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Detroit | Detroit () is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state.
The municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it th... | 8,687 | 2017-01 |
Culture | Culture () can be defined in numerous ways. In the words of anthropologist E.B. Tylor, it is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Alternatively, in a contemporary variant, "Culture is defined as a so... | 19,159,508 | 2017-01 |
New York City | The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the ... | 645,042 | 2017-01 |
Marshall Islands |
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (),Pronunciations:* English: Republic of the Marshall Islands * Marshallese: () is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger is... | 19,147 | 2017-01 |
Hyderabad | Hyderabad ( ; often ) is the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh. Occupying along the banks of the Musi River, it has a population of about and a metropolitan population of about , making it the fourth most populous city and sixth most populous urban agglomeration i... | 37,534 | 2017-01 |
Pharmaceutical industry | thumb|Glivec, a drug used in the treatment of several cancers, is marketed by Novartis, one of the world's major pharmaceutical companies.
The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications. Pharmaceutical companies may deal in generic or brand m... | 560,876 | 2017-01 |
Saint Helena | Saint Helena ( ) is a volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of Rio de Janeiro and west of the Cunene River, which marks the border between Namibia and Angola in southwestern Africa. It is part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Saint Helena measures... | 26,945 | 2017-01 |
Oklahoma City | Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 27th among United States cities in population. The population grew following the 2010 Census, with the population estimated to have increased to 631,346 as of July 2015. As of 2015, the Oklahoma Ci... | 57,848 | 2017-01 |
Korean War | The Korean War (in South Korean , "Korean War"; in North Korean , "Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet ... | 16,772 | 2017-01 |
Biodiversity | Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity," generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in different... | 45,086 | 2017-01 |
Brigham Young University | Brigham Young University (often referred to as BYU or, colloquially, The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and excluding online students, is the largest of any religious university and the third la... | 82,058 | 2017-01 |
Oklahoma | Oklahoma (; Cherokee: Asgaya gigageyi / ᎠᏍᎦᏯ ᎩᎦᎨᏱ; or transliterated from English as ᎣᎦᎳᎰᎹ (òɡàlàhoma), Pawnee: Uukuhuúwa, Cayuga: Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state located in the South Central United States. Oklahoma is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. The state's name is derived fro... | 22,489 | 2017-01 |
Eton College | Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor. It educates more than 1,300 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor",Nevill, p.3 ff. making it the 18th oldest Headmasters' and Headm... | 53,228 | 2017-01 |
Alfred North Whitehead | Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy,David Ray Griffin, Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion (Ithaca: Cornell Univers... | 43,395 | 2017-01 |
Russian language | Russian (, , pronounced ) is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognised territories. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine and Latvia, and to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of t... | 25,431 | 2017-01 |
A cappella | A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It contrasts with cantata, which is accompanied singing. The term "a cappella" was originally intended to differentiate between Renaiss... | 2,411 | 2017-01 |
Richmond, Virginia | Richmond ( ) is the capital of Virginia, in the United States. It is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond Region.
It was incorporated in 1742, and has been an independent city since 1871.
As of the 2010 census, the population was 204,214; in 2015, the population was e... | 53,274 | 2017-01 |
Genocide | Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part. The hybrid word "genocide" is a combination of the Greek word génos ("race, people") and the Latin suffix -cide ("act of killing").What is genocide? by Genocide Watch The United N... | 12,441 | 2017-01 |
Great Plains | The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie states and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts, but not all, of the states of Colorado, Kansas, Mon... | 51,464 | 2017-01 |
British Empire | The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It originated with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height, ... | 4,721 | 2017-01 |
Emotion | thumb|Plutchik's wheel of emotions|250px
Emotion, in everyday speech, is any relatively brief conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a high degree of pleasure or displeasure.Cabanac, Michel (2002). "What is emotion?" Behavioural Processes 60(2): 69-83. "[E]motion is any mental experience wit... | 10,406 | 2017-01 |
Comics | a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information. Comics frequently the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. Size a... | 145,443 | 2017-01 |
Napoleon | thumb|Imperial coat of arms|260px
Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoléon Bonaparte; ;"Napoleon". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. , , born "Napoleone di Buonaparte" (); 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several success... | 69,880 | 2017-01 |
MP3 | MPEG-1 and/or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is an audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback ... | 19,673 | 2017-01 |
England national football team | The England national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football in England.
