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Architecture, buildings, city planning and public space

Logan International Airport (Boston) -- Massachusetts Turnpike -- medieval architecture -- playground -- St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral (in Brussels) -- shopping mall -- That Sri Song Hak

Alchemigram -- The Exquisite Corpse's Wang Dang Doodle (include information on Ted Joans) -- Arfé -- art history -- bas relief -- Bellmer, Hans -- Alexander Calder -- Joseph Cornell -- Dossena, Alcio (Italian art faker) -- Irish Crown Jewels -- Lotito, Michel (eats glass and metal) (ms. Magne Tout) -- Maddox, Conroy -- Masson, Andre (painter) -- mimeogram -- mixed media -- modernisme (i.e. the Antoni Gaudi variety) -- Mosfilm -- Paalen, Wolfgang -- Maxfield Parrish -- Petiot, Pierre -- poster -- prehensilhouette -- George Rickey -- Surrealist Group in Stockholm -- The Surrealist Movement in the United States

banana slug -- blue shark -- bull shark -- gray reef shark -- great whales -- How to give a dog a bath -- Mastadon -- nurse sharks -- oceanic white tipped shark -- Rinograda -- silky shark -- skates -- sturgeon -- tiger shark -- whale shark

Hevelius, Johannes

Chemistry, chemicals, labs

lye -- motor oil -- musk

Comedy, satire, and humor

Greene, Bob (humorist) -- Rivers, Joan

Communications

area code -- Automatic Number Identification -- closed-caption -- Radio Liberty

3270 terminal -- 3DNow! -- Acapedia -- CPU clock rate -- Datapoint -- Datapoint 2200 -- disk controller -- double density -- ebXML Architecture -- enhanced keyboard -- IBM Convertible -- IBM PC XT -- IBM Portable -- Personal System/2 -- Root kit -- Wireless gateway (Do not forget to link to IEEE 802.11 article!!!) -- Copy protection (As a way to prevent Software piracy)

Royal Danish Ballet -- Ballets Russes -- Arthur Murray

Economics, business, businesses, business leaders, sales, marketing

Warren Buffett -- Steve Case -- conman -- gimmick -- Hyatt International -- induced innovation -- political risk insurance -- price -- Public finance -- scarcity value -- Stabilisation policy

University of Aberdeen -- New Jersey Institute of Technology

Environment

landfill -- pulper -- Toxic waste

Christie Brinkley

Access for Afghan Women Act -- International Women's Day -- Steinem, Gloria

Praline -- Spira, Henry -- malnutrition -- morning glory

perpetual check -- trading cards

Gender & Sexuality

Elbe, Lili (transsexual)

Geography

Chao Phraya Valley -- Chugach Mountains -- Copper Country (region in Upper Peninsula of Michigan) -- Torch Bay (bay of Portage Lake) -- Mapuche

Government / Politics / bureaucracy

Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development -- Central American Parliament -- Civil Disorder -- computerized postage -- computer vended postage -- consular office -- Death row -- Defense Policy Board -- dissident -- Esquipulas Peace Agreement -- Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front -- fancy cancels -- Hong Kong Basic Law -- Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 -- Human Rights in China -- Inter-American Human Rights Court -- Irish Public Records Office -- Richard Lugar -- mailstream -- Medal of Freedom -- Harkat-ul Mujahedeen one of more than a dozen militant groups that have fought Indian troops since 1989 in Kashmir -- Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act -- Partnership for Democracy and Development in Central America -- Populism -- Postal Service -- postal stationery -- poverty pimp -- Psychiatric Inmates' Liberation Front (see [2]) -- Tom Ridge -- SEATO -- Scottish Freedom Movements -- Scottish National Liberation Army -- Sectarian violence -- Separatism -- UN Security Council Resolution 940 -- United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan -- Viceroy of Ireland -- Welsh Freedom Movements

Historical figures

Finnbogadóttir, Vigdis (ex-president of Iceland) -- Geronimo -- Hallstein, Walter -- Princess Herange (1883-1952) Maori leader -- Mansholt, Sicco L. -- Ortoli, Francois-Xavier -- Papillon -- Schuman, Robert (French Foreign Minister in 1950s) -- Sugihara Chuine ("Japan's Schindler") --- Radulovich, Milo (Red Scare) -- Santer, Jacques -- Ranuccio Farnese

