Wikipedia:Version 0.5

Articles included in the Version 0.5 test release

This CD contains a collection of a total 1,964 core articles taken from the English version of Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), the online encyclopedia. This is a test version, designed to prepare the way for a larger release. Considerable effort has been made to exclude errors, but it is not perfect. Although the collection is not comprehensive, it does include most major topics. Some specialised articles have been included, in order to showcase excellent writing on narrower topics. Articles may be found using the search engine, the alphabetical list or the navigation pages.

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Contents:
1 Arts 2 Language and literature 3 Philosophy and religion 4 Everyday life 5 Society and social sciences 6 Geography 7 History 8 Applied sciences and technology 9 Mathematics 10 Natural sciences

Arts

Art and architecture

General

Culture — Dance — Visual arts — (3 articles)

Music

For opera, see under theatre (Language and literature)

By nation, people, region or country

Music of the United States — (1 articles)

Classical music, including performers and composers

Bach, Johann Sebastian — Beethoven — Clarke, Rebecca Helferich — Mozart — Stravinsky, Igor — Giuseppe Verdi — (6 articles)

Genres, styles and eras

Gregorian chant — Music — Salsa music — (3 articles)

Instruments

Guqin — (1 article)

Music festivals

Eurovision Song Contest — (1 article)

Performers and composers, except classical

Armstrong, Louis — The Beatles — Carey, Mariah — Davis, Miles — Dion, Celine — Duran Duran — Dylan, Bob — Gaye, Marvin — Led Zeppelin — Marley, Bob — Nirvana — Pink Floyd — Elvis Presley — Queen (band) — The Sex Pistols — Shakur, Tupac — Springsteen, Bruce — U2—

— (18 articles)

Recordings and compositions

Blood Sugar Sex Magik — Dark Side of the Moon — Hey Jude — Himno Nacional Mexicano (Mexican national anthem) — Illmatic — My Belarusy — National Anthem of Russia — Nevermind — Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — (8 articles)

Language and literature

Language and linguistics

Alphabets and transliteration

Alphabet — Writing — (2 articles)

Languages

Language

Chinese language — English language — Ido — Portuguese language — Russian language — Swedish language — Tamil language — Vulgar Latin — (9 articles)

Linguistics

Linguistics — Names of the Greeks — Noam Chomsky — Vowel — Stuttering — Split infinitive — (6 articles)

Literature

Miscellaneous

Information — Library of Congress — Three Laws of Robotics

Classes of literature

African American literature — Augustan literature — Cyberpunk — Fiction — Imagism — Mythology (see under religion for mythology articles) — Novel — Restoration literature — Theatre (see also theatre section below) — Turkish literature

Specific works -- novels

The Brothers Karamazov — Crime and Punishment — Frankenstein — The Giver — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — The Illuminatus! Trilogy — The Lord of the Rings — Nineteen Eighty-Four — The Old Man and the Sea — Oroonoko — Starship Troopers — A Tale of a Tub — Treasure Island

Specific works -- miscellaneous

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches — Book of Kells — The Cantos — The Country Wife — Hrafnkels saga — Peterborough Chronicle — The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — Ormulum — Voynich manuscript

Cartoons

Batman — Calvin and Hobbes — Captain Marvel (DC Comics) — Felix the Cat — Krazy Kat — Scooby-Doo — The Simpsons — Superman — The Adventures of Tintin — Walt Disney — Watchmen

Poetry

Alliterative verse — English poetry — Irish poetry — Modernist poetry in English — Objectivist poets — Poetry — Poetry of the United States — (7 articles)

Writers and critics -- Americas

Mário de Andrade — Isaac Asimov — Jorge Luis Borges — H.D. — T. S. Eliot — Robert A. Heinlein — David Helvarg — Ernest Hemingway — Henry James — Jack Kerouac — Edgar Allan Poe — Thomas Pynchon — Mark Twain — Walt Whitman

Writers and critics – Europe

Douglas Adams — Dante Alighieri — Augusta, Lady Gregory — Jane Austen — Samuel Beckett — Lord Byron — Cædmon — Miguel de Cervantes — Colley Cibber — Charles Dickens — Fyodor Dostoevsky — Anne Frank — Johann Wolfgang Goethe — Brothers Grimm — Homer — Victor Hugo — Henrik Ibsen — James Joyce — Franz Kafka — Rudyard Kipling — John Milton — Ezra Pound — Marcel Proust — Aleksandr Pushkin — J. K. Rowling — Walter Scott — William Shakespeare — John Millington Synge — J. R. R. Tolkien — Leo Tolstoy — Virgil — Voltaire — Oscar Wilde — William Butler Yeats

