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  • 10:1710:17, 18 June 2025 Gold standard (hist | edit) [140,908 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Monetary system based on the value of gold}} {{Other uses}} {{pp-sock|small=yes}} thumb|right|Two gold 20 kr coins from the [[Scandinavian Monetary Union, which was based on a gold standard. The coin to the left is Swedish and the one on the right is Danish.]] thumb|right|[[Gold certificates were used as paper currency in the [[United States]...")
  • 10:1610:16, 18 June 2025 Gold standard (disambiguation) (hist | edit) [1,140 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''gold standard''' is a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is equal in value to and exchangeable for a specified amount of gold. {{Wiktionarypar|gold standard}} '''Gold standard''' may also refer to: * Gold Standard Act, law enacted by United States Congress to back the United States dollar with physical gold * Gold Standard issue, series of postage stamps issued by the Soviet Union between 1923 and 1927 * Gold standard (test), th...")
  • 10:1510:15, 18 June 2025 Gold standard (test) (hist | edit) [11,178 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Diagnostic test or benchmark}} {{for multi|tests performed on actual gold|Metallurgical assay|other uses|Gold standard (disambiguation)}} In medicine and medical statistics, the '''gold standard''', '''criterion standard''',<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |vauthors=Borowitz D, Aronoff N, Cummings LC, Maqbool A, Mulberg AE |title=Coefficient of Fat Absorption to Measure the Efficacy of Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy in People With Cys...")
  • 10:1210:12, 18 June 2025 The Historians' History of the World (hist | edit) [18,009 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{refimprove|date=February 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{italic title}} thumb|right|200px|Title page '''''The Historians' History of the World''''', subtitled ''A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development as Recorded by over two thousand of the Great Writers of all Ages''', is a 25-volume encyclopedia of world history, published in 1902. It was compiled by [...")
  • 10:1110:11, 18 June 2025 Portal:History (hist | edit) [6,573 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Wikipedia portal about history}} {{Portal maintenance status|date=June 2018|subpages=keep}} {{portal description}} {{pp-semi-protected|small=yes}} {{History portals browsebar}} <div style="background:#E9D0B6; border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#B05F3C; padding: 10px;"> <div style="float:right; width:100%"> {{/box-header|<big>The History Portal</big>|noedit=yes|}} {{Portal:History/Intro/Image}} {{Transclude lead excerpt| {{PAGENAME}} |...")
  • 10:1010:10, 18 June 2025 Portal:Pandemics (hist | edit) [2,876 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Portal maintenance status|date=March 2020|subpages=keep|nonstandard=|broken=|note=|incomplete=|manual=|maintainer1=|maintainer2=|maintainer3=|maintainer4=}} {{Portal description}}<!-- This portal is dedicated to known pandemics that have impacted humanity through history --> <div style="clear:both; width:100%"> {{smalldiv|1={{Portals browsebar}}}} {{Portal:Medicine/box-header|<big>The Pandemics and Epidemics Portal</big>|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|}} {{Transclude lead excerpt|Pa...")
  • 10:0910:09, 18 June 2025 Syndemic (hist | edit) [120,342 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Concept in epidemiology}} {{Medical anthropology}} '''Syndemics''' is the evaluation of how social and health conditions arise, in what ways they interact, and what upstream drivers may produce their interactions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mendenhall |first1=Emily |last2=Singer |first2=Merrill |date=July 2020 |title=What constitutes a syndemic? Methods, contexts, and framing from 2019 |url=https://journals.lww.com/10.1097/COH.0000000000000628 |journa...")
  • 10:0710:07, 18 June 2025 Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases (hist | edit) [34,877 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Using mathematical models to understand infectious disease transmission}} {{cs1 config|name-list-style=vanc|display-authors=6}} Mathematical models can project how infectious diseases progress to show the likely outcome of an epidemic (including in plants) and help inform public health and plant health interventions. Models use basic assumptions or collected statistics along with mathematics to find para...")
  • 10:0610:06, 18 June 2025 Compartmental models (epidemiology) (hist | edit) [112,109 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Type of mathematical model used for infectious diseases}} '''Compartmental models''' are a mathematical framework used to simulate how populations move between different states or "compartments." While widely applied in various fields, they have become particularly fundamental to the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. In these models, the population is divided into compartments labeled with shorthand notation – most commonly '''S'''...")
