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| The Jaguar The_Jaguar | |
| Robert H. Adleman Robert H. Adleman (born on May 7, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - November 16, 1995 in Ashland, Oregon) was an American novelist and historian.A photographer and tail gunner in World War II, Adleman was a businessman and a historian who began a collaboration with U.S. Robert_H._Adleman | |
| History of mental disorders The history of mental disorder spans prehistoric times, ancient civilisations, the Middle Ages, the early modern period, the enlightenment and modern times. History_of_mental_disorders | |
| Nudibranch A nudibranch ()) is a member of what is now a taxonomic clade, but used to be a suborder, of soft-bodied, shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks, which are noted for their often extraordinary colors and striking forms. The clade Nudibranchia is the largest clade within the heterobranchs, with more than 3,000 described species.The word "nudibranch" comes from the Latin nudus, naked, and the Greek brankhia, gills. Nudibranch | |
| John of Ephesus John of Ephesus (or of Asia) (c. 507 - c. 586) was a leader of the Orthodox non-Chalcedonian Syriac-speaking Church in the sixth century, and one of the earliest and most important of historians who wrote in Syriac. John_of_Ephesus | |
| Mount Kenya Mount_Kenya | |
| Edward Ord Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18, 1818 Fort Sam Houston, and a United States Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars, and the American Civil War. He commanded an army during the final days of the Civil War, and was instrumental in forcing the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Edward_Ord | |
| Malay language Talk:Malay_language | |
| Water cure Water cure is a form of water torture in which the victim is forced to drink large quantities of water in a short time, resulting in gastric distension, water intoxication, and possibly death. Water_cure | |
| Robert Anderson (Civil War) Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 – October 26, 1871) was an American military leader. He served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his command of Fort Sumter at the start of the war. He is often referred to as Major Robert Anderson, referring to his rank at Fort Sumter. Robert_Anderson_(Civil_War) | |
| History of the Peloponnesian War History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an Athenian general who served in the war. It is widely considered a classic and regarded as one of the earliest scholarly works of history. The History was divided into eight books by editors of later antiquity. History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War | |
| Dynastic cycle Dynastic cycle is an important political theory in Chinese history. According to this theory, every dynasty goes through a dynastic cycle. Dynastic_cycle | |
| Baldwin Locomotive Works Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad (railway) locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Although the company was very successful as a producer of steam locomotives, it was unable to make the transition to diesel power and went out of business in 1956. Baldwin_Locomotive_Works | |
| Ciskei Ciskei was a Bantustan in the south east of South Africa. It consisted 2,970 square miles (7,700 kmCape Province and possessing a small coastline along the shore of the Indian Ocean.Ciskei had a succession of capitals during its existence. Originally, Zwelitsha served as the capital with the view that Alice would become the long term national capital. However, it was Bisho (now spelled Bhisho) that became the capital until Ciskei's reintegration into South Africa. Ciskei | |
| Ramayana Talk:Ramayana | |
| Fanny Howe Fanny Howe (born 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection, and is the mother of novelist Danzy Senna. Her father was a lawyer and her Irish-born mother played in the Abbey Theatre of Dublin for some time. Howe is the recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Poetry Foundation to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. She is a sister of Susan Howe, also a poet. Fanny_Howe | |
| Corporate social responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), also known as corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship, responsible business, sustainable responsible business (SRB), or corporate social performance, is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. Corporate_social_responsibility | |
| Ted Grant Edward (Ted) Grant (9 July 1913 20 July 2006) was a South African Trotskyist politician who spent most of his adult life in Britain. Ted_Grant | |
| Molluscum contagiosum Molluscum contagiosum (MC) is a viral infection of the skin or occasionally of the mucous membranes. MC has no animal reservoir, infecting only humans, as did smallpox. However, there are different pox viruses that infect many other mammals. The infecting human MC virus is a DNA poxvirus called the molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV). Molluscum_contagiosum | |
