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- Jilin ( c=吉林 |p=Jílín |w=Chi-lin ; Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of the People's Republic of China ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- Preservation, in library and information science, is activity concerned with maintaining or restoring access to artifacts, documents and records ...34 KB (4,751 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. They adopted ideas of Socrates, contributed significantly to the ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology The Unconscious is a rich concept with a multi-faceted history. For Freud it began as ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- Beryllium (chemical symbol Be, atomic number 4) ranks among the lightest of all known metals. Steel-gray in color, it is strong but brittle. ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 17:26, 29 September 2023
- Abidjan is the largest city, chief port, and de facto capital of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). (Yamoussoukro is the official capital.) It ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- Category:Public The terms a priori (Latin; “from former”) and a posteriori (Latin; “from later”) refer primarily to species of propositional ...11 KB (1,601 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- In Buddhist doctrine and metaphysics, the word skandha (Sanskrit: स्कान्धास) refers to the five "aggregate" elements ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- Ethylene glycol (also called monoethylene glycol (MEG); 1,2-ethanediol; or ethane-1,2-diol (IUPAC name)) is a chemical compound with the formula ...16 KB (2,258 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Botany is the branch of biology dealing with the scientific study of plant life. It is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant ...17 KB (2,438 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- Fractional Reserve Banking is an accounting process that creates money and enables the expansion of an economy. It is used by most banking systems ...40 KB (6,064 words) - 16:22, 18 June 2023
- Category:Image wanted Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete Kunst, a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound that is found as a gas in the Earth's atmosphere. It consists of simple molecules, each of which has ...34 KB (5,140 words) - 19:07, 26 November 2023
- The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of ...22 KB (3,694 words) - 14:17, 5 October 2022
- 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
- was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories, and essays, strongly influenced by French ...45 KB (5,943 words) - 21:09, 28 September 2023
- The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 1,497.5 miles (2,410 kilometers) and one of the largest river systems in the world ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 10:44, 11 March 2023
- Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the formula NH3. It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure In this case, ...39 KB (5,803 words) - 07:35, 25 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Military intelligence (abbreviated “MI” or “int.” in Commonwealth countries; “Intel” ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or a higher taxonomic unit (taxon), such as a phylum or class. The ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
- Nebkheperure Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon, Egyptian egy|twt-ˁnḫ-ı͗mn; *tuwt-ʕankh-yamān ) was a Pharaoh ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 02:21, 18 April 2023
- Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 04:01, 15 August 2023
- 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
- Category:Economists Keynes, John Neville John Neville Keynes (August 31, 1852 – November 15, 1949) was a British philosopher and economist. ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Jules Henri Poincaré (April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912), generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ...40 KB (5,908 words) - 07:01, 22 January 2024
- Talc (derived from the Persian via Arabic talq) is a mineral composed of magnesium silicate hydroxide. It is extremely soft, with a greasy feel ...8 KB (1,172 words) - 03:55, 27 February 2023
- category:image wanted The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- Category:Public {| class="toccolours" border="1" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border-collapse: ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 09:39, 22 April 2023
- The number 144,000 is a positive integer that has a special religious significance for many Christians because of its use in the biblical Book ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 06:27, 13 June 2023
- Urdu ( ur|اردو , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group-Jen| |group=Tuareg |image=[[Image:Targui.jpg|300px]] ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal) is a gas with a pungent smell. It is the simplest aldehyde. Its chemical formula ...18 KB (2,445 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- Rockabilly is one of the earliest forms of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. It flourished in the mid 1950s based mainly in the American ...8 KB (1,238 words) - 21:31, 16 April 2023
- An abacus (plurals abacuses or abaci), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool for performing arithmetical processes, often constructed ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- Mercury, also called quicksilver (chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80), is a chemical element and transition metal that at room temperature ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- A marine mammal is any of a diverse group of aquatic or semi-aquatic mammals that spend a considerable portion of their time in marine waters ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- 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
- The Athanasian Creed, also known as (Quicumque vult) from its opening Latin words, is a statement of Christian trinitarian doctrine traditionally ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- Sir Samuel White Baker (June 8, 1821 - December 30, 1893) was an English explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- Glycerol, also known as glycerin or glycerine, is a sugar alcohol. Its formula may be written as C3H8O3. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous ...17 KB (2,494 words) - 18:22, 30 August 2021
- A ketone (pronounced as key tone) is either the functional group characterized by a carbonyl group (O=C) linked to two other carbon atoms or ...9 KB (1,318 words) - 03:31, 6 October 2022
- A complex in chemistry usually is used to describe molecules or ensembles formed by the combination of ligands and metal ions. Originally, a ...21 KB (3,125 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- In mathematics, curvature refers to any of a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising the order Rajiformes (or Batoidea), characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral ...10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- In general terms, geothermal energy is thermal energy (the energy that determines the temperature of matter) generated and stored in the Earth ...43 KB (6,456 words) - 20:26, 13 December 2023
- The Volga ( Во́лга|a=Ru-Волга.ogg|p=ˈvoɫɡə ) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law The rights of the accused is a class of rights that apply to a person in the time period between ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- Tunis ( تونس, Tūnis ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is the center of Tunisian commerce, as well as focus of ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- For architecture, see Constructivist architecture. Constructivism was an artistic and architectural movement in Russia from 1913 onward (especially ...9 KB (1,167 words) - 18:57, 19 May 2020
- Jiuzhaigou Valley ( s=九寨沟 |t=九寨溝 |p=Jiǔzhàigōu ; lit. "Valley of Nine Villages;" Tibetan: Sicadêgu) designates a nature ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
- The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- Infrared astronomy is the branch of astronomy and astrophysics that studies objects as they would appear in the infrared (IR) region of the electromagnetic ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- 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
- In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek word ἔλλειψις, which literally means "absence") is a closed curve on a plane, such ...10 KB (1,658 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- Chagas' disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical acute and chronic parasitic disease of the Americas caused by the flagellate ...38 KB (5,449 words) - 02:04, 13 January 2023
- Category:Linguists and lexicographers Category:Archaeologists Grotefend, Georg Friedrich Georg Friedrich Grotefend (June 9, 1775 – December ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- A pickled cucumber, most often simply called a pickle in the United States and Canada, is a cucumber that has been preserved and flavored in ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 22:47, 28 March 2023
- 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
- Protactinium (chemical symbol Pa, atomic number 91) is a member of the actinide series of chemical elements. It is a toxic, highly radioactive ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- Bentonite is an absorbent clay consisting mostly of the mineral montmorillonite. It is formed by the weathering of volcanic ash, most often in ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 10:17, 28 September 2023
- Elmer Ambrose Sperry (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for his successful development ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Osage |image=[[Image:Osage warrior.jpg ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:50, 11 March 2023
