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- Gajah Mada (died c. 1364) was, according to Javanese old manuscripts, poems and mythology, a famous military leader and prime minister (mahapatih) of the Majapahit ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Guinea worm disease (GWD), also called dracunculiasis, is a parasitic infection caused by the nematode (roundworm) Dracunculus medinensis (guinea worm). The ...30 KB (4,300 words) - 12:39, 24 January 2023
- Category:Educators and Educational theorists Category:Image wanted Montessori, Maria Maria Montessori (August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian educator ...21 KB (3,176 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- Pope Urban V (1310 – December 19, 1370), born Guillaume Grimoard, a native of France, was Pope from 1362 to 1370. Before his election, Urban V served as a ...12 KB (1,868 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was a prominent United States businessman and political figure, and the ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
- A decimal (or denary) system is a numeral system that has the number ten as its base. The term decimal is also used for a number written in this system, or for ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- Category:Sociologists Simmel, Georg [[Image:Simmel 01.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Georg Simmel]] Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 08:04, 23 January 2023
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:11, 13 February 2024
- Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, Order of the Nation (ON), Member of Parliament (December 12, 1945 - ) is a Jamaican politician and was the country's Prime ...21 KB (2,959 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- Charles Ammi Cutter (March 14, 1837 – September 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's most significant contribution ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 01:48, 4 December 2023
- A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1⁄360 ...6 KB (932 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Lynx (plural lynxes or lynx) is both the common and scientific name for a taxon of medium-sized wild cats of North America, Europe, and Asia, characterized by ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 04:38, 5 November 2022
- Category:Psychologists Cattell, Raymond Raymond Bernard Cattell (March 20, 1905 - February 2, 1998) was a British and American psychologist who theorized the ...19 KB (2,804 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- Mehndi (or Hina) is the application of henna (Hindustani: हेना- حنا- urdu) as a temporary form of skin decoration, most popular in South Asia, the ...26 KB (4,222 words) - 09:39, 10 March 2023
- The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle. These letters ...24 KB (3,164 words) - 00:13, 30 January 2024
- William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the United ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox_Politician | name = Richard Joseph Daley | image = Daley_closeup.jpg | birth_date = 1902|5|15|mf=y | birth_place = USA Chicago ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle Category: Holiday {{Infobox Holiday | |holiday_name=Memorial Day |image=Graves at Arlington on Memorial ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- A transistor is a semiconductor device that uses a small amount of voltage or electrical current to control a larger change in voltage or current. Because of ...30 KB (4,329 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2023
- Fairy shrimp is the common name for aquatic crustaceans in the branchiopod order Anostraca, characterized by elongated bodies, paired compound eyes on stalks ...13 KB (1,905 words) - 20:13, 1 November 2023
- The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an ash-colored, thickset, arboreal, herbivorous marsupial averaging about 9 kg in weight. A rather stout, virtually tailless ...19 KB (2,896 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics Monetarism is an economic theory which focuses on the macroeconomic effects of a nation’s money supply ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- The Temple of Artemis was a magnificent place of worship in the city of Ephesus in present-day Turkey, dedicated to Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt. Although ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- Cycads (division Cycadophyta) are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout, erect trunk up to seven meters ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- Zu Chongzhi ( t=祖沖之|s=祖冲之|p=Zǔ Chōngzhī|w=Tsu Ch'ung-chih , 429–500), courtesy name Wenyuan (文遠), was a prominent Chinese mathematician ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 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 such thing as ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 15:20, 29 August 2023
- Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903) was a French Impressionist painter who was called the "Father of Impressionism" "Camille ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 18:56, 25 November 2023
- Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. It usually ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
- Brachiosaurus is an extinct genus of huge, sauropod dinosaurs that lived during the late Jurassic period. Sauropods comprise a suborder or infraorder of the ...13 KB (1,833 words) - 02:00, 12 January 2023
- Tritium (chemical symbol Tritium or Hydrogen|3 ) is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium (sometimes called a triton) contains one proton ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 16:50, 5 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Gosvāmī Tulsīdās (1532 — 1623; Devanāgarī: तुलसीदास) was an Awadhi poet and philosopher. He was born in Rajapur ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:42, 2 May 2023
- A candle (from the Latin word candere, meaning "to shine") is a light source that usually has an internal wick rising through the center of a column ...26 KB (4,080 words) - 19:18, 25 November 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) [[Image:BlgGym.jpg|thumb|right|250px ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 06:47, 28 July 2023
- Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von [[Image:Richard v. Krafft-Ebing.jpg|thumb|200 px|]] Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing ...13 KB (1,783 words) - 09:26, 10 August 2022
- Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed. Issues such ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Formic acid (systematic name methanoic acid) is the simplest carboxylic acid. Its formula is HCOOH or CH2O2. In nature, it is found in the stings and bites of ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- Ribose, primarily seen as D-ribose, is a water-soluable, pentose sugar (monosaccharide with five carbon atoms) that is an important component of nucleic acids ...7 KB (1,027 words) - 09:19, 10 August 2022
- Astatine (chemical symbol At, atomic number 85) is the rarest naturally occurring chemical element. It is a member of the halogen family of elements and is the ...6 KB (808 words) - 05:08, 18 August 2023
- Fiberglass or glass fiber is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. The resulting composite material, properly known as fiber-reinforced polymers ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- 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 of 8,099 ...13 KB (1,945 words) - 14:58, 30 April 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 C2H4(OH)2. It ...16 KB (2,258 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- George Pratt Shultz (/ʃʊlts/; December 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021) was an American economist, diplomat, and businessman. He served in various positions ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- Hades (from Greek ᾍδης , Haidēs, originally Ἅιδης , Haidēs or Ἀΐδης , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- Germanium (chemical symbol Ge, atomic number 32) is a lustrous, hard, grayish-white chemical element. It is classified as a metalloid—that is, its chemical ...13 KB (1,672 words) - 09:43, 5 December 2022
- Sight, the sense of vision or visual perception, describes the capability to detect electromagnetic energy within the visible range (light) by the eye, and the ...14 KB (2,075 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- Rumspringa also spelled Rumschpringe or Rumshpringa, translated from originally Palatine German and other Southwest German dialects to English as "jumping ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 18:14, 22 December 2022
- In modern physics, the photon is the elementary particle responsible for electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- Han Chinese ( s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén ) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic group in the ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- South Korea's foreign relations have been shaped by its evolving relationship with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold War ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (Гаври́ла Рома́нович Держа́вин, July 14, 1743 – July 20, 1816) was Russia's finest eighteenth ...6 KB (907 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- Pope Urban II (1042 – July 29, 1099) born Otho of Lagery (alternatively: Otto or Odo), was Pope from 1088 to July 29, 1099. He is most known for starting ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 13:42, 3 May 2023
- In physical cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe. ...26 KB (3,829 words) - 22:20, 25 January 2024
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife of the celebrated pilot Charles Lindbergh who completed the first solo, non-stop flight ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer. Fats Waller is one of the most beloved ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned and described by the classical Greek ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- In mathematics, the logarithm (or log) of a number x in base b is the power (n) to which the base b must be raised to obtain the number x. For example, the logarithm ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. ( JPM ) is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. It is a leader in the financial industry with assets of 2.3 trillion ...34 KB (4,890 words) - 08:31, 13 March 2024
- Saccharin is a synthetic organic compound that tastes hundreds of times sweeter than cane sugar (sucrose) and is used as a calorie-free sweetener. Discovered ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 00:18, 22 August 2022
- In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. Phonemes that ...45 KB (6,537 words) - 15:24, 25 February 2023
- Exoskeleton is a hard, external structure that covers, supports, and protects an animal's body, such as the chitinous covering of a crab, the silica shells ...22 KB (3,138 words) - 06:10, 13 September 2023
- Rats are various medium sized rodents, similar in appearance to mice, but larger. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 06:43, 17 July 2022
