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- Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 – August 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Ambrose Powell Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander of "Hill ...11 KB (1,694 words) - 06:51, 13 June 2023
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, who is now widely recognized as ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
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- Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E. P. Wigner among physicists) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. He received the ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held elected ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) ( ˈwʊdhaʊs ) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. New York Times "Alfred P. Sloan ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was a prominent United States businessman and political figure, and the ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
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- Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" in "Jizi" comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family members by ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
- The Complex of Goguryeo Tombs lies in North Korea. In July 2004, UNESCO awarded the site World Heritage Site status, the first such award in North Korea. The ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Ahn Chang Ho, or An Chang-ho, pen name Dosan, (November 9, 1878 – March 10, 1938) was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ...16 KB (2,495 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- ==Life== ==Work== ==Legacy== ==Notes== ==References== * Mickler, Michael L. 40 Years in America: An Intimate History of the Unification Movement 1959-1999. HSA ...1 KB (153 words) - 23:44, 2 November 2022
- In traditional Aristotelian logic, deduction or deductive reasoning is inference in which the premises, if true, purport to guarantee the truth of the conclusion ...16 KB (2,607 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- A Tautology is a statement that is always true because of its structure—it requires no assumptions or evidence to determine its truth. A tautology gives us ...9 KB (1,481 words) - 16:04, 23 June 2023
- Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are forms of valid inferences. By Modus Ponens, from a conditional statement and its antecedent, the consequent of the conditional ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Propositional calculus or Sentential calculus is a calculus that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ("not," "and ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- A contradiction is a logical incompatibility between two or more statements or propositions. It occurs when those statements or propositions, taken together ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- Electric power is defined as the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. When electric current flows through a circuit with resistance ...5 KB (743 words) - 00:16, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...7 KB (1,045 words) - 18:27, 21 July 2023
- Metalogic is a study of formal languages of logic from both syntactic and semantic perspectives. Formal languages consist of vocabulary (constants, variables ...14 KB (2,296 words) - 16:20, 9 November 2022
- In general, a proof is a demonstration that a specified statement follows from a set of assumed statements. The specified statement that follows from the assumed ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea after 1000 years of political influence. Goryeo, established in 918, united the Later Three ...19 KB (2,644 words) - 18:12, 26 December 2022
- Reductio ad absurdum, Latin for "reduction to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη (hê eis átopon apagogê ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- Crappie (plural: Crappie or crappies) is the common name for either of two species of North American freshwater fish comprising the genus Pomoxis of the sunfish ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 01:11, 7 April 2022
- Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about life, the universe, thoughts, feelings, etc. In monotheism ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- In physics, the angular momentum of an object rotating about some reference point is the measure of the extent to which the object will continue to rotate about ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- Seismology (from the Greek seismos ( grc|σεισμός ), meaning "earthquake," and -logia ( grc|-λογία ), meaning "study of") is the ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 17:46, 25 January 2023
- The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States which was active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections ...6 KB (913 words) - 10:35, 11 April 2024
- Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy), discovered by Bertrand Russell in 1901, showed that the ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 18:15, 22 December 2022
- In physics, Compton scattering or the Compton effect is the decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon when it interacts with ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 00:23, 8 January 2024
- In chemistry, a mixture is a material made by combining two or more different chemical substances (such as chemical elements and chemical compounds) in such ...5 KB (683 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- Vapor pressure (or vapour pressure) is the pressure of a vapor in equilibrium with its non-vapor phases. Under appropriate conditions of temperature and pressure ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- A chemical equation is a symbolic representation of a chemical reaction, wherein one set of substances, called the reactants, is converted into another set of ...12 KB (1,989 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent that is covered by relatively shallow seas and gulfs during interglacial periods (such as the ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- Transportation in South Korea refers to all modes of transportation that have been developed in South Korea from before the Japanese colonization of Korea in ...22 KB (2,978 words) - 16:03, 31 October 2023
- The term xylene refers to a group of three benzene derivatives, each of which has two methyl functional groups attached to the benzene ring. The three members ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 09:56, 22 May 2023
- Category:Psychologists Janet, Pierre Pierre Marie Félix Janet (May 30, 1859 – February 24, 1947) was a French psychiatrist, a student of Jean-Martin Charcot ...12 KB (1,594 words) - 05:23, 24 November 2022
- The exponential function is one of the most important functions in mathematics. For a variable x, this function is written as exp(x) or ex, where e is a mathematical ...8 KB (1,160 words) - 23:57, 24 March 2024
- In thermodynamics and molecular chemistry, the enthalpy or heat content (denoted as H, h, or rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic potential ...18 KB (2,941 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- A modal logic was originally designed to describe the logical relations of modal notions. The list of the notions includes metaphysical modalities (necessities ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- During the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea, the royal courts conducted gwageo (or kwago), the national civil service examinations. Typically quite demanding ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- In linguistics, logic, and mathematics etc., quantification is the kind of linguistic construction that specifies the quantity of individuals in the domain of ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 04:04, 7 December 2022
- Syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός, meaning "conclusion" or "inference"), more correctly categorical syllogism, is a kind of logical ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- In mathematics, curvature refers to any of a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the amount by which ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- The Kama Sutra (properly called Kamasutram meaning "threads of pleasure"), is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on love ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- In mathematics, the parabola (from the Greek word παραβολή) is a conic section generated by the intersection of a right circular conical surface and ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Hill, Patty Smith Patty Smith Hill (March 27, 1868 – May 25, 1946) was a American nursery school, and kindergarten ...9 KB (1,385 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Ames room.svg|right|350px]] An Ames room is a distorted room used to create ...7 KB (1,155 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- In physics, there are two kinds of dipoles (from the Greek terms di(s)-, meaning "two," and polos, meaning "pivot" or "hinge"): ...20 KB (3,037 words) - 15:26, 29 January 2024
- category:image wanted John Smyth (1570 – c. August 28, 1612) was co-founder, with Thomas Helwys of the modern Baptist denomination, Ordained as an Anglican ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Barber-pole-01.gif|thumb|150px|A Classic Barbershop Pole]] The barberpole ...4 KB (677 words) - 02:22, 1 January 2022
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK), is an East Asian country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, with ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- Spruce is the common name for any of the various coniferous evergreen trees comprising the genus Picea of the pine family (Pinaceae), characterized by single ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- In population genetics, genetic drift is the phenomenon of change in the frequency of alleles (variants of a gene) in a population of organisms due to chance ...10 KB (1,609 words) - 11:31, 3 August 2021
- 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 ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. New York Times "Alfred P. Sloan ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E. P. Wigner among physicists) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. He received the ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics ...7 KB (1,038 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- Category:Economists Category:Biography Enfantin, Barthélemy Prosper [[Image:Enfantin.gif|thumb| Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin]] Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament attributed to Saint Peter, the Apostle, although scholars doubt this attribution. The main emphasis ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- Category:Public Category:Psychologists Bleuler, Eugen [[Image:Eugen Bleuler.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of Eugen Bleuler.]] Paul Eugen Bleuler (April 30, 1857 ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- In chemistry, a carbene is a highly reactive organic compound with the general molecular formula "R1R2C:." This formula indicates that each molecule ...12 KB (1,686 words) - 07:11, 24 April 2023
