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Louis Pasteur — 201 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
+195
Berlin Wall — 895 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
a wall dividing East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989
history
+889
upwardly mobile — 654 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+648
Corn Laws — 146 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
19th-century trade restrictions on imported food and grain in the United Kingdom
+140
Thomas Malthus — 220 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 person
+214
cuban missile crisis — 369 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+363
James Watt: steam engine — 222 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+216
Khartoum Gordon — 40 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+34
hallucination problem — 347 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 4 Oct 2023
+341
wage slave — 97 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+91
Murano, Venice glass — 72 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+66
Owen Jones — 47 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 11 Jun 2024 person
+41
laissez-faire capitalism — 144 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market
capitalism
+138
means of production — 523 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+517
union organizing — 360 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+354
8-hour work day — 233 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
+227
Winter of Discontent — 77 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
the winter of 1978–79 in the United Kingdom, during which there were widespread strikes by public sector trade unions
+71
bread and circuses — 91 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 22 Jun 2023
+85
Upton Sinclair — 213 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist (1878-1968)
+207
full employment — 593 books
first published 31 Dec 1913
a situation in which everyone who wants to work at the going wage rate for their type of labour is employed
economics
+587
Nelson Mandela — 404 books
first published 31 Dec 1913 added 15 Oct 2020 person
+398
transcontinental railway — 225 books
first published 1913
contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders
+219
machine readable — 248 books
first published 1913 added 21 Sep 2023
+242
Cornelius Vanderbilt — 133 books
first published 1913 added 5 Oct 2022
+127
Fellow of the Royal Society — 177 books
first published 1897
+171
the scorpion and the frog — 272 books
first published 1897 added 18 Jan 2024
+266
trade route — 743 books
first published 1897
+737
Open Library — 8 books
first published 1873 added 22 Aug 2023
online project for book data by the Internet Archive
+2
Internet Archive — 224 books
first published 1873
a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to an extensive collection of digital content
+218
Columbine — 159 books
first published 1873
school shooting at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States on 20 April 1999
+153
Donner party — 38 books
first published 1873
+32
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith — 589 books
first published 1532 book
+583
the market place — 219 books
first published 1532
+213
anti-communist — 464 books
first published 15 Jun 0201
opposition to communism
+458
popular electronics — 59 books
first published 15 Jun 0201
an American magazine that was published from 1954 to 1985, covering electronic projects, kits, and new products
+53
self-driving car — 470 books
first published 15 Jun 0201
a car that is capable of operating without human intervention by using various sensors and machine learning algorithms.
tech
+464
information security — 230 books
first published 15 Jun 0201 added 22 Feb 2022
protecting information by mitigating information risks
+224
colonial rule — 397 books
first published 15 Jun 0201
scientific article published in Nature
history
+391
COVID-19 — 709 books
first published 15 Jun 0201 added 15 Oct 2020
a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
+703
post-work — 145 books
first published 15 Jun 0201 added 15 Oct 2020
+139
coronavirus — 490 books
first published 15 Jun 0201 added 15 Oct 2020
+484
illegal immigration — 525 books
first published 15 Jun 0201
migration of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country
+519
special economic zone — 174 books
first published 15 Jun 0201
+168
5G — 59 books
first published 15 Jun 0201 added 27 Oct 2023
the fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, known for high speed and low latency
+53
feminist movement — 214 books
first published 15 Jun 0201
series of political campaigns for reforms on feminist issues
+208