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- 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
- Sipuncula or Sipunculida is a phylum of bilaterally symmetrical, unsegmented marine invertebrates, characterized by a worm-like body divided ...11 KB (1,484 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- The Long Parliament is the name of the English Parliament called by Charles I, on November 3, 1640, following the Bishops' Wars. It receives ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 21:03, 3 November 2022
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was an outstanding Dutch physicist who was the first to obtain an equation ...10 KB (1,620 words) - 23:19, 22 June 2023
- The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common Era, and a rich trade flourished between India and Greece, especially ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 07:42, 25 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- Earless seal is the common name for any of the pinnipeds comprising the family Phocidae, characterized by the absence of a pinna (external part ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 16:04, 10 October 2020
- Cycads (division Cycadophyta) are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout, erect trunk ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- Goose (plural geese) is the common name for any member of a variety of species of wild or domesticated large waterbirds in the family Anatidae ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 04:17, 24 May 2024
- Leonidas Polk (April 10, 1806 – June 14, 1864) was a Confederate general who was once a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a third cousin ...10 KB (1,572 words) - 08:03, 6 March 2023
- Tardigrade, or water bear, is any of the various very small, segmented invertebrates comprising the phylum Tardigrada, characterized by bilateral ...13 KB (1,883 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- Galena is the natural mineral form of lead sulfide. It is one of the most abundant and widely distributed sulfide minerals. It is the most important ...5 KB (708 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- An arachnid is any member of the arthropod class Arachnida, a largely terrestrial group that includes spiders, mites, ticks, scorpions, and harvestmen ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 02:13, 9 January 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Seguin, Edouard Edouard Seguin (January 20, 1812 - October 28, 1880) was a French physician who worked ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 01:33, 16 January 2023
- Mary Jackson (née Winston, April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory ...16 KB (2,224 words) - 08:41, 10 March 2023
- Category:Economists Category:biography Quesnay, François [[Image:Quesnay Portrait.jpg|thumb|250px|right| François Quesnay]] François Quesnay ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 03:39, 4 June 2021
- The Jurassic period is an interval of about 55 million years defined on the geologic time scale as spanning roughly from 200 to 145 million years ...11 KB (1,508 words) - 16:34, 14 May 2024
- The nucleolus (plural nucleoli) is a large, distinct, spheroidal subcompartment of the nucleus of eukaryote cells that is the site of ribosomal ...21 KB (3,018 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae that are characterized ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 – January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 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
- 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
- Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23, 1919 – February 13, 2006) was an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Pangolin, or scaly anteater, is the common name for African and Asian armored mammals comprising the order Pholidota, characterized by a long ...14 KB (1,993 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- Prion ( ˈpriːɒn ; 'prē,än The Oxford American College Dictionary (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002). ; "pree-on" ...17 KB (2,526 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna]] Catherine II, also known ...19 KB (2,933 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
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- A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets, frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or other planetary ...17 KB (2,628 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- Arthur is a legendary British "king" of mythical proportions. Although his historicity is controversial, he ranks as one of the most ...21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
- Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- Category:Public[[Image:Leucippus.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Leucippus]] Leucippus or Leukippos (first half of the fifth century b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic ...5 KB (714 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Biography Lasker, Albert Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 - May 30, 1952 ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков , Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- Artichoke, or globe artichoke, is a perennial thistle, Cynara cardunculus (or C. scolymus) of the Asteraceae family, characterized by pinnately ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- Tantalum, formerly tantalium (chemical symbol Ta, atomic number 73) is a rare, blue-gray, lustrous metal. It is very hard, has a high melting ...14 KB (1,813 words) - 03:03, 19 April 2023
- Christine de Pizan (also seen as de Pisan) (1364 – 1430) was a writer and analyst of the Medieval era, who strongly challenged the clerical ...13 KB (2,108 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then ...10 KB (1,626 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- Petrology is a field of geology that focuses on the study of rocks and the conditions under which they are formed. It utilizes the classical ...5 KB (724 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- François Villon (ca. 1431 - ca. 1474) was a French poet, thief, and general vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- Manganese (chemical symbol Mn, atomic number 25) is a gray-white metal that combines with other elements in various proportions. In nature, it ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 11:03, 9 March 2023
- The Mountain ( La Montagne ) was a political group during the French Revolution. Its members, called the Montagnards ( mɔ̃taɲaʁ|lang ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 23:01, 28 October 2022
- Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer who conclusively demonstrated the ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- Tritium (chemical symbol Tritium or Hydrogen|3 ) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (sometimes called a triton) contains ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 16:50, 5 November 2022
- David Friedrich Strauss (January 27, 1808 – February 8, 1874), was a German theologian , writer, German-Protestant philosopher, and biographer ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 07:54, 28 January 2024
- 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
- Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant-like mammals comprising the family Mammutidae (syn. Mastodontidae) of the ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 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
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the study and application of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in the practice ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972), born in Chicago of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, grew up in the midst of poverty. ...25 KB (3,909 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox Artist | name = Max Ernst | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birthname = ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the River Seine in Paris. It is the tallest structure in Paris and among ...10 KB (1,665 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo gulo, of the weasel family (Mustelidae), characterized by a large and stocky ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
- In plane (Euclidean) geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four sides. It may also be thought of as a special case of a rectangle, as ...6 KB (904 words) - 16:16, 8 February 2023
- An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating, in digital form, the intellectual output of an ...16 KB (2,155 words) - 22:54, 5 February 2023
- Rubidium (chemical symbol Rb, atomic number 37) is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. Rb-87, a naturally occurring ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- The arts of Africa constitute one of the most diverse legacies on earth. While many observers tend to generalize "traditional" African ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- Category:Psychologists Eysenck, Hans Hans Jürgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997) was an eminent psychologist, most remembered for ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 15:38, 14 May 2024
- Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an unsaturated chemical compound containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 22:30, 4 January 2023
- A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems branching ...10 KB (1,205 words) - 14:30, 27 January 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography McCormick, Robert R. Robert Rutherford McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- 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
