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Art, architecture, and archaeology · Awards and decorations · Biology and medicine · Chemistry and mineralogy · Computing · Culture and society · Economics · Education · Engineering and technology · Food and drink · Geography and places · Geology and geophysics · History · Language and linguistics · Law · Literature · Mathematics · Media · Music · Philosophy · Physics and astronomy · Politics and government · Psychology · Religion and beliefs · Royalty, nobility, and heraldry · Sport and games · Transport · War
Art, architecture, and archaeology
Art competitions at the Olympic Games
· Matthew Brettingham
· Felice Beato
· Buddhist art
· Graffiti
· Holkham Hall
· Paul Kane
· Robert Lawson (architect)
· El Lissitzky
· Michigan State Capitol
· Henry Moore
· Sylvanus Morley
· Benjamin Mountfort
· Oxyrhynchus
· 
Palladian architecture
· Parthenon
· Francis Petre
· Sicilian Baroque
· Templon
· John Vanbrugh
· Diego Velázquez
· Xanadu House
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 syndrome
· Asthma
· Blue Whale
· Norman Borlaug
· Cat
· Cerebellum
· Chagas disease
· Cladistics
· Coconut crab
· Dinosaur
· DNA repair
· Evolution
· Fauna of Australia
· Gray Wolf
· Helicobacter pylori
· History of saffron
· Homo floresiensis
· Humpback Whale
· Island Fox
· Kakapo
· Krill
· Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
· Marginated Tortoise
· Barbara McClintock
· Médecins Sans Frontières
· Menstrual cycle
· Mixed-breed dog
· Multiple sclerosis
· Myxobolus cerebralis
· Orca
· Paracetamol
· Platypus
· Pneumonia
· Prostate cancer
· Race
· Saffron
· Severe acute respiratory syndrome
· Short-beaked Echidna
· Shrimp farm
· Sperm Whale
· Synapse
· Tasmanian Devil
· Tooth development
· Tooth enamel
· Trade and usage of saffron
· Tuberculosis
· U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program
· Whale song
· White's Tree Frog
Chemistry and mineralogy
Acetic acid
· Alchemy
· Ammolite
· Diamond
· Helium
· Hydrochloric acid
· LSD
· Linus Pauling
· Raney nickel
· Technetium
· Titanium
· Turquoise
Computing
Acorn Computers · Apple Macintosh · Architecture of Btrieve · Architecture of the Windows NT operating system line · ASCII · Btrieve · C programming language · Central processing unit · CPU cache · Color Graphics Adapter · Commodore 64 · Common Unix Printing System · Data Encryption Standard · Delrina · Emacs · Floppy disk · GNU/Linux naming controversy · History of computing hardware · HTTP cookie · Java programming language · Markup language · MDAC · Microsoft · Mozilla Firefox · OpenBSD · PaX · Phishing · Quantum computer · Spyware · Windows 2000 · Windows XP · X Window System
Culture and society
Abbey Theatre
· Bathing machine
· Belarusian Republican Youth Union
· Black Seminoles
· Breastfeeding
· Cannabis rescheduling in the United States
· Exploding whale
· Flag of Australia
· Flag of Belarus
· Flag of the Republic of China
· Flag of Hong Kong
· Flag of India
· Flag of Mexico
· Flag of South Africa
· Gender role
· Greco-Buddhism
· David Helvarg
· History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)
· Japanese toilet
· Kitsch
· Kibbutz
· Korean name
· Mail
· Mandan
· Metrication
· Names of the Greeks
· Octopus card
· Pet skunk
· Prostitution in the People's Republic of China
· Spring Heeled Jack
· Sociocultural evolution
· Swastika
· Ta-Yuan
· Tamil people
· Yuan (surname)
Economics
€2 commemorative coins · Bank of China (Hong Kong) · Billboard (advertising) · Celtic Tiger · Economics · Economy of Africa · Economy of India · Economy of the Iroquois · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Gold standard · London Congestion Charge · Labour economics · Mercantilism · Strategic management · Supply and demand · United Kingdom corporation tax
Education
Caulfield Grammar School
· Memory Alpha
· Michigan State University
· University of Michigan
· Wikipedia
Engineering and technology
Aquarium
· Automatic number plate recognition
· Beverage can stove
· Caesar cipher
· Canon T90
· Central office
· Crash test dummy
· Domestic AC power plugs and sockets
· Eifel Aqueduct
· Electrical engineering
· Electronic amplifier
· Enigma machine
· Fountain pen
· Gas metal arc welding
· Gas tungsten arc welding
· Glass
· Jarmann M1884
· Kammerlader
· Krag-Jørgensen
· Krag-Petersson
· Nintendo Entertainment System
· Nuclear weapon
· Panavision
· Phonograph cylinder
· Radar
· ROT13
· Saturn V
· Shielded metal arc welding
· Shoe polish
· Spacecraft propulsion
· Speech synthesis
· Typewriter
· Welding
· Zuiderzee Works