History

Antiquity -- EDSA Revolution -- historic fires (London 1212, Moscow 1752, etc.) -- Immigration Act of 1924 (U.S.) -- Iran hostage crisis (surely we can do better than this) -- Society of the Cincinnati 1832 nullification crisis

Conradh na Gaeilge -- Language Freedom Movement (of Ireland) -- long vowel -- Signuno

Literature, authors, writers, reports, media, newspapers books and critics

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer -- Maya Angelou -- Benjamin, Walter -- Blood, Benjamin Paul -- Les Champs Magnetiques -- Emile Cioran -- echo poem -- English writing style -- Carlos Fuentes -- Garon, Paul -- Linda Gregerson -- Hillerman, Tony -- Indian Express (a leading Indian newspaper) -- The Least You Should Know About English (by Teresa Fester Glazier) (numerous editions and formats) -- Japan Times -- Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry by Dr. Thomas Szasz -- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award -- James Macpherson -- Mansour, Joyce (poet) -- Water Margin (Chinese play) -- Michnik, Adam -- medieval literature -- Nadja (by Andre Breton) -- Newsweek magazine -- Race Traitor: journal of the new abolitionism -- Russian Literature -- Ron Sakolsky) -- San Francisco Chronicle -- Zen and the Brain

Boyer, Carl Benjamin -- CW complex -- Dudeney, Henry -- Fresnel integral -- function operation (a Computer Science term) -- homotopy group -- hyper-elliptic curve -- Joseph Larmor -- M. James Lighthill -- p-adic analysis -- vector bundle

  • Overall, in the Mathematics pages, I expected to see more proofs. Currently, it is just a list of definitions. Perhaps these should be on separate pages?

AIDS in Africa -- Alien Hand Syndrome -- artificial heart -- Ativan -- B cells -- Bezoar -- breast pump -- Cochrane, Archie -- Genetic counselling -- Heart-lung transplant -- Life support -- Luria, Alexander (Russian neurologist) The mind of a Mnemonist -- Medicine basic topics -- medieval medicine -- Orthodontics -- Quackery -- Rayid -- Retainer (orthodontic device) -- Tumor necrosis factor -- weaning -- wet-nurse

Afghan National Army -- Battle of Bemis Heights -- Battle of Kosovo Polje -- Battle of the Eastern Solomons -- Bazooka -- Biopreparat (Soviet biological weapons program) -- Helge Boes (CIA officer died in Afghanistan) -- British School of Military Engineering -- Vincent Brooks (U.S. Brigadier General) -- Nicholas Butler (peace prize winner) -- commissioning pennant -- DEFCON -- domino theory -- EMERGCON -- FPCON -- Green Berets -- International Save the Children Alliance -- Jesuit Refugee Service -- LERTCON -- military police -- national ensign -- Operation Desert Lion -- Operation Eagle Fury -- Operation Phase Echo -- Operation Valiant Strike -- Operation Viper -- peacekeeping -- Pine Gap -- steam brig -- Peter Struck (Germany defense minster) -- Swiss Mercenaries -- Thomas Truxtun (captain) -- Gideon Welles (a secretary of navy) -- World Vision International

L'Age D'Or -- Arsenio Hall -- George Hamilton -- National Lampoon's Last Resort --

Rivers, Melissa -- Luke Perry -- Tim Robbins -- Zoom (tv show)

A Nation Once Again (Irish folk song) -- Acid jazz -- Band Aid -- The Boomtown Rats -- DJ Spinderella -- E-Street Band -- En Vogue -- French Football League Teams -- Screamin' Jay Hawkins -- Lil Bow Bow -- Leningrad Cowboys -- Guy Lombardo -- McGuire, Barry -- Thongchai McIntyre -- Marsalis, Brandon -- Monette, David G. (brass instrument designer; see [3]; designed trumpet for Wynton Marsalis) -- Jill Sobule -- Tin Pan Alley -- The Wolfe Tones -- Unthan, Carl Herman, violinist without hands (1848-?) -- Townes Van Zandt