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 - November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer especially noted for his work with the Berlin ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- Entelechy is a philosophical concept stemming from Aristotle's metaphysics, and generally used to identify whatever it is that makes the ...6 KB (836 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- A Vihara (Sanskrit: meaning "dwelling" or "house") was the ancient Indian term for a Buddhist monastery. Originally, viharas ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- Nucleosides are structural subunits of nucleic acids, the macromolecules that convey genetic information in living cells. They consist of a nitrogen ...6 KB (865 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Chöd (Tibetan meaning, "cutting through") is an advanced spiritual practice and discipline arising from confluences of Bonpo, Mahasidda ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of life ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- 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:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges [[Image:Universite Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.jpg|thumb ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- Ytterbium (chemical symbol Yb, atomic number 70) is a soft silvery metallic rare earth element. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare ...11 KB (1,375 words) - 21:33, 4 June 2023
- Ceramic engineering is the technology that involves the design and manufacture of ceramic products. Ceramics are inorganic, nonmetallic materials ...14 KB (1,948 words) - 23:58, 3 December 2023
- Fractional distillation is a special type of distillation designed to separate a mixture of two or more liquids that have different boiling points ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 06:40, 1 April 2024
- 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
- In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave at a given frequency. It is commonly designated by the Greek ...6 KB (857 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged. The ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- Chromium (chemical symbol Cr, atomic number 24) is a hard, shiny, steel-gray metal that takes a high polish and does not tarnish. It is therefore ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Carib indian family by John Gabriel Stedman.jpg|thumb ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. Cyclotrons accelerate charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage (potential ...12 KB (1,883 words) - 06:53, 12 January 2024
- category:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Tammy Wynette |Img = |Background = solo_singer |Birth_name ...18 KB (2,712 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987), was a Golden Globe-winning American actor, singer, and comedian ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
- Gastrotricha is a phylum of microscopic, free-living, aquatic worms, characterized by bilateral symmetry and an acoelomate body plan. These animals ...12 KB (1,482 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent and influential architects of the twentieth century. Wright ...16 KB (2,277 words) - 05:05, 9 April 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:image wanted Divine command theory is the metaethical theory that an act is obligatory if and only if, and because, it is commanded by ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Communication Category:Military Category:Public Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that comprises a deep water basin (the Aleutian Basin) that rises up through a narrow ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom on April 1, consisting of practical ...22 KB (3,192 words) - 15:56, 11 August 2023
- Diatom is the common name for a major group of unicellular or (less commonly) colonial algae comprising the protist taxon Bacillariophyceae ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- Alain de Lille (älăN' də lēl) , (Also called Alain of Lille, Lanus ab insulis, or De Insulis, Alain von Ryssel, Alanus de lnsulis) ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- Biblical criticism is a form of literary criticism that seeks to analyze the Bible through asking certain questions about the text, such as who ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 03:40, 1 October 2023
- Peafowl is the common name for members of two species of large birds of the pheasant family Phasianidae, Pavo cristatus (Indian peafowl) and ...12 KB (1,808 words) - 07:08, 23 November 2022
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July 2, 1964) was a legislatively and morally courageous, landmark effort within ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- Gabriel Urbain Fauré May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- Meerkat is the common name for a small, gregarious, burrowing mammal, Suricata suricatta, of the traditional mongoose family Herpestidae, characterized ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- Fyodor Sologub ( Фёдор Сологу́б , born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников , also known ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 07:25, 15 April 2024
- Cytochrome c, or cyt c is a small, water soluble heme protein associated with the inner membrane of the mitochondrion. It is an essential link ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 21:33, 11 June 2020
- Allosaurus was a large (up to 9.7 m long) bipedal (moving on two legs), carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period, 155 ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Holography is the science of producing holograms; it is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 10:54, 2 February 2024
- 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
- Lungfish is any sarcopterygian fish of the taxon Dipnoi, characterized by platelike teeth and lobed, paired fins, with modern forms typified ...13 KB (1,608 words) - 03:04, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Educational psychology is a dynamic discipline with immense potential applications. ...35 KB (4,855 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- Chant is the rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two pitches (reciting tones). Chants may range from a ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- Poison dart frog (also poison arrow frog, dart frog, or poison frog) is the common name for any of the very small, diurnal frogs of the Dendrobatidae ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 02:10, 10 April 2023
- Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Daniel François Esprit Auber (January 29, 1782 – May 13, 1871) was a French composer who became an important contributor to the French opera ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- Promethium (chemical symbol Pm, atomic number 61) is a metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. All of ...11 KB (1,429 words) - 23:55, 1 December 2022
- The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular display of the chemical elements. It is perhaps the icon of Chemistry and expresses ...13 KB (1,942 words) - 00:40, 24 November 2022
- The viola (in French, alto; in German Bratsche) is an alto string instrument played with a bow. Known as the "big fiddle," the viola ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- Rubella, commonly known as German measles and also called three-day measles, is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the rubella virus ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist, musicologist, author, and producer, and one of the most important ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Attention is defined as a readiness on the part of the organism to perceive stimuli ...32 KB (4,749 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Secondary education in France falls under the jurisdiction of the French Ministry of Education and is standardized and centralized in its organization ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 17:43, 25 January 2023
- Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8 1828–March 24 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre, best known for novels such ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- The Diatessaron (c 150 - 160 C.E.) (meaning "Harmony of Four") is an early Christian text written by the apologist and ascetic Tatian, ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- An atom (Greek άτομον from ά: non and τομον: divisible) is a submicroscopic structure found in all ordinary matter. Originally the ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 06:25, 21 August 2023
- Lymphoma is any of a diverse group of cancers that originate in lymphocytes of the lymphatic system, a secondary (but open) circulatory system ...16 KB (2,166 words) - 03:16, 5 November 2022
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading figure in the development of the impressionist ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- Marcion of Sinope (ca. 110-160 C.E.) was a Christian theologian who was excommunicated by the early church at Rome as a heretic; Nevertheless ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E. P. Wigner among physicists) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- Essential oil is any concentrated, hydrophobic (immiscible with water), typically lipophilic (oil or fat soluble) liquid of plants that contains ...16 KB (2,270 words) - 12:06, 5 March 2021
- Laterite (from the Latin word later, meaning "brick" or "tile") is a surface formation that is enriched in iron and aluminum ...6 KB (789 words) - 17:48, 25 October 2022
- Sloth is the common name for any of the slow-moving, New World arboreal mammals comprising the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths) and ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia or pædophilia) is the paraphilia, or ...22 KB (3,151 words) - 07:11, 23 November 2022
- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) His first name is usually spelled as Gioacchino but currently the [http://www ...21 KB (3,212 words) - 12:50, 22 May 2024
- George Edward Moore (November 4, 1873 – October 24, 1958), usually known as G. E. Moore, was a distinguished and influential English philosopher ...13 KB (2,040 words) - 07:29, 15 April 2024
- 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
- George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat ...23 KB (3,280 words) - 07:33, 15 May 2024
- In chemistry, isomers are molecules that share the same chemical formula but differ in the arrangement of atoms. (Isomers in chemistry should ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 05:56, 11 March 2024
- Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid to deform under either shear stress or extensional stress. It is commonly perceived as ...36 KB (5,462 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, meaning "to wash against") is soil or sediment deposited by a river or other running ...5 KB (763 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- 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
- Mumps, or epidemic parotitis, is an acute, very contagious, inflammatory viral infection caused by a paramyxovirus (mumps virus) and typically ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics, is a system of classifying living and extinct organisms based on evolutionary ancestry as determined ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- Development aid or development cooperation (also development assistance, technical assistance, international aid, overseas aid or foreign aid ...34 KB (5,026 words) - 10:14, 29 January 2024
- John Adair (January 9, 1757 – May 19, 1840) was an American pioneer, soldier, and statesman. He was the seventh governor of Kentucky and represented ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 04:05, 3 August 2022
- Category:Image wanted Sir George Etherege (1635? – c. May 10, 1692) Sir George Etherege Britannica Online. was an English dramatist, known ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 15:44, 20 May 2024
- Sir James Chadwick, CH (October 20, 1891 – July 24, 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering the ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 21:08, 20 March 2024
- Lumbini (Sanskrit: sa|लुम्बिनी , "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Kapilavastu district of Nepal, near ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- René Samuel Cassin (October 5, 1887 – February 20, 1976) was a French jurist and judge. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968, for his ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- Vanadium (chemical symbol V, atomic number 23) is a rare, silver-gray metal. It is found combined in several minerals and is one of the 26 elements ...15 KB (2,022 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- Vitamin B6 (vitamin B6) is an organic nutrient of the vitamin B complex that appears in three natural, related, water-soluble forms: the alcohol ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- Trichoptera is an order of moth-like, holometabolous insects, known commonly as caddisflies (or caddis flies), with aquatic, silk-spinning, caterpillar ...12 KB (1,840 words) - 16:48, 2 May 2023
- Siméon-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 – April 25, 1840) was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist whose mathematical skills enabled ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name of any marine creatures of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole family ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- category:image wanted In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that some sense-data (for example, of primary qualities ...13 KB (1,784 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid or vitamin B3, is a vitamin whose derivatives NAD, NADH, NAD+, and NADP play essential roles in energy metabolism ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona. ...18 KB (2,655 words) - 02:03, 9 February 2023
- The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of King James I (1603-1625). The Jacobean era ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst, Freiherr von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826) was a German composer. Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of historical, cultural, and architectural significance: A monument to ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 23:08, 20 November 2023
- Category:Image wanted Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev (March 8, 1866 – March 1, 1912) is considered to be the first world-level Russian physicist ...6 KB (842 words) - 03:37, 7 December 2022
- The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et, meaning little, to the Italian word ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites Location=Saqqara | Left=105 | Top=46 [[Image:Saqqara ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- Salamander is the common term for any member of the order Caudata (also called Urodela) of the class Amphibia. Although lizard-like in external ...12 KB (1,655 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- Wade-Giles ( ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz ; s=威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音|t=威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音|p=wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn ), sometimes abbreviated ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- The Felidae family is a part of the order Carnivora within the mammals (Class Mammalia). Members of the family are called cats or felids, and ...12 KB (1,871 words) - 12:24, 30 April 2021
- A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions ...28 KB (3,998 words) - 16:21, 17 January 2023
- Vicuña is the common name for a rare, wild, gregarious South American camelid, Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes ...11 KB (1,797 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged ...18 KB (2,561 words) - 01:36, 11 November 2022
- Shabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (full title: Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Abu'l-Muzaffar Shihab ud-din Muhammad, Sahib ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 – November 1, 1907) was a French dramatist, novelist, and humorist. Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), ...14 KB (2,108 words) - 08:15, 20 July 2023
- Beatus Rhenanus (August 22, 1485 - July 20, 1547), was a German humanist, religious reformer, and classical scholar. Educated at the famous ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Same color illusion.png|thumb|250px|Squares A and B have the ...6 KB (942 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- Nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the vertebrate kidney, with numerous such filtering units carrying out nearly all the ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was an American painter. Although known primarily as a realist, he was also an ...16 KB (2,363 words) - 10:36, 11 May 2023
- The Zulu Kingdom (Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire, was a Southern African state in what is now South Africa. The small ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов) (January 15, 1795 – February 11, 1829 ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 13:49, 18 July 2023
- Category:Public number=20 | symbol=Ca | name=calcium | left=potassium | right=scandium | above=Mg | below=Sr | color1=#ffdead | color2=black ...18 KB (2,626 words) - 18:21, 25 November 2023
- Category:Image wanted Georg Philipp Telemann (March 14, 1681 – June 25, 1767) was a German Baroque composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a class of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules that serve as chemical "blueprints" for the production ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 16:17, 9 November 2022
- First Lady of the United States is the unofficial title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic سقطرى ; Suquṭra ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (March 8, 1714 – December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second surviving son of five sons from ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 19:22, 26 November 2023
- Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (February 16, 1916 – June 8, 2000), was an American intelligence officer who coordinated the Central ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrian sociologist and philosopher of science and one of ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- Baobab is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Adansonia, a taxa of eight extant species native ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 05:47, 15 June 2023
- Gaston Bachelard (June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962) was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the French ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- The Burmese Buddhist Temple (also known as Maha Sasana Ramsi; s= 缅甸玉佛寺|p=Miǎndiàn yùfósì ) located on Tai Gin Road in Novena ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- A caterpillar is the larval stage of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are essentially ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (French alɛ̃ ʁɔb gʁiˈje ) (August 18, 1922 – February 18, 2008), was a French writer and filmmaker. He was along with ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 04:24, 17 June 2023
- Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a twentieth-century French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Edward S. Curtis Collection ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 19:50, 20 May 2023
