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Encyclopedia > Earth (disambiguation)
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Earth can mean: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that French Wiktionary be merged into this article or section. ...

Contents

Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Chinese Wood (木) | Fire (火) Earth (土) | Metal (金) | Water (水) Japanese Earth (地) | Water (水) | Fire (火) | Air / Wind (風) | Void / Sky / Heaven (空) Hinduism and Buddhism Vayu / Pavan — Air / Wind Agni / Tejas — Fire Akasha — Aether Prithvi / Bhumi — Earth Ap / Jala — Water In traditional Chinese philosophy, natural phenomena can be classified into the Five Elements (Chinese: ; pinyin: ): wood, fire... For the American hard rock band, see Soil (band). ... The term ground (or earth) usually means a common return in circuits. ... The chemical term earths was historically applied to certain chemical substances, once thought to be elements, and this name was borrowed from one of the four classical elements of Plato. ...

Arts

Literature

  • Earth (novel), a science fiction book by David Brin
  • The Earth (Asimov), a book by Isaac Asimov
  • Planet Earth (and other tourist traps), a web comic
  • La Terre, a French novel by Emile Zola
  • Earth-Two, a parallel world in the DC Multiverse
See also: Earth in fiction

Earth is a 1990 science fiction novel written by David Brin. ... La Terre (The Earth) is a novel by Émile Zola, published in 1887. ... In DC Comics, the Multiverse was a continuity construct in which multiple fictional versions of the universe existed in the same space, separated from each other by their vibrational resonances. ... Earth Although nearly all fictional work is set on or features the Earth, this article addresses the depiction in fiction of its existence and role in the universe. ...

Music

Dylan Carlson of Earth. ... It has been suggested that Polka Tulk be merged into this article or section. ... Earth is the first solo album of the Greek artist Vangelis, released in 1973. ... Earth Song is a song by Michael Jackson. ... Planet Earth was the first single by the pop/rock band Duran Duran, from their first album Duran Duran. ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ...

Film

  • Earth (1930 film) is the English title of the 1930 silent film Zemlya, by Ukrainian filmmaker Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  • Earth (1939 film) is the English title of the 1939 Tsuchi (film), by Japanese filmmaker Tomu Uchida
  • Earth (1991 film) is the English title of the 1991 film Aasu (film), by Japanese filmmaker Soo-Kil Kim
  • Earth is the English title of the 1996 film Tierra (film), by Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem
  • Earth (1998 film) is the English title of the 1998 film 1947: Earth, by Indian-born Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta
  • Earth (2001 film) is the English title of the 2001 documentary film Maa (film), by Finnish filmmaker Veikko Aaltonen

Earth (Russian and Ukrainian: Земля, translit. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1996 films | Spanish films ... Bapsi Sidhwas novel, Cracking India, (1991, U.S.; 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England), was released as the 1998 film Earth (1947 in India), directed by Deepa Mehta. ... Veikko Aaltonen (born 1 December 1955 in Sääksmäki, Finland) is a Finnish director, editor, sound editor, production manager and film and television writer and actor. ...

Television

Earth 2 was a short-lived science-fiction television series which aired on NBC from 1994 - 1995 in the 7-8 p. ...

Games

Earth 2140 is a 2D real-time strategy game created in 1997 by Polish-based Topware Interactive (now Zuxxez Interactive). ... Earth 2150 is a real-time strategy game, originally published in 2000 by SSI and the Polish developer Reality Pump and a sequel to the largely unknown Earth 2140. ... Earth 2160 is a real time strategy (RTS) computer game, the third in the Earth series and developed by Reality Pump studios. ...

Sayings

"What on earth?!" "______ is the ______est _______ on earth!"


People

Chief Earth Woman was a 19th century Ojibwa. ... Chippewa redirects here. ... Chief Trembling Earth, painted by Charles Bird King Chief Trembling Earth (Sioux name Monkaushka) was Yankton Sioux chief. ... The Sioux (also Dakota) are a Native American tribe. ... A name is a label for a human, thing, place, product (as in a brand name) and even an idea or concept, normally used to distinguish one from another. ... On the Internet, Upcoming. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: ) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. ... Tug of war is an easily organized, impromptu game that requires little equipment. ...

See also


  Results from FactBites:
 
Wikipedia: Earth (2147 words)
Earth or the Earth (Terra or Tellus) is the planet that humans live on; it is the third planet from the Sun, and it is the largest terrestrial planet of its solar system.
Earth's plate tectonics recycle carbon and water as limestone fields are subducted into magma and volcanically emitted as gaseous carbon dioxide and steam.
As the Moon revolves around Earth, different parts of this face are illuminated by the Sun, leading to the lunar phases: a dark part of the face is separated from a light part by the solar terminator line.
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