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765 | Abortion | Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of all pregnancies. When deliberate steps are taken to end a pregnancy, it is called an indu... | [
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766 | Abstract (law) | In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.
==Types of legislation ==
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771 | American Revolutionary War | |Navy:}}
|Loyalist troops:
|German troops:
|Native Americans:
|France:
|Spain:
|Native Americans: Unknown
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772 | Ampere | The ampere ( , ; symbol: A), often shortened to amp, is the unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI). One ampere is equal to 1 coulomb (C) moving past a point per second. It is named after French mathematician and physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), considered the father of electromagnet... | [
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775 | Algorithm | In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specifications for performing calculations and data processing. More advanced algorithms can use con... | [
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777 | Annual plant | An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. Globally, 6% of all plant species and 15% of herbaceous plants (excluding trees and shrubs) are annuals. The annual life cycle has independently emerged in over 120 different ... | [
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779 | Anthophyta | The anthophytes are a paraphyletic grouping of plant taxa bearing flower-like reproductive structures. The group, once thought to be a clade,
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780 | Atlas (disambiguation) | An atlas is a collection of maps.
Atlas may also refer to:
==Arts, entertainment and media==
===Fictional characters===
Atlas (DC Comics), several fictional characters
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Atlas, an Astro Boy (1980) character
Atlas (BioShock)
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782 | Mouthwash | Mouthwash, mouth rinse, oral rinse, or mouth bath is a liquid which is held in the mouth passively or swirled around the mouth by contraction of the perioral muscles and/or movement of the head, and may be gargled, where the head is tilted back and the liquid bubbled at the back of the mouth.
Usually mouthwashes are a... | [
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783 | Alexander the Great | Alexander III of Macedon (; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign through... | [
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784 | Alfred Korzybski | Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (; ; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the huma... | [
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785 | Asteroids (video game) | Asteroids is a multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. It was designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg. The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy the asteroids and sauc... | [
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786 | Asparagales | Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) are a diverse order of flowering plants in the monocots. Under the APG IV system of flowering plant classification, Asparagales are the largest order of monocots with 14 families, 1,122 genera, and about 36,000 species, with members as varied as asparagus, orchids, yuccas, irises, onions... | [
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"De Jussieu system",
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"Borya",
"British Museum of Natural H... |
787 | Alismatales | The Alismatales (alismatids) are an order of flowering plants including about 4,500 species. Plants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic. Some grow in fresh water, some in marine habitats. Perhaps the most important food crop in the order is the taro plant, Colocasia esculenta.
==Description==
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788 | Apiales | {{Automatic taxobox
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789 | Asterales | Asterales ( ) is an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants that includes the large family Asteraceae (or Compositae) known for composite flowers made of florets, and ten families related to the Asteraceae. While asterids in general are characterized by fused petals, composite flowers consisting of many florets create... | [
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791 | Asteroid | An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). Asteroids are rocky, metallic, or icy bodies with no atmosphere, and are broadly classified into C-type (carbonaceo... | [
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794 | Allocution | An allocution, or allocutus, is a formal statement made to a court by the defendant who has been found guilty before being sentenced. It is part of the criminal procedure in some jurisdictions using common law.
== Concept ==
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795 | Affidavit | An ( ; Medieval Latin for "he has declared under oath") is a written statement voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law. Such a statement is witnessed as to the authenticity of the affiant's signature by a taker of oaths,... | [
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798 | Aries (constellation) | {{Infobox constellation
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| abbreviation = Ari
| genitive = Arietis
| pronounce = ,
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| symbolism = the Ram
| RA = –
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"Domestic sheep",
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799 | Aquarius (constellation) | Aquarius is an equatorial constellation of the zodiac, between Capricornus and Pisces. Its name is Latin for "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier", and its old astronomical symbol is (♒︎), a representation of water. Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac (the Sun's apparent path). It... | [
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"theta Aquarii",
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800 | Anime | is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Japanese, describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a similar style to Japanese animat... | [
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801 | Asterism | Asterism may refer to:
Asterism (astronomy), a pattern of stars
Asterism (band), a Japanese rock band
Asterism (gemology), an optical phenomenon in gemstones
Asterism (typography), (⁂) a moderately rare typographical symbol denoting a break in passages | [
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"Asterism (gemology)",
"Asterism (typography)"
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802 | Ankara | == Demographics ==
Ankara had a population of 75,000 in 1927. There were 74,632 male residents and 48,882 female residents in Ankara according to the 1935 census. As of 2022, the population of the Ankara Province was 5,782,285. About one third of the Central Anatolia population of 15,608,868 people resides in Ankara.
