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# Shamian
23°06′34″N 113°14′22″E / 23.10944°N 113.23944°E
Shamian (also romanized as Shameen or Shamin, both from its Cantonese pronunciation) is a sandbank island in the Liwan District of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The island's name literally means "sandy surface" in Chinese.
The territory was divided into two con... |
# Scorpion sting
A scorpion sting is an injury caused by the stinger of a scorpion resulting in the medical condition known as scorpionism, which may vary in severity. The anatomical part of the scorpion that delivers the sting is called a "telson". In typical cases, scorpion stings usually result in pain, paresthesia,... |
# Yazhou Zhoukan
Yazhou Zhoukan (Chinese: 亞洲週刊; lit. 'Asia Weekly') is a Chinese-language international affairs newsweekly. It was launched in 1987 by Michael O'Niell as a sister magazine to Asiaweek. It is published by Yazhou Zhoukan Limited (a subsidiary of Media Chinese International Limited), and provides internati... |
# López Serrano Building
The López Serrano Building was the tallest residential building in Cuba until the construction of the FOCSA in 1956. Designed by the architect Ricardo Mira in 1929, who in 1941 who also designed La Moderna Poesia bookstore on Obispo Street for the same owner, it is often compared to the Bacardi... |
# Ovoid (projective geometry)
In projective geometry an ovoid is a sphere like pointset (surface) in a projective space of dimension d ≥ 3. Simple examples in a real projective space are hyperspheres (quadrics). The essential geometric properties of an ovoid {\displaystyle {\mathcal {O}}} are:
1. Any line intersects {\... |
# Variation (astronomy)
In astronomy, the variation of the Moon is one of the principal perturbations in the motion of the Moon.
## Discovery
The variation was discovered by Tycho Brahe, who noticed that, starting from a lunar eclipse in December 1590, at the times of syzygy (new or full moon), the apparent velocity o... |
# Émile Bernard chronology
This is an Émile Bernard chronology of the life and career of French artist, art critic and writer Émile Bernard, based on documents hitherto published - however, most of the relevant sources remain unpublished. To a certain extent, these gaps can be filled by information derived from letters... |
# Settled Land Acts
The Settled Land Acts were a series of English land law enactments concerning the limits of creating a settlement, a conveyancing device used by a property owner who wants to ensure that provision of future generations of his family.
## Two main types of settlement
- Under a trust for sale, the pr... |
# Listen to the Moon
Listen to the Moon is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo. It was originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins in September 2014, to coincide with the centenary commemorations of World War I, in which the novel's time period is set in. The inspiration for the novel was ... |
# Sky
The sky is an unobstructed view upward from the surface of the Earth. It includes the atmosphere and outer space. It may also be considered a place between the ground and outer space, thus distinct from outer space.
In the field of astronomy, the sky is also called the celestial sphere. This is an abstract sphere... |
# Postal address verification
Postal address verification (also known as address, address validation, address verification and CASS certification) is the process used to check the validity and deliverability of a physical mailing address. According to the United States Postal Service, an address is valid (or mailable) ... |
# Rossby-gravity waves
Rossby-gravity waves are equatorially trapped waves (much like Kelvin waves), meaning that they rapidly decay as their distance increases away from the equator (so long as the Brunt–Vaisala frequency does not remain constant). These waves have the same trapping scale as Kelvin waves, more common... |
# Royal barge
A royal barge is a vessel that is used by a monarch for ceremonial processions, and (historically) for routine transport, usually on a river or inland waterway. It may also be known as a state barge, and may be used on occasion by other members of a royal family, heads of state, or particular VIPs.
