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800 | 3,611 | 70,336 | Ice | 2025-04-14T13:13:35Z | **Ice** is the common name for frozen water. Other liquids, such as ammonia or methane or milk, are called 'milk ice', for instance, instead of just 'ice'. Liquid water becomes solid **ice** when it is very cold. The freezing point is 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit or 273 kelvin).
Ice can be made in a home refrigerator o... | [] |
801 | 3,614 | 16,695 | Travel | 2026-07-01T10:35:46Z | **Travel** is the activity of going from one place to another place. When a person makes the same trip every day to work or school, this type of traveling is usually called "commuting." Some people travel to other cities as part of their job. This is called "business travel." When many people travel to a distant place... | [] |
802 | 3,615 | 1,475,106 | CNN | 2026-03-07T05:40:19Z | The **Cable News Network** (**CNN**) is an American cable news television channel. It was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. The Cable News Network first aired on television on June 1, 1980. The Cable News Network's first newscast was anchored (hosted) by David Walker and his wife Lois Hart. In its first year CNN hired man... | [] |
803 | 3,616 | 1,697,461 | Leader | 2026-07-20T23:05:09Z | A **leader** is somebody who people follow. A leader has authority. For people to accept a leader, his or her leadership must therefore be legitimate.
Because people follow a leader, the leader can make people do things. A leader can therefore make people work together towards a common goal.
An example of a leader is... | [] |
804 | 3,617 | 1,368,380 | Blackboard | 2024-11-20T20:57:29Z | A **blackboard**, also called a **chalkboard**, is a surface on which chalk is visible. It is used as a surface to write on. It is usually made up of wood or fiber. It is painted black to reflect the white chalks.
Blackboards are often used to help in teaching in school. Blackboards are not used as much now but can b... | [] |
805 | 3,620 | 532,461 | Linux | 2026-07-21T16:10:37Z | **Linux** or **GNU/Linux** is a family of Unix-like operating system for computers. The Linux kernel (the basis of the operating system) is free software, meaning people can use it, see how it works, change it, or share it. Most people mean the operating system when they say "Linux".
There is a lot of software for Lin... | [] |
806 | 3,621 | 9,874,641 | Open source | 2024-11-10T13:11:58Z | **Open source** is a software similar to free software, but is more related to business. It is different from other software because the source code is available to everyone. The source code is a set of instructions for the computer, written in a programming language.
Anyone can see how the source code works and can ... | [] |
807 | 3,622 | 1,687,111 | Desktop environment | 2025-11-28T01:06:15Z | In graphical user interfaces and consoles a **desktop environment** is a location on a personal computer that helps the user get around on the computer. The desktop itself is a place in the operating system used for short cuts to computer files and folders on the hard drive. Computer icons (small pictures) are used to... | [] |
808 | 3,624 | 314,522 | OpenOffice.org | 2024-07-11T20:17:57Z | **OpenOffice.org** was a free open source office suite. The free software project was hosted by Sun Microsystems and then Oracle Corporation and it was based on the older StarOffice software that was created by Sun Microsystems. It was available for many different operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, ... | [] |
809 | 3,625 | 1,654,500 | Download | 2026-05-31T03:07:42Z | <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="multiple image"><div data-arg data-name="width">100</div><div data-arg data-name="footer">Downloading symbols sometimes look like an arrow pointing down at a line, tray, or a hard drive.</div><div data-arg data-name="image1">Icons8 flat download.svg</div><div data-arg... | [] |
810 | 3,628 | 532,461 | GNOME | 2026-01-01T18:28:37Z | **GNOME** is a computer desktop environment. It was designed for Linux, but many other operating systems can use it too. GNOME aims to provide an easy way to use a computer. GNOME is a free software project. It was made because at the time, people were questioning whether KDE was free software. GNOME is part of the G... | [] |
811 | 3,632 | 1,609,339 | Dog | 2026-08-03T17:11:36Z | **Dogs** are mammals, usually to be kept as pets, or work on farms or for the police. Some dogs are trained to be rescue dogs and join teams such as mountain rescue.
Dogs have been bred by humans from ancestral wolves. They were the first animals to live with humans. There was a lot of different types among wolves in ... | [] |
812 | 3,635 | 1,823,122 | Blindness | 2026-07-27T21:29:42Z | **Blindness** is to not see anything. Some people are called blind, even though they can see a little bit. This is because they cannot see clearly, but only see unfocused shapes or colors.
