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- Red panda is the common name for a mostly herbivorous, bamboo specialized mammal, Ailurus fulgens, that has soft, thick, reddish or reddish brown ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
- Vinegar is a sour liquid produced from the fermentation of diluted alcohol products, which yields the organic compound acetic acid, its key ingredient ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 20:25, 3 May 2023
- The word Amen (Hebrew: אמן, meaning "Firm" or "Verily," Arabic آمين ’Āmīn) is a declaration of positive affirmation ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- An acid-base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. Several concepts exist which provide alternative definitions ...18 KB (2,642 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- Saint Seraphim of Sarov (Russian: Серафим Саровский) (July 19, 1759 – January 2, 1833), born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор ...6 KB (862 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- Samarkand ( Samarqand, Самарқанд ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand Province. One of the oldest ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Abydos (Arabic: أبيدوس, Greek Αβυδος), is one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt, dating back to the late prehistoric era ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- Hanukkah ( חנוכה ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival of Lights) is an eight-day Jewish holiday marking the ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- Pecan is the common name for a large, North American deciduous hickory tree, Carya illinoinensis, characterized by alternate, pinnately compound ...12 KB (1,631 words) - 07:10, 23 November 2022
- The term potash has more than one meaning. In a narrow sense, it refers to the salt potassium carbonate (K2CO3). In a broader sense, it is a ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- Crotalinae, whose members are commonly known as pit vipers (or pitvipers, pit-vipers), is a subfamily of venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- Tick is the common name for any of the small, bloodsucking, parasitic arachnids (class Arachnida) in the families Ixodidae (hard ticks) and Argasidae ...25 KB (3,763 words) - 17:14, 18 April 2023
- Class Branchiopoda :Subclass Phyllopoda :Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Class Cephalocarida Class Maxillopoda :Subclass Thecostraca ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 19:04, 4 June 2020
- Gamma rays (γ rays) is the popular name applied to gamma radiation, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation and thus the electromagnetic ...16 KB (2,549 words) - 04:20, 18 April 2024
- Basalt is a common, gray to black volcanic rock. It is usually fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava on the Earth's surface. It may ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:22, 1 January 2022
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn), is an island country in the Persian Gulf ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- Cumin (IPA pronunciation [ˈkʌmɪn] The pronunciations /ˈkuːmɪn/ and /ˈkjuːmɪn/ are becoming increasingly common. sometimes spelled cummin ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- A sapphire (from the Latin sapphirus and Greek sappheiros, perhaps derived from the Hebrew word ספּיר, sapir) is a gemstone belonging to ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- Chinchilla is the common name and genus name for squirrel-sized South American rodents of the Andes mountains, characterized by thick, soft fur ...19 KB (2,808 words) - 22:35, 13 January 2023
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, soon after shooting ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious recognition of sensations, visions, or events after having been declared ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- Progesterone is a steroid hormone in mammals that is involved in the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy (supporting gestation), and embryogenesis ...17 KB (2,310 words) - 08:47, 28 June 2022
- Bauxite is an important ore of aluminum, composed mainly of aluminum oxide and hydroxide minerals. It was named after the village Les Baux-de ...6 KB (660 words) - 03:09, 26 September 2023
- The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, played a major role in developing Korea's cultural tradition. ...16 KB (2,364 words) - 22:07, 29 January 2023
- Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or map of functional processes ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- Magnolia is the common name and genus name for a large group of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Magnoliaceae ...24 KB (3,395 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- The Battle of Constantinople was fought in June 922 at the outskirts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, between the forces ...15 KB (2,004 words) - 20:31, 28 March 2024
- A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, noninfectious disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). MS causes gradual destruction ...42 KB (6,258 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 15:44, 20 May 2024
- Papyrus (The plural of papyrus is papyri) is an early form of thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle (March 1, 1926 – December 6, 1996) was the commissioner of the National Football League ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:05, 24 November 2022
- Category:Public Pain is an unpleasant sensation that may be associated with actual or potential tissue damage and may contain physical and emotional ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- A river is a natural waterway that conveys water derived from precipitation from higher ground to lower levels. Most commonly, rivers flow on ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- In Greek mythology, Prometheus (ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, "forethought") is the Titan honored chiefly for stealing fire from ...12 KB (1,993 words) - 23:54, 1 December 2022
- Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg (January 1, 1911 - September 4, 1986), nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank," was an American professional ...29 KB (4,518 words) - 21:15, 17 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:Grote bazaar - straat.JPG ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 03:11, 26 September 2023
- Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a Hall of Fame baseball ...28 KB (4,394 words) - 20:36, 4 January 2024
- Opossum is the common name for various small- to medium-sized marsupials comprising the mammalian order Didelphimorphia and found in the Western ...20 KB (2,863 words) - 10:35, 11 March 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
- Fairy shrimp is the common name for aquatic crustaceans in the branchiopod order Anostraca, characterized by elongated bodies, paired compound ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 20:13, 1 November 2023
- Brass is the term used for alloys of copper and zinc. It has a yellow color, somewhat similar to gold. The proportions of zinc and copper can ...6 KB (938 words) - 13:23, 11 February 2022
- 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
- In chemistry, a base is thought of as a substance which can accept protons or any chemical compound that yields hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 11:03, 20 September 2023
- Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- Gravel is rock that is of a certain particle size range. In geology, gravel is any loose rock that is larger than two millimeters (mm) (about ...6 KB (948 words) - 18:27, 20 January 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Singer, Margaret Margaret Thaler Singer (July 29, 1921 – November 23, 2003) was a clinical psychologist ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
- Category:Psychology Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family Category:Politics and social sciences [[Image:Lautrec ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Brachiosaurus is an extinct genus of huge, sauropod dinosaurs that lived during the late Jurassic period. Sauropods comprise a suborder or infraorder ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 02:00, 12 January 2023
- A spermatozoon or spermatozoan (pl. spermatozoa), from the ancient Greek σπερμα (seed) and ζων (alive), is more commonly known as a ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 17:43, 14 October 2022
- 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
- Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several related fat-soluble organic compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, that act ...53 KB (7,528 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- Tristram Edgar Speaker (April 4, 1888 – December 8, 1958), nicknamed "the Gray Eagle," was an American professional baseball player ...47 KB (6,717 words) - 20:17, 28 April 2024
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, as well as astronomical ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- Kimchi, also spelled gimchi or kimchee, refers to a traditional Korean fermented dish made of seasoned vegetables. The most common Korean banchan ...18 KB (2,571 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- branch of the U.S. government of being al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives. The camp drew strong criticism both in the U.S. and world-wide for its ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- A dhimmi ( [ðimi] ; ذمي , meaning "protected person") refers to specific individuals living in Muslim lands, who were granted special ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- Propylene glycol, also known by the systematic name propane-1,2-diol, is an organic compound with the chemical formula C3H8O2. Under standard ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 00:24, 2 December 2022
- Category:Image wanted Category:Psychologists Festinger, Leon Leon Festinger (May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989) was an American psychologist. ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles (6,695 kilometers) generally regarded as the longest river in the world and ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- Collagen is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25 percent of the total ...18 KB (2,575 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- The Qajar dynasty (also known as Ghajar or Kadjar) is a common term to describe Iran (then known as Persia) under the ruling Qajar royal familyAmanat ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushalayim; Arabic: القدس al-Quds) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to ...43 KB (6,551 words) - 12:27, 7 May 2024