- Terbium (chemical symbol Tb, atomic number 65) is a silvery-white rare earth metal. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth ...9 KB (1,141 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based narratives and traditions, relating the travels and miraculous deeds of John ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Koodiyattam or Kutiyattam ( kuːʈijaːʈːam ) is a form of sacred theater traditionally performed in Hindu temples in the state of Kerala, India ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ancient human symbol that has become closely connected with the religion ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, an island arc of the Caribbean Sea in North ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- Joan Crawford (March 23, 1904 - May 10, 1977) was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest ...17 KB (2,572 words) - 13:41, 1 August 2022
- Epstein-Barr virus, frequently referred to as EBV, is a distinct member of the herpesvirus family (Herpesviridae) of DNA viruses and one of the ...25 KB (3,646 words) - 15:14, 15 April 2022
- The Kamchatka Peninsula is a long body of land jutting dramatically from Russia and Asia's northeastern tip, with a length of 1,250 km and ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- The book of 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part of the deuterocanonical books, but Protestants, Catholics, and Jews regard ...9 KB (1,497 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- A ribosome is a small, dense granular particle comprising usually three or four ribosomal RNA molecules and more than 50 protein molecules, interconnected ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 09:20, 10 August 2022
- 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
- Silicon (chemical element symbol Si, atomic number 14) is a member of a group of chemical elements classified as metalloids. It is less reactive ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- 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
- Johan Huizinga (December 7, 1872 – February 1, 1945) was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders of modern cultural ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- Gas is one of the four major states or phases of matter, along with solid, liquid, and plasma. Each state is characterized by distinct physical ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- Category:Public Milton, John [[Image:John Milton - Project Gutenberg eText 13619.jpg|thumbnail|right|350px|John Milton, English poet]] ...27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 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
- A pearl is a hard, smooth, rounded (not necessarily round), lustrous object made of nacre (mother-of-pearl) that is organically produced by certain ...20 KB (3,138 words) - 19:56, 22 April 2023
- Qinghai is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwestern portion of the country. It is named after the enormous ...18 KB (2,519 words) - 04:02, 7 December 2022
- Nestorianism was an ancient Christian heresy associated with Nestorius (c. 386–c. 451 C.E.), Patriarch of Constantinople, who taught that ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- Vairocana is one of many Buddhas revered by particular sects of Sino-Japanese Buddhism, especially among the Chinese school of Hua-Yen, and the ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:120px-Red_ribbon.png|right|thumb|200px|The red ribbon is a global symbol for solidarity with people living with AIDS as ...36 KB (5,435 words) - 19:47, 16 October 2020
- The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father ...9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
- Mount Fuji (富士山; Fuji-san in Japanese) is the tallest volcano and the highest mountain in Japan. Mount Fuji is still considered an active ...18 KB (2,819 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {|class="infobox" width="275" ...12 KB (1,555 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- Porphyry (c. 232 – c. 304 C.E.) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of his works. He is considered one of ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- In chemistry, esters are organic compounds in which an organic group (symbolized by R' in this article) replaces the hydrogen atom of a ...11 KB (1,427 words) - 21:32, 20 March 2024
- A castrato is a male, artificially produced soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto singer whose voice is artificially changed through castration before ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- Oswald (ca. 604–August 5, 642 C.E.)While Bede gives the year of Oswald's death as 642, there is some question as to whether Bede's ...27 KB (4,245 words) - 13:29, 5 September 2022
- 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
- You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- Aeschines Socraticus (c. 425 – c. 350 B.C.E.) (Greek: Αἰσχίνης , sometimes but now rarely written as Aischines or Æschines), son of ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 05:49, 16 June 2023
- 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Home education, also called homeschooling or home school, is the process by which children ...29 KB (4,035 words) - 16:36, 1 March 2023
- Anacreon (Greek: Ἀνακρέων ) (born c. 570 B.C.E.) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his songs, hymns, and personable poems celebrating ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- In astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, are hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter ...10 KB (1,576 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- The city of Berne, the capital of Switzerland, was founded in the twelfth century and developed over the centuries with a consistent and coherent ...18 KB (2,738 words) - 17:14, 29 September 2023
- Category:Economists Cantillon, Richard Richard Cantillon (1680 – May, 1734) was an important figure in the Physiocrat school of economics, initially ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- The island of Delos (Greek: Δήλος, Dhilos, meaning "clear," or "brought to light") is in the center of the roughly circular ...9 KB (1,335 words) - 09:22, 28 January 2024
- The Elephanta Caves represent the focal point of the Elephanta Island, located in the Mumbai harbour off the coast of Mumbai (Bombay), India ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was a blues guitar musician, from Houston, Texas who became a popular ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- ( c=安徽 |p=Ānhuī |w=An-hui ; Postal map spelling: Ngan-hui, Anhwei or An-hwei) is a province of the People's Republic of China. It is ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, called an aldehyde group, consists of a carbon ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- Vacuoles are membrane-bound compartments within some eukaryotic cells that serve a variety of secretory, excretory, and storage functions. These ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 23:00, 13 November 2022
- Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823 - January 15, 1896), was a celebrated American photographer whose rise to prominence occurred largely in the years ...9 KB (1,405 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus) (ca. 262 B.C.E. – ca. 190 B.C.E.) was a Greek geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, noted for his ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- 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
- Mac Bethad mac Findlaích (Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh),(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King of Alba ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are allotropes of carbon with molecular structures that are tubular in shape, having diameters on the order of a few ...62 KB (8,806 words) - 19:09, 26 November 2023
- Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers especially to humans, many other animals, and fungi. In the broader sense, ...31 KB (4,318 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- Bubonic plague, which is commonly referred to as plague, is a deadly infectious disease, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- The Gabonese Republic or Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of West ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- Lemur is the common name for any of the prosimian primates belonging to the infraorder Lemuriformes, which comprises the families Lemuridae ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 19:36, 25 October 2022
- In Hinduism, the term Isvara (ईश्वर in Devanagari script, also variously transliterated as Ishvara and Īśvara), is a generic name ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 06:19, 11 March 2024
- Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are a Buddhist monastery complex of twenty-nine rock-cut cave monuments containing paintings and sculpture ...19 KB (2,978 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- Carnatic music, also known as karṇāṭaka sangītam is one of the two styles of Indian classical music; the other is Hindustani music. The ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Ethnic group-Jen| |group=Nenets |image=[[File:No-nb bldsa ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- Anarcho-capitalism or free-market anarchism Robert P. Murphy, [https://mises.org/library/what-are-you-calling-anarchy What Are You Calling 'Anarchy ...50 KB (7,105 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- Djenné (also Dienné or Jenne) is a historically and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- Pope Saint Caius, or Gaius, was the bishop of Rome from December 17, 283 to April 22, 296. Christian tradition makes him a native of Dalmatia ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- North Korean defectors are Koreans who have fled North Korea seeking asylum in South Korea or other nations. Immediately following the truce ending ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- The Petit Trianon is a château and museum located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. It was designed and completed ...10 KB (1,468 words) - 01:37, 24 November 2022
