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4,700 | 15,635 | 10,251,162 | 9th century | 2025-05-11T14:31:03Z | The **9th century** was the century from 801 to 900.
## Events
- An unknown event causes the decline of the Maya Classical Era.
- Beowulf might have been written down in this century. It could also have been in the 8th century.
- Reign of Charlemagne, and the Carolingian Renaissance in Western Europe.
- Large-scale V... | [] |
4,701 | 15,636 | 10,251,161 | 8th century | 2025-05-11T14:30:49Z | The **8th century** was the century from 701 to 800.
## Decades and years
Note: years before or after the 8th century are in *italics*.
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4,702 | 15,637 | 10,251,160 | 7th century | 2025-05-11T14:30:37Z | The **7th century** was the century from 601 to 700.
## Decades and years
Note: years before or after the 7th century are in *italics*.
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4,703 | 15,638 | 10,251,159 | 6th century | 2025-05-11T14:30:16Z | The **6th century** was the century from 501 to 600.
## Decades and years
Note: the 6th century officially started in 501.
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4,704 | 15,639 | 10,251,158 | 5th century | 2025-05-11T14:29:54Z | The **5th century** was the century from 401 to 500.
## Decades and years
Note: years before or after the 5th century are in *italics*.
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4,705 | 15,640 | 10,251,157 | 4th century | 2025-05-11T14:28:43Z | The **4th century** was the century from 301 to 400.
## Decades and years
Note: years before or after the 4th century are in *italics*.
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4,706 | 15,643 | 1,832,612 | Zambia | 2026-07-04T09:10:18Z | The **Republic of Zambia** is a country in southern Africa. It shares its borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the northeast, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana (Via a very tiny border) to the south, Namibia (Via the Caprivi Strip) to the southw... | [] |
4,707 | 15,644 | 693,482 | Benin | 2026-07-26T09:48:06Z | **Benin** (officially called the **Republic of Benin**) is a country in Africa. The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo. The government is based in Cotonou, the country's largest city. Most people live on the small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin.
Because Benin was colonized by France and is still close to it, t... | [] |
4,708 | 15,648 | 1,714,672 | Dominican Republic | 2026-03-09T18:55:31Z | The **Dominican Republic** (Spanish: *República Dominicana*) is a Latin American country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola; the other country on the island is Haiti. Its capital, and largest city, is Santo Domingo. The national language is Spanish.
The country was part of the Spanish empire until the late 18th cen... | [] |
4,709 | 15,649 | 1,011,873 | 1856 | 2025-07-05T15:31:06Z | {{#Year article header}}1856{{/Year article header}}
## Births
- April 5 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and writer (d. 1915)
- July 10 – Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist (d. 1943)
- July 26 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1950)
- August 3 – Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia ... | [] |
4,710 | 15,652 | 404,478 | Navassa Island | 2026-06-30T17:45:36Z | **Navassa Island**, or **La Navase** in Haitian Creole, is a small island without anyone living on it in the Caribbean Sea. It is located ninety miles south of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States government claims the two-square-mile island as a territory of the United States, and it is under control of the U.S. Fi... | [] |
4,711 | 15,661 | 10,249,944 | 1648 | 2025-05-11T07:13:03Z | {{#Year article header}}1648{{/Year article header}}
## Events
- January/October: The Thirty Years' War ended with the Peace of Westphalia.
- October 24 – Switzerland is recognized as an independent country by the other countries of Europe.
- Saint-Barthélemy was claimed by France.
- The Eighty Years' War between th... | [] |
4,712 | 15,662 | 40,117 | Blink-182 | 2025-09-13T10:27:15Z | **Blink-182** is a popular California post-punk band formed in 1992. Currently, the band members are Mark Hoppus (bass, vocals), Tom DeLonge (guitar, vocals) and Travis Barker (drums). Matt Skiba was the vocalist and guitarist on the Albums California and Nine. The band was originally created by Hoppus, DeLonge, and S... | [] |
4,713 | 15,666 | 1,674,404 | Doctor Who | 2026-09-16T19:16:56Z | ***Doctor Who*** is a BBC science fiction television series. The series is about an alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor". In their space-time ship, the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), the Doctor and their companions travel through space and time, starring Christopher Eccleston (series 1), David Ten... | [] |
4,714 | 15,667 | 532,461 | Concentration camp | 2026-07-26T10:24:42Z | A **concentration camp** (or **internment camp**) is a place where a government forces people to live without trial. Usually, those people belong to groups the government does not like. The term means to confine (keep in a secure manner) "enemy citizens in wartime or terrorism suspects".
