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The War on Terror (WoT), also known as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), refers to the international military campaign that started afte...

Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first man-made object to land on another celestial body. It was...

The McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers d...

The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It built on ideas explored in the ba...

The Academy Awards or The Oscars (the official title was rebranded as The Oscars in 2013 – changed from The Academy Awards) is an annual A...

Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable a...

A liquid-fueled rocket or a liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants. Liquids are desirable because their reasonably ...

Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the as...

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy from a screenplay by Mario Pu...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar Syste...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on...

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty ...

Time (styled on its cover in all caps as TIME) is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and ...

M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH (which was itself based on th...

Yellowstone National Park is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Ida...

The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, Tin Lizzy, T‑Model Ford, Model T, or T) is an automobile that was produced by He...

Dolly was a female domestic sheep, and the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Cam...

Pluto (134340 Pluto) is the tenth-most-massive known body directly orbiting the Sun, and the second-most-massive known dwarf planet, afte...

The National Flag of Canada, also known as the Maple Leaf and l'Unifolié (French for "the one-leafed"), is a flag consistin...

The Louvre or the Louvre Museum is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it...