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2974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian%20group | Abelian group | In mathematics, an abelian group, also called a commutative group, is a group in which the result of applying the group operation to two group elements does not depend on the order in which they are written. That is, the group operation is commutative. With addition as an operation, the integers and the real numbers fo... |
2983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary | Austria-Hungary | Austria-Hungary, formally known as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. Austria-Hungary was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states with a single mona... |
2987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts%20of%20Union%201707 | Acts of Union 1707 | The Acts of Union () were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act 1707 passed by the Parliament of Scotland. They put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation between comm... |
2988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty%20%28United%20Kingdom%29 | Admiralty (United Kingdom) | The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State. For much of its history, from the early 18th century until its abolition, the role of the Lord... |
2992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amputation | Amputation | Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventive surgery for such problems. A special case is that of co... |
2994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemometer | Anemometer | In meteorology, an anemometer () is a device that measures wind speed and direction. It is a common instrument used in weather stations. The earliest known description of an anemometer was by Italian architect and author Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) in 1450.
History
The anemometer has changed little since its dev... |
2995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx | Archaeopteryx | Archaeopteryx (; ), sometimes referred to by its German name, "" ( Primeval Bird), is a genus of avian dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek (archaīos), meaning "ancient", and (ptéryx), meaning "feather" or "wing". Between the late 19th century and the early 21st century, Archaeopteryx was generally acce... |
3012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Capp | Al Capp | Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' ... |
3019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1 | ʻAbdu'l-Bahá | ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (; Persian: , 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921), born ʻAbbás (), was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh and served as head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was later canonized as the last of three "central figures" of the religion, along with Baháʼu'lláh and the Báb, and his writings and au... |
3022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20building | Autonomous building | An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructural support services such as the electric power grid, gas grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and in some cases, public roads.
Advocates of autonomous building describe... |
3032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Funny%20Thing%20Happened%20on%20the%20Way%20to%20the%20Forum | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (or A Funny Thing for short) is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 BC), specifically Curculio, Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, and Mostellari... |
3034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleut | Aleut | The Aleuts ( ; ) are the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Both the Aleut people and the islands are politically divided between the US state of Alaska and the Russian administrative division of Kamchatka Krai. This group is also known as th... |
3035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Native%20Claims%20Settlement%20Act | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act | The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting at the time the largest land claims settlement in United States history. ANCSA was intended to resolve long-standing issues surrounding aboriginal land claims in Alaska, as well as to stimul... |
3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Acid–base reaction | In chemistry, an acid–base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. It can be used to determine pH via titration. Several theoretical frameworks provide alternative conceptions of the reaction mechanisms and their application in solving related problems; these are called the acid–base the... |
3040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20al-Faraj%20al-Isfahani | Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī (), also known as Abul-Faraj, (full form: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaytham al-Umawī al-Iṣfahānī) (897-967CE / 284–356AH) was a writer, historian, genealogist, poet, musicologist and scribe. He was of Arab-Quraysh origin and mainly based in Baghdad. He i... |
3052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda%2C%20California | Alameda, California | Alameda ( ; ; Spanish for "tree-lined path") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the Bay Area. The city is primarily located on Alameda Island, but also spans Bay Farm Island and Coast Guard Island, as well as a few other smaller islands in San Francisco Bay. As of ... |
3054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20helix | Alpha helix | An alpha helix (or α-helix) is a sequence of amino acids in a protein that are twisted into a coil (a helix).
The alpha helix is the most common structural arrangement in the secondary structure of proteins. It is also the most extreme type of local structure, and it is the local structure that is most easily predicte... |
3055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accrington | Accrington | Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, east of Preston, north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to "Accy", the town has a population of 35,456 according to the 2011 census.
