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- Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei Han Fei (韓非) (ca. 280 B.C.E. – 233 B.C.E., ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- Nucleosides are structural subunits of nucleic acids, the macromolecules that convey genetic information in living cells. They consist of a nitrogen ...6 KB (865 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Cyanobacteria (Greek: κυανόs (kyanós) = blue + bacterium) is a phylum (or "division") of bacteria that obtain their energy through ...12 KB (1,656 words) - 17:46, 12 May 2020
- In zoology, cricket is the common name for any of the grasshopper-like insects in the family Gryllidae of the orthopteran suborder Ensifera ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 00:20, 15 January 2023
- Category:life sciences Category:Food Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Bai Hao Yin Zhen tea leaf (Fuding).jpg|250px ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:15, 4 May 2023
- The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and Great Britain and its colonies, Upper and lower Canada and Nova Scotia, from ...42 KB (6,479 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- The double bass, also known as the standup bass, is the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra ...40 KB (6,473 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Axolotl (or ajolote) is the common name for the salamander Ambystoma mexicanum, which is the best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 06:05, 10 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Optical grey squares orange brown.svg|thumb|200 px|An optical ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain, commonly caused by a viral infection. An inflammation that includes both the brain and the ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 18:32, 13 February 2024
- Robert Schuman (June 29, 1886 - September 4, 1963) was a noted French Statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- Ichthys (Greek: grc|ἰχθύς , capitalized grc|ΙΧΘΥΣ ; also transliterated and Latinized as icthus, ichthus or ikhthus), is the Ancient ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- Yin Xu ( c=殷墟|p=Yīnxū|l=Ruins of Yin ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.E.-1046 B.C.E.), also known ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- The sonnet is one of the most important and enduring poetic forms in all of European literature. First invented by Italian poets in the thirteenth ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- Cryptography (or cryptology; derived from Greek κρυπτός kryptós "hidden," and the verb γράφω gráfo "write" ...47 KB (6,889 words) - 06:31, 11 January 2024
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- Bird migration refers to the regular (and often seasonal) journeys to and from a given area undertaken by all or part of a bird population. Not ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- Ewha Womans University (Korean: 이화여자대학교, Hanja: 梨花女子大學校), refers to a private women's university in central ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the shape of which has been compared to a raised arm and fist or to a flaming ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Totem_Park_pole_1.jpg|thumb|right|100px|A totem pole located in Totem Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.]] ...20 KB (3,178 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- A neutron star is an extremely dense, compact star with an interior that is thought to be composed of mainly neutrons. It is formed from the ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- The metric system is a decimalized system of measurement based on the meter and the gram. It exists in several variations, with different choices ...26 KB (4,128 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and the first ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- Carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed in small amounts when carbon dioxide ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- Category:Public Perry, Matthew C. [[Image:Matthew Calbraith Perry.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry|Matthew Calbraith Perry]]]] ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into the past, throughout a vast number of cultures and nations. Women have played ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- A halo ( ἅλως ; also known as a nimbus, glory, or gloriole) is a ring of light used in religious art, sculpture, and iconography to depict ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral virtue. In the history of philosophy, the concept of courage as a moral virtue ...6 KB (958 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- Pyridine is a fundamentally important chemical compound with the formula C5H5N. It is a liquid with a distinctively putrid, fishy odor. Its molecules ...11 KB (1,458 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- The Secret of the Golden Flower ("Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi",《太乙金華宗旨》), is one of the most important Daoist classics ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal) is a gas with a pungent smell. It is the simplest aldehyde. Its chemical formula ...18 KB (2,445 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- Pika is the common name for small mammals comprising the family Ochotonidae of the rabbit order Lagomorpha, characterized by relatively large ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- The Quit India Movement (Bharat Chhodo Andolan or the August Movement) was a civil disobedience movement in India launched in August 1942, in ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- Arlington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Arlington, Virginia, near The Pentagon, and directly across the Potomac ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- The term Christus Victor (meaning "Victorious Christ") is the name of Gustaf Aulén's groundbreaking book, first published in ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- The Trimurti (meaning "three forms" of God), also known as the Hindu Trinity, is an iconographic representation of God in Hinduism ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- Harvestmen is the common name for any of the eight-legged invertebrate animals comprising the order Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) in the arthropod ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Zeno.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Zeno of Citium]] Stoicism, one of the three major schools of Hellenistic philosphy, was founded ...21 KB (3,500 words) - 00:46, 26 February 2023
- Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E. P. Wigner among physicists) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Old West. His ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Playground.jpg|thumb|250 px|A children's playground]] A playground or play ...16 KB (2,295 words) - 08:03, 24 November 2022
- Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a class of short-chain, non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules in which each variety attaches to and transfers a ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- Microbiology is the study of microorganisms (microbes), which are organisms (forms of life) that are microscopic; that is, too small to be visible ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- See text Cotton can refer to members of the genus Gossypium of flowering plants or to the fiber produced from some species of these plants. ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- Sloth is the common name for any of the slow-moving, New World arboreal mammals comprising the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths) and ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living organisms or inorganic matter. However, what specifically is included as ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- Category:Psychologists Janet, Pierre Pierre Marie Félix Janet (May 30, 1859 – February 24, 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or both ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Niccolò di Bernado dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Katherine Johnson (born Creola Katherine Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020), also known as Katherine Goble, was an American mathematician ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- Betelgeuse (also called Alpha Orionis, α Orionis, or α Ori) is one of the brightest and largest known stars, though it is not one of the most ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations of North Korea and South Korea, which were created out of the occupation ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- Brown bear is the common name for a large bear, Ursus arctos, ranging in color from a common brown to yellowish or black fur and having a noticeable ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is located some ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- This article is about the machine, for the bird see crane (bird) A crane is a mechanical lifting device equipped with a winder, wire ropes, and ...37 KB (5,784 words) - 20:21, 28 May 2024
- Ivan Alexander ( Иван Александър , transliterated Ivan Aleksandǎr; This article uses the United Nations-authorized scientific transliteration ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid or vitamin B3, is a vitamin whose derivatives NAD, NADH, NAD+, and NADP play essential roles in energy metabolism ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Submitted The collective unconscious refers to that part of ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 22:33, 7 January 2024
- Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Robin George Collingwood (February 22, 1889 – January 9, 1943) was a British philosopher and historian whose work has had considerable influence ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- Wade-Giles ( ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz ; s=威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音|t=威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音|p=wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn ), sometimes abbreviated ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- Sòng Qìnglíng or Soong Ch'ing-ling ( s=宋庆龄|t=宋慶齡|p=Sòng Qìnglíng|w=Sung Ch'ing-ling ) (January 27, 1893 – May 29 ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- Auxins are a class of naturally occuring or synthetic organic (carbon-containing) plant growth substances (often called phytohormones or plant ...15 KB (2,169 words) - 05:59, 10 January 2023
- Serampore College, located in Serampore Town, in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India, consists of a theological college and a college of arts ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Edouard-Isidore-Buguet-PK-spirit-photographer.jpg|thumb ...21 KB (3,027 words) - 23:15, 2 December 2022
- Vicuña is the common name for a rare, wild, gregarious South American camelid, Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes ...11 KB (1,797 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- Deborah, or Dəvora (literally "Bee" in the Hebrew language), was a prophetess and the only female Judge of pre-monarchic Israel in ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- According to the Hindu religion, Shakti (Sanskrit: meaning force, power or energy) refers to the active, creative and dynamic feminine principle ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- An Lushan ( t=安祿山|s=安禄山|p=Ān Lùshān ) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China ...11 KB (1,832 words) - 18:40, 26 July 2023
- A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—consisting of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War. The name refers to the two main enemies ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of geography—that ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), often called "America's foremost revivalist," was a major leader of the Second Great Awakening ...24 KB (3,726 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- Library science is an interdisciplinary science incorporating the humanities, law and applied science to study topics related to libraries, the ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- Toothed whale is the general term for any of the various aquatic mammals comprising the suborder Odontoceti, characterized in extant species ...13 KB (1,677 words) - 05:01, 4 November 2022
- Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- Electronegativity is one of the fundamental concepts for an understanding of chemical bonding. The first modern definition was suggested by Linus ...16 KB (2,171 words) - 15:58, 13 February 2024
