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5582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Croatia | Foreign relations of Croatia | The Republic of Croatia is a sovereign country at the crossroads of Central Europe, Southeast Europe, and the Mediterranean that declared its independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991. Croatia is a member of the European Union (EU), United Nations (UN), the Council of Europe, NATO, the World Trade Organization (WTO)... |
5584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Cuba | History of Cuba | The history of Cuba is characterized by dependence on outside powers—Spain, the US, and the USSR. The island of Cuba was inhabited by various Amerindian cultures prior to the arrival of the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492. After his arrival on a Spanish expedition, Spain conquered Cuba and appointed Span... |
5588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Cuba | Economy of Cuba | The economy of Cuba is a mixed command economy dominated by state-run enterprises. Most of the labor force is employed by the state. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the ruling Communist Party of Cuba encouraged the formation of worker co-operatives and self-employment. In the late 2010s, private propert... |
5590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Cuba | Transport in Cuba | Transportation in Cuba is the system of railways, roads, airports, waterways, ports and harbours in Cuba:
Railways
total: 8,285 km
standard gauge: 8,125 km gauge (105 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 160 km of gauge.
Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian pe... |
5592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Cuba | Foreign relations of Cuba | Cuba's foreign policy has been fluid throughout history depending on world events and other variables, including relations with the United States. Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner, Cuba became increasingly isolated in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the fall of the USSR and the end ... |
5593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus | Cyprus | Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea south of the Anatolian Peninsula. It is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean, and is located south of Turkey, west of Syria, northwest of Lebanon, Israel, and the Gaza Strip (Palestine), ... |
5595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Cyprus | Geography of Cyprus | Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean, after the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and the 80th largest island in the world by area. It is located south of the Anatolia peninsula, yet it belongs to the Cyprus arc. Cyprus may be inclu... |
5596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Cyprus | Demographics of Cyprus | The people of Cyprus are broadly divided into two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, who share many cultural traits but maintain distinct identities based on ethnicity, religion, language, and close ties with their respective motherlands. Before the dispute started in 1964 the peoples of Cypr... |
5597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Cyprus | Politics of Cyprus | The Republic of Cyprus is a unitary presidential representative republic, whereby the President of Cyprus is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the parliament. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and... |
5598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Cyprus | Economy of Cyprus | The economy of Cyprus is a high-income economy as classified by the World Bank, and was included by the International Monetary Fund in its list of advanced economies in 2001. Cyprus adopted the euro as its official currency on 1 January 2008, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0.58... |
5600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Cyprus | Transport in Cyprus | Because Cyprus has no working railway system, various other methods of transport are needed to ensure the proper delivery of any cargo, be it human or freight. Since the last railway was dismantled in 1952, the only remaining modes of transport are by road, by sea, and by air.
Roads
Of the 12,118 km of roads in the... |
5602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Cyprus | Foreign relations of Cyprus | Cyprus is a member of the United Nations along with most of its agencies as well as the Commonwealth of Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Council of Europe. In addition, the country has signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Agreement... |
5615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous | Cretaceous | The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of the entire Phanerozoic. The name is derived from the Latin creta, "chalk", ... |
5617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob%20disease | Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease | Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is an invariably fatal degenerative brain disorder. Early symptoms include memory problems, behavioral changes, poor coordination, and visual disturbances. Later symptoms include dementia, ... |
5622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Northcote%20Parkinson | C. Northcote Parkinson | Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson advanced Parkinson's law, stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion", an insight... |
5623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal | Canal | Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow under atmospheric pressure, and can be thought of as artificial rivers.
