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Anarchism
2026-08-30T20:30:12Z
**Anarchism** is a generally far-left political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy, primarily targeting the state, capitalism, and organized religion. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state and other hierarchical social structur...
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39
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Albedo
2026-08-11T20:59:53Z
**Albedo** (IPAC: ælˈbiːdoʊ ; ) 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 radiosi...
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2
290
12,416,903
A
2026-08-29T15:59:37Z
**A** (minuscule: **a**) is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is *a* (pronounced as in *say*), plural *aes*. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase ver...
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3
303
1,216,158
Alabama
2026-08-20T19:08:00Z
**Alabama** (IPAC: ,ælə'bæmə, ) is a state in the Southeastern and Deep Southern regions 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. ...
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4
305
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Achilles
2026-08-30T11:08:17Z
In Greek mythology, **Achilles** (IPAC: əˈkɪliːz ) or **Achilleus** (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors. The 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...
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5
307
44,026,716
Abraham Lincoln
2026-09-01T07:58:14Z
**Abraham Lincoln** (February 12, 1809April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery. Born in a one-room log cabin in ...
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6
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Aristotle
2026-09-02T06:01:49Z
**Aristotle** (Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span 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 began the wider Aristotelian tradition...
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7
309
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An American in Paris
2026-07-20T05:44:28Z
***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 *Années folles*. Gershwin scored the p...
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Academy Award for Best Production Design
2026-08-21T20:52:09Z
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 a...
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Academy Awards
2026-08-21T20:52:13Z
The **Academy Awards**, more commonly known as the **Oscars**, are awards based on artistic and technical merit in film. 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 around the world, as assessed by the...
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10
330
2,842,084
Actrius
2025-12-27T21:18:25Z
***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 ord...
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Animalia (book)
2026-04-13T18:45:51Z
***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, ...
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International Atomic Time
2026-08-10T17:52:58Z
**International Atomic Time** (**TAI**, from its French name **temps atomique international**) 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 worldwid...
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13
336
7,627,571
Altruism
2026-08-28T17:10:20Z
**Altruism** is concern for the well-being and life of others independently of personal benefit or reciprocity. The word *altruism* was popularised (and possibly coined) by the French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798–1857) c. 1830 in French, as altruisme, as an antonym of egoism. He derived it from the Italian altrui, ...
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Ayn Rand
2026-08-26T04:40:02Z
**Alice O'Connor** (born **Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum**; February 2\|January 20, 1905March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name **Ayn Rand** (IPAC: aɪn), was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism. Born and educate...
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15
340
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Alain Connes
2026-08-31T03:30:10Z
**Alain Connes** (<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA"><div data-arg>fr</div><div data-arg>alɛ̃ kɔn</div><div data-arg>lang</div></template>; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He was a professor at...
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16
344
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Allan Dwan
2026-08-22T12:54:20Z
**Allan Dwan** (born **Joseph Aloysius Dwan**; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian and 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 M...
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Algeria
2026-09-01T16:03:50Z
**Algeria**, officially the **People's Democratic Republic of Algeria**, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Spanning over 2381741 km2, it is the largest country in Africa and the tenth largest in the world. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to ...
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List of Atlas Shrugged characters
2026-04-26T18:23:13Z
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 bro...
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10,653,874
Anthropology
2026-08-26T02:38:31Z
**Anthropology** is the scientific study of humanity that crosses biology and sociology, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultu...
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20
572
53,487,741
Agricultural science
2026-04-26T13:42:56Z
**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...
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21
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40,613,867
Alchemy
2026-08-23T13:48:30Z
**Alchemy** (from the Arabic word al-kīmīā, الكیمیاء) 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 texts written in ...
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22
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Astronomer
2026-09-01T19:10:03Z
An **astronomer** is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers study astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies, by some combination of observation and the application of astrophysical models. Examples of topic...
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23
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ASCII
2026-08-08T21:17:52Z
**ASCII** (IPAC: ˈæski ), an acronym for **American Standard Code for Information Interchange**, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English-language–focused) printable and 33 control characters a total of 128 code points. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on ...
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24
593
55,325,812
Animation
2026-08-26T11:15:42Z
right\|vertical\|150\|Animexample3edit.png\|150\|The animation above consists of these six frames repeated indefinitely.\|Animexample.gif\|85h\|2D computer animation moving at 10 frames per second (FPS)\|center\|16\|80\|\|Weare **Animation** is a filmmaking technique whereby pictures are created or manipulated and then...
