Alice Hamilton Dr Alice Hamilton was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health. She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology, studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body.
	Alice Paul Alice Stokes Paul was an United States suffragette leader. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920. Paul was born into a Religious Society of Friends family at Paulsdale, her family farm in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, New Jersey.
	Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an United States author and feminist.
	Alicia Alonso Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martinez Hoya, simply known as Alicia Alonso, is a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer. She is considered a legend and is most famous for her portrayals of Giselle and ballet.
	Alicyclic compound An alicyclic compound is an organic compound that is both aliphatic and cyclic. They contain one or more all-carbon rings which may be either saturation or unsaturated, but do not have aromaticity character. Alicyclic compounds may or may not have aliphatic side chains attached
	Alienator Alienator is a 1989 Sci-Fi/Action movie/Thriller, directed by prolific filmmaker Fred Olen Ray-- the Film producer, Film director, and screenwriter of over one hundred low to medium-budget feature films in many genres-- and starring Jan-Michael Vincent, star of the CBS television series Airwolf.
	Alisma Alisma is a genus of plants in the Alismataceae family. Alisma, the Latin name for Water Plantain and ancient Greek name, adopted by Carolus Linnaeus from Dioscorides. Perhaps itself derived from the Celtic, alias, "water".
	Alisma plantago-aquatica The Common Water-plantain, also known as Mad-dog weed, is a flowering plant native to most of the Northern Hemisphere, in Europe, northern Asia, and North America. It grows in shallow water, and consists of a fibrous root, several basal leaf 15-30 cm long, and a triangular plant stem up to 1 m tall, with a branched inflorescence bearing numerous small flowers with three round or slightly jagged, white or pale purple, petals.
	Alismataceae The Alismataceae or water-plantain family is a family of flowering plants, comprising 11 genera and between 85-95 species. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the greatest number of species in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most of the species are herbaceous aquatic plants growing in marshes and ponds.
	Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke, List of honorary British knights, was a legendary British-American journalist and broadcaster. Born in England, he became a naturalized United States citizen, and lived in New York City with his family for most of his adult life.
	Aliyah Aliyah is a term widely used to mean Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration away from Israel, is called Yerida. Aliyah is an important Jewish cultural concept and a fundamental concept of Zionism that is enshrined in Israel's Law of Return, which permits any Who is a Jew? the Right to assisted immigration and settlement in Israel, as well as automatic Israeli citizenship.
	Alizarin Alizarin, or 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone or mordant red, is the red dye originally derived from the root of the madder plant. In 1869, it became the first natural pigment to be duplicated synthetically. Its molecular structure is shown at left. Madder has been cultivated as a dyestuff since antiquity in central Asia and Egypt, where it was grown as early as 1500 BC.
	Alka-Seltzer Alka-Seltzer is a brand name owned by the Germany Bayer Corporation for a line of medications sold over the counter and taken by means of rapidly dissolving tablets that form an effervescent solution in water. The original Alka-Seltzer is a remedy for headache, indigestion and hangover.
	Alkaloid An alkaloid, strictly speaking, is a naturally-occurring amine produced by a plant, but amines produced by animals and fungus are also called alkaloids. Many alkaloids have pharmacology effects on humans and animals. The name derives from the word alkaline; originally, the term was used to describe any nitrogen-containing base .
	Alkane An alkane is an acyclic Saturation hydrocarbon. In other words, an alkane is a long chain of carbon linked together by single bonds. Alkanes are aliphatic compounds. The general formula for alkanes is CnH2n+2; the simplest possible alkane is therefore methane, CH4.
	Alkanet The name alkanet generally refers to Alkanna tinctoria or Dyer's Bugloss . It is a member of the Borage family Boraginaceae. Alkanna tinctoria is also known as orchanet, dyer's bugloss, Spanish bugloss or bugloss of Languedoc. Its name comes from the Spanish word alcana, from Arabic al-hena, after henna, .
	Alkene In organic chemistry, an alkene, olefin, or olefine is an Saturation chemical compound containing at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond. The simplest alkenes, with only one double bond and no other functional groups, form a homologous series of hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n.
	Alkyl An alkyl is a univalent Radical containing only carbon and hydrogen atoms arranged in a chain. The alkyls form a homologous series with the general formula CnH2n+1. Examples include methyl, CH3' and butyl C4H9'.
