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  • O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit ...
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  • Seán O'Casey (March 30, 1880 – September 18, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed nationalist and socialist, ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Frank O’Connor (born Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan) (September 17, 1903 – March 10, 1966) was an Irish ...
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  • Francis Russell O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth ...
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  • Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. More than ...
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  • Category:Public {{Infobox_Biography | subject_name=Georgia Totto O'Keeffe | image_name=Georgiaokeefe.jpg| image_caption=Georgia O’Keeffe ...
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  • Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (August 20, 1778 - October 24, 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together ...
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  • category:fix cite refs category:image wanted Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym of the twentieth century Irish ...
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  • Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was a dancer, singer, and actor who was discovered at the age of ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists category:biography Hebb, Donald O. Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a prominent ...
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  • Daniel O'Connell (August 6, 1775 – May 15, 1847) (Irish: Dónal Ó Conaill), known as The Liberator, [http://www.irish-society.org/Hedgemaster ...
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  • Robert O'Hara Burke (1821 - June 28, 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was ...
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  • Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 - December 1, 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney Mary Kenney O'Sullivan (January 8, 1864 – January ...
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  • The fish hook is a device for catching fish either by impaling them in the mouth or, more rarely, by snagging the body of the fish. Fish hooks ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction, wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into ...
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  • George Lawrence Mikan, Jr. (June 18, 1924 – June 11, 2005), nicknamed Mr. Basketball, was a Croatian-American professional basketball player ...
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  • Amphibole defines an important group of generally dark-colored, rock-forming silicate minerals. Some are constituents of igneous rocks, and others ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Cornsweet illusion.svg|right|thumb|250px|Cornsweet illusion ...
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  • The spinels are an important group of oxide minerals with similar crystalline structures. Their general chemical formula may be written as (X ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers O'Sullivan, Mary Kenney Mary Kenney O'Sullivan (January 8, 1864 – January ...
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  • Borates are chemical compounds containing borate anions, that is, anions composed of boron and oxygen. There are various borate ions, the simplest ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Frank O’Connor (born Michael Francis O'Connor O'Donovan) (September 17, 1903 – March 10, 1966) was an Irish ...
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  • The Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch ...
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  • Seán O'Casey (March 30, 1880 – September 18, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed nationalist and socialist, ...
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  • The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming silicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks. They share a common structure ...
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  • Robert Hooke (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath, a scientist, mathematician, and architect, who played an important role ...
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  • Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. More than ...
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  • In chemistry, a silicate is a compound containing an anion in which one or more central silicon atoms are surrounded by electronegative ligands ...
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  • Syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός, meaning "conclusion" or "inference"), more correctly categorical syllogism, is ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American poet, songwriter, musician ...
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  • In chemistry, anthracene is a solid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of three benzene rings derived from coal-tar. Anthracene is used ...
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  • category:fix cite refs category:image wanted Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym of the twentieth century Irish ...
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  • Rust is the material formed when iron or its alloys corrode in the presence of oxygen and water. It is a mixture of iron oxides and hydroxides ...
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  • Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula NO2. It is one of the several nitrogen oxides. At ordinary temperatures and atmospheric ...
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  • In chemistry, radicals (or free radicals) are atomic or molecular species with unpaired electrons in an otherwise open shell configuration. These ...
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  • Ether is the general name for a class of organic chemical compounds characterized by molecules that contain an ether functional group—an oxygen ...
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  • If a chemical element can exist in two or more different forms, the forms are known as allotropes of the element, and this type of behavior is ...
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  • Ammonium sulfate is an inorganic chemical compound with the chemical formula (NH4)2SO4. It contains 21 percent nitrogen in the form of ammonium ...
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  • The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...
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  • Redox (shorthand for reduction/oxidation reaction) describes all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state ...
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  • Fluorescein (chemical formula C20H12O5) is a highly fluorescent substance, absorbing light mainly in the blue range and emitting light mainly ...
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  • |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Nitric-oxide-2D.png|150px|Nitric oxide]] ...
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  • Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (August 20, 1778 - October 24, 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together ...
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  • Ultramafic (or ultrabasic) rocks are dark-colored igneous and meta-igneous rocks that are rich in minerals containing magnesium and iron ("mafic ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was a dancer, singer, and actor who was discovered at the age of ...
