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7431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike%20%28video%20game%29 | Counter-Strike (video game) | Counter-Strike (also known as Half-Life: Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike 1.6) is a first-person shooter game developed by Valve. It was initially developed and released as a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquir... |
7434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille%20Pissarro | Camille Pissarro | Camille Pissarro ( , ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro s... |
7435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiology%20diagnostic%20tests%20and%20procedures | Cardiology diagnostic tests and procedures | The diagnostic tests in cardiology are methods of identifying heart conditions associated with healthy vs. unhealthy, pathologic heart function.
Bedside
History
Obtaining a medical history is always the first "test", part of understanding the likelihood of significant disease, as detectable within the current limitat... |
7437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Collodi | Carlo Collodi | Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Early life
Collodi was born in Florence on 24 November 1826. His mother Angiolina Orzali Lorenzini wa... |
7439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible%20number | Constructible number | In geometry and algebra, a real number is constructible if and only if, given a line segment of unit length, a line segment of length can be constructed with compass and straightedge in a finite number of steps. Equivalently, is constructible if and only if there is a closed-form expression for using only integers ... |
7441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson%20City%2C%20Nevada | Carson City, Nevada | Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada, named after the mountain man Kit Carson. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the sixth largest city in Nevada. The majority of the city's population lives in ... |
7445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20finite%20simple%20groups | Classification of finite simple groups | In mathematics, the classification of the finite simple groups is a result of group theory stating that every finite simple group is either cyclic, or alternating, or it belongs to a broad infinite class called the groups of Lie type, or else it is one of twenty-six or twenty-seven exceptions, called sporadic. The proo... |
7446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcolithic | Chalcolithic | The Chalcolithic (), a name derived from the khalkós, "copper" and from líthos, "stone" or Copper Age, also known as the Eneolithic or Aeneolithic (from Latin aeneus "of copper") is an archaeological period which researchers now regard as part of the broader Neolithic. Earlier scholars defined it as a transitional pe... |
7447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision%20and%20law | Circumcision and law | Laws restricting, regulating, or banning circumcision, some dating back to ancient times, have been enacted in many countries and communities. In modern states, circumcision is generally presumed to be legal, but laws pertaining to assault or child custody have been applied in cases involving circumcision. There are no... |
7449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Called%20to%20Common%20Mission | Called to Common Mission | Called to Common Mission (CCM) is an agreement between The Episcopal Church (ECUSA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in the United States, establishing full communion between them. It was ratified by the ELCA in 1999, the ECUSA in 2000, after the narrow failure of a previous agreement. Its principa... |
7450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context%20menu | Context menu | A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and pop up or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click mouse operation. A context menu offers a limited set of choices that are available in the current state, or context, of the operating syste... |
7451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews%20as%20the%20chosen%20people | Jews as the chosen people | In Judaism, "chosenness" is the belief that the Jews, via descent from the ancient Israelites, are the chosen people, i.e. selected to be in a covenant with God. The idea of the Israelites being chosen by God is found most directly in the Book of Deuteronomy as the verb baḥar (), and is alluded to elsewhere in the Hebr... |
7453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20persecution | Christian persecution | Christian persecution may refer to:
History of Christian thought on persecution and tolerance
Persecution of other groups by Christians
Historical persecution by Christians
Persecution of Heathens (disambiguation)
Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire
Christian persecution of paganism under Theodosius I
... |
7455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral | Chaparral | Chaparral ( ) is a shrubland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California, in southern Oregon, and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild wet winters and hot dry summers) and infrequent, high-intensity crown fires. Chaparral f... |
7456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJD | CJD | CJD can mean:
Chojoongdong, South Korean newspaper
Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands, German Christian educational institution
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, rare disease of the brain caused by prions
Candilejas Airport, Colombia (by IATA code) |
7460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinker | Clinker | Clinker may refer to:
Clinker (boat building), construction method for wooden boats
Clinker (waste), waste from industrial processes
Clinker (cement), a kilned then quenched cement product
Clinkers (album), a 1978 album by saxophonist Steve Lacy
Clinker brick, rough dark-coloured bricks
Clinker Peak, a volcanic peak i... |
7461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper | Clipper | A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. Clippers were generally narrow for their length, small by later 19th century standards, could carry limited bulk freight, and had a large total sail area. "Clipper" does not refer to a specific sailplan; clippers may be schooners, bri... |