Writers and critics - other continents

Du Fu — Muhammad Iqbal — Rabindranath Tagore — (3 articles)

Theatre, film and TV

Theatre

Abbey Theatre — Augusta, Lady Gregory — Samuel Beckett — Colley Cibber — T. S. Eliot — Henrik Ibsen — Irish theatre — John Millington Synge — The Relapse — Restoration comedy — William Shakespeare — Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Opera

Opera — Porgy and Bess — Giuseppe Verdi

Films

Film

Blade Runner — Casablanca (film) — Cinema of the United States — Gremlins — Halloween (1978 film) — Hong Kong action cinema — Jaws (film) — King Kong (1933 film) — Night of the Living Dead — Our Gang — Ran (film) — Star Wars — Summer of '42 — Sunset Boulevard (1950 film) — Triumph of the Will

Actors, models and celebrities

Charlie Chaplin — Bette Davis — Jane Fonda — Henry Fonda — Diane Keaton — Bruce Lee — Vivien Leigh — Laurence Olivier — James Stewart (actor) — Sharon Tate

Producers, directors and media figures

James T. Aubrey, Jr. — Walt Disney — Alfred Hitchcock — Akira Kurosawa — Sydney Newman

Television

BBC — BBC television drama — Mass media

Television programmes

Cheers — Doctor Who — The Quatermass Experiment — Quatermass and the Pit — Regis Philbin — Sesame Street — The Simpsons — Scooby-Doo — The West Wing (TV series)

Philosophy and religion

Philosophy

Philosophers

Aristotle — Francis Bacon — Confucius — René Descartes — Thomas Hobbes — David Hume — Immanuel Kant — Søren Kierkegaard — Laozi — John Locke — Niccolò Machiavelli — Friedrich Nietzsche — Plato — Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Socrates — Henry David Thoreau — Ludwig Wittgenstein — (18 articles)

Philosophical thought and movements

Philosophy — Anarchism — Empiricism — Existentialism — Free will — Logic — Mind — Nihilism — Philosophy of mind — Stoicism — Taoism — Utilitarianism — (12 articles)

Religion

Divinities

Allah — Amun — Apollo — Athena — Enki — God — Ganesha — Isis — Moloch — Osiris — Quetzalcoatl — Zeus — (12 articles)

Myths

Atlantis — Creationism — Greek mythology — Maya mythology — Norse mythology — Roman mythology — Slavic mythology — Spring Heeled Jack — (8 articles)

Places of worship

Angkor Wat — Mosque

Symbols

Swastika

Religious disputes

For Crusades articles, see history

Creation-evolution controversy — (1 article)

Religious figures and leaders

List of popes — Thomas Aquinas — Augustine of Hippo — Gautama Buddha — John Calvin — Columba — Father Damien — Francis of Assisi — Jesus — Martin Luther — Mother Teresa — Muhammad(P.B.U.H.) — Nostradamus — Paul of Tarsus — Pope Benedict XVI — Pope John Paul II — Pope Pius XII — Adi Shankara — Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. — Zoroaster — (20 articles)

Religious movements, traditions and organizations

Religion — Anglicanism — Bahá'í Faith — Buddhism — Christianity — Greco-Buddhism — Hinduism — History of Buddhism — History of Jews in Poland — Islam — Jehovah's Witnesses — Judaism — Knights of Columbus — Mormon — Religious Society of Friends — Roman Catholic Church — Shinto — Sikhism — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Zoroastrianism — (21 articles)

Religious texts

Bible — Revised Standard Version — (2 articles)

Miscellaneous

Anno Domini — Brahman — Buddha — Hebrew calendar — Idolatry — Names of God in Judaism — Satan — Shroud of Turin — Trimurti — Trinity — (10 articles)

Everyday life

Everyday life

General topics

Note: Many of these articles are also listed under more specific subject headings.

