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Art, architecture, and archaeology

Art competitions at the Olympic Games · Matthew Brettingham · Felice Beato · Buddhist art · Graffiti · Holkham Hall · Robert Lawson (architect) · El Lissitzky · Henry Moore · Sylvanus Morley · Benjamin Mountfort · Oxyrhynchus · Palladian architecture · Parthenon · Audio content icon Francis Petre · Sicilian Baroque · Templon · John Vanbrugh · Diego Velázquez

Awards and decorations

Hero of Belarus · Hero of Ukraine · Medal of Honor · Audio content icon Order of the Bath · Order of Canada · Audio content icon Order of the Garter · Order of St Patrick · Order of the Thistle · Virtuti Militari

Biology and medicine

Audio content icon Action potential · Antarctic krill · Asperger syndrome · Asthma · Blue Whale · Norman Borlaug · Cat · Cerebellum · Chagas disease · Audio content icon Cladistics · Audio content iconCoconut crab · Audio content icon DNA repair · Audio content icon Evolution · Fauna of Australia · Audio content icon Gene · Gray Wolf · Helicobacter pylori · Audio content icon Homo floresiensis · Human · Humpback Whale · Island Fox · Kakapo · Krill · Lesch-Nyhan syndrome · Marginated Tortoise · Barbara McClintock · Menstrual cycle · Mixed-breed dog · Multiple sclerosis · Myxobolus cerebralis · Orca · Paracetamol · Platypus · Pneumonia · Race · Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome · Shrimp farm · Sperm Whale · Audio content icon Synapse · Tasmanian Devil · Tooth enamel · Tuberculosis · U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program · Whale song

Chemistry

Alchemy · Acetic acid · Diamond · Helium · Audio content icon Hydrochloric acid · LSD · Linus Pauling · Technetium · Audio content icon Titanium

Computing

Acorn Computers · Architecture of Btrieve · Architecture of Windows 2000 · ASCII · Btrieve · C programming language · CPU cache · Color Graphics Adapter · Commodore 64 · Common Unix Printing System · Data Encryption Standard · Emacs · Floppy disk · GNU/Linux naming controversy · History of computing hardware · Java programming language · Markup language · MDAC · Microsoft · Mozilla Firefox · PaX · Phishing · Quantum computer · Spam (electronic) · Spyware · Windows 2000 · Windows XP · X Window System

Culture and society

Abbey Theatre · Bathing machine · Black Seminoles · Breastfeeding · Cannabis rescheduling in the United States · Audio content icon Exploding whale · Flag of Belarus · Flag of the Republic of China · Flag of Hong Kong · Flag of India · Flag of South Africa · Freemasonry · Gender role · Greco-Buddhism · David Helvarg · Japanese toilet · Kitsch · Kibbutz · Korean name · Mail · Mandan · Metrication · Octopus card · Names of the Greeks · Pet skunk · Spring Heeled Jack · Sociocultural evolution · Audio content icon Swastika · Ta-Yuan · Tamil people · Yuan (surname)

Education

Academia · Caulfield Grammar School · Audio content icon Peer review · University of Michigan · Audio content icon Wikipedia

Economics

Bank of China (Hong Kong) · Billboard (advertising) · Celtic Tiger · Economics · Economy of Africa · Economy of India · Economy of the Republic of Ireland · Euro · Gold standard · London Congestion Charge · Labour economics · Mercantilism · Strategic management · Supply and demand · United Kingdom corporation tax

Food and drink

Black pepper · Cheese · Coca-Cola · Kashrut · Single malt Scotch · Tea

Geography and places

Ann Arbor, Michigan · Australia · Aztalan State Park · Bath · Belgium · Bhutan · Boston, Massachusetts · Buckingham Palace · Bryce Canyon National Park · Cambodia · Canberra · 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 · Audio content icon Dorset · Eldfell · Gangtok · Geography of India · Geography of Ireland · Goa · Great Mosque of Djenné · Gyeongju · Audio content icon Hong Kong · India · Isan · Johannesburg · Kalimpong · Lake Burley Griffin · Louisville, Kentucky · Marshall, Texas · Moorgate · Mount Pinatubo · Mount St. Helens · Mumbai · National parks of England and Wales · Nepal · Newark, New Jersey · 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 · 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 · Audio content icon Yosemite National Park · Zambezi · Zion National Park

Geology, geophysics, and mineralogy

1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens · Ammolite · 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 · Turquoise

