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Art, architecture, and archaeology
Art competitions at the Olympic Games
· Matthew Brettingham
· Buddhist art
· Graffiti
· El Lissitzky
· Henry Moore
· Benjamin Mountfort
· Oxyrhynchus
· Palladian architecture
· Parthenon
· 
Francis Petre
· John Vanbrugh
· Diego Velázquez
Biology and medicine
Action potential
· Asperger's syndrome
· Bioinformatics
· Blue Whale
· Cladistics
· Coconut crab
· DNA repair
· Evolution
· Gene
· Helicobacter pylori
· Homo floresiensis
· Humpback Whale
· Kakapo
· Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
· Marginated Tortoise
· Menstrual cycle
· Mixed-breed dog
· Mitochondrial Eve
· Myxobolus cerebralis
· Orca
· Paracetamol
· Platypus
· Race
· Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
· Sperm Whale
· Synapse
· Tuberculosis
· Whale song
Chemistry
Alchemy
· Diamond
· Helium
· Hydrochloric acid
· LSD
· Linus Pauling
· Technetium
· Titanium
Computing
ASCII · Btrieve · C programming language · CPU cache · Color Graphics Adapter · Computer security · Common Unix Printing System · Data Encryption Standard · Emacs · Floppy disk · GNU/Linux naming controversy · History of computing hardware · Java programming language · Markup language · Mozilla Firefox · PaX · Quantum computer · Spam (electronic) · Windows XP · X Window System
Culture and society
Abbey Theatre
· Bathing machine
· Breastfeeding
· Cannabis rescheduling in the United States
· Exploding whale
· Flag of South Africa
· Freemasonry
· Gender role
· Greco-Buddhism
· Hero of Belarus
· Japanese toilet
· Kitsch
· Kibbutz
· Korean name
· Mail
· Octopus card
· Pet skunk
· Spring Heeled Jack
· Swastika
· Ta-Yuan
· Tamil people
Education
Academia
· Peer review
· Wikipedia
Economics
Bank of China (Hong Kong) · Billboard (advertising) · Celtic Tiger · Economics · Economy of Africa · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Euro · Gold standard · London Congestion Charge · Labour economics · Strategic management · Supply and demand · United Kingdom corporation tax · Max Weber
Food and drink
Coca-Cola · Kashrut · Single malt Scotch · Tea
Geography and places
Aztalan State Park
· Bath
· Belgium
· Bryce Canyon National Park
· Cambodia
· Carlsbad Caverns National Park
· Cathedral of Magdeburg
· Chinatown
· City status in the United Kingdom
· Colditz Castle
· Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
· Death Valley National Park
· Dorset
· Eldfell
· Flag of the Republic of China
· Goa
· Geography of Ireland
· Great Mosque of Djenné
· India
· Isan
· Johannesburg
· Kalimpong
· Lake Burley Griffin
· Marshall, Texas
· Moorgate
· Mount Pinatubo
· Mount St. Helens
· Mumbai
· National parks of England and Wales
· Newark, New Jersey
· Niagara Falls
· Oakland Cemetery
· Palace of Westminster
· People's Republic of China
· Piccadilly Circus
· Provinces of Thailand
· Rondane National Park
· San Jose, California
· Sarajevo
· Seattle, Washington
· Shrine of Remembrance
· Sikkim
· South Africa
· Traditional counties of England
· Yellowstone National Park
· Yosemite National Park
· Zion National Park
Geology, geophysics, and mineralogy
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens · Ammolite · Geology of the Bryce Canyon area · Geology of the Death Valley area · Geology of the Grand Canyon area · Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area · Plate tectonics · Silverpit crater · Turquoise
History
1755 Lisbon earthquake
· Attalus I
· Attila the Hun
· Aryan invasion theory
· Athanasius Kircher
· Behistun Inscription
· British East India Company
· Byzantine Empire
· Congo Free State
· Cyclone Tracy
· John Dee
· Elagabalus
· Éire
· England expects that every man will do his duty
· Eureka Stockade
· Ferdinand Magellan
· First Crusade
· Carl G. Fisher
· George Fox
· Anne Frank
· Franks
· Galveston Hurricane of 1900
· Franklin B. Gowen
· Great Lakes Storm of 1913
· Mahatma Gandhi
· Habsburg Spain
· History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870
· History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899
· History of Greenland
· History of post-Soviet Russia
· History of the Netherlands
· History of Russia
· History of Scotland
· History of the Grand Canyon area
· History of the Yosemite area
· Julius Caesar
· Stanislaw Koniecpolski
· Laika
· Old Swiss Confederacy
· William N. Page
· Penda of Mercia
· Witold Pilecki
· Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
· Project MKULTRA
· Cardinal Richelieu
· Russian constitutional crisis of 1993
· Samantha Smith
· Sino-Soviet split
· Space Race
· Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
· Treaty of Devol
· Jonathan Wild
· Ziad Jarrah
Language and linguistics
Aramaic language
· Noam Chomsky
· Gbe languages
· Laal language
· Leet
· Mandarin (linguistics)
· Nafaanra language
· Portuguese language
· Russian language
· Split infinitive
· Stuttering
· Taiwanese (linguistics)
· Tamil language
· Thou
· Vowel
· Vulgar Latin
Law
Common scold · Copyright · Dred Scott v. Sandford · James Bulger · Lawrence v. Texas · Paragraph 175 · Roe v. Wade
Literature
The Adventures of Tintin
· Alliterative verse
· Isaac Asimov
· Augusta, Lady Gregory
· Samuel Beckett
· Book of Kells
· The Brothers Karamazov
· Colley Cibber
· The Country Wife
· John Day (printer)
· Calvin and Hobbes
· Crime fiction
· Du Fu
· English poetry
· The Foundation Series
· James Joyce
· Rudyard Kipling
· H.D.
