stan (Persian: ستان stân, estân or istân) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. It is widely used...
43 KB (3,225 words) - 13:12, 2 January 2025
Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or...
44 KB (4,327 words) - 21:06, 24 November 2024
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22...
64 KB (6,593 words) - 23:35, 8 December 2024
Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining...
83 KB (9,923 words) - 19:19, 8 December 2024
Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals, lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar, backing vocals)...
77 KB (8,618 words) - 03:49, 10 December 2024
In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30-degree sectors that make up Earth's 360-degree orbit around the Sun. The signs enumerate from...
50 KB (4,409 words) - 18:32, 3 October 2024
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was...
47 KB (5,548 words) - 19:47, 21 November 2024
The Pantheon (UK: /ˈpænθiən/, US: /-ɒn/; Latin: Pantheum, from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pantheion) '[temple] of all the gods') is a former Roman temple...
65 KB (7,609 words) - 16:54, 2 December 2024
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the...
67 KB (5,785 words) - 15:48, 25 November 2024
The bibcode (also known as the refcode) is a compact identifier used by several astronomical data systems to uniquely specify literature references. The...
5 KB (361 words) - 08:40, 27 November 2024