- Saint Jude (1st century C.E.), also known as St. Judas or Jude Thaddeus, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, who is sometimes confused with Jude, the brother ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 08:48, 12 May 2024
- Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিত রায় SatyajitRay2.ogg|Shottojit Rae ) (May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, one of the ...43 KB (6,599 words) - 02:30, 21 April 2023
- Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (February 22, 1857 – January 8, 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant ...20 KB (2,990 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- The ozone layer is a layer in Earth's atmosphere that contains relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3). It is mainly located in the lower portion of ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 06:05, 18 November 2022
- Diatom is the common name for a major group of unicellular or (less commonly) colonial algae comprising the protist taxon Bacillariophyceae (or Bacillariophyta ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- A supercritical fluid is any substance at a temperature and pressure above its thermodynamic critical point. It has the unique ability to diffuse through solids ...14 KB (2,010 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- Guglielmo Marconi (April 25, 1874 – July 20, 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his pioneering work in the use of radio wave transmissions for communication ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. In most cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- Cobra is the common name for a number of Asian and African snakes in several genera of the family Elapidae, characterized by smooth scales, large shields covering ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 07:35, 14 January 2023
- Saint Andrew (first century C.E.) (Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas, "manly, brave"), called Protocletos, or the First-called in the Orthodox tradition ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His prolific and diverse output included ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. As the first vice president to succeed to the presidency on the ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- Fertilizers (also spelled fertilisers) are compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake by plant roots ...33 KB (4,735 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of the Ottoman parliament by Sultan the Abdul Hamid II, who abdicated, marking the return to Constitutional ...19 KB (2,797 words) - 14:10, 28 November 2022
- Allianz SE (formerly AG, ALV , AZ ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, and the largest insurer in Europe. Headquartered in Munich ...22 KB (3,101 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- Dravidian peoples refers to the peoples that natively speak languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. The language group appears unrelated to Indo ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- The Tripitaka Koreana (lit. Goryeo Tripitaka) or Palman Daejanggyeong ("Eighty-Thousand Tripitaka") is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka (Buddhist ...7 KB (985 words) - 17:42, 2 May 2023
- Sergey Nikolayevich Bulgakov or Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov ( Сергей Николаевич Булгаков , June 16, 1871 O.S., Livny - July 12, 1944, ...7 KB (887 words) - 10:02, 26 January 2023
- The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά Λουκαν, Kata Loukan) is a synoptic Gospel, and the third and longest of the four canonical ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- category:image wanted Impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure of citations in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy ...28 KB (3,975 words) - 15:26, 4 February 2023
- Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man") is the name given to what is generally, but not universally, considered to be an extinct species of the genus ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- Analytic philosophy has been the dominant academic philosophical movement in English-speaking countries and in the Nordic countries from about the beginning ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (September 30, 1715 – August 3, 1780) was a Roman Catholic Abbé and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Aniline, phenylamine, or aminobenzene is an organic compound with the formula C6H5NH2. It is an organic chemical compound, specifically an aryl amine, consisting ...13 KB (1,817 words) - 06:09, 28 July 2023
- Saint Patrick (fifth century C.E.) was a Christian missionary involved in the evangelization of Ireland. Born in Britain but captured as a youth by Irish warriors ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 00:49, 23 December 2022
- Trichinosis, also called trichinellosis or trichiniasis, is a parasitic disease caused by the roundworm Trichinella spiralis,, which humans generally ingest ...13 KB (1,997 words) - 12:40, 18 April 2023
- 10 (ten) is a natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive integer, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Often, the number 0 is also called a ...13 KB (1,819 words) - 06:26, 13 June 2023
- Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (May 27, 1332/732AH – March 19, 1406/808AH) was a famous historiographer and historian born in present-day Tunisia, and is sometimes ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- Oxyrhynchus (Greek: Οξύρρυγχος; "sharp-snouted or sharp-nosed") is a Graeco-Egyptian city and an important archaeological site in Upper Egypt ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 06:03, 18 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics {{Infobox Writing system |name=Linear A |type=Undeciphered |typedesc=(likely Syllabic and Ideographic) ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- Balsa is the common name for a fast-growing, tropical American tree, Ochroma pyramidale (synonym O. lagopus), characterized by soft and light wood. The name ...6 KB (941 words) - 04:22, 11 January 2023
- Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct concerns. (1) What is coercion? (2) Is coercion ever morally or politically justified? (3 ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Yeti ill artlibre jnl.png|thumb|200px|The Himalayan yeti]] ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- Chalcedony is one of the cryptocrystalline—a term which refers to a structure that consists of tiny crystals that can be seen only at high magnification—varieties ...7 KB (962 words) - 01:14, 4 December 2023
- Edward Irving was a noted Scottish clergyman generally regarded as the founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church. His followers were sometimes called Irvingites ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- Hominidae is a taxonomic family of primates that today is commonly considered to include extant (living) and extinct humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 11:38, 2 February 2024
- The subphylum Chelicerata is one of the five subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda, with members characterized by the absence of antennae and mandibles (jaws ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 07:52, 13 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[File:MyersBriggsTypes.png|thumb|300px|A chart with descriptions of each Myers-Briggs personality type ...29 KB (4,215 words) - 22:41, 10 November 2022
- The Yangtze River or Chang Jiang ( t=長江 |s=长江|p=Cháng Jiāng ) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, after the Nile in Africa ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. It depended for its effect on the pleasing terror it induced ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- Eagle is the common name for various diurnal birds of prey in the family Accipitridae of the bird order Falconiformes, characterized by large size, powerful ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- Johann August Suter (February 28 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder of California and for his association with the California ...21 KB (3,394 words) - 04:21, 3 May 2024
- The Crab Nebula (catalog designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. Located at a distance ...23 KB (3,450 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- Pope Saint Pius I was bishop of Rome for about 14 years during the mid-second century. His dates are uncertain due to conflicting sources, with beginning dates ...7 KB (1,124 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. After serving as Ronald Reagan's ...14 KB (1,976 words) - 01:05, 9 February 2023
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The battle in southern Afghanistan, fought between ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- Wheat includes any agricultural cereal grass of the genus Triticum in the grass family Poaceae. Wheat is one of the top three cereal crops in terms of global ...21 KB (3,052 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason or an explanation or a ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the supreme deva (god) of the Rigveda scripture. Known as the god of storms and war, he controlled ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- Albatrosses are large seabirds in the biological family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). Albatrosses are among the largest of flying ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Mary Jackson (née Winston, April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for ...16 KB (2,224 words) - 08:41, 10 March 2023
- Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is most famous ...40 KB (6,273 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Order of St. John, Knights of ...33 KB (5,056 words) - 23:20, 3 March 2023
- The Siege of Malakand took place between July 26–August 2, 1897, constituting a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand region of modern day Pakistan ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 15:02, 7 October 2022
- Sarnath (also Mrigadava, Migadāya, Rishipattana, Isipatana) refers to the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, and where the Buddhist Sangha ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 03:29, 23 December 2022
- Pangolin, or scaly anteater, is the common name for African and Asian armored mammals comprising the order Pholidota, characterized by a long and narrow snout ...14 KB (1,993 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- Aristobulus of Paneas (c. 160 B.C.E.) was among the earliest Hellenistic Jewish philosophers who attempted to reconcile the Hebrew Scriptures with Greek thought ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- The Tathāgatagarbha doctrine is an important teaching in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism, which affirms that each sentient being contains the intrinsic, effulgent ...16 KB (2,284 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted, voluntary association of individuals or groups that is neither a governmental agency nor a for ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Artichoke, or globe artichoke, is a perennial thistle, Cynara cardunculus (or C. scolymus) of the Asteraceae family, characterized by pinnately, deeply lobed ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 05:45, 9 January 2023
