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3035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Native%20Claims%20Settlement%20Act | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act | The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971, constituting at the time the largest land claims settlement in United States history. ANCSA was intended to resolve long-standing issues surrounding aboriginal land claims in Alaska, as well as to stimul... |
3036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptionism | Adoptionism | Adoptionism, also called dynamic monarchianism, is an early Christian nontrinitarian theological doctrine, which holds that Jesus was adopted as the Son of God at his baptism, his resurrection, or his ascension.
Definition
Adoptionism is one of two main forms of monarchianism (the other is modalism which considers God... |
3037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollinarism | Apollinarism | Apollinarism or Apollinarianism is a Christological heresy proposed by Apollinaris of Laodicea (died 390) that argues that Jesus had a human body and sensitive human soul, but a divine mind and not a human rational mind, the Divine Logos taking the place of the latter. It was deemed heretical in 381 and virtually died ... |
3038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid%E2%80%93base%20reaction | Acid–base reaction | An acid–base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. It can be used to determine pH. Several theoretical frameworks provide alternative conceptions of the reaction mechanisms and their application in solving related problems; these are called the acid–base theories, for example, Brønsted... |
3040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20al-Faraj%20al-Isfahani | Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani | Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī (), also known as Abul-Faraj, (full form: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaytham al-Umawī al-Iṣfahānī) (284–356AH / 897-967CE) was a litterateur, genealogist, poet, musicologist, scribe, and boon companion in the tenth century. He was of Arab-Quraysh origin a... |
3043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoba%C3%A7a%2C%20Portugal | Alcobaça, Portugal | Alcobaça () is a city and a municipality in the Leiria District, of Central Portugal. The city grew along the valleys of the rivers Alcoa and Baça, from which it derives its name. The municipality population in 2011 was 56,693, in an area of . The city proper has a population of 15,800 inhabitants.
The city of Alcobaç... |
3044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphisbaena | Amphisbaena | The amphisbaena (, , or , plural: amphisbaenae; ) is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end. The creature is alternatively called the amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amfivena, amphivena, or anphivena (the last two being feminine), and is also known as the "Mother of Ants"... |
3045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyl%20alcohol | Amyl alcohol | An amyl alcohol is any of eight alcohols with the formula C5H12O. A mixture of amyl alcohols (also called amyl alcohol) can be obtained from fusel alcohol. Amyl alcohol is used as a solvent and in esterification, by which is produced amyl acetate and other important products. The name amyl alcohol without further speci... |
3046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyl%20nitrite | Amyl nitrite | Amyl nitrite is a chemical compound with the formula C5H11ONO. A variety of isomers are known, but they all feature an amyl group attached to the nitrite functional group. The alkyl group is unreactive and the chemical and biological properties are mainly due to the nitrite group. Like other alkyl nitrites, amyl nitrit... |
3049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn | Autumn | Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the tem... |
3052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alameda%2C%20California | Alameda, California | Alameda ( ; ; Spanish for "tree-lined path") is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It spans Alameda Island, Bay Farm Island, and a few minor islands. It is adjacent to and south of Oakland and east of San Francisco across the San Francisco Bay. Bay Farm Island, a portion of which is also known as "Har... |
4475837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints%20Vitalis%20and%20Agricola | Saints Vitalis and Agricola | Saints Vitalis and Agricola () are venerated as martyrs, who are considered to have died at Bologna about 304, during the persecution ordered by Roman Emperor Diocletian.
Legend
Agricola was a Christian citizen of Bologna who converted his slave, Vitalis, to Christianity; they became deeply attached to each other. Vit... |
3054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20helix | Alpha helix | The alpha helix (α-helix) is a common motif in the secondary structure of proteins and is a right hand-helix conformation in which every backbone N−H group hydrogen bonds to the backbone C=O group of the amino acid located four residues earlier along the protein sequence.
The alpha helix is also called a classic Pauli... |
3055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accrington | Accrington | Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, east of Preston, north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to "Accy", the town has a population of 35,456 according to the 2011 census.