Food and drink
Black pepper · Butter · Cheese · Coca-Cola · Kashrut · Single malt Scotch · Tea
Geography and places
Ann Arbor, Michigan
· Australia
· Bangalore
· Bath
· Belgium
· Bhutan
· Boston, Massachusetts
· Buckingham Palace
· Bryce Canyon National Park
· Cambodia
· Canberra
· Cape Horn
· Carlsbad Caverns National Park
· Cathedral of Magdeburg
· Chennai
· City status in the United Kingdom
· Cleveland, Ohio
· Colditz Castle
· Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
· Dawson Creek, British Columbia
· 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
· Kerala
· Lake Burley Griffin
· Louisville, Kentucky
· Malwa
· Marshall, Texas
· Moorgate
· Mount Pinatubo
· Mount St. Helens
· Mumbai
· National parks of England and Wales
· Nepal
· Niagara Falls
· Oakland Cemetery
· Palace of Westminster
· Palazzo Pitti
· People's Republic of China
· Piccadilly Circus
· Rondane National Park
· San Jose, California
· Sarajevo
· Sealand
· Seattle, Washington
· Sheffield
· Shoshone National Forest
· Shrine of Remembrance
· Sikkim
· South Africa
· Suburbs of Johannesburg
· Surtsey
· Traditional counties of England
· Waterfall Gully, South Australia
· Yellowstone National Park
· Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory
· Yosemite National Park
· Zambezi
· Zion National Park
Geology and geophysics
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens · 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
History
1755 Lisbon earthquake
· 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
· Anschluss
· Mark Antony
· Elias Ashmole
· Attalus I
· Attila the Hun
· Athanasius Kircher
· British East India Company
· Isaac Brock
· Byzantine Empire
· Claudius
· Congo Free State
· Columbine High School massacre
· Cyclone Tracy
· John Dee
· Adriaen van der Donck
· Elagabalus
· Éire
· England expects that every man will do his duty
· Epaminondas
· Eureka Stockade
· W. Mark Felt
· First Crusade
· Carl G. Fisher
· George Fox
· Anne Frank
· Franks
· Galveston Hurricane of 1900
· Helen Gandy
· Franklin B. Gowen
· Gettysburg Address
· Great Lakes Storm of 1913
· Mahatma Gandhi
· Habsburg Spain
· History of Alaska
· History of Arizona
· History of the Australian Capital Territory
· 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 Limerick
· History of Miami, Florida
· History of New Jersey
· History of Poland (1945–1989)
· History of Portugal (1777-1834)
· 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
· Hurricane Dennis
· Indo-Greek Kingdom
· Italian Renaissance
· Katyn massacre
· Stanisław Koniecpolski
· Ku Klux Klan
· Laika
· Ferdinand Magellan
· Makuria
· Marshall Plan
· Old Swiss Confederacy
· William N. Page
· Rosa Parks
· Witold Pilecki
· Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
· Political integration of India
· Project MKULTRA
· Radhanite
· Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
· Russian constitutional crisis of 1993
· Samantha Smith
· Scotland in the High Middle Ages
· Second Crusade
· Sino-German cooperation (1911-1941)
· Space Race
· Sydney Riot of 1879
· Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
· Treaty of Devol
· Jonathan Wild
· Yagan
· Ziad Jarrah
Language and linguistics
Aramaic language
· Gbe languages
· Ido
· Laal language
· Nafaanra language
· Portuguese language
· Russian language
· Split infinitive
· Stuttering
· Swedish language
· Taiwanese (linguistics)
· Tamil language
· Thou
· Vowel
· Vulgar Latin
Law
Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia
· Article One of the United States Constitution
· Common scold
· Detailed breakdown of the USA PATRIOT Act, Title II
· Dietrich v The Queen
· Dred Scott v. Sandford
· Equal Protection Clause
· Federalist No. 10
· First Amendment to the United States Constitution
· French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools
· James Bulger
· Lawrence v. Texas
· Paragraph 175
· Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791
· Roe v. Wade
· Schabir Shaik Trial
· Separation of powers under the United States Constitution
· Supreme Court of the United States
· Texas Ranger Division
· Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
· United States Constitution
Literature
Douglas Adams
· The Adventures of Tintin
· African American literature
· Alliterative verse
· Mário de Andrade
· Isaac Asimov
· Augusta, Lady Gregory
· Augustan drama
· Augustan literature
· Samuel Beckett
· Book of Kells
· The Brothers Karamazov
· Calvin and Hobbes
· The Cantos
· Colley Cibber
· The Country Wife
· Crime fiction
· Cyberpunk
· John Day (printer)
· H.D.
