Search results for "University of Wisconsin-Madison" - New World Encyclopedia
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- which the seed grows. Pisum sativum was one of the first plants cultivated ... bacteria, peas play a role in the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into a ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- |image=[[Image:Anishinabe.svg|200px]] Crest of the Ojibwa people ... The Ojibwa or Chippewa (also Ojibwe, Ojibway, Chippeway) is one of ...46 KB (6,830 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ... Invited to join anthropological expeditions as a photographer of native ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- The Great Lakes of the Laurentian Shield are a group of five large ... The five Great Lakes of North America are: *Lake Superior (the largest ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 19:37, 24 May 2024
- – November 25, 1956) was a writer, producer, and director of films ... Olexandr Dovzhenko was born in the district of Viunyshche in Sosnytsia ...12 KB (1,532 words) - 00:07, 18 November 2022
- other awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. insight, touching on the essentials of life. He had an unfailing faith ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- such as cousins, vary. Whatever the extent of the prohibition, however, incest ... Many reasons underlie the incest taboo: Biological explanations of ...23 KB (3,379 words) - 21:59, 4 February 2023
- the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Since the ... The region encompasses some of the Louisiana Purchase, most of the ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- #039;Oresme (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America ... A north central state, it forms a bridge between the forests of the ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- |flag = [[Image:Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg|center|135px]] ... was a powerful and unique gathering of Native American tribes that ...41 KB (6,201 words) - 23:24, 9 December 2021
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected ... At the invitation of South Africa's first post-apartheid president ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians ... Maine, on December 14, 1897, the daughter of Carrie Murray and George Emery ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation ... The core group consisted of the American poets Zukofsky, Williams ...24 KB (3,660 words) - 19:52, 17 November 2022
- ending a long-running family feud. It is one of the most famous of Shakespeare ... Although Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located on the northwest ... Jakarta faces many of the challenges of large cities in developing ...29 KB (4,012 words) - 08:43, 18 March 2024
- 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving ... America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states' ...32 KB (4,916 words) - 21:09, 7 February 2024
- Mayfly is the common name for any of the insects that belong to the ... There are about 2,500 species of mayflies worldwide, including about ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic ... with high velocity, approaching the speed of light; general relativity is ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
