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- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom under construction.]] ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. He was ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Uzalagh ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur and reigned for ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- Al Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also created the comic strips Abbie and ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual teachers within ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabian poet ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 12:38, 4 March 2024
- Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided) (c. 763 – ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري|translit=ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī Al-Zawahiri is also sometimes transliterated ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who reigned from ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( أبومصعب الزرقاوي , ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his death in June 2006 ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Arabic: جعفر الصادق, in full, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn) (702 – 765 C.E.) is believed ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, was an eighteenth century ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- Umar ibn al-Khattab (in Arabic, عمر بن الخطاب) (c. 581 - November, 644), sometimes referred to as Umar Farooq or just as Omar or Umar, was from the Banu Adi clan of ...21 KB (3,473 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 17:05, 11 April 2020
- Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi أبو بكر البغدادي ; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, ar|إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed Gurey in Somali and Gragn in ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth Fatimid caliph ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- ruled by the caliph (spiritual and political leader) al-Ma’mun. The caliph, who himself was an enthusiastic scholar and philosopher, soon turned the city into an important intellectual ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
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- #REDIRECTUmar ibn al-Khattab ...32 bytes (4 words) - 18:18, 31 December 2022
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 17:05, 11 April 2020
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...42 bytes (5 words) - 17:10, 11 April 2020
- #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ...47 bytes (7 words) - 18:00, 31 December 2022
- The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University ... of Al-Jahiz into the Religious Policy of al-Ma’mun.” Muslim World 69 (2001): 8-17. ...9 KB (1,426 words) - 17:53, 10 November 2022
- ruled by the caliph (spiritual and political leader) al-Ma’mun. The caliph, who himself was an enthusiastic scholar and philosopher, soon turned the city into an important intellectual ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur'an. Literally ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabian poet ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 12:38, 4 March 2024
- Sāmarrā (Arabic,سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient times may have been the world's largest city. With its majestic mosques, gardens, and ruins of royal palaces ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- category:image wanted Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق Mīšīl `Aflāq) (1910 – June 23, 1989) was the ideological founder of Ba’athism, a form of secular Arab nationalism ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- Ibn Hazm (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064 456 AH) in full Abū Muhammad ‘Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa’īd ibn Hazm (Arabic :أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أحمد بن حنبل Ahmad bin Hanbal ) (780 C.E./ 164 AH - 855 C.E./ ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Newts (also called efts when terrestrial) are an informal grouping of salamanders within the Salamandridae family that may have rough-textured skin when terrestrial, unlike other ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual teachers within ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Arabic: جعفر الصادق, in full, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn) (702 – 765 C.E.) is believed ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- In Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ( ar|مهدي Mahdī , also Mehdi; "Guided One") is the prophesied redeemer of Islam. The advent of Mahdi is not a universally accepted ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters) as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal ...8 KB (1,287 words) - 00:55, 23 December 2022
- The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, said by some to date back to the time of Adam and Eve. ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Recombinant DNA is a form of genetically engineered DNA that is created by taking DNA strands from one organism and combining or inserting these strands into the DNA of a host ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 21:12, 23 July 2022
- A centriole is a small, barrel-shaped, sub-cellular structure typically consisting of nine triplet microtubules (nine groups of three fused microtubules) arranged in a hollow ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 01:44, 13 January 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Uzalagh ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- The ability of a chemical to behave as both an acid and a base is called amphoterism, and this type of substance is known as an amphoteric substance. According to the Brønsted ...5 KB (789 words) - 17:25, 26 July 2023
- The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish [http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Saladin.html Saladin]. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Retrieved May 17, 2008. ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسدين al-ʿAbbāsidīn ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Muslim ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- Odonata is an order of insects (class Insecta) encompassing dragonflies and damselflies, with members characterized by large, compound eyes, chewing mouth parts, a long and slender ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 00:22, 29 December 2023
- The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming silicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks. They share a common structure comprised of single chains of ...9 KB (1,340 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur and reigned for ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom under construction.]] ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- ad-Dajjal sometimes spelled Dajal, (Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), also known as the false Messiah (see also: Antichrist) is an evil ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- The Kaabah, Kaaba or Ka'bah (Arabic: الكعبة meaning: "Cube") is a building located inside Islam's holiest mosque (al-Masjidu’l-Ḥarām) found in Mecca ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- Amphibole defines an important group of generally dark-colored, rock-forming silicate minerals. Some are constituents of igneous rocks, and others are part of metamorphic rocks ...6 KB (934 words) - 17:24, 26 July 2023
- Lysosome is an organelle of eukaryotic cells that contains hydrolytic enzymes active under acidic conditions and involved in intracellular digestion. This membrane-bound sub-cellular ...11 KB (1,480 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make up as much as 60 percent of the Earth's crust. Feldspars crystallize from magma in both intrusive and extrusive ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism), chewing/biting mouthparts ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية, also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah) refers to heavenly angels, splendid beings, Surah Al-Waqiah (56): 38, note 15. In Muhammad Asad, The ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- Isma'il bin Jafar (Arabic: إسماعيل بن جعفر, c. 721 C.E./103 AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq. Isma ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- In zoology, skipper or skipper butterfly is the common name for any of the butterflies comprising the family Hesperiidae, characterized by antennae clubs hooked backward, stocky ...12 KB (1,517 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- Physiology (Greek Φυσιολογία, physis, meaning "nature") can refer either to the parts or functions (mechanical, physical, and biochemical) of living organisms ...6 KB (856 words) - 05:11, 24 November 2022
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in the family Artemiidae of the order ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- Jahannam ( جهنم ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem where ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was an artist, poet ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber, Muslim dynasty that was founded ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is an Old World monkey (family Cercopithecidae), characterized by large size, long limbs, stubby upright tail, light brown or olive-colored fur, and ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 06:44, 5 November 2022
- Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- Category:Image wanted Sakhr ibn Harb, (Arabic: صخر بن حرب ) more commonly known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca and arch-enemy of Muhammad. He ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 06:56, 14 June 2023
- Galliformes is an order of chicken-like birds, characterized by stocky built, small head, strong feet, and often short bills and wings, and adult males have sharp horny spur on ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a type of non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is a primary and permanent component of ribosomes, the small, cellular particles that form the site of ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- Once thought of as a single mineral species, lepidolite has been recently redefined as a series of minerals in the mica group. [http://www.mindat.org/min-2380.html Lepidolite] ...4 KB (543 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families Bothidae (lefteye flounders), Pleuronectidaea ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- The Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch a softer material. It was created ...5 KB (710 words) - 13:04, 10 March 2023
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided) (c. 763 – ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Rook is the common name for members of the Old World bird species Corvus frugilegus of the crow family (Corvidae), characterized by black feathers (often with a glossy blue or ...10 KB (1,526 words) - 21:41, 16 April 2023
- Exocytosis is the process by which a cell packages materials in membrane-bound secretory vesicles inside the cell and directs these secretory vesicles to fuse with the cell membrane ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 04:40, 7 April 2021
- Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Garnets are most often seen in red, but are available in a wide variety of colors ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine. He was born ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Fatimah binte Muhammad or popularly Fatimah Zahra (Fatima the Gracious) (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء) (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada al-akhir in Mecca – fourteenth Jumada ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other members of the family, known as ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey). The closest relatives of mantids ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical, practical ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- Impala (plural impala or impalas) is the common name for a light-built, swift-running, powerful-jumping African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, characterized by a reddish brown ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:37, 12 February 2024