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803 | Arabic | Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical ... | [
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808 | Alfred Hitchcock | Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema.}} many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his ac... | [
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809 | Anaconda | {{Automatic taxobox
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| image = Eunectes murinus2.jpg
| image_caption = Green anaconda (E. murinus)
| taxon = Eunectes
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824 | Altaic languages | The Altaic () languages are a group of languages comprising the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families, with some linguists including the Koreanic and Japonic families. These languages share agglutinative morphology, head-final word order and some vocabulary. The once-popular theory attributing these similarit... | [
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825 | Austrian German | Austrian German (), Austrian Standard German (ASG), Standard Austrian German (), Austrian High German (), or simply just Austrian (), is the variety of Standard German written and spoken in Austria and South Tyrol. It has the highest sociolinguistic prestige locally, as it is the variation used in the media and for oth... | [
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840 | Axiom of choice | In mathematics, the axiom of choice, abbreviated AC or AoC, is an axiom of set theory equivalent to the statement that a Cartesian product of a collection of non-empty sets is non-empty. Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of sets, each containing at least one element, it is possible to c... | [
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841 | Attila | Attila ( or ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in early 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Gepids, among others, in Central and Eastern Europe.
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842 | Aegean Sea | The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn connects to the Black Sea, by the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, ... | [
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843 | A Clockwork Orange (novel) | A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in March 17, 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities inten... | [
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844 | Amsterdam | Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the urban area Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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846 | Museum of Work | The Museum of Work (Arbetets museum) is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden. The museum is located in the Strykjärn (Clothes iron), a former weaving mill in the old industrial area on the Motala ström river in the city centre of Norrköping. The former textile factory Holmens Bruk (sv) operated in the building from 1... | [
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848 | Audi | Audi AG () is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. A subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, Audi produces vehicles in nine production facilities worldwide.
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849 | Aircraft | An aircraft (: aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or, in a few cases, direct downward thrust from its engines. Common examples of aircraft include airplanes, rotorcraft (including hel... | [
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851 | Alfred Nobel | Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( ; ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He also made several other important contributions to science, holding 355 patents during... | [
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852 | Alexander Graham Bell | Alexander Graham Bell (; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
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854 | Anatolia | {{Infobox islands
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856 | Apple Inc. | Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporat... | [
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859 | Aztlan Underground | Aztlan Underground is a band from Los Angeles, California that combines Hip-Hop, Punk Rock, Jazz, and electronic music with Chicano and Native American themes, and indigenous instrumentation. They are often cited as progenitors of Chicano rap.
== Background ==
The band traces its roots to the late-1980s hardcore scene... | [
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863 | American Civil War | The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slaver... | [
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864 | Andy Warhol | Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expr... | [
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868 | Alp Arslan | {{Infobox royalty
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869 | American Film Institute | The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees.
