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7610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20%28term%29 | Catholic (term) | The word catholic (derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective katholikos 'universal') comes from the Greek phrase katholou 'on the whole, according to the whole, in general', and is a combination of the Greek words 'about' and 'whole'. The first use of "Catholic" was by the church father Saint Igna... |
7611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Eastman | Crystal Eastman | Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25, 1881 – July 28, 1928
was an American lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's suffrage, as a co-founder and co-editor with her brother Max Eastman of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator,... |
7612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Alexander | Christopher Alexander | Christopher Wolfgang Alexander (born 4 October 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is a widely influential British-American architect and design theorist, and currently emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, inc... |
7614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clabbers | Clabbers | Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments. The name derives from the fact that the words CLABBERS and SCRABBLE form an anagram pair.
Rules
The rules are identical to those of Scrabble, except that valid plays are only required to form anagrams of... |
7616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Canopus (disambiguation) | Canopus (or Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina.
Canopus may also refer to:
Canopus (insect), Neotropical bug genus
Canopus (mythology), in Homeric myth, the pilot of King Menelaus's ship
Canopus (nuclear test) was the name given to the first test of the French hydrogen bomb... |
7617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corum%20Jhaelen%20Irsei | Corum Jhaelen Irsei | Corum Jhaelen Irsei (known also as "the Prince in the Scarlet Robe" and "Corum of the Silver Hand") is the name of a fictional fantasy hero in a series of novels written by Michael Moorcock. The character was introduced in the novel The Knight of Swords, published in 1971. This was followed by two other books published... |
7618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cumberland (disambiguation) | Cumberland is one of the historic counties of England.
Cumberland may also refer to:
Places
In Australia
Cumberland, Queensland, a ghost town west of Georgetown
Cumberland County, New South Wales, containing most of the Sydney metropolitan area
Cumberland Council, New South Wales
Cumberland Islands (Queensland... |
7619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella%20%28disambiguation%29 | Capella (disambiguation) | Capella is a bright star in the constellation of Auriga.
Capella may also refer to:
Places
Capella, Queensland, a town in the Central Highlands Region, Australia
Capella, Aragon, a municipality in Huesca, Spain
Capella Island, a minor island of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Other uses
Capella (crater), an impact crate... |
7622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20instruction%20set%20computer | Complex instruction set computer | A complex instruction set computer (CISC ) is a computer architecture in which single instructions can execute several low-level operations (such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store) or are capable of multi-step operations or addressing modes within single instructions. The term was retro... |
7624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CISC | CISC | CISC may refer to:
Caribbean Island Swimming Championships
Chongqing Iron and Steel Company
Clean intermittent self-catheterisation, a form of urinary catheterization
Complex instruction set computer
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada
CRTC Interconnection Steering Committee |
7626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacea | Cetacea | Cetaceans (from , from , sea monster) are aquatic mammals constituting the infraorder Cetacea (), including whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Key characteristics are their fully aquatic lifestyle, streamlined body shape, often large size and exclusively carnivorous diet. They propel themselves through the water with po... |
7627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Canterbury%20Tales | The Canterbury Tales | The Canterbury Tales () is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling cont... |
7628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20de%20Pizan | Christine de Pizan | Christine de Pizan or Pisan (), born Cristina da Pizzano (September 1364 – c. 1430), was an Italian poet and author at the court of King Charles VI of France and several French dukes.
Venetian by birth, Christine served as a court writer in medieval France after the death of her husband. Christine's patrons included ... |
7630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism | Catharism | Catharism (; from the Greek: , , "the pure [ones]") was a Christian dualist or Gnostic movement between the 12th and 14th centuries which thrived in Southern Europe, particularly in northern Italy and southern France. Followers were described as Cathars and referred to themselves as Good Christians, and are now mainly ... |
7632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrospinal%20fluid | Cerebrospinal fluid | Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear, colorless body fluid found within the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord of all vertebrates.
