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Art and archaeology

Art competitions at the Olympic Games – Baroque – Leonardo da Vinci – Henry Moore – Oxyrhynchus – Palladian architecture – Parthenon – Rembrandt – John Vanbrugh

Biology and medicine

Acetaminophen – Action potential – Asperger's syndrome – Bioinformatics – Bloodletting – Brolga – Cladistics – Coconut crab – DNA repair – Gene – Helicobacter pylori – Homo floresiensis – Humpback Whale – Kakapo – Lesch-Nyhan syndrome – Marginated Tortoise – Menstrual cycle – Mixed-breed dog – Mitochondrial Eve – Orca – Platypus – Race – Rhazes – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – Sperm Whale – Synapse – Tuberculosis

Chemistry

Helium – LSD – Linus Pauling – Periodic table – Titanium

Culture and society

Abbey Theatre – Bathing machine – Breastfeeding – Exploding whale – Freemasonry – Gender role – Greco-Buddhism – Japanese toilet – Kitsch – Korean name – Mail – Martha Stewart – Pet skunk

Education

Academia – Peer review

Economics

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 – Max Weber

Food and drink

Beer – Coca-Cola – Kashrut – Single malt Scotch – Tea

Geography and places

Aztalan State Park – Belgium – Bryce Canyon National Park – Buckinghamshire – Carlsbad Caverns National Park – Cathedral of Magdeburg – Chinatown – City status in the United Kingdom – Enclave – Flag of the Republic of China – Geography of Ireland – Great Mosque of Djenné – India – Isan – Lake Burley Griffin – Marshall, Texas – Mount St. Helens – National parks of England and Wales – Newark, New Jersey – Niagara Falls – People's Republic of China – Provinces of Thailand – Ridge Route – Rondane National Park – Sarajevo – Shrine of Remembrance – Traditional counties of England – Yellowstone National Park – Zion National Park

Geology, geophysics, and mineralogy

1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens – Geology of the Bryce Canyon area – Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area – Geyser – Plate tectonics – Turquoise

History

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 – Éire – England expects that every man will do his duty – Eureka Stockade – Ferdinand Magellan – Franks – Galveston Hurricane of 1900 – George Fox – History of Germany – History of Greenland – History of Scotland – History of the Netherlands – History of the Yosemite area – Julius Caesar – Laika – MKULTRA – Old Swiss Confederacy – William N. Page – Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – Sino-Soviet split – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 – Treaty of Devol – Jonathan Wild – Ziad Jarrah

Language

Noam Chomsky – Laal language – Leet – Mandarin – Portuguese language – Russian language – Split infinitive – Taiwanese – Thou – Vowel – Vulgar Latin

Law

Common scold – Copyright – Dred Scott v. Sandford – James Bulger murder case – Leopold and Loeb – Lawrence v. Texas – Paragraph 175

Literature

Alliterative verse – Isaac Asimov – Augusta, Lady Gregory – Samuel Beckett – Crime fiction – Du Fu – English poetry – Foundation Series – James Joyce – Rudyard Kipling – H.D. – Irish poetry – Irish theatre – H. P. Lovecraft – Medieval literature – Middle-earth – Modernist poetry in English – George Moore – Chuck Palahniuk – Poetry – Poetry of the United States – John Millington Synge – A Tale of a Tub – 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 – Triangle – Trigonometric function

Media

The Adventures of Tintin – All your base are belong to us – Batman – Blackadder – Calvin and Hobbes – Casablanca (movie) – Coronation Street – Doctor Who – Humphrey Bogart – Felix the Cat – Have I Got News For You – Ian McKellen – Jim Henson – Nineteen Eighty-Four – Not the Nine O'Clock News – Star Trek – Superman – Quatermass and the Pit – Western movie

Music

Louis Armstrong – The Beatles – Johnny Cash – Miles Davis – A Day in the Life – Bob Dylan – Duran Duran – Gramophone record – 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 – Madonna – Mor lam – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Roy Orbison – Punk rock – Saxophone – Sex Pistols – Simon and Garfunkel – Dmitri Shostakovich – Smile – Something – Igor Stravinsky – Yesterday

Philosophy

Frankfurt School – Free will – Paradox – Ludwig Wittgenstein – Bernard Williams

Physics and astrophysics

Black hole – Cold fusion – Comet – Richard Feynman – Fermi paradox – Galileo Galilei – Io (moon) – Planetary nebula – Quantum mechanics – 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 – Assassin – Tony Blair – British House of Commons – 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 – Japan general election, 2003 – Mark Latham – Abraham Lincoln – Lord Chancellor – John Major – Sid McMath – Reginald Maudling – Joshua A. Norton – Barack Obama – Parliament of Canada – Parliament of the United Kingdom – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – President of Ireland – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom – Privy Council – Propaganda – ROC presidential election, 2004 – Royal Assent – Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 – Separation of powers under the United States Constitution – 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

Alchemy – 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 – Papal election – Presuppositional apologetics – Revised Standard Version – Shakers – Shroud of Turin – Vampire – Xenu

Royalty, nobility and chivalry

Anne of Great Britain – 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 – 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 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

Baseball – Bishojo game – Blackjack – Bodyline – Bullfighting – Chariot racing – Chess – Cricket – Lottie Dod – Doom – Go (board game) – Golden age of arcade games – Anatoly Karpov – Garry Kasparov – Goomba – Fanny Blankers-Koen – LEGO – Monopoly (game) – Montreal Canadiens – Paul Morphy – Olympic Flame – Olympic Games – Rock, Paper, Scissors – Seabiscuit – Super Mario 64 – Suzanne Lenglen – Summer Olympic Games – Jim Thorpe

Technology

Application programming interface – ASCII – Btrieve – C programming language – CPU cache – Color Graphics Adapter – Computer security – Crash test dummy – Damascus steel – Data Encryption Standard – Domestic AC power plugs & sockets – Eifel Aqueduct – Electronic amplifier – Emacs – Enigma machine – Floppy disk – Fountain pen – Glass – GNU/Linux naming controversy – Gramophone record – History of computing hardware – Hubble Space Telescope – Java programming language – Jet engine – John Bull (locomotive) – Markup language – Mozilla Firefox – Nuclear weapon – PaX – Phonograph cylinder – Quantum computer – Radar – RISC – ROT13 – Saturn V – Search engine – Soda can stove – Spacecraft propulsion – Spamming – Speech synthesis – Typewriter – Telephone exchange – Zuiderzee Works

Transport

Air Force One – Auto rickshaw – Ford Mustang – London Underground – Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 – Space elevator – VW Type 2 – Wigwag – Zeppelin

War

Attack on Pearl Harbor – 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) – Cristero War – Karl Dönitz – First Battle of the Stronghold – First Crusade – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson – Iraqi resistance – Erich von Manstein – Medal of Honor – Operation Downfall – Origins of the American Civil War – Peloponnesian War – Siege – Submarine – Tank – Trench warfare – Use of poison gas in World War I – War elephant – Warsaw Uprising – World War I