- Ribozyme (from ribonucleic acid enzyme) is a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule that can catalyze biochemical reactions, just as as certain protein enzymes act ...13 KB (1,885 words) - 20:53, 16 April 2023
- In logic, two sentences (either in a formal language or a natural language) may be joined by means of a logical connective to form a compound sentence. The truth ...27 KB (3,934 words) - 20:59, 3 November 2022
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite subatomic particle comprising one quark and one antiquark. Mesons are part of the hadron particle ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- A photoresistor is an electronic component whose electrical resistance changes as the intensity of light shining on it varies. Usually, when it is exposed to ...5 KB (694 words) - 05:04, 24 November 2022
- Vaisheshika, also Vaisesika (Sanskrit: वैशॆषिक, IAST Vaiśeṣika), is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic systems) of India ...19 KB (2,996 words) - 14:10, 3 May 2023
- Determinism is the philosophical view that past events and the laws of nature fix or set future events. The interest of determinism in analytic philosophy primarily ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus, or le Père Mersenne (September 8, 1588 – September 1, 1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician, and music ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the Order Ephemeroptera, characterized by a short-lived adult stage and fragile wings. The longer ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- The Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April 5 to May 4, 1862, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Marching from ...15 KB (2,213 words) - 01:43, 26 September 2023
- Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23, 1919 – February 13, 2006) was an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century Anglo ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave at a given frequency. It is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda ...6 KB (857 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Situational ethics, or situation ethics, is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome of an action as opposed to an action ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- A metalloid is a chemical element with properties that are intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. The following elements are generally classified ...7 KB (910 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- Category:Economists Cournot, Antoine Augustin [[Image:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|thumb|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] Antoine Augustin Cournot (August 28, 1801 ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
- Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar, because these are ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- Dvaita (Devanagari:द्बैत, Kannada:ದ್ವೈತ) is a dualist school of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. For definition of Dvaita as a dualistic school of ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- A centriole is a small, barrel-shaped, sub-cellular structure typically consisting of nine triplet microtubules (nine groups of three fused microtubules) arranged ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 01:44, 13 January 2023
- Distance is a numerical description of the separation between objects or points at a given moment in time. In physics or everyday discussion, distance may refer ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 15:29, 29 January 2024
- The Ancient City of Vijayanagara refers to the urban core of the imperial city and the surrounding principalities of the capital of the Vijayanagar empire during ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- Gibbons are apes that are highly adapted to arboreal life and are found in tropical and subtropical rainforests in Southeast Asia. Also called the lesser apes ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 23:18, 10 December 2022
- François Hemsterhuis (December 27, 1721 – July 7, 1790), was a Dutch philosopher on aesthetics and moral philosophy. Sometimes referred to as the "Dutch ...8 KB (1,207 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- category:image wanted Casuistry (ˈkæʒuːɨstri) is an applied ethics term referring to case-based reasoning. Casuistry is used in juridical and ethical discussions ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- Monocotyledons or monocots are a major group of flowering plants (angiosperms) whose members typically have one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in their seeds ...8 KB (1,275 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted Alexander Gordon Laing (December 27, 1793 – September 26, 1826) was a Scottish explorer and army officer who contributed to mapping the ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- Coral snake, or coralsnake, is the common name for often colorful venomous snakes belonging to several genera of the Elapidae family. Traditionally, six genera ...24 KB (3,201 words) - 19:02, 14 January 2023
- Embryophyta is a major grouping of plants, sometimes known as "land plants," that includes both the non-vascular bryophytes (mosses, hornworts, and ...11 KB (1,564 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
- The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular display of the chemical elements. It is perhaps the icon of Chemistry and expresses much about the physical ...13 KB (1,942 words) - 00:40, 24 November 2022
- Boyle's law (sometimes called the Boyle-Mariotte law) is one of several gas laws and a special case of the ideal gas law. Boyle's law describes the ...8 KB (1,241 words) - 14:53, 28 April 2020
- Aspens are trees of the willow family (Salicaceae) and comprise one group (section) of the poplar genus—Populus section Populus—with six species. The poplar ...9 KB (1,368 words) - 04:51, 18 August 2023
- The Albigensian Crusade, or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a twenty year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate the heresy ...18 KB (2,843 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- *For the history of the Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The History of South Korea formally begins with the establishment of South Korea in 1948 ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:47, 1 February 2024
- Parsley is the common name for a bright green, biennial herb of European origin, Petroselinum crispum, which is extensively cultivated for its leaves, which ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” is a Sanskrit word meaning “difference ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- 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 Wade, is a ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the ...17 KB (2,706 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- In nuclear physics, beta decay is a type of radioactive decay involving the emission of beta particles. Beta particles are high-energy, high-speed electrons ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- Agostino Nifo (c. 1473 - 1538 or 1545) Latin Augustinus Niphus, or Niphus Suessanus, Niphus also spelled Nyphus, was an Italian philosopher and commentator. ...8 KB (1,200 words) - 06:47, 16 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 ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Toluene, also known as methylbenzene or phenylmethane, is a clear, water-insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners, redolent of the sweet smell ...10 KB (1,406 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- In physics, mechanical work is the amount of energy transferred by a force. Like energy, it is a scalar quantity, with SI units of joules. Heat conduction is ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 03:50, 9 November 2022
- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of life in the United ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met in 1774, early in the American Revolution. ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- The Battle of Borodino ( Бородинская битва Borodinskaja bitva, Bataille de la Moskowa ), fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest ...24 KB (3,590 words) - 11:34, 20 September 2023
- In physics, force is defined as the rate of change of momentum of an object. This definition was given by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century. In simpler ...15 KB (2,438 words) - 01:41, 6 September 2022
- Carbonic acid (ancient name acid of air or aerial acid) is a weak acid with the formula H2CO3. It is formed in small amounts when carbon dioxide is dissolved ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 19:10, 26 November 2023
- Upāsaka (masculine) or Upāsikā (feminine) (from Sanskrit: meaning "attendant") refers to Buddhists who are not monks, nuns or novices belonging ...9 KB (1,341 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the fifth or sixth ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- Orangutan (also written orang-utan, orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes brown, hair ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- Pope Clement V (1264 – April 20, 1314), born Bertrand de Goth (also occasionally spelled "Gouth" and "Got"), was Pope from 1305 to his ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Phosphoric-acid-2D-dimensions.png|160px|Phosphoric acid]] ...23 KB (3,466 words) - 04:24, 24 November 2022
- Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 B.C.E. – ca. 370 B.C.E.) Greek: Ἱπποκράτης Hippokrátēs, was an ancient Greek physician of ...33 KB (4,488 words) - 14:32, 13 July 2023
- The categorical proposition is a basic concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic or categorical logic). Aristotelian logic ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Soekarnoputri (January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to October 20, 2004. She was the country's ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- A spring is a flexible, elastic device used to store mechanical energy. When a force is applied to a spring, it expands or contracts to a certain extent, and ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 16:14, 8 February 2023
- In biblical scholarship, the documentary hypothesis proposes that the Pentateuch (also called the Torah, or first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was not literally ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- Hoolock gibbon is the common name for any of the arboreal, tailless, Asian apes belonging to the gibbon genus Hoolock, characterized by long limbs, thick and ...12 KB (1,738 words) - 16:17, 25 January 2023
