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- Abraham Lincoln [r]: (1809-65) Born in Illinois, President of the United States during the American Civil War. [e]
- Africanized bee [r]: Hybrids of the African honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, with various European honey bees. [e]
- Air Quality Index [r]: A number used by government agencies to characterize the quality of the ambient air at a given location. [e]
- Air assault [r]: Military operations in which infantry are carried by aircraft onto, or very near, the target, or by parachuting. The aircraft may be helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft, short-landing transports, or, historically, gliders. [e]
- Alabama, history [r]: History of Alabama, a State of the United States since 1819. Previously a territory. [e]
- Anise [r]: Annual herbaceous plant in the Apiaceae family that produces oil-rich fruits that have a distinct licorice taste. [e]
- Architecture of the California Missions [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arizona [r]: 48th state of the USA [e]
- Aspasia (orchid) [r]: Is an orchid genus formed by seven species spread from Costa Rica to South Brazil and closely related to the genus Miltonia. [e]
- Baseball [r]: A ball game, using a small spherical ball and a striker called a bat, played between two teams of 9 players each on a field with a diamond shaped circuit consisting of 4 bases. [e]
- Battle of Coleto Creek [r]: A series of events during the War of Texan Independence, in Goliad County around 19-20 March 1836, leading to a Texan defeat and the killing of many of the Texan prisoners [e]
- Belize [r]: a country (formerly known as British Honduras) located in Central America, bordering Mexico to the north and Guatemala to the west and south. The capital city of Belize is Belmopan. [e]
- Big cat [r]: The large wild felines including lions, tigers and leopards. [e]
- Bobby Driscoll [r]: Former, academy-awarded child actor of the 1940s and 1950; best known for his performances in some famous Walt Disney pictures. [e]
- Canada [r]: The world's second-largest country by total area, occupying most of northern North America; officially a bilingual nation, in English and French (population approx. 27 million). [e]
- Caribbean [r]: A region in the Americas consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands, and the surrounding coasts. [e]
- Chemical engineering [r]: The field of engineering that deals with industrial and natural processes involving the chemical, physical or biological transformation of matter or energy into forms useful for mankind, economically and safely without compromising the environment [e]
- Cinco de Mayo [r]: Means the 5th of May in Spanish and is a Mexican regional holiday celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla. [e]
- Civic culture [r]: Related political and social attitudes crucial to the success of modern democracies. [e]
- Coffee [r]: One of the most popular and widely consumed beverages in the world today. [e]
- Colombia [r]: Country in South America. [e]
- Conspiracy theory [r]: Belief that a covert and deceptive organization or people is responsible for important world events, and that these people are hiding their own involvement, acting from behind the scenes and spreading misinformation. [e]
- Coral snake [r]: Large group of elapid snakes most notable for their red, yellow, and black colored banding. [e]
- Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
- Crotalus durissus [r]: A venomous rattlesnake species found in Mexico and South America. [e]
- Culver City, California [r]: A city in western Los Angeles County, California, mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles [e]
- Demography [r]: The study of the change in the size, density, distribution and composition of human populations over time. [e]
- Detective [r]: A person, usually employed in a state agency and sometimes by private parties, to investigate and solve crimes. [e]
- Domestication [r]: The process of habituating wild animals or plants to live in association with humans, thereby providing us with food, livestock and pets. [e]
- Enciclomedia [r]: A Mexican multimedia digital educational computer network which provides lesson backup for 5th and 6th graders. [e]
- Esperanto [r]: International language created by Zamenhof in the late 19th century. [e]
- FIFA World Cup [r]: International football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association, held every four years. [e]
- Farming with raw sewage [r]: Use of human waste to fertilise and irrigate crops; particularly common where water is scarce. [e]
- Fidel Castro [r]: (1926—) Former president of Cuba. [e]
- Franklin Pierce [r]: (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) The 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. [e]
- Félix d'Hérelle [r]: (1873 – 1949) - A French-Canadian bacteriologist, and the discoverer of bacteriophages. [e]
- Gadsden Purchase [r]: The 1853 U.S. purchase of a 29.1 million acre strip of borderland from Mexico that became part of Arizona and New Mexico. [e]
- George Bancroft [r]: American historian, politician, and diplomat who established the United States Naval Academy as Secretary of the Navy in 1845. [e]
- Globalization [r]: The interaction of peoples, cultures, and businesses worldwide, which tend to overcome traditional national and cultural boundaries [e]
- Guatemala [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heterotaxis [r]: is a genus of orchids formed by a group of circa fourteen large epiphytic neotropical species of small flowers which previously were considered part of genus Maxillaria. [e]
- Homeopathy [r]: System of medicine or alternative medicine that asserts that substances known to cause specific syndromes of symptoms can also, in very low and specially prepared doses, help to cure people who are ill with a similar syndrome of symptoms. [e]
- Indigenismo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infanticide [r]: Intentionally causing the death of an infant [e]
- Jefferson Airplane [r]: An American rock band founded in 1965, in San Francisco. [e]
- Jesse Helms [r]: (born 1921) A Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina, 1973-2003, and a leader in the conservative movement with special attention to race, morals, religion and foreign policy. [e]
- Joseph Smith, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- L. Ron Hubbard [r]: (1911–1986) Founder of the Church of Scientology, and an author of science fiction and speculative fiction. [e]
