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984 | Agatha Christie | Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English author 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, the... | [
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"Great Britain commemorative stamps 2010–2019",
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"Tell Brak",
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"Doubleday & Company, Inc",
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"list of most translated individual authors",
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"... |
986 | The Plague (novel) | The Plague () is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. The plot centers around the French Algerian city of Oran as it combats a plague outbreak and is put under a city-wide quarantine. The novel presents a snapshot into life in Oran as seen through Camus's absurdist lens.
Camus used as source material the cholera ep... | [
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"The Novena",
"Neil Bartlett (playwright)",
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"André Malraux",
"Penguin Classics",
"The State of Siege",
"Stuart Gilbert",
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"1846–1860 cholera pandemic",
"Patrick Lung",
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988 | Applied ethics | Applied ethics is the practical aspect of moral considerations. It is ethics with respect to real-world actions and their moral considerations in private and public life, the professions, health, technology, law, and leadership. For example, bioethics is concerned with identifying the best approach to moral issues in t... | [
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"James Childress",
"euthanasia",
"motive (law)",
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"Whistleblowing",
"Act utilitarianism",
"paradigm",
"R. M. Hare",
"He... |
991 | Absolute value | In mathematics, the absolute value or modulus of a real number x, is the non-negative value without regard to its sign. Namely, |x|=x if x is a positive number, and |x|=-x if x is negative (in which case negating x makes -x positive), and For example, the absolute value of 3 and the absolute value of −3 is The absolute... | [
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993 | Analog signal | An analog signal (American English) or analogue signal (British and Commonwealth English) is any continuous-time signal representing some other quantity, i.e., analogous to another quantity. For example, in an analog audio signal, the instantaneous signal voltage varies continuously with the pressure of the sound waves... | [
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994 | Arecales | Arecales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely named as such only for the past few decades; until then, the accepted name for the order including these plants was Principes. The order includes palms and relatives.
==Taxonomy==
The APG IV system of 2016 places Dasypogonaceae in this order, after s... | [
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1,000 | Hercule Poirot | Hercule Poirot (, ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is Christie's most famous and longest-running character, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film a... | [
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1,002 | Miss Marple | Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Miss Marple lives in the village of St Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterised as an elderly spinster, she is one of Christie's best-known characters and has been portrayed numerous times on... | [
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1,004 | April | April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Its length is 30 days.
April is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
== His... | [
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1,005 | August | August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days.
In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, August falls in summer. In the Southern Hemisphere, the month falls during winter. In ma... | [
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1,006 | Aaron | According to the Old Testament of the Bible, Aaron
===Baháʼí Faith===
In the Baháʼí Faith, although his father is described as both an apostle and a prophet, Aaron is merely described as a prophet. The Kitáb-i-Íqán describes Imran as his father.
==In art==
Aaron appears paired with Moses frequently in Jewish and Chr... | [
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1,008 | April 6 | ==Events==
===Pre–1600===
46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1453 –... | [
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"1982",
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1,009 | April 12 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I.
467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, Bishop of York.
1012 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and blinds h... | [
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1,010 | April 15 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attac... | [
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1,011 | April 30 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. He is named admiral of the ocean sea, viceroy and governor of... | [
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1,012 | August 22 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
1153 – Crusader–Fatimid wars: The fortress of Ascalon was surrendered by Fatimid E... | [
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1,013 | August 27 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England.
1232 – Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing ... | [
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1,014 | Alcohol (chemistry) | In chemistry, an alcohol (), is a type of organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl () functional group bound to a saturated carbon atom. Alcohols range from the simple, like methanol and ethanol, to complex, like sugar alcohols and cholesterol. The presence of an OH group strongly modifies the properties of ... | [
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1,016 | Achill Island | Achill Island (; ) is an island off the west coast of Ireland in the historical barony of Burrishoole, County Mayo. It is the largest of the Irish isles and has an area of approximately . Achill had a population of 2,345 in the 2022 census.
