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2016-01 | Feminism-697466244 | Feminism | Feminism
Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist advocates or supports... |
2016-01 | Evil-697374467 | Evil | Evil
Evil, in a general context, is the absence or opposite of that which is ascribed as being good. Often, evil is used to denote profound immorality. In certain religious contexts, evil has been described as a supernatural force. Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its motives. However, elements that a... |
2016-01 | Fox_Broadcasting_Company-696908355 | Fox_Broadcasting_Company | Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company (commonly referred to as Fox; stylized as FOX), is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The network is headquartered at the 20th Century Fox studio lot on Pico Boulevard in ... |
2016-01 | Luka_Modrić-697455685 | Luka_Modrić | Luka Modrić
Luka Modrić (; born 9 September 1985) is a Croatian footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Croatia national team. Modrić plays mainly as a central midfielder, but can also play as an attacking midfielder and winger.
After showing promise in hometown club Zadar's youth team, he was signe... |
2016-01 | Los_Angeles_Lakers-696605082 | Los_Angeles_Lakers | Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They are members of the Pacific Division of the league's Western Conference. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, an arena ... |
2016-01 | Naagin_2015_TV_series-697699451 | Naagin_2015_TV_series | Naagin (2015 TV series)
Naagin (English: female snake) is an Indian serial drama television series, which started airing on Colors on 1 November 2015. It is a eternal saga of Love and Revenge. The series is produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under their banner Balaji Telefilms. The show which quickly gained pop... |
2016-01 | Leonardo_da_Vinci-696889198 | Leonardo_da_Vinci | Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci (; 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, hi... |
2016-01 | Kurds-697790503 | Kurds | Kurds
The Kurds ( Kurd) are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of eastern and southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), western Iran (Eastern or Iranian Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern or Iraqi Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan or Rojava)... |
2016-01 | 24_TV_series-697577925 | 24_TV_series | 24 (TV series)
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent Jack Bauer. Each season, comprising 24 episodes, covers 24 hours in Bauer's life, using the real time method of narration. Pre... |
2016-01 | Gone_with_the_Wind_novel-696280578 | Gone_with_the_Wind_novel | Gone with the Wind (novel)
Gone with the Wind is a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantat... |
2016-01 | Jim_Morrison-697163101 | Jim_Morrison | Jim Morrison
James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet best remembered as the lead singer of The Doors.
Because of his songwriting, wild personality and performances, he is regarded by critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen ... |
2016-01 | List_of_best-selling_game_consoles-697302802 | List_of_best-selling_game_consoles | List of best-selling game consoles
A video game console is a boxlike standardized computing device tailored for video gaming that requires a monitor or television set as an output. Handheld controllers are commonly used as input devices. Video game consoles may use one or more storage media like hard disk drives, opti... |
2016-01 | Adam_Smith-697328320 | Adam_Smith | Adam Smith
Adam Smith (16 June 1723 NS (5 June 1723 OS) – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Smith is best known for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wea... |
2016-01 | Historicity_of_Jesus-697548839 | Historicity_of_Jesus | Historicity of Jesus
The historicity of Jesus concerns whether Jesus of Nazareth, born c 7–2 BC, existed as a historical figure, whether the episodes portrayed in the gospels can be confirmed as historical events as opposed to myth, legend, or fiction, and the weighing of the evidence relating to his life.
