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1,700 | 6,037 | 935,234 | Pedipalp | 2022-10-24T19:03:38Z | **Pedipalps** are the two appendages on the front of a spider's head. Other arachnids, and chelicerates that are not arachnids also have pedipalps. Some spiders seem to have ten legs and not eight, because these pedipalps look like an extra pair of legs. The pedipalps are used rather like arms. Spiders often use them ... | [] |
1,701 | 6,039 | 487,619 | Ionic compound | 2025-07-22T15:33:07Z | In chemistry, an **ionic compound** is a compound made of ions. They have strong ionic bonds between particles. Lots of energy (heat) is required to break the bond apart, resulting in high melting and boiling points. The ions join because they have different charges. Compounds of metals and non-metals are usually ionic... | [] |
1,702 | 6,045 | 1,604,351 | ELISA | 2025-05-20T00:33:07Z | The **ELISA** method (**Enzyme Linked Immuno-Sorbent Assay**) is a technique used in biochemistry to determine if a certain substance--such as a specific cytokine or antigen--is present within a sample. It is sometimes abbreviated as "EIA."
This technique uses special antibodies that attach themselves to the substance... | [] |
1,703 | 6,046 | 532,461 | David Hume | 2026-03-14T07:18:20Z | **David Hume** (7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a philosopher and historian from Scotland. When he was still alive, people thought of him as a historian. He wrote a series of large books called *The History of England*. But today, people think of Hume as an important philosopher.
## Works
In his books on philosophy,... | [] |
1,704 | 6,050 | 532,461 | Bath | 2023-08-17T05:06:36Z | A **bath** (UK English) or **bathtub** (US English) is a basin large enough for people sit in when washing their body. The bath is usually in the bathroom. A less common name for a bath is a *washtub*.it can be painted with whiter color, a [painted bathtub](https://listbyamazon.com/top-trending-bathtub-paint/) have ... | [] |
1,705 | 6,057 | 693,482 | Brush | 2026-08-03T16:29:22Z | A **brush** is a tool with bristles or wires or other filaments sticking out. There are many kinds. Most brushes have a long part at one end to hold (the handle), on the other end from the head that carries the bristles or filaments. We use brushes for cleaning, making hair look good, painting, and other purposes.
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1,706 | 6,068 | 1,508,758 | Starch | 2025-04-10T22:20:03Z | **Starch** is a complex carbohydrate. It is made of many glucose units joined by chemical bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by most green plants as an energy store. It is the most common carbohydrate in human diets. Pasta, potatoes, bread, and other starchy foods are made out of carbohydrates.
## Starch in every... | [] |
1,707 | 6,070 | 40,117 | Thomas Hobbes | 2025-09-23T20:52:24Z | **Thomas Hobbes** (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was a philosopher from England. His most famous book is *Leviathan* (1651).
## Writings
Hobbes was a political philosopher. He wrote mainly about government and law. He tried to show that the best societies have one authority. This authority had virtually all power. ... | [] |
1,708 | 6,075 | 532,461 | Trevi | 2024-02-18T10:28:41Z | **Trevi** (Latin: Trebiae), an old town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, 42°53N 12°45E, at 424 meters (1391 ft) above sea-level on the lower part of Mt. Serano above the wide plain of the Clitunno river. It is 10 km (6 mi) S.S.E. of Foligno and 20 km (12 mi) N. of Spoleto. The 200... | [] |
1,709 | 6,078 | 1,115,602 | Logo | 2026-06-21T00:09:08Z | A **logo** is a picture or drawing that is used by a person, group, or company to mark who they are. A **wordmark**, or 'logotype', is a logo made entirely of a word or words. It is usually the name of a product or organisation.
A company or group can use a 'logo' on the things that they make, like on the things they ... | [] |
1,710 | 6,079 | 1,797,729 | Picture | 2026-05-04T08:51:56Z | A **picture**, also called an **image**, is a group of coloured points on a flat surface that looks the same as something else. For example, a picture can look the same as an object or a person. Pictures can also be drawing`<nowiki/>`{=html}s, paintings or photographs. People who make such pictures are called artists, ... | [] |
1,711 | 6,081 | 693,482 | Building | 2026-08-03T03:56:30Z | A **building** is an enclosed structure. A building is made using solid materials, a roof and walls. Architect`<nowiki/>`{=html}s design different types of buildings for different reasons.
**Residential buildings** are constructed as dwellings. These are where people primarily sleep and do other domestic activities. E... | [] |
1,712 | 6,082 | 1,803,498 | Candle | 2026-05-26T04:52:30Z | A **candle** is a stick or circular shape Imade of wax with a string (a thin piece of rope) straight in the middle. If someone puts the string on fire, the flame burns slowly but for a long time.
