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- George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (June 3, 1865 – January 20, 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- The papacy is the office of the pope (from Latin: "papa" or "father"), the bishop of Rome, who is the leader of the Roman ...30 KB (4,691 words) - 14:08, 7 May 2024
- Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances, develops, or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is often practiced to ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- American Empire is a term relating to the political, economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept of an American ...48 KB (7,076 words) - 03:33, 24 July 2023
- Category: Image wanted Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий) (January 25, 1938 – July 25 ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 20:49, 3 May 2023
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of two chambers, the Senate ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- The Boston Public Library is the largest municipal public library in the United States. All adult residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 19:51, 20 November 2023
- East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning in about the seventeenth century. Today, Korea has the largest Christian ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Radio, once known as "wireless telegraphy" or "radiotelegraphy," is the wireless communication of signals by transmitting ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Lucian of Antioch, also known as “Saint Lucian of Antioch” (c. 240–January 7, 312. January 7 was the calendar day on which his memory was ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (Hippius) ( Зинаи́да Никола́евна Ги́ппиус|p=zʲɪnɐˈidə nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvnə ˈɡʲipʲɪus ...40 KB (5,765 words) - 22:46, 29 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Montet, Pierre Pierre Montet (June 27, 1885 – June 19 ...8 KB (1,137 words) - 05:24, 24 November 2022
- Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian"Niemöller, (Friedrich ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- category:fix cite refs [[Image:Defoliation_agent_spraying.jpg|thumb|right|275px|U.S. aircraft spraying chemical defoliants in South Vietnam]] ...70 KB (11,017 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Conceptual Timeline.png|right|thumb|350px|Conceptual and theoretic developments ...16 KB (2,206 words) - 22:07, 4 July 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeologists Category:Anthropologists Category:Biologists Category:Politicians and reformers ...22 KB (3,231 words) - 02:32, 9 February 2023
- The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States. It ...9 KB (1,283 words) - 22:24, 30 November 2022
- Benzene (also known as benzol or [6]-annulene) is a colorless, flammable, sweet-smelling liquid. It is a natural constituent of crude oil but ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 10:44, 28 September 2023
- An aerogel is a low-density solid-state material derived from a gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas. The ...18 KB (2,574 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- Human evolution is that part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by the President and the Secretary of State. Less formal foreign policy is conducted ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- Magadha (मगध) formed one of the sixteen Mahājanapadas (Sanskrit, "great countries"), or regions, in ancient India. The core ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- For other uses see Conductor [[Image:full score.jpg|thumb|250px|A conductor's score and batons]] Conducting is the act of directing a musical ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- The Somali Civil War is an armed conflict in Somalia that started in 1991, following the overthrow of the dictator, Siad Barre. The former British ...29 KB (4,403 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- category:image wanted Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, 1916 Buenos Aires - June 25, 1983 Geneva) was an Argentinian master composer of European ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Campbell, Joseph [[Image:Joseph Campbell (cropped).png|thumb|right|300px|Joseph ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 17:54, 6 May 2024
- The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), written by the eponymous prophet ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- Hyperopia or hypermetropia, commonly known as farsightedness or longsightedness, is an abnormal eye condition whereby there is better visual ...9 KB (1,278 words) - 13:21, 4 February 2023
- Syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός, meaning "conclusion" or "inference"), more correctly categorical syllogism, is ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, an interstellar medium of gas, plasma, and dust, and dark matter.L.S ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- The Epistle to Philemon is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Philemon is now generally regarded as one of the undisputed works ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- Intellectual property (IP) refers to the intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some ...48 KB (6,876 words) - 22:55, 5 February 2023
- Russian ([[:Media:Ru-russkiy jizyk.ogg| ru|русский язык ]] (help), transliteration: ru|ALA|russkiy yazyk) is the most geographically ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- Mineralogy is an Earth science focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. Specific ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 — April 13, 1993) was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- In Māori mythology, the primal couple Rangi (Sky-Father) and Papa (Earth Mother), also called Ranginui and Papatuanuku, refer to the first primordial ...8 KB (1,301 words) - 00:36, 8 December 2022
- The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced ...24 KB (3,660 words) - 19:52, 17 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Blegen, Carl [[Image:Blegen_Library.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Blegen Library at the ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Beverly Sills |Img = |Img_capt = Beverly Sills ...18 KB (2,846 words) - 03:30, 1 October 2023
- Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse considered by many to be the greatest racehorse of all ...29 KB (4,653 words) - 17:43, 25 January 2023
- Boar, or wild boar, is an omnivorous, gregarious mammal, Sus scrofa of the biological family Suidae, characterized by large heads with tusks ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers and also called in Arabic ar| بلاط الشهداء (Balâṭ al-Shuhadâ’) ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, the Franco-Vietnamese War, the Franco-Vietminh War, the Indochina War and the ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied ...85 KB (12,450 words) - 21:54, 26 January 2022
- A fan is a device used to induce airflow and generally made from broad, flat surfaces which revolve or oscillate. The most common applications ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- 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 ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- Mahabalipuram (Tamil: மகாபலிபுரம்) (also known as Mamallapuram), a town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of ...31 KB (4,590 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Law [[Image:Slaves Zadib Yemen 13th century BNF Paris.jpg|thumb|right|250px ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- Renewable energy is a term for any useable energy that is harnessed from natural resources that are either essentially inexhaustible (such as ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason or an explanation ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Chagas' disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical acute and chronic parasitic disease of the Americas caused by the flagellate ...38 KB (5,449 words) - 02:04, 13 January 2023
- A fishing net or fishnet is a net that is used for fishing. Fishing nets are made of mesh usually formed by knotting a relatively thin thread ...17 KB (2,692 words) - 17:32, 28 March 2024
- Hamlet: Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is one of his best-known works, and also one of the most-quoted writings in ...40 KB (6,336 words) - 16:59, 21 January 2024
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation of the Hebrew words goy (גוי) and nochri (נכרי). The word "Gentile ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- A glacier is a large, slow-moving river of ice formed from compacted and crystallized layers of snow. A glacier slowly deforms and flows in response ...37 KB (5,884 words) - 20:25, 29 December 2023
- Macular degeneration is a medical condition in which there is deterioration in the macula area of the retina, leading to a corresponding loss ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately 14060000|km2|abbr=on ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (ca. 495–429 B.C.E., Greek: Περικλῆς , meaning "surrounded by glory") was a prominent and ...80 KB (11,932 words) - 20:22, 26 August 2023
- Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders characterized by severe and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety that significantly impact ...33 KB (4,406 words) - 05:56, 11 August 2023
- The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great Calamity or the Armenian Massacre—refers to the forced mass evacuation ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- The Yi Jing ("Book of Changes" or "Classic of Changes" (often spelled I Ching) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 This number is reached by adding the 435 Representatives, 100 Senators ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary text known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. This text ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7, 1571 when a galley fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of the Republic of Venice, the Papacy ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- <!-- --> {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Tamils |picture = Murali.jpg |poptime = 77,000,0002 [http://www.vistawide.com/languages/top_30_languages ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- Fir is the common name for any of the evergreen trees comprising the genus Abies of the family Pinaceae, characterized by erect, cylindrical ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- George Wythe (1726 – June 8, 1806) was a lawyer, a judge, a prominent law professor, and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 22:41, 24 November 2022
