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- A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen-containing base, a pentose (five-carbon) sugar (relatively simple carbohydrates), and one ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- A semiconductor is a solid whose electrical conductivity can be controlled over a wide range, either permanently or dynamically. Semiconductors are tremendously ...37 KB (5,657 words) - 17:50, 25 January 2023
- Hesiod (Hesiodos, Ἡσίοδος ) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode who lived around 700 B.C.E. Often cited alongside his close contemporary Homer, Hesiod ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 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 and which ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- Pyruvic acid (C3H4O3 (CH3COCO2H)) is a three-carbon, keto acid that plays an important role in biochemical processes. At the pH levels of the human body, pyruvic ...14 KB (1,901 words) - 15:37, 18 June 2015
- The Wenzi ( c=文子|p=Wénzǐ|w=Wen-tzu|l=[Book of] Master Wen ), or Tongxuan zhenjing ( c=通玄真經|p=Tōngxuán zhēnjīng|w=T'ung-hsuan chen-ching ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian language: ru|Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович , Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič) (September ...29 KB (4,378 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for his successful development of the gyrocompass ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 – August 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Venn diagrams are schematic diagrams used in logic and in the branch of mathematics known as set theory to represent sets and their unions and intersections ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 17:01, 3 May 2023
- Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving one term from 1889 to 1893, he was from the ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Impossible_cube_illusion_angle.svg|200px|thumb|right|An impossible cube that ...5 KB (696 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Flavius Theodosius (January 11, 347 – January 17, 395 C.E.), also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379-395. Reuniting the ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of fallacies, corresponding to the distinction between formal and informal logic. If a formal ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous Korean religion, one that had enormous impact on the unfolding of events in the twilight ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era churches in the Philippines designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1993. On August ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early third century B.C.E. - after 246 B.C.E.), was an epic poet, scholar, and director of the Library ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and together with her husband, Joe, formed a dynasty whose members ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- Category:Economists Cantillon, Richard Richard Cantillon (1680 – May, 1734) was an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- The B vitamins or vitamin B complex are a group of eight, chemically distinct, water-soluble vitamins that were once considered a single vitamin (like Vitamin ...10 KB (1,497 words) - 20:40, 3 May 2023
- Roy David Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), known as Roy Eldridge and nicknamed Little Jazz, was a foremost jazz trumpet player. He is considered ...9 KB (1,351 words) - 02:28, 17 December 2022
- As a medical term, stress refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli or conditions, both physiological and psychological, impinging on an individual. ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 16:01, 23 September 2022
- The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei. The feudal ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two extant families: the golden moles comprising the Chrysochloridae family and the tenrecs ...21 KB (2,748 words) - 20:46, 29 December 2022
- Guarana is the common name for a South American woody vine or sprawling shrub, Paullinia cupana in the Sapindaceae family, with large, pinnately compound evergreen ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- Category:Image wanted John Dunstaple or Dunstable (c. 1390 – December 24, 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval and early Renaissance ...9 KB (1,459 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- Cao Pi (Ts'ao P'ei.曹丕, 187-June 29, 226 [http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/kiwi1/luso.sh?lstype=2&dyna=%ABe%C3Q&king=%A4%E5%AB%D2&reign ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 19:30, 25 November 2023
- A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. Compression of a gas naturally increases its temperature. ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens. Born in Damascus about 460 C.E., he studied rhetoric in Alexandria ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) ( ˈwʊdhaʊs ) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect allows insects ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, porcelain, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 23:34, 30 April 2023
- A hominid is any member of the primate family Hominidae. Recent classification schemes for the apes place extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and ...5 KB (766 words) - 11:34, 2 February 2024
- Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016) was an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- Saint Antonio Maria Claret y Clarà (December 23, 1807—October 24, 1870) was a nineteenth-century Catalan Roman Catholic archbishop, missionary, and confessor ...9 KB (1,350 words) - 19:06, 22 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Educators and Educational theorists Parrish, Celestia Susannah Celestia (Celeste) Susannah Parrish (September 12 ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- Pope Saint Telesphorus was bishop of Rome c. 128 to 138 C.E., during the reigns of Roman Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was Greek by birth, he is said ...4 KB (637 words) - 11:50, 13 February 2022