- Prairie dogs is the common name for any of the social, burrowing, North American rodents comprising the genus Cynomys of the [squirrel]] family ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Gay head cliffs MV.JPG|right|thumb|250px|These cliffs in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, are made almost entirely ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 11:01, 19 December 2023
- Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is a Grammy Award-winning American early rock and roll guitarist famous for his "twangy guitar" style ...12 KB (1,822 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2024
- Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. It can be thought of as an ...43 KB (6,272 words) - 19:23, 24 May 2024
- A carcinogen is any substance or agent that can cause cancer. A carcinogen can be a chemical, radiation, radionuclide (an atom with an unstable ...14 KB (1,935 words) - 19:12, 26 November 2023
- The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited ...29 KB (4,205 words) - 14:35, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- The Cairo geniza was a storeroom in a synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, in which almost 200,000 Jewish medieval manuscripts were discovered. It is considered ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- Axolotl (or ajolote) is the common name for the salamander Ambystoma mexicanum, which is the best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 06:05, 10 January 2023
- Nutmeg is the common name for a dark-leaved evergreen tree, Myristica fragans, that is cultivated for two spices derived from its fruit, "nutmeg ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 10:12, 11 March 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
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood Fac simile of a ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of talk therapy, or psychotherapy, that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions ...29 KB (3,904 words) - 22:22, 16 May 2024
- Belly dance ( رقص شرقي|Raqs sharqi|oriental dance ) is a Middle Eastern dance which features movements of the hips and torso. The Egyptian ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common Era following the reign of Augustus and his conquest of Egypt. Ian Shaw. The ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- The state of mental health is generally understood to be a state of well-being, with the ability to cope with the stresses of life, and function ...28 KB (3,695 words) - 16:10, 9 November 2022
- Francis Hutcheson (August 8, 1694 – August 8, 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is an extensive information source on the conservation status of animals, plants, and fungi worldwide ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 20:34, 7 April 2024
- Category:Anthropologists Maspero, Gaston [[Image:Gaston MASPERO.jpeg|thumb|Gaston Maspero]] Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 - June ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- Lamprey is the common name for elongated, eel-like, jawless fish comprising the family Petromyzontidae, characterized by a primitive vertebrae ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 20:56, 22 October 2022
- A shofar ( ˈʃoʊfər —Heb: שופר) is a horn that is used as a musical instrument for Jewish religious purposes. It is intimately connected ...13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
- The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately 1300 C.E. The largest West African empire to exist in present day Yorubaland ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox baseball player no image | name=Joe DiMaggio | | birthdate= November 25, 1914 | birthplace= | dead=dead ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 13:46, 1 August 2022
- Category:Public {| class="toccolours" border="1" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border-collapse: ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 09:39, 22 April 2023
- Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is the name given to what is generally, but not universally, considered to be an extinct species ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Ames room.svg|right|350px]] An Ames room is a distorted room ...7 KB (1,155 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- Algiers ( الجزائر or Al Jaza'ir, Alger ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the second largest country on ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- category:image wanted Meir David Kahane (Kahane being a variation on Cohen or "priest") also known by the pseudonym Michael King, David ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Necker cube.svg|thumb|The Necker cube: a wire frame cube with ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 16:07, 11 November 2022
- Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than soft X-rays. The name ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:30, 18 April 2023
- Islam in India constitutes the second-most practiced religion after Hinduism, with approximately 151 million Muslims in India's population ...25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
- In zoology, the placenta is a temporary vascular organ that forms in the uterus of female placental mammals during pregnancy and, via an umbilical ...25 KB (3,557 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- Informed consent, as used in human subject research or healthcare, refers to an active decision of a subject/patient to agree to a certain action ...42 KB (6,238 words) - 14:39, 10 October 2021
- This article is about Lyceum as school or as public hall. Lyceum can also be short for Lyceum Theatre. Lyceum is a term used to refer to an educational ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972), officially titled "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," was a forty ...41 KB (6,364 words) - 00:19, 27 December 2021
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- Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminum oxide and a rock-forming mineral. It is naturally clear but can have different colors when impurities ...7 KB (924 words) - 03:36, 8 January 2024
- Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Arabic,مندائية) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic tendencies. Its adherents, known as Mandaeans ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- Brown dwarfs are celestial objects ranging in mass between that of large gas giant planets and the lowest mass stars. Unlike stars on the main ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- The Qur’ān, literally "the recitation" (also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Koran, or Al-Qur'an) is the central religious ...49 KB (7,703 words) - 20:37, 24 January 2023
- Bird migration refers to the regular (and often seasonal) journeys to and from a given area undertaken by all or part of a bird population. Not ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- The term monism (from the Greek: μόνος monos or "one")—first used by the eighteenth-century German philosopher Christian Wolff ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- 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:Image wanted Lionel Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. Trilling was a ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 04:21, 29 October 2022
- Jadeite is one of the minerals recognized as the gemstone jade. The other mineral recognized as "jade" is nephrite, a green amphibole. ...7 KB (945 words) - 12:38, 6 November 2021
- Date palm or date is the common name for a palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, characterized by pinnate, "feather-like" gray-green leaves ...25 KB (3,862 words) - 22:43, 28 March 2023
- Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein ( Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн ) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- Reinhard Keiser (January 9, 1674 – September 12, 1739) was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
- Bobcat is the common name for a medium-sized wild cat of North America, Lynx rufus, characterized by black tuffed ears, short tail, whiskered ...41 KB (6,143 words) - 23:59, 11 January 2023
- The United Arab Emirates (also the UAE or the Emirates) is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- In physics, the center of mass (CM) of a system of particles is a specific point at which the system's mass behaves (for many purposes) ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- Cosmetics are substances used to enhance or protect the appearance or odor of the human body. They include skin-care creams, lotions, powders ...24 KB (3,549 words) - 18:25, 17 January 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
- Subclass Nautiloidea *†Plectronocerida *†Ellesmerocerida *†Actinocerida *†Pseudorthocerida *†Endocerida *†Tarphycerida ...18 KB (2,469 words) - 01:46, 13 January 2023
- John Blow (1649 – October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist and is known as the most significant English composer of his time. ...6 KB (993 words) - 16:55, 5 April 2024
- Catastrophism is the idea that Earth's features have remained fairly static until dramatic changes were wrought by sudden, short-lived, ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- 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
- Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth)Leada Gore, [https://www.al.com/news/2020/06/what-is-juneteenth-why-is-it-called-juneteenth ...32 KB (4,394 words) - 10:18, 12 May 2024
- Isa Ibn Maryam (Arabic: عيسى بن مريم, translit. ʿĪsā ibn Maryām; Jesus, son of Mary ), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- Alligator is the common name for large, primarily aquatic reptiles that belong to the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae and order Crocodilia ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 18:37, 21 July 2023