- Nerve cord is a term that can refer to either (1) the single, hollow, fluid-filled, dorsal tract of nervous tissue that is one of the defining characteristics of chordates (dorsal ...7 KB (1,053 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2022
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. Typically, its crystals are wine or straw-yellow in color, but they can also come ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated groups of silicate minerals. It is a complex silicate of aluminum and boron, but because of isomorphous ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located on the southern shore of Kuwait ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- Allosaurus was a large (up to 9.7 m long) bipedal (moving on two legs), carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period, 155 to 145 million years ago. Allosaurus ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Piranha, or piraña, is the common name for various South American, freshwater, tropical fish of the order Charciformes known for their pointed, razor-sharp teeth in a pronounced ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae, and includes the four, well-known living species of the lion (Panthera leo), the tiger (Panthera tigris ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the legal sources, the ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate against the Byzantine Empire ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens , of high altitude areas in Central Asia, characterized by long, upcurved, black horns and a long, shaggy outer ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 May 2023
- Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a class of short-chain, non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules in which each variety attaches to and transfers a specific amino acid to a polypeptide ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- The Samanids (819–999)Sāmāniyān) were a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan, named after its founder Saman Khuda who converted to Sunni Islam despite being ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 11:36, 6 September 2022
- A planarian is any flatworm (phylum Platyhelminthes) of the suborder (or order) Tricladida of the class Turbellaria. Primarily free-living, planarians are characterized by a soft ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who reigned from ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- category:image wanted Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial court for several centuries. It ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Osama bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن) (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda movement, best known ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- Falcon is the common name for birds of prey comprising the genus Falco in the family Falconidae, characterized by a short, curved, notched beak, and thin, long, tapered and powerful ...17 KB (2,440 words) - 01:46, 29 June 2022
- Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. He was ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important Arabic scientific works of astrology ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- Lemur is the common name for any of the prosimian primates belonging to the infraorder Lemuriformes, which comprises the families Lemuridae (lemurs), Lepilemuridae (sportive lemurs ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 19:36, 25 October 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Weatheringcartoon.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This illustration shows various components of space weathering]] Space weathering is a term used for a number of ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 17:14, 14 October 2022
- Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals comprising the family Cynocephalidae and the order Dermoptera, characterized by a wide, fur-covered membrane ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- A Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك (singular), مماليك (plural), "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, or mamluke) was a slave-soldier who converted to Islam ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed Gurey in Somali and Gragn in ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Rotifers comprise a phylum, Rotifera, of microscopic and near-microscopic, multicellular aquatic animals. The name rotifer is derived from the Latin word for "wheel-bearer ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 21:46, 16 April 2023
- Guarana is the common name for a South American woody vine or sprawling shrub, Paullinia cupana in the Sapindaceae family, with large, pinnately compound evergreen leaves with ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- Viperinae is a subfamily of terrestrial and arboreal venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized by a lack of the heat-sensing pit organs that characterize their sister group ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- Category:Public Abu Bakr (alternative spellings, Abubakar, Abi Bakr, Abu Bakar) (c. 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs (632–634). Abu Bakr was a ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- Al Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also created the comic strips Abbie and ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Zenobia ( زنوبيا ) was a Syrian queen (240-after 274 C.E.). After her husband's death, she became a powerful military leader in her own right, conquering both Egypt ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising the order Rajiformes (or Batoidea), characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral fins continuous with the head ...10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- Salmonella (plural salmonellae, salmonellas, or salmonella) are any of the various rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that comprise the genus Salmonella (family Enterobacteriaceae ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 01:52, 23 December 2022
- The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Tigris River. The two rivers have their sources within 50 miles of each ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- Doha ( الدوحة , Ad-Dawḥah or Ad-Dōḥah ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 80 percent of Qatar’s ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- Chaetognatha is a phylum of small, slender, marine worms, generally characterized by a largely transparent body, fins on both the tail and the body, and grasping bristles or hooks ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- A Plastid is any member of a family of organelles found in the cells of all living plants and algae, but not in animals, and characterized by having their own copies of genetic ...12 KB (1,679 words) - 16:58, 14 October 2021
- Aquamarine (Lat. aqua marina, "water of the sea") is a gemstone-quality transparent variety of beryl, having a delicate blue or turquoise color, suggestive of the tint ...5 KB (716 words) - 15:58, 11 August 2023
- Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rabiʿa al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) was a female Muslim Sufi saint, considered by ...18 KB (3,164 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- Sight, the sense of vision or visual perception, describes the capability to detect electromagnetic energy within the visible range (light) by the eye, and the ability of the ...14 KB (2,075 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- 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 massive. Located approximately ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- Notochord is a flexible, rod-shaped supporting structure that is one of the distinguishing features of the phylum Chordatas, being found at some point in the life cycle of all ...6 KB (850 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Oleander is the common and species name for a poisonous evergreen shrub or small tree, Nerium oleander, in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, characterized by dark green, lanceolate ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- Narwhal is the common name for an Arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, of the cetacean suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales), characterized by mottled gray color, no dorsal fin, a ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- Silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of various species of moths, in particular, Bombyx mori, the domesticated silkmoth, whose silk cocoons can be used in the production of silk. ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- Mecca (Makkah al-Mukarramah, مكة المكرمة ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in the historic Hejaz region. It sits in a valley surrounded ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the 16th-most-populous metropolitan area in the world, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 15.2 ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- Salamander is the common term for any member of the order Caudata (also called Urodela) of the class Amphibia. Although lizard-like in external appearance, salamanders can be ...12 KB (1,655 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (variant: Al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī 'Abd al-Awal al-Ṣabāḥ, Abū 'Alī ( ar| الحسن بن هانئ بن عبد الأول ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort (industry, occupation) by humans to catch and/or process, normally for sale, fish, shellfish, or other aquatic organisms. ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ʻ arb) is a peninsula in Southwest ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- Pope Saint Marcellus I was pope from May 308 to 309. He succeeded Marcellinus, after a considerable interval, in May or June 308. Marcellus is credited with having reorganized ...10 KB (1,623 words) - 04:04, 26 November 2022
- The Libyan Desert, also known as Great Sand Sea or Western Desert, is an African desert that is located in the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert and occupies southwestern ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- In genetics, an allele (pronounced al-eel or al-e-ul) is any one of a number of viable DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) codings occupying a given locus (position) on a chromosome. ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 18:27, 21 July 2023
- Foraminifera, abbreviated as forams, are single-celled amoeboid protists comprising the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera of supergroup Rhizaria), characterized by reticulating ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a pre-colonial West African trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is now central Mali ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- Cellular differentiation is an embryological process by which an unspecialized cell becomes specialized into one of the many cell types that make up the body. Cell differentiation ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- Frances Coralie "Fannie" Perkins (April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the first ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- The Seljuqs (also Seljuk or Seljuq Turks) were a Muslim dynasty of originally Oghuz Turkic descent that ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from the eleventh to fourteenth ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic shrine and a ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- A suicide attack is an attack on a military or civilian target, in which an attacker intends to kill others, and knows that he or she will most likely die in the process. The ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- Saladin, Salah ad-Din, or Salahuddin al Ayyubi (so-lah-hood-din al-aye-yu-be) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim general and warrior from Tikrit ...16 KB (2,458 words) - 00:59, 23 December 2022
