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- A glacier is a large, slow-moving river of ice formed from compacted ... There are two main types of glaciers: alpine glaciers, which are found ...37 KB (5,884 words) - 20:25, 29 December 2023
- |motto = Fiat Lux (Latin) (Let There be Light) ... science, physicist famous for measuring the speed of light. ...22 KB (3,029 words) - 10:50, 19 December 2023
- Computer graphics, a subfield of computer science, is concerned with ... can now be used by anyone in the form of freeware. In the future, computer ...34 KB (4,961 words) - 02:33, 8 January 2024
- at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability ... Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges in capabilities of ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- from significant delays due to the speed of light and the greatly varying ... such as a solar sail to approach the speed of light, allowing short subjective ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- discussed the "postulate of the speed of light," and formulated ... motion will ever be able to exceed the speed of light … the mass of a body ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- produced through rapid, confined burning of a propellant. This process ... which the match was held that was used to light the touch hole on the hand ...44 KB (7,015 words) - 19:53, 26 March 2024
- Spearfishing is a form of fishing that has been popular throughout ... and is illegal in many others. Because of the belief of lack of sport ...23 KB (3,586 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- track and field athletics, is a collection of sports events that involve ... The Roman Games stressed the Greek sports of chariot racing and wrestling ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- for buttons would be eliminated and the size of the device would be further reduced. ... comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- is one of the two styles of Indian classical music; the other is Hindustani ... but it is also generally accepted that the natural origins of music ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- Soma (Sanskrit), or Haoma (Avestan), refers to a ritual drink of importance ... qualities. In the Avesta scripture of Zoroastrianism, Haoma has an ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron ... of the electrons approach the speed of light, and special relativity ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined ... American instrumental music was derivative of European classicism, Joplin ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- publishing the first official observations of the transit of Mercury in 1631. Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- a single note being played. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard ... Cage was a long-term collaborator and romantic partner of choreographer ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- was a Victorian era English poet. He was one of the founding members of the ... and Ben Jonson. He wrote a number of plays in imitation of the Elizabethan ...19 KB (3,190 words) - 21:27, 20 July 2023
- the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences of the roughly 40,000- to 50,000 ... The issue of whether the Denisovans are a unique species or a subspecies ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- is the home stellar system for human beings and all known forms of ... with their four known moons, and billions of small bodies, classified primarily ...60 KB (9,448 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums ... in recent years as the central instrument of large drum ensembles called ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- Heavy metal is a sub-genre of rock music that emerged as a defined ... Nails, and others often dwell on imagery of violence, death, unrestrained ...41 KB (6,469 words) - 21:31, 26 December 2020
- Falcon is the common name for birds of prey comprising the genus Falco ... Although the members of the genus Falco are known as the "true ...17 KB (2,440 words) - 01:46, 29 June 2022
- on the ground and in the air. The main goals of ATC systems are to organize ... In many countries, ATC services are provided throughout the majority ...41 KB (6,292 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- saint, sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as ... Columba) was born to Fedlimid and Eithne of the Uí Néill clan in Gartan ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 19:21, 22 December 2022
- Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials (notably crystals ... in response to applied mechanical stress. This may take the form of ...25 KB (3,464 words) - 06:13, 24 November 2022
- A road is an identifiable route, way, or path for the passage of people ... or maintenance.Maxwell G. Lay. 1992. Ways of the World: A History of the ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- All read-only DVD discs, regardless of type, are DVD-ROM discs. This ... a single standard, anticipating a repeat of the costly format war between ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of ... from the core at velocities close to the speed of light. ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- Harold Harefoot (c. 1015–March 17, 1040) was King of England from ... He was the son of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, Norway ...17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
- , "Prince Potemkin of Taurida") was a pre-dreadnought battleship ... I, Panteleimon participated in the Battle of Cape Sarych in late 1914. She ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... Aristotelian concepts in their theories of ethics and politics. Aristotle ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- Space manufacturing involves the production of manufactured goods ... Due to speed of light constraints on communication, manufacturing ...17 KB (2,555 words) - 19:04, 7 February 2023
- curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating ... but little else is known about the origins of tofu and its method of production ...37 KB (5,817 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact ... Most tornadoes have wind speeds of 110 miles per hour (mph) (175 kilometers ...56 KB (8,507 words) - 00:50, 20 February 2024
- swordsman. He is believed to have been one of the most skilled swordsmen ... discovered were applicable to diverse phases of human life. He constantly tested ...36 KB (6,131 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- all ancient, historical sites in many parts of the world because it does not ... In everyday usage the term pottery encompasses a wide range of ceramics ...28 KB (4,471 words) - 22:01, 30 November 2022
- – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving ... Vietnam War. He is also noted for his middle-of-the-road domestic policy that ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- Ham is the thigh and rump of any animal that is slaughtered for meat ... to prohibit eating ham, as a product of the pig, Christian holidays ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- The saxophone is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family ... sound, the saxophone is the result of its inventor's realization ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet ... treasures ever discovered. Many of the scrolls today are housed ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- professional boxer. He is considered one of the world's greatest heavyweight ... he joined the black nationalist Nation of Islam, changed his name to ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- The term has come to refer to all aspects of the system, from the receiver ... With the growth and influence of the television industry, it is not ...27 KB (3,983 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- ), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... it is traditionally regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization. ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 2022
- is the Planck constant and c is the speed of light. This can be related ... moving at speeds much less than the speed of light – makes them tend to ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in ... year to run for political office. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- in land area, belonging to the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in ... tourist attraction and summer colony. Much of the island has undergone extensive ...24 KB (3,463 words) - 22:57, 7 May 2023
- Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower ... * Tidal stream systems make use of the kinetic energy from the moving ...18 KB (2,762 words) - 23:26, 30 April 2023
- :This article is about plasma in the sense of an ionized gas. The ... In physics and chemistry, a plasma is one of the four principal states ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 07:58, 24 November 2022
- A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds ... A word that consists of a single syllable (like English dog) is called ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- whose assassination led to the first of the Great Purges. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- with special effects. With the advent of computer graphics imaging, ... environment. These rides include the use of moving chairs and added scents ...30 KB (4,494 words) - 19:11, 7 February 2023
- The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... that impress all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
- Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat ... produced Baker's yeast, all of which create bubbles before ...36 KB (5,350 words) - 22:56, 20 November 2023
- puncher famous for his exciting fights, many of which set financial and attendance ... In the ring, Dempsey employed a two-fisted attack. He boxed out of ...17 KB (2,668 words) - 08:39, 13 March 2024
- thus move loads beyond the normal capability of a human. Cranes are commonly ... Greeks and were powered by men or beasts-of-burden, such as donkeys. These ...36 KB (5,771 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16 and was fully ordained ... quot; in his book, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.Quan Nhu, [http://www ...19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 2023
- A transistor is a semiconductor device that uses a small amount of ... field effect transistors (FETs). Application of current in BJTs and voltage ...30 KB (4,329 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2023
- It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces a pressure ... explosives—dynamite, TNT, etc.—because of its lower burning speed, which ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- and mechanics. He introduced some of the familiar notation still ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically ... characteristics, notably atomization or lack of social connections, which render ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 12:56, 8 September 2023
- 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ... Invited to join anthropological expeditions as a photographer of native ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South ... he left his mother country at the early age of seven and studied in an aristocratic ...40 KB (6,434 words) - 05:43, 10 May 2024
- Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will be liable ... Perception is the process by which stimulation of the senses is translated ...52 KB (7,802 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Bluefin tuna is the common name for three of the eight species of ... is found in open southern hemisphere waters of all the world's oceans ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- [[Image:Glieseupdated.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Artist's impression ... Given the limitations of the speed of light for message transmission ...28 KB (4,265 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- quot; refers to both the geographic origin of these systems, which form almost ... storm surge. They develop over large bodies of warm water, and lose their ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- fuel obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, often called petrodiesel ... Diesel engines are a type of internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- Shark is the common name for any member of several orders of cartilaginous ... Due to a short history of shark attacks on humans, most sharks inspire ...44 KB (6,861 words) - 14:42, 7 June 2023
- Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions ... There are three main subjects of Chinese painting: human figures, ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- term also is used to refer to all members of the order Crocodilia, a group ... that are primarily found in tropical regions of Asia, the Americas, Africa ...25 KB (3,728 words) - 20:22, 3 June 2020
- somewhat raccoon or bear-like face. A member of the Carnivora order, generally ... They generally are found in the slopes of the south of the Himalayas ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- on the article prepaid, often in the form of adhesive stamps. In general ... The evolution of the postal system to the collection of national organizations ...32 KB (4,926 words) - 05:47, 30 November 2022
- rifled bore), and designed to fire a charge of spherical pellets, usually ... firearm, effective typically at a distance of 40 yards (36 meters) or less ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 14:26, 27 January 2023
