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8996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20HTML | Dynamic HTML | Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is a term which was used by some browser vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and client-side scripts (JavaScript, VBScript, or any other supported scripts) that enabled creation of interactive and animated documents. The application of DHTML was introduced by Microsoft with... |
8997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance%20education | Distance education | Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school. Traditionally, this usually involved correspondence courses wherein the student corresponded with the school via mail. Today, it usually involves online education. A distance learning ... |
9000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20of%20a%20Hero | Death of a Hero | Death of a Hero is a World War I novel by Richard Aldington. It was his first novel, published by Chatto & Windus in 1929, and thought to be partly autobiographical.
Plot summary
Death of a Hero is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the beginning of World War I. T... |
9001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20Confluence%20Project | Degree Confluence Project | The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based, all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online. The project describes itself as "an organized sampling of the world".
Req... |
9002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Kaye | Danny Kaye | Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; ; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, philanthropist, and cook. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.
Kaye starred in 17 films, notably Wonder Man (1945), The Ki... |
9003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20DeCarlo | Dan DeCarlo | Daniel S. DeCarlo (December 12, 1919 – December 18, 2001) was an American cartoonist best known for having developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s, modernizing the characters to their contemporary appearance and establishing the publisher's house style up until his death. As well, he is th... |
9008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debit%20card | Debit card | A debit card (also known as a bank card, plastic card or check card) is a payment card that can be used in place of cash to make purchases. It is similar to a credit card, but unlike a credit card, the money for the purchase must be in the cardholder's bank account at the time of a purchase and is immediately transferr... |
9010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20Dance%20Revolution | Dance Dance Revolution | (DDR), formerly known as Dancing Stage in European releases until 2009, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video game... |
9011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20Alliance%20%281879%29 | Dual Alliance (1879) | The Dual Alliance (, ) was a defensive alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, which was created by treaty on October 7, 1879, as part of Germany's Otto von Bismarck's system of alliances to prevent or limit war. The two powers promised each other support in case of attack by Russia. Also, each state promised ben... |
9014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental%20psychology | Developmental psychology | Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire lifespan. Developmental psychologists aim to explain how thinking, fe... |
9015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20replication | DNA replication | In molecular biology, DNA replication is the biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule. DNA replication occurs in all living organisms acting as the most essential part for biological inheritance. This is essential for cell division during growth and repair of damaged ... |
9016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian | Dravidian | Dravidian, Dravidan, or Dravida may refer to:
Language and culture
Dravidian languages, a family of languages spoken mainly in South India and northeastern Sri Lanka
Proto-Dravidian language, a model of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages
Dravidian University, a university situated in Andhra Pradesh
South I... |
9020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy%20Duck | Daisy Duck | Daisy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. As the girlfriend of Donald Duck, she is an anthropomorphic white duck that has large eyelashes and ruffled tail feathers around her lowest region to suggest a skirt. She is often seen wearing a hair bow, blouse, and heeled shoes. Daisy was introduce... |
9021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com%20bubble | Dot-com bubble | The dot-com bubble, also known as the dot-com boom, the tech bubble, and the Internet bubble, was a stock market bubble caused by excessive speculation of Internet-related companies in the late 1990s, a period of massive growth in the use and adoption of the Internet.
Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasda... |
9023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted%20cash%20flow | Discounted cash flow | In finance, discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis is a method of valuing a security, project, company, or asset using the concepts of the time value of money.
Discounted cash flow analysis is widely used in investment finance, real estate development, corporate financial management and patent valuation. It was used in i... |
9025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20deities | Lists of deities | This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.
List of deities by classification
Lists of deities by cultural sphere
List of goddesses
List of fictional deities
List of people who have been considered deities; see also Apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred k... |
9030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau%2C%20Bavaria | Dachau, Bavaria | Dachau () is a town in the Upper Bavaria district of Bavaria, a state in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about north-west of Munich. It is now a popular residential area for people working in Munich, with roughly 45,000 inhab... |
9032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila | Drosophila | Drosophila () is a genus of flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or (less frequently) pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species to linger around overripe or rotting fruit. They should not be confused with the... |
9033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship | Dictatorship | A dictatorship is a form of government characterized by a single leader (dictator) or group of leaders that hold government power promised to the people and little or no toleration for political pluralism or independent media. In most dictatorships, the country's constitution promises its citizens inalienable rights an... |
9039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django%20Reinhardt | Django Reinhardt | Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Belgian-born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most significant exponents.
