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Culture[edit]

Art, architecture, and archaeology[edit]

Art competitions at the Summer Olympics · Felice Beato · Matthew Brettingham · Buddhist art · Deconstructivism · Holkham Hall · Paul Kane · Robert Lawson (architect) · El Lissitzky · Michigan State Capitol · Henry Moore · Sylvanus Morley · Benjamin Mountfort · Oxyrhynchus · Palladian architecture · Parthenon · Francis Petre · Sanssouci · Shotgun house · Sicilian Baroque · Templon · John Vanbrugh · Diego Velázquez · Roman Vishniac · Xanadu House

Food and drink[edit]

Absinthe · Black pepper · Butter · Cheese · Coca-Cola · Ina Garten · Kashrut · Tea

Language and linguistics[edit]

Aramaic language · Gbe languages · Ido · Laal language · Nafaanra language · Portuguese language · Russian language · Split infinitive · Stuttering · Swedish language · Taiwanese (linguistics) · Tamil language · Thou · Vowel · Vulgar Latin

Literature[edit]

Douglas Adams · The Adventures of Tintin · African American literature · Alliterative verse · Mário de Andrade · Isaac Asimov · Augusta, Lady Gregory · Augustan drama · Augustan literature · Samuel Beckett · Book of Kells · The Brothers Karamazov · Cædmon · Calvin and Hobbes · The Cantos · Colley Cibber · The Country Wife · Cyberpunk · John Day (printer) · H.D. · Du Fu · English poetry · The Giver · Robert A. Heinlein · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Hrafnkels saga · The Illuminatus! Trilogy · Imagism · Irish poetry · Irish theatre · Henry James · James Joyce · J. R. R. Tolkien · Rudyard Kipling · Krazy Kat · H.P. Lovecraft · Middle-earth · Modernist poetry in English · George Moore · Objectivist poets · The Old Man and the Sea · Ormulum · Oroonoko · Chuck Palahniuk · Peterborough Chronicle · Poetry of the United States · The Protocols of the Elders of Zion · Thomas Pynchon · The Relapse · Restoration comedy · Restoration literature · Restoration spectacular · Starship Troopers · John Millington Synge · Rabindranath Tagore · A Tale of a Tub · Theatre Royal, Drury Lane · Three Laws of Robotics · "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" · Turkish literature · Voynich manuscript · William Butler Yeats

Media[edit]

Arrested Development · James T. Aubrey, Jr. · Batman · BBC television drama · Blackface · Blade Runner · Humphrey Bogart · Captain Marvel (DC Comics) · Casablanca (film) · Cheers · Coronation Street · Dalek · Dawson's Creek · George Washington Dixon · Doctor Who · Doctor Who missing episodes · Karen Dotrice · Felix the Cat · Henry Fonda · Gremlins · Halloween (film) · Halloween II · Halloween III: Season of the Witch · Jim Henson · Katie Holmes · Hong Kong action cinema · Diane Keaton · Vivien Leigh · Lindsay Lohan · Memory Alpha · Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV programme) · Sydney Newman · November (film) · The Office (US TV series) · Our Friends in the North · Our Gang · The Quatermass Experiment · Quatermass and the Pit · Ran (film) · Red vs Blue · Spoo · Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith · Julia Stiles · KaDee Strickland · Superman · Sunset Blvd. (1950 film) · Sharon Tate · TARDIS · Thunderball · Uma Thurman · Tenebrae (film) · Triumph of the Will · V for Vendetta (film) · The West Wing (TV series) · WGA screenwriting credit system

Music[edit]

