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Alternative_medicine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine
1,845
Alternative medicine. Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method, is not part of biomedicine, or is contradicted by scientific evidence or established science. It consists of a wide variety...
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Archimedean_solid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_solid
1,847
Archimedean solid. In geometry, an Archimedean solid is one of the 13 solids first enumerated by Archimedes. They are the semi-regular convex polyhedrons composed of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices, excluding the 5 Platonic solids (which are composed of only one type of polygon) and excluding the prisms ...
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Antiprism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprism
1,851
Antiprism. In geometry, an "n"-sided antiprism is a polyhedron composed of two parallel copies of some particular "n"-sided polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. Antiprisms are a subclass of the prismatoids. Antiprisms are similar to prisms except the bases are twisted relative to each other, and that...
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Natural_history_of_Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_history_of_Africa
1,853
Natural history of Africa. The natural history of Africa encompasses some of the well known megafauna of that continent. Natural history is the study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and interrelationships. Flora. The vegetation of Africa follows very closely the di...
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Geography_of_Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Africa
1,854
Geography of Africa. Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface. Within its regular outline, it comprises an area of, including adjacent islands. Its highest mountain is Mount Kilamanjaro, its largest lake ...
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Approval_voting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
1,857
Approval voting. Approval voting is a single-winner voting method used for elections. Each voter may 'approve' of (i.e., select) any number of candidates. If there are "n" candidates, then there will be 2"n" possible outcomes for a voter's ballot. It is also possible for the voter to vote for all of the candidates or n...
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Arizona_State_University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_State_University
1,859
Arizona State University. Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public metropolitan research university located on five campuses across the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona. The 2016 university ratings by "U.S. News & World...
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Astoria,_Oregon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria%2C_Oregon
1,864
Astoria, Oregon. Astoria is the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor. His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1811. Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on...
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Alarums_and_Excursions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarums_and_Excursions
1,866
Alarums and Excursions. "Alarums and Excursions" ("A&E") is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold (at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of "Dungeons & Dragons" was taking up too much space in APA-L, the APA of Los Angeles's SF Fandom, usually collated at the Los Angeles Science...
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Alfred_Jarry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jarry
1,869
Alfred Jarry. Alfred Jarry (; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play "Ubu Roi" (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics. Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, and his mother was from Brittany. He was associated with the Symbo...
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Amalric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalric
1,870
Amalric. Amalric or Amalaric (also Americ, Almerich, Emeric, Emerick and other variations) is a personal name derived from the tribal name "Amal" (referring to the Gothic Amali) and "ric" (Gothic "reiks") meaning "ruler, prince".
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Amalric_of_Jerusalem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalric_of_Jerusalem
1,871
Amalric of Jerusalem. Amalric (;; 1136 – 11 July 1174) was King of Jerusalem from 1163, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon before his accession. He was the second son of Melisende of Jerusalem and Fulk of Jerusalem, and succeeded his older brother Baldwin III. During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the...
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Aimery_of_Cyprus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimery_of_Cyprus
1,872
Aimery of Cyprus. Aimery (Latin "Aimericus"; 1145 – 1 April 1205), born Aimery of Lusignan, was the second King of Cyprus (1194–1205) and tenth King of Jerusalem (1197–1205). He was an older brother of Guy of Lusignan. Older scholarship mistook the names Aimery and Amalric (Amaury) as variant spellings of the same name...
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Anthemius_of_Tralles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthemius_of_Tralles
1,873
Anthemius of Tralles. Anthemius of Tralles (, "Anthémios o Trallianós";  – 533  558) was a Greek from Tralles who worked as a geometer and architect in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. With Isidore of Miletus, he designed the Hagia Sophia for Justinian I. Life. Anthemius was one of the five sons of ...
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Absalon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalon
1,874
Absalon. Absalon or Axel (– 21 March 1201) was a Danish archbishop and statesman, who was the Bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and Archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death. He was the foremost politician and churchfather of Denmark in the second half of the 12th century, and was the closest advisor of King Vald...
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Adhemar_of_Le_Puy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhemar_of_Le_Puy
1,875
Adhemar of Le Puy. Adhemar (also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz) de Monteil (died 1 August 1098) was one of the principal figures of the First Crusade and was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087. Life. At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Adhemar showed great zeal for the crusade (there is evidence Urban II had c...