Roughly half of the island, including the villages of Achill Sound and Bun an ... | [
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1,017 | Allen Ginsberg | Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexu... | [
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"White Shroud Poems",
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1,018 | Algebraically closed field | In mathematics, a field is algebraically closed if every non-constant polynomial in (the univariate polynomial ring with coefficients in ) has a root in . In other words, a field is algebraically closed if the fundamental theorem of algebra holds for it.
Every field K is contained in an algebraically closed field C, ... | [
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1,019 | August 6 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
686 – The Ummayad forces suffer a deceisive defeat against the pro-Alid forces under Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar in the battle of Khazir.
1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
1538 – Bogotá, Co... | [
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1,020 | Anatoly Karpov | Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, ; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, a three-time FIDE World Champion (1993, 1996, 1998), twice World Chess champion as a member of the USSR team (1985, ... | [
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1,021 | Aspect ratio | The aspect ratio of a geometric shape is the ratio of its sizes in different dimensions. For example, the aspect ratio of a rectangle is the ratio of its longer side to its shorter side—the ratio of width to height, when the rectangle is oriented as a "landscape".
The aspect ratio is most often expressed as two intege... | [
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1,022 | Auto racing | Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including non-racing disciplines.
Auto racing has existed since the invention of the auto... | [
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1,023 | Anarcho-capitalism | Anarcho-capitalism (colloquially: ancap or an-cap) is a political philosophy and economic theory that advocates for the abolition of centralized states in favor of stateless societies, where systems of private property are enforced by private agencies. Anarcho-capitalists argue that society can self-regulate and civili... | [
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1,027 | August 9 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
117... | [
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1,028 | Aristophanes | Aristophanes (; ; ) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples. Aristophanes' plays were perfo... | [
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1,029 | Albert Schweitzer | Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German and French polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of the historical Jesus as depicted by ... | [
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1,030 | Austrian school of economics | The Austrian school is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result primarily from the motivations and actions of individuals along with their self interest. Austrian-school theorists hold that economic theory should be ... | [
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1,036 | Aalborg Municipality | Ålborg Municipality () is a municipality in North Jutland Region on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality straddles the Limfjord, the waterway which connects the North Sea and the Kattegat east-to-west, and which separates the main body of the Jutland peninsula from the island of Vendsyssel-Thy no... | [
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"Limfjord",
"Conservative People's Party (Denmark)",
"Social Democrats (Denmark)",
"Denmark",
"Gmina Ośno Lubuskie",
"Nørresundby",
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1,038 | Aarhus | Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) Commercially, the city is the principal container port in the country, and major Danish companies such as Vestas, Arla Foods, Salling Group, and Jysk have their headquarters there.
==Etymology==
Aarhus is a compound of the two Old Norse words; , ge... | [
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1,043 | Northern cavefish | The northern cavefish or northern blindfish (Amblyopsis spelaea) is found in caves through Kentucky and southern Indiana. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as near threatened.
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1,046 | Abatement | Abatement refers generally to a lessening, diminution, reduction, or moderation; specifically, it may refer to:
421-a tax abatement, property tax exemption in the U.S. state of New York
Abatement ab initio, a legal doctrine that, if the accused dies before appeals are exhausted, the conviction gets vacated
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1,049 | Amateur | An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, self-taught, user-generated, DIY, and hobbyist.
== History ==
Historically, the amateur was considered to be the ideal balance between p... | [
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1,051 | Alexis Carrel | Alexis Carrel (; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles Lindbergh open... | [
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1,055 | All Souls' Day | All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by Christians on 2 November. In Western Christianity, including Roman Catholicism and certain parts of Lutheranism and Anglicanism, All Souls' Day is the third day of Allhal... | [
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1,057 | Anatole France | ' (; born ' ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant... | [
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1,058 | André Gide | André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement, to criticising imperialism between the two W... | [
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1,063 | Algorithms for calculating variance | Algorithms for calculating variance play a major role in computational statistics. A key difficulty in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.
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1,064 | Almond | The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus. Along with the peach, it is classified in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by corrugations on the shell (endocarp) surrounding the seed.
