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5763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cantonese (disambiguation) | Cantonese is a language originating in Canton, Guangdong.
Cantonese may also refer to:
Yue Chinese, Chinese languages that include Cantonese
Cantonese cuisine, the cuisine of Guangdong Province
Cantonese people, the native people of Guangdong and Guangxi
Lingnan culture, the regional culture often referred to as C... |
5765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk | Çatalhöyük | Çatalhöyük (; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Herita... |
5766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement%20Attlee | Clement Attlee | Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and serve... |
5768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus | Catullus | Gaius Valerius Catullus (; ), often referred to simply as Catullus (), was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes. His surviving works are still read widely and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.... |
5769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20S.%20Forester | C. S. Forester | Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novels A Ship of the ... |
5770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20country%20calling%20codes | List of country calling codes | Country calling codes or country dial-in codes are telephone number prefixes for reaching telephone subscribers in the networks of the member countries or regions of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The codes are defined by the ITU-T in standards E.123 and E.164. The prefixes enable international direct... |
5771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Marlowe | Christopher Marlowe | Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to hav... |
5772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cricket (disambiguation) | Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams.
Cricket also commonly refers to:
Cricket (insect)
Cricket(s) or The Cricket(s) may also refer to:
Film and television
The Cricket (1917 film), a silent American drama film
The Cricket (1980 film), an erotic drama film
Crickets (film), a 2006 Japanese drama... |
5776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caving | Caving | Caving – also known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland – is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment.
The challenges involved ... |
5778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave | Cave | A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word cave can also refer to much smaller openings such as sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos, though strictly speaking a cave is ... |
5781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20numerals | Chinese numerals | Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese.
Today, speakers of Chinese use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals used worldwide, and two indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous system is based on Chinese characters that correspond to numerals in the spok... |
5783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20program | Computer program | In imperative programming, a computer program is a sequence of instructions in a programming language that a computer can execute or interpret. In declarative programming, a computer program is a set of instructions.
A computer program in its human-readable form is called source code. Source code needs another compute... |
5785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime | Crime | In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. The most popular view is that crime is a category created... |
5786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Institute%20of%20Technology | California Institute of Technology | The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States of America. The university is known for its strength in science and engineering, and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States which is primarily devoted to the instruct... |
5790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Goldoni | Carlo Goldoni | Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also , ; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his co... |
5793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative%20distribution%20function | Cumulative distribution function | In probability theory and statistics, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a real-valued random variable , or just distribution function of , evaluated at , is the probability that will take a value less than or equal to .
Every probability distribution supported on the real numbers, discrete or "mixed" as w... |
5794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20tendency | Central tendency | In statistics, a central tendency (or measure of central tendency) is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Colloquially, measures of central tendency are often called averages. The term central tendency dates from the late 1920s.
The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic me... |
5796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity | Celebrity | Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of an individual or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media. A person may attain a celebrity status from having great wealth, their participation in sports or the entertainment industry, their position as a political figure, or even fr... |
19712588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Renner | Peter Renner | Peter Campbell Renner (born 27 October 1959) is a retired New Zealand track and field athlete from Mosgiel, New Zealand who mostly competed in the 3000 metres steeplechase. Renner competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1982, 1986 and 1990 Commonwealth Games and holds the national and Oceania record... |
5797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20sampling | Cluster sampling | In statistics, cluster sampling is a sampling plan used when mutually homogeneous yet internally heterogeneous groupings are evident in a statistical population. It is often used in marketing research. In this sampling plan, the total population is divided into these groups (known as clusters) and a simple random samp... |
5804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Baudelaire | Charles Baudelaire | Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life.
His most famous work,... |
5808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey%20at%20the%20Bat | Casey at the Bat | "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" is a poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based on Thayer's college nickname, "Phinney". Featuring a dramati... |
5810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20guitar | Classical guitar | The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings... |
5813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20S.%20Lewis | C. S. Lewis | Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The S... |
5814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20dominoes | Chinese dominoes | Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, tien gow, pai gow, tiu u and kap tai shap. In Cantonese they are called (), which literally means "bone tiles"; it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the rules are quite different from the southern Chinese version of tien gow.
