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- Emerald (from the Greek word smaragdos, through the French esmeralde, meaning "green gemstone") is a green variety of the mineral beryl and is among the most valuable ...10 KB (1,413 words) - 15:17, 31 December 2021
- Fig wasp is the common name for wasps of the family Agaonidae, which pollinate the blossoms of fig trees or are otherwise associated with fig trees. Many of the wasps currently ...15 KB (2,451 words) - 19:44, 26 March 2024
- Āryabha ṭ a (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 C.E.) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and ...23 KB (3,364 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Clam is an imprecisely defined common name variously used for certain bivalve mollusks or for all bivalve mollusks. As a member of the class Bivalvia (syn. Pelecypoda), clams ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:30, 10 December 2023
- Theophrastus (c. 372 - 278 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him his successor as leader of the Lyceum. He espoused the ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך mlk) is a Canaanite god in the Old Testament associated with human sacrifice. Some scholars have suggested that ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 00:28, 25 March 2024
- Diatom is the common name for a major group of unicellular or (less commonly) colonial algae comprising the protist taxon Bacillariophyceae (or Bacillariophyta), characterized ...26 KB (3,706 words) - 11:59, 29 January 2024
- Vellum (from the Old French Vélin, for "calfskin" [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vellum Online Etymological Dictionary] Retrieved July 18, 2008. ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 15:00, 3 May 2023
- Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري|translit=ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī Al-Zawahiri is also sometimes transliterated ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Attention is defined as a readiness on the part of the organism to perceive stimuli that surround it. Attention is sustained ...32 KB (4,749 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic سقطرى ; Suquṭra ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden. Nearly 190|nmi|mi km ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger, lion, and leopard of the ...38 KB (5,659 words) - 01:30, 8 February 2023
- Eagle is the common name for various diurnal birds of prey in the family Accipitridae of the bird order Falconiformes, characterized by large size, powerful hooked beaks, strong ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west. It ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Hibernation is a state of inactivity (deep sleep) and metabolic depression in animals, typically in cold weather, and characterized by lower body temperature, slower heart beat ...14 KB (2,055 words) - 15:45, 25 January 2023
- As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small creatures. Thus, insectivores are ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:53, 5 February 2023
- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government whose primary mission today is collecting secret information from abroad ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- Mulberry is the common name for any of the deciduous trees comprising the genus Morus of the flowering plant family Moraceae, characterized by simple, alternate leaves, a milky ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
