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12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism | Anarchism | Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is sceptical of authority and rejects all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy. Anarchism calls for the abolition of the state, which it holds to be unnecessary, undesirable, and harmful. As a historically left-wing movement, placed on the farthest left of the p... |
25 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism | Autism | Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. Parents often notice signs during the first three years of their child's life. These signs often develop gradually, though some autistic children experience regress... |
39 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo | Albedo | Albedo (; ) is the measure of the diffuse reflection of solar radiation out of the total solar radiation and 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 radio... |
290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A | A | A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (pronounced ), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, c... |
303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama | Alabama | Alabama () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered by 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 U.S. states. With a total of of inland waterway... |
305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles | Achilles | In Greek mythology, Achilles ( ) or Achilleus () was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and is the central character of Homer's Iliad. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia.
Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan prince He... |
307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln (; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the fed... |
308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle | Aristotle | Aristotle (; Aristotélēs, ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, meta... |
309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20American%20in%20Paris | An American in Paris | An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced orchestral piece 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 Années folles.
Gershwin scored the piece for the standard instruments o... |
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 Director's branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scien... |
324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20Awards | Academy Awards | The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are... |
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 herse... |
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... |
334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Atomic%20Time | International Atomic Time | International Atomic Time (TAI, from the French name ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid. It is a continuous scale of time, without leap seconds. It is the principal realisation of Terrestrial Time (with a fixed offset of epoch). It is also... |
336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism | Altruism | Altruism is the principle and moral practice of concern for happiness of other human beings or other animals, resulting in a quality of life both material and spiritual. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures and a core aspect of various religious and secular worldviews. However, the object(s) of concern vary amon... |
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 writer 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 State... |
340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Connes | Alain Connes | Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, and a theoretical physicist, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982... |
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 Dwa... |
358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria | Algeria | Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The country is the largest country by total area in Africa and in the Arab world, and is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, M... |
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 behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and v... |
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: khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts wri... |
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, intelligent extraterrestrial beings; see List of alleged extraterrestrial beings
Introduced specie... |
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. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many a... |
590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20%28disambiguation%29 | Austin (disambiguation) | Austin is the capital of Texas in the United States.
Austin may also refer to:
Geographical locations
Australia
Austin, Western Australia
Canada
Austin, Manitoba
Austin, Ontario
Austin, Quebec
Austin Island, Nunavut
France
Saint-Austin, hamlet at la Neuville-Chant-d'Oisel, Normandy
Hong Kong
Austin statio... |
593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation | Animation | Animation is a method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). Computer animation can be very... |
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. The national divinity of the Greeks, 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 c... |
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 and a 1996 Olympic gold medalist, as well as a runner-up in seven other Grand Slam tournaments.
Agassi was the first man to win four Australian Open singles titles in the Open Era (though late... |
597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic%20languages | Austroasiatic languages | The Austroasiatic languages , also known as Mon–Khmer , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China. There are around 117 million speakers of Austroasiatic languages. Of these languages, ... |
599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic%20languages | Afroasiatic languages | Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also known as Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic, Semito-Hamitic, or Erythraean, is a large language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel. With the exception of Semitic, all branches of the Afroаsiatic fa... |
600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra | Andorra | Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked microstate 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 th... |
612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20mean | Arithmetic mean | In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean ( ) or arithmetic average, or simply just the mean or the 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 of an experiment or an observational study, ... |
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. This conference currently contains 16 teams organized into 4 divisions, as does its counterpart, the National Football Conference (NFC). B... |
620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Farm | Animal Farm | Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and ... |
621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibian | Amphibian | Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal or freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Thus amphibians typically start out as larvae living... |
624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska | Alaska | Alaska (; ; ; ; Yup'ik: Alaskaq; ) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon to the east and shares a maritime border with the Russian Federation's Chukotka Auto... |
627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture | Agriculture | Agriculture is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. 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. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering... |
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. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree... |
630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada | Ada | Ada may refer to:
Places
Africa
Ada Foah or Ada, Ghana, a town
Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
Ada, Osun, a town in Osun State, Nigeria
Asia
Adeh, Urmia, also known as Ada, a village in West Azerbaijan Province
Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey
Australia and New Zealand
Ada River (disamb... |
632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen%20%28disambiguation%29 | Aberdeen (disambiguation) | Aberdeen is a city in Scotland, United Kingdom.
