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12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism | Anarchism | Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary f... |
39 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo | Albedo | Albedo ( ; ) is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body. It is measured on a scale from 0 (corresponding to a black body that absorbs all incident radiation) to 1 (corresponding to a body that reflects all incident radiation). Surface albedo is defined as the ratio of radiosity Je to the irradian... |
290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A | A | A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is a (pronounced ), plural aes.
It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derive... |
303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama | Alabama | Alabama ( ) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.
Alabama is nicknamed the Yellow... |
305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles | Achilles | In Greek mythology, Achilles ( ) or Achilleus () was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors. A central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia and famous Argonaut. Achilles was raised in Phthia along with his childhood co... |
307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States, from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defea... |
308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle | Aristotle | Aristotle ( ; Aristotélēs, ; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he ... |
309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20American%20in%20Paris | An American in Paris | An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) for orchestra by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928. It was inspired by the time that Gershwin had spent in Paris and evokes the sights and energy of the French capital during the .
Gershwin scored the piece for the standard... |
316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20Award%20for%20Best%20Production%20Design | Academy Award for Best Production Design | The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted from the Art Directors' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scien... |
324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20Awards | Academy Awards | The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States, in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting mem... |
330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actrius | Actrius | Actresses (Catalan: Actrius) is a 1997 Catalan language Spanish drama film produced and directed by Ventura Pons and based on the award-winning stage play E.R. by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet. The film has no male actors, with all roles played by females. The film was produced in 1996.
Synopsis
In order to prepare hers... |
332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalia%20%28book%29 | Animalia (book) | Animalia is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base. It was originally published in 1986, followed by a tenth anniversary edition in 1996, and a 25th anniversary edition in 2012. Over four million copies have been sold worldwide. A special numbered and signed anniversary edition was also published in 1996, with a... |
334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Atomic%20Time | International Atomic Time | International Atomic Time (abbreviated TAI, from its French name ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid. TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic clocks in over 80 national laboratories worldwide. It is a continuous scale ... |
336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism | Altruism | Altruism is the principle and practice of concern for the well-being and/or happiness of other humans or animals above oneself. While objects of altruistic concern vary, it is an important moral value in many cultures and religions. It may be considered a synonym of selflessness, the opposite of selfishness.
The word ... |
339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn%20Rand | Ayn Rand | Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand ( ), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United Stat... |
340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Connes | Alain Connes | Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 in Draguignan) is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a professor at the , , Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982.
Career
Alain Connes attended high... |
344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Dwan | Allan Dwan | Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Early life
Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan was the younger son of commercial traveler of woolen clothing Joseph Michael Dwan... |
358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria | Algeria | Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in North Africa. Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. It... |
359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atlas%20Shrugged%20characters | List of Atlas Shrugged characters | This is a list of characters in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged.
Major characters
The following are major characters from the novel.
Protagonists
Dagny Taggart
Dagny Taggart is the protagonist of the novel. She is vice president in charge of operations for Taggart Transcontinental, under her brother, James Tagg... |
569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology | Anthropology | Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and va... |
572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural%20science | Agricultural science | Agricultural science (or agriscience for short) is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Professionals of the agricultural science are called agricultural scientists or agricul... |
573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy | Alchemy | Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical t... |
579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien | Alien | Alien primarily refers to:
Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country
Enemy alien, the above in times of war
Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
Specifically, a lifeform with extraterrestrial intelligence
For fictional extraterrestrial life, see Extraterres... |
580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer | Astronomer | An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either observational (by analyzing the data) or theoretical astronomy. Examples of topics... |
586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII | ASCII | ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because of technical limitations of computer systems at the time it was invented, ASCII... |
590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin | Austin | Austin refers to:
Common meanings
Austin, Texas, United States, a city
Austin (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
Austin (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
Austin Motor Company, a British car manufacturer
Places
Canada
Austin, Manitoba, an unincorporated community
Austin, ... |
593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | Animation | Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets (cels) to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animation has been recognized as an artistic medium, specifically within the e... |
594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo | Apollo | Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. Apollo has been recognized as a god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and light, poetry, and more. One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the s... |
