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Biography

This section is for people. Have at least one paragraph on 200 key historical figures.

Actors, dancers and models

1. Bernhardt, Sarah
2. Brando, Marlon
3. Chaplin, Charlie
4. Dietrich, Marlene
5. Monroe, Marilyn

Artists and architects

1. Bruegel, Pieter the Elder
2. Corbusier, Le
3. Dalí, Salvador
4. Dürer, Albrecht
5. Gogh, Vincent van
6. Goya, Francisco
7. Kahlo, Frida
8. Leonardo da Vinci
9. Matisse, Henri
10. Michelangelo
11. Picasso, Pablo
12. Pollock, Jackson
13. Rembrandt
14. Velázquez, Diego
15. Warhol, Andy
16. Wright, Frank Lloyd

Authors, playwrights and poets

1. Abu Nuwas
2. Arnaut, Daniel
3. Bashō
4. Beckett, Samuel
5. Camões, Luís de
6. Cervantes, Miguel de
7. Chaucer, Geoffrey
8. Chekhov, Anton
9. Dante Alighieri
10. Darío, Rubén
11. Dickens, Charles
12. Dostoevsky, Fyodor
13. Ferdowsi
14. Fuzûlî
15. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
16. Homer
17. Horace
18. Hugo, Victor
19. Ibsen, Henrik
20. Joyce, James
21. Kafka, Franz
22. Kālidāsa
23. Khayyam, Omar
24. Li Bai
25. Mahfouz, Naguib
26. Milton, John
27. Molière
28. Nabokov, Vladimir
29. Ovid
30. Poe, Edgar Allan
31. Premchand, Munshi
32. Proust, Marcel
33. Rimbaud, Arthur
34. Rustaveli, Shota
35. Sappho
36. Shakespeare, William
37. Sophocles
38. Sturluson, Snorri
39. Tolkien, J. R. R.
40. Tolstoy, Leo
41. Twain, Mark
42. Virgil
43. Wilde, Oscar
44. Wu Cheng'en
45. Yeats, William Butler

Composers and musicians

1. Bach, Johann Sebastian
2. Beatles, The
3. Beethoven, Ludwig van
4. Berlioz, Hector
5. Bruckner, Anton
6. Brahms, Johannes
7. Chopin, Frédéric
8. Dvořák Antonín
9. Händel, Georg Frideric
10. Jackson, Michael
11. Mahler, Gustav
12. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
13. Pink Floyd
14. Puccini, Giacomo
15. Presley, Elvis
16. Schubert, Franz
17. Smetana, Bedřich
18. Schuman, Robert
19. Sibelius, Jean
20. Stravinsky, Igor
21. Verdi, Giuseppe
22. Vivaldi, Antonio
23. Wagner, Richard

Explorers

1. Amundsen, Roald
2. Armstrong, Neil
3. Cartier, Jacques
4. Columbus, Christopher
5. Cook, James
6. Cortés Hernán
7. Gama, Vasco da
8. Magellan, Ferdinand
9. Polo, Marco
10. Zheng He

Film directors and screenwriters

1. Bergman, Ingmar
2. Disney, Walt
3. Hitchcock, Alfred
4. Kubrick, Stanley
5. Kurosawa, Akira
6. Lucas, George
7. Spielberg, Steven

Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

1. Archimedes
2. Bell, Alexander Graham
3. Berners-Lee, Tim
4. Brahe, Tycho
5. Copernicus, Nicolaus
6. Curie, Marie
7. Darwin, Charles
8. Edison, Thomas
9. Einstein, Albert
10. Euclid
11. Faraday, Michael
12. Fermi, Enrico
13. Ford, Henry
14. Fourier, Joseph
15. Galileo Galilei
16. Gauss, Carl Friedrich
17. Gutenberg, Johann
18. Kepler, Johannes
19. Keynes, John Maynard
20. Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
21. Leibniz, Gottfried
22. Linnaeus, Carolus
23. Maxwell, James Clerk
24. Mendeleev, Dmitri
25. Newton, Sir Isaac
26. Pascal, Blaise
27. Pasteur, Louis
28. Planck, Max
29. Rutherford, Ernest
30. Schrödinger, Erwin
31. Stallman, Richard
32. Tesla, Nikola
33. Turing, Alan
34. Watt, James
35. Wright brothers