Advertising — Aquarium — Business — Clothing — Crime — Culture — Day — Education — Emotion — Health — Family — House — Humour — Information — Jewellery — Law — Leisure — Love — Mail — Mass media — Money — Popular culture — Shoe polish — Sleep — Toy (24 articles)

Food and drink

Food and agriculture

Agriculture — Banana — Black pepper— Bread — Butter— Cattle — Cheese — Chicken — Chocolate — Cocoa — Fishing — Food — Fruit — Potato — Rice — Saffron — Wheat (17 articles)

Drink

Beer — Milk — Tea — Absinthe — Coffee — Water (6 articles)

Recreation

Video games

3D Monster Maze — Chrono Trigger — Computer and video games — Donkey Kong (video game) — Doom — Halo: Combat Evolved — The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker — Nintendo — Nintendo Entertainment System — Pac-Man — PlayStation 2 — Pokémon Red and Blue — Pong — Super Mario 64 — Super Mario Bros. — (15 articles)

Games

Game — Blackjack — Chess — Go (board game) — Monopoly (game) — (5 articles)

Sports

Sport — American football — Australian rules football — Baseball — Basketball — Canadian football — Cricket — FIFA World Cup — Football — Football (soccer) — Formula One — Ice hockey — List of Test cricket triple centuries — Rugby football

— (13 articles)

Sports events

Olympic Games — Rugby World Cup — 1896 Summer Olympics — (3 articles)

Sport and game people

Muhammad Ali — David Beckham — Fanny Blankers-Koen — Donald Bradman — Terry Bradshaw — Brian Close — Lottie Dod — Wayne Gretzky — Damon Hill — Michael Jordan — Sandy Koufax — Denis Law — Diego Maradona — Mickey Mantle — Jesse Owens — Pelé — Jackie Robinson — Babe Ruth — Nolan Ryan — Tiger Woods — (19 articles)

Sports teams

Chicago Bears — New England Patriots — (2 articles)

Society and social sciences

Awards and heraldry

Military decorations

Hero of Ukraine — Medal of Honor — Virtuti Militari — (3 articles)

Civilian awards

Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) — History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) — Order of the Bath — Order of Canada — Order of the Garter — Order of St. Patrick — Order of the Thistle — (7 articles)

Heraldry

Heraldry — Canadian Heraldic Authority — (2 articles)

Economics and business

Business

Advertising — Business — British East India Company — Bank of China (Hong Kong) — Microsoft — Nintendo — (6 articles)

Economics

Actuary — Economics — Economy of Africa — Economy of India — Economy of the Iroquois — Economy of the Republic of Ireland — Globalization — Gold standard — John Maynard Keynes — Thomas Malthus — Mercantilism — Adam Smith — Supply and demand — (13 articles)

Currency

Demand Note — €2 commemorative coins — Money — Euro — (4 articles)

Education

Education — Scouting — Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell — Educational psychology — (4 articles)

Educational institutions

Alpha Phi Alpha — Cornell University — Duke University — Hopkins School — Indian Institutes of Technology — Michigan State University — Stuyvesant High School — University of Michigan — (9 articles)

Law

Law — Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — Constitution of May 3, 1791 (Poland) — Crime — Equal Protection Clause — Lawrence v. Texas — Marbury v. Madison — Roe v. Wade — Separation of powers under the United States Constitution — Supreme Court of the United States — United States Bill of Rights — United States Constitution — (12 articles)

Politics and government

Miscellaneous

Six-party talks concerning North Korea's nuclear program — Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 — (2 articles)

Politically significant people

Also see the History and war section below.

Tony Blair — Gordon Brown — Edmund Burke — George W. Bush — Bill Clinton — Frederick Douglass — Indira Gandhi — Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava — Stephen Harper — Hirohito — Adolf Hitler — John Howard — Martin Luther King, Jr. — Nelson Mandela — Karl Marx — Ho Chi Minh — Eva Perón — Condoleezza Rice — Franklin D. Roosevelt — Theodore Roosevelt — Margaret Sanger — Mao Zedong — (21 articles)

Politics and government

Politics — Government — Anarcho-capitalism — British House of Commons — British monarchy — Canadian House of Commons — Canadian Senate, see Senate of Canada — Capitalism — Communism — European Parliament — European Union — Fascism — Government of France — History of the Peerage — House of Lords — Ku Klux Klan — League of Nations — Liberalism — Libertarianism — Library of Congress — Marxism — Mercantilism — Monarchies in the European Union — Parliament of Canada — Parliament of Malaysia — Parliament of the United Kingdom — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — Privy Council of the United Kingdom — Propaganda — Senate of Canada — Socialism — Speaker of the British House of Commons — Speaker of the United States House of Representatives — United Nations — United States Congress — United States House of Representatives — United States Senate — (35 articles)

