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Europe

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Europe yo͝orˈəp [key], 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (2015 est. pop. 740,814,000). It is actually a vast peninsula of the great Euras...

Shakespeare's Plays (table)

(Encyclopedia)Shakespeare's Plays(arranged by approximate date of composition) ...

Nobel Prizes (table)

(Encyclopedia)Nobel Prizes

Geologic Timescale (table)

(Encyclopedia)Geologic Timescale 1 Not an era but the time preceding the Cambrian. ...

City of Rocks National Reserve

(Encyclopedia)City of Rocks National Reserve: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Homestead National Monument of America

(Encyclopedia)Homestead National Monument of America: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Elementary Particles (table)

(Encyclopedia)Elementary Particles Leptons Quarks1 Gauge Bosons Some Sample Hadrons For each of these particles, except the photon, gluon, and Z-boson, there is an antiparticle with the same mass and op...

National Park of American Samoa

(Encyclopedia)National Park of American Samoa: see American Samoa; National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Romance languages

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Romance languages, group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages). Also called Romanic, they are spoken by about 670 millio...

Navratilova, Martina

(Encyclopedia)Navratilova, Martina märtēˈnə năvˌrətĭlōˈvə [key], 1956–, Czech-American tennis player, b. Prague. After holding the Czech singles title (1972–74), she defected (1975) to the United Sta...