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''Americium'' () is a synthetic element that has the symbol ''Am'' and atomic number 95. A radioactive metallic element, americium is an actinide that was obtained in 1944 by bombarding plutonium with neutrons and was the fourth transuranic element to be discovered. It was named for the Americas, by analogy with europi... | Americium | 2,008 | 20080103 | 5,764 | 13,321 | d406f5c61378 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.776886Z |
''Astatine'' () is a chemical element with the symbol ''At'' and atomic number 85. This radioactive element occurs naturally from uranium-235 and uranium-238 decay. It is the heaviest of the halogens.
== Notable characteristics ==
This highly radioactive element has been confirmed by mass spectrometers to behave chemi... | Astatine | 2,008 | 20080103 | 3,514 | 6,156 | a60d3a919542 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.777128Z |
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In chemistry and physics, an ''atom'' (Greek 'ἄτομος' or 'átomos' meaning "the smallest indivisible particle of matter, i.e. something that cannot be divided") is the smallest particle still characterizing a chemical element. An atom consists of a dense nucleus of positively cha... | Atom | 2,008 | 20080103 | 33,471 | 53,562 | 706808ab3f55 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.784619Z |
thumb|220px|Modern arable agriculture typically uses large field (agriculture)|fields like this one in Dorset, England.
thumb|500px|Percentage of arable land by country, from CIA Factbook|CIA figures
In geography, ''arable land'' (from Latin 'arare', to plough) is an agricultural term, meaning land that can be used for... | Arable land | 2,008 | 20080103 | 6,356 | 7,042 | 203f1dcbedef | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.785030Z |
''Aluminium'' (, ) or ''aluminum'' (, see 'spelling' below) is a silvery white and ductile member of the poor metal group of chemical elements. It has the symbol ''Al''; its atomic number is 13.
Aluminium is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, and the third most abundant element overall, after oxygen and sil... | Aluminium | 2,008 | 20080103 | 31,381 | 44,027 | 98ed68f395e7 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.788504Z |
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| Years_active = 1987 - present
| Label = MZEE, 360° Records
| Associated_acts = Boulevard Bou
| URL =
| Current_members = Tor... | Advanced Chemistry | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,827 | 2,949 | 454c54a9dcdc | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.788836Z |
''Abdication'' (from the Latin 'abdicatio', disowning, renouncing, from 'ab', away from, and 'dicare', to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one) is the act of renouncing and resigning from a formal office, especially from the supreme office of state. In Roman law the term was also applied to the disowning of a f... | Abdication | 2,008 | 20080103 | 4,530 | 14,033 | fb22ba4ba4ba | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.789951Z |
The ''Anglican Communion'' is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority, since each national or regional church has full autonomy. As the name suggests, the Anglican 'Communion' is an association of these churches in full communion with the C... | Anglican Communion | 2,008 | 20080103 | 20,113 | 23,046 | 01a80ff457c5 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.792164Z |
''Arne Kaijser'' (born 1950) is a professor of History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the head of the university's department of History of science and technology.
Kaijser has published two books in Swedish: 'Stadens ljus. Etableringen av de första svenska gasverken' and 'I fädren... | Arne Kaijser | 2,008 | 20080103 | 828 | 1,664 | e916e6ee0278 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.792368Z |
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thumb|The Archipelago Sea, situated between the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland, the largest archipelago in the world by the number of islands.
An ''archipelago'' is a chain or cluster of islands. The word 'archipelago' literally means "chief sea", from Greek 'arkhon' ('arkhi'-) ("... | Archipelago | 2,008 | 20080103 | 2,244 | 2,809 | 4fb0d3e53f31 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.792467Z |
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| occupation = Novelist, short story writer, poet, doctor
| movement =
| genre = Detective fiction, historical novels, non-fiction
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| influences = Edgar Allan Poe
| influenced = Agatha Christie and other detective fiction... | Arthur Conan Doyle | 2,008 | 20080103 | 15,887 | 22,923 | 93032e4547e8 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.795210Z |
An ''author'' is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and as "one who sets forth written statements" in the Oxford English Dictionary (1). The first entry suggests that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. The second entry goes on to clarify that, when using th... | Author | 2,008 | 20080103 | 6,826 | 7,296 | d808149f1fb5 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.795499Z |
:'This article is about the mathematician. For the hockey player, see Andrei Markov (hockey player).'
