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5954
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisto
Callisto
Callisto most commonly refers to: Callisto (mythology), a nymph Callisto (moon), a moon of Jupiter Callisto may also refer to: Art and entertainment Callisto series, a sequence of novels by Lin Carter Callisto, a novel by Torsten Krol Callisto (comics), a fictional mutant in X-Men Callisto (Xena), a character on Xen...
5955
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20England
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established national Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent le...
5956
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe
Circe
Circe (; , ) is an enchantress and a minor goddess in Greek mythology. She is either a daughter of the god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse or the goddess Hecate and Aeëtes. Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs. Through the use of these and a magic wand or staff, she would transform her enem...
5958
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPR%20%28disambiguation%29
CPR (disambiguation)
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure to assist someone who has suffered cardiac arrest. CPR may also refer to: Science and technology Classification of Pharmaco-Therapeutic Referrals, a taxonomy to define situations requiring a referral from pharmacists to physicians Continuous Plankton Recor...
5959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Pacific%20Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway , also known simply as Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001. Headquartered in Calgary, A...
5961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20psychology
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which had held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outs...
5962
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet
Comet
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing. This produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind acting upon the nucl...
5966
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost
Compost
Compost is a mixture of ingredients used to fertilize and improve the soil. It is commonly prepared by decomposing plant and food waste and recycling organic materials. The resulting mixture is rich in plant nutrients and beneficial organisms, such as worms and fungal mycelium. Compost improves soil fertility in garden...
5970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol
Capitol
A capitol is a building in which a legislature meets, including: Political authority of a territorial unit United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Numerous U.S. state and territorial capitols Capitolio Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia Capitolio Federal in Caracas, Venezuela El Capitolio in Havana, Cuba Capitol of ...
5973
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema
Cinema
Cinema may refer to: Film Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking Filmmaking, the process of making a film Movie theater (also called a cinema...
5974
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corundum
Corundum
Corundum is a crystalline form of aluminium oxide () typically containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium and chromium. It is a rock-forming mineral. It is a naturally transparent material, but can have different colors depending on the presence of transition metal impurities in its crystalline structure. Corundum h...
5976
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capoeira
Capoeira
Capoeira () is a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, and music. It was practiced by enslaved Africans in Brazil at the beginning of the 16th century. It is known for its acrobatic and complex maneuvers, often involving hands on the ground and inverted kicks. It emphasizes flowing movement...
5980
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20sink
Carbon sink
A carbon sink is any reservoir, natural or otherwise, that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite period and thereby lowers the concentration of carbon dioxide () from the atmosphere. Globally, the two most important carbon sinks are vegetation and the ocean. Public awareness...
5981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Tupper
Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian father of Confederation who served as the sixth prime minister of Canada from May 1 to July 8, 1896. As the premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He briefly served as the Canadian prime minister...
5985
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Radio-television%20and%20Telecommunications%20Commission
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; ) is a public organization in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasting and telecommunications. It was created in 1976 when it took over responsibility for regulating telecommunication carriers. Prior to 1976, it was known as the C...
5986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con
Con
Con may refer to: Places Commonwealth of Nations, or CON, an association of primarily former British colonies Concord Municipal Airport (IATA airport code CON), a public-use airport in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States Cornwall, England, Chapman code CON Arts, entertainment, and media Con (TV series...
5987
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressu...
5992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20Chinese%20medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", and the majority of its treatments as having no logical mechanism of action. Medicine in traditional China encompassed a range of sometimes competing he...
5993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20bond
Chemical bond
A chemical bond is a lasting attraction between atoms, ions or molecules that enables the formation of chemical compounds. The bond may result from the electrostatic force of attraction between oppositely charged ions as in ionic bonds or through the sharing of electrons as in covalent bonds. The strength of chemical b...
5995
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell
Cell
Cell most often refers to: Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life Cell may also refer to: Locations Monastic cell, a small room, hut, or cave in which a religious recluse lives, alternatively the small precursor of a monastery with only a few monks or nuns Prison cell, a room used to hold people in pri...
5999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate
Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteorological variables that are commonly measured are temperature, humidity, atmospheric...
6000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Comoros
History of the Comoros
The history of the Comoros extends to about 800-1000 AD when the archipelago was first inhabited. The Comoros have been inhabited by various groups throughout this time. France colonised the islands in the 19th century, and they became independent in 1975. Early inhabitants There is uncertainty about the early popula...
6001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20the%20Comoros
Geography of the Comoros
The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest–southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar. Still widely known by their French names, the islands officially have been called by their Swahili names by the Comorian government....
