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765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion | 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... |
766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20%28law%29 | 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
The abstract of title, used in real estate transactions, is the more common form of abstract. An abstract of title lists all the owners of a piece of land... |
771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Revolutionary%20War | American Revolutionary War | The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the military conflict of the American Revolution in which American Patriot forces under George Washington's command defeated the British, resulting in the Treaty of Paris (1783) ... |
772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere | 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 moving past a point in 1 second, or electrons' worth of charge moving past a point in 1 second. It is named after French mathematician and physicist André-M... |
775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm | Algorithm | In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of 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 conditionals to di... |
777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual%20plant | 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. The length of growing seasons and period in which they take place vary according to geographical location, and may not correspond to the four traditional seasonal divisions of... |
779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthophyta | Anthophyta | The anthophytes are a paraphyletic grouping of plant taxa bearing flower-like reproductive structures. The group, once thought to be a clade, contained the angiosperms - the extant flowering plants, such as roses and grasses - as well as the Gnetales and the extinct Bennettitales.
Detailed morphological and molecular ... |
780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20%28disambiguation%29 | Atlas (disambiguation) | An atlas is a collection of maps.
Atlas may also refer to:
Mythology
Atlas (mythology), an Ancient Greek Titanic deity
Atlas, the first legendary king of Atlantis
Atlas of Mauretania, a legendary king
Places
United States
Atlas, California
Atlas, Illinois
Atlas, Texas
Atlas, West Virginia
Atlas, Wisconsin
... |
782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthwash | 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... |
783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20the%20Great | Alexander the Great | Alexander III of Macedon (; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), 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 throughout ... |
784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Korzybski | 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... |
785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids%20%28video%20game%29 | Asteroids (video game) | Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. 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 a... |
786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagales | Asparagales | Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) is an order of plants in modern classification systems such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web. The order takes its name from the type family Asparagaceae and is placed in the monocots amongst the lilioid monocots. The order has only recently been re... |
787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alismatales | 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 corm of the taro plant, Colocasia esculenta.
Description... |
788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiales | Apiales | The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families are those recognized in the APG III system. This is typical of the newer classifications, though there is some slight variation and in particular, the Torriceliaceae may also be divided.
Under this definition, well-known members include carrots, celery, parsle... |
789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterales | 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 ... |
791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid | Asteroid | An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor a comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System. They are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter.
Of the rough... |
794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocution | Allocution | An allocution, or allocutus, is a formal statement made to the court by the defendant who has been found guilty prior to being sentenced. It is part of the criminal procedure in some jurisdictions using common law.
Concept
An allocution allows the defendant to explain why the sentence should be lenient. In plea barga... |
795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affidavit | 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... |
798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aries%20%28constellation%29 | Aries (constellation) | Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere between Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east. The name Aries is Latin for ram. Its old astronomical symbol is (♈︎). It is one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains ... |
799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius%20%28constellation%29 | 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). I... |
800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime | 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, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word animation) describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin.... |
801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism | Asterism | Asterism may refer to:
Asterism (astronomy), a pattern of stars
Asterism (gemology), an optical phenomenon in gemstones
Asterism (typography), (⁂) a moderately rare typographical symbol denoting a break in passages
See also
Aster (disambiguation)
Asterisk (disambiguation) |
802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara | Ankara | Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.7 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (2,767 km2).
S... |
803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic | Arabic | Arabic (, ; , or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world. Having emerged in the 1st century AD, it is named after the Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece.
Since the 7th century, Arab... |
808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock | Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watche... |
809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda | Anaconda | Anacondas or water boas are a group of large snakes of the genus Eunectes. They are found in tropical South America. Four species are currently recognized.
Description
Although the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species, in particular, the common or green anaconda (Eunectes mu... |
824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic%20languages | Altaic languages | Altaic () is a controversial proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. The hypothetical language family has long been rejected by most comparative linguists, although it continues to be supported by a small but s... |
825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian%20German | Austrian German | Austrian German (), Austrian Standard German (ASG), Standard Austrian German (), Austrian High German (), or simply just Austrian (), is an official and standard variety of Standard High German written and spoken in Austria and Italian South Tyrol. It has the highest sociolinguistic prestige locally, as it is the varia... |
840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20choice | 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... |
841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila | Attila | Attila ( or ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death, in March 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and Eastern Europe.
During his reign, he was one of the most feared enemies of the West... |
842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean%20Sea | 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, ... |
843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Clockwork%20Orange%20%28novel%29 | A Clockwork Orange (novel) | A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 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 intent on refor... |
844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Amsterdam ( , , ; literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 921,402 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the urban area and 2,480,394 in the metropolitan area. Located in the Dutch province of... |
846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Work | 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... |
848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi | 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.
The origins of the company are complex, dating back to the early 20th century and the initial enterprise... |
849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft | 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, helicopters, airships (in... |
851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Nobel | Alfred Nobel | Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is known for creating dynamite as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. He also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patent... |
852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Graham%20Bell | Alexander Graham Bell | Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born 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.
