Skip to content
Category

Commons link from Wikidata

page 6
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist (1837–1923)
Diyarbakır
Diyarbakır is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. It is considered one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, continually inhabited since c. 8000 BCE.
Patras
Patras (; ; Katharevousa and ; ) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount Panachaikon, overlooking the Gulf of Patras.
Hyōgo Prefecture
prefecture of Japan
Fukuoka Prefecture
prefecture of Japan
Hiroshima Prefecture
prefecture of Japan
Kalevala
The Kalevala () is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish, Karelian and Ingrian folklore and mythology, telling a story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.
hijab
thumb|Two mannequins; one to the left wearing a hijab on the head and one to the right veiled in the style of a niqab thumb|Syrian women in hijabs Hijab (, ) refers to head coverings worn by Muslim women. Similar to the mitpaḥat/tichel or snood worn by religiously observing married Jewish women, certain headcoverings worn by some Christian women, such as the hanging veil, apostolnik and kapp, and the dupatta favored by many North Indian Hindu and Sikh women, the hijab comes in various forms. The term describes a scarf that is wrapped around the head, covering the hair, neck, and ears while lea
Alessandria
Alessandria (; ) is a city and comune (municipality) in the region of Piedmont in Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria. With a population of , it is the 3rd-largest city in Piedmont and the 53rd-largest in Italy.
graffiti
Graffiti (singular graffiti, or graffito only in graffiti archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from simple written "monikers" to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire.
Bourg-en-Bresse
Bourg-en-Bresse (; 'Bourg-in-Bresse'; ) is the prefecture of the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Located northeast of Lyon, it is the capital of the ancient province of Bresse ().
ferry
alt=Large roll-on roll-off ferry carrying passengers and vehicles across open water|thumb|Passenger and vehicle ferry in coastal waters A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus.
Jane Addams
American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)
William IV
King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
Atlas Mountains
North African mountain range
Villeneuve-d'Ascq
thumb|Saint-Sébastien d'Annappes church
Sea of Galilee
largest freshwater lake in Israel
Eurasian Chaffinch
species of small passerine bird
plankton
thumb|upright=1.5| Part of the contents of one dip of a hand net. The image contains diverse planktonic organisms, ranging from [[photosynthetic cyanobacteria and diatoms to many different types of zooplankton, including both holoplankton (permanent residents of the plankton) and meroplankton (temporary residents of the plankton, e.g., fish eggs, crab larvae, worm larvae). 100 μm = one tenth of a mm.]]
pipe organ
wind instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through pipes selected via a keyboard
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
vacuum cleaner
device that uses air to suck up dirt and other substances
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
column
thumb|right|upright=1|National Capitol Columns at the [[United States National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.]] thumb|right|upright=1|Columns of the Parliament House, Helsinki|Parliament House in [[Helsinki, Finland]] thumb|right|upright=1|Column of the Gordon Monument in Waterloo. A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. The term column applies especially to a large round support (the shaft of t
Landes
French department
Constance
Konstanz ( , , , ), traditionally known as Constance in English, is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Upper Lake Constance in the Baden-Württemberg state of south Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was the residence of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Konstanz for more than 1,200 years.
Mark Antony
Roman politician and general (83 BC – 30 BC)
James VI and I
James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, until his death in 1625. Though he long attempted to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained sovereign states ruled by James in personal union, with their own parliaments, judiciaries and laws.
La Plata
capital of the Buenos Aires province, Argentina
Q81307
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity", and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war, and anti-nuclear issues. It uses direct action, advocacy, research, and ecotage to achieve its goals. The network comprises 26 independent national/regional organisations in over 55 countries across Europe, the Americas, A
Gregory XIII
pope of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585 (1502–1585)
Ulmus
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward in Western Asia to Iran, in Africa to Libya, and in Southeast Asia into Indonesia.
Prosper Mérimée
French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)
Edward VI of England
king of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553
Leo X
pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)
Lagenaria siceraria
Calabash (; Lagenaria siceraria), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, New Guinea butter bean, Tasmania bean, zucca melon and opo squash, is a vine which is grown for its fruit. It belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae, is native to tropical Africa, and cultivated across the tropics. It can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a kitchen utensil (typically as a ladle or bowl), beverage container or a musical instrument. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth ski
papyrus
thumb|220px|Papyrus (P. British Museum|BM EA 10591 [[recto column IX, beginning of lines 13–17)]]
Anzio
Anzio (, also ; ) is a resort town and comune in the Lazio region of Italy, about south of Rome.
atlas
thumb|upright|Frontispiece of the 1595 Atlas of Mercator
Logroño
Logroño ( , , ) is the capital of the autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain. Located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, primarily in the right (South) bank of the Ebro River, Logroño has historically been a place of passage, such as the Camino de Santiago. Its borders were disputed between the Iberian kingdoms of Castille, Navarre and Aragon during the Middle Ages.
Hagen
Hagen () is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area, 15 km south of Dortmund, where the rivers Lenne and Volme meet the Ruhr. In 2023, the population was 197,677.
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
Orkney Islands
Orkney (), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago off the north coast of mainland Scotland. The plural name The Orkneys is also sometimes used. Part of the Northern Isles along with Shetland, Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of Caithness and has about 70 islands, of which 20 are inhabited. The largest island, the Mainland, has an area of , making it the sixth-largest Scottish island and the tenth-largest island in the British Isles. Orkney's largest settlement, and also its administrative centre, is Kirkwall.
Boötes
Boötes ( ) is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere. The name comes from , which comes from 'herdsman' or 'plowman' (literally, 'ox-driver'; from boûs 'cow').
Blender
free and open-source 3D computer graphics software
Marx Brothers
American comedy troupe
Aquileia
Aquileia is a (municipality) in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy. It is situated at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about from the sea, on the river Natiso (modern Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since the Roman era.
Jude the Apostle
one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus; traditionally identified with Jude the brother of Jesus
Kagoshima
, is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 583,966 in 285,992 households, and a population density of 1100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is .
Amanita muscaria
species of fungus
Adansonia
Adansonia is a genus of medium-to-large deciduous trees known as baobabs (also boabab; or ). The eight species of Adansonia are native to Africa, Australia, and Madagascar but have also been introduced to other regions of the world, including Barbados, where several of the baobabs there are suspected to have originated from Africa. Other baobabs have been introduced to Asia. A genomic and ecological analysis further suggests that the genus itself originated from Madagascar.
Nanga Parbat
mountain in Pakistan; 9th highest in the world
Derry
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
Truro
Truro (; ) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is the southernmost city in the United Kingdom, and lies west-south-west of London. It is Cornwall's county town, only city, and a centre for administration, leisure and shopping. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 21,046 and the population of the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics (which included the Gloweth and Treliske areas in the neighbouring parish of Kenwyn) was 23,060.
history of science
study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer (1915–1959)
thoracic diaphragm
sheet of internal skeletal muscle
Arthur Balfour
British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930)
Little Egret
species of bird