Some governments put people i... | [] |
4,715 | 15,670 | 1,713,335 | Ribosome | 2025-12-20T00:02:06Z | **Ribosomes** are important cell organelles. They are micromolecular machines that make proteins. They do this through RNA translation, building proteins from amino acids using messenger RNA as a template. Ribosomes are found in all living cells, prokaryotes as well as eukaryotes.
Ribosomes are made of two parts: the ... | [] |
4,716 | 15,672 | 693,482 | William Hartnell | 2022-07-13T09:40:49Z | **William Henry Hartnell** (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. He best known for playing the First Doctor on *Doctor Who* from 1963 to 1966.
## Biography
He was born in St Pancras, London. In 1932, he was in a movie called *Say It With Music*. He was in more than sixty movies. He usually played fun... | [] |
4,717 | 15,674 | 1,451,577 | Patrick Troughton | 2024-04-21T17:23:16Z | **Patrick George Troughton** (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was a British actor. He played different sorts of characters and who was in a lot of movies.
He is best known as the Second Doctor on *Doctor Who* from 1966 to 1969. He also appeared in *Jason & the Argonauts* (1963) and *The Omen* (1976). His grandson, Har... | [] |
4,718 | 15,675 | 248,920 | Jon Pertwee | 2021-08-12T23:49:12Z | **John Devon Roland Pertwee** (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), better known as **Jon Pertwee**, was an English actor. He is best known for playing the role of the Third Doctor on *Doctor Who* from 1970 to 1974 and also the title scarecrow in the television children's comedy series *Worzel Gummidge*. His son is actor Sean P... | [] |
4,719 | 15,676 | 1,618,275 | Tom Baker | 2026-09-15T09:43:21Z | **Thomas Stewart Baker MBE** (born 20 January 1934), who is known professionally by his credited stage name as **Tom Baker**, is an English character actor and writer. He is perhaps best known for his work by playing the Fourth Doctor in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme, *Doctor Who*.
## Early... | [] |
4,720 | 15,678 | 404,478 | Nazi Germany | 2026-08-25T13:27:23Z | **Nazi Germany** (officially known as the **German Third Reich** from 1933 to 1943, later known as the **Greater German Reich** from 1943 to 1945; commonly simply called **Germany**), was the period of Germany between 1933 and 1945. Adolf Hitler (the Nazi leader, or *Führer*) and the Nazi Party controlled the country a... | [] |
4,721 | 15,708 | 145,452 | Jim Reeves | 2021-12-26T23:35:20Z | **James Travis "Jim" Reeves** (August 20, 1923 in Galloway, Texas - July 31, 1964 in Nashville, Tennessee) was an American country singer. He died in a plane crash.
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4,722 | 15,709 | 9,003,864 | Dusty Springfield | 2023-08-15T13:55:10Z | **Dusty Springfield** (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999) was an English singer. Her real name was **Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien**. Her musical career lasted from the late 1950s to the 1990s. She recorded over 200 songs during this time. She became one of the most successful female singers in Britain. She made ... | [] |
4,723 | 15,711 | 1,226,644 | The Offspring | 2024-10-13T19:14:56Z | **The Offspring** is an American punk group formed in 1984 in Garden Grove, California. Their music has covered both punk rock and pop punk.
## Band members
### Current members
- Dexter Holland – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1984–present)
- Noodles – lead guitar, backing vocals (1985–present)
- Todd Morse – bass, bac... | [] |
4,724 | 15,712 | 1,797,528 | Aretha Franklin | 2026-08-09T04:43:49Z | **Aretha Louise Franklin** (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American soul and R&B singer. She was called the "Queen of Soul". She was best known for her songs "Respect", "Think", "Chain of Fools", and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman".
## Early life and career: 1942–60
Aretha Louise Franklin was born... | [] |
4,725 | 15,717 | 532,461 | Tomato | 2026-08-09T07:09:08Z | The **tomato** (*Solanum lycopersicum*) is a vegetable/botanical fruit, or specifically, a berry (but not a fruit as ordinary people use the word).