- 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete ... made his debut with the Indians at the age of 17. His career was interrupted ...63 KB (9,620 words) - 14:15, 10 May 2024
- The Song of Roland ( La Chanson de Roland ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- in GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Co. of South Korea and has had collaborative ... With other leading mass producers of the automobile, General Motors ...40 KB (5,886 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- grains or other edible, starchy portions of plants and used chiefly in ... Flour is the key ingredient of bread, which is the staple food in ...20 KB (3,186 words) - 08:08, 21 May 2021
- Helium (chemical symbol He, atomic number 2) is a minor component ... of refraction of helium (ratio of speed of light in helium to that in ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:19, 25 January 2023
- that identifies the chemical composition of a compound or sample based ... The design of a mass spectrometer has three essential modules: an ...44 KB (6,414 words) - 16:19, 7 November 2022
- chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest ... 235 (0.72 percent), and a very small amount of uranium-234 (0.0058 percent ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- may also be used to refer to airports of varying sizes. An airport consists of at least one runway or helipad (for helicopters ...33 KB (5,029 words) - 20:47, 27 October 2023
- The Blackfoot confederacy of Alberta in Canada and Montana in the ... against white encroachment for a quarter of a century. At the end of the ...26 KB (3,951 words) - 18:11, 31 October 2023
- The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary ... Bang theory is consistent with the theory of general relativity and with ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- 1899 and 1918. It has had several periods of revival since then and is still ... sheet music for piano. Being a modification of the then popular march, it ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- Under normal conditions of room temperature and pressure, it is a ... can significantly increase the power output of automobile internal combustion ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 02:28, 16 November 2022
- her brother, Richard Carpenter, were members of the band The Carpenters, one ... Karen became more of a vocalist, rather than a drummer, further on ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 18:04, 14 May 2024
- A detergent is a chemical compound or mixture of compounds used as ... Although detergents are very useful, the excessive use of certain ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2023
- a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing. Although this ... because in humans the upper limit pitch of hearing tends to become lower ...27 KB (3,908 words) - 11:29, 18 April 2023
- Today, it is generally used in the context of an alternative to energy deriving ... that do not involve the depletion of natural resources or significant ...73 KB (10,796 words) - 08:37, 23 July 2023
- Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. The ... east of the Canadian Rockies. Calgary is well-known as a destination ...52 KB (7,693 words) - 18:23, 25 November 2023
- Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
- 24 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre, ... attorney, and his wife, Sophie. The oldest of the family's five children ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- physical medium for commercial audio recordings as of 2007. Standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimeters (mm) and can hold ...19 KB (3,102 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- Softball is a sport that sprung from the mind of George Hancock. The ... Association is the National Governing Body of Softball for the United States ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- young, Vygotsky is known as the "Mozart of psychology." Vygotsky ... In the latter part of the twentieth century, his theories became widely ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- He was best known for his years as a member of the New York Yankees, where ... football, and basketball due to his blazing speed. He broke the record for ...20 KB (3,166 words) - 19:46, 27 April 2024
- Natural deposits of mercury-bearing minerals, usually in the form ... Mercury and most of its compounds are highly toxic and need to be ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- |name = University of Oxford |latin_name = Universitas ... |motto = Dominus Illuminatio Mea"The Lord is my Light" ...35 KB (5,122 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- beak without teeth. Common characteristics of birds include the laying of ... , which has been observed to reach a flying speed of at least 124 mph (200 ...31 KB (4,741 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2023
- to refer to the loaded combination of bullet, cartridge case, gunpowder ... but nowadays bullets are sometimes made of materials other than lead ...22 KB (3,492 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864 ... Hong proclaimed the "Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping" and began to ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson ... failed during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942 ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors ... 1805, Austria and France signed the Treaty of Pressburg, which took the former ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- painter who is often said to be the greatest of the Northern Baroque artists ... heritage. Rubens expressed the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which ...28 KB (4,301 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- philosophy or process theology, is a system of thought with its essential ... its simplicity. The curiously fixed speed of light provided the basis on ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- Huai River line to be the official line of geographical division. The Yangtze is one of the world's busiest waterways, flanked ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major ... is difficult to grasp. Possibly a sense of Providence, carrying "the ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- to his or her disadvantage through the use of “soft” techniques such ... The origins of tai chi chuan are known only through legend and speculation ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- Albigensians, or Catharism) were followers of a controversial religious sect ... as good). They also embraced the doctrine of reincarnation, which went against ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... then behaves, with all this in service of a goal or goals. This "circular ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- Human evolution is that part of biological evolution concerning the ... Human evolution theory deals with both the pattern of evolution (descent ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes.] ... Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- Debussy is considered the most original musical mind of the turn of ... Debussy was not only one of the most influential French composers ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- air or another gaseous medium. The first use of the word was for the foremost ... Human creativity, inspired by the wonder of flight seen in nature ...23 KB (3,705 words) - 22:06, 25 November 2022
