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List of telescope types
Astronomical telescopes are divided into subgroups. All telescopes work by collecting electromagnetic radiation and focussing it into an image which may be seen or photographed. The purpose is to see things which are far away in the universe.
The traditional types all work to collect visible light from the sky. Recent types may work outside the visible spectrum. They all have their different advantages and disadvantages and they are used in different areas of astronomy.
Dioptrics.
Telescopes which create their image with an objective that is a convex lens (refractors) are said to be "dioptric" telescopes.
Catoptrics.
Optical systems using mirrors: uses reflected light to form the image.
Catadioptric telescopes use corrector lenses to fix problems in a reflector.
List of shipwrecks
This list of shipwrecks is of those sunken ships whose remains have been found.
List of religions
This is a list of religions and spiritual traditions. Some entries are written more than once.
A group of monotheistic traditions often grouped together because all refer to a patriarch named Abraham.
These religions are those of African cultures who have settled outside of Africa (diaspora). They are also sometimes called Creole religions. They include a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. The traditions come from African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa.
Religions that have idea of Dharma.
"Main article:" "Sikhism"
Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified as pagan religions, but modern scholars prefer the terms "indigenous", "primal", "folk", or "ethnic".
Traditional religions of the Native American peoples.
List of national parks in Africa
List of languages
This is a partial list of natural languages, arranged alphabetically.
List of endangered languages
A list of endangered languages (with fewer than 1000 speakers or with very fast decline).
In order to judge if a language is actually endangered, the number of speakers is less important than the distribution among age cohorts. There may be 200,000 mother tongue speakers of the Breton language over 50 years of age, but fewer than 2,000 under 25 years of age - thus it is likely Breton will die out in the next half century. On the other hand, while there are 30,000 Ladin language speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mother tongue - thus Ladin is not endangered in the 21st century.
List of emotions
This is a list of emotions (feelings) felt by humans.
Robert Plutchik's theory defines that the eight basic emotions are:
This theory says that the emotions are:
Charles Darwin's "The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals" was a landmark work which is still used as a source. The following list is taken from the chapter-headings in the book.
The book is famous as being the first scientific book which used photographs as a major part of the evidence. Emotions, Darwin decided, were behavioural traits which evolved. He pointed out how the human face is adapted to show many of these emotions: it has muscles for facial movements which are not possible in other mammals. On the other hand, other mammals do have ways of showing many of these emotions.
Ekman has taken this idea a step further by studying the way people try to hide their emotions. He filmed the tell-tale glimpses of brief moments when true emotion is shown on a person's face.
An academic study using self-reporting of subjects distinguished 27 discrete emotions named as in the following list:
Emotional
Logical
Social
List of earthquakes
The following is a list of major earthquakes:
"The Richter scale was adopted in 1935, and was used in the above table also about earlier earthquakes at a merely indicative title. Earthquakes' effects were once measured after the Mercalli scale, which regards the practical damages that a seismic event causes to infrastructures and houses, and a sort of comparison between the two scale is now in use, especially for ancient events."
List of disasters
This is a list of disasters, both natural and man-made.
Up to this day, most nuclear incidents did not cause many deaths, except for the Chernobyl disaster and Windscale fire. Some of the incidents in the early nuclear age were not well documented or were kept secret. Here is a list of the "known" nuclear incidents.
An attack with much collateral damage may be considered a disaster, such as the attack on KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff, 1945, the worst or perhaps second worst maritime incident in history, in terms of loss of life in a single vessel (see also note at the end of the article RMS Titanic).
This is a list of disasters involving objects in flight or near-flight. See also: List of space disasters, List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners, Incidents in Aviation
List of diseases
This is a list of common, well-known or infamous diseases. This is neither complete nor authoritative. This is not intended to be a list of rare diseases, nor is it a list of mental disorders.
This list includes both common names and technical names for diseases. This is deliberate; where multiple names are in common use for the same disease, all of those names should link to the main article for the disease
List of mental disorders
The following is a list of mental disorders.
List of communist parties
There are a number of communist parties around the world.
In world history, the Russian and Chinese communists are very important.
In Western Europe, the French, Spanish and Italian communist parties are the biggest. They have taken part in either local, regional or central government in those countries.
Some communist parties have different names, such as Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, or Workers Party. But most socialist parties are social democratic and not communist.
List of color topics
This is a list of color topics.
List of buildings
Famous or notable buildings with articles about them in Wikipedia include:
Index: A-B - C-D - E-I - J-O -
P-R - S - T-V - W - Y - Z
List of bridges
List of bridges is a work in progress.
List of bones of the human skeleton
A typical adult human skeleton consists of the following 206 bones. Some people have slightly more or fewer. Some bones are called "proximal" meaning nearer the torso, some as "intermediate" and some as "distal" meaning farther.
"In the skull (22)":
"In the middle ears (6):"
"In the throat (1):"
"In the shoulder girdle (4):"
"In the thorax (25)":
"In the vertebral column (24)":
"In the arms (6)":
"In the hands (54)":
"In the pelvis (4):"
"In the legs (8)":
"In the feet (52)":
The infant skeleton has the following bones in addition to those above:
Lists of astronomical objects
This is a partial list of the various lists of astronomical objects which either exist, or should exist, in Wikipedia.
List of stars
The following is a small list of stars. On this list, stars should be placed by their English wiki title, unless a common name is clearly more used.
List of nearest stars
This list of the nearest stars to Earth is by distance in light years (ly). These distances are taken from parallax data determined by the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars (or Recons).
The sources for this information were the Yale Parallax Catalog [Y], Hipparcos [H], Soderhjelm 1999 [S], Tinney 1996 [T]. Stars move, and so distances are as at present only.