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Affirmative action in the United States | Affirmative action in the United States is a set of laws, policies, guidelines, and administrative practices "intended to end and correct the effects of a specific form of discrimination." These include government-mandated, government-sanctioned, and voluntary private programs that tend to focus on access to education ... | 6,677,413 | 2017-01 |
2008 Summer Olympics torch relay | thumb|right|The 2008 Olympic Torch in London
The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008, prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, with the theme of "one world, one dream". Plans for the relay were announced on April 26, 2007, in Beijing, China. The relay, also called by the organizers as ... | 10,932,444 | 2017-01 |
Human Development Index | thumb|550px|World map indicating the categories of Human Development Index by country (based on 2013 data, published on July 24, 2014).
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human d... | 261,460 | 2017-01 |
Guam | Guam ( or ; Chamorro: ; formally the Territory of Guam) is an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, Guam is one of five American territories with an established civilian government.." DOI Office of Insular Affairs. February 9, 2007. Office of Insular Affair... | 11,974 | 2017-01 |
Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives |
Party leaders and whips of the United States House of Representatives, also known as floor leaders, are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot. The current party leaders are: Majority (Republican) Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority (Republican) Whip Steve Scalise, Minority (Demo... | 35,098,328 | 2017-01 |
FC Barcelona | Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto "... | 68,187 | 2017-01 |
Professional wrestling | Professional wrestling is a dramatized athletic performance inspired by competitive combat sports. Taking the form of live events held by touring promotions, it is a unique style of combat based on a combination of adopted styles, which include classical wrestling, catch wrestling and various forms of martial arts, as ... | 24,864 | 2017-01 |
Strasbourg | Strasbourg (, ; Alsatian: Strossburi; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Grand Est region of France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. In 2013, the city proper had 275,718 ... | 37,407 | 2017-01 |
Richard Feynman | Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which... | 25,523 | 2017-01 |
Wood | Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees, and other woody plants. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers which are strong in tension embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in ... | 33,550 | 2017-01 |
Royal Institute of British Architects | 220px|right|thumb|RIBA Headquarters
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its charter granted in 1837 and Supplemental Charter granted in 1971.
History
Original... | 750,724 | 2017-01 |
Myanmar | Myanmar (), officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in South East Asia bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos and Thailand. About one third of Myanmar's total perimeter of 5,876 km (3,651 miles), forms an uninterrupted coastline of 1,930 km (1,200 miles) along t... | 19,457 | 2017-01 |
Paris | Paris (French: ) is the capital and the most populous city of France. It has an area of and a population in 2013 of 2,229,621 within the administrative limits. The city is both a commune and department, and forms the centre and headquarters of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an area of and a population ... | 22,989 | 2017-01 |
Southampton | Southampton, () on the south coast of England, is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire. It is south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest. It lies at the northernmost point of Southampton Water at the confluence of the Rivers ... | 7,920,751 | 2017-01 |
Georgian architecture | thumb|Middle-class Georgian house in Salisbury, England, with minimal classical detail.
thumb|Very grand terrace houses at The Circus, Bath (1754), with basement "areas" and a profusion of columns.
thumb|Function rules at Massachusetts Hall at Harvard University, 1718-20
Georgian architecture is the name given in most... | 12,924 | 2017-01 |
Madrasa | thumb|Portal of Kasımiye Medrese, Mardin, Turkey
Madrasa (, , pl. , , , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious (of any religion). The word is variously transliterated madrasah, medresa, madrassa, madraza, medrese, etc. In the West, the word usually refers to a specif... | 209,717 | 2017-01 |
Department store | A department store or magazine is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different product categories known as "departments". In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definitio... | 249,171 | 2017-01 |
Adult contemporary music | thumb|Adult contemporary artist Celine Dion is one of the biggest international stars in music history, selling more than 220 million albums worldwide.