6002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20the%20Comoros
Demographics of the Comoros
The Comorians () inhabiting Grande Comore, Anjouan, and Mohéli (86% of the population) share African-Arab origins. Islam is the dominant religion, and Quranic schools for children reinforce its influence. Although Islamic culture is firmly established throughout, a small minority are Christian. The most common languag...
6003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20the%20Comoros
Politics of the Comoros
The Union of the Comoros consists of the three islands Njazidja (Grande Comoros), Mwali (Moheli) and Nzwani (Anjouan) while the island of Mayotte remains under French administration. The Politics of the Union of the Comoros take place in a framework of a federal presidential republic, whereby the President of the Comor...
6005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20the%20Comoros
Telecommunications in the Comoros
In large part thanks to international aid programs, Moroni has international telecommunications service. Telephone service, however, is largely limited to the islands' few towns. Overview Telephones – main lines in use: 5,000 (1995) Telephones – mobile cellular: 0 (1995) Telephone system: sparse system of microwave ...
6006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20the%20Comoros
Transport in the Comoros
There are a number of systems of transport in the Comoros. The Comoros possesses of road, of which are paved. It has three seaports: Fomboni, Moroni and Moutsamoudou, but does not have a merchant marine, and no longer has any railway network. It has four airports, all with paved runways, one with runways over lon...
6007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20the%20Comoros
Foreign relations of the Comoros
In November 1975, Comoros became the 143rd member of the United Nations. The new nation was defined as consisting of the entire archipelago, despite the fact that France maintains control over Mayotte. Overview Comoros also is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, the European Development Fund, the World Ba...
6008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comorian%20Armed%20Forces
Comorian Armed Forces
The Comorian Armed Forces (; ) consist of a small standing army and a 500-member police force, as well as a 500-member defense force. A defense treaty with France provides naval resources for protection of territorial waters, training of Comorian military personnel, and air surveillance. France maintains a small troop ...
6010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20worm
Computer worm
A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. It often uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures on the target computer to access it. It will use this machine as a host to scan and infect other computers. When these ne...
6011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky%20hierarchy
Chomsky hierarchy
In formal language theory, computer science and linguistics, the Chomsky hierarchy (also referred to as the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy) is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. This hierarchy of grammars was described by Noam Chomsky in 1956. It is also named after Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, wh...
6013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRT
CRT
CRT or Crt may refer to: Science, technology, and mathematics Medicine and biology Calreticulin, a protein Capillary refill time, for blood to refill capillaries Cardiac resynchronization therapy and CRT defibrillator (CRT-D) Catheter-related thrombosis, the development of a blood clot related to long-term use o...
6014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode-ray%20tube
Cathode-ray tube
A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, the beams of which are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. The images may represent electrical waveforms (oscilloscope), pictures (television set, computer monitor), radar targets, or other phenomena. A CRT on a televi...
6015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal
Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macroscopic single crystals are usually identifiable by their geometrical shape, consis...
6016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytosine
Cytosine
Cytosine () (symbol C or Cyt) is one of the four nucleobases found in DNA and RNA, along with adenine, guanine, and thymine (uracil in RNA). It is a pyrimidine derivative, with a heterocyclic aromatic ring and two substituents attached (an amine group at position 4 and a keto group at position 2). The nucleoside of cyt...
6019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20chemistry
Computational chemistry
Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses computer simulation to assist in solving chemical problems. It uses methods of theoretical chemistry, incorporated into computer programs, to calculate the structures and properties of molecules, groups of molecules, and solids. It is essential because, apart f...
6020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20%28Ballard%20novel%29
Crash (Ballard novel)
Crash is a novel by English author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1973 with cover designed by Bill Botten. It is a story about car-crash sexual fetishism: its protagonists become sexually aroused by staging and participating in real car-crashes. In 1996, the novel was made into a film of the same name by David Cro...
6021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%20%28programming%20language%29
C (programming language)
C (, as in the letter c) is a general-purpose, procedural computer programming language supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, with a static type system. By design, C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions. It has found lasting use in applications pre...
6023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20of%20the%20Winds
Castle of the Winds
Castle of the Winds is a tile-based roguelike video game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Rick Saada in 1989 and distributed by Epic MegaGames in 1993. The game was given around 1998 into the public domain and provided as Freeware download by the author. Though it is secondary to its hack and slash gameplay, ...
6024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism
Calvinism
Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism or Reformed Christianity) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. It emphasises the sovereignty of God and the authority ...