Tomatoes are shiny and smooth with many small seeds. They are very good for health. Most tomatoes are red, but are green when unripe. They slowly change color from green t... | [] |
4,726 | 15,719 | 16,695 | Pineapple | 2026-08-10T17:10:04Z | The **pineapple** is a fruit. It is native to South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The word "pineapple" came from European explorers, who thought the fruit looked similar to a pine cone. The pineapple is a tropical plant and it must not be kept under 10 degrees. It takes a long time for the pineapple to gr... | [] |
4,727 | 15,721 | 314,522 | Pear | 2025-05-15T22:34:27Z | The term **pear** may refer to a number of fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in the Northern Hemisphere in late summer into October. Its shape is a teardrop, the flavor of pears is best when they are cool. They are juicy. Pears do not ripen well on trees. They can be soft in... | [] |
4,728 | 15,723 | 532,461 | Melon | 2026-05-19T02:06:54Z | A **melon** is any kind of edible, fleshy fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family. Many different cultivars have been produced, especially of muskmelons. Botanically speaking, the melon is a fruit, but some kinds are often considered vegetables. Most melons belong to the genus *Cucumis*, but there are also some that belong t... | [] |
4,729 | 15,724 | 314,522 | Raspberry | 2025-07-27T11:24:10Z | A **raspberry** is an aggregate fruit, meaning it has many parts joined together. It is similar to a blackberry, but the fruit is hollow on the inside. There are many different species of raspberry plants, but only a few of them have fruit that are sold in stores. Leaves of the raspberry plant are also used fresh or dr... | [] |
4,730 | 15,726 | 1,847,290 | Plum | 2026-07-31T06:46:49Z | A **plum** is a sweet fruit that grows on a **plum tree**. The scientific name for the tree is *Prunus* *domestica*. When the fruit is dried, it is called a prune. The color "plum" takes its name from the fruit.
***Prunus domestica*** is the **European plum**. Most of the plums we eat are grown on varieties of this tr... | [] |
4,731 | 15,727 | 22,027 | Peach | 2024-08-22T02:54:28Z | The **peach** is a species of the *Prunus persica*, and is a fruit tree of the rose family *Rosaceae*. They grow in the warm regions of both the northern and southern hemispheres.
## Description
Peach blossoms are small to medium-sized. The tree is sometimes up to 6.5 m (21 feet) in height. When it is grown by people... | [] |
4,732 | 15,729 | 532,461 | Fig | 2026-01-22T10:04:42Z | **Fig** (genus *Ficus*) is a soft, sweet fruit. Its skin is very thin and has many small seeds inside of it. There are more than 850 kinds of *Ficus*, the fig tree.
The fruits can be eaten when ripe and when dried. Figs grow in warm climates. Sometimes, figs are made into jam. Figs are also in a popular snack.
Figs a... | [] |
4,733 | 15,730 | 693,482 | Grapefruit | 2026-07-26T14:52:47Z | **Grapefruit** is a citrus fruit grown in sub-tropical places. It is bigger than an orange and is often more sour, but many types of grapefruit have other flavors. The fruit can grow 10-15cm in diameter.
In 2007, there were about 5,061,023 tons of grapefruits made worldwide, most of the tons coming from the U.S. There... | [] |
4,734 | 15,731 | 693,482 | Grape | 2026-07-26T16:48:33Z | **Grapes** are the fruit of a woody grape vine. Grapes can be eaten raw, or used for making wine, juice, and jelly/jam. Grapes come in different colours; red, purple, white, and green are some examples. Today, grapes can be seedless, by using machines to pit the fruit. Wild grapevines are often considered a nuisance we... | [] |
4,735 | 15,732 | 9,614,649 | Blackberry | 2024-06-24T20:19:22Z | The **blackberry** is a black berry made by any of several species in the *Rubus* genus of the Rosaceae family. The blackberry is black, shrub is called "bramble" in Britain, but in the western U.S. "caneberry" is the term is used for both blackberries and raspberries.
It is a widespread and well known group of over ... | [] |
4,736 | 15,733 | 1,806,740 | Lychee | 2026-05-19T10:13:38Z | A **lychee** or **litchi** (pronounced LIE-chee) is a tropical fruit in the genus *Litchi*. It is grown in some parts of India like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar apart from southern China. Lychees from India are distinctly different from the ones grown in China–apart from being larger and juicier, their outer shell is reddis... | [] |
4,737 | 15,734 | 863,768 | Cherry | 2023-10-12T11:31:32Z | A **cherry** is a fruit that grows on a tree or a bush. It belongs to the genus *Prunus*. It is red in color, with a seed in the middle. It tastes slightly sour, and is often used to flavour cakes and ice cream, or is baked in a pie or cobbler. Cherries are also a good source of Vitamin B.
In Japan, Yamagata is top pr... | [] |
4,738 | 15,736 | 9,387,053 | Blackcurrant | 2024-02-29T15:59:46Z | The **blackcurrant** (*Ribes nigrum*) is a small, bitter-tasting fruit. It can be found in central and northern Europe and northern Asia.