CSF is produced by specialised ependymal cells in the choroid plexus of the ventricles of the brain, and absorbed in the arachnoid granulations. There is about 125 mL of CSF ... |
7633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordial | Cordial | Cordial may refer to:
Food and drink
Liqueur, an alcoholic beverage
Cordial (candy), a type of candy that has a liquid filling inside a chocolate shell
Cordial (medicine), a medicinal beverage
Squash (drink), a non-alcoholic fruit drink concentrate sometimes known as cordial
Elderflower cordial, a non-alcoholic b... |
7635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20F.%20Hockett | Charles F. Hockett | Charles Francis Hockett (January 17, 1916 – November 3, 2000) was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics. He represents the post-Bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as "distributionalism" or "taxonomic structuralism". His academic career spanne... |
7638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience | Consilience | In science and history, consilience (also convergence of evidence or concordance of evidence) is the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can "converge" on strong conclusions. That is, when multiple sources of evidence are in agreement, the conclusion can be very strong even when none of the indi... |
7642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20Brown | Clarence Brown | Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.
Early life
Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to Larkin Harry Brown (1866–1942), a cotton manufacturer, and Katherine Ann Brown (née Gaw; 1865–1954), Brown moved to Tennessee when he was 11 years old. He attended Knoxville High School and... |
7643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conciliation | Conciliation | Conciliation is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process whereby the parties to a dispute use a conciliator, who meets with the parties both separately and together in an attempt to resolve their differences. They do this by lowering tensions, improving communications, interpreting issues, encouraging parties to... |
7645 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone%20%28programming%20language%29 | Cyclone (programming language) | The Cyclone programming language is intended to be a safe dialect of the C language. Cyclone is designed to avoid buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities that are possible in C programs, without losing the power and convenience of C as a tool for system programming.
Cyclone development was started as a joint projec... |
7646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitivism | Cognitivism | Cognitivism may refer to:
Cognitivism (ethics), the philosophical view that ethical sentences express propositions and are capable of being true or false
Cognitivism (psychology), a psychological approach that argues that mental function can be understood as the internal manipulation of symbols
Cognitivism (aestheti... |
7647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter%20%28digital%29 | Counter (digital) | In digital logic and computing, a counter is a device which stores (and sometimes displays) the number of times a particular event or process has occurred, often in relationship to a clock. The most common type is a sequential digital logic circuit with an input line called the clock and multiple output lines. The ... |
7649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical%20mucus%20method | Cervical mucus method | Cervical mucus method may refer to a specific method of fertility awareness or natural family planning:
Billings ovulation method
Creighton Model FertilityCare System
Two Day Method |
7651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleridge%20%28disambiguation%29 | Coleridge (disambiguation) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian.
Coleridge may also refer to:
Places
Coleridge, an electoral ward of Cambridge, England
Coleridge, Nebraska, U.S.
Coleridge, North Carolina, U.S.
Lake Coleridge, Canterbury, New Zealand
Coleridge Hundred, an anc... |
7655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay%20Mathematics%20Institute | Clay Mathematics Institute | The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge. Formerly based in Peterborough, New Hampshire, the corporate address is now in Denver, Colorado. CMI's scientific activities are managed from the President's office in Oxford, Unite... |
7659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral%20arteriovenous%20malformation | Cerebral arteriovenous malformation | A cerebral arteriovenous malformation (cerebral AVM, CAVM, cAVM) is an abnormal connection between the arteries and veins in the brain—specifically, an arteriovenous malformation in the cerebrum.
Signs and symptoms
The most frequently observed problems, related to an AVM, are headaches and seizures, cranial nerve defi... |
7660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative%20method | Comparative method | In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor and then extrapolating backwards to infer the properties of that ancestor. The comparative method may be contr... |
7661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Constance | Council of Constance | The Council of Constance was a 15th-century ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance in present-day Germany. The council ended the Western Schism by deposing or accepting the resignation of the remaining papal claimants and by electing Pope Martin V.
Th... |
7662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches%20Uniting%20in%20Christ | Churches Uniting in Christ | Churches Uniting in Christ (CUIC) is an ecumenical organization that brings together mainline American denominations (including both predominantly white and predominantly black churches), and was inaugurated on January 20, 2002 in Memphis, Tennessee on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. It is the successor organization... |
7663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Unitarian%20Council | Canadian Unitarian Council | The Canadian Unitarian Council () (CUC) is a liberal religious association of Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist congregations in Canada. It was formed on May 14, 1961, initially to be the national organization for Canadians belonging to the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) which formed a day later on May 15,... |
7668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Mingus | Charles Mingus | Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer, and bandleader. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with ot... |
7669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centimetre | Centimetre | A centimetre (international spelling) or centimeter (American spelling) (SI symbol cm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of . The centimetre was the base unit of length in the now deprecated centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units.