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock musicAdult Contemporary Music. about.com. Retrieved... | 20,083,053 | 2017-01 |
Quran | The Quran ( ; , literally meaning "the recitation"; also romanized Qur'an or Koran) is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (, Allah). It is widely regarded as the finest work in classical Arabic literature.Margot Patterson, Islam Considered: A Christian View, Liturgic... | 36,922 | 2017-01 |
Near East | Near East () is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia. Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. The term has fallen into disuse in English and has been replaced by the terms Middle East and West... | 214,632 | 2017-01 |
Dutch Republic | The Dutch Republic, also known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (), Republic of the United Netherlands or Republic of the Seven United Provinces (), was a republic in Europe existing from 1581, when part of the Netherlands separated from Spanish rule, until 1795. It preceded the Batavian Republic, the K... | 52,626 | 2017-01 |
George VI | George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth.
Known as Albert until his accession, George VI was ... | 46,755 | 2017-01 |
History of science | The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural sciences and social sciences. (The history of the arts and humanities is termed as the history of scholarship.) Science is a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural w... | 14,400 | 2017-01 |
Arena Football League | The Arena Football League (AFL) is a professional indoor American football in the United States. It was founded in 1987 by Jim Foster, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America, after the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL). The AFL plays a propr... | 59,084 | 2017-01 |
Crimean War | The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to March 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. The French promot... | 46,763 | 2017-01 |
Appalachian Mountains | The Appalachian Mountains (,There are at least eight possible pronunciations depending on three factors:
Whether the stressed vowel is or ,
Whether the "ch" is pronounced as a fricative or an affricate , and
Whether the final -ia is the monophthong or the vowel sequence . ), often called the Appalachians, are a syst... | 85,023 | 2017-01 |
Canadian football | thumb|right|300px|Diagram of a Canadian football field
thumb|right|Footballs and a helmet at a Calgary Stampeders (CFL) team practice
Canadian football () is a form of gridiron football played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wideTable of exa... | 6,963 | 2017-01 |
Association football | Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer,See: Names for association football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played o... | 10,568 | 2017-01 |
Infrared | thumb|right|A false color image of two people taken in long-wavelength infrared (body-temperature thermal) light.
thumb|right|This infrared space telescope image has (false color) blue, green and red corresponding to 3.4, 4.6, and 12 µm wavelengths, respectively.
Infrared radiation, or simply infrared or IR, is elect... | 15,022 | 2017-01 |
Dutch language | {{Infobox language
| name = Dutch
| nativename = Nederlands
| pronunciation =
| states = Mainly the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname; also in Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, as well as France (French Flanders).
| region = Mainly Western Europe, today also in Africa, South America and the Cari... | 19,985,174 | 2017-01 |
Eritrea | Eritrea ( or ), officially the State of Eritrea,ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-13 International Organization for Standardization is a country in the Horn of Africa. With its capital at Asmara, it is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeastern and eastern parts of Erit... | 17,238,590 | 2017-01 |
Catalan language | Catalan (;Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh; also or autonym: català ) is a Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin and named after the medieval Principality of Catalonia, in northeastern modern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of A... | 5,282 | 2017-01 |
Samoa | The Independent State of Samoa (, ), commonly known as Samoa () and, until 1997, known as Western Samoa, is a unitary parliamentary democracy with eleven administrative divisions. The two main islands are Savai'i and Upolu with four smaller islands surrounding the landmasses. The capital city is Apia. The Lapita people... | 27,238 | 2017-01 |
Sexual orientation | Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generally subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality, while asexual... | 29,252 | 2017-01 |
Atlantic City, New Jersey | Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk and beach. In 2010, it had a population of 39,558.Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February ... | 106,211 | 2017-01 |
Classical music | right|thumb|350px|Montage of male classical music composers. From left to right:Top row: Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven;second row: Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi;third row: Johann Strau... | 6,668,778 | 2017-01 |
Dominican Order | The Order of Preachers (, postnominal abbreviation O.P.), also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216. Members of the order, who are referred... | 8,973 | 2017-01 |