With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinh... |
9041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit | Digit | Digit may refer to:
Mathematics and science
Numerical digit, as used in mathematics or computer science
Hindu-Arabic numerals, the most common modern representation of numerical digits
Digit (anatomy), one of several most distal parts of a limb—fingers, thumbs, and toes on hands and feet
Dit or digit, synonym of B... |
9048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Plato | Dana Plato | Dana Michelle Plato (née Strain; November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999) was an American actress. An influential "teen idol" of the late 1970s and 1980s, Plato was recognized for her television work, for which she was included on VH1's list of "100 Greatest Kid Stars".
Plato was born to Linda Strain in 1964, and was adopted b... |
9051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop%20kick | Drop kick | A drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football. It involves a player dropping the ball and then kicking it as it touches the ground.
Drop kicks are used as a method of restarting play and scoring points in rugby union and rugby league. Also, association football goalkeepers often return the ball to play wi... |
9053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis | Diaeresis | Diaeresis (dieresis, diëresis) may refer to:
Diaeresis (prosody), pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made in a line of poetry when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word
Diaeresis (linguistics), or hiatus, the separation of adjacent vowels into syllables, not separated by... |
9055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry | Derry | Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning "oak grove". The old walled city lies on the west bank of the River Foyle, which is spanned by two roa... |
9058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20influence%20in%20Afghanistan | European influence in Afghanistan | European influence in Afghanistan has been present in the country since the Victorian era, when the competing imperial powers of Britain and Russia contested for control over Afghanistan as part of the Great Game.
Rise of Dost Mohammad Khan
After the decline of the Durrani dynasty in 1823, Dost Mohammad Khan establis... |
9059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia%20praecox | Dementia praecox | Dementia praecox (meaning a "premature dementia" or "precocious madness") is a disused psychiatric diagnosis that originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood. Over the years, the term dementia p... |
9061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin | Dolphin | Dolphin is the common name of aquatic mammals within the infraorder Cetacea. The term dolphin usually refers to the extant families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and the extinct Lipotidae (bai... |
9067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%20ring | Division ring | In algebra, a division ring, also called a skew field, is a ring in which division is possible. Specifically, it is a nonzero ring in which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse, that is, an element generally denoted , such that . So, division may be defined as , but this notation is generally avoided, a... |
9069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia%20%28software%29 | Dia (software) | Dia ()
is free and open source general-purpose diagramming software, developed originally by Alexander Larsson. Dia uses a controlled single document interface (SDI) similar to GIMP and Inkscape.
Features
Dia has a modular design with several shape packages available for different needs: flowchart, network diagrams, ... |
9070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Space%201 | Deep Space 1 | Deep Space 1 (DS1) was a NASA technology demonstration spacecraft which flew by an asteroid and a comet. It was part of the New Millennium Program, dedicated to testing advanced technologies.
Launched on 24 October 1998, the Deep Space 1 spacecraft carried out a flyby of asteroid 9969 Braille, which was its primary sc... |
9071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20David%20%28disambiguation%29 | King David (disambiguation) | David was the third king of the united Kingdom of Israel and Judeah
King David may also refer to:
People
David I (disambiguation)
David II (disambiguation)
David III of Tao
David IV of Georgia (1073–1125)
David V of Georgia (died 1155)
David VI of Georgia (1225–1293)
David VII of Georgia (1215–1270)
David VI... |
9072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis%20David | Jacques-Louis David | Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 174829 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity and severity and heightened feelin... |
9074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20Science%20License | Design Science License | Design Science License (DSL) is a copyleft license for any type of free content such as text, images, music. Unlike other open source licenses, the DSL was intended to be used on any type of copyrightable work, including documentation and source code. It was the first "generalized copyleft" license. The DSL was written... |
9079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum%20kit | Drum kit | A drum kit – also called a drum set, trap set (an abbreviation of the word "contraption") or simply drums – is a collection of drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands and the feet operating pedals that control the hi... |
9080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying%20Earth | Dying Earth | Dying Earth is a fantasy series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984.
