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# Suijin
Suijin or Mizugami (水神, すいじん, みずがみ, lit. "water god/deity") is a general name for the god of water in Japanese mythology. The term refers to the heavenly and earthly manifestations of the benevolent Shinto divinity of water (mainly freshwater), as well as to a wide variety of mythical and magical creatures fou... |
# Warfare in Medieval Scotland
Warfare in Medieval Scotland includes all military activity in the modern borders of Scotland, or by forces originating in the region, between the departure of the Romans in the fifth century and the adoption of the innovations of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. In this pe... |
# Pitch interval
In musical set theory, there are four kinds of interval:
- Ordered pitch interval
- Unordered pitch interval
- Ordered pitch-class interval
- Unordered pitch-class interval
## Pitch Intervals
### Ordered Pitch Interval
The ordered pitch interval. is the number of semitones that separates one pitch fr... |
# Pisa79
The March Against Violence Against Homosexuals (Italian: Marcia contro la violenza sugli/sulle omosessuali), also known as Pisa79, held in Pisa on November 24, 1979, was a protest march against anti-LGBT violence and aimed at promoting LGBT rights, as a reaction to a homophobic murder and the general climate o... |
# Weil–Brezin Map
In mathematics, the Weil–Brezin map, named after André Weil and Jonathan Brezin, is a unitary transformation that maps a Schwartz function on the real line to a smooth function on the Heisenberg manifold. The Weil–Brezin map gives a geometric interpretation of the Fourier transform, the Plancherel t... |
# Western Forest Products
Western Forest Products Inc. is a Canadian lumber company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
## History
Following its initial acquisition of the assets of Doman in 2004, the Company undertook a series of restructuring activities including the closure of its Silvertree sawmill in 20... |
# Tanzin v. Tanvir
Tanzin v. Tanvir, 592 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case involving legal remedies that could be sought by litigants against federal officials for violations of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. In a unanimous decision issued December 10, 2020, the court ruled that th... |
# Romanian Orthodox Church in Communist Romania
The Romanian Orthodox Church operated within Communist Romania between 1947 and 1989, the era during which Romania was a socialist state. The regime's relationship with the Orthodox Church was ambiguous during this period: while the government declared itself "atheist", i... |
# Sociology in Poland
Sociology in Poland has been developing, as has sociology throughout Europe, since the mid-19th century. Although, due to the Partitions of Poland, that country did not exist as an independent state in the 19th century or until the end of World War I, some Polish scholars published work clearly be... |
# Shi (personator)
The shi (Chinese: 尸; pinyin: shī; Wade–Giles: sh'ih; lit. 'corpse') was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a shi ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and drink sac... |
# Shimodate Domain
Shimodate Domain (下館藩, Shimodate-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Hitachi Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Shimodate Castle in what is now the city of Chikusei, Ibaraki. It was ruled for much of its history by a ... |
# Short-range device
A short-range device (SRD), described by ECC Recommendation 70-03, is a radio-frequency transmitter device used in telecommunication that has little capability of causing harmful interference to other radio equipment.
Short-range devices are low-power transmitters, typically limited to 25–100 mW ef... |
# Servitude in civil law
A servitude is a qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property (servient estate) and attached to a superior property (dominant estate) or to some person (personal beneficiary) other than the owner. At civil law, ownership (dominium) (e.g. of land... |
# Murder of José Rafael Llenas Aybar
José Rafael Llenas-Aybar (circa 1984 – 3 May 1996) was a boy from the Dominican Republic who went missing and later found dead in May 1996. Llenas Aybar was born into an upper-middle-class family, his parents were José Rafael Llenas Menicucci and Ileana del Carmen Aybar Nadal. His f... |
# Shingle weaver
A shingle weaver (US) or shingler (UK) is an employee of a wood products mill who engages in the creation of wooden roofing shingles or the closely related product known as "shakes." In the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, historically the leading producer of this product, such shingles a... |
# Shou Liang
Shou Liang (fl. 250s–280s), courtesy name Wenshu, was an official and scholar of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period of China. After the fall of Shu in 263, he continued serving under the Cao Wei state, then the succeeding Jin dynasty in 266.
## Life
Shou Liang was born in Chengdu, Shu Comma... |
# Treaty of Prüm
The Treaty of Prüm, concluded on 19 September 855, was the second of the main partition treaties of the Carolingian Empire. As Emperor Lothair I was approaching death, he divided his realm of Middle Francia among his three sons.
