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Paris. Paris[a] is the capital and largest city of France, with an estimated population of 2,048,472 in January 2025[update][3] in an area of more than 105 km2 (41 sq mi). It is located in the centre of the Île-de-France region. Paris is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union. Nicknamed the City of Light... |
Palace. A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop.[1] The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome which housed the Imperial residences.[1] Most European languages ha... |
Dog. The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the gray wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred from a population of wolves during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans, over 14,000 years ago a... |
Tokyo Tower. Tokyo Tower (東京タワー, Tōkyō Tawā; pronounced [toːkʲoː taɰᵝaː] ⓘ), also known as the Japan Radio Tower (日本電波塔, Nippon denpatō) is a communications and observation tower in the district of Shiba-koen in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, completed in 1958. At 332.9 m (1,092 ft), it was the tallest tower in Japan until the... |
Nishi-Shinjuku. Nishi-Shinjuku (西新宿; lit. West Shinjuku) is a neighborhood and skyscraper business district in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, Japan. The neighborhood is located west of Shinjuku Station and consists of 8 chōme (丁目), or Streets. The region was previously called Tsunohazu (角筈). Nishi-Shinjuku was Tokyos first majo... |
Mind sport. A mind sport is a game of skill based on intellectual ability. The first major use of the term was as a result of the Mind Sports Olympiad in 1997.[1] The phrase had been used prior to this event such as backgammon being described as a mind sport by Tony Buzan in 1996; Tony Buzan was also a co-founder of t... |
Dog. The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the gray wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred from a population of wolves during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans, over 14,000 years ago a... |
Abstract strategy game. An abstract strategy game is a type of strategy game that has minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined only by player choice (with minimal or no randomness), and in which each player has perfect information about the game.[1][2] For example, Go is a pure abstract strategy game since ... |
Archipelago. An archipelago (/ˌɑːrkəˈpɛləɡoʊ/ ⓘ AR-kə-PEL-ə-goh),[1] 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 Canad... |
Hepburn romanization. Hepburn (Japanese: ヘボン式ローマ字, romanized: Hebon-shiki rōmaji, lit. Hepburn-style Roman letters) is the main system of romanization for the Japanese language. The system was originally published in 1867 by American Christian missionary and physician James Curtis Hepburn as the standard in the first ... |
Ultra-prominent peak. An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) or more; it is also called a P1500.[1] The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or from sea level if there is no... |
Physical Geography (journal). Physical Geography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of physical geography. It was established in 1980 and is published by Taylor & Francis. It was originally published by Bellwether Publishing until the start of the 34th volume in 2013, when it moved to ... |
Board game. A board game is a type of tabletop game[2][3] that involves small objects (game pieces) that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] potentially including other components, e.g. dice.[6] The earliest known uses of the term board game are b... |
East China Sea. The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. China names the body of water along its eastern coast as East Sea (Dōng Hǎi, simplified Chinese: 东海; traditional Chinese: 東海) due to direction, the name of East China Sea is otherwise designate... |
Summit. A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term top (mountain top) is generally used only for a mountain peak that is located at some distance from the nearest poi... |
Geomorphology. Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) earth μορφή (morphḗ) form and λόγος (lógos) study)[2] is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features generated by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near Earths surface. Geomorphologists seek... |
Sea of Okhotsk. The Sea of Okhotsk[a] is a marginal sea of the northwestern Pacific Ocean.[1] It is located between Russias Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japans island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a stretch of eastern Siberian coast along th... |
Chocolate Hills. The Chocolate Hills (Cebuano: Mga Bungtod sa Tsokolate, Filipino: Mga Tsokolateng Burol, or Mga Burol na Tsokolate) are a geological formation in the Philippine province of Bohol.[1] There is a minimum of 1,260 hills and possibly up to 1,776, spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometers (20 s... |
Hirohito (disambiguation). Hirohito (1901–1989) posthumously Emperor Shōwa of Japan; reigned 1926 to 1989. Hirohito may also refer to: |
