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Ground Floor. Ground Floor is an American sitcom created by Bill Lawrence and Greg Malins, that aired on TBS for two seasons, from November 14, 2013, through February 10, 2015.[1] The series stars Skylar Astin, Briga Heelan, Rory Scovel and John C. McGinley and followed Brody, a successful banker who falls for Jenny, ...
List of minor planets: 2001–3000. The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from minor-planet number 2001 through 3000, inclusive. The primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPLs Small-Body Orbital Elements[1] and data available from the Minor Planet Center.[2][3] Critical list inform...
Kitazawa Rakuten. Kitazawa Yasuji (北澤 保次; 20 July 1876 – 25 August 1955), better known by the pen name Kitazawa Rakuten (北澤 楽天), was a Japanese manga artist and nihonga artist. He drew many editorial cartoons and comic strips during the years from the late Meiji era through the early Shōwa era. He is considered by ma...
Manga (disambiguation). Manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Manga may also refer to:
Amuse Inc.. Amuse Inc. (株式会社アミューズ, Kabushikigaisha Amyūzu)[5] is a Japanese entertainment company that provides artist management services. The artists include idols,[6] musicians, and more. Amuse produces TV and radio programs, commercial films, and movies. Other interests are in publication, music software, and paten...
Manhua. Manhua (traditional Chinese: 漫畫; simplified Chinese: 漫画; pinyin: mànhuà) are Chinese-language comics produced in Greater China. Chinese comics and narrated illustrations have existed in China throughout its history. They are usually graphic and can be written for a myriad of genres, including romance, fantasy,...
The New York Times. The New York Times (NYT)[b] is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the Times serves ...
Manhwa. Manhwa (Korean: 만화; Hanja: 漫畵; Korean pronunciation: [manβʷa]) is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons. Outside Korea, the term usually refers to Korean comics.[1] Modern Manhwa has extended its reach to many other countries. These comics have branched outside of Korea by access to Webtoons a...
List of manga publishers. This article lists publishers of manga in various markets worldwide.
State-owned enterprise. A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity created or owned by a national or local government, either through an executive order or legislation. SOEs aim to generate profit for the government, prevent private sector monopolies, provide goods at lower prices, implement government policie...
Social media. Social media are new media technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.[1][2] Common features include:[2] The term social in regard to media suggests platforms enable commu...
Fairfield County, Connecticut. Fairfield County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is the most populous county in the state and was also its fastest-growing from 2010 to 2020. As of the 2020 census, the countys population was 957,419,[1] representing 26.6% of Connecticuts overa...
Literary magazine. A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journal...
Anguillan company law. Anguillan company law is primarily codified in three principal statutes: The Companies Act is generally reserved for companies engaged in business physically in Anguilla, and companies formed under it are generally referred to as either CACs (an acronym for Companies Act Companies) or ABCs (an a...
Carol Edgarian. Carol Louise Edgarian is an American writer, editor, and publisher. Her novels include Rise the Euphrates, Three Stages of Amazement, and Vera. She is the co-founder and editor of the non-profit Narrative Magazine, a digital publisher of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art; and founder of Narrative fo...
Corporate law. Corporate law (also known as company law or enterprise law) is the body of law governing the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organizations and businesses. The term refers to the legal practice of law relating to corporations, or to the theory of corporations. Corporate law often des...
Australian corporate law. Australian corporations law has historically borrowed heavily from UK company law. Its legal structure now consists of a single, national statute, the Corporations Act 2001.[1] The statute is administered by a single national regulatory authority, the Australian Securities & Investments Commi...
Romanization (disambiguation). Romanization is the representation in the Latin alphabet of a language normally written in another writing system. Romanization may also refer to:
Stockholm. Stockholm (/ˈstɒkhoʊ(l)m/;[10] Swedish: [ˈstɔ̂kː(h)ɔlm] ⓘ)[11] is the capital and most populous city of Sweden, as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality,[12] with 1.6 million in the urban area,[13] and 2.5 million in the metropolitan ...
Fiction. Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.[1][2][3] Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with fact, history, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, fiction refers to written narratives in ...
New York Stock Exchange Building. The New York Stock Exchange Building (also NYSE Building) is the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), located in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is composed of two connected structures occupying much of the city block bounded by Wall Stree...
Romanised (horse). Romanised (foaled 5 February 2015) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. As a juvenile in 2017 he won one of his four races and finished second in the Solario Stakes. In the following year he recorded an upset victory in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and finished unplaced in his other starts. As a four-year...
Latinisation. Latinisation or Latinization can refer to:
Sweden. – in Europe (green & dark grey)– in the European Union (green)  –  [Legend] Sweden,[f] formally the Kingdom of Sweden,[g][h] is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq m...