In modern countries, few young people are blind. In all the world, blindness is mostly caused by malnutrition and diseases of old... | [] |
813 | 3,637 | 1,053,137 | Arctic | 2025-10-30T20:27:44Z | The **Arctic** is the area around the Earth's North Pole. It includes parts of Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Lapland, and Svalbard. It is an ocean, mostly covered with ice.
The word 'Arctic' comes from the Greek word *αρκτος*, meaning "bear". The North Pole aims at the stars called the Great Bear and ... | [] |
814 | 3,639 | 95,036 | Sin | 2024-07-16T14:10:46Z | A **sin** is a bad act. Particularly, it is a bad act against another person(s), an animal, a spirit, or a god.
In Abrahamic religions, such as Christianity and Judaism, it is an act that goes against what God wants. It turns people away from God and true happiness. In Exodus chapter 20, Moses was given the Ten Comma... | [] |
815 | 3,640 | 40,117 | Summer | 2025-07-26T19:57:30Z | **Summer** is one of the four seasons. It is the hottest season of the year. In some places, summer is the wettest season (with the most rain), and in other places, it is a dry season. Four seasons are found in areas which are not too hot or too cold. Summer happens to the north and south sides of the Earth at opposite... | [] |
816 | 3,641 | 1,786,903 | Month | 2026-04-16T01:08:04Z | A **month** is an amount of time used with calendars. It is about 1/12th of a year. It is a little longer than a natural synodic orbital period of the moon, ca. 29.5 days. Lunar calendars use the natural synodic month. For some purposes astronomers use the sidereal month of 27.3 days.
Other calendars, called "solar ca... | [] |
817 | 3,658 | 1,829,628 | Alberta | 2026-06-29T05:12:40Z | **Alberta** is a province in western Canada. It is bounded by the provinces of British Columbia on the west, Saskatchewan on the east, the US state of Montana on the south and the Northwest Territories to the north.
Alberta is the fourth-largest Canadian province, after Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, with an a... | [] |
818 | 3,659 | 532,461 | Electronics | 2026-02-10T13:37:15Z | **Electronics** is the study of electricity (the flow of electrons) and how to use that to build things like computers. It uses circuits that are made with parts called components and connecting wires to do useful things. The science behind electronics comes from the study of physics and gets applied in real-life ways... | [] |
819 | 3,660 | 1,542,442 | Scalar | 2026-06-01T13:56:43Z | A **scalar** is a single number, normally a real number or complex number. The word "scalar" is normally used to separate single numbers from more complicated algebraic structures like vectors, matrices, or tensors.
Formally, scalars need to be part of a field, so they have the normal arithmetic operations of addition... | [] |
820 | 3,661 | 1,788,778 | Photon | 2026-04-19T07:00:15Z | **Photons** (from Greek φως, meaning *light*), in many atomic models in physics, are particles which transmit light. In other words, light is carried over space by photons. Photon is an elementary particle that is its own antiparticle. In quantum mechanics each photon has a characteristic quantum of energy that depen... | [] |
821 | 3,662 | 1,604,351 | Vector | 2025-04-20T01:02:44Z | A **vector** is a mathematical object that has a size, called the *magnitude*, and a direction. It is often represented by boldface letters (such as \(\mathbf{u}\), \(\mathbf{v}\), \(\mathbf{w}\)), or as a line segment from one point to another (as in \(\overrightarrow{AB}\)).
For example, a vector would be used to sh... | [] |
822 | 3,665 | 8,976,446 | Soap bubble | 2023-08-02T13:12:21Z | A **soap bubble** is a very thin film of soap water. Their shape is a hollow, round ball, or sphere. They have a colorful surface. Soap bubbles do not last very long. Sometimes they break in the air. When they touch something else, they usually break. When people talk about soap bubbles they think about them being pret... | [] |
823 | 3,667 | 532,461 | Fire Brigades Union | 2026-05-03T06:34:49Z | The **Fire Brigades Union** (**FBU**) is the main union for firefighters in the United Kingdom. A union is a group of workers. They make the group to improve pay and working conditions. It was founded in 1918 in the London area as the *Firemans Trade Union*. It soon grew to cover the entire country. Today, it has... | [] |
824 | 3,674 | 532,461 | Bicycle | 2026-07-05T16:49:53Z | A **bicycle** (or **bike**) is a small, human powered land vehicle with a seat, two wheels, two pedals, and a metal chain connected to cogs on the pedals and rear wheel. A frame gives the bike strength, and the other parts are attached to the frame. The name comes from the prefix *bi* (meaning two) and the suffix *cycl... | [] |
825 | 3,675 | 1,260,226 | Wheel | 2025-09-25T15:10:41Z | A **wheel** is a disc or circle-shaped mechanical device. Its main purpose is to allow things to *roll*; in other words, the wheel spins, and object on the wheels moves more easily along the ground. It is a simple machine. The principle behind the wheel is that of mechanical advantage.