	Alkyne Alkynes are hydrocarbons that have at least one triple bond between two carbon atoms. The alkynes are traditionally known as acetylenes, although the name acetylene is also used to refer specifically to the simplest member of the series, known officially as ethyne.
	All of a Sudden All of a Sudden was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's fifth album, released in 1982. It was his first of three albums with Geffen Records.
	Alla Nazimova Alla Nazimova , born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon, was an United States theater and film actress, scriptwriter, and Film producer. She was sometimes called just Nazimova.
	Allah Allah is the Arabic language word referring to "God", "the Lord" and, literally according to the Qur'an, to the "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" in the Abrahamic religions. It does not mean "a Deity", but rather "the Only God", the Supreme Creator of the universe, and it is the main term for the deity in Islam.
	Allamanda Allamanda, also known as Yellow Bell, Golden Trumpet or Buttercup Flower, is a genus of tropical shrubs or vines with hairy seeds, native to South America and Central America. Their year-round production of large, bright flowers have made the Allamanda popular ornamentals.
	Allegheny Chinkapin The Allegheny Chinkapin is a species of chestnut native to the eastern United States from southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania south to central Florida, west to eastern Texas, and north to southern Missouri and Kentucky. The plant's habitat is dry sandy and rocky uplands and ridges mixed with oak and hickory to 1000 m elevation.
	Allegheny River The Allegheny River is a principal tributary of the Ohio River, which it forms with the Monongahela River at downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Golden Triangle "point". The river is approximately 325 mi long, running through the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania.
	Allegory An allegory is a figurative mode of representation conveying a Meaning other than the literal. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an allegory does not have to be expressed in language: it may be addressed to the eye, and is often found in realistic painting, sculpture or some other form of Mimesis, or representative art.
	Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an United States Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. Ginsberg is best known for Howl , a long poem about the self-destruction of his friends in Beat Generation and what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in United States at the time.
	Allergen An allergen is any substance , most often eaten or inhaled, that is recognized by the immune system and causes an allergy reaction. No comprehensive list of allergens is currently possible. Sensitivities vary from one person to another and it is possible to be allergic to an extraordinary range of substances.
	Allergy An allergy can refer to several kinds of immune reactions including Type I hypersensitivity in which a person's body is hypersensitised and develops IgE type antibodies to typical proteins. When a person is hypersensitised, these substances are known as allergens. The word allergy derives from the Greek language words allos meaning "other" and ergon meaning "work".
	Alley An alley or alleyway is a narrow, pedestrian lane found in urban areas which usually run between or behind buildings. In older cities and towns in Europe, alleys are often what is left of a medieval street network. In the British Isles an alley may be a Rights of way in the United Kingdom or ancient trail in an urban setting.
	Alleyway Alleyway is a Game Boy game published by Nintendo in 1989. It is based on classic ball-and-paddle arcade games in the style of Breakout and Arkanoid. It was a launch title for the Game boy both in Japan and North America.
	Alliaceae Alliaceae is a Family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants. They are monocots, part of Order Asparagales. The family has been widely recognised, but not universally; in the past, the plants involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae, and still are by some botanists.
	Alligator An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. There are two living alligator species: the American Alligator and the Chinese Alligator. They are closely related to crocodiles. The name alligator is an anglicization form of the Spanish language el lagarto, the name by which early Spain explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator.
	Alligator Snapping Turtle The Alligator Snapping Turtle is the largest fresh water turtle in North America, and possibly the world. It is a larger, yet less aggressive, distant relative of the common snapping turtle. The epithet temminckii is in honor of Dutch zoology Coenraad Jacob Temminck.
	Alligator weed Alligator weed is an emersed aquatic plant. Alligator weed originated in South America, but it has spread to many parts of the world and is considered an invasive species in Australia, China, New Zealand, Thailand and the United States. Alligator weed can grow in a variety of habitats, including dry land, but is usually found in water.