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|death_place = Petrograd, Russia
|field = Mathematician
|work_institutions = St Petersburg University
|alma_mater = St Petersburg Univ... | Andrey Markov | 2,008 | 20080103 | 6,283 | 8,020 | 6b7aa54b4d5a | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.796576Z |
An ''alumnus'' (pl. alumni) according to the 'American Heritage Dictionary' is "a male graduate or former student of a school, college, or university." In addition, an ''alumna'' (pl. alumnae) is "a female graduate or former student of a school, college, or university."
==Origin==
In Latin grammar, nouns are const... | Alumnus | 2,008 | 20080103 | 3,595 | 4,790 | 32c58374c842 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.796756Z |
thumb|right|The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch.
'Angst' or 'anguish' is a Germanic word for fear or anxiety. It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of emotional strife. In German, it is the fear of possible suffering and a behavior resulting from uncertainty and strain which is caused by pain, loss, and d... | Angst | 2,008 | 20080103 | 4,006 | 4,574 | 5d35ea1195de | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.796880Z |
''Anxiety'' is a ''physiological'' state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components (Seligman, Walker & Rosenhan, 2001). These components combine to create the feelings that we typically recognize as fear, apprehension, or worry. Anxiety is often accompanied by physical sensations such a... | Anxiety | 2,008 | 20080103 | 3,620 | 11,048 | ee6150dd7456 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.797975Z |
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''Alan Alexander Milne'' () (January 18, 1882 – Jan... | A. A. Milne | 2,008 | 20080103 | 11,592 | 14,561 | e296c6634b9d | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.799047Z |
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''Alumni Athletic Club'', usually just ''Alumni'', is a rugby union and former football (soccer) sports club from the Belgrano district of Buenos Aires in Argentina. The club was founded in 1891, with the name ''Buenos Aires English High School''.
The club were the most successful teams... | Alumni Athletic Club | 2,008 | 20080103 | 2,369 | 3,350 | e1a42201181f | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.799216Z |
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The term 'addiction' was used to describe a devotion, attachment, dedication, inclination, etc. Nowadays, however, the term ''addiction'' is used to describe a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences to the individual's hea... | Addiction | 2,008 | 20080103 | 31,444 | 35,552 | 772c07c3ebae | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.801586Z |
An ''axiom'' is a sentence or proposition that is not proved or demonstrated and is considered as self-evident or as an initial necessary consensus for a theory building or acceptation. Therefore, it is taken for granted as true, and serves as a starting point for deducing and inferencing other (theory dependent) truth... | Axiom | 2,008 | 20080103 | 22,574 | 27,573 | 87120a0d375d | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.802836Z |
''Alpha'' (Greek '), (uppercase ''Α'', lowercase ''α'') is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph 20px|Aleph. Letters that arose from Alpha include the Latin A and the Cyrillic letter А.
In both Classical Greek and Mo... | Alpha (letter) | 2,008 | 20080103 | 3,293 | 5,494 | c9d877558982 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.803730Z |
''Alvin Toffler'' (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity. A former associate editor of 'Fortune' magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through... | Alvin Toffler | 2,008 | 20080103 | 8,090 | 9,745 | 991b21d3c602 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.803952Z |
: 'The Amazing Spider-Man is a comics series. For other uses see The Amazing Spider-Man (disambiguation).'
'The Amazing Spider-Man' is the title of a comic book published by Marvel Comics, a television program and a daily newspaper comic strip featuring the adventures of the superhero Spider-Man.
==Comic book ==
Sp... | The Amazing Spider-Man | 2,008 | 20080103 | 36,772 | 42,356 | 3582d8698b82 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.805951Z |
''Archie'' is a given name of English origin. It is a popular diminutive of Archibald, meaning true, bold, and valuable.
In fiction:
* 'Archy and Mehitabel', a serialized work of fiction by Don Marquis
* Archie Andrews (puppet), the ventriloquist Peter Brough's dummy
* Archie Bunker, a television sitcom character
* ... | Archie | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,588 | 1,976 | 0c13c158714f | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.806222Z |
''AM'' or ''Am'' may refer to:
* Artium Magister, alternative abbreviation for a Master's degree in Arts
* Americium, a chemical element with symbol Am
* Arthur-Merlin protocol, an interactive proof system in computational complexity theory
* Automated Mathematician, an artificial intelligence program
* Attometre (am),... | AM | 2,008 | 20080103 | 2,433 | 2,893 | 4b79321bcf53 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.806320Z |
''Automated Alice'' is a fantastical book by British author Jeff Noon, first published in 1996. The book follows Alice's travels to a future Manchester city populated by 'Newmonians', 'Civil Serpents' and a vanishing cat.