- Populus is a genus of deciduous trees in the flowering plants family Salicaceae, characterized by flowers in the form of long, drooping catkins and by spirally ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (July 17, 1714 – May 26, 1762) was a German philosopher. He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term ...8 KB (1,198 words) - 09:10, 18 July 2023
- The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- Crantor (ca. 330 – 270 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, a pupil of Xenocrates and fellow student of Polemo. Crantor was known for his poetic ...6 KB (970 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for any of the large, gregarious, wading birds comprising the family Phoenicopteridae, characterized ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of blood vessel that is abnormally narrowed (stenosis) or totally obstructed (occlusion). Angioplasty has come to include ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary, and the first ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- Angkor Wat (meaning: "Capital Temple") is an ancient temple complex (originally Hindu but later becomming Buddhist) dating from the twelfth century ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 01:44, 9 January 2023
- Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. He was one ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- Category:Image wanted Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed in philosophical arguments in general, which states that anything that happens does ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 21:33, 26 February 2023
- Carneades (c. 214 - 129 B.C.E.) was one of the most prominent Academic skeptics. Head of the Academy from 167 to 137 B.C.E., he not only argued against the ...11 KB (1,736 words) - 00:29, 29 November 2023
- Yantra (from the Sanskrit root sa|यन्त्र् yam, meaning "to restrain, curb, check") refers to "any instrument [or machine] for holding ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was a painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He was one of the greatest American ...17 KB (2,520 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- In physics and chemistry, an atomic orbital is a region in which an electron may be found within a single atom. J. Daintith, Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (New ...33 KB (5,193 words) - 01:09, 18 November 2022
- In regular usage, the term sound is applied to any stimulus that excites our sense of hearing. The cause of sound is vibratory movement from a disturbance, communicated ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- Dagon was an ancient northwest Semitic god worshiped by the early Amorites and by the people of Ebla and Ugarit. He was also a major god, perhaps the chief god ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- Category:Psychologists Pavlov, Ivan [[Image:Ivan Pavlov nobel.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Ivan Pavlov]] Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович Павлов ...11 KB (1,563 words) - 07:43, 12 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Bjorn Borg Hollow Face.jpg|200px|thumb|right|This face of Björn Borg appears ...7 KB (1,100 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single global community. The word derives from Greek cosmos ("Κόσμος," the Universe ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- In recursion theory and computational complexity theory, a decision problem is a yes-or-no question on specified sets of inputs. For example, the problem "given ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- Gandharvas (from the Sanskrit: गंधर्व, gandharva, possibly meaning "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male nature dieties that ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes ( 莫高窟|p=mò gāo kū ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves), forms a system of 492 temples ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Sycamore is a common name that is applied used at various times and places to three very different taxa of trees, Ficus sycomorus, Acer pseudoplatanus, and all ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 01:53, 27 February 2023
- Christian August Crusius (January 10, 1715 – October 18, 1775) was a German philosopher and theologian. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in Germany during ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: Tratado de Tordesillas), signed at Tordesillas (now in Valladolid province, Spain), June ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- Pressure (symbol "p") is the force applied to a surface (in a direction perpendicular to that surface) per unit area of the surface. If the force ...14 KB (2,183 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) is considered by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one of the leading ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452 – May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymus Savonarola, was an Italian Dominican priest and ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- The First Italo–Ethiopian War was fought between Italy and Ethiopia in 1895-1896. Ethiopia's military victory over Italy secured it the distinction of ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Breckinridge, Sophonisba {{Infobox person | name = Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- In electronics, a diode is a component that allows an electric current to flow in one direction but blocks it in the opposite direction. Thus, the diode can ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Category:Image wanted Stumpf, Carl Carl Stumpf (April 21, 1848 – December 25, 1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist ...10 KB (1,352 words) - 15:19, 27 November 2023
- Federalist No. 68 is the 68th essay of The Federalist Papers, and was published on March 12, 1788. It was probably written by Alexander Hamilton under the pseudonym ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 17:11, 8 October 2023
- Pistachio is a common name for a small, deciduous tree, Pistacia vera, of western and central Asia, that produces a commercially popular "Pistachio nut ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Funk is a musical style advanced primarily by African-American artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone in the late 1960s, ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- In mathematics, an average, mean, or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the "middle" or "expected value" of the data set ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- The Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms) was a general assembly (a Diet) of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, a small town on the ...7 KB (1,119 words) - 14:32, 29 January 2024
- Category:Psychologists Woodworth, Robert S. Robert Sessions Woodworth (October 17, 1869 – July 4, 1962) was an American psychologist. He wrote numerous textbooks ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- Edward Caird (March 23, 1835 – November 1, 1908) was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in Britain. He was one of the first generation ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha), comprising species ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate system) is used to determine each point uniquely in a plane through two numbers, usually ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Black powder is the original gunpowder; it was one of the few known propellants and explosives until the middle of the nineteenth century. Since then it has ...14 KB (2,154 words) - 14:28, 8 February 2022
- Voluntarism is fundamentally a theory of action according to which will takes precedence over intellect. The will is traditionally understood as a capacity for ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:03, 3 May 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 ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main sequence star of the same surface temperature. It is, therefore, placed above ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- Category:Economists Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard de [[Image:Jean Charles Simonde de Sismondi (1773-1842).png|300px|thumb|right|Jean Charles Leanord de Sismondi]] ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- In metaphysics, a universal is a type, a property, or a relation. The term derives from the Latin word universalia and is often considered to be a mind-independent ...9 KB (1,457 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring develop from unfertilized eggs. A common mode of reproduction in arthropods, such as insects ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- Category:Anthropologists Category:Sociologists Category:Biography Parsons, Elsie Clews Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941 ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- Category:Economists Walker, Francis Amasa [[Image:Francis Amasa Walker.jpg|right|200px|thumb| Francis Amasa Walker]] Francis Amasa Walker (July 2, 1840 – January ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- 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 ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- Reductionism, in a philosophical context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is reduced to the nature of sums of simpler or more fundamental ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts. He is famous for his portraits of important figures in ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 07:49, 3 August 2022
- The ancient Korean kingdom of Silla used the aristocratic bone rank system to segregate society, particularly the layers of the aristocracy. The bone rank determined ...8 KB (1,213 words) - 07:22, 17 November 2023
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, who is now widely recognized as ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- Pope Saint Fabian was bishop of Rome from January 236 to January 20, 250 C.E., succeeding Anterus. He is famous for the miraculous nature of his election, in ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- Category:Economists Bastiat, Claude Frederic [[Image:Bastiat.jpg|right|frame|Frédéric Bastiat]] Claude Frédéric Bastiat (June 30, 1801 - December 24, 1850 ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 10:54, 19 December 2023