In most cases,... |
5626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20science | Cognitive science | Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes with input from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science/artificial intelligence, and anthropology. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Cognitive scient... |
5630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula%20%28linguistics%29 | Copula (linguistics) | In linguistics, a copula (plural: copulas or copulae; abbreviated ) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase was not being in the sentence "It was not being used." The word copula derives from the Latin noun for... |
5635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Columbus | Christopher Columbus | Christopher Columbus (; born between 25 August and 31 October 1451, died 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs ... |
5636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemist | Chemist | A chemist (from Greek chēm(ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchemist) is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and ... |
5637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress%20Hill | Cypress Hill | Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. They are the first hip-hop group to have sold multi-platinum and platinum albums, having sold over 20 million albums worldwide. They are considered to be among the main progenitors of West Coast and 1990s hip hop. The group has been critically accla... |
5638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion | Combustion | Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke. Combustion does not always result in fire, because a flame is only visible when substa... |
5639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic%20script | Cyrillic script | The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia and is used as the national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia.
, around 250 milli... |
5641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant | Consonant | In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are , pronounced with the lips; , pronounced with the front of the tongue; , pronounced with the back of the tongue; , pronounced in the throat; and , pronounced by forcing air thr... |
5642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costume%20jewelry | Costume jewelry | Costume or fashion jewelry includes a range of decorative items worn for personal adornment that are manufactured as less expensive ornamentation to complement a particular fashionable outfit or garment as opposed to "real" (fine) jewelry, which is more costly and which may be regarded primarily as collectibles, keepsa... |
5643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20Islands | Channel Islands | The Channel Islands (; or îles de la Manche) are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islan... |
5644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20film | Comedy film | A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). One of the oldest genres in film—and derived from the classical comedy in theatre—some of the earlie... |
5645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult%20film | Cult film | A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase which forms an elaborate subculture, members of which engage in repeated viewings, dialogue-quoting, and audience participation. Inclusive d... |
5646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople | Constantinople | Constantinople (; Kōnstantinoupolis; ; ) was the capital of the Roman/Byzantine Empire (330–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261) and the Ottoman Empire (1453–1922). The capital then moved to Ankara following the Turkish War of Independence. Officially renamed Istanbul in 1930, the city is today the larges... |
5647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus | Columbus | Columbus is a Latinized version of the Italian surname "Colombo". It most commonly refers to:
Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer
Columbus, Ohio, capital of this U.S. state
Columbus may also refer to:
Places
Extraterrestrial
Columbus (crater), a crater on Mars
Columbus (ISS module), the European module f... |
5648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall | Cornwall | Cornwall (; ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, with t... |
5649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional%20monarchy | Constitutional monarchy | A constitutional monarchy, parliamentary monarchy, or democratic monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in deciding. Constitutional monarchies differ from absolute monarchies (in which a monarch whether limited by a constitution ... |
5653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s%20three%20laws | Clarke's three laws | British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited. They are part of his ideas in his extensive writings about the future.
The laws
These so-called laws are:
When a distinguished but elderly scie... |
5654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar%20David%20Friedrich | Caspar David Friedrich | Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies,... |
5655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney%20Love | Courtney Love | Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has draw... |
5657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cow (disambiguation) | Cow is a colloquial term for cattle, and the name of female cattle.
Cow, cows or COW may also refer to:
Science and technology
Cow, an adult female of several animals
AT2018cow, a large astronomical explosion also known as "The Cow"
Distillation cow, a piece of glassware that allows fractions to be collected wit... |
5658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20cannibalism | Human cannibalism | Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The meaning of "cannibalism" has been extended into zoology to describe an individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the sam... |
5659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20element | Chemical element | In chemistry, an element is a pure substance consisting only of atoms that all have the same numbers of protons in their nuclei. Unlike chemical compounds, chemical elements cannot be broken down into simpler substances by any chemical reaction. The number of protons in the nucleus is the defining property of an elemen... |
5661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centime | Centime | Centime (from ) is French for "cent", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries (including Switzerland, Algeria, Belgium, Morocco and France).