The book was written as both the third book in the Vurt series and the "trequel" to the famous L... | Automated Alice | 2,008 | 20080103 | 920 | 1,884 | 80e3577516ae | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.807195Z |
|official_languages = English
|capital = Saint John's
|latd=17 |latm=7 |latNS=N |longd=61 |longm=51 |longEW=W
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|government_type = Parliamentary democracy and federal constitutional monarchy
|leader_title1 = Head of State
|leader_name1 ... | Antigua and Barbuda | 2,008 | 20080103 | 17,726 | 24,645 | 0a02751a5e0b | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.808558Z |
thumb|right|250px|Sir Thomas More, one of the most famous early Lord Chancellors, served and was executed under King Henry VIII.
'A Man for All Seasons' is a play by Robert Bolt. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, but after Bolt's success with 'The Flowering Cherry', he reworked it for t... | A Man for All Seasons | 2,008 | 20080103 | 9,620 | 11,314 | 6f6635da9ba4 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.810236Z |
:'For other uses of Agincourt, see Agincourt.'
|region= Nord-Pas-de-Calais
|departement= Pas-de-Calais
|mayor= Bernard Boulet
|party =
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|UU-ar... | Azincourt | 2,008 | 20080103 | 2,261 | 3,075 | 178c87e7b175 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.810404Z |
''Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer'', commonly known as ''Albert Speer'' (; March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich".
Speer was Hitler's chief architect before becoming his Minist... | Albert Speer | 2,008 | 20080103 | 26,437 | 33,137 | ae188677cd74 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.812943Z |
''Alliaceae'' is a family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants. They are monocots, part of order Asparagales. The family has been widely but not universally recognised; in the past, the plants involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae, and still are by some botanists.
The APG II system of 20... | Alliaceae | 2,008 | 20080103 | 2,342 | 4,156 | 790afc2af347 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.814298Z |
The family ''Asteraceae'' or ''Compositae'', known as the ''aster'', ''daisy'' or ''sunflower family'', is the second largest family of flowering plants, after Orchidaceae, in terms of number of species.
The name 'Asteraceae' is derived from the type genus 'Aster', while 'Compositae', an older but still valid name, m... | Asteraceae | 2,008 | 20080103 | 3,904 | 15,760 | 02dcbc0e7d0a | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.815322Z |
The ''Apiaceae'' or ''Umbelliferae'' (both names are allowed by the ICBN) is a family of usually aromatic plants with hollow stems. It includes cumin, parsley, carrot, dill, caraway, fennel, and other relatives. It is a large family with about 300 genera and more than 3,000 species. The earlier name Umbelliferae derive... | Apiaceae | 2,008 | 20080103 | 2,775 | 4,549 | 330da08fc639 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.815457Z |
:'For the fictional extraterrestrial species in British scifi drama Doctor Who, see The Claws of Axos
An ''axon'' or ''nerve fiber'', is a long, slender projection
of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses
away from the neuron's cell body or soma.
== Anatomy ==
Axons are in effect the primary tr... | Axon | 2,008 | 20080103 | 5,157 | 7,194 | 2db7047dc321 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.815651Z |
thumb|260px|Bilingual inscription (Greek and Aramaic) by the Indian emperor Ashoka the Great, 3rd century BCE.
The ''Aramaic alphabet'' is an abjad, a consonantal alphabet, used for writing Aramaic. It developed out of the Phoenician alphabet, and became distinctive from it by the eighth century BCE. As with other abj... | Aramaic alphabet | 2,008 | 20080103 | 4,035 | 7,971 | 04aafcbaad98 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.816730Z |
'As We May Think' is an essay by Vannevar Bush, first published in 'The Atlantic Monthly' in July 1945. Bush argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible.