Fire can burn string very fast. But in a candle, the string does not burn fast, because the fire melts the wax instead. The... | [] |
1,713 | 6,085 | 532,461 | Salamander | 2026-02-15T23:53:13Z | **Salamanders** are amphibians. They are the order **Caudata** (or **Urodela**). There are about 500 different species.
Salamanders live in water and on land, and look rather like lizards, with four legs and a tail. They hatch as larvae from eggs in the water. At that stage, they have gills that stick out.
Most salam... | [] |
1,714 | 6,086 | 532,461 | Newt | 2026-06-18T00:52:03Z | **Newts** or *efts* are small amphibia. They are in a subfamily of the salamanders. They are found in North America, Europe, and North Asia.
## Life cycle
Females lay eggs and leave them. Tadpoles are born from those eggs.
Newts have three life stages. First as a tiny aquatic larva, which gradually undergoes metamor... | [] |
1,715 | 6,087 | 532,461 | Poison | 2026-06-24T00:10:05Z | **Poisons** are substances which cause death or injury when taken in by a living thing. It may be taken in as drink or food, or absorbed through the skin. The damage is usually done by a chemical reaction. The effect of the poison varies with the amount which is absorbed (taken in or inhaled). Substances which are pois... | [] |
1,716 | 6,088 | 1,741,261 | Powder | 2026-02-19T01:39:29Z | **Powder** is very small, dry pieces or grains. When we press some dry solids very hard, or when we cut something up into lots of small pieces, we can sometimes make powder.
For example, people sometimes put *face powder* on their faces, when they want to look good. Sometimes sports players put powder on their hands... | [] |
1,717 | 6,089 | 935,234 | Larva | 2022-06-20T19:05:58Z | Many animals develop in separate stages. A **larva** (plural: *larvae*) develops from the egg in those animals. It is a separate life stage from the adult reproductive stage. A larva does not look like the adult animal, and changes shape (known as metamorphosis) as it grows up. There may be several larval stages before... | [] |
1,718 | 6,090 | 693,482 | Amphibian | 2026-07-26T15:51:01Z | **Amphibians** are members of the class **Amphibia**. The living ones are frogs (including toads), salamanders (including newts) and caecilians. They are four-legged vertebrates which are cold blooded.
Amphibians lay their eggs in water, usually in a foam nest. After hatching they are tadpoles, which live in the water... | [] |
1,719 | 6,091 | 693,482 | Father | 2026-08-03T13:55:58Z | A **father** (also called **dad** or **daddy**) is a male parent. Most human beings are born from a mother and a father. The father of a person's husband or wife is their father-in-law. Fathers determine the sex of their child through a sperm cell which either contains an X chromosome (female), or a Y chromosome (male)... | [] |
1,720 | 6,099 | 1,398,922 | Gill | 2025-02-03T13:42:47Z | **Gills** are what fish, amphibians, and some other animals use to breathe in water. They have feathery parts which cause water to move across the animal's body, which contains dissolved oxygen, after the animal has swallowed the water. The oxygen is absorbed into the animal's blood, causing carbon dioxide to move out ... | [] |
1,721 | 6,100 | 1,805,004 | Frog | 2026-05-16T17:29:39Z | **Frogs** are amphibians and vertebrates of the order Anura. There is not much difference between frogs and toads, and they are not classified separately. This is because the toad lifestyle, with its dry, rough, skin, is an adaptation to living in drier habitats. The toad form has evolved a number of times independentl... | [] |
1,722 | 6,101 | 693,482 | Chemical compound | 2025-07-17T16:52:51Z | <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="Multiple image"><div data-arg data-name="direction">vertical</div><div data-arg data-name="image1">2006-02-13 Drop-impact.jpg</div><div data-arg data-name="image2">Water-3D-balls.png</div><div data-arg data-name="footer">Water (H<sub>2</sub>O) is an example of a compo... | [] |
1,723 | 6,103 | 1,696,172 | Wood | 2025-11-20T06:56:47Z | **Wood** is what keeps trees and shrubs upright, and what transports water from the roots to the leaves. The two main chemical substances in wood are cellulose and lignin.