Warsaw Pact | The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance () and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military co... | 33,622 | 2017-01 |
Antarctica | Antarctica (US English , UK English or ) is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At , it is the fifth-largest continent. For compa... | 18,959,138 | 2017-01 |
Lancashire | Lancashire (, ;"The Phonology of English Dialects in the North of England" in Kortmann, B and Schneider, E. W. (eds.) A Handbook of Varieties of English, Volume I. Berlin: Mouton, 2004, 130. archaically the County Palatine of Lancaster; abbreviated Lancs.) is a non-metropolitan ceremonial county in north west England... | 50,435 | 2017-01 |
American Idol | {{Infobox television
| show_name = American Idol
| image = American_Idol_logo.png
| show_name_2 = American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (season 1)American Idol: The Farewell Season (season 15)
| genre = Reality television
| creator = Simon Fuller
| presenter =
| judges =
| theme_music_composer =
| countr... | 191,890 | 2017-01 |
John von Neumann | John von Neumann (; , ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and ... | 15,942 | 2017-01 |
Copper | Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a reddish-orange color. Copper is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, as a building material, and... | 125,293 | 2017-01 |
Southern Europe | Southern Europe is the southern region of the European continent. Most definitions of Southern Europe, also known as Mediterranean Europe, include the countries of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the Italian peninsula, Southern France, Greece and Malta.Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Dr Al... | 410,666 | 2017-01 |
Ottoman Empire | The Ottoman Empire (; , ; Modern Turkish: or ), also known as the Turkish Empire,"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" Ottoman Turkey, was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Os... | 22,278 | 2017-01 |
General Electric |
General Electric, often abbreviated as GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in New York, and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. As of 2016, the company operates through the following segments: Power & Water, Oil and Gas, Aviation, Healthcare, Transportation and Capital which c... | 12,730 | 2017-01 |
Heian period | The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185."Heian period". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2007-04-24. The period is named after the capital city of Heian-kyō, or modern Kyōto. It is the period in Japanese history when Buddhism, Taoism and other Chinese influences were at their... | 154,723 | 2017-01 |
Humanism | Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and affirms their ability to improve their lives through the use of reason and ingenuity as opposed to submitting blindly to tradition and authority or sinking into cruelty and brutality.N... | 5,135,982 | 2017-01 |
Digestion | Digestion is the breakdown of large insoluble food molecules into small water-soluble food molecules so that they can be absorbed into the watery blood plasma. In certain organisms, these smaller substances are absorbed through the small intestine into the blood stream. Digestion is a form of catabolism that is often d... | 165,423 | 2017-01 |
Unicode | thumb|right|180px|Logo of the Unicode Consortium.
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) standard and published as The Unicode Stand... | 31,742 | 2017-01 |
Computer | A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. The ability of computers to follow a sequence of operations, called a program, make computers very flexible and useful. Such computers are used as control systems for a very wide variety of ind... | 7,878,457 | 2017-01 |
United States dollar | {{Infobox currency
| currency_name_in_local =
| image_1 = USDnotes.png
| image_title_1 = Federal Reserve Notes
| iso_code = USD
| iso_number = 840
| iso_exponent = 2
|using_countries = Alongside East Timor centavo coinsAlongside Ecuadorian centavo coinsAlongside Panamanian balboa coinsOfficial currency for Zimbabwean ... | 18,717,338 | 2017-01 |
FA Cup |
The FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout association football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest association football competition in the world.The oldest Cup competetion [sic] in the world is at ... | 11,237 | 2017-01 |
East Prussia | East Prussia (, ; ; ) was a province of Prussia from 1773–1829 and from 1878–1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad). East Prussia was the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast.The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (2008), East Prussia
East Prussia enclosed t... | 68,743 | 2017-01 |
Religion in ancient Rome | thumb|upright=1.3|Defaced Dea Roma holding Victory and regarding an altar with a cornucopia and other offerings, copy of a relief panel from an altar or statue base
thumb|200px|Augustus as Pontifex Maximus(Via Labicana Augustus)
Religion in ancient Rome encompasses the ancestral ethnic religion of the city of Rome tha... | 214,954 | 2017-01 |
Bermuda | Bermuda (; ) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia; and north of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The capital city is Hamilton. Bermuda is an associate member of CARICOM.
