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Pope John XXIII
2026-06-30T19:45:31Z
**Pope John XXIII** (Ioannes PP. XXIII; Giovanni XXIII), born **Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli** (25 November 1881 - 3 June 1963), was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 262nd Pope from 1958 to 1963. ## Early life Roncalli was born in Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII in northern Italy. ## Priest In 1904 ...
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Beauty
2026-09-05T10:19:36Z
**Beauty** is a property of certain things. Something is beautiful if it is nice to look at it, hear it, feel it, taste it, smell it or think about it. A person can also be beautiful. Beauty is also the name of a feeling that is hard to describe. The nature of this feeling varies from person to person and culture to cu...
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2020s
2026-08-15T16:11:41Z
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Guitar
2025-08-02T04:59:28Z
The **guitar** is a string instrument which is played by plucking the strings. The main parts of a guitar are the body, the fretboard, the headstock and the strings. Guitars are usually made from wood or plastic. Their strings are made of steel or nylon. The guitar strings are plucked with the fingers and fingernails ...
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List of guitarists
2026-06-11T10:38:57Z
A **guitarist** is a person who plays the guitar. A guitar is a type of musical instrument. ## Noted guitarists ### Classical #### Baroque (XVII & XVIII century) - Antoine Carré - Francesco Corbetta (ca 1615-1681) - Giovanni Battista Granata - Francisco Guerau - Girolamo Montesardo - Alonso Mudarra (1510-1580) - Sa...
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British Sea Power
2023-08-04T22:46:04Z
**British Sea Power** is an indie rock band from England. They formed in 2000. Many band members come from Cumbria, but they are based in Brighton. They have released six albums and six EPs. They released their sixth album *Machineries of Joy* in April 2013. ## Studio albums - The Decline Of British Sea Power (2003) ...
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Jimmy Eat World
2025-09-10T17:51:24Z
**Jimmy Eat World** is an alternative rock band. They formed in Mesa, Arizona in 1994. To date, they have released nine studio albums. They have released many singles, including *Sweetness*, *The Middle*, *Bleed American*, *Rockstar*, and *Let It Happen*. They used to be part of the emo scene and many would still call...
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Phish
2024-05-23T19:45:22Z
**Phish** is an American rock band. They formed in Vermont in 1983, broke up in 2004, and reformed in 2009. Their lead singer is Trey Anastasio. Phish was often compared to the Grateful Dead, and had a similar following of "Phish Heads" following the band on tour. They went on a 5-year-long hiatus from 2004 to 2009. Th...
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Green Day
2026-05-24T15:19:29Z
**Green Day** is an American rock trio that formed in 1987. The members of the band are Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion). Jason White (guitar/vocals), Kevin Preston (guitar/vocals), and Jason Freese (keyboard) are touring members of the band that ...
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Live album
2022-02-23T22:35:32Z
A **live album** is an album that has live songs. These live songs are played on stage at a concert, instead of recorded in a studio. People record the songs and put them on a CD.
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Marvin Gaye
2026-09-16T19:23:05Z
**Marvin Gaye** (born **Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.**, April 2, 1939 - April 1, 1984) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was a famous artist recording on the Motown label in the 1960s and 1970s. He became an independent artist when he released his 1971 album, *What's Going On*. After living in Europe in ...
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Masturbation
2026-09-23T11:02:48Z
**Masturbation** is when a person touches themselves in many areas of the body (sex organs), such as the penis and vagina. It often is done to feel pleasure. Sometimes, masturbation results an orgasm. Some religions say it is bad, but the modern view is that it is a normal and healthy thing to do. Masturbation is comm...
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Animation
2026-07-14T22:24:33Z
**Animation** is a way of making a movie from many images that don’t move. The images are put together one after another, and then played at a fast speed to make it look like movement. A person who makes animations is called an *animator.* The first animator was a French man called Emile Cohl who made a short film ca...