Tradi... |
# West Cork
West Cork (Irish: Iarthar Chorcaí) is a tourist region and municipal district in County Cork, Ireland. As a municipal district, West Cork falls within the administrative area of Cork County Council, and includes the towns of Bantry, Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Schull and Skibbereen, and the 'key ... |
# Sierra Norte de Puebla
The Sierra Norte de Puebla is a rugged mountainous region accounting for the northern third of the state of Puebla, Mexico. It is at the intersection of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Sierra Madre Oriental, between the Mexican Plateau and the Gulf of Mexico coast. From the Mesoamerican... |
# Whyte Museum
The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is located in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The museum collects, preserves, and exhibits materials related to the cultural heritage of the Rocky Mountains of Canada, making them available for education as well as research. The museum, which contains an archive and a lib... |
# Viltis (newspaper)
Viltis (literally: hope) was a Lithuanian-language newspaper published in Vilnius in 1907–1915 and 1991–1994. The newspapers was established in October 1907 by Antanas Smetona and Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas. It promoted unity among Lithuanians attempting to bring together conservative Catholic clergy ... |
# Maher v Town Council of Portland
Maher v Town Council of Portland is a Canadian constitutional law court decision dealing with the constitutional guarantees for denominational schools set out in section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act, 1867). The issue was whether the Com... |
# MOS Technology 6522
The MOS Technology 6522 Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) is an integrated circuit that was designed and manufactured by MOS Technology as an I/O port controller for the 6502 family of microprocessors. It provides two bidirectional 8-bit parallel I/O ports, two 16-bit timers (one of which can also... |
# San Mateo Creek (Southern California)
San Mateo Creek is a stream in Southern California in the United States, whose watershed mostly straddles the border of Orange and San Diego Counties. It is about 22 miles (35 km) long, flowing in a generally southwesterly direction. Draining a broad valley bounded by the Santa A... |
# Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula
The Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula (Spanish: Atlas Lingüístico de la península ibérica; ALPI) is a project aimed at creating a linguistic atlas of the Iberian Romance languages. It was conceived by Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968), directed by his student, Tomás N... |
# Palinurus
Palinurus (Palinūrus), in Roman mythology and especially Virgil's Aeneid, is the coxswain of Aeneas' ship. Later authors used him as a general type of navigator or guide. Palinurus is an example of human sacrifice; his life is the price for the Trojans landing in Italy.
## Palinurus in theAeneid
In Book 3,... |
# Lucas primality test
In computational number theory, the Lucas test is a primality test for a natural number n; it requires that the prime factors of n − 1 be already known. It is the basis of the Pratt certificate that gives a concise verification that n is prime.
## Concepts
Let n be a positive integer. If there... |
# Lex Publilia (471 BC)
The lex Publilia, also known as the Publilian Rogation, was a law traditionally passed in 471 BC, transferring the election of the tribunes of the plebs to the comitia tributa, thereby freeing their election from the direct influence of the Senate and patrician magistrates.
## Background
In 473... |
# Satellite emergency notification device
A Satellite Emergency Notification Device or SEND is a portable emergency notification and locating device which uses commercial satellite systems rather than the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. An example of this device is SPOT.
The devices use an internal GPS chip to gather l... |
# Trident Block
Trident Blocks (Chinese: Y型大廈)，sometimes referred as TR，is a three-wing design. Trident blocks are split into four types, which are Trident 1, Trident 2, Trident 3, and Trident 4. They are mostly built between 1984 and 1992. Most Trident blocks are used as public housing or Home Ownership Scheme estates... |
# Triumph (magazine)
Triumph was a monthly American magazine published by L. Brent Bozell, Jr. from 1966 to 1976. It published commentary on religious, philosophical, and cultural issues from the traditionalist Catholic perspective.
## Origin
Bozell founded Triumph in 1966 as a magazine for American Catholic conservat... |
# Truncated tetraheptagonal tiling
| Truncated tetraheptagonal tiling | Truncated tetraheptagonal tiling |
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| Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane | ... |
# Mār-bīti
Mār-bīti was a Mesopotamian god. While his character is overall poorly known, it is agreed that he was regarded as warlike. He could be associated with deities such as Nanaya, Nabu or various members of the local pantheons of Der and Borsippa. While he is already attested in an inscription from the Kassite p... |
# Nader v. Brewer
Nader v. Brewer, 531 F.3d 1028 (9th Cir. 2008) is a 2008 decision by the Ninth Circuit ruling that certain Arizona voting regulations were unconstitutional under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The original lawsuit was filed by Robert Barnes on behalf of Ralph Nader, Peter Camej... |
# Vysochanskij–Petunin inequality
In probability theory, the Vysochanskij–Petunin inequality gives a lower bound for the probability that a random variable with finite variance lies within a certain number of standard deviations of the variable's mean, or equivalently an upper bound for the probability that it lies f... |
# Low (complexity)
In computational complexity theory, a language B (or a complexity class B) is said to be low for a complexity class A (with some reasonable relativized version of A) if AB = A; that is, A with an oracle for B is equal to A.