Social scientists (philosophers, economists, historians and thinkers)

1. Aquinas, Thomas
2. Aristotle
3. Augustine of Hippo
4. Avicenna
5. Bruno, Giordano
6. Beauvoir, Simone de
7. Chomsky, Noam
8. Descartes, René
9. Durkheim, Émile
10. Francis of Assisi, Saint
11. Freud, Sigmund
12. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
13. Herodotus
14. Hippocrates
15. Kant, Immanuel
16. Locke, John
17. Luther, Martin
18. Luxemburg, Rosa
19. Machiavelli, Niccolò
20. Marx, Karl
21. Nietzsche, Friedrich
22. Paul of Tarsus
23. Plato
24. Pythagoras
25. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
26. Smith, Adam
27. Socrates
28. Sun Tzu
29. Voltaire
30. Weber, Max
31. Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Politicans, leaders and aristocrats

1. Akbar
2. Alexander the Great
3. Atatürk, Kemal
4. Augustus
5. Bismarck, Otto von
6. Bolívar, Simón
7. Bonaparte, Napoleon
8. Bush, George W.
9. Caesar, Julius
10. Charlemagne
11. Churchill, Winston
12. Cixi, Empress Dowager
13. Cleopatra
14. De Gaulle, Charles
15. Gandhi, Indira
16. Constantine the Great
17. Elizabeth I of England
18. Genghis Khan
19. Haile Selassie
20. Hirohito
21. Hitler, Adolf
22. Lenin, V. I.
23. Mandela, Nelson
24. Mao Zedong
25. Mussolini, Benito
26. Nkrumah, Kwame
27. Peter I of Russia
28. Qin Shi Huang
29. Saladin
30. Stalin, Joseph
31. Thatcher, Margaret
32. Truman, Harry S.
33. Victoria of the United Kingdom
34. Washington, George

Revolutionaries and activists

1. Bin Laden, Osama
2. Gandhi, Mahatma
3. Goldman, Emma
4. Joan of Arc
5. Keller, Helen
6. King, Martin Luther, Jr.
7. Mother Teresa
8. Nightingale, Florence
9. Parks, Rosa

History

This section is for events and periods in human history and prehistory. At least five sentences on:

1. History

Prehistory and ancient world

1. Prehistory
2. Stone Age
3. Bronze Age
4. Iron Age
5. Mesopotamia
6. Ancient Egypt
7. Ancient Greece

Middle Ages and Early Modern

1. Age of Enlightenment
2. Aztec
3. Byzantine Empire
4. Crusades
5. Holy Roman Empire
6. Hundred Years War
7. Middle Ages
8. Ming Dynasty
9. Ottoman Empire
10. Protestant Reformation
11. Renaissance
12. Thirty Years War
13. Vikings

Modern

1. American Civil War
2. Apartheid
3. British Empire
4. Cold War
5. French Revolution
6. Great Depression
7. Gulf War
8. The Holocaust
9. Industrial Revolution
10. Korean War
11. Nazi Germany
12. Russian Revolution of 1917
13. Qing Dynasty
14. Spanish Civil War
15. Treaty of Versailles
16. Vietnam War
17. World War I
18. World War II

Geography

This section is for geographical concepts and for specific places.

1. Geography
2. Capital
3. City
4. Continent
5. Country
6. Desert
7. Earth science
8. Map
9. North Pole
10. Ocean
11. Rainforest
12. River
13. Sea
14. South Pole

Continents and major regions

At least three sentences on each.

