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Video game design. Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the pre-production stage[1] and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production stage. Some common video game design subdisciplines are world design, level design, system design, cont... |
Woodblock printing. Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper. Each page or image is created by carving a wooden block to leave only some areas a... |
Theology. Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity and the history behind religion. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries.[1] It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the supernatural, but al... |
Shunga. Shunga (春画) is a type of Japanese erotic art typically executed as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e.[1] Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga means picture of spring; spring is a common euphemism for... |
Dominici (crater). Dominici is a crater on Mercury. It was named by the IAU in 2010.[1] Dominicis bright rays indicate that it is relatively young, and the young rays appear light blue in enhanced-color images. Dominici also has bright material on its floor and is surrounded by crater ejecta and material that appears ... |
Renoir (crater). Renoir is a crater on the planet Mercury. Its name, after the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.[1] Renoir is a peak ring basin, one of 110 on Mercury,[2] including Raditladi and Rachmaninoff. Though these basins are relativel... |
Sihtu Planitia. Sihtu Planitia is a large plain on Mercury, approximately 565 km across. It was named in 2017 by the IAU.[1] The crater Calvino lies at the center of the Planitia, and Rūdaki is on the east side. This article about geology, geography or other features of the planet Mercury is a stub. You can help Wiki... |
Takizawa Bakin. Takizawa Bakin (滝沢 馬琴; Japanese pronunciation: [ta.kʲi.(d)za.wa (|) ba.kʲiɴ][1]), born Takizawa Okikuni (滝沢 興邦; 4 July 1767 – 1 December 1848), was a Japanese novelist of the Edo period, who wrote under the pen name Kyokutei Bakin (曲亭 馬琴). Later in life he took the pen name Toku (解). Modern scholarship ... |
Homer (crater). Homer is a crater on Mercury. It is one of 110 peak ring basins on Mercury.[1] It is Tolstojan in age.[2] Deposits of material in and around this crater suggest the possibility of explosive volcanic eruptions at some point in the planets history.[3] An unnamed crater in northwestern Homer (about 18 k... |
Hydrocycle. A hydrocycle is a bicycle-like watercraft. The concept was known in the 1870s as a water velocipede[1] and the name was in use by the late 1890s.[2] Power is collected from the rider via a crank with pedals, as on a bicycle, and delivered to the water or the air via a propeller.[3] Seating may be upright or... |
Legendary creature. A legendary creature is a type of extraordinary or supernatural being that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), and may be featured in historical accounts before modernity, but has not been scientifically shown to exist yet. In the classical era, monstrous creatures such as the C... |
Parthenon. The Parthenon (/ˈpɑːrθəˌnɒn, -nən/; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών, romanized: Parthenōn [par.tʰe.nɔ̌ːn]; Greek: Παρθενώνας, romanized: Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple[6][7] on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of t... |
Evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the combined processes which move water from the Earths surface (open water and ice surfaces, bare soil and vegetation) into the atmosphere.[2] It covers both water evaporation (movement of water to the air directly from soil, canopies, and water bodies) and transp... |
Athena Parthenos. The statue of Athena Parthenos[N 1] (Ancient Greek: Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit. Athena the Virgin) was a monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena. Attributed to Phidias and dated to the mid-fifth century BCE, it was an offering from the city of Athens to Athena, its tutelary deity. The na... |
Utagawa Kunisada III. Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞) (1848–1920) was an ukiyo-e printmaker of the Utagawa school, specializing in yakusha-e (pictures of kabuki actors). He began studying under Utagawa Kunisada I at the age of 10, and continued under Kunisada II after their masters death. He originally signed his prints Ku... |
Nansō Satomi Hakkenden. Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (shinjitai: 南総里見八犬伝; kyūjitai: 南總里見八犬傳), commonly known as Satomi Hakkenden (Japanese: 里見八犬伝) or simply Hakkenden (Japanese: 八犬伝), is a Japanese epic novel (yomihon) by Kyokutei Bakin, originally published over the course of twenty-eight years (1814–42). Set in the Muroma... |
Classical Greece. Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,[1] marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens... |
Gravity. In physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas weight[1]), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction,[2] is a fundamental interaction, which may be described as the effect of a field that is generated by a gravitational source such as mass. The gravitational attraction between clouds of primordial h... |
Woodblock printing. Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper. Each page or image is created by carving a wooden block to leave only some areas a... |
