sun dog

atmospheric optical phenomenon
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sun dog
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sun dog

Summary

sun dog ranks in the top 0.42% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,085 views/month, #330 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • sun dog's image is recorded as Fargo Sundogs 2 18 09.jpg[2].
  • sun dog's image is recorded as Solar halos and sundog, Salem, MA, Oct 27, 2012.JPG[3].
  • sun dog's image is recorded as Nuremberg chronicles - Sun Dogs (CCIIIv).jpg[4].
  • sun dog's subclass of is recorded as atmospheric optical phenomenon[5].
  • sun dog's Commons category is recorded as Parhelia[6].
  • sun dog's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01vsww[7].
  • sun dog's has cause is recorded as cloud[8].
  • sun dog's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Parhelia[9].
  • sun dog's Commons gallery is recorded as Parhelion[10].
  • sun dog's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0129813[11].
  • sun dog's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[12].
  • sun dog's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • sun dog's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/parhelion[14].
  • sun dog's Quora topic ID is recorded as Sundogs[15].
  • sun dog's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 91615142[16].
  • sun dog's Lex ID is recorded as bisol[17].
  • sun dog's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 11508132-n[18].
  • sun dog's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as lozhnoe-solntse-bb711b[19].
  • sun dog's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as parheli[20].
  • sun dog's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 102677[21].

Why It Matters

sun dog ranks in the top 0.42% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,085 views/month, #330 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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