The first person known ... | 3,460 | 2017-01 |
Supreme court | A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, apex court, and highest court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of a supreme court are not subject to further review by any o... | 4,913,027 | 2017-01 |
Washington University in St. Louis | Washington University in St. Louis (WashU, or WUSTL) is a private research university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries. Twenty-five Nobel laureates have been affi... | 58,920 | 2017-01 |
Xbox 360 | The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. As the successor to the original Xbox, it is the second console in the Xbox series. The Xbox 360 competed with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV o... | 7,514,833 | 2017-01 |
Cotton | thumbnail|Manually decontaminating cotton before processing at an Indian spinning mill (2010)
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the family of Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. Under natural condit... | 36,806 | 2017-01 |
Melbourne | Melbourne ()Narrow phonetic transcription of the local pronunciation: , , . is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia. The name "Melbourne" refers to an urban agglomeration spanning which comprises the broader metropolitan area, as well as... | 17,306,237 | 2017-01 |
North Carolina | North Carolina () is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is ... | 21,650 | 2017-01 |
Tibet | 360px|Cultural/historical, (highlighted) depicted with various competing territorial claims. "Greater Tibet" as claimed by Tibetan exile groups Tibetan autonomous areas, as designated by China Tibet Autonomous Region, within China Chinese-controlled, claimed by India as part of Aksai Chin Indian-controlled, p... | 31,516 | 2017-01 |
Super Nintendo Entertainment System | The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES, and commonly shortened to Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in Sout... | 28,314 | 2017-01 |
Boston | Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston is also the seat of Suffolk County, although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999. The city proper covers with an estimated population of 667,137 in 2015, making it the largest c... | 24,437,894 | 2017-01 |
Pope Paul VI | Pope Paul VI (; ), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (; 26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978), reigned as Pope from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms, and fostered improved ecu... | 24,028 | 2017-01 |
Idealism | thumb|240px|The 20th-century British scientist Sir James Jeans wrote that "the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine."
In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or oth... | 15,428 | 2017-01 |
Education | thumb|Lecture at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, CTU, in Prague
thumb|School children sitting in the shade of an orchard in Bamozai, near Gardez, Paktya Province, Afghanistan
thumb|right|Student participants in the FIRST Robotics Competition, Washington, D.C.
Education is the process of facilitating learning, o... | 9,252 | 2017-01 |
Baptists | Baptists are individuals who comprise a group of Evangelical Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and that it must be done by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or spri... | 3,979 | 2017-01 |
Tajikistan | Tajikistan (, , or ; ), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (, Çumhuriji Toçikiston), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated 8 million people in 2013, and an area of . It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. P... | 30,108 | 2017-01 |
Tucson, Arizona | Tucson ( ) is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona. The 2010 United States Census put the population at 520,116, while the 2015 estimated population of the entire Tucson metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 980,263. The Tucson MSA forms part of the... | 57,180 | 2017-01 |
Namibia | Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia (German: ; ), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, a part of less than 20... | 21,292 | 2017-01 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning an... | 8,182 | 2017-01 |
Rule of law | thumb|right|Mosaic representing both the judicial and legislative aspects of law. The woman on the throne holds a sword to chastise the guilty and a palm branch to reward the meritorious. Glory surrounds her head, and the aegis of Minerva signifies the armor of righteousness and wisdom.Cole, John et al. The Library of ... | 25,166,191 | 2017-01 |
Jews | The Jews (; ISO 259-3 , Israeli pronunciation ), also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East.* "In the broader sense of the term, a Jew is any person belonging to the worldwide group that constitutes, through descent or conversion, ... | 25,955,086 | 2017-01 |
Norfolk Island | Norfolk Island (; Norfuk: Norf'k AilenNI Arrival Card) is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, directly east of mainland Australia's Evans Head, and about from Lord Howe Island. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia. Together with two neighbourin... | 21,422 | 2017-01 |
Police | thumb|German State Police officer in Hamburg, with the rank of Polizeihauptmeister mit Zulage (Confirmed Police Sergeant Major)
A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder. Their powers include the legitimized use of force. The t... | 23,627 | 2017-01 |
Chinese characters | Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and some other Asian languages. In Standard Chinese, and sometimes also in English, they are called hànzì (). They have been adapted to write a number of other languages including: Japanese, where they are known as kanji, Korean, where they are known as ha... | 91,231 | 2017-01 |
Annelid | The annelids (Annelida, from Latin , "little ring"), also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 17,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.Annelids - UWI St. Augustine The species exist in and have adapted to various ecologies - some in marine environments as... | 43,116,674 | 2017-01 |
Hunting | thumb|Boar hunting, Tacuinum Sanitatis (a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing; 14th century)
thumb|Mughal aristocrats hunting a blackbuck alongside an Asiatic cheetah
thumb|A 19th-century Maratha hunting party from India
thumb|Velázquez's portrait of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor General of the Souther... | 38,791 | 2017-01 |
Software testing | Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test t... | 29,090 | 2017-01 |
LaserDisc | LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in North America in 1978. Although the format was capable of offering higher-quality video and audio than its consumer rivals, VHS and Betamax, LaserDisc ne... | 255,849 | 2017-01 |
Indigenous peoples of the Americas | thumb|right|A Navajo man on horseback in Monument valley, Arizona, United States
thumb|Some Inuit people on a traditional qamutik (dog sled) in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas and their descendants.
