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Abdullah Abdullah -- Afghan Islamic Press -- Afghan Ministry of Health -- Afghan National Museum -- Bagram air base -- Lakhdar Brahimi -- Kabul Radio -- Fazil Ahmed Manawi --

Capsule hotel -- Department store -- Geometrical road design -- Lewittown its nature as a prefabricated standardized housing -- Massachusetts Turnpike -- Medieval architecturePacific Bell Park -- Playground -- Police box -- Seattle Kingdome -- Shopping mall -- St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral (in Brussels) -- That Sri Song Hak -- Winchester Mystery House -- Woolworth Building

Animal intelligence -- Axolotl -- Blue shark -- Bombardier beetle -- Bull shark -- Gray reef shark -- Great whale -- How to give a dog a bath -- Nurse shark -- Oceanic white tipped shark -- pasteurellosis -- Rhinograda -- Silky shark -- Skates -- Tiger shark -- Whale shark

Aboriginal art -- Abramtsevo Colony (art group) -- Action painting -- Alchemigram –- Airbrushing -- Alexander Mosaic (about the Battle of Issus) -- Alla prima -- Altamira (cave paintings) -- Arfé -- Art history –- Art group -- Artek -- Aquilifer -- Bas relief -- Barbizon school -- Hans Bellmer -- Alceo Dossena (Italian art faker) -- Casa Argentina del Arte Correo -- Flat shadingThe Exquisite Corpse's Wang Dang Doodle (include information on Ted Joans) -- Winslow Homer -- Michel Lotito (eats glass and metal) (ms. Magne Tout) -- Conroy Maddox –- Manuscript illumination -- Andre Masson (painter) -- Mimeogram -- Mixed media -- Modernisme (i.e. the Antoni Gaudi variety) -- Mosfilm -- Wolfgang Paalen -- Maxfield Parrish -- Pierre Petiot -- Poster -- Prehensilhouette -- George Rickey -- Surrealist Group in Stockholm -- The Surrealist Movement in the United States -- Xerox art

History of calendars -- How to compute calendars -- Superjovian

Brimstone -- Hydrogenation -- Palladium hydride -- Propellant Pyrethum --

Comedy, Satire, and Humor

Fred Allen -- Carol Burnett -- Allegra Coleman (nonexistent model) -- Tim Conway -- Bob Greene (humorist) -- Richard Pryor -- Joan Rivers -- Red Skelton

Communicationsand media outlets

Automatic Number Identification -- Bell Canada -- Closed-caption -- Japan Times -- Pamphlet -- Radio Liberty -- Telecommunications Device for the Deaf

Acapedia -- Datapoint -- Datapoint 2200 -- Double density -- EbXML Architecture -- Enhanced keyboard -- IBM Convertible -- IBM PC XT -- IBM Portable -- Mercedes (calculator) -- Wireless gateway (Do not forget to link to IEEE 802.11 article!!!)

Crime and law

Aggravated assault -- Blackmail -- Bootlegging -- Boston Strangler -- Bounty Hunter -- Cattle mutilation -- Conman -- Heidi Fleiss (Hollywood Madame) -- Enrico Gatti (Italian small-time terrorist) -- Salvatore Giuliano (Sicilian bandit) -- Fritz Haarman (Serial killer) -- Barry Minkov (ZZZBest) -- Hungerford Massacre -- Loanshark –- Modus Operandi -- Negligent manslaughter -- Nicholas Leeson -- Shoplifting -- Wrongful death claim

Royal Danish Ballet -- Ballets Russes -- Arthur Murray

Economics, business, businesses, business leaders, sales, marketing

Advertising agency -- Applied Materials -- Bank of America (and please de-orphan it) -- Bubble economy -- Steve Case -- Conman -- Day trading -- Deficit spending -- Futures trading or Futures -- Generalized System of Preferences -- Gimmick -- Harrods -- Hyatt International -- Induced innovation -- Jellyvision -- National debt -- New Economy -- That magical period of time in the 90's where a company that has and does nothing could be gloriously rich in weeks, and dead a few months later. Political risk insurance -- Product Placement -- Public finance -- Scarcity value -- Stabilisation policy -- Wells Fargo -- Net Book Agreement

Fulbright Educational Exchange Program -- Fulbright scholarship -- Head Start -- New Jersey Institute of Technology

Environment

Pulper

Christie Brinkley -- Cover Girl -- Cindy Crawford

Access for Afghan Women Act -- International Women's Day -- Billy Jean King -- Gloria Steinem

Apiculture -- The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet –- Goulash -- Humanitarian aid -- Malnutrition -- Praline -- Henry Spira -- Malnutrition --

