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Animals: sand dollar -- taxidermy -- Rinograda

Chemical substances: Hydroxylysine

Computing / Internet: Virtual community -- Wireless access point -- Wireless gateway (Do not forget to link to IEEE 802.11 article!!!)

Countries, Geography, Culture: Chichen Itza Chugach Mountains -- Copper Country (region in Upper Peninsula of Michigan) -- Torch Bay (bay of Portage Lake)-- Uxmal -- Chao Phraya Valley --


Culture: Joseph Cornell -- Maxfield Parrish -- George Rickey --

Degenerate art --
James Macpherson --
Emile Cioran

Economics: Poverty line

Education: Curry College -- The Colorado College -- Rhodes Scholar

Government / Politics / Social Issues: Canada Post -- computerized postage -- computer vended postage -- Postal Service -- postal stationery -- fancy cancels -- mailstream -- mujahadeen -- poverty pimp -- Psychiatric Inmates' Liberation Front (see [1])-- race baiting -- racial discrimination -- racial hatred -- racially-motivated crime -- Scottish Freedom Movements -- Scottish National Liberation Army -- secret police -- Hong Kong Basic Law -- Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 -- UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985) -- Welsh Freedom Movements

History:

historic fires (London 1212, Moscow 1752, San Francisco 1906, etc.) --

Law: AOC -- JNOV / Judgment notwithstanding verdict / Judgment non obstante veredicto -- Vacated judgment

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 -- The Tailgating Spinster by Daniel C. Boyer (published by Fiji Island Mermaid Press) -- Hakim Bey (psuedonym of Peter Lamborn Wilson -- A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer -- Encarta It strikes me that we should have articles on other Encyclopedias. -- Milan Papyrus (see e.g. ny times article

Mathematics: CW complex -- cohomology group -- composite function -- degrees of freedom -- Fresnel integral -- function operation -- homotopy group -- hyper-elliptic curve -- long line -- p-adic analysis -- vector bundle -- Overall, in the Mathematics pages, I expected to see more proofs. Currently, it is just a list of definitions. Perhaps these should be on separate pages?


Medicine/Surgery: infertility -- On-Line Medical Dictionary -- Rayid -- 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: military law -- military police -- peacekeeping -- Pine Gap --

Movies / Television / Recreation: L'Age D'Or National Lampoon's Last Resort --

Music and art: Arfé -- Alchemigram -- Ballets Russes -- entoptic graphomania -- Henderson, Fletcher -- Lil Bow Bow -- Marsalis, Brandon -- Marsalis, Wynton (trumpet player b. 1962; see http://www.wyntonmarsalis.net/) -- mimeogram --

Monette, David G. (brass instrument designer; see http://www.monette.net/; designed trumpet for Wynton Marsalis) -- modernisme (i.e. the Antoni Gaudi variety) -- Wolfe Tones -- A Nation Once Again -- Thongchai McIntyre

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark -- poster -- prehensilhouette -- Globe Theatre --

Mythology / Folklore:

People (real, mythological, and fictional):

Ahn Choong-Kun -- Barthes, Roland -- Baudrillard, Jean -- Bellmer, Hans -- Benjamin, Walter -- Blood, Benjamin Paul -- Boyer, Carl Benjamin -- Burk, Ronnie -- Chambers, Whittaker -- Clark, Jim (racing driver) -- Cochrane, Archie -- Cohn-Bendit, Daniel (anarchist student leader in May 1968 riots in France; now German Green MEP) -- Ducournet, Guy -- Dudeney, Henry -- Fleischer, Max -- Freleng, Friz -- Garon, Paul -- Gingrich, Newt -- Greene, Bob (humorist) -- Gyory, Victor -- Hallstein, Walter -- Henderson, William W. -- Iamblichus -- Lafontaine -- Lee, Stagger -- Liddy, G. Gordon -- Lyotard, Jean-François -- Maddox, Conroy -- Mansholt, Sicco L. -- Mansour, Joyce -- Masson, Andre -- Monet, Jean --

More, Hannah -- Moyers, Bill -- Nilo, Humberto -- Ortoli, Francois-Xavier -- Osho -- Ouchi, Bill -- Paalen, Wolfgang -- Parent, Mimi -- Petiot, Pierre -- Platino, Mark -- Pletschke, Ernest F. -- Prosch, Harry (philosopher) -- Radulovich, Milo -- Rey, Jean -- Rivers, Joan -- Rivers, Melissa -- Röhl, Klaus Rainer -- Rosemont, Franklin -- Rosemont, Penelope -- Salt, Henry (social reformer and writer) -- Santer, Jacques -- Schuman, Robert (French Foreign Minister in 1950s) -- Sheldon, Ransom --

Smith, Cyril Stanley -- Smith, W. Eugene -- Spira, Henry -- Swider, Nik -- Thorn, Gaston Edmont -- Zazie (Evi Moechel) -- Pierre Charles L'Enfant

Philosophy religious philosophy -- paradox of hedonism --

Psychology: theory of information metabolism -- perfectionism --

Professions, Trades, Jobs: (one of these headers need integrating into hierarchy) -- arborist -- memoir collaborator --

Religion: -- Atonement -- Lawsonian religion -- Old Believers

Science: -- Arthroscopic surgery -- Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction -- Gestalt effect -- molecular evolution -- George Pake / Pake Doublet -- 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 dress --


Unclassified: ballroom -- Battery Park -- Christic Institute -- Cultural literacy -- The Exquisite Corpse's Wang Dang Doodle (include information on Ted Joans) -- fashion sense -- Lawsonomy -- lumitalos -- mental hygiene -- playground -- Praline -- Surrealist Group in Stockholm -- The Surrealist Movement in the United States -- Tie -- time ahead items -- Udmurt --

Requested illustrations/diagrams:

Deemed complete-ish