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- An electric shock is the effect of passing an electric current through ... To avoid injury by an electric shock, untrained personnel should not ...22 KB (3,364 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- An epoxide is a cyclic ether with only three ring atoms. The simplest ... A polymer containing unreacted epoxide units is called a polyepoxide ...6 KB (852 words) - 19:13, 13 February 2024
- Chaetognatha is a phylum of small, slender, marine worms, generally ... carnivorous animals. For humans, they add to the diversity and mystery of ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early ... from its twelve articles, which are believed to have been written by the Twelve ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering ... occurred in Babylon in 500 B.C.E. according to ancient Greek scribes. Emily ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 05:57, 10 January 2023
- rule the Magyar people moved from Etelkoz to the Carpathian basin. The dynasty ... remained no respecter of borders, continuing to settle in neighboring land ...14 KB (1,600 words) - 16:21, 13 January 2024
- of personal power and rights given to all citizens by law. Civil ... Laws guaranteeing civil rights may be written down, derived from custom ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits ... was applied. Biard and Pittman were able to establish the priority of their ...41 KB (6,290 words) - 01:16, 26 October 2022
- Jongmyo is a Confucian shrine dedicated to the memorial services in ... Jongmyo's unique dedication to ceremonies honoring departed Korean ...6 KB (863 words) - 19:53, 4 May 2024
- Vittorio Veneto). Appointed a professor at what is now Columbia University ... When he, his father, and siblings converted to Roman Catholicism in 1763, ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- worthy of the most serious study whether it be to older youth or to the young ... Froebel's widow, in Hamburg, Germany from 1859 to 1861. ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- of liberal Christianity and was devoted to comparative religions. He is ... Under Budge's directorship, the British Museum came to hold arguably ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- The term "Cuban Revolution" is also used to refer to the social ... bloc allies, the Cuban Revolution bought what was perceived to be the threat ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- Potassium (chemical symbol K, atomic number 19) is a member of a group ... most soil types. The hydroxide of potassium is an important industrial chemical ...18 KB (2,538 words) - 05:52, 30 November 2022
- priest, cosmologist, and occultist. He is known for his system of mnemonics ... Due to his highly unorthodox and strongly-held views, Bruno left the ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 13:28, 15 December 2022
- Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion ... combined with Indian traditions, that is, for Western knowledge in Eastern ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi-jidai) is an era in the history ... period and beginning of the Kofun period is marked by the appearance of ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- Industrialization (or industrialisation) is the period of social and ... goods and services of all kinds tend to expand and provide a further ...23 KB (3,165 words) - 17:35, 25 September 2021
- category of biological classification, is the first in the pair of names ... Scientific or biological classification is the massive enterprise ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- Telepathy (from the Greek tele (distant) and patheia (feeling)) is ... Latent Telepathy is telepathy in which a time lag is observed between ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- Twelve Apostles before his death, according to Christian tradition. Described ... Also known as the Lord's Supper, the event is first described ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic ... alpha particle. The half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.5 billion years and ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- Sociology is an academic and applied discipline that studies society ... through crime and revolution. Seeking to understand how human beings ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- Ramakrishna (1836 – 1886) is one of the most famous Hindu mystics ... a fervent practitioner of bhakti (devotion to god), and is often said to ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 15:51, 18 June 2022
- SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging) — or sonar — is a technique ... used in sonar systems vary from infrasonic to ultrasonic. ...46 KB (7,281 words) - 01:12, 4 February 2023
- by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an electronic-optical device ... dollar industry. Their most widespread use is in optical storage devices ...41 KB (6,333 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- :This article is about the astronomical term. [[Image:Solar eclips ... A corona is a type of plasma "atmosphere" of the Sun or ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:34, 8 January 2024
- Opal is a mineraloid A mineraloid is a mineral-like material that does ... not of any extra scientific interest, appeal to collectors because of the stones ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- against the new government before having to flee for safety to Bulgaria. ... Peter Struve is probably the best known member of the Russian branch ...14 KB (2,049 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2023
- Drug, broadly defined, is a term used for any chemical substance that ... or illegal use. Some drugs are used to create or enhance recreational ...18 KB (2,517 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- attempts in 1606, 1667, and 1689, to unite the two countries by ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- the first Roman Catholic and Irish-American to run for President as a major ... Smith was born to Alfred Emanuel Smith and Catherine Mulvihill and ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- eclipsing Admiral Robert Blake in fame, and is one of the most famous naval ... He is honored by the London landmark Nelson's Column, which stands ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- Impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure of citations in ... It is, however, possible to measure the impact factor of the journals ...28 KB (3,975 words) - 15:26, 4 February 2023
- also Shri Tukaram, and colloquially referred to as "Tuka" (तुका ... and Lord Vitthal himself, Tukaram began to write abhangas (religious poetry ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil ... and saving the day. Although outnumbered two-to-one, Lee committed his entire ...52 KB (8,281 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- Born into a well-educated family, he was expected to follow in his ... Berlioz is credited for his large-scale and skillful employment of ...23 KB (3,532 words) - 08:21, 21 January 2024
- Jaundice, also known as icterus, is a condition in which there is ... Jaundice itself is not a disease, but rather a sign of one of many ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 10:01, 1 April 2024
- and eventually, funk. His music would prove to have a profound influence on ... In 1953, Brown began his professional music career and skyrocketed ...25 KB (3,918 words) - 21:04, 20 March 2024
- he turned his back on society and went to live in the forest as a hermit. Kamo no Chomei is best known as a classic example of a man of artistic ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- Yoshitsune's birth his father was put to death, following the Heiji ... his own father and eleven relatives were put to death. Soon after Yoshitsune’s ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- The Negev Desert is located in modern day Israel, expanding nearly ... The triangular-shaped desert's apex is on the south. ...13 KB (2,056 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- civil war broke out in 1991 as a reaction to the lack of Afar presence in ... the Somali Civil War into Djibouti continues to damage economic recovery. The ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- Ginger is the common name for the monocotyledonous perennial plant ... common name. One in the Zingiberaceae family is galangal (Alpinia sp.) which ...24 KB (3,593 words) - 22:30, 1 January 2023
- controversial figure during his lifetime, he is the founder of Nichiren Buddhism ... a Buddhist ideal land on earth appealed to religious reformers in the ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- Guyana, officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is the only ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... are known for applying economic analyses to a broad spectrum of issues ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- The Arctic Circle is the parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33' ... the whole area of the Arctic Circle, the Sun is above the horizon for at least ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- Authority control is a term used in library and information science ... Although theoretically, any piece of information on a given book is ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- The xylophone (from the Greek meaning 'wooden sound') is ... Xylophone can refer to western style concert xylophones or to one ...7 KB (1,049 words) - 21:33, 15 January 2024
