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Section |
Current Number |
People |
201 |
History |
47 |
Geography |
314 |
Arts |
54 |
Philosophy and religion |
49 |
Everyday life |
(included in others) |
Society and social sciences |
173 |
Health and medicine |
15 |
Science |
251 |
Technology |
20 |
Mathematics |
9 |
Measurement |
0 |
Total |
1133 |
Count checked: 21:24, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] See also
See also:
[edit] Biographies, 201
[edit] Arts and entertainment, 58
[edit] Athletes and related, 7
- Muhammad Ali
- Michael Jordan
- Bruce Lee
- Pelé
- Jackie Robinson
- Babe Ruth
- Jesse Owens
[edit] Artists and architects, 11
- Giotto di Bondone
- Vincent van Gogh
- Michelangelo
- Claude Monet
- Pablo Picasso
- Raphael
- Rembrandt
- Auguste Rodin
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Andy Warhol
- Frank Lloyd Wright
[edit] Music, 6
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Beatles
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Elvis Presley
- Giuseppe Verdi
[edit] Performing arts misc., 5
- Charlie Chaplin
- Walt Disney
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Akira Kurosawa
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
[edit] Writers, 29
- Non-Western, 0
[edit] Ancient world, 3
- Aeschylus
- Homer
- Virgil
[edit] English language, 14
- Jane Austen
- Lord Byron
- Charles Dickens
- T. S. Eliot
- Ernest Hemingway
- James Joyce
- John Milton
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- William Shakespeare
- Walter Scott
- Mark Twain
- Walt Whitman
- William Butler Yeats
[edit] Continental European languages, 12
- Dante Alighieri
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- Brothers Grimm
- Victor Hugo
- Henrik Ibsen
- Franz Kafka
- Marcel Proust
- Leo Tolstoy
- Voltaire
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[edit] Leaders and public figures, 70
[edit] Politicians and leaders, 53
[edit] Americas, 7
- Simón Bolívar
- Hernán Cortés
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Jefferson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- George Washington
[edit] Asia and Africa, 17
- Africa, 4
- Cleopatra VII
- Hannibal Barca
- Nelson Mandela
- Shaka
- Asia, to 1000 AD, 4
- Cyrus the Great
- Hammurabi
- Qin Shi Huang
- Emperor Taizong of Tang
- Asia, 1000 to 1899 AD, 5
- Akbar
- Genghis Khan
- Saladin
- Suleiman the Magnificent
- Timur
- Asia, 20th century, 4
- Indira Gandhi
- Hirohito
- Ho Chi Minh
- Mao Zedong
[edit] Europe, 29
- Ancient world to 500 AD, 5
- Alexander the Great
- Attila the Hun
- Augustus
- Constantine the Great
- Julius Caesar
- 500 AD to 1600 AD, 6
- Charlemagne
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Heraclius
- Ivan IV of Russia
- Philip II of Spain
- British Isles, 6
- Winston Churchill
- Edmund Burke
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Henry II of England
- Henry VIII of England
- William I of England
- France, 3
- Joan of Arc
- Louis XIV of France
- Napoleon I of France
- Germany, 3
- Otto von Bismarck
- Frederick the Great
- Adolf Hitler
- Russia, 5
- Catherine the Great
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Vladimir Lenin
- Peter I of Russia
- Joseph Stalin
- Elsewhere, 1
- Benito Mussolini
[edit] Religious figures, 10
- Augustine of Hippo
- Gautama Buddha
- John Calvin
- Columba
- Francis of Assisi
- Jesus
- Martin Luther
- Muhammad
- Paul of Tarsus
- Zoroaster
[edit] Revolutionaries and activists, 7
- Frederick Douglass
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Che Guevara
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Margaret Sanger
- Mother Teresa
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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[edit] Thinkers and explorers, 73
[edit] Explorers, 5
- Neil Armstrong
- Christopher Columbus
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Marco Polo
- Zheng He
[edit] Inventors and scientists, 32
[edit] Biologists and doctors, 6
- Hippocrates
- Charles Darwin
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Joseph Lister
- Gregor Mendel
- Louis Pasteur
[edit] Inventors, 9
- Charles Babbage
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Louis Daguerre
- Thomas Edison
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Henry Ford
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Cai Lun
- Wright brothers
[edit] Physical scientists, 17
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Albert Einstein
- Michael Faraday
- Galileo Galilei
- Stephen Hawking
- Johannes Kepler
- Antoine Lavoisier
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Isaac Newton
- Alfred Nobel
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Linus Pauling
- Max Planck
- Ptolemy
- Ernest Rutherford
- Nikola Tesla
- James Watt
[edit] Mathematicians, 9
- Archimedes
- Euclid