Most land vehicles roll on wh... | [] |
826 | 3,679 | 1,644,709 | Physical exercise | 2026-02-21T22:36:10Z | The word **exercise** means:
- Things to do to get some practical experience and skill in some activity.
- Repeatedly moving the human body to make it stronger or better at doing something. This is called *physical exercise*.
## Basic modes of physical exercises
People do physical exercises as a part of their health... | [] |
827 | 3,680 | 532,461 | Percentage | 2025-05-22T14:57:44Z | **Percent** means *out of one hundred*. It is often shown with the symbol "%". It is used even if there are not a hundred items. The number is then scaled so it can be compared to one hundred. Percent is also used to indicate changes in numerical quantities.
For example, we have a bowl of fruit with three apples an... | [] |
828 | 3,681 | 532,461 | Writing | 2026-05-11T13:59:15Z | **Writing** is the art/act of recording language on a visual medium using a set of symbols. The symbols must be known to others, so that the text may be read.
A text may also use other visual systems, such as illustrations and decorations. These are not called writing, but may help the message work. Usually, all educa... | [] |
829 | 3,684 | 532,461 | Plato | 2026-07-26T06:00:41Z | **Plato** (c. 427 – 347 BC) was one of the most important philosophers of all time. Born to wealthy parents in Athens, Greece, Plato was a student of Socrates (who did not write) and, later, became the teacher of Aristotle. Plato started a university in Athens called the Academy where he taught. Plato wrote about many... | [] |
830 | 3,686 | 1,700,676 | Book | 2026-08-05T14:58:56Z | A **book** is a set of printed sheets of paper held together between two covers. The sheets of paper in a book are called pages. The pages have words written in them and maybe illustrations drawn. The first books were not printed, but written by hand in ink.
The book is a more flexible format than the earlier idea of... | [] |
831 | 3,687 | 532,461 | Sundial | 2026-05-10T03:28:24Z | A **sundial** shows the current solar time during the day. It does this because the sun appears to move through the sky. At different times in the day when the sun is shining, a shadow is cast in different places on the dial. A person marks the dial with the time at a certain shadow. This lets users easily see the time... | [] |
832 | 3,690 | 70,336 | Peninsula | 2025-11-24T05:41:20Z | A **peninsula** is a region of land that projects into a body of water. It is also defined as a piece of land with water on three sides.
Many countries are on peninsulas, and may either take up part of a peninsula (such as Portugal) or all of it (such as India). Parts of a country may also be on a peninsula. For ex... | [] |
833 | 3,692 | 9,426,995 | Combinatorial game theory | 2024-03-20T19:02:58Z | **Combinatorial game theory**, also known as **CGT** is a distinct branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that studies combinatorial games, and is distinct from "traditional" or "economic" game theory. CGT arose in relation to the theory of impartial games, the two-player game of Nim in particular, with... | [] |
834 | 3,693 | 1,530,097 | Nim | 2026-01-23T15:34:58Z | **Nim** is a simple game used for examples in combinatorial game theory. The rules of nim are simple:
1. The game begins with some piles of counters.
2. Players alternate turns.
3. On a turn, a player takes counters from a pile. At least one counter must be taken, but up to 3. All counters must be in the same pile.
4.... | [] |
835 | 3,697 | 1,852,597 | Blue | 2026-08-15T14:35:23Z | blue\|0000FF
**Blue** is one of the colors of the rainbow that people can see. It is one of the primary colors (colors that can be mixed with other colors) of light, along with red and green. Apart from violet, it has the shortest wavelength of colors in the rainbow (about 470 nanometers).
Blue paint can be made b... | [] |
836 | 3,702 | 1,161,309 | Memory | 2025-05-27T01:00:34Z | **Memory** is the personal record of past experiences. It is the brain's ability to store information to use later. Memory is studied in sciences known as "cognitive psychology".
There are two types of memory: short-term and long-term memory, or known as working memory and reference memory.
1. *Short-term memory*, t... | [] |
837 | 3,706 | 1,824,860 | Murder | 2026-06-20T05:27:07Z | **Murder** is where one person kills another person with aforethought. If a person does something reckless that makes someone else die, without the intention of killing, it is homicide and may be manslaughter. An accident caused by carelessness may be criminally negligent homicide. Sometimes, a death caused by someone ... | [] |
838 | 3,707 | 693,482 | Bird | 2026-07-26T15:53:50Z | **Birds** (**Aves**) are a group of animals with backbones. Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, and are part of the theropod group of dinosaurs. The word for "bird-like" is *avian*, from Latin language *avis*, bird.