· Hrafnkels saga
· Imagism
· Irish poetry
· Irish theatre
· H. P. Lovecraft
· Medieval literature
· Middle-earth
· Modernist poetry in English
· George Moore
· The Old Man and the Sea
· Oroonoko
· Chuck Palahniuk
· Poetry
· Poetry of the United States
· John Millington Synge
· A Tale of a Tub
· The Cantos
· Three Laws of Robotics
· Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
· Restoration comedy
· Voynich Manuscript
· The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
· William Butler Yeats
Mathematics
Ackermann function · Algorithm · Fractal · Infinite monkey theorem · Margin of error · Prisoner's dilemma · Regular polytope · Trigonometric function
Media
All your base are belong to us
· Batman
· Blackadder
· Casablanca (movie)
· Coronation Street
· Dalek
· Dawson's Creek
· Doctor Who
· Humphrey Bogart
· Felix the Cat
· Jim Henson
· Ian McKellen
· Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV programme)
· Not the Nine O'Clock News
· The Quatermass Experiment
· Quatermass and the Pit
· Julia Stiles
· Superman
· Western movie
· WGA screenwriting credit system
Music
Louis Armstrong
· The Beatles
· Johnny Cash
· Rebecca Clarke
· Miles Davis
· "A Day in the Life"
· Dream Theater
· Duran Duran
· Bob Dylan
· "Get Back"
· Gramophone record
· Grunge music
· "A Hard Day's Night" (song)
· Heavy metal music
· Heavy metal umlaut
· "Hey Jude"
· Hip hop music
· "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
· "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
· Charles Ives
· Jazz
· "The Long and Winding Road"
· Kylie Minogue
· Mor lam
· Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
· Roy Orbison
· Punk rock
· Saxophone
· "She Loves You"
· Sex Pistols
· Simon and Garfunkel
· Dmitri Shostakovich
· Sly & the Family Stone
· Smile (album)
· "Something" (song)
· Igor Stravinsky
· The Supremes
· The Temptations
· Timpani
· "Yesterday" (song)
Philosophy
Michel Foucault · Frankfurt School · Free will · Paradox · Ludwig Wittgenstein · Bernard Williams
Physics and astronomy
Apollo 8
· Big Bang
· Black hole
· Cat's Eye Nebula
· Cold fusion
· Comet
· Comet Hale-Bopp
· Comet Hyakutake
· Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
· Albert Einstein
· Richard Feynman
· Fermi paradox
· Galileo Galilei
· H II region
· Io (moon)
· Kreutz Sungrazers
· Open cluster
· Planetary nebula
· Quantum mechanics
· Robert Oppenheimer
· Rainbow
· Roche limit
· Carl Sagan
· Soap bubble
· Speed of light
· Transit of Venus
· Venus (planet)
· Weather lore
Politics and government
2004 Democratic National Convention
· Mark Antony
· Article One of the United States Constitution
· Assassination
· Tony Blair
· British House of Commons
· George Brown, Baron George-Brown
· Canadian House of Commons
· Canadian Senate
· Commonwealth of Nations
· Equal Protection Clause
· European Union
· First Amendment to the United States Constitution
· Governor-General of India
· Government of Maryland
· Charles Graner
· House of Lords
· Hutton Inquiry
· Irish Houses of Parliament
· Mark Latham
· League of Nations
· Liberal Party (Utah)
· Libertarianism
· Abraham Lincoln
· Lord Chancellor
· John Major
· Sid McMath
· Reginald Maudling
· Joshua A. Norton
· Barack Obama
· Parliament Act
· Parliament of Canada
· Parliament of the United Kingdom
· Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791
· James K. Polk
· Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
· President of Ireland
· Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
· Privy Council
· Propaganda
· Louis Riel
· ROC presidential election, 2004
· Royal Assent
· Separation of powers under the United States Constitution
· Wladyslaw Sikorski
· Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
· Speaker of the British House of Commons
· Margaret Thatcher
· Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