- Juan Rulfo (May 16, 1918 – January 7, 1986) was one of Latin America's most admired novelists and short story writers. His most commendable ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- Ainu (アイヌ, International Phonetic Alphabet : /ʔáınu/) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaidō, northern Honshū (Japan), the Kuril ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 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
- Foot washing (also known as pedilavium) is a religious rite observed by several faiths including Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. Within Christianity ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- Category:Public [[image:Moon.crater.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Lunar astronomy: the large crater is [[Daedalus (crater)|Daedalus]], photographed ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- The term Ahmadi (Urdu: اØÙ…Ø¯ÛŒÛ Ahmadiyya) refers to the followers of a controversial religious movement that emerged in Qadian ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- Sewage is the mainly liquid waste containing some solids produced by humans, typically consisting of washing water, urine, feces, laundry waste ...15 KB (2,180 words) - 10:10, 26 January 2023
- The thermoelectric effect is a phenomenon by which a temperature difference is directly converted to electric voltage and vice versa. On the ...25 KB (3,886 words) - 18:30, 30 April 2023
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Writer | name = Tudor Arghezi | image = Tudor Arghezi.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Arghezi ...22 KB (3,385 words) - 18:40, 2 May 2023
- The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several Christian kingdoms slowly ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- Alfonso VIII (November 11, 1155 – October 5, 1214), called the Noble or Él de las Navas, was the King of Castile from 1158 to his death and ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours occurred in which red ...21 KB (3,061 words) - 19:10, 16 April 2023
- Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky Also transliterated Shklovskii. ( Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский|p=ˈʂklofskʲɪj ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
- The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province ...33 KB (5,027 words) - 17:07, 14 May 2024
- In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity with a value that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and to remain unchanged ...22 KB (3,290 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- Harmon Clayton Killebrew Jr. (/ˈkɪlɪbruː/; June 29, 1936 May 17, 2011), nicknamed "the Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon, ...52 KB (7,559 words) - 16:33, 30 May 2024
- The spinal cord is the long, tubular structure in vertebrates that consists of a bundle of nervous tissue and support cells, connects with the ...37 KB (5,767 words) - 21:40, 7 February 2023
- Bronze refers to a broad range of copper alloys, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other elements such as phosphorus ...7 KB (1,110 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr (March 17, 1902 - December 18, 1971) was one of the most dominant figures in the sport of golf by winning ...19 KB (3,121 words) - 05:16, 17 November 2023
- Category:Public Anaximander (Greek: Αναξίμανδρος) (c. 609 – 547 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the ...7 KB (1,099 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Galactosemia is a rare genetic metabolic disorder that affects an individual's ability to properly metabolize the sugar galactose. The disease ...8 KB (1,106 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. The coast faces the Atlantic Ocean on the west, and Senegal ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of the Italian futurism, especially ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- The venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey consisting mostly of insects and arachnids ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 17:48, 3 May 2023
- Sogdiana or Sogdia ( Суғд - Old Persian: Sughuda; سغد ; 粟特 - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- Coelacanth is any sarcopterygian fish of the subclass Coelacanthimorpha (Actinistia) and order Coelacanthiformes, characterized by a three-lobed ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Francis Russell O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- The thyroid (from the Greek word for "shield," after its shape) is a double-lobed endocrine gland found in all vertebrates, and which ...24 KB (3,497 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2023
- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- In cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation CMB (also CMBR, CBR, MBR, and relic radiation) is a form of electromagnetic radiation ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon (1150 – 1230), more commonly known as Samuel ibn Tibbon, was a Jewish philosopher and doctor and the most influential ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- Red blood cell, or erythrocyte, is a hemoglobin-containing blood cell in vertebrates that transports oxygen and some carbon dioxide to and from ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 02:30, 8 December 2022
- In common usage, the term light (or visible light) refers to electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range that is visible to the human eye ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- An encyclopedia, encyclopaedia or (traditionally) encyclopædia, Owing to differences in American and British English orthographic conventions ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 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
- Autonomy (Greek: Auto-Nomos—nomos meaning "law:" One who gives oneself his own law) means freedom from external authority. In moral ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is the common name for a long-legged, fast-running New World wild cat (family Felidae), characterized by a slender ...32 KB (4,927 words) - 07:51, 13 January 2023
- Lake Baikal ( о́зеро Байка́л Ozero Baykal , ˈozʲɪrə bʌjˈkɑl , Байгал нуур Baygal nuur ) sits in Southern Siberia ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (April 7, 1939 – August 31, 2013) was an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality, and television host. ...34 KB (4,795 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- 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 (3,325 words) - 12:49, 22 May 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Public Humanistic psychology is an approach in psychology that emerged in the ...22 KB (2,987 words) - 12:19, 4 February 2023
- Krill (singular and plural) or euphausiids are small, shrimp-like marine crustaceans that belong to the order (or suborder) Euphausiacea. These ...32 KB (4,630 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- Gorgias (in Greek Γοργἰας; c. 483 - 375 B.C.E.), was one of the most important Greek sophists of the fifth century B.C.E., a philosopher ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 04:21, 24 May 2024
- Alcatraz Island, commonly referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as The Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- The West Bank ( الضفة الغربية , הגדה המערבית , Hagadah Hamaaravit), also known as Judea and Samaria, is a landlocked territory ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- Smoke is the airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases evolved when a material undergoes pyrolysis or combustion, together with the quantity ...7 KB (1,034 words) - 21:19, 30 January 2023
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525 – 1609) was a major Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher. He is widely known to scholars of Judaism ...15 KB (2,356 words) - 08:30, 12 May 2024
- The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic name of the country (Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiya) translates to The Western ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- Emu is the common name for a large flightless Australian bird, Dromaius novaehollandiae, characterized by long legs with three-toed feet, long ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 16:32, 5 January 2021
- Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus przewalskii, characterized by a stocky built, a dark brown mane and tail, ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- 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
- A natural satellite is an object that orbits a planet or other body larger than itself and which is not man-made. Such objects are often called ...19 KB (2,647 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- Budgerigar is the common name for small parrots belonging to the species Melopsittacus undulatus. Though budgerigars are often called parakeets ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 18:36, 22 November 2023
- Georges Bataille (September 10, 1897 – July 9, 1962) was a French writer, anthropologist, and philosopher, though he avoided this last term ...19 KB (2,766 words) - 15:09, 21 May 2024
- Botulism (from the Latin word botulus, meaning sausage) is a rare, but serious paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin, botulin, that is produced ...20 KB (3,036 words) - 19:55, 20 November 2023
- 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
- Mehndi (or Hina) is the application of henna (Hindustani: हेना- حنا- urdu) as a temporary form of skin decoration, most popular in ...26 KB (4,222 words) - 09:39, 10 March 2023
- The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser ...31 KB (4,531 words) - 13:58, 20 May 2023
- Chagas' disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical acute and chronic parasitic disease of the Americas caused by the flagellate ...38 KB (5,449 words) - 02:04, 13 January 2023
- Asymmetronidae Branchiostomidae Cephalochordata (or lancelets, traditionally known as amphioxus, plural amphioxi) is a subphylum of marine invertebrates ...7 KB (1,039 words) - 01:45, 13 January 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
- Category:Social work Category:Law A philanthropic foundation is a legal categorization of nonprofit organizations that either donate funds and ...18 KB (2,622 words) - 14:49, 28 March 2023
- Diatomaceous earth (also known as DE, diatomite, diahydro, kieselguhr, kieselgur, and celite) is a soft, chalk-like sedimentary rock. It consists ...8 KB (1,106 words) - 12:00, 29 January 2024