- Methylene blue (or MB) is a basic aniline dye with the molecular formula C16H18N3SCl. At room temperature, it appears as a solid, odorless, dark ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer. Lamour began her ...28 KB (4,290 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. Image:Animexample.gif This animation moves at 10 frames per second. ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- An airship or dirigible is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. It is classified as an aerostatic craft, to ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Nitric-oxide-2D.png|150px|Nitric oxide]] ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2022
- Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were notorious outlaws, robbers, and criminals ...42 KB (6,735 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- Subclass Nautiloidea *†Plectronocerida *†Ellesmerocerida *†Actinocerida *†Pseudorthocerida *†Endocerida *†Tarphycerida ...18 KB (2,469 words) - 01:46, 13 January 2023
- Alligator is the common name for large, primarily aquatic reptiles that belong to the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae and order Crocodilia ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 18:37, 21 July 2023
- Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- A caterpillar is the larval stage of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are essentially ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a twentieth-century French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942, and February 9, 1943, in the Pacific theater ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Measures of national income and output are used in economics to measure a nation's ...33 KB (5,148 words) - 19:46, 7 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[File:Cure juvenile delinquency in the slums by planned housing 3b48917r ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- Calcarea Hexactinellida Demospongiae The sponges or poriferans (from Latin porus meaning "pore," and ferre meaning "to bear" ...15 KB (2,195 words) - 18:05, 14 October 2022
- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:45, 5 April 2024
- Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) (January 12, 1893 October 15, 1946) was a German politician, military leader and a leading member ...51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
- Sir Joseph John “J.J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (December 18, 1856 – August 30, 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited with ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 01:09, 8 February 2023
- The Purple Heart is an American military decoration that was the first award made available to the common soldier. It was initially created as ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy, natural science ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- 4 (four) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number. It is the natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Psychologists Morgan, C. Lloyd [[File:C. Lloyd Morgan. Photogravure by Synnberg ...18 KB (2,586 words) - 21:54, 12 February 2024
- Xenocrates ( Ξενοκράτης ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third scholarch or rector of the Academy from ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- Formal logic is logic that deals with the form or logical structure of statements and propositions and the logical implications and relations ...7 KB (926 words) - 06:33, 1 April 2024
- The terms, denotation and connotation, are used to convey and distinguish between two different kinds of meanings or extensions of a word. A ...7 KB (986 words) - 09:46, 29 January 2024
- The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt, waged from 1851 until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- Dieterich Buxtehude (Dietrich, Diderich) (c. 1637 – May 9, 1707) was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 21:17, 15 July 2020
- Sulfuric acid (or sulphuric acid in British English) is a strong mineral acid with the chemical formula H2SO4. It is soluble in water at all ...31 KB (4,778 words) - 21:53, 26 February 2023
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence ...15 KB (2,237 words) - 15:17, 25 January 2023
- In geometry and trigonometry, an angle (or plane angle) is the figure formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint. The endpoint is called the ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned and described by the ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Blacktriangle.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artist's depiction ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 01:37, 3 May 2023
- SAAB AB is an aviation, defense, and car manufacturing company based in Sweden and founded in 1937, in Trollhättan. Its name was an acronym ...20 KB (2,871 words) - 20:36, 17 April 2023
- The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita ) was a World War II battle that occurred on the Greek mainland and in ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group-Jen| |group = Māori |image = [[Image:Te_Pun ...37 KB (5,756 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- Giant anteater is the common name for the largest species of anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, characterized by a long, narrow, tapered snout ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 18:57, 21 May 2024
- Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). Albatrosses are among the ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- The Gulf War (August 28, 1990 – February 28, 1991) was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or temperature gradient, using a variety of different principles. The word thermometer is ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- Ethane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula C2H6. It is classified as an alkane, that is, an aliphatic hydrocarbon. It is the only ...16 KB (2,309 words) - 01:40, 19 March 2022
- The lung is either of the two primary respiratory organs in air-breathing vertebrates. Its principal function is to transport oxygen from the ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 03:04, 5 November 2022
- Sir William Wallace (c. 1270 – August 23, 1305) was a Scottish knight who led a resistance to the English military occupation of Scotland during ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain and the United States of America that took place from April to August 1898 ...25 KB (4,004 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- Poppy is the common name for any of the plants comprising the Papaver genus in the flowering plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by large ...16 KB (2,490 words) - 11:58, 13 February 2022