Flags

Flag of Australia — Flag of Belarus — Flag of Hong Kong — Flag of India — Flag of Mexico — Flag of South Africa — Flag of the Republic of China — Union Flag — (8 articles)

Psychology

Psychologists

Sigmund Freud — Carl Jung — (2 articles)

Psychology

Psychology — Asperger syndrome— Autism— Emotion — Humour — Kohlberg's stages of moral development — Milgram experiment — Project MKULTRA — Psychosis — Psychotherapy — Schizophrenia — (11 articles)

Society and sociology

Peoples

Anthropology — Azerbaijani people — Black Seminoles — Dayuan — Iranian peoples — Mandan — Pashtun people — Picts — Tamil people — (9 articles)

Community organisations

Baden-Powell House — Belarusian Republican Youth Union — Boy Scouts of America membership controversies — Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) — History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) — Knights of Columbus — Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell — Scouting — (7 articles)

For scouting awards see "Awards and decorations" section above.

Mass media

Mass media — BBC — Publishing — (3 articles)

For film and TV see Language and Literature (theatre section).

Sociology and social phenomena

Civilization — Communication — Community – Culture — Family — Gender — Popular culture — Race — Society — Sociology — Sociocultural evolution — Trade union — Tradition — (13 articles)

Sociologists and Anthropologists

Claude Lévi-Strauss — Max Weber — (2 articles)

Geography

Geography and places

For a complete list of countries, also see List of countries or the Countries tree. For flags see politics section (under Society and social sciences).

Worldwide

League of Nations — List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by date joined — United Nations

Africa

For articles on African topics, see the Africa tree

Countries

List of African countries — Algeria — Angola — Benin — Botswana — Burkina Faso — Burundi — Cameroon — Cape Verde — Central African Republic — Chad — Comoros — Republic of the Congo — Democratic Republic of the Congo — Côte d'Ivoire — Djibouti — Egypt — Equatorial Guinea — Eritrea — Ethiopia — Gabon — The Gambia — Ghana — Guinea — Guinea-Bissau — Kenya — Lesotho — Liberia — Libya — Madagascar — Malawi — Mali — Mauritania — Mauritius — Mayotte — Morocco — Mozambique — Namibia — Niger — Nigeria — Réunion — Rwanda — Saint Helena — São Tomé and Príncipe — Senegal — Seychelles — Sierra Leone — Somalia — South Africa — Sudan — Swaziland — Tanzania — Togo — Tunisia — Uganda — Western Sahara — Zambia — Zimbabwe

Cities

Abidjan — Addis Ababa — Cairo — Cape Town — Harare — Johannesburg — Nairobi — Suburbs of Johannesburg

Miscellaneous

Africa — Congo River — Niger River — Nile — Suez Canal — Zambezi

Antarctica

For articles on Antarctic topics, see the Oceania and Antarctica tree
Antarctica — Antarctic Treaty System — Bouvet Island — French Southern and Antarctic Lands — Heard Island and McDonald Islands — South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands — Southern Ocean

Asia

For articles on Asian topics, see the Asia tree

Countries

List of Asian countries — Afghanistan — Armenia — Azerbaijan — Bahrain — Bangladesh — Bhutan — British Indian Ocean Territory — Brunei — Burma, see Myanmar — Cambodia — China (historical, also see PR China and Rep. China) — People's Republic of China — Republic of China — Christmas Island — Cocos (Keeling) Islands — Cyprus — Georgia — Hong Kong — India — Indonesia — Iran — Iraq — Israel — Japan — Jordan — Kazakhstan — North Korea — South Korea — Kuwait — Kyrgyzstan — Laos — Lebanon — Macau — Malaysia — Maldives — Mongolia — Myanmar — Nepal — Oman — Pakistan — Palestinian National Authority — Philippines — Qatar — Saudi Arabia — Singapore — Sri Lanka — Syria — Taiwan, see Republic of China — Tajikistan — Thailand — East Timor — Turkey — Turkmenistan — United Arab Emirates — Uzbekistan — Vietnam — Yemen

Cities

Abu Dhabi — Almaty — Bangalore — Bangkok — Beijing — Canton (city), also called Guangzhou — Chennai — Colombo — Delhi — Dubai — Gangtok — Guangzhou — Hanoi — Ho Chi Minh City — Hong Kong — Jakarta — Jerusalem — Karachi — Kolkata — Kuala Lumpur — Manila — Mumbai — Osaka — Riyadh — Seoul — Shanghai — Taipei — Tashkent — Tehran — Tel Aviv — Tokyo