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1,069 | Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | This article is a demography of the population of Antigua and Barbuda including population density, ethnicity, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
==Population size and structure==
According to the 2011 census the estimated resident population of Antigua and Barbuda was 86,295.
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1,070 | Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a governor-general to act as vice-regal representative in the nation. A prime minister is appointed by the governor-... | [
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1,072 | Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda | Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda are via media in the telecommunications industry.
==Telephone==
Telephones – main lines in use: 37,500 (2006)
country comparison to the world: 168
Telephones – mobile cellular: 110,200 (2006) (APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel)
country comparison to the world: 177
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1,074 | Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force | The Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force (ABDF) is the armed forces of Antigua and Barbuda. The ABDF has responsibility for several different roles: internal security, prevention of drug smuggling, the protection and support of fishing rights, prevention of marine pollution, search and rescue, ceremonial duties, assistanc... | [
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1,078 | Antisemitism | Antisemitism{{Efn|Also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance has stated that the spelling without hyphenation is preferred, because the spelling with hyphenation implies that "Semitism" is a valid concept. is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against J... | [
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1,081 | Economy of Azerbaijan | | reserves = $70,1 billion (2024 est.) Since 2014, GDP growth has slowed down substantially. Gas and oil make up 90% of Azerbaijan's export revenues and 60% of its finances.
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1,082 | Geography of Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan is a country in the Caucasus region, situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and West Asia. Three physical features dominate Azerbaijan: the Caspian Sea, whose shoreline forms a natural boundary to the east; the Greater Caucasus mountain range to the north; and the extensive flatlands at the country's cen... | [
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1,087 | Foreign relations of Azerbaijan | The Republic of Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, the World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the Council of Europe... | [
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1,088 | Azerbaijani Armed Forces | The Azerbaijani Armed Forces () is the military of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It was re-established according to the country's Law of the Armed Forces on 9 October 1991. The original Azerbaijan Democratic Republic's armed forces were dissolved after Azerbaijan was absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Sovie... | [
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1,091 | Geography of Armenia | Armenia is a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region of the Caucasus. The country is geographically located in West Asia, within the Armenian plateau. Armenia is bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran, Azerbaijan's exclave Nakhchivan, and Turkey.
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1,092 | Demographics of Armenia | After registering steady increases during the Soviet period, the population of Armenia declined from its peak value of 3.633 million in 1992 to 3.075 million in 2025.For 1939–1989For 2001For 2011}}
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1,093 | Politics of Armenia | The politics of Armenia take place in the framework of the parliamentary representative democratic republic of Armenia, whereby the president of Armenia is the head of state and the prime minister of Armenia the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and the Gover... | [
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1,094 | Economy of Armenia | | components =
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| gini = 27.9 (2022)
| hdi =
| cpi = 47 out of 100 points (2023, 62nd rank)
| edbr = 47th (very easy, 2020)
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1,096 | Transport in Armenia | This article considers transport in Armenia.
==Railways==
===Total===
in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
===Broad gauge===
850 km of gauge (850 km electrified) (1995)
There is no service south of Yerevan.
City with metro system: Yerevan
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1,097 | Armed Forces of Armenia | The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia (, abbreviated ՀՀ ԶՈՒ, HH ZU), sometimes referred to as the Armenian Army (), is the national military of Armenia. It consists of personnel branches under the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, which can be divided into two general branches: the Ground Forces, and th... | [
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1,098 | Foreign relations of Armenia | Since its independence, Armenia has maintained a policy of trying to have positive and friendly relations with Iran, Russia, and the West, including the United States and the European Union. It has full membership status in a number of international organizations, such as the Council of Europe and the Eurasian Economic... | [
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1,110 | Demographics of American Samoa | Demographics of American Samoa include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects. American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean.