Such a statement implies that an abstract machine which solves problems in ... |
# Leyden papyrus X
The Leyden papyrus X (P. Leyden X) is a papyrus codex written in Greek at about the end of the 3rd century A.D. or perhaps around 250 A.D. and buried with its owner, and today preserved at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
## Origin
The Leiden papyrus was discovered at Thebes in Egypt, together ... |
# Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences
The Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) (Sindhi: لياقت يونيورسٽي آف ميڊيڪل اينڊ هيلٿ سائنسز) is a public medical university located in Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.
Ever since it started as a medical school, it is known for its mission to bring innov... |
# Liberal–Labour (Canada)
The Liberal–Labour banner has been used several times by candidates in Canadian elections:
In the early twentieth century when the idea of trade unionists running for elected office under their own banner gained ground, several working class candidates on the provincial or federal level were e... |
# Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Tužilaštvo Bosne i Hercegovine, Croatian: Tužiteljstvo Bosne i Hercegovine, Serbian: Тужилаштво Босне и Херцеговине; abbreviated as the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH in English) is a domestic prosecutor of the State... |
# Ucides cordatus
Ucides cordatus, the swamp ghost crab (or caranguejo-uçá in Portuguese), is one of two species of crabs in the genus Ucides. This species of crab is native to many coasts off of the western Atlantic Ocean. It has been found to be native to areas as far north as Florida and to as south as Uruguay. U. c... |
# Weekly Arizonian
The Weekly Arizonian was a newspaper published in Arizona Territory with a checkered existence from 1859 to 1871. It holds a special place in Arizona history as its first printed work, first newspaper and first political organ.
## Political background
After the Mexican war which resulted in much of... |
# Six Frontier Towns
The Six Frontier Towns (simplified Chinese: 六镇; traditional Chinese: 六鎮), also known as the Six Garrisons and the Northern Frontier Towns (simplified Chinese: 北镇; traditional Chinese: 北鎮), were six military towns located in the Hetao region of the Northern Wei dynasty of China. The government estab... |
# Pedlar People Limited
Pedlar People Limited was a sheet metal stamping operation started in 1861 in Oshawa, Ontario by blacksmith Henry Pedlar in the back of his hardware store. The operation was expanded by his son, George H. Pedlar, to become the largest sheet metal factory in the British Empire. The business was ... |
# Washington University of Barbados
Washington University of Barbados (WUB) is a defunct medical school which opened in 2017 and closed the following year. The for-profit university received a charter from the Barbados Ministry of Education in 2016, but was unaccredited. Allegedly part of an international scam in which... |
# Operation Trust
Operation Trust (Russian: операция "Трест", romanized: operatsiya "Trest") was a counterintelligence operation of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the Soviet Union. The operation, which was set up by GPU's predecessor Cheka, ran from 1921 to 1927, set up a fake anti-Bolshevik resistance organ... |
# Repolarization
In neuroscience, repolarization refers to the change in membrane potential that returns it to a negative value just after the depolarization phase of an action potential which has changed the membrane potential to a positive value. The repolarization phase usually returns the membrane potential back to... |
# Social class in 18th-century Spain
The social structure of Spain in the 18th century continued to be based upon nobility and peasantry. However, the period also saw the growth of a middle class, centred upon the growing bureaucracy associated with Bourbon rule, and upon a limited development of commerce and industry.... |
# Ubykh phonology
Ubykh, an extinct Northwest Caucasian language, has the largest consonant inventory of all documented languages that do not use clicks, and also has the most disproportional ratio of phonemic consonants to vowels. It has consonants in at least eight, perhaps nine, basic places of articulation and 29 d... |
# Ukrainian Braille
Ukrainian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Ukrainian language. It is based on the Russian Braille, with a few additional letters found in the print Ukrainian alphabet.
