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...

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...

The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic...

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England...

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...

Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October...

The Pantheon (UK: /ˈpænθiən/, US: /-ɒn/; Latin: Pantheum, from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pantheion) '[temple] of all the gods') is a former Roman temple...

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...

The bibcode (also known as the refcode) is a compact identifier used by several astronomical data systems to uniquely specify literature references. The...

Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. One to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu-like symptoms...