- The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though it has started exporting oil, these bright prospects are marred by widespread ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 11:58, 13 May 2024
- Millipede ("thousand legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda (previously also known as Chilognatha ...9 KB (1,312 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- 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
- In linguistics, syntax (The word originates from the Greek words συν (syn), meaning "co-" or "together," and τάξις ...11 KB (1,479 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- Borates are chemical compounds containing borate anions, that is, anions composed of boron and oxygen. There are various borate ions, the simplest ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- Lake Erie is the eleventh largest lake on Earth by surface area. Factmonster.com. [http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001777.html Large Lakes of ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 23:16, 21 October 2022
- Like hormones, pheromones are endogenous (internally produced) chemical signals secreted by multicellular organisms. Whereas hormones affect ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- Gasoline (also called gas, petrol, or petrogasoline) is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (January 25, 1743 – March 10, 1819) was a German philosopher who made his mark on philosophy by coining the term ...10 KB (1,513 words) - 11:04, 11 April 2024
- Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica ( s=中药学|t=中藥學|p=Zhōngyào xué ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- Walnut is the common name for any of the large, deciduous trees comprising the genus Juglans of the flowering plant family Juglandaceae, which ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- In zoology, a horn is one of a pair of hard, pointed, often permanent projections on the head of various hoofed mammals (ungulates) consisting ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- 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
- Gold (chemical symbol Au; atomic number 79) has long been valued as a noble metal and a symbol of purity, durability, and royalty. Its attractive ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 08:13, 24 January 2023
- *Suborder Endocoelantheae *Suborder Nyantheae *Suborder Protantheae *Suborder Ptychodacteae Sea anemones are flower-like, filter feeding, marine ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 02:38, 21 April 2023
- A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. As white dwarfs have mass comparable ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- A centriole is a small, barrel-shaped, sub-cellular structure typically consisting of nine triplet microtubules (nine groups of three fused microtubules ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 01:44, 13 January 2023
- Giant squid is the common name for any of the very large squid comprising the genus Architeuthis of the cephalopod family Architeuthidae, characterized ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- The ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that means life or living. Ancient Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- Empiricism is a term in philosophy for a set of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category of experience may ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes, the term solar ...90 KB (13,568 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
- The greenhouse effect is the process in which long wave radiation (infrared) emitted by the earth surface is absorbed by atmospheric gases only ...23 KB (3,592 words) - 23:26, 17 February 2023
- Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Maxwell, Robert Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991), was ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- Fox is the general term applied to any of small to medium-sized canids (mammalian family Canidae) placed in the Carnivora tribe vulpini, characterized ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- Deuterium (chemical symbol D or ²H) is a stable isotope of hydrogen, found in extremely small amounts in nature. The nucleus of deuterium, called ...31 KB (4,687 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Asian multicolored lady beetle.jpg|thumb|240px|Lady beetle]] Species are the basic taxonomic units of biological classification ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 17:36, 14 October 2022
- Hudson Bay ( baie d'Hudson ) is an immense inland sea that penetrates deeply into northeastern Canada. This relatively shallow body of water ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- Margaret Beaufort (May 31, 1443 – June 29, 1509) was the mother of King Henry VII of England, the grandmother of Henry VIII, and great-grandmother ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế province, Vietnam, had been the imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty between ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
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- Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, or space habitation) is the concept of permanent, autonomous (self-sufficient ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree, Punica granatum. Pomegranate also is used to refer to the ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Kaziranga National Park, a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of Assam, India has World Heritage Site status. Two-thirds of the ...31 KB (4,349 words) - 22:14, 15 September 2023
- Scott Joplin (January 1868 - April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and instrumentalist who became the leading exponent of ragtime music ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Gray1095-gall bladder.png|thumb|Gall bladder]] [[Image:gallbladderop.jpg|thumb|Cholecystectomy seen through a laparoscope]] ...11 KB (1,595 words) - 14:53, 27 June 2021
- Category:Lawyers and Jurists Category:biography Blackstone, William [[Image:WilliamBlackstone.jpg|thumb|right|William Blackstone as illustrated ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- Cedar is the common name for a number of trees in different genera and families, but in a strict botanical sense, the "true cedars" ...10 KB (1,494 words) - 23:43, 3 December 2023
- Ethylene (or IUPAC name ethene) is a chemical compound with the formula C2H4. Each molecule contains a double bond between the two carbon atoms ...26 KB (3,781 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- The Snake River is the largest tributary of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. One of the most important ...26 KB (3,775 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- Fauna is all of the animals of any particular region or time period, considered as as group. The term is contrasted with flora, which refers ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 23:37, 1 November 2023
- In common usage, the term light (or visible light) refers to electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range that is visible to the human eye ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two extant families: the golden moles comprising the Chrysochloridae family and ...21 KB (2,748 words) - 20:46, 29 December 2022
- Typha is a genus of perennial herbaceous plants in the Typhaceae family, characterized by long, spongy, strap-like leaves, clusters of minute ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 15:57, 11 November 2022
- In Ancient Egypt, Bast (also spelled Bastet, Baset, Ubasti, and Pasht) was an ancient feline goddess who was worshiped since the early dynastic ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- Koryo-saram (Russian: Корё сарам; Koryo-mar: 고려사람), the name ethnic Koreans in the Post-Soviet states use to refer to themselves ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- 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
- The nervous system is the network of specialized cells, tissues, and organs in a multicellular animal that coordinates the body's interaction ...36 KB (5,328 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
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- Toucan is the common name for any of the large-billed, long-tailed, tropical birds comprising the New World family Ramphastidae of the near-passerine ...10 KB (1,560 words) - 04:45, 1 May 2023
- Pope Saint Sixtus II (also called Xystus, meaning "polished") was bishop of Rome from August 30, 257 to August 6, 258. He died a brutal ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 11:45, 13 February 2022
- The Longmen Grottoes (ch. 龍門石窟/ 龙门石窟, lóngmén shíkū; lit. Dragon's Gate Grottoes) or Longmen Caves are located ...11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 November 2022
- The genus Rhinoceros of the family Rhinocerotidae includes the one-horned rhinoceroses, of which there are two extant species: the Indian rhinoceros ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
- Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, later Dante Gabriel Rossetti (May 12, 1828 – April 10, 1882) was an English poet and painter who is considered ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 22:13, 25 January 2024
- The Sahara, located in Northern Africa, is the world's largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica at over 3.5 million ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, or wood spirits, is the simplest alcohol. Its chemical formula ...20 KB (2,894 words) - 16:26, 9 November 2022
- Electronic engineering is a discipline that utilizes the behavior and effects of electrons for the production of electronic devices (such as ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that was created in the mid-1980s by bands from the American ...30 KB (4,642 words) - 10:14, 25 February 2023