A... |
3058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon | Armageddon | According to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, Armageddon (, from Harmagedōn, Late Latin: , from Hebrew: Har Məgīddō) is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end times, which is variously interpreted as either a literal or a symbolic location. The ... |
3060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon | Athlon | Athlon is the brand name applied to a series of x86-compatible microprocessors designed and manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The original Athlon (now called Athlon Classic) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and was the first desktop processor to reach speeds of one gigahertz (GHz). It made its... |
3065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnon | Amnon | Amnon ( ’Amnōn, "faithful") was, in the Hebrew Bible, the oldest son of King David and his second wife, Ahinoam of Jezreel. He was born in Hebron during his father's reign in Judah. He was the heir apparent to the throne of Israel until he was assassinated by his half-brother Absalom to avenge the rape of Absalom's sis... |
3067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amu%20Darya | Amu Darya | The Amu Darya (also called the Amu, Amo River, or Jayhūn, and historically known by its Latin name or Greek ) is a major river in Central Asia and Afghanistan. Rising in the Pamir Mountains, north of the Hindu Kush, the Amu Darya is formed by the confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature ... |
3068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim%20conquests%20of%20Afghanistan | Muslim conquests of Afghanistan | The Muslim conquests of Afghanistan began during the Muslim conquest of Persia as the Arab Muslims migrated eastwards to Khorasan, Sistan and Transoxiana. Fifteen years after the Battle of Nahāvand in 642 AD, they controlled all Sasanian domains except in Afghanistan. Fuller Islamization was not achieved until the peri... |
3070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrani%20Empire | Durrani Empire | The Durrani Empire (; ), also called the Sadozai Kingdom(; ) and the Afghan Empire, (; ) was an Afghan empire founded and built by Ahmad Shah Abdali in parts of Central Asia, the Middle East and South Asia. At its maximum extent, the empire ruled over the modern-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as par... |
3071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimaq%20people | Aimaq people | The Aimaq () or Chahar Aimaq (), also transliterated as Aimagh, Aimak and Aymaq, are a collection of Sunni and mostly Persian-speaking nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. They live mostly in the central and western highlands of Afghanistan, especially in Ghor, Badghis. Aimaqs were originally known as chahar ("four") Aymaq... |
3072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus | Arcturus | |- bgcolor="#FFFAFA"
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Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Boötes, the fourth-brightest in the night sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is designated α Boötis, which is Latinized to Alpha Boötis. Together w... |
3074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androphagi | Androphagi | Androphagi (, cannibals, literally "man-eaters"), according to Herodotus, lived some distance north of Scythia in an area later hypothesised to be the forests between the upper waters of the Dnepr and Don. Also according to Herodotus, when King Darius the Great led a Persian invasion into Scythian territory in what is ... |
3075 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Brooks | Albert Brooks | Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein; July 22, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's Broadcast News and was widely praised for his performance as a ruthless Jewish mobster in the 2011 neo-noir film Drive. Brooks has als... |
3076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares | Antares | Antares (pronounced ), designated α Scorpii (Latinised to Alpha Scorpii), is on average the fifteenth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest object in the constellation of Scorpius. Distinctly reddish when viewed with the naked eye, Antares is a slow irregular variable star that ranges in brightness from a... |
3077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldebaran | Aldebaran | Aldebaran , designated α Tauri (Latinized to Alpha Tauri), is a giant star measured to be about 65 light-years from the Sun in the zodiac constellation Taurus. It is the brightest star in Taurus and generally the fourteenth-brightest star in the night sky, though it varies slowly in brightness between magnitude 0.75 an... |
3078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair | Altair | Altair () designated α Aquilae (Latinised to Alpha Aquilae, abbreviated Alpha Aql, α Aql), is the brightest star in the constellation of Aquila and the twelfth-brightest star in the night sky. It is currently in the G-cloud—a nearby interstellar cloud, an accumulation of gas and dust. Altair is an A-type main-sequence ... |
3079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's national broadcaster. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshri... |
3080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria | Alexandria | Alexandria ( or ; ; ; ; Alexándria) is the third-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and Giza, the ninth-largest city in Africa, and a major economic centre. Called the "Bride of the Mediterranean" by locals, Alexandria is the largest city on the Mediterranean, the fourth-largest city in the Arab world, and the ninth-... |
3082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria%2C%20Indiana | Alexandria, Indiana | Alexandria is a city in Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is about northeast of Indianapolis. According to the 2010 census, its population was 5,145, a decrease of 17.8% from 6,260 in 2000.
