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| Prunus Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, including the plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds. It is traditionally placed within the rose family Rosaceae as a subfamily, the Prunoideae (or Amygdaloideae), but sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae (or Amygdalaceae). Prunus | |
| Chop suey Chop suey (Chinese zá suì, "mixed pieces") is an American-Chinese dish consisting of meats (often chicken, fish, beef, shrimp or pork), cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is typically served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form of chow mein with the addition of stir-fried noodles. Chop suey is part of American Chinese cuisine, Canadian Chinese cuisine, and Indian Chinese cuisine. Chop_suey | |
| USS Monitor Talk:USS_Monitor | |
| Strategic Bombing Survey Strategic_Bombing_Survey | |
| Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific War) "Strategic bombing survey (Pacific War)" was a United States Army Air Forces report on the impact of strategic bombing in World War II in the Pacific Campaign. A separate report was made for the atomic attacks. Strategic_Bombing_Survey_(Pacific_War) | |
| Bombing of Tokyo The bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces took place at several times during the Pacific campaigns of World War II and included the most destructive bombing raid in history. Bombing_of_Tokyo | |
| Dahlia Dahlia | |
| Sosthenes Sosthenes (Greek, "safe in strength") was the chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth, who, according to the New Testament, was seized and beaten by the mob in the presence of Gallio, the Roman governor, when he refused to proceed against Paul at the instigation of the Jews (Acts 18Some identify him with one whom Paul calls "Sosthenes our brother," a convert to the faith and co-author of the First Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 1Crispus, who is mentioned in Acts 181 Corinthians 1 Sosthenes | |
| Frank Harris Frank Harris (February 14, 1856 Irish author, editor, journalist and publisher who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. Though he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves, which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness. Frank_Harris | |
| Aphrodisiac An aphrodisiac is a substance which is used in the belief that it increases sexual desire. The name comes from Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of sensuality and love. Throughout history, many foods, drinks, and behaviors have had a reputation for making sex more attainable and/or pleasurable. Aphrodisiac | |
| Mona Lisa Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France with the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo.The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a woman whose expression is often described as enigmatic. Mona_Lisa | |
| August Hlond August Hlond (July 5, 1881 - October 22, 1948) was a Polish cardinal, who was Archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno in 1926 and primate (highest ranking church official) in Poland, Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 1946. August_Hlond | |
| Samuel Blommaert Samuel Blommaert (Blommaerts, Blommaart, Blomert, etc.) (11 August 1583, Antwerp Amsterdam) was a Flemish director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642. In the latter period he was a paid commissioner of Sweden in the Netherlands and he played a key role in Peter Minuit's expedition that led to the Swedish colonizing of New Sweden. Samuel_Blommaert | |
| Operation Torch Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started November 8, 1942.The Soviet Union had pressed the United States and Britain to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Russian troops. Operation_Torch | |
| Iris (plant) Other plants named "iris" are found elsewhere in the Iridaceae.Iris is a genus of between 200–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers. It takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow, referring to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species. Iris_(plant) | |
| A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is a book by Charles Dickens that was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech. Dickens called it his "little Christmas Book". The first of the author's five "Christmas books," the story was instantly successful, selling over six thousand copies in one week. A_Christmas_Carol | |
| Electric motor electric motor is a device using electrical energy to produce mechanical energy, nearly always by the interaction of magnetic fields and current-carrying conductors. The reverse process, that of using mechanical energy to produce electrical energy, is accomplished by a generator or dynamo. Electric_motor | |
| Dead Sea scrolls Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. Dead_Sea_scrolls | |
| Speed limit A road speed limit is the maximum speed allowed by law for road vehicles. Speed limits are commonly set and enforced by the legislative bodies of nations or provincial governments, such as countries within the world. Speed_limit | |
| Fraxinus americana "White Ash" redirects here. In Australia, this usually refers to Alphitonia petriei or Eucalyptus fraxinoides. Fraxinus_americana | |
| Upanishads The Upanishads (Devanagari:IAST:Hindu scriptures that constitute the core teachings of Vedanta. They do not belong to any particular period of Sanskrit literature:Brhadaranyaka and Chandogya Upanishads, date to the late Brahmana period (around the middle of the first millennium BCE), while the latest were composed in the medieval and early modern period. Upanishads | |
| Typeface Talk:Typeface | |
| Elatha In Irish mythology, Elatha (or Elathan) was a prince of the Fomorians and the father of Bres by Ériu of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The imagery surrounding him (he visits Ériu at night by sea on a silver boat) suggests he may once have been a moon god. Elatha | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill | |
| GNU Free Documentation License resources Wikipedia:GNU_Free_Documentation_License_resources | |
| Laertes Talk:Laertes | |
| Manna Manna (Hebrew:מָן), sometimes or archaically spelled mana, is the name of a food which, according to the Bible, was eaten by the Israelites during their travels in the desert. Manna | |
| Roger McGuinn James Roger McGuinn (known professionally as Roger McGuinn, previously as Jim McGuinn, and born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' hit records. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with the Byrds. Roger_McGuinn | |
| FreeDOS FreeDOS | |
| Diti Hinduism, Diti () is an earth goddess and mother of the Maruts with Rudra. She wanted to have a son who would be more powerful than Indra (who had killed her previous children) and so she practiced magic and kept herself pregnant for one year . Indra used a thunderbolt to splinter the fetus into many pieces, the Maruts. Diti | |
| Rishi rishi (ṛṣi) denotes a poet-sage through whom the Vedic hymns flowed, credited also as divine scribes. According to post-Vedic tradition the rishi is a "seer" or "shaman" to whom the Vedas were "originally revealed" through states of higher consciousness. Rishi | |
| Antonio da Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio, usually known simply as Correggio, (August 1489 March 5, 1534) was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the 16th century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Rococo art of the 18th century. Antonio_da_Correggio | |
| Washington Naval Treaty The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, limited the naval armaments of its five signatoriesUnited States of America, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy. The treaty was agreed at the Washington Naval Conference, which was held in Washington, D.C. from November 1921 to February 1922, and was signed by representatives of the treaty nations on 6 February 1922. Washington_Naval_Treaty | |
| John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 John_Singer_Sargent | |
| The Blitz The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, in World War II. While the "Blitz" hit many towns and cities across the country, it began with the bombing of London for 57 consecutive nights. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses were destroyed or damaged in London alone. The_Blitz | |
| Three-dimensional chess Not to be confused with chess software with a 3D renderingThree-dimensional chess, or 3D chess, are examples of chess variants. Three-dimensional variants have existed since the late 19th century. One of the oldest versions is Raumschach (German for "Space chess"), invented in 1907 by Ferdinand Maack and played on a 5x5x5 board. Maack founded a Raumschach club in Hamburg in 1919, which remained active until the Second World War. Three-dimensional_chess | |
| John Constable John Constable (11 June 1776 English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821. John_Constable | |
| Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur (born 1 March 1921) is an American poet. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 and in 1989. Richard_Wilbur | |
| Monhegan, Maine Monhegan is a plantation on an island of the same name in Lincoln County, Maine, United States, about off the coast. The population was 75 at the 2000 census. As a plantation, Monhegan's governmental status falls between township (unorganized territory) and town. The island is accessible by mailboat ferry (no automobiles) from Boothbay Harbor, New Harbor and Port Clyde. Monhegan,_Maine | |
| Perceptions of Columbus Talk:Perceptions_of_Columbus | |
| Bernardsville, New Jersey Bernardsville,_New_Jersey | |
| Abraham/Archive 2 Talk:Abraham/Archive_2 | |
| Goldsboro, North Carolina Goldsboro is a city in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 39,043 at the 2000 census, and estimated to be 38,023 in 2006. It is the principal city of and is included in the Goldsboro, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. Goldsboro,_North_Carolina | |
| Derek Taylor Derek Taylor (7 May 1932 British journalist, best known as the long-serving press agent for the hugely popular rock band, The Beatles. He was a local journalist in Liverpool who worked for the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, the News Chronicle, the Sunday Dispatch, and the Sunday Daily Express, and was also a regular columnist and theatre critic for the Northern Daily Express. Derek_Taylor | |
| Moonshine Moonshine | |
| Sevierville, Tennessee Sevierville () is a city in Sevier County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. Its population was 11,757 at the 2000 United States Census; in 2004 the estimated population was 14,101. Sevierville is the county seat of Sevier County, Tennessee. Sevierville,_Tennessee | |
| Kardashev scale Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement. The scale is only theoretical and in terms of an actual civilization highly speculative; however, it puts energy consumption of an entire civilization in a cosmic perspective. Kardashev_scale | |
| Yinglish Yinglish words are neologisms created by speakers of Yiddish in English-speaking countries, sometimes to describe things that were uncommon in the old country. This is the meaning of the term used by Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish.A secondary sense of the term "Yinglish" describes the distinctive way certain Jews in English-speaking countries add many Yiddish words into their conversation, beyond general Yiddish words and phrases used by English speakers. Yinglish | |
| Fred Bauder/Archive 5 User_talk:Fred_Bauder/Archive_5 | |
| Fractal landscape fractal landscape is a surface generated using a stochastic algorithm designed to produce fractal behaviour which mimics the appearance of natural terrain. In other words, the result of the procedure is not a deterministic fractal surface, but rather a random surface which exhibits fractal behaviour. Fractal_landscape |
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