In France the usage of centime goes back to the introduction of the decimal monetary system under Napoleon. This system aimed... |
5662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar%20year | Calendar year | Generally speaking, a calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day, and thus consists of a whole number of days. A year can also be measured by starting on any other named day of the calendar, and ending on the day before this named day ... |
5663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA%20franc | CFA franc | The CFA franc (, , Franc of the Financial Community of Africa, originally Franc of the French Colonies in Africa, or colloquially ) is the name of two currencies, the West African CFA franc, used in eight West African countries, and the Central African CFA franc, used in six Central African countries. Although separate... |
5664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness | Consciousness | Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience or awareness of internal and external existence. Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and [also the] most mysterious aspect of o... |
5665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency | Currency | A currency in the most specific sense is money in any form when in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.
A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially for people in a nation. Under this definition, U.S. dol... |
5666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20bank | Central bank | A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a state or formal monetary union,
and oversees their commercial banking system. In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the monetary base. Most central banks... |
5667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine | Chlorine | Chlorine is a chemical element with the symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between them. Chlorine is a yellow-green gas at room temperature. It is an extremely reactive element and ... |
5668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium | Calcium | Calcium is a chemical element with the symbol Ca and atomic number 20. As an alkaline earth metal, calcium is a reactive metal that forms a dark oxide-nitride layer when exposed to air. Its physical and chemical properties are most similar to its heavier homologues strontium and barium. It is the fifth most abundant el... |
5669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium | Chromium | Chromium is a chemical element with the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in group 6. It is a steely-grey, lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal.
Chromium metal is valued for its high corrosion resistance and hardness. A major development in steel production was the discovery that steel co... |
5671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbal | Cymbal | A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs sound a definite note (such as crotales). Cymbals are used in many ensembles ran... |
5672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium | Cadmium | Cadmium is a chemical element with the symbol Cd and atomic number 48. This soft, silvery-white metal is chemically similar to the two other stable metals in group 12, zinc and mercury. Like zinc, it demonstrates oxidation state +2 in most of its compounds, and like mercury, it has a lower melting point than the transi... |
5675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curium | Curium | Curium is a transuranic, radioactive chemical element with the symbol Cm and atomic number 96. This element of the actinide series was named after eminent scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, both known for their research on radioactivity. Curium was first intentionally made by the team of Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. Jame... |
5676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium | Californium | Californium is a radioactive chemical element with the symbol Cf and atomic number 98. The element was first synthesized in 1950 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiation Laboratory), by bombarding curium with alpha particles (helium-4 ions). It is an actinide element, th... |
5679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Social%20Union%20in%20Bavaria | Christian Social Union in Bavaria | The Christian Social Union in Bavaria (, CSU) is a Christian-democratic and conservative political party in Germany. Having a regionalist identity, the CSU operates only in Bavaria while its larger counterpart, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), operates in the other fifteen states of Germany. It differs from the CD... |
5681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate%20title | Corporate title | Corporate titles or business titles are given to company and organization officials to show what duties and responsibilities they have in the organization. Such titles are used by publicly and privately held for-profit corporations. In addition, many non-profit organizations, educational institutions, partnerships, and... |
5685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%2C%20Massachusetts | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area as a major suburb of Boston. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city's population was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. It is one of two de j... |
5686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cambridge (disambiguation) | Cambridge is a city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, famous for being the location of the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge may also refer to:
Places
Australia
Cambridge, Tasmania, a suburb of Hobart
Town of Cambridge, a Western Australian local government area
Barbados
Cambridge, Barbados... |
5688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Dexter | Colin Dexter | Norman Colin Dexter (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his Inspector Morse series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, Inspector Morse, from 1987 to 2000. His characters have spawned a sequel series, Lewis, and a prequel ser... |
5689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College | College | A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school.
In most of the world, a college may be a high... |
5690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalmers%20University%20of%20Technology | Chalmers University of Technology | Chalmers University of Technology (, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that focuses on research and education in technology, natural sciences, architecture, mathematics, maritime and other management areas.
History
The university was founded in 1829 following a donation by Wil... |
5691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex | Codex | The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term codex is often used for ancient manuscript books, with handwritten contents. A codex, much like the modern book, is bound by stacking... |
5692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf | Calf | A calf (plural calves) is a young domestic cow or bull. Calves are reared to become adult cattle or are slaughtered for their meat, called veal, and hide.