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25
594
3,022,076
Apollo
2026-08-20T22:50:19Z
**Apollo** is one of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek religion and mythology. His numerous functions include light, healing, prophecy, music, poetry, and archery. He is the son of Leto and Zeus, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented a...
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26
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Andre Agassi
2026-09-01T14:03:05Z
**Andre Kirk Agassi** (IPAC: ˈæɡəsi ; born April 29, 1970) is an American former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 101 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 1999. Agassi won 60 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including e...
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27
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31,737,083
Austroasiatic languages
2026-08-16T04:51:09Z
The **Austroasiatic languages** (IPAC: ˌɒstroʊ.eɪʒiˈætɪk,\_ˌɔː- ) 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 Tha...
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28
599
33,341,051
Afroasiatic languages
2026-08-29T16:51:43Z
The **Afroasiatic languages** (also known as the **Afro-Asiatic**, **Afrasian**, **Hamito-Semitic**, or **Semito-Hamitic languages**) 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...
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29
600
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Andorra
2026-08-30T21:04:17Z
**Andorra**, officially the **Principality of Andorra**, is a landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in southwestern Europe, 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...
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30
612
45,873,236
Arithmetic mean
2026-09-01T05:40:50Z
In mathematics and statistics, the **arithmetic mean** (IPAC: pronˌærɪθˈmɛtɪk ), **arithmetic average**, or just the *mean* or *average* 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 surv...
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31
615
45,051,833
American Football Conference
2026-08-15T23:29:31Z
The **American Football Conference** (**AFC**) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States. The AFC and its counterpart, the National Football Conference (NFC), each have 16 teams organized into four divisions. Both confer...
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48,664,424
Animal Farm
2026-08-20T22:52:28Z
***Animal Farm*** (originally ***Animal Farm: A Fairy Story***) is a satirical allegorical dystopian novella, in the form of a beast fable, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It follows the mistreated anthropomorphic farm animals of Manor Farm as they rebel against their human master, and h...
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Amphibian
2026-08-28T22:16:06Z
**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, but excluding the amniotes (tetrapods with an amniotic membrane, such as modern reptiles, birds and mammals). All extant (livin...
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34
624
50,016,737
Alaska
2026-08-23T04:31:14Z
**Alaska** (IPAC: ə.ˈlæs.kə, ) is a U.S. state located in the northwestern regions of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is considered to be the northernmost, westernmost, and, longitudinally, the easternmost state in the Un...
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35
627
1,544,984
Agriculture
2026-09-02T04:03:47Z
**Agriculture** is the practice of cultivating the soil, planting, raising, and harvesting both food and non-food crops, as well as livestock production. Broader definitions also include forestry and aquaculture. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated p...
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36
628
2,842,084
Aldous Huxley
2026-09-01T13:50:29Z
**Aldous Leonard Huxley** (IPAC: ˈɔːldəs ; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degre...
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37
633
52,790,140
Algae
2026-09-01T19:00:02Z
**Algae** (IPAC: ˈældʒi: , IPAC: UKalsoˈælɡi: ; : **alga** IPAC: ˈælɡə) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic organisms. It excludes the land plants (embryophytes). Such organisms range from microscopic unicellular microalgae (including cyanobacteria and phytoplankton) to seaweeds, multicellular macroa...
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38
634
52,129,898
Analysis of variance
2026-08-13T17:37:20Z
**Analysis of variance** (**ANOVA**) is a family of statistical methods used to compare the means of two or more groups by analyzing variance. Specifically, ANOVA compares the amount of variation *between* the group means to the amount of variations *within* each group. If the between-group variation is substantially l...
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39
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7,903,804
Alkane
2026-08-08T15:00:21Z
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 chemi...
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40
640
54,562,004
Appellate procedure in the United States
2026-07-17T05:59:51Z
**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 ...
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41
642
1,162,102
Answer (law)
2024-09-19T09:23:21Z
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 a...
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42
643
48,138,734
Appellate court
2026-07-31T12:20:00Z
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 a case upon appeal from a trial court or other lower tribunal. An appellate court other than a supreme court is sometimes referred ...
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43
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48,292,528
Arraignment
2026-07-12T22:38:29Z
**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 ...
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44
651
40,638,945
America the Beautiful
2026-08-10T03:32:53Z
"**America the Beautiful**" is an American patriotic 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, though the two never met. Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled "**Pikes P...
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45
653
11,677,590
Assistive technology
2026-08-11T19:34:07Z
**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 toi...
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46
655
7,903,804
Abacus
2026-08-08T15:00:40Z
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 largely replaced by handheld electronic calculators, during the 1980s, with some ongoing attempts to revive thei...