- for people to gather for the purpose of drinking tea, often combined ... The form of a tea house or room varies considerably, just as the occasions ...29 KB (4,641 words) - 04:37, 27 February 2023
- ending a long-running family feud. It is one of the most famous of Shakespeare ... Although Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and an ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- book superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular ... strips, and video games. With the success of his adventures, Superman helped ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- well as for being a landmark in the timeline of colonialism in the region. ... One of the puzzles of the Anglo-Zulu war is that although the British ...42 KB (6,753 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- philosopher, and scholar – a professor of English literature, a literary ... he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine. ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- The marathon is a long-distance running event of 42.195 km (26 miles ... "marathon," comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek soldier ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- refers to any engine used for the discharge of large projectiles in war. The ... century an artillier referred to a builder of any war equipment, and for ...76 KB (11,884 words) - 17:42, 16 August 2023
- called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state ... After World War II, Shinto lost its status of state religion; some ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- worst) are two opposing worldviews or states of mind. The former amounts to ... are fundamentally evil, that life is devoid of meaning and thus destined to ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 00:57, 18 November 2022
- only been applied to the energy and forms of energy harnessed but also to ... could be classified under the category of alternative energy; however ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... #039;s state of motion on the observed speed of light requires fundamental ...63 KB (8,940 words) - 05:00, 17 June 2023
- center, as well as the administrative heart of the European Union (EU). All ... Brussels has grown from a seventh century chapel into a metropolis ...30 KB (4,219 words) - 04:45, 22 November 2023
- The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte ... armies to oppose him. The principal armies of Napoleon's opponents were ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- refers to the ocean or world ocean, the body of salty water that covers approximately ... A wide variety of organisms, including bacteria, protists, algae, ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... weeks before the expedition which warned of an impending British search ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, of which he was the first great ... enemies. By the next year, after a career of little more than a decade, ...56 KB (8,917 words) - 22:11, 25 November 2023
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution4glyph.png Indians would add a horizontal line on top of the numeral, and the Kshatrapa ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy ... For some Christians and Pagans the religious origins of the holiday ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- was a Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial ... in Washington D.C., had an understanding of American character and a profound ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- broke out in 1789. She spent the first years of the revolution in Lyon, where ... When her husband unexpectedly became Minister of the Interior in 1792 ...54 KB (8,542 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- Earth is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance ... occur along plate boundaries. The interior of the planet is also active, ...38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- 2006, leading to speculation about his lack of loop and his waning value as ... on the cricket field. As a visible member of the Sikh faith, a minority ...42 KB (6,183 words) - 19:43, 29 January 2022
- Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... the second period spans the lifetimes of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States. They speak ... became famous for their "Flight" of over 1,000 miles from Idaho ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- In the popular imagination, the term robot evokes images of a mechanical ... processes, heartfelt feelings, and senses of responsibility—qualities ...27 KB (4,060 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- The brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of ... From the beginning of their aeronautical work, the Wright brothers ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
- The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought ... to Europe. Though Napoleon brought most of Western Europe under his rule ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- fullerite. Its hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial ... stm "Chinese made first use of diamond,"] BBC News (May ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
- the ostrich. It is the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. The name ... The emu is common over most of mainland Australia, although it avoids ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 16:32, 5 January 2021
- or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered ... advocate for greatly increased consumption of vitamin C and other nutrients ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- A star is a massive, luminous ball of plasma that is held together ... composition and many other properties of a star by observing its spectrum ...80 KB (12,078 words) - 15:50, 27 April 2023
- and good sportsmanship. Playing the majority of his career as a first baseman ... #039;s Disease. Long believed to be one of baseball's few unbreakable ...26 KB (4,116 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- has been a contribution to the advancement of human society of the same order ... ==Contents of hay== [[Image:Roundbale1.jpg|thumb|Good quality hay should ...30 KB (4,880 words) - 15:04, 25 January 2023
