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- Brown dwarfs are celestial objects ranging in mass between that of ... Early theories concerning the nature of the lowest mass stars and ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise in Mie prefecture, in southeastern ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- An otter is any member of 13 extant species of semi-aquatic and aquatic ... being generally at or near the top of food chains, consuming fish ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one ... conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth century. His ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 04:08, 3 May 2024
- - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... on another whaling ship and in the California Gold Rush, Manjiro risked ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and probably ... Hempel wrote, "Carnap's ingenious and illuminating methods ...27 KB (4,028 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal ... term held by ancient Indians to be redolent of fecundity and the many blessings ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- reason for the survival and prosperity of the Korean people in the face ... Although a variety of different Asian peoples had migrated to the ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 6 March 2024
- Iðunn (romanized "Idun") is one of the goddesses of the ... Despite the lack of any evidence of extensive cultic worship, Idun ...15 KB (2,466 words) - 15:58, 12 February 2024
- The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began ... The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- – January 24, 1965) was a Russian philosopher, representative of ... concerned with theology than with the task of working out a system of metaphysics ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- [[Image:Pie Grande.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artistic depiction of Bigfoot]] like animal believed to inhabit the forests of North America, although people ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination. The underlying ... admissions, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination|right ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...30 KB (4,393 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... Wilder attended school. After dropping out of the University of Vienna, Wilder ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- Thomas Jefferson following the acquisition of vast western territories from ... with the Native Americans with the help of the Shoshone Indian woman Sacajawea ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained ... ==Usage of the term "engine"== Originally, an engine was ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Gazelle is the common name for any of the various small, swift antelopes ... running ability requires stealth on the part of the predators to get close ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- goddess married to Shiva (the ascetic god of destruction). She is seen as ... Mythologically, Parvati is considered a representation of Shakti, ...16 KB (2,503 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2022
- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- {{Infobox University-Jen | name = Kyoto University | native_name = 京都大学 | ...16 KB (2,170 words) - 04:41, 4 March 2023
- Cantor dedicated much of his life for caring for others needs. He ... Cantor was born Israel Iskowitz in New York City, the son of Russian ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- material, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity ... mid-twentieth century that it became a part of western mainstream culture ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- reverence for Mother nature, and worship of the Goddess. The movement received ... claimed that Wicca had secretly existed for thousands of years, originating ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- Matchmaking is the process of introducing a couple as potential partners ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- :Note: This article is about the institution and office of the Dalai ... The Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") is an institution ...29 KB (4,223 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science. He was one of the ... has noted, "If one looks at the course of Feyerabend's life, one ...26 KB (3,955 words) - 16:54, 21 November 2022
- to describe the rapidly increasing amount of published information and the ... ==Use of the term "Information explosion"== The Online Oxford ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 22:50, 5 February 2023
- explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions ... economic growth and emergence as centers of technological innovation, and ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- A goat is a member of the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family ... a distinct species, C. hircus. It was one of the first animals domesticated ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious ... In the first sense, creationism (not to be confused with the doctrine ...31 KB (4,607 words) - 06:18, 11 January 2024
- [[Image:Catlin - Dance to the berdache2.jpg|thumb|250 px|Detail of ... to the romantic, and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals ...20 KB (2,817 words) - 17:59, 31 October 2023
- modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- she was understood as the protector of the Lower Kingdom, and represented ... In classical Egyptian religion, Bast was the subject of considerable ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- state, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... over 4,600 acres (7.2 mi² or 18.6 km²) of ski-able terrain; Timberline ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- |death_place=Whittier, California, U.S. |occupation=Photographer ... 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- he has now come to be regarded as one of the four or so most important ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving ...16 KB (2,250 words) - 20:22, 11 September 2021
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century Romanticism ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- face. The most widely distributed member of the bear family, Ursidae, it ... concern species with a total population of approximately 200,000. Its ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- 1945) was a prominent Japanese philosopher of the Meiji era. Nishida Kitaro ... Nishida Kitaro was born on June 17, 1870, in the Mori section of Unoke ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:02, 15 November 2022
- psychiatric hospitals. He also had a number of hits covering old R & B ... Taylor was part of a wave of singer-songwriters of the time that also ...20 KB (2,798 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- "apostate," refers to a group of secret Sabbatean crypto-Jews ... by the Ottoman government in 1666. Some of his followers quickly interpreted ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is a major component of ... According to present observations of structures larger than galaxies ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 January 2024
- 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