Geography. Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία geōgraphía; combining gê Earth and gráphō write, literally Earth writing) is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.[1][2] Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and its human and natural complex... |
Terrain. Terrain (from Latin terra earth), alternatively relief or topographical relief, is the dimension and shape of a given surface of land. In physical geography, terrain is the lay of the land. This is usually expressed in terms of the elevation, slope, and orientation of terrain features. Terrain affects surface... |
Outline of geography. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography: Geography – study of Earth and its people.[1] As the bridge between the human and physical sciences, geography is divided into two main branches: Other branches include: Regional geography – study of world regions.... |
Planetary-mass object. A planetary-mass object (PMO), planemo,[2] or planetary body (sometimes referred to as a world) is, by geophysical definition of celestial objects, any celestial object massive enough to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium, but not enough to sustain core fusion like a star.[3][4] The purpose of this ... |
Sarandë. Sarandë (Albanian: [saˈɾandə]; Albanian definite form: Saranda; Greek: Άγιοι Σαράντα) is a city in the Republic of Albania and the seat of Sarandë Municipality. Geographically, the city is located on an open sea gulf of the Ionian Sea within the Mediterranean Sea. Stretching along the Albanian Ionian Sea Coas... |
History of geography. The History of geography includes many histories of geography which have differed over time and between different cultural and political groups. In more recent developments, geography has become a distinct academic discipline. Geography derives from the Greek γεωγραφία – geographia,[1] literally ... |
Landscape. A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.[1] A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such ... |
Vlorë County. Vlorë County (Albanian pronunciation: [vlɔɽ(ə)]; Albanian: Qarku i Vlorës) is one of the 12 counties of Albania with the city of Vlorë being the county capital. The county spans 2,706 square kilometres (1,045 sq mi) and has a total population of 146,681 people as of 2023.[2] It borders the counties of Fie... |
Aoyama, Tokyo. Aoyama (青山) is a neighborhood in Tokyo, located in the northwest portion of Minato Ward. The area is known for its international fashion houses, cafes and restaurants. Kita-Aoyama (北青山; North Aoyama) refers to the area on the north side of Aoyama-dori (Aoyama Street) between the Akasaka Palace and Aoyama... |
Land. Land, also known as dry land, ground, or earth, is the solid terrestrial surface of Earth not submerged by the ocean or another body of water. It makes up 29.2% of Earths surface and includes all continents and islands. Earths land surface is almost entirely covered by regolith, a layer of rock, soil, and minera... |
Emperor Taishō. Yoshihito (嘉仁; [a] 31 August 1879 – 25 December 1926), posthumously honored as Emperor Taishō (大正天皇, Taishō Tennō)[b], was the 123rd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1912 until his death in 1926. His reign, known as the Taishō era[c], was characterized by ... |
Dymaxion map. The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earths surface onto the unfolded net of an icosahedron. The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared to other world maps, but the interruptions ar... |
Takanawa Residence. The Takanawa Imperial Residence (高輪皇族邸, Takanawa Kōzokutei) is an Imperial residence in Tokyo. From 1931 to 2004, it was the residence of Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, and his spouse, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu. On 31 March 2020, the Emperor Emeritus Akihito and the Empress Emerita Michiko moved in. T... |
Landmass. A landmass, or land mass, is a large region or area of land that is in one piece and not noticeably broken up by oceans.[1][2] The term is often used to refer to lands surrounded by an ocean or sea, such as a continent or a large island.[3][4] In the field of geology, a landmass is a defined section of contin... |
Sesshō and Kampaku. In Japan, Sesshō (摂政) was a regent who was named to act on behalf of either a child emperor before his coming of age, or an empress regnant. The Kampaku (関白) was theoretically a sort of chief advisor for the Emperor, but was in practice the title of both first secretary and regent who assisted an ad... |
EDO. Edo or EDO may refer to: |
Yedda. Yedda was an Israeli community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) web service best known for its early commercial use of semantic search and vector-based similarity to match user questions with relevant answers and experts. Founded in late 2005 and launched publicly in early 2006, the platform grew through syndica... |
Danish Realm. The Danish Realm,[g] officially the Kingdom of Denmark,[i] or simply Denmark,[j] is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united by the Constitutional Act, which applies to the entire territory. It consists of metropolitan Denmark (sometimes called Denmark proper)[k]—the... |