- |- | colspan="2" align="center" | [[image:Ga,31.jpg|125px|Typical (melted blob)]] [[Image:Gallium1_640x480.jpg|130px|Crystallized]] ...15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
- Blueberry is the common name for flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus of the heath family Ericaceae, characterized by bell-shaped or tubular ...22 KB (3,038 words) - 18:15, 31 October 2023
- A templon (from Greek τέμπλον meaning "temple," plural templa) is a feature of Byzantine architecture that first appeared in Christian churches ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- Silica gel is a granular, porous form of silica, produced synthetically from sodium silicate. Despite the name, silica gel is a solid. It readily adsorbs water ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- Dragonfly is the common name for any insect belonging to the infraorder (or suborder) Anisoptera of the order Odonata, characterized by an elongated body, large ...17 KB (2,444 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- Man Ray (August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 06:42, 5 November 2022
- Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country musician, vocalist, songwriter, and fiddler, who was known as the "King ...6 KB (954 words) - 22:28, 16 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:JohnTNeufeld.jpg|thumb|right|John T. Neufeld was a WWI conscientious objector sentenced to 15 years ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Parsnip is a hardy, biennial, strongly-scented plant (Pastinaca sativa), which is a member of the parsley family (Apiaceae or Umbelliferae), which also includes ...7 KB (1,014 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- A castrato is a male, artificially produced soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto singer whose voice is artificially changed through castration before puberty. This ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 Tūjué), the Göktürks ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- In classical physics, space and time are assumed to be quite different. This agrees with our everyday experience, the commonsense difference between our experience ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 19:16, 17 August 2023
- Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- <!-- --> {{Infobox Prime Minister |name = Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao |image = Pvnarshimarao.jpg |order = 10th Prime Minister of India ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo gulo, of the weasel family (Mustelidae), characterized by a large and stocky body, a bushy ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Sciatica, otherwise known as sciatic nerve dysfunction, is a condition of pain or discomfort associated with the sciatic nerve. It is caused by general compression ...16 KB (2,375 words) - 17:22, 25 January 2023
- Samuel Alexander (January 6, 1859 - September 13, 1938) was an Australian-born British philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced "Tawney") (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also was the fifth ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical discipline that inquires into the essence of human nature and the human condition. In making this inquiry it ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- Rubidium (chemical symbol Rb, atomic number 37) is a soft, silvery-white metallic element of the alkali metal group. Rb-87, a naturally occurring isotope, is ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (October 5, 1781 – December 18, 1848) was a Czech mathematician, theologian, philosopher, and logician. His logical ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- Chinchilla is the common name and genus name for squirrel-sized South American rodents of the Andes mountains, characterized by thick, soft fur, a bushy tail ...19 KB (2,808 words) - 22:35, 13 January 2023
- Creationism, in its most widely used sense, is a set of religious positions opposed to modern materialistic views of the origin of the Earth and of living things ...31 KB (4,607 words) - 06:18, 11 January 2024
- Bibliography (from Greek: βιβλιογραφία, bibliographia, literally book writing), as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky Also transliterated Shklovskii. ( Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский|p=ˈʂklofskʲɪj ; January 24,|1893|January 12 ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
- Category:Public The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, originating in ancient Greek philosophy, that stresses development through a ...34 KB (5,249 words) - 10:22, 29 January 2024
- Georg Simon Ohm was a German physicist who clarified the fundamental relationships between electric current, voltage, and resistance. This relationship, known ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda (Ethiopian), Nicaula (Roman), and Bilquis (Arabic), was the ruler of an ancient kingdom located ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious recognition of sensations, visions, or events after having been declared clinically dead ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- The Rokumeikan|鹿鳴館|extra2="Deer-cry Hall" was a large two-story building in Tokyo, completed in 1883, which was to become a controversial symbol ...14 KB (2,063 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford, Bedfordshire), in ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 04:30, 3 August 2022
- A quasar (contraction of QUASi-stellAR radio source) is an extremely bright and distant active nucleus of a young galaxy. Quasars were first identified as high ...16 KB (2,372 words) - 15:39, 7 December 2022
- Category:Economists Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro [[Image:Edgeworth.jpeg|right|225px|thumb|Francis Y. Edgeworth]] Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (February 8, 1845 – February ...20 KB (3,082 words) - 06:16, 23 January 2023
- Catharsis (Latin), from the Greek Κάθαρσις Katharsis meaning "purification" or "cleansing" (also literally from the ancient Greek ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek: Διόφαντος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς ) (c. 214 - c. 298 C.E.) was a Hellenistic mathematician. He is sometimes called ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- Tzitzit or tzitzis (Ashkenazi) (Biblical Hebrew language: ציצת, Modern ציצית) are "fringes" or "tassels" worn by observant Jews ...20 KB (3,211 words) - 00:42, 3 May 2023
- The Cathari (also known as Cathars, Albigensians, or Catharism) were followers of a controversial religious sect that flourished in the Languedoc region of France ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
- Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the early Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas of settlement ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- Anthony Collins (June 21, 1676 - December 13, 1729) was an English philosopher, theologian, politician, and a provocative proponent of Deism. A wealthy landowner ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 05:24, 31 July 2023
- The Gang of Four ( s=四人帮|t=四人幫|p=Sì rén bāng ) was a group of Chinese Communist Party leaders in the People's Republic of China who were arrested ...19 KB (2,985 words) - 04:24, 18 April 2024
- Category:Economists Category:Biography Chamberlin, Edward Edward Hastings Chamberlin (May 18, 1899 – July 16, 1967) was an American economist, known for his ...8 KB (1,083 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- Limnology is a discipline that concerns the study of inland aquatic ecosystems (whether freshwater or saline, natural or manmade), including the biological, ...8 KB (1,108 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- Galactosemia is a rare genetic metabolic disorder that affects an individual's ability to properly metabolize the sugar galactose. The disease was first ...8 KB (1,106 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- Tecumseh (c. 1768 - October 5, 1813) was a brilliant chief, warrior, orator, and leader of the Shawnee Nation, who advocated inter-tribal alliance as a means ...19 KB (2,963 words) - 04:39, 27 February 2023
- The term concerto (plural is concerti or concertos) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The concerto ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- In physics, thermal conductivity, k, is the property of a material that indicates its ability to conduct heat. It appears primarily in Fourier's Law for ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- Nephilim are supernatural beings, specifically the offspring of human women and “sons of God” (proposed to be giants or proto humans), who appear significantly ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid to deform under either shear stress or extensional stress. It is commonly perceived as "thickness, ...36 KB (5,462 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- Asclepius (Greek Άσκληπιός , transliterated Asklēpiós; Latin Aesculapius) was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
- The Siege of Malta (also known as the Great Siege of Malta) took place in 1565, when the Ottoman Empire invaded the island, then held by the Knights Hospitaller ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- Antiarchi † Arthrodira † Petalichthyda † Phyllolepida † Ptyctodontida † Rhenanida † Brindabellaspida † Acanthothoraci † ?Pseudopetalichthyida † ...8 KB (1,138 words) - 06:22, 24 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:crematorium.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery, Bath, England.]] ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- In its "everyday sense" morality (from Latin la|moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") refers to a code of conduct, by which human ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- Potosí is a city in southern Bolivia, 56 miles (90 km) southwest of Sucre, the national capital. It is one of the world's highest cities, at an elevation ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also ...19 KB (2,696 words) - 06:45, 14 June 2023
- Charles Hodge (1797 - 1878) was a leader of the “Princeton School” of Reformed and the principal of Princeton Theological Seminary between 1851 and 1878 ...15 KB (2,292 words) - 19:10, 4 December 2023
- Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a logician and mathematician of considerable philosophical importance. A brilliant member of the interwar ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- Coenzyme is any of a diverse group of small organic, non-protein, freely diffusing molecules that are loosely associated with and essential for the activity ...22 KB (2,903 words) - 07:19, 6 June 2023
- Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon (1150 – 1230), more commonly known as Samuel ibn Tibbon, was a Jewish philosopher and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński, Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский, Belarusian: Фелікс ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to the American ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- Penguin (PEN-gwin or PENG-gwin) is the common name for any of the aquatic, gregarious, flightless birds comprising the family Spheniscidae, living almost exclusively ...36 KB (5,093 words) - 17:12, 26 March 2023