· Du Fu
· English poetry
· The Foundation Series
· The Giver
· Robert A. Heinlein
· The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
· Hrafnkels saga
· Imagism
· Irish poetry
· Irish theatre
· Henry James
· James Joyce
· Rudyard Kipling
· Krazy Kat
· H.P. Lovecraft
· Medieval literature
· Middle-earth
· Modernist poetry in English
· George Moore
· Objectivist poets
· The Old Man and the Sea
· Ormulum
· Oroonoko
· Chuck Palahniuk
· Peterborough Chronicle
· Poetry of the United States
· The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
· The Relapse
· Restoration comedy
· Restoration literature
· Restoration spectacular
· John Millington Synge
· A Tale of a Tub
· Three Laws of Robotics
· Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
· Voynich manuscript
· William Butler Yeats
Mathematics
Ackermann function · Algorithm · Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace · Carl Friedrich Gauss · Game theory · Infinite monkey theorem · Margin of error · Monty Hall problem · Blaise Pascal · Prisoner's dilemma · Regular polytope · Marian Rejewski · Trigonometric function
Media
Arrested Development
· James T. Aubrey, Jr.
· Batman
· BBC television drama
· Blackadder
· Blackface
· Blade Runner
· Humphrey Bogart
· Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
· Casablanca (film)
· Cheers
· Coronation Street
· Dalek
· Dawson's Creek
· Doctor Who
· Doctor Who missing episodes
· Karen Dotrice
· Felix the Cat
· Henry Fonda
· Jim Henson
· Katie Holmes
· Vivien Leigh
· Lindsay Lohan
· Ian McKellen
· Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV programme)
· Sydney Newman
· November (film)
· Our Friends in the North
· Our Gang
· The Quatermass Experiment
· Quatermass and the Pit
· Julia Stiles
· KaDee Strickland
· Superman
· Sunset Boulevard (1950 film)
· Sharon Tate
· Spoo
· TARDIS
· Thunderball
· Uma Thurman
· Triumph of the Will
· The West Wing (television)
· Western (genre)
· WGA screenwriting credit system
Music
Louis Armstrong
· The Beatles
· Blues
· Johnny Cash
· Phil Collins
· "Cool" (song)
· Rebecca Clarke
· Miles Davis
· "A Day in the Life"
· Celine Dion
· "Dixie" (song)
· Dream Theater
· Duran Duran
· Bob Dylan
· "Get Back"
· Gramophone record
· Grunge music
· Guqin
· "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
· Charles Ives
· The Jackson 5
· "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"
· "Layla"
· "The Long and Winding Road"
· Witold Lutosławski
· Marilyn Manson
· Olivier Messiaen
· Mor lam
· Kylie Minogue
· Music of Athens, Georgia
· Music of Maryland
· Music of Minnesota
· Music of Nigeria
· "My Belarusy"
· Nightwish
· Nirvana (band)
· Pink Floyd
· Porgy and Bess
· Punk rock
· "Real Love" (song)
· Saxophone
· "She Loves You"
· Sex Pistols
· Dmitri Shostakovich
· Sly & the Family Stone
· Smile (Brian Wilson album)
· "Something"
· Igor Stravinsky
· The Supremes
· Sylvia (ballet)
· The Temptations
· "This Charming Man"
· Timpani
· Vanilla Ninja
· The Waterboys
· "Yesterday" (song)
Philosophy
Michel Foucault · Frankfurt School · Free will · Omnipotence paradox · Ludwig Wittgenstein · Bernard Williams
Physics and astronomy
Apollo 8
· Astrophysics Data System
· ATLAS experiment
· Big Bang
· Black hole
· Cat's Eye Nebula
· Comet
· Comet Hale-Bopp
· Comet Hyakutake
· Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
· Albert Einstein
· Richard Feynman
· Fermi paradox
· Galileo Galilei
· H II region
· Herbig-Haro object
· Hubble Deep Field
· Hubble Space Telescope
· Kreutz Sungrazers
· Isaac Newton
· Open cluster
· Planetary habitability
· Planetary nebula
· Quantum mechanics
· Robert Oppenheimer
· Rainbow
· Roche limit
· Carl Sagan
· Soap bubble
· Speed of light
· Sun
· Edward Teller
· Transit of Venus
· Venus
· Weather lore
Politics and government