Geography of Greenland. Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world—and more than a hundred other smaller islands (see alphabetic list). Greenland has a 1.2-kil... |
Meiji era. The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai[a]) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.[2] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new par... |
Greenland (disambiguation). Greenland is the worlds largest island and an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland or Greenlands may also refer to: |
Flag of Greenland. The flag of Greenland (Greenlandic: Erfalasorput[2] or Kalaallit erfalasuat, Danish: Grønlands flag) was designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen.[3] It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red (bottom) with a counter-changed red-and-white disk slightly to the hoist side of c... |
Biogeochemical cycle. A biogeochemical cycle, or more generally a cycle of matter,[1] is the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earths crust. Major biogeochemical cycles include the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the water cycle. In eac... |
Samurai. Samurai (侍) were members of the warrior class who served as retainers to lords in Japan prior to the Meiji era. Samurai existed from the late 12th century until their abolition in the late 1870s during the Meiji era.[1] They were originally provincial warriors who served the Kuge and imperial court in the la... |
Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan. The EmperorThe Empress The Emperor EmeritusThe Empress Emerita Fumihito, Crown Prince Akishino[1] (秋篠宮皇嗣文仁親王, Akishino-no-miya Kōshi Fumihito Shinnō; born 30 November 1965, Japanese: [ɸɯmiꜜçi̥to]) is the heir presumptive to the Japanese throne. He is the younger brother of Emperor Naru... |
Mediterranean Sea. For other countries, click here. The Mediterranean Sea (/ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪniən/ MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and So... |
Mercury Messenger (concept car). The Mercury Messenger is a concept car manufactured by Mercury in collaboration with coachbuilder Stola. It was revealed at the 2003 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. The vehicle was named after Mercury, the Roman messenger god from whom Mercury gets its name.... |
Greenlandic language. Greenlandic,[b] also known by its endonym Kalaallisut (kalaallisut, [kalaːɬːisʉt]), is an Inuit language belonging to the Eskimoan branch of the Eskaleut language family. It is primarily spoken by the Greenlandic people native to Greenland; and has about 57,000 native speakers as of 2025.[1] Writt... |
Japanese mythology. Japanese mythology is a collection of traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. Shinto traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology.[1] The history of thousands of years of contact with Chinese and various Indian myths (such as Budd... |
Emperor Tenmu. Emperor Tenmu (also romanized Temmu, c. 630 – 686) was 40th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. He was born Prince Ōama around 630, the son of Emperor Jomei and his consort Princess Takara. Ruling from 673 to 686, during the Asuka period, his life is mainly documented by t... |
Messenger. Messenger, Messengers, The Messenger or The Messengers may refer to: |
Prussian blue. Sodium ferrocyanide Prussian blue (also known as Berlin blue, Brandenburg blue, Parisian and Paris blue) is a dark blue pigment produced by oxidation of ferrous ferrocyanide salts. It has the chemical formula Fe4[Fe(CN)6]3. It consists of Fe3+ cations, where iron is in the oxidation state of +3, and [Fe... |
Emperor Bidatsu. Emperor Bidatsu (敏達天皇, Bidatsu-tennō; 538 – 14 September 585) was the 30th emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2] The years of reign of Bidatsu start in 572 and end in 585; however, there are no certain dates for this emperors life or reign.[3] The names and sequence... |
The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō. The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō (木曾街道六十九次, Kisokaidō Rokujūkyū-tsugi) or Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Road, is a series of ukiyo-e works created by Utagawa Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen. There are 71 total prints in the series (one for each of the 69 post stations and... |
Corcyra (mythology). In Greek mythology and religion, Corcyra (/kɔːrˈsaɪərə/) or Korkyra (/kɔːrˈkaɪərə/; Ancient Greek: Κόρκυρα, romanized: Kórkura) is the naiad daughter of the river-god Asopos[1] and the nymph Metope, herself the daughter of the river-god Ladon.[2] She is the personification and tutelary goddess of t... |
Post-Impressionism. Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement which developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists concern for the naturalistic depi... |
Toyohiro. Utagawa Toyohiro (歌川豊広, 歌川豐廣), birth name Okajima Tōjiro (1773–1828), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and painter. He was a member of the Utagawa school and studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, the schools founder. His works include a number of ukiyo-e landscape series, as well as many depictions of the daily activi... |
Emperor Senka. Emperor Senka (宣化天皇, Senka-tennō) (466 — 15 March 539) was the 28th legendary emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2] No firm dates can be assigned to this emperors life or reign, but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 25 January 536 to 15 March 539,[3]... |
