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- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen |image= [[Image:Reynoldsclub ...51 KB (7,192 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 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
- The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- For the bird, see Turkey (bird) native_name = {{native name|tr|Türkiye Cumhuriyeti|icon=no |conventional_long_name = Republic of Turkey ...58 KB (8,535 words) - 00:22, 3 May 2023
- John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was a noted and highly accomplished American film director. Although most famous for westerns ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the Scroll of Ruth") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Classified ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which reads, "Congress ...29 KB (4,563 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims (followers of Islam). Muslims often refer to the mosque by its Arabic name, masjid (Arabic: مسجد ...42 KB (6,416 words) - 12:31, 7 May 2024
- Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of ...22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
- Cassowary is the common name for any of the very large, flightless birds comprising the ratite genus Casuarius, characterized by powerful legs ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Bulguksa, one of Korea's largest and most often visited temples, sits on the side of T'oham-san (T'oham mountain) directly east ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
- A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization in the United States and ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 23:22, 17 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology [[File:Sna large.png|right|300px|thumb|A social network diagram ]] ...31 KB (4,695 words) - 19:52, 8 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Gray1095-gall bladder.png|thumb|Gall bladder]] [[Image:gallbladderop.jpg|thumb|Cholecystectomy seen through a laparoscope]] ...11 KB (1,595 words) - 14:53, 27 June 2021
- Antimony (chemical symbol Sb, atomic number 51) is a metalloid with four allotropic forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metal ...17 KB (2,369 words) - 06:33, 31 July 2023
- The Chechen Republic or, informally, Chechnya, (sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make up as much as 60 percent of the Earth's crust. Feldspars crystallize ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a self-taught American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- The lion (Panthera leo) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of "big cats" (subfamily Pantherinae ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Grizzly_Giant_Mariposa_Grove.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the largest tree in ...33 KB (4,675 words) - 12:40, 18 April 2023
- Pontius Pilate ( ˈpɔnʧəs ˈpaɪleɪt ; Latin: Pontius Pilatus, Greek: Πόντιος Πιλάτος ) was the governor of the Roman Iudaea ...17 KB (2,703 words) - 20:06, 9 April 2023
- Rabbinic literature, in the broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings throughout history. However, the ...11 KB (1,477 words) - 16:16, 7 December 2022
- Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. Sontag was ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Along with her husband, she is a ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- 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
- The White House is the residence and official office of the president of the United States. The White House is located on 18 acres of land at ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- The Albigensian Crusade, or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a twenty year military campaign initiated by the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate ...18 KB (2,843 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- Ferenc (Francis) II Rákóczi (March 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs, in 1703-11, as ...24 KB (3,987 words) - 06:28, 24 May 2021
- 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
- Bhedābheda Vedānta (dvaitadvaita) is one of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” is a Sanskrit word meaning ...15 KB (2,341 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Case citation 347 U.S. 483 (1954), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which explicitly ...25 KB (3,783 words) - 04:40, 22 November 2023
- Shoshone National Forest was the first federally protected National Forest established in the United States and covers nearly 2.5 million acres ...41 KB (6,175 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- Charles Le Brun (February 24, 1619 – February 22, 1690) was a true Renaissance man. The reputation he garnered for his paintings was matched ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- According to Jewish tradition, the Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva mitzvot b'nei Noach), also called the Brit ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman ever created by the head god Zeus as a punishment for humankind after Prometheus stole ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- Hippopotamus, or hippo, is the common name for a very large, semi-aquatic African mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, of the Hippopotamidae family ...43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
- Huitzilíhuitl (Nahuatl language; English: Hummingbird Feather, Spanish: Pluma de colibrí) was the second tlatoani of the Mexica (Aztecs), governing ...6 KB (967 words) - 16:11, 9 February 2024
- Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974) was an influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Like many ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European conflict that arose in 1701 after the death of the last Spanish Habsburg king ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- An altar is a structure, like a table or platform, for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes ...49 KB (7,532 words) - 23:19, 9 May 2024
- Epinephrine or adrenaline (sometimes spelled "epinephrin" or "adrenalin" respectively) is a hormone that is secreted principally ...13 KB (1,794 words) - 16:18, 15 February 2021
- An acid dye is a type of dye that is applied from an acidic solution. In the home or art studio, the acid used in the dyebath is often vinegar ...5 KB (844 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a leader of the Indian independence ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are hydrocarbon fuels found within the top layer of the Earth’s crust. They range from highly volatile materials ...15 KB (2,136 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- Ballroom dance refers to a set of learned partner dances, which are enjoyed socially and engaged in competitively around the globe. Any of the ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) to ...42 KB (6,112 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi ( c=伏羲|p=fúxī ; aka Paoxi ( s=庖牺|t=庖犧|p=páoxī )), mid-2800s B.C.E., was the first of the ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- Medical ethics, also known as health care ethics, or as biomedical ethics, is a field of applied ethics (see the article metaethics)—ethics ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- Muhammad Ali-Haj (born January 17, 1942 as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. - June 3, 2016), was an American professional boxer. He is considered one ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- Saint Teresa of the Andes, known formally as Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, (July 13, 1900 – April 12, 1920) was a Chilean nun canonized ...8 KB (1,399 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- Chandragupta II (referred to as Vikramaditya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) stands as one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire. His ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- Diphtheria is a highly-contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, an aerobic Gram-positive bacterium. It is generally an upper ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 00:38, 26 August 2020
- A calculator is a device for performing calculations. Modern calculators often incorporate a general-purpose computing system, but they are often ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Scientists and Mathematicians Cherry, Colin Edward Colin Cherry, known as Colin Cherry, (1914 – November 23 ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- The Xia Dynasty, ca. 2070 B.C.E. – 1600 B.C.E. Eric Eckholm, "In China, Ancient History Kindles Modern Doubts," The New York Times ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 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
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic Sea, and is the central city within the fourth-largest ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- The Apatani or simply Tanii, designate a tribal group of approximately 60,000 in Ziro in the Apatani plateau in the Lower Subansiri district ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- Recombinant DNA is a form of genetically engineered DNA that is created by taking DNA strands from one organism and combining or inserting these ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 21:12, 23 July 2022