1. Africa
2. Antarctica
3. Asia
4. Europe
5. Latin America
6. Middle East
7. North America
8. Oceania
9. South America

Countries

Eventually, there should be articles on most or all of the 243 countries listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries. However, for the smaller Wikipedias, some of the more high-priority countries to have articles on are:

1. Afghanistan
2. Algeria
3. Argentina
4. Australia
5. Austria
6. Bangladesh
7. Brazil
8. Canada
9. China
   1. People's Republic of China
10. Democratic Republic of the Congo
11. Egypt
12. Ethiopia
13. France
14. Germany
15. Greece
16. India
17. Indonesia
18. Iran
19. Iraq
20. Republic of Ireland
21. Israel
22. Italy
23. Japan
24. Mexico
25. Pakistan
26. Poland
27. Russia
28. Saudi Arabia
29. Singapore
30. South Africa
31. South Korea
32. Spain
33. Sudan
34. Thailand
35. Turkey
36. Ukraine
37. United Kingdom
38. United States
39. Vietnam

Cities

1. Amsterdam
2. Athens
3. Baghdad
4. Bangkok
5. Beijing
6. Beirut
7. Berlin
8. Brussels
9. Buenos Aires
10. Cairo
11. Cape Town
12. Damascus
13. Dublin
14. Florence
15. Hong Kong
16. Istanbul
17. Jakarta
18. Jerusalem
19. Karachi
20. Kyoto
21. London
22. Mecca
23. Mexico City
24. Moscow
25. Mumbai
26. Nairobi
27. New Delhi
28. New York City
29. Paris
30. Rio de Janeiro
31. Rome
32. Seoul
33. Shanghai
34. Singapore
35. Sydney
36. Tehran
37. Tokyo
38. Venice
39. Vienna
40. Washington, D.C.

Bodies of water

1. Amazon River
2. Aral Sea
3. Arctic Ocean
4. Atlantic Ocean
5. Baltic Sea
6. Black Sea
7. Caribbean Sea
8. Caspian Sea
9. Congo River
10. Danube
11. Dead Sea
12. Euphrates
13. Ganges River
14. Great Barrier Reef
15. Great Lakes
16. Indian Ocean
17. Indus River
18. Lake Baikal
19. Lake Tanganyika
20. Lake Titicaca
21. Lake Victoria
22. Mediterranean Sea
23. Mississippi River
24. Niagara Falls
25. Niger River
26. Nile
27. North Sea
28. Pacific Ocean
29. Panama Canal
30. Rhine
31. Suez Canal
32. Southern Ocean
33. Tigris
34. Volga River
35. Yangtze River

Mountains, valleys and deserts

1. Alps
2. Andes
3. Himalaya
4. Mount Kilimanjaro
5. Mount Everest
6. Rocky Mountains
7. Sahara

Society

1. Society
2. Civilization
3. Education

Family and relationships

1. Family
2. Child
3. Man
4. Marriage
5. Woman

Thought, behavior and emotion

1. Love

Politics

1. Politics
2. Anarchism
3. Communism
4. Democracy
5. Dictatorship
6. Diplomacy
7. Fascism
8. Globalization
9. Government
10. Imperialism
11. Liberalism
12. Marxism
13. Monarchy
14. Nationalism
15. Republic
16. Socialism
17. State
18. Political party

Business and economics

1. Economics
   1. Macroeconomics
   2. Microeconomics
2. Agriculture
3. Capital
4. Capitalism
5. Currency
   1. Euro
   2. Japanese yen
   3. Pound sterling
   4. United States dollar
6. Industry
7. Money
8. Tax

Law

1. Law
2. Constitution

International organizations

1. African Union
2. Arab League
3. Association of Southeast Asian Nations
4. Commonwealth of Independent States
5. Commonwealth of Nations
6. European Union
7. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
8. NATO
9. Nobel Prize
10. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
11. United Nations
    1. International Atomic Energy Agency
    2. International Court of Justice
    3. International Monetary Fund
    4. UNESCO
    5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    6. World Health Organization
12. World Bank Group
13. World Trade Organization