== Population ==
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1,111 | Politics of American Samoa | Politics of American Samoa takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the governor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular A... | [
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1,112 | Economy of American Samoa | The economy of American Samoa is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned. American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States; economic activity is strongly linked to the main customs zone of the U.S., with which American Samoa conducts the great bulk of it... | [
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1,129 | August 13 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
554 – Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him ext... | [
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1,130 | Avicenna | Ibn Sina (; – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. He is often described as the father of early modern medicine. His philosophy was of the Per... | [
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1,132 | The Ashes | The Ashes is a Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had d... | [
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1,134 | Analysis | Analysis (: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 BC), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development... | [
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1,135 | Abner Doubleday | Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his fin... | [
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1,136 | America's National Game | America's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911, that details the early history of the sport of baseball. It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
Much of the story is told first-hand; since the 1850s, Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a pi... | [
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1,140 | Amplitude modulation | Amplitude modulation (AM) is a modulation technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting messages with a radio wave. In amplitude modulation, the amplitude (signal strength) of the wave is varied in proportion to that of the message signal, such as an audio signal. This technique contrasts w... | [
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1,141 | Augustin-Jean Fresnel | Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century. He is perhaps better know... | [
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1,143 | Abbot | Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from abba, the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ab, and means "father". The female equivalent is abbess.
==Origins==
The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syr... | [
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1,144 | Ardipithecus | Ardipithecus is a genus of an extinct hominine that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene epochs in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Originally described as one of the earliest ancestors of humans after they diverged from the chimpanzees, the relation of this genus to human ancestors and whether it is a homini... | [
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1,146 | Assembly line | An assembly line, often called progressive assembly, is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed. By mechanically moving parts to workstations and transferring the unfinished product fro... | [
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1,148 | Adelaide | Adelaide ( , ; ) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Ade... | [
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1,152 | Alan Garner | Alan Garner (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of t... | [
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1,154 | August 2 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
216 BC – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.
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1,155 | Atlantic (disambiguation) | The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans, that separates the old world from the new world.
Atlantic may also refer to:
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Atlantic, Nova Scotia
Atlantic Canada
===In the United States===
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1,158 | Algebraic number | An algebraic number is a number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with integer (or, equivalently, rational) coefficients. For example, the golden ratio, (1 + \sqrt{5})/2, is an algebraic number, because it is a root of the polynomial . That is, it is a value for x for which the polynomial evaluate... | [
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1,160 | Automorphism | In mathematics, an automorphism is an isomorphism from a mathematical object to itself. It is, in some sense, a symmetry of the object, and a way of mapping the object to itself while preserving all of its structure. The set of all automorphisms of an object forms a group, called the automorphism group. It is, loosely ... | [
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1,162 | Accordion | Accordions (from 19th-century German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody s... | [
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1,164 | Artificial intelligence | Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that e... | [
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1,166 | Afro Celt Sound System | Afro Celt Sound System are a European and African group who fuse electronic music with traditional Gaelic and West African music. Afro Celt Sound System was formed in 1995 by producer-guitarist Simon Emmerson, and feature a wide range of guest artists. In 2003, they temporarily changed their name to Afrocelts before re... | [
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"Jack Bruce",
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"N'Faly Kouyate",
"Dutch Single Top 100",
"Nigel Eaton",
"Encyclopedia of Popular Music",
"Ciarán Tourish",
"Eileen Ivers",
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1,167 | Ancient philosophy | This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history ().