## Background
From 830, Lothair and his brothers Pepin I of Aquitaine (di... |
# École européenne d'ingénieurs en génie des matériaux
The École Européenne d'Ingénieurs en Génie des Matériaux (French pronunciation: [ekɔl øʁɔpeɛn dɛ̃ʒenjœʁ ɑ̃ ʒeni de mateʁjo], EEIGM) is a French engineering College created in 1991.
The EEIGM trains 90 materials engineers every year. All students study the main grou... |
# Treaty of York
The Treaty of York was an agreement between the kings Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland, signed at York on 25 September 1237, which affirmed that Northumberland (which at the time also encompassed County Durham), Cumberland, and Westmorland were subject to English sovereignty. This esta... |
# Sheet metal forming analysis
For sheet metal forming analysis within the metal forming process, a successful technique requires a non-contact optical 3D deformation measuring system. The system analyzes, calculates and documents deformations of sheet metal parts, for example. It provides the 3D coordinates of the c... |
# Political history of Zimbabwe
The modern political history of Zimbabwe starts with the arrival of white people to what was dubbed Southern Rhodesia in the 1890s. The country was initially run by an administrator appointed by the British South Africa Company. The prime ministerial role was first created in October 192... |
# Svislach Ghetto (Mogilev region)
The Ghetto in Svisloch was a ghetto for the forcefully relocated Jews of Svisloch in the Osipovichi district (Belarus), and nearby settlements. It was in operation during the Holocaust, from the summer of 1941 to autumn of 1942
## Creation and Occupation
By the summer of 1941, before... |
# Lyapunov–Schmidt reduction
In mathematics, the Lyapunov–Schmidt reduction or Lyapunov–Schmidt construction is used to study solutions to nonlinear equations in the case when the implicit function theorem does not work. It permits the reduction of infinite-dimensional equations in Banach spaces to finite-dimensional e... |
# Magic and religion
People who believe in magic can be found in all societies, regardless of whether they have organized religious hierarchies, including formal clergy, or more informal systems. Such concepts tend to appear more frequently in cultures based in polytheism, animism, or shamanism. Religion and magic beca... |
# White movement in Transbaikal
The White movement in Transbaikal was a period of the confrontation between the Soviets and the Whites over dominance in Transbaikal from December 1917 to November 1920.
## Initial stages
The first regular military formation of the Whites was the Special Manchurian Detachment (SMD) made... |
# The Massacre of Mankind
The Massacre of Mankind is a 2017 science fiction novel by the British writer Stephen Baxter, a sequel to H. G. Wells' 1898 classic The War of the Worlds, authorised by the Wells estate. It is set in 1921, 14 years after the Martian invasion in the original novel which was set circa 1907, as ... |
# Population-based incremental learning
In computer science and machine learning, population-based incremental learning (PBIL) is an optimization algorithm, and an estimation of distribution algorithm. This is a type of genetic algorithm where the genotype of an entire population (probability vector) is evolved rather ... |
# Major town houses of the architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
The major town houses of Victor Horta are four town houses in Brussels, Belgium, which have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. All four houses were designed and built by the Belgian architect Victor Horta (1861–1947), who pioneered the Ar... |
# Muus v. Muus
Muus v. Muus was an 1879 court case in Holden Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Divorce in Minnesota's nineteenth century Norwegian-Lutheran community was a rarity. Legal separation between a leading pastor and his wife was unheard of. But an 1879 court case in Holden Township led to both those outcom... |
# Tashkent City Park
Tashkent City Park (Uzbek: Tashkent City bog`i) is a city park in the center of Tashkent, the largest recreational park area in Uzbekistan. Located on the territory of the international business center Tashkent City.
The functional model of the park, within which scenarios for using the park territ... |
# Restoule v Canada
Restoule v Canada is a legal case in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that considers whether the Augmentation clause in the 1850 Robinson Treaties entitles the Anishinaabe to an increase in annuity payments.
Justice Patricia Hennessy presided over the case, which featured the Anishinaabe First ... |
# Torngat Mountains
The Torngat Mountains are a mountain range on the Labrador Peninsula at the northern tip of Newfoundland and Labrador and eastern Quebec. They are part of the Arctic Cordillera. The mountains form a peninsula that separates Ungava Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
## Etymology
The name Torngat is derive... |
# Rheinsberg Palace
Rheinsberg Palace (German: Schloss Rheinsberg) lies in the municipality of Rheinsberg, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of Berlin in the German district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin.