The article was a reworked and expand... | As We May Think | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,774 | 2,144 | 74129e70ae78 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.816844Z |
"''American shot''" is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, "'plan américain'" and refers to a medium-long ("knee") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera. The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the scre... | American shot | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,020 | 1,156 | a89376532bf5 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.816891Z |
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''Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis'' (''ADEM'') is an immu... | Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,763 | 2,394 | 8ec9561777b1 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.817804Z |
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''Ataxia'' From Greek 'α-' (used as a negative prefix) + '-τάξις' (order), meaning "lack of order". It is a neurological sign and symptom consisting of gross incoordination of muscle movements. Ataxia is an aspecific clinical manifestation implying dysfunction of parts of the... | Ataxia | 2,008 | 20080103 | 7,148 | 7,979 | 7e237c12a96f | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.817973Z |
:'This article is about the fictional literary character created by H.P. Lovecraft. For the character from the King's Quest video game, see King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow.'
''Abdul Alhazred'' is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. He is the so-called "Mad Arab" credite... | Abdul Alhazred | 2,008 | 20080103 | 5,880 | 7,544 | 68a040b36bee | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.818998Z |
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''Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace'' (December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852), born ''Augusta Ada Byron'', is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine.
==Biography==
Ada was the first le... | Ada Lovelace | 2,008 | 20080103 | 10,076 | 13,382 | e66614427138 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.819315Z |
In computer science, the ''ambient calculus'' is a process calculus devised by Luca Cardelli
and Andrew D. Gordon in 1998, and used to describe and theorise about concurrent systems that include 'mobility'. Here 'mobility' means both computation carried out on mobile devices ('i.e.' networks that have a dynamic topolog... | Ambient calculus | 2,008 | 20080103 | 3,073 | 3,940 | 31a8ba064ec4 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.820170Z |
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''August William Derleth'' (February 24 1909 – July 4 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as H. P. Lovecraft's primary publisher, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a prolific writer in several genres, including h... | August Derleth | 2,008 | 20080103 | 18,421 | 21,096 | 20de2658dbaf | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.821155Z |
The ''Alps'' (; ; ; ; ) is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. The word "Alps" was taken via French from Latin 'Alpes' (meaning "the Alps"), which may be influenced ... | Alps | 2,008 | 20080103 | 11,246 | 15,246 | 3f8962c44023 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.822304Z |
Villeblevin, France
| school_tradition = Absurdism20px Nobel Prize in Literature (1957)
| main_interests = Ethics, Humanity, Justice, Love, Politics
| influences = Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Søren Kierkegaard, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone Weil, Victor Hugo, Pascal Pia, George Orw... | Albert Camus | 2,008 | 20080103 | 23,360 | 28,240 | 032ebc81db65 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.824098Z |
| birth_place = Torquay, Devon, England
| death_date =
| death_place = Cholsey, Oxfordshire, England
| occupation = Novelist
| genre = Murder mystery, Crime fiction
| movement = Golden Age of Detective Fiction
| magnum_opus = The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
| influences = Edgar Allan PoeAnna Katherine GreenSir Arthur Cona... | Agatha Christie | 2,008 | 20080103 | 24,783 | 37,770 | fff5b4cd7257 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.826060Z |
'The Plague' ('Fr.' 'La Peste') is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book... | The Plague | 2,008 | 20080103 | 8,546 | 9,373 | 6af63a5b84a0 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.827122Z |
''Applied ethics'' is a discipline of philosophy that attempts to apply 'theoretical' ethics, such as utilitarianism, social contract theory, and deontology, to real world dilemmas. Topics falling within the discipline include medical ethics, legal ethics, environmental ethics, computer ethics, corporate social respon... | Applied ethics | 2,008 | 20080103 | 4,080 | 6,210 | 3f1983cad775 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.827315Z |
| birth_place = Solingen, Germany
| death_date =
| death_place = Ramla, Israel
| occupation = Obersturmbannführer, SS
| spouse = Vera Liebl
| parents = Adolf Karl Eichmann Maria Schefferling
| children = Klaus Eichmann, Horst Adolf Eichmann, Dieter Helmut Eichmann, Ricardo Francisco Eichma... | Adolf Eichmann | 2,008 | 20080103 | 28,311 | 37,677 | 3bef2b712e8c | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.846595Z |
In mathematics, the ''absolute value'' (or ''modulus'') of a real number is its numerical value without regard to its sign. So, for example, 3 is the absolute value of both 3 and −3. In computer programming, the mathematical function used to perform this calculation is usually given the name ''abs()''.