- The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس, Qanā al-Suways), is a large, artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964) was an American comedian, singer, actor, and songwriter. Known to Broadway, radio and early ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- Alabama is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in ...36 KB (5,209 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- The Doctors' Trial is the unofficial name for the particular Nuremberg Trial held before a U.S. military court for 23 Nazi medical doctors ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- Dormancy is a general term used to describe a period in an organism's life cycle when metabolic activity is minimized and active development ...21 KB (3,263 words) - 09:30, 15 January 2023
- The Actors Studio is a non-profit organization for professional actors, theater directors, and playwrights located in the Old Labor Stage at ...16 KB (2,349 words) - 05:42, 15 June 2023
- El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO; commonly referred to as simply El Niño) is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The Pacific Ocean ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- us-canada-13256676 Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaeda leader, dead - Barack Obama] BBC News, May 2, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2021. ====Israel==== ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an informal society for recovering alcoholics. Members meet in local groups that vary in size from a handful to ...34 KB (5,182 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines a pesticide as "any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 01:03, 24 November 2022
- Category:Media Organizations The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television news network that first aired in 1980 ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 10:13, 25 November 2023
- Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c. 1075-1141 C.E.) was a Jewish Spanish philosopher ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- 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
- Fossil Range: Late Miocene - Recent image = [[Image:house_mouse.jpg|250px|Mus musculus]] | caption = House mouse, Mus musculus color = pink ...17 KB (2,522 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- In biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is an organized, individual living system (such as animal, plant, fungus ...36 KB (5,345 words) - 01:14, 18 November 2022
- Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic): تیمور - Tēmōr, iron) (1336 – February 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Genus (plural, genera), a primary category of biological classification, is the first in the pair of names used worldwide to specify any particular ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 06:51, 18 April 2024
- Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific knowledge and physical resources to design and produce materials, structures ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20 percent of the Earth's water surface. It ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body (sporocarp or reproductive structure) of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil ...22 KB (3,256 words) - 19:06, 10 November 2022
- Aristotelianism is a philosophical tradition that takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle's death in ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 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
- Ban Ki-moon ( hangul=반기문 ; born June 13, 1944) is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations from ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- Sheikh Hasina Wazed ( শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ Shekh Hasina Oajed) (born September 28, 1947) is the Prime Minister of ...39 KB (5,517 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2022
- Ethane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula C2H6. It is classified as an alkane, that is, an aliphatic hydrocarbon. It is the only ...16 KB (2,309 words) - 01:40, 19 March 2022
- Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was a twentieth century American cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 00:33, 5 December 2023
- Emperor Wen of Sui (541 C.E. – 604 C.E.), known as Wen·di, personal name Yang Jian, was the founder and first emperor of China's Sui ...8 KB (1,229 words) - 12:57, 31 January 2022
- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was a multi-faceted Spanish writer, an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred to as Algeria, is a nation in North Africa and is the second largest country ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Extra-sensory perception (ESP), often referred to as "sixth ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 12:32, 21 January 2023
- The Eocene epoch (56-34 million years ago) is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 17:48, 31 October 2023
- The Abrahamic religions refer to three sister monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) that claim the prophet Abraham (Hebrew: ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- Sea urchin is the common name for various spiky echinoderms within the class Echinoidea, characterized by pentamerous radial symmetry; a hard ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 17:33, 25 January 2023
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; September 29, 1810 – November 12, 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 16:19, 13 February 2024
- Igneous rocks form when magma (molten rock) cools and solidifies. The solidification process may or may not involve crystallization, and it may ...25 KB (3,680 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists [[Image:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Hugo Grotius.jpg|thumb|230px|Hugo Grotius by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631]] ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Ichthyosaurs (Greek for "fish lizard"—ιχθυς or ichthyos, meaning "fish" and σαυρος or sauros, meaning "lizard ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 17:21, 10 February 2024
- Oscar Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- Silane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula SiH4. It is the silicon analog of methane and, like methane, it is a gas at ordinary ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 22:02, 29 January 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
- In physics, mechanical work is the amount of energy transferred by a force. Like energy, it is a scalar quantity, with SI units of joules. Heat ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 03:50, 9 November 2022
- In chemistry, a silicate is a compound containing an anion in which one or more central silicon atoms are surrounded by electronegative ligands ...9 KB (1,269 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- The Temple in Jerusalem was originally built in ancient Jerusalem in c. tenth century B.C.E. Also known as Solomon's Temple, it was the ...30 KB (4,697 words) - 20:29, 9 May 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Botta, Paul-Émile Paul-Émile Botta (December 6, 1802 – March 29, 1870) was ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- Gamal Abdel Nasser ( جمال عبد الناصر , Gamāl ‘Abd el-Nāṣir ; also transliterated as Jamal Abd al-Naser, Jamal Abd An-Nasser ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- Human evolution is that part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species. It is the subject of a broad scientific ...73 KB (10,580 words) - 23:55, 7 April 2023
- Banana is the common name for any of the very large, tree-like, herbaceous plants comprising the genus Musa of the flowering plant family Musaceae ...28 KB (4,308 words) - 04:25, 11 January 2023
- Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the age of Earth to be around 4.54 billion years (4.54 9 years).1997. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/age ...34 KB (5,149 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- In physics and chemistry, a plasma is one of the four principal states of matter. Plasma is typically an ionized gas, but it is usually considered ...35 KB (5,311 words) - 07:58, 24 November 2022
- safeguard the taiga for future generations. The world's largest terrestrial biome, the taiga ( ˈtaɪgə ) is a major subarctic, geographic ...16 KB (2,478 words) - 03:48, 27 February 2023
- Yuli Markovich Daniel ( Юлий Маркович Даниэль ) (November 15, 1925 – December 30, 1988) was a Soviet dissident writer, poet ...8 KB (1,077 words) - 10:24, 7 June 2023
- category:image wanted Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, 1916 Buenos Aires - June 25, 1983 Geneva) was an Argentinian master composer of European ...8 KB (1,090 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei. They are the largest of the many moons of Jupiter and have been ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский (August 14, 1865 – December 9, 1941) was one of ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- The Rus' Khaganate (sometimes called Volkhov Rus, Ilmen Rus, or Novgorod Rus) was a polity that flourished during a poorly documented period ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- Paul Ricœur (February 27, 1913 – May 20, 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- Isabel Allende (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 19:41, 7 February 2023
- The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers and also called in Arabic ar| بلاط الشهداء (Balâṭ al-Shuhadâ’) ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- 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
- Edward Pococke (1604 - 1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- Cosmic rays are energetic particles originating from space that impinge on Earth's atmosphere. Almost 90 percent of all the incoming cosmic ...37 KB (5,720 words) - 08:13, 10 January 2024
- Vanilla is the common name and genus name for a group of vine-like, evergreen, tropical, and sub-tropical plants in the orchid family (orchidaceae ...27 KB (4,046 words) - 00:03, 14 November 2022
- The Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California, during the early 1970s. With five number one singles and six ...18 KB (2,686 words) - 17:32, 12 February 2024
- Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mosavi Khomeini ( Khomeini.ogg|listen (Persian pronunciation) ) sometimes referred to by the name Seyyed Ruhollah ...50 KB (7,539 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- Activated carbon (also called active carbon, activated charcoal, or activated coal) is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- In Judaism, Gehenna (or Ge-hinnom) is a fiery place where the wicked are punished after they die or on Judgment Day, a figurative equivalent ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology covering a broad range of topics. The main unifying theme is the control of matter ...39 KB (5,416 words) - 02:44, 11 March 2023
- Heart disease is a general category for grouping diseases that involve the heart and any structural or functional abnormalities of the blood ...11 KB (1,487 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
- Eggplant is the common name for a perennial plant, Solanum melongena, of the potato or nightshade family Solanaceae, characterized by large leaves ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 23:58, 12 February 2024
- The Ebionites (from Hebrew; אביונים, Ebyonim, "the poor ones") were an early sect of Jewish followers of Jesus that flourished ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- Vitamin C (or ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble vitamin required for a number of metabolic processes in living organisms. As a vitamin, ascorbic ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 20:15, 17 April 2023
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such as ...49 KB (6,562 words) - 21:38, 13 October 2023
- Talc (derived from the Persian via Arabic talq) is a mineral composed of magnesium silicate hydroxide. It is extremely soft, with a greasy feel ...8 KB (1,172 words) - 03:55, 27 February 2023
- Typhoid fever (or enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi (Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi, which is historically ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- category:image wanted The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- Particulates, also referred to as particulate matter (PM), aerosols, or fine particles, are tiny particles of solid or liquid suspended in a ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 08:57, 18 November 2022
- Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible communication. In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is ...25 KB (3,470 words) - 18:48, 24 May 2024
- 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
- Category:Psychologists Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Politicians and reformers Wallas, Graham [[Image:Graham Wallas.jpg ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 18:46, 24 May 2024
- Jewish philosophy refers to philosophical inquiry informed or inspired by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- Neanderthal or Neandertal is a relatively recent extinct member of the Homo genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia in the middle ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). Albatrosses are among the ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Olfaction, the sense of smell, is the detection of chemicals dissolved in air. It is one of the five senses originally described by Aristotle. ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- Scorpion is the common name for any of the carnivorous arthropods comprising the order Scorpiones within class Arachnida, characterized by a ...32 KB (4,433 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
- Courtly love was a medieval European conception of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts in regions of present ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 - January 1, 1787) was one of the four signers of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina. ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- Glycerol, also known as glycerin or glycerine, is a sugar alcohol. Its formula may be written as C3H8O3. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 17:43, 23 May 2024
- Skunk is the common name for any of the largely omnivorous mammals comprising the carnivore family Mephitidae, characterized by conspicuous patterns ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- Broadly defined, wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is not a bee or ant. This includes more than 20,000 known ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- Muhammad bin Suleyman (also spelled in various sources as Muhammad bin Suleiman,Ana Laguna, "In the Name of Love: Cervantes's Play ...45 KB (6,828 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- A marine mammal is any of a diverse group of aquatic or semi-aquatic mammals that spend a considerable portion of their time in marine waters ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals, characterized by a transparent, round, plate-like body of but a few ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- The Jomon period (縄文時代, Jōmon-jidai) is the period of Japanese prehistory from about 10,000 B.C.E. to 300 B.C.E., during which the ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 19:45, 4 May 2024
- Dolphins are largely marine cetaceans (order Cetacea) with many teeth that belong to the "toothed whales" suborder Odontoceti, along ...28 KB (4,061 words) - 16:40, 29 January 2024
- Category:Public Copernicus, Nicolaus [[image:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Nicolaus Copernicus]] Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19 ...33 KB (5,163 words) - 02:58, 8 January 2024
- A ketone (pronounced as key tone) is either the functional group characterized by a carbonyl group (O=C) linked to two other carbon atoms or ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 03:31, 6 October 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:120px-Red_ribbon.png|right|thumb|200px|The red ribbon is a global symbol for solidarity with people living with AIDS as ...36 KB (5,435 words) - 19:47, 16 October 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site | WHS = Memphis ...33 KB (5,140 words) - 03:38, 7 December 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Gem.pebbles.800pix.labelled.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A selection of gemstone pebbles made by tumbling rough rock with abrasive ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 06:40, 18 April 2024
- The Alhambra (Arabic: الحمراء—Al-Ħamrā'; literally "the red") is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs ...22 KB (3,517 words) - 00:37, 9 January 2023
- Muhammad ( محمد , also Arabic transliterated Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammed, and sometimes Mahomet, following the Latin or Turkish), is the ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- Cholesterol is an important sterol (a combination steroid and alcohol) and a neutral lipid that is a major constituent in the cell membranes ...23 KB (3,346 words) - 17:16, 10 December 2023
- Coyote is the common name for a New World canine, Canis latrans, that resembles a small wolf or medium-sized dog and is characterized by a narrow ...35 KB (5,386 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- or Otsukimi|お月見 , literally meaning, "moon-viewing," also known as Jugoya|十五夜 , is the Japanese festival honoring the autumn ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- Resurrection is most commonly associated with the reuniting of the spirit and body of a person in that person's afterlife, or simply with ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- Kirby Puckett (March 14, 1960 – March 6, 2006) was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire major-league career with ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 19:11, 5 May 2024
- Renewable energy is a term for any useable energy that is harnessed from natural resources that are either essentially inexhaustible (such as ...57 KB (8,258 words) - 20:49, 29 April 2020
- Gestation is the period of development inside a female viviparous species of one or more offspring; that is, a time period involving the carrying ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 18:44, 21 May 2024
- Thyme is the common name for any of the about 350 species of aromatic, perennial herbs and low shrubs comprising the flowering plant genus Thymus ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 23:15, 30 April 2023
- Anatidae is the biological family of medium to very large-sized birds in the order Anseriformes that includes the ducks, geese and swans, with ...30 KB (4,269 words) - 01:03, 9 January 2023
- Robert William Andrew Feller (November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010), nicknamed "the Heater from Van Meter," "Bullet Bob," ...61 KB (9,228 words) - 20:09, 30 May 2024
- Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic is a Middle Eastern country bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon to the west, Israel to the ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field in science that is organized around the study of the nervous system. As such, the field encompasses ...32 KB (4,338 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek word ἔλλειψις, which literally means "absence") is a closed curve on a plane, such ...10 KB (1,658 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- A madrigal is a setting for two or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins in the frottola, and was also ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- A forest is a type of ecosystem in which there is high density of trees occupying a relatively large area of land. An ecosystem is an ecological ...22 KB (3,182 words) - 06:31, 1 April 2024
- A lichen is a composite organism composed of a fungus (the mycobiont) in a symbiotic relationship with a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont ...19 KB (2,789 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- Bentonite is an absorbent clay consisting mostly of the mineral montmorillonite. It is formed by the weathering of volcanic ash, most often in ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 10:17, 28 September 2023
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Russian: Михаил Александрович Врубель; March 17, 1856 - April 14, 1910, all n.s.) is ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 17:54, 9 November 2022
- Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning the eventual significance of human history. It examines the origin ...30 KB (4,545 words) - 04:16, 24 November 2022