... |
7670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Coast | Central Coast | Central Coast may refer to:
Australia
Central Coast (New South Wales), an official region of New South Wales, Australia
Central Coast Council (New South Wales), a local government area in New South Wales
Central Coast Mariners, the professional football A-league club based in the region
Central Coast United FC, an... |
7671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee%20on%20Data%20for%20Science%20and%20Technology | Committee on Data for Science and Technology | The CODATA is the Committee on Data of the International Science Council and was established as ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology in 1966.
CODATA exists to promote global collaboration to advance open science and to improve the availability and usability of data for all areas of research. CODATA suppor... |
7672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%20Jones | Chuck Jones | Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, voice actor, and painter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic Animated Cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daf... |
7673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costume | Costume | Costume is the distinctive style of dress or cosmetic of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch. In short costume is a cultural visual of the people.
The term also was traditionally used to describe typical appropriate clothing for certain activities, ... |
7674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable%20car%20%28railway%29 | Cable car (railway) | A cable car (usually known as a cable tram outside North America) is a type of cable railway used for mass transit in which rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required. Cable cars are distinct from funic... |
7676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creaky%20voice | Creaky voice | In linguistics, creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact. They normally... |
7677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20monitor | Computer monitor | A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial or text form. A monitor usually comprises a visual display, some circuitry, a casing, and a power supply. The display device in modern monitors is typically a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) with LED backlighting having ... |
7681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType | ClearType | ClearType is Microsoft's implementation of subpixel rendering technology in rendering text in a font system. ClearType attempts to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens by sacrificing color fidelity for additional intensity variation. This trade-off is asserted to work well on LCD... |
7682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centriole | Centriole | In cell biology a centriole is a cylindrical organelle composed mainly of a protein called tubulin. Centrioles are found in most eukaryotic cells, but are not present in conifers (Pinophyta), flowering plants (angiosperms) and most fungi, and are only present in the male gametes of charophytes, bryophytes, seedless vas... |
7683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation%20science | Creation science | Creation science or scientific creationism is a pseudoscientific form of Young Earth creationism which claims to offer scientific arguments for certain literalist and inerrantist interpretations of the Bible. It is often presented without overt faith-based language, but instead relies on reinterpreting scientific resul... |
7685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20cartographers | List of cartographers | Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
Before 1400
Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world
Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
Dicaearchus, Greece (c. 350 BC–285 B... |
7689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirth | Cirth | The Cirth (, meaning "runes"; sg. certh ) is a semi‑artificial script, based on real‑life runic alphabets, invented by J. R. R. Tolkien for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works. Cirth is written with a capital letter when referring to the writing system; the letters themselves can be called cirth.... |
7697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed%20C-130%20Hercules | Lockheed C-130 Hercules | The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac, and cargo transport aircraft. The versatile... |
7699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%201570 | Commodore 1570 | The Commodore 1570 is a 5¼" floppy disk drive for the Commodore 128 home/personal computer. It is a single-sided, 170 kB version of the Commodore 1571, released as a stopgap measure when Commodore International was unable to provide sufficient quantities of 1571s due to a shortage of double-sided drive mechanisms (whic... |
7700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%201571 | Commodore 1571 | The Commodore 1571 is Commodore's high-end 5¼" floppy disk drive, announced in the summer of 1985. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it has the ability to use double-sided, double-density (DS/DD) floppy disks, storing a total of 360 kB per floppy. It also implemented a "burst mode" that doubled transfer speeds, he... |
7701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine | Cocaine | Cocaine (from , from , ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid and stimulant drug obtained primarily from the leaves of two coca species native to South America, Erythroxylum coca and Erythroxylum novogranatense. It is most commonly used as a recreational drug and euphoriant. After extraction from coca lea... |
7706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian%20coordinate%20system | Cartesian coordinate system | A Cartesian coordinate system (, ) in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, measured in the same unit of length. Each reference line is called a coordinate axis or jus... |
7708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandant%20of%20the%20Marine%20Corps | Commandant of the Marine Corps | The commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) is normally the highest-ranking officer in the United States Marine Corps and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The CMC reports directly to the secretary of the Navy and is responsible for ensuring the organization, policy, plans, and programs for the Marine Corps as wel... |
7710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Department%20of%20Transportation | California Department of Transportation | The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is an executive department of the U.S. state of California. The department is part of the cabinet-level California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA). Caltrans is headquartered in Sacramento.