Birds are warm blooded. Their feathers help prevent loss of... | [] |
839 | 3,711 | 580,899 | Freedom of speech | 2025-09-18T03:04:30Z | **Freedom of speech** is the right to state one's opinions and ideas without being stopped or punished. Sometimes this is also called **freedom of expression**.
Freedom of speech may include freedom of the press and freedom of information. It usually includes *speaking in public*; only rarely does it include speaking ... | [] |
840 | 3,715 | 367,306 | Banana | 2026-07-29T09:09:12Z | A **banana** is the common name for a type of fruit and also the name for the herbaceous plants that grow it. These plants belong to the genus *Musa*. They are mostly found in the tropical region of Southeast Asia. They are considered to be berries.
Historians think the first people to grow bananas for food lived in ... | [] |
841 | 3,720 | 1,011,873 | Biel/Bienne | 2023-08-16T20:47:24Z | **Biel/Bienne** (official name; *Biel* is German, *Bienne* is French) is an industrial town in Switzerland. It is in the part of Switzerland named Bern and near the city also named Bern. The town is known for many companies that make watches and machines.
## Description
The town of Biel, the capital of Swiss watch-m... | [] |
842 | 3,723 | 396,686 | Swatch Internet Time | 2018-12-27T02:35:14Z | **Swatch Internet Time** is a way to measure time invented in 1998 by the Swatch manufacturing firm in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Time is shown as an "@" mark with three numerals. The day starts with @000 for midnight. Noon is @500. Just before midnight is @999. The thousand parts which make up a day are called "dot bea... | [] |
843 | 3,727 | 1,652,218 | Test tube | 2025-08-30T07:41:05Z | A **test tube** is a kind of laboratory glassware, composed of a fingerlike length of glass tubing, open at the top, and closed at the bottom.
They range in size from a couple inches to several inches long, from a few millimeters to a couple centimeters in diameter. They are designed to allow easy heating of samples, ... | [] |
844 | 3,729 | 1,652,218 | Beaker | 2025-08-30T07:10:16Z | A **beaker** is a kind of laboratory glassware. A beaker is a cylinder with a lip and a spout (a bend in the rim of the beaker which makes it easier to pour liquids without spilling any). A beaker is usually about the same width as its height. This makes beakers very stable and easy to handle. They may be made of plast... | [] |
845 | 3,730 | 1,652,218 | Crucible | 2025-08-30T07:23:50Z | In chemistry, a **crucible** is a kind of laboratory equipment that is usually a small cup, about the size of a shot glass, made of porcelain or non-reactive metal. Crucibles are used to heat chemical compounds to very high temperatures. Metals such as nickel and zirconium are also used as a modern crucible material.
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846 | 3,735 | 532,461 | Lithium | 2025-07-26T08:49:07Z | **Lithium** (from Greek *lithos* 'stone') is a soft, silver-white metal with symbol **Li**. It is the third chemical element in the periodic table. This means that it has 3 protons in its nucleus and 3 electrons around it. Its atomic number is 3. Its mass number is 6.94. It has two common isotopes, ^6^Li and ^7^Li. ^7^... | [] |
847 | 3,736 | 532,461 | Beryllium | 2026-07-25T22:13:29Z | **Beryllium** is in group 2 of the periodic table, so it is an alkaline earth metal. It is grayish (slightly gray) in color. It has an atomic number of 4 and is symbolized by the letters **Be**. It is toxic and should not be handled without proper training.
Beryllium has 4 electrons, 4 protons, and 5 neutrons.
Beryll... | [] |
848 | 3,741 | 1,731,489 | Data compression | 2026-01-21T16:13:31Z | **Data compression** is a set of steps for packing data into a smaller space, while allowing for the original data to be seen again. Compression is a two-way process: a compression algorithm can be used to make a data package smaller, but it can also be run the other way, to decompress the package into its original fo... | [] |
849 | 3,742 | 1,741,859 | Compiler | 2026-02-06T13:15:16Z | A **compiler** is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language into another programming language. The first language is called the source language, and the code is called source code. The second language is called the target and can usually be understood by computers. In that cas... | [] |
850 | 3,743 | 693,482 | Eye | 2026-07-26T15:13:20Z | The **eye** is a round organ for **sensing** light so organisms can see. It is the first part of the visual system. About 97 percent of animal species have eyes. Image-resolving eyes are present in cnidaria, molluscs, vertebrates, annelids and arthropods.