## Alphabet
Ukrainian does not use all the letters of the Russian alphabet, and it has the additional letters є, ґ, і, ї.
| P... |
# Orange–Fish River Tunnel
The Orange–Fish Tunnel, constructed between 1966 and 1975, is an 82.8-kilometre (51.4-mile) long irrigation tunnel in central South Africa, built to divert water from the Orange River to the Fish River valley. It is the longest continuous enclosed aqueduct in the southern hemisphere.
## Purp... |
# Wha-Chi
The Wha-Chi (Chinese: 華支; Jyutping: waa4 zi1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hôa-chi; lit. 'Chinese Division'), also known as the Philippine-Chinese Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Forces (simplified Chinese: 菲律宾中国抗日游击队; traditional Chinese: 菲律賓中國抗日游擊隊; pinyin: Fēilǜbīn zhōngguó kàngrì yóují duì Filipino: Hukbong Gerilya ng Pilipino-Ts... |
# Presidential Mansion, Athens
The Presidential Mansion (Greek: Προεδρικό Μέγαρο, romanized: Proedrikó Mégaro) in Athens, Greece, is the official residence of the president of the Hellenic Republic. It served previously as the Royal Palace (often known as the New Royal Palace, Greek: Νέα Ανάκτορα, romanized: Néa Anákto... |
# Preighter
A preighter, also known as cargo in cabin, is an aircraft originally intended to carry passengers but which is operated temporarily as a cargo aircraft by loading freight in the passenger cabin. The term is a portmanteau of "passenger" and "freighter" and is attributed to Lufthansa chief executive Carsten S... |
# William Henry Harrison 1840 presidential campaign
In 1840, William Henry Harrison was elected President of the United States. Harrison, who had served as a general and as United States Senator from Ohio, defeated the incumbent president, Democrat Martin Van Buren, in a campaign that broke new ground in American polit... |
# Springfield Model 1855
The Springfield Model 1855 was a rifled musket widely used in the American Civil War. It exploited the advantages of the new conical Minié ball, which could be deadly at over 1,000 yards (910 m). It was a standard infantry weapon for Union and Confederates alike, until the Springfield Model 186... |
# Usage perspective development
Usage perspective development, UPD, describes a procedure from human factors and ergonomics, which analyses and integrates the user requirements already at the beginning of the development process and thus uses them to develop innovative socio-technical solutions. To accomplish this, the... |
# Westham Island Bridge
The Westham Island Bridge, which is a single-lane, wood-deck truss bridge over Canoe Pass near the mouth of the Fraser River, connects Westham Island with the Delta mainland, in Metro Vancouver.
## Original ferry
In 1882, the British Union (BU) and the British American (BA) canneries opened at ... |
# Woman's Parliament of Southern California
Woman's Parliament of Southern California was established in Los Angeles in 1892. Kate Tupper Galpin served as president for several years.