Corcyre. Corcyre (French: [kɔʁ.kiʁ]; archaic French for Corfu; Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized: Kerkyra) was one of three short-lived French departments of Greece. It came into existence after Napoleons conquest in 1797 of the Republic of Venice, when Venetian Greek possessions such as the Ionian islands fell to the French D... |
Princess Ishi-hime. Princess Ishi-hime (? – after 572) was Empress of Japan as the consort of Emperor Kinmei.[1] Ishi-hime was Emperor Senkas daughter. Unless otherwise noted (as BC), years are in CE / AD 1 individuals that were given the title of empress posthumously 2 individuals elevated to the rank of empress du... |
List of cities in ancient Acarnania. Acarnania is a region of western Greece. Below is a list of the cities that existed in Acarnania in ancient times.[1] |
Shoku Nihongi. The Shoku Nihongi (続日本紀) is an imperially-commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 797, it is the second of the Six National Histories, coming directly after the Nihon Shoki and followed by Nihon Kōki. Fujiwara no Tsugutada and Sugano no Mamichi served as the primary editors. It is one of the mos... |
Corcyra (polis). Corcyra (also Korkyra /kɔːrˈsaɪ.rə/;[1] Ancient Greek: Κόρκυρα) was an ancient Greek city on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea adjacent to Epirus.[2] It was a colony of Corinth founded in the Archaic period. Corcyra was acting as a port of call on the sailing routes, especially to reach the Italian... |
Akira Kurosawa. Akira Kurosawa[note 1] (黒澤 明 or 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira; March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. With a bold and dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it, he is widely regarded as one of th... |
Nihon-shiki. Nihon-shiki (Japanese: 日本式ローマ字, romanized: Nihon-shiki rōmaji, lit. Japan-style Roman letters) is a romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. Among the major romanization systems for Japanese, it is the most regular one and has an almost one-to-one relation to ... |
Korčula. Korčula (Croatian: [kɔ̂ːrtʃula] ⓘ) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. It has an area of 279 km2 (108 sq mi), is 46.8 km (29.1 mi) long and on average 7.8 km (4.8 mi) wide,[2] and lies just off the Dalmatian coast. Its 15,522 inhabitants (2011) make it the second most populous Adriatic island after Krk.... |
AD (disambiguation). AD (Anno Domini) is a designation used to label years following 1 BC in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Ad (advertisement) is a form of marketing communication. AD, A.D. or Ad may also refer to: |
Heian period. The Heian period (平安時代, Heian jidai) is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.[1] It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kammu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). Heian (平安) means peace in Japanese. It is a period in J... |
One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (in Japanese: 名所江戸百景, romanized: Meisho Edo Hyakkei) is a series of 119 ukiyo-e prints begun and largely completed by the Japanese artist Hiroshige (1797–1858). The prints were first published in serialized form in 1856–59, with Hiroshige II completing th... |
Impressionism. Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as ... |
NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA /ˈnæsə/) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United Statess civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give ... |
Christian era (disambiguation). Christian era may refer to |
Klagenfurt Cathedral. Klagenfurt Cathedral (German: Klagenfurter Dom; Dom- und Stadtpfarrkirche Hll. Petrus und Paulus) is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and also the main parish church of Klagenfurt. It was built by Protestants and dedicated to the Holy Trinity in 1581, and was the larg... |
Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian. The Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian (Greek: Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου, romanized: Apokentroméni Dioíkisi Peloponnísou, Dytikís Elládas kai Ioníou) is one of the se... |
Animism. Animism (from Latin: anima meaning breath, spirit, life)[1][2] is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.[3][4][5][6] Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words—as being animated, having... |
Hokusai quadrangle. The Hokusai quadrangle (H-5) is one of fifteen quadrangles on the planet Mercury. It runs from 360 to 270° longitude and 20 to 70° latitude. Named after the Hokusai crater, it was mapped in detail for the first time after MESSENGER entered orbit around Mercury in 2011. It had not been mapped prior t... |
Shield volcano. A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a shield lying on the ground. It is formed by the eruption of highly fluid (low viscosity) lava, which travels farther and forms thinner flows than the more viscous lava erupted from a stratovolcano. Repeated eruptions result in... |
Radar. Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method[1] used to detect and track aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formatio... |
Provinces of Japan. Provinces of Japan (令制国, Ryōseikoku) were first-level administrative divisions of Japan from the 600s to 1868. Provinces were established in Japan in the late 7th century under the Ritsuryō law system that formed the first central government. Each province was divided into districts (郡, gun) and gro... |