- John Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American political philosopher, a long-time professor at Harvard University, and ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, encompasses 77,000 square miles of rolling sand dunes in eastern Pakistan and the northwestern ...14 KB (2,193 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- Malwa (Malvi:माळवा, IAST: Māļavā), a region in west-central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic origin in the western ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- The concept of pluralism in philosophy indicates the belief that reality consists of many different things or kinds of things. In this sense ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising the order Rajiformes (or Batoidea), characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral ...10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- Tanning is the process by which raw animal skins and hides are converted into leather. This process permanently alters the protein structure ...11 KB (1,861 words) - 04:26, 27 February 2023
- The evacuation from Dunkirk was the large evacuation of Allied soldiers, from May 26 to June 4, 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk. It was also ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 15:36, 30 April 2023
- Kim Jong-il or Kim Jong Il (/ˌkɪm dʒɒŋˈɪl/; Korean: 김정일; Korean pronunciation: [kim.dzɔŋ.il]; February 16, 1941 or 1942 – December ...64 KB (9,034 words) - 23:07, 3 March 2023
- Wildebeest (plural, wildebeest or wildebeests), also called gnu, is the common name for an antelope of the genus Connochaetes, characterized ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 21:08, 21 November 2022
- Alexander Neckam (sometimes spelled "Nequam") (September 8, 1157 – 1217, Hertfordshire, England), was an English theologian, philosopher ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and the first ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes all business profit ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- Hibiscus is the common name and genus name for a group of about 250 species of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants in the mallow family (Malvaceae ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 23:37, 12 February 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[File:Michael's Bar Mitzvah 3.jpg|thumb|400px|Jewish boy reading a Torah scroll ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- Koca Mi‘mār Sinān Āġā (Ottoman Turkish: خوجه معمار سنان آغا) (April 15, 1489 - April 09, 1588), better known simply as ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 22:27, 29 January 2023
- SurrealismIn 1917, Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term "Surrealism" in the program notes describing the ballet Parade which was a ...46 KB (6,796 words) - 23:55, 26 February 2023
- Notochord is a flexible, rod-shaped supporting structure that is one of the distinguishing features of the phylum Chordatas, being found at some ...6 KB (850 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Parsnip is a hardy, biennial, strongly-scented plant (Pastinaca sativa), which is a member of the parsley family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae), ...7 KB (1,014 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- Horace Newton Allen (1858 - 1932), a Protestant, medical missionary from the United States, who later also served as a diplomat, made a remarkable ...8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
- Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg ( Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг ) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
- Currier and Ives was an American printmaking firm, headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895), and based ...14 KB (2,141 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- Watercolor painting is a painting method. A watercolor is either the medium or the resulting artwork. Watercolor, also known in French as aquarelle ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 23:18, 3 May 2023
- In Christian theology, the satisfaction view of the atonement is the dominant theory of the meaning of the death of Jesus Christ taught in Roman ...16 KB (2,590 words) - 18:13, 21 August 2023
- Baobab is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Adansonia, a taxa of eight extant species native ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 05:47, 15 June 2023
- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, known as the Commerce Clause, states that Congress has the exclusive authority ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- A barometer is an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure. It can measure the pressure exerted by the atmosphere by using water, air ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 08:09, 20 September 2023
- Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer and songwriter, an iconic figure in country music ...23 KB (3,620 words) - 03:08, 28 January 2022
- Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game fish clustered into the two genera, Salmo and Oncorhynchus, in the family ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie (December 25, 1709 – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:12, 4 October 2022
- Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the United States Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking. ...59 KB (7,956 words) - 21:36, 26 June 2023
- Sir Samuel White Baker (June 8, 1821 - December 30, 1893) was an English explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Template:Infobox Ethnic group| |group=Chickasaw ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:20, 10 December 2023
- In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in countour and rhythm, and interdependent in harmony ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- category:Image wanted {{Infobox Actor | name = Carl Theodor Dreyer | birthdate = 1889|2|3 | birthplace = Copenhagen, Denmark | deathdate = 1968 ...19 KB (2,998 words) - 15:20, 27 November 2023
- Honolulu is the capital and most populous city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major league baseball team. It was located at East 161st Street and River Avenue ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- The Plague of Athens was a devastating epidemic that ravaged the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece in 430 B.C.E., during the second year ...19 KB (2,851 words) - 07:48, 24 November 2022
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in Central Europe, is a modern great power, the world's third largest economy ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- Category:Public[[Image:Putuoshan_guanyin.JPG|thumb|right|280px|right|Statue of Guan Yin on Mount Putuo]] Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985) was an American ethologist who studied gorillas. She completed an extended study of mountain ...13 KB (1,888 words) - 11:53, 29 January 2024
- Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah ...48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
- Liu Shaoqi ( s=刘少奇|t=劉少奇|p=Liú Shàoqí|w=Liu Shao-ch'i ) (November 24, 1898 – November 12, 1969) was a Chinese Communist ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 20:53, 3 November 2022
- Manna was miraculously produced food of the Israelites in the desert during the Exodus. According to the biblical story, the term originated ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 02:56, 6 November 2022
- The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree, Punica granatum. Pomegranate also is used to refer to the ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday |holiday_name = Remembrance Day |official_name ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The Juche Ideology (Juche Sasang 주체사상 in Korean; or Chuch'e; approximately, "joo-chey") is the official state ideology ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 06:36, 28 February 2023
- Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer. Fats Waller is one ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- Pontiac or Obwandiyag (c. 1720 – April 20, 1769), was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766 ...62 KB (9,278 words) - 22:32, 13 January 2023
- William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American poet and newspaper editor who achieved literary fame at age 17, after ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon, known as the elephant-headed deity. He is usually praised with affection ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary will of another.F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (University of Chicago ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- Lee Ha-eung (1820 – 1898), served as the regent, Daewongun, or formally Heungseon Heonui Daewonwang, during much of the later nineteenth century ...9 KB (1,510 words) - 07:43, 12 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Anthropology Social change (or Social development) is a general term which refers ...31 KB (4,566 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- Sòng Měilíng or Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek ( t=宋美齡|s=宋美龄|p=Sòng Měilíng ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- Category:Image wanted Prefontaine, Steve {{Infobox_Person | name = Steve Roland Prefontaine | residence = Eugene, Oregon | other_names ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 00:45, 26 February 2023