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Confucius
2025-05-31T02:31:27Z
**Confucius** (born 551 BC, died 479 BC) was an important Chinese educator and philosopher. His original name was Kong Qiu or Zhong Ni. As a child, he was eager to learn about everything, and was very interested in rituals. Although he grew up in extreme poverty, it did not stop his curiosity from growing. He was a v...
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Consciousness
2025-06-20T19:59:46Z
**Consciousness** means being awake, alert and responsive to the environment. The definition of consciousness may differ in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and other related sciences. It is often disputed amongst academics and scientists. Consciousness is a range of mental states. There are several states between...
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Architect
2024-10-15T21:20:41Z
An **architect** is a person who designs buildings and prepares plans to give to a builder. What they design is called architecture. Sometimes they make drawings with pens, pencils, and computers, and this is also called drafting. Sometimes he first makes small toy-sized buildings called models to show what the buildin...
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La Jolla
2026-03-10T20:03:57Z
**La Jolla** is a neighborhood in the city of San Diego, in the state of California, in the United States. It is pronounced "La Hoya". The University of California, San Diego is in La Jolla. Another famous place in La Jolla is the Salk Institute. It is the birthplace of the Hollywood actor, Gregory Peck.
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Arch
2024-06-28T13:46:55Z
An **arch** is an opening in a building that is curved on top to distribute the weight. The curved part can be round, like part of a circle, or pointed, like two parts of circles next to each other. Arches are often used where buildings are made of many small stones or bricks. The stone at the very top of the arch, cal...
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Vagina
2026-07-23T18:50:27Z
The **vagina** is a part of the female body. It is between the perineum and the urethra. The vaginal opening is much larger than the urethral opening. It is a tube leading from the uterus to the outside of the body. Menstrual fluid (red, blood-filled liquid lost during menstruation) leaves the body through the vagina. ...
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Breast
2026-09-04T22:56:55Z
The **breast** is an organ on the mid to upper chest area. It is just below the shoulders near the center of the upper chest region of humans and other primates. Humans have two breasts. Both boys and girls have breasts at birthave glands that produce milk. Breastfeeding is when a mother feeds her baby with milk fro...
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Pregnancy
2026-09-26T19:32:23Z
**Pregnancy** is when an individual with a uterus has an unborn baby (a prenatal foetus) inside of them. Humans give birth to live young. Almost all mammals give birth to live offspring (their young) to end pregnancy. If the birth goes well and there are no serious complications during pregnancy, then a healthy human i...
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Forest
2025-08-25T12:11:46Z
A **forest** is a piece of land with many trees. Forests are important and grow in many places around the world. They are an ecosystem which includes many plants and animals. Many animals live in forests and need them to survive. Temperature and rainfall are the two most important things for forests. Many places are...
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Barber
2024-10-12T23:29:46Z
A **barber** is someone who cuts hair and shaves beards. Usually, it is men who go to a barber. Women usually go to hairdressers instead. Barbers sometimes have a pole outside, which is red and white in most countries. Barbering is a most ancient and honorable profession, with a very interesting history. Barbering is ...
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Carpenter
2024-09-07T13:11:15Z
A **carpenter** is a person who works with wood. They can make cabinets, build houses, or do other things with wood. Carpenters are always adding to their tools and always learning how to use the new tools, materials, and ways of working with wood. Many carpenters will choose to focus their skills in one of two broad...
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Electrician
2025-11-14T19:50:17Z
An **electrician** is a person who fixes the wires and switches so that lights and outlets work the right way. Some electricians work in a building.
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Roof
2025-07-05T07:40:15Z
A **roof** is the top surface of the building. The plural of 'roof' is 'roofs'. The roof keeps out rain and snow and protects people from the sun. Some roofs are sloped, or pitched, so the rain and snow fall off easily. Some roofs are flat, but even flat roofs have a little bit of pitch so the water can flow away tow...