History
Min... |
5816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenozoic | Cenozoic | The Cenozoic ( ; ) is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history. It is characterized by the dominance of mammals, birds and flowering plants, a cooling and drying climate, and the current configuration of continents. It is the latest of three geological eras since complex ... |
5820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism | Confucianism | Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. Variously described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life, Confucianism developed from what was later called the Hundred Schools of T... |
5822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20philosophy | Chinese philosophy | Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn period () and Warring States period (), during a period known as the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments. Although much of Chinese philosophy begun in the Warring States period, elements of Chi... |
5823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius | Confucius | Confucius ( ; , "Master Kǒng"; or commonly ; ) was a Chinese philosopher, poet and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who was traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy underpin East Asian culture and society, remaining influential across China and East Asia to t... |
5826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20number | Complex number | In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that contains the real numbers and a specific element denoted , called the imaginary unit, and satisfying the equation . Moreover, every complex number can be expressed in the form , where and are real numbers. Because no real number satisfies the abov... |
5828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology | Cryptozoology | Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe. Cryp... |
5829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Charles | Craig Charles | Craig Joseph Charles (born 11 July 1964) is an English actor, presenter, comedian, author, and DJ. He is best known for his roles as Dave Lister in the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in the soap opera Coronation Street. He presented the gladiator-style game show Robot Wars from 1998 to 2004, and na... |
5830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Mayo | County Mayo | County Mayo (; , meaning "Plain of the yew trees") is a county in Ireland. In the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, it is named after the village of Mayo, now generally known as Mayo Abbey. Mayo County Council is the local authority. The population was 130,507 at the 2016 census. The boundaries of the count... |
5833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Fermanagh | County Fermanagh | County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of thirty-two counties of Ireland, one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster.
The county covers an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) and has a population of 61,805 as of 2011. Enniskillen is the county town and largest in both size and population.
Fe... |
5835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20%28disambiguation%29 | Christian (disambiguation) | Christian most often refers to:
Christians, people who follow or adhere to Christianity
pertaining to Christianity
Christian or The Christian may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film
Christian (1939 film), a Czech comedy film
Christian (1989 film), a Danish drama film
The Christian (1911 film), an Austra... |
5836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Colombia | Geography of Colombia | The Republic of Colombia is situated largely in the northwest of South America, with some territories falling within the boundaries of Central America. It is bordered to the northwest by Panama; to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicarag... |
5838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Colombia | Politics of Colombia | The Politics of Colombia take place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Colombia is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is carried out by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and ... |
5839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Colombia | Economy of Colombia | The economy of Colombia is the fourth largest in Latin America as measured by gross domestic product. Colombia has experienced a historic economic boom over the last decade. Throughout most of the 20th century, Colombia was Latin America's 4th and 3rd largest economy when measured by nominal GDP, real GDP, GDP (PPP), a... |
5840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%20in%20Colombia | Communications in Colombia | Since being liberalized in 1991, the Colombian telecommunications sector has added new services, expanded coverage, improved efficiency, and lowered costs. The sector has had the second largest (after energy) investment in infrastructure (54 percent) since 1997. However, the economic downturn between 1999 and 2002 adve... |
5841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Colombia | Transport in Colombia | Transport in Colombia is regulated by the Ministry of Transport.
Road travel is the main means of transport; 69 percent of cargo is transported by road, as compared with 27 percent by railroad, 3 percent by internal waterways, and 1 percent by air.
History
Indigenous peoples influence
The indigenous peoples in Colo... |
5843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20Forces%20of%20Colombia | Military Forces of Colombia | The Military Forces of Colombia () are the unified armed forces of the Republic of Colombia. They consist of the Colombian Army, the Colombian Navy and the Colombian Air Force. The National Police of Colombia, although technically not part of the military, is controlled and administered by the Ministry of National Defe... |
5844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Colombia | History of Colombia | The history of Colombia includes the settlements and society by indigenous peoples, most notably, the Muisca Confederation, Quimbaya Civilization, and Tairona Chiefdoms; the Spanish arrived in 1492 and initiated a period of annexation and colonization, most noteworthy being Spanish conquest; ultimately creating the Vic... |
5845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Colombia | Foreign relations of Colombia | Colombia seeks diplomatic and commercial relations with all countries, regardless of their ideologies or political or economic systems. For this reason, the Colombian economy is quite open, relying on international trade and following guidelines given by international law.