One of the... |
2016-01 | Roaring_Twenties-695771057 | Roaring_Twenties | Roaring Twenties
For other topics using this term, see Roaring Twenties (disambiguation)
The Roaring Twenties is a term for the 1920s in the Western world. It was a period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, particularly in major cities s... |
2016-01 | GOOD_Music-697431762 | GOOD_Music | GOOD Music
GOOD (Getting Out Our Dreams) Music, Inc. is an American record label founded by hip hop artist and record producer Kanye West in 2004. The label houses West, Big Sean, Pusha T, Teyana Taylor, Mos Def, D'banj and John Legend. The label's producers include Hudson Mohawke, Q-Tip, Travis Scott, No I.D., Jeff... |
2016-01 | List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films-697768065 | List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films | List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films are an American series of superhero films, based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics. The films have been in production since 2007, and in that time Marvel Studios has produced twelve films, with fourteen more in v... |
2016-01 | Child_abuse-697429215 | Child_abuse | Child abuse
Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child or children. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Department for Children and Families (DCF), define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission b... |
2016-01 | Coronation_Street-697775940 | Coronation_Street | Coronation Street
Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 1960. The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, textile factory and The ... |
2016-01 | Battle_of_France-697790945 | Battle_of_France | Battle of France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. Beginning on 10 May 1940, the battle defeated primarily French forces. The German plan for the battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb (... |
2016-01 | Syria-697538007 | Syria | Syria
Syria (; or , Sūriyā or Sūrīyah), officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia. De jure Syrian territory borders Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest, but the government's control now extends t... |
2016-01 | Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football-697784529 | Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football | Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the intercollegiate football team representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. The team is currently coached by Brian Kelly. The team plays its home games at the campus's Notre Dame Stadium, with a capacity of 80,795... |
2016-01 | Rajneesh-697446394 | Rajneesh | Rajneesh
Osho (; 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), born Chandra Mohan Jain, and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh , during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.
A professo... |
2016-01 | David-697368297 | David | David
David (; ; ISO 259-3 Dawid; ; Dawid; ; ; Strong's: Daveed) was, according to the Books of Samuel, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel, and according to the New Testament, an ancestor of Jesus. His life is conventionally dated to 1040 970 BCE, his reign over Judah 1010–970 BCE.
The Books of Samu... |
2016-01 | Australian_rules_football-697563741 | Australian_rules_football | Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy, or Aussie rules (and in some regions marketed as AFL after the Australian Football League, the most popular and only fully professional Australian football league in the country), is a sport playe... |
2016-01 | Finding_Nemo-697786664 | Finding_Nemo | Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Andrew Stanton, it tells the story of the overprotective clownfish named Marlin who, along with a regal tang named Dory, searches for his abducted s... |
2016-01 | Mexico_City_International_Airport-697666976 | Mexico_City_International_Airport | Mexico City International Airport
Mexico City International Airport (); officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez () is a commercial airport that serves Greater Mexico City. It is Mexico's busiest and Latin America's second busiest airport by passenger traffic; and it is both Mexico's and Latin America's busi... |
2016-01 | Xbox_console-697660843 | Xbox_console | Xbox (console)
The Xbox is a home video game console and the first installment in the Xbox series of consoles manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia and Europe in 2002. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market. The sixth-generation ... |
2016-01 | Russia-697695310 | Russia | Russia
Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area. Russia is the world's ninth most populous country with... |
2016-01 | Atheism-697657946 | Atheism | Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Most inclusively, atheism is the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, ... |
2016-01 | Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky-697037574 | Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (; ; tr. Pyotr Ilyich Chaykovsky; 25 April/7 May 1840 – 25 October/6 November 1893), often anglicized as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky , was a Russian composer of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He ... |
2016-01 | Rapping-696892931 | Rapping | Rapping
Rapping (or emceeing, MCing, spitting bars, or rhyming) is "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The components of rapping include "content", "flow" (rhythm and rhyme), and "delivery". Rapping is distinct from spoken-word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat.
Rapping is often associated with and a pr... |
2016-01 | List_of_contemporary_ethnic_groups-697751115 | List_of_contemporary_ethnic_groups | List of contemporary ethnic groups
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.