Some have been called picaresque. They vary from short story collections to a fix-up (novel created from older short stories), perhaps all the way to novel.
The first book in the series, The... |
9082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute%20resolution | Dispute resolution | Dispute resolution or dispute settlement is the process of resolving disputes between parties. The term dispute resolution is sometimes used interchangeably with conflict resolution, although conflicts are generally more deep-rooted and lengthy than disputes. Dispute resolution techniques assist the resolution of antag... |
9085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catan%3A%20Cities%20%26%20Knights | Catan: Cities & Knights | Catan: Cities & Knights (), formerly The Cities and Knights of Catan is an expansion to the board game The Settlers of Catan for three to four players (five to six player play is also possible with the Settlers and Cities & Knights five to six player extensions; two-player play is possible with the Traders & Barbarians... |
9086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catan%3A%20Seafarers | Catan: Seafarers | Catan: Seafarers, or Seafarers of Catan in older editions, () is an expansion of the board game Catan for three to four players (five-to-six-player play is also possible with both of the respective five-to-six-player extensions). The main feature of this expansion is the addition of ships, gold rivers, and the pirate ... |
9087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20system | Dynamical system | In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a pipe, and the number of fish each springtime in a lake. The most general defini... |
9090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi | Dhimmi | ( , , collectively / "the people of the covenant") or is a historical term for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection. The word literally means "protected person", referring to the state's obligation under sharia to protect the individual's life, property, as well as freedom of religion, in exch... |
9091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20V64 | Doctor V64 | The Doctor V64 (also referred to simply as the V64) is a development and backup device made by Bung Enterprises Ltd that is used in conjunction with the Nintendo 64. The Doctor V64 also had the ability to play Video CDs, audio CDs and had an option for applying stereo 3D effects to the audio.
History
The V64 came ou... |
9093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Havilland%20Mosquito | De Havilland Mosquito | The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, shoulder-winged, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War. Unusual in that its frame was constructed mostly of wood, it was nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder", or "Mossie". Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, nicknamed it "Fre... |
9099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Thomas%20%28businessman%29 | Dave Thomas (businessman) | Rex David Thomas (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 2002) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and fast-food tycoon. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the c... |
9101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device%20driver | Device driver | In computing, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to know p... |
9103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimona | Dimona | Dimona () is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, to the south-east of Beersheba and west of the Dead Sea above the Arava valley in the Southern District of Israel. In its population was . The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, colloquially known as the Dimona Reactor, is located southeast of the city.
Et... |
9105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%20Comics | DC Comics | DC Comics, Inc. (or simply just DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Warner Bros. Global Brands and Franchises division of Warner Bros., which itself is a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia through its Studios & Networks division.