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the fourth and last ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- The Tropical Rainforest of Sumatra, is situated in the middle of the island Sumatra, Indonesia, and consists of three national parks; Gunung Leuser National Park ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 18:18, 2 May 2023
- The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and Islam, which hold that Mary miraculously conceived Jesus while remaining a virgin. A universally ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- Chagas' disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical acute and chronic parasitic disease of the Americas caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma ...38 KB (5,449 words) - 02:04, 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 by very ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in poetry and fiction, which seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- Category:Public Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Social workers Abbott, Edith [[image:edith_abbott.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Edith Abbott]] ...7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- Jang Yeong-sil was a fifteenth century Korean scientist and astronomer during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). Although Jang was born into the servant or slave ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 16:10, 8 February 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 worldwide. ...40 KB (6,064 words) - 16:22, 18 June 2023
- Platypus is the common name for a semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania, and uniquely characterized ...38 KB (5,579 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- Category:Public {{Infobox_Biography | subject_name=Sir Isaac Newton | image_name=GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg | image_caption= Sir Isaac Newton at age ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
- Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (March 10, 1876 – October 4 ,1973) was a prolific and innovative American sculptor. She was a master of naturalistic animal sculpture ...28 KB (4,145 words) - 06:44, 28 July 2023
- category:image wanted Chang, Eileen {{Infobox Writer | name = Eileen Chang 張愛玲 | image = | caption = | pseudonym = Liang Jing ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- In Buddhist doctrine and metaphysics, the word skandha (Sanskrit: स्कान्धास) refers to the five "aggregate" elements that are said ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree, Punica granatum. Pomegranate also is used to refer to the fruit of this tree ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Emperor Hirohito or Emperor Shōwa (昭和天皇, Shōwa Tennō) (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between appearance and reality is, and has always been, one of the principal focal points of philosophy ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such as The Time ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 16:38, 29 July 2023
- The Pottawatomie Massacre occurred during the night of May 24 and the morning of May 25, 1856. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery ...7 KB (1,185 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- Godiva (or Godgifu) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England in order to ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Religion [[Image:D056449.png|300px|thumb|right|D056449. Design patent for toys (D21/813) which was filed May 26 ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH (March 7, 1792 – May 11, 1871) was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. American Heritage Dictionary ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- category:image wanted John Donald ("Don") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World Number One player ...15 KB (2,399 words) - 17:17, 30 January 2024
- Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus przewalskii, characterized by a stocky built, a dark brown mane and tail, pale brown or dun ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 01:25, 12 April 2023
- Ole Christensen Rømer In scientific literature, his name is alternatively spelt "Roemer," "Römer," or "Romer." (September 25, ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman ever created by the head god Zeus as a punishment for humankind after Prometheus stole fire for human ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- Almond is a small deciduous tree, Prunus amygdalus (syn. Prunus dulcis, or Amygdalus communis) belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae. ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024
- Python is the common name for any of the non-venomous constricting snakes comprising the Old World family Pythonidae, characterized by paired lungs, cloacal ...15 KB (2,266 words) - 15:06, 2 July 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen |name = Pontifica Universitas Gregoriana ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 16:14, 17 January 2014
- Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. He is known for his unique improvisational style and many contributions ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- An analytic proposition is one whose truth depends on relations of ideas or concepts, and not on what it says about the world or the way the world is. This has ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 18:57, 26 July 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 area of rainforest ...22 KB (3,090 words) - 02:25, 21 April 2023
- Peter (or Pyotr) Berngardovich Struve (January 26, 1870, Perm - February 22, 1944, Paris) was a Russian political economist, philosopher and editor. He started ...14 KB (2,049 words) - 14:45, 28 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Mythical creatures [[Image:Destruction of Leviathan.png|right|300px|thumb|"Destruction ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- Bird migration refers to the regular (and often seasonal) journeys to and from a given area undertaken by all or part of a bird population. Not all bird species ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- Mozi or Mo-tzu (墨子, Lat. as Micius, Pinyin Mozu,, original name Mo Ti, also spelled Motze, Motse, or Micius), (ca. 470 B.C.E. –ca. 390 B.C.E.), was a ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- Pumpkin is the common name for large-fruited varieties of several species of trailing and climbing plants of the genus Cucurbita, characterized by a round, pulpy ...20 KB (2,919 words) - 14:19, 2 July 2022
- Food chains, along with food webs and food networks, describe the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community. In other words, they show the ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 10:18, 10 November 2023
- Bumblebee (also spelled bumble bee, sometimes known as humblebee) is any member of the flying insect genus Bombus in tribe Bombini and family Apidae. Traditionally ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 18:44, 22 November 2023
- Diazonium compounds or diazonium salts are a group of organic compounds sharing a common functional group with the characteristic structure of R-N2+ X- where ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 13:34, 15 July 2020
- Category:Image wanted Sir William Empson (September 27, 1906 – April 15, 1984) was an English critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest English literary ...25 KB (3,944 words) - 17:20, 4 October 2020
- is one of two main temples of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism, the largest religious denomination in Japan (by number of temples in a single legal entity) ...16 KB (2,429 words) - 00:05, 13 February 2024
- The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the United States Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking. CRS|2010a|pp=1 and 5 ...59 KB (7,956 words) - 21:36, 26 June 2023
- Ethnobotany is the systematic study of the relationships between plants and people. It is not simply the study of the human "use" of plants; rather ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- Matter is made of atoms, and atoms are made of electrons and quarks exchanging photons and gluons. Antimatter is made of anti-atoms, and anti-atoms are made ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 06:25, 31 July 2023
- The term Biblical canon refers to a definitive list of inspired, authoritative books that "constitute the recognized and accepted body of sacred scripture ...22 KB (3,254 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger from 1389 to 1893. It was a continuation of the great Kanem-Bornu Kingdom founded centuries ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- A caterpillar is the larval stage of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). They are essentially eating machines ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 00:08, 1 December 2023
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- Delphi (Greek Δελφοί ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece, renowned for its Delphic oracle (the most famous oracle in the ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- Computer programming (often simply programming or coding) is the craft of writing a set of commands or instructions that can later be compiled and/or interpreted ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- Alcyonaria Zoantharia See text for orders. Corals are those marine invertebrates of the phylum Cnidaria and the class Anthozoa that have external or internal ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- Category:Biography Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Anthropology Curtis, Edward S. {{Infobox Person |name=Edward Sheriff Curtis ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- Ephrem the Syrian (306 – 373) was a deacon, prolific writer of hymns, and theologian of the fourth century. He is venerated by Christians throughout the world ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- DEET is a chemical, N, N-Diethyl-m-toluamide, that acts as an insect repellent to prevent bites from mosquitoes, fleas, biting flies, and other insects, as well ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- Silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of various species of moths, in particular, Bombyx mori, the domesticated silkmoth, whose silk cocoons can be used in the ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- Fermium (chemical symbol Fm, atomic number 100) is a synthetic element in the periodic table. A highly radioactive metallic transuranic element "Transuranic ...7 KB (998 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet who is notable for his mastery of English prosody and his deeply cynical and ironic ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- Rust is the material formed when iron or its alloys corrode in the presence of oxygen and water. It is a mixture of iron oxides and hydroxides. In today's ...8 KB (1,283 words) - 18:22, 22 December 2022