In mammals, two kinds of cells, *rods* and *cones*, allow sigh... | [] |
851 | 3,745 | 314,522 | Tongue-twister | 2025-05-03T18:16:18Z | A **tongue-twister** is a phrase that is hard to say. They often use alliteration and homophones. They are commonly employed to help warm up singers and actors
Tongue-twisters can range from simple phrases for beginners to complex sequences that require advanced vocal control. They are popular in language learning, he... | [] |
852 | 3,749 | 532,461 | AbiWord | 2026-05-24T10:12:30Z | **AbiWord** is a free word processor that can be downloaded for free, it is open source and is much smaller in size than a proprietary alternative, Microsoft Word. It is available for FreeBSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and QNX. Its mascot is Abi the ant. It is much smaller than many other commercial word-proc... | [] |
853 | 3,750 | 693,482 | Insect | 2026-07-26T17:34:19Z | **Insects** are a class in the phylum Arthropoda. They are small terrestrial invertebrates which have a hard exoskeleton.
Insects are the largest group of animals on Earth by far: about 926,400 different species have been described. They are more than half of all known living species. They may be over 90% of animal sp... | [] |
854 | 3,752 | 1,785,827 | List of operating systems | 2026-04-14T11:15:50Z | This is a **list of operating systems** for computers.
## The first operating systems
- CTSS (The Compatible TimeShare System, made at MIT by Corbato and others)
- Incompatible Timesharing System (The Incompatible Timeshare System, made at MIT)
- Multics (project by Bell Labs, GE, and MIT)
- Master programme for Leo ... | [] |
855 | 3,755 | 22,027 | Computer jargon | 2025-08-02T03:01:43Z | **Computer jargon** means words to do with computers and surrounding topics. Knowing what these words mean can help people know more about computers. Most people use these words to discuss computer ideas, but some people use these words to impress others (also known as buzzwords).
Some examples of jargon are:
- Disk ... | [] |
856 | 3,757 | 1,452,189 | 1000 (number) | 2026-02-28T13:37:59Z | **1000** (**1,000**, **one thousand** or **thousand** for short) is the natural number after 999 and before 1001. One thousand thousands is known as a million. In Roman Numerals, 1000 is written as M.
## History Of The Number 1000
The number 1000 represents a significant milestone in mathematics, history, and culture... | [] |
857 | 3,759 | 10,377,634 | Gross domestic product | 2025-07-07T10:40:14Z | In economics, **gross domestic product** (**GDP**) is how much a place produces in an amount of time. GDP can be calculated by adding up its output (total production) inside a country.
To find the GDP of a country, one adds up all consumer spending (C), all investment (I), all government spending minus taxes (G), and ... | [] |
858 | 3,762 | 1,852,319 | Cricket | 2026-08-09T17:12:41Z | **Cricket** is a sport. It is an outdoor bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large, grassy field. At the centre of the field is a rectangular pitch with a wooden structure called a wicket sited at each end. As in other sports, there are separate men's and women's games, both played internationa... | [] |
859 | 3,763 | 1,475,106 | Track and field athletics | 2026-04-25T21:23:06Z | **Track and field** is part of the sport of athletics. Athletics is a collection of sport events that includes running, jumping and *throwing*. Track and field events take place in a sports stadium, either on the running track, or on the field inside the running track. These tracks are generally made up of synthetic ru... | [] |
860 | 3,765 | 1,391,867 | Badminton | 2025-07-03T17:28:42Z | {{Sports}}
**Badminton** is a sport for two or four( "singles" or "doubles") people. The game is either one player against one player or a team of two players against another team of two players. Players use rackets to hit a shuttlecock over a net but if it goes too far it will be an out. It is often enjoyed in vario... | [] |
861 | 3,770 | 314,538 | Chemical warfare | 2025-10-25T03:42:29Z | **Chemical warfare** means using poisonous chemical compounds to injure or kill people in a war.
Chemical warfare has been used since the Stone Age. Since 1899, several international laws have made it illegal to use chemical weapons. Still, chemical weapons have been used in wars since then.
About 70 different chemic... | [] |
862 | 3,772 | 1,860,759 | Iran | 2026-08-24T12:48:43Z | `{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = Islamic Republic of Iran
| common_name = Iran
| native_name = <templatestyles src="Nobold/styles.css"/><span class="nobold">{{native name|fa|جمهوری اسلامی ایران|italics=off}}</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân</span>
| i... | [] |
863 | 3,773 | 1,734,355 | Gautama Buddha | 2026-07-18T12:07:40Z | **Siddhartha Gautama** (c. 563 BC - c. 483 BC) was an ancient Indian Philosopher and the founder of Buddhism. He is better known by the title **the Buddha** which means "Fully Awakened One".