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Brick
2026-06-15T18:29:04Z
A **brick** (not to be confused with the coring method) is a man-made building material used to make walls, and make places to walk. It is a single unit of a kneaded clay-bearing soil, sand and lime, or concrete material, fire-hardened or air-dried, used in masonry construction. Bricks are made mostly of clay. They a...
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San Diego
2026-08-27T00:06:31Z
**San Diego** (IPAC: ˌsæn\_diːˈeɪɡoʊ) is the second largest city in the U.S. state of California and eighth largest in the United States. It is at the southwest corner of California, as well as the southwest corner of the continental United States. It was founded in 1769 and it is the oldest city in California. The may...
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Oriole
2024-05-23T22:54:30Z
The **oriole** ( or Old World oriole) is a bird in the family **Oriolidae**. They make up the genus ***Oriolus***. Old World orioles are found areas of Africa, Asia and Europe. They are most often found in tropical areas but one species lives in cooler areas. The golden oriole is the only species of Old World oriole wh...
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Feather
2023-11-06T01:59:27Z
**Feathers** are the things which cover birds. They help keep birds warm. Feathers also protect them from injury. In most kinds of birds, wing feathers help them to fly. These are called flight feathers. Some people have their pet birds clipped. This is a procedure where a vet or a groomer cuts a certain amount of fe...
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
2025-08-08T02:13:20Z
**Mary-Kate Olsen** and **Ashley Fuller Olsen** (born June 13, 1986) are twin American actresses. They have acted in movies and on television series since they were nine months old. The twins began acting on the ABC series *Full House* between 1987 and 1995, in which both of them played Michelle Tanner. In the early...
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The Walt Disney Company
2026-06-09T23:50:09Z
**The Walt Disney Company**, commonly known as **Disney**, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios Complex in Burbank, California. Disney was started on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as Disney Brothers Studio; it ...
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Hypercholesterolemia
2026-08-25T21:29:43Z
**Hypercholesterolemia** is a disorder involving an excess of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in a person's blood. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is the means by which the bloodstream transports cholesterol into the human body. Cholesterol is an essential component of cell membranes. Too much cholesterol can lead to car...
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Cholesterol
2026-08-25T21:31:19Z
**Cholesterol** is a soft waxy substance found in animal cells and body fluids. It is a lipid made up of fat or fat-like molecule`<nowiki/>`{=html}s. It is found especially in animal fats, but not in plant sources of fat. Cholesterol is a type of lipid that is called a steroid. Steroids have a special chemical structu...
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Iowa
2026-06-27T22:38:06Z
**Iowa** (<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="Audio-IPA"><div data-arg>en-us-Iowa.ogg</div><div data-arg>/ˈaɪəwə/</div></template>) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its name comes from the Iowa River, which was named after the Ioway people, a Native American tribe that lived in Iowa. Iowa was...
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Gender identity
2026-09-05T13:44:59Z
**Gender identity** is how a person thinks of themself as being a boy or man, girl or woman. A person’s gender identity is based on what label and type they feel most comfortable aligning with. It can change throughout someone’s life, depending on how they feel during that time. Much of dominant society across cultures...
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America's Army
2026-05-12T12:52:45Z
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Heterosexuality
2025-06-27T23:25:26Z
**Heterosexuality** is a sexual orientation. **Heterosexual** people are sexually attracted to the opposite gender, and this may involve romantic feelings, or sexual activity. Another less formal word for heterosexual is *straight*. People who are not heterosexual may be homosexual, bisexual or asexual. Many people in...
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Hate crime
2026-07-26T04:07:45Z
A **hate crime** is when someone breaks a law by hurting another person because of prejudice against a group the victim belongs to. Normally, a hate crime is not caused in any way by something the victim did or said, but just because of who they are. Hate crime is often in the form of physical violence, but can also be...
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Gay bashing
2024-12-19T19:45:23Z
**Gay bashing** and **gay bullying** is when someone attacks a person or group of people because they are gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender. Studies show that bullying happens to people who are gay or lesbian more often than to others in general. As teenagers, gay young men are more likely to be bullied than l...