Generalization... | Absolute value | 2,008 | 20080103 | 10,611 | 17,727 | 17ed240390f4 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.847669Z |
''Arches National Park'' preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.
The park is located near Moab, Utah, and is 119 square miles (309 km²) in size. Its highest elevation is 5,653 feet (1,723 m) at Ele... | Arches National Park | 2,008 | 20080103 | 10,297 | 12,485 | 035fd6efb1d7 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.848449Z |
An ''analog'' or ''analogue'' signal is any time continuous signal where some time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity. It differs from a digital signal in that small fluctuations in the signal are meaningful. Analog is usually thought of in an electrical context, how... | Analog signal | 2,008 | 20080103 | 3,963 | 4,432 | 0b6160bbc91d | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.848626Z |
''Arecales'' is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised only for the past few decades; until then, the accepted name for the order including these plants was Principes.
The APG II system of 2003 recognises the order and places it in the clade commelinids in the monocots and uses this circum... | Arecales | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,053 | 1,752 | f33584e8c6fa | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.848698Z |
'And Then There Were None' is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1939 under the title of 'Ten Little Niggers'
==Film, TV and theatrical adaptations==
In 1943, Agatha Christie adapted the story for the stage. In the process of doing so, sh... | And Then There Were None | 2,008 | 20080103 | 5,674 | 29,405 | d7d0df1618c1 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.849960Z |
''Hercule Poirot'' (pronounced in English ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters: he appeared in 33 novels and 54 short stories.
Poirot has been portrayed on screen, for films and TV, by various actor... | Hercule Poirot | 2,008 | 20080103 | 35,541 | 44,663 | 76353603a655 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.851971Z |
''Jane Marple'', usually known as ''Miss Marple'', is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels. Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who acts as an amateur detective, and lives in the village of St. Mary Mead. She has been portrayed numerous times on screen, and is one of the most famou... | Miss Marple | 2,008 | 20080103 | 10,097 | 11,389 | b96f69f64470 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.852918Z |
''April'' is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, and one of four months with the length of 30 days. April was originally the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC. It became the fourth month of the calendar year (the year when ... | April | 2,008 | 20080103 | 4,431 | 5,434 | c12b2fdf84c1 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.853144Z |
''August'' is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. August begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Leo and ends in the sign of Virgo. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Cancer and ends in the constell... | August | 2,008 | 20080103 | 6,409 | 8,054 | 0f1c5642af40 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.853852Z |
:'This article is about Aaron in the Hebrew Bible, the Qu'ran, and other sources. For other uses of the word Aaron, see Aaron (disambiguation).'
thumb|350px|right|'The Adoration of the Golden Calf' by Nicolas Poussin
''Aaron'' (), or Aaron the Levite (flourished about 1200 BC), was, according to biblical accounts, on... | Aaron | 2,008 | 20080103 | 10,040 | 25,470 | 3f0253c8b619 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.854796Z |
==Events==
*1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.
* 1655 - The miraculous statue entitled the Infant of Prague is solemnly crowned by command of Cardinal Harrach.
*1660 - Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
*1721 - Sir Robert Walpole enters office... | April 4 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 18,651 | 23,340 | 1083de8b2590 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.856541Z |
==Events==
* 402 - Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
*1327 - The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
*1385 - John, Master of the Order of ... | April 6 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 15,015 | 19,358 | fa3e66c0ef78 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.857645Z |
==Events==
* 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
*1606 - The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
*1633 - The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
*1776 - North Carolina's Provincial Congress authorized its delegates to the Second Continental Congres... | April 12 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 15,564 | 20,150 | b1603cb0f52e | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.858817Z |
==Events==
*1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
*1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
*1715 - Pocotaligo Mass... | April 15 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 17,980 | 23,120 | 7c060a96860e | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.860473Z |
== Events ==
*313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
*711 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
*1006 - Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded hi... | April 30 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 16,222 | 20,990 | 0b6d287d2d78 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.861797Z |
==Events==
* 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
* 476 - Odoacer is named 'Rex italiae' by his troop.
* 565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
* 851 : Erispoe's army, King of Brittany, defeats Charles the Bald's one, the Franc king, near the Breton town of Jengland. Be... | August 22 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 17,978 | 23,986 | aa401f3a5641 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.863363Z |
==Events==
*479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece ended.