· Tynwald Day
· United States Constitution
· U.S. Electoral College
· Mordechai Vanunu
· Robert Walpole
· Gough Whitlam
· Ralph Yarborough
Psychology
Milgram experiment
· Psychosis
· Schizophrenia
Religion and beliefs
Anno Domini · Bahá'í Faith · Bible code · Buddhism · Christianity · Christmas · End times · Father Damien · Greek mythology · Hinduism · History of Buddhism · Hebrew calendar · Holy Prepuce · King James Version of the Bible · Names of God in Judaism · Papal election · Papal tiara · Presuppositional apologetics · Revised Standard Version · Shakers · Shroud of Turin · Vampire · Xenu
Royalty, nobility, and chivalry
Anne of Great Britain
· British monarchy
· Charles I of England
· Charles II of England
· Coronation of the British monarch
· Edward VI of England
· Elizabeth I of England
· George I of Great Britain
· George II of Great Britain
· George III of the United Kingdom
· George IV of the United Kingdom
· Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
· Henry VIII of England
· Hereditary peer
· History of the Peerage
· James I of England
· James II of England
· Louis XIV of France
· Mary I of England
· Mary II of England
· Order of the Bath
· Order of the Garter
· Order of St Patrick
· Order of the Thistle
· Peerage
· Prince-elector
· Privilege of Peerage
· Representative peer
· William I of Orange
· William III of England
· William IV of the United Kingdom
· Victoria of the United Kingdom
Sport and games
1896 Summer Olympics · Baseball · Moe Berg · Bishojo game · Blackjack · Bodyline · Bullfighting · BZFlag · Chariot racing · Chess · Brian Close · A. E. J. Collins · Cricket · Steve Dalkowski · Lottie Dod · Go (board game) · Golden age of arcade games · History of Test cricket (to 1883) · History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) · Anatoly Karpov · Garry Kasparov · Goomba · Fanny Blankers-Koen · LEGO · Link (Legend of Zelda) · Monopoly (game) · Montreal Canadiens · Paul Morphy · Olympic Flame · Olympic Games · Rock, Paper, Scissors · Seabiscuit · Super Mario 64 · Suzanne Lenglen · Summer Olympic Games · Jim Thorpe · Weight training
Technology
Aquarium
· Automatic number plate recognition
· Caesar cipher
· Crash test dummy
· Domestic AC power plugs & sockets
· Eifel Aqueduct
· Electronic amplifier
· Enigma machine
· Fountain pen
· Glass
· Jet engine
· Krag-Jørgensen
· Nintendo Entertainment System
· Nuclear weapon
· Phonograph cylinder
· Radar
· ROT13
· Saturn V
· Soda can stove
· Spacecraft propulsion
· Speech synthesis
· Typewriter
· Telephone exchange
· Warren County Canal
· Welding
· Zuiderzee Works
Transport
Air Force One
· Auto rickshaw
· Bicycle
· Canadian Pacific Railway
· Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railroad
· Civil Air Patrol
· Ford Mustang
· John Bull (locomotive)
· London Underground
· Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9
· MTR
· Pioneer Zephyr
· Pulaski Skyway
· Ridge Route
· Ryanair
· Space elevator
· VW Transporter
· Warren County Canal
· Wigwag
· Zeppelin
War
Attack on Pearl Harbor
· Battle of Alesia
· Battle of Aljubarrota
· Battle of Inchon
· Battle of Jutland
· Battle of Hampton Roads
· Battle of Leyte Gulf
· Battle of Normandy
· Battle of the Bulge
· Battle of the Somme (1916)
· Battle of Warsaw (1920)
· Chemical warfare
· Convair B-36
· Cristero War
· Karl Dönitz
· First Battle of the Stronghold
· Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
· Iraqi insurgency
· Erich von Manstein
· Lord's Resistance Army
· Medal of Honor
· Military history of Puerto Rico
· Military history of the Soviet Union
· Operation Downfall
· Polish-Soviet War
· Polish September Campaign
· Siege
· Submarine
· Tank
· Trench warfare
· Use of poison gas in World War I
· War elephant
· War of the Spanish Succession
· Warsaw Uprising
· World War I