He is also called **Shakyamuni Buddha.** This is because he was the sage of the Śākyan clan.
## Early years
He was born as... | [] |
864 | 3,777 | 873,387 | North | 2025-04-24T17:47:41Z | **North** is one of the 4 main directions on a compass. North is usually up on most maps. For Example: The United States is north of the Mexico, which is itself north of Brazil. The North Pole is the farthest north you can go. The North of the world is considered to be the top.
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865 | 3,779 | 1,645,370 | List of football clubs in Portugal | 2025-11-26T14:13:59Z | These are some Portuguese football teams that now (2025-2026) playing in a professional category.
## Primeira Liga
- F.C. Alverca
- F.C. Arouca
- AVS Futebol SAD
- S.L. Benfica
- S.C. Braga
- Casa Pia A.C.
- G.D. Estoril Praia
- C.F. Estrella da Amadora
- F.C. Famalicão
- Gil Vicente F.C.
- Moreirense F.C.
- C.D. Nac... | [] |
866 | 3,787 | 1,734,355 | GNOME Web | 2026-07-17T09:44:52Z | **GNOME Web** (sometimes called **Epiphany**) is a web browser for GNOME. The browser uses the WebKit browser engine to load web pages but supports extensions from Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and uses Firefox Sync's API to allow syncing between multiple browsers. This also allows the browser to sync its bookmarks... | [] |
867 | 3,788 | 16,695 | Video game console | 2026-01-30T15:41:35Z | A **video game console** is a machine that is used to play video games. Video game consoles usually connect to a television.
Special controllers are attached to the console to control the game. Some video game consoles are handheld. They can be carried around and have their own screens. The Nintendo DS and PlayStati... | [] |
868 | 3,789 | 1,683,478 | PlayStation (console) | 2025-12-19T15:29:36Z | The **PlayStation** (often known as the **PS1** or the **PSX**) is a video game console made by Sony released in December 1994. At the time, it was competing against the Nintendo 64 and the Sega Saturn. PlayStation games were stored on CDs. The controllers that were first released with the console had no analog joystic... | [] |
869 | 3,790 | 532,461 | Election | 2026-05-02T22:44:40Z | An **election** is a way people can choose their candidate or their preferences in a representative democracy or other form of government.
Most democratic countries hold elections for their national legislature every few years. The elections select representatives for the local areas. These are called Members of Parl... | [] |
870 | 3,793 | 40,117 | Medicine | 2026-08-08T19:46:16Z | **Medicine** is the science that treats and prevents diseases in humans. Medical workers treat injuries, infections, and sickness. Medicine also helps people with disease prevention and the best ways to not get sick from bacteria or viruses. Medical doctors also help unhealthy (bad habits, overweight, underweight) peop... | [] |
871 | 3,794 | 1,776,952 | Transport | 2026-03-31T17:46:11Z | **Transport**, or **transportation**, is moving people or things from one place to another place. Transport can be divided into *infrastructure*, *vehicles* and *operations*.
*Infrastructure* includes cableways, roads, railways, airports, canals and pipelines. The infrastructure is the network where things are carried... | [] |
872 | 3,795 | 1,727,993 | Road | 2026-01-15T15:59:41Z | A **road** is a piece of land which connects two or more places. Usually, a road has been made easy to travel on. For example, by removing trees and stones so the ground is more level. Although, many roads are made of gravel and dirt, some are paved with concrete or bricks or stones, Roads, which are man-made paved o... | [] |
873 | 3,796 | 693,482 | 2004 | 2026-08-17T13:36:36Z | **2004** (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar.
## Events
### January
- January 1 - Deiss becomes President of the Confederation in Switzerland.
- January 2 - Several British Airways flights from London Heathrow Airport to Washington D.C. and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are cancelled due to ... | [] |
874 | 3,797 | 19,530 | Hawaiian Islands | 2026-04-19T10:41:47Z | From west to east, Hawaii is made up of the following **Hawaiian Islands**:
The chain of islands stretches 2,400 km (1500 miles) in a southeasterly direction to the southern tip of the Island of Hawaii The hot-spot which formed them moved South-East in the Pacific Ocean. The hot-spot in the Earth's crust moved to wher... | [] |
875 | 3,798 | 1,704,901 | Mauna Kea | 2026-03-13T11:49:27Z | **Mauna Kea** is a dormant volcano on Hawaii Island, in the state of Hawaii, United States. It is the highest point in Hawaii at 4,205 meters. If measured from top to bottom, below sea level, it is 10,200 meters high and would be the tallest mountain in the world, even taller than Mount Everest when measured from base ... | [] |
876 | 3,799 | 1,744,289 | Mauna Loa | 2026-02-09T19:56:22Z |
**Mauna Loa** is an active volcano on Hawaii Island, in the state of Hawaii, United States. It is considered to be the largest subaerial (from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean) volcano in the world and the tallest volcano in Hawaii.