Yeddo, Indiana. Yeddo is an unincorporated community in Millcreek Township, Fountain County, Indiana. Yeddo had a post office between 1881 and 1964.[3] Its name commemorates Yeddo, now known as Tokyo.[4] This Fountain County, Indiana location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Benin City. Benin City serves as the capital and largest metropolitan centre of Edo State, situated in southern Nigeria.[3] It ranks as the fourth-most populous city in Nigeria, according to the 2006 national census, preceded by Lagos, Kano, and Ibadan.[2] Benin City is located in close proximity to the Benin River, ... |
Folding screen. A folding screen, also known as pingfeng (Chinese: 屏風; pinyin: píngfēng), is a type of free-standing furniture consisting of several frames or panels, which are often connected by hinges or by other means. They have practical and decorative uses, and can be made in a variety of designs with different ki... |
Hiroshige Sekō. Hiroshige Seko (世耕 弘成, Sekō Hiroshige; born 9 November 1962) is a Japanese politician serving as a Member of the House of Councillors since 1998. He previously served as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Councillors, and was the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry f... |
Albania. Albania,[b] officially the Republic of Albania,[c] is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the sout... |
Albanian language. Albanian (endonym: shqip [ʃcip] ⓘ, gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ] ⓘ, or arbërisht [aɾbəˈɾiʃt]) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.[9] It is the native language of the Albanian people. Standard Albanian is th... |
Taxonomy (biology). In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) arrangement and -νομία (-nomia) method) is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon), and these ... |
Hiroshige III. Utagawa Hiroshige III (三代目 歌川 広重, Sandaime Utagawa Hiroshige; 1842 or 1843 – March 28, 1894) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who was a student of Utagawa Hiroshige. He was also referred to as Andō Tokubei (安藤徳兵). Born Gotō Torakichi (後藤寅吉), he was given the artistic name Shigemasa. In 1867, after Hiroshige... |
Hiroshige II. Hiroshige II (二代目 歌川広重, Ni-daime Utagawa Hiroshige; 1826 – 17 September 1869) was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e art. He inherited the name Hiroshige II following the death in 1858 of his master Hiroshige, whose daughter he married. In 1865 he moved from Edo to Yokohama after dissolving his marriage and... |
Hiroshige Koyama. Hiroshige Koyama (1937–2016) was a Japanese botanist and specialist of Asteraceae.[1][2] Koyamacalia, a genus of East Asian plants in the groundsel tribe Senecioneae,[3][4] was named for Koyama. It is listed as a synonym of Parasenecio.[5] This article about a botanist is a stub. You can help Wikiped... |
Hiroshige Yanagimoto. Hiroshige Yanagimoto (柳本 啓成, Yanagimoto Hiroshige; born October 15, 1972) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. Yanagimoto was born in Higashiosaka on October 15, 1972. After graduating from high school, he joined Mazda (later Sanfrecce Hiroshima) in 1991. He pla... |
Animal. Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms comprising the biological kingdom Animalia (/ˌænɪˈmeɪliə/[4]). With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, have myocytes and are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryoni... |
Tenno, Trentino. Tenno (Tén in local dialect) is a comune (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Trento. Tenno borders the following municipalities: Comano Terme, Fiavè, Arco, Ledro and Riva del Garda. Its neighborhood of ... |
Tennō, Akita. Tennō (天王町, Tennō-machi) was a town located in Minamiakita District, Akita Prefecture, Japan. In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 22,115 and a density of 532.76 persons per km2. The total area was 41.51 km2. On March 22, 2005, Tennō, along with the towns of Iitagawa and Shōwa (all from Minami... |
Lepidoptera. Aglossata Glossata Heterobathmiina Zeugloptera Lepidoptera (/ˌlɛpɪˈdɒptərə/ LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organis... |
Dark Sector. Dark Sector, stylized as darkSector, is a 2008 third-person shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows. The game is set in the fictional Eastern Bloc country of Lasria, and centers on protagonist Hayden Tenno (voiced by Michael Rosenbaum), a mora... |
Hydrology (disambiguation). Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets. Hydrology may also refer to: |
Insect. Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and a pair of antennae. Insects are the most dive... |
-logy. -logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία (-logía).[1] The earliest English examples were anglicizations of the French -logie, which was in turn inherited from the Latin -logia.[2] The suffix became productive in English from the 18th centu... |
Arthropod. For fossil groups, see text Arthropods (/ˈɑːrθrəˌpɒd/ AR-thrə-pod)[3][4] are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda. They possess an exoskeleton with a cuticle made of chitin, often mineralised with calcium carbonate, a body with differentiated (metameric) segments, and paired jointed appendages. In order t... |
Warframe. Warframe is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes. First released for Windows in March 2013, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 in November 2013, Xbox One in September 2014, Nintendo Switch in November 2018, PlayStation 5... |