The palace on the eastern shore of the Grienericksee is a classic example of the so-called Frederician Rococo architec... |
# Shtokman field
The Shtokman field (also Stockman field; Russian: Штокмановское месторождение), one of the world's largest natural gas fields, lies in the northwestern part of the South Barents Basin in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea, 600 kilometres (370 mi) north of Kola Peninsula. Its reserves are estimated a... |
# Rahmatabad Mound
The Rahmatabad Mound or the Rahmatabad Tepe (5th millennium BC) is one of the most historically significant settlements on the Marvdasht plain, Persia (Iran) measuring 115 m (377 ft) in length, 75 m (246 ft) in width, and 4.5 m (15 ft) in height. The mound sits at the edge of the fertile Kamin plain ... |
# Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield, 490 U.S. 30 (1989), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Indian Child Welfare Act governed adoptions of Indian children. It ruled that a tribal court had jurisdiction over a state cou... |
# Saint Thomas Christian music
Saint Thomas Christian music refers to the musical traditions of the Saint Thomas Christian community of Kerala, India. It is chiefly liturgical and is derived from ancient Syriac Christian music from the Middle East, with remarkably little influence from local Indian styles. Of particul... |
# Nicotiana attenuata
Nicotiana attenuata is a species of wild tobacco known by the common name coyote tobacco. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Texas and northern Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitat. It is a glandular and sparsely hairy annual herb exceeding a meter in maximum... |
# No-justified-envy matching
In economics and social choice theory, a no-justified-envy matching is a matching in a two-sided market, in which no agent prefers the assignment of another agent and is simultaneously preferred by that assignment.
Consider, for example, the task of matching doctors for residency in hospit... |
# Sparty
Sparty is the mascot of Michigan State University. Sparty is usually depicted as a muscular male Spartan warrior/athlete dressed in stylized Greek costume. After changing the team name from "Aggies" to "Spartans" in 1925, various incarnations of a Spartan warrior with a prominent chin appeared at university ev... |
# Ten Tragic Days
The Ten Tragic Days (Spanish: La Decena Trágica) is the name given to the multi-day coup d'état during the Mexican Revolution in Mexico City. It was staged by opponents of Francisco I. Madero, the democratically elected president of Mexico, between 9–19 February 1913. The coup instigated a second pha... |
# Rio Nuñez incident
The Rio Nuñez incident or Rio Nuñez affair (French: Affaire du Rio Nuñez, prise de Debokké) was an international incident in 1849 on the Nunez River (Rio Nuñez) near Boké, in modern-day Guinea. The incident occurred as a result of a local power struggle in which vessels of a joint Belgian and Frenc... |
# Traffic Safety Service
The Traffic Safety Service (Māori: Te Manatū Waka) was a division of the Ministry of Transport of New Zealand. It was a uniformed law enforcement agency responsible for enforcing road transport law in New Zealand. It was separate from the New Zealand Police.
From the late 1920s until 1992, traf... |
# Sulak, Republic of Dagestan
Sulak (Russian: Сула́к; Nogai: Солак, Solak) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of Kirovsky City District of the City of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 8,565.
## History
Urban-ty... |
# Raid of Visayas
The raids of Visayas took place in 1599 and 1600. The allied Moro fleets of Maguindanao, Buayan and Sulu conducted two raids on the Spanish-held islands of Visayas.
## Background
After the unsuccessful Mindanao expedition in 1596, Juan Ronquillo was sent to Mindanao to lead the Spanish camp. He engag... |
# Manuscript culture
A manuscript culture is a culture that depends on hand-written manuscripts to store and disseminate information. It is a stage that most developed cultures went through in between oral culture and print culture. Europe entered the stage in classical antiquity. In early medieval manuscript culture... |
# Monte Alegre várzea
The Monte Alegre várzea (NT0141) is an ecoregion of seasonally flooded várzea forest along the Amazon River in the Amazon biome.
