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Art, architecture, and archaeology
Art competitions at the Olympic Games
· Matthew Brettingham
· Buddhist art
· Graffiti
· Holkham Hall
· Robert Lawson (architect)
· El Lissitzky
· Henry Moore
· Benjamin Mountfort
· Oxyrhynchus
· Palladian architecture
· Parthenon
· 
Francis Petre
· Templon
· John Vanbrugh
· Diego Velázquez
Awards and decorations
Hero of Belarus
· Hero of Ukraine
· Medal of Honor
· Order of the Bath
· Order of Canada
· Order of the Garter
· Order of St Patrick
· Order of the Thistle
· Virtuti Militari
Biology and medicine
Action potential
· Antarctic krill
· Asperger's syndrome
· Asthma
· Blue Whale
· Norman Borlaug
· Cat
· Cerebellum
· Chagas disease
· Cladistics
· Coconut crab
· DNA repair
· Evolution
· Gene
· Gray Wolf
· Helicobacter pylori
· Homo floresiensis
· Humpback Whale
· Island Fox
· Kakapo
· Krill
· Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
· Marginated Tortoise
· Menstrual cycle
· Mixed-breed dog
· Myxobolus cerebralis
· Orca
· Paracetamol
· Platypus
· Race
· Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
· Shrimp farm
· Sperm Whale
· Synapse
· Tasmanian Devil
· Tooth enamel
· Tuberculosis
· Whale song
Chemistry
Alchemy
· Diamond
· Helium
· Hydrochloric acid
· LSD
· Linus Pauling
· Technetium
· Titanium
Computing
Architecture of Btrieve · Architecture of Windows 2000 · ASCII · Btrieve · C programming language · CPU cache · Color Graphics Adapter · Commodore 64 · 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 · Phishing · Quantum computer · Spam (electronic) · Spyware · Windows 2000 · Windows XP · X Window System
Culture and society
Abbey Theatre
· Bathing machine
· Black Seminoles
· Breastfeeding
· Cannabis rescheduling in the United States
· Exploding whale
· Flag of Belarus
· Flag of the Republic of China
· Flag of Hong Kong
· Flag of India
· Flag of South Africa
· Freemasonry
· Gender role
· Greco-Buddhism
· David Helvarg
· Japanese toilet
· Kitsch
· Kibbutz
· Korean name
· Mail
· Octopus card
· Names of the Greeks
· Pet skunk
· Spring Heeled Jack
· Sociocultural evolution
· Swastika
· Ta-Yuan
· Tamil people
Education
Academia
· Caulfield Grammar School
· Peer review
· Wikipedia
Economics
Bank of China (Hong Kong) · Billboard (advertising) · Celtic Tiger · Economics · Economy of Africa · Economy of India · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Euro · Gold standard · London Congestion Charge · Labour economics · Strategic management · Supply and demand · United Kingdom corporation tax
Food and drink
Coca-Cola · Kashrut · Single malt Scotch · Spoo · Tea
Geography and places
Ann Arbor, Michigan
· Australia
· Aztalan State Park
· Bath
· Bhutan
· Buckingham Palace
· Bryce Canyon National Park
· Cambodia
· Carlsbad Caverns National Park
· Cathedral of Magdeburg
· Chennai
· City status in the United Kingdom
· Colditz Castle
· Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
· Death Valley National Park
· Dogpatch USA
· Dorset
· Eldfell
· Gangtok
· Geography of India
· Geography of Ireland
· Goa
· Great Mosque of Djenné
· Gyeongju
· Hong Kong
· India
· Isan
· Johannesburg
· Kalimpong
· Lake Burley Griffin
· Louisville, Kentucky
· Marshall, Texas
· Moorgate
· Mount Pinatubo
· Mount St. Helens
· Mumbai
· National parks of England and Wales
· Nepal
· Newark, New Jersey
· Niagara Falls
· Oakland Cemetery
· Palace of Westminster
· Palazzo Pitti
· People's Republic of China
· Piccadilly Circus
· Provinces of Thailand
· Rondane National Park
· San Jose, California
· Sarajevo
· Sealand
· Seattle, Washington
· Shrine of Remembrance
· Sikkim
· South Africa
· Suburbs of Johannesburg
· Surtsey
· Traditional counties of England
· Yellowstone National Park
· Yosemite National Park
· Zambezi
· 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
· Anschluss
· Elias Ashmole
· Attalus I
· Attila the Hun
· Athanasius Kircher
· Behistun Inscription
· British East India Company
· Isaac Brock
· Byzantine Empire
· Congo Free State
· Columbine High School massacre
· Cyclone Tracy
· John Dee
· Elagabalus
· Éire
· England expects that every man will do his duty
· Eureka Stockade
· First Crusade
· Carl G. Fisher
· George Fox
· Anne Frank
· Franks
· Galveston Hurricane of 1900
· Helen Gandy
· Franklin B. Gowen