Miscellaneous

Amur — Asia — Euphrates — Ganges River — Grand Canal of China — Gyeongju — Goa — Geography of India — Indus River — Isan — Jordan River — Kerala — Kochi (India) — Krakatoa — Malwa (Madhya Pradesh) — Mekong — Mount Pinatubo — Sikkim — Taiwan — Tibet — Tigris — Yangtze River — Yenisei River — Yellow River

Europe

For articles on European topics, see the Europe tree

Countries

List of European countries — List of European Union member states by accession — Åland — Albania — Andorra — Austria — Belarus — Belgium — Bosnia and Herzegovina — Bulgaria — Croatia — Czech Republic — Denmark — England — Estonia — Faroe Islands — Finland — France — Germany — Gibraltar — Greece — Guernsey — Hungary — Iceland — Republic of Ireland — Isle of Man — Italy — Jan Mayen — Jersey — Latvia — Liechtenstein — Lithuania — Luxembourg — Republic of Macedonia — Malta — Moldova — Monaco — Montenegro — Netherlands — Northern Ireland — Norway — Poland — Portugal — Romania — Russia — San Marino — Serbia — Scotland — Slovakia — Slovenia — Spain — Svalbard — Sweden — Switzerland — Ukraine — United Kingdom — Vatican City — Wales

Cities

Aarhus — Amsterdam — Antwerp — Athens — Barcelona — Basel — Bath, Somerset — Berlin — Birmingham — Bristol — Bologna — Bratislava — Brussels — Budapest — Bucharest — Cologne — Copenhagen — Dresden — Dublin — Düsseldorf — Edinburgh — Frankfurt — Geneva — Genoa — Glasgow — Gothenburg — The Hague — Hamburg — Helsinki — Istanbul — Kiev — Leeds — Lille — Lisbon — London — Luxembourg (city) — Lyon — Madrid — Manchester — Marseille — Milan — Moscow — Munich — Oslo — Paris — Prague — Rome — Rotterdam — Saint Petersburg — Sarajevo — Sheffield — Stockholm — Stuttgart — Turin — Utrecht (city) — Vienna — Warsaw — Zürich

Miscellaneous

British Isles (terminology) — City status in the United Kingdom — Danube — Dorset — Eldfell — Europe — Geography of Ireland — Kosovo — Moorgate — National parks of England and Wales — Piccadilly Circus — Rhine — River Thames — Rondane National Park — Surtsey — Volga River

North America

For articles on North American topics, see the North America tree

Countries

List of North American countries — Anguilla — Antigua and Barbuda — Aruba — The Bahamas — Barbados — Belize — Bermuda — British Virgin Islands — Canada — Cayman Islands — Costa Rica — Cuba — Dominica — Dominican Republic — El Salvador — Greenland — Grenada — Guadeloupe — Guatemala — Haiti — Honduras — Jamaica — Martinique — Mexico — Montserrat — Navassa Island — Netherlands Antilles — Nicaragua — Panama — Puerto Rico — Saint Kitts and Nevis — Saint Lucia — Saint-Pierre and Miquelon — Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — Trinidad and Tobago — Turks and Caicos Islands — United States — United States Virgin Islands

Canada

List of Canadian provinces and territories by area — Calgary — Edmonton — Montreal — Ottawa — Toronto — Vancouver

U.S. cities

Ann Arbor, Michigan — Atlanta, Georgia — Baltimore, Maryland — Boston, Massachusetts — Chicago — Cleveland, Ohio — Columbus, Ohio — Dallas, Texas — Denver, Colorado — Detroit, Michigan — Houston, Texas — Kansas City, Missouri — Las Vegas, Nevada — Los Angeles, California — Louisville, Kentucky — Miami, Florida — Minneapolis, Minnesota — Newark, New Jersey — New York City — Philadelphia — Richmond, Virginia — San Francisco, California — San Jose, California — Seattle, Washington — Washington, D.C.