- A paradox was originally something that was contrary to received or common opinion. The term paradox comes from the Greek para ("contrary to") and ...14 KB (2,272 words) - 07:43, 18 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 ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542, or c. 1551), born and also known as Lisa Gherardini and Lisa di Antonio Maria (Antonmaria) Gherardini, also ...18 KB (2,836 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- Julia Margaret Cameron (June 11, 1815 – January 26, 1879) was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of her day, and for ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- The gas constant (also known as the molar, universal, or ideal gas constant) is a physical constant that is featured in a number of fundamental equations in ...9 KB (1,458 words) - 04:37, 18 April 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 ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- Category:Public Zeno of Elea (Greek. Ζήνων)(c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- Anne Brontë ( ˈbrɒnti ) (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. ...38 KB (6,119 words) - 06:49, 28 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Electric chair.jpg|thumb|250 px|The first electric chair, which was used to execute William Kemmler ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
- African African Journals OnLine (AJOL) [http://www.ajol.info African Journal Online official site] Retrieved November 22, 2017. is a non-profit scholarly journal ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the major modes of ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- The Bagrationi dynasty (bagrationt'a dinastia) was the ruling family of Georgia. Their ascendancy lasted from the early Middle Ages until the early nineteenth ...21 KB (3,136 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture the intuitive idea of a geometrical one-dimensional and continuous object. A simple example is the circle ...14 KB (2,245 words) - 21:42, 23 June 2022
- Ambrose Powell Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander of "Hill ...11 KB (1,694 words) - 06:51, 13 June 2023
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon, known as the elephant-headed deity. He is usually praised with affection at the start ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Along with her husband, she is a saint in the Orthodox ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- , a Sanskrit word meaning "revered thought," is the name of one of the six astika ("orthodox") schools of Hindu philosophy, whose primary ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- Michael Servetus (also Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto) (September 29, 1511 – October 27, 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, and humanist. ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that applies scientific and mathematical principles to design and develop processes by which available chemicals ...15 KB (2,143 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) or "Operation Hummingbird," took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934 ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 04:05, 15 November 2022
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its kind in the United States. It honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were touched ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation (Смоленская ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- Caelifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "short-horned" orthopterans with the common names of grasshoppers and locusts, characterized ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- Pope Adrian V (c. 1205 – August 18, 1276), born Ottobuono de' Fieschi was Pope in 1276 for only 38 days before his sudden death following a short illness ...11 KB (1,739 words) - 23:29, 17 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Montet, Pierre Pierre Montet (June 27, 1885 – June 19, 1966) was a French ...8 KB (1,137 words) - 05:24, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 01:56, 9 January 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 ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity with a value that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and to remain unchanged over time ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- Vallabha, or Sri Vallabhacharya (1479 - 1531), was a devotional philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India and the philosophy of Shuddha advaita (pure ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- Knossos, also spelled Knossus, Cnossus, Gnossus (in traditional Greek Κνωσός, in Mycenaean Greek ko-no-so, and ku-ni-su in Minoan), is the largest Bronze ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
- The word "acid" comes from the Latin acidus meaning "sour." In chemistry, however, the term acid has a more specific meaning. An acid (often ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 07:38, 14 June 2023
- Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was among the first female attorneys in the United States and in 1879, she became the first woman ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Mamba is the common name for any of the several fast-moving, venomous African snakes comprising the elapid genus Dendroaspis, characterized by large scales, ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- Peafowl is the common name for members of two species of large birds of the pheasant family Phasianidae, Pavo cristatus (Indian peafowl) and Pavo muticus (green ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 07:08, 23 November 2022
- Pyridine is a fundamentally important chemical compound with the formula C5H5N. It is a liquid with a distinctively putrid, fishy odor. Its molecules have a ...11 KB (1,458 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- Watershed has traditionally designated the dividing line, or drainage divide, between two drainage basins; that is, the ridge of high land or boundary separating ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- Box jellyfish is the common name for any of the radially symmetrical, marine invertebrates comprising the Cnidarian class Cubozoa, characterized by generally ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- Lungfish is any sarcopterygian fish of the taxon Dipnoi, characterized by platelike teeth and lobed, paired fins, with modern forms typified by functional lungs ...13 KB (1,608 words) - 03:04, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- The 2006 Kolkata leather factory fire refers to a deadly industrial fire that occurred in West Bengal, India, on November 22, 2006. A lightning rod for criticism ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device (described as an "analog shift register") made up of semiconductors that enables the transmission of analog ...19 KB (2,914 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- Category:Public The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional knowledge ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon and the First Lady of the United States from 1969 ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
- Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that which is specialized ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- An atom (Greek άτομον from ά: non and τομον: divisible) is a submicroscopic structure found in all ordinary matter. Originally the atom was believed ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη) was a Phrygian goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose worship spread to the cities of ancient Greece and ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Joseph Smith III (1832-1914) was the eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Joseph Smith III served as Prophet ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 02:09, 11 August 2022
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Raymond, Henry Jarvis [[Image:Henry Jarvis Raymond.jpg|thumb|200 px|Henry Jarvis ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- Photochemistry, a sub-discipline of chemistry, is the study of the interactions between atoms, molecules, and light (or electromagnetic radiation). ...4 KB (569 words) - 04:25, 24 November 2022
- Nikolai Onufriyevich Lossky (Russian: Николай Онуфриевич Лосский) ( December 6|1870|November 24 – January 24, 1965) was a Russian philosopher ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- Max Black (February 24, 1909 Baku, Russian Empire [present-day Azerbaijan] – August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York, United States) was a distinguished Anglo-American ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership (HJI), formerly Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), is an accredited institution of ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- Category:Economics Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work [[Image:Boys in red.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|Child laborers coming out of a dye factory ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 15:28, 10 December 2023
- The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors) was a major engagement in the Napoleonic Wars, when Napoleon's armies helped to ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- The Peasants' Revolt, Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381, was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a major event ...8 KB (1,321 words) - 07:09, 23 November 2022
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- Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name of any marine creatures of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole family of the suborder ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Keith, Arthur [[Image:Sir Arthur Keith.jpg|thumb|300px|The portrait painted by John Cooke in 1915 ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 11:11, 16 August 2023
- Phosphorus (chemical symbol P, atomic number 15) is a multivalent nonmetal that belongs to the nitrogen group of chemical elements. Given its high reactivity ...25 KB (3,622 words) - 22:45, 28 March 2023
- Lúcia de Jesus Rosa Santos—"Sister Lúcia of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart," better known as Sister Lúcia of Jesus (March 22, 1907 – February ...15 KB (2,588 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- Federalist Paper No. 54 is an essay by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was first published by The New York ...15 KB (2,066 words) - 01:55, 26 March 2024
- Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi Der Stürmer ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- In the People's Republic of China, Red Guards ( s=红卫兵|t=紅衛兵|p=Hóng Wèi Bīng ) were a mass movement of civilians, mostly students and other ...18 KB (2,779 words) - 02:28, 8 December 2022
- Category:Psychologists Wechsler, David David Wechsler (January 12, 1896 - May 2, 1981) was a leading American psychologist. He developed well-known intelligence ...10 KB (1,405 words) - 08:33, 28 January 2024
- In geology, the term crust is used for the outermost solid shell of a planet or moon. It is chemically and mechanically different from underlying material. Crusts ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:42, 5 May 2022