==Leadership==
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872 | Akira Kurosawa | was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning seven decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it. He was involved with all ... | [
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874 | Ancient Egypt | Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower Egypt were amalgamated by Menes, who is believed by the majority of Egyptologist... | [
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875 | Analog Brothers | Analog Brothers were an experimental hip hop band featuring Tracy "Ice-T" Marrow (Ice Oscillator) on keyboards, drums and vocals, Keith "Kool Keith" Thornton (Keith Korg) on bass, strings and vocals, Marc Live (Marc Moog) on drums, violins and vocals, Christopher "Black Silver" Rodgers (Silver Synth) on synthesizer, la... | [
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"BandCamp"
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876 | Motor neuron diseases | Motor neuron diseases or motor neurone diseases (MNDs) are a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders that selectively affect motor neurons, the cells which control voluntary muscles of the body. They include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive bulbar palsy (PBP), pseudobulbar palsy, progressive muscular ... | [
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"Hoffmann's reflex",
"monomelic amyotrophy",
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"fasciculation",
"DNA ligase",
"nerve conduction study",
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877 | Abjad | An abjad ( or abgad) is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving the vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader. This contrasts with alphabets, which provide graphemes for both consonants and vowels. The term was introduced in 1990 by Peter T. Daniels. Other terms for the same concept include p... | [
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"Shorthand",
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"context (language use)",
"Kurdish language",
"Approximant consonant",
"Syriac Christianity",
"Second Temple period",
"boustrophedon",
"Arabic a... |
878 | Abugida | An abugida (; from Geʽez: , )sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabetis a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, similar to a diacritical mark. This contrasts with a full a... | [
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"harakat",
"Inuktitut",
"Tibetan alphabet",
"Chinese language",
"Sudan",
"virāma",
"glott... |
880 | ABBA | ABBA ( , ) were a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.
In , ABBA became 's first ... | [
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881 | Allegiance | An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects or citizens to their state or sovereign.
==Etymology==
The word allegiance comes from Middle English ' (see Medieval Latin ', "a liegance"). The al- prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, all... | [
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"33 & 34 Vict.",
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885 | Altenberg | Altenberg (German for "old mountain" or "mountain of the old") may refer to:
==Places==
===Austria===
Altenberg, a town in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Tulln District
Altenberg bei Linz, in Upper Austria
Altenberg an der Rax, in Styria
===Germany===
Altenberg (Bergisches Land), an area in Odenthal, North Rhine-Westphalia
Al... | [
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... |
887 | MessagePad | The MessagePad is a series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple Computer for the Newton platform, first released in 1993. Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of Apple's MessagePad devices was undertaken in Japan by Sharp. The devices are based on the ARM 610 RISC processor, run Newton OS... | [
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"Bill Atkinson",
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"AAA battery",
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888 | A. E. van Vogt | Alfred Elton van Vogt ( ; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, notably Philip K. Dick. He was one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the mid-twentieth... | [
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"The Man with a Thousand Names",
"Jack Williamson",
"Neville, Saskatchewan",
"fuzzy logic",
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890 | Anna Kournikova | Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova Iglesias (née Kournikova; ; born 7 June 1981) is a Russian model and television personality, and former professional tennis player. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made he... | [
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"St. Louis Aces",
"2000 US Open (tennis)",
"1998 French Open – Women's singles",
"Dunlop Orange Bowl"... |
892 | Alfons Maria Jakob | Alfons Maria Jakob (2 July 1884 – 17 October 1931) was a German neurologist who worked in the field of neuropathology.
He was born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria and educated in medicine at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in 1908. During the following year, he began clini... | [
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894 | Agnosticism | Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to personal limitations rather than a worldview. Another definition is the view that "human reason is inca... | [
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"philosophical skepticism",
"Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy",
"Arist... |
896 | Argon | Argon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ar and atomic number 18. It is in group 18 of the periodic table and is a noble gas. Argon is the third most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, at 0.934% (9340 ppmv). It is more than twice as abundant as water vapor (which averages about 4000 ppmv, but varies greatly), 23 tim... | [
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897 | Arsenic | Arsenic is a chemical element; it has symbol As and atomic number 33. It is a metalloid and one of the pnictogens, and therefore shares many properties with its group 15 neighbors phosphorus and antimony. Arsenic is notoriously toxic. It occurs naturally in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, ... | [
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898 | Antimony | Antimony is a chemical element; it has symbol Sb () and atomic number 51. A lustrous grey metal or metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were powdered for use as medicine and cosmetics, often known by the Arabic name kohl. ... | [
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899 | Actinium | Actinium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ac and atomic number 89. It was discovered by Friedrich Oskar Giesel in 1902, who gave it the name emanium; the element got its name by being wrongly identified with a substance André-Louis Debierne found in 1899 and called actinium. The actinide series, a set of 15 element... | [
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900 | Americium | Americium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Am and atomic number 95. It is radioactive and a transuranic member of the actinide series in the periodic table, located under the lanthanide element europium and was thus named after the Americas by analogy.
Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of... | [
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901 | Astatine | Astatine is a chemical element; it has symbol At and atomic number 85. It is the rarest naturally occurring element in the Earth's crust, occurring only as the decay product of various heavier elements. All of astatine's isotopes are short-lived; the most stable is astatine-210, with a half-life of 8.1 hours. Consequen... | [
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902 | Atom | Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements. An atom consists of a nucleus of protons and generally neutrons, surrounded by an electromagnetically bound swarm of electrons. The chemical elements are distinguished from each other by the number of protons that are in their atoms. For example, any atom that con... | [
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903 | Arable land | Arable land (from the , "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. Alternatively, for the purposes of agricultural statistics, the term often has a more precise definition:
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904 | Aluminium | Aluminium (or aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13. It has a density lower than that of other common metals, about one-third that of steel. Aluminium has a great affinity towards oxygen, forming a protective layer of oxide on the surface when exposed to air. I... | [
"Food and Chemical Toxicology",
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"2021–2022 global energy crisis",
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905 | Advanced Chemistry | Advanced Chemistry is a German hip hop group from Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, South Germany. Advanced Chemistry was founded in 1987 by Toni L, Linguist, Gee-One, DJ Mike MD (Mike Dippon) and MC Torch. Each member of the group holds German citizenship, and Toni L, Linguist, and Torch are of Italian, Ghanaian, and H... | [
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"Big Daddy Kane",
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"Dr. Dre",
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"Torch (German rapper)",
"The Bomb Squad",
"Biz Markie",
"A Tribe Called Quest",
"Frankfurt",
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"de:Ko... |
909 | Anglican Communion | The Anglican Communion is the third-largest Christian communion after the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, with approximately 85 - 91 million members. According to Christianity Global: A Guide to the World's Largest Religion from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, in 2020, there were an estimated 97.4 million members of t... | [
"Church of the Province of Myanmar",
"Reformed Episcopal Church",
"Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola",
"Eastern Orthodox Church",
"Saint Lucia",
"Kenya",
"Reform (Anglican)",
"Saint Helena",
"canon law",
"Flag of the Anglican Communion",
"Windsor Report",
"autocephalous",
"Anglican Ch... |
910 | Arne Kaijser | Arne Kaijser (born 1950) is a professor emeritus of history of technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a former president of the Society for the History of Technology.
Kaijser has published two books in Swedish: Stadens ljus. Etableringen av de första svenska gasverken and I fädrens spår.... | [
"Professor",
"Journal of Urban Technology",
"Large Technical System",
"Centaurus (journal)",
"Stockholm",
"Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences",
"KTH Royal Institute of Technology"
] |
911 | Archipelago | An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Example archipelagos include the Aegean Islands (the origin of the term), the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Stockholm Archipelago,... | [
"Archipelago Sea",
"Lucayan Archipelago",
"The World (archipelago)",
"Oceania",
"List of islands",
"paretymology",
"Cristoforo Buondelmonti",
"Archipelagic state",
"Mascarene Islands",
"Ancient Greek",
"Pacific Ocean",
"Indonesia",
"Farallon Islands",
"List of archipelagos by number of isl... |
914 | Author | In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work that has been published, whether that work is in written, graphic, or recorded medium. The creation of such a work is an act of authorship. Thus, a sculptor, painter, or composer, is an author of their respective sculptures, paintings, or compositions, ev... | [
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"Article One of the United States Constitution",
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"typesetting",
"Statute of Anne",
"James Madison",
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"Ghostwriter",
"copyright",
"Play (theatre)",
"trademark law",
"Committee of Detail",
"Lists of poets",
"pai... |
915 | Andrey Markov | Andrey Andreyevich Markov (14 June 1856 – 20 July 1922) was a Russian mathematician best known for his work on stochastic processes. A primary subject of his research later became known as the Markov chain. He was also a strong, close to master-level, chess player.