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- Semantics (Greek semantikos, giving signs, significant, symptomatic, from sema, sign) is a theory of the aspects of meanings of various forms ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- In Christian religious practice, infant baptism is the baptism of young children or infants. In theological discussions, the practice is sometimes ...16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- The Afar Depression (also called the Afar Triangle, the Danakil Depression, or the Denakil Plain) is a geological depression in the Horn of ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 05:57, 16 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Category:Sociology [[Image:Fountain of Wealth.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A fountain of wealth]] ...21 KB (3,362 words) - 23:23, 3 May 2023
- Aesop (also spelled Æsop, from the Greek Αἴσωπος – Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection of fables identified ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :This article is about the Algonquin of Quebec and the Ottawa ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership (HJI), formerly Unification Theological Seminary (UTS), is an accredited ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 on Breed's Hill, as part of the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
- Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie fantastique, first performed ...23 KB (3,532 words) - 08:21, 21 January 2024
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) (generally known as J. Willard Gibbs) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer ...19 KB (2,786 words) - 05:25, 7 May 2024
- Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 kilometers (106 mi) east of Darwin. Located within the Alligator Rivers ...37 KB (5,617 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Michael Praetorius (February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He was one of the most versatile ...3 KB (369 words) - 17:08, 9 November 2022
- Category:Economists Senior, Nassau William [[Image:Nws5.jpg|right|200px]] Nassau William Senior (September 26, 1790 – June 4, 1864), was an ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School along ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (October 18, 1926 - March 18, 2017) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In terms ...20 KB (3,002 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- category:image wanted Cram schools (also known as crammers) are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 01:09, 7 April 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein I of Jordan, 1997]] Hussein bin Talal (حسين بن طلال ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום הכיפורים ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- (Les) Cahiers du cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 10:18, 25 November 2023
- The Soviet Union was one of the dominant political entities of the twentieth century. The official name was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- In biology, transcription is the cellular process of synthesizing RNA based on a DNA template. DNA transcription generates the information-carrying ...18 KB (2,706 words) - 17:57, 4 November 2022
- Henry V of England (September 16, 1387 – August 31, 1422) was one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages. He was born at Monmouth, ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 15:24, 22 February 2022
- 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
- Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and advocate for slavery, most famous for serving as the only ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ritual. It has been practiced in many cultures throughout much of history ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1406 - August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, classical scholar, reformer, and educator. He ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 04:02, 6 November 2022
- The Soviet Union introduced the collectivization ( Коллективизация ) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ...62 KB (8,577 words) - 22:34, 7 January 2024
- The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise term in referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
- The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, are a volcanic island archipelago that stretches approximately 750 ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- 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
- A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some have suggested that the term 'cave' should be reserved ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- Category:Image wanted Bebop or bop is a style of jazz that evolved in the 1940s and is notable for its extremely quick tempo and improvisation ...8 KB (1,171 words) - 17:08, 18 August 2020
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Garrison, William Lloyd [[Image:william_garrison.jpg|thumb|240px|William Lloyd ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- Ytterbium (chemical symbol Yb, atomic number 70) is a soft silvery metallic rare earth element. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare ...11 KB (1,375 words) - 21:33, 4 June 2023
- An Lushan ( t=安祿山|s=安禄山|p=Ān Lùshān ) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China ...11 KB (1,832 words) - 18:40, 26 July 2023
- The ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba; '銀杏' in Chinese; plural ginkgoes), also known as the maidenhair tree, is a unique tree with no close ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- The Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)Benjamin. A. Valentino, Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca, NY: Cornell ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- Roger Eugene Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball. He was best known for ...20 KB (3,166 words) - 19:46, 27 April 2024
- Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, defined by the United Nations scheme of geographic regions as consisting ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- Laurel and Hardy were an American-based comedy duo who became famous during the early half of the twentieth century for their work in motion ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots in the folk musics of many countries, including England, Scotland and Ireland ...26 KB (3,894 words) - 00:03, 18 November 2022
- The Pentateuch (from Greek: Πεντετεύχως [meaning "five books"]) refers to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago nation of 155 islands in the Indian Ocean. Seychelles has the smallest population ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany, which was established by King Frederick William III ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- Lisa del Giocondo (June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542, or c. 1551), born and also known as Lisa Gherardini and Lisa di Antonio Maria (Antonmaria ...18 KB (2,836 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also known as the Danelagh (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- 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
- The Wenzi ( c=文子|p=Wénzǐ|w=Wen-tzu|l=[Book of] Master Wen ), or Tongxuan zhenjing ( c=通玄真經|p=Tōngxuán zhēnjīng|w=T'ung ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term meaning "nonviolence" or "non-injury" (literally: the avoidance of himsa: violence). The principle ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 06:51, 16 June 2023
- In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. These amendments limit the powers of ...36 KB (5,472 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: Ryojunkō Heisoku Sakusen, February 8-9, 1904) was the starting battle of the Russo-Japanese War. It began ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 10:20, 22 September 2023
- The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full title An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- This article is about the Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. For the Kiritimati atoll (also known as Christmas Island) in the Pacific ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- Serpent (from Latin: serpens, serpentis) is a word used in mythological or religious contexts to denote a being that looks like a snake but has ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов IPA: [mʲɪxʌˈil əlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 04:04, 25 March 2023
- Fibers (or fibres) form a class of hair-like materials that occur as continuous filaments or in discrete elongated pieces, similar to pieces ...6 KB (832 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- The sea in a general sense refers to the ocean or world ocean, the body of salty water that covers approximately 71 percent of the Earth's ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- The Cologne Cathedral ( Kölner Dom , officially de|Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical notation. Sheet music typically is printed on paper (or, in earlier times ...26 KB (4,129 words) - 13:25, 27 January 2023
- Crucifixion was an ancient method of execution practiced in the Roman Empire and neighboring Mediterranean cultures, such as the Persian Empire ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- Environmental science is the study of interactions among the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment. It provides an ...11 KB (1,440 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- Category:Anthropology Category:Psychology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Politics and social sciences [[Image:Catlin ...20 KB (2,817 words) - 17:59, 31 October 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
- Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 17:50, 14 November 2022
- An armored fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle that is protected by armor and armed with weapons. Most AFVs are equipped for driving ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- Charles-Marie-Gustave Le Bon (May 7, 1841 – December 13, 1931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and physicist. He was the author ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 12:46, 24 January 2023
- The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced degrees in biblical studies, religion or related fields [as well as] published ...36 KB (5,268 words) - 08:35, 3 April 2024
- Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von [[Image:Richard v. Krafft-Ebing.jpg|thumb|200 px|]] Richard Freiherr ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- Frederick Louis MacNeice (September 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 – 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar, physician, philosopher, and political ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- Potosí is a city in southern Bolivia, 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Sucre, the national capital. It is one of the world's highest cities ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | | Name = Charles Mingus | Landscape = | Background = non_vocal_instr ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 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 Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon of Olympian gods. He held jurisdiction over Mount Olympus, as well as ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ايران, transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Golem and Loew.jpg|200px|Rabbi Loew and golem.|thumb]] ...13 KB (2,171 words) - 11:55, 24 January 2023
- Betty Marion White Ludden (January 17, 1922 - December 31, 2021) was an American actress and comedian. A pioneer of early television, with a ...54 KB (7,980 words) - 18:02, 29 September 2023
- Category:Public The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, originating in ancient Greek philosophy, that stresses development ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- St. Louis is an independent city, separate from St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at the confluence of ...33 KB (4,943 words) - 18:26, 26 February 2024
- Léon Samoilovitch Bakst (May 10, 1866 - December 28, 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer who revolutionized the arts ...13 KB (1,809 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- An open air museum is a distinct type of museum that exhibits its collections outside. The first open air museums were established in Scandinavia ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- Neoptera is a major taxonomic group of insects that includes almost all the winged insects and specifically those considered to be related by ...10 KB (1,256 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- 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
- David Hartley (June 21, 1705 – August 28, 1757) was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. He provided ...9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom of Aksum or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Amaterasu (天照), Amaterasu-ōmikami (天照大神 or 天照大御神, Japanese: “Great Divinity Illuminating Heaven”) or Ōhiru-menomuchi ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- The United States expedition to Korea in 1871, which came to be known in Korea as Sinmiyangyo (Korean: 신미양요 ,Western Disturbance of the ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 11:56, 3 May 2023
- Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was the first Methodist missionary to Korea. He and the American Presbyterian ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972), born in Chicago of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, grew up in the midst of poverty. ...25 KB (3,909 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 19 or 20 ...36 KB (5,384 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group=Miskito |image=[[Image:Bandera ...25 KB (3,718 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- Self-concept or self identity is the mental and conceptual understanding and persistent regard that sentient beings hold for their own existence ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. They are ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 02:10, 21 January 2023
- Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French novelist, philosopher, and feminist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies ...19 KB (2,875 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- A Vihara (Sanskrit: meaning "dwelling" or "house") was the ancient Indian term for a Buddhist monastery. Originally, viharas ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic, Libya, and Chad along the Sudanese western border. It is divided into ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- Ishtar, a goddess of both fertility and war, is the Akkadian name of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and the Semitic goddess Astarte, the three names ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Exodus (meaning: "mass migration or exiting of a people from an area") is the second book of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. The ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to explain the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit described in ...42 KB (6,496 words) - 11:56, 9 May 2024
- Artichoke, or globe artichoke, is a perennial thistle, Cynara cardunculus (or C. scolymus) of the Asteraceae family, characterized by pinnately ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was a leader of the militant leftist Black Panther Party and author of the influential ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2024
- The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, describing the trials of a righteous man whom God has caused to suffer. The ...21 KB (3,491 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Pawnee |image=[[Image:Pawnee flag.svg|272px]] ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 01:45, 23 November 2022
- Oligarchy (Greek Ὀλιγαρχία, Oligarkhía, from óligon, “few,” and arkho, “rule” ) is a form of government in which political ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- Mary (מרים, Maryām, "Bitter") was the mother of Jesus Christ. Tradition names her parents as Joachim and Anne. According to the ...30 KB (4,633 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced "Tawney") (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs) to a number ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- The Kingdom of Judah (Hebrew מַלְכוּת יְהוּדָה, Standard Hebrew Malkut Yəhuda) was the nation formed from the territories of ...27 KB (4,065 words) - 16:48, 25 February 2024
- Chemical bond is the term used to describe the linkages between atoms joined together to form molecules or crystals. Chemical bonds are the result ...25 KB (3,936 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- Flamingo (plural: flamingos or flamingoes) is the common name for any of the large, gregarious, wading birds comprising the family Phoenicopteridae ...17 KB (2,382 words) - 17:35, 28 March 2024
- Zürich ( [ˈtsyːʁɪç] , Zürich German: Züri [ˈtsyɾi] , Zurich [zyʁiʃ] , in English generally Zurich, Zurigo [dzu'ɾiːgo] ...53 KB (7,882 words) - 06:16, 13 June 2023
- Angela Dorothea Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner, July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany), is a German politician and scientist who served ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng|l=10,000 Li (里) long wall ) is a series of stone and earthen ...14 KB (2,322 words) - 07:41, 4 January 2024
- John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), nicknamed "Duke," was an American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- Stegosaur is the common name for any of the various extinct, plated tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) comprising the taxonomic group Stegosauria ...16 KB (2,303 words) - 17:18, 21 October 2022
- Category:Psychologists Terman, Lewis Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 - December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, noted as a pioneer ...14 KB (2,037 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- category:Image wanted Roth, Philip {{Infobox Writer | name = Philip Roth | image = Philip Roth - 1973.jpg | caption = Roth in 1973 ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- Propositional calculus or Sentential calculus is a calculus that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ("not ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- Jaroslav Hašek ( [ˈjarɔslaf ˈɦaʃɛk] ) (April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 22:09, 8 February 2023
- Gérard de Nerval ( ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval|lang ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator ...30 KB (4,372 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2023
- In the discussions of ethics, courage is considered to be a moral virtue. In the history of philosophy, the concept of courage as a moral virtue ...6 KB (958 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- A Rabbi, in Judaism, is a religious teacher and, in modern times, the leader of a synagogue. The term was first applied in Jewish sources to ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- Amiri Baraka (October 7, 1934 - January 9, 2014) was an American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism. Writing in the generation ...18 KB (2,687 words) - 07:05, 25 July 2023
- Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), one of the best investigative journalists of his era, was a prolific American ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- category:fix cite refs Mussolini, Benito [[Image:Benito Mussolini colored.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini]] ...40 KB (6,139 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke AC (December 9, 1929 - May 16, 2019) was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian ...25 KB (3,662 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- In zoology, a seal is any pinniped other than a walrus. There are two main groups of these large, aquatic, mostly marine mammals. Earless seals ...18 KB (2,671 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 - March 21, 1915), widely known as F. W. Taylor, was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- Ungulates, or hoofed mammals, are members of the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates). Ungulates ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 23:30, 11 November 2022
- category:fix cite refs {{Infobox Writer | name = Osip Mandelstam | image = Osip Mandelstam.jpg | imagesize = 150px | caption = ...14 KB (1,927 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German language novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century, ...29 KB (4,338 words) - 09:35, 11 April 2024
- Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:49, 30 January 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Biography Black, Davidson Davidson Black (July 25, 1884 – March 15, ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 08:39, 28 January 2024
- James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831–September 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was a strong opponent of slavery ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- The Gaza Strip (Arabic:Qita' Ghazzah; Hebrew:Retzu'at 'Azza) is a narrow coastal strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
- The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- 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
- Assateague Island is a 37|mi|km|adj=on long barrier island located off the Atlantic coast of Maryland and Virginia, United States. Barrier islands ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- Emerald (from the Greek word smaragdos, through the French esmeralde, meaning "green gemstone") is a green variety of the mineral beryl ...10 KB (1,413 words) - 15:17, 31 December 2021
- Category:Public Category:Sociologists Tönnies, Ferdinand [[Image:Ferdinand_Toennies_Bueste_Husum-Ausschnitt.jpg|thumb|350px|Ferdinand TönniesMemorial ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- 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
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of the same substance) ontology that holds that all that can truly be said to ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Money supply, "monetary aggregates" or "money stock" is a macroeconomic ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 19:56, 9 November 2022
- Capuchin monkey is the common name for the tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Cebus of the primate family Cebidae, characterized ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 22:10, 25 November 2023
- The Cambridge Platonists are a group of seventeenth century British philosophers who attempted to reconcile the empiricism of their British contemporaries ...25 KB (3,863 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. The Palace is a setting for state occasions, royal entertaining, and ...28 KB (4,475 words) - 16:52, 22 November 2023
- Lucie Simplice Camille Benoist Desmoulins (March 2, 1760 – April 5, 1794) was a French journalist and politician who played an important role ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 18:30, 24 August 2023
- Christmas Eve is the evening or day before Christmas Day, the widely celebrated annual holiday. It occurs on December 24 in Western Christianity ...27 KB (4,071 words) - 21:38, 10 December 2023
- William Zebina Ripley (October 13, 1867 – August 16, 1941) was an American economist and anthropologist. Ripley’s work in economics, especially ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- "ASTRA" National Museum Complex ( Complexul Naţional Muzeal "ASTRA" ) is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- Fructose (or levulose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) with the same chemical formula as glucose (C6H12O6) but a different atomic arrangement ...12 KB (1,703 words) - 09:20, 21 June 2021
- Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was a modern American poet, children's author, and a playwright ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- The sport of Fencing is a sport of armed combat that is one of the remaining original events that was in the 1908 Olympic Games. Its three main ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The physical processes which produce radio waves ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Lima is the capital and largest city, as well as the commercial and industrial center, of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief administrative, financial, and commercial center. Located in the south ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Phrenology1.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|A 19th century phrenology chart. The ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- Purana (Sanskrit: पुराण, meaning "ancient" or "old") is the name of a genre of popular Indian scriptures, primarily ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- Subutai (Subetei, Subetai, Sübeedei; Classic Mongolian: Sübügätäi or Sübü'ätäi; 1176–1248) also known as Subetai the Valiant ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 21:26, 26 February 2023
- A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the base of a cumulonimbus cloud (or occasionally, a cumulus cloud) and ...56 KB (8,507 words) - 00:50, 20 February 2024
- A dilemma (Greek δί-λημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ...24 KB (3,799 words) - 15:21, 29 January 2024
- Dzungar (also Jungar or Zungar; Зүүнгар Züüngar ) is the collective identity of several Oirat tribes that formed and maintained the last ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 13:28, 25 September 2020
- Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan country in South Asia. It is a culturally rich kingdom with eight of ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- 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
- Vaishnavism (Sanskrit for "belonging to Vishnu") is one of the principal traditions of Hinduism that is distinguished from other schools ...42 KB (6,471 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- Henry VIII (June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from April 22, 1509, until his ...40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
- A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. In angiosperms, or flowering plants, the ovule is found within an ovary, which ...9 KB (1,464 words) - 02:24, 30 September 2022
- The Shakers are a Christian sect, an offshoot of the Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers), originating in Manchester, England in the late ...23 KB (3,664 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- Lake Tanganyika is a large lake in Central Africa that is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume and the second ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan country in western Africa, named after the Niger River. Though rich in minerals ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- The ozone layer is a layer in Earth's atmosphere that contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3). It is mainly located in the ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- The haloalkanes (also known as halogenoalkanes or alkyl halides) are a group of chemical compounds, consisting of alkanes, such as methane or ...35 KB (5,199 words) - 23:36, 3 August 2023
- A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- Vrindavan (alternate spellings Vrindaban or Brindavan or Brundavan), or Vraj in Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a town on the site ...13 KB (1,859 words) - 21:50, 3 May 2023
- Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание) is a novel written and published in serial form in the Russian Herald in ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher who ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 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
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Turmeric is the common name for a herbaceous perennial plant, Curcuma longa, of the ginger family Zingiberaceae, characterized by a tuberous ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- Michael Polanyi (born Polányi Mihály) (March 11, 1891 – February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended ...17 KB (2,500 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb built the Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد), or the 'Emperor's Mosque', in 1673 in ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which marked the end of the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- Beryllium (chemical symbol Be, atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray in color, it is strong but brittle. ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Boris Pasternak 1959.jpg|thumb|200px|Boris Pasternak (1890-1960).]] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Борис Леонидович ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- The Shaolin Monastery or Shaolin Temple ( c=少林寺 |p=Shàolínsì ), is a Chan Buddhist temple at Song Shan in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 21:14, 16 June 2023
- Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the design of structures that support or resist loads. Structural engineering is ...56 KB (8,392 words) - 21:05, 26 February 2023
- Nimbarka (Śrī Nimbārkācārya श्री निम्बार्काचार्य), was a Hindu philosopher and commentator, known ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- The Pagan Kingdom (849-1287) is considered to be the first Burmese empire. During the time of the Pyu kingdom, between about 500 and 950, the ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. His ironic novels ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- category:image wanted The Song of Solomon (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim), also known as the Song of Songs, is a book of ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 01:14, 4 February 2023
- William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was one ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising (Russian: Восстание декабристов) was staged in Imperial Russia by army officers ...14 KB (2,074 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- 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
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- The Shūyuàn (书院), usually known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were private research and educational institutions ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 07:12, 14 June 2023
- Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of ...31 KB (4,592 words) - 17:31, 12 February 2024
- The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta, Georgia ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 11:49, 14 November 2021
- Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was the son of Bahram I (273–276). During his reign, most of Armenia was lost ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Economics Sabotage is deliberate action taken with the purpose of weakening an enemy ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 18:32, 22 December 2022
- 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
- Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 01:05, 9 November 2022
- Mount Everest--also known as Sagarmatha or Chomolungma--is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level ...31 KB (4,841 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- The territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French: Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon) is an archipelago ...22 KB (3,091 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Ccross.svg|thumb|right|200px|A Celtic cross.]] ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- Alcyonaria Zoantharia See text for orders. Corals are those marine invertebrates of the phylum Cnidaria and the class Anthozoa that have external ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- A bulldozer is a very powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
- Buddhism has been a major force in the creation of Korean culture and civilization since the Three Kingdoms of Korea period. Missionaries from ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance and advice to countries for the purposes ...25 KB (3,686 words) - 00:01, 18 May 2023
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The third-largest country in South ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- Sparta (Doric Σπάρτα; Attic Σπάρτη Spartē) was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the River Eurotas in the southern part ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- Antoine Busnois (also Busnoys) (c. 1430 – November 6, 1492) was a French composer and poet of the early Renaissance era and a member of the ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- Herman Wouk (/woʊk/ WOHK; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction. The Caine Mutiny (1951) made ...38 KB (5,130 words) - 23:59, 27 November 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:John Locke.jpg|right|300px|thumb|John Locke]] John Locke (August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704) was a seventeenth-century ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[File:Figure 5 Literacy has rapidly spread Reading the past writing the future.png|right ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- 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
- Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- 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
- category:image wanted Synergy (from the Greek synergos, συνεργός meaning working together, circa 1660) refers to the phenomenon in which ...12 KB (1,805 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:Anthropoid sarcophagus discovered at Cadiz - Project ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- Doha ( الدوحة , Ad-Dawḥah or Ad-Dōḥah ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. Its metropolitan area is home ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- Earless seal is the common name for any of the pinnipeds comprising the family Phocidae, characterized by the absence of a pinna (external part ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 16:04, 10 October 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Aleut |image = [[image:aleut ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War Bertrand Taithe. Citizenship and Wars: France in Turmoil ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- The Book of Wisdom (also known as the Wisdom of Solomon or simply Wisdom) is one of the Deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It is one of the ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- A bicycle (or bike) is a pedal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels, one behind the other, attached to a frame. The basic shape and ...29 KB (4,462 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament. Though traditionally credited to the Apostle Paul, the letter is anonymous ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 19:12, 13 February 2024
- Etta James (January 25, 1938 - January 20, 2012) was an American blues, soul, R&B, and jazz singer and songwriter, who had her biggest success ...20 KB (2,949 words) - 04:39, 22 March 2024
- The Siege of Malakand took place between July 26–August 2, 1897, constituting a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand region of modern ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 15:02, 7 October 2022
- Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American singer and songwriter. His integration of rock and pop elements into the country genre ...30 KB (4,330 words) - 07:48, 23 January 2023
- Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals ...51 KB (7,370 words) - 02:40, 16 November 2022
- The Prodigal Son, also known as the Lost Son, is about the inner nature of grace, and the transcendent and insuperable power of parental love ...15 KB (2,442 words) - 07:38, 18 November 2022
- The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic, and cultural conditions that occurred in the late eighteenth and ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a very pale blue liquid which appears colorless in a dilute solution, slightly more viscous than water. It is a weak ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Military A war an armed conflict between nations or conflicting political ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- Cucumber is the common name for a widely cultivated creeping vine, Cucumis sativus, in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by large ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 06:43, 11 January 2024
- Equidae is a family of odd-toed ungulate mammals of horses and horse-like animals. It is sometimes known as the horse family. All extant equids ...18 KB (2,488 words) - 07:29, 6 September 2023
- Fatehpur Sikri ( फतेहपूर सिकरी , فتحپور سیکری ), a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 00:44, 25 March 2024
- A deep state (from derin devlet ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine government made up of hidden or covert ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- An atom (Greek άτομον from ά: non and τομον: divisible) is a submicroscopic structure found in all ordinary matter. Originally the ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- Bangalore (Indian English: [ˈbæŋgəloːɾ]), officially Bengaluru ( ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು , ['beŋgəɭuːru]), serves as the capital ...48 KB (6,769 words) - 03:28, 17 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Haida |image=[[Image:Charles Edenshaw ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (born April 30, 1651 in Reims; died April 7, 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen) was a French priest and educational reformer ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 19:49, 22 December 2022
- Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460 – July 1521) was a Spanish conquistador who became the first known European to discover Florida after establishing ...10 KB (1,638 words) - 06:05, 10 May 2024