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati (स्वामी दयानन्द सरस्वती) (1824 - 1883) was an important Hindu religious scholar born ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Amillennialism (Greek: a- "not" + Latin: mille "thousand" + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named for its denial ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia, often spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Russian: Алексей Константинович Толстой; September 5|1817|August 24 – October 10]|1875|September 28 ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body (sporocarp or reproductive structure) of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food ...22 KB (3,256 words) - 19:06, 10 November 2022
- John Toland is also the name of an American author who was famous for his biography of Adolf Hitler. John Toland (November 30, 1670 - March 11, 1722) was an Irish ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown antiquity. Pandyas were one of the three ancient Tamil kingdoms (Chola and Chera being ...21 KB (3,154 words) - 06:36, 18 November 2022
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous trees or shrubs comprising the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae, characterized ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- The Peterborough Chronicle (also called the Laud Manuscript), one of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, contains unique information about the history of England after ...16 KB (2,619 words) - 01:36, 24 November 2022
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911). It is located in the ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely Sirach), also called Ecclesiasticus (not to be confused with Ecclesiastes) is an apocryphal ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Boris I or sometimes Boris-Mihail (Michael) ( Борис I (Михаил) ), also known as Bogoris (died May 2, 907) was the ruler of Bulgaria 852–889. At the ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist ...15 KB (2,382 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- An argument is an attempt to demonstrate the truth of an assertion called a conclusion, based on the truth of a set of assertions called premises. If the argument ...9 KB (1,514 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- category:image wanted Golden mean or "middle way" is an ancient concept described in various traditions. The concept was often discussed within ethical ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 06:15, 20 December 2022
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a British statesman who served under two of Britain's most influential Victorian-era leaders ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. It may be either an elementary (or fundamental) particle, or a composite particle, also called a hadron ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- Category:Psychologists Burt, Cyril [[File:Cyril Burt 1930s.jpg|thumb|Cyril Burt in 1930]] Cyril Lodowic Burt (March 3, 1883 – October 10, 1971) was an British ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- 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 well as those ...36 KB (5,435 words) - 19:47, 16 October 2020
- (Tamil: இளையராஜா, ɪləjəɹɑːdʒɑː ) (born June 2, 1943 as Gnanadesikan), an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist, has composed over ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
- Cape Horn island ( Kaap Hoorn ; Cabo de Hornos ; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- The astronomical unit (abbreviated variously as AU, au, a.u. or ua) is a unit of length roughly equal to the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun. The currently ...8 KB (1,072 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- Chao Cuo ( c=晁錯|p=Cháo Cuò , d. 154 B.C.E.) was a Chinese political adviser and official of the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), renowned for his intellectual ...20 KB (3,183 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- Sunflower is the common name for any of the plants of the genus Helianthus of the flowering plant family Asteraceae (known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower ...18 KB (2,511 words) - 17:15, 23 October 2022
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of the same substance) ontology that holds that all that can truly be said to exist is matter; ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- An herbicide is an agent used to kill unwanted plants. Selective herbicides kill specific target plants while leaving the desired crop relatively unharmed. Some ...17 KB (2,537 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- Sea urchin is the common name for various spiky echinoderms within the class Echinoidea, characterized by pentamerous radial symmetry; a hard calcareous shell ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 17:33, 25 January 2023
- Theobald Wolfe Tone, commonly known as Wolfe Tone (June 20, 1763 – November 19, 1798), was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence movement ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- In Norse Mythology, Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya or Freja), sister of Freyr and daughter of Njord (Njǫrđr), is a prototypical Norse fertility goddess ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- Jibanananda Das (Bangla: জীবনানন্দ দাশ) (February 17, 1899 - October 22, 1954) is the most popular Bengali poet after Rabindranath Tagore ...31 KB (4,652 words) - 01:09, 9 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Category:Social work Domestic violence (also domestic abuse) is physical, sexual, economic, or psychological ...31 KB (4,715 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an African-American anthropologist, novelist, and dramatist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot family Polygonaceae: The Eurasian genus, Fagopyrum, and the North American genus, Eriogonum ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- Mink is the common name for semiaquatic carnivorous mammals of the two extant Mustelidae species Mustela lutreola (European mink) and Neovison vison (American ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Bai Juyi (Po Chü-i c=白居易|p=Bái Jūyì|w=Pai Chüi. Pinyin Bo Juyi , 772–846) was a poet of the T'ang dynasty (618–907) in China, who espoused ...14 KB (2,277 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- Zheng Chenggong ( t=鄭成功|p=Zhèng Chénggōng|w=Cheng Ch'eng-kung ; Pe̍h-oē-jī: Tēⁿ Sêng-kong); Koxinga ( t=國姓爺|p=Guóxìngyé|w=Kuo-hsing-yeh ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 15:22, 3 December 2022
- Cro-Magnon Man is a name applied to the earliest known European examples of Homo sapiens sapiens, modern human beings. Cro-Magnons lived from about 40,000 to ...8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
- The Mountain ( La Montagne ) was a political group during the French Revolution. Its members, called the Montagnards ( mɔ̃taɲaʁ|lang ), sat on the highest ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 23:01, 28 October 2022
- The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA 1934–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969 ...17 KB (2,356 words) - 18:37, 7 February 2024
- category:image wanted A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- Orpheus (Greek: Ορφεύς; pronunciation: ohr'-fee-uhs) The mythological name "Orpheus" is commonly pronounced "ohr'-fee-uhs" ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- Xu Guangqi ( t=徐光啟|s=徐光启|p=Xú Guāngqǐ|w=Hsu Kuang-ch'i , Christian name Paul Hsü) (1562 – 1633), courtesy name Zixian (子先), was a Chinese ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- In the Roman Empire, the Vestal Virgins (sacerdos Vestalis), were holy female priests who honored Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. Their primary task was to ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 18:03, 3 May 2023
- Prion ( ˈpriːɒn ; 'prē,än The Oxford American College Dictionary (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002). ; "pree-on" S. B. Pruisner, ...17 KB (2,526 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding together of ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- Pavel Josef Šafařík, also known by the Slovak spelling of his name "Pavol Jozef Šafárik" (born May 13, 1795 in Kobeliarovo, Slovakia, then part ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- Valine is an α-amino acid that is found in most proteins and is essential in the human diet. It is similar to leucine and isoleucine in being a branched-chain ...8 KB (1,183 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States. It is designed to ...9 KB (1,283 words) - 22:24, 30 November 2022
- Tin (chemical symbol Sn, atomic number 50) is a silvery, malleable metal that is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion. It is obtained chiefly from ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 23:38, 30 April 2023
- A shamisen or samisen (Japanese: (三 味), (:線, literally "three taste strings"), also called sangen (literally "three strings") is a ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 12:23, 27 January 2023
- The uncertainty principle, sometimes called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, states that interaction and mechanical action come in quanta, that is, in discrete ...26 KB (4,014 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- Starfish, or sea stars (a less confusing designation, since they are only very distantly related to fish), are marine invertebrates belonging to the kingdom ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 04:39, 28 April 2023
- Anuradhapura, one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, has earned fame for its well-preserved ruins of ancient Lankan civilization. The city lies 205 km north ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei. They are the largest of the many moons of Jupiter and have been named Io, Europa ...25 KB (3,695 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- A chromosome is an organized structure of DNA and protein that is found in cells, with each chromosome being a very long, continuous, single piece of double ...15 KB (2,079 words) - 00:18, 14 January 2023
- In chemistry, a base is thought of as a substance which can accept protons or any chemical compound that yields hydroxide ions (OH-) in solution. It is also ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 11:03, 20 September 2023
- The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom of Aksum or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from the ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic script on ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic ...22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
- The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. They adopted ideas of Socrates, contributed significantly to the Stoic system ...9 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- The Battle of Inchon (also Romanized as "Incheon;" 인천 상륙 작전 Incheon Sangryuk Jakjeon; code name: Operation Chromite) was a decisive invasion ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- Satyagraha (Sanskrit, meaning "Truth-force") was a term coined by Mahatma Gandhi to express his philosophy that non-violence is a power that can transform ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- Exodus (meaning: "mass migration or exiting of a people from an area") is the second book of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. The major events of ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- A business plan is a formal, written statement of a set of business goals, the financial background and nature of the business, and the strategy for reaching ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 18:51, 22 November 2023