- The Van Allen radiation belt (or Van Allen belt) is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. Energetic electrons ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2023
- The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada ...19 KB (2,735 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- Fructose (or levulose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) with the same chemical formula as glucose (C6H12O6) but a different atomic arrangement. Along with glucose and galactose ...12 KB (1,703 words) - 09:20, 21 June 2021
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: شیعه) is the second largest school within Islam. Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old World bats comprising the suborder Megachiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized by true wings ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth Fatimid caliph ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- Denisovans are an extinct hominid group more closely related to the Neanderthals than modern humans and identified from the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences of the roughly ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially for purposes of capturing ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- Dendrochronology (from Greek grc|δένδρον , dendron, "tree"; grc|χρόνος , khronos, "time"; and grc|-λογία , -logia) or tree-ring dating is ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- Corn syrup is any of a variety of forms of syrup (thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, with little tendency to deposit crystals) made using corn ...18 KB (2,609 words) - 23:23, 6 April 2022
- The genus Rhinoceros of the family Rhinocerotidae includes the one-horned rhinoceroses, of which there are two extant species: the Indian rhinoceros (R. unicornis) and the Javan ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
- Glycine is one of the 20 most common, natural, "proteinogenic" (literally, protein building) standard amino acids. It is the simplest of the amino acids in terms of ...10 KB (1,540 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ibn ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- Astrochemistry, representing an overlap of the disciplines of astronomy and chemistry, is the study of chemicals found in outer space, including their identity, formation, interactions ...7 KB (940 words) - 18:21, 19 August 2023
- Fowl is the common name for any of the gamefowl or landfowl comprising the bird order Galliformes, or any of the waterfowl comprising the order Anseriformes. Galliforms or gallinaceous ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Ibn Sina, Abu- ‘Ali- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو علي الحسين بن عبد ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- Monera, in some systems of biological classification, is a kingdom that comprises most living things with a prokaryotic cell organization. For this reason, the kingdom also has ...8 KB (1,051 words) - 13:09, 10 March 2023
- Ramadan (also spelled Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer, reflection ...25 KB (3,551 words) - 00:32, 8 December 2022
- Grasshoppers are long and slender insects belonging to the order Orthoptera, typically exhibiting long, strong hind limbs for leaping and powerful mouth-parts for chewing. The ...20 KB (2,942 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- The Battle of Karbala was a military engagement that took place on 10 Muharram, 61 A.H. (October 10, 680) in Karbala (present day Iraq) between a small group of supporters and ...12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 - March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George," was an American star left-handed first basemen in Major League Baseball (MLB). Ty ...12 KB (1,757 words) - 10:58, 13 December 2023
- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (1941 - November 24, 1989) was a highly influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, and a central figure in preaching for defensive jihad ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in the late eleventh century in the ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- Saadia Ben Joseph Gaon (882-942 C.E.), (Hebrew:סעדיה בן יוסף גאון ) also known by his Arabic name Said al-Fayyumi, was a prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- Clove is the common name for a small, tropical evergreen tree, Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Eugenia aromaticum or Eugenia caryophyllata) and for its aromatic, dried, unopened flower ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Purine is a heterocyclic, aromatic, organic compound, consisting of a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring. Heterocyclic compounds are organic compounds (containing carbon ...7 KB (928 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying messenger RNAs (mRNAs) used ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- Balsa is the common name for a fast-growing, tropical American tree, Ochroma pyramidale (synonym O. lagopus), characterized by soft and light wood. The name also is used for the ...6 KB (941 words) - 04:22, 11 January 2023
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for any of the large, gregarious, wading birds comprising the family Phoenicopteridae, characterized by long legs ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: ar|فرنسيس بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش , ar|Fransīs bin Fatḥ Allāh bin Naṣr Allāh Marrāsh ...35 KB (4,995 words) - 17:16, 29 November 2023
- Coenzyme is any of a diverse group of small organic, non-protein, freely diffusing molecules that are loosely associated with and essential for the activity of enzymes, serving ...22 KB (2,903 words) - 07:19, 6 June 2023
- Giant anteater is the common name for the largest species of anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, characterized by a long, narrow, tapered snout without teeth, very long tongue ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 07:42, 24 January 2023
- Slime mold is the common name for any of the members of a polyphyletic grouping of heterotrophic, fungi-like amoeboid (that is, like an amoeba) organisms that have an alternation ...12 KB (1,726 words) - 21:15, 30 January 2023
- The Assassins (originally called Hashashim, Hashishin, or Hashashiyyin) were a religious sect of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims (from the Nizari lineage) originating in Persia, during ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
- Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically characterized by swelling of the ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Aleppo (Arabic Halab) is a city in northern Syria, the second largest city in Syria after Damascus, and one of the oldest inhabited cities in history. Originating in the early ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- Category:Image wanted Georges Poulet (1902 - 1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism and Phenomenology (such as ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- Mica is an important group of rock-forming silicate minerals, belonging to the subgroup called phyllosilicates. The group consists of more than 30 members, the most common among ...9 KB (1,317 words) - 16:34, 9 November 2022
- The Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) is a cornerstone document outlining ethical principles for conducting medical research with human subjects. Originally adopted in Helsinki, Finland ...23 KB (3,386 words) - 00:17, 27 December 2021
- Frank Robinson (born August 31, 1935), is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder, most notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles. ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 05:08, 9 April 2024
- Uracil is one of the five main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA. The others are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. However, while the other four are found ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:37, 12 November 2022
- Jack "J.L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born John Leonard Warner in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish–Jewish family, was the president and driving ...9 KB (1,211 words) - 08:50, 13 March 2024
- A ribosome is a small, dense granular particle comprising usually three or four ribosomal RNA molecules and more than 50 protein molecules, interconnected to form the site of ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are 236 described species of Melaleuca, all of which occur in Australia. About 230 species are endemic ...18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
- Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Prunus is an economically important genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, characterized by a fruit in the form of a drupe, usually white to pink perigynous flowers ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 01:24, 12 April 2023
- Rubella, commonly known as German measles and also called three-day measles, is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the rubella virus (Rubivirus). Symptoms are typically ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- Flight is the process by which an object achieves sustained movement through the air, as in the case of aircraft, or beyond Earth's atmosphere, as in the case of spaceflight ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- DEET is a chemical, N, N-Diethyl-m-toluamide, that acts as an insect repellent to prevent bites from mosquitoes, fleas, biting flies, and other insects, as well as ticks (arachnids ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- Ibis is the common name for any of the long-legged wading birds of diverse genera comprising the subfamily Threskiornithinae of the family Threskiornithidae, characterized by ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:58, 10 February 2024
- Khadijah (between 555-570 C.E. – about 630 C.E.) was the first wife of the Muslim prophet, Muhammad. Khadijah al-Kubra, the daughter of Khuwaylid ibn Asad and Fatimah bint Za ...7 KB (1,148 words) - 03:33, 6 October 2022
- Vacuoles are membrane-bound compartments within some eukaryotic cells that serve a variety of secretory, excretory, and storage functions. These organelles are found in the cytoplasm ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 23:00, 13 November 2022
- Booker T. & the M.G.'s were an instrumental soul band popular in the 1960s and 70s associated with Stax Records in the subgenre of Memphis soul. Best known for their ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 19:23, 20 November 2023
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or both. Although traditionally eutrophication ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are one of two major classes of cells in neural tissues, the other being neurons, for which the glial cells provide support ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 07:55, 24 January 2023
- Trachoma, also known as granular conjunctivitis, is an infectious eye disease caused by the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis and characterized by inflammation of the conjunctiva ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 17:42, 4 November 2022
- Estrogens (also oestrogens) are a group of steroid (type of lipid) compounds that function as the primary female sex hormone. Estrogens are named for their importance in the estrous ...11 KB (1,614 words) - 00:20, 19 March 2022
- An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things, so that an inference (reasoning from premise to conclusion) is drawn on the basis of that similarity. So if ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between philosophy (reason) and the religious ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- Geckos are small to average sized lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae, which comprises dozens of genera and several hundred different species found in warm climates throughout ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 06:31, 18 April 2024