595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre%20Agassi | Andre Agassi | Andre Kirk Agassi ( ; born April 29, 1970) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. He is an eight-time major champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and a runner-up in seven other majors. Agassi is widely considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
Agassi is the second of five men to achieve the ca... |
597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic%20languages | Austroasiatic languages | The Austroasiatic languages ( ) are a large language family spoken throughout mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia. These languages are natively spoken by the majority of the population in Vietnam and Cambodia, and by minority populations scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malays... |
599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic%20languages | Afroasiatic languages | The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. Over 500 million people are native speakers ... |
600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra | Andorra | Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been created by Charlemagne, Andorra was ruled by the count of Urgell until 988, when it was transferred to the R... |
612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20mean | Arithmetic mean | In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean ( ), arithmetic average, or just the mean or average (when the context is clear) is the sum of a collection of numbers divided by the count of numbers in the collection. The collection is often a set of results from an experiment, an observational study, or a survey. T... |
615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Football%20Conference | American Football Conference | The American Football Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the United States. The AFC and its counterpart, the National Football Conference (NFC), each contain 16 teams with 4 divisions. Both conferences were created... |
620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Farm | Animal Farm | Animal Farm is a beast fable, in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ul... |
621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian | Amphibian | Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia. In its broadest sense it is a paraphyletic group encompassing all tetrapods, excluding the amniotes (tetrapods with an amniotic membrane, such as modern reptiles, birds, and mammals). All extant (living) amphibian... |
624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska | Alaska | Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. It borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory to the east; it shares a western maritime border in the Bering Strait with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic... |
627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture | Agriculture | Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. While humans ... |
628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous%20Huxley | Aldous Huxley | Aldous Leonard Huxley ( ; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergrad... |
630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada | Ada | Ada may refer to:
Places
Africa
Ada Foah, a town in Ghana
Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria
Asia
Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey
Europe
Ada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a village
Ada, Croatia, a village
Ad... |
632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen%20%28disambiguation%29 | Aberdeen (disambiguation) | Aberdeen is a city in Scotland.
Aberdeen may also refer to:
Places
Africa
Aberdeen, Sierra Leone
Aberdeen, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Asia
Hong Kong
Aberdeen, Hong Kong, an area and town on southwest Hong Kong Island
Aberdeen Channel, a channel between Ap Lei Chau (Aberdeen Island) and Nam Long Shan on the H... |
633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae | Algae | Algae ( , ; : alga ) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms. The name is an informal term for a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular microalgae, such as Chlorella, Prototheca and the diatoms, to multi... |
634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis%20of%20variance | Analysis of variance | Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a collection of statistical models and their associated estimation procedures (such as the "variation" among and between groups) used to analyze the differences among means. ANOVA was developed by the statistician Ronald Fisher. ANOVA is based on the law of total variance, where the obse... |
639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkane | Alkane | In organic chemistry, an alkane, or paraffin (a historical trivial name that also has other meanings), is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon. In other words, an alkane consists of hydrogen and carbon atoms arranged in a tree structure in which all the carbon–carbon bonds are single. Alkanes have the general chemical form... |
640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate%20procedure%20in%20the%20United%20States | Appellate procedure in the United States | United States appellate procedure involves the rules and regulations for filing appeals in state courts and federal courts. The nature of an appeal can vary greatly depending on the type of case and the rules of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was prosecuted. There are many types of standard of review for ... |
642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer%20%28law%29 | Answer (law) | In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.
In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and serve... |
643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate%20court | Appellate court | An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of the world, court systems are divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which ... |
649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arraignment | Arraignment | Arraignment is a formal reading of a criminal charging document in the presence of the defendant, to inform them of the criminal charges against them. In response to arraignment, in some jurisdictions, the accused is expected to enter a plea; in other jurisdictions, no plea is required. Acceptable pleas vary among juri... |
651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20the%20Beautiful | America the Beautiful | "America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. The two never met.
Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally entitled "Pikes Peak". It was... |
653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive%20technology | Assistive technology | Assistive technology (AT) is a term for assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and the elderly. Disabled people often have difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs) independently, or even with assistance. ADLs are self-care activities that include toileting, mobility ... |
655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus | Abacus | An abacus (: abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a hand-operated calculating tool which was used from ancient times in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, until the adoption of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. An abacus consists of a two-dimensional array of slidable beads (or similar obj... |
656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid | Acid | An acid is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. hydrogen ion, H+), known as a Brønsted–Lowry acid, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair, known as a Lewis acid.