	Alligatoridae Alligators and caimans are reptiles closely related to the crocodiles and forming the family Alligatoridae . Together with the Gharial they make up the order Crocodilia. Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet
	Allium Allium is the onion genus, with about 1250 species, usually classified in its own family Alliaceae. Some botanists used to classify it in the lily family. They are perennial plant bulbous plants. They occur in temperate climates of the northern hemisphere, except for a few species occurring in Chile, Brazil or tropical Africa.
	Allium ampeloprasum Allium ampeloprasum is a member of the onion family, Alliaceae. It is native to Southern Europe and Western Asia. Further north it is found in the Channel Islands, western Ireland, Cornwall and the islands of Flat Holm and Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel.
	Allium canadense Wild Onion, also known as Meadow Garlic and Canadian Garlic, is a perennial plant native to North America. It has an edible bulb covered with a dense skin of brown fibers and tastes like an onion. The plant also has strong, onion-like odor. Field Garlic is similar, but it has a strong garlic taste.
	Allium scorodoprasum The Sand leek, also known as Rocambole, is a perennial plant of the family Alliaceae. It should not be confused with Rocambole garlic, which is A. sativum var. ophioscorodon. According to garlic grower Ron Engeland, A. scorodoprasum is edible but seldom cultivated, and has a shorter flower stalk and fewer and more inconsistently shaped cloves than Rocambole garlic.
	Allium vineale Allium vineale is a perennial plant bulbflower in the genus Allium, native to Europe, north Africa and western Asia. All parts of the plant have a strong garlic odor. The underground bulb is 1-2 cm diameter, with a fibrous outer layer. The main plant stem grows to 30-120 cm tall, bearing 2-4 leaf and an apical inflorescence 2-5 cm diameter comprising a number of small Bulb#Bulbil and none to a few flowers, subtended by a basal bract.
	Allopurinol Allopurinol is a white, powdery drug used to treat gout. Its use in the United States was started in 1964. It is an isomer of hypoxanthine and inhibits the production of uric acid, the metabolite responsible for gout, by inhibiting the enzyme xanthine oxidase. Allopurinol can also be given with some cancer treatments that increase uric acid, as well as for kidney stones.
	Allosaurus Allosaurus was a large biped carnivore dinosaur up to 12 metre long. It was named 'different lizard' because its vertebrae were different from those of all other dinosaurs. The name comes from the Ancient Greek allos/a????, meaning 'strange' or 'different' and saurus/sa????, meaning 'lizard' or 'reptile'.
	Allotropy Allotropy is the name applied by Jns Jakob Berzelius to the property possessed by specific pure elemental substances that can exist with different crystalline structures; the various forms are known as allotropes.
	Alloy An alloy is a combination, either in solution or chemical compound, of two or more chemical element, at least one of which is a metal, and where the resulting material has metallic properties. An alloy with two components is called a binary alloy; one with three is a ternary alloy; one with four is a quaternary alloy.
	Allspice Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, Myrtle pepper, pimento , or newspice, is a spice which is the dried unripe fruit of the Pimenta dioica plant. The name "allspice" was coined by the English, who thought it combined the flavour of several spices, such as cloves, black pepper, and even cinnamon and nutmeg.
	Allusion Allusion is a stylistic device in which one references an object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context. In the most traditional sense, allusion is a literary term regarding the use of previous texts, though the word also has come to encompass references to or from any source, including film, art, or real events.
	Alluvial deposit An alluvial deposit is an accumulation of alluvium , sometimes containing valuable ore and gemstones, or simply consisting of gravel, sand, or clay, in the bed or former bed of a river. Valuable materials such as gold may be extracted using techniques of placer mining.
	Alluvial fan An alluvial fan is a fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads typically at the exit of a canyon onto a flatter plain. A convergence of neighboring alluvial fans into a single apron of deposits against a slope is called a bajada, or compound alluvial fan.(AGI, 37-8)
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	Allyl alcohol Allyl alcohol or 2-propen-1-ol is an organic compound. It is a colourless liquid with an ethanol like odour at low concentrations and a mustard-like pungent odour at higher concentration and is water soluble. The compound is toxic, flammable and hazardous in general. Allyl alcohol is used a pesticide and a raw material for the production of many chemical compounds.
	Almanac An almanac is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomy data and various statistics are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more.
	Almandine Almandine, or almandite, is a name applied to certain kinds of precious garnet, being apparently a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor. Almandine is an iron alumina garnet, of deep red color, inclining to purple.