- Placozoa is a phylum of very simple, small, balloon-like marine animals, characterized by a transparent, round, plate-like body of but a few ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- category:Image wanted Chandler, Raymond {{Infobox Writer |name =Raymond Chandler |image = |imagesize = |caption = |pseudonym = ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- "Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana" ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- A modal logic was originally designed to describe the logical relations of modal notions. The list of the notions includes metaphysical modalities ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- Fowl is the common name for any of the gamefowl or landfowl comprising the bird order Galliformes, or any of the waterfowl comprising the order ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- 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
- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis) are considered one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 20:50, 21 January 2024
- TaNaK (Hebrew: תנ״ך), or Tanakh, is an acronym for the Hebrew Bible consisting of the initial Hebrew letters (T + N + K) of each of the text ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- Centipede ("hundred legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Chilopoda, comprising species with long, flattened ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:53, 5 February 2023
- Amenhotep I (sometimes read as Amenophis I and meaning "Amun is satisfied") was the second Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. His ...23 KB (3,603 words) - 02:51, 24 July 2023
- <!-- New version: {{Number|number=9 | 9 | prev = 8 | next = 10 | range = (digits) | cardinal = 9 nine | ordinal = 9th | ordinal_text = ninth ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits incoherent, narrow-spectrum light when it is electrically biased in the forward ...41 KB (6,290 words) - 01:16, 26 October 2022
- Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts (lighter nuclei), often producing photons (in the form of gamma rays), ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- Category:Public [[image:Edge_of_Space2.png|thumb|right|175px|Layers of Atmosphere (NOAA)]] The Earth's atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding ...24 KB (3,540 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024
- Pope Saint Fabian was bishop of Rome from January 236 to January 20, 250 C.E., succeeding Anterus. He is famous for the miraculous nature of ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- A monolithic integrated circuit (also known as IC, microchip, silicon chip, computer chip or chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting ...29 KB (4,001 words) - 06:15, 6 March 2024
- Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In the post ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- The main group elements of the periodic table are groups 1, 2 and 13 through 18. Elements in these groups are collectively known as main group ...30 KB (4,368 words) - 00:41, 24 November 2022
- 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
- Pope Saint Stephen I served as bishop of Rome from May 12, 254 to August 2, 257. Of Roman birth but of Greek ancestry, he was promoted to the ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- Woolly rhinoceros, or simply Woolly Rhino, is the common name for an extinct, plant-eating species of rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis, that ...11 KB (1,548 words) - 21:32, 28 April 2024
- The siege of Sparta took place in 272 B.C.E. and was a battle fought between Epirus, led by King Pyrrhus, ( r.|reigned 297–272 B.C.E.) and an ...24 KB (3,591 words) - 22:02, 26 February 2024
- Yunnan ( s=云南 |t=雲南 |p=Yúnnán ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the People's Republic of China located ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of 11 players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval ...49 KB (7,998 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru, is a small, oval-shaped island in the western Pacific Ocean, 26 miles (42 ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- Dravidian peoples refers to the peoples that natively speak languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. The language group appears ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- 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
- Cowpox is a rare, mildly contagious skin disease caused by the cowpox virus, which has gained fame because of its use in the eighteenth century ...11 KB (1,623 words) - 00:16, 15 January 2023
- Algiers ( الجزائر or Al Jaza'ir, Alger ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the second largest country on ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous trees or shrubs comprising the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- The Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited island group in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago is located about 667|km|sp=us ...22 KB (3,070 words) - 05:59, 10 May 2024
- Aram Ilich Khachaturian (Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян, Aram Il'ič Hačaturjan ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Outline of cave paintings, Altamira.png|thumb ...10 KB (1,634 words) - 08:36, 23 July 2023
- Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov is sometimes rendered in English as Paul Miliukov or Paul Milukoff. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- 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
- William M. "Boss" Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April12, 1878) was an American politician and head of Tammany Hall, the name given to the ...9 KB (1,503 words) - 11:11, 10 May 2023
- Pope Saint Anicetus was bishop of Rome in the mid-second century. In his time, the early papacy began to take on a more definite historical character ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2022
- A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (flowers, game, sea ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 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
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work [[File:Child Protection and Developement Center 2.jpg|thumb|225px|Child Protection ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- Sichuan ( c=四川 |p=Sìchuān |w=Szŭ4-ch'uan1 ; Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders ...21 KB (2,859 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
- Madeira is an archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal. It belongs politically and culturally ...32 KB (4,286 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the Kalaallit (Greenlanders)," the largest island in the world, is located ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- Lyric poetry refers to either poetry that has the form and musical quality of a song, or a usually short poem that expresses personal feelings ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- Hampi (Kannada: ಹಂಪೆ, Hampe) refers to a village in northern Karnataka. The name "Hampi" comes from the anglicized version ...12 KB (1,695 words) - 17:01, 21 January 2024
- Uzziah of Judah ( עֻזִּיָּהוּ ), also known as Azariah, was the king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. William F. Albright has dated ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- Amaranth is the common name for any of the typically annual (rarely perennial) plants of the flowering plant genus Amaranthus, characterized ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- Rationalism is a broad family of positions in epistemology. Perhaps the best general description of rationalism is the view that there are some ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- Joey Ramone (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), born as Jeffry Ross Hyman, was a singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of the legendary punk rock ...10 KB (1,557 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced degrees in biblical studies, religion or related fields [as well as] published ...36 KB (5,268 words) - 08:35, 3 April 2024
- A bulldozer is a very powerful crawler (caterpillar tracked tractor) equipped with a blade. The term "bulldozer" is often used to mean ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 18:42, 22 November 2023
- Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev ( Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ради́щев ; August 31 |1749|August 20 – September 24 ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 20:28, 23 June 2020
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Bedouin_Resting.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Bedouin resting ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- Sea lion is the common name for various eared seals currently comprising five genera and distinguished from fur seals in the same pinniped family ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a global environmental organization with a membership of more than 1,000 governmental ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 13:27, 7 February 2023
- Baffin Island (Inuit name, Qikiqtaaluk), Île de Baffin ) in the territory of Nunavut is the largest member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- Redox (shorthand for reduction/oxidation reaction) describes all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state ...12 KB (1,809 words) - 02:49, 8 December 2022
- Capybara is the common name for a large, semi-aquatic rodent, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, of Central America and tropical South America, characterized ...10 KB (1,545 words) - 00:03, 15 November 2021
- 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
- Al-Haji Sir Ahmadu Bello (June 12, 1910 - January 15, 1966) was a Nigerian politician, and was the first premier of the Northern Nigeria region ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- Sulfuric acid (or sulphuric acid in British English) is a strong mineral acid with the chemical formula H2SO4. It is soluble in water at all ...31 KB (4,778 words) - 21:53, 26 February 2023