U.S. parks and related

List of areas in the National Park System of the United States — Bryce Canyon National Park — Carlsbad Caverns National Park — Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve — Death Valley National Park — Glacier National Park (US) — Mount Rushmore — Mount St. Helens — Redwood National and State Parks — Shoshone National Forest — Yellowstone National Park — Yosemite National Park — Zion National Park

U.S. miscellaneous

California

Miscellaneous

Colorado River — Columbia River — Erie Canal — List of U.S. states by date of statehood — Mackenzie River — Mauna Loa — Mississippi River — Missouri River — Niagara Falls — North America — Saint Lawrence Seaway

Other North American

Mexico City — Tijuana

Oceania

For articles on topics relating to Oceania, see the Oceania and Antarctica tree

Countries

List of Oceanian countries — American Samoa — Australia — Christmas Island — Cook Islands — Federated States of Micronesia — Fiji — French Polynesia — Guam — Kiribati — Marshall Islands — Micronesia, see Federated States of Micronesia — Nauru — New Caledonia — New Zealand — Niue — Norfolk Island — Northern Mariana Islands — Palau — Papua New Guinea — Pitcairn Islands — Samoa — Solomon Islands — Tokelau — Tonga — Tuvalu — Vanuatu — Wallis and Futuna — Baker Island — Howland Island — Jarvis Island — Johnston Atoll — Kingman Reef — Midway Atoll — Palmyra Atoll — Wake Island

Cities

Adelaide — Brisbane — Auckland — Canberra — Melbourne — Sydney — Wellington — Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

Miscellaneous

Caroline Island — The Catlins — Darling River — Great Barrier Reef — Lake Burley Griffin — Murray River — Oceania

South America

For articles on South American topics, see the South America tree

Countries

List of South American countries — Argentina — Bolivia — Brazil — Chile — Colombia — Ecuador — Falkland Islands — French Guiana — Guyana — Paraguay — Peru — Suriname — Uruguay — Venezuela

Cities

Bogotá — Brasília — Buenos Aires — Caracas — Lima — Montevideo — Rio de Janeiro — Santiago, Chile — São Paulo

Miscellaneous

Cape Horn — South America — Amazon River

Geographers and explorers

Neil Armstrong — Christopher Columbus — Ferdinand Magellan — Marco Polo — (4 articles)

Geography

For articles relating to atmospheric sciences, see natural sciences.

Geography — City — Climate — Continent — Country — Glacier — Global city — List of countries — List of lakes — List of rivers by length — List of sovereign states — List of world's largest lakes — Sea — (13 articles)

Bodies of water

Note:Rivers and canals have been listed above (by continent).

General — Arctic Ocean — Atlantic Ocean — Black Sea — Caribbean Sea — Indian Ocean — Mediterranean Sea — Pacific Ocean — Southern Ocean — (8 articles)

Africa — Lake Chad — Lake Tanganyika — Lake Victoria — (3 articles)

Antarctica — Lake Vostok — (1 article)

Asia — Aral Sea — Lake Baikal — Bay of Bengal — Caspian Sea — Dead Sea — Issyk Kul — Lake Toba — Persian Gulf — Red Sea — Sea of Galilee — South China Sea — Strait of Malacca — (12 articles)

Europe — Baltic Sea — English Channel — North Sea — (3 articles)

North America — Great Lakes — Great Salt Lake — Gulf of Mexico — Hudson Bay — Lake Mead — Lake Powell — Lake Superior — Lake Tahoe — (8 articles)

South America — Lake Titicaca — (1 article)

Geology, geophysics, and mineralogy

Geology and geophysics

Geology

1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens — 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake — Iron — Geology of the Grand Canyon area — History of Earth — Mauna Loa — Natural disaster — Ocean — Plate tectonics — Soil — Volcano — (12 articles)

Mineralogy

Diamond— Ammolite — Mineral — Turquoise — (4 articles)

History and war

Archaeology

Archaeology — Egyptian pyramids — Giza pyramid complex — Oxyrhynchus — Sylvanus Morley — (5 articles)

History

History — History of the world

Many historical articles are listed elsewhere under politics, geography, etc. For a more complete listing see Wikipedia:Version 0.5/History.