There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared cultural heritage, ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect, the term culture spe... |
2016-01 | Habbo-696269714 | Habbo | Habbo
Habbo (previously known as Habbo Hotel) is a social networking service and online community aimed at teenagers. The website is owned and operated by Sulake, a Finnish corporation. The service began in 2000 and has expanded to include nine online communities (or "hotels"), with users in over 150 countries. As of... |
2016-01 | Suriya-697733601 | Suriya | Suriya
Suriya (born Saravanan Sivakumar on 23 July 1975) is an Indian film actor, producer, philanthropist and television presenter, who is currently working in the Tamil film industry. After making his debut in Nerukku Ner (1997), Suriya went on to feature in several critical and commercial successes, most notably Na... |
2016-01 | Link_The_Legend_of_Zelda-697472859 | Link_The_Legend_of_Zelda | Link (The Legend of Zelda)
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| caption = Various incarnations of Link, as seen in Hyrule Historia
| series = The Legend of Zelda
| firstgame = The Legend of Zelda (1986)
| creator = Shigeru Miyamoto
| voiceactor = Jeffrey R... |
2016-01 | Mongolia-697755927 | Mongolia | Mongolia
Mongolia (Mongolian: [] in Mongolian script; [Mongol Uls] in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked country in east-central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. While they do not share a border, Mongolia is separated from Kazakhstan by only . Ulaanbaatar, the cap... |
2016-01 | Jimmy_Carter-697545513 | Jimmy_Carter | Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center.
Carter, a Democrat raised in rural Georgia, was a peanut farme... |
2016-01 | Tunisia-697756298 | Tunisia | Tunisia
Tunisia ( ; ; ), officially the Tunisian Republic or the Republic of Tunisia ( ; ; ) is the northernmost country in Africa, covering . Its northernmost point, Ras ben Sakka, is the northernmost point on the African continent. It is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean ... |
2016-01 | Inside_Out_2015_film-697742828 | Inside_Out_2015_film | Inside Out (2015 film)
Inside Out is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed and co-written by Pete Docter, co-directed and co-written by Ronnie del Carmen and produced by Jonas Rivera, with music c... |
2016-01 | Pythagorean_theorem-697136854 | Pythagorean_theorem | Pythagorean theorem
In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem, also known as Pythagoras' theorem, is a relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. The t... |
2016-01 | Ice_Cube-696781624 | Ice_Cube | Ice Cube
O'Shea Jackson, Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, and filmmaker. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the seminal gangster rap group N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitudes). After leaving N.W.A in December 19... |
2016-01 | Betty_White-697765063 | Betty_White | Betty White
Betty White Ludden (born Betty Marion White; January 17, 1922), known professionally as Betty White, is an American actress, animal rights activist, author, comedienne, producer, radio host, singer, and television personality. Regarded as a pioneer of television, White was one of the first women to have co... |
2016-01 | Ceres_dwarf_planet-697711059 | Ceres_dwarf_planet | Ceres (dwarf planet)
Ceres (; minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Its diameter is approximately , making it the largest of the minor planets within the orbit of Neptune. The thirty-third-largest known body in the Solar System... |
2016-01 | Fossil_fuel-690946047 | Fossil_fuel | Fossil fuel
Fossil fuels are fuels formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years. Fossil fuels contain high percentages of carbon and include coal, p... |
2016-01 | Transformer-697485554 | Transformer | Transformer
A transformer is an electrical device that transfers electrical energy between two or more circuits through electromagnetic induction. Electromagnetic induction produces an electromotive force across a conductor which is exposed to time varying magnetic fields. Commonly, transformers are used to increase o... |
2016-01 | 2005-697710053 | 2005 | 2005
2005 was designated as:
The Year of the Volunteer by the UK government
The World Year of Physics by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
The Year of Cork City, Ireland, as European Capital of Culture
The Year of the Veteran in Canada
The Year of Discovery
International Year for Sport and Physical E... |
2016-01 | List_of_colors_AF-696368814 | List_of_colors_AF | List of colors: A–F
The following is a list of colors. A number of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4. RGB values are given for each swatch because such standards are defined in terms of the sRGB color space. It is not possible to accurately convert many of thes... |
2016-01 | New_York_Islanders-697541093 | New_York_Islanders | New York Islanders
The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. They are a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The team plays its home games at the Barclays Center, located in the borough of Brooklyn. The Islanders are ... |
2016-01 | Samurai-697652540 | Samurai | Samurai
were the military-nobility and officer-caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
In Japanese, they are usually referred to as or . According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning "to wait upon" or "accompany persons" in the upper ranks of society, and ... |
2016-01 | Estonia-697578397 | Estonia | Estonia
Estonia (; ), officially the Republic of Estonia (), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia (338.6 km). Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden... |
2016-01 | Adelaide_United_FC-697120132 | Adelaide_United_FC | Adelaide United FC
Adelaide United Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League under license from Football Federation Australia. The club was founded in 2003 to fill the place vacated by Adelaide City in the former National Soccer Lea... |
2016-01 | Asteroid-697518897 | Asteroid | Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System. The larger ones have also been called planetoids. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disc of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active... |
2016-01 | Landon_Donovan-695884227 | Landon_Donovan | Landon Donovan
Landon Timothy Donovan (born March 4, 1982) is an American retired professional soccer player, who played as a forward.