- film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took ... secure Hollywood's position as one of the world's most powerful ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, the westernmost ... added to its reputation as the "City of Gardens." ...26 KB (3,658 words) - 20:09, 3 May 2023
- Telecommunication is the transmission of signals over a distance for ... Telecommunication is an important part of the world economy; this industry ...40 KB (5,781 words) - 02:52, 19 April 2023
- Much of Burroughs' work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from ... Burroughs was born in 1914, the younger of two sons of a prominent ...53 KB (8,079 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- , meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ... Key to the Jaina Middle Way Metaphysics of Anekantavada, Philosophy East ...30 KB (4,673 words) - 18:01, 27 July 2023
- Concepts are the categorization of objects, events, or people that ... at least, if not other species, are capable of concept formation, and computers ...32 KB (5,041 words) - 02:42, 8 January 2024
- dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter ... in a white dwarf is close to the speed of light, c, we should replace ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- astronomer, and philosopher, considered one of the greatest mathematicians ... after Eutocius brought out editions of some of his works, with commentaries ...30 KB (4,881 words) - 06:19, 12 August 2023
- Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... ranges from Costa Rica through most areas of South America east of the Andes ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Marquis of Pubol or Salvador ... in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region close to the French ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan ... representing the whales. Indeed, the history of Korea is replete with invasions ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- Project refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941-1946 ... Germany might be developing nuclear weapons of its own. Born out of a small ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ... many other social sciences. Among many forms of creating social change are ...31 KB (4,566 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- in Armonk, New York, U.S. The company is one of the few information technology ... IBM has been known through most of its recent history as the world ...48 KB (6,957 words) - 06:47, 6 March 2024
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of ... as the most important naval engagement of World War IIU.S. Navy, [http://www ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- It generally is classified as a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus ... The word "dog" also is used to refer to some other members ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- London, situated in south-eastern England at the head of the River ... London is one of the world's leading business, financial, and ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- often meat. It uses the heat and hot gases of a fire, smoking wood, or hot ... an outdoor environment heated by the smoke of wood or charcoal. Restaurant ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. A graduate of Purdue ... Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
- Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) is a province of China located on the southeast ... center and pristine nature. The ecology of the province has been threatened ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- individual letters (as in CEO), and/or parts of words (as in Benelux) (BElgium ... formed from the initial letters of words, without reference to ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts ... authoritative perspective, or definition of creativity; nor is there a ...52 KB (7,713 words) - 06:21, 11 January 2024
- function, microphones may be based on any of several principles, including ... microphone, the diaphragm acts as one plate of a capacitor, and the vibrations ...49 KB (7,389 words) - 10:39, 10 March 2023
- and white stones on the vacant intersections of a 19×19 rectilinear grid. ... the Go player gains a deeper understanding of the game, which requires not ...59 KB (9,909 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or ... refer to a literary work, or a main division of such a work. In library and ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- Tacitus (c. 56 C.E. – c. 117 C.E.) was one of the important historians of ... has been most influential outside the field of history. While recognizing ...43 KB (6,444 words) - 02:48, 27 February 2023
- to 1975, which mapped only 40 to 45 percent of the planet's surface. field about 1 percent as strong as that of the Earth. Surface temperatures ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- by humans. The term encompasses the universe of living organisms and their ... essential character or fundamental quality of a person or thing, it is in ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. Modern contact lenses ... colored for altering the appearance of the eye. People choose to wear ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard ... Shepard was designated as the commander of the first crewed Project ...57 KB (8,455 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- ) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean ... and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometers long). Consequently ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- , formerly known as Madras, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ... administrative center, as the capital of the Madras Presidency. ...44 KB (6,123 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- main_interests = Aesthetics, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy ... fixed points of reference such as the speed of light or absolute zero (which ...35 KB (5,046 words) - 09:29, 15 December 2022
- is known as the "national pastime" of the United States, although ... The game also involves a unique combination of individual competitiveness ...67 KB (11,273 words) - 11:05, 20 September 2023
- Operation Provide Comfort (OPC). The pilots of two United States Air Force ... the helicopters as hostile. The crew members of the AWACS aircraft were blamed ...67 KB (10,179 words) - 23:19, 30 March 2024
- 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who ... He saw action in World War I as part of the new United States Tank ...100 KB (15,023 words) - 13:47, 12 November 2022
