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Archaeology

Oxyrhynchus – Parthenon

Biography

Mark Antony – Isaac Asimov – Humphrey Bogart – L. Paul Bremer – Julius Caesar – Leonardo da Vinci – Paul Erdős – Galileo Galilei – Ernest Hemingway – Jim Henson – Alfred Hitchcock – Garry Kasparov – Rudyard Kipling – Bruno Kreisky – Nella Larsen – Abraham Lincoln – H. P. Lovecraft – John Major – Paul Morphy – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Joshua A. Norton – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – Rhazes – Rembrandt – Carl Sagan – Martha Stewart – Gough Whitlam – Ralph Yarborough

Biology and Medicine

Action potential – Bioinformatics – Brolga – Sperm Whale – Race – Synapse – Mitochondrial Eve – Cladistics – Gene – Platypus – Tuberculosis – Menstrual cycle – Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Chemistry

Periodic table – Helium – LSD – Titanium

Culture and Society

Baroque – Bathing machine – Beer – Fancy cancels – Freemasonry – Lollapalooza – Korean name – Social history of the piano – Tea – Villain

Economics

Economics – History of the English penny – Euro – London Congestion Charge

Games & Toys

Blackjack – Chess – Go (board game) – LEGO – Poker – Prisoner's dilemma – Rock, Paper, Scissors

Geography

Aztalan State Park – Carlsbad Caverns National Park – Enclave – Golden Gate Park – Montparnasse – Newark, New Jersey – People's Republic of China – Provinces of Thailand (includes the 76 provincial articles) – Yellowstone National Park

History

Adoption in Rome – Attack on Pearl Harbor – Battle of Aljubarrota – Behistun Inscription – Byzantine Empire – Dreyfus Affair – Éire – First Battle of the Stronghold – Franks – History of Germany – History of Scotland – History of the Netherlands – Indus Valley Civilization – MKULTRA – Operation Market Garden – Peloponnesian War – Sino-Soviet split – Voynich Manuscript – White Rose – World War I

Language

Leet – Mandarin (linguistics) – Split infinitive – Taiwanese (linguistics) – Thou

Law

Copyright – Crushing by elephant – Negligence

Literature

Alliterative verse – Crime fiction – English poetry – Foundation Series – Irish poetry – Irish theatre – Medieval literature – Poetry – Poetry of the United States

Mathematics

Ackermann function – Algorithm – Computational complexity theory – Trigonometric function – Vacuous truth

Media

All your base are belong to us – Batman – Have I Got News For You – Not the Nine O'Clock News – Nude celebrities on the Internet – Star Trek – Superman – Western movie

Music

Concept album – Miles Davis – Donegal fiddle tradition – Bob Dylan – Heavy metal music – Charles Ives – Jazz – Madonna – Roy Orbison – Gram Parsons – Punk rock – Saxophone – Sex Pistols – Simon and Garfunkel

Philosophy

Frankfurt School – Free will – Law of Demeter – Paradox

Physics, Astrophysics and Geophysics

Comet – Geyser – Io (moon) – Quantum mechanics – Rainbow – The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak – Space elevator

Politics and Government

Hutton Inquiry – Irish Houses of Parliament – Japan general election, 2003 – Peerage – Propaganda – Representative peer – U.S. Electoral College – Zionism

Psychology

Milgram experiment – Psychosis – Schizophrenia

Reference

Peer review

Religion and beliefs

Anno Domini – Bible code – Christianity – Buddhism – End times – Greek mythology – Hebrew calendar – Original sin – Revised Standard Version – Shakers – Sons of Noah – Vampire

Sport

Bodyline – Chariot racing – Montreal Canadiens – Summer Olympic Games

Technology

Analogue disc record – Application Programming Interface (API) – ASCII – C programming language – Damascus steel – Electronic amplifier – Fountain pen – Horseshoe – Hubble Space Telescope – Illegal prime – Java programming language – Jet engine – Markup language – Nuclear weapon – Pattern welding – Phonograph cylinder – Quantum computer – Radar – RISC – Road transport – Search engine – Secure computing – Spacecraft propulsion – Spamming – Typewriter – Telephone exchange – World Wide Web – Zuiderzee Works