- Rocket propellant is the material used by a rocket engine to generate thrust. The most common propellants consist of a fuel and an oxidizer that ...24 KB (3,649 words) - 02:28, 16 December 2022
- Alexandre Kojève (Александр Владимирович Кожевников, Aleksandr Vladimirovič Koževnikov) (April 28, 1902 – ...23 KB (3,422 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- Zhejiang ( c=浙江|p=Zhèjiāng ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along the country's southeastern coast. It ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Johann Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773 – April 28, 1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic, who was part of the early ...10 KB (1,394 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President John Adams, ostensibly ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang (Lao: ຫລວງພະບາງ, IPA: /luaŋ pʰabaːŋ/), a city located in north central Laos, is situated ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes ( 莫高窟|p=mò gāo kū ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves), forms a ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. Until discovering his birth ...27 KB (4,049 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is an Old World monkey (family Cercopithecidae), characterized by large size, long limbs, stubby upright tail, light ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 06:44, 5 November 2022
- Cyanobacteria (Greek: κυανόs (kyanós) = blue + bacterium) is a phylum (or "division") of bacteria that obtain their energy through ...12 KB (1,656 words) - 17:46, 12 May 2020
- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyov (surname commonly romanized as Khrushchev) (April 17, 1894 – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- Bourges Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Bourges) is a cathedral, dedicated to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the seat ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- West Virginia is a state in the Appalachia/Upland South region of the United States. West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the American ...40 KB (5,933 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- Microbat is the common name for any of the bats comprising the suborder Microchiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized by true ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that are unique among cnidarians in that they do not do not have a medusa ...11 KB (1,481 words) - 01:56, 9 January 2023
- Rev. Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (February 6, 1858 – June 11, 1902) was the first Methodist missionary to Korea. He and the American Presbyterian ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Harris, Marvin [[Image:MarvinHarris.jpg|right|thumb|Marvin Harris]] ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- Subclass Labyrinthodontia - extinct Subclass Lepospondyli - extinct Subclass Lissamphibia Order Anura (or (Salientia) Order Caudata (or ...22 KB (3,306 words) - 12:33, 9 January 2023
- Yin Xu ( c=殷墟|p=Yīnxū|l=Ruins of Yin ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.E.-1046 B.C.E.), also known ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- An aqueduct is an artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. The word is derived from the Latin aqua ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- The Bhimbetka rock shelters compose an archaeological site and World Heritage Site located in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The name Bhimbetka ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 03:37, 1 October 2023
- Keio University (慶應義塾大学, Keiō Gijuku Daigaku), located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan ...12 KB (1,563 words) - 17:19, 5 October 2022
- Shogi (将棋 shōgi), or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Shogi is said to be derived from ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
- The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries ( s=四川大熊猫栖息地|t=四川大熊貓棲息地|p=Sìchuān Dàxióngmāo Qīxīdì ), located in ...13 KB (1,731 words) - 20:05, 21 April 2023
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the solar system,[http://www.iau.org/news/press ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Animal rights is a philosophical concept in bioethics that considers animals other than the human species as bearers of rights. This means that ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- A ball bearing, an engineering term, refers to a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation between the moving ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:21, 11 January 2023
- Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- A rabbit's foot, in most English-speaking countries, is considered a sign of good luck when carried on or near the body.Superstition Bash ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- Category:Public Gould, Stephen Jay [[Image:Tyrannosaurus AMNH 5027.jpg|frame|250px|right]] Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002 ...30 KB (4,344 words) - 04:42, 28 April 2023
- The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation) was the governing constitution of the ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- Pope Saint Sylvester I, also called Silvester, was pope from January 31, 314 to December 13, 335, succeeding Pope Miltiades. The son of a Roman ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov ( Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв ) (October 1, 1912 – June 15, 1992), also known as Lev Gumilev, was ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world but were ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- Barracuda is the common name for the various marine, ray-finned fish comprising the family Sphyraenidae of the order Perciformes, characterized ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- Homo habilis (IPA /ˈhoʊmoʊ ˈhæbələs/ ), meaning "handy man," or "skillful person," is the oldest known species of the ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 12:08, 2 February 2024
- Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae, and includes the four, well-known living species of the lion (Panthera ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, is a commonwealth in political union with the United ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). Albatrosses are among the ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Yochanan ben Zakai ( יוחנן בן זכאי , died 80-90 C.E.), also spelled Johanan b. Zakki, was an important rabbinical sage in the final ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 11:15, 24 May 2023
- Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. It can be thought of as an ...43 KB (6,272 words) - 12:18, 24 January 2023
- The Rolling Stones are an English rock band whose blues and rhythm and blues-infused music propelled them to the heights of popularity during ...30 KB (4,791 words) - 17:26, 30 April 2023
- Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in and around Ji'an, Jilin in the People's Republic of China, received ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang ( t=張學良|p=Zhāng Xuéliáng|w=Chang Hsüeh-liang ; English occasionally: Peter Hsueh Liang Chang); ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Earwig is the common name for any of the insects comprising the order Dermaptera, characterized by chewing mouthparts, incomplete metamorphosis ...11 KB (1,576 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- The Kenites were a nomadic tribe of the ancient Levant, many of whom became affiliated with the Israelites. The Kenites are described as showing ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
- In ancient India, Nālānda (Sanskrit: meaning "giver of knowledge") was a once thriving monastic-university renowned both as a center ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко) (September 29, 1898 – November 20, 1976) was a Soviet ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 17:45, 2 May 2023
- Classical antiquity, era, or period is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 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
- Engraving is the practice of cutting a design into a hard surface such as metal or wood. This process is often used to produce decorative objects ...11 KB (1,710 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- Responsibility is a duty or obligation for which a person is held accountable. It is the human condition that people are responsible or held ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- Marsilius of Padua (Italian Marsilio or Marsiglio da Padova) (1270 – 1342) was an Italian medieval scholar, physician, philosopher, and political ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 16:16, 6 November 2022
- Recombinant DNA is a form of genetically engineered DNA that is created by taking DNA strands from one organism and combining or inserting these ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 21:12, 23 July 2022
- In game theory, the prisoner's dilemma PD is a type of non-zero-sum game in which two players can "cooperate" with or "defect ...41 KB (6,536 words) - 23:01, 30 November 2022
- The “Fulani Empire” is now known as the Sokoto Caliphate or “Sultanate.” Previously a political polity, it is today an Islamic spiritual ...23 KB (3,525 words) - 07:17, 15 April 2024
- The Ganges (also Ganga Devanāgarī: hi|गंगा ) is a major river in the Indian subcontinent flowing east through the eponymous plains of ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- In Greek mythology, Poseidon (Greek: Ποσειδών ; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of both the sea and earthquakes. In sculpture, he was instantly ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- 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
