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| Veganism Veganism is a diet and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. Veganism | |
| Velociraptor Talk:Velociraptor | |
| Viking A Viking (pron. /ˈvəɪkɪŋ/) is one of the Norse (Scandinavian) explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century. These Norsemen used their famed longships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland. Viking | |
| V. S. Naipaul V. S. Naipaul (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Kt., TC) (born August 17, 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago of Indo-Trinidadian descent), is a British novelist and essayist who is widely considered to be one of the masters of modern English prose. He has been awarded numerous literary prizes including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1958), the Somerset Maugham Award (1960), the Hawthornden Prize (1964), the W. V._S._Naipaul | |
| Videos of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden. Many of the Osama bin Laden tapes have been released directly (by mail or messenger) to Arabic language satellite television networks like Al Jazeera. Videos_of_Osama_bin_Laden | |
| Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (, ; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. Vladimir_Putin | |
| White elephant white elephant is a valuable possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness. White_elephant | |
| Eddie Chapman For the West Ham United player and club secretary, see Eddie Chapman (footballer)Edward Arnold "Eddie" Chapman (November 16 1914, Burnopfield, County Durham, December 11 1997) was a habitual criminal who became a British double agent (code named ZigZag) during World War II. He had a number of aliases which were known to the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson. His German codename was Fritz or later its diminutive, Fritzchen. Eddie_Chapman | |
| Werner Herzog Werner Herzog (born Werner H. Stipetić; 5 September 1942) is an Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Wim Wenders and others. Werner_Herzog | |
| Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, historian, writer, and artist. He is the only British Prime Minister who has ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the second person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. Winston_Churchill | |
| William Howard Taft William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale College in 1878, and later graduated from Cincinnati Law School in 1880. William_Howard_Taft | |
| Welsh language Welsh (''), is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh border and in the Welsh immigrant colony in the Chubut Valley in Argentine Patagonia.There are speakers of Welsh throughout the world, most notably in the rest of Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Welsh_language | |
| William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II ( American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life. A primary member of the Beat Generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. In 1975, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. William_S._Burroughs | |
| Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (, Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij, first name ; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. Wassily_Kandinsky | |
| Will Eisner William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed Jewish-American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an instructional medium; for his leading role in establishing the graphic novel as a form of literature with his book A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories; and for his educational work about the medium as exemplified by his book Comics and Sequential Art. Will_Eisner | |
| Winter Olympic Games Winter_Olympic_Games | |
| William Lipscomb William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. (born December 9, 1919) is an American inorganic chemist, working in experimental and theoretical chemistry and biochemistry.He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but his family moved to Lexington, Kentucky when he was an infant, and he lived there until he received his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Kentucky in 1941. He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1946. William_Lipscomb | |
| Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (, Jurij Aleksejevič Gagarin ; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. He received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space. Yuri_Gagarin | |
| Zimbabwe Zimbabwe | |
| 2008 2008 (MMVIII) was a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini era (or Common Era).2008 was designated as International Year of Planet Earth. International Year of Languages. International Year of the Potato. International Year of Sanitation. Year of the Frog. European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. 2008 | |
| Derek Ross User:Derek_Ross | |
| The Who The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. The primary lineup consisted of guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon. They became known for energetic live performances. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, their first year of eligibility. According to the New York Times, The Who have sold 100 million records. The_Who | |
| Bucharest Bucharest ( ) is the capital city, industrial and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River.Bucharest was first mentioned in documents as early as 1459. Bucharest | |
| Moustapha Akkad Moustapha Akkad () (July 1, 1930 Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Akkad Monla in 2005 in Amman, Jordan by an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber. Moustapha_Akkad | |