- The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). While differing in their liturgical, theological ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman who appeared among the royal families of Europe in the eighteenth century, known as der ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
- Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name is derived from the Latin Liber Leviticus and the Greek (το) Λευιτικόν. In Jewish ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- Anne Sullivan, Annie Sullivan, or Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was a trailblazer in the field of education. Her teaching ...8 KB (1,257 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- Pluto, also designated (134340) Pluto or 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and the tenth largest observed body directly ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 17:02, 26 September 2023
- category:Image wanted A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, Cacotopia (κακό, caco = bad) was the term used by Jeremy ...24 KB (3,679 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Attention is defined as a readiness on the part of the organism to perceive stimuli that surround it ...32 KB (4,749 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
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- 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 biology. Botany ...17 KB (2,438 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- Filtration is a mechanical or physical operation by which solids are separated from fluids (liquids or gases) in a mixture with the help of a medium that is ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 19:47, 26 March 2024
- Loyalists were British North America colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolution. They were also called Tories ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a career United States Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army, a principal commander ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 13:25, 11 February 2022
- A concept is a constituent of thought or generalized idea, that designates common properties and characteristics abstracted from a number of instances. While ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- The historicity of Jesus concerns the historical authenticity of Jesus of Nazareth. Scholars often draw a distinction between Jesus as reconstructed through ...44 KB (6,589 words) - 16:59, 22 February 2023
- Anxiety disorders are a cluster of mental disorders characterized by severe and uncontrollable feelings of anxiety that significantly impact a person's ...33 KB (4,406 words) - 05:56, 11 August 2023
- Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and the rejection ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- Heart disease is a general category for grouping diseases that involve the heart and any structural or functional abnormalities of the blood vessels supplying ...11 KB (1,487 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, noninfectious disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). MS causes gradual destruction of myelin ...42 KB (6,258 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political leaders during Colombia's (then known as ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Category:Economists Fisher, Irving [[Image:Irvingfisher.jpg|thumb|Irving Fisher]] Irving Fisher (February 27, 1867 — April 29, 1947) was an American economist ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- ( محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي ) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm (now Khiva ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that exploits the rise and fall in sea levels due to the tides, or the movement of water ...18 KB (2,762 words) - 23:26, 30 April 2023
- Vitamin C (or ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble vitamin required for a number of metabolic processes in living organisms. As a vitamin, ascorbic acid is an organic ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 20:15, 17 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 to the Sun ...72 KB (10,792 words) - 18:14, 4 May 2023
- Hanshan ( c=寒山|p=Hánshān|l=Cold Mountain|jp: Kanzan , fl. ninth century) also spelled Han Shan, was a legendary figure associated with a collection of poems ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- The Westminster Confession of Faith is a reformed confession of faith, in the Calvinist theological tradition embraced by the Church of Scotland and influential ...10 KB (1,440 words) - 17:22, 4 May 2023
- Category:Economists Keynes, John Neville John Neville Keynes (August 31, 1852 – November 15, 1949) was a British philosopher and economist. Best known as the ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly in North America, to describe ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pashto/Urdu: فخر افغان خان عبد الغفار خان/خان عبدالغفار خان) (c. 1890 – January 20, 1988) was ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC (June 25 ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- The Truman Doctrine was a proclamation by United States President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947. It stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 18:28, 2 May 2023
- Category:Image wanted Frank Raymond Leavis CH (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century ...19 KB (2,790 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- Crater Lake National Park is a United States National Park located in southern Oregon; the only national park in the state. It was established on May 22, 1902 ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
- Negative theology (also known as Apophatic theology) is a method of describing God by negation, in which one avers only what may not be said about God. This ...18 KB (2,832 words) - 16:09, 11 November 2022
- Baidu ( c=百度|p=Bǎidù ) ( BIDU ) is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services ...20 KB (2,596 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- Kerala refers to a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India. To its east and northeast, Kerala borders Tamil Nadu and Karnataka respectively; to its ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- Pol Pot (May 19, 1925 – April 15, 1998), earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge" and became ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- The New Economic Policy (NEP) ( новая экономическая политика (НЭП)|r=novaya ekonomicheskaya politika ) was an economic policy of ...28 KB (4,055 words) - 00:29, 26 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Social work Category:Law Sexual abuse (also referred to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired ...18 KB (2,684 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- Category:Public {| class="toccolours" border="1" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; border-collapse: collapse;" ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 09:39, 22 April 2023
- Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices, and institutions associated with Reform Judaism in North America and in the United Kingdom. ...19 KB (2,867 words) - 03:01, 8 December 2022
- Panpsychism is the view that all of the fundamental entities in the universe possess some degree of mentality or consciousness, where this mentality or consciousness ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, is a large body of water encircling the continent of Antarctica. This ocean is considered by the International ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- Lu Xun ( t=魯迅|s=鲁迅|p=Lǔ Xùn ) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), pen name of Zhou Shuren ( t=周樹人|s=周树人|p=Zhōu Shùrén|w=Chou Shu-jen ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- Sohn Kee-Chung (August 29, 1912 – November 15, 2002) became the first Korean athlete to win an Olympic medal when he won the gold medal in the Marathon in ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 15:58, 14 October 2022
- Courtly love was a medieval European conception of ennobling love which found its genesis in the ducal and princely courts in regions of present-day southern ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- William Pitt the Younger (May 28, 1759 – January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He served as Prime ...28 KB (4,338 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2023
- Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280 B.C.E. - c. 207 B.C.E.) is considered to be a co-founder of Stoicism, one of the most influential schools of Hellenistic philosophy ...9 KB (1,399 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras, Kashi, or Kasi), considered one of the seven sacred cities within Hindu belief, is a constant ...18 KB (2,802 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- The Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代, Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half of the Eastern Zhou ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- In aerodynamics, the sound barrier usually refers to the point at which an aircraft moves from transonic to supersonic speed. The term came into use during World ...16 KB (2,554 words) - 15:12, 27 April 2023
- The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ship on April 28, 1789 which has been made famous by several books, films, and other media ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916) was an Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher. He is the namesake for the "Mach number" (aka ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and philosophy, which attempts to solve The Problem of Evil—the problem that arises when trying to reconcile the ...38 KB (6,068 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- Robert O'Hara Burke (1821 - June 28, 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer, who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ...8 KB (1,267 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree native to Mexico and Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae and widely cultivated in subtropical ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:18, 23 August 2023
- Krill (singular and plural) or euphausiids are small, shrimp-like marine crustaceans that belong to the order (or suborder) Euphausiacea. These small invertebrates ...32 KB (4,630 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- Radiolaria is a diverse grouping of amoeboid protozoa that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule of cytoplasm separating the ...9 KB (1,295 words) - 22:46, 7 December 2022
- Justinian I (Latin: Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus, Greek: Ιουστινιανός; May 11, 483 C.E. – November 13, 565 C.E.) was Eastern Roman emperor ...22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 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 the game of chaturanga ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