Wood is formed in trees and shrubs by the cambium, a cell layer between bark and wood. The result is that wood is formed in circular rings, which ... | [] |
1,724 | 6,110 | 10,143,394 | Chalk | 2025-03-21T07:40:11Z | **Chalk** is a type of limestone. It was made by calcareous (CaCO~3~) skeletons of tiny planktonic algae called coccoliths. They live in the sea in huge numbers. They make chalk (CO~2~) as a by-product of their photosynthesis. The chalk cliffs of Dover and elsewhere were made when England was below the equator in a tro... | [] |
1,725 | 6,114 | 36,199 | Utilitarianism | 2023-09-03T06:19:37Z | **Utilitarianism** is the view that the right thing to do is whatever is most useful. It is a <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="c"><div data-arg>Philosophical movements and positions</div><div data-arg>philosophical position</div></template> about ethics. The word "utilitarianism" comes from the word ... | [] |
1,726 | 6,116 | 1,681,633 | Village | 2025-10-28T16:06:09Z | A **village** is a place where people live, normally in the countryside. It is usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town or city. In some places, it may be a kind of local government. The dwellings in a village are clustered fairly near one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape.
In the past, vi... | [] |
1,727 | 6,117 | 314,522 | Chelmsford | 2024-08-31T10:09:13Z | **Chelmsford** a city in the county of Essex, England. It is 32 mi northeast of London, about halfway to Colchester. It is nearly in the centre of the county and it is the county town of Essex, but it is not the biggest or the oldest town in the county. It is the centre of the *borough* of Chelmsford, which is a bigger... | [] |
1,728 | 6,119 | 640,235 | Gangnihessou | 2023-06-15T20:05:54Z | **Do-Aklin** or **Gangnihessou** (Ganye Hessou) or **Dogbari** was the first of twelve kings of Dahomey in Africa. Gangnihessou might have been the king around the year 1620. One of his symbols was a bird called "gangnihessou" after his name. His other symbols were a drum, and sticks used for throwing or hunting. He ha... | [] |
1,729 | 6,131 | 68,157 | Contract bridge | 2023-07-15T09:45:32Z | **Contract bridge**, or just **bridge**, is a trick-taking card game. It is played by two pairs of players, one pair against the other pair. Partners sit opposite each other at a table.
In face-to-face games, a convenient table size is from 32 to 40 inches (80 to 100 centimeters) square. The table is usually covered b... | [] |
1,730 | 6,135 | 1,786,057 | No | 2026-04-14T18:00:56Z | **No** is an English word that has a negative meaning. It is the opposite of the word *yes*, which is a positive term.
*No* is used when someone is turning away something. It is also used when opposing an idea. It can also be used in different figures of speech.
In both sentences and talking, the words "No" and the w... | [] |
1,731 | 6,145 | 1,851,539 | Leon Trotsky | 2026-09-18T18:01:26Z | **Leon Trotsky (<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="Audio"><div data-arg>ru-Leon Trotsky.ogg</div><div data-arg>Leon Davidovich Trotsky</div></template>** (Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated *Leo*, *Lev*, *Trotskii*, *Trotski*, *Trotskij* and *Trotzky*; 26 October (O.S.) \= 7 November (N.S.), 18... | [] |
1,732 | 6,146 | 1,687,111 | Second International | 2025-12-05T01:08:42Z | The **Second International** (1889–1916) was an organization created on July 14, 1889, by socialist and labour parties who wanted to work together for international socialism. It continued the work of the First International, which stopped being an organization in 1886. However, it did not include the still-powerful an... | [] |
1,733 | 6,147 | 532,461 | Devon | 2026-10-01T06:25:19Z | **Devon** is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom. It is sometimes called by its historical name *Devonshire*. Devon is the fourth largest county in England by area, and has the longest road network of any county in England. Its capital city and county town is Exeter, but the largest city is Plymouth.
... | [] |
1,734 | 6,148 | 103,847 | Latin script | 2025-09-27T13:58:58Z | The **Latin** or **Roman script** is a writing system used to write many modern-day languages including English. It is the most used writing system in the world today. It is the official script for nearly all the languages of Western Europe and of some Eastern European languages. It is also used by some non-European l... | [] |
1,735 | 6,149 | 1,767,200 | Insectivore | 2026-04-21T11:52:16Z | An **insectivore** is an animal or insect that eats mostly insects for food. An anteater is an animal that eats ants. Insectivorous plants also eat insects. The Venus flytrap is one of them.
To eat insects for food is not very easy because insects are small. Large insect-eating animals must eat many of them. Anteaters... | [] |
1,736 | 6,152 | 1,365,039 | Vapor | 2023-11-08T10:11:47Z | **Vapor** (British English: **vapour**) is when small drops of liquid float in the air. Sometimes this happens because the liquid has been heated. Vapor is not the same as gas. It is a mixture of liquid and gas. The usual word for this is steam.
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1,737 | 6,153 | 70,336 | Vehicle | 2026-08-18T01:20:58Z | A **vehicle** is a machine to move people and things. A vehicle is not alive. A horse can move people and things, but it is an animal, not a machine or a vehicle.
