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Archaeology
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
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