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  • Ferrites are a class of ferrimagnetic ceramic chemical compounds consisting of mixtures of various metal oxides, usually including iron oxides ...
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  • Ethylene oxide (chemical formula C2H4O) is an important industrial chemical. It is also known as epoxyethane (IUPAC name), oxirane, and dimethylene ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Banshee.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Banshee. photo by ...
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  • In zoology, skipper or skipper butterfly is the common name for any of the butterflies comprising the family Hesperiidae, characterized by antennae ...
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  • The word "acid" comes from the Latin acidus meaning "sour." In chemistry, however, the term acid has a more specific meaning. ...
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  • A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the interconversion of chemical substances. [http://goldbook.iupac.org/C01033.html Chemical reaction ...
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  • O ahu (usually Oahu outside Hawaiian and Hawaiian English) is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Ponzo illusion.gif|250px|thumb|right|An example of the Ponzo ...
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  • Birefringence, or double refraction, is the splitting of a ray of light into two rays when it passes through certain types of material, such ...
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  • In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one or more chemical reactions in order to get a product, or several products ...
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  • Yttrium (chemical symbol Y, atomic number 39) is a lustrous, silvery metal that is found in most rare-earth minerals. It is relatively stable ...
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  • Robert O'Hara Burke (1821 - June 28, 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was ...
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  • In chemistry, an amide is one of two kinds of compounds: * the organic functional group characterized by a carbonyl group (C=O) linked to a nitrogen ...
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  • The term xylene refers to a group of three benzene derivatives, each of which has two methyl functional groups attached to the benzene ring. ...
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  • Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of life ...
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  • Carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed in small amounts when carbon dioxide ...
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  • Nitroglycerin (NG)—also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, and glyceryl trinitrate—is a heavy, colorless, oily liquid obtained by ...
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  • The veriform appendix or appendix is a narrow, elongated, blind-ended extension of the large intestine of certain mammals. This worm-like tube ...
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  • The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated groups of silicate minerals. It is a complex silicate of aluminum and ...
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  • Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer whose ground-breaking technical advances and attention to principles ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Phi_phenomenom_no_watermark.gif|thumb|right|250 px|Lights ...
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  • Ethyl acetate is an organic compound that is an ester derived from the combination of ethanol and acetic acid. Its chemical formula may be written ...
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  • Polyester is the name for a class of polymers that contain the ester functional group in their main chain. Although some types of polyesters ...
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  • Wade-Giles ( ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz ; s=威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音|t=威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音|p=wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn ), sometimes abbreviated ...
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  • 0 (zero) is both a number and a numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals. As a number, zero means nothing—an absence of other ...
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  • Francis Russell O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth ...
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  • An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders ...
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  • Phosgene is the chemical compound with the formula COCl2. This highly toxic gas gained infamy as a chemical weapon during World War I, but it ...
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  • Balsa is the common name for a fast-growing, tropical American tree, Ochroma pyramidale (synonym O. lagopus), characterized by soft and light ...
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  • Adolphe Charles Adam (July 24, 1803 – May 3, 1856) was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is ...
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  • Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum vulgare of the mint family (Lamiaceae), characterized by opposite, aromatic ...
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  • Jadeite is one of the minerals recognized as the gemstone jade. The other mineral recognized as "jade" is nephrite, a green amphibole. ...
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  • In chemistry, a base is thought of as a substance which can accept protons or any chemical compound that yields hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution ...
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  • Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning in which one chooses the hypothesis that would, if true, best explain ...
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  • A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on ...
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  • José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ( ʒuˈzɛ sɐɾɐˈmagu ; November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010) was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese writer, playwright ...
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  • An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Category:Biography Mary Morton Kimball Kehew (September 8, 1859 – February 13, 1918 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Phi_phenomenom_no_watermark.gif|thumb|250px|right|This example ...
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  • An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, called an aldehyde group, consists of a carbon ...
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  • ( sa|देवनागरी , ˈdeɪvəˌnɑgəri ) is an abugida script used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, ...
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  • Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is the common name for a species of burrowing, heavily built, insectivorous mammal found in Africa. Also known as ...
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  • O. aries (domestic sheep) O. canadensis (bighorn sheep) O. dalli (dall sheep) O. musimon or O. ammon musimon (European mouflon) O. nivicola (snow ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard ...
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  • Amaterasu (天照), Amaterasu-ōmikami (天照大神 or 天照大御神, Japanese: “Great Divinity Illuminating Heaven”) or Ōhiru-menomuchi ...