A... |
3060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon | Athlon | Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of x86-compatible microprocessors designed and manufactured by AMD. The original Athlon (now called Athlon Classic) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and the first desktop processor to reach speeds of one gigahertz (GHz). It made its debut as AMD's high-end proc... |
3068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim%20conquests%20of%20Afghanistan | Muslim conquests of Afghanistan | The Muslim conquests of Afghanistan began during the Muslim conquest of Persia as the Arab Muslims migrated eastwards to Khorasan, Sistan and Transoxiana. Fifteen years after the Battle of Nahāvand in 642 AD, they controlled all Sasanian domains except in Afghanistan. Fuller Islamization was not achieved until the peri... |
3070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrani%20Empire | Durrani Empire | The Durrani Empire (; ) or the Afghan Empire (; ), also known as the Sadozai Kingdom (; ), was an Afghan empire that was founded by Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747, that spanned parts of Central Asia, the Iranian plateau, and the Indian Subcontinent. At its peak, it ruled over the present-day Afghanistan, much of Pakistan, ... |
3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Arcturus | |- bgcolor="#FFFAFA"
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Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Boötes. With an apparent visual magnitude of −0.05, it is the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. The name Arcturus... |
3079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter e... |
3080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria | Alexandria | Alexandria ( ; ; ) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria grew rapidly and became a major centre of Hellenic civilization, eventually replacing Memphis, in present-day Greater Cairo, as Egypt's capital. Called the "Bride of th... |
3083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria%2C%20Louisiana | Alexandria, Louisiana | Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area (population 153,922) which encomp... |
3092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20Toriyama | Akira Toriyama | is a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his best-known work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, an... |
3095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20500 | Amiga 500 | The Amiga 500, also known as the A500, was the first popular version of the Amiga home computer, "redefining the home computer market and making so-called luxury features such as multitasking and colour a standard long before Microsoft or Apple sold these to the masses". It contains the same Motorola 68000 as the Amiga... |
3111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane%205 | Ariane 5 | Ariane 5 was a retired European heavy-lift space launch vehicle developed and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was launched from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) in French Guiana. It was used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), low Earth orbit (LEO) or further in... |
3117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Zubaydah | Abu Zubaydah | Abu Zubaydah ( ; , Abū Zubaydah; born March 12, 1971, as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn) is a Palestinian citizen and alleged terrorist born in Saudi Arabia currently held by the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He is held under the authority of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terroris... |
3118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic | Arithmetic | Arithmetic () is an elementary part of mathematics that consists of the study of the properties of the traditional operations on numbers—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots. In the 19th century, Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano formalized arithmetic with his Pean... |
3138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta | Atlanta | Atlanta ( , or ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, although a portion of the city extends into neighboring DeKalb County. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, Atlanta is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th mos... |
3144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Doll%27s%20House | A Doll's House | A Doll's House (Danish and ; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879.
The play concerns the ... |
3147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120%20AMRAAM | AIM-120 AMRAAM | The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) (pronounced /æmɹæm/), is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. It uses active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance. It is a fire-and-forget weapon, u... |
3149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88%20HARM | AGM-88 HARM | The AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) is a tactical, air-to-surface anti-radiation missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems. It was originally developed by Texas Instruments as a replacement for the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM system. Produ... |
3155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20AC-130 | Lockheed AC-130 | The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance, ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft. It carries a wide array of ground-attack weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and fire-control systems. Unlike other modern military fixed-wing aircr... |
3162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage | Arbitrage | In economics and finance, arbitrage (, ) is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets; striking a combination of matching deals to capitalise on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded. When used by academics, an arbi... |
3165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACF%20Fiorentina | ACF Fiorentina | Associazione Calcio Firenze Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the current club was refounded in August 2002 following bankruptcy. Fiorentina have played at the top... |
3173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20and%20Sedition%20Acts | Alien and Sedition Acts | The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. The Naturalization Act increased the requirements to seek citizenship, the Alien Friends Act allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens, the Alien Enemies Act gave... |
3198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20E.%20Housman | A. E. Housman | Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. After an initially poor performance while at university, he took employment as a clerk in London and established his academic reputation by publishing as a private scholar at first. Later Housman was appointed Professor ... |
3201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution%20of%20recent%20climate%20change | Attribution of recent climate change | Efforts to scientifically ascertain and attribute mechanisms responsible for recent global warming and related climate changes on Earth have found that the main driver is elevated levels of greenhouse gases produced by human activities, with natural forces adding variability. The likely range of human-induced surface-l... |
3211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom%20probe | Atom probe | The atom probe was introduced at the 14th Field Emission Symposium in 1967 by Erwin Wilhelm Müller and J. A. Panitz. It combined a field ion microscope with a mass spectrometer having a single particle detection capability and, for the first time, an instrument could “... determine the nature of one single atom seen on... |
3212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Capone | Al Capone | Alphonse Gabriel Capone (; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he went to prison at t... |
3217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20of%20Darkness | Army of Darkness | Army of Darkness is a 1992 American dark fantasy horror comedy film directed, co-written, and co-edited by Sam Raimi. The film is the third installment in the Evil Dead film series and the sequel to Evil Dead II (1987). Starring Bruce Campbell and Embeth Davidtz, it follows Ash Williams (Campbell) as he is trapped in t... |
3225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius%20of%20Alexandria | Athanasius of Alexandria | Athanasius I of Alexandria ( – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a church father and the 20th pope of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years ( – 2 May 373), of which over 17 encompassed f... |
3226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores | Azores | The Azores ( , , ; , ), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira). It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about west of Lisbon, about northwest of Morocco, and about s... |
3255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27%20Creed | Apostles' Creed | The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum), sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or "symbol of faith".