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47
656
31,791,708
Acid
2026-05-20T00:57:35Z
An **acid** is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. hydrogen cation, 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 solutio...
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48
657
21,857,263
Bitumen
2026-08-11T10:23:42Z
**Bitumen** (IPAC: ukˈbɪtʃʊmɪn , IPAC: usbɪˈtjuːmɪn,\_baɪ- ) 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 American English, the material is commonly referred to ...
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49
659
37,371,155
American National Standards Institute
2026-06-12T00:32:43Z
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 tha...
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50
662
44,776,424
Apollo 11
2026-08-24T18:22:02Z
**Apollo 11** (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon, and the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program. The mission was crewed by Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, all of whom were on their secon...
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663
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Apollo 8
2026-08-07T14:15:31Z
**Apollo 8** (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing and then returned to Earth. The three astronauts—Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders—wer...
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664
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Astronaut
2026-09-01T06:37:23Z
An **astronaut** (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον (astron), meaning 'star', and ναύτης (nautes), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is so...
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665
698,799
A Modest Proposal
2026-07-16T15:10:59Z
***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 simply as ***A Modest Proposal***, is a 1729 satirical essay by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. The essay, written...
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666
52,864,486
Alkali metal
2026-09-01T22:35:50Z
{\| class\="floatright" ! colspan\=2 style\="text-align:left;" \| ↓ [Period]{.small} \|- ! 2 \| 3\|Lithium\|Li\|\|Solid\|Alkali metal\|Primordial\|\|Lithium paraffin.jpg\|Lithium metal stored under paraffin \|- ! 3 \| 11\|Sodium\|Na\|\|Solid\|Alkali metal\|Primordial\|\|Na (Sodium).jpg\|Sodium metal \|- ! 4 \| 19\|Pota...
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670
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Alphabet
2026-08-31T18:33:33Z
An **alphabet** is a writing system that uses a standard set of symbols, called *letters*, to more or less represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, *letters* largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language. Not all writi...
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673
20,483,999
Atomic number
2026-07-15T14:17:33Z
The **atomic number** or **nuclear charge number** (symbol ***Z***, from the German *Zahl*, "number") of a chemical element is the charge number of its atomic nucleus. For ordinary nuclei composed of protons and neutrons, this is equal to the **proton number** ('**'n''~p~**) or the number of protons found in the nucleu...
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57
674
45,929,875
Anatomy
2026-08-16T15:09:24Z
**Anatomy** () is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal and external 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 inh...
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58
675
36,729,223
Affirming the consequent
2026-06-20T20:14:53Z
In propositional logic, **affirming the consequent** (also known as **converse error**, **fallacy of the converse**, or **confusion of necessity and sufficiency**) is a formal fallacy (or an invalid form of argument) that is committed when, in the context of an indicative conditional statement, it is stated that becaus...
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59
676
30,552,921
Andrei Tarkovsky
2026-08-24T15:58:49Z
**Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky** (Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA"><div data-arg>ru</div><div data-arg>ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj</div><div data-arg>pron</div><div data-arg>Pronunciation ru андрей тарковский.ogg</div></template>; 4 April 1932 – 29 Decembe...
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60
677
7,226,930
Ambiguity
2026-08-13T19:38:45Z
**Ambiguity** is a state in which the meaning of a phrase, statement, situation, or resolution is not explicitly defined, making for several plausible interpretations. It arises when available information lacks sufficient context or a shared frame, so people cannot reliably determine what the problem is, what matters, ...
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61
678
37,068,836
Abel
2026-08-18T00:28:09Z
**Abel** (הֶבֶל *Hébel*, in pausa {{#Script/Hebrew}}הָבֶל{{/Script/Hebrew}} *Hā́ḇel*; Ἅβελ *Hábel*; هابيل, *Hābēl*) is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within the Abrahamic religions. Born as the second son of Adam and Eve, the first two humans created by God, he was a shepherd who offered his firstborn flock t...
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62
680
55,432,142
Aardvark
2026-08-28T07:43:20Z
The **aardvark** (IPAC: ˈɑːrd.vɑːrk; ***Orycteropus afer***) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa. The aardvark is the only living member of the genus *Orycteropus*, the family Orycteropodidae and the order Tubulidentata. The aardvark is an afrotherian, a clade that also includes elephants,...
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681
46,666,901
Aardwolf
2026-08-11T06:33:36Z
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 **maanhaarjakkals** (Afrikaans for 'mane-jackal'), **termite-eating hyena** and **civet hyena**, based on its habit of secreting ...