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 Lo... |
633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae | Algae | Algae (; singular alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular microalgae, such as Chlorella, Prototheca and the diatoms, to multicellular form... |
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 charges against them. In response to arraignment, the accused is expected to enter a plea. Acceptable pleas vary among jurisdictions, but they generally include "guilty", "not guilty", and the perempt... |
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. People with disabilities often have difficulty performing activities of daily living (ADLs) independently, or even with assistance. ADLs are self-care activities that include toileting, ... |
655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus | Abacus | The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool which has been used since ancient times. It was used in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. The exact origin of the abacus has not yet emerged. It co... |
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, capable of 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 solu... |
657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt | Asphalt | Asphalt, also known as bitumen (, ), is a sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum. It may be found in natural deposits or may be a refined product, and is classed as a pitch. Before the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used. The word is derived from the Ancient Greek ἄσφαλτος áspha... |
659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20National%20Standards%20Institute | American National Standards Institute | The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit 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 Ame... |
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 also the first human spaceflight to reach another astronomical object, namely the Moon, which the crew orbited without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. These three astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and Wil... |
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 th... |
666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali%20metal | Alkali metal | The alkali metals consist of the chemical elements lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). Together with hydrogen they constitute group 1, which lies in the s-block of the periodic table. All alkali metals have their outermost electron in an s-orbital: this shared elect... |
670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet | Alphabet | An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, for instance, and logographic systems use characters to represen... |
673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20number | Atomic number | The atomic number or proton number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the number of protons found in the nucleus of every atom of that element. The atomic number uniquely identifies a chemical element. It is identical to the charge number of the nucleus. In an uncharged atom, the atomic number is also equal to the num... |
674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy | Anatomy | Anatomy (Greek anatomē, 'dissection') is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science which deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its beginnings in prehistoric times. Anatomy is inhere... |
675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming%20the%20consequent | Affirming the consequent | 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"), and invalidly inferring its converse ("The room is dark, so the lamp i... |
676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Tarkovsky | Andrei Tarkovsky | Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and film theorist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in Russian and world cinema. His films explored spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow paci... |
677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity | Ambiguity | Ambiguity is a type of meaning in which a phrase, statement or resolution is not explicitly defined, making several interpretations plausible. A common aspect of ambiguity is uncertainty. It is thus an attribute of any idea or statement whose intended meaning cannot be definitively resolved according to a rule or proce... |
678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel | Abel | Abel is a Biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He was the younger brother of Cain, and the younger 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 th... |
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 set index of people nicknamed "The Animal" or "Animal"
Professional wrestlers
Road Warrior Animal, commonly shortened to "Animal", the best-known r... |
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. Unlike most other insectivores, it has a long pig-like snout, which is used to sniff out... |
681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardwolf | Aardwolf | The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is an insectivorous mammal in the family Hyaenidae, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called "maanhaar-jackal" (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), "termite-eating hyena" and "civet hyena", based on its habit of secreting substa... |
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 Territori... |
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 some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports. Adventures are often undertaken ... |
689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia | Asia | Asia () is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe, and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa and Europe. Asia covers an area of , about 30% of Earth's total land are... |
690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba | Aruba | Aruba ( , , ) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands physically located in the mid-south of the Caribbean Sea, about north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and northwest of Curaçao. It measures long from its northwestern to its southeastern end and across at its widest point. Together w... |
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 original states of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government. It was approved after much debate (between July 1776 and November 1777) by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the s... |
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 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe and Asia from the "New World" of the Americas in the European perception of the W... |
700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Schopenhauer | Arthur Schopenhauer | Arthur Schopenhauer ( , ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant... |
701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola | Angola | Angola (; ), officially the Republic of Angola (), is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country in both total area and population (behind Brazil), and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the DR Congo to ... |
704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Angola | Demographics of Angola | This article is about the demographic features of the population of Angola, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
According to 2014 census data, Angola had a population of 25,789,024 inhabitants in ... |
705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Angola | Politics of Angola | The Angolan government is composed of three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial. For decades, political power has been concentrated in the presidency with the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
History
Since the adoption of a new constitution in 2010, the politics of Angola takes ... |
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). Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural l... |
708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Angola | Transport in Angola | Transport in Angola comprises:
Roads
Railways
There are three separate railway lines in Angola:
Luanda Railway (CFL) (northern)
Benguela Railway (CFB) (central)
Moçâmedes Railway (CFM) (southern)
Reconstruction of these three lines began in 2005 and they are now all operational. The Benguela Railway connects to... |
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 include the General Staff of the Armed Forces and three components: the Army (Exército), the Navy (Marinha de Guerra) and the National Air Force (Força Aérea Nacional). Reported total manpower in 2013 was about 107,000. The FAA is headed by the Chief... |
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 W... |
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 War of Independence, the Mexica... |
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 recent advances in robot technology now allow the design of functional and realistic humanoid robots... |
717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta | Alberta | Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories (NWT) to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south. It is 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 fishes, is a clade (traditionally class or subclass) of the bony fishes. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.
The ray-finned fishes are so-called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines (rays), as opposed to the... |
736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Einstein | Albert Einstein | Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechani... |
38649019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative%20Presbyterian%20Church%20in%20Brazil | Conservative Presbyterian Church in Brazil | The Igreja Presbiteriana Conservadora do Brasil () (IPCB) is a Presbyterian Reformed denomination, founded in 1940, by the churches and members that separated from the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPIB). The main reason for the split was the decision of the IPIB General Assembly, in 1938, to appoint a com... |
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 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 north... |
738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania | Albania | Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Sea 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 south. Tirana is its c... |
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 (ʼAlâhâ) and the Hebrew word El (Elohim) for God.
The w... |
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 Azerbaijan Republic or the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region, and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia... |
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, Aikikai and Ki Aikido. Aikido is now practiced in around 140 countries. It was originally developed by Morihei Ueshiba, as a synthesis of his mar... |
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