England are one of the two oldest national teams in football; alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first international football match... | 9,904 | 2017-01 |
Green | Green is the color between blue and yellow on the spectrum of visible light. It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In the subtractive color system, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, us... | 12,460 | 2017-01 |
Palermo | Palermo (, Sicilian: Palermu, , from , Panormos, , Balarm; Phoenician: זִיז, Ziz) is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of i... | 38,881 | 2017-01 |
Freemasonry | thumb|alt=Standard image of masonic square and compasses|The Masonic Square and Compasses.(Found with or without the letter G)
Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifi... | 11,227 | 2017-01 |
Letter case | thumb|159px|The lower-case "a" and upper-case "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the alphabet.
In orthography and typography, letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also uppercase, capital letters, capitals, caps, large letters, or more formal... | 625,125 | 2017-01 |
Communications in Somalia | thumb|right|170px|The Hormuud Telecom building in Mogadishu.
Communications in Somalia encompasses the communications services and capacity of Somalia. Telecommunications, internet, radio, print, television and postal services in the nation are largely concentrated in the private sector. Several of the telecom firms ha... | 27,363 | 2017-01 |
Exhibition game | thumb|right|333px|Sydney FC playing a friendly match against the Los Angeles Galaxy at ANZ Stadium in 2007.
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, a scrimmage, a demonstration, a preseason game, a warmup match, or a preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money... | 977,090 | 2017-01 |
Hard rock | Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with pianos and keyboards.
Hard rock developed into a major... | 124,802 | 2017-01 |
Somalis |
Somalis (, ) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa (Somali Peninsula). The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. They are predominantly Sunni Muslim. Ethnic Somalis number around 16-20 million and are principally conce... | 1,571,696 | 2017-01 |
University | thumb|300px|Degree ceremony at the University of Oxford. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor in MA gown and hood, Proctor in official dress and new Doctors of Philosophy in scarlet full dress. Behind them, a bedel, a Doctor and Bachelors of Arts and Medicine graduate.
A university (, "a whole", "a corporation"Fortescue, J. 8 Mod.... | 19,725,260 | 2017-01 |
Pacific War | The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War,Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War, Harvard University Press, 2001, p. 143 was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and East Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean a... | 342,641 | 2017-01 |
San Diego | San Diego (Spanish for "Saint Didacus") is a major city in California, United States. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico.
With an estimated population of 1,394,928 as of July 1, 201... | 28,504 | 2017-01 |
British Isles | The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles."British Isles", Encyclopædia Britannica Situated in the North Atlantic, the islands have a total area of approximately 315,159 km2, and a ... | 3,736 | 2017-01 |
Mosaic | thumb|Irano-Roman floor mosaic detail from the palace of Shapur I at Bishapur.
thumb|Cone mosaic courtyard from Uruk in Mesopotamia 3000 BC
A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is often used in decorative art or as interior decorat... | 61,309 | 2017-01 |
Pesticide | thumb|right|A crop-duster spraying pesticide on a field
thumb|A Lite-Trac four-wheeled self-propelled crop sprayer spraying pesticide on a field
Pesticides are substances meant for attracting, seducing, and then destroying any pest.US Environmental (July 24, 2007), What is a pesticide? epa.gov. Retrieved on September ... | 48,340 | 2017-01 |
University of Notre Dame | The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame ) is a Catholic research university located adjacent to South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. In French, Notre Dame du Lac means "Our Lady of the Lake" and refers to the university's patron saint, the Virgin Mary. The main campus covers in a suburban sett... | 146,269 | 2017-01 |
Hunter-gatherer | A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.
Hunting and gathering was humanity's first and most successful adaptation, occupying ... | 210,098 | 2017-01 |
Hokkien | Hokkien (from ) is a group of Southern Min (Min Nan) Chinese dialects spoken throughout Southeastern China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and by other overseas Chinese. Hokkien originated in southern Fujian, the Min-speaking province. It is closely related to Teochew, though there is limited mutual intelligibility, and is s... | 18,978,679 | 2017-01 |
Economy of Greece | The economy of Greece is the 46th largest in the world with a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of $194.851 billion per annum. It is also the 54th largest in the world by purchasing power parity, at $288.245 billion per annum. As of 2015, Greece is the fifteenth-largest economy in the 28-member European Union. Greec... | 12,113 | 2017-01 |
Windows 8 | Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. Development of Windows 8 started before the release of its predecessor, Windows 7, in 2009. It was announced at CES 2011, and followed by the release of three pre-release versions from Septemb... | 24,806,506 | 2017-01 |
Nintendo Entertainment System | The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo.