Since 2008, Colombia's Ministry of Trade and ... |
5846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic | Geography of the Czech Republic | The Czech Republic is a land-locked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the north. It consists mostly of low hills and plateaus surrounded along the borders by low mountains. Two areas of lowlands follow the Elbe river and the Morava... |
5848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic | Politics of the Czech Republic | The Czech Republic is a unitary parliamentary republic, in which the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government.
Executive power is exercised by the Government of the Czech Republic which reports to the Chamber of Deputies. The Legislature is exercised by the Parliament. Czech Parl... |
5849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic | Economy of the Czech Republic | The economy of the Czech Republic is a developed export-oriented social market economy based in services, manufacturing, and innovation that maintains a high-income welfare state and the European social model. The Czech Republic participates in the European Single Market as a member of the European Union, and is there... |
5850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20the%20Czech%20Republic | Telecommunications in the Czech Republic | Telephones - main lines in use:
2.888 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
13.075 million (2007)
Telephone system:
domestic:
86% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber systems now being improved with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital s... |
5851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20the%20Czech%20Republic | Transport in the Czech Republic | Transport in the Czech Republic relies on several main modes, including transport by road, rail, water and air.
Railways
The Czech Republic has a total railway length of . The vast majority () is standard gauge. Electrified railways generally have voltages of 3 kV DC or 25 kV AC. of track is narrow gauge. The most p... |
5853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic | Army of the Czech Republic | The Army of the Czech Republic (, AČR), also known as the Czech Army, is the military service responsible for the defence of the Czech Republic in compliance with international obligations and treaties on collective defence. It is also set to support peacekeeping, rescue and humanitarian operations both within the nati... |
5855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic | Foreign relations of the Czech Republic | The Czech Republic is a Central European country, a member of the European Union, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OSCE), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United Nations (and all of its main specialized agencies and boards). It entertains diplomatic relations with 191 countr... |
5857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing | Climbing | Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep topographical object. It is done for locomotion, recreation and competition, and within trades that rely on ascension; such as emergency rescue and military operations. It is done indoors and out, on natural and man-mad... |
5859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20Irish%20Republican%20Army | Continuity Irish Republican Army | The Continuity Irish Republican Army (Continuity IRA or CIRA), styling itself as the Irish Republican Army (), is an Irish republican paramilitary group that aims to bring about a united Ireland. It claims to be a direct continuation of the original Irish Republican Army and the national army of the Irish Republic that... |
5862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo | Congo | Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa:
Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to as "Congo-Kinshasa"
Republic of the Congo, the smaller country to the northwest, capital Br... |
5863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen%20interpretation | Copenhagen interpretation | The Copenhagen interpretation is a collection of views about the meaning of quantum mechanics principally attributed to Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It is one of the oldest of numerous proposed interpretations of quantum mechanics, as features of it date to the development of quantum mechanics during 1925–1927, an... |
5864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs%20union | Customs union | A customs union is generally defined as a type of trade bloc which is composed of a free trade area with a common external tariff.
Customs unions are established through trade pacts where the participant countries set up common external trade policy (in some cases they use different import quotas). Common competition ... |
5865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Europe | Council of Europe | The Council of Europe (CoE; , ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it has 47 member states, with a population of approximately 820 million, and operates with an annual budget of approximately 500 million... |
5866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20the%20European%20Union | Council of the European Union | The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union. It is one of three legislative bodies an... |
5867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20Europe | Continental Europe | Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous continent of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent, – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and, by some, simply as the Continent.