- Leonhard Euler
- Pierre de Fermat
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Blaise Pascal
- Pythagoras
[edit] Philosophers, 18
[edit] Ancient China, 3
- Confucius
- Laozi
- Sun Tzu
[edit] Ancient Greece, 3
- Aristotle
- Plato
- Socrates
[edit] Middle Ages and modern, 12
- Thomas Aquinas
- Francis Bacon
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- Søren Kierkegaard
- John Locke
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Henry David Thoreau
[edit] Social scientists, 9
- Sigmund Freud
- Edward Gibbon
- Herodotus
- John Maynard Keynes
- Karl Marx
- Thomas Malthus
- Adam Smith
- Thucydides
- Max Weber
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[edit] Culture and social sciences, 173
- Culture
[edit] Miscellaneous, 14
- Clothing
- Furniture
- Society
[edit] Family, 6
- Family
- Child
- Infant
- Man
- Marriage
- Woman
[edit] Law, 5
- Law
- Constitution
- Crime
- Police
- Military
[edit] Business and economics, 20
[edit] Miscellaneous, 13
- Agriculture
- Advertising
- Business
- Economics
- Finance
- Market
- Management
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Money
- Supply and demand
- Trade
- Trade union
[edit] Currency, 7
- Currency
- Euro
- Japanese yen
- Pound sterling
- Renminbi
- Indian Rupee
- United States dollar
[edit] Communication, 26
[edit] Language, 19
- Alphabet
- Grammar
- Language
- Writing
- Arabic language
- Chinese language
- English language
- Esperanto
- French language
- German language
- Hindi
- Japanese language
- Latin
- Portuguese language
- Russian language
- Sanskrit
- Sign language
- Spanish language
[edit] Mass media, 8
- Mass media
- Book
- Comics
- Film
- Magazine
- Newspaper
- Radio
- Television
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[edit] Cuisine, 29
[edit] Cuisine, 29
- Cuisine
- Cooking
- Spice
- Beverages, 9
- Drink
- Alcohol
- Beer
- Coffee
- Milk
- Soft drink
- Tea
- Water
- Wine
- Food, 17
- Food
- Bread
- Cheese
- Chocolate
- Seafood
- Fruit
- Cereal
- Legume
- Maize
- Meat
- Oat
- Pepper
- Poultry
- Rice
- Soybean
- Vegetable
- Wheat
[edit] International organizations, 11
- Arab League
- European Union
- International Monetary Fund
- International Red Cross
and Red Crescent Movement
- NATO
- Nobel Prize
- OPEC
- United Nations
- World Bank Group
- World Health Organization
- World Trade Organization
[edit] Leisure, 23
- Leisure
- Gambling
- Hobby
- Recreation
- Toy
[edit] Games, 9
- Game
- Backgammon
- Chess
- Board game
- Card game
- Dice
- Draughts
- Go (board game)
- Mancala
[edit] Sports, 9
- Sport
- American football
- Athletics (track and field)
- Baseball
- Cricket
- Football (soccer)
- Olympic Games
- Rugby football
- Tennis
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[edit] Politics, 17
- Politics
- Anarchism
- Capitalism
- Communism
- Democracy
- Dictatorship
- Diplomacy
- Fascism
- Globalization
- Government
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Monarchy
- Nationalism
- Socialism
- State
- Theocracy
[edit] Social sciences, 18
- Social sciences
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Education
- Personal life
- Political science
- Sociology
[edit] Psychology, 11
- Psychology
- Anger
- Consciousness
- Dream
- Emotion
- Fear
- Happiness
- Love
- Mind
- Sleep
- Thought
[edit] Social issues, 15
- Abortion
- Addiction
- Birth control
- Capital punishment
- Civil liberties
- Civil rights
- Freedom
- Human rights
- Peace
- Pornography
- Privacy
- Racism
- Sexism
- Slavery
- War
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[edit] Geography, 65
[edit] Countries, 249
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
-
- F
- G
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- H
- Haiti – Republic of Haiti
- Honduras – Republic of Honduras
- Hong Kong – Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Area of special sovereignty)[16]
- Hungary – Republic of Hungary
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- Oman – Sultanate of Oman
- P
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- Q
- R
- S
- T
-
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Yemen – Republic of Yemen
- Z
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[edit] Humanities, 162
- Humanities
[edit] Arts, 17
[edit] The arts, 8
- Art
- The arts
- Design
- Painting
- Photography
- Sculpture
- Dance
- Theatre
[edit] Literature, 9
- Literature
- Novel
- Poetry
- Specific works, 6
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
- Republic (Plato)
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Iliad
- Mahabharata
- Odyssey
[edit] Architecture, 12
- Architecture
- Arch
- Bridge
- Church (building)
- Dome
- House
- Nail (engineering)
- Pyramid
- Tower
- Specific structures, 3
- Great Wall of China
- Taj Mahal
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
[edit] History, 47