- The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy mountain range") is a major mountain range of the western United States. It is also known informally ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran (October 3, 1938 - April 17, 1960) was an American rock-and-roll musician and an important influence ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- Saints Cyril and Methodius ( Κύριλλος και Μεθόδιος , Old Church Slavonic: кѵрилъ и меѳодии New Church Slavonic: ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- Bovinae Cephalophinae Hippotraginae Antilopinae Caprinae Reduncinae Aepycerotinae Peleinae Alcelaphinae Panthalopinae A bovid is any member of ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 01:57, 12 January 2023
- Geckos are small to average sized lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae, which comprises dozens of genera and several hundred different ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 06:31, 18 April 2024
- Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible communication. In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States of America. One of Pennsylvania's ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- Brown bear is the common name for a large bear, Ursus arctos, ranging in color from a common brown to yellowish or black fur and having a noticeable ...31 KB (4,742 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
- 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 Atlas Mountains ( جبال الأطلس ) are a series of mountain peaks that run along the northwestern portion of the African continent ...12 KB (1,891 words) - 06:24, 21 August 2023
- The Keoladeo National Park, or Keoladeo Ghana National Park, formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, in Rajasthan, India, has become ...24 KB (3,401 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- 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
- Wildebeest (plural, wildebeest or wildebeests), also called gnu, is the common name for an antelope of the genus Connochaetes, characterized ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 21:08, 21 November 2022
- ( sa|देवनागरी , ˈdeɪvəˌnɑgəri ) is an abugida script used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, ...27 KB (3,705 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024
- Carboxylic acids are organic acids characterized by the presence of one or more carboxyl groups in their molecules. A carboxyl group consists ...13 KB (1,872 words) - 19:11, 26 November 2023
- Royal Chitwan National Park (currently also called "Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP)" ), covers an area of 932 km², constituting ...12 KB (1,640 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- 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
- The Igbo, sometimes referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ethnic groups in Africa. Most Igbo speakers are based in southeastern Nigeria ...21 KB (3,253 words) - 16:00, 12 February 2024
- Dubai (in Arabic: دبيّ, Dubayy, /dʊ'baɪ/ in English) is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Haggai. He was ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher who ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A") is a voluntary association of about 1,200 institutions ...28 KB (3,819 words) - 04:10, 11 March 2023
- Stalinism is the name given to the political and economic system which Joseph Stalin implemented in the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1953, while ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- Liaoning ( s=辽宁 |t=遼寧 |p=Liáoníng ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country ...23 KB (3,109 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of geography—that ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- Monogenea Trematoda Cestoda Turbellaria The flatworms are a phylum, Platyhelminthes, of relatively simple, soft-bodied, bilaterially symmetrical ...12 KB (1,667 words) - 20:17, 31 July 2022
- The Reign of Terror (June 1793 – July 1794) was a period in the French Revolution characterized by brutal repression. The Terror originated ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 09:38, 29 July 2022
- Category:Economists Clark, John Bates [[Image:John Bates Clark.jpg|thumb|right|350px|John Bates Clark]] John Bates Clark (January 26, 1847 – ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- Abyssinian cats--affectionately referred to as Abys--are short-haired elegant cats with a strong personality. They are considered one of the ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- 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
- Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties hold the royal remains of emperors from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644–1912 ...24 KB (3,553 words) - 16:44, 12 February 2024
- Āryabha ṭ a (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 C.E.) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- Guangdong (formerly spelled "Kwangtung") is a province on the southern coast of the People's Republic of China. It is bordered ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[File:Princess Beatrice mourning.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The five daughters of Queen ...23 KB (3,744 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- Abhidharma (Sanskrit) or Abhidhamma (Pāli) is a category of Buddhist scriptures, and the ideas contained in and based on them, that attempts ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, in New York City, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 00:35, 29 November 2023
- The Battle of Karbala was a military engagement that took place on 10 Muharram, 61 A.H. (October 10, 680) in Karbala (present day Iraq) between ...12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton—formerly île Royale, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn, Míkmaq: Únamakika, simply: ...26 KB (3,747 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- Dame Vera Margaret Lynn CH DBE OStJ ( Welch ; March 20, 1917 – June 18, 2020) was an English singer, songwriter, and entertainer whose musical ...44 KB (6,146 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2023
- George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 - March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George," was an American star left-handed first basemen ...12 KB (1,757 words) - 10:58, 13 December 2023
- A dilemma (Greek δί-λημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering two solutions or possibilities, of which neither is acceptable ...24 KB (3,799 words) - 15:21, 29 January 2024
- An academic conference is a conference for researchers (not always academics) to present and discuss their work. Along with academic or scientific ...13 KB (1,841 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera ...12 KB (1,851 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic Sea, and is the central city within the fourth-largest ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- 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
- Polonium (chemical symbol Po, atomic number 84) is a rare, extremely toxic, and highly radioactive chemical element. It is found in small amounts ...11 KB (1,554 words) - 08:39, 24 November 2022
- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context. Historically, entheogens are derived ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Anorexia nervosa is a complex condition, involving psychological, neurobiological, and sociological components.B. Lask and R. Bryant-Waugh (eds ...25 KB (3,785 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- Class Branchiopoda :Subclass Phyllopoda :Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Class Cephalocarida Class Maxillopoda :Subclass Thecostraca ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 19:04, 4 June 2020
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Fashion Designer |image= |caption= |name= Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel |nationality=France French |birth_date=August ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- The general will, (French, volonté generale) first enunciated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778), is a concept in political ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies to the northwest of Continental Europe, with Ireland to the west, and makes ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- Hyder Ali or Haidar 'Ali (c. 1722 - 1782), was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India. A soldier-adventurer, Haider ...12 KB (1,977 words) - 18:40, 31 July 2023
- A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of fallacies, corresponding to the distinction between formal and informal logic ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- Sigiriya (Lion's rock) is a rock fortress and ruins of a palace situated in central Matale District of Sri Lanka dating to the fifth century ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- Lidice is a small village that lies in the rolling hills of Bohemia, less than a half-hour by car west of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic ...12 KB (1,879 words) - 22:48, 25 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeological sites [[Image:Sutton.hoo.helmet.JPG|thumb|right|225px|Sutton ...29 KB (4,604 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
- A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions. Computers take numerous physical forms. Early electronic computers ...50 KB (7,240 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475 – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Civilization and founder of the city of Lima ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- Gangtok Gangtok-pronunciation.ogg|pronunciation (Nepali/Hindi: गंगटोक), the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 04:26, 18 April 2024