7462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive%20Anderson | Clive Anderson | Clive Stuart Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is an English television and radio presenter, comedy writer, and former barrister. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began experimenting with comedy and writing comedic scripts during his 15-year legal career, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway? on ... |
7463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20fusion | Cold fusion | Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. It would contrast starkly with the "hot" fusion that is known to take place naturally within stars and artificially in hydrogen bombs and prototype fusion reactors under immense pressure and at temperatures of million... |
7466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal%20tar | Coal tar | Coal tar is a thick dark liquid which is a by-product of the production of coke and coal gas from coal. It has both medical and industrial uses. Medicinally it is a topical medication applied to skin to treat psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis (dandruff). It may be used in combination with ultraviolet light therapy. I... |
7467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbler | Cobbler | Cobbler(s) may refer to:
Places
The Cobbler, a mountain located near the head of Loch Long in Scotland
Art, entertainment and media
The Cobbler (1923 film), a short comedy by Hal Roach
The Cobbler (2014 film), a comedy-drama starring Adam Sandler
"Cobbler" (Better Call Saul), an episode of the TV series Better Ca... |
7471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20of%20Siena | Catherine of Siena | Catherine of Siena (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), a lay member of the Dominican Order, was a mystic, activist, and author who had a great influence on Italian literature and on the Catholic Church. Canonized in 1461, she is also a Doctor of the Church.
Born and raised in Siena, she wanted from an early age to devo... |
7472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Lyell | Charles Lyell | Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology (1830–33), which presented to a wide public audience the idea that the earth was s... |
7473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea%20F.C. | Chelsea F.C. | Chelsea Football Club, often referred to as Chelsea, is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, the club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. Chelsea are among England's most successful clubs, having won over thirty competitive honours, inclu... |
7475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU%20reactor | CANDU reactor | The CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) is a Canadian pressurized heavy-water reactor design used to generate electric power. The acronym refers to its deuterium oxide (heavy water) moderator and its use of (originally, natural) uranium fuel. CANDU reactors were first developed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership... |
7477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuitl%C3%A1huac | Cuitláhuac | Cuitláhuac (, ) (c. 1476 – 1520) or Cuitláhuac (in Spanish orthography; , , honorific form: Cuitlahuatzin) was the 10th Huey Tlatoani (emperor) of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan for 80 days during the year Two Flint (1520). He is credited with leading the resistance to the Spanish and Tlaxcalteca conquest of the Mexic... |
7478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauht%C3%A9moc | Cuauhtémoc | Cuauhtémoc (, ), also known as Cuauhtemotzín, Guatimozín, or Guatémoc, was the Aztec ruler (tlatoani) of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, making him the last Aztec Emperor. The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle", and is commonly rendered in English as "Descending Eagle", as in the moment when a... |
7480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20section%20%28physics%29 | Cross section (physics) | In physics, the cross section is a measure of the probability that a specific process will take place when some kind of radiant excitation (e.g. a particle beam, sound wave, light, or an X-ray) intersects a localized phenomenon (e.g. a particle or density fluctuation). For example, the Rutherford cross-section is a mea... |
7482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20mythology | Christian mythology | Christian mythology is the body of myths associated with Christianity. The term encompasses a broad variety of legends and narratives, especially those considered sacred narratives. Mythological themes and elements occur throughout Christian literature, including recurring myths such as ascending to a mountain, the axi... |
7484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%20%28disambiguation%29 | Company (disambiguation) | A company is a group of more than one persons to carry out an enterprise and so a form of business organization.
Company may also refer to:
Organizations
Company (military unit), a group of soldiers
Opera company, an instituted company that performs operas
Theatre company, of touring actors, singers and/or dancers... |
7485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation | Corporation | A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes. Early incorporated entities were esta... |
7487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild%20Channel%20F | Fairchild Channel F | The Fairchild Channel F, short for "Channel Fun", was the first video game console to use ROM cartridges, instead of having games built-in, and the first console to use a microprocessor. It was released by Fairchild Camera and Instrument in November 1976 across North America at a retail price of . It was launched as th... |
7489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collation | Collation | Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order, or extensions and combinations thereof. Collation is a fundamental element of most office filing systems, library catalogs, and reference books.
