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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. Marx Brothers

Artists and architects

1. Bruegel, Pieter the Elder
2. Corbusier, Le
3. Dalí, Salvador
4. Donatello
5. Dürer, Albrecht
6. Goya, Francisco
7. Kahlo, Frida
8. Rembrandt
9. Rubens, Peter Paul
10. Velázquez, Diego
11. Warhol, Andy
12. Wright, Frank Lloyd

Authors, playwrights and poets

1. Abu Nuwas
2. Bashō
3. Borges, Jorge Luis
4. Byron, George
5. Camões, Luís de
6. Chekhov, Anton
7. Daniel, Arnaut
8. Darío, Rubén
9. Dickens, Charles
10. Dostoevsky, Fyodor
11. Ferdowsi
12. Fuzûlî
13. García Márquez, Gabriel
14. von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
15. Homer
16. Horace
17. Ibsen, Henrik
18. Joyce, James
19. Kālidāsa
20. Khayyam, Omar
21. Mahfouz, Naguib
22. Molière
23. Nabokov, Vladimir
24. Ovid
25. Premchand, Munshi
26. Proust, Marcel
27. Pushkin, Alexander
28. Rimbaud, Arthur
29. Rustaveli, Shota
30. Saramago, José
31. Sappho
32. Singer, Isaac Bashevis
33. Sophocles
34. Sturluson, Snorri
35. Twain, Mark
36. Virgil
37. Wordsworth, William

Composers and musicians

1. Berlioz, Hector
2. Bruckner, Anton
3. Brahms, Johannes
4. Chopin, Frédéric
5. Handel, Georg Frideric
6. Hendrix, Jimi
7. Puccini, Giacomo
8. Presley, Elvis
9. Rolling Stones, The
10. Sibelius, Jean
11. Smetana, Bedřich
12. Schumann, Robert
13. Stravinsky, Igor
14. Tchaikovsky, Petr
15. Verdi, Giuseppe
16. Vivaldi, Antonio
17. Wagner, Richard

Explorers

1. Amundsen, Roald
2. Cartier, Jacques
3. Cook, James
4. Cortés Hernán
5. Gagarin, Yuri
6. Gama, Vasco da
7. Magellan, Ferdinand
8. Polo, Marco
9. von Humboldt, Alexander

Film directors and screenwriters

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

Inventors, scientists and mathematicians

1. Berners-Lee, Tim
2. Curie, Marie
3. Darwin, Charles
4. Euclides
5. Faraday, Michael
6. Fermi, Enrico
7. Fibonacci
8. Ford, Henry
9. Fourier, Joseph
10. Galileo Galilei
11. Gutenberg, Johannes
12. Haeckel, Ernst
13. Joule, James Prescott
14. Kepler, Johannes
15. Keynes, John Maynard
16. Khwarizmi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-
17. Leibniz, Gottfried
18. Linnaeus, Carl
19. Maxwell, James Clerk
20. Mendeleev, Dmitri
21. von Neumann, John
22. Pascal, Blaise
23. Pasteur, Louis
24. Planck, Max
25. Pythagoras
26. Rutherford, Ernest
27. Schrödinger, Erwin
28. Stallman, Richard
29. Tesla, Nikola

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. Jean-Paul Sartre
27. Smith, Adam
28. Socrates
29. Sun Tzu
30. Voltaire
31. Weber, Max
32. Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Politicians, leaders and aristocrats

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

Religious figures

1. Abraham
2. Moses
3. Jesus
4. Muhammad
5. Buddha

Revolutionaries and activists

1. Goldman, Emma
2. Keller, Helen

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. Bronze Age
3. Iron Age
4. Mesopotamia

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. Mongol Empire
9. Ming Dynasty
10. Ottoman Empire
11. Protestant Reformation
12. Renaissance
13. Thirty Years War
14. Vikings

Modern

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

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. Democratic Republic of the Congo
2. Republic of Ireland
3. Russia
4. Portugal
5. Saudi Arabia
6. South Africa
7. South Korea
8. Tanzania
9. Turkey
10. Ukraine
11. United Arab Emirates
12. Vatican City
13. Vietnam

Cities

1. Amsterdam
2. Athens
3. Baghdad
4. Bangkok
5. Beijing
6. Beirut
7. Berlin
8. Brisbane
9. Brussels
10. Buenos Aires
11. Cairo
12. Canberra
13. Cape Town
14. Damascus
15. Dar es Salaam
16. Dublin
17. Edinburgh
18. Hong Kong
19. Istanbul
20. Jakarta
21. Jerusalem
22. Karachi
23. Kyoto
24. Los Angeles
25. London
26. Mecca
27. Melbourne
28. Mexico City
29. Milan
30. Moscow
31. Mumbai
32. Nairobi
33. Naples
34. New Delhi
35. New York City
36. Paris
37. Rio de Janeiro
38. Rome
39. Saint Petersburg
40. Seoul
41. Shanghai
42. Singapore
43. Sydney
44. Tehran
45. Tel Aviv
46. Tokyo
47. Vienna
48. 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. Ganges River
13. Great Barrier Reef
14. Great Lakes
15. Indian Ocean
16. Indus River
17. Lake Baikal
18. Lake Tanganyika
19. Lake Victoria
20. Mediterranean Sea
21. Mississippi River
22. Niagara Falls
23. Niger River
24. Nile
25. North Sea
26. Pacific Ocean
27. Panama Canal
28. Rhine
29. Suez Canal
30. Southern Ocean
31. Volga River
32. 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. Behavior
2. Emotion
3. Love
4. Thought