- category:image wanted The Progressive Movement in Korea began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan and Korea, and ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- The Minoan eruption was a major catastrophic volcanic eruption that occurred on the Greek island of Thera (known today as Santorini) in the mid ...26 KB (3,980 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- Averroism is the term applied to two philosophical trends originating among European scholastics in the late thirteenth century, after the introduction ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Samuel Clarke (October 11, 1675 – May 17, 1729) was an English philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- Plate tectonics (from Greek τέκτων, tektōn "builder" or "mason") describes the large scale motions of Earth's ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
- Barium (chemical symbol Ba, atomic number 56) is a soft, silvery chemical element classified as an alkaline earth metal. Given its reactivity ...13 KB (1,855 words) - 08:07, 20 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Niger-Congo.png|right|300px|thumb|Map showing the approximate ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 2023
- Ethylene oxide (chemical formula C2H4O) is an important industrial chemical. It is also known as epoxyethane (IUPAC name), oxirane, and dimethylene ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah ...48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
- Volleyball is a globally recognized sport that found its origins in the United States of America. In fact, worldwide, volleyball is second on ...62 KB (10,612 words) - 21:01, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Los Angeles skyline.JPG|thumb|right|200 px|The city of Los Angeles, California ...23 KB (3,351 words) - 13:43, 3 May 2023
- In common terminology, transition metals (or transition elements) are chemical elements that lie in groups 3 through 12 of the periodic table ...17 KB (2,462 words) - 04:39, 5 November 2022
- Broadly defined, biological evolution is any heritable change in a population of organisms over time. Changes may be slight or large, but must ...68 KB (10,248 words) - 19:33, 21 October 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Public Category:Copyedited Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements ...32 KB (4,796 words) - 23:03, 14 September 2023
- Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists category:biography Hebb, Donald O. Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a prominent ...24 KB (3,670 words) - 17:22, 30 January 2024
- Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist who was one of three major pioneers in the wedding of genetics ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- The Jagiellons were a royal dynasty originating from Lithuanian House of Gediminas dynasty that reigned in Central European countries (present ...13 KB (1,810 words) - 12:40, 6 November 2021
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- Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: Fǎjiā; Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four main schools of thought ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several related fat-soluble organic compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, that act ...53 KB (7,528 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Minimum wage is the minimum amount of compensation an employee must receive for performing ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles (500 kilometers) east of the Philippines. Having emerged from United Nations ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient copies of the Greek Bible. It was written in the fourth century C.E., in uncial ...31 KB (4,479 words) - 22:23, 7 January 2024
- Tammuz (also known as Dumuzi) was the name of an ancient Near Eastern deity who was best known for his patronage of herdsmen and his romantic ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- The Golden Mountains of Altai is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Siberia, in the Russian territory of the Altai Republic. Established ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 04:09, 24 May 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Sociology [[Image:Virgil Solis - Tereus Philomela.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rape of Philomela ...32 KB (4,983 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- Preservation, in library and information science, is activity concerned with maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records ...34 KB (4,751 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential English composer. He was a student at the Royal College of Music ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with the formula HCN. It is a colorless, very poisonous, and highly volatile liquid that boils slightly ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 13:19, 4 February 2023
- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 in Madrid, Spain – September 26, 1952 in Rome, Italy), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, critic of culture ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024
- Strep throat, also known as Streptococcal pharyngitis or Streptococcal sore throat, is a contagious infection of the mucous membranes of the ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 23:26, 21 October 2022
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. This mode of belief is ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United States on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- James Ewell "Jeb" Brown Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was an American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate States ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 04:28, 31 July 2022
- The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths which has become one of the most popular and most used instrument ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300) was an Italian poet who was one of the founding members of one of the most important movements in all of ...14 KB (2,323 words) - 08:01, 8 January 2024
