender body, long hind legs, retractable claws ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- Hagar (Arabic هاجر;, Hajar; Hebrew הָגָר; "Stranger") was an Egyptian-born handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah in the ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- Shabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (full title: Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Abu'l-Muzaffar Shihab ud-din Muhammad, Sahib ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- when nearly 3,000 people were killed by an al-Qaeda terrorist strike on the World Trade Center, including New Yorkers employed in the buildings, passengers ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Same color illusion.png|thumb|250px|Squares A and B have the ...6 KB (942 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- Methylene blue (or MB) is a basic aniline dye with the molecular formula C16H18N3SCl. At room temperature, it appears as a solid, odorless, dark ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- The Safavids (Persian: صفویان) were a native Iranian dynasty from Azarbaijan that ruled from 1501 to 1736, and which established Shi'a ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- A caterpillar is the larval stage of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are essentially ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- Swan is any of various large, long-necked water birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- A weighing scale ("scale" in common usage) is a device for measuring weight, often of a person. Balances measure the mass of an object ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 18:33, 17 April 2023
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, traditionally attributed ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