Collation differs from c... |
7490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20Rights%20Act | Civil Rights Act | Civil Rights Act may refer to several acts of the United States Congress, including:
Civil Rights Act of 1866, extending the rights of emancipated slaves by stating that any person born in the United States regardless of race is an American citizen
Civil Rights Act of 1871, prohibiting race-based violence against Afr... |
7491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola | Cola | Cola is a carbonated soft drink flavored with vanilla, cinnamon, citrus oils and other flavorings. Cola became popular worldwide after pharmacist John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, a trademarked brand, in 1886, which was later imitated by other manufacturers. Most colas contain caffeine, which was originally sourced fr... |
7492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability%20Maturity%20Model | Capability Maturity Model | The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a development model created in 1986 after a study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense, who funded the research. The term "maturity" relates to the degree of formality and optimization of processes, from ad hoc practices, to for... |
7499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX | RDX | RDX (abbreviation of "Research Department eXplosive" or "Royal Demolition eXplosive"), among other names (see the section Name), is an organic compound with the formula (O2N2CH2)3. It is a white solid without smell or taste, widely used as an explosive. Chemically, it is classified as a nitroamine alongside HMX, which ... |
7500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebes%20%28disambiguation%29 | Celebes (disambiguation) | Celebes is the former name of Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia.
Celebes may also refer to:
Celebes Sea, western Pacific Ocean
Celebes TV, a local news television station in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
The Elephant Celebes, a 1921 Surrealist work by Max Ernst
HMS Celebes (1806), originally the Batavian Republic friga... |
7502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity%20and%20Judaism | Christianity and Judaism | Christianity is rooted in Second Temple Judaism, but the two religions diverged in the first centuries of the Christian Era. Christianity emphasizes correct belief (or orthodoxy), focusing on the New Covenant as mediated through Jesus Christ, as recorded in the New Testament. Judaism places emphasis on correct conduct ... |
7504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare%20Borgia | Cesare Borgia | Cesare Borgia (; ; ; 13 September 1475 – 12 March 1507) was an Italian cardinal and condottiero (mercenary leader) of Aragonese (Spanish) origin, whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. He was an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish-Aragonese Hou... |
7507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle | Chronicle | A chronicle (, from Greek chroniká, from , chrónos – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a time line. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of t... |
7512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration | Concentration | In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture. Several types of mathematical description can be distinguished: mass concentration, molar concentration, number concentration, and volume concentration. The concentration can refer to any kind of chemical mixture, bu... |
7514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Lavin | Christine Lavin | Christine Lavin (born January 2, 1952) is a New York City-based singer-songwriter and promoter of contemporary folk music. She has recorded numerous solo albums, and has also recorded with other female folk artists under the name Four Bitchin' Babes. She is known for her sense of humor, which is expressed in both her m... |
7515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter%20Expansive%20Classification | Cutter Expansive Classification | The Cutter Expansive Classification system is a library classification system devised by Charles Ammi Cutter. The system was the basis for the top categories of the Library of Congress Classification.
History of the Expansive Classification
Charles Ammi Cutter (1837–1903), inspired by the decimal classification of his... |
7516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cem%20Karaca | Cem Karaca | Muhtar Cem Karaca (5 April 1945 – 8 February 2004) was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement. He was a graduate of Robert College. He worked with various Turkish rock bands such as Apaşlar, Kardaşlar, Moğollar and Dervişan. With these bands, he brought a ... |
7517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calista%20Flockhart | Calista Flockhart | Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an American actress. On television, she is best known for her roles as the title character on Ally McBeal (1997–2002), Kitty Walker on Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011), and Cat Grant on Supergirl (2015–2021). In film, she is known for roles in The Birdcage (1996), A Midsu... |
7519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution | Convolution | In mathematics (in particular, functional analysis), convolution is a mathematical operation on two functions ( and ) that produces a third function () that expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other. The term convolution refers to both the result function and to the process of computing it. It is defined... |
7521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico | Calico | Calico (; in British usage since 1505) in German Nessel is a heavy plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may also contain unseparated husk parts. The fabric is far coarser than muslin, but less coarse and thick than canvas or denim. However, it is still very cheap owing to ... |
7522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorimetry | Calorimetry | Calorimetry is the science or act of measuring changes in state variables of a body for the purpose of deriving the heat transfer associated with changes of its state due, for example, to chemical reactions, physical changes, or phase transitions under specified constraints. Calorimetry is performed with a calorimeter.... |
7525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Evans%20Hughes | Charles Evans Hughes | Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, politician and jurist who served as the 11th Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910) and 44th U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1... |
7527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept%20album | Concept album | A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. This is typically achieved through a single central narrative or theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, or lyrical. Sometimes the term is applied to albums considered to be of "uniform excellence"... |
7530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-hook | Cro-hook | The cro-hook, is a special double-ended crochet hook used to make double-sided crochet.
