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1695 Linfen earthquake
The 1695 Linfen earthquake (1695年临汾大地震) was a destructive magnitude 7¾ earthquake that struck Linfen in Shanxi Province, China, on May 18, 1695, killing tens of thousands.
16974 Iphthime
16974 Iphthime (1998 WR21) is a 57-km Jupiter Trojan asteroid at the L4 point, discovered by LINEAR in 1998, with a slow 78.9-hour rotation and a near-equal mass binary companion found by HST in 2016.
1698 Tungurahua earthquake
The 1698 Tungurahua earthquake, generally called the Ambato earthquake, was a colonial-era earthquake that struck the Ecuadorian Sierra in 1698, razing Ambato and Latacunga and killing several thousand people.
16BL
16BL, formerly 16 Bit Lolitas, is a Dutch progressive house duo from Amsterdam formed by Peter Kriek and Ariaan Olieroock, producing music together since 2003.
16K resolution
16K resolution is a display resolution of 15360 × 8640 pixels, sixteen times the pixel count of 4K UHD, appearing mainly in modular displays, cinema cameras, and interface standards.
16p13.11 microdeletion syndrome
16p13.11 microdeletion syndrome, also called Del(16)(p13.11), is a rare recurrent copy-number loss on chromosome 16p13.11 causing developmental delay, microcephaly, epilepsy, short stature, and dysmorphism, with incomplete penetrance and NDE1 and MYH11 as key genes.
16p13.11 microduplication syndrome
16p13.11 microduplication syndrome (Dup(16)(p13.11), trisomy 16p13.11) is a rare recurrent chromosome 16p13.11 copy number gain causing variable developmental, behavioral, cardiac, and skeletal features with incomplete penetrance.
16p13.3 microduplication syndrome
16p13.3 microduplication syndrome, also called distal duplication 16p or dup(16)(p13.3), is a rare chromosomal disorder from extra copy of CREBBP at 16p13.3, causing intellectual disability, speech delay, proximally implanted thumbs, and characteristic facies, reciprocal to Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome.
16PF Questionnaire
16PF Questionnaire (Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire): Cattell's 1949 factor-analytic self-report inventory measuring 16 primary personality traits and 5 global factors; fifth edition 1993; used in selection, counseling, and research.
16q24.3 microdeletion syndrome
16q24.3 microdeletion syndrome, also called monosomy 16q24.3 or Del(16)(q24.3), is a very rare chromosomal deletion disorder overlapping KBG syndrome, caused by de novo 16q24.3 deletions involving ANKRD11, with developmental delay, facial dysmorphism, seizures, and autism spectrum disorder.
16S ribosomal RNA
16S ribosomal RNA, the ~1,500-nucleotide small-subunit rRNA of prokaryotic ribosomes, is the standard molecular marker for bacterial and archaeal identification, phylogeny, and microbiome profiling.
16S rRNA analysis
16S rRNA analysis is a microbiology method that sequences the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, a roughly 1500 bp barcode, to identify bacteria and archaea in complex samples.
16S rRNA sequencing
16S rRNA sequencing is an amplicon method that reads the 16S ribosomal RNA gene to identify bacteria and archaea in complex samples and estimate their relative abundance cheaply.
16th Annual Grammy Awards
The 16th Annual Grammy Awards (1974 telecast, March 2, Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles) honored recordings from October 1972 to October 1973. Roberta Flack won Record and Song of the Year, Stevie Wonder's Innervisions won Album of the Year, and Bette Midler won Best New Artist.
16th arrondissement of Paris
The 16th arrondissement of Paris, formed in 1860 from Auteuil, Passy, and Chaillot on the Right Bank, has four quartiers, about 159,000 residents, a €49,030 median living standard, and the Bois de Boulogne.
16th BRICS summit
The 16th BRICS summit, held in Kazan, Russia, 22–24 October 2024, was the first after the bloc's January 2024 expansion and created the BRICS Partner Country category, offered to 13 countries.
16th century
The 16th century (1501–1600) saw the first circumnavigation, the Protestant Reformation, the Ming, Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid gunpowder empires, and a 90% collapse of the indigenous American population after 1492.
16th Combat Aviation Brigade (United States)
The 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, known as the Raptor Brigade, is a US Army combat aviation brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, assigned to the 7th Infantry Division and focused on the Indo-Pacific.
16th Government of Slovenia
16th Government of Slovenia (16. Vlada Republike Slovenije), Janez Janša's fourth cabinet, appointed 4 June 2026; five-party SDS-led coalition with 15 ministers, distinct from Golob's 15th Government.
16th Lok Sabha
16th Lok Sabha: India's lower house elected April-May 2014, 543 MPs, BJP's first single-party majority under Narendra Modi; 133 Bills passed, dissolved 24 May 2019.
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing: KKK dynamite attack in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, killing Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Addie Mae Collins; three Klansmen were later convicted.
17 (2026 film)
17 (2026 film): Macedonian-language coming-of-age drama by Kosara Mitić, North Macedonia/Serbia/Slovenia co-production. Premiered 18 Feb 2026, Berlinale Perspectives; Sara's hidden pregnancy on a school trip; Sarajevo Best Actress for Eva Kostić.
17 (number)
17, or seventeen, is the seventh prime number and third Fermat prime; Gauss proved in 1796 that the regular 17-gon is constructible, and chlorine has atomic number 17.
17 (XXXTentacion album)
17 is XXXTentacion's debut studio album, released August 25, 2017 on Bad Vibes Forever/EMPIRE. 11 short acoustic, emo-rap tracks about depression, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard album chart, unlike his aggressive SoundCloud single "Look At Me!".
17 Again (film)
17 Again is a 2009 American comedy directed by Burr Steers, starring Zac Efron and Matthew Perry as a man restored to his 17-year-old self at high school.
17 Bruton Street, Mayfair
17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, was an eighteenth-century townhouse. It served as the London home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and was the birthplace of Queen Elizabeth II in 1926.
17 Sco
17 Sco (17 Scorpii) is a K3 III giant star about 125 parsecs away in Scorpius hosting 17 Sco b, a confirmed 4.32-Jupiter-mass gas giant on a 578-day, 1.45-au orbit, found by radial velocity in 2020.
17 Thetis
17 Thetis, asteroid 1852 HA, is a large S-type main-belt asteroid discovered April 17, 1852 by Robert Luther at Bilk, Düsseldorf; about 78-90 km across, 12.27-hour rotation, 3.885-year orbit at 2.47 AU.
17-4 PH stainless steel
17-4 PH stainless steel, designated UNS S17400 or Type 630, is a martensitic precipitation-hardening stainless steel introduced in 1948, widely used in aerospace parts, pump shafts, and firearms.
17-4 stainless steel
17-4 stainless steel (17-4 PH, UNS S17400) is a martensitic precipitation-hardening stainless steel, first produced by Armco in 1948, combining high strength with corrosion resistance near 304 stainless.