Markov and his younger brother Vladimir Andreyevich M... | [
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"Pafnuty Chebyshev",
"Gauss–Markov process",
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"New Style",
"Saint Petersburg State University",
"Ryazan",
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921 | Angst | Angst is a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity. Anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and the words anxious and anxiety are of similar origin.
== Etymology ==
The word angst was introduced into English from the Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch word and the German word . It is attested since the 19th century in E... | [
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"philosophy",
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"Arnold Schoenberg",
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922 | Anxiety | Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. Anxiety is different from fear in that fear is defined as the emotional response to a present threat, whereas anxiety is the anticipation of a future one. It is often accompanied by nervou... | [
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924 | A. A. Milne | Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed his previous work. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal... | [
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"H. G. Wells",
"Raymond Chandler",
"Arthur Conan Doyle",
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"Sotheby's",
"Wurzel-Flummery",
"Nazism",
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"E. H. Shepard",
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"Kemps Film and TV Production Services Handbook",
"Houston Independent ... |
925 | Asociación Alumni | Asociación Alumni, usually just Alumni, is an Argentine rugby union club located in Tortuguitas, Greater Buenos Aires. The senior squad currently competes at Top 12, the first division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires league system.
The club has ties with former football club Alumni because both were established ... | [
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"association football",
"Torneo de la URBA",
"Buenos Aires Football Club (1886)",
"Argentina",
"Tortuguitas",
"Jockey Club de Rosario",
"Greater Buenos Aires",
"Local derby",
"Alumni Athletic Club",
"Belgrano Athletic Club",
"Alexander Watson Hutton",
"Buenos Aires English Hi... |
928 | Axiom | An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident'.
The precise definition varies... | [
"Boolean algebra (logic)",
"general relativity",
"first-order logic",
"Maxwell's equations",
"linear space",
"abstract algebra",
"Euclid's Elements",
"pseudo-Riemannian",
"Logical connective",
"Principle",
"Peano axioms",
"homology theory",
"polygon",
"Grothendieck universe",
"Henri Poin... |
929 | Alpha | Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , which is the West Semitic word for "ox". Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter A and the Cyrillic letter А.
==Uses==
==... | [
"Lamprias",
"planet",
"physics",
"Unicode",
"Attic Greek",
"Thebes (Greece)",
"Glottal stop (letter)",
"West Semitic",
"Boeotia",
"polytonic Greek",
"ordinal number",
"Aleph",
"diacritic",
"epsilon",
"alpha radiation",
"phoneme",
"eta",
"Modern Greek",
"physical chemistry",
"Ch... |
930 | Alvin Toffler | Alvin Eugene Toffler (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world's outst... | [
"mass distribution",
"information overload",
"World Affairs Council of Washington, DC",
"Westwood Memorial Park",
"trade union",
"Techno music",
"Telecommunications",
"IBM",
"Global village (term)",
"The Exponents",
"mass education",
"Paris Commune",
"McKinsey Foundation Book Award",
"Revo... |
931 | The Amazing Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man is an ongoing American superhero comic book series featuring the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man as its title character and main protagonist. Being in the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it was the character's first title, launching seven months after his introduction in the final issu... | [
"Amazing Fantasy",
"Zeb Wells",
"Joe Kelly (comics writer)",
"Todd McFarlane",
"Steve Ditko",
"Running Press",
"Christopher Yost",
"Go Down Swinging",
"Jim Mooney",
"Punisher",
"John Buscema",
"Michael Gaydos",
"Marv Wolfman",
"civil rights",
"Prowler (Marvel Comics)",
"Britannica",
... |
933 | AM | AM or Am may refer to:
==Arts and entertainment==
===Music===
A minor, a minor scale in music
A.M. (Chris Young album)
A.M. (Wilco album)
AM (Abraham Mateo album)
AM (Arctic Monkeys album)
AM (musician), American musician
Am, the A minor chord symbol
Armeemarschsammlung (Army March Collection), catalog of German mili... | [
"Anguilla",
"List of mine warfare vessels of the United States Navy",
"Copula (linguistics)",
"A minor",
"AM2 (disambiguation)",
"Automake",
"Arts et Métiers ParisTech",
"`am (disambiguation)",
"Armeemarschsammlung",
"Australian Museum",
"Chord names and symbols (popular music)",
"Aston Martin... |
951 | Antigua and Barbuda | Antigua and Barbuda is a sovereign archipelagic country composed of Antigua, Barbuda, and numerous other small islands. Antigua and Barbuda has a total area of 440 km2 (170 sq mi), making it one of the smallest countries in the Caribbean. The country is mostly flat, with the highest points on Antigua being in the Sheke... | [
"List of countries and dependencies by area",
"1994 Antiguan general election",
"Ciboney",
"Independence of Antigua and Barbuda",
"Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force",
"East Caribbean dollar",
"Paul Chet Greene",
"biocapacity",
"Leeward Islands moist forests",
"2021 Barbuda Council election",
"20... |
953 | Azincourt | Azincourt ( ; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is situated north-west of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise on the D71 road between Hesdin and Fruges.