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Alphonse,_Count_of_Poitiers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse%2C_Count_of_Poitiers
1,878
Alphonse, Count of Poitiers. __NOTOC__ Alphonse or Alfonso (11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse (as Alphonse II) from 1249. Birth and early life. Born at Poissy, Alphonse was a son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile. He was a younger brother of Lo...
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Alfonso_Jordan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Jordan
1,879
Alfonso Jordan. Alfonso Jordan (;;;) (1103–1148) was the Count of Tripoli (1105–09), Count of Rouergue (1109–48) and Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence and Duke of Narbonne (1112–48, as Alfons I). Life. He was the son of Raymond IV of Toulouse by his third wife, Elvira of Castile. He was born in the castle of Mont...
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Ambroise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise
1,880
Ambroise. Ambroise, sometimes Ambroise of Normandy, (flourished c. 1190) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called "L'Estoire de la guerre sainte", which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader. The poem is known to us only through...
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Art_Deco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco
1,881
Art Deco. Art Deco (), or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France just before World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II. It took its name, short for "Arts Décoratifs", from the Exposition Internat...
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ASCII_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art
1,884
ASCII art. ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characte...
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Alexius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexius
1,887
Alexius. Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios (, polytonic, "defender", cf. Alexander), especially common in the later Byzantine Empire. Variants include Alexis with the Russian Aleksey and its Ukrainian counterpart Oleksa/Oleksiy deriving from this form. The female form is Alexia () and its variants...
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American_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English
1,890
American English. American English, also called United States English or simply U.S. English, is the set of dialects of the English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and is the common language used by the federal government, considered the "de facto" l...
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Albert_Spalding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spalding
1,893
Albert Spalding. Albert Goodwill Spalding (September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915) was an American pitcher, manager and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company. He played major league baseball between 1871 and 1878. A popular myth is that Spalding...
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Africa_Alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Alphabet
1,894
Africa Alphabet. The Africa Alphabet (also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet) was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann. He developed it with a group of Africanists at the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (later the IAI) in London. Its aim was to enable people to ...
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Acquire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquire
1,896
Acquire. "Acquire" is a board game designed by Sid Sackson. The game was originally published in 1962 by 3M as a part of their bookshelf games series. In most versions, the theme of the game is investing in hotel chains. In the 1990s Hasbro edition, the hotel chains were replaced by generic corporations, though the act...
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Australian_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English
1,897
Australian English. Australian English (AusE, AuE, AusEng, AustralE, en-AU) is a major variety of the English language, used throughout Australia. Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is the country's "de facto" official language and is the first language of the majority of th...
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American_Airlines_Flight_77
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77
1,902
American Airlines Flight 77. American Airlines Flight 77 was a scheduled American Airlines domestic transcontinental passenger flight from Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California. The Boeing 757-223 aircraft serving the flight was hija...
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Ambush
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambush
1,905
Ambush. An ambush is a long-established military tactic in which combatants take advantage of concealment and the element of surprise to attack unsuspecting enemy combatants from concealed positions, such as among dense underbrush or behind hilltops. Ambushes have been used consistently throughout history, from ancient...
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Abzyme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abzyme
1,908
Abzyme. An abzyme (from antibody and enzyme), also called "catmab" (from "catalytic monoclonal antibody"), and most often called "catalytic antibody", is a monoclonal antibody with catalytic activity. Abzymes are usually raised in lab animals immunized against synthetic haptans, but some natural abzymes can be found in...
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Adaptive_radiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_radiation
1,909
Adaptive radiation. In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, creates new challenges, or opens new environmental niches. Starting with...
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Agarose_gel_electrophoresis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agarose_gel_electrophoresis
1,910
Agarose gel electrophoresis. Agarose gel electrophoresis is a method of gel electrophoresis used in biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and clinical chemistry to separate a mixed population of DNA or proteins in a matrix of agarose. The proteins may be separated by charge and/or size (isoelectric focusing agaros...
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Allele
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allele
1,911
Allele. An allele (or), or allel, is one of a number of alternative forms of the same gene or same genetic locus. Sometimes, different alleles can result in different observable phenotypic traits, such as different pigmentation. However, most genetic variations result in little or no observable variation. Most multicel...
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Ampicillin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampicillin
1,912
Ampicillin. Ampicillin is an antibiotic used to prevent and treat a number of bacterial infections. This includes respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, meningitis, salmonella infections, and endocarditis. It may also be used to prevent group B streptococcal infection in newborns. It is used by mouth, ...