The term calf is also used for some other species. See "Other animals" below.
Terminology
"Calf" is the term used from birth to weaning, when it becomes known as... |
5693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Shannon | Claude Shannon | Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory".
As a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical app... |
5694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking | Cracking | Cracking may refer to:
Cracking, the formation of a fracture or partial fracture in a solid material studied as fracture mechanics
Performing a sternotomy
Fluid catalytic cracking, a catalytic process widely used in oil refineries for cracking large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller molecules
Cracking (chemistry)... |
5695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community | Community | A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. Durable rel... |
5696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20college | Community college | A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries: many community colleges have an "open enrollment" for students who have graduated from high school (also known as senior secondary school). The term usually refers to a higher educational institution t... |
5697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20Rights%20Memorial | Civil Rights Memorial | The Civil Rights Memorial is an American memorial in Montgomery, Alabama created by Maya Lin. The names of 41 people are inscribed on the granite fountain as martyrs who were killed in the civil rights movement. The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Design
The names included in the memorial be... |
5698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Babbage | Charles Babbage | Charles Babbage (; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". Babbage is credited with inventing the first ... |
5700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dressing | Cross-dressing | Cross-dressing is the act of wearing items of clothing not commonly associated with one's sex. Cross-dressing has been used for purposes of disguise, comfort, comedy, and self-expression in modern times and throughout history.
Almost every human society throughout history has had expected norms for each gender relatin... |
5702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20Tunnel | Channel Tunnel | The Channel Tunnel (also referred to in the early days by the media as the Chunnel, ) is a railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England, UK) with Coquelles (Hauts-de-France, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. It is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and the Euro... |
5703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk | Cyberpunk | Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse or decay. Much of cyberpunk is ... |
5704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic%20strip | Comic strip | A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horiz... |
5705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20hypothesis | Continuum hypothesis | In mathematics, the continuum hypothesis (abbreviated CH) is a hypothesis about the possible sizes of infinite sets. It states:
In Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice (ZFC), this is equivalent to the following equation in aleph numbers: .
The continuum hypothesis was advanced by Georg Cantor in 1878,... |
5706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87evik%20Bir | Çevik Bir | Çevik Bir (born 1939) is a retired Turkish army general. He was a member of the Turkish General Staff in the 1990s. He took a major part in several important international missions in the Middle East and North Africa. He was born in Buca, Izmir Province, in 1939 and is married with one child.
He graduated from the Tur... |
5708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivism | Collectivism | Collectivism is a value that is characterized by emphasis on cohesiveness among individuals and prioritization of the group over the self. Individuals or groups that subscribe to a collectivist worldview tend to find common values and goals as particularly salient and demonstrate greater orientation toward in-group tha... |
5711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepeta | Nepeta | Nepeta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. The genus name is reportedly in reference to Nepete, an ancient Etruscan city. There are about 250 species.
The genus is native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, and has also naturalized in North America.
Some members of this group are known as catnip or catmi... |
5714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish%20Nationalist%20Party | Cornish Nationalist Party | The Cornish Nationalist Party (CNP; ) is a political party, founded by Dr James Whetter, who campaigned for independence for Cornwall. It was formed by people who left Cornwall's main nationalist party Mebyon Kernow on 28 May 1975, but it is no longer for independence.