It employs the use of a long double-ended hook, which permits the maker to work stitches on or off from either end. Because the hook has two ends, two alternating colors of thread can be used simultaneously and freely interchanged,... |
7531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavichord | Clavichord | The clavichord is a Western European stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.
Historically, it was mostly used as a practice instrument and as an aid to composition, not being loud enough for larger performances. The c... |
7534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal%20force | Centripetal force | A centripetal force (from Latin centrum, "center" and petere, "to seek") is a force that makes a body follow a curved path. Its direction is always orthogonal to the motion of the body and towards the fixed point of the instantaneous center of curvature of the path. Isaac Newton described it as "a force by which bodies... |
7535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore | Commodore | Commodore may refer to:
Ranks
Commodore (rank), a naval rank
Commodore (Royal Navy), in the United Kingdom
Commodore (United States)
Commodore (Canada)
Commodore (Finland)
Commodore (Germany) or Kommodore
Air commodore, a rank in the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth air forces
Commodore (yacht club), an ... |
7536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioning | Conditioning | Conditioning may refer to:
Science, computing, and technology
Air conditioning, the removal of heat from indoor air for thermal comfort
Automobile air conditioning, air conditioning in a vehicle
Ice storage air conditioning, air conditioning using ice storage
Solar air conditioning, air conditioning using solar po... |
7538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum | Checksum | A checksum is a small-sized block of data derived from another block of digital data for the purpose of detecting errors that may have been introduced during its transmission or storage. By themselves, checksums are often used to verify data integrity but are not relied upon to verify data authenticity.
The procedure... |
7540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20evolution%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cultural evolution (disambiguation) | Cultural evolution is cultural change viewed from an evolutionary perspective.
It may also refer to:
Behavioral ecology, the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures
Cultural selection theory, studies of cultural change modelled on evolutionary biology
Dual-inheritance theory,... |
7541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20University%20of%20New%20York | City University of New York | The City University of New York (CUNY ) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges and seven professional institutions. While its constituent colleges date back as far as 1847... |
7543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20complexity%20theory | Computational complexity theory | Computational complexity theory focuses on classifying computational problems according to their resource usage, and relating these classes to each other. A computational problem is a task solved by a computer. A computation problem is solvable by mechanical application of mathematical steps, such as an algorithm.
A p... |
7544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cadence (disambiguation) | A cadence is a melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of resolution.
Cadence may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
Cadence (vocal group), a Canadian a cappella quartet
Drum cadence, played exclusively by the percussion section of a marching band
Military cadence, a marching chant
Cadence,... |
7546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot | Camelot | Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.
Th... |
7548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras | Contras | The Contras were the various U.S.-backed and funded rebel groups that were active from 1979 until 1990 in opposition to the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua which came to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution. Among the separate contra groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic For... |
7550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Venter | Craig Venter | John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and businessman. He is known for leading the first draft sequence of the human genome and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J... |
7552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20evolution | Chemical evolution | Chemical evolution may refer to:
Abiogenesis, the transition from nonliving elements to living systems
Astrochemistry, the study of the abundance and reactions of molecules in the universe, and their interaction with radiation
Cosmochemistry, the study of the chemical compositions in the universe and the processes t... |
7554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Rogers | Carl Rogers | Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach (and client-centered approach) in psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with th... |
7555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir%20effect | Casimir effect | In quantum field theory, the Casimir effect is a physical force acting on the macroscopic boundaries of a confined space which arises from the quantum fluctuations of the field. It is named after the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir, who predicted the effect for electromagnetic systems in 1948.