The best-selling gaming console of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. With the NES, Nintendo introduc... | 18,944,028 | 2017-01 |
Immaculate Conception | {{Infobox saint
|name=Immaculate Conception of Mary
|feast_day=December 8
|venerated_in=Roman Catholic ChurchSome Oriental Orthodox Churches Anglican Communion
|image=Murillo immaculate conception.jpg
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|caption=La Purísima Inmaculada Concepciónby Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1678, now in Museo del Prado, ... | 15,256 | 2017-01 |
Southeast Asia | Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies near the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic and volcanic activity. Southeast Asia consists of two g... | 28,741 | 2017-01 |
Rajasthan | Rajasthan ( ; literally, "Land of Kings")Tara Boland-Crewe, David Lea, The Territories and States of India, p. 208. is India's largest state by area ( or 10.4% of India's total area). It is located on the western side of the country, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert (also known as the "R... | 26,291 | 2017-01 |
Mammal | Mammals are any vertebrates within the class Mammalia ( from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles and birds by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones and mammary glands. The sister group of mammals may be the extinct Haldanodon. ... | 18,838 | 2017-01 |
Communication | Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
The basic steps of communication are:
The forming of communicative intent.
Message composition.
Message encoding ... | 5,177 | 2017-01 |
Greeks | The Greeks or Hellenes ( ) are an ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Turkey, Sicily, Egypt and, to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world..
Greek colonies and communities have b... | 42,056 | 2017-01 |
Chihuahua (state) | Chihuahua (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua (), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Its capital city is Chihuahua City.
It is located in Northwestern Mexico and is bordered by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the southwest, Dur... | 23,962,301 | 2017-01 |
Database | A database is an organized collection of data. It is the collection of schemas, tables, queries, reports, views, and other objects.
The data are typically organized to model aspects of reality in a way that supports processes requiring information, such as modelling the availability of rooms in hotels in a way that sup... | 8,377 | 2017-01 |
Orthodox Judaism | Orthodox Judaism is the approach to religious Judaism which subscribes to a tradition of mass revelation and adheres to the interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Tannaim and Amoraim. Orthodox Judaism includes movements such as Modern Orthodox Judai... | 22,518 | 2017-01 |
Ashkenazi Jews |
thumb|300px|right|The Jews in Central Europe (1881)
Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim (, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singular: , Modern Hebrew: ; also ),Ashkenaz, based on and his explanation of Genesis 10:3, is considered to be the progenitor of the ancient Gauls (the peo... | 150,184 | 2017-01 |
Immunology | Immunology is a branch of biology that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms.Janeway's Immunobiology textbook Searchable free online version at the National Center for Biotechnology Information It was the Russian biologist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov who boosted studies on immunology, and received the Nobel Pri... | 14,959 | 2017-01 |
Flowering plant | The flowering plants (angiosperms), also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approx. 13,164 known genera and a total of c. 295,383 known species. Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants; they are distinguished from gymnosperms by charact... | 18,967 | 2017-01 |
Capital punishment in the United States | thumb|250px|A map showing the use of the death penalty in the United States by individual states. Note that the death penalty is used throughout the United States for certain federal crimes.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 31 states, the federal government, and the U.S. mi... | 412,425 | 2017-01 |
Switzerland | Switzerland (), officially the Swiss Confederation, is a federal republic in Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities.Bern is referred to as "federal city" (, , . Swiss law does not designate a capital as such, but the federal parliament and government are located i... | 26,748 | 2017-01 |
Beyoncé | Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, lyricist and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathe... | 83,688 | 2017-01 |
Tristan da Cunha | thumb|right|Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha
thumb|Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, Tristan da Cunha
thumb|Housing in Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha (), colloquially Tristan, is the name of both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabit... | 31,361 | 2017-01 |
Diarrhea | Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day. It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss. Signs of dehydration often begin with loss of the normal stretchiness of the skin and irritable behaviour. This can progres... | 53,951 | 2017-01 |
Architecture | thumb|upright=2|alt=View of Florence showing the dome, which dominates everything around it. It is octagonal in plan and ovoid in section. It has wide ribs rising to the apex with red tiles in between and a marble lantern on top.|Brunelleschi, in the building of the dome of Florence Cathedral in the early 15th century,... | 21,296,224 | 2017-01 |