## History
The idea of a Woman's Parliament was originated by Rev. Lila Sprague of Pomona, and carried out by area women in the cause o... |
# Prudenciana Vallejo López de Moreno
Prudenciana Vallejo López de Moreno (1832–1920) was a Californio and the matriarch of a family who owned Rancho ex-Misíon de Guadalupe in the Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico. She was the wife of José Matías Moreno, secretary of state under Pío Pico, the last Mexican gov... |
# Wildcat Creek (Lackawanna River tributary)
Wildcat Creek (also known as Millers Creek, Tinklepaugh Creek, or Wild Cat Creek) is a tributary of the Lackawanna River in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 3.8 miles (6.1 km) long and flows through Archbald and Blakely. The watershe... |
# Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
The Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications (also known as 'Stanwick Camp'), a huge Iron Age hill fort, sometimes but not always considered an oppidum, comprising over 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) of ditches and ramparts enclosing approximately 300 hectares (740 acres) of land, are situated in Rich... |
# Scipione in Cartagine nuova
Scipione in Cartagine nuova (Scipio in new Carthage) is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Geminiano Giacomelli, with a libretto by Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni. It was dedicated to Enrichetta d'Este, and was first performed in the spring of 1730 at the old Teatro Ducale in P... |
# Scotistic realism
Scotistic realism (also Scotist realism or Scotist formalism) is the Scotist position on the problem of universals. It is a form of moderate realism, which is sometimes referred to as 'scholastic realism'. The position maintains that universals exist both in particular objects and as concepts in t... |
# Root system
In mathematics, a root system is a configuration of vectors in a Euclidean space satisfying certain geometrical properties. The concept is fundamental in the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, especially the classification and representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras. Since Lie groups (and som... |
# Quantum circuit
In quantum information theory, a quantum circuit is a model for quantum computation, similar to classical circuits, in which a computation is a sequence of quantum gates, measurements, initializations of qubits to known values, and possibly other actions. The minimum set of actions that a circuit need... |
# Second Shadow Cabinet of Harriet Harman
Harriet Harman's second Shadow Cabinet was formed by Harriet Harman in 2015 during her second period as Acting Leader of the Labour Party. She assumed this role after Ed Miliband resigned as party leader (and Leader of the Opposition) and announced she would continue until a ne... |
# Southern Fells
54°28′16″N 3°08′38″W / 54.471°N 3.144°W
The Southern Fells are a part of the Cumbrian Mountains in the Lake District of England. Including Scafell Pike, the highest peak in England, they occupy a broad area to the south of Great Langdale, Borrowdale and Wasdale. High and rocky towards the centre of... |
# Roman fort, Mušov
The Roman fort (Czech: římská pevnost or Czech: Hradisko, German: Burgstall) is an archaeological site located in Mušov, Czech Republic, of a Roman army camp on the Dyje-Svratka-Jihlava confluence. It was intended to become the capital of the proposed Marcomannia province (Moravia).
## Geography
Th... |
# Old Court House, Perth
The Old Court House is the first court building constructed in Perth, Western Australia. It is located between Stirling Gardens and Supreme Court Gardens, off Barrack Street, adjacent to the Supreme Court building. It is a single-storey cream rendered building, with a wooden shingle roof.
Compl... |
# Russian humour
Russian humour gains much of its wit from the inflection of the Russian language, allowing for plays on words and unexpected associations. As with any other culture's humour, its vast scope ranges from lewd jokes and wordplay to political satire.
## Literature
### 17th century
According to Dmitry Lik... |
# Royal FloraHolland
Royal FloraHolland, legally Koninklijke Coöperatieve Bloemenveiling Royal FloraHolland U.A., is a Dutch conglomerate of florists. It is one of the largest auction companies in the world. Royal FloraHolland is headquartered in Aalsmeer, with locations in Naaldwijk, Rijnsburg and Eelde.
The export au... |
# Wolfson Centre for Magnetics
51°29′02″N 3°10′08″W / 51.484°N 3.169°W
Wolfson Centre for Magnetics (WCM) is a research and knowledge centre operating within School of Engineering at Cardiff University.
## Research
WCM is a centre for research, teaching and technology transfer over a wide spectrum of magnetics, incl... |
# Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History
Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History is a 2022 non-fiction book by the practicing psychoanalyst and historian of psychiatry Orna Ophir. The book summarizes the history of the conceptualization, diagnosis, and lived experiences of schizophrenia through the lens of competing views o... |
# Regulator Movement in South Carolina
The Regulator Movement in South Carolina was a successful effort to control crime and obtain more government services. It was launched by local leaders in the newly settled areas of western South Carolina in the late 1760s. The local elite organized and petitioned, and also worke... |
# Waihorotiu Stream
Waihorotiu (from the Māori Wai Horotiu), sometimes called the Waihorotiu Stream and the 'Queen Street River', is a stream that ran down the Queen Street gully in the Auckland CBD, New Zealand, into the Waitemata Harbour. It has long since been covered over and put underground by the urbanisation of ... |
# War memorials (Western Somme)
## Some of the Monuments aux Morts of the Western Somme
The Monuments aux Morts of the Western Somme are French war memorials commemorating those who died in World War I. In the Western part of the Somme region, in the area around Abbeville, there are many such memorials and some of the... |
# Turn construction unit
A turn construction unit (TCU) is the fundamental segment of speech in a conversation, as analysed in conversation analysis.
