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Animals: Canine distemper -- sand dollar --

Chemical substances: Hydroxylysine -- Hydroxyproline -- Ornithine --

Computing / Internet: concurrency -- Virtual community --

Countries, Geography, Culture:

Brookline, Massachusetts -- Chugach Mountains -- Copper Country (region in Upper Peninsula of Michigan) -- Torch Bay (bay of Portage Lake)-- Uxmal -- Chao Phraya Valley --


Culture / Religion: Atonement -- Damnation -- Degenerate art -- History of Christian Missions -- Lawsonian religion -- Missions -- James Macpherson --

Education: Curry College -- The Colorado College --

Government / Politics / Social Issues: Canada Post -- computerized postage -- computer vended postage -- Freedom of Information Act -- Postal Service -- postal stationary -- fancy cancels -- mailstream -- moral panic -- politeness -- poverty pimp -- Psychiatric Inmates' Liberation Front (see http://members.aol.com/ahunter3/)-- race baiting -- racial discrimination -- racial hatred -- racially-motivated crime -- reverse discrimination -- secret police --

History: publishing industry -- timepieces -- historic fires (London 1212, Moscow 1752, San Francisco 1906, etc.) --

Law: Francs-tireurs

Linguistics:

Literature / Authors / Books: James Macpherson -- Carlos Fuentes -- Les Champs Magnetiques echo poem -- The Least You Should Know About English (by Teresa Fester Glazier) (numerous editions and formats) -- LIBERATION BY OPPRESSION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SLAVERY AND PSYCHIATRY by Dr. Thomas Szasz Nadja (by Andre Breton) Prolegomena to a Third Surrealist Manifesto or Not (by Andre Breton) -- Race Traitor: journal of the new abolitionism -- Russian Literature -- Surrealist Subversions (edited by Ron Sakolsky) -- Zen and the Brain -- English writing style --


Mathematics: CW complex -- cohomology group -- composite function -- degrees of freedom -- Fresnel integral -- function operation -- homotopy group -- hyper-elliptic curve -- long line -- p-adic analysis -- solid angle -- vector bundle --

Medicine/Surgery: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome -- Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome --

See Wikipedia:What You Need To Know About Cancer booklets for a list of desired articles about various sorts of cancer, and links to NIH public domain booklet texts for creating them.

Military / War: peacekeeping --

Movies / Television / Recreation: L'Age D'Or Un Chien Andalou Land of the Lost -- National Lampoon's Last Resort -- post-production --

Music and art: Arfé -- Alchemigram -- Ballets Russes -- entoptic graphomania -- Ja Rule -- Lil Bow Bow -- Marsalis, Brandon -- Marsalis, Wynton (trumpet player b. 1962; see http://www.wyntonmarsalis.net/) -- Masekela, Hugh -- mimeogram -- Monette, David G. (brass instrument designer; see http://www.monette.net/; designed trumpet for Wynton Marsalis) -- modernisme (i.e. the Antoni Gaudi variety) -- Nelly -- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark -- poster -- prehensilhouette -- gospel music -- Yothu Yindi -- Globe Theatre -- Liberty X --

Mythology / Folklore:

People (real, mythological, and fictional):

Adams, Samuel -- Ahn Choong-Kun -- Barthes, Roland -- Baudrillard, Jean -- Bellmer, Hans -- Benjamin, Walter -- Blood, Benjamin Paul -- Boyer, Carl Benjamin -- Burk, Ronnie -- Buchanan, Pat -- Chambers, Whittaker -- Cohn-Bendit, Daniel (anarchist student leader in May 1968 riots in France; now German Green MEP) -- Delors, Jacques -- Ducournet, Guy -- Durruti, Buenaventura -- Dudeney, Henry -- Fischer, Joschka (German Foreign Minister) -- Freleng, Friz -- Garon, Paul -- Greene, Bob (humorist) -- Greenspan, Alan -- Griffith, Andy -- Hallstein, Walter -- Henderson, William W. -- Iamblichus -- King, Rodney -- Lee, Stagger -- Liddy, G. Gordon -- Lyotard, Jean-François -- Maddox, Conroy -- Mansholt, Sicco L. -- Mansour, Joyce -- Masson, Andre -- Monet, Jean -- More, Hannah -- Murrow, Edward R. -- Nilo, Humberto -- Ortoli, Francois-Xavier -- Osho -- Ouchi, Bill -- Paalen, Wolfgang -- Parent, Mimi -- Petiot, Pierre -- Pletschke, Ernest F. -- Prosch, Harry (philosopher) -- Radulovich, Milo -- Rey, Jean -- Rivers, Joan -- Rivers, Melissa -- Röhl, Klaus Rainer -- Rosemont, Franklin -- Rosemont, Penelope -- Santer, Jacques -- Schuman, Robert (French Foreign Minister in 1950s) -- Sharpton, Al -- Sheldon, Ransom -- Smith, Cyril Stanley -- Smith, W. Eugene -- Swider, Nik -- Thorn, Gaston Edmont -- Zazie (Evi Moechel) -- Zorro --

Philosophy eastern philosophy -- religious philosophy --

Psychology: theory of information metabolism

Professions, Trades, Jobs: (one of these headers need integrating into hierachy) -- arborist -- branding (as in advertising, trademarks, etc.) -- memoir collaborator --

Science: -- Arthroscopic surgery -- Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction -- causal determinism -- Gestalt effect -- molecular evolution -- George Pake / Pake Doublet -- trepanation-- Underground coal gasification -- isotropic etching --


Sports: -- Portage Lake Pioneers -- skate park -- stadium --


Wedding and marriage-related items: marriage counseling -- history of marriage -- marriage throughout the world or marriage--anthropological aspects (or something like that. What should we call an article that compares the different views and cultural aspects of marriage through the world and history? Maybe marriage customs -- legal aspects of marriage -- wedding band -- wedding dress -- civil union --


Unclassified: Analogy -- ballroom -- Christic Institute -- Cultural literacy -- annuity -- The Exquisite Corpse's Wang Dang Doodle (include information on Ted Joans) -- fashion sense -- Halloween costume (another popular search) -- Headgear -- Hell's Kitchen (section of City of New York) -- Lawsonomy -- lumitalos -- mental hygiene -- playground -- Praline -- Surrealist Group in Stockholm -- The Surrealist Movement in the United States -- Technical analysis (Investment) -- time ahead items -- Udmurt --

Requested illustrations/diagrams: human anatomy

Deemed complete-ish