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Queen Victoria | Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India.
Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son o... | 47,923 | 2017-01 |
Grape | thumb|upright|Grapes
thumb|"White" table grapes
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.
Grapes can be eaten fresh as table grapes or they can be used for making wine, jam, juice, jelly, grape seed extract, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil. Grapes a... | 12,436 | 2017-01 |
Athanasius of Alexandria | Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (; ; c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor or, primarily in the Coptic Orthodox Church, Athanasius the Apostolic, was the twentieth bishop of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His episcopate lasted 45 years (c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373), of which ov... | 3,225 | 2017-01 |
Lighting | thumb|300px|right|Illuminated cherry blossoms, light from the shop windows, and Japanese lantern at night in Ise, Mie, Japan
thumb|300px|right|Daylight used at the train station Gare de l'Est Paris
thumb|300px|right|Low-intensity lighting and haze in a concert hall allows laser effects to be visible
Lighting or illumi... | 188,386 | 2017-01 |
BBC Television | BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a royal charter since 1927. It prooduced television programmes from its own studios since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television broadcasts is dated to 2 Nove... | 352,308 | 2017-01 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation | thumb|250px|FBI field divisions map
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, which simultaneously serves as the nation's prime federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI is concurre... | 11,127 | 2017-01 |
Punjab, Pakistan | Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi: , pənj-āb, "five waters": ), is the most populous of the provinces of Pakistan. Punjab is Pakistan's second largest province by area after Balochistan, and is Pakistan's most populous province with an estimated population of 101,391,000 as of 2015.Bureau of Statistics, Government of the Punjab (2... | 24,751 | 2017-01 |
Capacitor | A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores electrical energy in an electric field. The effect of a capacitor is known as capacitance. While capacitance exists between any two electrical conductors of a circuit in sufficiently close proximity, a capacitor is specifically designed to provide a... | 4,932,111 | 2017-01 |
History of India | The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the advancement of civilisation from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the eventual blending of the Indo-Aryan culture to form the Vedic Civilisation; the rise of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism;AL Basham (1951), History ... | 13,890 | 2017-01 |
Plymouth | Plymouth () is a city on the south coast of Devon, England, about south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London, between the mouths of the rivers Plym to the east and Tamar to the west where they join Plymouth Sound to form the boundary with Cornwall.
Plymouth's early history extends to the Bronze Age, when a f... | 23,508 | 2017-01 |
Space Race | The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II, aided by captured German missile... | 84,237 | 2017-01 |
Myocardial infarction | Myocardial infarction (MI) or acute myocardial infarction (AMI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow stops to a part of the heart causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which may travel into the shoulder, arm, back, neck, or jaw. Often it is in the c... | 20,556,798 | 2017-01 |
The Times | The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England. It began in 1785 under the title , adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself w... | 39,127 | 2017-01 |
Franco-Prussian War | The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (, ), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1871), was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. The conflict was caused by Prussian ambitions to exten... | 44,035 | 2017-01 |
Literature | Literature, in its broadest sense, is any single body of written works. More restrictively, it is writing considered as an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage. Its Latin root literatura/litteratura (derive... | 18,963,870 | 2017-01 |
Aircraft carrier | thumb|300px|Four modern aircraft carriers of various types—, Charles de Gaulle, , helicopter carrier —and escort vessels, 2002
thumb|upright=1.25|From bottom to top: Spanish light V/STOL carrier Príncipe de Asturias, amphibious assault ship , fleet carrier , and light V/STOL carrier , showing size differences of late 2... | 2,219 | 2017-01 |
Turner Classic Movies | Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television network owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgia's Midtown business district.
Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly... | 925,736 | 2017-01 |
Royal assent | thumb|George VI grants royal assent to laws in the Canadian Senate, 19 May 1939. Seated beside him is his consort, Queen Elizabeth.
Royal assent is the method by which a country's constitutional monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament, thus making it a law or... | 153,067 | 2017-01 |
Muslim world | 400px|right|thumb|The Muslim population of the world map by percentage of each country, according to the Pew Forum (assessed on 29 June 2014).
