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| Famine A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.Presently many famines are caused simply by imbalance of food production compared to the large populations of countries whose population exceeds the regional carrying capacity. Famine | |
| Quaternion mathematics, quaternions are a non-commutative number system that extends the complex numbers. The quaternions were first described by Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. They find uses in both theoretical and applied mathematics, in particular for calculations involving three-dimensional rotations such as in three-dimensional computer graphics and epipolar geometry, although they have been superseded in many applications by vectors and matrices. Quaternion | |
| Shropshire Shropshire ( or ), alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated, in print only, Shrops, is a county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Wales to the west. Shropshire is one of England's most rural and sparsely populated counties with a population density of 130/km² (337/sq mi). The shire county and its districts were replaced by a unitary authority on 1 April 2009. The borough of Telford and Wrekin, included in Shropshire for ceremonial purposes, has been a unitary authority since 1998. Shropshire | |
| Somerset Somerset ( or ) is a county in South West England. The county town is Taunton, which is in the south of the county. The ceremonial county of Somerset borders the counties of Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. Somerset | |
| Weaving This article describes textile weaving. For other senses of this word, see weaving (disambiguation).Weaving is the textile art in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads, called the warp and the filling or weft (older woof), are interlaced with each other to form a fabric or cloth. Weaving | |
| Saint Petersburg Talk:Saint_Petersburg | |
| List of Spanish monarchs This is a list of Spanish monarchs—that is, rulers of the country of Spain in the modern sense of the word. The forerunners of the Spanish throne, as well as of the Portuguese throne, were the following Kings of the Visigoths Suebi Kings of Gallaecia Kings of Asturias Kings of Aragon Kings of Castile Kings of Leon Kings of Navarre List_of_Spanish_monarchs | |
| Richmond, Virginia This article is about the city of Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. For information on Richmond County, which is away and unrelated to the city, please see Richmond County, Virginia.Richmond () is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Richmond,_Virginia | |
| Marcian Marcian | |
| Pope Liberius Pope_Liberius | |
| Silk Road Silk Road (or Silk Routes) is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe. In recent years, it has also come to be used for the maritime as well the overland routes. Silk_Road | |
| Muzio Clementi Muzio Clementi (23 January 1752, Rome – 10 March 1832, Evesham, Worcestershire, England) was an celebrated Italian classical music musician, composer, pianist, piano teacher, orchestral conductor, music publisher, editor and piano manufacturer. He is acknowledged as the first to write specifically for the piano. Muzio_Clementi | |
| Kensington Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located west of Charing Cross. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington.To the north, Kensington is bordered by Notting Hill. Kensington | |
| Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire ( or ; abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury and the largest town in ceremonial Buckinghamshire is Milton Keynes.The area under the control of Buckinghamshire County Council, or shire county, is divided into four districts - Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe. Buckinghamshire | |
| Vienna Vienna (; ) is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan area), it is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. Vienna | |
| Cyclops Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, a cyclops (; ), is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of its forehead. The classical plural is cyclopes (pronounced Cyclops | |
| Chronology Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek , chronos, "time"; and , -logia) is a chronicle or arrangement of events in their time order of occurrence. General chronology is the science of locating and resolution of temporal sequence of past events in time Chronology | |
| Wildfire A wildfire is any uncontrolled, non-structure fire that occurs in the wilderness, wildland, or bush. Other names such as wildland fire, forest fire, brush fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, peat fire, bushfire (in Australasia), and hill fire are commonly used. Wildfire | |
| Pope Pius VI Talk:Pope_Pius_VI | |
| Basra Al-Baṣrah (; BGN:Al Basrah, also called ') is the capital of Basra Province, and had an estimated population of 1,052,200 as of 2003. Basra | |
| January Talk:January | |
| Marquess A marquess () or marquis () is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European monarchies and some of their colonies. The term is also used to render equivalent oriental styles as in imperial China and Japan. In the British peerage it ranks below a duke and above an earl (see Marquesses in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth). Marquess | |
| Francis Edward Bache Francis Edward Bache (September 14, 1833 - August 24, 1858) was an English musician and composer.Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, city organist of Bermingham, and with violinist Alfred Mellon while being educated at his father's school. Francis_Edward_Bache | |
| Zwolle Zwolle is a municipality and the capital city of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands, 120 kilometers northeast of Amsterdam. Zwolle has about 115,000 citizens. Zwolle | |
| Leopold Zunz Leopold Zunz (1794Hebrew/ Yiddish:יום טוב ליפמן צונץ—Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual. Zunz's historical investigations and contemporary writings had an important influence on contemporary Judaism. Leopold_Zunz | |