- The parathyroid glands are small endocrine glands found in all tetrapod (four-limbed) vertebrates (that is, except fish) and that produce parathyroid ...10 KB (1,360 words) - 07:55, 18 November 2022
- Esau (עֵשָׂו, Esav) was the oldest son of Isaac and Rebekah and the twin brother of Jacob in the biblical Book of Genesis. Esau is considered ...18 KB (2,951 words) - 22:23, 20 February 2022
- In geography, a desert is a landscape form or region that receives very little precipitation. More specifically, it is defined as an area that ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 09:55, 29 January 2024
- Category:Economists Category:Writers and poets Category:Image wanted Drucker, Peter Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11 ...31 KB (4,468 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the formula NH3. It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure In this case, ...39 KB (5,803 words) - 07:35, 25 July 2023
- Max Black (February 24, 1909 Baku, Russian Empire [present-day Azerbaijan] – August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York, United States) was a distinguished ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...33 KB (5,193 words) - 01:09, 18 November 2022
- Exoskeleton is a hard, external structure that covers, supports, and protects an animal's body, such as the chitinous covering of a crab ...22 KB (3,138 words) - 06:10, 13 September 2023
- Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly ...42 KB (6,266 words) - 16:11, 11 November 2022
- The term chiral is used to describe an object that is not superposable on its mirror image. Human hands are perhaps the most universally recognized ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 17:06, 10 December 2023
- The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:lymphatic_system.gif|framed|200px|The human lymphatic system]] The lymphatic system acts as a secondary circulatory system ...10 KB (1,483 words) - 03:14, 5 November 2022
- Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder of the Arshakuni Dynasty which ruled until 428. The dates of his birth and ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- Hanshan ( c=寒山|p=Hánshān|l=Cold Mountain|jp: Kanzan , fl. ninth century) also spelled Han Shan, was a legendary figure associated with a ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( Александр Порфирьевич Бородин , Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin) (October 31/November ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- Claudette Colbert (IPA: /koʊlˈbɛɹ/ ) (September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was a French-born American Academy Award-winning actress of film ...28 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Ellesmere Island is the largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Belonging to the Nunavut territory of Canada ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (November 18, 1836 – May 29, 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his ...46 KB (7,062 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- Category:Public {{Infobox_Philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = Eighteenth-Century Philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | image_name = DavidHume ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 23:30, 26 February 2023
- Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Bangla:বিমান বাংলাদেশ এয়ারলাইনস) designates the National Flag Carrier ...23 KB (3,204 words) - 17:42, 31 October 2023
- John Hancock (January 12, 1737 – October 8, 1793) was an American leader, politician, writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany – February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.) was one of the twentieth century's ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Samuel Goldwyn (August 17, 1879 – January 31, 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood ...17 KB (2,437 words) - 01:16, 21 April 2023
- The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims relating to the diversity of moral principles, values, and practices across ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- The Battle of Marathon, Greek Μάχη τοῡ Μαραθῶνος (Mache tou Marathonos), took place in 490 B.C.E. and was the culmination of ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for all known forms of life. Laurence D. Barron, Lutz Hecht, and Gary Wilson, [https://pubs ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- Skunk is the common name for any of the largely omnivorous mammals comprising the carnivore family Mephitidae, characterized by conspicuous patterns ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- Broadly defined, wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is not a bee or ant. This includes more than 20,000 known ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- Sanford Koufax (born Sanford Braun, on December 30, 1935) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire ...22 KB (3,298 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals, characterized by a transparent, round, plate-like body of but a few ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in microbiology. His ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 22:52, 1 September 2023
- Gold (chemical symbol Au; atomic number 79) has long been valued as a noble metal and a symbol of purity, durability, and royalty. Its attractive ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 08:13, 24 January 2023
- Open access publishing is a form of publishing that allows users free access to information published. Many publications can be published in ...20 KB (2,877 words) - 00:47, 18 November 2022
- Dolphins are largely marine cetaceans (order Cetacea) with many teeth that belong to the "toothed whales" suborder Odontoceti, along ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- Hipparchus (Greek Ἳππαρχος) (ca. 190 B.C.E. - ca. 120 B.C.E.) was a Greek, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines a pesticide as "any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 01:03, 24 November 2022
- Radiolaria is a diverse grouping of amoeboid protozoa that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule of cytoplasm ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
- Nathu La (Nepali: नाथू ला, IAST: Nāthū Lā) a mountain pass in the Himalayas located on the Indo–China border connecting the ...20 KB (2,900 words) - 23:53, 29 May 2023
- The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Devanāgarī: [[Image:IIT KGP.JPG|270px]] ) (commonly known as IIT Kharagpur or IIT KGP) exists ...32 KB (4,594 words) - 21:31, 11 November 2021
- Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Arborvitae is the common name for any of the coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs comprising the genus Thuja (pronounced "thoo-ya" ...9 KB (1,376 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- According to Medieval legend, Pope Joan (also known as Pope Joanna or La Papessa) was a female pope who allegedly reigned for less than two years ...24 KB (4,035 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- François Hemsterhuis (December 27, 1721 – July 7, 1790), was a Dutch philosopher on aesthetics and moral philosophy. Sometimes referred to ...8 KB (1,207 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- Telemetry is a technology that allows the remote measurement and reporting of information of interest to the system designer or operator. The ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Vladimir Horowitz | Landscape = 200px | Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, September 2 until Thursday, September ...69 KB (9,949 words) - 09:52, 26 January 2023
- Maple syrup is a sweet syrup (thick, sticky solution of sugar and water) made by concentrating the sap of maple trees. In particular, maple syrup ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 11:09, 9 March 2023
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists category:biography Pareto, Vilfredo [[Image:Vilfredo Pareto.jpg|right|frame|Vilfredo Pareto.]] ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- The Greek word telos means goal, end, or purpose, and teleology is the study of goals, ends and purposes. A moral theory is regarded as teleological ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- Category:Linguists and lexicographers Category:Archaeologists Grotefend, Georg Friedrich Georg Friedrich Grotefend (June 9, 1775 – December ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of the actinide series of chemical elements. It is a toxic, highly radioactive ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- Mathematical logic is best understood as a branch of logic or mathematics. Mathematical logic is often divided into the subfields of model theory ...11 KB (1,513 words) - 16:50, 7 November 2022
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for his successful development ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin ...80 KB (12,105 words) - 15:35, 30 March 2024
- Gunpowder is a low-explosive substance that is used as a propellant in firearms. It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). More than two dozen GPS ...54 KB (8,113 words) - 20:37, 29 December 2023