Kuiper quadrangle. The Kuiper quadrangle, located in a heavily cratered region of Mercury, includes the young, 55-km-diameter crater Kuiper (11° S., 31.5° ), which has the highest albedo recorded on the planet,[1] and the small crater Hun Kal (0.6° S., 20.0° ), which is the principal reference point for Mercurian longi... |
Yakusha-e. Yakusha-e (役者絵), often referred to as actor prints in English, are Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century. Most strictly, the term yakusha-e refers ... |
Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese: 歌川 国芳, [ɯtaɡawa kɯɲiꜜjoɕi]; 1 January 1798[1] – 14 April 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting.[2] He was a member of the Utagawa school.[3] The range of Kuniyoshis subjects included many genres: landscapes,... |
Ancient Greek. Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή, Hellēnikḗ; [hellɛːnikɛ́ː])[1] includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (c. 1400–1200 BC), Dark Ages (c. 1200–800 BC), the Archaic ... |
Water cycle. The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle) is a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth across different reservoirs. The mass of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time.[2] However, the partitioning of the w... |
Utagawa Kunisada II. Utagawa Kunisada II (歌川国貞, 1823 – 20 July 1880) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, one of three to take the name Utagawa Kunisada. He headed the Utagawa school.[1] Little is known of Kunisada IIs early life. A pupil of Utagawa Kunisada I, he signed much of his early work Kunimasa III. His e... |
Greenland. in the Kingdom of Denmark (light green) Greenland[d] is an autonomous territory[e] in the Kingdom of Denmark.[14][15] It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. It shares a small 1.2 km border with Canada o... |
Emperor of Japan. Naruhito Fumihito |
MESSENGER. MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercurys chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field.[9][10] The name is a backronym for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging, and a reference to the messenger god Mercury... |
Hiroshige. Utagawa Hiroshige[a] (歌川 広重) or Andō Hiroshige[b] (安藤 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and fo... |
Fine Wind, Clear Morning. Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Japanese: 凱風快晴, Hepburn: Gaifū kaisei; literally South Wind, Clear Sky)[a], also known as Red Fuji (赤富士, Akafuji),[3] is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849), part of his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, dating from c. 1830 to 1832.[4] The wo... |
Emperor Kinmei. Emperor Kinmei (欽明天皇, Kinmei-tennō; 509–571) was the 29th emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2][3] His reign is said to have spanned the years from 539 to 571. Most historians support either the view that Kinmei is the first historically verifiable Japanese emperor or... |
Nihon Shoki. The Nihon Shoki (日本書紀) or Nihongi (日本紀), sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history. It is more elaborate and detailed than the Kojiki, the oldest, and has proven to be an important tool for historians and archaeologists as it includes the most... |
Hokusai (crater). Hokusai is a rayed impact crater on Mercury, which was discovered in 1991 by ground-based radar observations conducted at Goldstone Observatory.[2] The crater was initially known as feature B. Its appearance was so dissimilar to other impact craters that it was once thought to be a shield volcano. How... |
Corcyra (disambiguation). Corcyra is Latin for Corfu, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. Corcyra or Korkyra may also refer to: |
Anno Domini. The terms Anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means in the year of the Lord[1] but is often presented using our Lord instead of the Lord,[2][3] taken from the full original phrase anno Dom... |
Ionian Islands (region). The Ionian Islands Region (/aɪˈoʊniən/ eye-OH-nee-ən; Greek: Περιφέρεια Ιονίων Νήσων, romanized: Periféria Ioníon Níson, [periˈferia ioˈnion ˈnison]) is the smallest by area of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece located in the Ionian Sea. It comprises all the Ionian Islands except Ky... |
Literal translation. Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation, or word-by-word translation, or word-to-word translation is the translation of a text done by translating each word separately without analysing how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence.[1][2] In translation theo... |
Edo. Edo (Japanese: 江戸, lit. bay-entrance or estuary), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.[2] Edo, formerly a jōkamachi (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the de facto capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. Edo grew to beco... |
Impact crater. An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal collapse,[2] impact craters typically have raised rims and floors that are lower in elevation than... |
Corfu (disambiguation). Corfu (Greek: Κέρκυρα, Kerkyra) is a major island in Greece. Corfu, Kerkyra, Korkyra or Corcyra may also refer to: |