Romanianization. Romanianization is the series of policies aimed toward ethnic assimilation implemented by the Romanian authorities during the 20th and 21st century. The most noteworthy policies were those aimed at the Hungarian minority in Romania, Jews and as well the Ukrainian minority in Bukovina and Bessarabia.[1]...
Share (finance). In financial markets, a share (sometimes someone can refer to as stock or equity) is a unit of equity ownership in the capital stock of a corporation. It can refer to units of mutual funds, limited partnerships, and real estate investment trusts.[1] Share capital refers to all of the shares of an enter...
Toronto Stock Exchange. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX; French: Bourse de Toronto) is a stock exchange located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the 10th largest exchange in the world and the third largest in North America based on market capitalization. Based in the EY Tower in Torontos Financial District, the TSX ...
Electronic literature. Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically.[1] Works of electronic literature are usually intended to be read on digital devices, such as computers, tab...
Stock. Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the shares[a] by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.[1] A single share of the stock means fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares. This typically entitles the sharehol...
Abbreviation. An abbreviation (from Latin brevis short)[1] is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example, the term etc. is the...
Telegraphy. Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not. Ancient signalling systems, although sometimes ...
Tokyo Stock Exchange Building. Tokyo Stock Exchange Building (東京証券取引所ビル, Tōkyō Shōken Torihikijo) is an office building located in Nihonbashi, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan. It houses the headquarters of Tokyo Stock Exchange, but owned by Heiwa Real Estate.[1] The reconstruction of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Building was first disc...
Japan Exchange Group. Japan Exchange Group, Inc. (株式会社日本取引所グループ, Kabushiki-gaisha Nippon Torihikijo Gurūpu; Corporate Number: 9120001098575),[2] abbreviated as JPX or Nippon Torihikijo, is a Japanese financial services company headquartered in Tokyo and Osaka. It is a financial instruments exchange holding company[3] s...
Poetry. Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, making[note 1]) is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic[1][2][3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet. ...
Thomas Edison. Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, ...
Stock exchange. A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for the issue and redemption of such securities and instruments and cap...
Prose. Prose is language that follows the natural flow or rhythm of speech, ordinary grammatical structures, or, in writing, typical conventions and formatting. Thus, prose ranges from informal speaking to formal academic writing. Prose differs most notably from poetry, which follows some type of intentional, contrived...
Outline of sociology. 1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline of sociology: Sociology is the systematic st...
First-person narrative. A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storytellers own personal point of view, using first-person grammar such as I, me, my, and myself (also, in plural form, we, ...
Index of sociology articles. 1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias This is an index of sociology articles. For a shorter list, see List of basic sociology topics.
The Narrative (album). The Narrative is the debut studio album from the Narrative, released on July 27, 2010, through The Record Collective. The album was produced by Bryan Russell at RedWire Audio. I think one of the nice things about how Suzie and I work when we write is that we just write what comes out. Were not l...
Autobiography. An autobiography,[a] sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of ones own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the authors experiences, memories, and insights. This genre allows individuals to share their unique perspectives and stories, offering readers a glimp...
History of sociology. 1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly aft...
Discourse. 1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication.[1] Discourse is a major topic in social theory, wit...
Sociology. 1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social in...
Soft rock. Soft rock (also known as light rock or mellow rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in the United States and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock,[1] relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. Soft rock was prevalent o...
Political satire. Political satire is a type of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics. Political satire can also act as a tool for advancing political arguments in conditions where political speech and dissent are banned. Political satire is usually distinguished from political protest or polit...
Experience. Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involves a subject to which various items are presented. In this sense, seein...
Indie pop. Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture[2] that combines guitar pop with a DIY ethic[5] in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music.[6] It originated from British post-punk[7] in the late 1970s and subsequently generated a thriving fanzine, label, an...
Mockumentary. A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a documentary.[1] Mockumentaries are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues in a satirical way by using a fictional setting, or to parody the doc...
Biographical film. A biographical film or biopic (/ˈbaɪoʊˌpɪk/)[1] is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central characters real name is used.[2] They differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt ...
Satires (Horace). The Satires (Latin: Saturae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written in Latin dactylic hexameters by the Roman poet Horace. Published probably in 35 BC and at the latest, by 33 BC,[1][2] the first book of Satires represents Horaces first published work. It established him as one of the...
Religious satire. Religious satire is a form of satire that refers to religious beliefs and can take the form of texts, plays, films, and parody.[6] From the earliest times, at least since the plays of Aristophanes, religion has been one of the three primary topics of literary satire, along with politics and sex.[7][8...