Indígenas or pueblos indígenas (lit. ... | 2,402,376 | 2017-01 |
Portugal | Portugal (Portuguese: ), officially the Portuguese Republic () (Portuguese: ) is a country on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe. To the west and south it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east and north by Spain. The Portugal–Spain border is long... | 23,033 | 2017-01 |
Cubism | thumb|250px|Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism... | 37,803 | 2017-01 |
Bird | Birds (Aves), also known as avian dinosaurs,http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds live worldw... | 3,410 | 2017-01 |
Uranium | Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-white metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weakly radioactive because all its isotopes are unstable (with half-lives of the six na... | 31,743 | 2017-01 |
Raleigh, North Carolina | Raleigh (; ) is the capital of the state of North Carolina, the seat of Wake County in the United States. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city.Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is also called the City of Oaks. The city covers a land area of . The U.S. Census ... | 57,845 | 2017-01 |
Alexander Graham Bell | Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf... | 852 | 2017-01 |
Nutrition | right|300px|thumb|The "Nutrition Facts" table displayed on packaged food labels in the United States indicates the amounts of nutrients recommended by the US Food and Drug Administration to limit or consume according to the Daily Value
Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other su... | 21,525 | 2017-01 |
Neolithic | The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the worldFigure 3.3 from First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Be... | 21,189 | 2017-01 |
Houston | Houston ( ) is the most populous city in Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States, located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of , it also is the largest city in the Southern United States, as well as the seat of Harris... | 13,774 | 2017-01 |
Prime minister | A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime ... | 24,109 | 2017-01 |
Genome | thumb|An image of the 46 chromosomes making up the diploid genome of a human male. (The mitochondrial chromosome is not shown.)
In modern molecular biology and genetics, a genome is the genetic material of an organism. It consists of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The genome includes both the genes, (the coding regions),... | 12,388 | 2017-01 |
Utrecht | Utrecht (; ) is the capital and most populous city in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation and is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands with a population of in .
Utrecht's ancient city centre features many buildings and structures several dating as far ba... | 50,333 | 2017-01 |
Charleston, South Carolina | 200px|right|thumb|The downtown Charleston waterfront on The Battery
200px|right|thumb|Residential gardens such as this one at the Calhoun Mansion abound in Charleston
thumb|200px|Waterfront Park overlooks Charleston Harbor and offers views of Fort Sumter and the Ravenel Bridge
Charleston is the oldest and second-larges... | 61,024 | 2017-01 |
Premier League | The Premier League is an English professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League (EFL; known as "The F... | 11,250 | 2017-01 |
Presbyterianism | thumb|The burning bush is a common symbol used by Presbyterian churches. Here as used by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.Presbyterian Church in Ireland
Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Scotland.
Presbyterian churches derive their name from the pre... | 24,403 | 2017-01 |
Insect | Insects (from Latin , a calque of Greek [], "cut into sections") are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. They are the most diverse group of animals on t... | 23,366,462 | 2017-01 |
John Kerry | John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American diplomat and politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A Democrat, he previously served in the United States Senate, where he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He was the Democratic nominee in ... | 5,122,699 | 2017-01 |
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