The old notion of Europe as a cultural term was cent... |
5869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%20theory | Category theory | Category theory formalizes mathematical structure and its concepts in terms of a labeled directed graph called a category, whose nodes are called objects, and whose labelled directed edges are called arrows (or morphisms). A category has two basic properties: the ability to compose the arrows associatively, and the e... |
5872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradycardia | Bradycardia | Bradycardia (also sinus bradycardia) is a slow resting heart rate, commonly under 60 beats per minute (BPM) as determined by an electrocardiogram. It is considered to be a normal heart rate during sleep, in young healthy or elderly adults, and in athletes.
In some people, bradycardia below 60 BPM may be associated wit... |
5873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Day | Canada Day | Canada Day () is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, with the passing of the British North America Act, 1867 where the four separate colonies of Upper Canada, Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were un... |
5874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine%20%28book%20series%29 | Claudine (book series) | The Claudine series consists of four early novels by French authors Colette and Henry Gauthier-Villars, published 1900–1904. Written in diary form, they describe the growth to maturity of a young girl, Claudine. Aged fifteen at the beginning of the first book, Claudine à l'école, the series describes her education and ... |
5876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary%20artery%20disease | Coronary artery disease | Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the heart muscle due to build-up of plaque (atherosclerosis) in the arteries of the heart. It is the most common of the cardiovascu... |
5879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium | Caesium | Caesium (IUPAC spelling) (also spelled cesium in American English) is a chemical element with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal with a melting point of , which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at or near room temperature. Caesium has physical and che... |
5881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century | Century | A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred. Century is sometimes abbreviated as c.
A centennial or centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance ... |
5882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff | Cardiff | Cardiff (; ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingdom. Located in the south-east of Wales and in the Cardiff Capital Region, Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of... |
5884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Dickens | Charles Dickens | Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th ce... |
5898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabiner | Carabiner | A carabiner or karabiner () is a specialized type of shackle, a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate used to quickly and reversibly connect components, most notably in safety-critical systems. The word is a shortened form of Karabinerhaken (or also short Karabiner), a German phrase for a "spring hook" used by a carbine... |
5899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20%28fiction%29 | Continuity (fiction) | In fiction, continuity is a consistency of the characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time. It is relevant to several media.
Continuity is particularly a concern in the production of film and television due to the difficulty of rectifying an error in conti... |
5902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment | Capital punishment | Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that an offender is to be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who h... |
5903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20movement | Cultural movement | A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies. Historically, different nations or regions of the world have gone through their own independent sequence of movements in culture, but as world communications hav... |
5905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcogen | Chalcogen | The chalcogens (ore forming) ( ) are the chemical elements in group 16 of the periodic table. This group is also known as the oxygen family. It consists of the elements oxygen (O), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), tellurium (Te), and the radioactive element polonium (Po). The chemically uncharacterized synthetic element live... |
5906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20dioxide | Carbon dioxide | Carbon dioxide (chemical formula ) is an acidic colorless gas with a density about 53% higher than that of dry air. Carbon dioxide molecules consist of a carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms. It occurs naturally in Earth's atmosphere as a trace gas. The current concentration is about 0.04% (412 ppm... |
5907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheers | Cheers | Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows Productions in association with Paramount Network Television, and was created by the team of James Burrows and G... |
5909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint | Counterpoint | In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more musical lines (or voices) which are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. It has been most commonly identified in the European classical tradition, strongly developing during the Renaissance and in much of the common pra... |
5910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide | Cyanide | A cyanide is a chemical compound that contains the group C≡N. This group, known as the cyano group, consists of a carbon atom triple-bonded to a nitrogen atom.
In inorganic cyanides, the cyanide group is present as the anion CN−. Soluble salts such as sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide are highly toxic. Hydrocyanic ... |
5912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate | Carbonate | A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid (H2CO3), characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula of . The name may also refer to a carbonate ester, an organic compound containing the carbonate group C(=O)(O–)2.
The term is also used as a verb, to describe carbonation: the process o... |
5914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis | Catalysis | Catalysis () is the process of increasing the rate of a chemical reaction by adding a substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed in the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst recycles quickly, very small amounts of catalyst often suffice; mixing, surface area... |
5916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumference | Circumference | In geometry, the circumference (from Latin circumferens, meaning "carrying around") is the perimeter of a circle or ellipse. That is, the circumference would be the arc length of the circle, as if it were opened up and straightened out to a line segment. More generally, the perimeter is the curve length around any clos... |
5918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20mechanics | Continuum mechanics | Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical behavior of materials modeled as a continuous mass rather than as discrete particles. The French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy was the first to formulate such models in the 19th century.