| Nicholas Bacon (courtier) Sir Nicholas Bacon (28 December 1510 politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, notable as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. He was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon. Nicholas_Bacon_(courtier) | |
| Frankfort Talk:Frankfort | |
| Long Island City, Queens Long Island City (often abbreviated L.I.C.) is the westernmost neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bounded on the north and west by the East River; on the east by Hazen Street, 31st Street, and New Calvary Cemetery, and on the south by Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Long_Island_City,_Queens | |
| Smallpox vaccine The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine to be developed. The process of vaccination was discovered by Edward Jenner in 1796, who acted upon his observation that milkmaids who caught the cowpox virus did not catch smallpox. Prior to wide-spread vaccination, mortality rates in individuals with smallpox were high—up to 35% in some cases. Smallpox_vaccine | |
| Ithaca Ithaca or Ithaka is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 45 sq. miles and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is an independent municipality of the prefecture of Kefalonia and Ithaka, and lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia. Ithaca | |
| Canaan Talk:Canaan | |
| James I of Aragon James I the Conqueror (2 February 1208 King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276. His long reign saw the expansion of the Crown of Aragon to the south and into and across the Mediterranean as far as NaplesValencia to the south and the Balearic Islands, Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples to the east Louis IX of France, he wrested the county of Barcelona from nominal French suzerainty and integrated it into his crown. James_I_of_Aragon | |
| Antoine Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.Jussieu was born in Lyon, the nephew of the botanist Bernard de Jussieu. He went to Paris to study medicine, graduating in 1770. He was professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes from 1770 to 1826. His son Adrien-Henri also became a botanist. Antoine_Laurent_de_Jussieu | |
| Cabinda Province Cabinda (also spelled Kabinda) is an exclave and province of Angola, a status that has been disputed by many political organizations in the territory. The capital city is also called Cabinda. The province is divided into four municipalities - Belize, Buco Zau, Cabinda and Congo. Cabinda_Province | |
| Sumerian language Sumerian ( "native tongue") was the language of ancient Sumer, spoken in Southern Mesopotamia since at least the 4th millennium BC. It was gradually replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate), but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the first century AD. Sumerian_language | |
| Temple Mount The Temple Mount (, Har haBáyit), also known as Mount Moriah and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary (, al-haram al-qudsī ash-sharīf), is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem. Due to its importance for Judaism and Islam it is one of the most contested religious sites in the world.The Temple Mount contains the holiest site in Judaism. Temple_Mount | |
| Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius (also known as Huig de Groot or Hugo de Groot; 10 April 1583 28 August 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet. Hugo_Grotius | |
| Newark, New Jersey Brick City redirects here. For the township in Ocean County, see Brick Township, New Jersey. Newark,_New_Jersey | |
| Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire ( or ; abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The county town is traditionally Nottingham, though the council is now based in West Bridgford, a suburb of Greater Nottingham (at a site facing Nottingham City over the River Trent).The districts of Nottinghamshire are Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, and Rushcliffe. Nottinghamshire | |
| Fox hunting Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. Fox_hunting | |
| Tiglath-Pileser III Tiglath-Pileser III (from the Hebraic form of Akkadian:Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, "my trust is in the son of Esharra") was a prominent king of Assyria in the 8th century BC (ruled 745Neo-Assyrian Empire. Tiglath-Pileser_III | |
| Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignan Thomas Francis of Savoy (Italian Tommaso Francesco di Savoia, Principe di Carignano, French Thomas François de Savoie, Prince de Carignan; december 21, 1596 - january 22, 1656) was an Italian military commander, the founder of the Savoy-Carignano branch of the House of Savoy which reigned as kings of Sardinia from 1831 to 1861, and as kings of Italy from 1861 until the dynasty's deposition in 1946. Thomas_Francis,_Prince_of_Carignan | |
| Donatello Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; c. 1386 Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in basso rilievo, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism. Donatello | |
| Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne () (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, the city developed from a Roman settlement called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the castle built in 1080, by Robert II, the eldest son of William the Conqueror. Newcastle_upon_Tyne | |
| Ivan IV of Russia Ivan_IV_of_Russia | |
| Silk Talk:Silk | |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Talk:Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand-Périgord | |
| 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica Wikipedia:1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica | |
| Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica'public domain, but some of its out-of-date content makes its use as a source for modern scholarship problematic. However, some articles are still of value and interest to modern scholars as cultural artifacts of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Encyclopædia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition | |
| Eschatology Talk:Eschatology |
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