Trading cards

Gender & Sexuality

Beefcake -- Lili Elbe (transsexual) Love hotel –-

Geography

Agadir -- Arak Gorges -- Berghof -- Chao Phraya Valley -- Chugach Mountains -- Torch Bay (bay of Portage Lake) -- Mapuche -- Saint Croix

Government / Politics / bureaucracy (also see below Political science / Law)

Anarchy (Malatesta book) -- Border -- Central American Parliament -- Civil disorder -- Computerized postage -- Computer vended postage -- Consular office -- Death row -- Defense Policy Board -- Dissident -- Esquipulas Peace Agreement -- Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front -- Fancy cancels -- Geraldine Ferraro -- Fifth Republic of France -- Inter-American Human Rights Court -- Mailstream -- Harkat-ul Mujahedeen one of more than a dozen militant groups that have fought Indian troops since 1989 in Kashmir -- Military coup -- Multi-party system -- Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act -- Official secrets act -- Palestinian Liberation Front -- Partnership for Democracy and Development in Central America -- Postal Service -- Poverty pimp -- Psychiatric Inmates' Liberation Front (see [2]) -- Regime -- Scottish Freedom Movements -- Scottish National Liberation Army -- Sectarian violence -- Separatism -- State of Emergency -- Tangentopoli Italian “bribe city” campaign -- UN Security Council Resolution 940 -- United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan -- Ustasha -- Viceroy of Ireland -- War on Poverty -- Welsh Freedom Movements -- Witness protection program

History

1832 nullification crisis -- Antiquity -- EDSA Revolution -- Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere -- Immigration Act of 1924 (U.S.) -- Iran hostage crisis (surely we can do better than this) -- Kreisau Circle -- Palestinian Liberation Front --

Historic Events

List of historic fires -- Poplar strike

Historical figures

Cochise -- Walter Hallstein -- Princess Herange (1883-1952) Maori leader -- Frank Billings Kellogg -- Sicco L. Mansholt -- Ortoli, Francois-Xavier -- Papillon -- Pocahontas (not the Disney version) -- Robert Schuman (French Foreign Minister in 1950s) -- Chuine Sugihara ("Japan's Schindler") --- Georges Pompidou -- Milo Radulovich (Red Scare) -- Elihu Root -- Jacques Santer -- Ranuccio Farnese

Jimmy Hoffa Labor movements

Conradh na Gaeilge -- Language Freedom Movement (of Ireland) -- Long vowel -- Signuno

Literature, authors, writers, reports, media, newspapers books and critics

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer -- American Spectator -- Maya Angelou -- Asahi Shimbun –- Benjamin Paul Blood -- Kyril Bonfiglioli -- Les Champs Magnetiques -- Emile Cioran -- City Lights Bookstore -- Colliers -- Echo poem -- The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test -- English writing style -- Carlos Fuentes -- Paul Garon -- Linda Gregerson -- Tony Hillerman -- Hustler -- Indian Express (a leading Indian newspaper) -- James Howard Kunstler -- Last of the Mohicans -- The Least You Should Know About English (by Teresa Fester Glazier) (numerous editions and formats) -- Japan Times -- Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry by Dr. Thomas Szasz -- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award -- Alistair MacLean (British war and thriller writer) -- Leo Malet (French detective story writer of Nestor Burma fame) -- Joyce Mansour (poet) -- Water Margin (Chinese play) -- Adam Michnik -- Milan Papyrus (see e.g. NY Times article) -- Medieval literature -- Nadja (by Andre Breton) -- Newsweek magazine -- Race Traitor: journal of the new abolitionism -- Ruth Rendell -- Russian literature -- Ron Sakolsky -- San Francisco Chronicle -- Slavery for their Own Good by Andrew Acosta -- Studs Terkel -- At the Threshold of Liquid Geology by Eric W. Bragg -- Bob Woodward -- Banana Yoshitomo (Japanese writer) -- Zen and the brain

  • It strikes me that we should have articles on other Encyclopedias.

CW complex -- Dudeney, Henry E. -- Fresnel integral -- Function operation (a Computer Science term) -- Homotopy group -- Hyper-elliptic curve -- Jordan curve theorem -- Jordan-Hölder theorem -- Joseph Larmor -- Sphenic numbers -- M. James Lighthill -- P-adic analysis -- truncation or truncated (geometry) -- 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?