## Name
*Mauna Loa* is Hawaiian for "long mountain."
## Size
The volcano is at le... | [] |
877 | 3,800 | 19,530 | Kilauea | 2026-04-19T10:38:44Z | **Kīlauea** is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. It is a shield volcano. The volcano is 1,277 meters high. Kīlauea is a large lake of lava. The crater of Kīlauea is named Pu'u'O'o. The first eruption of Kīlauea is estimated as 300 to 600 thousand years ago. Its first recorded eruptions were in 1823. Its most r... | [] |
878 | 3,809 | 1,850,390 | Van | 2026-08-06T01:14:50Z | A **van** is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people. There is some variation in the scope of the word across the different English-speaking countries, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a regular cab pickup truck fitted with a cap, extended cab pickup truck fitted with ... | [] |
879 | 3,810 | 467,400 | Luggage | 2025-05-03T20:32:09Z | People use **luggage** to carry their possessions when travelling. In the United States luggage is often called **baggage**.
## Types of luggage
- A **valise** is a small bag. It is usually for carrying clothes or accessories. Some other words for this size of luggage are *overnight bag*, *overnight case*, and *overn... | [] |
880 | 3,813 | 8,481,920 | Pantograph | 2022-10-11T03:46:40Z | A **pantograph** is a machine. It is used in drawing or planning. It makes it easy to copy diagrams.
The device that an electric train uses to get its electricity is also called a pantograph, because it looks a bit like the drawing instrument.
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881 | 3,814 | 1,145,182 | Paperback | 2022-05-13T01:15:33Z | A **paperback** is a type of book. It has a cover of thick paper or thin cardboard. Paperback book covers can bend and be folded. The covers are laminated (have layers), and some of the methods are more durable (lasting) than others. Another name for paperback is *soft cover*.
Paperback books may be glued or held by... | [] |
882 | 3,815 | 294,863 | Palette | 2014-01-14T01:08:59Z | A **palette** is used for mixing colours.They are usually made out of plastic or wood but can be made out of other materials. An artist often uses one of these and is in fact an essential item in art, when painting.
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883 | 3,816 | 1,386,969 | Glow-worm | 2025-04-06T11:04:12Z | A **glow-worm** is an insect. Other names for it are "**fireworm**", "**lightning worm**" and "**lightworm**".
There are several insects given this name. Most are beetles, but one is a fly, *Arachnocampa*. They are nocturnal, active during the night. They have special organs that can produce light. This is used to fin... | [] |
884 | 3,817 | 68,157 | Palette knife | 2015-07-15T12:12:27Z | A **palette knife** is not actually a knife. It has a very flexible steel blade and no sharpened cutting edge. It is a tool.
## Uses
A palette knife is used for mixing paint colors. It may be used for mixing and applying a whole range of semi-fluid mixtures.
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885 | 3,819 | 1,509,370 | Foolscap | 2024-09-16T03:08:42Z | **Foolscap** is paper cut to the size of <template data-op="mediawiki:transclude" data-name="convert"><div data-arg>8+1/2</div><div data-arg>xx</div><div data-arg>13+1/2</div><div data-arg>in</div><div data-arg>0</div></template>, sometimes 13 xx. This was a traditional paper size used in Europe and the British Commonw... | [] |
886 | 3,821 | 103,847 | Polymer | 2026-05-14T21:26:53Z | A **polymer** is a molecule, made from joining many small molecules called monomers. The word "polymer" can be broken down into "poly" (meaning "many" in Greek) and "mer" (meaning "unit"). This shows how the chemical composition of a polymer consists of many smaller units (monomers) bonded together into a larger molecu... | [] |
887 | 3,825 | 1,749,192 | Phrase | 2026-02-17T16:55:08Z | A **phrase** is a group of words that adds meaning to a sentence. A phrase is not a sentence because it is not a complete idea with a subject, verb and a predicate.