- Corn syrup is any of a variety of forms of syrup (thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, with little tendency ...18 KB (2,609 words) - 23:23, 6 April 2022
- Notochord is a flexible, rod-shaped supporting structure that is one of the distinguishing features of the phylum Chordatas, being found at some ...6 KB (850 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Sturm und Drang (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be storm and urge ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- category:image wanted In business, administration consists of the performance or management of business operations, involving the making or implementing ...13 KB (1,727 words) - 06:01, 15 June 2023
- 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
- The Rule of Saint Basil refers to the monastic regulations formulated by Saint Basil the Great (ca. 330 - January 1, 379 C.E.), which became ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 03:26, 1 January 2022
- Toluene, also known as methylbenzene or phenylmethane, is a clear, water-insoluble liquid with the typical smell of paint thinners, redolent ...10 KB (1,406 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- Xenocrates ( Ξενοκράτης ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third scholarch or rector of the Academy from ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- The Louvre Museum ( Musée du Louvre ) in Paris, France, is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous art galleries and museums in the world ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the nineteenth century, who discovered ...12 KB (1,930 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- Pyruvic acid (C3H4O3 (CH3COCO2H)) is a three-carbon, keto acid that plays an important role in biochemical processes. At the pH levels of the ...14 KB (1,901 words) - 15:37, 18 June 2015
- Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets and critics of the nineteenth century ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United States, located in the South Pacific Ocean southeast of the sovereign ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world. We think of the things and events we experience as connected, and causal ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, piano virtuoso, music teacher, author, and conductor. His broad grasp ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- category:image wanted Robert Bresson (September 25, 1901 – December 18, 1999) was a French film director. Working within the medium of narrative ...22 KB (3,559 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- Cognitive therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy developed by American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s. CT is one therapeutic approach ...25 KB (3,498 words) - 17:04, 20 March 2024
- The Revolutionary Tribunal ( Tribunal révolutionnaire ; unofficially Popular Tribunal) David Andress (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the French ...30 KB (4,279 words) - 19:45, 31 August 2023
- Bede (IPA: /biːd/ ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: /beda/ ), (ca. 672 or 673 – May 27, 735), was a Benedictine ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 10:20, 26 September 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
- Ricin ( ˈraɪsɨn ) is a protein derived from the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) that is highly toxic to humans, as well as ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- The sport of Fencing is a sport of armed combat that is one of the remaining original events that was in the 1908 Olympic Games. Its three main ...26 KB (4,245 words) - 17:16, 26 March 2024
- Alcyonaria Zoantharia See text for orders. Corals are those marine invertebrates of the phylum Cnidaria and the class Anthozoa that have external ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- A gear is a wheel with teeth around its circumference, the purpose of the teeth being to mesh with similar teeth on another mechanical device—usually ...33 KB (5,689 words) - 06:30, 18 April 2024
- Josquin des Prez Josquin des Prez (French rendering of Dutch "Josken Van De Velde," diminutive of "Joseph Van De Velde;" latinized ...26 KB (3,991 words) - 05:29, 7 May 2024
- A troubadour was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe. Beginning with William IX of Aquitaine, the troubadours ...21 KB (3,432 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Archaeologists Mariette, Auguste [[Image:Auguste Mariette statue, Boulogne ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish [http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Saladin.html Saladin]. The Columbia Encyclopedia ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a United States congresswoman (1943–1947), and ambassador to Italy (1953–1957 ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- 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
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of the same substance) ontology that holds that all that can truly be said to ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Golem and Loew.jpg|200px|Rabbi Loew and golem.|thumb]] ...13 KB (2,158 words) - 04:12, 24 May 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Cup or faces paradox.svg|thumb|200 px|A Rubin vase]] ...6 KB (934 words) - 20:58, 21 December 2022
- Category:Sociologists Category:Biography Lynd, Robert and Helen Robert Staughton Lynd (September 26, 1892 – November 1, 1970) and Helen Merrell ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Papias (d. mid-second century) was one of the early literary figures of the Christian church. Recognized as a saint and martyr, his five-volume ...14 KB (2,122 words) - 07:32, 18 November 2022
- Giovanni Battista Martini, also known as Padre Martini (April 24, 1706 – August 3, 1784) was an Italian musician, composer, and music theorist ...6 KB (832 words) - 13:14, 22 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
- 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
- Charles Camille Saint-Saëns ( /ʃaʁl ka.mij sɛ̃.sɑ̃s/ ) (October 9, 1835 – December 16, 1921) was a French composer and performer. He ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:DSCF0003.jpg|thumb|right|325px|Introspection entails the inward-looking self ...17 KB (2,469 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2024
- Averroism is the term applied to two philosophical trends originating among European scholastics in the late thirteenth century, after the introduction ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- In Judaism, the name of God represents the Jewish conception of the divine nature, and of the relation of God to the Jewish people. ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- 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
- William "Captain" Kidd (c. 1645 – May 23, 1701) is remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- Mink is the common name for semiaquatic carnivorous mammals of the two extant Mustelidae species Mustela lutreola (European mink) and Neovison ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- ConocoPhillips Company ( COP ) is an international energy corporation with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. It is the fifth largest ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- Feng Youlan (馮友蘭, 冯友兰, Féng Yǒulán; Wade-Giles: Fung Yu-lan) (1895–1990) was a Chinese philosopher who was important for reintroducing ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- Squash (plural squash or squashes) is the common name used for four species in the genus Cucurbita of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae: C. pepo ...13 KB (1,929 words) - 18:11, 14 October 2022
- Guarana is the common name for a South American woody vine or sprawling shrub, Paullinia cupana in the Sapindaceae family, with large, pinnately ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- The walrus is a large, semi-aquatic mammal that lives in the cold Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere and is the only non-seal pinniped (Pinnipedia ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- Stingray is the common name for any of the various cartilaginous fish comprising the family Dasyatidae, characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral ...25 KB (3,545 words) - 18:03, 21 October 2022
- The Banaue Rice Terraces (Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banaue), 2000 year old terraces, had been carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines ...12 KB (1,820 words) - 03:26, 17 September 2023
- Category:Image wanted Thomas Robinson (c. 1560 – after 1609? (Julian calendar)) was an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic of the Victorian age. He is often remembered as the third ...12 KB (1,996 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians or simply 2 Thessalonians, is a short book ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 20:43, 17 May 2023
- Horseradish (horse radish) is the common name for a perennial herb, Armoracia rusticana (syn. Cochlearia armoracia, Armoracia lapathifolia)) ...16 KB (2,357 words) - 14:25, 7 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Archaeological sites Category:Anthropology [[Image:Lascaux 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Lascaux cave painting ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter, as well as a gifted landscape ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Nematocera (includes Eudiptera) Brachycera As defined by entomologists, a fly (plural flies) is any species of insect of the order Diptera. Insects ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 09:43, 10 November 2023
- Sappho (Attic Greek Σαπφώ Sapphô, Aeolic Greek Ψάπφα Psappha) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Along with the other nine lyric poets ...13 KB (2,038 words) - 03:24, 23 December 2022
- Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, May 17, 1866 – Paris, July 1, 1925) was a French composer, pianist, and writer. Dating from his first composition ...29 KB (4,725 words) - 19:27, 13 February 2024
- Dorothea "Dolley" Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison, who served from 1809 ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys were an influential bluegrass band performing and recording from 1948 through 1969. ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 06:13, 1 April 2024
- Philip Arthur Larkin (August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. His poetry, marked by understatement ...12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials (notably crystals and certain ceramics) to generate an electric potential Douglas A. Skoog, ...25 KB (3,464 words) - 06:13, 24 November 2022
- Art Nouveau (French for 'new art') is an international style of art, architecture, and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning ...15 KB (1,991 words) - 04:02, 15 August 2023
- Testosterone is a steroid hormone that acts in vertebrates to regulate many sexually dimorphic traits and express many fitness related traits ...21 KB (3,056 words) - 15:00, 30 April 2023
- Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the highest ranking American military officer during World ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- Relativism is the view or claim that there is no absolute referent for human beliefs, human behaviors, and ethics. Relativists claim that humans ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- Frances Burney (1752 – 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after marriage as Madame d’Arblay, was born in King’s Lynn, England, on June ...31 KB (4,786 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential English composer. He was a student at the Royal College of Music ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
- The Hudson River School was a mid-nineteenth century American art movement that was coined around a loosely connected group of landscape painters ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- Jongmyo is a Confucian shrine dedicated to the memorial services in honor of the Joseon dynasty kings and queens. According to UNESCO, the shrine ...6 KB (863 words) - 19:53, 4 May 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Conceptual Timeline.png|right|thumb|350px|Conceptual and theoretic developments ...16 KB (2,206 words) - 22:07, 4 July 2020
- Manatee is the common name for large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine mammals comprising the family Trichechidae, characterized by a nearly ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an ash-colored, thickset, arboreal, herbivorous marsupial averaging about 9 kg in weight. A rather stout ...19 KB (2,896 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (December 1, 1580 – June 24, 1637) was a French astronomer, antiquary, and a successful organizer of scientific ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
- A traditional fountain is an arrangement where water issues from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away. Fountains ...20 KB (2,954 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States which was active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and ...6 KB (913 words) - 10:35, 11 April 2024
- William Lee Shoemaker (August 19, 1931 – October 12, 2003) was one of the greatest American jockeys. The former all-time leader in career victories ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- Category:Economists Ricardo, David [[Image:Portrait of David Ricardo by Thomas Phillips.jpg|thumb|right||David Ricardo]] David Ricardo (April ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 08:07, 28 January 2024
- Category:Image wanted Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychologists Category:Economists Tversky, Amos Amos Nathan Tversky (עמוס ...28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
- Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. French Symbolism was in large part ...23 KB (3,250 words) - 01:57, 27 February 2023
- The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February 4, ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears or in the head in general in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. It may ...32 KB (4,615 words) - 17:17, 18 April 2023
- Islamic philosophy (الفلسفة الإسلامية) is a branch of Islamic studies, and is a longstanding attempt to create harmony between ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- The Chandrasekhar limit limits the mass of bodies made from electron-degenerate matter, a dense form of matter which consists of atomic nuclei ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as pseudo-Denys, is the name scholars have given to an anonymous theologian and philosopher of the ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- The term acid rain is commonly used to mean the deposition of acidic components in rain, snow, fog, dew, or dry particles. The more accurate ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 07:41, 14 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Illusion [[Image:Optical grey squares orange brown.svg|thumb|200 px|An optical ...32 KB (4,837 words) - 16:27, 12 February 2024
- The Counts of Cilli The house should be referred to in English by the original historic name "of Cilli," although the name "of ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 08:36, 10 January 2024
- 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
- Khajuraho (Hindi खजुराहो), a village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, located in Chhatarpur District, about 385 miles (620 ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 22:34, 3 March 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:Anthropoid sarcophagus discovered at Cadiz - Project ...12 KB (1,915 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- John Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
- Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- The French campaign against Korea of 1866, known as Byeonginyangyo (Korean: 병인양요, Western Disturbance of the byeong-in year (1866)), ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Linguistics [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813) was an Italian who made major contributions to mathematics and physics. One of the ...29 KB (4,634 words) - 07:15, 10 August 2022
- Diogenes Laërtius (c. 200 - 250 C.E.) was an early doxographer who compiled biographies of ancient Greek philosphers in his seminal work, Lives ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- Canning is a method of preserving food by first sealing it in air-tight jars, cans or pouches, and then heating it to a temperature that destroys ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- Information explosion is a term used to describe the rapidly increasing amount of published information and the effects of this abundance of ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 22:50, 5 February 2023
- Silver (chemical symbol Ag, atomic number 47) is a soft metal with a brilliant white luster that can take a high degree of polish. Along with ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- Milovan Djilas or Đilas (Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Ђилас) (June 4, 1911 – April 20, 1995) was a Montenegrin Serb, Communist politician ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 20:29, 5 January 2024
- In Christian theology, the satisfaction view of the atonement is the dominant theory of the meaning of the death of Jesus Christ taught in Roman ...16 KB (2,590 words) - 18:13, 21 August 2023
- Formic acid (systematic name methanoic acid) is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its formula is HCOOH or CH2O2. In nature, it is found in the stings ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula, Africa's westernmost point. It is Senegal's political, ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- Antennae (singular antenna) are paired appendages connected to the anterior-most segments of arthropods. In crustaceans, they are present on ...6 KB (965 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:BCCYMCA Waterfront.JPG|thumb|250 px|Students and fathers at "Dads' ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 22:22, 26 February 2023
- The arXiv (pronounced "archive," as if the "X" were the Greek letter Chi, or Χ) is an open access archive for electronic ...14 KB (1,942 words) - 20:17, 11 August 2023
- Tapir (pronounced as in "taper," or IPA "təˈpɪər," pronounced as in "tap-ear") are large, browsing, mammals ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- Clove is the common name for a small, tropical evergreen tree, Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Eugenia aromaticum or Eugenia caryophyllata) and for ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Mlbretired |bgcolor1=#af0039 |bgcolor2=#0f437c |textcolor1=white |textcolor2=white |name=Warren Spahn |position=Starting ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are one of two major classes of cells in neural tissues, the other being neurons, for ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 07:55, 24 January 2023
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), is one of the most well loved and ...18 KB (2,942 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- A sphere is a symmetrical geometrical object. In non-mathematical usage, the term is used to refer either to a round ball or to its two-dimensional ...17 KB (2,835 words) - 21:37, 7 February 2023
- Germanium (chemical symbol Ge, atomic number 32) is a lustrous, hard, grayish-white chemical element. It is classified as a metalloid—that ...13 KB (1,672 words) - 18:19, 21 May 2024