- Victorian literature is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) and during ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- The Platte River is an approximately 310 mile (499 km) long river in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming. Combined with the length ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Each snowflake ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A consumption tax is a tax on spending on goods and services. The term refers to a system ...30 KB (4,669 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based narratives and traditions, relating the travels and miraculous deeds of John ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- In biology, evidence of evolution or evidence for evolution is generally any of an available body of facts or information that supports the theory ...79 KB (11,963 words) - 23:52, 24 March 2024
- Bee is any member of a group of about 20,000 known species of winged insects of the superfamily Apoidea of the order Hymenoptera, an order that ...24 KB (3,674 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- Category:Paranormal [[File:Bermuda Triangle.png|thumb|300px|right|One version of the Bermuda Triangle area]] The Bermuda Triangle, also known ...20 KB (3,000 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- The Oort cloud, alternatively termed the Öpik-Oort cloud, is a hypothetical spherical cloud of comets situated about 50,000 to 100,000 astronomical ...10 KB (1,441 words) - 10:34, 11 March 2023
- Étienne Gilson (June 13, 1884 – September 19, 1978) was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and historian. He is seen as one of the ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family In an arranged marriage ...25 KB (3,836 words) - 02:27, 9 January 2023
- The Beach Boys are one of the most successful American rock and roll bands. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies ...21 KB (3,336 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- Frog is the common name for any of the members of the amphibian order Anura, whose extant species are characterized by an adult with longer hind ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- Science fiction (also, sf, SF, or sci-fi) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or ...54 KB (7,938 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- Gandharvas (from the Sanskrit: गंधर्व, gandharva, possibly meaning "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- The B vitamins or vitamin B complex are a group of eight, chemically distinct, water-soluble vitamins that were once considered a single vitamin ...10 KB (1,497 words) - 20:40, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord was the Allied invasion of Normandy, part of the Normandy Campaign. It began on June 6, ...68 KB (10,141 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland, is a country of northwestern Europe, comprising the island of Iceland and its outlying islets in ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- An ulcer (from Latin ulcus) is a lesion or eroded area on the surface of the skin or mucous membranes characterized by tissue disintegration ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:30, 11 November 2022
- A ribosome is a small, dense granular particle comprising usually three or four ribosomal RNA molecules and more than 50 protein molecules, interconnected ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a crystallographer ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- Christian August Crusius (January 10, 1715 – October 18, 1775) was a German philosopher and theologian. He enjoyed a considerable reputation ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 17:58, 10 December 2023
- Yahweh (יהוה) (ya•'we) is the primary Hebrew name of God in the Bible. Jews normally do not pronounce this name, considering it too ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- Anhinga is the common name for members of the bird species Anhinga anhinga of the darter family, Anhingidae. Also known as snakebird, darter ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 01:45, 9 January 2023
- The uncertainty principle, sometimes called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, states that interaction and mechanical action come in quanta ...26 KB (4,014 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox actor | bgcolour = silver | name = Adolph Zukor | image = Adolph Zukor 001.jpg | birthdate = 1873|1|7 ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 06:05, 15 June 2023
- The nucleolus (plural nucleoli) is a large, distinct, spheroidal subcompartment of the nucleus of eukaryote cells that is the site of ribosomal ...21 KB (3,018 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- Romeo and Juliet is a world-renowned tragedy by William Shakespeare concerning two young "star-cross'd lovers" and the role played ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- Niccolò Jommelli (September 10, 1714 – August 25, 1774) was an Italian composer. As a student of the Neapolitan School and a follower of Gluck ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Sea turtle (or seaturtle) is the common name for any of the large marine turtles comprising the superfamily Chelonioidea, characterized by forelimbs ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 02:43, 21 April 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 ...10 KB (1,407 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (/ˈlɑːɡərlɜːf, -lɜːv/, US also /-lʌv, -ləv/, Swedish: [ˈsɛ̂lːma ˈlɑ̂ːɡɛˌɭøːv]; November ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. The English word "oboe" is a corruption of the French word for ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
- Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern Coast Bantu languages. Swahili ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South Asia and in the eastern part of the ancient region of Bengal. The nation& ...30 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, social critic, and political activist. Rising to national prominence ...20 KB (2,905 words) - 05:30, 17 December 2022
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation in most cultures. The problem of desire has been a fundamental obstacle ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
- Galle (காலி in Tamil) (pronounced as one syllable in English, gɔːl , the same as "Gaul," and in Sinhalese, gaːlːə ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Oceania is a geographical (and geopolitical) region consisting of numerous countries and territories—mostly islands—in the Pacific Ocean ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- Biochemistry (once known as physiological chemistry or biological chemistry) is the study of chemicals and chemical processes that occur in living ...24 KB (3,603 words) - 23:47, 11 January 2023
- Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our solar system. It is the fourth largest planet by diameter and the third largest ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Odonata is an order of insects (class Insecta) encompassing dragonflies and damselflies, with members characterized by large, compound eyes, ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 00:22, 29 December 2023
- In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ethics. Choice can be defined as the rational process of deliberation directed ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- The Epistle to the Philippians is a book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. It is a letter from St. Paul to the church of Philippi ...10 KB (1,691 words) - 20:40, 17 May 2023
- Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- Porphyry (c. 232 – c. 304 C.E.) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of his works. He is considered one of ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- In chemistry, esters are organic compounds in which an organic group (symbolized by R' in this article) replaces the hydrogen atom of a ...11 KB (1,427 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ("primer") is attested to in the [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50188596 ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Empress Suiko (推古天皇 Suiko Tennō) (554 C.E. – April 15, 628 C.E.)April 15, 628 C.E. corresponds to the Seventh Day of the Third Month ...9 KB (1,420 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- category:Image wanted A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, Cacotopia (κακό, caco = bad) was the term ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group| |group=Wyandot (Ouendat, Wendat, Wyandat, Huron) ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was designed to address the failings ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- Aeschines Socraticus (c. 425 – c. 350 B.C.E.) (Greek: Αἰσχίνης , sometimes but now rarely written as Aischines or Æschines), son of ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- Kālacakra (Sanskrit: कालचक्र; IAST: Kālacakra ; Telugu: కాలచక్ర t=དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། ...25 KB (3,799 words) - 17:00, 14 May 2024
- Human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens; that is, the hereditary information that genetically characterizes human beings as encoded on the ...21 KB (3,045 words) - 17:02, 18 September 2020
- George IV (George Augustus Frederick; August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover ...44 KB (6,632 words) - 10:49, 13 December 2023
- An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater from one or more rivers or streams mixes with saltwater from the sea. Estuaries ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 04:23, 22 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Psychology Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- Johann Pachelbel (IPA: [ paˈxɛlbəl ]) (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and ...46 KB (6,947 words) - 14:51, 1 August 2022
- Katō Hiroyuki (加藤弘之,Katō Hiroyuki August 5, 1836 – February 9, 1916) was an educator, political theorist, statesman, and leader of ...10 KB (1,423 words) - 17:14, 5 October 2022
- An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services ...33 KB (4,986 words) - 07:02, 16 June 2023
- Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for Analytic ...51 KB (7,646 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines and one of the municipalities that comprise ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer of a system of prayer-based healing that led her to found the Church of ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest in the Order of ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- Paternalism refers to acting for the good of another person against their will or without their consent (most commonly by the law, but also in ...22 KB (3,463 words) - 09:06, 18 November 2022