In the same year, Casimi... |
7558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin | Coin | A coin is a small, flat, (usually, depending on the country or value) round piece of metal or plastic used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade. They are most often issued by a government. Coins often ... |
7560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20of%20the%20City%20of%20New%20York | College of the City of New York | College of the City of New York may refer to:
City University of New York (CUNY), the public university system of New York City
College of the City of New York, an old name (1866–1929) for City College of New York, now part of CUNY
New York City College of Technology, CUNY's technology college, founded in 1946
Uni... |
7561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Kuiper%20belt%20object | Classical Kuiper belt object | A classical Kuiper belt object, also called a cubewano ( "QB1-o"), is a low-eccentricity Kuiper belt object (KBO) that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with Neptune. Cubewanos have orbits with semi-major axes in the 40–50 AU range and, unlike Pluto, do not cross Neptune's orbit. That ... |
7564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20policy%20of%20the%20United%20States | Foreign policy of the United States | The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the Bureaus and Offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benef... |
7565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20in%20Poland | Christmas in Poland | Christmas in Poland is a major annual celebration, as in most countries of the Christian world. The observance of Christmas developed gradually over the centuries, beginning in ancient times; combining old Polish pagan customs with the religious ones introduced after the Christianization of Poland by the Catholic Churc... |
7566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel%20%28musical%29 | Carousel (musical) | Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story revolves around carousel barker Billy Bigelow, whose romance with millwo... |
7572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20alternative%20rock | Christian alternative rock | Christian alternative rock is a form of alternative rock music that is lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview. Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degr... |
7573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive%20Barker | Clive Barker | Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English playwright, author, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has be... |
7574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20comedy | Fantasy comedy | Fantasy comedy or comic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is primarily humorous in intent and tone. Typically set in imaginary worlds, fantasy comedy often involves puns on and parodies of other works of fantasy.
Literature
The subgenre rose in the nineteenth century. Elements of fantasy comedy can be found in suc... |
7575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU%20%28programming%20language%29 | CLU (programming language) | CLU is a programming language created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Barbara Liskov and her students starting in 1973. While it did not find extensive use, it introduced many features that are used widely now, and is seen as a step in the development of object-oriented programming (OOP).
Key co... |
7577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union%20%281982%E2%80%931991%29 | History of the Soviet Union (1982–1991) | The history of the Soviet Union from 1982 through 1991 spans the period from Leonid Brezhnev's death and funeral until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Due to the years of Soviet military buildup at the expense of domestic development, and complex systemic problems in the command economy, Soviet output stagnated. F... |
7578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsican%20language | Corsican language | Corsican (corsu , ; full name: lingua corsa , ) is a Romance language constituted by the complex of the Italo-Romance dialects spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica (France) and on the northern end of the island of Sardinia (Italy). Corsican is closely related to the Tuscan varieties from the Italian peninsula,... |
7580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20International | Commodore International | Commodore International (other names include Commodore International Limited and Commodore Business Machines) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines (CBM), was a significant participant in t... |
7581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20%28rank%29 | Commodore (rank) | Commodore is a senior naval rank used in many navies which is equivalent to brigadier and air commodore. It is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral. It is either regarded as the most junior of the flag officers rank or may not hold the jurisdiction of a flag officer at all depending on the officer's app... |
7583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%E2%80%93Riemann%20equations | Cauchy–Riemann equations | In the field of complex analysis in mathematics, the Cauchy–Riemann equations, named after Augustin Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann, consist of a system of two partial differential equations which, together with certain continuity and differentiability criteria, form a necessary and sufficient condition for a complex funct... |
7585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim%20Topol | Chaim Topol | Chaim Topol (; born September 9, 1935), also spelled Haym Topol, mononymously known as Topol, is an Israeli actor, comedian, singer, film producer, author, and illustrator. He is best known for his portrayal of Tevye the Dairyman, the lead role in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, on both stage and screen, having perfor... |
7586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christadelphians | Christadelphians | The Christadelphians () or Christadelphianism are a restorationist and millenarian Christian group who hold a view of biblical unitarianism. There are approximately 50,000 Christadelphians in around 120 countries. The movement developed in the United Kingdom and North America in the 19th century around the teachings of... |
7587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable%20television | Cable television | Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with broadcast television (also known as terrestrial television), in which the television... |
7591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera | Cholera | Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days. Vomiting and muscle cramps may also occur. Diarrhea can be so severe that it leads within hour... |
7592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera | Caldera | A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber is lost. The ground surface then collapses downward into the emptied or partially ... |
7593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator | Calculator | An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics.