6026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countable%20set
Countable set
In mathematics, a set is countable if it has the same cardinality (the number of elements of the set) as some subset of the set of natural numbers N = {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}. Equivalently, a set S is countable if there exists an injective function f : S → N from S to N; it simply means that every element in S has the corres...
6034
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahn%E2%80%93Ingold%E2%80%93Prelog%20priority%20rules
Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules
The Cahn–Ingold–Prelog (CIP) sequence rules, named for organic chemists Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold, and Vladimir Prelog — alternatively termed the CIP priority rules, system, or conventions — are a standard process used in organic chemistry to completely and unequivocally name a stereoisomer of a molec...
6035
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celibacy
Celibacy
Celibacy (from Latin caelibatus) is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons. It is often in association with the role of a religious official or devotee. In its narrow sense, the term celibacy is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the resul...
6036
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition%20government
Coalition government
A coalition government is a form of government in which political parties cooperate to form a government. The usual reason for such an arrangement is that no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an election. A coalition government might also be created in a time of national difficulty or crisis (for exa...
6038
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is a certain type of engineering which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw material into useful products. Chemical engineering uses principles of chemist...
6041
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20comedians
List of comedians
A comedian is one who entertains through comedy, such as jokes and other forms of humour. Following is a list of comedians, comedy groups, and comedy writers. Comedians (sorted alphabetically by surname) A RSC (born 2004) Rose Abdoo (born 1962) Raymond Ablack (born 1989) John Aboud (born 1973) James Acaster (b...
6042
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20space
Compact space
In mathematics, specifically general topology, compactness is a property that generalizes the notion of a subset of Euclidean space being closed (containing all its limit points) and bounded (having all its points lie within some fixed distance of each other). Examples of compact spaces include a closed real interval,...
6045
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodius
Clodius
Clodius is an alternate form of the Roman nomen Claudius, a patrician gens that was traditionally regarded as Sabine in origin. The alternation of o and au is characteristic of the Sabine dialect. The feminine form is Clodia. Republican era Publius Clodius Pulcher During the Late Republic, the spelling Clodius is mo...
6046
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher and Academic Skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosop...
6047
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul
Consul
Consul (abbrev. cos.; Latin plural consules) was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states through antiquity and the Middle Ages, then revived in modern states, notably in the Fir...
6050
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20equations%20in%20classical%20mechanics
List of equations in classical mechanics
Classical mechanics is the branch of physics used to describe the motion of macroscopic objects. It is the most familiar of the theories of physics. The concepts it covers, such as mass, acceleration, and force, are commonly used and known. The subject is based upon a three-dimensional Euclidean space with fixed axes, ...
6051
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus%20honorum
Cursus honorum
The cursus honorum (; , or more colloquially 'ladder of offices') was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank. The cursus honorum comprised a mixture of military and political administration posts; t...
6056
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20drift
Continental drift
Continental drift is the hypothesis that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other, thus appearing to have "drifted" across the ocean bed. The idea of continental drift has been subsumed into the science of plate tectonics, which studies the movement of the continents as they ride on p...
6057
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodores
Commodores
Commodores are an American funk and soul band, which were at their peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for the Jackson 5 ...
6058
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen
Collagen
Collagen () is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix found in the body's various connective tissues. As the main component of connective tissue, it is the most abundant protein in mammals, making up from 25% to 35% of the whole-body protein content. Collagen consists of amino acids bound together to f...
6059
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin%20and%20Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic", Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest. C...
6060
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign%20for%20Real%20Ale
Campaign for Real Ale
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation headquartered in St Albans, England, which promotes what they designate as "real" ale, "real" cider, "real" perry and traditional British pubs and clubs. With just over 160,000 members, it is the largest single-issue consumer group in t...
6061
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO%20cycle
CNO cycle
The CNO cycle (for carbon–nitrogen–oxygen; sometimes called Bethe–Weizsäcker cycle after Hans Albrecht Bethe and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker) is one of the two known sets of fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen to helium, the other being the proton–proton chain reaction (p-p cycle), which is more efficien...
6062
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craps
Craps
Craps is a dice game in which players bet on the outcomes of a pair of dice. Players can wager money against each other (playing "street craps") or against a bank ("casino craps"). Because it requires little equipment, "street craps" can be played in informal settings. While shooting craps, players may use slang termi...
6066
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20von%20Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz (; 1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (meaning, in modern terms, psychological) and political aspects of war. His most notable work, (About War), was unfinished at his death. Clausewitz was a realist...
6068
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Lisp
Common Lisp
Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S20018) (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)). The Common Lisp HyperSpec, a hyperlinked HTML version, has been derived from the ANSI Common Lisp standard. The Common Lisp language was developed as a stand...