Historians, chroniclers and history books

Edward Gibbon — Herodotus — Thucydides — Athanasius Kircher — (4 articles)

Historical figures (by area of importance, not birth)

African figures

Akhenaten — Amda Seyon I of Ethiopia — Cleopatra VII — Hannibal Barca — Hatshepsut — Shaka — (6 articles)

Asian figures

Akbar — Attalus I — Cyrus the Great — Mahatma Gandhi — Qin Shi Huang — Muhammad Ali Jinnah — Genghis Khan — Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel — Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — Saladin — Suleiman the Magnificent — Timur (Tamerlane) — Hasekura Tsunenaga — (13 articles)

European figures (incl. Byzantium)

Alexander the Great — Alexandra of Denmark— Elias Ashmole — Attila the Hun — Augustus — Mark Antony — Otto von Bismarck — Joel Brand — Julius Caesar — Catherine II of Russia — Charlemagne — (also listed under Royalty/Nobility) Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor — Winston Churchill — Claudius — Constantine I — John Dee — Demosthenes — Elagabalus — Elizabeth I of England — Epaminondas — George II of Great Britain — George Fox — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor — Frederick II of Prussia — List of French monarchs — List of monarchs in the British Isles — Mikhail Gorbachev — Henry II of England — Henry VIII of England — Heraclius — Adolf Hitler — Ivan IV of Russia — Manuel I Komnenos — Stanisław Koniecpolski — Vladimir Lenin — Louis XIV of France — Macbeth of Scotland — Benito Mussolini — Napoleon I of France — Penda of Mercia — Witold Pilecki — Peter I of Russia — Philip II of Spain — Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu — Joseph Stalin — Victoria of the United Kingdom — Rudolf Vrba — Jonathan Wild — William I of England — William the Silent — (49 articles)

North or South American figures

Ike Altgens — Simón Bolívar — Isaac Brock — Hernán Cortés — Adriaen van der Donck — W. Mark Felt — Carl G. Fisher — Helen Gandy — Franklin B. Gowen — Che Guevara — Gerald Ford — Benjamin Franklin — Ziad Jarrah — Thomas Jefferson — Abraham Lincoln — William N. Page — Rosa Parks — Samantha Smith — George Washington — (19 articles)

Oceania - historical figures

Yagan — (1 article)

General history articles by area of importance

World history

Black Death — British Empire — Crusades — First Crusade — History of the world — Industrial Revolution — List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by date joined — Laika — Radhanite — Second Crusade — Space Race — RMS Titanic — (12 articles)

Africa

Congo Free State — History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 — History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 — Makuria — (4 articles)

Asia

Byzantine Empire — Chola dynasty — Crusades - see World history History of Central Asia — Indo-Greek Kingdom — Lothal — Political integration of India — Qing Dynasty — Radhanite —Sassanid Empire — Sino-German cooperation (1911-1941) — Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 — (10 articles)

Europe

1755 Lisbon earthquake — Anschluss — Berlin Wall — Byzantine Empire — Crusades, see World history — Dál Riata — Éire — England expects that every man will do his duty — Franks — Habsburg Spain — History of Jews in Poland — History of Limerick — History of Poland (1945–1989) — History of Portugal (1777–1834) — History of post-Soviet Russia — History of Russia — History of the Netherlands — The Holocaust — Italian Renaissance — Katyn massacre — List of European Union member states by accession — Magna Carta — Marshall Plan — Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp — Old Swiss Confederacy — Picts — Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth — Renaissance — Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 — S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 — Scotland in the High Middle Ages — Sino-German cooperation (1911-1941) — Treaty of Devol — (31 articles)

North and South America

Bath School disaster — Columbine High School massacre — Gettysburg Address — Great Lakes Storm of 1913 — History of Alaska — History of Arizona — History of Greenland — History of Miami, Florida — History of New Jersey — History of Puerto Rico — History of the Grand Canyon area — History of the Yosemite area — Ku Klux Klan — Project MKULTRA — September 11, 2001 attacks — (15 articles)

Oceania

Eureka Stockade — History of the Australian Capital Territory — Sydney Riot of 1879 — History of Burnside — (4 articles)

Time periods

1st century BC — 1st century — 2nd century — 3rd century — 4th century — 5th century — 6th century — 7th century — 8th century — 9th century — 10th century — 11th century — 12th century — 13th century — 14th century — 15th century — 16th century — 17th century — 18th century — 19th century — 20th century — 21st century — Ancient history — Anno Domini — Day — Dark Ages — Middle Ages — Modern history — Prehistoric man — (29 articles)

Military and war

General

War — (1 article)

Armies and military units

Lord's Resistance Army — Imperial Japanese Navy — (2 articles)

Biographies of military people

Attila the Hun — Husein Gradaščević — Joan of Arc — Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson — Richard O'Connor — Arthur Ernest Percival — Pericles — William Tecumseh Sherman — Thrasybulus — Aleksandr Vasilevsky — (10 articles)