- History
- History of the world
[edit] Prehistory to Middle Ages, 22
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Archaeology
- Aztec
- Black Death
- Bronze Age
- Byzantine Empire
- Crusades
- East-West Schism
- Holy Roman Empire
- Indus Valley Civilization
- Iron Age
- Maya civilization
- Macedon
- Middle Ages
- Ottoman Empire
- Prehistory
- Spanish Inquisition
- Stone Age
- Sumer
- Viking
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[edit] Renaissance to Industrial Age, 23
- Age of Enlightenment
- American Civil War
- American Revolutionary War
- British Empire
- Cold War
- English Civil War
- European colonization of the Americas
- French Revolution
- Great Depression
- History of South Africa in the apartheid era
- The Holocaust
- Industrial Revolution
- Napoleonic Wars
- Protestant Reformation
- Renaissance
- Russian Civil War
- Russian Revolution of 1917
- Scramble for Africa
- Space exploration
- Spanish Civil War
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
[edit] Music, 37
- Music
- Harmony
- Melody
- Music theory
- Musical notation
- Orchestra
- Rhythm
- Singing
[edit] Genres, 11
- Baroque music
- Classical music
- Country music
- Folk music
- Hip hop music
- Jazz
- Opera
- Pop music
- Rhythm and blues
- Rock and roll
- Hip hop music
[edit] Musical instrument, 18
- Musical instrument
- Brass
- Cello
- Clarinet
- Drum or Percussion
- Flute
- French horn
- Guitar
- Harp
- Strings
- Organ (music)
- Piano
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Viola
- Violin
- Woodwind
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[edit] Philosophy, 11
- Philosophy
- Aesthetics
- Ethics
- Existence
- Feminism
- Humanism
- Knowledge
- Logic
- Morality
- Reality
- Truth
[edit] Religion, 38
- Religion
- Agnosticism
- Atheism
- Deity
- Fundamentalism
- God
- Jainism
- Mythology
- Soul
- Spirituality
[edit] Specific religions, 28
- Ayyavazhi
- Animism
- Bahá'í Faith
- Buddhism
- Confucianism
- Shinto
- Sikhism
- Taoism
- Voodoo
- Zoroastrianism
- Christianity, 7
- Christianity
- Bible
- Catholicism
- Church
- Pope
- Protestantism
- Trinity
- Hinduism, 6
- Hinduism
- Bhagavad Gita
- Krishna
- Upanishad
- Vedas
- Yoga
- Islam, 3
- Islam
- Mosque
- Qur'an
- Judaism, 2
- Judaism
- Talmud
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[edit] Science, math and technology, 164
[edit] Miscellaneous, 5
- Science
- Ecology
- Natural science
- Pollution
- Scientific method
[edit] Astronomy, 21
- Astronomy
- Big Bang
- Galaxy
- Milky Way
- Planet
- Star
- Universe
[edit] Solar System, 14
- Solar System
- Sun
- Moon
- Earth
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Mercury (planet)
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Pluto
- Venus
- Ceres (dwarf planet)
- Eris (dwarf planet)
[edit] Biology, 60
- Biology
- Genetics or DNA
- Life
- Nature
- Photosynthesis
- Sex
- Taxonomy
[edit] Anatomy, 10
- Anatomy
- Brain
- Circulatory system
- Gastrointestinal tract
- Heart
- Liver
- Lung
- Nervous system
- Skin
- Skeleton
[edit] Medicine, 15
- Medicine
- AIDS
- Blindness
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Dysentery
- Gerontology
- Hearing impairment
- Malaria
- Mental illness
- Nutrition
- Polio
- Pregnancy
- Smallpox
- Surgery
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[edit] Organisms, 28
- Organism
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Eukaryote
- Animal
- Fungus
- Plant
- Protist
- Virus
- Extraterrestrial life
- Specific organisms, 20
- Cotton
- Flower
- Tobacco
- Tree
- Bird
- Dinosaur
- Fish
- Insect
- Reptile
- Shark
- Snake
- Mammal
- Bear
- Cattle
- Cat
- Dog
- Dolphin
- Horse
- Human
- Whale
[edit] Chemistry, 5
- Chemistry
- Chemical element
- Molecule
- Periodic table
- Salt
[edit] Earth sciences, 18
- Geology
- Plate tectonics
- Mineral
- Diamond
- Oil
[edit] Meteorology, 13
- Meteorology
- Avalanche
- Climate
- Cloud
- Earthquake
- El Niño-Southern Oscillation
- Flood
- Global warming
- Rain
- Tornado
- Tropical cyclone
- Volcano
- Weather
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[edit] Mathematics, 9
- Mathematics
- Algebra
- Calculus
- Calendar
- Game theory
- Geometry
- Number
- Set
- Trigonometry
[edit] Physics, 24
- Physics
- Atom
- Atomic nucleus
- Elementary particle
- Force
- Gravitation
- Mass
- Matter
- Optics
- Phase (matter)
- Quantum mechanics
- Sound
- Speed
- Time
- Weight
- Energy
- Radiation
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Visible spectrum
- Special relativity
- General relativity
- Electromagnetism
- Standard Model
- Classical mechanics
[edit] Technology, 20
- Technology
- Axe
- Fire
- Metallurgy
- Tool
- Electricity and Electronics
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer
- Internet
- Semiconductor
- Robot
- Transport
- Automobile
- Bicycle
- Ship
- Train
- Weapon