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682
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Adobe
2026-07-14T03:51:38Z
**Adobe** (IPAC: əˈdoʊbi ; <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA"><div data-arg>es</div><div data-arg>aˈðoβe</div><div data-arg>lang</div></template>; via Spanish, ) is a building material made from loam and organic materials. Adobe is Spanish for mudbrick. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish ...
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683
52,617,427
Adventure
2026-07-31T17:33:29Z
An **adventure** is a novel and exciting undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, other extreme sports, or, importantly, any other activity that may be new, fresh or difficult an...
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49,369,565
Asia
2026-08-27T03:52:02Z
**Asia** (IPAC: ˈeɪʒə , IPAC: UKalsoˈeɪʃə ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, 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...
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690
45,687,745
Aruba
2026-08-25T16:13:07Z
**Aruba**, officially the **Country of Aruba**, is an island constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea 29 km north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and 80 km north-west of Curaçao. In 1986, Aruba became a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands an...
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7,756,497
Articles of Confederation
2026-08-30T15:08:48Z
The **Articles of Confederation**, officially the **Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union**, was an agreement and early body of law in the Thirteen Colonies, which served as the nation's first constitution during the American Revolution. It was debated by the Second Continental Congress at present-day Independe...
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698
635,492
Atlantic Ocean
2026-09-01T23:17:41Z
The **Atlantic Ocean** is the second largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about 85133000 km2. 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 New World of the Americas (North America and South America) fr...
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70
700
9,889,660
Arthur Schopenhauer
2026-08-31T20:55:25Z
**Arthur Schopenhauer** (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860), also known as the “Philosopher of Pessimism”, was a German philosopher and writer. 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 irratio...
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71
701
10,808,929
Angola
2026-08-31T18:14:34Z
**Angola**, officially the **Republic of Angola**, is a country on the western coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country after Brazil in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Re...
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72
704
38,129,037
Demographics of Angola
2026-08-21T16:07:26Z
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, ...
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73
705
43,698,778
Politics of Angola
2026-08-13T13:24:28Z
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...
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74
706
43,263,260
Economy of Angola
2026-07-11T08:18:49Z
Angola has a semi-planned economy, in which central planning directs the economy with the participation of private enterprises. The economy 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 civi...
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75
708
37,316,776
Transport in Angola
2026-08-20T19:16:00Z
**Transport in Angola** comprises: ## Roads Two trans-African automobile routes pass through Angola: - the Tripoli-Cape Town Highway - the Beira-Lobito Highway Luanda is the hub of the country's growing network of closed access highways. The city's ring road is known as the Fidel Castro Expressway. ```{=wikitext}...
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76
709
27,823,944
Angolan Armed Forces
2026-08-15T05:29:57Z
The **Angolan Armed Forces** (Forças Armadas Angolanas) or **FAA** is the military of Angola. The FAA consist of the Angolan Army (Exército Angolano), the Angolan Navy (Marinha de Guerra Angolana) and the National Air Force of Angola (Força Aérea Nacional de Angola). Reported total manpower in 2021 was about 107,000. ...
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77
710
7,447,121
Foreign relations of Angola
2026-08-18T19:17:07Z
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 wit...
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78
711
24,841,344
Albert Sidney Johnston
2026-08-25T16:56:49Z
General **Albert Sidney Johnston** (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) was a U.S. military officer who served as a general officer in three different armies: the Texas 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 ...
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79
713
359,256
Android (robot)
2026-06-16T18:24:25Z
<template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="Redirect"><div data-arg>Mechanoid</div><div data-arg data-name="3">Mechanoid (disambiguation)</div></template> An **android** is a humanoid robot or other artificial being, often made from a flesh-like material. Historically, androids existed only in the domain of...
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80
717
47,587,808
Alberta
2026-08-27T20:43:48Z
**Alberta** is a province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, the Northwest Territories to its north, and the U.S. state of Montana to its south. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only two land...
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81
728
43,869,583
List of anthropologists
2026-08-16T10:12:14Z
This list of anthropologists is presented in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surnames). yes ## A - John Adair - B. R. Ambedkar - Giulio Angioni - Jon Altman - Arjun Appadurai - Talal Asad - Timothy Asch - Scott Atran - Marc Augé ## B - Pauline Gardiner Barber - Nigel Barley - Fredrik Barth - Vasily B...
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82
734
17,641,463
Actinopterygii
2026-08-17T16:40:25Z
**Actinopterygii** (IPAC: ˌæktᵻnɒptəˈrɪdʒiaɪ; ), members of which are known as **ray-finned fish** or **actinopterygians**, is a class of bony fish that constitutes nearly 99% of the over 30,000 living species of fish. The vast majority of extant actinopterygian species are teleosts, and by species count they dominate ...