A separate party with a similar name (Cornish Nat... |
5715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis | Cryptanalysis | Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden", and analýein, "to analyze") refers to the process of analyzing information systems in order to understand hidden aspects of the systems. Cryptanalysis is used to breach cryptographic security systems and gain access to the contents of encrypted messages, even if the cry... |
5716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicano | Chicano | Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States. The label Chicano is sometimes used interchangeably with Mexican American, although the terms have different meanings. While Mexican-American identity emerged to encourage assimilation into White American society and separate the c... |
5717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary%20Islands | Canary Islands | The Canary Islands (; , ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocco. They are the southernmost of the autonomous communities of Spain. The archipelago is economically and ... |
5718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20D | Chuck D | Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper. As the leader of the rap group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav, Chuck D helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid-1980s. The Source ranked him at No. 12 on ... |
5719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaway%20%28filmmaking%29 | Cutaway (filmmaking) | In film and video, a cutaway is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually followed by a cut back to the first shot. A cutaway scene is the interruption of a scene with the insertion of another scene, generally unrelated or only peripherally related to the orig... |
5721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma | Coma | A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. Coma patients exhibit a complete absence of wakefulness and are unable to consciously feel, sp... |
5722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20of%20Cthulhu%20%28role-playing%20game%29 | Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) | Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos. The game, often abbreviated as CoC, is published by Chaosium; it was first released in 1981 and is in its seventh edition, with licensed foreign language editions available as well.... |
5723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellations%20%28journal%29 | Constellations (journal) | Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of critical and democratic theory and successor of Praxis International. It is currently edited by Jean L. Cohen, Cristina Lafont, and Hubertus Buchstein. Ertug Tombus is the managing editor of the j... |
5724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Breton%20Island | Cape Breton Island | Cape Breton Island (, formerly ; or ; ) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The island accounts for 18.7% of Nova Scotia's total area. Although the island is physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, the long rock-fil... |
5725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu%20Mythos | Cthulhu Mythos | The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify the settings, tropes, and lore that were employed by Lovecraft and his literar... |
5726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane%20shot | Crane shot | In filmmaking and video production, a crane shot is a shot taken by a camera on a moving crane or jib. Most cranes accommodate both the camera and an operator, but some can be moved by remote control. Camera cranes go back to the dawn of movie-making, and were frequently used in silent films to enhance the epic nature ... |
5729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots%20of%20Fire | Chariots of Fire | Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland, and produced by David Puttnam. It is based on the true story of two British athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell: a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an E... |
5734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism | Consequentialism | Consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (or omission from acting) is one that will produce... |
5735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription | Conscription | Conscription, sometimes called the draft in the United States, is the mandatory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscrip... |
5736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Coleman | Catherine Coleman | Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist, an engineer, a former United States Air Force colonel, and a retired NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after loggi... |
5738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervix | Cervix | The cervix or cervix uteri (Latin, 'neck of the uterus') is the lower part of the uterus (womb) in the human female reproductive system. The cervix is usually 2 to 3 cm long (~1 inch) and roughly cylindrical in shape, which changes during pregnancy. The narrow, central cervical canal runs along its entire length, conne... |
5739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler | Compiler | In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a lower level langua... |
5742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato | Castrato | A castrato (Italian, plural: castrati) is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice is produced by castration of the singer before puberty, or it occurs in one who, due to an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.
Castration befor... |
5743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting-out%20game | Counting-out game | A counting-out game or counting-out rhyme is a simple method of 'randomly' selecting a person from a group, often used by children for the purpose of playing another game. It usually requires no materials, and is achieved with spoken words or hand gestures. The historian Henry Carrington Bolton suggested in his 1888 bo... |
5749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20size | Key size | In cryptography, key size, key length, or key space refer to the number of bits in a key used by a cryptographic algorithm (such as a cipher).
Key length defines the upper-bound on an algorithm's security (i.e. a logarithmic measure of the fastest known attack against an algorithm), since the security of all algorithm... |
5750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20behavioral%20therapy | Cognitive behavioral therapy | Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psycho-social intervention that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression and anxiety disorders. CBT focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions (such as thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and their associated behaviors to impr... |
5751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20language | Chinese language | Chinese ( or also , especially for the written language) is a group of languages that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a varie... |
5759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20analysis | Complex analysis | Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic geometry, number theory, analytic combinatorics, applied mathematics; as well ... |
5760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20China | History of China | The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the king Wu Ding's reign, who was mentioned as the twenty-first King of Shang by the same. Ancient historical texts such as the Book of Documents (early chapters, 11th century BC), ... |
5762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20engineering | Civil engineering | Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.
Civil... |
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