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Emergency medicine
2026-03-22T19:31:18Z
**Emergency medicine** is a part of medicine that focuses on caring for people whose life or health is in immediate danger, for example from a serious injury, heart attack, or poisoning. Emergency Medicine (abbreviation EM) is sometimes also called *Accident and Emergency Medicine* (AEM). EM doctors specialize in tre...
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1,660,084
Berkeley, California
2025-09-12T01:53:51Z
**Berkeley** is a city in the U.S. State of California. It is a suburb of San Francisco. It is famous for the college, University of California, Berkeley, where many political protests were held in the 1960s. It is also famous for its gourmet food and art scenes. Also, it is the native city of the punk band Green Day. ...
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Medical specialty
2026-08-24T23:30:25Z
A **medical speciality** is doing one kind of medical work, or field of medicine. For example, pediatrics is the term for a doctor that has specialised in (the health of) children. Medicine is a very complex field. In the past, a doctor could learn almost nothing compared to what we know today, because there was not as...
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1,464,674
Pediatrics
2026-04-11T16:22:48Z
**Pediatrics** is the specialty of medicine that cares for infants, children, and adolescents. The ages can vary from the early months until 18-21 months. A doctor that works with pediatrics (children) is called a **pediatrician**. Pediatricians can be primary care doctors or they can be specialists. Pediatricians t...
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13,328
1,584,341
Jenna Bush Hager
2025-12-04T16:09:01Z
**Jenna Welch Hager** (née **Bush**; born November 25, 1981) is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is the co-host of *Today with Jenna & Friends*, the fourth morning news program of *Today.* Hager is the daughter of the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush...
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4,045
13,329
1,704,901
Uncyclopedia
2026-03-22T01:21:36Z
**Uncyclopedia** is an encyclopedia that parodies Wikipedia, calling itself "the content-free encyclopedia". It is a parody website. Uncyclopedia was started by Jonathan Huang and his friend named "Stillwaters". It was made on January 5, 2005. Uncyclopedia's logo is a hollow potato named Sophia. Its color is desert sa...
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13,331
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Esperanto
2026-08-31T00:33:38Z
**Esperanto** is a constructed auxiliary language. Its creator was L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish eye doctor. He created the language to make international communication easier. His goal was to design Esperanto so that people can learn it much more easily than any national language. At first, Zamenhof called the language *L...
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13,332
1,392,959
Barbara Bush
2026-05-24T00:41:24Z
<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="about"><div data-arg data-name="2">her granddaughter</div><div data-arg data-name="3">Barbara Bush (born 1981)</div></template> **Barbara Pierce Bush** (June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was an American advocate who served as the first lady of the United States from 1989...
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13,357
22,027
Kadis-kot
2022-09-08T16:55:01Z
**Kadis-kot** is a fictional board game in the TV show *Star Trek: Voyager*. It is played on a six-sided board with three sets of coloured stones. The characters of Naomi Wildman and Seven of Nine played the game sometimes, after the events of the episode "Infinite Regress". ## Other websites - [A summary of the g...
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13,359
1,833,168
Kenny Rogers
2026-09-05T23:18:38Z
**William Kenneth Rogers Paul** (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) also known as Kenny Rogers was a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. His best known songs include "The Gambler" and "Lucille". He acted in several movies and television series. He owned a franchise of roast chicken restaurants called "K...
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13,360
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Moundou
2013-11-03T00:12:04Z
**Moundou** is the capital of the Logone Occidental in Chad. It has a population of 99,530 as of 2003. Moundou lies on one of the main roads in southern Chad. It is the main city of the Ngambai people. Moundou is a center for industry and makes cotton and oil.
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Andrew Aagesen
2024-10-31T18:07:55Z
**Andrew Aagesen** or **Andreas Aagesen** (August 5, 1826 - October 26, 1879) was a Danish lawyer and politician. The Danish laws of the Sea, of the 1882 was mostly his work. ## Biography Andrew Aagesen studied law at Christianshavn and Copenhagen. He stopped his studies in 1848 to take part in the First Schleswig Wa...
