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- Basalt is a common, gray to black volcanic rock. It is usually fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava on the Earth's surface. It may ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:22, 1 January 2022
- Jadeite is one of the minerals recognized as the gemstone jade. The other mineral recognized as "jade" is nephrite, a green amphibole. ...7 KB (945 words) - 12:38, 6 November 2021
- Operetta is a genre of the performing arts, related to opera, but lighter in terms of both music and subject matter. Because it is closely related ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- Bernard Bosanquet (July 14, 1848 – February 8, 1923) was an English philosopher and an influential figure on matters of political and social ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with the first usage of the term dating from the War of 1812 and the first illustration ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- Hoover Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between Arizona and Nevada. The dam, located ...19 KB (3,049 words) - 13:41, 2 February 2024
- Existentialism is a philosophical movement that arose in the twentieth century. It includes a number of thinkers who emphasize common themes ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminum inosilicate. It has a vitreous luster and occurs in a range of colors. The purplish ...8 KB (1,146 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most extensive mountain range, stretching more than 3,500 ...17 KB (2,368 words) - 19:30, 24 May 2024
- The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged ...18 KB (2,561 words) - 01:36, 11 November 2022
- Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. H. L. Mencken called ...10 KB (1,491 words) - 12:48, 27 November 2023
- The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu or didge) is a wind instrument of the Indigenous Australians (or aboriginal Australians) of northern ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. Contained within the park is Bryce Canyon. Despite ...23 KB (3,572 words) - 16:49, 22 November 2023
- The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German meaning wing horn or flank horn) is a brass instrument that ...12 KB (1,704 words) - 20:41, 28 December 2023
- Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was a twentieth century American novelist and short story writer. He is known for ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- Musical theater is a form of theater combining music, songs, spoken dialog, and dance. The varied emotional aspects of the production—humor ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone, meaning that sound is produced ...23 KB (3,406 words) - 17:59, 2 May 2023
- Delphi (Greek Δελφοί ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece, renowned for its Delphic oracle (the most famous ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite (or hydroxyapatite), fluoroapatite (or fluorapatite ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated groups of silicate minerals. It is a complex silicate of aluminum and ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