The first solid-state electronic calculator was created in the early 1960s. Pocket-sized devices became available in the 1970s, especially after the Intel 4004, the fir... |
7594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%20register | Cash register | A cash register, sometimes called a till or automated money handling system, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale. It is usually attached to a drawer for storing cash and other valuables. A modern cash register is usually attached to a printer that can pri... |
7595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronometer | Chronometer | Chronometer or chronoscope may refer to:
Clock
Chronometer of Loulie, a precursor to the metronome
Chronometer watch
Marine chronometer, a timekeeper used for marine navigation
Observatory chronometer, a device certified by an observatory to be extremely accurate
Railroad chronometer, a specialized timepiece once... |
7597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor%20design | Processor design | Processor design is a subfield of computer engineering and electronics engineering (fabrication) that deals with creating a processor, a key component of computer hardware.
The design process involves choosing an instruction set and a certain execution paradigm (e.g. VLIW or RISC) and results in a microarchitecture, w... |
7598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinatae | Carinatae | Carinatae is the group of all birds and their extinct relatives to possess a keel, or "carina", on the underside of the breastbone used to anchor large flight muscles.
Classification
Definition
Traditionally, Carinatae were defined as all birds whose sternum (breast bone) has a keel (carina). The keel is a strong med... |
7599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail | Cocktail | A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink. Most commonly, cocktails are either a combination of spirits, or one or more spirits mixed with other ingredients such as fruit juice, flavored syrup, or cream. Cocktails vary widely across regions of the world, and many websites publish both original recipes and their own interp... |
7601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic%20Orthodox%20Church | Coptic Orthodox Church | The Coptic Orthodox Church (; ), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt, servicing Africa and the Middle East. The head of the church and the See of Alexandria is the Pope of Alexandria on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark, who also carri... |
7602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Family%20International | The Family International | The Family International (TFI) is a Christian New Religious Movement founded in Huntington Beach, California, USA, in 1968 by David Berg that has been criticized as an authoritarian cult. Originally named Teens for Christ, it has gone under a number of different names. It gained notoriety as The Children of God (COG).... |
7603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIT | CIT | CIT or cit may refer to:
Organizations
CIT Group, an American banking and financial services company
CIT Bank, a subsidiary of CIT Group
Center for Information Technology, of the US government
Compagnia Italiana Turismo, an Italian travel agency
Confederación Interamericana de Trabajadores, an inter-American trad... |
7604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20of%20Hammurabi | Code of Hammurabi | The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organised, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon. The primary copy of the tex... |
7605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum%20and%20Coke | Rum and Coke | Rum and Coke, or the Cuba libre ( , ; literally "Free Cuba"), is a highball cocktail consisting of cola, rum, and in many recipes lime juice on ice. Traditionally, the cola ingredient is Coca-Cola ("Coke") and the alcohol is a light rum such as Bacardi; however, the drink may be made with various types of rums and cola... |
7607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen%20helix | Collagen helix | The collagen triple helix or type-2 helix is the primary secondary structure of various types of fibrous collagen, including type I collagen. It consists of a triple helix made of the repetitious amino acid sequence glycine-X-Y, where X and Y are frequently proline or hydroxyproline. Collagen folded into a triple helix... |
7609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20censorship%20hypothesis | Cosmic censorship hypothesis | The weak and the strong cosmic censorship hypotheses are two mathematical conjectures about the structure of gravitational singularities arising in general relativity.
Singularities that arise in the solutions of Einstein's equations are typically hidden within event horizons, and therefore cannot be observed from the... |
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