- Intelligent design (ID) is the view that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that "certain features of the universe and of living ...70 KB (10,563 words) - 12:54, 7 February 2023
- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) His first name is usually spelled as Gioacchino but currently the [http://www ...21 KB (3,251 words) - 13:21, 15 December 2022
- (Tamil: இளையராஜா, ɪləjəɹɑːdʒɑː ) (born June 2, 1943 as Gnanadesikan), an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist, ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950, Piedmont, West Virginia) is a literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and ...23 KB (3,215 words) - 21:58, 21 October 2022
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Analytical psychology is the movement started by Carl Jung and his followers ...23 KB (3,347 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- Rogers Hornsby (April 27, 1896 in Winters, Texas - January 5, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois), was a Major League Baseball second baseman and manager ...9 KB (1,520 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer) or "Operation Hummingbird," took place in Nazi Germany between June ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 04:05, 15 November 2022
- Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis and typically characterized ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- Agate is a type of quartz (silica), chiefly chalcedony, characterized by its fine grain and bright colors. Although agates may be found in various ...9 KB (1,311 words) - 06:10, 16 June 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 ( ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds," are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature. The ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram shows the relationship between absolute magnitude, luminosity, classification ...10 KB (1,492 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- In Christianity, Sabellianism is the belief that God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit are three modes or aspects of God. Once popular ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 20:36, 17 April 2023
- Cancer, or "malignant neoplasm," is a large category of almost one hundred diseases, characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells ...90 KB (13,223 words) - 19:16, 25 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Lepsius, Karl Richard [[Image:Carl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884).jpg|thumb|150px ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
- Frequency is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency. The period ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and the only constitutionally bilingual province ...32 KB (4,639 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- The Girondins (US: /(d)ʒɪˈrɒndɪnz/ ji-RON-dinz, zhi-, [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Girondin "Girondins,"] Retrieved ...34 KB (4,885 words) - 16:31, 15 December 2022
- The Adirondack Mountains are a mountain range located in the northeastern part of New York State, extending southward from the Saint Lawrence ...25 KB (3,782 words) - 05:58, 15 June 2023
- Sextus Empiricus (lived during the second or possibly the third century C.E.), was a physician and philosopher whose philosophical writing is ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the mammalian species Homo sapiens, a group of ground-dwelling, tailless primates ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- Framing, in construction known as light frame construction, is a building technique based around structural members, usually called studs, which ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 06:40, 1 April 2024
- Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, born Eugene Louis Vidal, (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was a prolific liberal American author, playwright, essayist ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- category:image wanted In philosophy and logic, proposition refers to either (a) the content or meaning of a meaningful declarative sentence or ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Socialist economics is a term which refers in its descriptive sense to the economic effects ...42 KB (6,187 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- Atmospheric chemistry involves study of the chemistry of the atmospheres of Earth and other planets. It is a branch of atmospheric science and ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- The BEST (Marathi: बृहन्मुंबई विद्युतपुरवठा आणि परिवहन उपक्रम / बेस्ट ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the very first king of the gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- Psychotherapy (also called psychological therapy, talk therapy, or just therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based ...38 KB (4,942 words) - 17:25, 24 February 2024
- A steroid is any of a group of natural or synthetic, fat-soluble, organic compounds belonging to the class of lipids and characterized by a molecular ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 20:04, 9 February 2023
- Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American comedienne and singer who starred in theater, radio, and ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Distillation is a method of separating chemical substances based on differences in their volatilities. It usually forms part of a larger chemical ...29 KB (4,405 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- Peter Lombard (c. 1100 – July 20, 1160) was a leading scholastic theologian and bishop of the twelfth century. His philosophical work, the ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- | [[Image:floodislewight.jpg|thumb|right|250px|This picture shows the flood plain following a 1 in 10 year flood on the Isle of Wight.]] ...10 KB (1,461 words) - 19:34, 9 November 2023
- A New World monkey is any member of the primate clade Platyrrhini, comprised of four Central and South America families: Cebidae (marmosets, ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 19:29, 14 November 2022
- Category:Public Category:Philosophy and religion Cell church refers to a church structure based on the regular gathering of small groups. Rather ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a successful mining engineer ...41 KB (6,027 words) - 14:27, 9 February 2022
- Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is the common name for a species of burrowing, heavily built, insectivorous mammal found in Africa. Also known as ...9 KB (1,488 words) - 00:41, 17 December 2022
- In linguistics, syntax (The word originates from the Greek words συν (syn), meaning "co-" or "together," and τάξις ...11 KB (1,479 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- In cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation CMB (also CMBR, CBR, MBR, and relic radiation) is a form of electromagnetic radiation ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- Jasmine or Jessamine is any of the more than two hundred species of shrubs and vines comprising the plant genus Jasminum of the olive family ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics and to public ...33 KB (4,933 words) - 21:55, 31 January 2024
- An explosive material is a material that either is chemically or otherwise energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material ...41 KB (6,258 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- Mary Harris Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930) was a prominent American labor and community organizer. Mother Jones was one of the ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
- Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. Noted ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
- Arabic literature (Arabic ,الأدب العربي ) Al-Adab Al-Arabi, is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers (not necessarily ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Nubia is a region in Southern Egypt along the Nile River and in what is now northern Sudan. While the ancient kingdoms of Nubia had changing ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate system) is used to determine each point uniquely in a plane through ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961), prominently known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist, and ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- Acetic acid, also known as ethanoic acid, is an organic chemical compound best recognized for giving vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell ...35 KB (5,135 words) - 07:33, 14 June 2023
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (January 25, 1743 – March 10, 1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- Walnut is the common name for any of the large, deciduous trees comprising the genus Juglans of the flowering plant family Juglandaceae, which ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- The Samaritan Pentateuch is the text of the the first five books of the Bible, also called the Torah or Books of Moses, that is used by the Samaritans ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- Cosmic rays are energetic particles originating from space that impinge on Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- Arthur Neville Chamberlain (March 18, 1869 – November 9, 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and prime ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- Dobsonfly is the common name for any of the insects comprising the subfamily Corydalinae of the megalopteran family Corydalidae, characterized ...11 KB (1,495 words) - 09:21, 15 January 2023
- George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) invented roll film and an easy-to-operate camera that he brand-named the Kodak. He founded ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 07:36, 15 May 2024
- Richard Hakluyt (pronounced ˈhæklʊt, ˈhæklət, ˈhækəlwɪt )Patrick McHenry, "Richard Hakluyt" [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople ...37 KB (5,465 words) - 20:16, 8 December 2022