- Adsorption, not to be confused with absorption, is a process by which a gas, liquid, or solute (substance in solution) binds to the surface of a solid or liquid ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- An Lushan ( t=安祿山|s=安禄山|p=Ān Lùshān ) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China. He rose to prominence ...11 KB (1,832 words) - 18:40, 26 July 2023
- Shoghí Effendí Rabbání (March 1, 1897 – November 4, 1957), better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 until ...19 KB (3,025 words) - 14:24, 27 January 2023
- Pope Saint Evaristus was the fifth bishop of Rome, probably holding office from c. 99 to 107-108 C.E. He was also known as Aristus. Little is known about his ...4 KB (592 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- 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 atom (N) ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 06:58, 25 July 2023
- Auxins are a class of naturally occuring or synthetic organic (carbon-containing) plant growth substances (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) that ...15 KB (2,169 words) - 05:59, 10 January 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 ...10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often esteemed the ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- In general, an amplifier (or simply amp) is a device that changes, usually increases, the amplitude of a signal. The "signal" is usually in the form ...18 KB (2,580 words) - 09:26, 18 June 2021
- György Széll, best known by his anglicized name, George Szell (June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), was a conductor and composer. He is remembered today for his ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen-containing base, a pentose (five-carbon) sugar (relatively simple carbohydrates), and one ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- A semiconductor is a solid whose electrical conductivity can be controlled over a wide range, either permanently or dynamically. Semiconductors are tremendously ...37 KB (5,657 words) - 17:50, 25 January 2023
- Hesiod (Hesiodos, Ἡσίοδος ) was an early Greek poet and rhapsode who lived around 700 B.C.E. Often cited alongside his close contemporary Homer, Hesiod ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 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 ...10 KB (1,640 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- Pyruvic acid (C3H4O3 (CH3COCO2H)) is a three-carbon, keto acid that plays an important role in biochemical processes. At the pH levels of the human body, pyruvic ...14 KB (1,901 words) - 15:37, 18 June 2015
- The Wenzi ( c=文子|p=Wénzǐ|w=Wen-tzu|l=[Book of] Master Wen ), or Tongxuan zhenjing ( c=通玄真經|p=Tōngxuán zhēnjīng|w=T'ung-hsuan chen-ching ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian language: ru|Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович , Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič) (September ...29 KB (4,378 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for his successful development of the gyrocompass ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 – August 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- Venn diagrams are schematic diagrams used in logic and in the branch of mathematics known as set theory to represent sets and their unions and intersections ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 17:01, 3 May 2023
- Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving one term from 1889 to 1893, he was from the ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Impossible_cube_illusion_angle.svg|200px|thumb|right|An impossible cube that ...5 KB (696 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Flavius Theodosius (January 11, 347 – January 17, 395 C.E.), also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379-395. Reuniting the ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of fallacies, corresponding to the distinction between formal and informal logic. If a formal ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- Choe Je-u (崔濟愚) (1824 - 1864) emerged as the founder of an indigenous Korean religion, one that had enormous impact on the unfolding of events in the twilight ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era churches in the Philippines designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1993. On August ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early third century B.C.E. - after 246 B.C.E.), was an epic poet, scholar, and director of the Library ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and together with her husband, Joe, formed a dynasty whose members ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- Category:Economists Cantillon, Richard Richard Cantillon (1680 – May, 1734) was an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially a successful ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- The B vitamins or vitamin B complex are a group of eight, chemically distinct, water-soluble vitamins that were once considered a single vitamin (like Vitamin ...10 KB (1,497 words) - 20:40, 3 May 2023
- Roy David Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), known as Roy Eldridge and nicknamed Little Jazz, was a foremost jazz trumpet player. He is considered ...9 KB (1,351 words) - 02:28, 17 December 2022
- As a medical term, stress refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli or conditions, both physiological and psychological, impinging on an individual. ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 16:01, 23 September 2022
- The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239 B.C.E. under the patronage of the Qin Dynasty Chancellor Lü Buwei. The feudal ...16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two extant families: the golden moles comprising the Chrysochloridae family and the tenrecs ...21 KB (2,748 words) - 20:46, 29 December 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- Category:Image wanted John Dunstaple or Dunstable (c. 1390 – December 24, 1453) was an English composer of polyphonic music of the late Medieval and early Renaissance ...9 KB (1,459 words) - 04:59, 3 August 2022
- Cao Pi (Ts'ao P'ei.曹丕, 187-June 29, 226 [http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/kiwi1/luso.sh?lstype=2&dyna=%ABe%C3Q&king=%A4%E5%AB%D2&reign ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 19:30, 25 November 2023
- A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. Compression of a gas naturally increases its temperature. ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens. Born in Damascus about 460 C.E., he studied rhetoric in Alexandria ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) ( ˈwʊdhaʊs ) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during ...26 KB (4,022 words) - 10:54, 11 March 2023
- In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect allows insects ...28 KB (4,404 words) - 23:53, 26 February 2023
- A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, porcelain, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 23:34, 30 April 2023
- A hominid is any member of the primate family Hominidae. Recent classification schemes for the apes place extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and ...5 KB (766 words) - 11:34, 2 February 2024
- Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016) was an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- Saint Antonio Maria Claret y Clarà (December 23, 1807—October 24, 1870) was a nineteenth-century Catalan Roman Catholic archbishop, missionary, and confessor ...9 KB (1,350 words) - 19:06, 22 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Educators and Educational theorists Parrish, Celestia Susannah Celestia (Celeste) Susannah Parrish (September 12 ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- Pope Saint Telesphorus was bishop of Rome c. 128 to 138 C.E., during the reigns of Roman Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was Greek by birth, he is said ...4 KB (637 words) - 11:50, 13 February 2022
- Edwin Smith Papyrus, or Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is a preserved medical document from ancient Egypt that traces to about the sixteenth to seventeenth century ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 B.C.E. – c.35 B.C.E.) was an Epicurean philosopher and epigrammatic poet who studied with Zeno of Citium, head of the Epicurean ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
- Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica ( s=中药学|t=中藥學|p=Zhōngyào xué ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- In organic chemistry, functional groups (or moieties) are specific groups of atoms within molecules, that are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions ...13 KB (1,621 words) - 07:19, 15 April 2024
- The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and practices across cultural groups ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- Bolesław Prus (pronounced: Image:Ltspkr.png [bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), born Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist ...24 KB (3,556 words) - 07:13, 17 November 2023
- The Second Italo–Ethiopian War (also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War) was a brief war, begun in October 1935, between the Fascist Italian state ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- Swami Vivekananda (1863 – 1902) (born Narendranath Dutta) was a well-known and influential Hindu spiritual leader who played a seminal role in re-articulating ...10 KB (1,573 words) - 15:56, 18 June 2022
- In physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple atomic particles join together to form a heavier nucleus. It is accompanied ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were fervent believers in the abolition of slavery and total equality of the races. They also ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- Macular degeneration is a medical condition in which there is deterioration in the macula area of the retina, leading to a corresponding loss in central vision ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- In vascular plants, the root is that organ of a plant body that typically lies below the surface of the soil (though not always) and whose major functions are ...11 KB (1,643 words) - 21:37, 15 August 2022
- A thesaurus is a dictionary type book of words that are organized by concepts and categories. It includes synonyms, related words, and/or antonyms. While dictionaries ...11 KB (1,593 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Scott, Charles Prestwich Charles Prestwich Scott (October 26, 1846 – January 1, 1932) was a British journalist, publisher, and ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- Gilbert Ryle (Aug. 19, 1900, Brighton, Sussex, Eng. – Oct. 6, 1976, Whitby, North Yorkshire), was a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- Atmospheric chemistry involves study of the chemistry of the atmospheres of Earth and other planets. It is a branch of atmospheric science and is a multidisciplinary ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- Geochronology is the science of determining the absolute ages of rocks, fossils, and sediments found on Earth. This field of science relies on a variety of dating ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 12:58, 21 January 2023