The term Muslim world, also known as Islamic world and the (, meaning "nation" or "community"For the definition, see: Ummah.James Bowman. Honor: A History. Page 26. 2007.) has... | 191,429 | 2017-01 |
Sahara | thumb|300px|This video over the Sahara and the Middle East was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station.
thumb|Tadrart Acacus desert in western Libya, part of the Sahara.
thumb|The top image shows the Safsaf Oasis on the surface of the Sahara. The bottom (using radar) is the rock laye... | 325,363 | 2017-01 |
Galicia (Spain) | Galicia (, ; , , or ; ; Galician and Portuguese: Galiza, , , , ) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law."Galicia, a historic nationality, constitutes itself as an autonomous community for accessing to its self-government", "Galicia, nacionalidade histórica, constitúese en Comunid... | 12,837 | 2017-01 |
YouTube | YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. Th... | 3,524,766 | 2017-01 |
Santa Monica, California | Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles – Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, Sawtelle on the east, Mar Vista on the southeast, and Venice on the south. The ... | 28,208 | 2017-01 |
Imperial College London |
Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its founder, Prince Albert, envisioned a cultural area composed of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall, and the Imperial Institute. The Imperial Institute was opened by his wife, Quee... | 61,116 | 2017-01 |
Textual criticism | thumb|200px|Carmina Cantabrigiensia, Manuscript C, folio 436v, 11th century
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants in either manuscripts or printed books. Ancient scribes made alterations when copying manuscr... | 155,023 | 2017-01 |
Sichuan | Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin between the Himalayas on the west, the Daba in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the east. Sichuan's capital is Chengdu.
In antiquity, Sichuan was the home of the ancient states of Ba and Shu. Their conques... | 65,185 | 2017-01 |
Institute of technology | thumb|The Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), one of Europe's first and a rolemodel for later establishments
thumb|The coat of arms of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world (est. 1824).
An institute of technology (also: university of technology, pol... | 1,121,030 | 2017-01 |
Mesozoic | The Mesozoic Era ( or ) is an interval of geological time from about . It is also called the Age of Reptiles, a phrase introduced by the 19th century paleontologist Gideon Mantell who viewed it as dominated by diapsids such as Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, Plesiosaurus and Pterodactylus. This Era is also called from a paleo... | 19,322 | 2017-01 |
Cyprus | Cyprus (; ; ), officially the Republic of Cyprus (; ), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel and Palestine, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece.
The... | 5,593 | 2017-01 |
The Sun (United Kingdom) | The Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since The Sun on Sunday was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation. As a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald; it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current... | 26,146,987 | 2017-01 |
Order of the British Empire | thumb|upright|MBE as awarded in 1918
225px|thumb|Grand Cross star of the Order of the British Empire
thumb|left|Close-up of an MBE from 1945 showing the "For God and the Empire"
thumb|upright|Lieutenant General Sir Robert Fulton, KBE
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is the "order of chivalry of British co... | 212,182 | 2017-01 |
Republic of the Congo | The Republic of the Congo (), also known as the Congo Republic, West Congo, Congo-Brazzaville or simply Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is bordered by five countries: Gabon and the Atlantic Ocean to the west; Cameroon to the northwest; the Central African Republic to the northeast; the Democratic Re... | 19,599,929 | 2017-01 |
Materialism | Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are results of material interactions.
Materialism is closely related to physicalism, the view that all that exists is ultimately physical. ... | 19,376 | 2017-01 |
Qing dynasty | The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, also called the Qing Empire or the Manchu dynasty, was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The Qing multi-cultural empire lasted a... | 25,310 | 2017-01 |
To Kill a Mockingbird | To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred ne... | 73,408 | 2017-01 |
Greece | Greece (, ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: ), historically also known as Hellas ( ), is a country in southeastern Europe.
Greece's population is approximately 10.955 million as of 2015. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki.
Greece is strategically located at the c... | 12,108 | 2017-01 |
2008 Sichuan earthquake | thumb|The USGS provided a map of Asia in May 2008, which showed a total of 122 earthquakes occurring on the continent. The large red square near the center of the map depicts the 7.9 magnitude Chengdu quake in the Sichuan province.
page=1|thumb|Map showing the location of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and all the afters... | 17,901,805 | 2017-01 |
Edmund Burke | Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729The exact year of his birth is the subject of a great deal of controversy; 1728, 1729, and 1730 have been proposed. The month and day of his birth also are subject to question, a problem compounded by the Julian-Gregorian changeover in 1752, during his lifetime. For a fuller treatmen... | 10,030 | 2017-01 |
Northwestern University | Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, with campuses in Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; and Doha, Qatar. Composed of twelve schools and colleges, Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.
Northwestern was ... | 174,216 | 2017-01 |
CBC Television | CBC Television (also known as simply "CBC") is a Canadian broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé.
Headquartered at the Canadian Broa... | 1,288,819 | 2017-01 |
Germans | Germans () are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans.