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  • Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov ( Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов , December 10|1821|November 28 – January 8|1878|December ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit ...
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  • Currier and Ives was an American printmaking firm, headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895), and based ...
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  • Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of the actinide series of chemical elements. It is a toxic, highly radioactive ...
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  • Pyruvic acid (C3H4O3 (CH3COCO2H)) is a three-carbon, keto acid that plays an important role in biochemical processes. At the pH levels of the ...
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  • Terbium (chemical symbol Tb, atomic number 65) is a silvery-white rare earth metal. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth ...
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  • Nitric acid (chemical formula HNO3) is one of the most important inorganic acids. Eighth-century alchemists called it aqua fortis (strong water ...
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  • Aquamarine (Lat. aqua marina, "water of the sea") is a gemstone-quality transparent variety of beryl, having a delicate blue or turquoise ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Lysine is an α-amino acid that is present in many proteins, has low available concentration in certain popular agricultural crops, such as wheat ...
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  • Pliosaurs were carnivorous, aquatic, Mesozoic-era (251-65 million years ago) reptiles comprising the suborder Pliosauroidea of the Plesiosauria ...
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  • Leucine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to isoleucine and valine in being ...
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  • Authority control is a term used in library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic ...
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  • Loyset Compère (c. 1445 – August 16, 1518) was a French composer of the Renaissance period. From the same generation as Josquin des Prez, ...
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  • Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל; "Hear, [O] Israel") refers to the most important prayer ...
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  • Butane, also called n-butane (normal butane), is an unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms in each molecule. Its molecular formula may be written ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In organic chemistry, functional groups (or moieties) are specific groups of atoms within molecules, that are responsible for the characteristic ...
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  • Magnetite is a ferromagnetic mineral with the chemical formula Fe3O4and the common chemical name ferrous-ferric oxide, which indicates the mineral ...
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  • Granite is a hard, tough, igneous rock that is widely distributed in the Earth's continental crust. It is medium- to coarse-grained and ...
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  • The Book of Nahum is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the ...
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  • Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide ...
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  • Salmonella (plural salmonellae, salmonellas, or salmonella) are any of the various rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that comprise the genus ...
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  • Squids are marine cephalopods (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) with ten arms and tentacles (at some point in life), secondary armature on ...
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  • Acetaldehyde, sometimes known as ethanal, is an organic chemical compound with the formula CH3CHO (or MeCHO). It is a flammable liquid with a ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Elektrolyse1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|An apparatus called a Hoffman voltameter is being used for the electrolysis of water ...
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  • For a chemical reaction to take place, it requires a certain minimum amount of energy, called its activation energy. If a substance can lower ...
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  • The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company ...
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  • The categorical proposition is a basic concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic or categorical logic) ...
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  • A space elevator is a proposed structure intended to transport material from the surface of a celestial body, particularly Earth, into space ...
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  • A covalent bond is a type of chemical bond characterized by the sharing of a pair of electrons between two atoms. In general, a chemical bond ...
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  • Roman Witold Ingarden (February 5, 1893 - June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers for phenomenological ...
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  • Allan David Bloom (September, 14, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana – October 7, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American philosopher, essayist ...
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  • category:image wanted Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn (November 27, 1916 - August 5, 2002) was an American sportscaster known primarily ...
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  • Praseodymium Praseodymium is frequently misspelled as praseodynium. (chemical symbol Pr, atomic number 59) is a soft silvery metallic element ...
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  • Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, (1 Kings 11:26-39), was the first king of the break-away ten tribes or Kingdom ...
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  • Thomas Tallis (c.1505 – November 23, 1585) was an extremely talented English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician during the often ...
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  • Absurdism is a philosophical perspective which holds that the efforts of humanity to find meaning or rational explanation in the universe ultimately ...
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  • Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-born American entertainer whose prolific career spanned ...
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  • Ribose, primarily seen as D-ribose, is a water-soluable, pentose sugar (monosaccharide with five carbon atoms) that is an important component ...
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  • Deuterium (chemical symbol D or ²H) is a stable isotope of hydrogen, found in extremely small amounts in nature. The nucleus of deuterium, called ...
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  • Fractional Reserve Banking is an accounting process that creates money and enables the expansion of an economy. It is used by most banking systems ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 — April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and ...
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