| Granuloma inguinale Granuloma inguinale (also known as "Donovanosis" and "Granuloma venereum") is a bacterial disease that has reached endemic proportions in many underdeveloped regions. Because of the scarcity of medical treatment, the disease often goes untreated. The disease is characterized by painless genital ulcers which can be mistaken for syphilis. Granuloma_inguinale | |
| Tung-Yen Lin Tung-Yen Lin (林同炎, pinyin:November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003) was a structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete.Born in Fuzhou, China as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in Beijing where his father was a justice of the ROC's Supreme Court. Tung-Yen_Lin | |
| Nopal Nopales (from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit) are a vegetable made from the young cladophyll (pad) segments of prickly pear, carefully peeled to remove the spines. They are particularly common in their native Mexico. Farmed nopales are most often of the species Opuntia ficus-indica, although the pads of almost all Opuntia species are edible. Nopal | |
| Digital object identifier For the use of digital object identifiers on Wikipedia, see The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) System is a managed system for persistent identification of content-related entities on digital networks. These entities may be content items (digital files, physical objects, abstract works), or any related entities in a content transaction (e.g. Digital_object_identifier | |
| San Quentin State Prison San Quentin State Prison is a California State Prison located near the city of San Rafael, California. Opened in July 1852, it is the oldest prison in the state. California's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, is located at the prison. San_Quentin_State_Prison | |
| Universal City, California Universal City is a community in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, that encompasses the 415 acre (.65 sqUniversal Studios. Approximately 70 percent of the property is in an unincorporated area of the county surrounded by the City of Los Angeles, and the remaining area is inside the Los Angeles city limits . , simplifying the building process).The community continues to be home to Universal Studios. Located in Universal City are 10 Universal City Plaza (a 36-floor Universal_City,_California | |
| John Casper Branner John Casper Branner (1850-1922) was an American geologist and academic who discovered bauxite in Arkansas in 1887 as State Geologist. As State Geologist, he exposed gold-mining swindles then operating in Arkansas, for which the citizens of Bear City, Arkansas burned him in effigy, and the stock promoters tried to have him fired. John_Casper_Branner | |
| Nablus Talk:Nablus | |
| Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (, , born Jarnail Singh Brar) (February 12, 1947 Damdami Taksal, a Sikh religious group based in India, who supported implementation of the Anandpur Sahib Resolution. He tried to spread his perceived values of Sikhism. In 1981, Bhindranwale was arrested for his suspected involvement in the murder of Jagat Narain, the proprietor of the Hind Samachar Group. Jarnail_Singh_Bhindranwale | |
| Little Saigon This article deals exclusively with the Vietnamese communities within the United States of America; for other communities outside Vietnam, refer to Overseas Vietnamese.Little Saigon is a name given to any of several overseas Vietnamese immigrant and descendant communities outside Vietnam, usually in the United States. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam, where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants originate. Little_Saigon | |
| Pantropical Spotted Dolphin The Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is a species of dolphin found in all the world's temperate and tropical oceans. The species was beginning to come under threat due to the killing of millions of individuals in tuna purse seines. The 1980s saw the rise of "dolphin-friendly" tuna capture methods in order to save millions of the species in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Pantropical_Spotted_Dolphin | |
| George Murdock For the first mayor of Calgary, Alberta, see George Murdoch. For the American actor, see George Murdock (actor).George Peter Murdock (May 11, 1897 - March 29, 1985) was a notable anthropologist. Born in Meriden, Connecticut to a family that had farmed there for five generations, he spent many childhood hours working on the family farm, and acquired a wide knowledge of traditional, non-mechanized, farming methods. George_Murdock | |
| Spinner Dolphin The Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world. It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which they will spin longitudinally along their axis as they leap through the air. Spinner_Dolphin | |
| American Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA), founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation of model ethical codes related to the legal profession. The ABA has 410,000 members. Its national headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois; it also maintains a significant branch office in Washington, D.C. American_Bar_Association | |