==Overview==
Genuine philosophical thought, depending upon original individual insights, arose in many cultures roughly contemporaneously. Karl Jaspers termed the intense period of philos... | [
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1,168 | Anaximander | Anaximander ( ; Anaximandros; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. He succeeded Thales and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and, arguably,... | [
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1,169 | APL | APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:
== Science and technology ==
132524 APL, an asteroid
Abductor pollicis longus muscle, in the human hand
Acute promyelocytic leukemia, a subtype of acute myelogenous leukemia
Applied Physics Letters, a physics journal
Nampula Airport (IATA airport code: ... | [
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"Adaptive Public License",
"Arphic Public License",
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"Advanced Phy... |
1,170 | Architect | An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose. Etymologically, the ... | [
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"South African Institute of Architects",
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1,171 | Abbreviation | An abbreviation () is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example, the term etc. is the usual abbreviation for the Latin phrase ... | [
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"LoDo, Denver",
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"Mr.",
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1,174 | Aphrodite | Aphrodite (, ) is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretised Roman counterpart , desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was la... | [
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"Laconia",
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"East Semitic",
"Xanthius",
"Lely... |
1,175 | April 1 | ==Events==
===Pre-1600===
527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April ... | [
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"1982",
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"Singapore",
"Teodoro de Villa Diaz",
"United States Navy",
"Territorial Army (United Kingdom)",
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1,176 | Antisymmetric relation | In mathematics, a binary relation R on a set X is antisymmetric if there is no pair of distinct elements of X each of which is related by R to the other. More formally, R is antisymmetric precisely if for all a, b \in X,
\text{if } \,aRb\, \text{ with } \,a \neq b\, \text{ then } \,bRa\, \text{ must not hold},
or equiv... | [
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1,177 | Aleister Crowley | Aleister Crowley ( ; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th c... | [
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"Ronald Hutton",
"François Rabelais",
"Yangon",
"Magick Without Tears",
"Warwickshire",
"Theodor Reuss",
"Rosaleen Norton",
"Agape Lo... |
1,178 | Afterlife | The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spi... | [
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"Elisabeth Kübler-Ross",
"yazata",
"confabulation",
"evil",
"Laz... |
1,181 | Astrometry | Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies. It provides the kinematics and physical origin of the Solar System and this galaxy, the Milky Way.
==History==
The history of astrometry is linked to the history of star catalogue... | [
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"Solar analog",
"United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station",
"Constantinople Observatory of Taqi ad... |
1,182 | Athena | Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most ... | [
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"Syracuse, Sicily",
"Euphranor",
"Aegina",
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1,183 | Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game | The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber. The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions; instead a simple diceless system of comparativ... | [
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... |
1,184 | Athene (disambiguation) | Athene or Athena is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology.
Athene may also refer to:
881 Athene, a main-belt asteroid
Athene (bird), a genus of small owls
Athene (Cynuria), a town in ancient Cynuria, Greece
Athene Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica
HMS Athene, an aircraft ... | [
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"Athene (bird)",
"Apollo Global Management",
"Atena (disambiguation)",
"Athene (Cynuria)",
"HMS Athene",
"USS Athene (AKA-22)",
"... |
1,187 | Alloy | An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described. Metallic alloys often have properties that differ from those of the pure elements from which they are made.
The ... | [
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"tensile strength",
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"ferromagnetic",
"cinnabar",
"soluble",
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"Benjamin Huntsma... |
1,192 | Artistic revolution | Throughout history, forms of art have gone through periodic abrupt changes called artistic revolutions. Movements have come to an end to be replaced by a new movement markedly different in striking ways.
== Scientific and technological ==
1
Not all artistic revolutions were political. Sometimes, science and technologi... | [
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"Willem de Koonin... |
1,193 | Agrarianism | Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy that advocates for rural development, a rural agricultural lifestyle, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization. Those who adhere to agrarianism tend to value traditional forms of local community over urban modernity. Agrarian politica... | [
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"Communalism (Bookchin)",
"Great Depression",
"ideology",
"France",
"custom (law)",
"Republican Party of Agricultural and Smallholder People",
"local food",
"Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union",
"National Liberal Party (Romani... |
1,194 | Atomic | Atomic may refer to:
Of or relating to the atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties
Atomic physics, the study of the atom
Atomic Age, also known as the "Atomic Era"
Atomic scale, distances comparable to the dimensions of an atom
Atom (order theory), in mathematics
Atomic (c... | [
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"Atomic (song)",
"Atomic City (disambiguation)",
"Atomic physics",
"Atomicity (database systems)",
"Atomic scale",
"Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise",
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"Atom (order theory)",
"Rockets (band)",
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"Atomic number",
"... |
1,196 | Angle | In Euclidean geometry, an angle or plane angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.
Two intersecting curves may also define an angle, which is the angle of the rays lying tangent to the respective curves at their point of intersectio... | [
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"spiral",
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