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7811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernunnos | Cernunnos | In Gallo-Roman religion, Cernunnos was a deity depicted with antlers, seated cross-legged, and is associated with stags, horned serpents, dogs, bulls, and rats. He is usually holding or wearing a torc and has been seen holding a bag of coins (or grain) and a cornucopia. Believed to have originally been a Celtic deity,... |
7816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click%20consonant | Click consonant | Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa. Examples familiar to English-speakers are the Tut-tut (British spelling) or Tsk! Tsk! (American spelling) used to express disapproval or pity, the tchick! used to spur on a... |
7817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cider%20House%20Rules | The Cider House Rules | The Cider House Rules (1985) is a novel by American writer John Irving, a Bildungsroman, which was later adapted into a film (1999) and a stage play by Peter Parnell. The story, set in the pre– and post–World War II era, is about a young man, Homer Wells, growing up under the guidance of Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetric... |
7818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer | Consumer | A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, orders, or uses purchased goods, products, or services primarily for personal, social, family, household and similar needs, not directly related to entrepreneurial or business activities.
Consumer rights
“Consumers, by definition, include us all," President John ... |
7819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus | Cactus | A cactus (plural cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word cactus derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek word (káktos), a name originally used by Theophrastus for ... |
7820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCC | CCC | CCC may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Canada's Capital Cappies, the Critics and Awards Program in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Capcom Classics Collection, a 2005 compilation of arcade games for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox
CCC, the production code for the 1970 Doctor Who serial The Ambassadors of Death
Music
Canadi... |
7821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian%20Conservation%20Corps | Civilian Conservation Corps | The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary public work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. Robert Fechner was the first director of this agency, succeeded by James McEntee following Fechner's death. The... |
7822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean%20Sea | Caribbean Sea | The Caribbean Sea (; ; ; ; ; ) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South Americ... |
7824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Maclaurin | Colin Maclaurin | Colin Maclaurin (; ; February 1698 – 14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. He is also known for being a child prodigy and holding the record for being the youngest professor. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, is named after him.
Ow... |
7825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial%20globe | Celestial globe | Celestial globes show the apparent positions of the stars in the sky. They omit the Sun, Moon, and planets because the positions of these bodies vary relative to those of the stars, but the ecliptic, along which the Sun moves, is indicated.
There is an issue regarding the “handedness” of celestial globes. If the globe... |
7827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant-breaker | Covenant-breaker | Covenant-breaker is a term used by Baháʼís to refer to a person who has been excommunicated from the Baháʼí community for breaking the 'Covenant': actively promoting schism in the religion or otherwise opposing the legitimacy of the chain of succession of leadership. Excommunication among Baháʼís is rare and not used f... |
7828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord%2C%20Michigan | Concord, Michigan | Concord is a village in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,050 at the 2010 census. The village is within Concord Township.
Settled in 1831, much of the village's downtown area is designated as part of the Concord Village Historic District. The village is located along M-60 about south... |
7829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20Computer%20Club | Chaos Computer Club | The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers with registered members. Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an eingetragener Verein in Germany, with local chapters (called Erfa-Kreise) in various cities in Germany and the surrounding countries, particularly where there are Ger... |
7830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention%20%28norm%29 | Convention (norm) | A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.
In a social context, a convention may retain the character of an "unwritten law" of custom (for example, the manner in which people greet each other, such as by shaking eac... |
7832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20metric%20space | Complete metric space | In mathematical analysis, a metric space is called complete (or a Cauchy space) if every Cauchy sequence of points in has a limit that is also in .
Intuitively, a space is complete if there are no "points missing" from it (inside or at the boundary). For instance, the set of rational numbers is not complete, because... |
7833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20Criswell | The Amazing Criswell | Jeron Criswell King (August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982), known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell , was an American psychic known for wildly inaccurate predictions. In person, he went by Charles Criswell King, and was sometimes credited as Jeron King Criswell.
Criswell was flamboyant, with spit curled hair, a sten... |
7834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20reaction | Chain reaction | A chain reaction is a sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by-product causes additional reactions to take place. In a chain reaction, positive feedback leads to a self-amplifying chain of events.
Chain reactions are one way that systems which are not in thermodynamic equilibrium can release energy or incr... |
7837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddie | Caddie | In golf, a caddie (or caddy) is the person who carries a player's bag and clubs, and gives the player advice and moral support.