* 410 - Visigothic sack of Rome ends after t... | August 27 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 15,897 | 20,640 | 2781152abde7 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.864733Z |
250px|thumb|right|Functional group of an alcohol molecule. The carbon atom is attached to other carbon atom(s) or a hydrogen atom.
In chemistry, an ''alcohol'' is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl group ('-OH') is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group. The general formula for a simple ac... | Alcohol | 2,008 | 20080103 | 6,280 | 27,521 | a536f0531524 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.866418Z |
thumb|250px|Location of Achill Island
right|thumb|250px|Keem Bay on Achill Island
thumb|right|250px|Mural on Handball Alley. Muralist: Karen Forde
thumb|right|250px|Overlooking the west coast of Achill Island
thumb|right|250px|Keel Strand
thumb|right|250px|Slievemore mountain dominates the centre of the island
250px|th... | Achill Island | 2,008 | 20080103 | 9,372 | 10,835 | 8a47cc612eec | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.866652Z |
| birth_place = Newark, New Jersey
| death_date =
| occupation = poet, activist, essayist
| movement = Beat, New American Poets, Postmodernism
| magnum_opus = 'Howl', 'Kaddish'
| influences = Neal Cassady,Jack Kerouac, Wavy Gravy, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, William Blake, Walt Whitman, William Carlos William... | Allen Ginsberg | 2,008 | 20080103 | 38,838 | 47,855 | 649badc6dfe9 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.870634Z |
In mathematics, a field is said to be ''algebraically closed'' if every polynomial in one variable of degree at least , with coefficients in , has a zero (root) in .
==Examples==
As an example, the field of real numbers is not algebraically closed, because the polynomial equation has no solution in real numbers, eve... | Algebraically closed field | 2,008 | 20080103 | 3,473 | 5,624 | b02d3cc0711a | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.871768Z |
==Events==
*1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
*1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention.
*1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
*1819 - Norwich University fo... | August 6 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 18,560 | 23,532 | ba9303abb38f | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.872973Z |
|datebirth =
|placebirth = Zlatoust, RSFSR, Soviet Union
|title = Grandmaster (1970)
|worldchampion = 1975-19851993-1999 (FIDE)
|rating =
|peakrating = 2780 (July 1994)
''Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov'' () (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. His tournament successes include 1... | Anatoly Karpov | 2,008 | 20080103 | 16,666 | 19,484 | 28c5d4fa86cf | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.874120Z |
The ''aspect ratio'' of a two-dimensional shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It is also applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, especially for the longest and shortest 'axes' or for symmetrical objects ('e.g'. rods) that are described by just two measure... | Aspect ratio | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,431 | 1,659 | 14a27a2b108a | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.875003Z |
right|thumb|190px|A Peugeot 206 World Rally Car
''Automobile racing'' (also known as ''auto racing'', ''motor racing'', or ''car racing'') is a sport involving racing automobiles. Auto racing began in 1895, and is now one of the world's most popular sports.
== History ==
=== The beginning of race cars===
Racing began... | Auto racing | 2,008 | 20080103 | 21,417 | 26,810 | 7777102cc29a | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.876248Z |
''Anarcho-capitalism'' (a form of market anarchism or individualist anarchism) is an anti-state political philosophy that reconciles ''anarchism'' with ''capitalism''. It advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of law enforcement, courts, national defense, and all other security services by voluntarily-fu... | Anarcho-capitalism | 2,008 | 20080103 | 56,444 | 84,516 | b8bf7750b380 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.880822Z |
== Events ==
* 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
* 378 - Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople - A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with over half... | August 9 | 2,008 | 20080103 | 16,120 | 20,609 | 9c240c3f4aa6 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.882363Z |
thumb|Sketch of Aristophanes
''Aristophanes'' (, in English, ca. 456 BC – ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, was a Greek Old Comic dramatist. He is also known as 'the Father of Comedy' and 'the Prince of Ancient Comedy'. [http://manybooks.net/support/b/brewere/brewere1143111431-8.exp.html]
==Biography==
The place and e... | Aristophanes | 2,008 | 20080103 | 8,914 | 11,316 | 94aa4aca9c9c | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.883411Z |
| birth_place = Kaisersberg, Alsace-Lorraine
| death_date =
| death_place = Lambaréné, Gabon