History

Audio content icon 1755 Lisbon earthquake · Anschluss · Elias Ashmole · Attalus I · Attila the Hun · Athanasius Kircher · Behistun Inscription · British East India Company · Isaac Brock · Byzantine Empire · Claudius · Congo Free State · Columbine High School massacre · Cyclone Tracy · John Dee · Elagabalus · Éire · Audio content icon England expects that every man will do his duty · Audio content icon Eureka Stockade · W. Mark Felt · First Crusade · Carl G. Fisher · George Fox · Anne Frank · Franks · Audio content icon Galveston Hurricane of 1900 · Audio content icon Helen Gandy · Franklin B. Gowen · Great Lakes Storm of 1913 · Mahatma Gandhi · Habsburg Spain · History of Alaska · History of Arizona · 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 Poland (1945–1989) · History of post-Soviet Russia · History of the Netherlands · History of Russia · History of Scotland · Audio content icon History of the Grand Canyon area · History of the Yosemite area · Italian Renaissance · Stanisław Koniecpolski · Ku Klux Klan · Laika · Ferdinand Magellan · Makuria · Marshall Plan · Old Swiss Confederacy · William N. Page · Audio content icon Rosa Parks · Witold Pilecki · Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth · Project MKULTRA · Cardinal Richelieu · Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 · Audio content icon Samantha Smith · Second Crusade · Audio content icon Space Race · Sydney Riot of 1879 · Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 · Treaty of Devol · Jonathan Wild · Ziad Jarrah

Language and linguistics

Aramaic language · Noam Chomsky · Gbe languages · Laal language · Leet · Mandarin (linguistics) · Nafaanra language · Portuguese language · Russian language · Audio content icon Split infinitive · Stuttering · Swedish language · Taiwanese (linguistics) · Tamil language · Thou · Audio content icon Vowel · Vulgar Latin

Law

Common scold · Dred Scott v. Sandford · French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools · James Bulger · Lawrence v. Texas · Paragraph 175 · Audio content icon Roe v. Wade · Texas Ranger Division

Literature

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 · Audio content icon John Day (printer) · H.D. · Du Fu · English poetry · The Foundation Series· ·Audio content icon The Giver · Robert A. Heinlein · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Hrafnkels saga · Imagism · Irish poetry · Irish theatre · James Joyce · Rudyard Kipling · 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 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 · Infinite monkey theorem · Margin of error · Monty Hall problem · Blaise Pascal · Prisoner's dilemma · Regular polytope · Trigonometric function

Media

Arrested Development · James T. Aubrey, Jr. · Batman · BBC television drama · Blackadder · Blackface · Blade Runner · Captain Marvel (DC Comics) · Casablanca (film) · Coronation Street · Audio content icon Dalek · Dawson's Creek · Doctor Who · Doctor Who missing episodes · Humphrey Bogart · Felix the Cat · Henry Fonda · Jim Henson · Ian McKellen · Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV programme) · Audio content icon Not the Nine O'Clock News · 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 · Western (genre) · WGA screenwriting credit system

Music

Louis Armstrong · The Beatles · Johnny Cash · "Cool" (song) · Rebecca Clarke · Miles Davis · "A Day in the Life" · Dream Theater · Duran Duran · Bob Dylan · "Get Back" · Gramophone record · Grunge music · "A Hard Day's Night" (song) · Heavy metal music · Heavy-metal umlaut · "Hey Jude" · Hip hop music · Audio content icon "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" · "I Want to Hold Your Hand" · Iron Maiden (band) · Audio content icon Charles Ives · The Jackson 5 · Jazz · "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" · "The Long and Winding Road" · Kylie Minogue · "Layla" · Witold Lutosławski · Mor lam · Music of Maryland · Music of Nigeria · "My Belarusy" · Nirvana (band) · Audio content icon Roy Orbison · Porgy and Bess · Punk rock · "Real Love" (song) · Saxophone · "She Loves You" · Sex Pistols · Simon and Garfunkel · Dmitri Shostakovich · Sly & the Family Stone · Smile (album) · "Something" · Igor Stravinsky · The Supremes · Sylvia (ballet) · The Temptations · Audio content icon Timpani · Vanilla Ninja · "Yesterday" (song)

Philosophy

Michel Foucault · Frankfurt School · Free will · Omnipotence paradox · Audio content icon Paradox · Ludwig Wittgenstein · Bernard Williams

Physics and astronomy

Apollo 8 · Astrophysics Data System · ATLAS experiment · Big Bang · Black hole · Cat's Eye Nebula · Cold fusion · 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 · Audio content icon Robert Oppenheimer · Rainbow · Roche limit · Carl Sagan · Soap bubble · Speed of light · Transit of Venus · Venus · Weather lore