The English term Germans has historically referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since ... | 152,735 | 2017-01 |
Iranian languages | The Iranian languages or Iranic languagesToward a Typology of European Languages
edited by Johannes Bechert, Giuliano Bernini, Claude BuridantPersian Grammar: History and State of its Study
by Gernot L. Windfuhr are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, which in turn are a branch of the Indo-European language famil... | 3,402,027 | 2017-01 |
Adolescence | Adolescence ()Macmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd. (1981), page 14, 456. Retrieved 2010-7-15. is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood (age of majority). Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage y... | 83,859 | 2017-01 |
Armenia | Armenia (, ;"Armenia." Dictionary.com Unabridged. 2015. , tr. Hayastan, ), officially the Republic of Armenia (, tr. Hayastani Hanrapetut’yun), is a sovereign state in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. A European country located in Western Asia Council of Europe: List of Member States; only European countries can j... | 10,918,072 | 2017-01 |
Intellectual property | Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated owners by law. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are the protections granted to the creators of IP, and include trademarks, copyright, patents, industrial design rights, and in some jurisdictions trade secre... | 14,724 | 2017-01 |
Law of the United States | thumb|The United States Constitution
The law of the United States comprises many levelsSee Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind, Legal Research: How to Find & Understand The Law, 14th ed. (Berkeley: Nolo, 2005), 22. of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the United States Constitution, th... | 27,552,742 | 2017-01 |
Hanover | Hanover or Hannover (; , ), on the River Leine, is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later desc... | 14,197 | 2017-01 |
Tuberculosis | Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections do not have symptoms; in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. About 10% of latent infections progress to a... | 30,653 | 2017-01 |
Dialect | The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , , "discourse", from , , "through" and , , "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena:
One usage—the more common among linguists—refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular... | 8,128 | 2017-01 |
Josip Broz Tito | Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз Тито, ; born Josip Broz; (7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Eu... | 16,567 | 2017-01 |
Political philosophy | thumb|right|Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), from a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael. Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics secured the two Greek philosophers as two of the most influential political philosophers.
Political philosophy, or political theory, is the study of topics such as polit... | 23,040 | 2017-01 |
Bern | The city of Bern () or Berne (; ; ; Bernese German: Bärn ) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city".According to the Swiss constitution, there is intentionally no capital in the Swiss Confederation, but Bern has governmental institutions... | 49,749 | 2017-01 |
Pitch (music) | right|thumb|250px|In musical notation, the different vertical positions of notes indicate different pitches. &
Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale,Anssi Klapuri, "Introduction to Music Transcription", in Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription, e... | 77,933 | 2017-01 |
Pope John XXIII | Pope Saint John XXIII (; ; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) reigned as Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014.United States Conference of Bishops, The Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of... | 23,807 | 2017-01 |
Black people | Black people (seen both capitalized and with lowercase "b") is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other given populations. As such, the meaning of the expression varies widely bo... | 4,745 | 2017-01 |
List of numbered streets in Manhattan | The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 228 numbered east–west streets, the majority of them created by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. These streets do not run exactly east–west, because the grid plan is aligned with the Hudson River, rather than with the cardinal direction. Thus, the grid's "west" is approxi... | 9,310,320 | 2017-01 |
Montevideo | Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . The southernmost capital city in the Americas, Montevideo is situated in the southern coast of the country, on the nor... | 38,261 | 2017-01 |
Nigeria | The Federal Republic of Nigeria , commonly referred to as Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. It comprises 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory,... | 21,383 | 2017-01 |
Paper | thumb|Different types of paper: carton, tissue paper
Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.
It is a versatile material with many uses, including writing, printing, packaging, cleaning, and a number ... | 16,861,908 | 2017-01 |
Liberal Party of Australia | The Liberal Party of Australia (Lib or colloquially Libs) is a major political party in Australia. Founded in 1945 to replace the United Australia Party (UAP), the Liberal Party is one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
The Liberal Party is the largest and dom... | 18,453 | 2017-01 |
Zinc | Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table. In some respects zinc is chemically similar to magnesium: both elements exhibit only one normal oxidation state (+2), and the Zn2+ and Mg2+ ions are of similar size. Zinc is the 24th most abund... | 34,420 | 2017-01 |
Treaty | thumb|right|300px|The first two pages of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in (left to right) German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ottoman Turkish and Russian
A treaty is an agreement under international law entered into by actors in international law, namely sovereign states and international organizations. A treaty may also be ... | 30,432 | 2017-01 |
Hellenistic period | right|thumb|300px|The Nike of Samothrace is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Hellenistic art.