Description
A good caddie is aware of the challenges and obstacles of the golf course being played, along with the best strategy in playing it. This includes knowing overall yardage, pin plac... |
7838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound%20turbine | Compound turbine | A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high-pressure casing and a low-pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam. The steam is partially expanded in the high-pressure casing, then exhausted to the low-pressure casing.
Tandem compound or cross co... |
7839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar%20corona | Stellar corona | A corona ( coronas or coronae) is the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere. They are made up of plasma.
The Sun's corona lies above the chromosphere and extends millions of kilometres into outer space. It is most easily seen during a total solar eclipse, but it is also observable with a coronagraph. Spectroscopic me... |
7840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono%20Cross | Chrono Cross | is a 1999 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is set in the same world as Chrono Trigger, which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Chrono Cross was designed primarily by scenarist and director Masato Kato, who had help from ... |
7843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned%20economy | Planned economy | A planned economy is a type of economic system where investment, production and the allocation of capital goods takes place according to economy-wide economic plans and production plans. A planned economy may use centralized, decentralized, participatory or Soviet-type forms of economic planning. The level of centraliz... |
7844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee | Chimpanzee | The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also known simply as chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed subspecies. The chimpanzee and the closely related bonobo are classified in the genus Pan. Evidence from fossils and DNA seq... |
7845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcot%E2%80%93Marie%E2%80%93Tooth%20disease | Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease | Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT) is a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation across various parts of the body. This disease is the most commonly inherited neurological disorder affecting about one in 2,500 people. ... |
7846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20pontine%20myelinolysis | Central pontine myelinolysis | Central pontine myelinolysis is a neurological condition involving severe damage to the myelin sheath of nerve cells in the pons (an area of the brainstem). It is predominately iatrogenic (treatment-induced), and is characterized by acute paralysis, dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), dysarthria (difficulty speaking), ... |
7849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic%20defect | Crystallographic defect | Crystallographic defects are interruptions of regular patterns in crystalline solids. They are common because positions of atoms or molecules at repeating fixed distances determined by the unit cell parameters in crystals, which exhibit a periodic crystal structure, are usually imperfect.
Point defects
Point defects a... |
7850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky%20normal%20form | Chomsky normal form | In formal language theory, a context-free grammar, G, is said to be in Chomsky normal form (first described by Noam Chomsky) if all of its production rules are of the form:
A → BC, or
A → a, or
S → ε,
where A, B, and C are nonterminal symbols, the letter a is a terminal symbol (a symbol that represents a constan... |
7851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive%20Nuclear-Test-Ban%20Treaty | Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty | The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty that bans nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996, but has not entered into force,... |
7885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance | Dance | Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.
An important... |
7886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%20Barrymore | Drew Barrymore | Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, director, producer, and talk show host. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Awar... |
7888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20W.%20Griffith | D. W. Griffith | David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film.
Griffith is known to modern audiences primarily for directing ... |
7890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune | Dune | A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, flat regions covered with wind-swept sand or dunes with little or no vegetation ar... |
7891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Lynch | David Lynch | David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, visual artist, actor, musician, and writer. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d'Or at t... |
7892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Cronenberg | David Cronenberg | David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infection, technology, and the intertwining of the psychological with the... |
7893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Earnhardt | Dale Earnhardt | Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. (; April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001) was an American professional stock car driver and team owner, who raced from 1975 to 2001 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series), most notably driving the No. 3 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing.
The third child of... |
7896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20games%20based%20on%20Dune | List of games based on Dune | A number of games have been published based on the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.
Card games
Dune (1997): Collectible card game produced by Five Rings Publishing Group/Last Unicorn Games and later Wizards of the Coast. Each player leads a planetary house, "battling, conniving, and bribing its way to greatnes... |
7900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dune%20characters | List of Dune characters | Dune is a science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by American author Frank Herbert. Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history, and won the 1966 Hugo Award as well as the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Herbert wrote five sequels before his deat... |
7901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Harkonnen | Vladimir Harkonnen | The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen () is a character from the Dune franchise created by Frank Herbert. He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The character is brought back as a ghola in the He... |
7902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piter%20De%20Vries | Piter De Vries | Piter De Vries is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune, but also appears in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
De Vries is portrayed by Brad Dourif in David Lynch's 1984 film Dune, by ... |
7903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman%20key%20exchange | Diffie–Hellman key exchange | Diffie–Hellman key exchange is a method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel and was one of the first public-key protocols as conceived by Ralph Merkle and named after Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman. DH is one of the earliest practical examples of public key exchange implemented within t... |
7906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destry%20Rides%20Again | Destry Rides Again | Destry Rides Again is a 1939 American Western film directed by George Marshall and starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart. The supporting cast includes Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Irene Hervey, Billy Gilbert, Bill Cody Jr., Lillian Yarbo, and Una Merkel.