- category:image wanted A web directory, also known as a link directory or a subject directory, is a directory concerned with web sources on the ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 23:25, 3 May 2023
- John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest and most influential American conservationists, sometimes called the ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 03:01, 2 May 2024
- In zoology, a horn is one of a pair of hard, pointed, often permanent projections on the head of various hoofed mammals (ungulates) consisting ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- Shallot is the common name for an edible, bulbous, herbaceous plant, which is related to the onion (Allium cepa), but has a cluster of small ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched on July 20, 1974, was the Turkish military response against a coup which ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- In the Solar System, Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant (also known as a Jovian planet, after the planet Jupiter), the ...26 KB (3,935 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, known simply as Nakhichevan, is a landlocked exclave of Azerbaijan bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. ...32 KB (4,526 words) - 01:09, 11 November 2022
- Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the highest ranking American military officer during World ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- Category:Image wanted Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873, - December 30, 1962) was an influential American intellectual historian and philosopher ...10 KB (1,444 words) - 17:35, 16 August 2023
- *Suborder Endocoelantheae *Suborder Nyantheae *Suborder Protantheae *Suborder Ptychodacteae Sea anemones are flower-like, filter feeding, marine ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 02:38, 21 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Abenaki |image=[[Image:Abenaki ...20 KB (2,915 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- Charles II (May 29, 1630 – February 6, 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from January 30, 1649 (de jure) or ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology [[File:Гумплович.jpg|thumb|225px|Polish sociologist Ludwig ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- Saint Margaret (c. 1046 – November 16, 1093), was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the Anglo-Saxon heir to the throne of England. She married ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 13:25, 5 September 2022
- Black-and-white colobus (plural: Clobuses or colobi) is the common name for any of the medium-sized, commonly arboreal, Old World monkeys comprising ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 18:03, 31 October 2023
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- The greenhouse effect is the process in which long wave radiation (infrared) emitted by the earth surface is absorbed by atmospheric gases only ...23 KB (3,592 words) - 23:26, 17 February 2023
- Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and government official. Dana was in many ways ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- Sediment is any particulate matter that is transported by the flow of fluids (such as water and air) and eventually deposited in a layer of solid ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 17:44, 25 January 2023
- A bottle is a container with a neck that is narrower than the body and an opening at the top, called the mouth. It may be made of glass, clay ...10 KB (1,456 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2020
- Dionysus or Dionysos (from the Ancient Greek Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος, associated with the Italic Liber), was the ancient Greek god ...32 KB (5,115 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- An electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses electrons to illuminate a specimen and create an enlarged image. Electron microscopes ...20 KB (2,873 words) - 15:58, 13 February 2024
- Category:Media Professionals category:biography Patterson, Eleanor Medill Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson (November 7, 1881 ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 13:57, 2 April 2008
- The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe whose primary assertion is that the universe has expanded into its current state from ...58 KB (8,668 words) - 03:46, 1 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal The term parapsychology refers to the scientific study of certain ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- Margaret Beaufort (May 31, 1443 – June 29, 1509) was the mother of King Henry VII of England, the grandmother of Henry VIII, and great-grandmother ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Parliament also includes the Sovereign and the upper house, ...50 KB (8,030 words) - 02:42, 22 November 2023
- In biology, a hybrid is the offspring of individuals of different taxonomic groups or, in another sense, an offspring of crosses between populations ...30 KB (4,469 words) - 21:31, 9 February 2024
- In zoology, metamorphosis is the process of pronounced and relatively abrupt developmental change in the internal and external morphology of ...11 KB (1,565 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- Ahmedabad ( અમદાવાદ Amdāvād , Hindi: अहमदाबाद Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- The Fourth International (FI) was a communist international organization working in opposition to both capitalism and Stalinism. Consisting of ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- The potato plant (Solanum tuberosum) is a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, a family of flowering plants that also includes the ...20 KB (3,010 words) - 05:53, 30 November 2022
- Cougar (Puma concolor) is a very large, New World wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender body, long hind legs, retractable claws ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских мудрецов," or "Сионские протоколы ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library materials (books, serials, audiovisual materials, computer files, maps ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Walter Reginald "Wally" Hammond (born June 19, 1903 in Dover, Kent, died July 1, 1965 in Kloof, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) was an ...9 KB (1,521 words) - 22:26, 3 May 2023
- Cedar is the common name for a number of trees in different genera and families, but in a strict botanical sense, the "true cedars" ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their pantheon of gods as well as their ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. It can be thought of as an ...43 KB (6,272 words) - 12:18, 24 January 2023
- Italian Fascism (in Italian, fascismo) was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- Dendrochronology (from Greek grc|δένδρον , dendron, "tree"; grc|χρόνος , khronos, "time"; and grc|-λογία ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich—officially called Deutsches Reich and later Großdeutsches Reich, or literally translated "Great German ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- Eschatology (from the Greek έσχατος, "last, ultimate, end" and logy, teaching), simply translated as “discourse about the ...39 KB (6,287 words) - 23:22, 20 February 2022
- 2, omit if not a solid --> -3276.75 189.53 not listed |- | NFPA 704 | Health=1 |- non-flammable {{Chembox/OtherAnions|Sodium aluminate ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist and pacifist. He was an ordained minister who ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- Liverwort is the common name for any of the small, green, non-vascular land plants of the division Marchantiophyta, characterized by a gametophyte ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as famous as its German ...27 KB (3,885 words) - 08:56, 5 September 2023
- South Korea's foreign relations have been shaped by its evolving relationship with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- category:image wanted [[Image:Beit Sur1.jpg|thumb|320px|Beth-Zur, one of the sites in the land of the Bible which William Albright helped to excavate]] ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- Clam is an imprecisely defined common name variously used for certain bivalve mollusks or for all bivalve mollusks. As a member of the class ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- In traditional Aristotelian logic, deduction or deductive reasoning is inference in which the premises, if true, purport to guarantee the truth ...16 KB (2,607 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematical physicist who recast the the laws governing the motion ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- The guitar is a musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, as acoustic and electric models, in both classical and contemporary ...50 KB (8,328 words) - 03:18, 12 July 2023
- Vitamin B6 (vitamin B6) is an organic nutrient of the vitamin B complex that appears in three natural, related, water-soluble forms: the alcohol ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- Theophrastus (c. 372 - 278 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him his successor as leader ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- Stigmata (from Greek: stizo, “to prick”) refers to the five wounds that were said to be inflicted on Jesus' body during his crucifixion ...21 KB (3,372 words) - 18:00, 21 October 2022
- Strawberry is any of the various, low-growing perennial plants of the genus Fragaria in the rose family (Rosaceae), as well as the name for the ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 22:58, 21 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Image wanted Leakey, Mary Mary Douglas Leakey (née Nicol) (February 6 ...9 KB (1,368 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multisystem hereditary disease that mainly affects the lungs and digestive system, causing progressive disability and ...56 KB (8,332 words) - 07:29, 12 January 2024