Caltrans manages the state's highway system, which includes the Califo... |
7712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation%20War | Continuation War | The Continuation War, also known as Second Soviet-Finnish war, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany, against the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1941 to 1944, as a part of World War II. In Soviet historiography, the war was called the Finnish Front of the Great Patriotic War. Germany regarded its operations in th... |
7713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20remainder%20theorem | Chinese remainder theorem | In mathematics, the Chinese remainder theorem states that if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime (no two div... |
7716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20M.%20Kornbluth | Cyril M. Kornbluth | Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 2, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names, including Cecil Corwin, S. D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner, Jordan Park, Arthur Cooke, Paul Dennis Lavond, and Scott M... |
7720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophagia | Coprophagia | Coprophagia () or coprophagy () is the consumption of feces. The word is derived from the , "feces" and , "to eat". Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces-eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or one's own (autocoprophagy) – those once deposited or... |
7721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20L.%20Moore | C. L. Moore | Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in the science fiction and fantasy genres, though earlier woman writers in these genres include Clare Wi... |
7722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactron | Compactron | Compactrons are a type of thermionic valve, or vacuum tube, which contain multiple electrode structures packed into a single enclosure. They were designed to compete with early transistor electronics and were used in televisions, radios, and similar roles.
History
The Compactron was a trade name applied to multi-elec... |
7723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael%20number | Carmichael number | In number theory, a Carmichael number is a composite number which satisfies the modular arithmetic congruence relation:
for all integers which are relatively prime to .
They are named for Robert Carmichael.
The Carmichael numbers are the subset K1 of the Knödel numbers.
Equivalently, a Carmichael number is a compos... |
7727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled%20Substances%20Act | Controlled Substances Act | The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the statute establishing federal U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use, and distribution of certain substances is regulated. It was passed by the 91st United States Congress as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act... |
7728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Piron | Claude Piron | Claude Piron, also known by the pseudonym Johán Valano, was a Swiss psychologist, Esperantist, translator, and writer. He worked as a translator for the United Nations from 1956 to 1961 and then for the World Health Organization.
He was a prolific author of Esperanto works. He spoke Esperanto from childhood and used i... |
7729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20America | Captain America | Captain America is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (cover dated March 1941) from Timely Comics, a predecessor of Marvel Comics. Captain America was designed as a patriotic... |
7730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops%20%28disambiguation%29 | Cyclops (disambiguation) | A Cyclops is a one-eyed monster in Greek mythology.
Cyclops or The Cyclops may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Literature
Cyclops (play), by Euripides
Cyclops (novel), a Dirk Pitt novel by Clive Cussler
Cyclops (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
Cyclops (magazine), a British underground comics maga... |
7731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20countercult%20movement | Christian countercult movement | The Christian countercult movement or the Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement among certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries") and individual activists who oppose religious sects that they consider cults.
Overview
Christian countercult-acti... |
7732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20X | Professor X | Professor X (Charles Francis Xavier) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted as the founder and sometimes leader of the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963... |
7734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Pacific%20Railroad | Central Pacific Railroad | The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America. Incorporated in 1861, CPRR ceased operation in 1885 when it was acquired by Southe... |
7737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance | Clairvoyance | Clairvoyance (; ) is the claimed ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception. Any person who is claimed to have such ability is said accordingly to be a clairvoyant () ("one who sees clearly").
Claims for the existence of paranormal and psychic abili... |
7738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic | Chiropractic | Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially of the spine. It has esoteric origins and is based on several pseudoscientific ideas.
Many chiropractors, especially those in the field's early history... |
7739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide | Carbide | In chemistry, a carbide usually describes a compound composed of carbon and a metal. In metallurgy, carbiding or carburizing is the process for producing carbide coatings on a metal piece.