| Bhikkhuni Bhikkhuni ('Sanskrit) , 'Pāli) or 比丘尼(Chinese characters), , ) is a fully ordained female Buddhist monastic. Male monastics are called Bhikkhus. Both Bhikkunis and Bhikkhus live by the vinaya. Bhikkhuni lineages enjoy a broad basis in Mahayana countries like Korea, Vietnam, China and Taiwan. Bhikkhuni | |
| International Marxist Group See also the International Marxist Group (Germany).The International Marxist Group (IMG) was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1985. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It is thought to have had around 1,000 members in the late 1970s. By 1983 its membership had fallen to around 700. International_Marxist_Group | |
| Soviet war in Afghanistan Talk:Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan | |
| Russian apartment bombings The Russian apartment bombings were a series of explosions that hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999, killing nearly 300 people and spreading a wave of fear across the country. Together with the Invasion of Dagestan launched by militants from Chechnya in August 1999, the bombings caused the Russian Federation to intensify the Second Chechen war. Russian_apartment_bombings | |
| Pico Iyer Pico_Iyer | |
| Cross-cultural studies Cross-cultural studies, the third of these forms, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences (sociology, psychology, economics, political science) that uses field data from many societies to examine the scope of human behavior and test hypotheses about human behavior and culture. Cross-cultural_studies | |
| Harry Hammond Hess Harry Hammond Hess (May 24, 1906 – August 25, 1969) was a geologist and United States Navy officer in World War II.Considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics, Rear Admiral Dr. Harry Hammond Hess was born on May 24 1906 in New York City. Harry_Hammond_Hess | |
| Murphy Brown Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988 to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, an investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television newsmagazine. The show achieved a level of political notoriety in the 1992 presidential election when Dan Quayle mentioned the show in a campaign speech, known as the "Murphy Brown speech". Murphy_Brown | |
| Tiruvalluvar Thiruvalluvar () was a celebrated Tamil poet who wrote the Thirukkural, a work on ethics in Tamil literature. He is claimed by both the Tamils who practice Hinduism and the Tamils who practice Jainism as their own. Nevertheless, some consider him a Jain, showing internal textual evidence from the Thirukkural.Thiruvalluvar's period (based on the Thirukkural per se) is between the second century BC and the eighth century AD. Tiruvalluvar | |
| American studies American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the United States. It incorporates the study of economics, history, literature, art, the media, film, urban studies, women's studies, anthropology, sociology, and culture of the United States, among other fields.American civilization may also mean the United States, and its culture and people. American_studies | |
| Irving Janis Irving Lester Janis (26 May 1918 - 15 November 1990) was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of "groupthink" which described the systematic errors made by groups when taking collective decisions. He retired in 1986. Irving_Janis | |
| Whole Earth Catalog The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture catalog that granted "Access to Tools" published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. Apple Inc. founder and entrepreneur Steve Jobs has described the Catalog as the conceptual forerunner of the World Wide Web. Whole_Earth_Catalog | |
| Willie Brown (politician) Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. (born March 20, 1934) served over thirty years in the California State Assembly, fifteen years as its Speaker, and afterward, as the only African-American mayor of San Francisco. Under current California term limit law, no Speaker of the California State Assembly will ever have a longer tenure than Brown's record 15 years. Willie_Brown_(politician) | |
| Rein Taagepera Rein Taagepera (born 28 February 1933) is an Estonian-American political scientist and politician. Rein_Taagepera | |
| Offshoring Offshore may refer to oil and natural gas production at sea; see oil platform.Offshoring describes the relocation by a company of a business process from one country to another -- typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes, such as accounting. Offshoring | |
| Penguin Books Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a packet of cigarettes. He also wanted them to be sold not only in bookshops but in railway stations, general stores and corner shops. Penguin_Books | |
| List of wars and disasters by death toll This is a list of wars and human-made disasters by death toll. It covers the Lowest Estimate of death as well as the Highest Estimate, the name of the event, the location, and the start and end of each war. Some events overlap categories. List_of_wars_and_disasters_by_death_toll |
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