AIDS in Africa -- Alien Hand Syndrome -- Amnesia -- Artificial heart -- Asphyxiation -- Benzone -- Bezoar -- Birthmark -- Blister (causes and treatment) -- Breast pump -- Cauterization -- Archie Cochrane -- Encephalitis lethargica -- Genetic counselling -- Heart-lung transplant -- Hematidrosis (bloody sweat) -- immunization -- Ignipuncture (Moxa) -- Life support -- Lumbago (redirect to ?) -- Alexander Luria (Russian neurologist) The mind of a Mnemonist -- Medicine basic topics -- Medieval medicine -- Mobius Syndrome -- Morning sickness –- Nephritis -- Orthodontics -- Preparation H -- Rayid -- Retainer (orthodontic device) -- Sutures -- Teratoma -- Trench mouth -- Tumor necrosis factor -- Weaning -- Wet-nurse

Artist regiment -- Asylum -- Battle of Bemis Heights -- Battle of the Eastern Solomons -- Bazooka -- Biopreparat (Soviet biological weapons program) -- Blue Legion -- Helge Boes (CIA officer died in Afghanistan) -- Bomber Command -- British School of Military Engineering -- Vincent Brooks (U.S. Brigadier General) -- Bundeswehr -- Nicholas Butler (peace prize winner) -- Cenepa War -- Capoera -- Commissioning pennant -- DEFCON -- Dereliction of duty -- Domino theory -- EMERGCON -- Fog of War -- FPCON -- Herero Wars -- Hessians -- Hussars -- International Save the Children Alliance -- Illinois Air National Guard -- Jesuit Refugee Service -- LERTCON -- London Cannon (WW2) -- Military police -- National ensign -- Operation Desert Lion -- Operation Eagle Fury -- Operation Phase Echo -- Operation Valiant Strike -- Operation Viper -- Peacekeeping -- Pine Gap -- Steam brig -- Peter Struck (Germany defense minster) -- Soldier of Fortune (magazine) -- Swiss Mercenaries -- Tombs of the Unknown Warrior -- Thomas Truxtun (captain) -- Albrect von Wallenstein (Thirty Years War commander) -- Gideon Welles (a secretary of navy) -- World Vision International

L'Age D'Or -- Arsenio Hall -- George Hamilton -- Rita Hayworth -- Martin Landau -- National Lampoon's Last Resort -- Jack Parr -- Joe Pesci -- Melissa Rivers -- Tim Robbins -- Cesar Romero -- Tom Selleck -- Zoom (tv show)

Aeolian Harp -- A Nation Once Again (Irish folk song) -- Acid jazz -- Cannonball Adderley -- Band Aid -- The Boomtown Rats -- Perry Como -- DJ Spinderella -- E-Street Band -- En Vogue -- Cass Elliott (mama cass) -- George Jones -- Lil Bow Bow -- Guy Lombardo -- Barry McGuire -- Thongchai McIntyre -- Branford Marsalis -- David G. Monette (brass instrument designer; see [3]; designed trumpet for Wynton Marsalis) -- scratching -- Michelle Shocked -- Jill Sobule -- Bobby Short -- Tin Pan Alley -- Ernest Tubb -- The Wolfe Tones -- Unthan, Carl Herman, violinist without hands (1848-?) -- Townes Van Zandt

Ahasverus -- Akashic Records -- Alcheringa -- Bluebeard -- Jackalope -- Jersey Devil -- Matiasma (evil eye) -- Ouroboros -- Water horse -- Weyland

Paranormal, magic and extraterrestrial

George Adamski (Claimed to have traveled with an UFO) -- Alien Big Cats (British feline sightings) -- Ancient Astronauts -- Automatic writing -- Charm -- Gerald Groiset (Dutch psychic) -- Erick Jan Hanussen (ie. Herman Steinschneider, Pre-WW2 psychic) -- Doug Henning -- Chaos Magic -- Jasper Maskelyne (British stage magician)

People, professions, organizations and groups

Tariq Ali -- Arborist -- Martin Van Buren Bates (8 feet tall; 500+ pounds) -- Philippe Buonarroti -- Daniel Chick (81 year old man from Ohio detained in Israel on his way to find Osama bin Laden) -- Mark David Chapman (lennon assassin) -- Ahn Choong-Kun (assassin) -- Commoner -- Crips & Bloods -- Customs officer -- Guy Ducournet -- Izzy Einstein (Prohibition agent) -- Sir John Franklin (British explorer) -- Girl Scouts of America -- William W. Henderson -- Eugen Herrigel (German Zen writer) -- Bernard Heuvelmans (cryptozoologist) -- Impersonator -- Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization -- John Birch Society -- Bob Kiley (Commissioner of Transport for London) -- Ilse Koch (Bitch of Buchenwald) -- Pierre Charles L'Enfant -- Lafontaine -- Ettore Majorano (vanished Italian mathematician) -- Memoir collaborator -- Mercy Corps -- Merry Pranksters -- Wilbur Daigh Mills (US congressman) -- Jean Monnet -- Hannah More -- Kaj Munck -- Carry Nation (US saloon smasher) -- Humberto Nilo -- Mimi Parent -- Mark Platino -- Ernest F. Pletschke -- Harry Prosch (philosopher) -- Relief International -- Klaus Rainer Ro:hl -- Franklin Rosemont -- Penelope Rosemont -- Henry Salt (social reformer and writer) -- Ransom Sheldon -- W. Eugene Smith -- Cyril Stanley Smith -- Nik Swider -- Gaston Edmont Thorn -- Hugh Troy (US prankster) -- Wilhelm Wassmuss (German WW1 soldier in Syria) -- Zazie (Evi Moechel) -- Todor Zhivkov