- Edwin Smith Papyrus, or Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is a preserved medical document from ancient Egypt that traces to about the sixteenth to seventeenth century ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 B.C.E. – c.35 B.C.E.) was an Epicurean philosopher and epigrammatic poet who studied with Zeno of Citium, head of the Epicurean ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
- Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica ( s=中药学|t=中藥學|p=Zhōngyào xué ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- In organic chemistry, functional groups (or moieties) are specific groups of atoms within molecules, that are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions ...13 KB (1,621 words) - 07:19, 15 April 2024
- The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and practices across cultural groups ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- Bolesław Prus (pronounced: Image:Ltspkr.png [bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), born Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist ...24 KB (3,556 words) - 07:13, 17 November 2023
- The Second Italo–Ethiopian War (also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War) was a brief war, begun in October 1935, between the Fascist Italian state ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- Swami Vivekananda (1863 – 1902) (born Narendranath Dutta) was a well-known and influential Hindu spiritual leader who played a seminal role in re-articulating ...10 KB (1,573 words) - 15:56, 18 June 2022
- In physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple atomic particles join together to form a heavier nucleus. It is accompanied ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were fervent believers in the abolition of slavery and total equality of the races. They also ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- Macular degeneration is a medical condition in which there is deterioration in the macula area of the retina, leading to a corresponding loss in central vision ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- In vascular plants, the root is that organ of a plant body that typically lies below the surface of the soil (though not always) and whose major functions are ...11 KB (1,643 words) - 21:37, 15 August 2022
- A thesaurus is a dictionary type book of words that are organized by concepts and categories. It includes synonyms, related words, and/or antonyms. While dictionaries ...11 KB (1,593 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Scott, Charles Prestwich Charles Prestwich Scott (October 26, 1846 – January 1, 1932) was a British journalist, publisher, and ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- Gilbert Ryle (Aug. 19, 1900, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. – Oct. 6, 1976, Whitby, North Yorkshire), was a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- Atmospheric chemistry involves study of the chemistry of the atmospheres of Earth and other planets. It is a branch of atmospheric science and is a multidisciplinary ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- Geochronology is the science of determining the absolute ages of rocks, fossils, and sediments found on Earth. This field of science relies on a variety of dating ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- Feliformia is one of two suborders within the order Carnivora and consists of the "cat-like" carnivores, such as the felids (true cats), hyenas, mongooses ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 12:58, 21 January 2023
- Echidna, also known as spiny anteater, is any of the egg-laying mammals comprising the Tachyglossidae family of the order Monotremata (monotremes), characterized ...11 KB (1,540 words) - 02:46, 1 October 2020
- Mammoth is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephants comprising the genus Mammuthus, with many species equipped with long, curved tusks, and in ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Pope Saint Caius, or Gaius, was the bishop of Rome from December 17, 283 to April 22, 296. Christian tradition makes him a native of Dalmatia and a member of ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- category:image wanted Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that moral utterances lack truth-value and do not assert propositions. A noncognitivist denies ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy of St. Hilda ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- Borates are chemical compounds containing borate anions, that is, anions composed of boron and oxygen. There are various borate ions, the simplest of which is ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- Category:Economists Polanyi, Karl Karl Paul Polanyi (October 21, 1886 – April 23, 1964) was a Hungarian intellectual known for his opposition to traditional ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:19, 5 October 2022
- Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician whose best-known accomplishment is the proposal about the notion ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- The First Battle of Bull Run (named after the closest creek), also known as the First Battle of Manassas (named after the closest town), took place on July 21 ...22 KB (3,387 words) - 02:45, 26 September 2023
- Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky ( Елена Блаватс ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- Category:Psychologists Eysenck, Hans Hans Jürgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997) was an eminent psychologist, most remembered for his work on intelligence ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 15:38, 14 May 2024
- Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian Пётр Леонидович Капица) (July 9, 1894 – April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered super ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 03:36, 7 December 2022
- The Children's Crusade was a movement in 1212, initiated separately by two boys, each of whom claimed to have been inspired by a vision of Jesus. One of ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Phi_phenomenom_no_watermark.gif|thumb|right|250 px|Lights blink in sequence ...5 KB (719 words) - 02:33, 21 January 2022