The word vehicle is borrowed from French and Latin. French *véhicule*, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin *vehiculum* "medium, agent ... | [] |
1,738 | 6,154 | 1,373,270 | Line dance | 2024-02-11T04:46:44Z | **Line dancing** is a form of group dancing that is done to either country or hip-hop music. The term line dance is derived from the idea that the group of people participating in the dance are all facing the same direction when conducting the series of moves in the line dance. A line dance can go from 32 beats upwards... | [] |
1,739 | 6,158 | 863,768 | Three Kingdoms of Korea | 2022-07-20T14:12:47Z | The **Three Kingdoms of Korea** were Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. They existed between the 1st century BC and 7th century CE. There were some smaller kingdoms like Gaya, Dongye, Okjeo, Buyeo, Usan, Tamna, etc.
Baekje helped spread Chinese characters, Chinese culture, Han Buddhism, and other technology to Japan.
The Th... | [] |
1,740 | 6,162 | 640,235 | Eckernförde | 2023-12-15T20:49:09Z | **Eckernförde** (Egernførde, sometimes also *Egernfjord*, Eckernför, sometimes also *Eckernföör*) is a German city in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde at the Baltic Sea near Kiel. The population was about 23,000 in 2023.
All 24 German submarines are stationed in Eckernförde.
Eckernförde is a well-known... | [] |
1,741 | 6,166 | 10,463,846 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria | 2025-08-17T22:16:45Z | **Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef of Austria**, or Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este (Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Josef; Erzherzog von Österreich-Este) (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914), was an archduke (like a prince) of Austria and the heir presumptive of Austria-Hungary in 1896 until his assassination in 19... | [] |
1,742 | 6,168 | 86,802 | Black Hand | 2023-09-05T12:52:48Z | **Black Hand** or **Crna Ruka**, officially **Ujedinjenje ili Smrt** ("Unification or Death") was a secret group of Serbian nationalists (Pan-Serbians). It was founded in 1911 in Serbia.
Their aim was to create a country from other countries where Serbs lived, including Bosnia-Herzegovina which was a part of Austria... | [] |
1,743 | 6,169 | 1,820,682 | Edmonton | 2026-06-30T16:26:20Z | **Edmonton** is the capital, and second largest city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is the 5th largest city in Canada. In 2021, there were about 1,102,656 people in the city proper, and about 1,420,000 people in the Edmonton metropolitan area. However, Calgary has a slightly higher population.
The city ... | [] |
1,744 | 6,170 | 22,027 | Autarky | 2016-07-09T05:40:29Z | **Autarky** is an economy that does no trade with the outside world. It is called ** a self-sufficient economy** or a **closed economy** too. It does not need any other countries or regions helping.
Autarky is rare in the modern world. An example of a currently run autarky is North Korea, but even it makes a small amo... | [] |
1,745 | 6,172 | 1,604,351 | Bonsai | 2025-09-07T18:56:04Z | <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="Nihongo"><div data-arg><strong>Bonsai</strong></div><div data-arg>盆栽</div><div data-arg></div><div data-arg>lit. <em>plantings in tray</em>, from <em>bon</em>, a tray or low-sided pot and <em>sai</em>, a planting or plantings</div></template> is the Japanese art of gr... | [] |
1,746 | 6,174 | 10,465,624 | Chastity belt | 2025-08-18T22:08:07Z | A **chastity belt** is a device locked around the wearer's genitals to prevent sexual intercourse and/or masturbation. Chastity belts for women were introduced into Europe from Italy, and saw some limited degree of use during the Renaissance period.
They were not used until the 16th century, and then only rather rarel... | [] |
1,747 | 6,184 | 9,905,434 | Mount Arafat | 2024-11-25T18:41:23Z | **Mount Arafat** or **Mount Arafah** (جبل عرفات transliterated *Jabal ‘Arafāt*) is a granite hill east of Mecca in the plain of Arafat. Arafat is a plain about 20 km southeast of Mecca. Mount Arafat reaches about 70 m in height and is also known as the **Mount of Mercy** (*Jabal ar-Rahmah*). According to Islamic tradit... | [] |
1,748 | 6,186 | 532,461 | Ariel Sharon | 2026-09-29T10:54:23Z | **Ariel Sharon** (February 27, 1928 – January 11, 2014) was an Israeli general and politician. He was Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006. He fought in many battles for Israel. He was member of the Likud political party for a long time. From 1981 to 1983, he was the Israeli Minister of Defence. As Minister of De... | [] |
1,749 | 6,189 | 572,778 | Jameson | 2018-05-27T11:37:42Z | **Jameson** is a famous brand of Irish whiskey. It is amber in color and has quite a strong smell. It is an alcoholic beverage.