  • 10:0510:05, 18 June 2025 Pandemic (hist | edit) [98,122 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Widespread, often global, epidemic of severe infectious disease}} {{About|pandemics in general|other uses}} {{cs1 config|name-list-style=vanc}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}} thumb|300px|Early in the [[COVID-19 pandemic, convention centers (pictured here) were deemed to be ideal sites for temporary hospitals, due to their existing infrastructure (electrical, water, sewage).<ref n...")
  • 10:0410:04, 18 June 2025 Herd immunity (hist | edit) [59,116 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Concept in epidemiology}} {{for|the evolutionary antiparasite defence|Social immunity}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} File:Herd immunity.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|The top box shows an outbreak in a community in which a few people are infected (shown in red) and the rest are healthy but unimmunized (shown in blue); the illness spreads freely through the population. The middle box shows a population where a small number have been immunized (shown in yel...")
  • 10:0310:03, 18 June 2025 Epidemiology (hist | edit) [75,703 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Study of health and disease within a population}} {{cs1 config|name-list-style=vanc}} {{other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Public health sidebar}} '''Epidemiology''' is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases. It is a cornerstone of pub...")
  • 10:0110:01, 18 June 2025 Letoon trilingual (hist | edit) [9,242 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|The Letoon trilingual stele in [[Fethiye|Fethiye Museum.]] thumb|right|Lētōon temple complex. The foundations of the three temples are clearly visible. The '''Letoon trilingual''', or '''Xanthos trilingual''', is an inscription in three languages: standard Lycian or Lycian A, Greek, and Aramaic covering the faces of a four-sided stone stele...")
  • 09:5909:59, 18 June 2025 Imperial Aramaic (hist | edit) [24,227 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Ancient language}} {{Infobox language | name = Imperial Aramaic | altname = Official/Standard Aramaic | nativename = | image = File:Letoon stele.jpg | imagecaption = Letoon Trilingual with Greek, Lycian and Aramaic. Fethiye Museum, 4th century BC. | region = Ancient Near East | era = {{circ...")
  • 09:5809:58, 18 June 2025 Elamite language (hist | edit) [39,086 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Extinct language of the ancient Elamites of Iran}} {{distinguish|text=the Elymian language}} {{Infobox language | name = Elamite | states = Elam | region = Western Asia, Iran | era = c. 2800–300 BC (Later unwritten forms might have survived until 1000 AD?) | familycolor = Isolate | family = Language isolate | ancestor = language of [[Proto-Elamite (period)|Proto-Elamite]...")
  • 09:5809:58, 18 June 2025 Eblaite language (hist | edit) [37,180 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Extinct Semitic language used in the third millennium BC}} {{distinguish|Elbaite}} {{Expand French|Éblaïte|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox language |name = Eblaite |image = Calco di tavoletta in terracotta da Ebla - Museo d'Arte Orientale Roma.jpg |imagealt = Eblaite inscriptions on tablet |imagecaption = Eblaite inscriptions found in Ebla |region = Ebla |era = 3rd millennium BC |ref = linglist |familycolor = Afro-Asiatic |fam2 = Semitic la...")
  • 09:5409:54, 18 June 2025 Syriac language (hist | edit) [97,655 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Dialect of Middle Aramaic}} {{About|Classical Syriac or Edessan Aramaic|the alphabet|Syriac alphabet|Neo-Aramaic languages|Turoyo|and|Suret language|Syro-Palestinian or Christian Palestinian Syriac|Christian Palestinian Aramaic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox language | name = Syriac | altname = Classical Syriac<br/>Edessan Aramaic | nativename = {{lang|syc|ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ}}, ''{{transliteration|syc|Le...")
  • 09:5309:53, 18 June 2025 Sumerian language (hist | edit) [284,871 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon}} {{Infobox language | name = Sumerian | nativename = {{lang|sux|𒅴𒂠}}<br />{{Transliteration|sux|eme-gir<sub>15</sub>}}<ref name=native_name_of_sumerian_>Jagersma (2010: 1), Zólyomi (2017: 15), Foxvog (2016: 21), Edzard (2003: 1), ePSD2 entry for ''emegir''.</ref> | states = Sumer and Akkad | region = Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) | era...")