- John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 and was elected ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology The term Attitude as well as the concepts "attitude formation" and "attitude change" ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- Yúnmén Wényǎn (862 or 864 Dumoulin (1994), 230. – 949 C.E.), (雲門文偃; Japanese: Ummon Bun'en; he is also variously known in English as "Unmon ...14 KB (2,283 words) - 10:26, 7 June 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 collapsed remnant ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- If a chemical element can exist in two or more different forms, the forms are known as allotropes of the element, and this type of behavior is called allotropy ...5 KB (685 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García ...51 KB (8,034 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals comprising the family Cynocephalidae and the order Dermoptera, characterized by a wide, fur ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication A stenotype or shorthand machine is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers ...10 KB (1,562 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- 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 of an atom ...5 KB (705 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- Fossil Range: Late Miocene - Recent image = [[Image:house_mouse.jpg|250px|Mus musculus]] | caption = House mouse, Mus musculus color = pink taxon = Animalia ...17 KB (2,522 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- Rosemary is the common name for a woody, perennial herbaceous plant, Rosmarinus officinalis, characterized by fragrant, evergreen needle-like leaves and tiny ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or both. Although traditionally ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the head in general in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. It may appear as a buzzing ...32 KB (4,615 words) - 17:17, 18 April 2023
- William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Ballet is a highly stylized dance form that developed into a popular courtly entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, a serious dramatic art in seventeenth ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- Pietro Pomponazzi (also known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomionatius) (September 16, 1462 – May 18, 1525) was an Italian philosopher. He was the leading Aristotelian ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- Iguana is both the common name for several of the larger members of tropical lizards in the family Iguanidae, and the scientific name of the genus within Iguanidae ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 23:45, 4 October 2021
- Oracle bone script ( c=甲骨文|p=jiǎgǔwén|l=shell bone writing ) refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters found on animal ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
- Liu Zongyuan( Liu Tsung-yüan , Liu Zongyuan, 柳宗元, Liǔ Zōngyuán, 773 – 819) was a Chinese writer, Chinese poet and prose writer who lived in Chang ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 20:53, 3 November 2022
- In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles of the universe known as a maelstrom of dark, roiling seawater. Jacobsen, 104-108; Dalley, 329. ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- In Euclidean geometry, a circle is the set of all points in a plane at a fixed distance, called the radius, from a given point, the center. The length of the ...14 KB (2,241 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- Pope Saint Sixtus II (also called Xystus, meaning "polished") was bishop of Rome from August 30, 257 to August 6, 258. He died a brutal death as a ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 11:45, 13 February 2022
- Equidae is a family of odd-toed ungulate mammals of horses and horse-like animals. It is sometimes known as the horse family. All extant equids are in the genus ...18 KB (2,488 words) - 07:29, 6 September 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 family ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 02:10, 10 April 2023
- Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (July 30, 1890 - September 29, 1975) was an American baseball player and manager from the early 1910s into the 1960s ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- Molasses is generally defined as a thick, dark syrup that is the final liquid residue obtained in the preparation of sucrose (commercial sugar) by the repeated ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 13:05, 10 March 2023
- Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "long-horned" orthopterans commonly known as crickets, katydids (or bush crickets), and ...11 KB (1,512 words) - 12:04, 21 January 2023
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron-degenerate matter, a dense form of matter which consists of atomic nuclei immersed in a ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- Ethical intuitionism refers to a core of related moral theories, influential in Britain already in the 1700s, but coming to especial prominence in the work of ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- Tellurium (chemical symbol Te, atomic number 52) is a relatively rare chemical element that belongs to the group of metalloids—its chemical properties are ...14 KB (1,880 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- Federalist No. 78 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth of The Federalist Papers. Like all of The Federalist papers, it was published under the ...16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
- The Shūyuàn (书院), usually known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were private research and educational institutions in ancient ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 07:12, 14 June 2023