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Antimicrobial_resistance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance
1,914
Antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is when a microbe evolves to become more or fully resistant to antimicrobials which previously could treat it. This broader term also covers antibiotic resistance, which applies to bacteria and antibiotics. Resistance arises through one of three ways: natural res...
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Antigen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen
1,915
Antigen. In immunology, an antigen is a molecule capable of inducing an immune response on the part of the host organism, though sometimes antigens can be part of the host itself. In other words, an antigen is any substance that causes an immune system to produce antibodies against it. Each antibody is specifically pro...
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Autosome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autosome
1,916
Autosome. An autosome is a chromosome that is not an allosome (a sex chromosome). Autosomes appear in pairs whose members have the same form but differ from other pairs in a diploid cell, whereas members of an allosome pair may differ from one another and thereby determine sex. The DNA in autosomes is collectively know...
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Antwerp_(disambiguation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp_(disambiguation)
1,919
Antwerp (disambiguation). Antwerp is a city in Belgium and capital of the Antwerp province.
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Al-Qaeda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
1,921
Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda (or; ', translation: "The Base", "The Foundation" or "The Fundament" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qæda and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a militant Sunni Islamist global organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers who fought against the Sovie...
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Alessandro_Volta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Volta
1,923
Alessandro Volta. Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the Voltaic pile in 1799 and the results of wh...
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Argo_Navis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_Navis
1,924
Argo Navis. Argo Navis (the Ship Argo), or simply Argo, was a large constellation in the southern sky that has since been divided into three constellations. It represented the "Argo", the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology. The genitive was "Argus Navis", abbreviated "Arg". Flamsteed and other earl...
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Andromeda_(mythology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(mythology)
1,925
Andromeda (mythology). In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment. Andromeda is stripped...
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Antlia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlia
1,926
Antlia. Antlia (; from Ancient Greek "ἀντλία") is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name means "pump" in Latin; it represents an air pump. Originally Antlia Pneumatica, the constellation was established by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century, though its name was later abbreviated by Jo...
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Ara_(constellation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_(constellation)
1,927
Ara (constellation). Ara is a southern constellation situated between Scorpius and Triangulum Australe. Its Latin name is Latin for "altar". Ara was one of the 48 Greek constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astrono...
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Arkansas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas
1,930
Arkansas. Arkansas () is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Its name is of Siouan derivation, denoting the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely fo...
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Atmosphere_(disambiguation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_(disambiguation)
1,931
Atmosphere (disambiguation). An atmosphere is a gas layer around a celestial body.
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Apus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apus
1,933
Apus. Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky, first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a bird-of-paradise, which was once wrongly believed to lack feet. Its genitive is "Apodis". The orange giant Alpha Apodis is the brightest star in the constellation. Two ...
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Abadan,_Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadan%2C_Iran
1,934
Abadan, Iran. Abadan ("Ābādān") is a city in and the capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province which is located in central west of Iran. It lies on Abadan Island (long, 3–19 km or 2–12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River (th...
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Alexander_Fleming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming
1,937
Alexander Fleming. Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 188111 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the mould "Penicillium notatum" in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel...
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Andrew_Carnegie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie
1,938
Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He built a leadership role as a philanthropist for the United States and the British Empire. During the ...
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Approximant_consonant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximant_consonant
1,939
Approximant consonant. Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do produce a turbulent airstream, and vowels, which produce no tur...
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Astronomer_Royal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer_Royal
1,940
Astronomer Royal. Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834. The post was created by King Charles II in 1675, at the same time a...
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Aeon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon
1,941
Aeon. The word "aeon", also spelled "eon" and "æon" (in American English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeless" or "for eternity". It is a Latin transliteration from the koine Greek...
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Airline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline
1,942
Airline. An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines utilize aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit. Generally, airline companies are recognized with an air operating certificate or l...
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Australian_Democrats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Democrats
1,943
Australian Democrats. The Australian Democrats was a centrist political party in Australia with a social-liberal ideology. The party was formed in 1977, a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, with former Liberal minister Don Chipp as its high-profile leader. Though never achieving a seat in the H...
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Australian_Capital_Territory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Capital_Territory
1,944
Australian Capital Territory. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) (formerly, "The Territory for the Seat of Government" and, later, the "Federal Capital Territory") is a territory in the south east of Australia, enclaved within New South Wales. It is the smaller of the two self-governing internal territories in Aust...
