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21World Peace Council — The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization that advocates universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass destruction and all forms of… …
22Venus in fiction — In science fiction stories of the 1920s 1960s, the planet Venus was frequently described as a tropical planet, hot and misty, covered with jungle, swamps, and oceans. In 1918, chemist Svante Arrhenius, deciding that Venus cloud cover was… …
23List of alternate history fiction — This is a list of alternate history fiction, sorted by type.Novels19th century* 1845. P. s Correspondence by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a New Englander is treated as a madman because of being able to perceive a different a reality in which long dead… …
24Ford Hall Forum — The Ford Hall Forum is the oldest free public lecture series in the United States. Founded in 1908, it continues to host open lectures and discussions in the Greater Boston area. Some of the more well known past speakers include Maya Angelou,… …
25Fiction regarding United States presidential succession — The somewhat elaborate rules and laws governing succession to the Presidency have long provided fodder for creators of fiction. Several novels, films, and television series have speculated regarding the United States presidential line of… …
26space exploration — Investigation of the universe beyond Earth s atmosphere by means of manned and unmanned spacecraft. Study of the use of rockets for spaceflight began early in the 20th century. Germany s research on rocket propulsion in the 1930s led to… …
27History of the world — The history of the world [Williams, H. S. (1904). The historians history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages. New York: The Outlook… …
28Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Infobox Scientist name = Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker box width = 300px image width = caption = Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, 1993 birth date = June 28, 1912 birth place = Kiel, Schleswig Holstein death date = death date and… …
29Science fiction film — is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel,… …
30List of MS-DOS games — This is an unexhaustive list of games available for the MS DOS operating system, organized alphabetically by name.See Lists of video games for related lists.0 9* 1 0 Soccer Manager Wizard Games of Scotland (1992) * 1 Ton Martin Magnusson (1996) * …