Louis Armstrong · The Beatles · Blues · Mariah Carey · Phil Collins · "Cool" (song) · Rebecca Helferich Clarke · Miles Davis · "A Day in the Life" · Céline Dion · "Dixie" (song) · Dream Theater · Duran Duran · Bob Dylan · Genesis (band) · "Get Back" (song) · Gramophone record · Grunge music · Guqin · "A Hard Day's Night" (song) · Heavy metal music · Heavy metal umlaut · "Hey Jude" · "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" · "I Want to Hold Your Hand" · Illmatic · Iron Maiden · Charles Ives · The Jackson 5 · "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" · The KLF · "Layla" · "The Long and Winding Road" · Witold Lutosławski · Marilyn Manson (band) · Olivier Messiaen · "Mexicanos, al grito de guerra" · Mor lam · Kylie Minogue · Music of Athens, Georgia · Music of Maryland · Music of Minnesota · Music of Nigeria · Music of the United States · "My Belarusy" · National Anthem of Russia · New Radicals · Nightwish · Nirvana (band) · Pink Floyd · Porgy and Bess · Punk rock · "Real Love" (song) · Rush (band) · Salsa music · Saxophone · "She Loves You" · Sex Pistols · Dmitri Shostakovich · Sly & the Family Stone · "Something" · Igor Stravinsky · The Supremes · Sylvia (ballet) · The Temptations · Timpani · Vanilla Ninja · The Waterboys · "Yesterday" (song)

Philosophy[edit]

Michel Foucault · Free will · Eric A. Havelock · Søren Kierkegaard · Philosophy of mind · Omnipotence paradox · Transhumanism · Ludwig Wittgenstein · Bernard Williams

Religion[edit]

Angkor Wat · Anno Domini · Bahá'í Faith · Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. · End times · Father Damien · Greek mythology · Hinduism · History of Buddhism · History of the Jews in Poland · Hebrew calendar · Holy Prepuce · Joan of Arc · King James Version of the Bible · Mosque · Names of God in Judaism · Noah's Ark · Nostradamus · Operation Auca · Papal conclave · Papal Tiara · Fred Phelps · Presuppositional apologetics · Revised Standard Version · Shakers · Shroud of Turin · Space opera in Scientology doctrine · Xenu

Sport and games[edit]

1896 Summer Olympics · 3D Monster Maze · Amateur Radio Direction Finding · Arsenal F.C. · The Ashes · Australia at the Winter Olympics · Baseball · Moe Berg · Bishōjo game · Blackjack · Fanny Blankers-Koen · Bodyline · Bullfighting · Bulbasaur · Simon Byrne · BZFlag · Chariot racing · Chess · Brian Close · A. E. J. Collins · Cricket · Steve Dalkowski · Lottie Dod · Donkey Kong (arcade game) · Doom · FIFA World Cup · Final Fantasy X · Formula One · Go (board game) · Wayne Gretzky · Half-Life 2 · History of Test cricket (to 1883) · History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) · IFK Göteborg · Katamari Damacy · Nellie Kim · Sandy Koufax · Cynna Kydd · Lakitu · Denis Law · The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask · The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker · Lego · Suzanne Lenglen · Link (Legend of Zelda) · Manchester City F.C. · Monopoly (game) · New England Patriots · Olympic Flame · Olympic Games · Perfect Dark · Ted Radcliffe · Seabiscuit · StarCraft · Sudoku · Sunday Times Golden Globe Race · Super Mario 64 · Jim Thorpe · Wario · Weight training · Xiangqi

Society[edit]

Awards and decorations[edit]

Hero of Belarus · Hero of Ukraine · Medal of Honor · Order of the Bath · Order of Canada · Order of the Garter · Order of St. Patrick · Order of the Thistle · Virtuti Militari

Business, economics, and finance[edit]

€2 commemorative coins · Bank of China (Hong Kong) · Billboard (advertising) · British East India Company · Celtic Tiger · Demand Note · Economy of Africa · Economy of India · Economy of the Iroquois · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Gold standard · London congestion charge · Mercantilism · Octopus card · Second Malaysia Plan · Supply and demand · United Kingdom corporation tax

Education[edit]

Alpha Phi Alpha · Caulfield Grammar School · History of Michigan State University · Hopkins School · Indian Institutes of Technology · Michigan State University · University of Michigan · Wikipedia

Law[edit]

Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia · Article One of the United States Constitution · Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms · Common scold · Dietrich v The Queen · Dred Scott v. Sandford · Equal Protection Clause · Federalist No. 10 · First Amendment to the United States Constitution · French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools · James Bulger · Lawrence v. Texas · Paragraph 175 · Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 · Roe v. Wade · Schabir Shaik trial · Section summary of the USA PATRIOT Act, Title II · Separation of powers under the United States Constitution · Supreme Court of the United States · Texas Ranger Division · Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution · United States Bill of Rights · United States Constitution · USA PATRIOT Act, Title III, Subtitle A