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite (or hydroxyapatite), fluoroapatite (or fluorapatite), and chloroapatite ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- The Five Classics ( t=五經|p=Wǔjīng ) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books that makes up part of the basic canon of the Confucian school of thought. ...20 KB (2,978 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- Loon is the common name for fish-eating, aquatic birds comprising the genus Gavia of their own family (Gaviidae) and order (Gaviiformes), characterized by legs ...16 KB (2,427 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative music" is particularly favored over "alternative rock" in British English ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- A remote control (also referred to as a "remote" or "controller") is an electronic device used for the remote operation of a machine. Remote ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- Authority control is a term used in library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic material ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- The evacuation from Dunkirk was the large evacuation of Allied soldiers, from May 26 to June 4, 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk. It was also known as the ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 15:36, 30 April 2023
- Shabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (full title: Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Abu'l-Muzaffar Shihab ud-din Muhammad, Sahib-i-Qiran-i-Sani, ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors in the Silla and Unified Silla dynasties who played an instrumental role in Silla's victories ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression in animals, typically in cold weather, and characterized by lower body temperature ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- Mulberry is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the genus Morus of the flowering plant family Moraceae, characterized by simple, alternate ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
- Prunus is an economically important genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, characterized by a fruit in the form of a drupe, usually white to pink ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 01:24, 12 April 2023
- Galena is the natural mineral form of lead sulfide. It is one of the most abundant and widely distributed sulfide minerals. It is the most important lead ore ...5 KB (708 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Siger de Brabant (also Sigerus, Sighier, Sigieri, or Sygerius), (c. 1240 – 1280s), a thirteenth-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries, was one ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of young children or infants. In theological discussions, the practice is sometimes referred to ...16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- Pope Saint Stephen I served as bishop of Rome from May 12, 254 to August 2, 257. Of Roman birth but of Greek ancestry, he was promoted to the papacy after serving ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Porcupine is the common name for any members of two families of rodents, Erethizontidae and Hystricidae, characterized by heavy bodies with some areas covered ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 04:07, 26 November 2022
- Naphtha is a name given to several mixtures of liquid hydrocarbons that are extremely volatile and flammable. Each such mixture is obtained during the distillation ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 01:20, 11 November 2022
- Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held elected ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the medieval Serbian kingdom in the fourteenth century. The Serbian Empire existed ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. Its chemical formula may be written as CO(NH2)2, CON2H4, or CN2H4O. It is also known as ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where workers use machines to manufacture goods or process one product into ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 23:24, 26 June 2022
- Philip II ( Felipe II de España ; Filipe I ) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 until 1598, King of Naples from 1554 until 1598 ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- category:image wanted The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School of names" or “School of semantics”) was a classical Chinese philosophical ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- Cowpox is a rare, mildly contagious skin disease caused by the cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century for immunization ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- Category:Economists Robbins, Lionel Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins (November 22, 1898 - May 15, 1984) was a British economist, famous for his Essay on ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth century until its declaration of independence in 1821. After capturing Constantinople in 1453 ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first elected ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- Perspectivism is the philosophical position that one's access to the world through perception, experience, and reason is possible only through one's ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 01:01, 24 November 2022
- Gazelle is the common name for any of the various small, swift antelopes of Africa and Asia comprising the genus Gazella and the related genera Eudorcas and ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- Deontological ethics recognizes a number of distinct duties, such as those proscribing the killing of innocent people (murder) and prohibitions on lying and ...19 KB (2,981 words) - 00:53, 27 July 2022
- Si Shu ( t=四書|p=Sì Shū ; literary "four books") or The Four Books of Confucianism (not to be confused with the Four Great Classical Novels of ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- Pope Saint Anicetus was bishop of Rome in the mid-second century. In his time, the early papacy began to take on a more definite historical character compared ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2022