History
Alexandria was platted in 1836, when it was certain that the Indiana Central Canal would be ex... |
3083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria%2C%20Louisiana | Alexandria, Louisiana | Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area (population 153,922) which encomp... |
3085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria%20Troas | Alexandria Troas | Alexandria Troas ("Alexandria of the Troad"; ; ) is the site of an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, the area known historically as Troad. a little south of Tenedos (modern Bozcaada). It is located southeast of modern Dalyan, a village in the Ezine district o... |
3087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria%2C%20West%20Dunbartonshire | Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire | Alexandria (, ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The town is on the River Leven, north of Dumbarton and north-west of Glasgow.
Demographics
In 2016, the estimated population of the town was 6,860. It is one of five towns in the Vale of Leven, the others being Balloch, Bonhill, Jamestown and Renton; their ... |
3088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria%2C%20Romania | Alexandria, Romania | Alexandria () is the capital city of the Teleorman County, Muntenia, Romania. It is located south-west of Bucharest, towards the Bulgarian border, and has over 45,000 inhabitants. The 44th parallel north passes just north of the city.
Geography
Alexandria is situated in the middle of the Wallachian Plain, on the banks... |
3089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Vincent | Angela Vincent | Angela Vincent (born 1942) is Emeritus professor at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.
Career and research
Angela Vincent (nee Molony) was born in 1942, the third child of Joseph and Carmen Molony. After school at St Mary's Convent, Ascot, she studied medicine at King's College Londo... |
3090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%E2%80%93geometric%20mean | Arithmetic–geometric mean | In mathematics, the arithmetic–geometric mean of two positive real numbers and is defined as follows:
Call and and :
Then define the two interdependent sequences and as
These two sequences converge to the same number, the arithmetic–geometric mean of and ; it is denoted by , or sometimes by or .
The arithm... |
3092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira%20Toriyama | Akira Toriyama | is a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga series Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball (his best-known work) and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Chrono Trigger, an... |
3093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon%20Ursae%20Majoris | Epsilon Ursae Majoris | Epsilon Ursae Majoris (Latinised from ε Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Epsilon UMa, ε UMa), officially named Alioth , is, despite being designated "ε" (epsilon), the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Major, and at magnitude 1.77 is the thirty-third brightest star in the sky.
It is the star in the tail of the bea... |
3095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20500 | Amiga 500 | The Amiga 500, also known as the A500, is the first low-end version of the Amiga home computer. It contains the same Motorola 68000 as the Amiga 1000, as well as the same graphics and sound coprocessors, but is in a smaller case similar to that of the Commodore 128.
Commodore announced the Amiga 500 at the January 198... |
3100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga | Aga | Aga or AGA may refer to:
Business
AGA (Architectural Glass and Aluminum), a Glazing Contractor, established in 1970
AGA (automobile), Autogen Gasaccumulator AG, 1920s German car company
AGA AB, Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumulator, a Swedish company, the originator of the AGA Cooker
Aga Rangemaster Group
AGA cooker, a ... |
3104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%201000 | Amiga 1000 | The Commodore Amiga 1000, also known as the A1000 and originally marketed as the Amiga, is the first personal computer released by Commodore International in the Amiga line. It combines the 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU which was powerful by 1985 standards with one of the most advanced graphics and sound systems in its ... |
3107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote | Asymptote | In analytic geometry, an asymptote () of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero as one or both of the x or y coordinates tends to infinity. In projective geometry and related contexts, an asymptote of a curve is a line which is tangent to the curve at a point at infinity... |
3110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20S.%20Tanenbaum | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle ast, is an American-Dutch computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purp... |
3111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane%205 | Ariane 5 | Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift space launch vehicle developed and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA). It is launched from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) in French Guiana. It has been used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) or low Earth orbit (LEO). The launch vehi... |
3112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianespace | Arianespace | Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the operation and marketing of the Ariane programme. The company offers a number of different launch vehicles: the heavy-lift Ariane 5 for dual launches to geostationary transfer orbit, the Soyuz-2 ... |
3116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulator%20%28computing%29 | Accumulator (computing) | In a computer's central processing unit (CPU), the accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic logic unit results are stored.
Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation (addition, multiplication, shift, etc.) to main memory, perhaps only to be ... |
3117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Zubaydah | Abu Zubaydah | Abu Zubaydah ( ; , Abū Zubaydah; born March 12, 1971, as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn) is a Saudi Arabian currently held by the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He is held under the authority of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF).
Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in ... |
3118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic | Arithmetic | Arithmetic (from the Greek ἀριθμός arithmos, 'number' and τική [τέχνη], tiké [téchne], 'art' or 'craft') is a branch of mathematics that consists of the study of numbers, especially concerning the properties of the traditional operations on them—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extra... |
3120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville%2C%20Georgia | Andersonville, Georgia | Andersonville is a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 237. It is located in the southwest part of the state, approximately southwest of Macon on the Central of Georgia railroad. During the American Civil War, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp, whi... |
3121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville | Andersonville | Andersonville may refer to:
Places
United States
Andersonville, Georgia, United States, site of American Civil War prisoner of war camp
Andersonville National Historic Site, Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia holding Union soldiers
Andersonville, Chicago, a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois
Andersonville ... |
3122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agra%20Canal | Agra Canal | The Agra Canal is an important Indian irrigation work which starts from Okhla in Delhi. The Agra canal originates from Okhla barrage, downstream of Nizamuddin bridge.
The Canal receives its water from the Yamuna River at Okhla, about 10 km to the south of New Delhi. The weir across the Yamuna was constructed of local... |
3123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amakusa | Amakusa | , which means "Heaven's Grass," is a series of islands off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.
Geography
The largest island of the Amakusa group is Shimoshima, which is 26.5 miles long and 13.5 miles at its widest (). It is situated at 32°20'N, 130°E, separated from the rest ... |
3124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterglow | Afterglow | An afterglow is a broad arch of whitish or pinkish sunlight in the sky that is scattered by fine particulates, like dust, suspended in the atmosphere. An afterglow may appear above the highest clouds in the hour of fading twilight or be reflected off high snowfields in mountain regions long after sunset. The particles ... |
3125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonius%20Grammaticus | Ammonius Grammaticus | Ammonius Grammaticus (; ) was a 4th-century Egyptian priest who, after the destruction of the pagan temple at Alexandria (389), fled to Constantinople, where he became the tutor of the ecclesiastical historian Socrates.
Life
Ammonius was formerly identified as the author of a treatise titled Peri homoíōn kai diaphórō... |
3129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20closure | Algebraic closure | In mathematics, particularly abstract algebra, an algebraic closure of a field K is an algebraic extension of K that is algebraically closed. It is one of many closures in mathematics.
Using Zorn's lemma or the weaker ultrafilter lemma, it can be shown that every field has an algebraic closure, and that the algebrai... |
3130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Power%20Management | Advanced Power Management | Advanced power management (APM) is an API developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.
Revision 1.2 was the last version of the APM specification, ... |
3132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe%20Sax | Adolphe Sax | Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba. He played the flute and clarinet.
Early life
Antoine-Joseph Sax was born on 6 November 1814, ... |
3134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirated%20consonant | Aspirated consonant | In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South... |
3135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arteriovenous%20malformation | Arteriovenous malformation | Arteriovenous malformation is an abnormal connection between arteries and veins, bypassing the capillary system. This vascular anomaly is widely known because of its occurrence in the central nervous system (usually cerebral AVM), but can appear in any location. Although many AVMs are asymptomatic, they can cause inten... |
3138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta | Atlanta | Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. With a 2020 census population of 498,715, it is the eighth-most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States. It serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to more th... |
3143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiology | Axiology | Axiology (from Greek , axia: "value, worth"; and , -logia: "study of") is the philosophical study of value. It includes questions about the nature and classification of values and about what kinds of things have value. It is intimately connected with various other philosophical fields that crucially depend on the noti... |
3144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Doll%27s%20House | A Doll's House | A Doll's House (Danish and ; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879.
The play is significan... |
3146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-7%20Sparrow | AIM-7 Sparrow | The AIM-7 Sparrow (Air Intercept Missile) is an American, medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy, and United States Marine Corps, as well as other various air forces and navies. Sparrow and its derivatives were the West's principal beyond vis... |
3147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120%20AMRAAM | AIM-120 AMRAAM | The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM (pronounced ), is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with a diameter, and employing active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidanc... |
3149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88%20HARM | AGM-88 HARM | The AGM-88 HARM (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) is a tactical, air-to-surface anti-radiation missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems. It was originally developed by Texas Instruments as a replacement for the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM system. Produ... |
3151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-65%20Maverick | AGM-65 Maverick | The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-ground missile (AGM) designed for close air support. It is the most widely produced precision-guided missile in the Western world, and is effective against a wide range of tactical targets, including armor, air defenses, ships, ground transportation and fuel storage facilities.