- Explosive material
- Firearm
- Gunpowder
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[edit] Chemical elements, 118
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- ^ Canada is officially also (but infrequently) referred to as Dominion of Canada.
- ^ The Central African Republic is also infrequently rendered as Central Africa.
- ^ The People's Republic of China is occasionally rendered as mainland China in the relationship with its special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau as well as its relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan.
- ^ The Republic of China (ROC) is commonly referred to as Taiwan by the international community. It is also diplomatically sometimes known as Chinese Taipei or other names and regarded by UN as Taiwan, Province of China (see One-China policy). The ROC is not a UN member since late 1971. It is currently recognized by the Holy See and 24 UN member states and with de facto international relations with most others. The political status of the ROC and the legal status of Taiwan (alongside the territories currently under the ROC jurisdiction) are in dispute. The ROC should not be confused with the so-called "Republic of Taiwan" proposed by supporters of Taiwan independence.
- ^ The Democratic Republic of the Congo is formerly and popularly known as Zaire. It is referred to as Congo-Kinshasa to distinguish it from the Republic of the Congo.
- ^ The Republic of the Congo is referred to as Congo-Brazzaville to distinguish it from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- ^ See also Northern Cyprus.
- ^ The Czech Republic is also infrequently rendered as Czechia. See Names of the Czech Republic.
- ^ Falkland Islands is also claimed by Argentina as Islas Malvinas.
- ^ See also Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
- ^ The Bailiwick of Guernsey includes its self-governing dependencies Alderney, Herm and Sark.
- ^ Hong Kong is a Special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. It is diplomatically known as Hong Kong, China.
- ^ Ireland is commonly referred to as the Republic of Ireland as the official "description" of the state in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole.
- ^ The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is popularly known as North Korea.
- ^ The Republic of Korea is popularly known as South Korea.
- ^ Kosovo is an autonomous province of Serbia currently administered by the Provisional Institution of Self-Government under the supervision of the UN Interim Administration Mission.
- ^ Kyrgyzstan is also sometimes rendered as Kirghizia.
- ^ Macao is a Special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. It is diplomatically known as Macao, China.
- ^ Macedonia is referred to by UN and a number of countries and international organizations as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- ^ See also Pridnestrovie.
- ^ See also Western Sahara.
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- ^ Legally the Netherlands refers to the mainland European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the latter consisting of the Netherlands and two overseas countries, namely Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles.
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- ^ The State of Palestine in the Palestinian territories is currently recognized by the Holy See and 93 UN member states. It has never been admitted as a full UN member (only granted with a permanent observer status) but is a member of the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The State claims the whole Palestinian territories but only exercises de facto control over part of the territories administered through its shadow organ, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). It is further supported by other countries according the PNA a pivotal role in the process that may involve their eventually recognizing the State as sovereign.
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- ^ Somalia is presently fragmented with its Transitional National Government in exile. See also Somaliland.
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- ^ Svalbard is an overseas territory of Norway recognized by international treaty.
- ^ Vatican City is administered by a Governor appointed by the Pope, with the latter being the head of the Holy See and that of the Vatican City concurrently.
- ^ The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Western Sahara is currently recognized by 46 UN member states. It has never been admitted to the UN but is a member of the African Union. It claims the whole territory of Western Sahara but only exercises effective control over the territory east of Moroccan Wall, while a large portion of the territory is occupied by and integrated into Morocco.