- The Meiji period (明治時代, Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in the Gregorian calendar, from October 23 ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- Munich ( München ˈmʏnçən Minga ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city in the country, with approximately 1.35 ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Sales tax is a consumption tax charged at the point of purchase for certain goods and ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- Charles Kingsley (June 12, 1819 – January 23, 1875) was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire ...18 KB (2,593 words) - 19:34, 4 December 2023
- Vapor pressure (or vapour pressure) is the pressure of a vapor in equilibrium with its non-vapor phases. Under appropriate conditions of temperature ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- A canoe is a small, narrow boat, typically human-powered, but it may also have a sail. Canoes are pointed at both ends and usually open on top ...28 KB (4,725 words) - 19:26, 25 November 2023
- A compass (or mariner's compass) is a navigational instrument for finding directions on the earth. It consists of a magnetized pointer free ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1040? – July 1099), was a Castilian military and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the Spanish nobility and ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- An inuksuk, plural inuksuit, (from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural ᐃᓄᒃᓱᐃᑦ; alternatively inukshuk in English or inukhuk in ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 11:05, 6 March 2024
- Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early third century B.C.E. - after 246 B.C.E.), was an epic poet, scholar, and director ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- Attila (c. 406 - 453 C.E.) was the monarch of the Hun people from 434 C.E. until his death. His empire stretched from the Netherlands to the ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Desalination (or desalinization or desalinisation) refers to any of several processes that remove excess salt and other minerals from water. ...20 KB (2,876 words) - 09:52, 29 January 2024
- John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873), an English philosopher and political economist, was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- The Third Council of Constantinople, also known as the Sixth Ecumenical Council, was a meeting of mostly eastern bishops in the capital of the ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- Mangabey is the common name for the various Old World monkeys comprising the genera Lophocebus ( crested mangabeys), Cercocebus (white-eyelid ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 06:45, 5 November 2022
- Pol Pot (May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998), earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge" ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, teacher, reformer, and briefly a politician who became ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Ganzfeld.jpg|frame|right|Participant in a Ganzfeld telepathy ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts to solve The Problem of Evil—the problem that arises when trying to ...38 KB (6,068 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family A dowry is a gift of money or valuables ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Category:Psychologists category:biography Wundt, Wilhelm [[File:Wilhelm Wundt.jpg|225px|thumb|right|Wilhelm Wundt]] Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt ...20 KB (2,709 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), was a French writer, best known for the numerous ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- An apartment (American English), or flat (British English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- Bovinae Cephalophinae Hippotraginae Antilopinae Caprinae Reduncinae Aepycerotinae Peleinae Alcelaphinae Panthalopinae A bovid is any member of ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 01:57, 12 January 2023
- According to Catholic tradition, Saint Linus (d. c. 67 - 80) was the second bishop of Rome, succeeding the first "pope," Saint Peter ...11 KB (1,675 words) - 04:02, 26 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 04:48, 23 March 2024
- The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- The General Electric Company, or GE ( GE ), is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. ...27 KB (3,816 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate, as opposed to a nuclear ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- A Passion play is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Christ. It includes the trial, suffering, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- Sciatica, otherwise known as sciatic nerve dysfunction, is a condition of pain or discomfort associated with the sciatic nerve. It is caused ...16 KB (2,375 words) - 17:22, 25 January 2023
- category:image wanted Improvisation is the art of acting and reacting, in the moment, to one's surroundings. This can result in the invention ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Cybele (Greek Κυβέλη) was a Phrygian goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose worship spread to the cities of ancient ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using an organic solvent rather than water. The solvent is generally known as ...18 KB (2,825 words) - 21:15, 30 January 2024
- The Baroque style began as somewhat of a continuation of the Renaissance. Later, however, scholars of the time began to see the drastic differences ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 10:50, 20 September 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Image wanted Meyer, Adolf Adolf Meyer (September 13, 1866 – March 17, 1950) was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist ...9 KB (1,247 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- The Salvation Army is a Christian church and international charitable organization structured in a quasi-military fashion. The organization reports ...30 KB (4,473 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (March 11, 1916 – May 24, 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians ...47 KB (7,170 words) - 20:22, 29 January 2022
- Samarium (chemical symbol Sm, atomic number 62) is a bright silvery metal that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. It ...11 KB (1,437 words) - 02:07, 23 December 2022
- Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. Jupiter and the other gas giants—Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—are ...33 KB (5,016 words) - 16:30, 14 May 2024
- Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, or wood spirits, is the simplest alcohol. Its chemical formula ...20 KB (2,894 words) - 16:26, 9 November 2022
- is the fourth largest city in Japan and one of the country's leading industrial cities. Located on the Pacific coast in the Chūbu region ...21 KB (2,938 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- Chinua Achebe ( ˈtʃɪnwɑː ɑːˈtʃeɪbeɪ ), born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013) was a Nigerian novelist ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (first name alternatively spelled as Vassily or Vasiliy, Василий Семёнович Гроссман ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (July 30, 1890 - September 29, 1975) was an American baseball player and manager from the early 1910s ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- The Kuomintang of China (abbreviation KMT), also often translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party, is a political party in the Republic of China ...28 KB (4,106 words) - 16:48, 30 March 2024
- Yeon Gaesomun (연개소문; 淵蓋蘇文) (603 - 665) was a powerful and controversial general and military dictator in the waning days of Goguryeo ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category:Life sciences Category:Food [[Image:Jambalaya.jpg|400px|thumb|Creole Jambalaya ...19 KB (2,856 words) - 22:44, 16 December 2021
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Layard, Austen Henry Austen Henry Layard (March 5, 1817 – July 5, 1894) was a ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- A relief is a sculptured art work in which figures are either carved into a level plane or, more typically, the plane is removed to create images ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish priest, essayist, political writer, and poet, considered the foremost ...20 KB (3,110 words) - 19:48, 4 May 2024
- In logic, two sentences (either in a formal language or a natural language) may be joined by means of a logical connective to form a compound ...27 KB (3,934 words) - 20:59, 3 November 2022
- The March First Movement, or the Samil Movement (in Korean, samil means "three-one" or "March 1") was one of the earliest ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- Pope Saint Caius, or Gaius, was the bishop of Rome from December 17, 283 to April 22, 296. Christian tradition makes him a native of Dalmatia ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- category:Image wanted Davis, Reverend Gary Reverend Gary Davis, also known as Blind Gary Davis (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972), was an blues ...11 KB (1,811 words) - 19:59, 8 December 2022
- category:image wantedWells, Kitty {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Kitty Wells |Img = |Img_capt = |Img_size = (Only use for images smaller ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 23:17, 3 March 2023