- The Platte River is an approximately 310 mile (499 km) long river in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming. Combined with the length ...19 KB (2,928 words) - 01:50, 10 April 2023
- Derbent ( Дербе́нт ; Azeri: Dərbənd; Lezgian: Дербент; Avar: Дербенд; Persian: دربند, Darband) is a city in the Republic ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the veneration of a leader, portraying him or her as an idealized, heroic figure. It typically ...57 KB (8,108 words) - 06:45, 11 January 2024
- Sperm whale or cachalot is the common name for a large toothed whale, Physeter macrocephalus (or Physeter catodon), characterized by a enormous ...27 KB (4,253 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. The name "Libya" is an indigenous (Berber) one. Egyptian texts refer to ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having a conscience involves being aware of the moral rightness or wrongness ...25 KB (3,722 words) - 21:26, 7 September 2023
- The Arab-Israeli conflict ( الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي , הסכסוך הישראלי ערבי ) spans nearly a century of ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- The Timurids, self-designated GurkānīThe Columbia Encyclopedia, [http://www.bartleby.com/65/ti/Timurids.html Timurids.] Retrieved October 23 ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Sutton.hoo.helmet.JPG|thumb|right|225px|Sutton ...29 KB (4,604 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
- The mantle is a particular type of layer within an astronomical body. A mantle in most instances occurs in a solid object as the layer of material ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 02:57, 6 November 2022
- 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
- Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky ( Виссарио́н Григо́рьевич Бели́нский ) ( June 11|1811|May 30 – June 7|1848|May 26 ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:08, 18 November 2022
- Sulfuric acid (or sulphuric acid in British English) is a strong mineral acid with the chemical formula H2SO4. It is soluble in water at all ...31 KB (4,778 words) - 21:53, 26 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Economics [[Image:Bankrupt computer store 02.jpg|thumb|Notice of closure attached ...20 KB (3,097 words) - 03:35, 17 September 2023
- A session musician, studio musician, or backing musician is a musician hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. The term ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- The Shahnameh or Shahnama ( شاهنامه|Šāhnāme| lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron ) (Also romanized as Šāhnāmeh, Shahnama ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional connection to some greater power in the universe through deliberate ...32 KB (4,977 words) - 18:50, 5 May 2024
- The Doppler effect, named after Christian Doppler, is the apparent change in frequency and wavelength of a wave that is perceived by an observer ...10 KB (1,666 words) - 19:27, 2 August 2023
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New ...8 KB (1,360 words) - 05:05, 5 November 2022
- Health is a term that refers to a combination of the absence of illness, the ability to manage stress effectively, good nutrition and physical ...21 KB (3,080 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- Basidiomycota is a major division (or phyla) of the kingdom Fungi, whose members typically are characterized by the presence of a basidium, a ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- Category:Public {| class="toccolours" border="1" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border-collapse: ...30 KB (4,607 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- A pearl is a hard, smooth, rounded (not necessarily round), lustrous object made of nacre (mother-of-pearl) that is organically produced by certain ...20 KB (3,138 words) - 19:56, 22 April 2023
- In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition and/or performance in someone's honor, originally songs of courtship ...10 KB (1,496 words) - 09:55, 26 January 2023
- Edward Palmer Thompson (February 3, 1924 – August 28, 1993), was an English historian, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, an interstellar medium of gas, plasma, and dust, and dark matter.L.S ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- Sennacherib (in Akkadian Śïn-ahhe-eriba "(The moon god) Śïn has Replaced (Lost) Brothers for Me") was the son of Sargon II, whom ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 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
- Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbár, (alternative spellings include Jellaladin, Celalettin) also known as Akbar the Great (Akbar-e-Azam) (October 15, ...23 KB (3,546 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- Saint John of Damascus (also known as John Damascene, and Chrysorrhoas, "the golden speaker") (c. 676 – December 5, 749) was a Syrian ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one or more chemical reactions in order to get a product, or several products ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based primarily upon the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic ...42 KB (6,476 words) - 10:52, 22 January 2024
- Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984) was an Argentine intellectual and author of highly experimental novels and short stories ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- A Copt refers to a native Egyptian Christian. The word "Coptic" was originally used in Classical Arabic to refer to Egyptians in general ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Mysore (Kannada ಮೈಸೂರು ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ ) (1399–1947 C.E.) was a kingdom of southern India founded in ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- Sumer (or Šumer) was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Bilingual education involves teaching all subjects in school through two different languages ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- Fuel is any material that is burned or altered to obtain energy. Fuel releases its energy either through chemical means, such as combustion, ...10 KB (1,556 words) - 00:50, 18 October 2022
- Category:Public number=30 | symbol=Zn | name=zinc | left=copper | right=gallium | above=- | below=Cd | color1= | color2=black transition metals ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 06:07, 13 June 2023
- Parrot is the common name for any of the tropical and subtropical birds comprising the order Psittaciformes, characterized by large heads, upright ...49 KB (7,385 words) - 18:44, 23 March 2023
- In physics, Compton scattering or the Compton effect is the decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon when ...11 KB (1,638 words) - 00:23, 8 January 2024
- In astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, are hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- Edwin Smith Papyrus, or Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, is a preserved medical document from ancient Egypt that traces to about the sixteenth to ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that played in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. The brothers were Chico (Leonard ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- In organic chemistry, functional groups (or moieties) are specific groups of atoms within molecules, that are responsible for the characteristic ...13 KB (1,621 words) - 07:19, 15 April 2024
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was one of the most respected and popular poets of the Victorian era. Browning ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- The Second Crusade (1147-1150) was the second major crusade launched from Europe. The Second Crusade was started in response to the fall of the ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean, situated between the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Calligraphy (from the Greek meaning κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- Saul (or Sha'ul) (Hebrew: שָׁאוּל, meaning "given" or "lent") was the first king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel ...26 KB (4,275 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 – April 22, 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, best known for his beloved ...33 KB (5,296 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is a major component of the universe of unknown composition that does not emit or reflect electromagnetic ...31 KB (4,554 words) - 22:23, 25 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted Billy Rose (September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American theatrical showman. He composed over 50 hit songs. ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- Alveolus (plural: alveoli), or pulmonary alveolus, informally known as air sac, is any of the innumerable minuscule, thin-walled, capillary-rich ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 14:17, 2 July 2022
- The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as a broadsheet at 3600 New York Avenue NE, Washington, D.C., the paper covers ...31 KB (4,327 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- Nasiruddin Humayun (Persian: نصيرالدين همايون) (March 6, 1508 – February 22, 1556), the second Mughal Emperor, ruled modern ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- Ögedei Khan, Ögedei; also Ogotai or Oktay (c. 1186 – 1241), was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire ...10 KB (1,537 words) - 15:55, 5 December 2022
- Meditation (from the Latin meditatio: "discourse on a subject") As noted in the [https://www.etymonline.com/word/meditation Online Etymology ...38 KB (5,451 words) - 00:07, 13 July 2021
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or "God." In the English Bible, the derivative name Elohim is ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- The colon is the longest portion of the large intestine of vertebrates; in mammals, this section of the gastrointestinal tract extends from the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 22:38, 7 January 2024
- In botany, the term evergreen refers to a tree, shrub, or other plant having foliage that persists throughout the year. This terminology includes ...11 KB (1,564 words) - 04:53, 6 April 2021
- Echidna, also known as spiny anteater, is any of the egg-laying mammals comprising the Tachyglossidae family of the order Monotremata (monotremes ...11 KB (1,540 words) - 02:46, 1 October 2020