Interstitial / Metallic carbides
The carbides of the group 4, 5 and 6 transition metals (with the exception of chromium) are oft... |
7740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20C.%20Krulak | Charles C. Krulak | Charles Chandler Krulak (born March 4, 1942) is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1999. He is the son of Lieutenant General Victor H. "Brute" Krulak, who served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He was the 13th P... |
7742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq | Compaq | Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to a 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the second company aft... |
7751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPSU%20%28disambiguation%29 | CPSU (disambiguation) | CPSU is the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the sole governing party of the Soviet Union until 1990.
CPSU may also refer to:
Schools
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
Central Philippines State University
Coventry Polytechnic Students Union, England
Organizations
Centr... |
7755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluny | Cluny | Cluny () is a commune in the eastern French department of Saône-et-Loire, in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is northwest of Mâcon.
The town grew up around the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. The height of Cluniac influence was from the second half of the 10th cent... |
7756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet%20Atkins | Chet Atkins | Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr. Guitar" and "The Country Gentleman", was an American musician, occasional vocalist, songwriter, and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its ap... |
7757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%20II%20%28disambiguation%29 | Conrad II (disambiguation) | Conrad II may refer to:
Conrad II, Duke of Transjurane Burgundy ()
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (c. 990–1039)
Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia (probably 1003–1039)
Conrad II of Italy (1074–1101)
Conrad II of Dachau (died 1159)
Conrad II of Znojmo (died 1161)
Conrad II of Bohemia (died 1191)
Conrad II, Margrave of Lusatia... |
7765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers%20du%20Cin%C3%A9ma | Cahiers du Cinéma | Cahiers du Cinéma (, ) is a French film magazine co-founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca. It developed from the earlier magazine Revue du Cinéma ( established in 1928) involving members of two Paris film clubsObjectif 49 (Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau, and Alexandre Astruc, a... |
7767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20Zandvoort | Circuit Zandvoort | Circuit Zandvoort (), known for sponsorship reasons as CM.com Circuit Zandvoort, and previously known as Circuit Park Zandvoort until 2017, is a motorsport race track located in the dunes north of Zandvoort, Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line. It returned to the Formula One calendar in 2021 as the location of ... |
7768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete%20Senesi | Crete Senesi | The Crete Senesi refers to an area of the Italian region of Tuscany immediately to the south of Siena. It consists of a range of hills and woods among villages and includes the comuni of Asciano, Buonconvento, Monteroni d'Arbia, Rapolano Terme and San Giovanni d'Asso, all within the province of Siena. They border to th... |
7770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20tree | Christmas tree | A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a fir, spruce, or pine, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas, originating in Germany associated with Saint Boniface. The custom was developed in medieval Livonia (present-day Estonia and Latv... |
7772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20battle%20group | Carrier battle group | A carrier battle group (CVBG) is a naval fleet consisting of an aircraft carrier (designated CV) capital ship and its large number of escorts, together defining the group.
The first naval task forces built around carriers appeared just prior to and during Second World War. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the fir... |
7773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20Vertol%20CH-46%20Sea%20Knight | Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight | The Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is a medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter powered by twin turboshaft engines. It was designed by Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol following Vertol's acquisition by Boeing.
Development of the Sea Knight, which was originally designated by the firm as the Vertol Model ... |
7774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20of%20Naval%20Operations | Chief of Naval Operations | The chief of naval operations (CNO) is the professional head of the United States Navy. The position is a statutory office () held by an admiral who is a military adviser and deputy to the secretary of the Navy. In a separate capacity as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (), the CNO is a military adviser to the Na... |
7775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%20Petacci | Clara Petacci | Clara Petacci, known as Claretta Petacci (; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945), was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed during Mussolini's execution by Italian partisans, allegedly throwing herself on him in a vain attempt to protect him from the bullets.