A member of the inaugural class of the U.S. Soccer residency program in Bradenton, Florida, Donovan was declared player of the tournament for his role in the United States U17 squad ... |
2016-01 | Adam_and_Eve-695183573 | Adam_and_Eve | Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myths of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that God created human beings to live in a paradise on earth, although they fell away from that state and formed the present world full of suffering an... |
2016-01 | List_of_companies_of_Pakistan-697434091 | List_of_companies_of_Pakistan | List of companies of Pakistan
This is a list of notable companies based in Pakistan, grouped by their Industry Classification Benchmark sector. For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in Pakistan".
Basic materials
Basic resources
Itt... |
2016-01 | One_Tree_Hill_TV_series-695735282 | One_Tree_Hill_TV_series | One Tree Hill (TV series)
One Tree Hill is an American television drama series created by Mark Schwahn, which premiered on September 23, 2003 on The WB. After the series' third season, The WB merged with UPN to form The CW, and since September 27, 2006, the network has been the official broadcaster of the series in t... |
2016-01 | Academy_Awards-697744848 | Academy_Awards | Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, or "Oscars", is an annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname "Oscar". The awards, ... |
2016-01 | Truth-697398891 | Truth | Truth
Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or to a standard or ideal. Truth may also often be used in modern contexts to refer to an idea of "truth to self," or authenticity.
The commonly understood opposite of truth is falsehood, which, correspondingly, c... |
2016-01 | Hacker-696499266 | Hacker | Hacker
Hacker is a term that is used to mean a variety of different things in computing. Depending on the context, the term can refer to a person in any one of several distinct (but not completely disjoint) communities and hacker subcultures:
Hacker culture, an idea derived from a community of enthusiast computer pro... |
2016-01 | Vevo-697789288 | Vevo | Vevo
Vevo (; ; stylized vevo or VEVO) is a multinational video hosting service owned and operated by a joint venture of Universal Music Group (UMG), Google, Sony Music Entertainment (SME), and Abu Dhabi Media, and based in New York City. Launched on December 8, 2009, Vevo hosts videos syndicated across the web, with G... |
2016-01 | Priyanka_Chopra-697413245 | Priyanka_Chopra | Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chopra (; born 18 July 1982) is an Indian film actress and singer, and the winner of the Miss World pageant of 2000. Through her film career, she has become one of Bollywood's highest-paid actresses and one of the most popular and high-profile celebrities in India. Chopra is cited as the world... |
2016-01 | PBS_Kids-697063778 | PBS_Kids | PBS Kids
PBS Kids is the brand for most of the children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. Some public television children's programs not produced by PBS member stations or transmitted by PBS which is produced by independent public television distributors such as America... |
2016-01 | Marvel_Comics-697790964 | Marvel_Comics | Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwide's parent company.
Marvel started in 1939 ... |
2016-01 | The_Buddha-697690728 | The_Buddha | The Buddha
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.