Blackcurrant has a lot of vitamin C in it. Blackcurrant gets its name from its dark color. It is also used to make jelly, ice cream, and cordial. Blackcurrant is a popular flavor in... | [] |
4,739 | 15,740 | 1,502,063 | Date palm | 2025-08-04T19:31:56Z | The **date palm** (***Phoenix dactylifera***) is a species of palm tree. It has been cultivated for a very long time because of its fruit. The tree is between 15 and high. It has long leaves that look like feathers. Such leaves are called pinnate. The leaves can grow to 3–5 m in length. The leaves have visible spines. ... | [] |
4,740 | 15,741 | 1,806,740 | Cherimoya | 2026-05-19T10:20:17Z | The **cherimoya** or **cherimoyer** (*Annona cherimola*), also called the **custard apple**, is a sweet fruit that comes mostly from Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia. The inside of a cherimoya is soft, and it is white in color. The skin of the cherimoya fruit is green when it is ripe, and brown if it becomes too rip... | [] |
4,741 | 15,742 | 1,855,974 | Blueberry | 2026-08-16T05:52:29Z | **Blueberry** refers to a wild section of purple or blue berries. It grows in a type of woody plant called a shrub. Many types of blueberries grow in North America and eastern Asia. Blueberries are more common between May and October.
Blueberry has a sweet taste, with a little acidic hint. Wild blueberries have a stro... | [] |
4,742 | 15,743 | 1,161,309 | Momentum | 2025-11-23T20:25:59Z | **Linear momentum**, **translational momentum** or simply **momentum** is the product of a body's mass and its velocity:
\[
\mathbf{p}= m \mathbf{v}
\]
where **p** is the momentum, *m* is the mass and **v** is the velocity.
Momentum can be thought of as the "power" when a body is moving, meaning how much force it c... | [] |
4,743 | 15,751 | 1,354,174 | Malmö | 2025-12-05T10:35:53Z | **Malmö** is the third largest city in Sweden. About 333,633 people lived there in 2017. It is in the south west part of Sweden, by the sea. The Öresund bridge goes from Malmö to Copenhagen. In the 15th century, Malmö was one of Denmark's largest cities.
Malmö has the biggest Middle Eastern community in Sweden. It is ... | [] |
4,744 | 15,752 | 103,847 | Skull | 2026-09-12T19:40:54Z | A **skull**, or **cranium**, is a set of bones that make up the head of a vertebrate and keep in place all body parts in the head. It supports the structures of the face and forms a protective cavity for the brain.
As well as protecting the brain, the skull fixes the distance between the eyes and between the ears. Thi... | [] |
4,745 | 15,762 | 5,295 | Mark Hoppus | 2025-05-10T16:41:38Z | **Mark Allan Hoppus** (born March 15, 1972) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and former television personality
He was born March 15, 1972 in Ridgecrest, California. He is known for being a member of the pop punk band Blink 182.
Hoppus played the bass guitar and sang. After Blink 182 broke... | [] |
4,746 | 15,769 | 9,154,496 | Sandstone | 2023-10-26T17:52:21Z | **Sandstone** is a sedimentary rock. It is a rock made of compacted sand. Sand is small grains of rocks and minerals (such as quartz and feldspar). These are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust.
Sandstone which is resistant to weathering is used for building in many countries. It can be a hard rock. For exam... | [] |
4,747 | 15,772 | 1,292,020 | Pseudonym | 2026-01-09T21:16:53Z | A **pseudonym** (soo-do-nim) or **alias** is a fake name which a person uses instead of their real name. Pseudonyms can include stage names, screen names, ring names, pen names, nicknames, aliases, superhero identities and code names.
Many people use pseudonyms, including authors (pen names) and performers (stage name... | [] |
4,748 | 15,773 | 8,943,998 | Pen name | 2023-07-16T18:12:13Z | A **pen name**, also known as a pseudonym, is a name an author uses in the place of their real name, when they write and publish things. For example, the Brontë sisters (Anne, Emily and Charlotte) who were famous authors in the 19th century used them, because they feared that people would make fun of (say bad things ab... | [] |
4,749 | 15,775 | 1,851,019 | Stage name | 2026-08-07T08:07:07Z | A **stage name** is a name an entertainer (such as a movie star or a musician) uses instead of their birth name for the purposes of their career. Famous examples include actress Marilyn Monroe, singer Lady Gaga and rapper Nicki Minaj.
Actors and actresses choose stage names for a variety of reasons. Their real name ma... | [] |
4,750 | 15,778 | 532,461 | Fermat's Last Theorem | 2026-04-26T03:17:00Z | **Fermat's Last Theorem** or **FLT** is a very famous idea in mathematics. It says that:
> If \(n\) is a whole number larger than 2, then the equation \(x^n + y^n = z^n\) has no solutions when *x*, *y* and *z* are natural numbers.