- The atomic mass (ma) is the mass of a single atom, when the atom is at rest at its lowest energy level (or "ground state"). Given that ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 06:26, 21 August 2023
- Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist ...37 KB (5,789 words) - 09:21, 13 March 2024
- Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring develop from unfertilized eggs. A common mode of reproduction in arthropods ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- Platypus is the common name for a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania ...38 KB (5,579 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- John Adams (October 30, 1735—July 4, 1826) was a revolutionary patriot, Massachusetts delegate to the First and Second Continental Congress ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- A monorail is a single rail serving as a track for passenger or freight vehicles. In most cases, the rail is elevated, but monorails can also ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 21:10, 9 November 2022
- Animism (from the Latin: animus or anima, meaning mind or soul) refers to a belief in numerous personalized, supernatural beings endowed with ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- Kingston, the capital, the largest city, and chief port, of Jamaica, is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 23:13, 3 March 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Jones, Ernest [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle of the back row ...11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
- Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
- A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register ...34 KB (5,196 words) - 19:49, 28 June 2023
- Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career ...46 KB (7,083 words) - 03:18, 24 November 2022
- The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located in Manhattan, New York, U.S., is one of the largest and most well-known museums in the ...26 KB (3,976 words) - 06:38, 25 July 2023
- Lysine is an α-amino acid that is present in many proteins, has low available concentration in certain popular agricultural crops, such as wheat ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:39, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:785px-Kwakwaka'wakw big house.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Kwakiutl (kwakwaka ...10 KB (1,450 words) - 05:54, 30 November 2022
- Pliosaurs were carnivorous, aquatic, Mesozoic-era (251-65 million years ago) reptiles comprising the suborder Pliosauroidea of the Plesiosauria ...11 KB (1,490 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- Category:Economists Walker, Francis Amasa [[Image:Francis Amasa Walker.jpg|right|200px|thumb| Francis Amasa Walker]] Francis Amasa Walker (July ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- The Jesus myth hypothesis, or simply Jesus myth, refers to the theory that Jesus never existed, and that his story is actually a syncretism of ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- Yams are members of the flowering plant genus Dioscorea. They are monocots, related to palms, grasses, and orchids. There are about 600 species ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 19:48, 26 November 2022
- George Francis FitzGerald (August 3, 1851 – February 22, 1901) was an Irish professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (that ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 15:45, 6 November 2022
- Cockroach is the common name for any insect in the order (or suborder) Blattodea (= Blattaria) in the superorder (or order) Dictyoptera, characterized ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- The Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as "The Rape of Nanking," was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in and ...36 KB (5,482 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- Vallabhbhai Patel (October 31, 1875 - December 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role in the country's struggle ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- A modal logic was originally designed to describe the logical relations of modal notions. The list of the notions includes metaphysical modalities ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- Pierre Bayle (November 18, 1647 – December 28, 1706) was a French Calvinist philosopher and theologian. His life was marked by a series of ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 05:18, 24 November 2022
- Guglielmo Marconi (April 25, 1874 – July 20, 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his pioneering work in the use of radio wave transmissions ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes Mountains ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- The octopus (Greek Ὀκτάπους , “eight-legs”) is any cephalopod (class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca) belonging to the order Octopoda ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 10:16, 11 March 2023
- Ecotourism, or ecological tourism, is a type of tourism in which the travelers visit fragile, relatively pristine natural environments in such ...36 KB (5,227 words) - 15:44, 5 July 2023
- Saint Columba (December 7, 521– June 9, 597) was a venerable Irish saint, sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as Colm ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 19:21, 22 December 2022
- As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:53, 5 February 2023
- Juliette Gordon Low (October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912 ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Educational psychology is a dynamic discipline with immense potential applications. ...35 KB (4,855 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast and traverses the United ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 03:27, 30 January 2023
- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province, in western Afghanistan, by the Hari River. The 65|m|ft high minaret, surrounded ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- Mulberry is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the genus Morus of the flowering plant family Moraceae, characterized by ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics In economics and finance, arbitrage refers to the simultaneous sale and purchase of identical ...24 KB (3,749 words) - 21:31, 11 August 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 ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, refers to events of the Carnival celebration, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings ...24 KB (3,459 words) - 03:52, 6 November 2022
- Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the common name for a long-legged, fast-running New World wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender ...32 KB (4,927 words) - 07:51, 13 January 2023
- George Berkeley (March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three great British Empiricists ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 07:03, 18 April 2024
- The main group elements of the periodic table are groups 1, 2 and 13 through 18. Elements in these groups are collectively known as main group ...30 KB (4,368 words) - 00:41, 24 November 2022
- Sidney Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was a unique American poet. Lanier was considered a minor poet in his own times, and although ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- Seaweeds are macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. They are generally benthic, being anchored to the bottom of the ocean or to solid structures. ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 17:38, 25 January 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 ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Spruce is the common name for any of the various coniferous evergreen trees comprising the genus Picea of the pine family (Pinaceae), characterized ...11 KB (1,545 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 km south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 120,000 Palestinians and 600-800 ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Maasai |image = [ ...36 KB (5,546 words) - 10:43, 9 March 2023
- A catamaran (from Tamil kattumaram) [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=catamaran Catamaran] Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved June ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 17:50, 30 November 2023
- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that is best known for its teaching that Saturday, rather than Sunday, is the Sabbath ...48 KB (7,327 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- The Yao nationality (瑶族, Pinyin: Yáo zú; Vietnamese: người Dao) is a government classification for a group of related minorities in ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- Winfield Scott Hancock (February 14, 1824 - February 9, 1886) was a career U.S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the ...38 KB (5,623 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- Sidney Aaron Chayefski (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist and novelist who made a transition ...21 KB (3,165 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body (sporocarp or reproductive structure) of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil ...22 KB (3,256 words) - 19:06, 10 November 2022
- The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its southern ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- Sir William David Ross KBE (April 15, 1877 – May 5, 1971) was a Scottish philosopher, known for work in ethics and for his work on Aristotle ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- Dravidian peoples refers to the peoples that natively speak languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. The language group appears ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin ( Никола́й Миха́йлович Карамзи́н ) (December 1, 1766 – June 3, 1826) was perhaps the ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
- Glossolalia (from Greek glossa γλώσσα "tongue, language" and lalô λαλώ "speak, speaking") refers to ecstatic utterances ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- Ivy (plural ivies) is the common name for any of the evergreen woody vines and, rarely, shrubs that comprise the genus Hedera of the family Araliaceae ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 03:54, 13 March 2024