Politics and government[edit]

1996 U.S. campaign finance scandal · Anarcho-capitalism · Tony Blair · Tom Brinkman · British House of Commons · George Brown, Baron George-Brown · Canadian House of Commons · Canadian federal election, 1993 · Canadian Senate · Hugo Chávez · Commonwealth of Nations · Convention on Psychotropic Substances · Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) · Gerald Ford · Governor-General of India · Government of Maryland · House of Lords · Irish Houses of Parliament · Bruce Johnson · George F. Kennan · League of Nations · Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2006 · Liberal Party (Utah) · Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968 · Libertarianism · Abraham Lincoln · Lord Chancellor · John Major · Sid McMath · Reginald Maudling · Bob McEwen · Military career of Hugo Chávez · Yoweri Museveni · Barack Obama · Parliament Act · Parliament of Canada · Parliament of the United Kingdom · Political integration of India · James K. Polk · President of Ireland · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · Privy Council of the United Kingdom · Propaganda · Louis Riel · Read my lips: no new taxes · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Theodore Roosevelt · Royal Assent · Władysław Sikorski · Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs · Single Transferable Vote · Jean Schmidt · Speaker of the House of Commons · Speaker of the United States House of Representatives · Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner · Margaret Thatcher · Tynwald Day · United States Congress · United States House of Representatives · United States Senate · U.S. Electoral College · Mordechai Vanunu · Voting system · Voter turnout · Washington gubernatorial election, 2004 · Max Weber

Royalty, nobility, and heraldry[edit]

Anne of Great Britain · British monarchy · Canadian Heraldic Authority · Charles I of England · Charles II of England · Coronation of the British monarch · Edward VI of England · Elizabeth I of England · George I of Great Britain · George II of Great Britain · George III of the United Kingdom · George IV of the United Kingdom · Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava · Henry VIII of England · Hereditary peer · History of the Peerage · James I of England · James II of England · Joshua A. Norton · Louis XIV of France · Mary I of England · Mary II of England · Peerage · Prince-elector · Privilege of Peerage · Representative peer · Sverre of Norway · William I of Orange (William the Silent) · William III of England · William IV of the United Kingdom · Victoria of the United Kingdom

War[edit]

Algerian Civil War · Attack on Pearl Harbor · Battle of Alesia · Battle of Austerlitz · Battle of Badr · Battle of Cannae · Battle of Hampton Roads · Battle of Inchon · Battle of Jutland · Battle of Leyte Gulf · Battle of Normandy · Battle of the Bulge · Battle of Smolensk (1943) · Battle of the Somme (1916) · Battle of Warsaw (1920) · Blitzkrieg · Isaac Brock · Chemical warfare · Convair B-36 · Corinthian War · Cristero War · Defense of Sihang Warehouse · England expects that every man will do his duty · Karl Dönitz · F-4 Phantom II · F-35 Joint Strike Fighter · First Battle of the Stronghold · Husein Gradaščević · Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson · Imperial Japanese Navy · Invasion · Iowa class battleship · Kargil War · Lord's Resistance Army · Military history of Canada · Military history of France · Military history of Puerto Rico · Military history of the Soviet Union · Richard O'Connor · Arthur Ernest Percival · Operation Downfall · Operation Ten-Go · Poison gas in World War I · Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618) · Polish-Soviet War · Polish September Campaign · Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima · S-mine · William Tecumseh Sherman · Siege · Swedish allotment system · Tank · Thrasybulus · Trench warfare · USS Missouri (BB-63) · USS Wisconsin (BB-64) · War elephant · War of the League of Cambrai · War of the Spanish Succession · Warsaw Uprising · Western Front (World War I) · World War I · Yom Kippur War

Science and technology[edit]

Biology and medicine[edit]