- The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; דרוזים , Druzim; also transliterated Druz or Druse) are a Middle Eastern religious community whose ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Orbison illusion.svg|thumb|right|225px|Orbison illusion]] An Orbison illusion is an optical ...4 KB (510 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2022
- Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha), comprising species with elongated ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal was a battle that took place at Basra, Iraq in 655 C.E. between forces allied to Ali and the superior forces of ...27 KB (4,726 words) - 02:43, 26 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Whites illusion.svg|thumb|225px|White's illusion]] White's illusion is an optical ...3 KB (488 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- Vicuña is the common name for a rare, wild, gregarious South American camelid, Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes mountains and characterized by a ...11 KB (1,797 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- Nemertea is a phylum of largely aquatic invertebrate animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms and characterized by long, thin, unsegmented body that is flattened ...11 KB (1,500 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (1120 - c. 1229), much better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn ( فریدالدین ) and ‘Attār ( عطار —"the pharmacist ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American genus, Eriogonum. In particular, ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- Cobra is the common name for a number of Asian and African snakes in several genera of the family Elapidae, characterized by smooth scales, large shields covering the head, eyes ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 07:35, 14 January 2023
- An antiproton (symbol Antiproton , pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton. An antiproton is relatively stable, but it is typically short-lived because any collision ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum vulgare of the mint family (Lamiaceae), characterized by opposite, aromatic leaves and purple flowers. Another ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger from 1389 to 1893. It was a continuation of the great Kanem-Bornu Kingdom founded centuries earlier by the Sayfawa ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332/732AH – March 19, 1406/808AH) was a famous historiographer and historian born in present-day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Queen Noor (Arabic: الملكة نور born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan. Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby was ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- Kairouan (Arabic القيروان) (also known as Kirwan, and Al Qayrawan) is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in the nation of Tunisia, about 160 kilometers (100 mi) south ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- Iguana is both the common name for several of the larger members of tropical lizards in the family Iguanidae, and the scientific name of the genus within Iguanidae comprised of ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 23:45, 4 October 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Zollner_illusion.svg|thumb|right|225px|Zöllner illusion]] The Zöllner illusion is a classic ...4 KB (537 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- Irish elk is the common name for an giant, extinct deer, Megaloceros giganteus, characterized by enormous antlers. This is the largest deer known to have ever lived. Megaloceros ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 18:59, 7 February 2023
- In Christian theology, fideism is the position that reason is irrelevant to religious faith. Fideism can be both a response to anti-religious arguments, and a counterbalance to ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- The nucleolus (plural nucleoli) is a large, distinct, spheroidal subcompartment of the nucleus of eukaryote cells that is the site of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) synthesis and assembly ...21 KB (3,018 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- Toucan is the common name for any of the large-billed, long-tailed, tropical birds comprising the New World family Ramphastidae of the near-passerine order Piciformes, characterized ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 1 May 2023
- Food chains, along with food webs and food networks, describe the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community. In other words, they show the transfer of material ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 10:18, 10 November 2023
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth year as 1903) – August 29, 1966) was an Egyptian intellectual author, and Islamist associated with the Egyptian ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations {{Infobox Newspaper | name = The Jerusalem Post| image = [[Image:19480516 PalestinePost Israel is born.jpg|200px]]| ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 02:34, 1 August 2022
- Sipuncula or Sipunculida is a phylum of bilaterally symmetrical, unsegmented marine invertebrates, characterized by a worm-like body divided into a trunk and retractable introvert ...11 KB (1,484 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an African trading empire ruled by the Saf dynasty from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. It encompassed, at varying times, the areas belonging ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- Essential oil is any concentrated, hydrophobic (immiscible with water), typically lipophilic (oil or fat soluble) liquid of plants that contains highly volatile aroma compounds ...16 KB (2,270 words) - 12:06, 5 March 2021
- The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the eleventh century. They created the ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Ehrenstein color.jpg|thumb|right|180px]] The Ehrenstein illusion is an optical illusion in which ...4 KB (549 words) - 07:14, 10 August 2023
- The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically and commonly known as the Persian ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- The term bioethics was first coined by American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology, ecology, medicine, and human values. ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work Category:Law Sexual abuse (also referred to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one ...18 KB (2,684 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- Box jellyfish is the common name for any of the radially symmetrical, marine invertebrates comprising the Cnidarian class Cubozoa, characterized by generally well-developed eyes ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- Hydrogen cyanide is a chemical compound with the formula HCN. It is a colorless, very poisonous, and highly volatile liquid that boils slightly above room temperature. The gas ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 13:19, 4 February 2023
- Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader) of the Nizārī Muslims( الطائفة الإسماعيلية), a sect ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- A savanna or savannah is a tropical or subtropical woodland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close, above ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger (P. tigris), the ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( أبومصعب الزرقاوي , ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his death in June 2006 ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:Punch.jpg|thumb|250 px|right| Punch magazine cover, 1867]] Punch was a British weekly magazine of humor ...8 KB (1,281 words) - 23:46, 2 December 2022
- Dugong is the common name for a large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine mammal, Dugong dugon, characterized by gray-colored, nearly hairless skin, paddle-like forelimbs, no hind ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Hussein bin Ali (1852 – 1931) (حسین بن علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917, when he proclaimed himself king of ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna or Lepcis Magna, (also Lpqy or Neapolis), located on North Africa's Mediterranean coast in what is now Libya, was originally a Phoenician ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- Coral snake, or coralsnake, is the common name for often colorful venomous snakes belonging to several genera of the Elapidae family. Traditionally, six genera have been known ...24 KB (3,201 words) - 19:02, 14 January 2023
- Ali ibn Abi (or Abu) Talib ( علي بن أبي طالب ) (ca. 21 March 598 – 661) was an early Islamic leader. He is seen by the Sunni Muslims as the fourth and last of the ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- Ricin ( ˈraɪsɨn ) is a protein derived from the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) that is highly toxic to humans, as well as to other animals, including insects ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz) (خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی in Persian) was a Persian mystic and poet who ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni Islam is also referred to as Sunnism or as Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h (Arabic: أهل السنة والجماعة ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Intifada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from Arabic for "shaking off") is an Arabic term for "uprising." The word was first widely used to describe the popular ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding together of quarks and gluons ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that are unique among cnidarians in that they do not do not have a medusa stage in their development. These ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 01:56, 9 January 2023
- Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors ...8 KB (1,169 words) - 01:44, 10 December 2022
- The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte and local Mamluk forces. It was the first of many battles ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated in southern Sudan, the civil war ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Marchantiophyta, characterized by a gametophyte-dominant life cycle and single ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Resembling in shape a figurehead on a ship's prow, the Sultanate of Oman juts sharply from the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula into the Arabian Sea. It is the world ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- Mohammed Anwar Al Sadat (Arabic: محمد أنورالسادات Muḥammad 'Anwar as-Sādāt) (December 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981) was an Egyptian statesman who served ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Category:Image wanted Etiology (alternately aetiology, aitiology) is the study of causation. Derived from the Greek grc|αιτιολογία, "giving a reason for" (grc ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi أبو بكر البغدادي ; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, ar|إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- The term carotene refers to a class of related organic compounds with the formula C40H56. Carotenes exist in several isomers that have the same formula but different molecular ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- Baghdad ( بغداد Baġdād ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also coterminous with. With a municipal population estimated at 7,000,000, it is ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1040? – July 1099), was a Castilian military and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the Spanish nobility and nicknamed El Cid Campeador, Rodrigo ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- Papaya is a palm-like, soft-stemmed, evergreen tree, Carica papaya, that is native to the tropics of the Americas, but which is now cultivated in tropical and warm, semi-tropical ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 07:31, 18 November 2022