- Latin America [r]: The region of the Americas that shares a common tradition and historical heritage of European colonization, mostly Iberian. [e]
- Lower house [r]: One of two chambers of a bicameral legislature. [e]
- Luis Buñuel [r]: (1900-1983) was a Spanish-born filmmaker whose works have been renowned for their surrealism, and their criticisms of bourgeois society and religion, specifically the Catholic Church. [e]
- Maize [r]: Cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the world, and one of the most widely grown crops in the Americas. [e]
- Mesoamerica [r]: A culture area extending from northern Mexico through western Honduras and northern El Salvador in Central America. [e]
- Mexican Revolution [r]: A civil war in Mexico from 1910 to 1920, producing the Mexican Constitution of 1917, costing Mexico 2.1 million lives, and the long rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party [e]
- Mexican-American War [r]: (1846-1848) war between Mexico and the United States over Mexican territories between the Gila and Rio Grande Rivers in the south and the 42d parallel north (Texas and the Mexican Cession) [e]
- Mexico City [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Miltonia [r]: An orchid genus formed by nine showy epiphyte species and seven natural hybrids of Brazil, one species reaching Argentina and Paraguay. [e]
- Nativism (politics) [r]: Interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. [e]
- Near-Earth object [r]: Solar System object, such as a small comet or asteroid, whose orbit brings it into close proximity with the Earth, or whose orbit crosses that of Earth. [e]
- New Mexico [r]: 47th state of the USA [e]
- North American Free Trade Agreement [r]: A free trade agreement among Canada, Mexico and the United States [e]
- North America [r]: The third largest continent; area 24,709,000 km² ; pop. 523,736,000 (est. July 2007) [e]
- Orchid [r]: Any plant classified under Orchidaceae, one of the largest plant families and the largest among Monocotyledons. [e]
- Parrot [r]: Tropical and semitropical birds of the order Psittaciformes, characterized by a short hooked bill, brightly colored plumage, and, in some species, the ability to mimic human speech or other sounds. [e]
- Phymatochilum [r]: Is an orchid genus formed by only one species, Phymatochilum brasiliense, inhabitant of Serra do Mar mountains in Brazilian southeast and northeast, which vegetatively resembles Oncidium species, however, is more closely related to the genus Miltonia. [e]
- Plan de San Diego [r]: Failed insurrection in 1915 in south Texas, whereby Hispanics were called on to massacre all the Anglo men and reclaim the entire Southwest for Mexico. [e]
- Proto-Indo-Europeans [r]: The hypothetical speakers of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language, a prehistoric people of the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age. [e]
- Pumpkin [r]: Round, orange fruits produced by varieties of the species Cucurbita moschata, Cucurbita pepo, and Cucurbita maxima. [e]
- Quebec City [r]: (metropolitan area population 715,515)The capital of the province of Quebec, Canada. [e]
- Scaphyglottis [r]: Is an orchid genus formed by almost seventy species of tropical New World characterized by the habit of shooting new pseudobulbs both from the apex and the base of older ones and by its generally dull colored small flowers that bloom several times on previous years pseudobulbs. [e]
- Scottish people [r]: A nation and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland. [e]
- Sephardi Jews [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spanish language [r]: A Romance language widely spoken in Spain, its current and former territories, and the United States of America. [e]
- Spanish missions in California [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tariff, U.S. history [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Temple of Inscriptions [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tequila [r]: An alcoholic beverage made from the distilled sap and heart of the Agave plant. [e]
- Tomato [r]: The fruit of Lycopersicon lycopersicum, native to the Americas but now in widespread culinary use in many parts of the world. [e]
- Tree [r]: A large, perennial, woody plant. [e]
- U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1970s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1970s [e]
- U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. [e]
- U.S. government training of foreign police [r]: The scope of U.S. activities in the training of foreign police, where the major emphasis is on learning skills rather than their immediate application in a cooperative international law enforcement effort [e]
- USS Pamina (AKA-34) [r]: Artemis-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS St. Louis (LKA-116) [r]: Charleston-class attack cargo ship [e]
- USS Tulare (AKA-112) [r]: U.S. Navy WWII C4 type attack cargo ship that operated from the 1950s into the late 1970s [e]
- USS Uvalde (AKA-88) [r]: Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
- United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
- Upper house [r]: One of two chambers of a bicameral legislature. [e]
- Vibrio (genus) [r]: Gram-negative bacteria possessing a curved rod shape, typically found in saltwater, with some species causing serious diseases in humans and other animals such as cholera. [e]
- Welcome to Citizendium [r]: Add brief definition or description
- West Coast of the United States [r]: Bordering the Pacific Ocean, the states of California, Washington and Oregon. [e]
- Will Rogers [r]: (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) An American cowboy, humorist, vaudeville and film actor, and commentator on national and world affairs. [e]
- Woodrow Wilson [r]: 28th U.S. President (1913-1921); founded the Federal Reserve and brought his country to fight both the Mexicans in the Mexican Revolution and the Central Powers in World War One. [e]
- World Heritage site [r]: A place included in a list maintained by the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO with the aim of cataloguing sites of particular natural or cultural importance to the whole of mankind. [e]
- World Trade Organisation [r]: A multinational organisation that develops trade policies and resolves disputes, with an assumption that free trade is generally the best [e]
- Zachary Taylor [r]: (1784–1850) President of the United States from 1849 to 1850, led the U.S. army in the Mexican-American War. [e]
