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6613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze | Yangtze | The Yangtze, Yangzi ( or ), or officially Chang Jiang is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea. It is... |
6614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono%20Trigger | Chrono Trigger | is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square. It was originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as the first game in the Chrono series. The game's development team included three designers that Square dubbed the "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Square's Final Fant... |
6615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall%20Wildlife%20Trust | Cornwall Wildlife Trust | The Cornwall Wildlife Trust is a charitable organisation founded in 1962 that is concerned solely with Cornwall, England.
It deals with the conservation and preservation of Cornwall's wildlife and habitats managing over 50 nature reserves covering approximately , amongst them Looe Island.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust is p... |
6616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatory | Conservatory | Conservatory may refer to:
Conservatory (greenhouse), a substantial building or room where plants are cultivated, including medicinal ones and including attached residential solariums
Music school, or a school devoted to other arts such as dance
Sunroom, a smaller glass enclosure or garden shed attached to a house, ... |
6617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactification%20%28mathematics%29 | Compactification (mathematics) | In mathematics, in general topology, compactification is the process or result of making a topological space into a compact space. A compact space is a space in which every open cover of the space contains a finite subcover. The methods of compactification are various, but each is a way of controlling points from "goin... |
6620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotangent%20space | Cotangent space | In differential geometry, one can attach to every point of a smooth (or differentiable) manifold, , a vector space called the cotangent space at . Typically, the cotangent space, is defined as the dual space of the tangent space at , , although there are more direct definitions (see below). The elements of the cotang... |
6621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidaria | Cnidaria | Cnidaria () is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in freshwater and marine environments, predominantly the latter.
Their distinguishing feature is cnidocytes, specialized cells that they use mainly for capturing prey. Their bodies consist of mesoglea, a non-li... |
6623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative%20Judaism | Conservative Judaism | Conservative Judaism (known as Masorti Judaism outside North America) is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people and the community through the generations, more than from divine revelation. It therefore views Jewish law, or ... |
6626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDE | CDE | CDE may refer to:
Education
California Department of Education
Colorado Department of Education
Center for Distance Education at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Career Development Event, a type of contest sponsored by the National FFA Organization
Certified diabetes educator
Center for Data Engineering, IIIT Hyde... |
6627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Desktop%20Environment | Common Desktop Environment | The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard, and was for a long time the Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations.
After a long history as proprietary software, CDE was re... |
6628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%20of%20Dune | Children of Dune | Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his Dune series of six novels. It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication.
At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, ... |
6629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide | Candide | ( , ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism (1947). It begins with a young man, Candide, who is ... |
6630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapterhouse%3A%20Dune | Chapterhouse: Dune | Chapterhouse: Dune is a 1985 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the last in his Dune series of six novels. It rose to No. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
A direct follow-up to Heretics of Dune, the novel chronicles the continued struggles of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood against the violent Honored Matre... |
6631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20%28computing%29 | Bus (computing) | In computer architecture, a bus (shortened form of the Latin omnibus, and historically also called data highway) is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers. This expression covers all related hardware components (wire, optical fiber, etc.) and software, incl... |
6634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cadillac (disambiguation) | Cadillac is a General Motors luxury car brand.
Cadillac may also refer to:
People
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer, founder of Detroit
Marie-Therese Guyon Cadillac, American pioneer
Cadillac Anderson (born 1964) nickname of U.S. basketball player Gregory Wayne Anderson
Cadillac Williams (born 1982) nickn... |
6635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20checkers | Chinese checkers | Sternhalma, commonly known as Chinese checkers (US and Canadian spelling) or Chinese chequers (UK spelling), is a strategy board game of German origin which can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. The game is a modern and simplified variation of the game Halma.
The obje... |
6639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%20Fitzgerald | Cantor Fitzgerald | Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is an American financial services firm that was founded in 1945. It specializes in institutional equity, fixed income sales and trading, and serving the middle market with investment banking services, prime brokerage, and commercial real estate financing. It is also active in new businesses, inc... |
6641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane%20toad | Cane toad | The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia. It is a member of the genus Rhin... |
6643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet | Croquet | Croquet (; (UK) or (US)) is a sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
Its international governing body is the World Croquet Federation.