In Ireland, people refer to it as *Jemmie*.
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1,750 | 6,193 | 532,461 | Syria | 2026-09-28T00:47:38Z | 35 N 38 E
**Syria**, officially the **Syrian Arab Republic**, is a country in West Asia. It is located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders Turkey to the north and northwest, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. It also has a coastline along t... | [] |
1,751 | 6,204 | 1,674,404 | Psychology | 2026-04-24T15:33:12Z | **Psychology** is the study of the mind and brain. It studies thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in humans and animals. Psychology aims to explain how the mind works. It also looks at how our actions relate to how we think.
A lot of the research in psychology is done on humans. However, animals are also used in researc... | [] |
1,752 | 6,207 | 1,626,918 | Louisiana | 2026-09-10T07:16:25Z | **Louisiana** ({{#PronEng}}lōō-ē'zē-ăn'ə{{/PronEng}}) is a state in the Southern United States of America. It had a population of 4,657,757 people in 2020. The state has a total area of about 51,885 sqmi. Louisiana is the 25th largest state by population and the 31st largest state by area. It is bordered by Texas to th... | [] |
1,753 | 6,208 | 1,522,289 | Synonym | 2025-04-14T14:37:06Z | A **synonym** is a word with the same meaning as another word.
## Examples
- *sick* and *ill*
- *child* and *kid*
- *baby* and *infant*
- *rich* and *wealthy*
- *make* and *create*
- *student* and *pupil*
- *car* and *automobile*
- *scared* and *frightened*
## Nature
Synonyms can be nouns, verbs, adverbs or adjecti... | [] |
1,754 | 6,212 | 9,156,864 | Yosa Buson | 2023-10-27T20:39:27Z | <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="nihongo"><div data-arg><strong>Yosa Buson</strong> or <strong>Yosa no Buson</strong></div><div data-arg>与謝 蕪村</div><div data-arg></div><div data-arg data-name="extra">1716 – January 17, 1784</div></template> was a Japanese Haiku poet and painter, usually referred to s... | [] |
1,755 | 6,221 | 532,461 | Chopsticks | 2026-02-09T13:36:37Z | **Chopsticks** are sticks used in pairs as cutlery. Chopsticks are traditionally used for eating in many Asian countries. These include, Japan, due to being a predominantly ethnic Japanese country, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, etc (In East Asia and Southeast Asia). Most chopsticks are made of wood, bamboo or... | [] |
1,756 | 6,222 | 693,482 | Telephone | 2026-07-26T15:39:06Z | A **telephone**, also known as a **phone**, is a communication tool. People use it to talk with people far away. Originally, it was an electric tool sending analogue speech through wires. Many telephones in the 21st century are electronic tools sending digital signals on wires or radio transmission. Using a telephone, ... | [] |
1,757 | 6,226 | 22,027 | Checkers | 2024-08-06T03:14:47Z | **Checkers** or **draughts** is the name of several different board games. All of these games are similar. In every kind of checkers, the other player's pieces can be taken by being "jumped" over.
"Checkers" is the American name. In British English, and in various other English-speaking nations, these games are called... | [] |
1,758 | 6,229 | 9,425,573 | Kobe, Hyōgo | 2024-03-20T04:53:14Z | > *For the basketball player, see Kobe Bryant.*
<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="maplink"><div data-arg data-name="frame">yes</div><div data-arg data-name="frame-width">230</div><div data-arg data-name="frame-align">right</div><div data-arg data-name="zoom">08</div><div data-arg data-name="type">sha... | [] |
1,759 | 6,231 | 1,092,985 | Oradea | 2026-03-18T11:28:31Z | **Oradea** (pronunciation in Romanian: {{#IPA}}/o'ra.děa/{{/IPA}}, Hungarian: *Nagyvárad*, colloquially also *Várad*, German: *Großwardein*, former Varat, גרויסווארדיין) is the capital city of Bihor County, in Crişana, Romania. There are 206,527 people in the city according to the 2002 census. Oradea is one of Romania... | [] |
1,760 | 6,235 | 693,482 | Henry Ford | 2026-07-26T15:00:15Z | **Henry Ford** (30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947) was an American engineer and businessman. He started making cars in 1896 and founded the Ford Motor Company.
He developed the idea of a system in which each worker has the duty to do one small part of the process of making something. His idea made it possible to produce car... | [] |
1,761 | 6,236 | 314,522 | George Orwell | 2026-08-25T01:08:25Z | **George Orwell** (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English writer. His real name was **Eric Arthur Blair**. He used the pen name George Orwell for his novels.
