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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