War and military

1. Peace
2. War

Social issues

1. Abortion
2. Capital punishment
3. Human rights
4. Racism
5. Slavery

Culture

At least three sentences on:

1. Culture
2. Art
   1. Comics
   2. Painting
   3. Photography
   4. Sculpture
      1. Pottery
3. Dance
4. Fashion
5. Theatre

Language and literature

1. Language
2. Alphabet
   1. Chinese character
   2. Cyrillic alphabet
   3. Greek alphabet
   4. Latin alphabet
   5. Letter
3. Grammar
   1. Noun
   2. Syntax
   3. Verb
4. Linguistics
5. Literacy
6. Literature
   1. Prose
   2. Fiction
   3. Novel
      1. The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
   4. Poetry
      1. Epic of Gilgamesh
      2. Iliad
      3. Mahabharata
      4. Ramayana
7. Pronunciation
8. Specific languages
   1. Arabic
   2. Bengali
   3. Chinese
   4. English
   5. Esperanto
   6. French
   7. German
   8. Greek
   9. Hebrew
   10. Hindi
   11. Interlingua
   12. Italian
   13. Japanese
   14. Latin
   15. Persian
   16. Russian
   17. Sanskrit
   18. Spanish
   19. Tamil
   20. Turkish
9. Word
10. Writing

Architecture and civil engineering

1. Architecture
2. Arch
3. Bridge
4. Canal
5. Dam
6. Dome
7. House
8. Specific structures
   1. Aswan Dam
   2. Colosseum
   3. Great Wall of China
   4. Eiffel Tower
   5. Empire State Building
   6. Hagia Sophia
   7. Parthenon
   8. Pyramids of Giza
   9. St. Peter's Basilica
   10. Taj Mahal
9. Pyramid
10. Tower

Film, radio and television

1. Film
   1. Animation
2. Radio
3. Television

Music

1. Music
2. Song
3. Specific music genres
   1. Blues
   2. Classical music
      1. Opera
      2. Symphony
   3. Electronic music
   4. Folk music
   5. Jazz
   6. Pop music
   7. Reggae
   8. Rhythm and blues
   9. Rock and roll
   10. Hard rock
4. Specific musical instruments
   1. Drum
   2. Flute
   3. Guitar
   4. Piano
   5. Trumpet
   6. Violin

Recreation

1. Game
   1. Backgammon
   2. Chess
   3. Go (board game)
   4. Mancala
   5. Playing card
2. Gambling
3. Martial arts
4. Olympic Games
5. Sport
   1. American football
   2. Auto racing
   3. Badminton
   4. Baseball
   5. Basketball
   6. Cricket
   7. Fencing
   8. Football (soccer)
   9. Golf
   10. Horse racing
   11. Ice hockey
   12. Tennis
   13. Rugby union
   14. Wrestling
   15. Athletics
6. Toy

World view and religion

1. Deity
2. God
3. Mythology
4. Worldview philosophies
   1. Atheism
   2. Fundamentalism
   3. Materialism
   4. Monotheism
   5. Polytheism
5. Soul
6. Religion
7. Specific religions
   1. Bahá'í Faith
   2. Buddhism
   3. Christianity
   4. Confucianism
   5. Hinduism
   6. Islam
   7. Jainism
   8. Judaism
   9. Shinto
   10. Sikhism
   11. Taoism
   12. Voodoo
   13. Zoroastrianism
8. Spirituality

Philosophy

1. Philosophy
2. Beauty
3. Dialectic
4. Ethics
5. Epistemology
6. Feminism
7. Free will
8. Knowledge
9. Logic
10. Mind
11. Morality
12. Reality
13. Truth

Science

At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields.