- Category:Economists Malthus, Thomas Robert {{Infobox_Economist |school_tradition= Classical economics |color = #B0C4DE |image_name ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δράμα , dráma), which is derived from "to do" ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- William Ewart Gladstone (December 29, 1809 – May 19, 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Ratzel, Friedrich [[Image:Friedrich Ratzel.jpg|thumb|right]] Friedrich Ratzel ...10 KB (1,388 words) - 06:38, 15 April 2024
- George Westinghouse, Jr. (October 6 1846 – March 12 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer now best known for the brand of electrical ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 00:24, 24 November 2022
- Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava River in central Bohemia, it is home to ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Paranormal [[Image:Glieseupdated.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Artist's impression ...28 KB (4,265 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices, social structures ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group :Arawak redirects here [[Image:Reconstruction of Taino village ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- The Occupation of the Channel Islands refers to the military occupation of the Channel Islands by the Third Reich during World War II which lasted ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- category:image wanted Yi {{koreanname |hangul=이익 |hanja=李瀷 |rr=I Ik |mr=I Ik |hangulho=성호 |hanjaho=星湖) |rrho=Seongho ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 2023
- As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:53, 5 February 2023
- Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲) (1089–1163) (Wade-Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master ...16 KB (2,594 words) - 16:55, 13 May 2020
- The term monastery (from Greek: μοναστήριον (monastērion) denotes the buildings of a community of monastics (monks or nuns). ...53 KB (8,288 words) - 19:55, 9 November 2022
- The arts of Africa constitute one of the most diverse legacies on earth. While many observers tend to generalize "traditional" African ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just Traditional usage is by the nom de terre ("name of land") without using the nobiliary particle. ...66 KB (9,644 words) - 18:02, 26 November 2022
- Online shopping is the process of researching and purchasing products or services over the Internet. The earliest online stores went into business ...28 KB (4,204 words) - 00:40, 18 November 2022
- The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht (Battle of the Skagerrak); Danish: Søslaget ved Jylland / Søslaget om Skagerrak) was the largest ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- Biological control, biocontrol, or biological pest control is a method of suppressing or controlling the population of undesirable insects, other ...26 KB (3,797 words) - 23:47, 11 January 2023
- Juan Manuel Fangio (June 24, 1911 – July 17, 1995) was a race-car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- Kalmyk (alternatively "Kalmuck," "Kalmuk," "Calmouk," or "Kalmyki") is the name given to western Mongolian ...59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
- Macrocosm/microcosm is a Greek compound of μακρο- "Macro-" and μικρο- "Micro-," which are Greek respectively for ...11 KB (1,612 words) - 17:28, 9 November 2022
- 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
- Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions ...78 KB (10,754 words) - 22:08, 30 March 2023
- Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a United States congresswoman (1943–1947), and ambassador to Italy (1953–1957 ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:crematorium.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- Ida Bell Wells, also known as Ida B. Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931), was an African-American journalist, civil rights activist ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 15:32, 12 February 2024
- Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), is one of the most well loved and ...18 KB (2,942 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- In geology, a fault (or fault line) is a planar rock fracture that shows evidence of relative movement. Given that faults do not usually consist ...12 KB (1,799 words) - 01:40, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages of the Treaty of Brest ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- Jacques René Chirac (November 29, 1932 - September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May 17, 1995 until May 16, 2007. As President ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India Company between 1814 and 1816. It is sometimes called the Gorkha War or the ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- 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
- José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ( ʒuˈzɛ sɐɾɐˈmagu ; November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010) was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese writer, playwright ...13 KB (1,795 words) - 07:37, 27 February 2023
- Louis Daniel Armstrong, affectionately known as "Satchmo," (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) was an American jazz musician and singer ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- Marie Taglioni (April 23, 1804 – April 24, 1884) was a famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March 27, 1912 – March 26, 2005), was the fourth British Labour Prime Minister ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- Category:Image wanted Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985), was one of the first ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- Totila (died July 1, 552) was king of the Ostrogoths from 541 until his death. He waged the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire for the mastery ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- Celsius (or centigrade) is a temperature scale named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed such a system ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Petrie, William Matthew Flinders [[Image:Petrie in 1886 ...13 KB (1,892 words) - 16:43, 13 May 2024
- Yunnan ( s=云南 |t=雲南 |p=Yúnnán ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the People's Republic of China located ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Category:Economists List, Friedrich [[image:Friedrich List 1838.jpg|right|200px]] Georg Friedrich List (August 6, 1789 – November 30, 1846) ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- Glen Travis Campbell April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was a Grammy and Dove Award winning American country pop singer, guitarist, and occasional ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 07:53, 24 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Inuit Amautiq 1995-06-15.jpg|thumb|250 px|right|Two ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. The process is capable of producing multiple copies of the same ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 22:59, 30 November 2022
- The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, was a conflict in which the Francoists, or Nationalists, defeated the ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- The name Lazarus (Hebrew: "God helped") refers to two separate individuals described in the New Testament: the first Lazarus is miraculously ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 17:59, 25 October 2022
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- 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
- Category:Public {{Infobox_Biography | subject_name=Sir Isaac Newton | image_name=GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg | image_caption= Sir Isaac ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (Máire Mhic Róibín) Official Website of the President of Ireland, [http://www.president.ie/index.php?section ...34 KB (5,329 words) - 08:42, 10 March 2023
- Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox MLB retired |name=Whitey Ford |position=Pitcher |bats=Left |throws=Left |birthdate=1928|10|21New York, New York ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 18:40, 4 May 2023
- Aikido is a modern Japanese budo (martial art), developed by Morihei Ueshiba between the 1920s and the 1960s. Ueshiba was religiously inspired ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God in the Book of Revelation (verses 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13). Its meaning is found ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO," or "non-profit" or ...18 KB (2,646 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French armies from ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:41, 26 September 2023
- Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation (formerly Enron Corporation, former NYSE ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy company based in Houston ...31 KB (4,550 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1, 1852 – October 17, 1934) was a Spanish histologist (study of tissues) and physician who (along with Camillo ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 03:22, 23 December 2022
- Karikala Chola (Tamil: கரிகால சோழன்), the greatest among the early Chola kings of the Sangam age in South India, was the ...14 KB (1,806 words) - 20:57, 26 March 2024
- Category:Economists Friedman, Milton {{Infobox Economist |color = #B0C4DE | name = Milton Friedman |image_name ...27 KB (3,928 words) - 20:26, 6 February 2024