## Location
The várzea forests of this ecoregion extend along the low, seasonally flooded rivers of the central and lower basin of the Amazon River, including a large p... |
# Rashtrakuta literature
Rashtrakuta literature (Kannada: ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಕೂಟ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ Rāṣṭrakūṭa Sāhitya) is the body of work created during the rule of the Rastrakutas of Manyakheta, a dynasty that ruled the southern and central parts of the Deccan, India between the 8th and 10th centuries. The period of their rule was an imp... |
# St George Hanover Square
St George Hanover Square was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, England. The creation of the parish accompanied the building of the Church of St George's, Hanover Square, constructed by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches to meet the demands of the growing populatio... |
# Robotic sperm
Robotic sperm (also called spermbots) are biohybrid microrobots consisting of sperm cells and artificial microstructures. Currently there are two types of spermbots. The first type, the tubular spermbot, consists of a single sperm cell that is captured inside a microtube. Single bull sperm cells enter t... |
# Ravine Park
Ravine Park is a community park located in Lake Bluff, Illinois. Measuring roughly 14 acres (5.7 ha) in area, it is dominated by a ravine formed by an ephemeral stream that flows after heavy rainfall and consists of a series of muddy ponds otherwise. The park's main attraction is a small system of nature ... |
# Union of Upper Silesians
The Union of Upper Silesians (German: Bund der Oberschlesier; Polish: Związek Górnoślązaków; Silesian: Ferajn Gůrnoślůnzokůw) was an early 20th-century movement for the independence of Upper Silesia.
The movement had its genesis during the revolutions of 1848. Allied with the Silesian People'... |
# Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed), located in San Antonio, Texas, is an independent, non-profit biomedical research institution, specializing in genetics and in virology and immunology. Texas Biomed is funded by government and corporate grants and contracts, and do... |
# University of Paris Faculty of Medicine
The Faculty of Medicine of Paris has been a part of the University of Paris since 1794, having its origins in the ancient Faculty of Medicine of Paris founded around 1200. When it was refounded in 1808, it moved into the buildings of the former Royal Academy of Surgery at 12 ru... |
# Reconciliation theology in Northern Ireland
Reconciliation theology in Northern Ireland is a contextual process and a divine goal which involves working to create freedom and peace in Northern Ireland. As with reconciliation theology more widely, reconciliation theology in Northern Ireland emphasises the concepts of ... |
# Matrix mechanics
Matrix mechanics is a formulation of quantum mechanics created by Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan in 1925. It was the first conceptually autonomous and logically consistent formulation of quantum mechanics. Its account of quantum jumps supplanted the Bohr model's electron orbits. It d... |
# Matrix grammar
A matrix grammar is a formal grammar in which instead of single productions, productions are grouped together into finite sequences. A production cannot be applied separately, it must be applied in sequence. In the application of such a sequence of productions, the rewriting is done in accordance to ea... |
# United States presidential visits to Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
Ten United States presidents have made presidential visits to Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The first trip by an incumbent president to Eastern Europe was made by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, to the Soviet Union, and was an offshoot of Allie... |
# Sociology in Japan
Sociology is the methodological and scientific study of human society. It studies the social interactions between a person and society as well as the social patterns between societies, groups, nations, institutions, etc. Sociologists research the relationships between social structures and human li... |
# Upward planar drawing
In graph drawing, an upward planar drawing of a directed acyclic graph is an embedding of the graph into the Euclidean plane, in which the edges are represented as non-crossing monotonic upwards curves. That is, the curve representing each edge should have the property that every horizontal line... |
# Windows 10, version 1909
Windows 10 November 2019 Update (also known as version 1909 and codenamed "19H2") is the eighth major update to Windows 10 as the cumulative update to the May 2019 Update. It carries the build number 10.0.18363.
## Version history
The first preview was released to Insiders who opted in to th... |
# The Tale of Từ Thức Marrying a Goddess
The Tale of Từ Thức Marrying a Goddess (chữ Hán: 徐式仙婚錄, Từ Thức tiên hôn lục) or Từ Thức Meeting Gods (Vietnamese: Từ Thức gặp tiên) is a Vietnamese legend told in Truyền kỳ mạn lục by Nguyễn Dữ in the 16th century and based on the Folktale of Từ Thức Cave (Vietnamese: sự tích đ... |
# Packers sweep
The Packers sweep, also known as the Lombardi sweep, is an American football play popularized by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi. The Packers sweep is based on the sweep, a football play that involves a back taking a handoff and running parallel to the line of scrimmage before turning upfield beh... |
# Minister of Health and Care Services
The Minister of Health and Care Services (Norwegian: Helse- og omsorgsministeren) is a councilor of state and chief of the Norway's
Ministry of Health and Care Services. Since 19 April 2024 the position has been held by Jan Christian Vestre of the Labour Party. The ministry is res... |
# Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Canadian Ass'n of Internet Providers
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Canadian Ass'n of Internet Providers 2 S.C.R. 427, 2004 SCC 45 - also known as the Tariff 22 case - is a leading decision by the Supreme Court of Canada ... |
# L'Union St Jacques de Montreal v Bélisle
L'Union St. Jacques de Montreal v Bélisle is a Canadian constitutional law decision by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1874. The issue was whether a provincial statute which altered the contractual liabilities of a benevolent organization, reducing its financia... |
# Lift hill
A lift hill, or chain hill, is an upward-sloping section of track on a roller coaster on which the roller coaster train is mechanically lifted to an elevated point or peak in the track. Upon reaching the peak, the train is then propelled from the peak by gravity and is usually allowed to coast throughout th... |
# Model factory and dwelling, The Rocks
The Model Factory and Dwelling is a heritage-listed former factory, store and dwelling and now offices located at 120 Gloucester Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of The Rocks in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Georg... |
# Three-mine policy
The three-mine policy, introduced in 1984 and abandoned in 1996, was a policy of the government of Australia to limit the number of uranium mines in the country to three.
