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  1. Suffolk | Long Island, East End, Hamptons | Britannica

    Oct 15, 2025 · Suffolk, county, southeastern New York state, U.S., on central and eastern Long Island. It consists of a coastal lowland bounded by Long Island Sound to the north, Block …

  2. Computer | Definition, History, Operating Systems, & Facts

    Oct 17, 2025 · A computer is a programmable device for processing, storing, and displaying information. Learn more in this article about modern digital electronic computers and their …

  3. World Trade Center - Encyclopedia Britannica

    Oct 22, 2025 · World Trade Center, complex of several buildings around a central plaza in New York City that in 2001 was the site of the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.

  4. Computer - Technology, Invention, History | Britannica

    Oct 17, 2025 · The mill was the calculating unit, analogous to the central processing unit (CPU) in a modern computer; the store was where data were held prior to processing, exactly …

  5. Computer - History, Technology, Innovation | Britannica

    Oct 17, 2025 · The mill was the calculating unit, analogous to the central processing unit (CPU) in a modern computer; the store was where data were held prior to processing, exactly …

  6. AI Chatbot | Free Online Chat Generator | Britannica

    Britannica AI chatbot is a free educational tool that provides answers from our encyclopedic articles across a variety of subjects including arts, history and science.

  7. list of notable computer viruses and malware - Encyclopedia …

    Malware (a portmanteau of the terms malicious and software) consists of computer viruses, spyware, computer worms, and other software capable of stealing devices’ data or running …

  8. Society Leader, Elite Parties & Gilded Age - Britannica

    Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums - Hayes Historical Journal: The Gilded Age in American History The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - AP US History …

  9. Triangle shirtwaist factory fire | Deaths & Facts | Britannica

    Oct 17, 2025 · Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, fatal conflagration that occurred on the evening of March 25, 1911, in a New York City sweatshop, touching off a national movement in the …

  10. Maria Mitchell | Biography & Accomplishments | Britannica

    Oct 27, 2025 · Stellar distances are commonly expressed by astronomers in parsecs (pc), kiloparsecs, or megaparsecs. (1 pc = 3.086 × 10 18 cm, or about 3.26 light-years [1.92 × 10 …