Politics

1. Politics
2. Anarchism
3. Colonialism
4. Communism
5. Conservatism
6. Democracy
7. Dictatorship
8. Diplomacy
9. Fascism
10. Globalization
11. Government
12. Ideology
13. Imperialism
14. Liberalism
15. Marxism
16. Monarchy
17. Nationalism
18. Nazism
19. Republic
20. Socialism
21. State
22. Political party
23. Propaganda
24. Terrorism

Business and economics

1. Economics
2. Agriculture
3. Capital
4. Capitalism
5. Currency
   1. Euro
   2. Japanese yen
   3. 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. Civil war
2. Military
3. Peace
4. 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
6. Festival de Cannes

Language and literature

1. Language
2. Specific languages
   1. Arabic
   2. Bengali
   3. Chinese
   4. English
   5. Esperanto
   6. French
   7. German
   8. Greek
   9. Hebrew
   10. Hindi
   11. Italian
   12. Japanese
   13. Latin
   14. Persian
   15. Russian
   16. Sanskrit
   17. Spanish
   18. Tamil
   19. Turkish
3. Linguistics
4. Grammar
5. Word
   1. Noun
   2. Verb
6. Alphabet
   1. Chinese character
   2. Cyrillic alphabet
   3. Greek alphabet
   4. Latin alphabet
   5. Letter
7. Pronunciation
8. Literacy
9. Writing
10. 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

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. Burj Dubai
   3. Colosseum
   4. Great Wall of China
   5. Eiffel Tower
   6. Empire State Building
   7. Hagia Sophia
   8. Parthenon
   9. Pyramids of Giza
   10. St. Peter's Basilica
   11. Statue of Liberty
   12. 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. Reggae
   7. Rhythm and blues
   8. Rock music
   9. New Age music
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. Playing card
2. Gambling
3. Martial arts
   1. Karate
4. Olympic Games
5. Sport
   1. Athletics
   2. Auto racing
   3. Baseball
   4. Basketball
   5. Cricket
   6. Fencing
   7. Football (soccer)
   8. Golf
   9. Horse racing
   10. Ice hockey
   11. Judo
   12. Tennis
   13. Wrestling
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
      1. Catholicism
   4. Confucianism
   5. Hinduism
   6. Islam
   7. Jainism
   8. Judaism
   9. Shinto
   10. Sikhism
   11. Taoism
   12. 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. Pregnancy
   2. Sex
      1. Female
      2. Male

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. Muscle
8. Nervous system
   1. Brain
   2. Sensory system
      1. Ear
      2. Nose
      3. Eye
9. Reproductive system
10. Respiratory system
    1. Lung
11. Skeleton

Health and medicine

1. Medicine
2. 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. Medication
11. Ethanol
12. Nicotine
    1. Tobacco
13. Drug
14. Health
15. Headache
16. Heart attack
17. Heart disease
18. Malaria
19. Malnutrition
20. Obesity
21. Pandemic
22. Penicillin
23. Pneumonia
24. Poliomyelitis
25. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. AIDS
26. Stroke
27. Tuberculosis
28. Diabetes
29. 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. Chicken
         2. Dove
      3. Fish
         1. Shark
      4. Mammal
         1. Ape
         2. Camel
         3. Cat
         4. Cattle
         5. Dog
         6. Dolphin
         7. Elephant
         8. Horse
         9. Human
         10. Sheep
         11. Lion
         12. Pig
         13. 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. Periodic table
   2. Neon
5. Organic chemistry
   1. Alcohol
   2. Carbohydrate
   3. Hormone
   4. Lipid
6. Molecule

Weather, climate and geology

1. Avalanche
2. Climate
   1. El Niño-Southern Oscillation
   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. Conservation of energy
   2. Electromagnetic radiation
      1. Gamma ray
      2. Infrared
      3. Radioactivity
      4. Ultraviolet
      5. Visual spectrum
         1. Color
5. Classical Mechanics
6. Force
   1. Electromagnetism
   2. Gravitation
7. Light
8. Magnet
   1. Magnetic field
9. Mass
10. Quantum mechanics
11. Sound
12. Speed
    1. Speed of light
    2. Speed of sound
13. General relativity
14. Special relativity
15. Time
16. Length
17. Phase (matter)
    1. Gas
    2. Liquid
    3. Plasma
    4. Solid
18. Metal
    1. Alloy
       1. Steel

Timekeeping

1. Calendar
   1. Gregorian calendar
2. Century
3. Day
4. Month
5. Time zone
6. Week
7. 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. Book
3. Information
   1. Encyclopedia
4. Journalism
   1. Newspaper
   2. Mass media
5. Printing
6. Rail transport
7. 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. Microprocessor
   3. Random access memory
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Information technology
   1. Algorithm
4. Internet
   1. E-mail
   2. World Wide Web
5. Operating system
6. Programming language
7. Software
8. User interface

Energy and fuels

1. Energy (technology)
   1. Renewable energy
2. Electricity
   1. Nuclear power
3. Fossil fuel
4. Internal combustion engine
5. Steam engine
6. Fire

Raw materials

1. Glass
2. Paper
3. Plastic
4. Wood

Transportation

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

Weapons

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

Foodstuffs

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

Beverages

1. Beer
2. Wine
3. Coffee
4. Juice

Mathematics

1. Calculus
2. Geometry
3. Group theory
4. Mathematical proof
5. Number
   1. Integer
   2. Natural number
   3. Rational number
6. Infinity
7. Statistics

Measurement and units

1. Measurement
2. Joule

1. International System of Units
2. Volt
3. Kelvin