- 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
- A New World monkey is any member of the primate clade Platyrrhini, comprised of four Central and South America families: Cebidae (marmosets, ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 19:29, 14 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Food Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Pepperoni pizza.jpg|thumb|250 px|A homemade pepperoni pizza.]] ...33 KB (5,022 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is the common name for a species of burrowing, heavily built, insectivorous mammal found in Africa. Also known as ...9 KB (1,488 words) - 00:41, 17 December 2022
- Hazel is the common name for any of the large shrubs and small trees comprising the flowering plant genus Corylus, native to the temperate northern ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:08, 25 January 2023
- In its modern sense, as used in astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO3). It makes up about ten percent of the total ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 04:10, 29 October 2022
- Ayurveda (Devanāgarī: आयुर्वॆद, the 'science of life') is a system of traditional medicine native to India, and practiced ...26 KB (3,585 words) - 06:06, 10 January 2023
- In geology, a hotspot is an area in the Earth's mantle where a column of hot magma rises up to melt through the crust, resulting in volcanic ...11 KB (1,444 words) - 16:21, 25 January 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Robert_E._Lee.jpg|thumb|250px|Robert Edward Lee, as a U.S. Army Colonel before the war]] Robert Edward Lee (January 19 ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox_University-Jen| name=Vanderbilt University| ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- Arnold Raymond Cream (January 31, 1914 - February 25, 1994), better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He ...9 KB (1,442 words) - 02:33, 1 August 2022
- Vegetable in a general and common sense refers to any edible part (root, leaves, stem, flowers, seeds, bulbs, fruit) of herbaceous plants consumed ...18 KB (2,509 words) - 16:34, 14 November 2022
- The term Bride of Christ is normally a metaphorical reference to the body of believers of the Christian Church, or the Ecclesia, although the ...11 KB (1,683 words) - 23:02, 20 November 2023
- Walnut is the common name for any of the large, deciduous trees comprising the genus Juglans of the flowering plant family Juglandaceae, which ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab ) generally refers to those persons who speak Arabic as their native tongue. There are estimated to be over ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Hedgehog is the common name for any of the small spiny, mammals comprising the subfamily Erinaceinae of the Erinaceidae family, characterized ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- Superconductivity, discovered in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials at extremely low temperatures ...21 KB (3,041 words) - 23:46, 26 February 2023
- Johannes Peter Wagner (February 24, 1874 – December 6, 1955), nicknamed "Honus" and "The Flying Dutchman," is considered ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 13:38, 2 February 2024
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a broader sense, blasphemy is irreverence toward something considered sacred ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- Giant squid is the common name for any of the very large squid comprising the genus Architeuthis of the cephalopod family Architeuthidae, characterized ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- Black-and-white colobus (plural: Clobuses or colobi) is the common name for any of the medium-sized, commonly arboreal, Old World monkeys comprising ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 18:03, 31 October 2023
- The Battle of Midway was a naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It took place from June 4, 1942 to June 7, 1942, approximately ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- Boar, or wild boar, is an omnivorous, gregarious mammal, Sus scrofa of the biological family Suidae, characterized by large heads with tusks ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 9,926 square miles (25,708 sq km) and ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- Louse (plural: Lice) is any of the small, wingless, dorsoventally flattened insects comprising the neopteran order Phthiraptera. This order of ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 09:08, 9 March 2023
- The Tunisian Republic (الجمهرية التونسية), or Tunisia, with a population of over 10 million, is a predominately Muslim Arab nation ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- Category:Media Professionals category:biography Patterson, Eleanor Medill Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson (November 7, 1881 ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 13:57, 2 April 2008
- Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, Raymond Siever, Sand (New York: Scientific American Library, 1988, ISBN ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 17:45, 25 January 2023
- Nutrition is the combination of elements consumed by a person that nourishes the body, enabling it to sustain in an efficient manner all of its ...56 KB (8,181 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- |- | align="center" colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff" | [[Image:Phosphoric-acid-2D-dimensions.png|160px|Phosphoric acid]] ...23 KB (3,466 words) - 04:24, 24 November 2022
- The term fiber (or fibre The spelling "fibre" is used in Commonwealth countries and sometimes in the United States as well. ...10 KB (1,428 words) - 17:32, 26 March 2024
- category:Image wanted West, Cornel {{Infobox Philosopher | region = Western Philosophers | era = 20th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is the second largest species of deer in the world, after the moose (Alces alces), which is, confusingly ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 08:44, 31 December 2021
- category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = The Impressions |Img_capt = Left to right, Curtis Mayfield, Fred Cash, and Sam Gooden ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context. Historically, entheogens are derived ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – October 6, 1542) was a poet and ambassador in the service of Henry VIII. Although Wyatt's literary output was ...9 KB (1,558 words) - 22:57, 30 April 2023
- Cedar is the common name for a number of trees in different genera and families, but in a strict botanical sense, the "true cedars" ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- Dario Fo (March 24, 1926 - October 13, 2016) was an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 21:43, 25 June 2022
- Pietro Pomponazzi (also known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomionatius) (September 16, 1462 – May 18, 1525) was an Italian philosopher. He was ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- Fauna is all of the animals of any particular region or time period, considered as as group. The term is contrasted with flora, which refers ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:37, 1 November 2023
- Lahore ( {{Nastaliq|لہور}} , {{Nastaliq|لاہور}} lahor ) is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital of Punjab ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- Guinea worm disease (GWD), also called dracunculiasis, is a parasitic infection caused by the nematode (roundworm) Dracunculus medinensis (guinea ...30 KB (4,300 words) - 12:39, 24 January 2023
- Almond is a small deciduous tree, Prunus amygdalus (syn. Prunus dulcis, or Amygdalus communis) belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024
- Shark is the common name for any member of several orders of cartilaginous fish comprising the taxonomic group Selachimorpha (generally a superorder ...44 KB (6,861 words) - 14:42, 7 June 2023
- The Bagrationi dynasty (bagrationt'a dinastia) was the ruling family of Georgia. Their ascendancy lasted from the early Middle Ages until ...21 KB (3,136 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- Watermelon refers to both the edible fruit and vine-like plant (Citrullus lanatus of the family Cucurbitaceae) of a climbing and trailing herb ...20 KB (2,988 words) - 23:18, 3 May 2023
- An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 21:22, 25 February 2018
- Abdus Salam (Urdu: عبد السلام) (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab – November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- The Mauritius Dodo (Raphus cucullatus, called Didus ineptus by Linnaeus), more commonly just Dodo, was a meter-high, flightless bird native only ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded in the third century C.E. by the Prophet Mani (c. 216-274 C.E.). Originating ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- Acetone (also known as propanone, dimethyl ketone, 2-propanone, propan-2-one and β-ketopropane) is the simplest representative of the group ...10 KB (1,364 words) - 07:34, 14 June 2023
- Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which offspring develop from unfertilized eggs. A common mode of reproduction in arthropods ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- Embryophyta is a major grouping of plants, sometimes known as "land plants," that includes both the non-vascular bryophytes (mosses ...11 KB (1,564 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
- Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – August 16, 2003) was President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. His reign was characterized by human rights abuses, ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
- Lysine is an α-amino acid that is present in many proteins, has low available concentration in certain popular agricultural crops, such as wheat ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:39, 5 November 2022
- The Sahara, located in Northern Africa, is the world's largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica at over 3.5 million ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between July 2-6, 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
- Omniscience is the capacity to know everything infinitely, or at least everything that can be known about life, the universe, thoughts, feelings ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- Health professionals (or healthcare professionals) provide health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience. They study ...24 KB (3,245 words) - 17:08, 17 June 2020