Action potential · AIDS · Albatross · Antarctic krill · Aquarium · Asperger syndrome · Asthma · Blue Whale · Norman Borlaug · Cat · Cerebellum · Chagas disease · Cladistics · Coconut crab · Dinosaur · DNA repair · Evolution · Fauna of Australia · Georg Forster · Frog · Gray Wolf · Helicobacter pylori · History of saffron · Homo floresiensis · Humpback Whale · Island Fox · Kakapo · Keratoconus · Krill · Lesch-Nyhan syndrome · Marginated Tortoise · Barbara McClintock · Médecins Sans Frontières · Menstrual cycle · Mixed-breed dog · Multiple sclerosis · Myxobolus cerebralis · Orca · Paracetamol · Platypus · Pneumonia · Prostate cancer · Psittacosaurus · Race · Right whale · Saffron · Short-beaked Echidna · Shrimp farm · Sperm Whale · Synapse · Tasmanian Devil · Tooth development · Tooth enamel · Trade and usage of saffron · Tuberculosis · U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program · Whale song · White's Tree Frog · Michael Woodruff

Chemistry and mineralogy[edit]

Acetic acid · Alchemy · Ammolite · Diamond · Helium · Hydrochloric acid · LSD · Linus Pauling · Raney nickel · Technetium · Titanium · Turquoise

Computing[edit]

Acorn Computers · Apple Macintosh · Architecture of Btrieve · Architecture of the Windows NT operating system line · ASCII · Btrieve · C programming language · Central processing unit · CPU cache · Color Graphics Adapter · Commodore 64 · Common Unix Printing System · Data Encryption Standard · Delrina · Emacs · Floppy disk · GNU/Linux naming controversy · History of computing hardware · HTTP cookie · Java programming language · Markup language · Microsoft Data Access Components · Microsoft · Mozilla Firefox · OpenBSD · PaX · Phishing · Quantum computer · Spyware · Windows 2000 · Windows XP · X Window core protocol · X Window System

Engineering[edit]

Automatic number plate recognition · Beverage-can stove · Caesar cipher · Canon T90 · Telephone exchange · Crash test dummy · Domestic AC power plugs and sockets · Eifel Aqueduct · Electrical engineering · Electronic amplifier · Enigma machine · Gas metal arc welding · Gas tungsten arc welding · Jarmann M1884 · Kammerlader · Krag-Jørgensen · Krag-Petersson · Nintendo Entertainment System · Nuclear weapon · Panavision · Phonograph cylinder · Radar · ROT13 · Saturn V · Shielded metal arc welding · Shoe polish · Spacecraft propulsion · Speech synthesis · Typewriter · Welding

Geology, geophysics, and meteorology[edit]

1755 Lisbon earthquake · 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane · 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens · 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake · 2005 Atlantic hurricane season · Cyclone Tracy · Galveston Hurricane of 1900 · Geology of the Bryce Canyon area · Geology of the Capitol Reef area · Geology of the Death Valley area · Geology of the Grand Canyon area · Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area · Global warming · Hurricane Claudette (2003) · Hurricane Dennis · Hurricane Floyd · Hurricane Gloria · Hurricane Irene (2005) · Hurricane Iniki · Hurricane Mitch · Hurricane Nora (1997) · Plate tectonics · Retreat of glaciers since 1850 · Silverpit crater

Mathematics[edit]

Ackermann function · Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace · Game theory · Carl Friedrich Gauss · Infinite monkey theorem · Margin of error · Monty Hall problem · Blaise Pascal · Prisoner's dilemma · Regular polytope · Marian Rejewski · Trigonometric function

Physics and astronomy[edit]

Apollo 8 · Astrophysics Data System · ATLAS experiment · Big Bang · Black hole · Cat's Eye Nebula · Comet · Comet Hale-Bopp · Comet Hyakutake · Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 · Crab Nebula · Definition of planet · Enceladus (moon) · Albert Einstein · Galileo Galilei · H II region · Herbig-Haro object · Hubble Deep Field · Hubble Space Telescope · Kreutz Sungrazers · Mercury (planet) · Isaac Newton · Open cluster · Planetary habitability · Planetary nebula · Robert Oppenheimer · Rainbow · Roche limit · Carl Sagan · Soap bubble · Solar eclipse · Space Race · Speed of light · Sun · Edward Teller · Transit of Venus

Psychology[edit]

Autism · Milgram experiment · Psychosis · Schizophrenia

Transport[edit]