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Unit_of_alcohol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol
1,946
Unit of alcohol. Units of alcohol are used in the United Kingdom (UK) as a measure to quantify the actual alcoholic content within a given volume of an alcoholic beverage, in order to provide guidance on total alcohol consumption. A number of other countries (including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US) use th...
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Ally_McBeal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally_McBeal
1,948
Ally McBeal. "Ally McBeal" is an American legal comedy-drama television series, originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997 to May 20, 2002. Created by David E. Kelley, the series stars Calista Flockhart in the title role as a young lawyer working in the fictional Boston law firm Cage and Fish, with other young lawy...
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Andreas_Capellanus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Capellanus
1,949
Andreas Capellanus. Andreas Capellanus ("Capellanus" meaning "chaplain"), also known as Andrew the Chaplain, and occasionally by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain, was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as "De amore" ("About Love"), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly,...
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American_Civil_Liberties_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union
1,950
American Civil Liberties Union. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigati...
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Adobe_Systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems
1,955
Adobe Systems. Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American multinational computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet applicati...
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Alexander_technique
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_technique
1,957
Alexander technique. The Alexander Technique (AT), named after Frederick Matthias Alexander, is an educational process that develops the ability to realign posture and to avoid unnecessary muscular and mental tension. Alexander believed the individual's self-awareness could be inaccurate, resulting in unnecessary muscu...
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Andrea_Alciato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Alciato
1,960
Andrea Alciato. Andrea Alciato (8 May 1492 – 12 January 1550), commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus), was an Italian jurist and writer. He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists. Biography. Alciati was born in Alzate Brianza, near Milan, and settled in France in the early 16th century...
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Apparent_magnitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude
1,962
Apparent magnitude. The apparent magnitude ("m") of a celestial object is a number that is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth. The brighter an object appears, the lower its magnitude value (i.e. inverse relation). The Sun, at apparent magnitude of −27, is the brightest object in the sky. It is ...
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Absolute_magnitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_magnitude
1,963
Absolute magnitude. Absolute magnitude is the measure of intrinsic brightness of a celestial object. It is the hypothetical apparent magnitude of an object at a standard distance of exactly 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) from the observer, assuming no astronomical extinction of starlight. This places the objects on a co...
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Apollo_1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
1,965
Apollo 1. Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was the first manned mission of the U.S. Apollo manned lunar landing program. The planned low Earth orbital test of the Service Module never made its target launch date of February 21, 1967, because a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test on January 27 at Cape Kenned...
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Apollo_10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10
1,966
Apollo 10. Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon. Launched on May 18, 1969, it was the F mission: a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, testing all of the components and procedures, just short of actually landing. T...
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Apollo_12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12
1,967
Apollo 12. Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon (an H type mission). It was launched on November 14, 1969 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Mission commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Be...
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Apollo_14
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14
1,968
Apollo 14. Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program, and the third to land on the Moon. It was the last of the "H missions," targeted landings with two-day stays on the Moon with two lunar EVAs, or moonwalks. Commander Alan Shepard, Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa, and Lunar Module ...
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Apollo_15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15
1,969
Apollo 15. Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the United States' Apollo program, the fourth to land on the Moon, and the eighth successful manned mission. It was the first of what were termed "J missions", long stays on the Moon, with a greater focus on science than had been possible on previous missions. It was...
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Apollo_16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16
1,970
Apollo 16. Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands. The second of the so-called "J missions," it was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pil...
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Apollo_17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17
1,971
Apollo 17. Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the enterprise that landed the first humans on the Moon. Launched at 12:33 am Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, ...
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American_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
1,973
American Revolution. The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. Starting in 1765, member...
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Alan_Ayckbourn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ayckbourn
1,975
Alan Ayckbourn. Sir Alan Ayckbourn, CBE (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific English playwright and director. He has written and produced more than seventy full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of ...
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Alpha_Centauri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri
1,979
Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri (α Cen) is the closest star system to the Solar System at. It consists of three stars: the pair Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B and a small and faint red dwarf, Proxima Centauri, that may be gravitationally bound to the other two. To the unaided eye, the two main components appear a...
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Amiga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga
1,980
Amiga. The Amiga is a family of personal computers sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. Based on the Motorola 68000 family of microprocessors, the machine has a custom chipset with graphics and sound capabilities that were unprecedented for the price, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS....
