1880s neologisms

alt=Terry Farrell "SIS Building" (1994)|thumb|360x360px|SIS Building (1994) by Terry Farrell: Detail view of the British intelligence service ([[MI6) headquarters in London, a "hulking, postmodern fortress" influenced by 1930s industrial modernist design and Mayan and Aztec temples.]]

thumb|350x350px|Three women in the pillory, China, 1875 Criminology (from Latin , 'accusation', and Ancient Greek , -logia, from λόγος logos, 'word, reason') is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field in both the behavioural and social sciences, which draws primarily upon the research of sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, social workers, biologists, social anthropologists, scholars of law and jurisprudence, as well as the processes that define administration

thumb|right|upright=1.1|Protesters advocating boycott of KFC due to [[animal welfare concerns]]

one of the four U.S. geographic regions

thumb|right|The Ganzfeld experiments that aimed to demonstrate telepathy have been criticized for lack of replication and poor controls.

thumb|upright=1.3|The station board of Hapur Junction railway station in [[North India demonstrating digraphia of two formal registers, Hindi and Urdu, of a common vernacular, Hindustani, an example of triglossia.]]

[[File:Anatomy of neuron.png|thumb|500px|The neuron contains dendrites that receive information, a cell body called the soma, and an axon that sends information to other cells through the synapses. Schwann cells make the signals (action potentials) move faster down the axon. Please see learnbio.org for interactive version.]] A dendrite (from Greek δένδρον déndron, "tree") or dendron is a branched cytoplasmic process extending from a nerve cell; it propagates the electrochemical stimulation received from other neural cells to the cell body, or soma, of the neuron from which the dendrites projec

right|thumb|Luminol reacting with haemoglobin is a familiar demonstration of [[chemiluminescence.]] thumb|UV-induced photoluminescence used in microbiological diagnostics.

thumb|upright=1.1|Piezoelectric balance presented by Pierre Curie to [[Lord Kelvin, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow]]

statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

sub-grouping of ancient Semitic languages

telephone directory of businesses by category

English-language pangram

thumb|Joseph Merrick, c.1889 A freak is a person who is physically deformed or transformed due to an extraordinary medical condition or body modification. This definition was first attested with this meaning in the 1880s as a shorter form of the phrase "freak of nature", itself a broader term meaning "whimsy or caprice of nature", attributed at least as far back as 1847. The term's original neutral connotation became entirely negative during the 20th century; therefore, freak with its literal meaning of "abnormally developed individual" is viewed purely as a pejorative today. However, the term

thumb|Death by electric chair, which was a common execution method in the early 20th century Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death.

major surges of democracy in history

English proverb

French phrase

term applied to an isolationist country, especially Korea