Or,
> It is impossible to express in whole numbers two cubes, which added equal a thir... | [] |
4,751 | 15,779 | 291,403 | Lewinsky scandal | 2024-11-17T14:31:00Z | The **Clinton-Lewinsky scandal** was an American political sex scandal in 1998. United States President Bill Clinton was said to have had oral sex with 22 year old Monica Lewinsky.
Lewinsky said that she had sex with Bill Clinton nine times from November 1995 to March 1997. According to her published schedule, First ... | [] |
4,752 | 15,783 | 532,461 | Guam | 2026-01-02T10:59:16Z | **Guam** (Guåhan) is an island in Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean and is a U.S. territory. This means that it is part of the United States and citizens of Guam are citizens of the United States as well. Guam is not an independent country, but like all populated U.S. territories, it has a greater degree of autonomy than... | [] |
4,753 | 15,786 | 1,849,100 | Warren G. Harding | 2026-08-03T16:00:00Z | **Warren Gamaliel Harding** (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923. Before becoming president, he was a senator and the assistant governor of Ohio. Before he was in government, he was an important newspaper manager. He was a Republican.
## Pres... | [] |
4,754 | 15,789 | 1,392,959 | Honduras | 2026-09-06T03:19:37Z | **Honduras**, officially the **Republic of Honduras**, is a country in Central America. It borders Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. To the south is the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north is Gulf of Honduras. Its capital and largest city is Tegucigalpa.
\=\=Etymology\=\=
The literal meaning of the te... | [] |
4,755 | 15,790 | 1,882,807 | Bangladesh | 2026-10-01T16:05:32Z | **Bangladesh**, officially called the **People's Republic of Bangladesh** (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth most populated country in the world and one of the most tightly packed, with more than 170 million people living in an area of 148460 km2. Bangladesh has land borders with In... | [] |
4,756 | 15,796 | 1,845,269 | West Germany | 2026-07-27T15:56:58Z | **West Germany** (German: *West Deutschland*) is the common English name for the **Federal Republic of Germany** (**FRG**; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, **BRD**; <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="audio"><div data-arg>De-Bundesrepublik Deutschland.ogg</div><div data-arg>listen</div><div data-arg data-nam... | [] |
4,757 | 15,797 | 1,847,570 | Yugoslavia | 2026-07-31T18:59:04Z | **Yugoslavia** was a country in Europe that lay mostly in the Balkan Peninsula. It existed in one of three forms from 1918 to 2003. Yugoslavia means “land of the south Slavs”. The name comes from people who left Poland, which was to the north of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia contained a wide range of different ethnic groups t... | [] |
4,758 | 15,798 | 1,618,275 | Major League Baseball | 2026-08-04T21:38:27Z | **Major League Baseball (MLB)** is a professional baseball league in North America. It is often considered to be the highest level of professional baseball in the world. There are two leagues that make up the MLB: the American League, also called AL, and National League, also called NL. There are currently 30 teams in ... | [] |
4,759 | 15,799 | 1,701,782 | Lou Gehrig | 2025-12-07T23:12:58Z | **Henry Louis Gehrig** (born **Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig**; June 19, 1903June 2, 1941) was an American baseball player. Due to his reliability and stamina, he was nicknamed **the Iron Horse**. He played with Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees who were thought the best team of that time. He played with the Yankees for most... | [] |
4,760 | 15,800 | 1,859,586 | United States Senate | 2026-09-03T22:38:22Z | The **United States Senate** is the upper house of the United States Congress, which is a group of elected people who decide the laws of the country. Every U.S. state elects two people to represent them in the U.S. Senate. These people are called **senators**. Since there are 50 states, there are 100 senators. Senators... | [] |
4,761 | 15,803 | 1,538,442 | Fair use | 2025-10-01T00:37:45Z | **Fair use** is the idea that it should be okay for a person to reuse something that another person has created, in certain amounts and for certain purposes, without breaking the law.
## Usage
In most countries, art and other made-up things, like stories, books, television shows and pictures, are owned by the person ... | [] |
4,762 | 15,860 | 190,121 | Duodenum | 2023-11-15T02:12:10Z | The **duodenum** is a short section of the small intestine, and is where most digestion in the small intestine takes place. It receives secretions, including bile and juice, from the pancreas and the liver through the pancreatic and common bile ducts. These secretions limit, or neutralise, the stomach acidity. Also, en... | [] |
4,763 | 15,861 | 1,734,355 | Soil erosion | 2026-07-23T09:05:48Z | **Soil erosion** is the washing or blowing away (by water or wind) of the top layer of soil (dirt). This is a serious problem for farmers. If the soil has eroded, the crops that make food will not grow very well.