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13,362
1,659,465
Heart (band)
2025-09-28T19:08:12Z
**Heart** is an rock band which started in Seattle in the 1960s. It became famous with the release of "Dreamboat Annie" in 1976 when the band-members were living in Vancouver. Heart was started by Steve Fossen and brothers Roger and Mike Fisher in Seattle. Ann Wilson joined the band in Seattle in 1970. Nancy Wilson jo...
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Golden Earring
2026-09-15T18:39:54Z
**Golden Earring** is a Dutch rock band. They began in 1961 in The Hague; named the Golden Earrings. In 1969, they became just Golden Earring, (dropping the "s"). They gained worldwide fame with their hit song "Radar Love" in 1973. The single was number one on the Dutch charts, in the top ten in the United Kingdom and ...
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Rick Springfield
2025-05-03T13:54:36Z
**Richard Springthorpe** (born August 23, 1949), known better by his stage name **Rick Springfield**, is an Australian musician and actor. He became popular in the 1980s thanks to a string of hit songs including "Jessie's Girl", and a recurring role on the TV show, *General Hospital*. ## Early life Rick Springfield w...
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Anus
2026-03-12T10:01:14Z
The **anus** is the opening in the human body that is between the buttocks. It is at the end of the gastrointestinal system (including the organs that digest food), where feces or *stool* comes out of the body. ## Gallery ```{=wikitext} <gallery widths="250" heights="250"> File:Female anus closeup.jpg|The anus of a...
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Orgasm
2026-07-20T04:01:08Z
An **orgasm** is a sexual climax (or high point). An orgasm happens because of continued sexual stimulation. During an orgasm, there is a strong feeling of excitement and pleasure. Sexual stimulation may be done by sexual intercourse, masturbation, or other actions that make the sex organs feel good. ## Overview Dur...
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Prostate
2025-05-22T22:06:23Z
The **prostate** is a gland of the male body that adds part of the fluid to semen and acts as the valve between semen and urine. It surrounds the urethra just below the urinary bladder and squeezes the urinary tract shut. The prostate is a valve that is almost always on. It works by squeezing tight around the urinary t...
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13,374
103,847
Fossil
2026-07-08T20:56:46Z
A **fossil** is the remains or trace of an ancient living thing. ## Composition Fossils of animals, plants, or protists occur in sedimentary rock. In a typical fossil, the body form is retained, but the original molecules that made up the body have been replaced by some inorganic material, such as calcium carbonate (...
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13,375
1,674,404
Nine Inch Nails
2026-09-23T14:57:11Z
**Nine Inch Nails** (also known as **NIN**) is an industrial rock band. Trent Reznor writes all the band's music, and plays most of the music himself. He started the band in 1988 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Nine Inch Nails has been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards. ## History ### *Pretty Hate Machine* (1989–1991) *Pr...
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13,376
1,870,985
Remixing
2026-09-12T08:20:12Z
In **remixing**, a person (often a recording engineer or record producer or lyrics producer) takes a familiar song, splits it into different parts called *tracks*, and changes the song's music, instruments, layout, and or vocals to create a new version of the same song. It is called *remixing* due to mixing being the p...
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13,382
985,658
H. P. Lovecraft
2023-10-18T02:01:06Z
**Howard Phillips Lovecraft** (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He wrote many scary short stories. These often were about odd creatures that Lovecraft made up by himself or with his friends, including August Derleth, who wrote mysteries. The creatures di...
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13,384
532,461
Hormone
2026-07-26T04:06:53Z
**Hormones** are the chemical messengers of the endocrine system. Hormones are the signals which adjust the body's internal working, together with the nervous system. Every multicellular organism has hormones. The cells which react to a given hormone have special receptors for that hormone. When a hormone attaches to t...