The idea was introduced in "A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation" by Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff, and Gail Jefferson in 1974. I... |
# Williams spray equation
In combustion, the Williams spray equation, also known as the Williams–Boltzmann equation, describes the statistical evolution of sprays contained in another fluid, analogous to the Boltzmann equation for the molecules, named after Forman A. Williams, who derived the equation in 1958.
## Math... |
# Russian anti-corruption campaign
The Russian anti-corruption campaign is an ongoing effort by the Russian government to curb corruption, which has been recognized as one of Russia's most serious problems. Central documents in the campaign include the National Anti-Corruption Plan, introduced by President Dmitry Medve... |
# Pith and substance
Pith and substance is a legal doctrine in Canadian constitutional interpretation used to determine under which head of power a given piece of legislation falls. The doctrine is primarily used when a law is challenged on the basis that one level of government (be it provincial or federal) has encroa... |
# Saint-Pierre, Martinique
Saint-Pierre (/ˌseɪnt piˈɛər/, /ˌsæ̃-/; French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ] ⓘ; Martinican Creole: Senpiè) is a town and commune of France's Caribbean overseas department of Martinique, founded in 1635 by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc. Before the total destruction of Saint-Pierre by a volcanic eruptio... |
# Judulang v. Holder
Judulang v. Holder, 565 U.S. 42 (2011), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving deportation law and procedure. The case involved a rule adopted by the Board of Immigration Appeals for determining the eligibility of certain long-term resident aliens, when they are facing d... |
# Origins of Lahore
A Hindu legend based on oral traditions holds that Lahore, known in ancient times as Nokhar (City of Lava in Sanskrit),
was founded by Prince Lava,
the son of the goddess Sita and Rama; Kasur was founded by his twin brother Prince Kusha.
To this day, Lahore Fort has a vacant Lava temple dedicated to... |
# Venetian Holy Inquisition
The Venetian Inquisition, formally the Holy Office (Latin: Sanctum Officium), was the tribunal established jointly by the Venetian government and the Catholic Church to repress heresy throughout the Republic of Venice. The inquisition also intervened in cases of sacrilege, apostasy, prohibit... |
# Stadsgården
59°19′10.38″N 18°4′29.86″E / 59.3195500°N 18.0749611°E
Stadsgården commonly refers to the wharf on the shore of the Baltic Sea in Stockholm, Sweden, located between Slussen in the west and Masthamnen in the east. The word gård in the name comes from skeppsgård, which was a word used in archaic Swedish f... |
# Via Tiberina
The via Tiberina was an ancient Roman road, which from the north of Rome, going up the right bank of the Tiber river, crossed the ancient center of Veio, Capena and Falerii Veteres countryside to Tiber Valley and continued towards Ocriculum, today in Umbria. Today, in the metropolitan city of Rome Capita... |
# Phaedra (Cabanel)
Phaedra is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1880 by the French academic painter Alexandre Cabanel. It was exhibited in the Salon of 1880 and later donated by Cabanel to the Musée Fabre, located in his hometown of Montpellier. Phaedra is a large painting of a classical subject in literature, whi... |
# Uniform Adoption Act
The Uniform Adoption Act (1994) is a model law (uniform act) proposed by the U.S. Uniform Law Commission. It attempts to "be a comprehensive and uniform state adoption code that:
1. is consistent with relevant federal constitutional and statutory law
2. delineates the legal requirements and cons... |
# Whale feces
Whale feces, the excrement of whales, has a vital role in the ecology of oceans, earning whales the title of "marine ecosystem engineers." This significant ecological role stems from the nutrients and compounds found in whale feces, which have far-reaching effects on marine life.