Politics and government

2004 Democratic National Convention · Anarcho-capitalism · Mark Antony · Article One of the United States Constitution · Tony Blair · Tom Brinkman · British House of Commons · George Brown, Baron George-Brown · Canadian House of Commons · Canadian Senate · Hugo Chávez · Commonwealth of Nations · Congress of the United States · Convention on Psychotropic Substances · Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) · Equal Protection Clause · European Union · First Amendment to the United States Constitution · Governor-General of India · Government of Maryland · Charles Graner · House of Lords · Irish Houses of Parliament · Federalist No. 10 · George F. Kennan · Mark Latham · League of Nations · Liberal Party (Utah) · Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968 · Libertarianism · Abraham Lincoln · Lord Chancellor · John Major · Sid McMath · Reginald Maudling · Yoweri Museveni · Joshua A. Norton · Barack Obama · Parliament Act · Parliament of Canada · Parliament of the United Kingdom · Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 · James K. Polk · Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. · 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 · Separation of powers under the United States Constitution · 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 · Supreme Court of the United States · Margaret Thatcher · Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution · Tynwald Day · United States Constitution · United States House of Representatives · United States Senate · U.S. Electoral College · Mordechai Vanunu · Voter turnout · Robert Walpole · Washington gubernatorial election, 2004 · Max Weber · Gough Whitlam · Audio content icon Ralph Yarborough

Psychology

Autism · Audio content icon Milgram experiment · Psychosis · Schizophrenia

Religion and beliefs

Angkor Wat · Anno Domini · Bahá'í Faith · Bible code · Buddhism · Christianity · Christmas · 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 election · Papal tiara · Presuppositional apologetics · Revised Standard Version · Shakers · Shroud of Turin · Space opera in Scientology doctrine · Xenu

Royalty, nobility, and heraldry

Audio content icon 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 · Audio content icon Hereditary peer · History of the Peerage · James I of England · James II of England · Louis XIV of France · Mary I of England · Audio content icon Mary II of England · Peerage · Penda of Mercia · Prince-elector · Privilege of Peerage · Representative peer · Sverre of Norway · William I of Orange · William III of England · William IV of the United Kingdom · Victoria of the United Kingdom

Sport and games

1896 Summer Olympics · Arsenal F.C. · The Ashes · Baseball · Moe Berg · Bishōjo game · Blackjack · Bodyline · Bullfighting · BZFlag · Chariot racing · Audio content icon Chess · Brian Close · Audio content icon A. E. J. Collins · Cricket · Steve Dalkowski · Lottie Dod · Doom · Formula One · Go (board game) · Audio content icon Golden Age of Arcade Games · History of Test cricket (to 1883) · History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) · IFK Göteborg · Garry Kasparov · Sandy Koufax · Goomba · Fanny Blankers-Koen · Katamari Damacy · Lakitu · Denis Law · Lego · Link (Legend of Zelda) · Monopoly (game) · 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

Technology

Aquarium · Automatic number plate recognition · Beverage can stove · Audio content icon Caesar cipher · Canon T90 · Crash test dummy · Domestic AC power plugs & sockets · Eifel Aqueduct · Electronic amplifier · Enigma machine · Fountain pen · Gas metal arc welding · Glass · Jarmann M1884 · Jet engine · Kammerlader · Krag-Jørgensen · Krag-Petersson · Nintendo Entertainment System · Nuclear weapon · Panavision · Phonograph cylinder · Radar · ROT13 · Saturn V · Shoe polish · Spacecraft propulsion · Speech synthesis · Typewriter · Telephone exchange · Welding · Zuiderzee Works

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 · Audio content icon Civil Air Patrol · Ford Mustang · Indian Railways · John Bull (locomotive) · London Underground · Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 · Montréal-Mirabel International Airport · MTR · 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 · VW Type 2 · Warren County Canal · Wigwag · Zeppelin

War

Algerian Civil War · Attack on Pearl Harbor · Battle of Alesia · Audio content icon 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) · Battle of Warsaw (1920) · Blitzkrieg · Chemical warfare · Convair B-36 · Cristero War · Karl Dönitz · First Battle of the Stronghold · Husein Gradaščević · Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson · Imperial Japanese Navy · Iowa class battleship · Erich von Manstein · Lord's Resistance Army · Military history of Canada · Military history of Puerto Rico · Military history of the Soviet Union · Richard O'Connor · Operation Downfall · Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618) · Polish-Soviet War · Polish September Campaign · S-mine · Siege · Swedish allotment system · Submarine · Tank · Trench warfare · Use of poison gas in World War I · USS Missouri (BB-63) · Audio content icon War elephant · War of the League of Cambrai · War of the Spanish Succession · Warsaw Uprising · World War I · Yom Kippur War

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