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge and belief. The term "epistemology ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂, October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and essayist. His ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- Buffer solutions are solutions that resist changes in pH (by resisting changes in hydronium ion and hydroxide ion concentrations) upon addition of small amounts ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAF (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served as a Brigadier ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Date palm or date is the common name for a palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, characterized by pinnate, "feather-like" gray-green leaves and an edible ...25 KB (3,862 words) - 22:43, 28 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Lilac-Chaser.gif|right|thumb|380px|Stare at the center cross for at least ...5 KB (816 words) - 01:40, 26 October 2022
- The thermoelectric effect is a phenomenon by which a temperature difference is directly converted to electric voltage and vice versa. On the measurement-scale ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- Mass, in classical mechanics, is the measure of an object's resistance to change in motion, that is, its inertia, which is unchanging regardless of its ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Lycopene is a bright red, fat-soluble carotenoid pigment and phytochemical, C40H56, found in tomatoes, watermelon, guava, and other red fruits. Structurally ...20 KB (2,797 words) - 10:39, 9 March 2023
- Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In angiosperms (flowering plants), an ovary is a part of the female reproductive ...12 KB (1,838 words) - 09:21, 21 June 2021
- In plane (Euclidean) geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four sides. It may also be thought of as a special case of a rectangle, as it has four right ...6 KB (904 words) - 16:16, 8 February 2023
- In Greek mythology, Demeter (Greek: "mother-earth" or possibly "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother-earth) is ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- Sea lion is the common name for various eared seals currently comprising five genera and distinguished from fur seals in the same pinniped family, Otariidae ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- Tapir (pronounced as in "taper," or IPA "təˈpɪər," pronounced as in "tap-ear") are large, browsing, mammals with short, prehensile ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: Tudur) was a series of five monarchs of Welsh origin who ruled England and Ireland from 1485 until 1603. The three ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites dedicated to the Roman god Bacchus (a variant of the Greek Dionysus). These practices, which ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theaters in 1642, after the Puritan revolution. It may also ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose of the teeth being to mesh with similar teeth on another mechanical device—usually another ...33 KB (5,689 words) - 06:30, 18 April 2024
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- Marattiopsida Osmundopsida Gleicheniopsida Pteridopsida A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- Big Sur is a 100-mile stretch of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along the Pacific Ocean in west-central California; an area known worldwide for its beauty. Its ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- An index is a guide, in an electronic or print form, used to locate information in documents, files, publications, or a group of publications. It is often listed ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Potala Palace is the traditional residence of the Dalai Lama (the religious leader of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism). The Potala Palace, located in the ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent on every Muslim," consisting of the shahadah (profession of faith), salat (ritual prayer ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- Salmonella (plural salmonellae, salmonellas, or salmonella) are any of the various rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that comprise the genus Salmonella (family ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 01:52, 23 December 2022
- Cassowary is the common name for any of the very large, flightless birds comprising the ratite genus Casuarius, characterized by powerful legs with three-toed ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Pitman, Isaac [[File:Isaac Pitman.jpg|thumb|300px|Sir Isaac Pitman, from 'The ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. Cyclotrons accelerate charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage (potential difference). A ...12 KB (1,883 words) - 06:53, 12 January 2024
- Yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse grouping of single-celled fungi. As members of the Kingdom Fungi, which also includes mushrooms, molds, and mildews, yeasts ...24 KB (3,421 words) - 09:54, 23 May 2023
- Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-346), also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom, is generally recognized as the founder of cenobitic (communal) Christian monasticism ...11 KB (1,740 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- Numbat is the common name for members of the marsupial species Myrmecobius fasciatus, a diurnal, termite-eating mammal characterized by a slender body with white ...16 KB (2,462 words) - 20:23, 11 February 2023
- Dugong is the common name for a large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine mammal, Dugong dugon, characterized by gray-colored, nearly hairless skin, paddle-like ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Gastrotricha is a phylum of microscopic, free-living, aquatic worms, characterized by bilateral symmetry and an acoelomate body plan. These animals, which are ...12 KB (1,482 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- In Tibetan Buddhism, Shambhala (Tibetan: bde byung, pron. 'De-jung') meaning "Source of happiness," is a mythical kingdom or hidden place ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi ( c=伏羲|p=fúxī ; aka Paoxi ( s=庖牺|t=庖犧|p=páoxī )), mid-2800s B.C.E., was the first of the mythical Three ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a crusading military ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) The battle is generally ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- 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 in the electron ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- The Ptolemaic dynasty (sometimes also known as the Lagids, from the name of Ptolemy I's father, Lagus) was a Hellenistic Macedonian royal family which ruled ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 23:33, 2 December 2022