Satires (Juvenal). The Satires (Latin: Saturae) are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written between 100–127 A.D. The Satires address perceived threats to society, such as socially ascendant foreigners, infidelity, and the extreme excesses of the Roman aristocracy. Juvenals audience was high...
Society. A society (/səˈsaɪəti/) is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (soci...
Editor-in-chief. An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor, chief editor, executive editor, or simply editor is a publications editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.[1][2][3] The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accountable for deleg...
Satyr. In Greek mythology, a satyr[a] (Ancient Greek: σάτυρος, romanized: sátyros, pronounced [sátyros]), also known as a silenus[b] or silenos (Ancient Greek: σειληνός, romanized: seilēnós [seːlɛːnós]), and sileni (plural), is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permane...
Long Island. Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. The island extends from New York Harbor 118 miles (190 km) eastward into the ocean...
Outline of academic disciplines. An academic discipline or field of study is a branch of study, taught and researched as part of higher education. A scholars discipline is commonly defined by the university faculties and learned societies to which they belong and the academic journals in which they publish research. Di...
Henry Mayhew. Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical magazine Punch in 1841, and was the magazines joint editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days. He is also known for his work as a social researcher...
Punch. Punch commonly refers to: Punch may also refer to:
Puck (magazine). Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was founded in 1876 as a German-language publication by Joseph Keppler, an Austrian immigrant cartoonist.[1] Pucks first English-language edition was pub...
Satire. Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, ...
Counties of Albania. Counties (Albanian: qarqe or qarqet), also sometimes known as prefectures (prefektura or prefekturat), are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Albania, replacing the earlier districts. Since 2000, there have been 12 counties. Since 2015, they have been divided into 61 municipalities, 373...
Ebenezer Landells. Ebenezer Landells (Newcastle 13 April 1808 – 1 October 1860 London) was a British wood-engraver, illustrator, and magazine proprietor. Born in Newcastle, Landells was apprenticed to the wood-engraver Thomas Bewick. In 1829 he moved to London,[1] and before long managed to start his own engraving wor...
Lezhë County. Lezhë County (Albanian: Qarku i Lezhës) is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The population as of 2021 was 120,678,[3] in an area of 1,620 km².[4] Its capital is the city Lezhë. Until 2000, Lezhë County was subdivided into three districts: Kurbin, Lezhë, and Mirditë. Since the 2015 local government refor...
Fukuoka Tower. Fukuoka Tower (福岡タワー, Fukuoka Tawā) is a 234-metre (768 ft) tall tower located in the Momochihama area of Fukuoka, Japan. It is the tallest seaside tower in Japan. The highest observation deck at 123 metres has a 360° view of the surrounding area, being most visited at sunset.[1] Fukuoka Tower was finish...
Villages of Albania. Albania has 2,972 villages (Albanian: fshatra or fshatrat) as of 2016.[1] Albania has reformed its domestic administrative divisions 21 times since its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. Following the most recent reorganization, enacted in 2014 and carried out in June 2015...
Devil. A devil is the mythical personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions.[1] It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.[2] Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conceptions of the devil can be summed up as 1) a principle of evil indepe...
Kyushu. Kyūshū (九州, Kyūshū; pronounced [kʲɯꜜː.ɕɯː] ⓘ, lit. Nine Provinces) is the third-largest and most southerly of Japans four main islands.[3][4] In the past, it has been known as Kyūkoku (九国, Nine Countries), Chinzei (鎮西, West of the Pacified Area) and Tsukushi-no-shima (筑紫島, Island of Tsukushi). The historical re...
Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka. Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka (みずほPayPayドーム福岡, Mizuho Peipei Dōmu Fukuoka), officially the Fukuoka Dome (福岡ドーム, Fukuoka Dōmu) is a domed baseball field located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. Home to the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, the 40,000 seat stadium was built in 1993 and was originally named Fuku...
Academic publishing. Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted on the Internet is...
Ohio State University. The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one of the largest universities by enrollment in the United States, with nearly 50,000 undergraduate...
Municipalities of Albania. Municipalities (Albanian: bashki or bashkitë) are the second-level administrative divisions of Albania, below the counties and above the communes. Since the most recent administrative reforms in 2014, Albania has 61 municipalities. Municipalities are considered the basic administrative divisi...
River mouth. A river mouth is where a river flows into a larger body of water, such as another river, a lake/reservoir, a bay/gulf, a sea, or an ocean.[1] At the river mouth, sediments are often deposited due to the slowing of the current, reducing the carrying capacity of the water.[1] The water from a river can enter...
Devon. Devon (/ˈdɛvən/ DEV-ən; historically also known as Devonshire /-ʃɪər, -ʃər/ -⁠sheer, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west. The city of Plymouth is the ...