1. Science

Astronomy

1. Astronomy
2. Asteroid
3. Big Bang
4. Black hole
5. Comet
6. Galaxy
   1. Milky Way
7. Light year
8. Moon
9. Planet
   1. Earth
   2. Jupiter
   3. Mars
   4. Mercury
   5. Neptune
   6. Saturn
   7. Uranus
   8. Venus
10. Solar system
11. Star
    1. Sun
12. Universe

Biology

1. Biology
2. Biological materials
   1. DNA
   2. Enzyme
   3. Protein
3. Botany
4. Death
   1. Suicide
5. Ecology
   1. Endangered species
6. Domestication
7. Life
8. Scientific classification
   1. Species

Biological processes

1. Metabolism
   1. Digestion
   2. Photosynthesis
   3. Respiration (physiology)
2. Evolution
3. Biological reproduction
   1. Asexual reproduction
   2. Sexual reproduction
      1. Heterosexuality
      2. Homosexuality
      3. Pregnancy
      4. Sex
         1. Female
         2. Male
      5. Sexual intercourse

Anatomy

1. Anatomy
2. Cell
3. Circulatory system
   1. Blood
   2. Heart
4. Endocrine system
5. Gastrointestinal tract
   1. Large intestine
   2. Small intestine
   3. Liver
6. Integumentary system
   1. Breast
   2. Skin
7. Nervous system
   1. Brain
   2. Sensory system
      1. Auditory system
         1. Ear
      2. Gustatory system
      3. Olfactory system
      4. Somatosensory system
      5. Visual system
         1. Eye
8. Reproductive system
   1. Penis
   2. Vagina
9. Respiratory system
   1. Lung
10. Skeleton

Health and medicine

1. Medicine
2. Addiction
   1. Alcoholism
   2. Drug addiction
3. Alzheimer's disease
4. Cancer
5. Cholera
6. Common cold
7. Dentistry
8. Disability
   1. Blindness
   2. Hearing impairment
   3. Mental illness
9. Disease
10. Drugs
    1. Aspirin
    2. Cannabis
    3. Cocaine
    4. Ethanol
    5. Nicotine
       1. Tobacco
    6. Opium
11. Health
12. Heart attack
13. Heart disease
14. Malaria
15. Malnutrition
16. Obesity
17. Pandemic
18. Penicillin
19. Pneumonia
20. Poliomyelitis
21. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. AIDS
22. Stroke
23. Tuberculosis
24. Virus
    1. Influenza
    2. Smallpox

Organisms

1. Organism
2. Animal
   1. Arthropod
      1. Insect
         1. Ant
         2. Bee
         3. Butterfly
      2. Arachnid
   2. Chordate
      1. Amphibian
         1. Frog
      2. Bird
         1. Dove
      3. Fish
         1. Shark
      4. Mammal
         1. Ape
            1. Human
         2. Camel
         3. Cat
         4. Cattle
         5. Dog
         6. Dolphin
         7. Elephant
         8. Horse
         9. Sheep
         10. Lion
         11. Pig
         12. Whale
      5. Reptile
         1. Dinosaur
         2. Snake
3. Archaea
4. Bacteria
5. Fungus
6. Plant
   1. Flower
   2. Tree
7. Protist

Chemistry

1. Chemistry
2. Biochemistry
3. Chemical compound
   1. Acid
   2. Base (chemistry)
   3. Salt
4. Chemical element
   1. List of elements
   2. Periodic table
   3. Aluminium
   4. Carbon
   5. Copper
   6. Gold
   7. Helium
   8. Hydrogen
   9. Iron
   10. Neon
   11. Nitrogen
   12. Oxygen
   13. Silver
   14. Tin
   15. Zinc
5. Metal
   1. Alloy
      1. Steel
6. Organic chemistry
   1. Alcohol
   2. Carbohydrate
   3. Hormone
   4. Lipid
7. Phase (matter)
   1. Gas
   2. Liquid
   3. Plasma
   4. Solid