Variations
There are several variations of croquet currentl... |
6644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling | Curling | Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet... |
6645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven%20Cottage | Craven Cottage | Craven Cottage is a football ground in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham F.C. since 1896. The ground's capacity is 19,359; the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall in 1938. Next to Bishop's Park on the banks of the River Thames, it was originally a royal hunting lodge a... |
6649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine | Constantine | Constantine most often refers to:
Constantine the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337, also known as Constantine I
Constantine, Algeria, a city in Algeria
Constantine may also refer to:
People
Constantine (name), a masculine given name and surname
Roman/Byzantine emperors
Constantine II (emperor)
Constantine... |
6650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20composers | Lists of composers | This is a list of lists of composers grouped by various criteria.
Name
List of composers by name
Women
List of female composers by name
List of female composers by birth date
List of Australian female composers
Genre
Anime composer
List of Carnatic composers
List of film score composers
List of major opera composers... |
6651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar%20Falls%2C%20Iowa | Cedar Falls, Iowa | Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 40,713. It is home to the University of Northern Iowa, a public university.
History
Cedar Falls was first settled in March 1845 by brothers-in-law William Sturgis and Erasmus D. Adams. Initially, the city wa... |
6652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland%20Guardians | Cleveland Guardians | The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. Since , they have played at Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is at Goodyear Ballpark in Goodye... |
6653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Town | Cape Town | Cape Town (; , ) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, along with judicial capital Bloemfontein and administrative capital Pretoria. It is the oldest and second largest city in the country, after Johannesburg.
... |
6654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Cubs | Chicago Cubs | The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as part of the National League (NL) Central division. They play home games at Wrigley Field, located on the city's North Side. The Cubs are one of two major league teams based in Chicago; the ot... |
6655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldcut | Coldcut | Coldcut are an English electronic music duo composed of Matt Black and Jonathan More. Credited as pioneers for pop sampling in the 1980s, Coldcut are also considered the first stars of UK electronic dance music due to their innovative style, which featured cut-up samples of hip-hop, soul, funk, spoken word and various ... |
6656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine | Cuisine | A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region. Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region.
A cuisine is primarily influ... |
6660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec | Codec | A codec is a device or computer program which encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder.
In electronic communications, an endec is a device which acts as both an encoder and a decoder on a signal or data stream, and hence is a type of codec. Endec is a portmanteau of encoder/d... |
6663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20Tombaugh | Clyde Tombaugh | Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt. At the time of discovery, Pluto was considered a planet, but was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Tombaugh a... |
6666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20B%C3%A1thory | Christopher Báthory | Christopher Báthory (; 1530 – 27 May 1581) was voivode of Transylvania from 1576 to 1581. He was a younger son of Stephen Báthory of Somlyó. Christopher's career began during the reign of Queen Isabella Jagiellon, who administered the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Hungary on behalf of her son, John Sigismund Zá... |
6667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN | CPAN | The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of over 250,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 39,000 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 12,000 contributors. CPAN can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the ne... |
6669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20Rockies | Colorado Rockies | The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The team plays its home baseball games at Coors Field, which is located in the Lower Downtown area of Denver. It is owned by the... |
6670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement | Cement | A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together. Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, produces con... |
6671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati%20Reds | Cincinnati Reds | The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. The Reds compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division, and were a charter member of the American Association in 1881 before joining the NL in 1890.
The Reds played in the NL West ... |
6672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20cuisine | Caribbean cuisine | Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of African, Creole, Cajun, Amerindian, European, Latin American, Indian/South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Chinese. These traditions were brought from many different countries when they came to the Caribbean. In addition, the population has created styles that are unique to the region.
Cari... |
6673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Powers | Central Powers | The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires, was one of the two main coalitions that fought World War I (1914–18). It consisted of German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Kingdom of Bulgaria and was also known as the Quadruple Alliance. Colonies of these countries also fought on the Central Pow... |
6675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism | Conservatism | Conservatism is an aesthetic, cultural, social, and political philosophy, which seeks to promote and to preserve traditional social institutions. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the status quo of the culture and civilization in which it appears. In Western culture, conservatives seek to prese... |
6677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20liberalism | Classical liberalism | Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market, civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on limited government, economic freedom, and political freedom with cultural liberalism. It was developed in the early 19th century, building on ideas from the previ... |
6678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat | Cat | The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of a small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is often referred to as the domestic cat to distinguish it from the wild members of the family. A cat can either be a house cat, a farm cat or a feral cat; the latter ranges freely an... |
6681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank | Crank | Crank may refer to:
Mechanisms
Crank (mechanism), in mechanical engineering, a bent portion of an axle or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it
Crankset, the component of a bicycle drivetrain that converts the reciprocating motion of the ride... |
6682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade | Clade | A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, the equivalent Latin term cladus (plural cladi) is often used in taxonomical lite... |
6684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%20in%20Afghanistan | Communications in Afghanistan | Communications in Afghanistan is under the control of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT). It has rapidly expanded after the Karzai administration took over in late 2001, and has embarked on wireless companies, internet, radio stations and television channels.