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13,386
1,464,674
Testosterone
2025-05-01T01:52:16Z
**Testosterone** is an androgen sex hormone. A hormone is one that is made from cholesterol. A sex hormone is one that regulates sexual changes in the body. An androgen is the male type of sex hormone. It may cause extreme hair loss if high proportions of active testosterone are found in the blood. Proportionally, sex ...
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Cholera
2026-07-26T15:41:02Z
**Cholera** is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium *Vibrio cholerae*. It infects the small intestine. There are many types (strains) of the *Vibrio cholera* bacteria. Some of them cause more serious illnesses than others. Because of this, some people who get cholera have no symptoms; others have symptoms tha...
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13,394
640,235
Mandriva Linux
2024-01-18T12:50:56Z
*For the type of plant, see Mandrake* **Mandriva** (formerly Mandrake Linux) is a Linux distribution. The last release was the 2011 version released in August that year. Most Mandriva Linux developers who were laid off went to Mageia. In May 2015, Mandriva went into administration. ## Brief history Mandriva was f...
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Action theory
2022-02-22T05:59:25Z
**Action theory** is an area in philosophy that talks about theories about the processes that cause intentional (willful) human body movements. ## The philosophy of action Some Philosophers ask the question 'What is an action?' or 'What makes somebody do an action?'. Here are two theories. ### The belief-desire (wan...
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1,639,797
Xiangqi
2025-07-13T15:30:52Z
**Xiangqi** is a board game from China. In English, it is also known as **Chinese chess**. Though derived from the original Indian Chaturanga, Chinese chess is quite different from modern international chess. The board is different, there are different pieces, and they have different moves. The *general* and his *mand...
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13,402
1,618,275
Governor
2026-09-02T01:31:56Z
A **governor** is a leader of some kind. In some federations, the governor is the leader of a state or a province of the country. For example, in the United States, each of the 50 states has a governor, who is elected by its own people. While the president is the leader of the whole country, a governor is the leader...
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Republican Party (United States)
2026-10-01T08:24:20Z
The **Republican Party**, also known as the **Grand Old Party** (**GOP**), is one of the two biggest political parties in the United States. Since the mid-1850s, its main opponent has been the Democratic Party. Both parties have controlled American politics ever since. The party sits on the right wing to far right of t...
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Democratic Party (United States)
2026-08-26T03:53:06Z
The **Democratic Party** is one of the two biggest political parties in the United States. Since the mid-1850s, the party's main opponent has been the Republican Party. Both political parties have controlled American politics ever since. ## Overview The party sits at the center to center-left of the American politica...
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Taste
2026-04-08T19:03:34Z
**Taste** is one of the five main senses that helps people and animals enjoy and understand the food they eat. It allows us to notice different flavors, such as sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami (a savory taste). Taste happens when special cells on the tongue, called taste buds, sense the chemicals in food and send...
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Touch
2023-10-21T12:46:31Z
> *This article is about one of the five main senses. For other uses, see Touch (disambiguation)* **Touch** is one of the five main senses that animals have. It can be called the **sense of body** or the **sense of touch**. The system also has internal sensory receptors, and includes sensing temperature and pain. Ther...
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Classical mechanics
2026-02-28T04:14:00Z
**Classical mechanics** is the part of physics that describes how everyday things move and how their motion changes because of forces. If we know how things are moving now, classical mechanics allows us to predict how they will move in the future and how they were moving in the past. We can use classical mechanics to p...
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Moai
2026-04-29T01:59:45Z
**Moai** are stone statues on Easter Island. Each moai is made out of one large stone but some have an extra stone on top of the head. Most were made from the volcanic rock in the Rano Raraku area of the island. Moai are sometimes called "heads" but they do have shoulders, arms, and a body but these are usually too sma...
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Diogenes of Sinope
2024-05-30T17:36:12Z
**Diogenes of Sinope** (or **Diogenes the Cynic**) was an Ancient Greek philosopher. He was born in the town of Sinope (now called Sinop, Turkey) around the year 412 BC and died in the city of Corinth, Greece, in the year 323 BC. After being exiled for debasing the currency, he moved to Athens. He had a simple lifesty...