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had a... |
854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia | Anatolia | Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in West Asia and is the western-most extension of continental Asia. The land mass of Anatolia constitutes most of the territory of contemporary Turkey. Geographically, the Anatolian region is bounded by the Turkish Straits to the north-west, the Black Sea to the ... |
856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Inc. | Apple Inc. | Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California. , Apple is the world's biggest company by market capitalization, and with the largest technology company by 2022 revenue. , Apple is the fourth-largest personal computer vendor by unit sales; the largest manufacturing co... |
857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeenshire | Aberdeenshire | Aberdeenshire (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen, which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area includes all of the area of the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire (except the area making up Aberdeen City coun... |
859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztlan%20Underground | 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 in t... |
863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Civil%20War | American Civil War | The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 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"), formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expa... |
864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Warhol | Andy Warhol | Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, producer, and leading figure in the pop art movement. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a vari... |
868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alp%20Arslan | Alp Arslan | Alp Arslan, born Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri, was the second sultan of the Seljuk Empire and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty. He greatly expanded the Seljuk territory and consolidated his power, defeating rivals to the south and northwest, and his victory over the Byzantines at the Battle ... |
869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Film%20Institute | 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
The institute is composed of leaders from the film, entertainment, b... |
872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20Kurosawa | Akira Kurosawa | was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five 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 ... |
874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Egypt | Ancient Egypt | Ancient Egypt was a civilization in Northeast Africa situated in the Nile Valley. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes (often identified with Narmer). The h... |
875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20Brothers | 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... |
876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20neuron%20diseases | 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 ... |
877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad | Abjad | An abjad (, ; also abgad) is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving 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:... |
878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida | Abugida | An abugida (, from Ge'ez: ), sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is 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, like a diacritical mark. This contrasts with a full alphabet,... |
880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA | ABBA | ABBA ( , ; formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a pa... |
881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance | 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, allegeanc... |
885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenberg | 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
Altenberg Abb... |
887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad | MessagePad | The MessagePad is a discontinued series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple Computer for the Newton platform 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 and all featured... |
888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20E.%20van%20Vogt | A. E. van Vogt | Alfred Elton van Vogt ( ; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction author. 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-twentiet... |
890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Kournikova | Anna Kournikova | Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player and American television personality. 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 her name one of the most com... |
892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons%20Maria%20Jakob | 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... |
894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism | Agnosticism | Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist."
... |
896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon | Argon | Argon is a chemical element with the 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 ti... |
897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic | Arsenic | Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, but also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. It has various allotropes, but only the grey form, which has a metallic appearance, is important to industr... |
898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony | Antimony | Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb () and atomic number 51. A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were powdered for use as medicine and cosmetics, often known by the Arabic name kohl. The... |
899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinium | Actinium | Actinium is a chemical element with the symbol Ac and atomic number 89. It was first isolated 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. Actinium gave the name to the actin... |
900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium | Americium | Americium is a synthetic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Am and atomic number 95. It is a transuranic member of the actinide series, in the periodic table located under the lanthanide element europium and was thus named after the United States by analogy.
Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group ... |
901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astatine | Astatine | Astatine is a chemical element with the 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. Conseque... |
902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom | Atom | An atom is a particle that consists of a nucleus of protons and neutrons surrounded by an electromagnetically-bound cloud of electrons. The atom is the basic particle of the chemical elements, and the chemical elements are distinguished from each other by the number of protons that are in their atoms. For example, any ... |
903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arable%20land | 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:
A more concise definition appearing in the Eurostat glossary similarly refers to actual rather than pot... |
904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium | Aluminium | Aluminium (aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals; about one-third that of steel. It has a great affinity towards oxygen, forming a protective layer of oxide on the surface when exposed to air. Al... |
905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Chemistry | Advanced Chemistry | Advanced Chemistry is a German hip hop group from Heidelberg, a scenic city 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, ... |
909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican%20Communion | Anglican Communion | The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. The traditional origins... |
910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne%20Kaijser | 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.... |
911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago | Archipelago | An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archipelago, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Lakshadweep Islands, the Galápagos I... |
914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author | Author | In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work, whether that work is in written, graphic, or recorded medium. Thus, a sculptor, painter, or composer, is an author of their respective sculptures, paintings, or compositions, even though in common parlance, an author is often thought of as the writer of ... |
915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey%20Markov | 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 Andreevich Mar... |
921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angst | Angst | Angst is fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and the words anxious and anxiety are of similar origin). The dictionary definition for angst is a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity.
Etymology
The word angst was introduced into English from the Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch word and the Germ... |
922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety | Anxiety | Anxiety is an emotion which is characterized 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 real threat, whereas anxiety is the anticipation of a future threat. It is often accompanied ... |
924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20A.%20Milne | 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 for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World War... |
925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociaci%C3%B3n%20Alumni | 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 ... |
928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom | 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 varie... |
929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha | Alpha | Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; , , or ) 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.
Us... |
930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin%20Toffler | 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... |
931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20Spider-Man | 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... |
933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM | 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 milit... |
951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua%20and%20Barbuda | Antigua and Barbuda | Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign island country in the Caribbean. It lies at the conjuncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles.
The country consists of two major islands, Antigua and Barbuda, which are approximately apart, and several smaller islands... |
953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azincourt | Azincourt | Azincourt (), historically known in English as Agincourt ( ), 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 commu... |
954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Speer | Albert Speer | Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the 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 trial and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
An archit... |
956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteraceae | Asteraceae | The family Asteraceae (), with the original name Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae were first described in the year 1740. The number of species in Ast... |
957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae | 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-know... |
958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axon | 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 informa... |
960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic%20alphabet | Aramaic alphabet | The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian tribes throughout the Fertile Crescent. It was also adopted by other peoples as their own alphabet when empires and their subjects underwent linguistic Aramaization during a language shift for governing purposes... |
966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20shot | American shot | "American shot" or "cowboy shot" is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, , and refers to a medium-long ("knee") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera. The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the screen t... |
967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute%20disseminated%20encephalomyelitis | 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... |
969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataxia | 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... |
974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada%20Lovelace | Ada Lovelace | Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) 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 machine had applications beyond pu... |
980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Derleth | 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 the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural ... |
981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps | Alps | The Alps () are the highest and most extensive mountain range that is entirely 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 Trie... |
983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Camus | Albert Camus | Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was an Algerian-French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, 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 Myth ... |
984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha%20Christie | Agatha Christie | Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, th... |
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