The Afghan government signed ... |
6689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20of%20Oliva | Christian of Oliva | Christian of Oliva (), also Christian of Prussia () (died 4 December(?) 1245) was the first missionary bishop of Prussia.
History
Christian was born about 1180 in the Duchy of Pomerania, possibly in the area of Chociwel (according to Johannes Voigt). Probably as a juvenile he joined the Cistercian Order at newly esta... |
6690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company. Originally marketed as a temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton and was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Cola ... |
6693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofinality | Cofinality | In mathematics, especially in order theory, the cofinality cf(A) of a partially ordered set A is the least of the cardinalities of the cofinal subsets of A.
This definition of cofinality relies on the axiom of choice, as it uses the fact that every non-empty set of cardinal numbers has a least member. The cofinality o... |
6695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel | Citadel | A citadel is the core fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle, fortress, or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of "city", meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core.
In a fortification with bastions, the citadel is the strongest part of the s... |
6696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20mail | Chain mail | Chain mail (often just mail or sometimes chainmail) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh. It was generally in common military use between the 3rd century BC and the 16th century AD in Europe, and longer in Asia and North Africa. A coat of this armour is often r... |
6697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus | Cerberus | In Greek mythology, Cerberus (; Kérberos ), often referred to as the hound of Hades, is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. He was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and Typhon, and was usually described as having three heads, a serpent for a tail, and snakes... |
6698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel%20case | Camel case | Camel case (sometimes stylized as camelCase or CamelCase, also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation, indicating the separation of words with a single capitalized letter, and the first word starting with either case. Common examples in... |
6700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal | Cereal | A cereal is any grass cultivated (grown) for the edible components of its grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis), composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran. The term may also refer to the resulting grain itself (specifically "cereal grain"). Cereal grain crops are grown in greater quantities and provid... |
6704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom | Christendom | Christendom historically refers to the "Christian world": Christian states, Christian-majority countries and the countries in which Christianity dominates, prevails, or is culturally intertwined with.
Since the spread of Christianity from the Levant to Europe and North Africa during the early Roman Empire, Christendom... |
6710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote | Coyote | The coyote (Canis latrans) is a species of canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia. The coyote is larger and more predatory an... |
6711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressor%20%28disambiguation%29 | Compressor (disambiguation) | A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume.
Compressor may also refer to:
A device that performs Compression (disambiguation)
Compressor (audio signal processor), for dynamic range compression
Compressor (software), a video and audio media compression and encod... |
6713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan%20the%20Barbarian | Conan the Barbarian | Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (animated and live-action), video games, and role-playing games. ... |
6715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Marker | Chris Marker | Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that... |
6716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20vowels | Cardinal vowels | Cardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of languages. They are classified depending on the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth, how far forward or back is the highest point of the tongue, and the position of the lips (rounded or unrounded).
A car... |
6719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%2C%20Missouri | Columbia, Missouri | Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the five-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri's fourth most-populous and fastest growing city, with an estimated 126,254 residents in... |
6720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton%20Athletic%20F.C. | Charlton Athletic F.C. | Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Charlton, south-east London. They currently compete in League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905. Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919, apart from one... |
6721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-country%20skiing | Cross-country skiing | Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreational activity; however, some still use it as a means of transportation. Varian... |
6724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copacabana%2C%20Rio%20de%20Janeiro | Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro | Copacabana () is a bairro (neighbourhood) located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is most prominently known for its 4 km (2.5 miles) balneario beach, which is one of the most famous in the world.
History
The district was originally called (translated from the Tupi language, it means "the ... |
6725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy%20Young%20Award | Cy Young Award | The Cy Young Award is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL). The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955. The award was originally given... |
6728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism%20in%20Christianity | Antisemitism in Christianity | Antisemitism in Christianity is the feeling of hostility which some Christian Churches, Christian groups, and ordinary Christians have towards the Jewish religion and the Jewish people.