  • 09:4609:46, 18 June 2025 Horizontal gene transfer (hist | edit) [130,625 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Transfer of genes from unrelated organisms}} {{cs1 config|name-list-style=vanc|display-authors=6}} {{Redirect|HGT}} {{About|the natural process|artificial gene transfer|Gene delivery}} thumb|Tree of life showing vertical and horizontal gene transfers '''Horizontal gene transfer''' ('''HGT''') or '''lateral gene transfer''' ('''LGT''')<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ochman H, Lawrence JG, Grois...")
  • 09:4409:44, 18 June 2025 Epizootic (hist | edit) [3,948 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{short description|Animal disease event, analogous to an epidemic}} {{Distinguish|Epizoic}} thumb| [[Rinderpest outbreak in South Africa, 1896]] In epizoology, an '''epizootic''' (or '''epizoötic''', from Greek: ''epi-'' "upon" + ''zoon'' "animal") is a disease event in a nonhuman animal population analogous to an epidemic in humans. An epizootic disease (or '''{{linktext|epizooty}}''') may occur...")
  • 09:4209:42, 18 June 2025 Sumerian King List (hist | edit) [75,285 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Ancient text listing Sumerian Kingships}} {{About|the ancient cuneiform text|a chronological list of historical Mesopotamian dynasties and kings|List of Mesopotamian dynasties}} {{Infobox book | name = Sumerian King List | image = Weld-Blundell Prism with transcription by Stephen Herbert Langdon (1876-1937).jpg | caption = The Sumerian King List inscribed onto the Weld-Blundell Prism, with transcription. | image_...")
  • 09:4009:40, 18 June 2025 Manishtushu (hist | edit) [22,289 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Third king of the Akkadian Empire}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Manishtushu<br>𒈠𒀭𒅖𒌅𒋢 | image = Statue de Manishtusu - Sb 47 - Antiquités orientales du Louvre.jpg | caption = Statue of Manishtusu. Elamite language inscription stating that the statue was taken from Akkad and brought to Susa in the 12th century BC by king Shutruk-Nakhunte. Held at the Louvre Museum as fragments SB 47 + SB 90...")
  • 09:3909:39, 18 June 2025 Akkadian language (hist | edit) [98,132 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia}} {{distinguish|Acadian French}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox language | name = Akkadian | nativename = {{lang|akk|𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑(𒌝)}}<br />{{Transliteration|akk|Akkadû(m)}} | altname = Babylonian or Assyrian | image = P1050578 Louvre Obélisque de Manishtusu détail rwk.JPG | imagecaption = Akkadian language inscription on the Manishtushu#Manishtus...")
  • 09:3709:37, 18 June 2025 World Heritage Site (hist | edit) [54,714 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Place of significance listed by UNESCO}} {{Good article}} {{Use British English Oxford spelling|date=December 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{for|the list of designated locations|lists of World Heritage Sites}} {{Infobox organization | name = <!-- defaults to {{PAGENAME}}, if not provided --> | full_name = | native_name = <!-- organization's name in its local language --> | native_name_lang...")
  • 09:3609:36, 18 June 2025 Babylon (hist | edit) [98,902 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Ancient Mesopotamian city in Iraq}} {{hatnote group|{{redirect-distinguish|Babilu|Babalu (disambiguation)}}{{other uses}} }} {{pp-move}} {{distinguish|Babalon}} {{Infobox ancient site |name = Babylon |native_name = {{Transliteration|akk|Bābilim}} |alternate_name = {{plainlist| {{langx|ar|بابل}} {{Transliteration|ar|Bābil}} *{{langx|akk|𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠}} {{Transliteration|akk|Bābilim}}<ref name="Cam"/> *{{langx|sux|𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠}} {{Translit...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
  • 09:3109:31, 18 June 2025 Achaemenid (hist | edit) [173,241 bytes] WikiKnight (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Short description|Ancient Iranian empire (550–330 BC)}} {{Redirect|Persian Empire}} {{Pp-move}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use Oxford spelling|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox country | native_name = {{native name|peo|𐎧𐏁𐏂}}<br />{{Transliteration|peo|Xšāça}} | conventional_long_name = Achaemenid Empire | common_name = Persia | era = Classical antiquity | government_type = Monarchy | area_km2...")
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