The creed most likely originated in 5th-century Gaul as a development of the Old Roman Symbol: the old Latin creed of the 4th century... |
3263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%20rain | Acid rain | Acid rain is rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). Most water, including drinking water, has a neutral pH that exists between 6.5 and 8.5, but acid rain has a pH level lower than this and ranges from 4–5 on average. The more acid... |
3273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlo%20Guthrie | Arlo Guthrie | Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father, Woody Guthrie. Guthrie's best-known work is his debut piece, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a ... |
3277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant | Antioxidant | Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals. Autoxidation leads to degradation of organic compounds, including living matter. Antioxidants are frequently added to industrial products, such as polymers, fuels, and lubricants, t... |
3292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass | Brass | Brass is an alloy of copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn), in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic, and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion. In use since prehistoric times, it is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may r... |
3295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn | Bonn | Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. It has a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany's largest metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. It is a un... |
3332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballroom%20dance | Ballroom dance | Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world, mostly because of its performance and entertainment aspects. Ballroom dancing is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television.
Ballroom dance may refer, at its widest definition, to almost any recreati... |
3333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Birth%20of%20a%20Nation | The Birth of a Nation | The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry... |
3335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%20Sea | Baltic Sea | The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. It is a shelf sea and marginal sea of the Atlantic wi... |
3338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bronx | The Bronx | The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx has a land ar... |
3343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium | Belgium | Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, m... |
3352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues | Blues | Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and r... |
3354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin | Berlin | Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and conti... |
3355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Lee%20Whorf | Benjamin Lee Whorf | Benjamin Lee Whorf (; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer who is famous for proposing the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis." He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. Whorf saw this idea, named after him... |
3356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Clinton | Bill Clinton | William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. Clinton, whose policies reflec... |
3359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20law | Blue law | Blue laws, also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws and Sunday closing laws, are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for religious reasons, specifically to promote the observance of the Christian day of worship, but... |
3363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer | Beer | Beer is one of the oldest types of alcoholic drinks in the world, and the most widely consumed. It is the third most popular drink overall after potable water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, though wheat, maize (corn), r... |
3370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron%20nitride | Boron nitride | Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. It exists in various crystalline forms that are isoelectronic to a similarly structured carbon lattice. The hexagonal form corresponding to graphite is the most stable and soft among BN polymorp... |
3376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Beverly%20Hillbillies | The Beverly Hillbillies | The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. It had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor, backwoods family from Silver Dollar City in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, who move to posh Beverly... |
3378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium | Beryllium | Beryllium is a chemical element with the symbol Be and atomic number 4. It is a steel-gray, strong, lightweight and brittle alkaline earth metal. It is a divalent element that occurs naturally only in combination with other elements to form minerals. Gemstones high in beryllium include beryl (aquamarine, emerald, red b... |
3382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney%20Spears | Britney Spears | Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Often referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Spears has sold over 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million in the United States, making her on... |
3383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil | Brazil | Brazil (; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in South America and in Latin America. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the u... |
3385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Forest | Black Forest | The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is the source of the Danube and Neckar rivers.
Its highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of... |
3386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Sea | Black Sea | The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. The Black Sea is supplied by major rivers, principally the Danube, Dn... |
3390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible | Bible | The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which, are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, Baha'i'ism and many other religions. The Bible is an anthology, a compilation of texts of a variety of forms, originally w... |
3392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Columbia | British Columbia | British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains. British... |
3395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Buddha | The Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan,... |
3397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge | Bridge | A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually something that is otherwise difficult or impossible to cross. There are many diffe... |
3401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board%20game | Board game | Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well.