Apologism -- Apologist -- Critical thinking -- Jean Baudrillard -- Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Pseudo-philosophy -- Religious philosophy -- Rene Guenon -- Julius Evola --

Remanence (the magnetic flux left behind after an electromagnetic field has been turned off)

Aniseed -- Bleubell -- Briony/bryony -- Camomile -- Camphor -- Champignon -- Chive -- Morning glory

Political science / Law (also see above Crime, Government etc.)

Arab Socialism -- The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti -- Christian democracy -- Civil justice -- Daniel Cohn-Bendit (anarchist student leader in May 1968 riots in France; now German Green MEP) -- Constitutional right of access to DNA testing -- Foreign Claims Act -- Forensic DNA -- Ruth Bader Ginsberg -- International trade law -- Law of the Russian Federation -- Law of the Soviet Union -- Li Lu (Tian'anmen Square protest leader) -- Racketeering -- STR multiplex systems -- Vacated judgment -- White-collar crime

Bullying -- Castration anxiety -- Childhood development Gestalt effect -- Obsession -- Phallic symbol -- Projective techniques -- Rogerian psychotherapy -- Rorschach ink blot test -- Sadness -- Theory of information metabolism

Beaker people -- Culture of Denmark -- Faroese -- Hopewell culture -- Jivaro -- Ohlone -- Race baiting -- Racial hatred -- Racially-motivated crime

Religion, Cults and self-help

Acolyte --- Alektca -- Anointed or Anointment -- Baptismal font -- Cassock -- Catechism (non-Catholic ones) -- Censer -- Christian Theological Seminary -- Christic Institute -- Church of Jesus Christ Elvis -- Countenance Divine -- Counter-Reformation -- Dark side -- Dhammapada -- Exegesis -- Exegete -- Victor Gyory (Scientology) -- Indulgences -- Jizo -- Kumari (Nepali girl goddess) -- Lawsonian religion and/or Lawsonomy -- Mezuzah -- Old Believers -- Order of the Solar Temple -- Padre Pio -- St. Bonaventure -- Trinity Church, in Manhattan

Experimental Archeology -- Molecular clock -- George Pake -- Pake Doublet -- Underground coal gasification Weather control

Sports and recreation

1964 Winter Olympic Games -- Bank One Ballpark (in Phoenix) -- Harry Caray -- Tony Dorsett -- French Football League Teams -- Dwight Gooden -- Rogers Hornsby -- Roger Kahn -- Billy Jean King -- Milwaukee Braves -- Stan Musial -- Joe Namath -- Pacific Bell Park -- Portage Lake Pioneers -- Bill Russell -- Seattle Kingdome -- Sportswriter -- George Steinbrenner -- David Stern (NBA Commissioner)

Substance abuse and recreational substances

Premier cigarette

Technology, inventions, inventors

David Ricci -- Pager -- Robert Stirling (Rev., in 1816 "inventor of a form of air-engine", according to l'EB 1911) -- C, C++, and C# past, development, and predecessors

Tools, Everyday items

Anvil -- Bellows -- Bottle -- Chainsaw -- Juicer -- Stirrup

Air Berlin -- Air Europa -- Caravan (both the historical one and the modern vehicle) -- O'Hare International Airport -- Scirocco (Volkswagen) -- White Bicycle of Amsterdam

Bride price -- Chaperon -- Couvade -- History of marriage -- Legal aspects of marriage -- Marriage in different cultures -- Matchmaker -- Wedding dress -- Widow


Unclassified

Alma mater -- Anthropometrics -- Apprentice -- Bloodstone (gem) -- Buckram (linen) -- Carpet -- Debunker Fashion sense -- Flogging -- Indenture (as in indentured servant) -- Kyoko Date (virtual popstar) -- Lumitalos -- Magnum opus (or Lifework) -- Time ahead items --


See also