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Vaccination
2026-04-27T00:29:26Z
A **vaccination** is a treatment which makes the body stronger against an infection. The body fights infections using the immune system, which is made up of millions upon millions of cells including T cells and B cells. An important part of the adaptive immune system is that it is much stronger when fighting a disease...
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Vice President of the United States
2026-08-04T06:26:16Z
The **vice president of the United States** (**VPOTUS**) is the second highest executive officer of the U.S. federal government after the president of the United States. The vice president ranks first in the presidential line of succession and is also the officer of the legislative branch, president of the Senate and t...
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Dick Cheney
2026-10-01T06:50:55Z
**Richard Bruce** "**Dick**" **Cheney** (January 30, 1941 – November 3, 2025) was an American politician and businessman. He was the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. As a Republican, he ran in the 2000 United States presidential election with George W. Bush, and successfully won re-election i...
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Toad the Wet Sprocket
2025-09-12T08:29:30Z
**Toad the Wet Sprocket** is an American alternative rock band from California. They formed in 1986, while they were in high school. Their name comes from a monologue (one person doing all the talking) performed by Eric Idle, called "Rock Notes" on the 1980 album, *Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album*.
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Boyz II Men
2025-08-21T06:43:39Z
**Boyz II Men** is an American boy band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were popular in the early 1990s. Founded in 1988 as a quintet (group of five people), Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet (group of four), with members Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman, and Wanya Morris, on Motown Records during ...
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Johnny Nash
2026-05-14T21:35:38Z
**John Lester "Johnny" Nash Jr.** (August 19, 1940 – October 6, 2020) was an American reggae and soul singer. His best known singles were "I Can See Clearly Now", "Hold Me Tight" and "Tears on My Pillow". ## Career His biggest hit was "I Can See Clearly Now" in 1972. In his late teens Johnny Nash came to the attent...
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Linda Ronstadt
2026-05-14T19:25:55Z
**Linda Ronstadt** (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer. She was born in Tucson, Arizona. She has won ten Grammy Awards and many other awards. Ronstadt has never been married. She has an adopted daughter and adopted son. She has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Her autobiography was published in 2013.
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Heart
2026-08-03T11:41:58Z
The **heart** is a hard-working, fist-sized muscle found in people and animals. It pumps out blood through tube-like structures called blood vessels. The heart and these vessels together make up the body-wide circulatory system. Blood carries in oxygen-rich air and nutrient-packed food to the body and takes away waste-...
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Heart disease
2025-04-30T21:27:08Z
**Heart disease** is a general term that means that the heart is not working normally. Babies can be born with heart disease. This is called ***congenital heart disease***. If people get heart disease later, it is called ***acquired heart disease***. Most heart disease is acquired. ## Types of heart disease The thre...
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North Dakota
2025-03-25T21:21:49Z
**North Dakota** is a state in the United States. About 780,000 people lived in North Dakota in the year 2020. The capital and seat of government is Bismarck and the largest city is Fargo. ## Geography North Dakota is south of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, east of Montana, north of South Dakota, and west of Minnesota. ...
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LGBTQ
2026-09-05T13:44:12Z
***LGBTQ*** is an initialism that means **l**esbian, **g**ay, **b**isexual, **t**ransgender, and **q**ueer. It refers to the community of people who are not heterosexual, which means to be attracted to the other gender, or cisgender, which means to identify as the gender you were born as. It has been taken up by many...
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Rainbow flag
2022-10-18T03:10:43Z
The **rainbow flag** is a multi-colored flag consisting of stripes in the colors of the rainbow that is displayed in many cultures around the world as a sign of diversity and inclusiveness. The German pastor Thomas Müntzer used a rainbow flag as a symbol of solidarity as early as the German Peasants' War of the 16th c...