| Carry On (series) Carry On is a long-running series of low-budget British comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres.Twenty-nine original films and one compilation were made between 1958 and 1978 at Pinewood Studios, with an additional movie made in 1992. Carry_On_(series) | |
| Medieval Warm Period Talk:Medieval_Warm_Period | |
| Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials (a trilogy of fantasy novels), and a number of other books. Philip_Pullman | |
| His Dark Materials His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights (1995, published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming-of-age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events. His_Dark_Materials | |
| Michael of Romania His Majesty Michael I, King of Romania, Prince of Hohenzollern (born October 25, 1921) reigned as King of the Romanians (, literally "His Majesty Michael I King of the Romanians") from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940, until forced to abdicate by the communists backed up by orders of Stalin to the Soviet armies of occupation on December 30, 1947. He is also a Prince of Hohenzollern . Michael_of_Romania | |
| Ion Antonescu Ion_Antonescu | |
| Jørn Utzon Jørn Oberg Utzon, AC (9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was a Danish architect most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When the Sydney Opera House was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, he became the first person to have their work recognised as a World Heritage Site while they were still alive. Jørn_Utzon | |
| Political prisoner A political prisoner is someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, for his or her involvement in political activity. Political_prisoner | |
| MQ-1 Predator MQ-1_Predator | |
| Chicken Chicken | |
| Trondheim (historically Nidaros and Trondhjem) is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The city of Trondheim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Byneset, Leinstrand, Strinda, and Tiller were merged with Trondheim on 1 January 1964. Trondheim | |
| BBC World Service BBC_World_Service | |
| Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4,300 miles (8,000 km) by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. Thor_Heyerdahl | |
| Crucifixion See alsoCrucifixion of Jesus.Crucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross (of various shapes) and left to hang until dead. The term comes from the Latin crucifixio, fixed to a cross, from prefix cruci-, cross, + verb ficere, fix or do. Crucifixion | |
| Gerry Adams Gerry Adams, MLA, MP (; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish Republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He is the president of Sinn Féin, which is the largest political party in Northern Ireland and fourth largest party in the Republic of Ireland. Gerry_Adams | |
| Tosca Tosca (pronouncedopera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's drama, La Tosca. The work premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14 1900. One of the most popular of operas, famously dismissed by musicologist Joseph Kerman as a "shabby little shocker", Tosca is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire and appears as number eight on Opera America's 2008 list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America. Tosca | |
| Fidel Castro Fidel_Castro | |
| Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000 | |
| United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo or UNMIK is the interim civilian administration in Kosovo, under the authority of the United Nations. The mission was established on 10 June 1999 by Security Council Resolution 1244. United_Nations_Interim_Administration_Mission_in_Kosovo | |
| Natalie Portman Natalie Portman (; born Natalie Hershlag June 9, 1981) is an Israeli American actress. Her first role came in the 1994 independent film Léon. She became very widely known when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Natalie_Portman | |
| Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 Queen Elizabeth II.Margaret spent much of her early life in the company of her elder sister and parents, The Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) and Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later the Queen Mother). Princess_Margaret,_Countess_of_Snowdon | |
| Hebron Hebron ( or ; , Hevron, Tiberian Hebrew:West Bank, located in the south, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 166,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Israelis. Hebron lies 930 meters (3,050 ft) above sea level. Located in the Palestinian territories and the Biblical region of Judea, it is the second holiest city in Judaism, after Jerusalem.It is locally well-known for its grapes, figs, limestone, pottery workshops and glassblowing factories. Hebron | |
| Penguin/Archive 1 Talk:Penguin/Archive_1 | |
| Goldie Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie (born 19 September 1965) is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, and actor. As a musician he works mainly within the jungle and drum and bass genres, and has helped to promote these styles globally. Goldie | |
| Robbie Williams Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England) is a Grammy Award-nominated and multi BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter. His career started at the age of 15 as a dancer and singer of the pop band Take That in 1989, which he left in 1995 to launch his solo career. Robbie_Williams | |
| Netiquette Netiquette, a portmanteau of "net etiquette", is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums. These rules were described in IETF RFC 1855. However, like many Internet phenomena, the concept and its application remain in a state of flux, and vary from community to community. Netiquette |
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