Develop... |
3152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-54%20Phoenix | AIM-54 Phoenix | The AIM-54 Phoenix is an American radar-guided, hypersonic, long-range air-to-air missile (AAM), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, its only operational launch platform.
The Phoenix was the United States' only long-range air-to-air missile. The combination of Phoenix missile and the... |
3155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20AC-130 | Lockheed AC-130 | The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily armed, long-endurance, ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft. It carries a wide array of ground-attack weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and fire-control systems. Unlike other modern military fixed-wing aircr... |
3158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative | Alternative | Alternative or alternate may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Alternative (Kamen Rider), a character in the Japanese TV series Kamen Rider Ryuki
The Alternative (film), a 1978 Australian television film
The Alternative, a radio show hosted by Tony Evans
120 Minutes (2004 TV program), an alternative rock mus... |
3160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20algebra | Alternative algebra | In abstract algebra, an alternative algebra is an algebra in which multiplication need not be associative, only alternative. That is, one must have
for all x and y in the algebra.
Every associative algebra is obviously alternative, but so too are some strictly non-associative algebras such as the octonions.
The asso... |
3162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage | Arbitrage | In economics and finance, arbitrage (, ) is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets; striking a combination of matching deals to capitalize on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded. When used by academics, an arbi... |
3165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACF%20Fiorentina | ACF Fiorentina | ACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as Fiorentina (), is an Italian professional football club based in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original team was founded by a merger in August 1926, while the actual club was refounded in August 2002 following bankruptcy. Fiorentina have played at the top level of Italian footbal... |
3168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrobeat | Afrobeat | Afrobeat is a music genre that involves the combination of elements of West African musical styles such as fuji music and highlife with American jazz and later soul and funk influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion. The term was coined in the 1960s by Nigerian multi-instr... |
3170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20function | Arithmetic function | In number theory, an arithmetic, arithmetical, or number-theoretic function is for most authors any function f(n) whose domain is the positive integers and whose range is a subset of the complex numbers. Hardy & Wright include in their definition the requirement that an arithmetical function "expresses some arithmetica... |
3172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI%20C | ANSI C | ANSI C, ISO C, and Standard C are successive standards for the C programming language published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Historically, the names referred specifically to the original and best-supported version of the standard (kno... |
3173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20and%20Sedition%20Acts | Alien and Sedition Acts | In 1798, President John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress. They made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen (Naturalization Act), allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were known as dangerous ("An Act Concer... |
3175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomy | Antinomy | Antinomy (Greek ἀντί, antí, "against, in opposition to", and νόμος, nómos, "law") refers to a real or apparent mutual incompatibility of two laws. It is a term used in logic and epistemology, particularly in the philosophy of Kant.
There are many examples of antinomy. A self-contradictory phrase such as "There is no a... |
3189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending%20chain%20condition | Ascending chain condition | In mathematics, the ascending chain condition (ACC) and descending chain condition (DCC) are finiteness properties satisfied by some algebraic structures, most importantly ideals in certain commutative rings. These conditions played an important role in the development of the structure theory of commutative rings in th... |
3192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adin%20Steinsaltz | Adin Steinsaltz | Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (11 July 19377 August 2020) () was an Israeli Chabad Chasidic rabbi, teacher, philosopher, social critic, author, translator and publisher.
His Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud was originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, and has also be... |
3198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20E.%20Housman | A. E. Housman | Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad, wistfully evokes the constraints and limited choices of youth in the English countryside. The simplicity and distinctive imagery of the writing appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, a... |
3201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution%20of%20recent%20climate%20change | Attribution of recent climate change | Attribution of recent climate change is the effort to scientifically ascertain mechanisms responsible for recent global warming and related climate changes on Earth. The effort has focused on changes observed during the period of instrumental temperature record, particularly in the last 50 years. This is the period whe... |
3203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achduart | Achduart | Achduart (Gaelic: Achadh Dhubhaird) is a small hamlet in Coigach, in Wester Ross in northwestern Scotland, now within the Highland council area. It is situated about 4 km southeast of the village of Achiltibuie, at the end of a minor road. A footpath continues on to the hamlet of Culnacraig, then along the coast past B... |
3204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achiltibuie | Achiltibuie | Achiltibuie (; or Field of the yellow-haired boy) is a long linear village in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, on the Coigach coast of northwestern Scotland, overlooking Badentarbet Bay to the west. Loch Broom and the Summer Isles lie to the south. Located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Ullapool as the crow flies. Achilt... |
3205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20expectations | Adaptive expectations | In economics, adaptive expectations is a hypothesized process by which people form their expectations about what will happen in the future based on what has happened in the past. For example, if people want to create an expectation of the inflation rate in the future, they can refer to past inflation rates to infer so... |
3209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20tetra | Mexican tetra | The Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus), also known as the blind cave fish, blind cave characin, and blind cave tetra, is a freshwater fish of the family Characidae of the order Characiformes. The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic realm, originating in the lower Rio Grande and the Neueces and Pecos... |
3211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom%20probe | Atom probe | The atom probe was introduced at the 14th Field Emission Symposium in 1967 by Erwin Wilhelm Müller and J. A. Panitz. It combined a field ion microscope with a mass spectrometer having a single particle detection capability and, for the first time, an instrument could “... determine the nature of one single atom seen on... |
3212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Capone | Al Capone | Alphonse Gabriel Capone (; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he went to prison at t... |
3214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplifier%20figures%20of%20merit | Amplifier figures of merit | In electronics, the figures of merit of an amplifier are numerical measures that characterize its properties and performance. Figures of merit can be given as a list of specifications that include properties such as gain, bandwidth, noise and linearity, among others listed in this article. Figures of merit are importan... |
3217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20of%20Darkness | Army of Darkness | Army of Darkness is a 1992 American horror comedy film directed, co-written and co-edited by Sam Raimi, co-produced by Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell and co-written by Ivan Raimi. Starring Campbell and Embeth Davidtz, it is the third installment in the Evil Dead franchise, and a sequel to Evil Dead II, and follows As... |
3218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUR-5%20ASROC | RUR-5 ASROC | The RUR-5 ASROC (for "Anti-Submarine Rocket") is an all-weather, all sea-conditions anti-submarine missile system. Developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s, it was deployed in the 1960s, updated in the 1990s, and eventually installed on over 200 USN surface ships, specifically cruisers, destroyers, and frigates... |
3221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20al-Nami | Ahmed al-Nami | Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Nami (Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الله النعمي, ; also transliterated as Alnami; August 17, 1977 – September 11, 2001) was one of four terrorist hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.
Born in Saudi Arabia, al-Nami had served as a muezzin and was a college student. He l... |
3222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20al-Haznawi | Ahmed al-Haznawi | Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi al-Ghamdi (, ) (October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001) was one of four terrorist hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.
He left his family to fight in Chechnya in 2000 but was probably sent to training camps in Afghanistan. It was there he was chosen to par... |
3225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius%20of%20Alexandria | Athanasius of Alexandria | Athanasius I of Alexandria (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor or, primarily in the Coptic Orthodox Church, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Greek church father and the 20th bishop of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years (c. 8 June 32... |
3226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores | Azores | The Azores ( , ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira). It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about west of Lisbon, about northwest of Morocco, and about sou... |
3229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outback | Outback | The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush, which includes any location outside the main urban areas.
While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic... |
3231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20Infinite | Absolute Infinite | The Absolute Infinite (symbol: Ω) is an extension of the idea of infinity proposed by mathematician Georg Cantor.
It can be thought of as a number that is bigger than conceivable or inconceivable quantity, either finite or transfinite.
Cantor linked the Absolute Infinite with God, and believed that it had various ma... |
3233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance%20testing | Acceptance testing | In engineering and its various subdisciplines, acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met. It may involve chemical tests, physical tests, or performance tests.
In systems engineering, it may involve black-box testing performed on a system (for example... |
3234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishopric%20of%20Riga | Archbishopric of Riga | The Archbishopric of Riga (, ) was an archbishopric in Medieval Livonia, a subject to the Holy See. It was established in 1186 as the bishopric of Livonia at Ikšķile, then after moving to Riga it became the bishopric of Riga in 1202 and was elevated to an archbishopric in 1255.
Archbishops of Riga
The archbishops of... |
3235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Frederick%2C%20Duke%20of%20Prussia | Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia | Albert Frederick (; ; 7 May 1553 – 27 August 1618) was the Duke of Prussia, from 1568 until his death. He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family.
Duke of Prussia
Albert became Duke of Prussia after ... |
3236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansbach | Ansbach | Ansbach (; ) is a city in the German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the river Main. In 2020, its population was 41,681.
Developed in the 8th century as a Benedic... |
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