- Birefringence, or double refraction, is the splitting of a ray of light into two rays when it passes through certain types of material, such as calcite crystals. The two rays ...9 KB (1,136 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living organisms or inorganic matter. However, what specifically is included as detritus varies according to different ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder, (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1949) (from Ryder's esteemed original 1924 translation, also ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- Umar ibn al-Khattab (in Arabic, عمر بن الخطاب) (c. 581 - November, 644), sometimes referred to as Umar Farooq or just as Omar or Umar, was from the Banu Adi clan of ...21 KB (3,473 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology, is the idea that members of a particular ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- Arabic literature (Arabic ,الأدب العربي ) Al-Adab Al-Arabi, is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers (not necessarily native speakers) of the Arabic ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Amman, sometimes spelled Ammann (Arabic عمان ʿAmmān), is the capital, largest city, and economic center of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The city, which has served as ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- Measles, also known as rubeola, is a very highly contagious [[virus|viral] disease caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus, and characterized by a high fever and ...18 KB (2,539 words) - 09:34, 10 March 2023
- Aisha, Ayesha, 'A'isha, or 'Aisha 1 (Arabic عائشه `ā'isha, "she who lives") was a wife of the prophet Muhammad. Aisha was the daughter of the ...25 KB (4,166 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- Harvestmen is the common name for any of the eight-legged invertebrate animals comprising the order Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) in the arthropod class Arachnida, characterized ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- The hajj ( حج , transliterated Ḥaǧǧ; "greater pilgrimage") Cyril Glassé, The New Encyclopedia of Islam (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 ISBN ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- Trichoptera is an order of moth-like, holometabolous insects, known commonly as caddisflies (or caddis flies), with aquatic, silk-spinning, caterpillar-like larva and adults that ...12 KB (1,840 words) - 16:48, 2 May 2023
- Sufism (from Arabic (صوف), Suf meaning "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome of divine Love. Sufis can be associated ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- Rhododendron is the common and genus name for a large and diverse group of woody shrubs and small (rarely large) trees in the flowering plant family Ericaceae. It is a large genus ...16 KB (2,229 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- A wetland is a transitional environment between permanently aquatic and terrestrial environments that shares characteristics of both environments and where water, which covers ...25 KB (3,675 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- Mangabey is the common name for the various Old World monkeys comprising the genera Lophocebus ( crested mangabeys), Cercocebus (white-eyelid mangabeys), and Rungwecebus (highland ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 06:45, 5 November 2022
- Tapir (pronounced as in "taper," or IPA "təˈpɪər," pronounced as in "tap-ear") are large, browsing, mammals with short, prehensile snouts comprising ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- Ermine is the common name for a small, northern weasel, Mustela erminea, characterized by a short, black-tipped tail, a long body with short legs, and fur that is dark brown in ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:45, 6 September 2023
- Tardigrade, or water bear, is any of the various very small, segmented invertebrates comprising the phylum Tardigrada, characterized by bilateral symmetry, four pairs of unjointed ...13 KB (1,883 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein I of Jordan, 1997]] Hussein bin Talal (حسين بن طلال Husayn bin Talāl) (November 14 ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- Radiolaria is a diverse grouping of amoeboid protozoa that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule of cytoplasm separating the cell into inner and ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae that are characterized by having a swarming (gregarious ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- Gull is the common name for any of the aquatic birds comprising the family Laridae, characterized by long and narrow wings, strong bills that are hooked at the end, webbed feet ...12 KB (1,696 words) - 04:38, 7 December 2021
- Category:Image wanted Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of the founders of logical positivism ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- The Battle of Badr ( غزوة بدر ), fought March 17, 624 C.E. (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) in the Hejaz of western Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia), was a key ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- Artichoke, or globe artichoke, is a perennial thistle, Cynara cardunculus (or C. scolymus) of the Asteraceae family, characterized by pinnately, deeply lobed leaves, and flowers ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- Maronites are members of one of the Syriac Eastern Catholic Churches, with a heritage reaching back to Saint Maron in the early fifth century C.E. The first Maronite patriarch ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- Yantra (from the Sanskrit root sa|यन्त्र् yam, meaning "to restrain, curb, check") refers to "any instrument [or machine] for holding, restraining ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- Ribozyme (from ribonucleic acid enzyme) is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule that can catalyze biochemical reactions, just as as certain protein enzymes act as biological catalysts ...13 KB (1,885 words) - 20:53, 16 April 2023
- Tuber is a botanical term for an enlarged, fleshy, generally underground stem of certain seed plants, in which the typical stem parts are represented and which often serves as ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- Genome is one complete set of hereditary information that characterizes an organism, as encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). That is, a genome is equivalent to the ...18 KB (2,592 words) - 15:43, 11 February 2023
- Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo gulo, of the weasel family (Mustelidae), characterized by a large and stocky body, a bushy tail, dark fur ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207 - 1273 C.E.) (مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی), known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a mystical ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Impossible_cube_illusion_angle.svg|200px|thumb|right|An impossible cube that defies the laws ...5 KB (696 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on their suckers, and lacking the internal ...13 KB (1,807 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 16:34, 5 January 2021
- Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a distinct member of the herpesvirus family (Herpesviridae) of DNA viruses and one of the most common viruses in humans. ...25 KB (3,646 words) - 15:14, 15 April 2022
- Diphtheria is a highly-contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, an aerobic Gram-positive bacterium. It is generally an upper respiratory tract illness characterized ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 00:38, 26 August 2020
- Ichneumonidae is a diverse family of wasps, typically characterized by a parasitic component to the life cycle, antennae with 16 or more segments, an elongated abdomen, and females ...15 KB (1,966 words) - 13:28, 4 February 2023
- Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Kharṭūm), located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, is the capital of Sudan and of Khartoum State. Although the region ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- Tunis ( تونس, Tūnis ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is the center of Tunisian commerce, as well as focus of political and administrative life ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- category:image wanted Soul music is a musical genre that combines rhythm and blues and gospel music and originated in the late 1950s in the United States. Rhythm and blues (a combination ...11 KB (1,733 words) - 01:19, 4 February 2023
- Pumpkin is the common name for large-fruited varieties of several species of trailing and climbing plants of the genus Cucurbita, characterized by a round, pulpy, orange or orange ...20 KB (2,919 words) - 14:19, 2 July 2022
- Mani (c.216–274 A.D.) was an Iranian religious prophet and preacher who founded Manichaeism, an ancient dualistic religion that was once prolific in Persia but is now extinct ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Sayyid Abul Ala al-Maududi (Urdu: سيد ابو الاعلى مودودی, Arabic: سيد أبو الأعلى المودودي; alternative spellings of first ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- Viperidae, whose members are commonly known as vipers, is a family of venomous snakes characterized by a head that is distinct from the body and with a single pair of long, hollow ...12 KB (1,886 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- Exoskeleton is a hard, external structure that covers, supports, and protects an animal's body, such as the chitinous covering of a crab, the silica shells (frustules) of ...22 KB (3,138 words) - 06:10, 13 September 2023
- The nervous system is the network of specialized cells, tissues, and organs in a multicellular animal that coordinates the body's interaction with the environment, including ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- Alexandria, with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo. It is the country's largest seaport, serving in excess of 50 percent of all ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- In religious discourse, Inclusivism designates a particular theological position regarding the relationship between religions. This position is characterized by the belief that ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Capuchin monkey is the common name for the tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Cebus of the primate family Cebidae, characterized by a hairy, prehensile tail, and ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 22:10, 25 November 2023
- Strep throat, also known as Streptococcal pharyngitis or Streptococcal sore throat, is a contagious infection of the mucous membranes of the pharynx caused by group A Streptococcus ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 23:26, 21 October 2022
- The Ghana Empire or Wagadou Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. This is believed to be first of ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 23:55, 6 December 2022
- Bukhara ( Buxoro , Бухоро , بُخارا , Бухара ), also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian βuxārak ("lucky place"), is the capital of the ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Penguin (PEN-gwin or PENG-gwin) is the common name for any of the aquatic, gregarious, flightless birds comprising the family Spheniscidae, living almost exclusively in the Southern ...36 KB (5,093 words) - 17:12, 26 March 2023
- Poison dart frog (also poison arrow frog, dart frog, or poison frog) is the common name for any of the very small, diurnal frogs of the Dendrobatidae family. Their common name ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 02:10, 10 April 2023