- Actinopterygii, is a major taxonomic class (or subclass) of fish, known as the "ray-finned fishes," whose diverse number of species ...14 KB (1,774 words) - 17:27, 17 December 2022
- Betsy Ross (January 1, 1752 - January 30, 1836) was an American woman who is said to have sewn the first American flag. Three members of a secret ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- Sight, the sense of vision or visual perception, describes the capability to detect electromagnetic energy within the visible range (light) by ...14 KB (2,075 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- Joan of Burgundy (June 24, 1293 – September 12, 1348), also known as Joan the Lame, Queen consort of France, and first wife of Philip VI. While ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 05:59, 5 April 2024
- Category:Economists Frisch, Ragnar Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (March 3, 1895 – January 31, 1973) was a Norwegian economist and pioneer econometrician ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- Ivan Alexander ( Иван Александър , transliterated Ivan Aleksandǎr; This article uses the United Nations-authorized scientific transliteration ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke AC (December 9, 1929 - May 16, 2019) was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian ...25 KB (3,662 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- Homo erectus ("upright man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo. It lived from about 1.8 million years ago (mya) to 50-70,000 ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
- Emperor Kangxi of China, also known as K'ang-hsi, May 4, 1654 – December 20, 1722) was the fourth Emperor of China of the Manchu Qing ...20 KB (3,187 words) - 17:31, 14 May 2024
- The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely accepted in western Christianity ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one of the most prominent poets of the Elizabethan era. Like his close friend ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 04:46, 3 August 2022
- Egoism is the concept of acting in one’s own self-interest, and can be either a descriptive or a normative position. Psychological egoism, ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- Sapo National Park in Sinoe County, southwestern Liberia covers an area of 1804|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on . It is the country's largest protected ...22 KB (3,090 words) - 02:25, 21 April 2023
- Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period ...26 KB (3,891 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- Camille Claudel (December 8, 1864 – October 19, 1943) was a French sculptor and graphic artist who produced a number of noteworthy works until ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- T cells are lymphocytes (a class of white blood cells) that play a central role in the adaptive immune system, and specifically in the cell-mediated ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 18:36, 24 October 2022
- Category:Public number=74 | symbol=W | name=tungsten | left=tantalum | right=rhenium | above=Mo | below=Sg | color1=#ffc0c0 | color2=black ...17 KB (2,431 words) - 18:45, 2 May 2023
- Sunni Muslims are the larger of the two main branches of Islam. Sunni Islam is also referred to as Sunnism or as Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- 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
- Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French militant, institutional psychotherapist, and philosopher. Guattari is ...23 KB (3,142 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- The Old Farmer's Almanac is a reference book that contains weather forecasts, tide tables, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, ...19 KB (2,821 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 17:16, 20 May 2024
- Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was one of the most notable symbolist poets of mid-to-late nineteenth century ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 17:37, 16 August 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
- Numbat is the common name for members of the marsupial species Myrmecobius fasciatus, a diurnal, termite-eating mammal characterized by a slender ...16 KB (2,462 words) - 20:23, 11 February 2023
- In mathematics, the logarithm (or log) of a number x in base b is the power (n) to which the base b must be raised to obtain the number x. For ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- In physics, escape velocity is the speed of an object at which its kinetic energy is equal to the magnitude of its gravitational potential energy ...18 KB (2,947 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- Electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation or EMR) takes the form of self-propagating waves in a vacuum or in matter. EM radiation has both electric ...22 KB (3,329 words) - 15:54, 13 February 2024
- Quebec City or Québec (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and one of the oldest cities in North America ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- Reductio ad absurdum, Latin for "reduction to the absurd," traceable back to the Greek ἡ εις άτοπον απαγωγη (hê ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- category:image wanted Kilgour, Fred Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914—July 31, 2006) was a pioneer of library and information science ...14 KB (2,025 words) - 23:13, 7 October 2022
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- category:image wanted Dominique Pire (Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire) (February 10, 1910 – January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican ...13 KB (2,204 words) - 15:14, 21 May 2024
- Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), that is most recognizable as the national bird and ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- In biology, skin is a flexible organ (group of tissues which perform a specific function) that serves as the outer covering of an animal. As ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 22:09, 12 October 2022
- The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to simply as the Music Center, is one of the three largest performing arts ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- 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
- There were two Battles of the Marne fought during World War I. The first (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a battle fought from September ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 22:10, 16 January 2022
- Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the Order Ephemeroptera, characterized by a short-lived adult stage and fragile ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- Gaborone is the capital and largest city of the landlocked nation of Botswana, in Southern Africa. It serves as the administrative capital of ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Illustrerad Verldshistoria band I Ill 107.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Thales]] Thales (in Greek: Θαλης) of Miletus (ca ...7 KB (978 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461, to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period ...25 KB (3,839 words) - 16:21, 9 August 2023
- Anaximenes (in Greek: Άναξιμένης) of Miletus (c. 585 – 528 b.c.e.) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the third of the philosophers ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- Open access publishing is a form of publishing that allows users free access to information published. Many publications can be published in ...20 KB (2,877 words) - 00:47, 18 November 2022
- 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
- category:Image wanted Potok, Chaim {{Infobox Writer | name = Chaim Potok | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), an African even-toed ungulate mammal, has a very long neck and legs and is the tallest of all land-living ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 07:47, 24 January 2023
- Joseph Smith III (1832-1914) was the eldest surviving son of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Joseph Smith III served ...14 KB (2,236 words) - 05:01, 7 May 2024
- Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine ( alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin|lang ; October 21, 1790 February 28, 1869 Gorton Carruth ...30 KB (4,259 words) - 22:02, 30 April 2023
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- Benjamin Jonson (c. June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet, and actor. Ben Jonson lived during the age ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Delaware is a state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. While the U.S. Census Bureau designates Delaware ...25 KB (3,617 words) - 09:17, 28 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology [[Image:Stonehenge Summer Solstice eve 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px ...25 KB (3,567 words) - 00:17, 8 January 2024
- The Tripitaka Koreana (lit. Goryeo Tripitaka) or Palman Daejanggyeong ("Eighty-Thousand Tripitaka") is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka ...7 KB (985 words) - 17:42, 2 May 2023
- Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (May 25, 1803 – January 18, 1873) was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. Lord ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A Comprehensive school is a secondary educational institution that teaches an inclusive ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- Carbon monoxide, with the chemical formula CO, is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas. It is the product of the incomplete combustion of ...20 KB (2,871 words) - 19:08, 26 November 2023
- Johann Pachelbel (IPA: [ paˈxɛlbəl ]) (baptized September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and ...46 KB (6,947 words) - 14:51, 1 August 2022