- Echidna, also known as spiny anteater, is any of the egg-laying mammals comprising the Tachyglossidae family of the order Monotremata (monotremes), characterized ...11 KB (1,540 words) - 02:46, 1 October 2020
- Mammoth is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephants comprising the genus Mammuthus, with many species equipped with long, curved tusks, and in ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Pope Saint Caius, or Gaius, was the bishop of Rome from December 17, 283 to April 22, 296. Christian tradition makes him a native of Dalmatia and a member of ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- category:image wanted Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that moral utterances lack truth-value and do not assert propositions. A noncognitivist denies ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. An Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy of St. Hilda ...20 KB (2,950 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- Borates are chemical compounds containing borate anions, that is, anions composed of boron and oxygen. There are various borate ions, the simplest of which is ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- Category:Economists Polanyi, Karl Karl Paul Polanyi (October 21, 1886 – April 23, 1964) was a Hungarian intellectual known for his opposition to traditional ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:19, 5 October 2022
- Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician whose best-known accomplishment is the proposal about the notion ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- The First Battle of Bull Run (named after the closest creek), also known as the First Battle of Manassas (named after the closest town), took place on July 21 ...22 KB (3,387 words) - 02:45, 26 September 2023
- Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky ( Елена Блаватс ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian Пётр Леонидович Капица) (July 9, 1894 – April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered super ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 03:36, 7 December 2022
- The Children's Crusade was a movement in 1212, initiated separately by two boys, each of whom claimed to have been inspired by a vision of Jesus. One of ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Phi_phenomenom_no_watermark.gif|thumb|right|250 px|Lights blink in sequence ...5 KB (719 words) - 02:33, 21 January 2022
- John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 and was elected ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology The term Attitude as well as the concepts "attitude formation" and "attitude change" ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- Yúnmén Wényǎn (862 or 864 Dumoulin (1994), 230. – 949 C.E.), (雲門文偃; Japanese: Ummon Bun'en; he is also variously known in English as "Unmon ...14 KB (2,283 words) - 10:26, 7 June 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 ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- 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 called allotropy ...5 KB (685 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García ...51 KB (8,034 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication A stenotype or shorthand machine is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers ...10 KB (1,562 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- 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 ...5 KB (705 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- Fossil Range: Late Miocene - Recent image = [[Image:house_mouse.jpg|250px|Mus musculus]] | caption = House mouse, Mus musculus color = pink taxon = Animalia ...17 KB (2,522 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- Rosemary is the common name for a woody, perennial herbaceous plant, Rosmarinus officinalis, characterized by fragrant, evergreen needle-like leaves and tiny ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- Eutrophication is the enrichment of an aquatic ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen, phosphorus, or both. Although traditionally ...22 KB (3,105 words) - 06:56, 12 September 2023
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the head in general in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. It may appear as a buzzing ...32 KB (4,615 words) - 17:17, 18 April 2023
- William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Ballet is a highly stylized dance form that developed into a popular courtly entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, a serious dramatic art in seventeenth ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- Pietro Pomponazzi (also known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomionatius) (September 16, 1462 – May 18, 1525) was an Italian philosopher. He was the leading Aristotelian ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 23:45, 4 October 2021
- Oracle bone script ( c=甲骨文|p=jiǎgǔwén|l=shell bone writing ) refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters found on animal ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
- Liu Zongyuan( Liu Tsung-yüan , Liu Zongyuan, 柳宗元, Liǔ Zōngyuán, 773 – 819) was a Chinese writer, Chinese poet and prose writer who lived in Chang ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 20:53, 3 November 2022
- In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles of the universe known as a maelstrom of dark, roiling seawater. Jacobsen, 104-108; Dalley, 329. ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- In Euclidean geometry, a circle is the set of all points in a plane at a fixed distance, called the radius, from a given point, the center. The length of the ...14 KB (2,241 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- Pope Saint Sixtus II (also called Xystus, meaning "polished") was bishop of Rome from August 30, 257 to August 6, 258. He died a brutal death as a ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 11:45, 13 February 2022
- Equidae is a family of odd-toed ungulate mammals of horses and horse-like animals. It is sometimes known as the horse family. All extant equids are in the genus ...18 KB (2,488 words) - 07:29, 6 September 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 ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 02:10, 10 April 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (July 30, 1890 - September 29, 1975) was an American baseball player and manager from the early 1910s into the 1960s ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- Molasses is generally defined as a thick, dark syrup that is the final liquid residue obtained in the preparation of sucrose (commercial sugar) by the repeated ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 13:05, 10 March 2023
- Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "long-horned" orthopterans commonly known as crickets, katydids (or bush crickets), and ...11 KB (1,512 words) - 12:04, 21 January 2023
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron-degenerate matter, a dense form of matter which consists of atomic nuclei immersed in a ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- Ethical intuitionism refers to a core of related moral theories, influential in Britain already in the 1700s, but coming to especial prominence in the work of ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- Tellurium (chemical symbol Te, atomic number 52) is a relatively rare chemical element that belongs to the group of metalloids—its chemical properties are ...14 KB (1,880 words) - 05:35, 27 February 2023
- Federalist No. 78 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth of The Federalist Papers. Like all of The Federalist papers, it was published under the ...16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
- The Shūyuàn (书院), usually known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were private research and educational institutions in ancient ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 07:12, 14 June 2023
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite (or hydroxyapatite), fluoroapatite (or fluorapatite), and chloroapatite ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- The Five Classics ( t=五經|p=Wǔjīng ) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books that makes up part of the basic canon of the Confucian school of thought. ...20 KB (2,978 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- Loon is the common name for fish-eating, aquatic birds comprising the genus Gavia of their own family (Gaviidae) and order (Gaviiformes), characterized by legs ...16 KB (2,427 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative music" is particularly favored over "alternative rock" in British English ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- A remote control (also referred to as a "remote" or "controller") is an electronic device used for the remote operation of a machine. Remote ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- Authority control is a term used in library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic material ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- The evacuation from Dunkirk was the large evacuation of Allied soldiers, from May 26 to June 4, 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk. It was also known as the ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 15:36, 30 April 2023
- 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, ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors in the Silla and Unified Silla dynasties who played an instrumental role in Silla's victories ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression in animals, typically in cold weather, and characterized by lower body temperature ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 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 ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
- 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 ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 01:24, 12 April 2023
- Galena is the natural mineral form of lead sulfide. It is one of the most abundant and widely distributed sulfide minerals. It is the most important lead ore ...5 KB (708 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Siger de Brabant (also Sigerus, Sighier, Sigieri, or Sygerius), (c. 1240 – 1280s), a thirteenth-century philosopher from the southern Low Countries, was one ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 14:38, 27 January 2023