The word Buddha means "a... |
2016-01 | Same-sex_marriage-697677182 | Same-sex_marriage | Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is marriage between people of the same sex, either as a secular civil ceremony or in a religious setting.
In the late 20th century, religious rites of marriage without legal recognition became increasingly common. The first law providing for marriage of... |
2016-01 | Intelligent_design-696945717 | Intelligent_design | Intelligent design
Intelligent design (ID) is the pseudoscientific view that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." Educators, philosophers, and the scientific community have demonstrated that ID is a reli... |
2016-01 | List_of_Rugrats_episodes-697383264 | List_of_Rugrats_episodes | List of Rugrats episodes
The following is a list of episodes from the American animated series Rugrats. The show first aired on August 11, 1991. The first three seasons aired between 1991 and 1994. The series returned with two Jewish holiday specials in May 1995 and December 1996. From 1997 to 2003, the series resumed... |
2016-01 | Peru-696798331 | Peru | Peru
Peru (; ; ; ), officially the Republic of Peru (), is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is an extremely biodiverse country with habitats ... |
2016-01 | Pakistan_Army-697201723 | Pakistan_Army | Pakistan Army
Pakistan Army ( Pak Fauj (IPA: pɑk fɒ~ɔd͡ʒ); Reporting name: PA) is the land-based service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. It came into existence after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) it had an active force of approximately ... |
2016-01 | Bryan_Adams-697726201 | Bryan_Adams | Bryan Adams
Bryan Guy Adams, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian singer songwriter and photographer.
Adams rose to fame in North America with his album Cuts Like a Knife and turned into a global star with his 1984 album Reckless.
For his contributions to music, Adams has garnered many awards and nominations, incl... |
2016-01 | St._Louis_Cardinals-697068295 | St._Louis_Cardinals | St. Louis Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri, that competes in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). The new Busch Stadium has been their home stadium since 2006. With origins as one of the early professional baseball clubs in St. Louis, e... |
2016-01 | Monkey_D._Luffy-697581149 | Monkey_D._Luffy | Monkey D. Luffy
is a fictional character and the protagonist of the manga One Piece franchise created by Eiichiro Oda. He is first introduced in the manga chapter , first published in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on July 19, 1997, as a young boy whose body gains the properties of rubber after he inadvertently e... |
2016-01 | Doctor_Strange-697355776 | Doctor_Strange | Doctor Strange
Doctor Stephen Vincent Strange, best known under his alias Doctor Strange, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by artist Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in Strange Tales #110 (July 1963). A former doctor, Strange serves as the Sorcerer... |
2016-01 | Caste_system_in_India-696864117 | Caste_system_in_India | Caste system in India
The caste system in India is a system of social stratification which has pre-modern origins, was transformed by the British Raj, and is today the basis of reservation in India. It consists of two different concepts, varna and jāti, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this sys... |
2016-01 | WTA_Tour_records-697022023 | WTA_Tour_records | WTA Tour records
This is a list of Women's Tennis Association (WTA) records since its inception in 1973. Some tournaments from the predecessor tour, the Virginia Slims Circuit, are also included for completeness. The Virginia Tour Circuit started in September 1970 and was replaced in 1973 by the WTA. For a full list o... |
2016-01 | John_Quincy_Adams-697507317 | John_Quincy_Adams | John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, Nat... |
2016-01 | Horse-697679696 | Horse | Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Hyracotherium, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Hu... |
2016-01 | IPv6-697141994 | IPv6 | IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal wi... |
2016-01 | Aretha_Franklin-697761649 | Aretha_Franklin | Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin's church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modes... |
2016-01 | Roman_Empire-697458722 | Roman_Empire | Roman Empire
The Roman Empire (; Ancient and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr. ) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilisation, characterised by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia. The city of Rome extende... |
2016-01 | Kate_Bush-697660228 | Kate_Bush | Kate Bush
Catherine "Kate" Bush, CBE (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer, dancer and record producer known for her eclectic music and idiosyncratic performances.