- Makarios III (Greek: Μακάριος Γ, born Mihail Christodoulou Mouskos) (August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning in May 10, 1775, soon after shooting ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a very pale blue liquid which appears colorless in a dilute solution, slightly more viscous than water. It is a weak ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- Hippopotamus, or hippo, is the common name for a very large, semi-aquatic African mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, of the Hippopotamidae family ...43 KB (6,299 words) - 15:51, 25 January 2023
- Ha Long Bay (Vietnamese: Vịnh Hạ Long) situates in Quảng Ninh province in northeastern Vietnam, from E106°56' to E107°37' and ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2023
- Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multisystem hereditary disease that mainly affects the lungs and digestive system, causing progressive disability and ...56 KB (8,332 words) - 07:29, 12 January 2024
- Giant anteater is the common name for the largest species of anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, characterized by a long, narrow, tapered snout ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 07:42, 24 January 2023
- Category:Public Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 B.C.E. - 55 B.C.E.) was a Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher. During the first century B.C.E. he ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: A field that exerts a force on particles that possess the property of electric ...14 KB (1,902 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Тютчев) ( December 5|1803|November 23 - July 27|1873|July 15 ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Richard Mervyn Hare (March 21, 1919 – January 29, 2002) was an English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 16:05, 7 December 2022
- Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter often associated with the Impressionists, and known especially ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- The Battle of Constantinople was fought in June 922 at the outskirts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, between the forces ...15 KB (2,004 words) - 20:31, 28 March 2024
- El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO; commonly referred to as simply El Niño) is a global coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon. The Pacific Ocean ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. Compression of a gas naturally increases ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 07:49, 23 January 2023
- Larch is the common name for any of the deciduous coniferous trees comprising the genus Larix of the pine family (Pinaceae), characterized by ...12 KB (1,828 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל; "Hear, [O] Israel") refers to the most important prayer ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- The State of Indiana is the 19th U.S. state and is located in the midwestern region of the United States of America. With about 6.3 million ...31 KB (4,480 words) - 18:55, 4 March 2024
- The Amarna letters (sometimes "Amarna tablets") are an archive of correspondence on clay tablets, mostly diplomatic, between the Egyptian ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- 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
- 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
- Alpha decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle. An alpha particle (or α particle, named after ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- category:image wanted Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web and ensuring the collection is preserved in an ...15 KB (2,211 words) - 23:25, 3 May 2023
- Diogenes of Sinope (412 or 399 B.C.E. – 323 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philospher and one of the founders of the Cynics. He was exiled from ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- 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
- The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता Bhagavad Gītā , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, (I) signifies an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and ...53 KB (8,038 words) - 18:09, 14 May 2024
- Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and its largest city is New Orleans ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- Saint Giovanni da Capestrano, known as John of Capistrano in English (June 24, 1386 – October 23, 1456), was an Italian friar, preacher, theologian ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 19:54, 22 December 2022
- A polymer (from the Greek words polys, meaning "many," and meros, meaning "parts") is a chemical compound consisting of large ...26 KB (3,690 words) - 08:46, 24 November 2022
- Livestock (singular or plural) is any domesticated mammal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting for the purposes of profit or subsistence ...26 KB (3,786 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining ...12 KB (1,694 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- Strep throat, also known as Streptococcal pharyngitis or Streptococcal sore throat, is a contagious infection of the mucous membranes of the ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 23:26, 21 October 2022
- Fairy shrimp is the common name for aquatic crustaceans in the branchiopod order Anostraca, characterized by elongated bodies, paired compound ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 20:13, 1 November 2023
- The nation of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the shape of which has been compared to a flaming torch. It encompasses 43,484 sqare ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- The Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. It is located between ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry involving the study of interrelationships between electricity and chemical reactions. The chemical ...56 KB (8,590 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. A number of psychosocial ...52 KB (7,118 words) - 05:48, 15 June 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
- Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain ...27 KB (3,663 words) - 10:11, 11 March 2023
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial in Washington, D.C. honoring members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam ...24 KB (3,601 words) - 20:17, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Sociology is an academic and applied discipline that studies society and human social ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- Denisovans are an extinct hominid group more closely related to the Neanderthals than modern humans and identified from the nuclear and mitochondrial ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Fluorine (chemical symbol F, atomic number 9) is a nonmetal that belongs to a group of chemical elements known as halogens. Chemically, it is ...13 KB (1,855 words) - 17:47, 28 March 2024
- Dr. William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was an early American inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- pH is a measure of the acidity and the basicity/alkalinity of a solution in terms of activity of hydrogen (H+) (strictly speaking, there is no ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 15:20, 29 August 2023
- Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa formerly known as French Guinea. Guinea's territory has a curved shape ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- Maitreya, the "future Buddha" in Buddhist eschatology, is a Bodhisattva that many Buddhists believe will eventually appear on earth ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- The Apocalypse of Peter or Revelation of Peter is an example of popular early Christian apocalyptic literature. Once a serious candidate for ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 06:02, 11 August 2023
- The terms space debris, space junk, orbital debris, and space waste refer to human-made objects in space that no longer serve any useful purpose ...13 KB (1,862 words) - 15:16, 27 April 2023
- William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990), coming from a family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, was the chief executive who ...12 KB (1,903 words) - 20:44, 24 November 2022
- A meteoroid is a small body of debris in the Solar System, roughly ranging in size from a sand grain to a boulder. If the body is larger, it ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 16:25, 9 November 2022
- Chaetognatha is a phylum of small, slender, marine worms, generally characterized by a largely transparent body, fins on both the tail and the ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg ( Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг ) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
- 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
- Howler monkey is the common name for the tropical, arboreal New World monkeys comprising the genus Alouatta of the primate family Atelidae, characterized ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 19:31, 7 February 2024
- The Jesus myth hypothesis, or simply Jesus myth, refers to the theory that Jesus never existed, and that his story is actually a syncretism of ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- Sphagnum is the common name and genus name for a group of mosses (Division Bryophyta) whose leaf-like appendages are adapted to absorb and retain ...14 KB (2,165 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- The Gospel of Matthew (literally, "according to Matthew"; Greek, Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον, Kata Maththaion ...26 KB (3,813 words) - 14:10, 30 December 2022
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of talk therapy, or psychotherapy, that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions ...29 KB (3,904 words) - 22:22, 16 May 2024