Iamblichus

Paranormal, magic and extraterrestrial

Adamski, George (Claimed to have traveled with an UFO) -- Ancient Astronauts -- Chaos Magic -- Maskelyne, Jasper (magician)

People, professions, organizations and groups

Tariq Ali -- arborist -- Bates, Martin van Buren (8 feet tall; 500+ pounds) -- Buonarroti, Philippe -- Daniel Chick (81 year old man from Ohio detained in Israel on his way to find Osama bin Laden) -- Ahn Choong-Kun (assassin) -- commoner -- Crips & Bloods -- Ducournet, Guy -- Einstein, Izzy (Prohibition agent) -- Gatti, Enrico (Italian small-time terrorist) -- Girl Scouts of America -- Groiset, Gerald -- Henderson, William W. -- Heuvelmans, Bernard (cryptozoologist) -- Kiley, Bob (Commissioner of Transport for London) -- Lafontaine -- Mercy Corps -- memoir collaborator -- Mills, Wilburg Daigh (US congressman) -- Monet, Jean -- More, Hannah -- Munck, Kaj -- Nation, Carry (saloon smasher) -- Nilo, Humberto -- Parent, Mimi -- Pike, Ernie -- Platino, Mark -- Pletschke, Ernest F. -- Prosch, Harry (philosopher) -- Relief International -- Röhl, Klaus Rainer -- Rosemont, Franklin -- Rosemont, Penelope -- Salt, Henry (social reformer and writer) -- Sheldon, Ransom -- Smith, W. Eugene -- Sommerlath, Silvia -- Smith, Cyril Stanley -- Swider, Nik -- Thorn, Gaston Edmont -- Zazie (Evi Moechel) -- Pierre Charles L'Enfant -- Zhivkov, Todor

Baudrillard, Jean -- Lyotard, Jean-François -- religious philosophy

civil justice -- Cohn-Bendit, Daniel (anarchist student leader in May 1968 riots in France; now German Green MEP) -- Constitutional right of access to DNA testing -- Forensic DNA -- Ruth Bader Ginsberg -- Judgment non obstante veredicto (JNOV) -- Li Lu(Tianneman Square Protest Leader) -- Racketeering -- STR multiplex systems -- Vacated judgment -- Christian democracy

bullying -- Gestalt effect -- Phallic symbol -- projective techniques -- Rogerian psychotherapy -- sadness -- theory of information metabolism

Culture of Denmark -- Faroese -- race baiting -- racial hatred -- racially-motivated crime

Religion, Cults and self-help

Alektca -- The 700 Club -- Christian Theological Seminary -- Christic Institute -- Church of Jesus Christ Elvis -- Countenance Divine -- dark side -- Greek Orthodox Church -- Gyory, Victor (Scientology) -- Lamb of God -- Lawsonian religion and/or Lawsonomy -- Old Believers -- Padre Pio -- Saint Mary -- Trinity Church, in Manhattan -- United Reformed Church

Experimental Archeology -- molecular clock -- George Pake -- Pake Doublet -- solar radiation -- Underground coal gasification

Sports and recreation

Bank One Ballpark (in Phoenix) -- Fiesta Bowl -- Tony Dorsett -- Roger Kahn -- Sadaharu Oh -- Portage Lake Pioneers -- Bill Russell -- sportswriter -- David Stern (NBA Commissioner) -- Touch rugby

Substance abuse and recreational substances

Premier cigarette

Technology, inventions, inventors

David Ricci -- Robert Stirling (Rev., in 1816 "inventor of a form of air-engine", according to l'EB 1911)

Air Berlin -- Air Europa -- Scirocco -- White Bicycle of Amsterdam

history of marriage -- marriage throughout the world or marriage--anthropological aspects (or something like that. What should we call an article that compares the different views and cultural aspects of marriage through the world and history? Maybe marriage customs -- legal aspects of marriage -- wedding dress


Unclassified

fashion sense -- Jersey Devil -- lumitalos -- time ahead items


See also Wikipedia:Requested pictures Deemed complete-ish