Soil erosion was a big problem in the Midwestern United States in the 1930s dust bowl.
Erosion also lea... | [] |
4,764 | 15,862 | 1,625,383 | Compost | 2026-04-05T19:43:18Z | **Compost** is a type of fertilizer that is made from rotting plants. It is easy and cheap to make, as all it really requires is vegetable waste. The vegetable waste is broken down by bacteria (germs), and made into compost.
## Making a compost heap
To make a compost heap, you need some space fairly far from anyone w... | [] |
4,765 | 15,863 | 1,824,376 | Haiti | 2026-09-15T16:48:38Z | **Haiti** (Haitian Creole: *Ayiti*; French: *Haïti*), officially the **Republic of Haiti** (Haitian Creole: *Repiblik d Ayiti*; French: *République d'Haïti*) is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. The other country on the island is the Dominican Republic. Haiti has two official languages: French and Haitia... | [] |
4,766 | 15,864 | 10,252,011 | 1500s | 2025-05-12T00:43:13Z | The **1500s** was a decade that started on 1 January 1500 and ended on 31 December 1509.
It is distinct from the decade known as the ***151th decade*** which began on January 1, 1501 and ended on December 31, 1510.
## Events
- People begin to make cutlery in Sheffield, England.
- Leonardo da Vinci paints the *Mona L... | [] |
4,767 | 15,865 | 1,011,873 | 1901 | 2025-11-09T15:48:36Z | {{#Year in various calendars}}1901{{/Year in various calendars}}
{{#Year article header}}1901{{/Year article header}}
## Events
- On January 1, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, and Tasmania form the Commonwealth of Australia. John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow becomes the ... | [] |
4,768 | 15,866 | 10,491,957 | 1880 | 2025-09-02T20:07:27Z | **1880** (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.
## Births
- January 29 – W.C. Fields, American comedian
## Events
- February 2 – The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
- Volapük created.
## Deat... | [] |
4,769 | 15,867 | 314,522 | 1864 | 2025-07-23T18:44:55Z | {{#Year article header}}1864{{/Year article header}}
## Events
- May 5 - American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness starts in Virginia.
- August 21 - American Civil War: In the Lawrence Massacre, Confederates attack the town of Lawrence, Kansas and kill 150 people.
- September 1 - The Charlottetown Conference s... | [] |
4,770 | 15,868 | 1,011,873 | 1897 | 2025-07-05T15:34:53Z | {{#Year article header}}1897{{/Year article header}}
## Events
- March 4 – William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States, a title which he held from the retirement of Grover Cleveland until his assassination on September 14, 1901.
- March 13 – San Diego State University is founded.
- June 22 – The ... | [] |
4,771 | 15,872 | 1,338,660 | Hodgenville, Kentucky | 2023-11-14T00:52:37Z | **Hodgenville** is a town in the American state of Kentucky. It is the county seat of Larue County. It is most famous as the birthplace of President Abraham Lincoln. A memorial featuring a replica (copy) of the cabin Lincoln was born in is near the town.
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4,772 | 15,874 | 1,708,536 | University of Oxford | 2025-12-11T04:49:15Z | The **University of Oxford** is a university in Oxford, England. It is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and second-oldest university in Europe. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings stated that "it is the best university in the world" in the 2000s.
The university is 39 colleges and fi... | [] |
4,773 | 15,876 | 121,204 | Def Leppard | 2026-02-01T15:27:13Z | **Def Leppard** are an English rock band. They formed in Sheffield, England in 1976. Its founding members include: lead singer Joe Elliot, bassist Rick Savage, guitarist Pete Willis, and drummer Tony Kenning. When Kenning left the band in 1978, Frank Noon played the drums. The same year, Def Leppard made their first ex... | [] |
4,774 | 15,879 | 10,249,096 | 46 BC | 2025-05-11T03:12:34Z | Year **46 BC** was the last year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the **Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Lepidus**.
## Events
- Titus Labienus defeated Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
- Julius Caesar defeated the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians at Thapsus.