Explanation
A continuum model assumes that the su... |
5919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional%20law | Constitutional law | Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in federal countries such as the United States and Canada, the relationship betwee... |
5920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic%20languages | Celtic languages | The Celtic languages ( , ) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described... |
5921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color | Color | Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called blue, green, red, etc. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light... |
5926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computation | Computation | Computation is any type of calculation that includes both arithmetical and non-arithmetical steps and which follows a well-defined model (e.g. an algorithm).
Mechanical or electronic devices (or, historically, people) that perform computations are known as computers. An especially well-known discipline of the study of... |
5928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown | Clown | A clown is a person who wears a unique makeup-face and flamboyant costume, performing comedy in a state of open-mindedness (by reversing folkway-norms) all while using physical comedy.
History
The most ancient clowns have been found in the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, around 2400 BC. Unlike court jesters, clowns have trad... |
5930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffea | Coffea | Coffea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. Coffea species are shrubs or small trees native to tropical and southern Africa and tropical Asia. The seeds of some species, called coffee beans, are used to flavor various beverages and products. The fruits, like the seeds, contain a large amount of caffe... |
5931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling | Cycling | Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two-wheeled bicycles, "cycling" also includes the riding of unicycles, tricycles, quadricycles, recumbent and simi... |
5932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate | Carbohydrate | A carbohydrate () is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where m may or may not be different from n). However, not all carbohydrates conform to this precise stoichiometric definiti... |
5933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS%20Virginia | CSS Virginia | CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the raised and cut down original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate . Virginia was one of the participants in... |
5934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon | Canon | Canon or Canons may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe by its fan base
Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture
Western canon, the body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art th... |
5935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20of%20Latter-day%20Saints | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The church is headquartered in the United States in Salt Lake City,... |
5936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20thermodynamics | Chemical thermodynamics | Chemical thermodynamics is the study of the interrelation of heat and work with chemical reactions or with physical changes of state within the confines of the laws of thermodynamics. Chemical thermodynamics involves not only laboratory measurements of various thermodynamic properties, but also the application of mathe... |
5938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20works | Standard works | The standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) are the four books that currently constitute its open scriptural canon. (The scriptural canon is "open" due to the Latter-day Saint belief in continuous revelation. Additions can be made to the scriptural canon with the "common consent" ... |
5942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20The%20Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20of%20Latter-day%20Saints | History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is typically divided into three broad time periods:
The early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith which is in common with most Latter Day Saint movement churches,
A "pioneer era" under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th-ce... |
5943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20eschatology | Christian eschatology | Christian eschatology, a major branch of study within Christian theology, deals with "last things". Such eschatology – the word derives from two Greek roots meaning "last" (ἔσχατος) and "study" (-λογία) – involves the study of "end things", whether of the end of an individual life, of the end of the age, of the end of ... |
5945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20White%20Sox | Chicago White Sox | The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The White Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team is owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, and plays their home games at Guaranteed Rate Field, located on Chicago's South Sid... |
5946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuistry | Casuistry | Casuistry ( ) is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending theoretical rules from a particular case, and reapplying those rules to new instances. This method occurs in applied ethics and jurisprudence. The term is also commonly used as a pejorative to criticize the use of cl... |
5948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20input%20methods%20for%20computers | Chinese input methods for computers | Chinese input methods are methods that allow a computer user to input Chinese characters. Most, if not all, Chinese input methods fall into one of two categories: phonetic readings or root shapes. Methods under the phonetic category usually are easier to learn but are less efficient, thus resulting in slower typing spe... |
5950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus%2C%20Ohio | Columbus, Ohio | Columbus is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a population of 905,748 for the 2020 census, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest after Chicago, and the third-most populous state capital. Columbus is the county seat of Frank... |
5951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland | Cleveland | Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a major city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. It is located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state border.
The largest city on Lake Er... |
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