1996 U.S. campaign finance scandal · 2004 Democratic National Convention · Anarcho-capitalism · Tony Blair · Tom Brinkman · British House of Commons · George Brown, Baron George-Brown · Canadian House of Commons · Canadian federal election, 1993 · Canadian Senate · Hugo Chávez · Commonwealth of Nations · Convention on Psychotropic Substances · Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) · European Union · Governor-General of India · Government of Maryland · House of Lords · Irish Houses of Parliament · George F. Kennan · League of Nations · Liberal Party (Utah) · Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968 · Libertarianism · Abraham Lincoln · Lord Chancellor · John Major · Sid McMath · Reginald Maudling · Bob McEwen · Military career of Hugo Chávez · Yoweri Museveni · Joshua A. Norton · Barack Obama · Parliament Act · Parliament of Canada · Parliament of the United Kingdom · James K. Polk · President of Ireland · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · Privy Council of the United Kingdom · Propaganda · Louis Riel · Read my lips: no new taxes · Theodore Roosevelt · Royal Assent · Nicolas Sarkozy · 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 · Margaret Thatcher · Tynwald Day · United States Congress · United States House of Representatives · United States Senate · U.S. Electoral College · Mordechai Vanunu · Voting system · Voter turnout · Robert Walpole · Washington gubernatorial election, 2004 · Max Weber · Gough Whitlam
Psychology
Autism
· Milgram experiment
· Psychosis
· Schizophrenia
Religion and beliefs
Angkor Wat · Anno Domini · Bahá'í Faith · Bible code · Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. · End times · Father Damien · Greek mythology · Hinduism · History of Buddhism · History of the Jews in Poland · Hebrew calendar · Holy Prepuce · King James Version of the Bible · Names of God in Judaism · Papal conclave · Papal Tiara · Fred Phelps · 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
· Sverre of Norway
· William I of Orange (William the Silent)
· William III of England
· William IV of the United Kingdom
· Victoria of the United Kingdom
Sport and games
1896 Summer Olympics
· 3D Monster Maze
· Amateur Radio Direction Finding
· Arsenal F.C.
· 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
· Wayne Gretzky
· History of Test cricket (to 1883)
· History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889)
· IFK Göteborg
· Sandy Koufax
· Goomba
· Fanny Blankers-Koen
· Katamari Damacy
· Lakitu
· Denis Law
· The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
· The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
· Lego
· Link (Legend of Zelda)
· Monopoly (game)
· Cynna Neele
· New England Patriots
· Olympic Flame
· Olympic Games
· Ted Radcliffe
· Rock, Paper, Scissors
· Seabiscuit
· StarCraft
· Sudoku
· Super Mario 64
· Suzanne Lenglen
· Summer Olympic Games
· Jim Thorpe
· Wario
· Weight training
· Xiangqi
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
· De Lorean DMC-12
· Ford Mustang
· Indian Railways
· John Bull (locomotive)
· London Underground
· Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
· Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9
· Montréal-Mirabel International Airport
· MTR
· Panama Canal
· Pan American World Airways
· Pioneer Zephyr
· Pulaski Skyway
· Rail transport in India
· Ridge Route
· RMS Titanic
· Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
· Ryanair
· San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
· Space elevator
· SS Andrea Doria
· TGV
· Volkswagen Type 2
· Warren County Canal
· Wigwag
· Zeppelin
War
Algerian Civil War
· Attack on Pearl Harbor
· Battle of Alesia
· Battle of Aljubarrota
· Battle of Badr
· Battle of Hampton Roads
· Battle of Inchon
· Battle of Jutland
· 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
· F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
· First Battle of the Stronghold
· Husein Gradaščević
· Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
· Imperial Japanese Navy
· Invasion
· Iowa class battleship
· Kargil War
· Lord's Resistance Army
· Military history of Canada
· Military history of Puerto Rico
· Military history of the Soviet Union
· Richard O'Connor
· Arthur Ernest Percival
· Operation Downfall
· Poison gas in World War I
· Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)
· Polish-Soviet War
· Polish September Campaign
· S-mine
· Siege
· Swedish allotment system
· Submarine
· Tank
· Thrasybulus
· Trench warfare
· USS Missouri (BB-63)
· USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
· War elephant
· War of the League of Cambrai
· War of the Spanish Succession
· Warsaw Uprising
· World War I
· Yom Kippur War