He was born in India during the British Empire's rule of India. He is best known for two novels that he wrote in the late 1940s, *Animal Farm* and *Ninet... | [] |
1,762 | 6,237 | 888,555 | Genghis Khan | 2026-09-30T20:03:34Z | **Genghis Khan** (born **Temüjin**; c. 1162August 1227), also known as **Chinggis Khan**, was the first ruler of the Mongol Empire, which he created in 1206 in his fatherland in what is now Mongolia.
After the death of his father when Temüjin was eight, his family was left behind by the Mongols. They became very poor ... | [] |
1,763 | 6,238 | 1,851,539 | Joseph Stalin | 2026-09-26T11:04:01Z | **Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin** (born **Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili**); (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a communist revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 to his death.
In the Soviet Union, Stalin created a totalitarian political system now called Stalinism. He also used Marxism... | [] |
1,764 | 6,239 | 17,988 | Antigua and Barbuda | 2026-09-01T11:32:11Z | **Antigua and Barbuda** is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago. In 2011, about 81,800 people lived there. The capital and largest port and city is St. John's, on Antigua. The country used to be a part o... | [] |
1,765 | 6,240 | 314,522 | San Marino | 2026-09-24T10:23:54Z | **San Marino** (officially called the **Most Serene Republic of San Marino**) is a country in Europe. It is one of the smallest countries in the world. It is in Southern Europe and is fully surrounded by Italy (this is called an *enclave*, and only the Vatican City, Lesotho and San Marino are like this). Fewer than 30,... | [] |
1,766 | 6,250 | 1,398,040 | Philippe's | 2024-05-02T12:43:27Z | **Philippe's** is a sit-down restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. It is at 1001 North Alameda Street, near Olvera Street. Phillippe's is famous for inventing the French dip sandwich (though another restaurant called *Cole's* claims to have invented it, too). It has been in business since 1908, and is... | [] |
1,767 | 6,251 | 1,853,963 | Orbit | 2026-08-23T22:51:37Z | > *Orbit is also a word for an eye socket.*
An **orbit** is the path that an object takes in space when it goes around a star, a planet, or a moon. It can also be used as a verb. For instance: “The earth *orbits* around the Sun.” The word ‘revolves’ has the same meaning, but 'rotates' is the spin of the object.
Many ... | [] |
1,768 | 6,253 | 1,734,355 | Funeral | 2026-06-17T08:50:48Z | A **funeral** is a ceremony that is held because someone has died. A funeral is a gathering of friends and family of the dead person. They will mourn the dead person, meaning that they will feel and show sadness that the person has died, and also say thanks for the life the person had. A funeral is usually held with th... | [] |
1,769 | 6,254 | 1,248,114 | Georgian uprising on Texel | 2023-03-21T11:29:25Z | The **Georgian Uprising of Texel** (5 April 1945 – 20 May 1945) was an insurrection (a rebellion, or mutiny, when soldiers disobey their orders) by Soviet Georgian soldiers on the island of Texel. The uprising was against the Germans army who had taken over the Dutch island during the Second World War. The event is so... | [] |
1,770 | 6,255 | 693,482 | Neutrino | 2026-07-26T11:55:47Z | **Neutrinos** are a type of elementary particle that exist all across the universe. The word *neutrino* means a small neutral particle. Physicists study these particles, but they are hard to find because they have a very small chance of interacting with regular matter. (For example, they usually pass through the whole ... | [] |
1,771 | 6,257 | 9,680,142 | Play (theatre) | 2024-08-02T19:38:58Z | A **play** is a piece of writing (literature) which can be seen at a theatre or on television, or heard on the radio. Plays often show conversations between people. A play is usually watched, rather than being read.
The people who appear in a play are actors; in a theatre they stand on a stage so the people watching (... | [] |
1,772 | 6,259 | 236,252 | Phrasal verb | 2025-03-10T04:03:16Z | **Phrasal verb** is the name given to an English verb which is composed of two or three words. One verb is combined with a preposition (like *on, in, under)* or an adverb (like *up, down, away*). Sometimes a phrasal verb can have a meaning that is very different from the meaning of at least one of those two or three wo... | [] |
1,773 | 6,276 | 1,879,707 | Season | 2026-09-26T19:08:11Z | A **season** is a part of a year. Many areas of the Earth have four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Some areas have a different number of seasons. In places which are tropical and subtropical, there are two seasons: the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season and the dry season. This is because the r... | [] |
1,774 | 6,277 | 314,522 | Carisbrooke Castle | 2024-12-26T02:02:35Z | **Carisbrooke Castle** is the Isle of Wight's only remaining medieval castle. It was built on a Roman site. The castle earthworks were begun in 1070.