Conflicts, battles and military exercises, World War II

Attack on Pearl Harbor — Battle of the Bulge — Battle of the Eastern Solomons — Battle of Leyte Gulf — Battle of Midway — Battle of Moscow — Battle of Normandy — Battle of Rennell Island — Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands — Battle of Smolensk (1943) — Battle of Stalingrad — Blitzkrieg — Naval Battle of Guadalcanal — Operation Downfall — Operation Ten-Go — Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima — World War II — (16 articles)

Conflicts, battles and military exercises, 20th/21st century miscellaneous

Able Archer 83 — Algerian Civil War — Battle of Jutland — Battle of the Somme — Battle of Warsaw (1920) — Cristero War — Darfur conflict — Defense of Sihang Warehouse — Iraq War — Kargil War — Polish-Soviet War — Second Congo War — Western Front (World War I) — World War I — Yom Kippur War — (15 articles)

Conflicts, battles and military exercises, pre-20th century

American Civil War — American Revolutionary War — Battle of Alesia — Battle of Austerlitz — Battle of Badr — Battle of Bicocca — Battle of Cannae — Corinthian War — Crusades — Italian War of 1521 — Napoleonic Wars — Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) — War of the League of Cambrai — Warsaw Uprising (1794) — War of the Spanish Succession — (16 articles)

Military camps, tribunals and facilities

Colditz Castle — Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp — (1 article)

Military history

Invasion — Military history of Canada — Military history of France — Military history of Puerto Rico — Military history of the Soviet Union — Swedish allotment system — (6 articles)

Weapons and military equipment

AK-47 — Chemical warfare — F-4 Phantom II — F-35 Lightning II — Iowa class battleship — Nuclear weapon — Jarmann M1884 — Kammerlader — Krag-Jørgensen — Krag-Petersson — Poison gas in World War I — S-mine — T-34 — U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program — USS Wisconsin (BB-64) — Weapon — Tank — (15 articles)

Tactics

Siege — Trench warfare — (2 articles)

Applied sciences and technology

Computing

People in computing

Charles Babbage — (1 articles)

Cryptography

Caesar cipher — Cryptography — Data Encryption Standard — Enigma machine — ROT13 — (5 articles)

Hardware and infrastructure

$100 laptop, see Children's Machine — Acorn Computers — ASCII — Central processing unit — Children's Machine — Color Graphics Adapter — CPU cache — Commodore 64 — Computer — Floppy disk — History of computing hardware — iPod — Macintosh — Quantum computer — (13 articles)

Programming

Programming language — Markup language — (2 articles)

Software

For computer/video games, see Everyday life.

Architecture of Windows NT — Btrieve — Common Unix Printing System — Delrina — Emacs — GNU/Linux naming controversy — Internet Explorer — Microsoft — Microsoft Windows — Mozilla Firefox — OpenBSD — PaX — Speech synthesis — ubuntu — Windows 2000 — Windows XP — X Window core protocol — X Window System — (18 articles)

Websites and the Internet

Internet — HTTP cookie— Google — Phishing — Spyware — (5 articles)

Engineering

Engineering — Crash test dummy — Domestic AC power plugs and sockets — Eifel Aqueduct — Electrical engineering — Electronic amplifier — Electronics — Enigma machine — Fiberglass — Gas metal arc welding — Gas tungsten arc welding — iPod — Jarmann M1884 — Kammerlader — Krag-Jørgensen — Krag-Petersson — Lightning rod — Nuclear power — Phonograph cylinder — Photovoltaic array — Radar — Radio — Saturn V — Shielded metal arc welding — Ship — Space exploration — Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — Space Shuttle Columbia disaster — Telecommunication — Telephone exchange — Television — Three Gorges Dam — Typewriter — Weapon — Welding

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Engineers and inventors

Isambard Kingdom Brunel — Alexander Graham Bell — Leonardo da Vinci — Thomas Edison — Henry Ford — Galileo Galilei — Johannes Gutenberg — Cai Lun — Guglielmo Marconi — Nikola Tesla — Wernher von Braun — James Watt — Wright brothers — (13 articles)

Transport

Air transport

Aircraft — F-4 Phantom II — F-35 Lightning II — (3 articles)

Bridges and tunnels

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Maritime transport

For oceans, seas and rivers see the Geography listing. For warships see the weapons section under War. Panama Canal — Saint Lawrence Seaway — Ship — Suez Canal — (4 articles)