Many board games feature a competition between two or more players. To show a few examples: in checkers (Br... |
3408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch%20Spinoza | Baruch Spinoza | Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, born in Amsterdam, the Dutch Republic, and mostly known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza. One of the foremost and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment, modern biblical criticism, and 17th-century... |
3410 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird | Bird | Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the ... |
3411 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...Baby%20One%20More%20Time%20%28album%29 | ...Baby One More Time (album) | ...Baby One More Time is the debut studio album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on January 12, 1999, by Jive Records. Spears had been a child performer on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to 1994, and was looking to expand her career as a teen singer. After being turned away by several record ... |
3415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria | Bulgaria | Bulgaria (; ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest c... |
3416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryozoa | Bryozoa | Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles used for filter feeding. Most marine bryozoa... |
3427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis%20and%20Butt-Head | Beavis and Butt-Head | Beavis and Butt-Head is an American adult animated television series created by Mike Judge for MTV (seasons 1–8) and later Paramount+ (season 9–present, as Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head). The series follows Beavis and Butt-Head, both voiced by Judge, a pair of teenage slackers characterized by their apathy, lack of... |
3430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin%20board%20system | Bulletin board system | A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, ... |
3436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%209%20%28Beethoven%29 | Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) | The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music and one of the supreme... |
3447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20sports | Cue sports | Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as .
There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports:
Carom billiards, played on tables without , typicall... |
3450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursa | Bursa | (, Latin: Prusa, ) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the Marmara Region, Bursa is one of the industrial centers of the country. Most of Turkey's automotive production takes place in Bursa.
As of 2019, th... |
3451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bahamas | The Bahamas | The Bahamas ( ), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands... |
3454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh | Bangladesh | Bangladesh (; , ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most-populous and among the most densely populated countries, with a population of around 170 million in an area of . Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the... |
3455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados | Barbados | Barbados ( ; ; ) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It lies on the boundary of the South American and the Caribbean Plates. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
Inhabited by Kalinago people si... |
3457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus | Belarus | Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of and with a population of 9.2 million, Belarus is the 13th-largest and the ... |
3458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize | Belize | Belize (, ; ) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a water boundary with Honduras to the southeast. It has an area of and a population of 441,471 (2022). Its mainland is abou... |
3459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin | Benin | Benin ( , ; , , ), officially the Republic of Benin (), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its population lives on the southern coastline of the Bight of Benin, part of... |
3460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda | Bermuda | Bermuda (; historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest.
Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands, although the most significant... |
3462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia | Bolivia | Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government and administrative capital is ... |
3463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina (; sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia) is a country in Southeast Europe, in the Balkans, bordering Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest. In the south it has a long coast on the Adriatic Sea. Bosnia has a moderate cont... |
3464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana | Botswana | Botswana (; , ), officially the Republic of Botswana (, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to t... |
3466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei | Brunei | Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam (, Jawi: , ), is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with its territory bifurcated by the Sarawak district of Limbang.... |
3469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Virgin%20Islands | British Virgin Islands | The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser A... |
3470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina%20Faso | Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso ( , ; , ) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest. As of 2021, the country had an estimated population of 20,321,378. Previously called Repu... |
3537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20Belarus | Armed Forces of Belarus | The Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus (; ) are the military forces of Belarus. It consists of the Ground Forces and the Air Force and Air Defence Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defence. As a landlocked country, Belarus has no navy.
In 2017, IISS estimated that personnel in the armed forces numb... |
3607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina | Economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina | The economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a transitional, upper middle income economy. Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from socialist Yugoslavia on 1 March 1992. The main trading partners are Germany, Italy, Austria, Turkey and other neighboring Balkan countries.
Overview
Bosnia and Herzegovina is an upper... |
3615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Botswana | Politics of Botswana | Botswana is a parliamentary republic in which the President of Botswana is both head of state and head of government. The nation's politics are based heavily on British parliamentary politics and on traditional Batswana chiefdom. The legislature is made up of the unicameral National Assembly and the advisory body of tr... |
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