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the larger Arabian ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the deity of the primordial chaos. He ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- Lymphoma is any of a diverse group of cancers that originate in lymphocytes of the lymphatic system, a secondary (but open) circulatory system in vertebrates. In lymphoma, the ...16 KB (2,166 words) - 03:16, 5 November 2022
- An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained from a fuel) into useful mechanical power or motion. If the engine produces kinetic energy (energy of motion ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand Nights and ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, called an aldehyde group, consists of a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom with ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- Bell pepper is the common name for a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum, widely cultivated for their edible, bell-shaped fruits, which are characterized by a glossy ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 18:58, 11 January 2023
- Dendrite is a highly branched, generally tapering extension of a neuron (nerve cell) that typically receives signals from other neurons and transmits the signals toward the cell ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 02:26, 25 August 2020
- In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species whereby each species is indicated by a two-part name, a capitalized genus name followed by a lowercase ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was also worshiped in ancient Egypt. In Ugaritic her name appears as ‘nt and in Greek as Αναθ (transliterated ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- Chrysanthemum is the common name and genus name for a group of erect, herbaceous perennial plants in the flowering plant family Asteraceae (aster, daisy or sunflower family), ...17 KB (2,581 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- Feliformia is one of two suborders within the order Carnivora and consists of the "cat-like" carnivores, such as the felids (true cats), hyenas, mongooses, civets, and ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 12:58, 21 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia or pædophilia) is the paraphilia, or sexual deviation, of being sexually ...22 KB (3,151 words) - 07:11, 23 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox MLB retired |name=Larry Doby |position=Outfielder |bats=Left |throws=Right |birthdate=December 13, 1923Camden|South Carolina |deathdate=2003|6|18 ...22 KB (3,428 words) - 17:46, 25 October 2022
- A steroid is any of a group of natural or synthetic, fat-soluble, organic compounds belonging to the class of lipids and characterized by a molecular core of four fused rings ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 20:04, 9 February 2023
- Qumran ( חירבת קומראן , Khirbet Qumran) is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. The site was constructed ...18 KB (2,848 words) - 16:03, 7 December 2022
- Colitis (or colonitis) is inflammation of the colon (or more generally the large intestine). Various types of colitis have been identified, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn ...11 KB (1,475 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- Alpaca is the common name for a domesticated, gregarious, high-altitude South American ungulate, Vicugna pacos (syn. Lama pacos), of the camel family (Camelidae), characterized ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 08:21, 23 July 2023
- Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two extant families: the golden moles comprising the Chrysochloridae family and the tenrecs (and otter-shrews) ...21 KB (2,748 words) - 20:46, 29 December 2022
- The Song of Roland ( La Chanson de Roland ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various different manuscript versions, which testify to its enormous and ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- The Gurmukhī (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) script is derived from the Later Sharada script and was standardized by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad Dev, in the sixteenth century for ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe. P.J.E. Peebles and ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox MLB retired |name=Whitey Ford |position=Pitcher |bats=Left |throws=Left |birthdate=1928|10|21New York, New York |deathdate= |debutdate=July 1 ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 18:40, 4 May 2023
- Mohammad Fazlollah Zahedi (1896 - 1963) was an Iranian general, Prime Minister, and politician. Having risen to the rank of brigadier-general after distinguishing himself by crushing ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Grid illusion.svg|thumb|200px|right|An example of the scintillating grid illusion. Dark dots ...5 KB (754 words) - 12:27, 24 January 2023
- Fruit fly may refer to: * Tephritidae, the family of large fruit flies. * Drosophilidae, the family of small fruit flies or vinegar flies, including: ** Drosophila melanogaster ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 09:54, 3 December 2023
- A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- Jihad ( جهاد ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to strive, or “struggle” in ways related to Islam, both for the sake of internal, spiritual ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- Dubai (in Arabic: دبيّ, Dubayy, /dʊ'baɪ/ in English) is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the eastern Arabian Peninsula. "Dubai ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
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- Naguib Mahfouz ( نجيب محفوظ , Nagīb Maḥfūẓ ) (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis and typically characterized by a severe hacking cough followed ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 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 collapsed remnant of a massive star ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- Moshe ben Maimon (March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204) was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher. Moshe ben Maimon's Hebrew name is רבי משה בן מיימון ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), an African even-toed ungulate mammal, has a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living animal species. Males can be 4 ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2023
- Lycopene is a bright red, fat-soluble carotenoid pigment and phytochemical, C40H56, found in tomatoes, watermelon, guava, and other red fruits. Structurally, it is a tetraterpene ...20 KB (2,797 words) - 10:39, 9 March 2023
- Testosterone is a steroid hormone that acts in vertebrates to regulate many sexually dimorphic traits and express many fitness related traits in males (Zysline et al. 2006). A ...21 KB (3,056 words) - 15:00, 30 April 2023
- Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of philosophy took shape in the third century C.E. with the philosopher Plotinus, whose student, Porphyry, assembled ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- Electron capture (sometimes called Inverse Beta Decay) is a decay mode for isotopes that will occur when there are too many protons in the nucleus of an atom and insufficient ...5 KB (705 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- This article is about the city in the West Bank. Bethlehem (Arabic: Bayt Lahm meaning “House of Meat” and Hebrew: Bet Lehem meaning “House of Bread”) is a Palestinian city ...17 KB (2,648 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- Rhubarb is the common name for perennial plants comprising the genus Rheum of the Polygonaceae family, and in particular the garden rhubard, Rheum rhabarbarum, which is popularly ...14 KB (2,051 words) - 09:17, 10 August 2022
- Blueberry is the common name for flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus of the heath family Ericaceae, characterized by bell-shaped or tubular flowers and ...22 KB (3,038 words) - 18:15, 31 October 2023
- Rosemary is the common name for a woody, perennial herbaceous plant, Rosmarinus officinalis, characterized by fragrant, evergreen needle-like leaves and tiny, clustered, light ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Gray1095-gall bladder.png|thumb|Gall bladder]] [[Image:gallbladderop.jpg|thumb|Cholecystectomy seen through a laparoscope]] The gallbladder (also gall bladder ...11 KB (1,595 words) - 14:53, 27 June 2021
- Eared seal is the common name for any of the marine mammals comprising the pinniped family Otariidae, characterized by presence of a pinna (external part of ear), the ability ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- The monarch butterfly is a large butterfly, Danaus plexippus, that is noted for its long migrations and which is characterized by reddish-brown wings with distinctive, thick black ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- Damascus ( ar|دمشق Dimashq , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is thought to be among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely perennial) plants of the flowering plant genus Amaranthus, characterized by small, often green or reddish flowers ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- Allah (Allah (/ˈæl.lə, ˈɑːl.lə, əˈl.lɑː/; Arabic: ٱللَّٰه, romanized: Allāh,) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian composer and lutist of the late Renaissance ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 15:23, 27 November 2023
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Petra (from πέτρα "petra-πέτρα," cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Butrā) is an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- Emerald (from the Greek word smaragdos, through the French esmeralde, meaning "green gemstone") is a green variety of the mineral beryl and is among the most valuable ...10 KB (1,413 words) - 15:17, 31 December 2021
- Fig wasp is the common name for wasps of the family Agaonidae, which pollinate the blossoms of fig trees or are otherwise associated with fig trees. Many of the wasps currently ...15 KB (2,451 words) - 19:44, 26 March 2024
- Āryabha ṭ a (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 C.E.) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Clam is an imprecisely defined common name variously used for certain bivalve mollusks or for all bivalve mollusks. As a member of the class Bivalvia (syn. Pelecypoda), clams ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- Theophrastus (c. 372 - 278 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him his successor as leader of the Lyceum. He espoused the ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך mlk) is a Canaanite god in the Old Testament associated with human sacrifice. Some scholars have suggested that ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 00:28, 25 March 2024
- Diatom is the common name for a major group of unicellular or (less commonly) colonial algae comprising the protist taxon Bacillariophyceae (or Bacillariophyta), characterized ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vellum Online Etymological Dictionary] Retrieved July 18, 2008. ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري|translit=ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī Al-Zawahiri is also sometimes transliterated ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Attention is defined as a readiness on the part of the organism to perceive stimuli that surround it. Attention is sustained ...32 KB (4,749 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic سقطرى ; Suquṭra ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden. Nearly 190|nmi|mi km ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger, lion, and leopard of the ...38 KB (5,659 words) - 01:30, 8 February 2023
- Eagle is the common name for various diurnal birds of prey in the family Accipitridae of the bird order Falconiformes, characterized by large size, powerful hooked beaks, strong ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west. It ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression in animals, typically in cold weather, and characterized by lower body temperature, slower heart beat ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small creatures. Thus, insectivores are ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:53, 5 February 2023
- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government whose primary mission today is collecting secret information from abroad ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- Mulberry is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the genus Morus of the flowering plant family Moraceae, characterized by simple, alternate leaves, a milky ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
- Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of mostly perennial and aromatic herbs and shrubs in the daisy family Asteraceae, characterized by alternate leaves and small flower heads ...26 KB (3,665 words) - 12:12, 7 November 2021
- Ginger is the common name for the monocotyledonous perennial plant Zingiber officinale, an erect plant in the Zingiberaceae family that is widely cultivated for its edible, underground ...24 KB (3,593 words) - 22:30, 1 January 2023
- In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite god, often portrayed as the primary enemy of the Hebrew God Yahweh. The Semitic word "baal" (meaning ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- Yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse grouping of single-celled fungi. As members of the Kingdom Fungi, which also includes mushrooms, molds, and mildews, yeasts are eukaryotes ...24 KB (3,421 words) - 09:54, 23 May 2023
- Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a polymer or chain of nucleotide units, each comprising a nitrogenous base (adenine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil), a five-carbon sugar (ribose), and ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Pangolin, or scaly anteater, is the common name for African and Asian armored mammals comprising the order Pholidota, characterized by a long and narrow snout, no teeth, a long ...14 KB (1,993 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- Aluminum (or aluminium) (chemical symbol Al, atomic number is 13) is a soft, lightweight metal with a silvery appearance and the ability to resist corrosion. It is the most abundant ...38 KB (5,676 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- The prostate or prostate gland is a exocrine gland of the male mammalian reproductive system, located at the base of the urinary bladder. It is a compound tubuloalveolar gland ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 08:14, 2 December 2022
- An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is an annual publication that contains tabular information in a particular field organized according to a calendar. Astronomical ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- Beryl is a mineral with the chemical name beryllium aluminum cyclosilicate (chemical formula Be3Al2(SiO3)6). It has a vitreous (glassy) luster and can be transparent or translucent ...5 KB (674 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- Mahmud of Ghazni (October 2, 971 – April 30, 1030 C.E.), also known as Yamin ad-Dawlah Mahmud (in full: Yamin ad-Dawlah Abd al-Qasim Mahmud Ibn Sebük Tigin), was the ruler ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- In anatomy, the heart is the muscular, pumping organ of the closed circulatory system of all vertebrates and some invertebrates (annelids and cephalopods). It is responsible for ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 15:12, 25 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg_NYWTS.jpg|thumb|250px|Ethel and Julius Rosenberg committed treason by selling nuclear secrets ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches of the Western tempered scale. All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this scale. Each ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- Chickenpox (or chicken pox), also known as varicella, is a common and very highly contagious viral disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VSZ). It is classically one of ...16 KB (2,365 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- Human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens; that is, the hereditary information that genetically characterizes human beings as encoded on the DNA of one set of the 23 chromosome ...21 KB (3,045 words) - 17:02, 18 September 2020
- Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 – March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of baroque operas and opera seria. He was also a teacher of voice, whose most famous student ...5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- Category:Public number=12 | symbol=Mg | name=magnesium | left=sodium | right=aluminium | above=Be | below=Ca | color1=#ffdead | color2=black alkaline earth metals group=2 | period ...17 KB (2,430 words) - 10:49, 9 March 2023
- Category:Public Sharia (شريعة; also Sharī'ah, Shari'a, Shariah or Syariah) is the Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the Law of Allah. It shows one of many ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- Predestination (from Latin 'praedestinare,' "fore-ordain") is a religious idea especially among the monotheistic religions, and it is usually distinguished ...26 KB (4,098 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- Sea lion is the common name for various eared seals currently comprising five genera and distinguished from fur seals in the same pinniped family, Otariidae, by lacking the underfur ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- Horseshoe crab is the common name for various marine chelicerate arthropods of the family Limulidae, and in particular the extant species Limulus polyphemus of the Atlantic of ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged between the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the earth. (Other planetary bodies may ...17 KB (2,593 words) - 23:46, 20 April 2023
- Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 km south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 120,000 Palestinians and 600-800 Israeli settlers. Another 7,000 Israelis ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- Entelechy is a philosophical concept stemming from Aristotle's metaphysics, and generally used to identify whatever it is that makes the difference between mere matter and ...6 KB (836 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- 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 shoulder hump and a concave ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent on every Muslim," consisting of the shahadah (profession of faith), salat (ritual prayer), zakat (alms ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- In zoology, cricket is the common name for any of the grasshopper-like insects in the family Gryllidae of the orthopteran suborder Ensifera (long-horned grasshoppers), characterized ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 00:20, 15 January 2023
- In mathematics, a fraction (from the Latin fractus, broken) is a concept of a proportional relation between an object part and the object whole. A fraction is an example of a ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- Fullerenes are a family of carbon allotropes (other allotropes of carbon are graphite and diamond) consisting of molecules composed entirely of carbon atoms arranged in the form ...28 KB (4,196 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the thirteenth century. He is noted for his works addressing philosophy, poetry, language ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north. ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of well-defined instructions for accomplishing some task that, given an initial state, will terminate in a defined ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- A metalloid is a chemical element with properties that are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. The following elements are generally classified as metalloids: ...7 KB (910 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Military Category:Public Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda or similar methods ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- Logical positivism (later referred to as logical empiricism, rational empiricism, and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism with formal logic. ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- Cytochrome c, or cyt c is a small, water soluble heme protein associated with the inner membrane of the mitochondrion. It is an essential link in the electron transport chain ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- The Khitan (or Khitai, c=契丹|p=Qìdān ), are an ethnic group that dominated much of Manchuria (Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese historians classified the Khitan ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- Ablution is a term referring to washing, and can mean ordinary washing, hand washing, or washing of the body. By extension, ablutions can refer to a collection of regular activities ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Bedouin_Resting.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Bedouin resting at Mount Sinai]] ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- Mink is the common name for semiaquatic carnivorous mammals of the two extant Mustelidae species Mustela lutreola (European mink) and Neovison vison (American mink; synonym Mustela ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United States. Camp David is part of the Catoctin ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- category:image wanted Collaborative Learning-Work (CLW) was a concept first presented by Charles Findley in the 1980s as part of his research on future trends and directions. ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات) (August 24 or August 4, 1929 – November 11, 2004) was born in CairoIrwin Abrams (ed.), [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laurea ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- Khaleda Zia ( খালেদা জিয়া ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, the first woman in the country's history ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. In older usage, it referred to the scientific study of crystals. Before the development ...12 KB (1,754 words) - 06:35, 11 January 2024
- A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims (followers of Islam). Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, masjid (Arabic: مسجد). Mosques originated on the Arabian ...42 KB (6,412 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- The Beach Boys are one of the most successful American rock and roll bands. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting the ...21 KB (3,336 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- Submit to get this template or go to Template:Chembox_simple_organic. --> {|class="infobox" width="225" style="float:right;"margin:0 0 1em 1em; ...5 KB (742 words) - 07:29, 12 January 2024
- Moray eel is the common name for any of the marine eels comprising the family Muraenidae of the order Anguilliformes. They are characterized by an elongated, snake-like body, ...12 KB (1,839 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of women in Islam. It aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of sex or gender, in public and private ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- Fur seal is the common name for eared seals comprising the genera Callorhinus (one extant species) and Arctocephalus (eight extant species), characterized by an underfur covered ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- Maple syrup is a sweet syrup (thick, sticky solution of sugar and water) made by concentrating the sap of maple trees. In particular, maple syrup comes from the sap of the sugar ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 11:09, 9 March 2023
- Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad along the Sudanese western border. It is divided into three federal states: Gharb Darfur ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- thumb | A 24-year-old man infected with leprosy {{Taxobox | color = lightgreen | name = Mycobacterium leprae | regnum = Bacteria | phylum = Firmicutes | classis = Actinobacteria ...31 KB (4,435 words) - 21:58, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National Geographic Magazine]] The National Geographic ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- Towers of Silence (from Avestan "Daz," noun-"Dakhma," meaning "to burn from the Sun"), are circular raised structures traditionally used by followers ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- Trigonometry (from Greek Τριγωνομετρία "tri = three" + "gon = angle" + "metr[y] = to measure") is a branch of mathematics that deals ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- Hasidic Judaism (also Chasidic, among others, from the Hebrew: חסידות Chassidus, meaning "piety") is a Haredi Jewish religious movement that originated in Eastern ...28 KB (4,280 words) - 08:41, 20 January 2024
- An alloy is the combination of metal with other chemical elements (metallic or nonmetallic), forming a solution or chemical compound that retains metallic properties. Generally ...17 KB (2,388 words) - 08:10, 23 July 2023
- The hypothalamus, also known as the "master gland," is a supervising center in the brain that links the body's two control systems, the nervous system and the endocrine ...21 KB (2,814 words) - 13:22, 4 February 2023
- Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye or caustic soda, is a caustic metallic base. Its chemical formula is NaOH. Forming a strongly alkaline solution when dissolved in a solvent ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:EducationCategory:Psychology [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep in the Louvre]] A polymath is ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), were finalized in Oslo, Norway on ...20 KB (2,928 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- Whale shark is the common name for a very large, slow, filter-feeding shark, Rhincodon typus, characterized by a large, terminal mouth with small teeth, spotted body, nasal barbels ...14 KB (2,223 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- Marmot is the common name for the stocky, short-legged, diurnal, and typically short-furred and burrowing ground squirrels comprising the genus Marmota of the rodent family Sciuridae ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 16:05, 6 November 2022
- Vitamin B6 (vitamin B6) is an organic nutrient of the vitamin B complex that appears in three natural, related, water-soluble forms: the alcohol pyridoxine (or pyridoxol), the ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- category:image wanted {{Infobox baseball player no image | name=Mickey Mantle | | birthdate= October 20, 1931 | birthplace= Spavinow, Oklahoma | dead=dead | deathdate= August 13, 1995 ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 17:26, 9 November 2022
- Grebe is the common name for any of the swimming and diving birds comprising the family Podicipedidae, characterized by a pointed bill, short, narrow wings, large feet placed ...15 KB (2,144 words) - 12:22, 24 January 2023
- Casablanca (Spanish for "whitehouse"; Amazigh: Anfa; Standard Arabic: الدار البيضاء; Moroccan Arabic: dar beïda) is a city in western Morocco, located on ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. J. Mann, et al., Natural Products: Their Chemistry and Biological Significance (Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- Gustav Albert Lortzing (October 23, 1801 - January 21, 1851) was a German Romantic composer of comic and romantic operas as well as oratorios, songs, and incidental music. He ...5 KB (752 words) - 08:29, 7 December 2021
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born in Scotland where he ended his career as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University, after serving ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Cougar (Puma concolor) is a very large, New World wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender body, long hind legs, retractable claws, and typically an unpatterned tawny ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- Hagar (Arabic هاجر;, Hajar; Hebrew הָגָר; "Stranger") was an Egyptian-born handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah in the Bible. She became Abraham's second ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- Shabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (full title: Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Abu'l-Muzaffar Shihab ud-din Muhammad, Sahib-i-Qiran-i-Sani, Shah Jahan I Padshah ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- Sabri Khalil al-Banna (May 1937 – August 16, 2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian splinter group more commonly ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Same color illusion.png|thumb|250px|Squares A and B have the same color.]] [[Image:Same color ...6 KB (942 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production of proteins, carrying the coding ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- Methylene blue (or MB) is a basic aniline dye with the molecular formula C16H18N3SCl. At room temperature, it appears as a solid, odorless, dark green powder that yields a blue ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 16:28, 9 November 2022
- The Safavids (Persian: صفویان) were a native Iranian dynasty from Azarbaijan that ruled from 1501 to 1736, and which established Shi'a Islam as Iran's official ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- A caterpillar is the larval stage of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are essentially eating machines, mostly consuming ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- Swan is any of various large, long-necked water birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- A weighing scale ("scale" in common usage) is a device for measuring weight, often of a person. Balances measure the mass of an object and are used in science to obtain ...13 KB (2,005 words) - 18:33, 17 April 2023
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, traditionally attributed to Micah the prophet. It presents ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- Red panda is the common name for a mostly herbivorous, bamboo specialized mammal, Ailurus fulgens, that has soft, thick, reddish or reddish brown fur, a large, bushy, faintly ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
- Vinegar is a sour liquid produced from the fermentation of diluted alcohol products, which yields the organic compound acetic acid, its key ingredient. Used in many cultures as ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 20:25, 3 May 2023
- The word Amen (Hebrew: אמן, meaning "Firm" or "Verily," Arabic آمين ’Āmīn) is a declaration of positive affirmation found in the Hebrew Bible, the ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions for the reaction mechanisms involved ...18 KB (2,642 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- Saint Seraphim of Sarov (Russian: Серафим Саровский) (July 19, 1759 – January 2, 1833), born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор Мошнин), is one of the most ...6 KB (862 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- Samarkand ( Samarqand, Самарқанд ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand Province. One of the oldest cities of Central Asia, the city ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Abydos (Arabic: أبيدوس, Greek Αβυδος), is one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt, dating back to the late prehistoric era. About 11 km (6 miles) west of the ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- Hanukkah ( חנוכה ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival of Lights) is an eight-day Jewish holiday marking the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- Pecan is the common name for a large, North American deciduous hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, characterized by alternate, pinnately compound leaves, deeply furrowed bark, ...12 KB (1,631 words) - 07:10, 23 November 2022
- The term potash has more than one meaning. In a narrow sense, it refers to the salt potassium carbonate (K2CO3). In a broader sense, it is a generic term for various water-soluble ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- Crotalinae, whose members are commonly known as pit vipers (or pitvipers, pit-vipers), is a subfamily of venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized by the presence of a ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- Tick is the common name for any of the small, bloodsucking, parasitic arachnids (class Arachnida) in the families Ixodidae (hard ticks) and Argasidae (soft ticks), as well as ...25 KB (3,763 words) - 17:14, 18 April 2023
- Class Branchiopoda :Subclass Phyllopoda :Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Class Cephalocarida Class Maxillopoda :Subclass Thecostraca :Subclass Tantulocarida :Subclass Branchiura ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 19:04, 4 June 2020
- Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation and thus the electromagnetic radiation with the shortest ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- Basalt is a common, gray to black volcanic rock. It is usually fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava on the Earth's surface. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:22, 1 January 2022
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn), is an island country in the Persian Gulf and is the smallest Arab nation. ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- Cumin (IPA pronunciation [ˈkʌmɪn] The pronunciations /ˈkuːmɪn/ and /ˈkjuːmɪn/ are becoming increasingly common. sometimes spelled cummin) is the common name for a small ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to a family of gems that are varieties ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- Chinchilla is the common name and genus name for squirrel-sized South American rodents of the Andes mountains, characterized by thick, soft fur, a bushy tail, a broad head, four ...19 KB (2,808 words) - 22:35, 13 January 2023
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, soon after shooting in the American Revolutionary ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious recognition of sensations, visions, or events after having been declared clinically dead and ultimately being ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- Progesterone is a steroid hormone in mammals that is involved in the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy (supporting gestation), and embryogenesis. The term progesterone also is ...17 KB (2,310 words) - 08:47, 28 June 2022
- Bauxite is an important ore of aluminum, composed mainly of aluminum oxide and hydroxide minerals. It was named after the village Les Baux-de-Provence in southern France, where ...6 KB (660 words) - 03:09, 26 September 2023
- The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, played a major role in developing Korea's cultural tradition. Based upon aristocratic "true ...16 KB (2,364 words) - 22:07, 29 January 2023
- Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes in the body. The system detects ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- Magnolia is the common name and genus name for a large group of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by aromatic twigs ...24 KB (3,395 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Petrie, William Matthew Flinders [[Image:Petrie in 1886.jpg|thumb|Petrie in 1886]] ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- The Battle of Constantinople was fought in June 922 at the outskirts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, between the forces of the First Bulgarian Empire and ...15 KB (2,004 words) - 20:31, 28 March 2024
- A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this system, or for a fraction expressed ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, noninfectious disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). MS causes gradual destruction of myelin (demyelination ...42 KB (6,258 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