The opening credits list ... |
7921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative | Derivative | In mathematics, the derivative of a function of a real variable measures the sensitivity to change of the function value (output value) with respect to a change in its argument (input value). Derivatives are a fundamental tool of calculus. For example, the derivative of the position of a moving object with respect to ... |
7922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian%20languages | Dravidian languages | Dravidian languages (or sometimes Dravidic languages) are a family of languages spoken by 220 million people, mainly in southern India and north-east Sri Lanka, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia. Since the colonial era, there have been small but significant immigrant communities outside the Indian subcontinent in Ma... |
7923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula | Dracula | Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. Hark... |
7925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hume | David Hume | David Hume (; born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human ... |
7928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton%20Trumbo | Dalton Trumbo | James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Com... |
7930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware | Delaware | Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the nearby Delaware River, in turn named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobl... |
7931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary | Dictionary | A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.. It is a lexicographical reference that shows i... |
7935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20D.%20Friedman | David D. Friedman | David Director Friedman (born February 12, 1945) is an American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist, described by Walter E. Block as a "free-market anarchist". Although he studied chemistry and physics and not law or economics, he is known for his textbook writings on microeconomics and... |
7938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomic%20molecule | Diatomic molecule | Diatomic molecules are molecules composed of only two atoms, of the same or different chemical elements. The prefix di- is of Greek origin, meaning "two". If a diatomic molecule consists of two atoms of the same element, such as hydrogen (H2) or oxygen (O2), then it is said to be homonuclear. Otherwise, if a diatomic m... |
7939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duopoly | Duopoly | A duopoly (from Greek δύο, duo "two" and πωλεῖν, polein "to sell") is a type of oligopoly where two firms have dominant or exclusive control over a market. It is the most commonly studied form of oligopoly due to its simplicity. Duopolies sell to consumers in a competitive market where the choice of an individual consu... |
7940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons | Dungeons & Dragons | Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. It was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). It has been published by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997. The game ... |
7941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20jeopardy | Double jeopardy | Double jeopardy is a procedural defence (primarily in common law jurisdictions) that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges following an acquittal and in rare cases prosecutorial and/or judge misconduct in the same jurisdiction. A variation in civil law countries is the pere... |
7942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disbarment | Disbarment | Disbarment, also known as striking off, is the removal of a lawyer from a bar association or the practice of law, thus revoking their law license or admission to practice law. Disbarment is usually a punishment for unethical or criminal conduct but may also be imposed for incompetence or incapacity. Procedures vary dep... |
7946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20tag | Dog tag | Dog tag is an informal but common term for a specific type of identification tag worn by military personnel. The tags' primary use is for the identification of casualties; they have information about the individual written on them, including identification and essential basic medical information such as blood type and... |
7950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum | Drum | The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a percussion mall... |
7951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi | Delphi | Delphi (; ), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), in ancient times was a sacred precinct that served as the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The oracle was international in character and also fostered sentiments of Greek nationali... |
7952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Equipment%20Corporation | Digital Equipment Corporation | Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decli... |
7954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20Kennedys | Dead Kennedys | Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California, in 1978. The band was one of the defining punk bands during its initial eight-year run.
Dead Kennedys' lyrics were usually political in nature, satirizing political figures and authority in general, as well as popular culture and ev... |
7955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA | DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix carrying genetic instructions for the development, functioning, growth and reproduction of all known organisms and many viruses. DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are nucleic acids. Alongside... |
7957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy%20family | Kennedy family | The Kennedy family is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment, and business. In 1884, 35 years after the family's arrival from Ireland, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy became the first Kennedy elected to public office, serving in the Massachusetts sta... |
7958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation%20%28disambiguation%29 | Deflation (disambiguation) | Deflation refers to a decrease in the general price level, the opposite of inflation.