Antisemitic Christian rhetoric and the antipathy towards Jews which result from it both date back to the early years of Christianity ... |
6731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20C-17%20Globemaster%20III | Boeing C-17 Globemaster III | The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft that was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston-engined military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C-74 Globemaste... |
6732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber | Caber | Caber can refer to:
Caber toss, a sport
Places
Caber, Çivril, a village in Çivril District, Denizli Province, Turkey
Caber, Sarayköy, a village in Sarayköy District, Denizli Province, Turkey
Çabër, a village in Zubin Potok, Mitrovica district, Kosovo
Other uses
CaBER, Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometer
Caber... |
6734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage%20collection%20%28computer%20science%29 | Garbage collection (computer science) | In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory which was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced—also called garbage. Garbage collection was invented by American computer scientist John McCarthy around 1959 to simplif... |
6736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canidae | Canidae | Canidae (; from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade. A member of this family is also called a canid (). There are three subfamilies found within the canid family, which are the extinct Borophaginae and Hesperocyoninae, and the ex... |
6739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies%20of%20Canis%20lupus | Subspecies of Canis lupus | There are 38 subspecies of Canis lupus listed in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005, 3rd edition). These subspecies were named over the past 250 years, and since their naming, a number of them have gone extinct. The nominate subspecies is the Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus).
Taxonomy
In 1758, ... |
6742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Asia | Central Asia | Central Asia is a region in Asia which stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. The region consists of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It is also collo... |
6744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine%20II | Constantine II | Constantine II may refer to:
Constantine II (emperor) (317–340), Roman Emperor 337–340
Constantine III (usurper) (died 411), known as Constantine II of Britain in British legend
Constantine II of Byzantine (630–668)
Antipope Constantine II (died 768), antipope from 767 to 768
Constantine II of Scotland (c.878 – 9... |
6745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couscous | Couscous | Couscous is a North African dish of small steamed granules of rolled durum wheat semolina that is traditionally served with a stew spooned on top. Pearl millet, sorghum, Bulgur and other cereals can be cooked in a similar way in other regions and the resulting dishes are also sometimes called couscous.
Couscous is a s... |
6746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantius%20II | Constantius II | Flavius Julius Constantius (; 7 August 317 – 3 November 361), known as Constantius II, was Roman emperor from 337 to 361. His reign saw constant warfare on the borders against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic peoples, while internally the Roman Empire went through repeated civil wars, court intrigues and usurpations. H... |
6747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constans | Constans | Flavius Julius Constans ( 320 – 350), sometimes called Constans I, was Roman emperor from 337 to 350. He held the imperial rank of Caesar from 333, and was the youngest son of Constantine the Great.
After his father's death, he was made augustus alongside his brothers in September 337. Constans was given the administr... |
6749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerleading | Cheerleading | Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to entertain the audience, or for competition. Cheerleading routines typically range... |
6751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley%20Fairies | Cottingley Fairies | The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. The pictures came to the a... |
6752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka | Cheka | The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (), abbreviated as VChK (), and commonly known as Cheka (; from the initialism ), was the first of a succession of Soviet secret-police organizations. Established on December 5 (Old Style) 1917 by the Sovnarkom, it came under the leadership of Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Polish aristoc... |
6753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic | Clitic | In morphology and syntax, a clitic (, backformed from Greek "leaning" or "enclitic") is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase. In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent—always attached to a host. A clitic is pron... |
6759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free%20grammar | Context-free grammar | In formal language theory, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar whose production rules are of the form
with a single nonterminal symbol, and a string of terminals and/or nonterminals ( can be empty). A formal grammar is "context free" if its production rules can be applied regardless of the context of a... |
6760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics | Cryonics | Cryonics (from kryos meaning 'cold') is the low-temperature freezing (usually at ) and storage of human remains, with the speculative hope that resurrection may be possible in the future. Cryonics is regarded with skepticism within the mainstream scientific community. It is generally viewed as a pseudoscience, and its... |
6761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary%20patent | Unitary patent | The European patent with unitary effect, more commonly known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which will benefit from unitary effect in the participating member states of the European Union. Unitary effect may be requested by the proprietor within one month of grant of a European patent, replacing validation... |
6763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistron | Cistron | A cistron is an alternative term for "gene". The word cistron is used to emphasize that genes exhibit a specific behavior in a cis-trans test; distinct positions (or loci) within a genome are cistronic.