- Zu Chongzhi ( t=祖沖之|s=祖冲之|p=Zǔ Chōngzhī|w=Tsu Ch'ung-chih , 429–500), courtesy name Wenyuan (文遠), was a prominent Chinese ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- Narwhal is the common name for an Arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, of the cetacean suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales), characterized by mottled ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- Category:Economists Category:Biography Pigou, Arthur Cecil Arthur Cecil Pigou (November 18, 1877 – March 7, 1959) was an English economist, ...32 KB (5,006 words) - 11:09, 16 August 2023
- The Book of Joshua (Hebrew: Sefer Y'hoshua—ספר יהושע) is the sixth book of Bible. It tells the story of Joshua and the Israelites ...26 KB (4,240 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a distinct member of the herpesvirus family (Herpesviridae) of DNA viruses and one of the ...25 KB (3,646 words) - 15:14, 15 April 2022
- An electrical generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy, generally using electromagnetic induction. The source ...16 KB (2,450 words) - 15:52, 13 February 2024
- George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat ...23 KB (3,280 words) - 07:33, 15 May 2024
- Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher ( ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃlaɪɐˌmaxɐ|lang ; November 21, 1768 – February 12, 1834) was a German Reformed ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- Sparta (Doric Σπάρτα; Attic Σπάρτη Spartē) was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the River Eurotas in the southern part ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- Brachiosaurus is an extinct genus of huge, sauropod dinosaurs that lived during the late Jurassic period. Sauropods comprise a suborder or infraorder ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 02:00, 12 January 2023
- Category:Psychologists Köhler, Wolfgang Wolfgang Köhler (January 21, 1887 – June 11, 1967) was a German psychologist. He was a key figure ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 23:20, 17 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:Anthropoid sarcophagus discovered at Cadiz - Project ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- Mendelevium (chemical symbol Md (formerly Mv), atomic number 101), also known as unnilunium (symbol Unu), is a synthetic element in the periodic ...6 KB (778 words) - 04:30, 9 November 2022
- The saxophone is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- Ananthabhadram (also spelled Anandabhadram; in Malayalam: അനന്തഭദ്രം ) - a Malayalam film released in 2005 about ghosts, ...14 KB (1,924 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was a leading American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- Ice is the name given to water in the solid state. In nature, it is found in various forms, such as frost, hail, and glaciers. It may be classified ...24 KB (3,832 words) - 17:09, 10 February 2024
- Category:Psychologists Tinbergen, Nikolaas {{Infobox_Scientist | name = Niko Tinbergen | image = Nikolass_Tinbergen.gif | caption = Nikolaas ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- Formic acid (systematic name methanoic acid) is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its formula is HCOOH or CH2O2. In nature, it is found in the stings ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle ...43 KB (6,281 words) - 15:42, 4 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[File:The Fox and the Grapes.jpg|thumb|300px|In the fable of "The Fox and the ...24 KB (3,639 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- A neurotransmitter is a chemical that relays information across the gap (synapse) between one neuron (nerve cell) and an adjacent neuron or a ...16 KB (2,070 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby, and Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford. Thermopylae: the battle for the West ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Antennae (singular antenna) are paired appendages connected to the anterior-most segments of arthropods. In crustaceans, they are present on ...6 KB (965 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
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- Sodium chloride, also known as common salt or table salt, is a chemical compound with the formula NaCl. Its mineral form is called halite. It ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 15:04, 27 April 2023
- Self-concept or self identity is the mental and conceptual understanding and persistent regard that sentient beings hold for their own existence ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- Tapir (pronounced as in "taper," or IPA "təˈpɪər," pronounced as in "tap-ear") are large, browsing, mammals ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- The Book of Nahum is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 20:35, 17 May 2023
- Clove is the common name for a small, tropical evergreen tree, Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Eugenia aromaticum or Eugenia caryophyllata) and for ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Surf fishing is the sport of catching fish while standing on the shoreline or wading in the surf. Surf fishing is a general term and may or may ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 23:52, 26 February 2023
- Category:Public {| class="infobox" style="width: 25em;" |----- align=center bgcolor="#9966FF" !colspan=2 align=center ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- Jezebel was the wife of King Ahab and thus Queen of Israel in the mid ninth century B.C.E., portrayed as the most wicked woman in the Bible. ...16 KB (2,494 words) - 03:03, 1 August 2022
- Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. Restoring royal authority ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- Actinopterygii, is a major taxonomic class (or subclass) of fish, known as the "ray-finned fishes," whose diverse number of species ...14 KB (1,774 words) - 17:27, 17 December 2022
- Simone Weil (February 3, 1909 – August 24, 1943) was a French philosopher and religious mystic. Although Jewish by birth, she was initially ...23 KB (3,797 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two extant families: the golden moles comprising the Chrysochloridae family and ...21 KB (2,748 words) - 20:46, 29 December 2022