The shell keep was built on the site some 70 years later. None of the Norman domestic buildings now remain. The gatehouse with its drum towers dates from the 14th and ... | [] |
1,775 | 6,278 | 1,882,955 | Atlantis | 2026-10-01T20:54:01Z | **Atlantis** is a name for a fictional, large island or small continent that was in the Atlantic Ocean many years before it sank into the depth of the sea.and found by queen Antharjalam
The name Atlantis first appears in the writings of Herodotus by Antharjalam - he describes the western ocean as "Sea of Atlantis." Th... | [] |
1,776 | 6,281 | 70,336 | Comparative | 2019-10-18T13:37:43Z | Adjectives and Adverbs can be **comparative** in English and some other languages. When people are talking about two or more nouns, they can compare them (say the differences between them). The word which explains how they compare is called the **comparative**. They can also compare actions using adverbs.
Examples: (T... | [] |
1,777 | 6,292 | 1,570,152 | Asbestos | 2025-07-28T18:05:18Z | **Asbestos** is a set of six silicate minerals which occur naturally. White asbestos makes up 95% of the asbestos found in buildings. It occurs in all parts of the world. It is fibrous, heat resistant and non flammable. These properties made it very attractive as a component in building materials and other products suc... | [] |
1,778 | 6,293 | 10,084,178 | Syllable | 2025-02-17T19:08:30Z | A **syllable** is a unit of pronunciation uttered without interruption, loosely, a single sound. All words are made from at least one syllable.
*Monosyllables* are words that have only one vowel sound; *polysyllables* have more than one. If a syllable ends with a consonant, it is called a *closed syllable*. If a sylla... | [] |
1,779 | 6,294 | 693,482 | Umbrella | 2026-08-03T16:33:32Z | An **umbrella** is a hand tool that is used to stop solar radiation or rain from falling on a person. The name origins from "umbra", the Latin for "Shadow" or "Shade from light". In the ancient times umbrellas were used for protection from the Sun. But, in the modern times they are being used also for protection from t... | [] |
1,780 | 6,295 | 1,362,421 | Usenet | 2025-01-02T20:38:28Z | **Usenet** (IPAC: ˈjuːznɛt) is a type of discussion system on computers. It was created from the Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis began the idea in 1979. The system was created in 1980. People read and post messages (called *articles*, *posts* or *news*) to one or more c... | [] |
1,781 | 6,298 | 1,521,690 | Diagonal | 2024-10-20T21:52:46Z | **Diagonal** is a kind of straight line. A diagonal line does not go straight up and down, or across left and right. It is a line that connects two corners of a shape.
In mathematics, "diagonal" has different meanings. For example, in geometry a diagonal is any line that goes between the corners of a polygon. So... | [] |
1,782 | 6,300 | 1,604,351 | Kwashiorkor | 2025-08-16T22:21:54Z | **Kwashiorkor** is a health condition of poor nutrition from not having enough protein in the diet. If a person uses up energy from carbohydrates (starches) and lipids (fats), their body may begin to use protein for energy.
The body breaks down protein into energy that can be used. They then do not have enough prote... | [] |
1,783 | 6,305 | 9,755,510 | Popocatépetl | 2024-09-07T17:36:04Z | **Popocatépetl** (also called **El popo** or **Don Goyo**) is an active volcano. The volcano is the second highest mountain in Mexico after Pico de Orizaba (5,610m). It is 5426 m high .
## History
Popocatépetl is the Aztec word for "Smoking Mountain". Popocatépetl was an Aztec warrior who loved Iztaccíhuatl. Iztacc... | [] |
1,784 | 6,308 | 1,649,162 | North Sea | 2026-04-16T10:34:23Z | The **North Sea** is a sea that is part of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Europe. The North Sea is between Norway and Denmark in the east, Scotland and England in the west, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the south.
## Borders
The Skagerrak connects the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. In the south, the N... | [] |
1,785 | 6,309 | 10,125,839 | Letter | 2025-03-10T14:30:36Z | In languages that use an alphabet, for example English, each symbol in the alphabet is a letter. Letters represent sounds when the language is spoken.
Some languages do not use letters for writing: Chinese, for example, uses "ideograms".