Deflation may also refer to:
A release or escape of air or gas from an inflatable, resulting in its shrinking or collapsing
A mode of wind erosion
Dividing a polynomial by a linear factor which decreases its degree by one in multiple... |
7959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy | Democracy | Democracy (, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choose governing officials to do so ("representative democracy"). Who is considered part of "the people" and how authority is sh... |
7960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deduction%20and%20induction | Deduction and induction | Deduction and induction may refer to:
Deductive reasoning
Inductive reasoning
Validity (logic)
Cogency (disambiguation) |
7962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20disjunction | Logical disjunction | In logic, disjunction is a logical connective typically notated whose meaning either refines or corresponds to that of natural language expressions such as "or". In classical logic, it is given a truth functional semantics on which is true unless both and are false. Because this semantics allows a disjunctive formu... |
7963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive%20syllogism | Disjunctive syllogism | In classical logic, disjunctive syllogism (historically known as modus tollendo ponens (MTP), Latin for "mode that affirms by denying") is a valid argument form which is a syllogism having a disjunctive statement for one of its premises.
An example in English:
The breach is a safety violation, or it is not subject to... |
7964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition | Definition | A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Definitions can be classified into two large categories, intensional definitions (which try to give the sense of a term) and extensional definitions (which try to list the objects that a term describes). Another important ca... |
7965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruption | Disruption | Disruption, disruptive, or disrupted may refer to:
Business
Creative disruption, disruption concept in a creative context, introduced in 1992 by TBWA's chairman Jean-Marie Dru
Disruptive innovation, Clayton Christensen's theory of industry disruption by new technology or products
Psychology and sociology
Disruptive b... |
7966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco | Disco | Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.
Disco started as a mixture of music from v... |
7970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin | Darwin | Darwin may refer to:
Common meanings
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection
Darwin, Northern Territory, a territorial capital city in Australia
Arts and entertainment
Darwin (1920 film), a German silent film... |
7973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donegal%20fiddle%20tradition | Donegal fiddle tradition | The Donegal fiddle tradition is the way of playing the fiddle that is traditional in County Donegal, Ireland. It is one of the distinct fiddle traditions within Irish traditional music.
The distinctness of the Donegal tradition developed due to the close relations between Donegal and Scotland, and the Donegal repertoi... |
7975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barreled%20shotgun | Double-barreled shotgun | A double-barreled shotgun is a break-action shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two single shots to be fired in quick succession.
Construction
Modern double-barreled shotguns, often known as doubles, are almost universally break action, with the barrels hinge down at the rear to expose the breech ends for unlo... |
7976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert | Dessert | Dessert () is a course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as confections, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur. In some parts of the world, such as much of Central Africa and West Africa, and most parts of China, there is no tradition of a dessert course to conclude a me... |
7978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Encryption%20Standard | Data Encryption Standard | The Data Encryption Standard (DES ) is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of digital data. Although its short key length of 56 bits makes it too insecure for applications, it has been highly influential in the advancement of cryptography.
Developed in the early 1970s at IBM and based on an earlier design by ... |
7983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-hulled%20tanker | Double-hulled tanker | A double-hulled tanker refers to an oil tanker which has a double hull. They reduce the likelihood of leaks occurring compared to single-hulled tankers, and their ability to prevent or reduce oil spills led to double hulls being standardized for oil tankers and other types of ships including by the International Conven... |
7984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drink | Drink | A drink (or beverage) is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture. Common types of drinks include plain drinking water, milk, juice, smoothies and soft drinks. Traditionally warm beverages include coffee, tea, and hot... |
7985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dill | Dill | Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae. It is the only species in the genus Anethum. Dill is grown widely in Eurasia, where its leaves and seeds are used as a herb or spice for flavouring food.
Growth
Dill grows up to , with slender hollow stems and alternate, finely divided, softly ... |
7988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20space | Dual space | In mathematics, any vector space has a corresponding dual vector space (or just dual space for short) consisting of all linear forms on , together with the vector space structure of pointwise addition and scalar multiplication by constants.
The dual space as defined above is defined for all vector spaces, and to avoi... |
7989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics | Dianetics | Dianetics (from Greek dia, meaning "through", and nous, meaning "mind") is a set of ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Dianetics is practiced by followers of Scientology and the Nation of Islam (as of 2010).