6069
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20code
Color code
A color code is a system for displaying information by using different colors. The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long-distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication. The United Kingdom adopted a color code scheme for such communication wherein red signified danger and white sig...
6080
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGI
CGI
CGI may refer to: Technology Computer-generated imagery, computer-graphic effects in films, television programs, and other visual media Computer Graphics Interface, the low-level interface between the Graphical Kernel System and hardware Common Gateway Interface, a standard for dynamic generation of web pages by a ...
6082
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortex
Cortex
Cortex or cortical may refer to: Biology Cortex (anatomy), the outermost layer of an organ Cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the vertebrate cerebrum, part of which is the forebrain Motor cortex, the regions of the cerebral cortex involved in voluntary motor functions Prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the f...
6084
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection
Collection
Collection or Collections may refer to: Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department Collection agency, agency to collect cash Collections management (museum) Collection (museum), objects in a particular field forms the core basis for the museum Fonds in archives Private collection, sometime...
6085
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%20sequence
Cauchy sequence
In mathematics, a Cauchy sequence (; ), named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy, is a sequence whose elements become arbitrarily close to each other as the sequence progresses. More precisely, given any small positive distance, all but a finite number of elements of the sequence are less than that given distance from each ...
6088
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Era
Common Era
Common Era (CE) is one of the year notations used for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Before the Common Era (BCE) is the era before CE. BCE and CE are alternatives to the Dionysian BC and AD notations, respectively. The Dionysian era distin...
6091
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Robert%20Malden
Charles Robert Malden
Charles Robert Malden (9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855), was a nineteenth-century British naval officer, surveyor and educator. He is the discoverer of Malden Island in the central Pacific, which is named in his honour. He also founded Windlesham House School at Brighton, England. Biography Malden was born in Putney, Surr...
6094
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPD
CPD
CPD may refer to: Science and technology CPD (gene), a human gene encoding the protein Carboxypeptidase D Chronic pulmonary disease, a pathological condition Cephalopelvic disproportion, when the capacity of the pelvis is inadequate to allow the fetus to negotiate the birth canal Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer, a co...
6095
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya
Chechnya
Chechnya (; ), officially the Chechen Republic, is a constituent republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus in Eastern Europe, close to the Caspian Sea. The republic forms a part of Russia's North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country of Georgia to its south; with the Russian repub...
6097
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization
Canonization
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list, of that communion's recognized saints. Catholic Ch...
6099
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxylic%20acid
Carboxylic acid
A carboxylic acid is an organic acid that contains a carboxyl group (C(=O)OH) attached to an R-group. The general formula of a carboxylic acid is R−COOH or R−CO2H, with R referring to the alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, or other group. Carboxylic acids occur widely. Important examples include the amino acids and fatty acids. De...
6100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl
Chernobyl
Chernobyl (, , ), also known as Chornobyl (), is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about north of Kyiv, and southwest of the Belarusian city of Gomel. Before its evacuation, the city had about 14,000 residents, w...
6102
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan
Cyan
Cyan () is the color between green and blue on the visible spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength between 490 and 520 nm, between the wavelengths of green and blue. In the subtractive color system, or CMYK color model, which can be overlaid to produce all colors in paint and color print...
6105
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional%20insulin%20therapy
Conventional insulin therapy
Conventional insulin therapy is a therapeutic regimen for treatment of diabetes mellitus which contrasts with the newer intensive insulin therapy. This older method (prior to the development home blood glucose monitoring) is still in use in a proportion of cases. Conventional insulin therapy is characterized by: Insu...
6109
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream
Cream
Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, the fat, which is less dense, eventually rises to the top. In the industrial production of cream, this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called "separators". In many countries,...
6111
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20vapor%20deposition
Chemical vapor deposition
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a vacuum deposition method used to produce high quality, and high-performance, solid materials. The process is often used in the semiconductor industry to produce thin films. In typical CVD, the wafer (substrate) is exposed to one or more volatile precursors, which react and/or decom...
6112
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN%20Tower
CN Tower
The CN Tower () is a concrete communications and observation tower located in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976. Its name "CN" originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to...
6113
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20rule
Chain rule
In calculus, the chain rule is a formula that expresses the derivative of the composition of two differentiable functions and in terms of the derivatives of and . More precisely, if is the function such that for every , then the chain rule is, in Lagrange's notation, or, equivalently, The chain rule may also be ...
6115
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%20versus%20NP%20problem
P versus NP problem
The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be solved quickly. The informal term quickly, used above, means the existence of an algorithm solving the task that runs in polynomial time, such that the time to compl...