· Great Lakes Storm of 1913
· Mahatma Gandhi
· Habsburg Spain
· History of Alaska
· History of Arizona
· History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870
· History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899
· History of Central Asia
· History of Greenland
· History of Poland (1945-1989)
· 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
· Italian Renaissance
· Julius Caesar
· Stanisław Koniecpolski
· Ku Klux Klan
· Laika
· Ferdinand Magellan
· Makuria
· Marshall Plan
· Old Swiss Confederacy
· William N. Page
· Witold Pilecki
· Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
· Project MKULTRA
· Cardinal Richelieu
· Russian constitutional crisis of 1993
· Samantha Smith
· Second Crusade
· Sino-Soviet split
· Space Race
· Sun Yat-sen
· Sydney Riot of 1879
· 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
· Swedish language
· Taiwanese (linguistics)
· Tamil language
· Thou
· Vowel
· Vulgar Latin
Law
Common scold
· Dred Scott v. Sandford
· James Bulger
· Lawrence v. Texas
· Paragraph 175
· Roe v. Wade
Literature
The Adventures of Tintin
· African American literature
· Alliterative verse
· Isaac Asimov
· Augusta, Lady Gregory
· Augustan drama
· Augustan literature
· Samuel Beckett
· Book of Kells
· The Brothers Karamazov
· Colley Cibber
· The Country Wife
· Calvin and Hobbes
· Crime fiction
· John Day (printer)
· Du Fu
· English poetry
· The Foundation Series
· The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
· The Giver
· James Joyce
· Rudyard Kipling
· H.D.
· Robert A. Heinlein
· 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
· Restoration spectacular
· John Millington Synge
· A Tale of a Tub
· The Cantos
· Three Laws of Robotics
· Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
· Restoration comedy
· Restoration literature
· Voynich Manuscript
· The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
· William Butler Yeats
Mathematics
Ackermann function · Algorithm · Carl Friedrich Gauss · Infinite monkey theorem · Margin of error · Monty Hall problem · Blaise Pascal · Prisoner's dilemma · Regular polytope · Trigonometric function
Media
All your base are belong to us
· Batman
· BBC television drama
· Blackadder
· Blackface
· Blade Runner
· Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
· Casablanca (film)
· Coronation Street
· Dalek
· Dawson's Creek
· Doctor Who
· Humphrey Bogart
· Felix the Cat
· Henry Fonda
· Jim Henson
· Ian McKellen
· Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV programme)
· Not the Nine O'Clock News
· Our Gang
· The Quatermass Experiment
· Quatermass and the Pit
· Julia Stiles
· KaDee Strickland
· Superman
· Sunset Boulevard (film)
· Sharon Tate
· TARDIS
· Thunderball
· 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"
· Iron Maiden (band)
· Charles Ives
· The Jackson 5
· Jazz
· "The Long and Winding Road"
· Kylie Minogue
· "Layla"
· Witold Lutosławski
· Mor lam
· Music of Nigeria
· "My Belarusy"
· Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
· Nirvana (band)
· Roy Orbison
· Porgy and Bess
· Punk rock
· "Real Love" (song)
· Saxophone
· "She Loves You"
· Sex Pistols
· Simon and Garfunkel
· Dmitri Shostakovich
· Sly & the Family Stone
· Smile (album)
· "Something" (song)
· Igor Stravinsky
· The Supremes
· Sylvia (ballet)
· The Temptations
· Timpani
· Vanilla Ninja
· "Yesterday" (song)
Philosophy
Michel Foucault
· Frankfurt School
· Free will
· Paradox
· Ludwig Wittgenstein
· Bernard Williams
Physics and astronomy
Apollo 8
· Astrophysics Data System
· 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
· Hubble Deep Field
· Hubble Space Telescope
· Kreutz Sungrazers
· Open cluster
· Planetary nebula
· Quantum mechanics
· Robert Oppenheimer
· Rainbow
· Roche limit
· Carl Sagan
· Soap bubble
· Speed of light
· Transit of Venus
· Venus
· Weather lore
Politics and government
2004 Democratic National Convention
· Anarcho-capitalism
· Mark Antony
· Article One of the United States Constitution
· Tony Blair
· Tom Brinkman
· British House of Commons
· George Brown, Baron George-Brown
· Canadian House of Commons
· Canadian Senate
· Commonwealth of Nations
· Congress of the United States
· Convention on Psychotropic Substances
· Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
· Equal Protection Clause