- as the Branch Davidians — were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church ... 28, 1993, when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, ... United Kingdom was exposed to the horrors of modern war with the release ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the ... Structural engineers are most commonly involved in the design of buildings ...56 KB (8,392 words) - 21:05, 26 February 2023
- laureate, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic ... Like other German authors, already in their prime during the rise ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- Kulintang is a modern term for an instrumental form of music composed ... The main role of kulintang music in the community is as nonprofessional ...41 KB (6,102 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- Neanderthal or Neandertal is a relatively recent extinct member of ... Sequencing of the Neanderthal genome has suggested that Neanderthals ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva ... ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter ...44 KB (6,570 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- Alaska and all but the northernmost parts of Canada, south through the continental ... carnivores, they help control populations of animals such as rodents, rabbits ...35 KB (5,386 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- (Ukrainian: Голодомор), was one of the largest national catastrophes ... Most modern scholars agree that the famine was caused by the policies ...40 KB (5,918 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- Elephant is the common name for any of the large land mammals comprising ... The three living species of elephants are the African bush elephant ...64 KB (9,737 words) - 10:18, 21 January 2023
- The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of ... in Utah, but lacking funds for full teams of oxen or horses, nearly 3,000 ...42 KB (6,112 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. It has an estimated ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
- The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United ... American populations and has been part of the Spanish viceroyalty of ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- editing, photographing, or broadcasting of news. While under pressure ... Many news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government ...45 KB (6,779 words) - 14:13, 9 September 2023
- The history of agriculture is the story of humankind's development ... Because of agriculture, cities as well as trade relations between ...39 KB (5,853 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2020
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... s-Gravenhage) is the Netherlands' seat of government (regeringszetel ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... modern-state founded solely on the basis of religion, since although India ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- African mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, of the Hippopotamidae family of ... they add greatly to the mystique and beauty of nature. Whether their reputation ...43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
- He often drew upon his own life experiences and addressed the nature ... The novel The Man in the High Castle bridged the genres of alternate ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 03:22, 24 November 2022
- al-Quds) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions ... From 1948 until the Six-Day War of 1967, Jerusalem was a divided city ...43 KB (6,551 words) - 12:27, 7 May 2024
- Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- The Vietnam War was a military conflict in which communist forces ... The chief cause of the war cause was Ho Chi Minh’s desire to establish ...70 KB (11,017 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:Caslon-schriftmusterblatt.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|A specimen ... Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design ...43 KB (6,355 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- leader whose role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the ... Caesar fought in a civil war that left him undisputed master of the ...44 KB (7,133 words) - 19:23, 4 February 2024
- A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... the Middle East show archaeological evidence of having had fortified city walls ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- , romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country ... It is well-known for the elegant onion domes of Saint Basil's Cathedral ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's ... deeply implicated in the worst atrocities of the Stalin years – the forced ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) is one of the ... brother Theo, an art dealer with the firm of Goupil & Cie, who continually ...53 KB (8,229 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States ... influenced their lifestyle both in terms of agriculture and art. The famous ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the ... in its provinces was not only the death of the heir to the throne but ...54 KB (8,276 words) - 04:54, 18 August 2023
- Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... infantry advances. However, a combination of entrenchments, machine gun ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for ... #039;s constant, c is Einstein's speed of light, h is Planck's constant ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...60 KB (8,560 words) - 12:29, 1 February 2024
- The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael ... UTC, and it was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- ) is an ancient Indo-European classical language of South Asia, a ... The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
- was cited as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World ... while in high school. With the guidance of Arista Records chairman Clive ...197 KB (27,840 words) - 23:40, 20 June 2019
- general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium ... and to pay off his debts. Still, Gaul was of significant military importance ...77 KB (12,113 words) - 23:58, 4 March 2024
- all wars. Some question the appropriateness of the term “world war” because ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players ... Olympics, he won two gold medals as a member of the U.S. national basketball ...95 KB (13,365 words) - 03:58, 4 March 2023
- Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. It is the second ... it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighborhoods ...75 KB (11,270 words) - 17:52, 8 February 2024
- together to challenge the immoral system of racial segregation. The movement ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- The lion (Panthera leo) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family ... mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia from ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