| nationality = 1875-1918 German1918-1965 French
| field = Medicine, music, philosophy, theology
| work_institutions =
| alma_mater =
| doctoral_advisor =
| doctoral_students =
|... | Albert Schweitzer | 2,008 | 20080103 | 26,282 | 32,048 | ef8c5be3155a | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.885988Z |
The ''Austrian School'', also known as the “''Vienna School''” or the “''Psychological School''”, is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates adherence to strict methodological individualism. As a result Austrians hold that the only valid economic theory is logically derived from basic principles of human ... | Austrian School | 2,008 | 20080103 | 19,549 | 25,789 | 63e9a11200fe | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.887300Z |
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An ''abscess'' () is a collection of pus that has accumul... | Abscess | 2,008 | 20080103 | 6,983 | 9,730 | 505a8c3b9fcd | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.888283Z |
The 'Abwehr' was a German intelligence organization from 1921 to 1944. The term 'Abwehr' (German for 'defence') was used as a concession to Allied demands that Germany's post-World War I intelligence activities be for "defensive" purposes only. After February 4, 1938, its name in title was Overseas Department/Office in... | Abwehr | 2,008 | 20080103 | 16,873 | 19,708 | 2b3fc5b7b6c3 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.889304Z |
thumb|275px|Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park
thumb|275px|White House Ruins, Canyon de Chelly National Monument
''Ancient Pueblo People'' or ''Ancestral Puebloans'' were a prehistoric Native American culture centered around the present-day Four Corners area of the Southwest United States, noted for their distin... | Ancient Pueblo Peoples | 2,008 | 20080103 | 20,342 | 22,030 | 30691d6fe914 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.890900Z |
200px|thumb|right|Location of Aalborg municipality
''Aalborg Municipality'' is a municipality (Danish, 'kommune') in Region Nordjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality straddles the Limfjord, the waterway which connects the North Sea and the Kattegat east-to-west, and which separates the... | Aalborg Municipality | 2,008 | 20080103 | 2,946 | 3,895 | aaac0dbed758 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.891127Z |
''Aarhus'' (: ) also commonly known by its contemporary Danish spelling ''Århus'', is the second largest city and the principal port of Denmark, situated on the peninsula of Jutland. Aarhus is the seat of the council of Aarhus municipality and claims the unofficial title "Capital of Jutland".
==Demographics==
Aarhus c... | Aarhus | 2,008 | 20080103 | 19,910 | 26,482 | 328fbd259abe | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.893127Z |
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Percopsiformes
| familia = Amblyopsidae
| genus = 'Amblyopsis'
| species = 'A. spelea'
| binomial = 'Amblyopsis spelea'
| binomial_authority = (DeKay, 1842)
The ''northern cavefish'' or ''northern blindfish'', 'Amblyopsis spelea', is found in ... | Northern cavefish | 2,008 | 20080103 | 708 | 1,066 | 3d27b06b8ba5 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.893308Z |
The term ''abandonment'' has a multitude of uses, legal and extra-legal. This "signpost article" provides a guide to the various legal and quasi-legal uses of the word and includes links to articles that deal with each of the distinct concepts at greater length.
''Abandonment'', in law, is the relinquishment or renun... | Abandonment | 2,008 | 20080103 | 7,368 | 9,091 | 1b5a763b317d | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.893484Z |
''Abatement'' may refer to:
*Abatement of debts and legacies, a common law doctrine of wills that holds that when the equitable assets of a deceased person are not sufficient to satisfy fully all the creditors, their debts must abate proportionately, and they must accept a dividend.
*Abatement in pleading, a legal de... | Abatement | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,870 | 1,981 | 13047574637e | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.893596Z |
thumb|right|A pint of ale
''Ale'' is a type of beer brewed from barley malt with a top-fermenting brewers yeast. This yeast ferments the beer quickly, giving it a sweet, full body and a fruity (and sometimes butter-like) taste. Most ale contains some herb or spice, usually hops, which imparts a bitter herbal flavour th... | Ale | 2,008 | 20080103 | 9,886 | 11,390 | f79a091fa5a5 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.894534Z |
Most commonly an ''amateur'' is understood to be someone who does something without pay or formal training. Conversely, a 'professional' is someone who has received training in a particular area and who also makes a living from it. The word comes from French, and can be translated as "lover of", reflecting the amateur'... | Amateur | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,961 | 2,343 | 8fbc7b5311a1 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.894676Z |
| birth_place = Meigs County, Ohio, USA
| death_date = 1914(?)