Weather, climate and geology

1. Avalanche
2. Climate
   1. ENSO
   2. Global warming
3. Earthquake
4. Geology
   1. Mineral
      1. Diamond
   2. Plate tectonics
   3. Rock
5. Natural disaster
6. Volcano
7. Weather
   1. Cloud
   2. Flood
      1. Tsunami
   3. Rain
      1. Acid rain
      2. Snow
   4. Tornado
   5. Tropical cyclone

Physics

1. Physics
2. Acceleration
3. Atom
4. Energy
   1. Electromagnetic radiation
      1. Infrared
      2. Visual spectrum
         1. Color
      3. Ultraviolet
      4. Gamma ray
5. Force
   1. Electromagnetism
   2. Gravitation
   3. Nuclear force
6. Light
7. Mass
8. Molecule
9. Quantum mechanics
10. Sound
11. Speed
12. Theory of relativity
13. Time
14. Velocity
15. Weight

Timekeeping

1. Calendar
   1. Gregorian calendar
2. Day
3. Month
4. Time zone
   1. Daylight saving time
5. Week
6. Year

Technology

1. Technology
2. Biotechnology
3. Clothing
   1. Cotton
4. Engineering
   1. Lever
   2. Pulley
   3. Screw
   4. Wedge
   5. Wheel
5. Irrigation
   1. Plough
6. Metallurgy
7. Nanotechnology

Communication

1. Communication
2. Information
3. Journalism
   1. Newspaper
   2. Mass media
4. Printing
5. Railroad
6. Telephone
   1. Mobile telephone

Electronics

1. Electronics
   1. Current (electricity)
   2. Frequency
2. Components
   1. Capacitor
   2. Inductor
   3. Transistor
   4. Diode
   5. Resistor
   6. Transformer

Computers and Internet

1. Computer
   1. Hard disk
   2. Processor
   3. RAM
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Information technology
   1. Algorithm
4. Internet
   1. E-mail
   2. World Wide Web
      1. Web browser
5. Operating system
6. Programming language
7. Software
8. User interface
   1. Keyboard
   2. Monitor
   3. Mouse (computing)

Raw materials and energy

1. Electricity
   1. Nuclear power
2. Fossil fuel
3. Fire
4. Internal combustion engine
5. Renewable energy
6. Glass
7. Paper
8. Plastic
9. Steam engine
10. Wood

Transportation

1. Transport
2. Aircraft
3. Automobile
4. Bicycle
5. Boat
6. Ship
7. Train

Weapons

1. Weapon
2. Axe
3. Explosive material
   1. Gunpowder
4. Firearm
5. Machine gun
6. Nuclear weapon
7. Sword
8. Tank

Foodstuffs

1. Food
2. Bread
3. Cereal
   1. Barley
   2. Maize
   3. Oat
   4. Rice
   5. Rye
   6. Sorghum
   7. Wheat
4. Cheese
5. Chocolate
6. Honey
7. Fruit
   1. Apple
   2. Banana
   3. Grape
   4. Legume
      1. Soybean
   5. Lemon
   6. Nut (fruit)
8. Meat
9. Sugar
10. Vegetable
    1. Potato

Beverages

1. 1. Beer
   2. Wine
2. Cola
3. Coffee
4. Milk
5. Tea
6. Water

Mathematics

1. Mathematics
2. Algebra
3. Arithmetic
4. Axiom
5. Calculus
6. Geometry
   1. Circle
      1. Pi
   2. Square
   3. Triangle
7. Group theory
8. Mathematical proof
9. Number
   1. Complex number
   2. Integer
   3. Natural number
   4. Prime number
   5. Rational number
10. Infinity
11. Set theory
12. Statistics
13. Trigonometry

Measurement and units

1. Measurement
2. SI
3. Kilogram
4. Litre
5. Metre
6. Newton
7. Volt
8. Watt