East India Company |
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company,The Dutch East India Company was the first to issue public stock. which was formed to pursue trade with the East ... | 43,281 | 2017-01 |
Aspirated consonant | In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most Indian... | 3,134 | 2017-01 |
Valencia | Valencia (; ), officially València (), is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, with around 800,000 inhabitants in the administrative centre. Its urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 1.5–1.6 mil... | 63,861 | 2017-01 |
Gene | A gene is a locus (or region) of DNA which is made up of nucleotides and is the molecular unit of heredity.Slack, J.M.W. Genes-A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press 2014 The transmission of genes to an organism's offspring is the basis of the inheritance of phenotypic traits. Most biological traits are und... | 4,250,553 | 2017-01 |
Crucifixion of Jesus | thumb|right|Christ Crucified (c. 1632) by Diego Velázquez. Museo del Prado, Madrid
The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st century Judea, most probably between the years 30 and 33 AD. Jesus' crucifixion is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, attested to by other ancient... | 22,852,566 | 2017-01 |
Asthma | Asthma is a common long term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. These episodes may occur a few times a day o... | 44,905 | 2017-01 |
Central African Republic | The Central African Republic (CAR; Sango: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka; , or ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo to the southwest and Cameroon to the west. The C... | 5,478 | 2017-01 |
Predation | thumb|A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) as the predator feeding on a bearded seal in Svalbard, Norway
thumb|Indian python swallowing a small chital deer at Mudumalai National Park
thumb|Meat ants feeding on a cicada; some species can prey on individuals of far greater size, particularly when working cooperatively.
In an ... | 57,559 | 2017-01 |
Computer security | Computer security, also known as cybersecurity or IT security, is the protection of computer systems from the theft or damage to the hardware, software or the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.
It includes controlling physical access to the hardware, as well a... | 7,398 | 2017-01 |
Protestantism | Protestantism is a form of Christianity which originated with the Reformation, a movement against what its followers considered to be errors in the Roman Catholic Church.Oxford Dictionary It is one of the three major divisions of Christendom, together with Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The term derives from the lett... | 25,814,008 | 2017-01 |
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
Russia (; ; from the — Rus'), officially known as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; ) and the Russian FederationSee for example, the log of the meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on February 19, 1954 (in Russian) () commonly referred to as Soviet RussiaDeclaration of R... | 24,795,561 | 2017-01 |
Israel | Israel (; ; ), officially known as the State of Israel ( ; ), is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the West... | 9,282,173 | 2017-01 |
Neoclassical architecture | thumb|300px|The Cathedral of Vilnius
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form, it is a style principally derived from the architecture of classical antiquity, the Vitruvian principles, and the work of the Italian arc... | 2,682,331 | 2017-01 |
Elevator | right|thumb|A set of lifts in the lower level of Borough station on the London Underground Northern line. The "up" and "down" arrows indicate each lift's position and direction of travel. Notice how the next lift is indicated with a right and left arrow by the words "Next Lift" at the top.
thumb|This elevator to the A... | 19,373,997 | 2017-01 |
Frédéric Chopin | thumb|Photograph of Chopin by Bisson,
center|150px|alt=Chopin's signature
Frédéric François Chopin (; ; 1 March 181017 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as ... | 10,823 | 2017-01 |
Group (mathematics) | thumb|right|The manipulations of this Rubik's Cube form the Rubik's Cube group.
In mathematics, a group is an algebraic structure consisting of a set of elements equipped with an operation that combines any two elements to form a third element. The operation satisfies four conditions called the group axioms, namely c... | 19,447 | 2017-01 |
Glacier | thumb|The Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram, Baltistan. At in length, it is one of the longest alpine glaciers on earth.
thumb|Ice calving from the terminus of the Perito Moreno Glacier in western Patagonia, Argentina
thumb|The Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier of the Alps, in Switzerland
thumb|The Quelccaya Ice Cap... | 12,463 | 2017-01 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (, ; 15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt, serving from 1956 until his death. Nasser led the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year. Following a 1954 attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member, he c... | 51,879 | 2017-01 |
Incandescent light bulb | thumb|upright|A 230-volt incandescent light bulb, with a 'medium' sized E27 (Edison 27 mm) male screw base. The filament is visible as the horizontal line between the vertical supply wires.
thumb|SEM image of a tungsten filament of incandescent light bulb.