-... | [] |
4,775 | 15,880 | 532,461 | Winter storm | 2025-04-26T05:40:05Z | **Winter storms** or **snowstorms** happen when warm, wet air meets with cold air. The warm, wet air mass and the cold air mass can each be 1000 km or more in diameter. Snowstorms affecting Northeastern United States often get their moisture from air moving north from the Gulf of Mexico and cold air from air masses com... | [] |
4,776 | 15,886 | 532,461 | Sri Lanka | 2026-02-27T12:18:55Z | The **Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka** (ශ්රී ලංකා in Sinhala, இலங்கை in Tamil) is a tropical island nation located in the Indian Ocean just off the Southern coast of India. The capital of the country is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte while the largest city is Colombo. Sri Lanka shares a sea boundary with the Ma... | [] |
4,777 | 15,887 | 1,822,286 | Reptile | 2026-07-14T21:36:42Z | **Reptile** is the common name for one of the main groups of land vertebrates. It is not used so much by biologists, who use more accurate terms.
The name "reptile" comes from Latin and means "one who creeps". All living reptile species are cold blooded, have scaly skin, and lay cleidoic eggs. They excrete uric acid (... | [] |
4,778 | 15,890 | 693,482 | Snake | 2026-07-26T15:32:03Z | **Snakes**, otherwise known as **serpentes**, are reptiles. They are part of the order Squamata. They are carnivores, with long narrow bodies and no legs. There are at least 20 families, about 500 genera and 3,400 species of snake.
## Evolution
The earliest known snake fossils are from the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cr... | [] |
4,779 | 15,892 | 693,482 | Freddie Mercury | 2026-07-26T15:11:31Z | **Farrokh Bulsara** (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991), better known as **Freddie Mercury**, was a British singer, songwriter, record producer, and lead singer of the rock band Queen. Regarded as one of the greatest singers in popular music history, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal... | [] |
4,780 | 15,893 | 1,618,275 | Sun Tzu | 2025-07-21T23:09:50Z | > *This article is about the military strategist Sun Tzu. For the mathematician of the same name, see Sun Tzu (mathematician).*
**Sun Tzu** (544 BC – 496 BC) also called **Sun Wu**, was an ancient Chinese general, military expert, and philosopher. He is widely believed to have been the writer of the most important wor... | [] |
4,781 | 15,897 | 1,659,990 | Western world | 2026-05-30T10:12:03Z | **Western world** has meant various things at various times. In the earliest history of Europe, it referred to Ancient Greece and the Aegean. During the Roman Empire, it meant the Western Roman Empire (covering the area from Croatia to Britain). At other times, it has meant the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Au... | [] |
4,782 | 15,901 | 693,482 | Mouse | 2026-07-26T16:21:44Z | A **mouse** (plural *mice*) is a small rodent, which is a kind of mammal.
It has a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate. Most belong to the mus genus. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (*Mus musculus*). Usually, house mice are brownish-gray. It is a... | [] |
4,783 | 15,902 | 86,802 | Advance Wars | 2025-02-22T08:50:39Z | ***Advance Wars*** is a video game for the Game Boy Advance. It is based on earlier games for Nintendo systems such as the Famicom and Game Boy. It is a strategy game: players must think of ways to win.
The game can be played with two, three, or four players at a time. Each player takes turns controlling their militar... | [] |
4,784 | 15,905 | 693,482 | Solomon Islands | 2026-07-30T04:40:16Z | **Solomon Islands** (Pijin: *Solomon Ailans*) are a group of islands in the South Pacific that make up a country. They are known for their beauty and for the many languages spoken there. The capital of Solomon Islands is Honiara.
## History
In the 1890s the islands became a protectorate of the British Empire.
The E... | [] |
4,785 | 15,908 | 1,507,082 | Intestine | 2024-10-16T00:53:59Z | The **intestines**, divided into the small intestine and the large intestine, of an animal are like a tube through which food and bile from the stomach move.
The first part of the small **intestine** is called the duodenum, where most food is broken down by enzymes. Later, the small intestine absorbs useful compounds ... | [] |
4,786 | 15,909 | 1,508,985 | Chemical equation | 2024-09-25T21:11:03Z | A **chemical equation** is a way to predict the way that two or more chemicals will work together. Using what chemists know about the way chemicals act, we add the letter symbols together just like a math problem. In this way we can correctly guess if we will get a new chemical when we mix two or more chemicals togethe... | [] |
4,787 | 15,925 | 1,866,614 | Lucifer | 2026-09-04T05:29:31Z | **Lucifer** (meaning Lightbringer) is another name for Jesus, the Morning Star. This is because people interpret a passage in the Book of Isaiah of the Bible in a certain way. Lucifer is Latin. It is made of two parts: *lux-lucis* (light) and *ferre* (to bring).
