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- The Van Allen radiation belt (or Van Allen belt) is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. Energetic electrons ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2023
- The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada ...19 KB (2,735 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- Fructose (or levulose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) with the same chemical formula as glucose (C6H12O6) but a different atomic arrangement. Along with glucose and galactose ...12 KB (1,703 words) - 09:20, 21 June 2021
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: شیعه) is the second largest school within Islam. Shi'a Muslims adhere to the teachings of the Islamic ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- Megabat is the common name for any of the largely herbivorous Old World bats comprising the suborder Megachiroptera of the order Chiroptera (bats), characterized by true wings ...12 KB (1,663 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth Fatimid caliph ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- Denisovans are an extinct hominid group more closely related to the Neanderthals than modern humans and identified from the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences of the roughly ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Venomous snake is any of a large and diverse number of snakes that are capable of injecting venom (modified saliva) into another organism, essentially for purposes of capturing ...11 KB (1,696 words) - 17:02, 3 May 2023
- Dendrochronology (from Greek grc|δένδρον , dendron, "tree"; grc|χρόνος , khronos, "time"; and grc|-λογία , -logia) or tree-ring dating is ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- Eliot P. Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- Corn syrup is any of a variety of forms of syrup (thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, with little tendency to deposit crystals) made using corn ...18 KB (2,609 words) - 23:23, 6 April 2022
- The genus Rhinoceros of the family Rhinocerotidae includes the one-horned rhinoceroses, of which there are two extant species: the Indian rhinoceros (R. unicornis) and the Javan ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 20:50, 16 April 2023
- Glycine is one of the 20 most common, natural, "proteinogenic" (literally, protein building) standard amino acids. It is the simplest of the amino acids in terms of ...10 KB (1,540 words) - 17:44, 23 May 2024
- You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides. Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ibn ...20 KB (3,202 words) - 22:53, 8 April 2021
- Astrochemistry, representing an overlap of the disciplines of astronomy and chemistry, is the study of chemicals found in outer space, including their identity, formation, interactions ...7 KB (940 words) - 18:21, 19 August 2023
- Fowl is the common name for any of the gamefowl or landfowl comprising the bird order Galliformes, or any of the waterfowl comprising the order Anseriformes. Galliforms or gallinaceous ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- Ibn Sina, Abu- ‘Ali- al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو علي الحسين بن عبد ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- Monera, in some systems of biological classification, is a kingdom that comprises most living things with a prokaryotic cell organization. For this reason, the kingdom also has ...8 KB (1,051 words) - 13:09, 10 March 2023
- The Jurassic period is an interval of about 55 million years defined on the geologic time scale as spanning roughly from 200 to 145 million years ago (mya), from the end of the ...11 KB (1,508 words) - 16:34, 14 May 2024
- Ramadan (also spelled Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer, reflection ...25 KB (3,551 words) - 00:32, 8 December 2022