## History
The foundations of the three-mine policy for uranium mining were laid in 1982, when, at a conference of the Australia... |
# Li Lao drum
The Li-Lao bronze drums or Heger type II drums are a type of ancient bronze drums found in Southern China and Northern Vietnam invented and used by Tai-Kadai-speaking (or specifically Tai-speaking) ethnic groups who were known to Chinese as Lǐ (俚) or Lǎo (獠) and who historically inhabited the area between... |
# The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France is a 1996 book by literary scholar Robert Darnton. Darnton maps the "forbidden sector" of eighteenth-century French literature, using archival records that showed the popularity of forbidden books including p... |
# Micro Focus
Micro Focus International plc was a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provided software and consultancy. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange until it was acquired by the Canadian... |
# Middletown studies
The Middletown studies were sociological case studies of the white residents of the city of Muncie in Indiana initially conducted by Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, husband-and-wife sociologists. The Lynds' findings were detailed in Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, publ... |
# Wellington House
Wellington House is the more common name for Britain's War Propaganda Bureau, which operated during the First World War from Wellington House, a building on Buckingham Gate, London, which was the headquarters of the National Insurance Commission before the War. The Bureau, which operated under the su... |
# Netherlands Fractal Pattern
The Netherlands Fractal Pattern (NFP) was developed as a collaboration project between the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and the Dutch Ministry of Defence in order to replace all the camouflage patterns in use by the Dutch military.
## History
In 2008, res... |
# Southwest National Primate Research Center
The Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) is a federally funded biomedical research facility affiliated with the Texas Biomedical Research Institute. The SNPRC became the seventh National Primate Research Center in 1999.
## Research
The SNPRC has two scientific... |
# Mouchel
Mouchel Group, originally known as L. G. Mouchel & Partners Ltd, was an infrastructure and business services company headquartered in Woking, United Kingdom. It provided advisory, design, project delivery and managed services associated with infrastructure and business services across the highways and transpo... |
# Treaty of Poti
The Treaty of Poti was a bilateral agreement between the German Empire and the Democratic Republic of Georgia in which the latter accepted German protection and recognition. The agreement was signed, on 28 May 1918, by General Otto von Lossow for Germany and by Foreign Minister Akaki Chkhenkeli for Geo... |
# Kingdom of the Morea
The Kingdom of the Morea or Realm of the Morea (Italian: Regno di Morea; Venetian: Regno de Morea; Greek: Βασίλειον του Μορέως, romanized: Vasíleion tou Moréos) was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece (which was more widely known as the Mo... |
# Sovietization of Cuba
The Sovietization of Cuba is a historiographical model proposed by scholars like political scientist Piero Gleijeses, and economist Carmelo Mesa-Lago. The sovietization thesis defines Cuba's political developments, and military actions, in the 1970s, completely in relation to the Soviet Union. T... |
# Nonlinear resonance
In physics, nonlinear resonance is the occurrence of resonance in a nonlinear system. In nonlinear resonance the system behaviour – resonance frequencies and modes – depends on the amplitude of the oscillations, while for linear systems this is independent of amplitude. The mixing of modes in non-... |
# Learning alliance
A learning alliance is a diverse network of individuals committed to improving knowledge on a specific research topic. Learning alliances are often made up of small networks of public, private and/or civil society actors seeking to further social or political change.
