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- Bukhara ( Buxoro , Бухоро , بُخارا , Бухара ), also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian βuxārak ("lucky place"), is the capital of the ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- Penguin (PEN-gwin or PENG-gwin) is the common name for any of the aquatic, gregarious, flightless birds comprising the family Spheniscidae, living almost exclusively in the Southern ...36 KB (5,093 words) - 17:12, 26 March 2023
- Poison dart frog (also poison arrow frog, dart frog, or poison frog) is the common name for any of the very small, diurnal frogs of the Dendrobatidae family. Their common name ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 02:10, 10 April 2023
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the larger Arabian ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the deity of the primordial chaos. He ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- Lymphoma is any of a diverse group of cancers that originate in lymphocytes of the lymphatic system, a secondary (but open) circulatory system in vertebrates. In lymphoma, the ...16 KB (2,166 words) - 03:16, 5 November 2022
- An engine is a machine that can convert some form of energy (obtained from a fuel) into useful mechanical power or motion. If the engine produces kinetic energy (energy of motion ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- Pope Gregory IX, born Ugolino di Conti, was pope from March 19, 1227 to August 22, 1241. A nephew of Pope Innocent III, he was educated at the University of Paris and came to ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 19:16, 20 June 2024
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand Nights and ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- An aldehyde is an organic compound containing a terminal carbonyl group. This functional group, called an aldehyde group, consists of a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom with ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- Bell pepper is the common name for a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum, widely cultivated for their edible, bell-shaped fruits, which are characterized by a glossy ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 18:58, 11 January 2023
- Dendrite is a highly branched, generally tapering extension of a neuron (nerve cell) that typically receives signals from other neurons and transmits the signals toward the cell ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 02:26, 25 August 2020
- In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species whereby each species is indicated by a two-part name, a capitalized genus name followed by a lowercase ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was also worshiped in ancient Egypt. In Ugaritic her name appears as ‘nt and in Greek as Αναθ (transliterated ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by the sole reliance on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) as scripture, and the rejection of the Oral Law ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- Chrysanthemum is the common name and genus name for a group of erect, herbaceous perennial plants in the flowering plant family Asteraceae (aster, daisy or sunflower family), ...17 KB (2,581 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- Feliformia is one of two suborders within the order Carnivora and consists of the "cat-like" carnivores, such as the felids (true cats), hyenas, mongooses, civets, and ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 12:58, 21 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia or pædophilia) is the paraphilia, or sexual deviation, of being sexually ...22 KB (3,151 words) - 07:11, 23 November 2022