Corfu (regional unit). Corfu (Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Κερκύρας) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of the Ionian Islands. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Corfu. The regional unit consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikoussa, Mathraki and several smaller ... |
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC), commonly called the Goldstone Observatory, is a satellite ground station located in Fort Irwin[1] in the U.S. state of California. Operated by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), its main purpose is to track and c... |
Musashi Province. Musashi Province (武蔵国, Musashi no Kuni; Japanese pronunciation: [mɯꜜ.sa.ɕi (no kɯ.ɲi)][1]) was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture.[2] It was sometimes called Bushū (武州). The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama.... |
Hokusai. Katsushika Hokusai[a] (葛飾 北斎; c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker.[2] His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was i... |
Shinto. Shinto (神道, Shintō; Japanese pronunciation: [ɕiꜜn.toː][2]), also called Shintoism, is a religion originating in Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, it is often regarded by its practitioners as Japans indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its prac... |
Corfu (city). Corfu (/kɔːrˈf(j)uː/, also US: /ˈkɔːrf(j)uː/) or Kerkyra (Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized: Kérkyra, pronounced [ˈcercira] ⓘ; Ancient Greek: Κόρκυρα, romanized: Kórkyra, pronounced [kórkyra]; Medieval Greek: Κορυφώ, romanized: Koryfó; Italian: Corfù; Latin: Corcyra) is a city and a former municipality on the isl... |
De facto. De facto (/deɪ ˈfæktoʊ, di -, də -/, day FAK-toh, dee -, də -;[1] Latin: [deː ˈfaktoː] ⓘ; lit. from fact) describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.[2][3] It is commonly used to refer to what happens in practice, in contras... |
Austria. Austria,[e] formally the Republic of Austria,[f] is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.[15] It is a federation of nine states, of which the capital Vienna is the most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slova... |
Geographical renaming. Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area, which ranges from the change of a street name to a change to the name of a country. Places are also sometimes assigned dual names for various reasons. A change might see a completely different name being adopted ... |
Feudalism. Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchang... |
Calque. In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation. When used as a verb, to calque means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new word or ph... |
Regional units of Greece. The 74 regional units of Greece (Greek: περιφερειακές ενότητες, sing. περιφερειακή ενότητα, romanized: perifereiakés enótites, sing. perifereiakí enótita) are the countrys third-level administrative units (counting decentralized administrations as first-level). They are subdivisions of the cou... |
Ionia. Ionia (/aɪˈoʊniə/ eye-OH-nee-ə)[1] was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements.[citation needed] Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who had settled in the region be... |
Legal translation. Legal translation is the translation of language used in legal settings and for legal purposes. Legal translation may also imply that it is a specific type of translation only used in law, which is not always the case. As law is a culture-dependent subject field, legal translation is not necessarily ... |
Mare Orientale. Mare Orientale /ɔːriɛnˈteɪliː/ (Latin orientāle, the eastern sea) is a lunar mare. It is located on the western border of the near side and far side of the Moon,[2] and is difficult to see from an Earthbound perspective. Images from spacecraft have revealed it to be one of the most striking large scale ... |
Translation. Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.[1] The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or signed communication b... |
Engelier. Engelier is a 310-mile (500-kilometers) large crater on Saturns moon Iapetus in Saragossa Terra.[4][5] It partially obscures the slightly smaller crater Gerin. This article about an impact crater on a moon of Saturn is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Meteor Crater. Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. The site had several earlier names, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite, after ... |
Iapetus (moon). Iapetus (/aɪˈæpətəs/) is the outermost of Saturns large moons. With an estimated diameter of 1,469 km (913 mi), it is the third-largest moon of Saturn and the eleventh-largest in the Solar System.[b] Named after the Titan Iapetus, the moon was discovered in 1671 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini. A relativel... |
Corfu (constituency). The Corfu electoral constituency (Greek: Εκλογική περιφέρεια Κέρκυρας) is a parliamentary constituency of Greece.[1] It elects three MPs to the Hellenic Parliament.[2] This article about politics in Greece is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This Greece-related article is a stub. Yo... |
Regions of Greece (disambiguation). Regions of Greece are the 13 current administrative regions of Greece. Regions of Greece may also refer to: |
List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies. The adjectival forms of the names of astronomical bodies are not always easily predictable. Attested adjectival forms of the larger bodies are listed below, along with the two small Martian moons; in some cases they are accompanied by their demonymic equivalents... |
