Fulvous whistling duck

Fulvous whistling duck Adult at the Lake Apopka, Florida Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: …
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Fun Home

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicle…
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Funerary art

Tomb of Philippe Pot with life-sized hooded pleurants, c. 1477–80, now in the Louvre, Paris Korean tomb mound of King Sejong the Great, d. 1450 Türb…
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Fungus

FungiTemporal range: Middle Ordovician – Present (but see text) 460–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Clockwise from top left: .mw-parser-output …
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Fusō-class battleship

The Fusō-class battleships (扶桑型戦艦, Fusō-gata senkan) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) before World War I and co…

Fuzuli (poet)

Muhammad bin Suleyman (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Süleyman oğlu, مَحمد سلیمان اوغلی; 1483–1556), better known by his pen name Fuzuli (Füzuli, فضولی), was a 16th-cent…

G-8 and His Battle Aces

Cover of the April 1934 issue, by Frederick Blakeslee G-8 and His Battle Aces was an American air-war pulp magazine published from 1930 to 1944. It was one of t…
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Gabriel Fauré

Fauré in 1907 Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French …
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Gabriel Pleydell

Coat of arms of the Pleydell family of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire Gabriel Pleydell (fl. 1519 – c.1591) of Midg Hall in the parish of Lydiard St John (later…

Gadsden Purchase half dollar

The Gadsden Purchase half dollar was a proposed commemorative coin to be issued by the United States Bureau of the Mint. Legislation for the half dollar passed …

Gaetano Bresci

Gaetano Bresci (Italian: [ɡaeˈtaːno ˈbreʃʃi]; 11 November 1869 – 22 May 1901) was an Italian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of…

Gagak Item

Gagak Item ([ɡaˈɡaʔ iˈtəm]; Vernacular Malay for Black Raven, also known by the Dutch title De Zwarte Raaf) is a 1939 bandit film from the Dutch East In…
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Galápagos tortoise

Galápagos tortoise Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Suborder: Cryptodir…

Galaxy

A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias …
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Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by World Editions, a French-I…
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Galeb-class minelayer

The Galeb class, also known as the Orao class, were minelayers originally built as minesweepers for the Imperial German Navy between 1918 and 1919.
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Galerina marginata

Galerina marginata Scientific classification Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Agaricales Family: H…
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Galileo project

Galileo was an American robotic space program that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the Itali…

Gallimimus

GallimimusTemporal range: Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Reconstructed skeleton (based on the adult holotype and a juveni…

Galton Bridge

The Galton Bridge is a cast-iron bridge in Smethwick, near Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Opened in 1829 as a road bridge, the structure has been…

Gamma-ray burst

In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic events occurring in distant galaxies which represent the brightest and most powerful cla…

Ganesha

Ganesha or Ganesh (Sanskrit: गणेश, IAST: Gaṇeśa, IPA: [ɡɐˈɳeːɕɐ]), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most rev…
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