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	Almond The Almond is a small deciduous tree belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae. An almond is also the fruit of this tree. It is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus within Prunus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.
	Almoravids Almoravides , was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that flourished over a wide area of Africa and Europe during the 11th century. Under this dynasty the Moorish empire was extended over Morocco, Mauritania, Gibraltar, Tlemcen and a great part of what is now Senegal and Mali in the south, and Spain and Portugal in the north.
	Alms Alms exist in a number of religions. In Buddhism, alms or alms giving is the respect given by Buddhist to Buddhist monks. The monk will then pray for the givers family or other request. It is not charity as presumed by western interepreters. It is closer to a symbolic connection to the spiritual and to show humbleness and respect in the presence of normal society.
	Alocasia Alocasia is a genus of broad-leaved rhizomatous or bulbous perennials from the Family Araceae. There are about 70 species of Alocasia occurring in tropical, humid climates of Southeast Asia and Brazil. The large cordate or sagittate Leaf grow to a length of 20 to 90 cm on long petioles.
	Aloe Aloe, also written Alo, is a genus containing about four hundred species of flowering plants succulent plant plants. The genus is native to Africa and is common in South Africa's Cape Province and the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula and islands off Africa.
	Aloe vera Aloe vera is a species of Aloe, native to northern Africa. It is a stemless or very short-stemmed plant growing to 80-100 cm tall, spreading by offsets and root sprouts. The leaf are lanceolate, thick and fleshy, green to grey-green, with a serrated margin. The flowers are produced on a spike up to 90 cm tall, each flower pendulous, with a yellow tubular corolla 2-3 cm long.
	Aloha Aloha in the Hawaiian language means affection, love, compassion, mercy, goodbye, and hello, among other sentiments of a similar nature. It is used especially in Hawaii as a greeting meaning hello and goodbye. Variations occur based on circumstances when used as a greeting.
	Alois Senefelder Johann Alois Senefelder was an Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in 1798. Born Aloys Johann Nepomuk Franz Senefelder in Prague where his actor father was appearing on stage. He was educated in Munich and won a scholarship to study law at Ingolstadt.
	Alopecurus Alopecurus Carolus Linnaeus, or Foxtail Grass, is a genus of the grass family Poaceae with about 25 species. Foxtails occur in northern temperate regions. They can be Annual plant or perennial. They grow in tufts. They have flat Leaf and blunt ligules.
	Aloud Aloud is an United States, Boston-based rock band featuring Jen de la Osa, Henry Beguiristain, Ross Lohr and Roy Fontaine.
	Alpaca The Alpaca is a Domestication breed of South American camel-like ungulates, derived from the wild vicua. It resembles a sheep in appearance, but is larger and has a long erect neck. Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of southern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Chile at an altitude of 3500 to 5000 meters above sea-level, throughout the year.
	Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Although it appears as a single point to the naked eye, Alpha Centauri is actually a system of three stars, one of which is the list of brightest stars in the night sky.
	Alpha Crucis Acrux is the brightest star in constellation Crux and the list of brightest stars in the nighttime sky, at visual magnitude 0.77. It is known as ???? in Chinese. The Acrux is represented in the flags of flag of Australia and flag of New Zealand as one of the 5 stars that comprise the Southern Cross.
	Alpha particle Alpha particles are a highly Ionization form of particle radiation which have low penetration. They consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium nucleus; hence, it can be written as He2+. Alpha particles are emitted by radioactive nuclei such as uranium or radium in a process known as alpha decay.
	Alpha wave Alpha waves are electromagnetic oscillations in the frequency range of 8-12 Hertz arising from synchronous and coherent electrical activity of large groups of neurons in the human brain. They are also called Hans Berger's wave in memory of the founder of EEG. Alpha waves are commonly detected by electroencephalography or magnetoencephalography and predominantly found to originate from the occipital lobe during periods of relaxation, with eyes closed but still awake.
	Alpha-linolenic acid Alpha-linolenic acid is a polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acid fatty acid with the molecular formula C18H30O2 and molar mass 278.43 g/Mole. In physiological literature, it is given the name 18:3(n-3). Its systematic chemical name is all-cis-9,12,15-octadecatrienoic acid.