Broadhembury. Broadhembury is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England, 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Honiton.[1] The civil parish includes the hamlets of Kerswell, Dulford, Crammer Barton, Colliton and Luton, all to the west of the village. According to the 2001 census the civil parish ...
English literature. English literature is a form of literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years.[1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth ...
River Otter, Devon. The River Otter is a river that rises in the Blackdown Hills just inside the county of Somerset, England near Otterford, then flows south through East Devon.[3] It enters the English Channel at the western end of Lyme Bay, part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Permian and Tr...
Quyi. Quyi (melodious art) and shuochang yishu (speaking and singing art) are umbrella terms for over 300 regional genres of traditional Chinese oral performing arts.[1] Quyi is distinguished from xiqu (Chinese opera) by its emphasis on narration, as opposed to acting, although they share many elements including the sa...
A Folk Tale. A Folk Tale (Danish: Et Folkesagn) is a ballet in three acts, created in 1854 for the Royal Danish Ballet by the Danish ballet master and choreographer August Bournonville to the music of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and Niels W. Gade. The first performance took place on 20 March 1854. Set in the Middle A...
Chinese literature. The history of Chinese literature[1] extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major works of philosophy and history written during the Axial Age. The Han (202 BC – 220 AD) and Tang (618–907 AD) dynasties were considered golden ...
Folk Tale (album). Folk Tale is an album by Irish folk singer Christy Moore, released in 2011 by Sony Music.[1][2] This 2010s folk album-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Pinyin. Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語) literally means Han language—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means spelled sounds. Pinyin is the of...
Oral literature. Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature has been transcribed.[1] There is no standard definition, as anthropologists have used varying descriptions for oral literature or folk literatu...
Folktales (album). Folktales is the second studio album released by the rock and roll jam band The Big Wu. This 2000 rock album–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Chinese opera. Traditional Chinese opera (traditional Chinese: 戲曲; simplified Chinese: 戏曲; pinyin: xìqǔ; Jyutping: hei3 kuk1), or Xiqu, is a form of musical theatre in China with roots going back to the early periods in China. It is an amalgamation of various art forms that existed in ancient China, and evolved gradu...
Western India. Goa: Gujarat: Maharashtra: Western India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of western states of Republic of India. The Ministry of Home Affairs in its Western Zonal Council Administrative division includes the states of Goa, Gujarat, and Maharashtra along with the Union territory of Dadra ...
Tale-e Rudbar. Tale-e Rudbar (Persian: طالع رودبار, also Romanized as Ţāle‘-e Rūdbār and Ţāle‘ Rūdbār)[1] is a village in Rastupey Rural District, in the Central District of Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 72, in 25 families,[2] down from 86 people in 2006.[3] This Sav...
Ratnagiri district. Ratnagiri district (Marathi pronunciation: [ɾət̪n̪aːɡiɾiː]) is a district in the state of Maharashtra, India.[1] The administrative headquarter of the district is located in the town of Ratnagiri.[1] The district is 11.34% urban.[2] The district is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west, Sindhudurg...
2011 census of India. The 2011 census of India or the 15th Indian census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information for National Population Register (NPR) was also colle...
Village. A village is a human settlement or a residential community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town[1][2][3][4] with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.[citation needed] Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain ...
Chinese language. Chinese (spoken: simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ,[a] written: 中文; Zhōngwén[b]) is a group of languages[f] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China, as well as by various communities of the Chinese diaspora. Approximatel...
Folktales (film). Folktales is a 2025 documentary film, directed and produced by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. It follows teenagers at a folk high school in Norway, where they must rely on each other and a pack of sled dogs as they grow. It had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2025, ...
Protein Data Bank. The Protein Data Bank (PDB)[1] is a database for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids, which is overseen by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB). This structural data is obtained and deposited by biologists and biochemists worldwide...
List of sovereign states. The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 UN member states,[1] ...
National Center for Biotechnology Information. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[1][2] is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is approved and funded by the government of the United States. The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryla...
UniProt. UniProt is a freely accessible database of protein sequence and functional information, many entries being derived from genome sequencing projects. It contains a large amount of information about the biological function of proteins derived from the research literature. It is maintained by the UniProt consortiu...
Provinces of Iran. Iran is subdivided into thirty-one provinces (Persian: استان Ostân), which are the first-level administrative divisions of the country. Each province is governed from a local centre, usually the largest local city, which is called the capital (Persian: مرکز, Markaz) of the province. The provincial a...
Grothendiecks Tôhoku paper. The article Sur quelques points dalgèbre homologique by Alexander Grothendieck,[1] now often referred to as the Tôhoku paper,[2] was published in 1957 in the Tôhoku Mathematical Journal. It revolutionized the subject of homological algebra, a purely algebraic aspect of algebraic topology.[3]...