- Pinnipeds (from Latin pinna, "feather” or “wing," and pedis, "foot," meaning "winged feet" or "fin-feet ...15 KB (2,167 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- In classical physics, free space, sometimes called the vacuum of free space, refers to a region of space where there is a theoretically "perfect ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- The term supersonic is used to define a speed that exceeds the speed of sound—a speed that is referred to as Mach 1. However, supersonic airflow ...7 KB (968 words) - 23:49, 26 February 2023
- The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson around the question of whether a state can refuse to ...7 KB (1,113 words) - 00:42, 17 November 2022
- Category:Public Rockefeller, Nelson [[Image:Rockefellerportrait.jpg|right|frame|Official White House photograph of Vice President Rockefeller, 1975]] ...23 KB (3,392 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- Fig wasp is the common name for wasps of the family Agaonidae, which pollinate the blossoms of fig trees or are otherwise associated with fig ...15 KB (2,451 words) - 19:44, 26 March 2024
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from November 28th to December 1st ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- In zoology, skate is the common name for cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae in the order Rajiformes (or Batoidea) of rays, characterized ...7 KB (991 words) - 22:58, 23 April 2023
- Gregory of Nyssa (Latin:Gregorius Nyssenus, Greek: Άγιος Γρηγόριος Νύσσης) (ca. 335–ca. 394 C.E.) was a Christian bishop ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 18:10, 31 January 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
- John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham ...20 KB (3,093 words) - 04:41, 3 May 2024
- Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the commune of Pompeii. It ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин; sometimes transliterated as Skryabin) (January ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- Category:Public Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 B.C.E.- c. 478 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Xenophanes ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 14:28, 20 May 2023
- Paul Hindemith (November 16, 1895 – December 28, 1963) was an outstanding twentieth-century German composer, as well as a violist, teacher ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 17:06, 21 November 2022
- Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant family Asparagaceae, as well as a type of vegetable obtained from one species ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- SI Units are the most widely used system of units. They are the most common system for everyday commerce in the world, and are almost universally ...15 KB (2,449 words) - 18:28, 22 December 2022
- Foraminifera, abbreviated as forams, are single-celled amoeboid protists comprising the order Foraminiferida (or Foraminifera of supergroup Rhizaria ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vellum Online Etymological Dictionary] ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- Fatty acids are a class of compounds containing a long hydrocarbon chain and a terminal carboxylate group (-COOH). They have the general structure ...16 KB (2,372 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- Category:Sociologists Bourdieu, Pierre Pierre Bourdieu (August 1, 1930 – January 23, 2002) was a French sociologist whose work employed methods ...23 KB (3,373 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important hand-written ancient copies of the Greek Bible. It was written in the fourth century C.E., in uncial ...31 KB (4,479 words) - 22:23, 7 January 2024
- António de Oliveira Salazar, GColIH, GCTE, GCSE (April 28, 1889 – July 27, 1970), served as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- Category:Economists Category:Sociologists category:biography Pareto, Vilfredo [[Image:Vilfredo Pareto.jpg|right|frame|Vilfredo Pareto.]] ...21 KB (3,117 words) - 20:22, 3 May 2023
- Edward B. Jenner (May 17, 1749 – January 26, 1823) was an English physician and scientist who is most recognized for introducing and popularizing ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- Lee Shapiro (1949–1987) was an American documentary filmmaker. His one feature-length film, Nicaragua Was Our Home, was released in 1986. It ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 23:50, 25 September 2023
- Victor Cousin (November 28, 1792 - January 13, 1867) was a French philosopher, educational reformer, and a historian, whose systematic eclecticism ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" (as first name), "Gothart" or "Neithardt" (as surname), (c. 1470? – August 31 ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 16:57, 7 November 2022
- Yeasts are a phylogenetically diverse grouping of single-celled fungi. As members of the Kingdom Fungi, which also includes mushrooms, molds ...24 KB (3,421 words) - 09:54, 23 May 2023
- A capacitor (or condenser "Condenser" is now considered an antiquated term for capacitor. ) is an electrical device that can store energy ...30 KB (4,519 words) - 19:31, 25 November 2023
- Spider monkey is the common name for the arboreal, tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Ateles of the primate family Atelidae, characterized ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 15:22, 27 April 2023
- Antonín Leopold Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a nineteenth century Czech composer whose works include operas, oratorios, ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- 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
- The subphylum Chelicerata is one of the five subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda, with members characterized by the absence of antennae and ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 07:52, 13 January 2023
- Jacques René Hébert ( ebɛʁ|lang ; November 15, 1757 – March 24, 1794) was a French journalist, the founder and editor of the radical newspaper ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- Lorenzo Da Ponte, born Emanuele Conegliano (March 10, 1749 – August 17, 1838) was an Italian librettist and poet born in Ceneda (now Vittorio ...14 KB (2,015 words) - 07:53, 9 March 2023
- category:image wanted Casuistry (ˈkæʒuːɨstri) is an applied ethics term referring to case-based reasoning. Casuistry is used in juridical ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 14:26, 29 November 2023
- Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- 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
- Eagle is the common name for various diurnal birds of prey in the family Accipitridae of the bird order Falconiformes, characterized by large ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- A flagellum (plural, flagella) is a long, whip-like projection or appendage of a cell composed of microtubules (long, slender, protein tubes ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 17:34, 28 March 2024
- Category:Public Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Abbott, Grace Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 – June 19, 1939) was ...7 KB (984 words) - 08:16, 24 May 2024
- The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in many parts of the world, which directs honor and reverence towards ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Alimony, maintenance, or spousal support is an obligation established by law in many countries ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 00:40, 9 January 2023
- Huángbò Xīyùn (simplified Chinese: 黄檗希运 traditional: 黄檗希運 Wade-Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün; Japanese: Ōbaku Kiun) (d. 850) ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 20:57, 7 February 2024
- Atonement means that two parties, estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually reconcile to each other. It usually ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley was one of the most popular ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Mexico.Tab.OlmecHead.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Monument ...35 KB (5,268 words) - 00:32, 18 November 2022
- Gerbil is the common name for any of the small to medium-sized rodents in the Old World Muridae subfamily Gerbillinae, characterized by a mouse ...22 KB (2,988 words) - 15:28, 30 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Template:Infobox Ethnic group| |group=Chickasaw ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:20, 10 December 2023
- The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the Qutub Minar standing out as the most famous. ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful of Reeds") was tlatoani (king, or Great Speaker) of the Aztecs ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- Bee is any member of a group of about 20,000 known species of winged insects of the superfamily Apoidea of the order Hymenoptera, an order that ...24 KB (3,674 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Scientists and Mathematicians Cherry, Colin Edward Colin Cherry, known as Colin Cherry, (1914 – November 23 ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- Prunus is an economically important genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, characterized by a fruit in the form of a drupe, usually ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 01:24, 12 April 2023
