| Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles (also Akhilleus or Achilleus; Ancient Greek: ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme the Wrath of Achilles. Achilles
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| Anthropology Anthropology (, from Greek , anthrōpos, "human"; -λογία, -logia) is the study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. Anthropology
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| Afro-Asiatic languages The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 languages (SIL estimate) and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, northern West Africa, northern Central Africa, and Southwest Asia (including some 200 million speakers of Arabic). Afro-Asiatic_languages
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| A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a satirical essay written and published by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift appears to suggest in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. A_Modest_Proposal
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| Articles of Confederation The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, also the Articles of Confederation was the governing constitution of the alliance of thirteen independent and sovereign states styled "United States of America." The Article's ratification (proposed in 1777) was completed in 1781, legally uniting the states by compact into the "United States of America" as a union with a confederation government. Articles_of_Confederation
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| Abortion An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of a embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced. Abortion
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| Altaic languages Altaic, according to its proponents, is a language family that includes 66 languagesAltaic languages spoken by about 348 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and northeast Asia.Altaic Language Family Tree Ethnologue report for Altaic. Altaic_languages
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| Argon Argon () is a chemical element designated by the symbol Ar. Argon has atomic number 18 and is the third element in group 18 of the periodic table (noble gases). Argon
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| Antimony Antimony (IPA [æˈntɪməˌniː] (Received Pronunciation), /ˈæntɪmoʊni/ (US)) is a chemical element with the symbol Sb (, meaning "mark") and atomic number 51. A metalloid, antimony has four allotropic forms. Antimony
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| Actinium Actinium () is a chemical element with the symbol Ac and atomic number 89. Actinium
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| Alliaceae Alliaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants. They are monocots, part of order Asparagales. Alliaceae
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| Aristophanes Aristophanes (, in English, ca. 446 BC – ca. Aristophanes
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| Algorithms for calculating variance Algorithms for calculating variance play a major role in statistical computing. A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values. Algorithms_for_calculating_variance
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| Assembly line An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added to a product in a sequential manner using optimally planned logistics to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods. The best known form of the assembly line, the moving assembly line, was realized into practice by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915, and made famous in the following decade by the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers. Assembly_line
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| Automorphism In mathematics, an automorphism is an isomorphism from a mathematical object to itself. It is, in some sense, a symmetry of the object, and a way of mapping the object to itself while preserving all of its structure. Automorphism
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| American (word) Use of the word American in the English language differs according to the historic, geographic, and political context in which it is used. It derives from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World (also the Americas), and its usage has evolved. American_(word)
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| Argot Argot (French and Spanish for "slang") is a secret language used by various groups—including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals—to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations. Argot
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| Annales School The Annales School ( in French) is a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century. It is named after its French-language scholarly journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, which remains the main source, along with many books and monographs. Annales_School
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| Allosaurus Allosaurus () is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago, in the late Jurassic period. The name Allosaurus means "different lizard" and is derived from the Greek αλλος/allos ("different, strange") and σαυρος/sauros ("lizard"). Allosaurus
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| Acacia Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus in 1773. The plants tend to be thorny and pod-bearing. Acacia
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| Alcidamas Alcidamas, of Elaea, in Aeolis, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the 4th century BC. Alcidamas
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| Alexander of Aphrodisias Alexander of Aphrodisias was the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was styled, by way of pre-eminence, "the expositor" (). Alexander_of_Aphrodisias
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| Andrew Jackson first TN Congressman (statehood) Andrew_Jackson
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| Age of consent While the phrase age of consent typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used with in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent of consenting to sexual acts. This should not be confused with the age of majority, age of criminal responsibility, or the marriageable age. Age_of_consent
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| Alfonso the Battler Alfonso I (1073/1074According to the fourteenth-century Crónica di San Juan Peña he died in his sixty-first year (Lourie 1975:639 note). – 8 September 1134), called el Batallador, the Battler or the Warrior, was the king of Aragón and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. Alfonso_the_Battler
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| Amathus Amathus (Modern Greek Αμαθούς) was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol. Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important in Cyprus, her homeland, after Paphos,Walter Burkert, Greek Religion 1985, p. Amathus
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| Approval voting Approval voting is a single-winner voting system used for elections. Each voter may vote for (approve of) as many of the candidates as they wish. Approval_voting
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| American Civil Liberties Union |headquarters = New York, NY American_Civil_Liberties_Union
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| Alan Ayckbourn | birthplace = Hampstead, London Alan_Ayckbourn
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| Amiga The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer. Amiga
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| André Weil | birth_place = Nantes André_Weil
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| Achaeans The Achaeans (in Greek , Akhaioi) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad (used 598 times) and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans (, used 138 times in the Iliad) and Argives (, used 29 times in the Iliad). Achaeans
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| Aeschylus Aeschylus ( or , Greek: Ασχύλος, Aischylos, 525 BC/524 BC 456 BC/455 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus
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| Augustine of Hippo |death_date= Augustine_of_Hippo
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| Aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics) is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.Zangwill, Nick. Aesthetics
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| Armadillo Armadillos are small placental mammals, known for having a leathery armor shell. The Dasypodidae are the only surviving family in the order Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra along with the anteaters and sloths. Armadillo
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| Amber Talk:Amber
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| Aramaic language Aramaic is a Semitic language with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. Aramaic_language
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| Anthroposophy Anthroposophy is a spiritual philosophy based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner (25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) which postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development — more specifically through cultivating conscientiously a form of thinking independent of sensory experience.Robert McDermott, The Essential Steiner, ISBN 0-06-065345-0, pp. Anthroposophy
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| Aegis "Aegis" () has entered modern English to mean a shield, protection, or sponsorship, originally from the name of the mythological protective shield of Zeus. The name has been extended to many other entities, and the concept of a protective shield is found in other mythologies, while its form varies across sources. Aegis
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| Arabic alphabet Talk:Arabic_alphabet
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| Advertising Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. Many advertisements are designed to generate increased consumption of those products and services through the creation and reinforcement of "brand image" and "brand loyalty". Advertising
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| Augustine of Canterbury | deathplace = Canterbury, Kent, England Augustine_of_Canterbury
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| Arthur Jensen Arthur Jensen (born August 24 1923) is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.http://www. Arthur_Jensen
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| Axiology Axiology (from Greek , axiā, "value, worth"; and , -logia) is the study of quality or value. It is often thought to include ethics and aestheticsRandom House Unabridged Dictionary. Axiology
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| Absolute Infinite The Absolute Infinite is mathematician Georg Cantor's concept of an "infinity" that transcended the transfinite numbers. Cantor equated the Absolute Infinite with God. Absolute_Infinite
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| Brazil "Order and Progress" Brazil
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| Bible Bible refers to respective collections of religious writings of Judaism and of Christianity.Dictionary. Bible
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| Bird Late Jurassic – Recent Bird
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| Bulgaria This article uses the official Bulgarian transliteration system when romanizing Bulgarian Cyrillic. For details, see Romanization of Bulgarian. Bulgaria
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