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Actinophryid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinophryid
1,986
Actinophryid. The actinophryids are small, familiar group of heliozoan protists. They are the most common heliozoa in fresh water, and are especially frequent in lakes and rivers, but a few are found in marine and soil habitats as well. Each actinophryid are unicellular and roughly spherical in shape, without any shell...
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Abel_Tasman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman
1,988
Abel Tasman. Abel Janszoon Tasman (; 1603 March – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zea...
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Algebraic_geometry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_geometry
1,997
Algebraic geometry. Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics, classically studying zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical problems about these sets of zeros. The fundamental objects ...
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Austin,_Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%2C_Texas
1,998
Austin, Texas. Austin () is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in, Austin is the city in the U.S. and the city in Texas. It is the fastest growing of the largest 50 US cities. Austin is also the second largest state capital in the United States, after Phoenix, Arizona. As of J...
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Argument_from_morality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_morality
2,003
Argument from morality. The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God. Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order. Arguments from moral normativity observe some aspect of morality and argue that God is the best or only explanation for this, concluding that God must...
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Auschwitz_concentration_camp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
2,006
Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz concentration camp () was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination ...
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Archery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archery
2,007
Archery. Archery is the sport, practice or skill of using a bow to propel arrows. The word comes from the Latin "arcus". Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity. A person who participates in archery is typically called an "a...
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Alvar_Aalto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto
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Alvar Aalto. Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during ...
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Comparison_of_American_and_British_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_British_English
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Comparison of American and British English. Written forms of British and American English as found in newspapers and textbooks vary little in their essential features, with only occasional noticeable differences in comparable media (comparing American newspapers with British newspapers, for example). This kind of forma...
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Atomic_semantics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_semantics
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Atomic semantics. Atomic semantics is a term which describes a type of guarantee provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together. Atomic semantics are very strong. An atomic register provides strong guarantees even when there is concurrency an...
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Antarctic_Circumpolar_Current
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Circumpolar_Current
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise from west to east around Antarctica. An alternative name for the ACC is the West Wind Drift. The ACC is the dominant circulation feature of the Southern Ocean and has a mean transport of 100-150 Sverdrups (Sv...
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Arbor_Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbor_Day
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Arbor Day. Arbor Day (or Arbour; from the Latin "arbor", meaning tree) is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees. Today, many countries observe such a holiday. Though usually observed in the spring, the date varies, depending on climate and suitable planting season. First A...
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A._J._Ayer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Ayer
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A. J. Ayer. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (; 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was a British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books "Language, Truth, and Logic" (1936) and "The Problem of Knowledge" (1956). He was educated at Eton College and O...
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André_Weil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Weil
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André Weil. André Weil (;; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was a founding member and the "de facto" early leader of the Bourbaki group. The philosopher Simone Weil was his sister. Life. A...
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Achaeans_(Homer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans_(Homer)
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Achaeans (Homer). The Achaeans (; "Akhaioí") constitute one of the collective names for the Greeks in Homer's "Iliad" (used 598 times) and "Odyssey". The other common names are Danaans (; "Danaoi"; used 138 times in the "Iliad") and Argives (;; used 182 times in the "Iliad") while Panhellenes ("Panhellenes") and Hellen...
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Atle_Selberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atle_Selberg
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Atle Selberg. Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950. Early years. Selberg was born in Langesun...
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Aeschylus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus
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Aeschylus. Aeschylus (or; "Aiskhulos";; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding...
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Amber_Road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Road
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Amber Road. The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber from coastal areas of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Prehistoric trade routes between Northern and Southern Europe were defined by the amber trade. As an important raw material, sometimes dubbed "the gold of the ...
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Crandall_University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandall_University
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Crandall University. Crandall University is a small Christian Liberal Arts university located in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Crandall is operated by the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches. Library and archives. Crandall University houses the Baptist Heritage Center whose 300 artifacts preserve the material his...
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Andrew_Wiles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles
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Andrew Wiles. Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is most notable for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he received the 2016 Abel Prize. Wiles has received numerous other honour...
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Anne_Brontë
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB
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Anne Brontë. Anne Brontë (, "commonly"; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. The daughter of Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the ...
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Augustine_of_Hippo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
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Augustine of Hippo. Augustine of Hippo (or;; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, Saint Austin, or Blessed Augustine, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius ...
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Acting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting
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Acting. Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. Most early sources in the West that examine the art of acting (, "hypokrisis") dis...
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Delian_League
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian_League
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Delian League. The Delian League, founded in 477 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150 173, to 330 under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of ...
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