- 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 historians classified ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- Pope Saint Sylvester I, also called Silvester, was pope from January 31, 314 to December 13, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. The son of a Roman named Rufinus ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- A dielectric, or electrical insulator, is a material that is highly resistant to the flow of an electric current. Dielectric materials can be solids, liquids ...14 KB (1,888 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- Dambulla Cave Temple (also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla) is located in the central part of in Sri Lanka.Anuradha Seneviratna, Golden rock temple of ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
- Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov ( Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв ) (October 1, 1912 – June 15, 1992), also known as Lev Gumilev, was a Russian historian ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were found especially ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- The Ilkhanate (also spelled Il-khanate or Il Khanate in سلسله ایلخانی ), was one of the four khanates within the Mongol Empire. It was centered in ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
- Promethium (chemical symbol Pm, atomic number 61) is a metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. All of its isotopes are ...11 KB (1,429 words) - 23:55, 1 December 2022
- Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) comprising the taxonomic group Stegosauria, a suborder ...16 KB (2,303 words) - 17:18, 21 October 2022
- Lin Biao ( c=林彪|p=Lín Biāo|w=Lin Piao ) (December 5, 1907 - September 13, 1971) was a Chinese Communist military leader who was instrumental in the communist ...22 KB (3,630 words) - 04:11, 29 October 2022
- A complex in chemistry usually is used to describe molecules or ensembles formed by the combination of ligands and metal ions. Originally, a chemical complex ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old World bats comprising the suborder Megachiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang ( t=張學良|p=Zhāng Xuéliáng|w=Chang Hsüeh-liang ; English occasionally: Peter Hsueh Liang Chang); June 3, 1901 (according ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- The solubility of a chemical substance is a physical property referring to the ability of that substance, called the solute, to dissolve in a solvent. It has ...23 KB (3,483 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet. Born in France, she lived in England and Normandy during the late twelfth century. Due to the fact that ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 – 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar, physician, philosopher, and political thinker. ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- The term ‘absolutism’ has both a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ refers to at least two distinct doctrines. Firstly ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- A nonmetal is a chemical element with several properties that are opposite those of a metal. Based on their properties, the elements of the periodic table are ...6 KB (785 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- The European Community (EC) was originally founded on March 25, 1957, by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. The ...13 KB (1,869 words) - 04:30, 23 March 2024
- Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically characterized ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- The hypothalamus, also known as the "master gland," is a supervising center in the brain that links the body's two control systems, the nervous ...21 KB (2,814 words) - 13:22, 4 February 2023
- A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical drawing, documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the ...5 KB (743 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Marchantiophyta, characterized by a gametophyte-dominant life ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 – April 25, 1840) was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist whose mathematical skills enabled him to compute ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that is usually pitched ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- Carl Gustav Hempel (January 8, 1905, Oranienburg, Germany - November 9, 1997, Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure in twentieth ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three so-called "pastoral epistles" (with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy). It is offered as ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- Apatosaurus (Greek ἀπατέλος or ἀπατέλιος, meaning "deceptive" and σαῦρος meaning "lizard"), also known as Brontosaurus ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 01:59, 9 January 2023
- The Haridasa (Kannada: ಹರಿದಾಸರು, literally meaning "servants of Lord Hari") denotes a devotional movement that marked a turning point ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 23:13, 26 December 2022
- Ethics (from the Greek ethos – custom) in the sense of systems of value and codes of conduct have always been part of human societies. In this sense, there ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- Codependency is a descriptive term that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive behavior ...25 KB (3,378 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- category:image wanted Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. This is commonly called alphabetization, though collation is not ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- 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 the tiger, lion ...38 KB (5,659 words) - 01:30, 8 February 2023