- Shingon Buddhism (眞言, 真言 "true words") is a major school of Japanese Buddhism, and is the other branch, besides Tibetan Buddhism ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (October 30, 1751 – July 7, 1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman. His most famous plays, including The ...24 KB (3,861 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- The Taif Agreement was negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving members of Lebanon's 1972 parliament—fathered by Parliament Speaker ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- Aram Ilich Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян, Aram Il'ič Hačaturjan ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- Judith Jans Leyster (also Leijster) (July 28 1609 – February 10, 1660) was a seventeenth century Dutch artist who painted in various fields ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 21:00, 4 October 2022
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of pious reason over passion. Among churches other than the ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Lavender is the common name for any of the various plants of the flowering plant genus Lavandula of the mint family (Lamiaceae). In particular ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 17:55, 25 October 2022
- Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American educator and philosopher and a leader of the school of new realism in American pragmatic philosophy ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the interconversion of chemical substances. [http://goldbook.iupac.org/C01033.html Chemical reaction ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 14:43, 5 December 2023
- A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction shorter in both length and breadth than a novel, but longer than a short story. Typically, novellas ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (March 5, 1879 – March 16, 1963) was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- Nachman Kohen Krochmal (näkh'män krôkh'mäl) also called (by acronym) Ranak (born in Brody, Galicia, on February 17, 1785; died ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Thutmose I (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis I) was the third Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. He was given the throne after the ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2023
- Lyric poetry refers to either poetry that has the form and musical quality of a song, or a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- Category:Economists Category:Biography Miller, Merton Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 – June 3, 2000) was an American economist. He won a ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- category:image wanted Thomas Hill Green (April 7, 1836 – March 26, 1882) was an English philosopher and brought idealism into England. Green ...28 KB (4,469 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:CopanNSouthCatherwood.jpg|thumb|300px|Stela N, depicting ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi أبو بكر البغدادي ; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, ar|إبراهيم عواد ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- Beelzebub, also Ba‘al Zebûb or Ba‘al Zəvûv (Hebrew בעל זבוב, with numerous variants--in addition to Beelzebub, Ba‘al Zebûb, and ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. It operates in the ...35 KB (5,142 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 – 524 or 525 C.E.) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 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 ...12 KB (1,838 words) - 09:21, 21 June 2021
- Californium (chemical symbol Cf, atomic number 98) is a chemical element in the periodic table. A radioactive transuranic element, ...11 KB (1,466 words) - 18:27, 25 November 2023
- Category:Psychologists Pavlov, Ivan [[Image:Ivan Pavlov nobel.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Ivan Pavlov]] Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Иван Петрович ...11 KB (1,563 words) - 07:43, 12 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Smith, William Robertson William Robertson Smith (November 8 ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- Sea lion is the common name for various eared seals currently comprising five genera and distinguished from fur seals in the same pinniped family ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- Magnolia is the common name and genus name for a large group of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Magnoliaceae ...24 KB (3,395 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- The Char Dham ('the four abodes/seats') constitutes the most important Hindu pilgrimage circuit in the Indian Himalayas. Located in ...11 KB (1,617 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites dedicated to the Roman god Bacchus (a variant of the Greek Dionysus). These ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:CordlessUniden-large.jpg|right|thumb|125px|Cordless handset]] The telephone (or phone) (from Greek: tele = far away; phone ...25 KB (3,620 words) - 02:57, 19 April 2023
- Amelia Mary Earhart, born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Otis Earhart ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |name=Emory University ...26 KB (3,754 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- Narcissism is a self-centered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often ...31 KB (4,187 words) - 17:00, 16 November 2023
- The Faeroe Islands (or Faroe Islands, sometimes simply called Faroes or Faeroes), meaning "Sheep Islands," are a group of islands in ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced in English as [ fʊŋ'ʃweɪ ] ("fung shway"), was known as ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Military Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen ...49 KB (7,478 words) - 11:57, 3 May 2023
- category:image wanted Brunner, Emil Emil Brunner (December 23, 1889 – April 6, 1966) was an eminent and highly influential Swiss theologian ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- Euthanasia (from Greek: ευθανασία -ευ, eu, "good," θάνατος, thanatos, "death") is the practice of terminating ...39 KB (6,081 words) - 04:44, 23 March 2024
- Caelifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "short-horned" orthopterans with the common names of grasshoppers and locusts ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of life ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was the third Vice-President of the United States (1801–1805) and one of the most ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A grammar school, a term most often used in the United Kingdom and Australia, is a secondary ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the principles of biology ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 17:55, 31 October 2023
- Samuel Osborne Barber (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was a prominent, twentieth century American composer of classical music who was best ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- Category:Economists Friedman, Milton {{Infobox Economist |color = #B0C4DE | name = Milton Friedman |image_name ...27 KB (3,928 words) - 20:26, 6 February 2024
- Seoraksan (Mt. Seorak) is the third highest mountain in South Korea, after the Hallasan volcano on Jeju Island and Jirisan in Gyeongsang Province ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 23:58, 29 May 2023
- Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription ...67 KB (9,999 words) - 15:03, 30 April 2023
- Roger Sherman (April 19 (O.S.), April 30 (N.S.), 1721 – July 23, 1793) was an early American lawyer and politician and a founding father of ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- Microbat is the common name for any of the bats comprising the suborder Microchiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized by true ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- Category:Sociologists Howard, Ebenezer [[Image:ハワード『明日の田園都市』3版-02.jpg|right|thumb|Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of ...10 KB (1,579 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- Pluto, also designated (134340) Pluto or 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and the tenth largest observed ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 17:02, 26 September 2023
- A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. A body of singers who perform together is called a choir or chorus. The former ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 17:11, 10 December 2023
- Ostrich is the common name for a very large, fast-running, flightless, ratite bird, (Struthio camelus), native to Africa (and formerly the Middle ...28 KB (4,283 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe. It borders the Scandinavian Peninsula with Sweden to the west, Russia ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- Damselfly is the common name for any of the predaceous insects comprising the suborder Zygoptera of the order Odonata, characterized by an elongated ...12 KB (1,619 words) - 18:12, 24 January 2024
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – October 4, 1226) is for many people the most Christ-like Christian of all ages. For many, he is an iconic, ...33 KB (5,300 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- Testosterone is a steroid hormone that acts in vertebrates to regulate many sexually dimorphic traits and express many fitness related traits ...21 KB (3,056 words) - 15:00, 30 April 2023
- The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign) in 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign reduced the ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- William Dampier (baptised September 5, 1651 – died March 1715) was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- Fullerenes are a family of carbon allotropes (other allotropes of carbon are graphite and diamond) consisting of molecules composed entirely ...28 KB (4,196 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- Cubic zirconia (or CZ) is the cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). The synthesized material is hard, optically flawless, and usually ...11 KB (1,568 words) - 06:43, 11 January 2024