The Hellenistic period covers the period of ancient Greek (Hellenic) history and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the... | 455,379 | 2017-01 |
London | London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain, London has been a major settlement for two millennia. It was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely r... | 17,867 | 2017-01 |
European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, the European Central Bank from der Alte Mainbrücke|thumb|260px
260px|thumb|Seat of the European Central Bank
The European Central Bank (ECB; French: Banque centrale européenne) is the central bank for the euro and administers monetary policy of the eurozone, which consists of 19 EU member states and... | 9,474 | 2017-01 |
Thuringia | The Free State of Thuringia (; , ) is a federal state in central Germany.
It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states. Most of Thuringia is within the watershed of the Saale, a left tributary of the Elbe. The ca... | 31,130 | 2017-01 |
Circadian rhythm | thumb|400px|Some features of the human circadian (24-hour) biological clock
A circadian rhythm is any biological process that displays an endogenous, entrainable oscillation of about 24 hours. These 24-hour rhythms are driven by a circadian clock, and they have been widely observed in plants, animals, fungi, and cyan... | 56,565 | 2017-01 |
Estonian language | Estonian ( ) is the official language of Estonia, spoken natively by about 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 outside Estonia.Kilgi, Annika. 2012. "Eesti keel maailma taustal." Estonica: Entsüklopeedia Eestist. It belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family.
One distinctive feature that has caused a ... | 10,223 | 2017-01 |
Cork (city) | Cork (; , , from corcach, meaning "marsh") is a city in Ireland, located in the South-West Region, in the province of Munster. It has a population of 125,622 and is the second largest city in the state and the third most populous on the island of Ireland. The greater Metropolitan Cork area (which includes a number of ... | 8,140,815 | 2017-01 |
Westminster Abbey | Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and b... | 43,245 | 2017-01 |
Data compression | In signal processing, data compression, source coding,
or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Compression can be either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy. No information is lost in l... | 8,013 | 2017-01 |
United States Air Force | The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on 18 September 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It ... | 32,090 | 2017-01 |
Separation of powers under the United States Constitution | thumb|The United States Capitol dome as seen from the Supreme Court BuildingSeparation of powers is a political doctrine originating in the writings of Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws where he urged for a constitutional government with three separate branches of government. Each of the three branches would have d... | 738,686 | 2017-01 |
On the Origin of Species | On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.... | 29,932 | 2017-01 |
Nanjing | Nanjing (), formerly romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the city situated in the heartland of lower Yangtze River region in China, which has long been a major centre of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism. It is the capital city of Jiangsu province of People's Republic of Ch... | 21,791 | 2017-01 |
Zhejiang |
, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu province and Shanghai municipality to the north, Anhui province to the northwest, Jiangxi province to the west, and Fujian province to the south; to the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lie the Ryukyu I... | 96,602 | 2017-01 |
Late Middle Ages | Late Middle AgesEurope and Mediterranean regionthumb|center|upright=1.35|
Europe and the Mediterranean region, c. 1328 12
Western/Central Europe
Holy Roman Empire
France
Gascony
Bohemia
Eastern Europe
Teutonic Order
Golden Horde
G. Horde Vassals
Genovese Prov.
Ruthenia
Poland
Mazovia
Wallachia
Hungary and... | 2,287,895 | 2017-01 |
PlayStation 3 | The PlayStation 3 (abbreviated as PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to PlayStation 2, and is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It competed with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was ... | 24,951 | 2017-01 |
Neptune | Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times... | 19,003,265 | 2017-01 |
Carnival | thumb|Masquerade at the Carnival of Venice
thumb|260px|Carnival in Rome circa 1650
thumb|260px|Games during the carnival at Rio de Janeiro, c. 1822
Carnival (see other spellings and names) is a Western Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent. The main events typically occur during Feb... | 38,483 | 2017-01 |
Hindu philosophy | Hindu philosophy refers to a group of darśanas (philosophies, world views, teachings)Soken Sanskrit, darzana that emerged in ancient India. The mainstream Hindu philosophy includes six systems (ṣaḍdarśana) – Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa and Vedanta.Andrew Nicholson (2013), Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy an... | 307,365 | 2017-01 |
Dell | Dell Inc. (stylized as 30px) was an American privately owned multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that developed, sold, repaired, and supported computers and related products and services. Eponymously named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company was one of the large... | 102,490 | 2017-01 |
Everton F.C. | Everton F.C. is a football club in Liverpool, England that currently compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The club have competed in the top division for a record 114 seasons and won the League Championship nine times and the FA Cup five times.