In English and many other languages, the smallest part of writing is the letter... | [] |
1,786 | 6,312 | 1,734,355 | Anne Frank | 2026-06-27T20:06:20Z | **Annelies** or **Anneliese Marie Frank** also known as **Anne Frank** (12 June 1929c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Dutch Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented her life in hiding from the Nazis during World War II. Her diary is seen as a classic in war literature and history, and is one of ... | [] |
1,787 | 6,314 | 1,477,024 | Jan Peter Balkenende | 2025-05-14T10:27:53Z | **Jan Peter Balkenende** (born 7 May 1956) is a Dutch politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 until 2010. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal party.
Balkenende lives in Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands.
## Biography
Balkenende grew up in the village of Biezelinge in Zeelan... | [] |
1,788 | 6,315 | 103,847 | Toleration | 2026-02-04T14:59:19Z | **Tolerance** is not taking action against people who do things one does not like. The opposite of tolerance is intolerance. Intolerance is often found in dictatorships historically and often causes the hate crime and hate speech. Tolerance is often about religion (religious toleration), sex, or politic opinion, nation... | [] |
1,789 | 6,316 | 9,493,108 | William the Silent | 2024-04-19T15:37:55Z | **William I of Orange-Nassau** (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584) was an important leader of the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish in the Eighty Years' War. He was the first leader of the Netherlands. He held the title of Prince of Orange.
William of Orange is better known as **William the Silent** (in Dutch: *Willem de... | [] |
1,790 | 6,319 | 1,464,674 | Simón Bolívar | 2026-03-29T13:50:19Z | **Simón Bolívar** (1783 - 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He liberated many colonies from the Spanish Empire in South America. Those colonies included Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. For a few years he was president of Gran Colombia, a country th... | [] |
1,791 | 6,327 | 1,743,809 | Pythagorean theorem | 2026-06-15T00:29:53Z | In mathematics, the ** Pythagorean theorem** or Pythagoras's theorem is a statement about the sides of a right triangle.
One of the angles of a right triangle is always equal to 90 degrees, one of the angles of a rectangle. This angle is the right angle. The two sides next to the right angle are called the legs and t... | [] |
1,792 | 6,329 | 40,117 | Temperature | 2025-06-14T21:06:56Z | **Temperature** is how hot or cold something is. The human body can feel the difference between something which is hot and something which is cold. To measure temperature more accurately, a thermometer is used. Thermometers use a temperature scale to record how hot or cold something is. The scale used in most of the wo... | [] |
1,793 | 6,330 | 1,813,653 | Tux | 2026-05-31T06:57:13Z | **Tux** is a mascot of the Open Source Linux operating system; a cartoon penguin made by Larry Ewing in 1996. Wherever he is seen, it means such a system can work with Linux. He is also a character in some video games made for Linux, like *Super Tux,Tux Racer and Super Tux Kart*
The name "Tux" comes from James Hughes,... | [] |
1,794 | 6,331 | 693,482 | Mein Kampf | 2026-07-31T09:47:39Z | ***Mein Kampf*** (My Fight) is a book written by Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess. Rudolf Hess helped Hitler write the book, but he is not mentioned as an author.
## Parts
There are two parts to *Mein Kampf.* Hitler wrote the first while he was in jail in Landsberg am Lech. He had been put in jail after a failed *putsch*... | [] |
1,795 | 6,333 | 9,337,789 | Computer graphics | 2024-02-02T18:08:34Z | **Computer graphics** are visual representations of data, made with the help of computers. Computer graphics can be a series of images (video or animation) or a single image.
Computer graphics are very useful. Computer-generated imagery is used for movie making, video games, computer program development, photo editing... | [] |
1,796 | 6,338 | 805,501 | FC Bayern Munich | 2026-08-30T17:03:16Z | 48 6 6.64 N 11 34 22.00 E region:DE\_type:landmark
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1,797 | 6,340 | 532,461 | Cape of Good Hope | 2026-04-02T01:26:30Z | The **Cape of Good Hope** is a place near the far south end of Africa, where the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean meet. It is a well known area for ships that pass in the sea between southern Africa and Antarctica. It is in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and forms part of the Table Mountain National Reser... | [] |
1,798 | 6,341 | 103,847 | Hand washing | 2025-11-19T18:40:46Z | **Hand washing** is the process of cleaning hands with water and soap or other special liquids. It is done to take off dirt, germs, and poisons. Germs and poisons cause diseases and other health problems. Germs are bacteria, viruses, or fungi. Some diseases are not stopped by antibiotic drugs. Hand washing prevents ... | [] |
1,799 | 6,346 | 248,920 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2026-09-01T17:14:06Z | **Franklin Delano Roosevelt** (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to his death. He died shortly after he he had begun his fourth term. The twelve years in the office was the longest ever spent in it. After his death, the 22nd Amendment came into effect and set term ... | [] |
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