- A Chinese character ( t=漢字|s=汉字|汉字|p=Hànzì ) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean, and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- Cholesterol is an important sterol (a combination steroid and alcohol) and a neutral lipid that is a major constituent in the cell membranes of animals and serves ...23 KB (3,346 words) - 17:16, 10 December 2023
- Category:Anthropologists Maspero, Gaston [[Image:Gaston MASPERO.jpeg|thumb|Gaston Maspero]] Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 - June 30, 1916) was ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 04:40, 18 April 2024
- Giovanni Caboto (c. 1450 – c. 1499), known in English as John Cabot, was an Italian navigator and explorer commonly credited as the first early modern European ...9 KB (1,380 words) - 04:35, 3 August 2022
- Category:Economists Ohlin, Bertil [[Image:Bertil Ohlin.jpg|thumb|Bertil Ohlin at Arosmässan in Västerås (late 1950s).]] Bertil Ohlin (April 23, 1899 – August ...27 KB (4,103 words) - 17:22, 29 September 2023
- Category:Public number=2 | symbol=He | name=helium | left=hydrogen | right=lithium | above=- | below=Ne | color1=#c0ffff | color2=green noble gases ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:19, 25 January 2023
- A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. In angiosperms, or flowering plants, the ovule is found within an ovary, which becomes fruit ...9 KB (1,464 words) - 02:24, 30 September 2022
- Vitamin E is the generic descriptor for any of a group of several related fat-soluble organic compounds, tocopherols and tocotrienols, that act as vitamins with ...53 KB (7,528 words) - 20:41, 3 May 2023
- Outer space (often called space) consists of the relatively empty regions of the universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. Outer space is used to ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- This article is about the 20th-century aviator. {{Infobox Biography | subject_name = Charles Lindbergh | image_name = LindberghStLouis.jpg | image_size ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Tenniel, John [[Image:John_Tenniel.png|thumb|right|200px|1889 Self-portrait]] ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 07:57, 3 August 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:nervoussystem.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nervous system. Courtesy of 3DScience.com]] As commonly defined, the human body is the physical manifestation ...25 KB (3,706 words) - 21:55, 23 December 2020
- John Norris (1657 – 1711), Anglican priest, philosopher and poet, is remembered as a Cambridge Platonist and as the sole English proponent of the ideas of ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Anatidae is the biological family of medium to very large-sized birds in the order Anseriformes that includes the ducks, geese and swans, with members characterized ...30 KB (4,269 words) - 01:03, 9 January 2023
- Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of "big cats" (subfamily Pantherinae) in the Panthera genus ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- Filial piety is the virtue of a child to his or her parents or parental figures, both living and deceased. It is one of the most fundamental virtues universally ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Buddhist biography | name = Jianzhi Sengcan | img = | img_size = | img_capt = ...18 KB (2,660 words) - 12:22, 1 August 2022
- The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Considered one of the "general epistles" because it is addressed to no particular ...9 KB (1,490 words) - 19:10, 13 February 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 a solution of vinegar ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 22:47, 28 March 2023
- A lichen is a composite organism composed of a fungus (the mycobiont) in a symbiotic relationship with a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont, also known ...19 KB (2,789 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and conservationist remembered for his iconic black and white landscape ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- Mathematical logic is best understood as a branch of logic or mathematics. Mathematical logic is often divided into the subfields of model theory, proof theory ...11 KB (1,513 words) - 16:50, 7 November 2022
- The term nèijiā usually refers to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which Sun Lutang identified in the 1920s as T'ai Chi ...24 KB (3,729 words) - 16:11, 11 November 2022
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military campaigns that ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Law Criminology is the scientific study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. Criminological ...34 KB (4,876 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834—August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German zoologist best known as an early promoter ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- Cardinals are high ranking ecclesiastical officials in the Roman Catholic Church (and some other Episcopalian organizations) who play key roles in church governance ...9 KB (1,483 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
- Friction is the force that opposes the relative motion or tendency of such motion of two surfaces in contact. It is not, however, a fundamental force, as it ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- Sperm whale or cachalot is the common name for a large toothed whale, Physeter macrocephalus (or Physeter catodon), characterized by a enormous squarish head ...27 KB (4,253 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- Terbium (chemical symbol Tb, atomic number 65) is a silvery-white rare earth metal. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements" ...9 KB (1,141 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- Edward B. Jenner (May 17, 1749 – January 26, 1823) was an English physician and scientist who is most recognized for introducing and popularizing an effective ...25 KB (3,573 words) - 19:51, 17 November 2021
- Skink is the common name for the lizards that comprise the family Scincidae and that typically are smooth and shiny with small or rudimentary legs. Skinks are ...9 KB (1,375 words) - 22:58, 23 April 2023
- Koodiyattam or Kutiyattam ( kuːʈijaːʈːam ) is a form of sacred theater traditionally performed in Hindu temples in the state of Kerala, India. Performed ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- The mantle is a particular type of layer within an astronomical body. A mantle in most instances occurs in a solid object as the layer of material surrounding ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 02:57, 6 November 2022
- Hunan ( c=湖南 |p=Húnán ) is a province of China located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Its position south of Lake Dongting provides it with ...18 KB (2,479 words) - 12:20, 4 February 2023
- Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms, while attending to their emotional ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 20:47, 25 September 2020
- A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits incoherent, narrow-spectrum light when it is electrically biased in the forward direction. ...41 KB (6,290 words) - 01:16, 26 October 2022
- Karl Georg Büchner (October 17, 1813 – February 19, 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- Pope Vigilius (d. June 7, 555) reigned as pope from 537-555. He came to the papacy in a controversial manner when the Empress Theodora, the wife of Emperor Justinian ...10 KB (1,485 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
- Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp ( Владимир Яковлевич Пропп ; April 29,|1895|April 17 – August 22, 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 23:03, 24 May 2023
- A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary device, anthropomorphism - that is giving animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Phenol, also known under an older name of carbolic acid, is a toxic, colorless crystalline solid with a distinctive sweet tarry odor. Its chemical formula is ...8 KB (1,204 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- In cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation CMB (also CMBR, CBR, MBR, and relic radiation) is a form of electromagnetic radiation filling the universe ...47 KB (6,936 words) - 08:12, 10 January 2024
- Anhinga is the common name for members of the bird species Anhinga anhinga of the darter family, Anhingidae. Also known as snakebird, darter, and water turkey ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 01:45, 9 January 2023
- Silicon (chemical element symbol Si, atomic number 14) is a member of a group of chemical elements classified as metalloids. It is less reactive than its chemical ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox actor | bgcolour = silver | name = Adolph Zukor | image = Adolph Zukor 001.jpg | birthdate = 1873|1|7 | location = Ricse ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 06:05, 15 June 2023
- The nucleolus (plural nucleoli) is a large, distinct, spheroidal subcompartment of the nucleus of eukaryote cells that is the site of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) synthesis ...21 KB (3,018 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Educational psychology is a dynamic discipline with immense potential applications. It includes study ...35 KB (4,855 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- Niccolò Jommelli (September 10, 1714 – August 25, 1774) was an Italian composer. As a student of the Neapolitan School and a follower of Gluck's operatic ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Sea turtle (or seaturtle) is the common name for any of the large marine turtles comprising the superfamily Chelonioidea, characterized by forelimbs in the form ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an entrepreneur in popular entertainment, who developed the modern American circus. In addition, he ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- Johan Huizinga (December 7, 1872 – February 1, 1945) was a Dutch historian, a philosopher of culture, and one of the founders of modern cultural history. Succeeding ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- Banana is the common name for any of the very large, tree-like, herbaceous plants comprising the genus Musa of the flowering plant family Musaceae, characterized ...28 KB (4,308 words) - 04:25, 11 January 2023
- Thulium (chemical symbol Tm, atomic number 69) is the least abundant of the rare earth metals. The term "rare earth metals" (or "rare earth elements ...9 KB (1,135 words) - 23:14, 30 April 2023
- Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is located at the border of the Ngorongoro conservation area and the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is a steep-sided ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 00:05, 18 November 2022
- Red panda is the common name for a mostly herbivorous, bamboo specialized mammal, Ailurus fulgens, that has soft, thick, reddish or reddish brown fur, a large ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 02:48, 8 December 2022
- Gamma-ray astronomy is a branch of astronomy that deals with the detection and study of gamma rays in the cosmos. Gamma rays are the most energetic form of electromagnetic ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:09, 18 April 2024