The Late Medieval Battle of Agincourt between the English and the French took place in the commune in 1415.
==Toponym==
The name is attested ... | [
"Albert Dauzat",
"France",
"Tramecourt",
"Communes of France",
"Battle of Agincourt",
"Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise",
"Communauté de communes des 7 Vallées",
"Henry VIII",
"Grand Est",
"Fruges",
"Action Man",
"Middleham",
"archery",
"Departments of France",
"Hesdin",
"Agincourt, Meurthe-et-M... |
954 | Albert Speer | Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
An architect... | [
"Night of the Long Knives",
"Nazi gas chamber",
"Triumph of the Will",
"Junkers",
"Mannheim",
"Reichstag (Nazi Germany)",
"July 1932 German federal election",
"Nero Decree",
"Type XXIII submarine",
"Mohrenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)",
"Luftwaffe",
"Leni Riefenstahl",
"Vistula",
"Wolf's Lair",
... |
956 | Asteraceae | {{Automatic taxobox
|fossil_range = Campanian
|synonyms =
|synonyms_ref = Notable exceptions include Hecastocleis shockleyi (the only species in the subfamily Hecastocleidoideae) and the species of the genus Corymbium (the only genus in the subfamily Corymbioideae), which have one-flowered bisexual capitulas, Gundelia... | [
"José L. Panero",
"Erigeron",
"International Association for Plant Taxonomy",
"Calendula officinalis",
"Zinnia",
"Stigma (botany)",
"Corymbium",
"inulin",
"type genus",
"Constantine Samuel Rafinesque",
"Grindelia",
"Germplasm Resources Information Network",
"fructan",
"family (biology)",
... |
957 | Apiaceae | Apiaceae () or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium, and commonly known as the celery, carrot, or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants, with more than 3,800 species in about 446 genera, including such well-kn... | [
"celery",
"Eryngium maritimum",
"type genus",
"Ferula assa-foetida",
"Merosity",
"Pliny the Elder",
"Molecular phylogenetics",
"cow parsley",
"endosperm",
"stamen",
"Carl Linnaeus",
"lovage",
"Ferula moschata",
"Yareta",
"oviposition",
"caraway",
"flies",
"coriander",
"Sessility ... |
958 | Axon | An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences) is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body. The function of the axon is to transmit informati... | [
"pseudounipolar neuron",
"pyramidal cell",
"Neurilemma",
"Herbert Spencer Gasser",
"neurodegenerative disease",
"axonal transport",
"perlecan",
"group B nerve fibres",
"Vertebrate",
"anterior spinothalamic tract",
"saltatory conduction",
"lateral spinothalamic tract",
"neuroregeneration",
... |
960 | Aramaic alphabet | {{Infobox writing system
| sample = Stele Salm Louvre AO5009.jpg
| caption = Aramaic inscription from Tayma, containing a dedicatory inscription to the god Salm
| name = Aramaic alphabet
| type = Abjad
| languages = Aramaic (Syriac
Nabataean and Brahmi, and Nabataean alphabet, which had the Arabic alphabet as a descend... | [
"C",
"Kaph",
"Biblical Aramaic",
"P",
"A (Indic)",
"Ѯ",
"Tta (Indic)",
"Unicode",
"Ssa (Indic)",
"Ha (Indic)",
"Ra (Indic)",
"lingua franca",
"Т",
"Sa (Indic)",
"Hatran alphabet",
"Western Neo-Aramaic",
"Kharoṣṭhī",
"defective script",
"Talmud",
"O (Indic)",
"Alpha",
"Д",
... |
966 | American shot | An American shot or cowboy shot is a medium-long ("knee") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera. It is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, . The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the screen to the oth... | [