· European Union
· First Amendment to the United States Constitution
· Governor-General of India
· Government of Maryland
· Charles Graner
· House of Lords
· Irish Houses of Parliament
· George F. Kennan
· Mark Latham
· League of Nations
· Liberal Party (Utah)
· Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968
· 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 of the United Kingdom
· Propaganda
· Louis Riel
· Read my lips: no new taxes
· Royal Assent
· Separation of powers under the United States Constitution
· Władysław Sikorski
· Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
· Single Transferable Vote
· Jean Schmidt
· Speaker of the British House of Commons
· Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
· Supreme Court of the United States
· Margaret Thatcher
· Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
· Tynwald Day
· United States Constitution
· United States House of Representatives
· United States Senate
· U.S. Electoral College
· Mordechai Vanunu
· Robert Walpole
· Washington gubernatorial election, 2004
· Max Weber
· Gough Whitlam
· Ralph Yarborough
Psychology
Autism
· Milgram experiment
· Psychosis
· Schizophrenia
Religion and beliefs
Angkor Wat · 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 · Space opera in Scientology doctrine · Xenu
Royalty, nobility, and heraldry
Anne of Great Britain
· British monarchy
· Canadian Heraldic Authority
· 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
· Peerage
· Penda of Mercia
· 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
· The Ashes
· Baseball
· Moe Berg
· Bishōjo game
· Blackjack
· Bodyline
· Bullfighting
· BZFlag
· Chariot racing
· Chess
· Brian Close
· A. E. J. Collins
· Cricket
· Steve Dalkowski
· Lottie Dod
· Doom
· Formula One
· Go (board game)
· Golden Age of Arcade Games
· History of Test cricket (to 1883)
· History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889)
· IFK Göteborg
· Garry Kasparov
· Sandy Koufax
· Goomba
· Fanny Blankers-Koen
· Katamari Damacy
· Lakitu
· Denis Law
· LEGO
· Link (Legend of Zelda)
· Monopoly (game)
· Olympic Flame
· Olympic Games
· Ted Radcliffe
· Rock, Paper, Scissors
· Seabiscuit
· Sudoku
· Super Mario 64
· Suzanne Lenglen
· Summer Olympic Games
· Jim Thorpe
· Wario
· Weight training
· Xiangqi
Technology
Aquarium
· Automatic number plate recognition
· Caesar cipher
· Crash test dummy
· Domestic AC power plugs & sockets
· Eifel Aqueduct
· Electronic amplifier
· Enigma machine
· Fountain pen
· Gas metal arc welding
· Glass
· Jarmann M1884
· Jet engine
· Kammerlader
· Krag-Jørgensen
· Krag-Petersson
· Nintendo Entertainment System
· Nuclear weapon
· Panavision
· Phonograph cylinder
· Radar
· ROT13
· Saturn V
· Soda can stove
· Spacecraft propulsion
· Speech synthesis
· Typewriter
· Telephone exchange
· Welding
· Zuiderzee Works
Transport
Air Force One
· Auto rickshaw
· BC Rail
· Bicycle
· Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport
· Căile Ferate Române
· Canadian Pacific Railway
· Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railroad
· Civil Air Patrol
· Ford Mustang
· Indian Railways
· John Bull (locomotive)
· London Underground
· Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9
· Montréal-Mirabel International Airport
· MTR
· Pan American World Airways
· Pioneer Zephyr
· Pulaski Skyway
· Rail transport in India
· Ridge Route
· RMS Titanic
· Ryanair
· San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
· Space elevator
· SS Andrea Doria
· VW Transporter
· Warren County Canal
· Wigwag
· Zeppelin
War
Algerian Civil 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)
· Blitzkrieg
· Chemical warfare
· Convair B-36
· Cristero War
· Karl Dönitz
· First Battle of the Stronghold
· Husein Gradaščević
· Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
· Iowa class battleship
· Iraqi insurgency
· Erich von Manstein
· Lord's Resistance Army
· Military history of Puerto Rico
· Military history of the Soviet Union
· Operation Downfall
· Polish-Soviet War
· Polish September Campaign
· S-mine
· Siege
· Swedish allotment system
· Submarine
· Tank
· Trench warfare
· Use of poison gas in World War I
· USS Missouri (BB-63)
· War elephant
· War of the Spanish Succession
· Warsaw Uprising
· World War I
· Yom Kippur War