Early life
Daughter of Giuseppin... |
7780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%20Smeralda | Costa Smeralda | The Costa Smeralda (, ; ; ) is a coastal area and tourist destination in northern Sardinia, Italy, with a length of some 20 km, although the term originally designated only a small stretch in the commune of Arzachena. With white sand beaches, golf clubs, private jet and helicopter services, and exclusive hotels, the ar... |
7781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chianti | Chianti | A Chianti wine (, also , ) is any wine produced in the Chianti region of central Tuscany. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ("flask"; pl. fiaschi). However, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine as most Chianti is now bottled in more standard sh... |
7783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis%20force | Coriolis force | In physics, the Coriolis force is an inertial or fictitious force that acts on objects that are in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame. In a reference frame with clockwise rotation, the force acts to the left of the motion of the object. In one with anticlockwise (or counte... |
7786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger%20Deep | Challenger Deep | The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point of the seabed in the Earth's hydrosphere (the oceans and seas), with a depth of by direct measurement from deep-diving submersibles, remotely operated underwater vehicles, and benthic landers and (sometimes) slightly more by sonar bathymetry.
The Challenger Deep is locat... |
7787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Louis%20Berthollet | Claude Louis Berthollet | Claude Louis Berthollet (9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nom... |
7791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution%20of%20Chile | Constitution of Chile | The Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile of 1980 () is the fundamental law in force in Chile. It was approved and promulgated under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, being ratified by the Chilean citizenry through a referendum on September 11, 1980, although being held under restrictions and wit... |
7794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallography | Crystallography | Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids (see crystal structure). The word "crystallography" is derived from the Greek words crystallon "cold drop, frozen drop", with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and graphein "to w... |
7796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Auchinleck | Claude Auchinleck | Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981) was a British Army commander during the Second World War. He was a career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, where he rose to become Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army by early 1941. In July 1941 he was appointed Comm... |
7797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla%20Hall | Camilla Hall | Camilla Christine Hall (March 24, 1945 – May 17, 1974) was an American artist, college trained social worker, and a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). She is best known for her membership in the SLA, the group that kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst.
Early life
On March 24, 1945, Camilla Christine Hall was b... |
7800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone | Clone | Clone or Clones or Cloning or The Clone may refer to:
Places
Clones, County Fermanagh
Clones, County Monaghan, a town in Ireland
Biology
Clone (B-cell), a lymphocyte clone, the massive presence of which may indicate a pathological condition
Clone (cell biology), a group of identical cells that share a common ance... |
7801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20psychology | Critical psychology | Critical psychology is a perspective on psychology that draws extensively on critical theory. Critical psychology challenges mainstream psychology and attempts to apply psychological understandings in different ways, often looking towards social change as a means of preventing and treating psychopathology.
Critical p... |
7803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire | Crossfire | A crossfire (also known as interlocking fire) is a military term for the siting of weapons (often automatic weapons such as assault rifles or sub-machine guns) so that their arcs of fire overlap. This tactic came to prominence in World War I.
Siting weapons this way is an example of the application of the defensive pr... |
7805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO | CNO | CNO may refer to:
C/N0, the carrier-to-noise-density ratio of a signal
Casualty notification officer, a person responsible for informing relatives of death or injury
Chief networking officer, a business role
Chief nursing officer, a nursing management position
Chief of Naval Operations, the head of the United Stat... |
7806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruising%20%28maritime%29 | Cruising (maritime) | Cruising by boat is an activity that involves living for extended time on a vessel while traveling from place to place for pleasure. Cruising generally refers to trips of a few days or more, and can extend to round-the-world voyages.
History
Boats were almost exclusively used for working purposes prior to the ninete... |
7807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation | Cavitation | Cavitation is a phenomenon in which the static pressure of a liquid reduces to below the liquid's vapour pressure, leading to the formation of small vapor-filled cavities in the liquid. When subjected to higher pressure, these cavities, called "bubbles" or "voids", collapse and can generate shock waves that may damage ... |
7808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprinodontiformes | Cyprinodontiformes | Cyprinodontiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising mostly small, freshwater fish. Many popular aquarium fish, such as killifish and live-bearers, are included. They are closely related to the Atheriniformes and are occasionally included with them. A colloquial term for the order as a whole is toothcarps,... |
7810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20the%20Holy%20Sepulchre | Church of the Holy Sepulchre | The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. According to traditions dating back to the fourth century, it contains the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus was crucified, at a place known as Calvary or Golgotha, and Jesus's empty tomb, where he ... |
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