- Wounded Knee (Lakota language: Chankwe Opi) is a small town in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 328 in the 2000 ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:library and information science Category:Public [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- Category:Economists Modigliani, Franco Franco Modigliani (June 18, 1918 – September 25, 2003) was an Italian-born American economist. He was ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Category:Psychologists Category:Economists Simon, Herbert A. [[Image:Herbert Simon, RIT NandE Vol13Num11 1981 Mar19 Complete.jpg|right|thumb|250px ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neurobiobehavioral mental disorder characterized by distressful, time-consuming thoughts (obsessions ...25 KB (3,597 words) - 16:09, 27 November 2022
- Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar ( ஸ்ரீனிவாச ராமானுஜன் ) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician ...35 KB (5,270 words) - 16:14, 5 November 2023
- William Congreve (January 24, 1670 – January 19, 1729) was an English playwright and poet. He was born at Bardsey near Leeds and attended school ...16 KB (2,529 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- Psychologism is a philosophical position that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts and principles of logic and mathematics ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings, usually over a sounding ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- Category:Image wanted Frank Raymond Leavis CH (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid ...19 KB (2,790 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- Nutmeg is the common name for a dark-leaved evergreen tree, Myristica fragans, that is cultivated for two spices derived from its fruit, "nutmeg ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- Bluefin tuna is the common name for three of the eight species of tuna in the Thunnus genus (family Scombridae): the Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) was a United States soldier, famous as a World War I hero. He was awarded the Medal ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of talk therapy, or psychotherapy, that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions ...29 KB (3,904 words) - 22:22, 16 May 2024
- Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE<!-- The award of Knight Bachelor carries the title of "Sir" and no post-nominal letters (see url ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French militant, institutional psychotherapist, and philosopher. Guattari is ...23 KB (3,142 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- A drill (from the Dutch term Drillen) is a tool with a rotating probe called a drill bit, used for drilling holes in various materials. A "chuck ...16 KB (2,609 words) - 21:09, 30 January 2024
- Samarkand ( Samarqand, Самарқанд ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand Province. One of the oldest ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), or Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор), was one of the largest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian ...40 KB (5,918 words) - 01:29, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army and the Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine) by the German ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (February 21, 1794 – June 21, 1876), also known simply as Santa Anna ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 05:42, 11 August 2023
- Joseph Henry (December 17, 1799 – May 13, 1878) was a Scottish-American scientist whose inventions and discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism ...17 KB (2,654 words) - 04:14, 7 May 2024
- Glycerol, also known as glycerin or glycerine, is a sugar alcohol. Its formula may be written as C3H8O3. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 17:43, 23 May 2024
- A supercritical fluid is any substance at a temperature and pressure above its thermodynamic critical point. It has the unique ability to diffuse ...14 KB (2,010 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the Order Ephemeroptera, characterized by a short-lived adult stage and fragile ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration ...34 KB (4,980 words) - 16:54, 26 March 2022
- A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. As white dwarfs have mass comparable ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in ...16 KB (2,432 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- The Greco-Persian Wars or Persian Wars or Medic Wars were a series of conflicts between several Greek city-states and the Persian Empire that ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 19:50, 24 May 2024
- Emotivism is the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- The Boer Wars were fought between British and Dutch settlers of the South African Transvaal. The Dutch were known as "Boers" from ...38 KB (5,998 words) - 05:19, 17 November 2023
- William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation who retired in ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Person| name=Gustav Stickley | image= Gustav Stickley.jpg | caption= Gustav Stickley | birth_date=March 9, 1858 | ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 23:59, 26 July 2023
- Gaius Marius Victorinus (fourth century C.E.), Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher, was a teacher of rhetoric in Rome until ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Rebekah (Rebecca or Rivkah—רִבְקָה—"Captivating") was the wife of the patriarch Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau in the ...13 KB (2,094 words) - 01:43, 8 December 2022
- Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula NO2. It is one of the several nitrogen oxides. At ordinary temperatures and atmospheric ...7 KB (934 words) - 02:27, 16 November 2022
- A "Thangka," also known as "Tangka," "Thanka" or "Tanka" (Pronunciation: tänkä (the "a" as ...6 KB (950 words) - 15:07, 30 April 2023
- Saint Aidan Aidan is the anglicized form of the original Old Irish Áedán. of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was an Irish ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- The Comoros (officially the Union of the Comoros) is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. The country consists of three islands in the volcanic ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- Category:Psychologists Burt, Cyril [[File:Cyril Burt 1930s.jpg|thumb|Cyril Burt in 1930]] Cyril Lodowic Burt (March 3, 1883 – October 10, 1971 ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- category:image wanted Ottorino Respighi (Bologna, July 9, 1879 – Rome, April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, pianist, violist ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- The Second Crusade (1147-1150) was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