Formed in 1878, Everton were founding membe... | 91,155 | 2017-01 |
Armenians | Armenians (, hayer ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands.
Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. There is a wide-ranging diaspora of around 5 million people of full or partial Armenian ancestry living outside of modern Armenia. The l... | 387,816 | 2017-01 |
Samurai | thumb|Samurai in armor, 1860s. Hand-coloured photograph by Felice Beato.
thumb|Samurai around the 1860s
right|thumb|Saigō Takamori (seated, in Western uniform), surrounded by his officers, in samurai attire, during the 1877 Satsuma rebellion. News article in Le Monde Illustré, 1877.
were the military nobility and off... | 28,288 | 2017-01 |
Federal Aviation Administration | The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation. These include the construction and operation of airports, the management of air traffic, the certification of personnel and aircraft, and the protection of US assets during the l... | 11,186 | 2017-01 |
Spanish language in the United States | thumb|Spanish language distribution in the United States by county
The Spanish language is the second most spoken language in the United States of America. There are 45 million Hispanophones who speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States,Instituto Cervantes (Enciclopedia del español en Estados Un... | 189,109 | 2017-01 |
Alps | thumb|270px|Aerial view of the Western Alps, (Belledonne massif (France)
The Alps (; ; ; ; ; ) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia. stretching approximately across eight Alpine c... | 981 | 2017-01 |
Digimon | Digimon ( Dejimon, branded as Digimon: Digital Monsters, stylized as DIGIMON), short for "Digital Monsters" ( Dejitaru Monsutā), is a Japanese media franchise encompassing virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on Digimon creatures, which are monsters living in... | 8,835 | 2017-01 |
Compact disc | Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). Several other formats were further derived from these, including write-on... | 6,429 | 2017-01 |
God | thumb|The circled dot, an ancient symbol for the metaphysical Absolute. Early science, particularly geometry and astrology and astronomy, was connected to the divine for most medieval scholars, and many believed that there was something intrinsically "divine" or "perfect" that could be found in circles.Arthur Koestler,... | 5,042,765 | 2017-01 |
Botany | thumb|300px|Alt=Image of ripe nutmeg fruit split open to show red aril|The fruit of Myristica fragrans, a species native to Indonesia, is the source of two valuable spices, the red aril (mace) enclosing the dark brown nutmeg.
Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant lif... | 4,183 | 2017-01 |
Heresy | thumb|The Gospel (allegory) triumphs over Heresia and the Serpent. Gustaf Vasa Church, Stockholm, Sweden, sculpture by Burchard Precht.
thumb|The burning of the pantheistic Amalrician heretics in 1210, in the presence of King Philip II Augustus. In the background is the Gibbet of Montfaucon and, anachronistically, the... | 20,611,083 | 2017-01 |
The Bronx | The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, within the U.S. state of New York. It is geographically south of Westchester County; north and east of the island and borough of Manhattan to the south and west across the Harlem River; and north of the borough of Queens, across the East River. Of th... | 3,338 | 2017-01 |
Roman Republic | The Roman Republic (; ) was the era of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire. It was during this period that Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony ov... | 25,816 | 2017-01 |
Wayback Machine | The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet created by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization, based in San Francisco, California, United States. The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce ... | 23,538,754 | 2017-01 |
Airport | thumb|400px|Sample infrastructure of a typical airport. Larger airports usually contain more runways and terminals.
thumb|400px|Airport distribution in 2008
thumb|A picture of Terminal 3 of the Dubai International Airport
thumb|Solar panels at the international airport at Kochi, India, the world's first airport to be f... | 37,575 | 2017-01 |
Red | Red is the color at the longer-wavelengths end of the spectrum of visible light next to orange, at the opposite end from violet.Oxford English Dictionary on-line Red color has a predominant light wavelength of roughly 620–740 nanometers.
Light with a longer wavelength than red but shorter than terahertz radiation and m... | 25,825 | 2017-01 |
Internet service provider | thumb|upright=2.0|Internet connectivity options from end-user to tier 3/2 ISPs
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing and using the Internet. Internet service providers may be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise p... | 100,245 | 2017-01 |
Chicago Cubs | The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division, where they are the defending World Series champions. The team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, located on the city'... | 6,654 | 2017-01 |
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