- Doris May Lessing CH, OBE (née Tayler; October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013) was a British writer, author of novels including The Grass is Singing ...22 KB (3,145 words) - 21:11, 26 March 2024
- Blueberry is the common name for flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus of the heath family Ericaceae, characterized by bell ...22 KB (3,038 words) - 18:15, 31 October 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Slc mormon tempel.jpg|thumb|right|345px|The Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the ...28 KB (4,522 words) - 21:59, 10 December 2023
- The Primary Chronicle (Old-Slavonic: Пов ѣ сть времяньныхъ л ѣ тъ; Russian: Повесть временных лет, Povest ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- Nebraska is a state located on the Great Plains of the United States of America. Once considered part of the Great American Desert, it is now ...48 KB (6,855 words) - 04:25, 11 March 2023
- The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit, over which a black scapular ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- In Roman mythology, Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman deity holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Cannibals.23232.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cannibalism in Brazil ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- Nitroglycerin (NG)—also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, and glyceryl trinitrate—is a heavy, colorless, oily liquid obtained by ...11 KB (1,527 words) - 02:27, 16 November 2022
- In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law ...24 KB (3,551 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- Alain de Lille (älăN' də lēl) , (Also called Alain of Lille, Lanus ab insulis, or De Insulis, Alain von Ryssel, Alanus de lnsulis) ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- The Jordan River (Arabic: Nahr Al-Urdun; Hebrew: Ha-Yarden River) is a river in Southwest Asia flowing through the Great Rift Valley into the ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 06:19, 6 May 2024
- The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors, led by Stepan Petrichenko, against the government of the early Russian SFSR. ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- The Decadent movement (Fr. décadence, “decay”) was a late-nineteenth-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe ...53 KB (7,426 words) - 21:41, 10 July 2023
- Category:Image wanted Gomez, Lefty {{Infobox MLB retired |name=Lefty Gomez |image=leftygomez1.jpg|thumb|180px|Lefty Gomez |position=Pitcher ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 19:03, 25 October 2022
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds with a relation to pitch, rhythm, and tonality. Another definition of ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- Atra-Hasis, also spelled Atrahasis, is an eighteenth century B.C.E. Akkadian epic, named after its human hero. It contains both a creation myth ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- category:Politics and social sciences category:Anthropology [[Image:Totem RMBC 1.jpg|thumb|200px|A [[Gitksan|Gitxsan]] pole (left) and Kwakwaka ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- Allosaurus was a large (up to 9.7 m long) bipedal (moving on two legs), carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period, 155 ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- The Battle of Moscow ( Битва за Москву , Romanized: Bitva za Moskvu. Schlacht um Moskau ) was the Soviet defense of Moscow and the ...44 KB (6,570 words) - 10:17, 22 September 2023
- Category:Public number=8 | symbol=O | name=oxygen | left=nitrogen | right=fluorine | above=- | below=S | color1=#a0ffa0 | color2=green ...23 KB (3,469 words) - 06:02, 18 November 2022
- Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World mammals comprising the genus Procyon of the Carnivora family Procyonidae ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Psychology (from Greek, literally "study of the soul," from gr|ψυχή, psyche ...53 KB (7,102 words) - 01:28, 12 April 2023
- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January 17, 1863 – March 26, 1945) was a British statesman who guided Britain ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- The Waco "cult" — more properly known as the Branch Davidians — were an offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, a millennial ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeologists Dorpfeld, Wilhelm [[Image:Doerpfeld2.jpg|right|thumb|Wilhelm Dörpfeld]] ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 10:38, 5 May 2023
- Lungfish is any sarcopterygian fish of the taxon Dipnoi, characterized by platelike teeth and lobed, paired fins, with modern forms typified ...13 KB (1,608 words) - 03:04, 5 November 2022
- Achille-Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer who created within the style referred to as Impressionist music ...26 KB (3,950 words) - 10:53, 19 December 2023
- The guqin ( c=古琴|p=gǔqín|w=ku-ch'in ; kutɕʰin ; literally "ancient stringed instrument") is the modern name for a plucked ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- Category:Public color = lightgreen | name = Peanut image = [[Image:Koeh-163.jpg|240px]] | caption = Peanut (Arachis hypogea) color = lightgreen ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- Pope Saint Hilarius (also Hilarus, Hilary) was the bishop of Rome from 461 to February 28, 468. Earlier he was Pope Leo I's envoy to the ...11 KB (1,751 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824 - 12 May 12, 1884) is considered one of the greatest Czech composers of the nineteenth century and the country ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- Operation Barbarossa ( Unternehmen Barbarossa ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- The First World War, known as the Great War before 1939 and as World War One after 1950, lasted from August 1914 to the final Armistice with ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- George Cadbury (September 19, 1839 – October 24, 1922), the third son of the Quaker tea and coffee dealer John Cadbury, was the co-founder ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 08:39, 6 November 2022
- The Reichstag fire ( Reichstagsbrand ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, February ...45 KB (6,712 words) - 21:11, 28 September 2023
- Thomas Muentzer (or Müntzer, Münzer) (1489 or 1490–27 May 1525) was an early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader during ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978, Kyoto — c. 1014 or 1031 Kyoto), Japanese novelist and lady-in-waiting in the imperial court at the height of the ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- Galago, or bushbaby (bush baby), is the common name for any of the relatively small, African prosimian primates comprising the family Galagidae ...11 KB (1,571 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete. He participated in the ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 08:12, 3 April 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 ...11 KB (1,429 words) - 23:55, 1 December 2022
- The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) [https://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Glycine.html#max Glycine max] Multilingual Multiscript ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
- Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Meditation (from the Latin meditatio: "discourse on a subject") As noted in the [https://www.etymonline.com/word/meditation Online Etymology ...38 KB (5,451 words) - 00:07, 13 July 2021
- A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions ...28 KB (3,998 words) - 16:21, 17 January 2023
- Saint Anthony the Great (251 - 356 C.E.), also known as Saint Anthony of Egypt, Saint Anthony of the Desert, Saint Anthony the Anchorite, and ...22 KB (3,532 words) - 19:06, 22 December 2022
- El Greco (probably a combination of the Castilian and the Venetian language for "The Greek", A|a|none B|b|none 1541 – April 7, 1614 ...77 KB (11,557 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Alternative energy is a term for any nontraditional energy form, source, or technology differing from the current popular forms, sources, or ...73 KB (10,796 words) - 08:37, 23 July 2023
- Halibut is the common name for any flatfish (order Pleuronectiformes) belonging to the genus Hippoglossus from the family of right-eye flounders ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology To boycott is to abstain from using, buying, or dealing with a person ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- Shaktism is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Shakti (or Devi)—the female principle of the divine—in her many forms as the absolute ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- The term carotene refers to a class of related organic compounds with the formula C40H56. Carotenes exist in several isomers that have the same ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- Wicca (Old English for "male witch"; feminine wicce), also known as the "Old Religion," is a Neopagan religion characterized ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- Otto Weininger (April 3, 1880 – October 4, 1903) was an Austrian philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- The Labor-Management Relations Act, commonly known as the Taft-Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that greatly restricts the activities ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 02:51, 27 February 2023
- Earwig is the common name for any of the insects comprising the order Dermaptera, characterized by chewing mouthparts, incomplete metamorphosis ...11 KB (1,576 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:531px-Voltaire.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Voltaire in 1718. Portrait by Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746).]] Voltaire (François ...27 KB (4,100 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