Epoch (astronomy). In astronomy, an epoch or reference epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity. It is useful for the celestial coordinates or orbital elements of a celestial body, as they are subject to perturbations and vary with time.[1] These time-varying astr... |
Osculating orbit. In astronomy, and in particular in astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space at a given moment in time is the gravitational Kepler orbit (i.e. an elliptic or other conic one) that it would have around its central body if perturbations were absent.[1] That is, it is the orbit that coinc... |
Corfu (regional unit). Corfu (Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Κερκύρας) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of the Ionian Islands. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Corfu. The regional unit consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikoussa, Mathraki and several smaller ... |
False color. False colors and pseudo colors respectively refers to a group of color rendering methods used to display images in colors which were recorded in the visible or non-visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. A false-color image is an image that depicts an object in colors that differ from those a photo... |
Attica (region). Attica (/ˈætɪkə/ AT-ih-kə; Greek: Περιφέρεια Αττικής, romanized: Periféria Attikís, [periˈferi.a atiˈcis]) is an administrative region of Greece that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, the core city of which is the countrys capital and largest city, Athens. The region is coextensive with ... |
Translation. Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.[1] The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between translating (a written text) and interpreting (oral or signed communication b... |
Central Macedonia. Central Macedonia (/ˌmæsəˈdoʊniə/ MASS-ə-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Κεντρική Μακεδονία, romanized: Kentrikí Makedonía, IPA: [ce(n)driˈci maceðoˈni.a]) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, consisting the central part of the geographical and historical region of Macedonia. With a population ... |
The Great Wave (book). Business cycles -- History. The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History is a scholarly work by historian David Hackett Fischer, published in 1996 by Oxford University Press. Hackett Fischer identified three complete monetary waves in European history, each consisting of a price r... |
Planetary symbols. Planetary symbols are used in astrology and traditionally in astronomy to represent a classical planet (which includes the Sun and the Moon) or one of the modern planets. The classical symbols were also used in alchemy for the seven metals known to the ancients, which were associated with the planets... |
Politics of Greece. Greece is a parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the President of Greece is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Greece is the head of government within a multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Hellenic Parliament. Between the resto... |
Nishimura Yohachi. Nishimuraya Yohachi (dates unknown)[1] was one of the leading publishers of woodblock prints in late 18th-century Japan.[2] He founded the Nishimuraya Yohachi publishing house, also known as Nishiyo (西与),[3] which operated in Nihonbashis Bakurochō Nichōme under the shop name Eijudō. The firms exact d... |
Skipping Girl Vinegar. Skipping Girl Vinegar are a Melbourne-based indie rock band, named after the Audrey the Skipping Girl Vinegar sign, located in Abbotsford, Victoria. Forming in 2004 the quartet wrote and rehearsed solidly before debuting live in 2006.[1] Once playing they soon secured support slots opening for l... |
Monastic community of Mount Athos. The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks living on the Mount Athos peninsula in Northern Greece. The monastic community enjoys autonomous self-government within the borders of the Athos peninsula. The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs manages re... |
Great Wave Software. Great Wave Software was an educational computer software company founded in 1984 by Dr. Chad Mitchell and Stacy Mitchell and was located in Scotts Valley, California. It was a division of Instructional Fair Group, which was based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was a Tribune Education company. Produ... |
Canglang Pavilion. The Canglang Pavilion (traditional Chinese: 滄浪亭; simplified Chinese: 沧浪亭; pinyin: Cāng Làng Tíng; Suzhou Wu: Tshaon laon din, Wu Chinese pronunciation: [tsʰɑ̃ lɑ̃ din]), variously translated as the Great Wave Pavilion, Surging Wave Pavilion, or Blue Wave Pavilion, is one of the Classical Gardens of S... |
Scotland (disambiguation). Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom that forms the northern third of the island of Great Britain in North-West Europe. Scotland may also refer to: |
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (disambiguation). Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is a series of woodblock prints by Hokusai. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji may also refer to: |
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japanese: 竹取物語, Hepburn: Taketori Monogatari) is a monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing elements of Japanese folklore. Written by an unknown author in the late 9th or early 10th century during the Heian period, it is considered the oldest survi... |
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