Great Wave (disambiguation). The Great Wave usually refers to The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏), a 19th-Century Japanese woodblock print by Hokusai. Great Wave or The Great Wave may also refer to: |
Mercury (planet). Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. It is a rocky planet with a trace atmosphere and a surface gravity slightly higher than that of Mars. The surface of Mercury is similar to Earths Moon, being heavily cratered, with an expansive rupes system generated from ... |
Regions of Greece. The regions of Greece (Greek: περιφέρειες, romanized: periféreies) are the countrys thirteen second-level administrative entities, counting decentralized administrations of Greece as first-level. Regions are divided into regional units, known as prefectures until 2011. The current regions were establ... |
Scotland. – in Europe (green & dark grey)– in the United Kingdom (green) Scotland[e] is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdoms land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the arc... |
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Japanese: 富嶽三十六景, Hepburn: Fugaku Sanjūrokkei) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849). The series depicts Mount Fuji from different locations and in various seasons and weather conditions. The immediate success ... |
History of Japan. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago.[1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia. During this per... |
O mark. O mark is the name of the circle symbol ◯.[citation needed] It is often used in East Asia to express affirmation. Its use is similar to that of the checkmark (✓) in the Western world. Its opposite is the X mark (✗ or ×). The symbols names and meanings vary across cultures. In Japanese it is called marujirushi (... |
Vexillological symbol. Vexillological symbols are used by vexillologists to indicate certain characteristics of flags, such as where they are used, who uses them, and what they look like. The symbols were created by vexillologist Whitney Smith and then adopted by the International Federation of Vexillological Associati... |
Body water. In physiology, body water is the water content of an animal body that is contained in the tissues, the blood, the bones and elsewhere. The percentages of body water contained in various fluid compartments add up to total body water (TBW). This water makes up a significant fraction of the human body, both by... |
Body of water (disambiguation). Body of water is an accumulation of water on the surface of a planet. Body of water may also refer to: |
Aubach (Wiehl). The Aubach is an orographically left tributary of the River Wiehl in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.[1] The Aubach rises north of Wendershagen, at the Heckenweiher, approximately 414 metres (1,358 ft) above sea level. It initially flows in a north-westerly direction. Not far from Erdingen, t... |
State flag. In vexillology, a state flag is either the flag of the government of a sovereign state (and can also be referred as a government flag and likely interchangeable with a national flag in certain scenarios), or the flag of an individual federated state (subnational administrative division).[1] A state flag is ... |
RMS Empress of Japan. RMS Empress of Japan may refer to the following ships: |
History of Japan. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago.[1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia. During this per... |
Civil flag. A civil flag is a version of the national flag that is flown by civilians on nongovernmental installations or craft. The use of civil flags was more common in the past to denote buildings or ships not crewed by the military.[1] In some countries, the civil flag is the same as the state flag but without the ... |
Hiroshima Bay. Hiroshima Bay (広島湾, Hiroshima-wan) is a bay in the Inland Sea, Japan.[1] Administratively, the bay is divided between Hiroshima and Yamaguchi Prefectures. The bays shore is a Ria. Its surface area is about 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi), with a mean depth of 25 metres (82 ft). Jaco Pastorius once... |
Itsukushima (disambiguation). Itsukushima is an island in the western part of the Inland Sea of Japan, located in the northwest of Hiroshima Bay. Itsukushima may also refer to: |
Japanese honorifics. The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of man... |
Greece. – in Europe (light green & dark grey)– in the European Union (light green) Greece,[c] officially the Hellenic Republic,[d] is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and ... |
Empress Masako. The EmperorThe Empress The Emperor EmeritusThe Empress Emerita Masako (雅子; born Masako Owada (小和田雅子, Owada Masako); 9 December 1963) is the Empress of Japan as the wife of Emperor Naruhito. Born in Minato, Tokyo, Masako was educated at Belmont High School in Massachusetts, United States, before attendi... |
Adventure Story (1961 TV play). Adventure Story is a British television play, based on the stage play by Terence Rattigan, and tells the story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of Persia.[1] It featured Sean Connery in his first starring role[2] and was praised at the time for its acting.[3] A contemporary critic... |
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