6117
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Sanders%20Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was known as a somewhat unusual character. Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for thirty years, Peirce made major co...
6118
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot%20heat%20engine
Carnot heat engine
A Carnot heat engine is a heat engine that operates on the Carnot cycle. The basic model for this engine was developed by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot in 1824. The Carnot engine model was graphically expanded by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron in 1834 and mathematically explored by Rudolf Clausius in 1857, work that led to ...
6119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-sensitive
Context-sensitive
Context-sensitive is an adjective meaning "depending on context" or "depending on circumstances". It may refer to: Context-sensitive meaning, where meaning depends on context (language use) Context-sensitive grammar, a formal grammar in which the left-hand sides and right-hand sides of any production rules may be su...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20America
Central America
Central America (, , Centroamérica ) is a region of the Americas. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Central America consists of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Thei...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20function
Continuous function
In mathematics, a continuous function is a function such that a continuous variation (that is a change without jump) of the argument induces a continuous variation of the value of the function. This means that there are no abrupt changes in value, known as discontinuities. More precisely, a function is continuous if ar...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl%20%28mathematics%29
Curl (mathematics)
In vector calculus, the curl is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal circulation of a vector field in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The curl at a point in the field is represented by a vector whose length and direction denote the magnitude and axis of the maximum circulation. The curl of a field is f...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Friedrich%20Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (; ; ; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum () and "the greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had an exceptional inf...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish%20language
Cornish language
Cornish (Standard Written Form: or ) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. It is a revived language, having become extinct as a living community language in Cornwall at the end of the 18th century. However, knowledge of Cornish, including speaking ability to a certain extent, continued to...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20theory
Complexity theory
Complexity theory may refer to: Science and technology Assembly theory, a way of characterizing extraterrestrial molecular complexity to assess the probability of the presence of life Complexity theory, the study of complexity Complexity theory, the study of complex systems Computational complexity theory, a field...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis
Charybdis
Charybdis (; Ancient Greek: Χάρυβδις, , Kharubdis) is a sea monster in Greek mythology. She, with the sea monster Scylla, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas. Scholarship locates her in the Strait of Messina. Description The sea monster Charybdis was believed to live under a ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20monoxide
Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide (chemical formula CO) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, flammable gas that is slightly less dense than air. Carbon monoxide consists of one carbon atom and one oxygen atom. It is the simplest molecule of the oxocarbon family. In coordination complexes the carbon monoxide ligand is called carbonyl. I...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjecture
Conjecture
In mathematics, a conjecture is a conclusion or a proposition which is suspected to be true due to preliminary supporting evidence, but for which no proof or disproof has yet been found. Some conjectures, such as the Riemann hypothesis (still a conjecture) or Fermat's Last Theorem (a conjecture until proven in 1995 by ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph%20Ludwig%20Agricola
Christoph Ludwig Agricola
Christoph Ludwig Agricola (5 November 1665 – 8 August 1724) was a German landscape painter and etcher. He was born and died at Regensburg (Ratisbon). Life and career Christoph Ludwig Agricola was born on 5 November 1665 at Regensburg in Germany. He trained, as many painters of the period did, by studying nature. He ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius
Claudius
Claudius ( ; Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate. He ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to: Animals Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds Cardinalis, genus of cardinal in the family CardinalidaeCardinalis cardinalis, or northern cardinal, the common cardinal of eastern North America Argynnis pandora, a species of butterfly Cardi...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%20set
Cantor set
In mathematics, the Cantor set is a set of points lying on a single line segment that has a number of unintuitive properties. It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883. Through consideration of this set, Cantor and others helped lay the foundatio...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20number
Cardinal number
In mathematics, cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalization of the natural numbers used to measure the cardinality (size) of sets. The cardinality of a finite set is a natural number: the number of elements in the set. The transfinite cardinal numbers, often denoted using the Hebrew symbol (aleph) f...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality
Cardinality
In mathematics, the cardinality of a set is a measure of the "number of elements" of the set. For example, the set contains 3 elements, and therefore has a cardinality of 3. Beginning in the late 19th century, this concept was generalized to infinite sets, which allows one to distinguish between the different types o...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil%20B.%20DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Islamic%20cuisine
Chinese Islamic cuisine
Cuisine of Chinese Muslims (, Dungan: Чыңжән цаы or , Dungan: Ҳуэйзў цаы) is the cuisine of the Hui (ethnic Chinese Muslims) and other Muslims living in China such as Bonan, Dongxiang, Salar and Uyghurs as well as Dungans of Central Asia. While it does have distinctive dishes like clear-broth beef noodle soup and chua...