Nitrogen and iron chelate... |
# Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir
Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir is a reservoir on the River Roddlesworth near Abbey Village in Lancashire, England.
The reservoir is close to Lower Roddlesworth Reservoir and Rake Brook Reservoir and sits within dense woodland.
## History
The construction of reservoirs on Rivington Pike was... |
# Shuddhadvaita
Shuddadvaita (Sanskrit: śuddhādvaita "pure non-dualism") is the "purely non-dual" philosophy propounded by the Hindu philosopher Vallabha (1479-1531 CE), the founder of Puṣṭimārga ("The path of grace"), a Vaishnava tradition focused on the worship of the deity Krishna. Vallabhacharya's pure form (nondua... |
# Signed-digit representation
In mathematical notation for numbers, a signed-digit representation is a positional numeral system with a set of signed digits used to encode the integers.
Signed-digit representation can be used to accomplish fast addition of integers because it can eliminate chains of dependent carries. ... |
# Second Battle of Guararapes
The Second Battle of Guararapes was the second and decisive battle in the Insurrection of Pernambuco between Dutch and Portuguese forces in February 1649 at Jaboatão dos Guararapes in Pernambuco. The defeat convinced the Dutch "that the Portuguese were formidable opponents, something which... |
# SDS BASIC
SDS BASIC, also known as CP-V BASIC, Batch BASIC or Sigma BASIC depending on the version, is a BASIC programming language compiler for Scientific Data Systems's (SDS) Sigma series mainframe computers, originally released in 1967. Xerox purchased SDS in 1969 and began rebranding it as Xerox Data Systems, an... |
# Outer Temple
The Outer Temple is a building next to the Temple area in London, just outside the City of London. In the 14th century, the property seized from the Knights Templar was divided, and that part of the Temple property then just outside London was given the name Outer Temple. It has been suggested that the n... |
# Red Line (Namibia)
The Red Line, also referred to as the veterinary cordon fence, is a pest-exclusion fence separating northern Namibia from the central and southern regions. It encases several northern regions: Oshana Region, Kavango East Region, Omusati Region, Zambezi Region, Omaheke Region, Kunene Region, and par... |
# Regulator–Moderator War
The 1839–1844 Regulator–Moderator War, or the Shelby County War, was a nineteenth-century feud in East Texas during the Republic of Texas years between rival factions. The war started out as a dispute of land ownership before becoming a violent conflict for control of the local economy. Soon r... |
# Silver Jubilee of George V
The Silver Jubilee of George V on 6 May 1935 marked 25 years of George V as the King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India. The Jubilee was marked with large-scale and popular events throughout London and the rest of the United Kingdom in May 1935. It was the... |
# Visible light communication
In telecommunications, visible light communication (VLC) is the use of visible light (light with a frequency of 400–800 THz/wavelength of 780–375 nm) as a transmission medium. VLC is a subset of optical wireless communications technologies.
The technology uses fluorescent lamps (ordinary l... |
# Volume correction factor
In thermodynamics, the Volume Correction Factor (VCF), also known as Correction for the effect of Temperature on Liquid (CTL), is a standardized computed factor used to correct for the thermal expansion of fluids, primarily, liquid hydrocarbons at various temperatures and densities. It is typ... |
# VSim
VSim is a cross-platform computational framework for multi-physics, compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS.
It includes VSimComposer, a GUI for visual setup of simulations, supporting CAD geometry import and direct geometry construction. VSimComposer allows users to execute data analysis scripts and visualize... |
# Pittsburgh Athletic Association
The Pittsburgh Athletic Association at the University of Pittsburgh is a historic, Benno Janssen designed building located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Opened as the home of a private social and athletic club of the same name, the building is listed on the National Register of Historic... |
# Polish–Lithuanian relations during World War II
The issue of Polish and Lithuanian relations during the World War II is a controversial one, and some modern Lithuanian and Polish historians still differ in their interpretations of the related events, many of which are related to the Lithuanian collaboration with Naz... |
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