"Google Books",
"Charlie Chan",
"Western (genre)",
"University of Texas at Dallas",
"Howard Hawks",
"Shot (filming)",
"film criticism",
"dialogue",
"Cinema of the United States"
] |
967 | Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis | Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), or acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis, is a rare autoimmune disease marked by a sudden, widespread attack of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord. As well as causing the brain and spinal cord to become inflamed, ADEM also attacks the nerves of the central nervous sys... | [
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"paraparesis",
"varicella",
"autoimmune",
"Victoria Arlen",
"pneumococcus",
"measles vaccine",
"Adolescence",
"non-epileptic seizure",
"necrosis",
"cerebral hemispheres",
"prednisolone",
"persistent vegetative state",
"Leptospira",
"methylprednisolone",
"Great Ormond Stree... |
969 | Ataxia | Ataxia (from Greek α- [a negative prefix] + -τάξις [order] = "lack of order") is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality, speech changes, and abnormalities in eye movements, that indicates dysfunction of parts of the nervous system that coor... | [
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"neurological sign",
"adverse effect (medicine)",
"thalamus",
"autoimmune disease",
"head injury",
"Mercury (element)",
"hypermetria",
"cerebellar tonsils",
"wheelchair",
"NMDA receptor antagonist",
"Dysarthria",
"Post viral cerebellar ataxia",
"hydrocephalus",
"cerebrospinal f... |
972 | Abdul Alhazred | Redirect Necronomicon#Fictional history | [
"Necronomicon"
] |
974 | Ada Lovelace | Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machin... | [
"debutante",
"Marylebone",
"Lord Byron",
"British Computer Society",
"John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton",
"Anne Isabella Milbanke",
"Uxbridge Road",
"Romulus Linney (playwright)",
"Torridon",
"Lauren Gunderson",
"Computing Machinery and Intelligence",
"Conceiving Ada",
"BCSWomen",
"Kirkby... |
980 | August Derleth | August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre and helped found Arkham House, a publishing company which did much to introduce ha... | [
"Lin Carter",
"Proust",
"The Detroit News",
"Great Depression",
"Arthur Conan Doyle",
"Sauk Prairie, Wisconsin",
"Arkham",
"Horror fiction",
"The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia",
"parent-teacher association",
"Hamlin Garland",
"Fantasy fiction",
"Chicago Tribune",
"Toronto",
"S... |
981 | Alps | The Alps () are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
The Alpine arch extends from Nice on the western Mediterranean to Trieste on th... | [
"1924 Winter Olympics",
"Maddalena Pass",
"Lord Byron",
"compressive stress",
"war criminal",
"Transhumance in the Alps",
"Karl Blodig",
"Munich",
"Golden eagle",
"Strahlhorn",
"Grindelwald",
"Ligures",
"Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes",
"Vasily Surikov",
"Roman people",
"lithology",
"Château d... |
983 | Albert Camus | Albert Camus ( ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The M... | [
"The Possessed (play)",
"Combat (newspaper)",
"Notebooks 1942–1951",
"Notebooks 1951–1959",
"French Nietzscheanism",
"Joseph Stalin",
"Solidaridad Obrera (periodical)",
"Temple University Press",
"Arab imperialism",
"Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord",
"The Silent Men",
"Stendhal",
"pla... |