- In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of young children or infants. In theological discussions, the practice is sometimes referred to ...16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- Pope Saint Stephen I served as bishop of Rome from May 12, 254 to August 2, 257. Of Roman birth but of Greek ancestry, he was promoted to the papacy after serving ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Porcupine is the common name for any members of two families of rodents, Erethizontidae and Hystricidae, characterized by heavy bodies with some areas covered ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 04:07, 26 November 2022
- Naphtha is a name given to several mixtures of liquid hydrocarbons that are extremely volatile and flammable. Each such mixture is obtained during the distillation ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 01:20, 11 November 2022
- Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held elected ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the medieval Serbian kingdom in the fourteenth century. The Serbian Empire existed ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen. Its chemical formula may be written as CO(NH2)2, CON2H4, or CN2H4O. It is also known as ...16 KB (2,391 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where workers use machines to manufacture goods or process one product into ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 23:24, 26 June 2022
- Philip II ( Felipe II de España ; Filipe I ) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 until 1598, King of Naples from 1554 until 1598 ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- category:image wanted The Logicians or School of Names (名家; Míngjiā; "School of names" or “School of semantics”) was a classical Chinese philosophical ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- Cowpox is a rare, mildly contagious skin disease caused by the cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century for immunization ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- Category:Economists Robbins, Lionel Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins (November 22, 1898 - May 15, 1984) was a British economist, famous for his Essay on ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth century until its declaration of independence in 1821. After capturing Constantinople in 1453 ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first elected ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- Perspectivism is the philosophical position that one's access to the world through perception, experience, and reason is possible only through one's ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 01:01, 24 November 2022
- Gazelle is the common name for any of the various small, swift antelopes of Africa and Asia comprising the genus Gazella and the related genera Eudorcas and ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- Deontological ethics recognizes a number of distinct duties, such as those proscribing the killing of innocent people (murder) and prohibitions on lying and ...19 KB (2,981 words) - 00:53, 27 July 2022
- Si Shu ( t=四書|p=Sì Shū ; literary "four books") or The Four Books of Confucianism (not to be confused with the Four Great Classical Novels of ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- Pope Saint Anicetus was bishop of Rome in the mid-second century. In his time, the early papacy began to take on a more definite historical character compared ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2022
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge and belief. The term "epistemology ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂, October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and essayist. His ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- Buffer solutions are solutions that resist changes in pH (by resisting changes in hydronium ion and hydroxide ion concentrations) upon addition of small amounts ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAF (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served as a Brigadier ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Date palm or date is the common name for a palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, characterized by pinnate, "feather-like" gray-green leaves and an edible ...25 KB (3,862 words) - 22:43, 28 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Lilac-Chaser.gif|right|thumb|380px|Stare at the center cross for at least ...5 KB (816 words) - 01:40, 26 October 2022
- The thermoelectric effect is a phenomenon by which a temperature difference is directly converted to electric voltage and vice versa. On the measurement-scale ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- Mass, in classical mechanics, is the measure of an object's resistance to change in motion, that is, its inertia, which is unchanging regardless of its ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Lycopene is a bright red, fat-soluble carotenoid pigment and phytochemical, C40H56, found in tomatoes, watermelon, guava, and other red fruits. Structurally ...20 KB (2,797 words) - 10:39, 9 March 2023
- Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency upon the ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In angiosperms (flowering plants), an ovary is a part of the female reproductive ...12 KB (1,838 words) - 09:21, 21 June 2021
- In plane (Euclidean) geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four sides. It may also be thought of as a special case of a rectangle, as it has four right ...6 KB (904 words) - 16:16, 8 February 2023
- In Greek mythology, Demeter (Greek: "mother-earth" or possibly "distribution-mother" from the noun of the Indo-European mother-earth) is ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- Tapir (pronounced as in "taper," or IPA "təˈpɪər," pronounced as in "tap-ear") are large, browsing, mammals with short, prehensile ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor (Welsh: Tudur) was a series of five monarchs of Welsh origin who ruled England and Ireland from 1485 until 1603. The three ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites dedicated to the Roman god Bacchus (a variant of the Greek Dionysus). These practices, which ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theaters in 1642, after the Puritan revolution. It may also ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge, storm and longing ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose of the teeth being to mesh with similar teeth on another mechanical device—usually another ...33 KB (5,689 words) - 06:30, 18 April 2024
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- Marattiopsida Osmundopsida Gleicheniopsida Pteridopsida A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- Big Sur is a 100-mile stretch of ruggedly beautiful seacoast along the Pacific Ocean in west-central California; an area known worldwide for its beauty. Its ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- An index is a guide, in an electronic or print form, used to locate information in documents, files, publications, or a group of publications. It is often listed ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Potala Palace is the traditional residence of the Dalai Lama (the religious leader of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism). The Potala Palace, located in the ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent on every Muslim," consisting of the shahadah (profession of faith), salat (ritual prayer ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- Salmonella (plural salmonellae, salmonellas, or salmonella) are any of the various rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that comprise the genus Salmonella (family ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 01:52, 23 December 2022
- Cassowary is the common name for any of the very large, flightless birds comprising the ratite genus Casuarius, characterized by powerful legs with three-toed ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Pitman, Isaac [[File:Isaac Pitman.jpg|thumb|300px|Sir Isaac Pitman, from 'The ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. Cyclotrons accelerate charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage (potential difference). A ...12 KB (1,883 words) - 06:53, 12 January 2024
- Yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse grouping of single-celled fungi. As members of the Kingdom Fungi, which also includes mushrooms, molds, and mildews, yeasts ...24 KB (3,421 words) - 09:54, 23 May 2023
- Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-346), also known as Abba Pachomius and Pakhom, is generally recognized as the founder of cenobitic (communal) Christian monasticism ...11 KB (1,740 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- Numbat is the common name for members of the marsupial species Myrmecobius fasciatus, a diurnal, termite-eating mammal characterized by a slender body with white ...16 KB (2,462 words) - 20:23, 11 February 2023
- Dugong is the common name for a large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine mammal, Dugong dugon, characterized by gray-colored, nearly hairless skin, paddle-like ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Gastrotricha is a phylum of microscopic, free-living, aquatic worms, characterized by bilateral symmetry and an acoelomate body plan. These animals, which are ...12 KB (1,482 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- In Tibetan Buddhism, Shambhala (Tibetan: bde byung, pron. 'De-jung') meaning "Source of happiness," is a mythical kingdom or hidden place ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi ( c=伏羲|p=fúxī ; aka Paoxi ( s=庖牺|t=庖犧|p=páoxī )), mid-2800s B.C.E., was the first of the mythical Three ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a crusading military ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) The battle is generally ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- The Ptolemaic dynasty (sometimes also known as the Lagids, from the name of Ptolemy I's father, Lagus) was a Hellenistic Macedonian royal family which ruled ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 23:33, 2 December 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- Pope Saint Sylvester I, also called Silvester, was pope from January 31, 314 to December 13, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. The son of a Roman named Rufinus ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- A dielectric, or electrical insulator, is a material that is highly resistant to the flow of an electric current. Dielectric materials can be solids, liquids ...14 KB (1,888 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- Dambulla Cave Temple (also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla) is located in the central part of in Sri Lanka.Anuradha Seneviratna, Golden rock temple of ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
- Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov ( Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв ) (October 1, 1912 – June 15, 1992), also known as Lev Gumilev, was a Russian historian ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were found especially ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- The Ilkhanate (also spelled Il-khanate or Il Khanate in سلسله ایلخانی ), was one of the four khanates within the Mongol Empire. It was centered in ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 16:11, 12 February 2024
- Promethium (chemical symbol Pm, atomic number 61) is a metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. All of its isotopes are ...11 KB (1,429 words) - 23:55, 1 December 2022
- Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) comprising the taxonomic group Stegosauria, a suborder ...16 KB (2,303 words) - 17:18, 21 October 2022
- Lin Biao ( c=林彪|p=Lín Biāo|w=Lin Piao ) (December 5, 1907 - September 13, 1971) was a Chinese Communist military leader who was instrumental in the communist ...22 KB (3,630 words) - 04:11, 29 October 2022
- A complex in chemistry usually is used to describe molecules or ensembles formed by the combination of ligands and metal ions. Originally, a chemical complex ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old World bats comprising the suborder Megachiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang ( t=張學良|p=Zhāng Xuéliáng|w=Chang Hsüeh-liang ; English occasionally: Peter Hsueh Liang Chang); June 3, 1901 (according ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- The solubility of a chemical substance is a physical property referring to the ability of that substance, called the solute, to dissolve in a solvent. It has ...23 KB (3,483 words) - 01:08, 4 February 2023
- Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet. Born in France, she lived in England and Normandy during the late twelfth century. Due to the fact that ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 – 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar, physician, philosopher, and political thinker. ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- The term ‘absolutism’ has both a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ refers to at least two distinct doctrines. Firstly ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- A nonmetal is a chemical element with several properties that are opposite those of a metal. Based on their properties, the elements of the periodic table are ...6 KB (785 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- The European Community (EC) was originally founded on March 25, 1957, by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. The ...13 KB (1,869 words) - 04:30, 23 March 2024
- Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically characterized ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (2,814 words) - 13:22, 4 February 2023
- A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical drawing, documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the ...5 KB (743 words) - 05:41, 16 November 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 ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 – April 25, 1840) was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist whose mathematical skills enabled him to compute ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that is usually pitched ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- Carl Gustav Hempel (January 8, 1905, Oranienburg, Germany - November 9, 1997, Princeton, New Jersey) was a philosopher of science and a major figure in twentieth ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three so-called "pastoral epistles" (with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy). It is offered as ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- Apatosaurus (Greek ἀπατέλος or ἀπατέλιος, meaning "deceptive" and σαῦρος meaning "lizard"), also known as Brontosaurus ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 01:59, 9 January 2023
- The Haridasa (Kannada: ಹರಿದಾಸರು, literally meaning "servants of Lord Hari") denotes a devotional movement that marked a turning point ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 23:13, 26 December 2022
- Ethics (from the Greek ethos – custom) in the sense of systems of value and codes of conduct have always been part of human societies. In this sense, there ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- Codependency is a descriptive term that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self-destructive behavior ...25 KB (3,378 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- category:image wanted Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. This is commonly called alphabetization, though collation is not ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- 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 ...38 KB (5,659 words) - 01:30, 8 February 2023
- John Langshaw Austin (more commonly known as J.L Austin) (March 28, 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a philosopher of language and the main figure in the development ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also known as the Danelagh (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of Great Britain ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- The Janissaries (derived from Ottoman Turkish ينيچرى (yeniçeri), meaning "new soldier") comprised infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born ...19 KB (2,944 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:EducationCategory:Psychology [[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep in the Louvre]] ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [ freɪ'nel ] or fray-NELL in American English, [ fʁɛ'nɛl ] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14, 1827), was a ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a specific point at which the system's mass behaves (for many purposes) as if it were concentrated ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
- Anne Marbury Hutchinson (July 17, 1591 - August 20, 1643) was a leading religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- The nomenklatura ( номенклату́ра|p=nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə|a=ru-номенклатура.ogg ; from nomenclatura ) was a category of people within the ...21 KB (2,829 words) - 18:54, 31 May 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 ...28 KB (4,082 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- |- | colspan="6" align="center" | *Boron-10 content may be as low as 19.1% and ashigh as 20.3% in natural samples. Boron-11 isthe remainder ...16 KB (2,239 words) - 19:45, 20 November 2023
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of what exists, and, more specifically, what exists by itself, underlying the changes that occur ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 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 ...6 KB (850 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India. At the time of British India ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism), chewing/biting ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- Category:Public number=10 | symbol=Ne | name=neon | left=fluorine | right=sodium | above=He | below=Ar | color1=#c0ffff | color2=green noble gases ...6 KB (841 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- Coccinellidae is a family of small, rounded (hemispheric), usually bright colored, short-legged beetles, known variously as ladybugs (North American English ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 22:15, 7 January 2024
- Chive, generally used in the plural as chives, is the common name for a bulbous, fragrant, herbaceous plant, Allium schoenoprasum, which is characterized by ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 23:56, 13 January 2023
- Henryk Sienkiewicz (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916), a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and journalist, chronicled Polish history in a series of panoramic novels ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera tigris × Panthera ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- The terms, denotation and connotation, are used to convey and distinguish between two different kinds of meanings or extensions of a word. A denotation is the ...7 KB (986 words) - 09:46, 29 January 2024
- Class Branchiopoda :Subclass Phyllopoda :Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Class Cephalocarida Class Maxillopoda :Subclass Thecostraca :Subclass Tantulocarida ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 19:04, 4 June 2020
- Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- Mechanism is a philosophical perspective that holds that phenomena are solely determined by mechanical principles, therefore, they can be adequately explained ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 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 ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- Protocol sentences or protocol statements, also known as basic sentences or basic statements--the terms atomic statements, observation sentences, observation ...18 KB (2,743 words) - 08:18, 2 December 2022
- Pope Saint Alexander I was the bishop of Rome for seven to ten years in the early second century. According to Catholic tradition, the dates of his episcopacy ...6 KB (917 words) - 09:24, 24 November 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 ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- Frederik Willem de Klerk (March 18, 1936 – November 11, 2021) was the last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 10:34, 11 April 2024
- Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821 – November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. Senator ...6 KB (817 words) - 07:21, 10 August 2022
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, as well as astronomical objects, such as ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Mount Emei ( c=峨嵋山|p=Éméi Shān|w=O2-mei2 Shan1 , literally towering Eyebrow Mountain) is located in Sichuan province, Western China. Mount Emei is often ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and advocate for slavery, most famous for serving as the only president of the ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- Category:Education [[Image:BlgGym.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Modern indoor gymnasium with pull-down basketball hoops]] In most educational systems, physical education ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two atomic nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- category:image wanted Giovanni Croce (also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis) (1557 – May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- Śūnyatā, शून्यता (Sanskrit meaning "Emptiness" or "Voidness"), is an important Buddhist teaching which claims that nothing ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- Gajah Mada (died c. 1364) was, according to Javanese old manuscripts, poems and mythology, a famous military leader and prime minister (mahapatih) of the Majapahit ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