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83
736
753,665
Albert Einstein
2026-09-02T02:07:38Z
**Albert Einstein** (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula *E* \= *mc*^2^, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world'...
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84
737
27,015,025
Afghanistan
2026-08-25T04:13:18Z
**Afghanistan**, officially the **Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan**, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South 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 northeast, and China to the north...
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85
738
28,481,209
Albania
2026-08-24T02:40:05Z
**Albania**, officially the **Republic of Albania**, is a country in Southeast Europe. It 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 south. With ...
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86
740
47,468,357
Allah
2026-08-17T09:39:43Z
**Allah** (IPAC: ˈælə,\_ˈɑːlə,\_əˈlɑː ; الله, <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA"><div data-arg>ar</div><div data-arg>ɑɫˈɫɑː</div><div data-arg>IPA</div><div data-arg>Ar-allah.ogg</div></template>) is the Arabic language term for God, mainly the monotheistic God of Abraham. Outside of Arabic langua...
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87
742
42,207,223
Algorithms (journal)
2025-03-14T12:25:02Z
***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-...
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88
746
41,849,648
Azerbaijan
2026-08-21T00:44:30Z
**Azerbaijan**, officially the **Republic of Azerbaijan**, is a transcontinental landlocked country at the boundary of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. 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, Turkey (v...
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89
748
48,292,528
Amateur astronomy
2026-08-07T22:44:45Z
**Amateur astronomy** is a hobby where participants enjoy observing, studying, or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, telescopes, and other gadgets. Although scientific research may not be their primary goal, some amateur astronomers contribute to citizen science by monitoring variab...
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90
751
5,984,052
Aikido
2026-08-26T13:27:22Z
**Aikido** (Shinjitai: 合気道, Kyūjitai: 合氣道, aikidō, <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="IPA"><div data-arg>ja</div><div data-arg>aikiꜜdoː</div></template>) is a modern Japanese martial art which is split into many different styles including Aikikai, Shodokan Aikido, Yoshinkan, Renshinkai, Iwama Ryu, Iwam...
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91
752
54,158,961
Art
2026-08-30T19:27:17Z
**Art** is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around *works* utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, technical proficiency, or beauty. There is no generally agreed definition of what...
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92
764
23,316,696
Agnostida
2026-08-03T09:09:27Z
**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 tril...
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93
765
41,113,690
Abortion
2026-08-31T23:13:35Z
**Abortion** is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. The unmodified word *abortion* generally refers to induced abortion, or deliberate actions to end a pregnancy. Abortion occurring without intervention is known as spontaneous abortion or "miscarriage", and occurs in roughly 30...
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94
766
48,111,478
Abstract (law)
2025-11-19T23:20:47Z
In law, an **abstract** is a brief statement that contains the main information of a long legal document or of several related legal papers. ## Types of legislation The abstract title, used in real estate transactions, is the more common form of abstract. An abstract title lists all the owners of a piece of land, a h...
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95
771
41,927,601
American Revolutionary War
2026-09-01T17:39:40Z
The **American Revolutionary War** (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the **Revolutionary War** or **American War of Independence** or simply the **American Revolution**, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces org...
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96
772
14,672,439
Ampere
2026-07-06T12:16:49Z
The **ampere** (symbol: **A**), often shortened to **amp**, is the unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI). One ampere is equal to 1 coulomb (C) moving past a point per second. It is named after French mathematician and physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), considered the father of elect...
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97
775
44,328,505
Algorithm
2026-08-27T15:31:45Z
In mathematics and computer science, an **algorithm** (IPAC: ˈælɡərɪðəm) is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous logical instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specifications for performing calculations and data processing. More adv...
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98
777
28,481,209
Annual plant
2026-07-20T03:34:31Z
An **annual plant** is a plant that completes its life cyclefrom germination to the production of seedswithin one growing season, and then dies. Globally, 6% of all plant species and 15% of herbaceous plants (excluding trees and shrubs) are annuals. The annual life cycle has independently emerged in over 120 different ...
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99
779
1,544,984
Anthophyta
2026-09-01T21:12:45Z
The **anthophytes** are a paraphyletic grouping of plant taxa bearing flower-like reproductive structures. The group, once thought to be a clade, contained the angiosperms – the extant flowering plants, such as roses and grasses – as well as the Gnetales and the extinct Bennettitales. Detailed morphological and molecu...
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