| death_place = Chihuahua, Mexico
| occupation = Journalist, Writer
| genre = Satire
| movement = Realism
| influences = Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe
| influenced = H.L. Mencken, William March, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, St... | Ambrose Bierce | 2,008 | 20080103 | 16,677 | 20,345 | 0214f1b0044d | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.896403Z |
thumb|right|Alexis Carrel
''Alexis Carrel'' (June 28, 1873 - November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912. He was also a member of Jacques Doriot's Parti Populaire Français (PPF), the most collaborationist party during Vichy France.... | Alexis Carrel | 2,008 | 20080103 | 15,563 | 21,065 | f263364cab9a | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.897551Z |
| birth_place = West Auckland, County Durham, United Kingdom
| death_date =
| death_place = Alvediston, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
| nationality = British
| party = Conservative
| religion = Anglican
| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford
| spouse = Beatrice Beckett (1902–... | Anthony Eden | 2,008 | 20080103 | 21,343 | 31,038 | e90479c348b0 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.917620Z |
In Western Christianity, ''All Souls' Day'' commemorates the faithful departed. This day is observed in the Roman Catholic Church, churches of the Anglican Communion, Old Catholic Churches, and to some extent among Protestants. The Eastern Orthodox Church observes several All Souls' Days during the year. The Roman Cath... | All Souls' Day | 2,008 | 20080103 | 6,888 | 8,853 | e0886acdaa2d | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.919622Z |
''Anatole France'' (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born ''François-Anatole Thibault'', was a French author. He was born in Paris, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire.
== Biography ==
The son of a bookseller, France spent most of his life around books. His father's bookstore was called the 'Librairie France'. An... | Anatole France | 2,008 | 20080103 | 5,730 | 7,887 | a019582a20b2 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.919858Z |
| birth_place = Paris
| death_date =
| death_place = Paris
| occupation = Novelist, essayist
| genre =
| movement =
| magnum_opus = 'The Immoralist' 'The Counterfeiters'
| influences = Dostoevsky, Fielding, du Gard, Nietzsche, Rabindranath Tagore, Wilde
| influenced = Rivière, Brian O'Nolan, Jean-Paul ... | André Gide | 2,008 | 20080103 | 9,744 | 12,268 | c2decb1bad1f | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.922546Z |
''Algorithms for calculating variance'' play a minor role in statistical computing. A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.
==... | Algorithms for calculating variance | 2,008 | 20080103 | 5,149 | 7,090 | 99b7550d5e96 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.922885Z |
The ''Almond'' ('Prunus dulcis', syn. 'Prunus amygdalus' Batsch., 'Amygdalus communis' L., 'Amygdalus dulcis' Mill.) is a species of 'Prunus' belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae; within 'Prunus', it is classified with the Walnut in the subgenus 'Amygdalus', distinguished from the other subgener... | Almond | 2,008 | 20080103 | 14,570 | 21,002 | cf56d9c2657d | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.928742Z |
''Antigua and Barbuda's economy'' is service-based, with tourism and government services representing the key sources of employment and income. Tourism accounts directly or indirectly for more than half of GDP and is also the principal earner of foreign exchange in Antigua and Barbuda. However, a series of violent hurr... | Economy of Antigua and Barbuda | 2,008 | 20080103 | 4,577 | 6,361 | 414f817edce6 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.929167Z |
Antigua and Barbuda maintains diplomatic relations with the United States, Canada the United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China, as well as with many Latin American countries and neighboring Eastern Caribbean states. It is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organization of America... | Foreign relations of Antigua and Barbuda | 2,008 | 20080103 | 1,594 | 1,829 | b4125f3790de | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.931650Z |
''Antisemitism'' (alternatively spelled ''anti-semitism'' or ''anti-Semitism'', also known as 'judophobia') is hostility, prejudice, toward Jews as a religious, racial, or ethnic group. This hostility may be manifested in discrimination against individual Jews, or in extreme cases violent attacks on entire communities... | Antisemitism | 2,008 | 20080103 | 19,344 | 120,198 | eb56ce765ea4 | 2026-05-31T08:27:28.941516Z |
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