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent l... | 47,139 | 2017-01 |
Old English | Old English () or Anglo-SaxonBy the 16th century the term Anglo-Saxon came to refer to all things of the early English period, including language, culture, and people. While it remains the normal term for the latter two aspects, the language began to be called Old English towards the end of the 19th century, as a resul... | 22,667 | 2017-01 |
Antenna (radio) | In radio and electronics, an antenna (plural antennae or antennas), or aerial, is an electrical device which converts electric power into radio waves, and vice versa. It is usually used with a radio transmitter or radio receiver. In transmission, a radio transmitter supplies an electric current oscillating at radio f... | 187,317 | 2017-01 |
States of Germany | Germany is a federal republic consisting of sixteen federal states (, plural Länder; informally also Bundesland, plural Bundesländer). Since today's Germany was formed from an earlier collection of several states, it has a federal constitution, and the constituent states retain a measure of sovereignty.
With an emphas... | 217,450 | 2017-01 |
IBM | International Business Machines Corporation (commonly referred to as IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "Internati... | 40,379,651 | 2017-01 |
Virgil | Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three acclaimed works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor... | 32,359 | 2017-01 |
Montana | Montana is a state in the Western region of the United States. The state's name is derived from the Spanish word (mountain). Montana has several nicknames, although none official, including "Big Sky Country" and "The Treasure State", and slogans that include "Land of the Shining Mountains" and more recently "The Last... | 19,978 | 2017-01 |
Pain | Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli, such as stubbing a toe, burning a finger, putting alcohol on a cut, or bumping the "funny bone".The examples represent respectively the three classes of nociceptive pain - mechanical, thermal and chemical - and neuropathic pain. Because it is a ... | 24,373 | 2017-01 |
Mexico City | Mexico City, officially City of Mexico ( , ; abbreviated as "CDMX"), is the capital and most populous city of the United Mexican States. As an "alpha" global city, Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in the Americas. It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the h... | 18,987 | 2017-01 |
Infection | Infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to these organisms and the toxins they produce.Definition of "infection" from several medical dictionaries - Retrieved on 2012-04-03 Infectious disease, also known as transmissible d... | 37,220 | 2017-01 |
Slavs | thumb|275px|Distribution of Slavic-speaking populations in Europe.
Slavs are the largest Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Europe. They are native to Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Northeastern Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. Slavs speak Slavic languages of the Balto-Slavic language gro... | 29,440 | 2017-01 |
Friedrich Hayek | Friedrich Hayek CH (; 8 May 189923 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and frequently referred to as F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with ... | 11,646 | 2017-01 |
Alaska | Alaska () is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east; its most extreme western part is Attu Island; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the C... | 624 | 2017-01 |
Buddhism | thumb|alt=standing Buddha statue with draped garmet and halo|Standing Buddha statue at the Tokyo National Museum. One of the earliest known representations of the Buddha, 1st–2nd century CE.
Buddhism ( or ) is a religion"Buddhism". (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 26, 2009, from Encyclopædia Brita... | 3,267,529 | 2017-01 |
Kathmandu | Kathmandu (; , Nepali pronunciation: ) is the capital city of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, the largest Himalayan state in Asia. It is the largest metropolis in Nepal, with a population of 1.4 million in the city proper, and 5 million in its urban agglomeration across the Kathmandu Valley, which includes th... | 17,168 | 2017-01 |
Yale University | Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in Saybrook Colony to train Congregationalist ministers, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
The "Collegiate School" moved to New Haven in 1716, and shortly after wa... | 34,273 | 2017-01 |
Guinea-Bissau | Guinea-Bissau (, ), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (, ), is a country in West Africa. It covers with an estimated population of 1,704,000.
Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Gabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire. Parts of this kingdom persisted until the 18th century, while a few others were u... | 12,186 | 2017-01 |
Anti-aircraft warfare | thumb|300px|American troops mount a Swedish Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943
Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action."AAP-6 They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, a... | 146,640 | 2017-01 |
Solar energy | thumb|right|300px|The source of our solar power: The Sun
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis.
It is an im... | 27,743 | 2017-01 |
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