There are two mentions of *Lucifer* in the Latin Vulgate.... | [] |
4,788 | 15,927 | 527,152 | Astrobiology | 2025-01-19T10:03:00Z | **Astrobiology** is the study of life in outer space. The field of astrobiology looks for conditions necessary for life, such as liquid water or a similar substitute, a good temperature, or the presence of oxygen.
Some possible places to find life in the solar system are Europa, Ganymede, moons of Jupiter, or Titan an... | [] |
4,789 | 15,933 | 457,136 | Castle | 2026-01-03T01:49:37Z | **Castles** are medieval buildings which were defensive homes for powerful people. They could be made from wood, stone, or brick, and some were used for hundreds of years. Thousands of castles were built across Europe, the Middle East, and Japan with different designs. Today, most castles are ruins and many are popular... | [] |
4,790 | 15,935 | 160,652 | Wikimedia Commons | 2026-06-30T07:04:06Z | **Wikimedia Commons** is a website owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, based on a wiki.
Anybody can upload images, sounds, videos, and other multimedia files to Wikimedia Commons. The files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons are used by other Wikimedia Foundation projects, like Wikipedia or Wiktionary. For example, Wikiped... | [] |
4,791 | 15,937 | 1,805,848 | Bulgaria | 2026-05-17T21:48:29Z | **Bulgaria** (officially called the **Republic of Bulgaria**) is a country in south-eastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bulgaria is the south of the River Danube and west of the Black Sea. To the west of Bulgaria are Serbia and North Macedonia, to the south of Bulgaria are Greece and the European part of Turkey. T... | [] |
4,792 | 15,938 | 314,522 | Alps | 2025-07-29T22:39:51Z | The **Alps** (Alpi, Alpes, {{#Lang-de}}Alpen{{/Lang-de}}, Oipm, Alps, Alpe, Aups, Alps) is the greatest mountain range of Europe. It reaches from Austria and Slovenia in the east; through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany; to France in the west. The original meaning of the word was 'white'.
The highest mou... | [] |
4,793 | 15,939 | 693,482 | Rwanda | 2026-07-26T17:29:02Z | **Rwanda** is a country in East Africa. It is landlocked, meaning it has no ocean coast. Rwanda is sometimes called the “Land of a Thousand Hills” because it has many mountains and hills. Its capital city is Kigali.
Rwanda is bordered by Uganda to the north, Tanzania to the east, Burundi to the south, and the Democra... | [] |
4,794 | 15,940 | 86,802 | Lake Ontario | 2026-08-31T20:55:57Z | **Lake Ontario** is the smallest of the Great Lakes in North America, but its maximum depth (802ft; 244m) is deeper than lake Erie's (210ft) and Lake Huron's (750ft).
It forms most of the border between Ontario in Canada and New York in the United States of America. Its inlet is the Niagara River (from Niagara Falls),... | [] |
4,795 | 15,941 | 10,121,711 | Lake Superior | 2025-03-08T01:57:53Z | **Lake Superior** is a lake in Canada and the United States.
The Ojibwe Native Americans call it **Gitchigume**. Lake Superior is in between Ontario and Minnesota to the north and Wisconsin and Michigan in the south, and is the largest of North America's Great Lakes. It is the world's third largest lake, and the worl... | [] |
4,796 | 15,942 | 1,834,171 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald | 2026-07-07T05:42:45Z | **SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald**'' was a freighter which sank during a storm on Lake Superior. The ship sank on November 10, 1975, at around 7:30 p.m.
The ship weighed around 13,600 tons and was known for being the biggest of its time. It was one of the largest "iron boats" working the Great Lakes.
Nobody knows how the b... | [] |
4,797 | 15,944 | 532,461 | Gordon Lightfoot | 2026-07-26T02:44:29Z | **Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.** (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He is famous around the world for his folk, country, and pop music songs. He was first heard in the 1960s. He had hit radio songs in the 1970s including "If You Could Read My Mind", "Sundown", "Carefree Highway", "... | [] |
4,798 | 15,957 | 1,530,422 | Chameleon | 2026-06-15T23:44:08Z | **Chameleons** are a family of lizards. Most can change the colour of their skins for camouflage, or to signal mood to other chameleons.
They are a clade of lizards. They have parrot-like zygodactylous feet,
Their eyes are separately mobile and stereoscopic. Their very long tongues can flick out, and their movemen... | [] |
4,799 | 15,961 | 103,847 | Interjection | 2024-12-06T23:45:31Z | An **interjection** is a spoken or written expression of emotion like "Wow!" for surprise, "Ouch!" for pain, or "Damn!" for anger, or "Argh!" for frustration. These phrases can stand alone, and are usually capitalized and punctuated.
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