## Learning alliance structure
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# La Maison Francaise (Rockefeller Center)
La Maison Francaise (French: La Maison Française, literally French House), also known by its address 610 Fifth Avenue, is a commercial building at Rockefeller Center in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Completed in 1933, the six-story structure was designed... |
# Parenting law in Australia
Parenting law in Australia encompasses a number of areas of law including:
- Parenting arrangements under the Family Law Act - previously referred to as "child custody" laws;
- Child Protection laws, where State Governments have powers to protect children;
- Parentage (who is the legal par... |
# Mory's
Mory's, known also as Mory's Temple Bar, is a private club adjacent to the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, founded in 1849 and housed in a clubhouse that was originally a private home built sometime before 1817. Originally it was a restaurant, especially hospitable to Yale u... |
# Mindar
Mindar (Japanese: マインダー), also known as Android Kannon Mindar, is an android preacher at the Kōdai-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan. The humanoid robot regularly gives sermons on the Heart Sutra at the 400-year-old Zen Buddhist temple. It was created to represent and embody Kannon, a bodhisattva associated with compa... |
# MKF-6 (multispectral camera)
The MKF-6 is a multispectral camera that was designed and made in East Germany for the purpose of remote sensing of the Earth's surface. The device was built by the Kombinat Carl-Zeiss-Jena in cooperation with the Institute for Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, where opti... |
# Speed to fly
Speed to fly is a principle used by soaring pilots when flying between sources of lift, usually thermals, ridge lift and wave. The aim is to maximize the average cross-country speed by optimizing the airspeed in both rising and sinking air. The optimal airspeed is independent of the wind speed, because... |
# Women Against Gun Violence
Women Against Gun Violence (WAGV) was an American non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, California, whose stated goals were “advancing legislation, promoting public awareness, and designing educational programs to help prevent gun violence and to keep all our communities safe.” The... |
# Mill City Museum
Mill City Museum is located in the ruins of the Washburn "A" Mill next to Mill Ruins Park on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. The museum, an entity of the Minnesota Historical Society that opened in 2003, focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling an... |
# Turks and Caicos National Museum
The Turks and Caicos National Museum is the national museum of the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is located in Guinep House on Front Street to the north of Cockburn Town on Grand Turk Island, which is also the capital of the archipelago. Established in the 1980s and opened in 1991, the... |
# The Mother of All Demos
"The Mother of All Demos" was a landmark computer demonstration, named retroactively, of developments by Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center. It was presented at the Association for Computing Machinery / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ACM/IEEE)—Comput... |
# Wu–Sprung potential
In mathematical physics, the Wu–Sprung potential, named after Hua Wu and Donald Sprung, is a potential function in one dimension inside a Hamiltonian {\displaystyle H=p^{2}+f(x)} with the potential defined by solving a non-linear integral equation defined by the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization condit... |
# Transition metal amino acid complexes
Transition metal amino acid complexes are a large family of coordination complexes containing the conjugate bases of the amino acids, the 2-aminocarboxylates. Amino acids are prevalent in nature, and all of them function as ligands toward the transition metals. Not included in... |
# Longlure frogfish
The longlure frogfish (Antennarius multiocellatus), also known as the flagpole frogfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. This species is found in the western Atlantic. The longlure frogfish mimics its background habitat of sponges.
## Ta... |
# Museum Five Continents
The Museum Five Continents or Five Continents Museum (German: Museum Fünf Kontinente), located in Munich, Germany, is a museum for non-European artworks and objects of cultural value. Its name until 9 September 2014 was Bavarian State Museum of Ethnology (German: Staatliches Museum für Völkerku... |
# Murphy v. IRS
Marrita Murphy and Daniel J. Leveille, Appellants v. Internal Revenue Service and United States of America, Appellees (commonly known as Murphy v. IRS), is a tax case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit originally held that the taxation of emotional distress ... |
# Museum of the Peaceful Arts
The Museum of the Peaceful Arts was a museum in Manhattan, New York City. Established at 24 West 40th St. around 1920, it was later relocated to the Daily News Building at 220 E. 42nd St. It was later closed, and superseded by the New York Museum of Science and Industry.
## History
The pr... |
# Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen
Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis was situated from its opening 1991 till the end of 2015 in a canal-side mansion, the Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This patrician mansion, close to the Rembrandtplein, was built for Albert Geelvinck (1647-1693) and Sara Hinlopen (1660-1... |
# Museum Gherdëina
The Gherdëina Local Heritage Museum was opened in the Cësa di Ladins in Urtijëi, in northernmost Italy, in 1960. The building is the seat of the Union di Ladins de Gherdëina a cultural organisation for the keeping of the Ladin language and heritage in Val Gherdëina. In addition to the museum, the b... |
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