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃.tɛg.zy.pe.ʀi] ) (June 29, 1900 – presumably July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator. His most famous ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- Ammonoid or Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals of the subclass Ammonoidea in the class Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca. Ammonoidea is one of three ...20 KB (3,015 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- category:image wanted [[Image:Mondriaan 1924.jpg|thumb|250px|Piet Mondrian, 1924]] Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, (pronounced: Pete Mon ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in our solar system. It is the fourth largest planet by diameter and the third largest by mass. It is ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third ...9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
- Aid (or "international aid," "overseas aid," or "foreign aid," especially in the United States, European Union, and Australia) ...36 KB (5,305 words) - 06:56, 16 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {|class="infobox" width="275" style="float:right; ...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 the founders of ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- Mica is an important group of rock-forming silicate minerals, belonging to the subgroup called phyllosilicates. The group consists of more than 30 members, the ...9 KB (1,317 words) - 16:34, 9 November 2022
- Percy Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957) was a Canadian-born British painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- In common terminology, twilight is the time interval shortly before sunrise or right after sunset, when sunlight strikes the Earth's upper atmosphere and ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 20:41, 17 January 2024
- In Greek mythology, Ares, the Olympian god of war, was the son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Hera. Among the Greeks, Ares was always mistrusted for he was seen ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D (January 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891), was the first Prime Minister of Canada. He was one of the architects ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- Causality is one of the central notions in our conception of the world. We think of the things and events we experience as connected, and causal relations between ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
- The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). More than two dozen GPS satellites are ...54 KB (8,113 words) - 20:37, 29 December 2023
- Yellow River or Huang He ( t=黃河|s=黄河|p=Huáng Hé{{audio|zh-Huang_he.ogg|listen|w=Hwang-ho}} , sometimes simply called “the River” in ancient Chinese, ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- Chemical bond is the term used to describe the linkages between atoms joined together to form molecules or crystals. Chemical bonds are the result of electromagnetic ...25 KB (3,936 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Viner, Jacob Jacob Viner (May 3, 1892 - September 12, 1970), was a Canadian-born American economist ...10 KB (1,485 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- Eratosthenes (Greek Ἐρατοσθένης ; 276 B.C.E. – 194 B.C.E.) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ʻ arb) is a peninsula ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- Molds (American English) or moulds (British English) are microscopic, multicellular fungi. They are generally composed of hyphae (filamentous structures) that ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident, a three pronged ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- Dysprosium (chemical symbol Dy, atomic number 66) is a rare earth element that has a metallic, bright silver luster. The term "rare earth metals" (or ...10 KB (1,193 words) - 17:27, 12 February 2024
- John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist who played a pivotal role in the establishment ...24 KB (3,700 words) - 18:48, 5 April 2024
- A computer museum is a museum devoted to the preservation, education, and study of computers. Computer museums often hold historic mainframe super computers ...11 KB (1,525 words) - 02:34, 8 January 2024
- The Kara-Khitan Khanate, or Western Liao (Mongolian Хар Хятад; Kara Kitad; t=西遼|s=西辽|p=Xī Liáo ) existed from 1124 C.E. (Yelü Dashi proclaimed ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων , Apóllōn; or Ἀπέλλων , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- George Washington Carver (c. early 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an African American botanist who dedicated his life to applying science and technology toward ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- Vacuoles are membrane-bound compartments within some eukaryotic cells that serve a variety of secretory, excretory, and storage functions. These organelles are ...10 KB (1,475 words) - 23:00, 13 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Manslaughter is a criminal variation of homicide that normally carries a lesser sentence than murder, due to ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823 - January 15, 1896), was a celebrated American photographer whose rise to prominence occurred largely in the years preceding and during ...9 KB (1,405 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He was elected to the presidency ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium, Bordetella pertussis and typically characterized by a severe ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- According to Catholic tradition, Saint Linus (d. c. 67 - 80) was the second bishop of Rome, succeeding the first "pope," Saint Peter, after Peter& ...11 KB (1,675 words) - 04:02, 26 November 2022
- The Pentateuch (from Greek: Πεντετεύχως [meaning "five books"]) refers to the most important scriptural writings of Judaism, which constitute ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- In Christianity, Sabellianism is the belief that God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit are three modes or aspects of God. Once popular but later declared ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 20:36, 17 April 2023
- Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies. As ...10 KB (1,442 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- Kalimpong (Nepali: कालिम्पोङ), a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal ...23 KB (3,374 words) - 17:14, 14 May 2024
- Frequency is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency. The period is the duration ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- category:fix cite refs [[Image:Olaudah Equiano - Project Gutenberg eText 15399.png|thumb|250px]] Olaudah Equiano (c.1745 – March 31, 1797), also known as Gustavus ...10 KB (1,546 words) - 00:02, 18 November 2022
- Category:Media Professionals [[Image:Joseph Medill.jpg|thumb|300px|Joseph Medill]] Medill, Joseph Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was the business ...26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- Calanoida Cyclopoida Gelyelloida Harpacticoida Misophrioida Monstrilloida Mormonilloida Platycopioida Poecilostomatoida Siphonostomatoida Copepods are a group ...10 KB (1,426 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.png|right]] Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (January 27, 1775 - August 20, 1854) was a German ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet, and ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 2024
- Bubonic plague, which is commonly referred to as plague, is a deadly infectious disease, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This bacterium, transmitted ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as a broadsheet at 3600 New York Avenue NE, Washington, D.C., the paper covers general interest ...31 KB (4,327 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- "Romantic love" refers to the connection between "love" and the general idea of "romance," according to more traditional usages ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 04:58, 16 December 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Weatheringcartoon.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This illustration shows various components of space weathering]] Space weathering is a term used ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 17:14, 14 October 2022
- The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- Li Houzhu ( c=李後主|p=Lǐ Hòuzhǔ|l=The Latter Lord Li , 936–978), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (南唐後主, literally "the latter lord ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- During the Viking period, between the eighth and eleventh centuries, Danes were involved in exploring and settling as far West as Newfoundland. They also held ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story of the adulterous ...29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- Samuel Daniel (1562 – October 14, 1619) was an English poet and historian who exerted a considerable influence on the development of Elizabethan and Jacobean ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 02:58, 23 December 2022
- An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic periodical publication. The ISSN system ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- Crazy Horse (Lakota: Thašųka Witko, literally "his-horse is-crazy"), ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877, was a major war leader of the Oglala Lakota ...19 KB (3,137 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- Percy Aldridge Grainger (July 8, 1882 – February 20, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer and champion of the saxophone and the Concert band. Grainger ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- Category:Image wanted Hartshorne, Charles Charles Hartshorne (June 5, 1897 – October 9, 2000) was a prominent American philosopher and theologian who is considered ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or "God." In the English Bible, the derivative name Elohim is normally translated ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged. The word, meaning ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- The colon is the longest portion of the large intestine of vertebrates; in mammals, this section of the gastrointestinal tract extends from the cecum to the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 22:38, 7 January 2024
- A number is an abstract mathematical object represented by a symbol that is used in counting and measuring. A symbol that represents a number is called a numeral ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the very first king of the gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth, with whom ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- Sufism (from Arabic (صوف), Suf meaning "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome of divine Love ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793– June 27, 1848), archbishop of Paris from 1840, was born at Saint Rome, in the department of Tarn. The Archbishop is ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Media Organizations Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- A clock (from the Latin word cloca, meaning "bell") is an instrument for measuring time. In its most common form, in use since at least the fourteenth ...26 KB (3,970 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