Air Force One · BC Rail · Bicycle · Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport · Isambard Kingdom Brunel · Căile Ferate Române · Canadian Pacific Railway · Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway · Civil Air Patrol · De Lorean DMC-12 · Ford Mustang · Indian Railways · John Bull (locomotive) · London Underground · Manila Light Rail Transit System · Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) · Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 · Mini · Montréal-Mirabel International Airport · MTR · Panama Canal · Pan American World Airways · Pioneer Zephyr · Pulaski Skyway · Rail transport in India · Ridge Route · RMS Titanic · Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works · Ryanair · San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge · Space elevator · SS Andrea Doria · TGV · Volkswagen Type 2 · Warren County Canal · Wigwag · Zeppelin

Geography and places[edit]

Africa[edit]

Congo Free State · History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 · History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 · Johannesburg · South Africa · Suburbs of Johannesburg

Americas[edit]

Ann Arbor, Michigan · Boston, Massachusetts · Canada · Cape Horn · Carlsbad Caverns National Park · Cleveland, Ohio · Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve · Dawson Creek, British Columbia · Death Valley National Park · Detroit, Michigan · Dogpatch USA · Glacier National Park (US) · History of Alaska · History of Arizona · History of Greenland · History of Miami, Florida · History of New Jersey · History of Puerto Rico · History of the Grand Canyon area · History of the Yosemite area · Louisville, Kentucky · Marshall, Texas · Mount Rushmore · Mount St. Helens · Niagara Falls · Oakland Cemetery · San Jose, California · Seattle, Washington · Shoshone National Forest · Yellowstone National Park · Yosemite National Park · Zion National Park

Asia[edit]

Bangalore · Bangladesh · Cambodia · Chennai · Gangtok · Geography of India · Goa · Gyeongju · History of Central Asia · Hong Kong · India · Isan · Kalimpong · Kerala · Kolkata · Malwa · Mount Pinatubo · Mumbai · Nepal · Pakistan · People's Republic of China · Sassanid Empire · Sikkim · Zambezi

Europe[edit]

Bath, Somerset · Belgium · Bhutan · Buckingham Palace · Cathedral of Magdeburg · Chew Valley · Chew Valley Lake · City status in the United Kingdom · Colditz Castle · Dorset · Éire · Eldfell · Geography of Ireland · Habsburg Spain · History of Limerick · History of Poland (1945–1989) · History of Portugal (1777–1834) · History of post-Soviet Russia · History of the Netherlands · History of Russia · Italian Renaissance · Lastovo · Moorgate · National parks of England and Wales · Old Swiss Confederacy · Palace of Westminster · Palazzo Pitti · Piccadilly Circus · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth · Rondane National Park · Sarajevo · Sealand · Scotland in the High Middle Ages · Second Crusade · Sheffield · Surtsey

International[edit]

Antarctica · Sino-German cooperation (1911-1941)

Oceania[edit]

Australia · Canberra · The Catlins · History of the Australian Capital Territory · History of Burnside · Lake Burley Griffin · Nauru · Shrine of Remembrance · Waterfall Gully, South Australia · Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

History[edit]

Ike Altgens · Anschluss · Mark Antony · Elias Ashmole · Attalus I · Attila the Hun · Athanasius Kircher · Bath School disaster · Byzantine Empire · Claudius · Chola dynasty · Columbine High School massacre · John Dee · Adriaen van der Donck · Elagabalus · Epaminondas · Eureka Stockade · W. Mark Felt · First Crusade · Carl G. Fisher · George Fox · Anne Frank · Franks · Mahatma Gandhi · Helen Gandy · Franklin B. Gowen · Gettysburg Address · Great Lakes Storm of 1913 · Che Guevara · Indo-Greek Kingdom · Muhammad Ali Jinnah · Katyn massacre · Stanisław Koniecpolski · Ku Klux Klan · Laika · Lothal · Makuria · Manuel I Comnenus · Marshall Plan · Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp · William N. Page · Rosa Parks · Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel · Penda of Mercia · Witold Pilecki · Project MKULTRA · Radhanite · Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu · Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 · S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 · Samantha Smith · Sydney Riot of 1879 · Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 · Treaty of Devol · Jonathan Wild · Yagan · Ziad Jarrah

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