- The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the "Writings" of the Old Testament. It represents the most concise representation of Jewish ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- Ananthabhadram (also spelled Anandabhadram; in Malayalam: അനന്തഭദ്രം ) - a Malayalam film released in 2005 about ghosts, ...14 KB (1,924 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the African slave trade to Cuba and the ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, 360|km|mi west from the capital Ulaanbaatar ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- Israel Jacobson (October 17, 1768 - September 14, 1828, Berlin) was a German-Jewish financier and philanthropist often considered as one of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von [[Image:Richard v. Krafft-Ebing.jpg|thumb|200 px|]] Richard Freiherr ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- Great Slave Lake (French: Grand lac des Esclaves) is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (behind Great Bear Lake) ...11 KB (1,706 words) - 13:20, 22 January 2023
- An adhesive is a material that can adhere (stick) to other materials and help attach them together. The state of attachment is known as adhesion ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 05:51, 15 June 2023
- Geneva ( Genève ) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- Ashdod ( אַשְׁדּוֹד ; إسدود , Isdud), located in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea coast, is a city of over ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- Gandhinagar (Gujarati: ગાંધીનગર, Hindi: गाँधीनगर) - the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India. One ...12 KB (1,834 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- Akiva ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא) or simply Rabbi Akiva—also spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ...23 KB (3,911 words) - 07:17, 16 June 2023
- Bell pepper is the common name for a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum, widely cultivated for their edible, bell-shaped fruits, which ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 18:58, 11 January 2023
- Fiberglass or glass fiber is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. The resulting composite material, properly known as fiber-reinforced ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 – February 21, 1894), was a wealthy and generous French painter. Caillebotte originally sought a career ...14 KB (2,036 words) - 01:24, 27 July 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
- The Terracotta Army ( t=兵馬俑|s=兵马俑|p=bīngmǎ yǒng|l=soldier and horse funerary statues ) or Terracotta Warriors and Horses is a collection ...13 KB (1,945 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- The Nicene Creed, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed or Icon/Symbol of the Faith, is an ecumenical Christian statement of faith accepted in the ...31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- Assisi is a small city in the Perugia province of the Umbria region of Italy. It is situated on the western flank of Monte Subasio at an elevation ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- Shaktism is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Shakti (or Devi)—the female principle of the divine—in her many forms as the absolute ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- Surf fishing is the sport of catching fish while standing on the shoreline or wading in the surf. Surf fishing is a general term and may or may ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 23:52, 26 February 2023
- category:image wanted William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910 – February 15, 1992) was a prominent twentieth-century American composer and music ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 10:50, 12 May 2023
- Propylene glycol, also known by the systematic name propane-1,2-diol, is an organic compound with the chemical formula C3H8O2. Under standard ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 00:24, 2 December 2022
- Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that may develop after a Group A streptococcal infection (such as strep throat or scarlet fever) and ...14 KB (1,938 words) - 20:01, 8 December 2022
- Fra Junípero Serra (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded a mission chain in Alta California and ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 14:16, 12 May 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
- In Jainism, the Tirthankara ("Fordmaker") (also Tirthankara) refer to twenty four enlightened spiritual masters who are believed to ...12 KB (1,718 words) - 17:11, 30 September 2021
- Yosef ben Ephraim Karo, also known as Joseph Caro (1488 (Portugal) - March 24, 1575 (Safed, Ottoman Empire)) was one of the most significant ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 21:32, 4 June 2023
- Midge is the common name for a small, fragile, flying insects belonging to the order Diptera ("true flies"). They are generally grouped ...13 KB (1,785 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- Mammoth is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephants comprising the genus Mammuthus, with many species equipped with long, curved ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. It is a large, sparsely populated area which takes up about one sixth ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- Maize, also known as corn and Indian corn, is any of the diverse cultured forms of the annual cereal grass (family Poaceae) of the species Zea ...30 KB (4,684 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- Daman Hongren (Chinese: 弘忍) (Wade-Giles:Shih Hung-jen; Japanese: Daiman Konin) (601 - 674) was the fifth Chan (Buddhist) patriarch in the ...14 KB (1,945 words) - 17:46, 15 May 2020
- The Kelvin scale is a thermodynamic (absolute) temperature scale. The zero position on this scale is known as absolute zero, which is defined ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- Bogotá (officially Bogotá, D.C. for "Distrito Capital," meaning "Capital District"), formerly called Santa Fe de Bogotá ...33 KB (4,818 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. Caused by infection with the ...45 KB (6,567 words) - 16:55, 21 December 2023
- Gunung Mulu National Park near Miri, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, encompasses remarkable caves and karst formations in a mountainous equatorial ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 17:58, 12 July 2023
- 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
- Category:Public Fundamentalism refers to any sect or movement within a religion that emphasizes a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- Dmitri Mendeleev or Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev (birth unknown – death, 1907) was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Georgian Bay (French: baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, located in Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies east and northeast ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 20:21, 13 December 2023
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a U.S. National Park located in western Colorado, and managed by the National Park Service. The ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:04, 31 October 2023
- A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling without requiring relative motion ...40 KB (5,952 words) - 02:06, 2 May 2023
- Henan ( c=河南 |p=Hénán |w=Ho-nan ), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the central part of the country. Its ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 2022
- Yonsei University (IPA: / 'jənsɛː /) a private, coeducational university located in Seoul, South Korea, has earned recognition as one ...28 KB (3,704 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2023
- Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910 – November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- The climate of India comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large geographic scale and varied topography, making generalizations ...54 KB (7,582 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- Lake Tanganyika is a large lake in Central Africa that is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume and the second ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. The twelfth-largest state by area in the ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- The word "acid" comes from the Latin acidus meaning "sour." In chemistry, however, the term acid has a more specific meaning. ...16 KB (2,510 words) - 07:38, 14 June 2023
- Orangutan (also written orang-utan, orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with long arms and reddish, sometimes ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- Manilal Nabhubhai Dwivedi (pronounced [məɲilal nəbʰubʰai dvivedi]; September 26, 1858 – October 1, 1898) was a Gujarati-language writer ...44 KB (6,296 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
- Kandy (maha nuvara, mahaˈnuərə , in Sinhala, கண்டி kaṇṭi, ˈkaɳɖi , in Tamil), constitutes the English rendering for Maha Nuvara ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- Saccharin is a synthetic organic compound that tastes hundreds of times sweeter than cane sugar (sucrose) and is used as a calorie-free sweetener ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 00:18, 22 August 2022
- John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of Zebedee, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Christian tradition identifies ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский, first name pronounced as [vassi:li]) (December 4, 1866 Julian calendar, (December ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- Category:Public In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive evidence for the existence of true matriarchal societies ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- A magnetic field is an invisible physical phenomenon caused (“induced”) by an electric current. The current may be as small as an orbiting ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- Ahmet Ertegün (July 31, 1923 – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish American who co-founded Atlantic Records and made a major contribution to ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