The first category of acids are the proton donors, or Brønsted–Lowry acids. In the special case of aqueous solutions, proton... |
657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitumen | Bitumen | Bitumen ( , ) is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum. Depending on its exact composition it can be a sticky, black liquid or an apparently solid mass that behaves as a liquid over very large time scales. In the U.S., the material is commonly referred to as asphalt. Whether found in natural deposits or refine... |
659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20National%20Standards%20Institute | American National Standards Institute | The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that Amer... |
661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument%20%28disambiguation%29 | Argument (disambiguation) | In logic and philosophy, an argument is an attempt to persuade someone of something, or give evidence or reasons for accepting a particular conclusion.
Argument may also refer to:
Mathematics and computer science
Argument (complex analysis), a function which returns the polar angle of a complex number
Command-line ar... |
662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2011 | Apollo 11 | Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes ... |
663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%208 | Apollo 8 | Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. These three astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were the first hu... |
664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut | Astronaut | An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyon... |
665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Modest%20Proposal | A Modest Proposal | A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
The essay suggests that t... |
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670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet | Alphabet | An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the categories of sounds that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbo... |
673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20number | Atomic number | The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus. For ordinary nuclei composed of protons and neutrons, this is equal to the proton number (np) or the number of protons found in the nucleus of every atom of that element. The atomic number can be used ... |
674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy | Anatomy | Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its beginnings in prehistoric times. Anatomy is inherently tied to developmental b... |
675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming%20the%20consequent | Affirming the consequent | In propositional logic, affirming the consequent, sometimes called converse error, fallacy of the converse, or confusion of necessity and sufficiency, is a formal fallacy of taking a true conditional statement (e.g., "if the lamp were broken, then the room would be dark") under certain assumptions (there are no other l... |
676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Tarkovsky | Andrei Tarkovsky | Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( ; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinema history, Tarkovsky's films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamli... |
677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity | Ambiguity | Ambiguity is the type of meaning in which a phrase, statement, or resolution is not explicitly defined, making for several interpretations; others describe it as a concept or statement that has no real reference. A common aspect of ambiguity is uncertainty. It is thus an attribute of any idea or statement whose intende... |
678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel | Abel | Abel is a Biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He was a younger brother of Cain, and the second son of Adam and Eve, the first couple in Biblical history. He was a shepherd who offered his firstborn flock up to God as an offering. God accepted his offering but not his brother's. Cain then ... |
679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20%28disambiguation%29 | Animal (disambiguation) | An animal is a multicellular, eukaryotic organism of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa.
Animal, Animals, or The Animal may also refer to:
People
The Animal (nickname), a list of people nicknamed "The Animal" or "Animal"
Animal Hamaguchi, a ring name of Japanese retired professional wrestler Heigo Hamaguchi (born 1947... |
680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark | Aardvark | The aardvark ( ; Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa. It is the only living species of the order Tubulidentata, although other prehistoric species and genera of Tubulidentata are known. Like most other insectivores, it has a long snout, similar to that of a pig, which is us... |
681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardwolf | Aardwolf | The aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) is an insectivorous hyaenid species, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called the maanhaar-jackal (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), termite-eating hyena and civet hyena, based on its habit of secreting substances from its an... |
682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe | Adobe | Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for mudbrick. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of earthen construction, or various architectural styles like Pueblo Revival or Territor... |
683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure | Adventure | An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme sports. Adventures are often undertaken to create psychological arousal or in ... |
689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia | Asia | Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of man... |
690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba | Aruba | Aruba ( , or , ), officially known as the Country of Aruba (; ), is a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, situated in the south of the Caribbean Sea. Aruba is located approximately north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and northwest of Curaçao.
Aruba measures in length from its nor... |
691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles%20of%20Confederation | Articles of Confederation | The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. It was debated by the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between July 1776 and November 1777, ... |
694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Minor%20%28disambiguation%29 | Asia Minor (disambiguation) | Asia Minor is an alternative name for Anatolia, the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.
Asia Minor may also refer to:
Asia Minor (album), an album by Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece
"Asia Minor" (instrumental), a 1961 instrumental recording by Jimmy Wisner (op... |
698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic%20Ocean | Atlantic Ocean | The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the Old World of Africa, Europe, and Asia from the New World of the Americas.
Thr... |
700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Schopenhauer | Arthur Schopenhauer | Arthur Schopenhauer ( , ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism ... |
701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola | Angola | Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Co... |
704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Angola | Demographics of Angola | Demographic features of the population of Angola include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects.
According to 2014 census data, Angola had a population of 25,789,024 inhabitants in 2014.