Dianetics ... |
7990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20warehouse | Data warehouse | In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for reporting and data analysis and is considered a core component of business intelligence. DWs are central repositories of integrated data from one or more disparate sources. They store current and historica... |
7991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disperser | Disperser | A disperser is a one-sided extractor. Where an extractor requires that every event gets the same probability under the uniform distribution and the extracted distribution, only the latter is required for a disperser. So for a disperser, an event we have:
Definition (Disperser): A -disperser is a function
such that f... |
7992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devonian | Devonian | The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied.
The first significant adaptive radiation... |
7993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon%20Master%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dungeon Master (disambiguation) | A Dungeon Master is the organizer of a Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Dungeon Master may also refer to:
Gaming
Dungeon Master (video game), a late-1980s computer game for the Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIGS and PC/DOS
The Dungeon Master (video game), a 1983 computer game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Zork III: T... |
7994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Thompson%20%28explorer%29 | David Thompson (explorer) | David Thompson (30 April 1770 – 10 February 1857) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and cartographer, known to some native peoples as Koo-Koo-Sint or "the Stargazer". Over Thompson's career, he traveled across North America, mapping of North America along the way. For this historic feat, Thompson has been ... |
7995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscoreales | Dioscoreales | The Dioscoreales are an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants in modern classification systems, such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web. Within the monocots Dioscoreales are grouped in the lilioid monocots where they are in a sister group relationship with the Pandanales. Of necess... |
8000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default | Default | Default may refer to:
Law
Default (law), the failure to do something required by law
Default (finance), failure to satisfy the terms of a loan obligation or failure to pay back a loan
Default judgment, a binding judgment in favor of either party based on some failure to take action by the other party
Default rule... |
8002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposition | Deposition | Deposition may refer to:
Deposition (law), taking testimony outside of court
Deposition (politics), the removal of a person of authority from political power
Deposition (university), a widespread initiation ritual for new students practiced from the Middle Ages until the 18th century
Art
Deposition from the Cross,... |
8005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentistry | Dentistry | Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is a branch of medicine that consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the oral cavity (the mouth), commonly in the dentition (development and arrangement of teeth) as well as the oral mucosa, and of ... |
8007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diameter | Diameter | In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle. It can also be defined as the longest chord of the circle. Both definitions are also valid for the diameter of a sphere.
In more modern usage, the length of a diameter i... |
8008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20examination | Direct examination | The direct examination or examination-in-chief is one stage in the process of adducing evidence from witnesses in a court of law. Direct examination is the questioning of a witness by the party called by a lawyer in a trial. Direct examination is usually performed to elicit evidence in support of facts which will sat... |
8011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol%20intoxication | Alcohol intoxication | Alcohol intoxication, also known as alcohol poisoning, commonly described as drunkenness or inebriation, is the negative behavior and physical effects caused by a recent consumption of alcohol. In addition to the toxicity of ethanol, the main psychoactive component of alcoholic beverages, other physiological symptoms m... |
8013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20compression | Data compression | In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy. No infor... |
8022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Discovered in the 1990’s, human remains in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been dated to approximately 90,000 years ago. The first real states, such as the Kongo, the Lunda, the Luba and Kuba, appeared south of the equatorial forest on the savannah from the 14th century onwards.
The Kingdom of Kongo controll... |
8023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the largest country of sub-Saharan Africa, occupying some . Most of the country lies within the vast hollow of the Congo River basin. The vast, low-lying central area is a plateau-shaped basin sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rive... |
8024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | Demographics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
As many as 250 ethnic groups have been distinguished and named. The most numerous people ... |
8025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has declined drastically since the mid-1980s, despite being home to vast potential in natural resources and mineral wealth.
At the time of its independence in 1960, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South ... |
8026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Politics of the Democratic Republic of Congo take place in a framework of a republic in transition from a civil war to a semi-presidential republic.
On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution, which set the stage for elections in 2006. The voting process, tho... |
8027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | Telecommunications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Telecommunications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Radio and television
Radio stations:
Two state-owned radio stations are supplemented by more than 100 private radio stations; transmissions of at least 2 international broadcasters a... |
8028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Ground transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has always been difficult. The terrain and climate of the Congo Basin present serious barriers to road and rail construction, and the distances are enormous across this vast country. Furthermore, chronic economic mismanagement and internal conflict has led... |
8029 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20the%20Congo | Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( [FARDC]) is the state organisation responsible for defending the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The FARDC was rebuilt patchily as part of the peace process which followed the end of the Second Congo War in July 2003.
The majority of FARDC members are land f... |
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