- A planarian is any flatworm (phylum Platyhelminthes) of the suborder (or order) Tricladida of the class Turbellaria. Primarily free-living, planarians ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Enrico Caruso (February 25 1873 – August 2 1921) was an Italian opera singer of the verissmo style, and one of the most famous tenors in history ...13 KB (1,957 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances, develops, or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is often practiced to ...21 KB (3,083 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Acadia National Park is an U.S. federal parkland including mountains, an ocean shoreline, woodlands, and lakes, preserving much of the Mount ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Indiana. His works include the musical comedies ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- Bernard de Mandeville (1670 – 1733), was a philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in the Netherlands, he lived most of his life ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- Category:Public number=54 | symbol=Xe | name=xenon | left=iodine | right=cesium | above=Kr | below=Rn | color1=#c0ffff | color2=green ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunciation: ohr'-fee-uhs) The mythological name "Orpheus" is commonly pronounced "ohr' ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Historically, it is differentiated from ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 08:36, 15 January 2023
- Melaleuca is a genus of shrubs and trees in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are 236 described species of Melaleuca, all of which occur in ...18 KB (2,562 words) - 04:18, 9 November 2022
- A binary star is a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their center of mass. For each member of a pair, the other is called its ...43 KB (6,669 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- Porcupine is the common name for any members of two families of rodents, Erethizontidae and Hystricidae, characterized by heavy bodies with some ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 04:07, 26 November 2022
- Philippa of Hainault (June 24, 1311 – August 15, 1369) was the queen consort of Edward III of England. Born in Hainaut, Flanders (today France ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- Afonso I, King of Portugal, more commonly known as Afonso Henriques, (July 25, 1109 – December 6, 1185), also known as the Conqueror, was the ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- Gerhard Groot or Gerhard Groet, in Latin Gerardus Magnus, (1340 - 1384), was a Dutch preacher and founder of the Brethren of the Common Life ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 16:50, 21 May 2024
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) (generally known as J. Willard Gibbs) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer ...19 KB (2,786 words) - 05:25, 7 May 2024
- George Farquhar (1677 or 1678 The explanation for the dual birth year appears in Louis A. Strauss, ed., [http://books.google.com/books?id=mB1MAAAAMAAJ ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 15:46, 20 May 2024
- Ribonucleic acid or RNA is a polymer or chain of nucleotide units, each comprising a nitrogenous base (adenine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Category:Economists Law, John (economist) [[Image:Law2.jpg|thumbnail|John Law]] John Law (baptized April 21, 1671 - March 21, 1729) was a Scottish ...21 KB (3,378 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations New York Times, The The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 15:40, 30 April 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
- A nucleotide is a chemical compound with three components: a nitrogen-containing base, a pentose (five-carbon) sugar (relatively simple carbohydrates ...18 KB (2,589 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving proper credit. It ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is one of the smallest states in Europe. At 180 square miles (468 sq. km.), it is about half ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine soldier and politician, elected three times as president of Argentina ...17 KB (2,640 words) - 06:03, 10 May 2024
- A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principle of conservation of angular momentum. The key component ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 08:50, 29 July 2023
- Category:Image wanted Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished ...25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- In particle physics, a lepton is one of the elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. Elementary particles ...8 KB (1,168 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- In biology, homology is commonly defined as any similarity between structures of organisms in different taxa that derives from similar structures ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 16:13, 25 January 2023
- Category:Sociologists Burgess, Ernest Ernest Watson Burgess (May 16, 1886 – December 27, 1966) was an American sociologist, famous for his work ...8 KB (1,123 words) - 12:16, 21 January 2023
- Chloroethane or monochloroethane, commonly known by its old name ethyl chloride, is a chemical compound once widely used in producing tetra-ethyl ...7 KB (906 words) - 17:08, 10 December 2023
- Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora (c. 1135 – March 30, 1202), was a Christian visionary and abbot whose teaching of a three ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 Tūjué ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century. He is remembered primarily for two things: he ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- The Ballets Russes ( balɛ ʁys|lang ) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed throughout Europe between 1909 and 1929 and ...49 KB (6,850 words) - 17:32, 30 August 2023
- The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally held to have been written by Saint Peter the apostle during his time ...7 KB (1,040 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language ...45 KB (6,537 words) - 15:24, 25 February 2023
- Francis George Steiner [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FGSNR The Papers of George Steiner] Janus |quote=[Steiner ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood in 1959. It is the only island U.S. state, and sits in a strategic position ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
- Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent writer, poet, lecturer, and women's rights activist. An American abolitionist ...13 KB (2,163 words) - 09:30, 12 May 2024
- Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (c. 296 C.E. Though some sources suggest that Athanasius may have been born as ...20 KB (3,060 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- Sciatica, otherwise known as sciatic nerve dysfunction, is a condition of pain or discomfort associated with the sciatic nerve. It is caused ...16 KB (2,375 words) - 17:22, 25 January 2023
- Joseph Priestley (March 13, 1733 – February 8, 1804) was an English chemist, philosopher, dissenting clergyman, and educator. As an educator ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 04:54, 7 May 2024
- Cushing's syndrome, or hypercortisolism, is an endocrine disorder caused by the presence of excessive levels of cortisol in the body. ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- In most Semitic languages, the word Abba (also rendered Ab or Aba) means "father" (or more affectionately "Papa" or "Daddy ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- Saint Thérèse de Lisieux (January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897), or more properly Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte ...22 KB (3,790 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900 ...35 KB (5,291 words) - 12:23, 22 May 2024
- Olivier Messiaen ( mɛsjɑ̃ or /mɛsjɛ̃/ ; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was an influential French composer, organist, and ornithologist ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two atomic nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Animal husbandry, also known as animal science, is the agricultural practice of breeding ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 06:10, 28 July 2023
- Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis and typically characterized ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- The Pentateuch (from Greek: Πεντετεύχως [meaning "five books"]) refers to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- A contact lens (also known simply as a "contact") is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 02:44, 8 January 2024
- Political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is a term used by proponents, usually on the political left ...38 KB (4,999 words) - 19:46, 31 October 2022
- Category:Image wanted Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (August 14, 1892 – October 15, 1988) was a prolific British composer, music journalist, essayist ...18 KB (2,515 words) - 22:23, 4 October 2022
- Arkansas (are-can-saw) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- Arcangelo Corelli (February 17, 1653 – January 8, 1713) was an influential Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- Max Scheler (August 22, 1874 - May 19, 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology ...14 KB (2,180 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- Category:life sciences Category:Food Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Bai Hao Yin Zhen tea leaf (Fuding).jpg|250px ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:15, 4 May 2023
- The Transcendental Ego (or its equivalent under various other formulations) refers to the self that must underlie all human thought and perception ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa or Estado da Índia) refers to the aggregate of Portugal's colonial holdings in India. At the time of ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 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
- Mỹ Sơn ( mi sɤn ) is a Hindu temple complex, located in the village of Duy Phú in the administrative district of Duy Xuyên, Quảng Nam ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