Ethnically, there are three main groups, ... |
705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Angola | Politics of Angola | The current political regime in Angola is presidentialism, in which the President of the Republic is also head of state and government; it is advised by a Council of Ministers, which together with the President form the national executive power. Legislative power rests with the 220 parliamentarians elected to the Natio... |
706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Angola | Economy of Angola | The economy of Angola remains heavily influenced by the effects of four decades of conflict in the last part of the 20th century, the war for independence from Portugal (1961–75) and the subsequent civil war (1975–2002). Poverty since 2002 is reduced over 50% and a third of the population relies on subsistence agricult... |
708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Angola | Transport in Angola | Transport in Angola comprises:
Roads
Two trans-African automobile routes pass through Angola:
the Tripoli-Cape Town Highway
the Beira-Lobito Highway
Railways
There are three separate railway lines in Angola:
Luanda Railway (CFL) (northern);
Benguela Railway (CFB) (central), operated by the Lobito Atlantic Rail... |
709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan%20Armed%20Forces | Angolan Armed Forces | The Angolan Armed Forces () or FAA is the military of Angola. The FAA consist of the Angolan Army (), the Angolan Navy () and the National Air Force of Angola (). Reported total manpower in 2021 was about 107,000. The FAA is headed by the Chief of the General Staff António Egídio de Sousa Santos since 2018, who report... |
710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Angola | Foreign relations of Angola | The foreign relations of Angola are based on Angola's strong support of U.S. foreign policy as the Angolan economy is dependent on U.S. foreign aid.
From 1975 to 1989, Angola was aligned with the Eastern bloc, in particular the Soviet Union, Libya, and Cuba. Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with We... |
711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Sidney%20Johnston | Albert Sidney Johnston | Albert Sidney Johnston (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) served as a general in three different armies: the Texian Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw extensive combat during his 34-year military career, fighting actions in the Black Hawk War, the Texas-Indian Wars, the Mexican–Americ... |
713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20%28robot%29 | Android (robot) | An android is a humanoid robot or other artificial being often made from a flesh-like material. Historically, androids were completely within the domain of science fiction and frequently seen in film and television, but advances in robot technology now allow the design of functional and realistic humanoid robots.
Term... |
717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta | Alberta | Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta borders British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south. It is one of the o... |
728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20anthropologists | List of anthropologists |
A
John Adair
B. R. Ambedkar
Giulio Angioni
Jon Altman
Arjun Appadurai
Talal Asad
Timothy Asch
Scott Atran
Marc Augé
B
Nigel Barley
Fredrik Barth
Vasily Bartold
Keith H. Basso
Daisy Bates
Gregory Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson
Ruth Behar
Ruth Benedict
Dorothy A. Bennett
Carl H. Berendt
Lee Berger
Brent Berlin
Cathe... |
734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopterygii | Actinopterygii | Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of skin supported by radially extended thin bony spines called lepidotrichia, as op... |
736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Einstein | Albert Einstein | Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, and was thus a centr... |
737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan | Afghanistan | Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the no... |
738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania | Albania | Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. The country is located in the Balkans on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the ... |
740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah | Allah | Allah (; , ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means "the god", and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El (Elohim) for God.
... |
742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms%20%28journal%29 | Algorithms (journal) | Algorithms is a monthly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal of mathematics, covering design, analysis, and experiments on algorithms. The journal is published by MDPI and was established in 2008. The founding editor-in-chief was Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University). From May 2014 to September 2019, the editor-in-chi... |
746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia's republic of Dagestan to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to t... |
748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur%20astronomy | Amateur astronomy | Amateur astronomy is a hobby where participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes. Even though scientific research may not be their primary goal, some amateur astronomers make contributions in doing citizen science, such as by monitoring variable st... |
751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido | Aikido | Aikido ( , , , ) is a modern Japanese martial art that is split into many different styles, including Iwama Ryu, Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai, Shodokan Aikido, Yoshinkan, Renshinkai, Aikikai and Ki Aikido. Aikido is now practiced in around 140 countries. It was originally developed by Morihei Ueshiba, as a synthesi... |
752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art | Art | Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly through... |
764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostida | Agnostida | Agnostida are an order of extinct arthropods which have classically been seen as a group of highly modified trilobites, though some recent research has doubted this placement. Regardless, they appear to be close relatives as part of the Artiopoda. They are present in the Lower Cambrian fossil record along with trilobit... |