English has five different kinds of phrases, one for each of the main parts of speech. In a phrase, the main word or the word that is that is the subject ... | [] |
888 | 3,826 | 10,043,252 | Preposition | 2025-01-29T03:44:08Z | **Prepositions** often describe the position of something, the time when something happens or the way in which something is done. The prepositions "of", "to" and "for" have other functions.
Prepositions may sometimes be used to end sentences. For example, "What did you put that there for?" (better English is the alt... | [] |
889 | 3,828 | 863,768 | Pronoun | 2026-05-07T22:21:27Z | A **pronoun** is traditionally a part of speech in grammar, but many modern linguists call it a type of noun. In English, pronouns are words such as *me, she, his, them, herself, each other, it, what*.
Pronouns are often used to take the place of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun. For example, instead of saying
-... | [] |
890 | 3,829 | 863,768 | Adverb | 2026-05-07T22:20:18Z | An **adverb** is a word used to tell more about a verb, and it almost always answers the questions *how?*, *when?*, *where?*, *how often?*, and *in what way?*. Words like *slowly*, *loudly*, *carefully*, *quickly*, *quietly* or *sadly* are all adverbs. Adverbs usually, but not always, end in *-ly*.
Examples of adverbs... | [] |
891 | 3,837 | 9,852,355 | Sunday | 2024-10-29T00:44:32Z | **Sunday** is one of the seven days of the week. It is part of the weekend, along with Saturday. Sunday is the Sabbath or day of worship for most Christians (for example, Easter is celebrated on Sunday). Sunday is the beginning of the week in the United States, but is the end of the week in the United Kingdom.
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892 | 3,838 | 1,685,830 | Ottawa | 2026-04-22T10:45:59Z | **Ottawa** is the capital of Canada and is part of the province of Ontario. It is south of the Ottawa River. In 2004, there were about 808,391 people in the city. The region has about 1,146,790 people. The mayor of the city today (since November 2022) is Mark Sutcliffe. Ottawa is in the Ottawa Valley on the border with... | [] |
893 | 3,845 | 10,191,830 | News agency | 2025-04-15T00:49:32Z | A **news agency** is a kind of company. It supplies information to newspapers, radio and television.
## Examples
In the United Kingdom and some other countries a **news agency** or newsagent is a shop which sells newspapers, magazines and cigarettes.
Although there are many news agencies around the world, three glob... | [] |
894 | 3,846 | 1,640,742 | Mudguard | 2026-03-18T21:19:05Z | A **mudguard**, **fender** or **wing** is a part covering the wheels of a vehicle to stop it from throwing off mud, water or objects from the road. It protects people and property from dirtiness, dampness, and damage.
Mudguards protect in several ways:
1. They protect brakes and lights.
2. They protect the bicycle f... | [] |
895 | 3,847 | 1,435,680 | Para rubber tree | 2024-12-23T07:57:55Z | A **Para rubber tree** (or simply, **rubber tree**) is the tree which naturally produces rubber. It is native to tropical areas from South America, in the Amazon (Brazil), but was spread by European farmers to the Far East.
Para Rubber trees belong to the Euphorbiaceae family. In the wild they may reach heights of 100... | [] |
896 | 3,848 | 1,011,873 | Safety curtain | 2025-10-19T15:46:10Z | A **safety curtain** is a curtain in theatre at the front of the stage. It is made of material that will not burn. The safety curtain may be lowered during the intermission and after the performance. A safety curtain is there in case there is a fire on stage. It will stop the fire from spreading to the auditorium wh... | [] |
897 | 3,849 | 1,649,829 | Safety lamp | 2025-11-08T13:48:12Z | A **safety lamp** is a miner's lamp with a covered flame that used to be used in coal mines.
## Types of safety lamps
The first safety lamp was invented by William Reid Clanny. It used bellows and water to separate gasses. Later, two newer designs were invented. One newer design was the Geordie lamp, made by George S... | [] |
898 | 3,850 | 1,530,097 | Christmas stocking | 2025-08-28T18:53:11Z | A **Christmas stocking** is a long sock hung by a fireplace or bed on Christmas Eve. Christmas presents are put into it for children. It came from an old legend. Stockings are now a European Christmas tradition.
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899 | 3,853 | 106,408 | List of football clubs in Austria | 2026-03-15T07:54:46Z | These are the Austrian football teams and the leagues they played in for the 2025-2026 season.
## Admiral Bundesliga (First Division)
- SC Rheindorf Altach from Altach
- FK Austria Wien from Vienna
- F.C. Blau-Weiß Linz from Linz
- Grazer AK from Graz
- TSV Hartberg from Hartberg
- LASK from Linz
- SK Rapid Wien from... | [] |
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