Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia. We started in January 2001 and are currently working on articles in the English version. Visit the help page and experiment in the sandbox to learn how 'you' can edit any article right now.

Selected Articles

In the news:	2010 Olympics - GM food - Lawrence v. Texas - Grutter v. Bollinger
Recent deaths:	Robert McCloskey - Buddy Hackett - Katharine Hepburn - Strom Thurmond
New articles:	Samudragupta - Hesse-Kassel - Hemel Hempstead - Brand management
Anniversaries:	- United States Declaration of Independence - US Civil Rights Act 1964 - Battle of Gettysburg - Amelia Earhart - James Garfield - Canada Day

Encyclopedia

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Culture

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About our category schemes - Library of Congress catalog - Dewey Decimal System - Wikipedia arranged by topic - Alphabetical order by title - Historical timeline - Themed timelines - Observed phenomena - Calendar - Reference tables - Biographies - How-tos

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