History
The words cistron and gene were coined before the advancing state of biology made it clear that the concept... |
6766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth | Commonwealth | A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with "republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from the 15th century. Originally a phrase (the common-wealth or the common wealth... |
6767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%201541 | Commodore 1541 | The Commodore 1541 (also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541) is a floppy disk drive which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer. The best-known floppy disk drive for the C64, the 1541 is a single-sided 170-kilobyte drive for 5¼" disks. The 1541 directly ... |
6769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%201581 | Commodore 1581 | The Commodore 1581 is a 3½-inch double-sided double-density floppy disk drive that was released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1987, primarily for its C64 and C128 home/personal computers. The drive stores 800 kilobytes using an MFM encoding but formats different from the MS-DOS (720 kB), Amiga (880 kB), and M... |
6771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20football | College football | College football () is gridiron football consisting of American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities. It was through college football play that American f... |
6773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprofloxacin | Ciprofloxacin | Ciprofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone (flor-o-KWIN-o-lone) antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections. This includes bone and joint infections, intra abdominal infections, certain type of infectious diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, skin infections, typhoid fever, and urinary tract infections, among o... |
6774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consubstantiation | Consubstantiation | Consubstantiation is a Christian theological doctrine that (like transubstantiation) describes the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It holds that during the sacrament, the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present alongside the substance of the bread and wine, which remain present.
It was part of ... |
6775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyta | Chlorophyta | Chlorophyta or Prasinophyta is a taxon of green algae informally called chlorophytes. The name is used in two very different senses, so care is needed to determine the use by a particular author. In older classification systems, it refers to a highly paraphyletic group of all the green algae within the green plants (Vi... |
6776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara | Capybara | The capybara or greater capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a giant cavy rodent native to South America. It is the largest living rodent and a member of the genus Hydrochoerus. The only other extant member is the lesser capybara (Hydrochoerus isthmius). Its close relatives include guinea pigs and rock cavies, and i... |
6777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20animation | Computer animation | Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating animated images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images. Modern computer animation usually uses 3D computer graphics to generate a thre... |
6778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceawlin%20of%20Wessex | Ceawlin of Wessex | Ceawlin (also spelled Ceaulin and Caelin, died ca. 593) was a King of Wessex. He may have been the son of Cynric of Wessex and the grandson of Cerdic of Wessex, whom the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle represents as the leader of the first group of Saxons to come to the land which later became Wessex. Ceawlin was active during t... |
6779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch%20%28disambiguation%29 | Christchurch (disambiguation) | Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
Christchurch may also refer to:
Places
Christchurch, New Zealand
Christchurch (New Zealand electorate), a former electorate in New Zealand, also called Town (or City) of Christchurch
Christchurch Central, the current electorate of Christchurch i... |
6780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R | CD-R | CD-R (Compact disc-recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format. A CD-R disc is a compact disc that can be written once and read arbitrarily many times.
CD-R discs (CD-Rs) are readable by most CD readers manufactured prior to the introduction of CD-R, unlike CD-RW discs.
History
Originally named CD Write-Onc... |
6781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytosol | Cytosol | The cytosol, also known as cytoplasmic matrix or groundplasm, is one of the liquids found inside cells (intracellular fluid (ICF)). It is separated into compartments by membranes. For example, the mitochondrial matrix separates the mitochondrion into many compartments.
In the eukaryotic cell, the cytosol is surrounded... |
6782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound | Compound | Compound may refer to:
Architecture and built environments
Compound (enclosure), a cluster of buildings having a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall
Compound (fortification), a version of the above fortified with defensive structures
Compound (migrant labour), a hostel for migrant workers such as those h... |
6784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship | Citizenship | Citizenship is a relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection.
Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and the conditions under which that status will be withdrawn. Recognition by a s... |
6787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas | Chiapas | Chiapas (; Tzotzil and Tzeltal: Chyapas ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (), is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 124 municipalities and its capital city is Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Other important population centers in Chiapas include Ocosingo, Tapachula, San... |
6788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler%20Building | Chrysler Building | The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in the Turtle Bay neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. At , it is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework, and was the world's tallest building for 1... |
6790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Breton%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cape Breton (disambiguation) | Cape Breton Island is an island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, in Canada.
Cape Breton may also refer to:
Places
On Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton, a cape at the eastern tip of Cape Breton Island, Canada
Cape Breton Highlands, a mountain range in the north of Cape Breton Island, Canada
Cape Breton Highla... |
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