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Dualism
2026-08-27T23:21:07Z
**Dualism** is the idea or theory that something (an object, an idea, or the whole world) is split into two parts. The parts are separate from each other, and the thing cannot be divided up in any other way. That contrasts with the idea or theory that something cannot be split into any parts, which is called monism, a...
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Vomit
2026-07-01T17:48:53Z
**Vomiting**, also called **puking** or **emesis**, is emptying the contents of stomach through mouth. It can be either food or liquid in the stomach. It can be from infection, contaminated food or drink (food poisoning), foul smells or foul-tasting food, the brain being injured, a block in the small intestines so food...
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Ancient Greece
2026-08-04T15:00:42Z
**Ancient Greek civilization**, also commonly called **Ancient Greece**, was a large area, mostly along the northeast shore of the Mediterranean Sea, where people spoke the Greek language. The area was much larger than today's country of Greece. Greek civilization thrived, especially during the archaic period, betwee...
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Malaria
2026-08-15T04:07:47Z
**Malaria** is an infectious disease caused by a parasite, known as plasmodium. It is one of the most common diseases in the world. Every year it infects hundreds of millions of people and kills hundreds of thousands.. Malaria is produced by four species of the protozoan parasite **Plasmodium**, which is endemic in ma...
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Blood vessel
2026-04-05T10:29:20Z
A **blood vessel** is a tube that carries blood around the circulatory system. Blood vessels that take blood away from the heart are arteries. Blood vessels that take blood back to the heart are veins. Capillaries are between veins and arteries and they supply tissue with blood. The heart plus all of the blood vessel...
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Jana Gana Mana
2026-06-29T14:09:56Z
"**Jana Gana Mana**" (IPAC: ˈdʒɑːnə\_ˈgɑːnə\_ˈmɑːnə; জন গণ মন; जन गण मन; {{#lit}}Thou Art the Ruler of the Minds of All People{{/lit}}) is the national anthem of India. The original words were written in the Bengali language. It was originally a five-verse poem created in 1911 by Rabindranath Tagore—the same author for...
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Circulatory system
2026-04-16T01:10:59Z
The **circulatory system** (also called the **cardiovascular system**) is the body system that moves blood around the body. It consists of the heart and blood vessels. The blood carries various materials that the body needs, and takes away waste and harmful substances. Blood vessels that take blood away from the hea...
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Pink triangle
2025-08-05T15:33:39Z
The **pink triangle** is one of the two big symbols of the LGBT community. The other is the rainbow flag. The pink triangle was first used in Nazi Germany to mark homosexual prisoners. There was also a *black triangle* that marked *anti-social women*. Many but not all of these women were lesbians. Jews were made to wea...
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Chat room
2026-07-29T16:14:03Z
A **chat room** is a virtual place on the Internet where people can get together and type messages to each other using text. People use programs like IRC to join a chat room and type messages or send pictures to the other people within that chat. There are also other programs called instant messengers to stay in contac...
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Alan Wake
2025-02-24T01:44:04Z
***Alan Wake*** is a video game made by Remedy Entertainment. It is a "thriller" game and was voted best game of E3 in 2005. It was released on Xbox 360 in May 2010 and Microsoft Windows on February 16, 2012. A sequel, *Alan Wake 2*, was released in 2023. ## Other websites - [Official site](http://www.alanwake.com) ...
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Devil May Cry 4
2026-09-24T04:25:20Z
***Devil May Cry 4*** is the fourth video game in the series of *Devil May Cry*. It was released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on February 5 2008. Before to this game, all *Devil May Cry* games had only been released on the PlayStation video game consoles. This one was the first game to be released on the Xbox a...
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50 Cent
2025-07-09T20:15:15Z
**Curtis James Jackson III** (born July 6, 1975) known by his professional name **50 Cent** is an American rapper, actor, and businessman. ## Early life He was born in the South Jamaica neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York City on July 6, 1975. Growing up, he never knew his father and his mother was murder...
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