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What we have in mind is listings or tabular information for quick reference, not narrative articles.
Astronomy
Banking and Finance
Biology
Business
- List of supermarkets
- List of restaurant chains
- List of fast-food restaurant chains
- List of gas stations (and oil companies)
- List of pharmaceutical companies
- Timeline of the Enron scandal
- List of aircraft manufacturers
- List of strikes
- Companies by country:
- List of American companies
- List of Australian companies
- List of British companies
- List of Canadian companies
- List of Chinese companies
- List of Finnish companies
- List of French companies
- List of German companies
- List of Italian companies
- List of Japanese companies
- List of Korean companies
- List of Russian companies
- List of Spanish companies
- List of Swedish companies
- List of Swiss companies
- List of Taiwanese companies
Computing, Internet, and Technology
- List of algorithms
- Graphics file formats
- List of computer bugs
- List of computing and IT acronyms
- Internet slang
- List of calculators
- List of IBM products
- List of Intel microprocessors
- List of newsgroups
- Programming language timeline
- Computing timeline
- Linux timeline
- Timeline of microscope technology
- Timeline of materials technology
Chemistry
Entertainment
- Movie list
- List of highest grossing films
- List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry
- List of television networks
- list of television stations
- List of television programs
- List of game shows
- List of Star Trek TOS episodes
- List of Star Trek ENT episodes
- Xena:Warrior Princess Episode list
- List of films noir
- List of operettas
- List of famous operas
- List of popular music performers
Events and History
- Historical timeline of centuries, decades and years
- Historical anniversaries
- List of battles
- List of earthquakes
- Extinct countries, empires, etc.
- Timeline of invention
- List of diplomatic doctrines
- Major cases of genocide and democide
- List of guerrilla movements
- List of guerrillas
- List of strikes
- List of terrorist groups
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of treaties
- List of United States Supreme Court cases
- List of wars
See also: List of timelines
Foods and Drinks
- Commercial brands of beers
- Wikipedia Cookbook
- Wikipedia Cocktail Guide
- List of diets
- List of food additives
- Wine producing regions
- List of restaurant chains
- List of Fast-food restaurant chains
- List of Vegan recipes
Geography and Places
- Largest cities of the world
- List of botanical gardens
- List of bridges
- List of suspension bridges
- List of castles
- List of famous cemeteries
- City listing
- List of countries
- Dependent areas
- List of deserts
- List of flags
- List of islands
- List of mountains
- List of mountain ranges
- List of museums
- List of national capitals
- List of oceanic ridges
- List of oceanic trenches
- List of planned cities
- List of rivers
- Rivers of Europe
- Rivers of Asia
- Rivers of Africa
- Rivers of the Americas
- List of straits
- List of popular tourist regions
- List of walls
- List of zoos
- England:
- France:
- List of chateaux of France
- French administrative regions
- French départements
- French provinces
- Spain:
- USA:
Geology
Government
Language and Words
- List of archaic English words and their modern equivalents
- List of general acronyms
- Medical acronyms
- Short words
- Language families and languages
- American and British English Differences
- Arabic alphabet
- Aramaic alphabet
- Braille
- Coptic alphabet
- Cyrillic alphabet
- Gothic alphabet
- Hebrew alphabet
- Kannada alphabet
- Korean alphabet
- Morse code
- NATO phonetic alphabet
- Phoenician alphabet
- Runic alphabet
- Shavian alphabet
- Thai alphabet
- List of isms
- List of ologies
- List of kennings
- Latin names of European cities
- Latin names of European rivers
Literature: Major themes
Mathematics
Medicine
People
People (rulers)
People (professions)
- Other Professions
People (not as rulers)
- List of prizes, medals, and awards
- Biographies
- Biblical figures
- List of saints
- List of bishops
- Nobel Prize winners: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, Economics
- Famous gay lesbian or bisexual people
- Listing of noted atheists
- Listing of noted agnostics
- Listing of noted Buddhists
- Listing of noted Deists
- Listing of noted Hindus
- Recent celebrity deaths
- List of family name derivations
- List of given name derivations
Physics
Religion
Size, Measurement and Conversions
Sports and Games
Standards
Toponymy
(place names and their meanings)
- List of generic forms in British place names
- List of British place names and their meanings
- Latin names of European cities
- Latin names of European rivers