- Violence is defined as "the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy." [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence ...62 KB (8,789 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021) was an American baseball player whose consistently high level of play over a career ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 14:08, 10 May 2024
- Cockroach is the common name for any insect in the order (or suborder) Blattodea (= Blattaria) in the superorder (or order) Dictyoptera, characterized ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- Environmentalism is a perspective that encompasses a broad range of views concerned with the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the ...21 KB (2,883 words) - 19:02, 13 February 2024
- Aaron (אַהֲרֹן;, Aharon—related to the Egyptian Aha Rw, "Warrior Lion"), was the brother of Moses and Miriam and founder of ...22 KB (3,503 words) - 07:12, 13 June 2023
- Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of blood vessel that is abnormally narrowed (stenosis) or totally obstructed (occlusion). Angioplasty ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 18:06, 27 July 2023
- Saint Columba (December 7, 521– June 9, 597) was a venerable Irish saint, sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as Colm ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 19:21, 22 December 2022
- A centrifuge is a piece of equipment, generally driven by a motor, that puts objects in rotation around a central, fixed axis, applying a force ...11 KB (1,529 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì), is the official and authoritative historical record for the period of Three ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- Computer programming (often simply programming or coding) is the craft of writing a set of commands or instructions that can later be compiled ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- Satan (meaning "accuser") represents the arch enemy of God in the Abrahamic religions, who personifies evil and temptation, and is ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics In economics and finance, arbitrage refers to the simultaneous sale and purchase of identical ...24 KB (3,749 words) - 21:31, 11 August 2023
- Lagomorpha is an order of large-eared, terrestrial mammals that comprises the rabbits, hares, and pikas. Members of the order are characterized ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 05:35, 4 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 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
- Lutetium (chemical symbol Lu, atomic number 71) is a silvery white, metallic element that usually occurs in association with yttrium. It is the ...11 KB (1,371 words) - 03:06, 5 November 2022
- Woolly rhinoceros, or simply Woolly Rhino, is the common name for an extinct, plant-eating species of rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, that ...11 KB (1,548 words) - 21:32, 28 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Religion Category:Psychology Category:Sociology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ...26 KB (3,963 words) - 10:13, 26 January 2023
- 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
- Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:14, 4 May 2023
- Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books including Exodus ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- Butane, also called n-butane (normal butane), is an unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms in each molecule. Its molecular formula may be written ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 18:43, 23 November 2023
- Mehrgarh (Urdu: مﮩرگڑھ , also spelled as Mehrgahr, Merhgarh, or Merhgahr) is one of the most important Neolithic (7000 B.C.E. to ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- Cowpox is a rare, mildly contagious skin disease caused by the cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- Grouse (plural: grouse or grouses) is the common term for any members of the about 20 species of plump, chickenlike, terrestrial birds comprising ...11 KB (1,578 words) - 20:47, 28 November 2021
- The Taif Agreement was negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving members of Lebanon's 1972 parliament—fathered by Parliament Speaker ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- Sodium (chemical symbol Na, atomic number 11) is a member of a group of chemical elements known as alkali metals. Silvery in color, it is soft ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 21:54, 30 January 2023
- Samaritans today are both a religious and an ethnic group located in the Palestinian territory and Israel. Ethnically, they are descendents of ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 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
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev (East Slavic: Святослав, ca. 942 – 972) was the warrior prince (or konung) of Kievan Rus'. The son of Igor ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- Hampi (Kannada: ಹಂಪೆ, Hampe) refers to a village in northern Karnataka. The name "Hampi" comes from the anglicized version ...12 KB (1,695 words) - 17:01, 21 January 2024
- Human subject research may be considered a systematic investigation designed to contribute to generalizable knowledge in which the focus for ...43 KB (6,319 words) - 17:27, 28 September 2021
- Beelzebub, also Ba‘al Zebûb or Ba‘al Zəvûv (Hebrew בעל זבוב, with numerous variants--in addition to Beelzebub, Ba‘al Zebûb, and ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- In the most general terms, convection refers to the movement of molecules within fluids (that is, liquids, gases, and rheids). It is one of the ...11 KB (1,793 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- Frog is the common name for any of the members of the amphibian order Anura, whose extant species are characterized by an adult with longer hind ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- 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
- Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean. The country's name ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- Olivine (also called chrysolite) is a name used for a series of minerals that are among the most common on Earth. The gem-quality variety is ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with molecular structures that are tubular in shape, having diameters on the order of a few ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- Beirut ( بيروت , Bayrūt, Greek: Βηρυττός Viryttós, Beyrouth , Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. The ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- Emanationism is the doctrine that describes all existence as emanating (Latin emanare, "to flow from") from God, the First Reality ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
- The First Battle of Bull Run (named after the closest creek), also known as the First Battle of Manassas (named after the closest town), took ...22 KB (3,387 words) - 02:45, 26 September 2023
- Category: Image wanted The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection of funerary texts that are used, especially by Tibetan ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- Redox (shorthand for reduction/oxidation reaction) describes all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state ...12 KB (1,809 words) - 02:49, 8 December 2022
- Al-Haji Sir Ahmadu Bello (June 12, 1910 - January 15, 1966) was a Nigerian politician, and was the first premier of the Northern Nigeria region ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the Imposed War (جنگتحمیلی) in Iran, was a war between the armed forces ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- The term "Minor Prophets" refers to the reported authors of the twelve short prophetic texts included within the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (July 27, 1871, Berlin, German Empire – May 21, 1953, Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany) was a German mathematician ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms ...46 KB (6,136 words) - 00:44, 23 January 2024
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental questions concerning the social or communal life of human beings. It ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- In particle physics, fermions are a group of elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. In the Standard Model ...16 KB (2,185 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- André-Marie Ampère (January 20 1775 – June 10 1836), was a French physicist who first demonstrated that two current-carrying wires exert ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- Climate Change, in its broadest sense, is any change in the state of the climate or climate system that persists for an extended time period ...86 KB (12,789 words) - 20:17, 1 June 2023
- Microbat is the common name for any of the bats comprising the suborder Microchiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized by true ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- Natural theology is a branch of theology, which attempts to establish truths by reason without recourse to revelation. The division of theology ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002), known as Lionel Hampton or simply “Hamp,” was an African-American jazz musician ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 2022
- The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage ...51 KB (8,065 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- Ostrich is the common name for a very large, fast-running, flightless, ratite bird, (Struthio camelus), native to Africa (and formerly the Middle ...28 KB (4,283 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- The tabla (Urdu: تبلہ, Hindi: तबला, tubblaa) (or pronounced "Thabla" in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted, voluntary association of individuals or groups that is neither a governmental ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Subclass Labyrinthodontia - extinct Subclass Lepospondyli - extinct Subclass Lissamphibia Order Anura (or (Salientia) Order Caudata (or ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- Damselfly is the common name for any of the predaceous insects comprising the suborder Zygoptera of the order Odonata, characterized by an elongated ...12 KB (1,619 words) - 18:12, 24 January 2024