- John Langshaw Austin (more commonly known as J.L Austin) (March 28, 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure in the development ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also known as the Danelagh (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of Great Britain ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- The Janissaries (derived from Ottoman Turkish ينيچرى (yeniçeri), meaning "new soldier") comprised infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born ...19 KB (2,944 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:EducationCategory:Psychology [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep in the Louvre]] ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [ freɪ'nel ] or fray-NELL in American English, [ fʁɛ'nɛl ] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14, 1827), was a ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a specific point at which the system's mass behaves (for many purposes) as if it were concentrated ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are 236 described species of Melaleuca, all of which occur in Australia. About ...18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
- Anne Marbury Hutchinson (July 17, 1591 - August 20, 1643) was a leading religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- The nomenklatura ( номенклату́ра|p=nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə|a=ru-номенклатура.ogg ; from nomenclatura ) was a category of people within the ...21 KB (2,829 words) - 18:54, 31 May 2023
- A savanna or savannah is a tropical or subtropical woodland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- |- | colspan="6" align="center" | *Boron-10 content may be as low as 19.1% and ashigh as 20.3% in natural samples. Boron-11 isthe remainder ...16 KB (2,239 words) - 19:45, 20 November 2023
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of what exists, and, more specifically, what exists by itself, underlying the changes that occur ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- Notochord is a flexible, rod-shaped supporting structure that is one of the distinguishing features of the phylum Chordatas, being found at some point in the ...6 KB (850 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India. At the time of British India ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism), chewing/biting ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- Category:Public number=10 | symbol=Ne | name=neon | left=fluorine | right=sodium | above=He | below=Ar | color1=#c0ffff | color2=green noble gases ...6 KB (841 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- Coccinellidae is a family of small, rounded (hemispheric), usually bright colored, short-legged beetles, known variously as ladybugs (North American English ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 22:15, 7 January 2024
- Chive, generally used in the plural as chives, is the common name for a bulbous, fragrant, herbaceous plant, Allium schoenoprasum, which is characterized by ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 23:56, 13 January 2023
- Henryk Sienkiewicz (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916), a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and journalist, chronicled Polish history in a series of panoramic novels ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera tigris × Panthera ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- The terms, denotation and connotation, are used to convey and distinguish between two different kinds of meanings or extensions of a word. A denotation is the ...7 KB (986 words) - 09:46, 29 January 2024
- Class Branchiopoda :Subclass Phyllopoda :Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Class Cephalocarida Class Maxillopoda :Subclass Thecostraca :Subclass Tantulocarida ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 19:04, 4 June 2020
- Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- Mechanism is a philosophical perspective that holds that phenomena are solely determined by mechanical principles, therefore, they can be adequately explained ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- Ricin ( ˈraɪsɨn ) is a protein derived from the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) that is highly toxic to humans, as well as to other animals ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- Protocol sentences or protocol statements, also known as basic sentences or basic statements--the terms atomic statements, observation sentences, observation ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- Pope Saint Alexander I was the bishop of Rome for seven to ten years in the early second century. According to Catholic tradition, the dates of his episcopacy ...6 KB (917 words) - 09:24, 24 November 2022
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things, so that an inference (reasoning from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the basis of that ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- Frederik Willem de Klerk (March 18, 1936 – November 11, 2021) was the last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 10:34, 11 April 2024
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, as well as astronomical objects, such as ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Mount Emei ( c=峨嵋山|p=Éméi Shān|w=O2-mei2 Shan1 , literally towering Eyebrow Mountain) is located in Sichuan province, Western China. Mount Emei is often ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and advocate for slavery, most famous for serving as the only president of the ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 – November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. Senator ...6 KB (819 words) - 21:23, 6 May 2024
- Category:Education [[Image:BlgGym.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Modern indoor gymnasium with pull-down basketball hoops]] In most educational systems, physical education ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two atomic nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- category:image wanted Giovanni Croce (also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis) (1557 – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- Śūnyatā, शून्यता (Sanskrit meaning "Emptiness" or "Voidness"), is an important Buddhist teaching which claims that nothing ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