Bush first came to note in 1978 when, at the age of 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut si... |
2016-01 | Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World-697256076 | Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World | Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Seven Wonders of the World or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World refers to remarkable constructions of classical antiquity listed by various authors in guidebooks popular among ancient Hellenic tourists, particularly in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. The most prominent of thes... |
2016-01 | Robin_van_Persie-697563584 | Robin_van_Persie | Robin van Persie
Robin van Persie (; born 6 August 1983) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Netherlands national team. He is recognised as one of the best strikers of his generation.
Born in Rotterdam, he was encouraged to follow in his parents' footsteps a... |
2016-01 | List_of_countries_by_GDP_nominal-697725666 | List_of_countries_by_GDP_nominal | List of countries by GDP (nominal)
Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates. Nominal GDP does not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary g... |
2016-01 | Luxembourg-696628224 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg
Luxembourg (; ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. It comprises two principal regions: the Oesling in the north as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland (... |
2016-01 | Billy_the_Kid-697313350 | Billy_the_Kid | Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid, also known by the alias William H. Bonney, was born Henry McCarty on September 17, 1859 and died on July 14, 1881. He was a 19th-century gunman who participated in New Mexico's Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. According to legend, he killed twent... |
2016-01 | FIS_Alpine_Ski_World_Cup-697605077 | FIS_Alpine_Ski_World_Cup | FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie). It was... |
2016-01 | War_on_terror-697635230 | War_on_terror | War on terror
The War on Terror (WoT), also known as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), refers to the international military campaign that started after the September 11 attacks on the United States.
U.S. President George W. Bush first used the term "War on Terror" on 20 September 2001. The Bush administration and t... |
2016-01 | Neil_Armstrong-697598185 | Neil_Armstrong | Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Ko... |
2016-01 | Hamlet-695775619 | Hamlet | Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called upon to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius by the ghost of Hamlet's ... |
2016-01 | List_of_sovereign_states-696025881 | List_of_sovereign_states | List of sovereign states
This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
Membership within the United Nations system divides the 206 listed states into three categories: 193 member states, two observer stat... |
2016-01 | Vietnam-697652947 | Vietnam | Vietnam
Vietnam (, ; ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV; ()), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2014, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. The name Vietnam tr... |
2016-01 | Queens_Park_Rangers_F.C.-697772701 | Queens_Park_Rangers_F.C. | Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club (usually referred to as QPR) is a professional English football club in White City, London that play in The Championship, the second tier of English football. Their honours include winning the League Cup in 1967, being runners-up in the old First Division in 1... |
2016-01 | Lewis_Hamilton-697667952 | Lewis_Hamilton | Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE (born 7 January 1985) is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the Mercedes AMG Petronas team. He is the , and Formula One World Champion.
In December 1995, at the age of ten, he approached McLaren team principal Ron Dennis at the Aut... |
2016-01 | Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion-695095674 | Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion | Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón (or Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos or Batalla de Girón), was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and... |
2016-01 | WWE_SmackDown-697763943 | WWE_SmackDown | WWE SmackDown
WWE SmackDown, also known as Thursday Night SmackDown, simply known as SmackDown is a sports entertainment television program that debuted on August 26, 1999. Prior to September 1, 2005, SmackDown! was broadcast on Thursday nights; from September 9, 2005 to January 9, 2015, it was broadcast on Friday nig... |
2016-01 | Fascism-697659772 | Fascism | Fascism
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. Influenced by national syndicalism, fascism originated in Italy during World War I, in opposition to liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism. Fascism is usually placed on the far-right within the traditiona... |
2016-01 | Space_Shuttle-696800958 | Space_Shuttle | Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only i... |
2016-01 | Nicktoons-686696476 | Nicktoons | Nicktoons
Nicktoons is a family of cable television channels owned by Viacom or subsidiaries of Viacom, with broadcasts in various countries or regions. It originated as the branding for Nickelodeon's original animated television series, but was seldom used by the network itself after the 2002 launch of the spin-off d... |