DC Comics is one of the ... |
9109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine%20equation | Diophantine equation | In mathematics, a Diophantine equation is a polynomial equation, usually involving two or more unknowns, such that the only solutions of interest are the integer ones. A linear Diophantine equation equates to a constant the sum of two or more monomials, each of degree one. An exponential Diophantine equation is one in... |
9110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantus | Diophantus | Diophantus of Alexandria (; born probably sometime between AD 200 and 214; died around the age of 84, probably sometime between AD 284 and 298) was an Alexandrian mathematician, who was the author of a series of books called Arithmetica, many of which are now lost. His texts deal with solving algebraic equations. Dioph... |
9111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong | Dong | Dong or DONG may refer to:
Places
Dong Lake, or East Lake, a lake in China
Dong, Arunachal Pradesh, a village in India
Dong (administrative division) (동 or 洞), a neighborhood division in Korea
Persons
Queen Dong (1623–1681), princess consort of Koxinga and mother of Zheng Jing
Empress Dong (Ran Min's wife), wife o... |
9118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke%20Kahanamoku | Duke Kahanamoku | Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (August 24, 1890 – January 22, 1968) was a competition swimmer who popularized the sport of surfing. A Native Hawaiian, he was born to a minor noble family less than three years before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He lived to see the territory's admission as a stat... |
9119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished%20Service%20Medal%20%28U.S.%20Army%29 | Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army) | The Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) is a military decoration of the United States Army that is presented to soldiers who have distinguished themselves by exceptionally meritorious service to the government in a duty of great responsibility. The performance must be such as to merit recognition for service that is clea... |
9120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%20Distinguished%20Service%20Medal | Defense Distinguished Service Medal | The Defense Distinguished Service Medal is a military decoration of the United States Department of Defense, which is presented to United States Armed Forces servicemembers for exceptionally distinguished performance of duty contributing to the national security or defense of the United States. The medal was created on... |
9121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacoity | Dacoity | Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in the Indian subcontinent. The spelling is the anglicised version of the Hindi word daaku; "dacoit" is a colloquial Indian English word with this meaning and it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases (1903). Banditry is criminal activity involving ro... |
9123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%2C%20California | Davis, California | Davis, known prior to 1907 as Davisville, is a city in the U.S. state of California and the most populous city in Yolo County. It had a population of 65,622 in 2010, not including the on-campus population of the University of California, Davis, which was over 9,400 (not including students' families) in 2016. there wer... |
9128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon%20Runyon | Damon Runyon | Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was an American newspaperman and short-story writer.
He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distincti... |
9129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Tennant | Don Tennant | Donald G. Tennant (November 23, 1922 – December 8, 2001) was an American advertising agency executive.
He worked at the Leo Burnett agency in Chicago, Illinois. The agency placed anthropomorphic faces of 'critters' on packaged goods. He was the first to draw Tony the Tiger for the Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes advert... |
9130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo | Devo | DEVO (, originally ) is an American rock band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973. Their classic lineup consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", the song that gav... |
9132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale%20Chihuly | Dale Chihuly | Dale Chihuly () (born September 20, 1941) is an American glass artist and entrepreneur. He is best known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture".
Early life
Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on September 20, 1941, in Tacoma, Washington. His parents were George and Viola Chihuly; h... |
9133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Kamen | Dean Kamen | Dean Lawrence Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. Kamen holds over 1,000 patents.
Early life and family
Kamen was born in Long Island, New York, to... |
9135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative%20%28finance%29 | Derivative (finance) | In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity. This underlying entity can be an asset, index, or interest rate, and is often simply called the "underlying". Derivatives can be used for a number of purposes, including insuring against price movements (hedging)... |
9136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20%28disambiguation%29 | Disney (disambiguation) | Disney or The Walt Disney Company is an American diversified media conglomerate.
Disney may also refer to:
Units of The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, the publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange
Disney Enterprises, Inc., the copyright holder and trademark owner of everything Disney-brande... |
9137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine%20right%20of%20kings | Divine right of kings | In European Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy. It stems from a specific metaphysical framework in which a monarch is, before birth, pre-ordained to inherit the crown. According to this theory of politica... |
9138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davros | Davros | Davros () is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was created by screenwriter Terry Nation, originally for the 1975 serial Genesis of the Daleks. Davros is a major enemy of the series' protagonist, the Doctor, and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, th... |
9140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek | Dalek | The Daleks ( ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. They were conceived by science-fiction writer Terry Nation and first appeared in the 1963 Doctor Who serial The Daleks, in shells designed by Raymond Cusick.
Drawing ins... |
9141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy%20Jones%20%28musician%29 | Davy Jones (musician) | David Thomas Jones (30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012) was an English singer, actor and businessman. Jones is best known as a member of the band the Monkees and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968). He was considered a teen idol.
Aside from his work on The Monkees TV show, Jones' acting credits include... |
9142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge | Discharge | Discharge may refer to
Expel or let go
Discharge, the act of firing a gun
Discharge, or termination of employment, the end of an employee's duration with an employer
Military discharge, the release of a member of the armed forces from service
Flow
Discharge (hydrology), the amount of water flowing through the cha... |
9146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly%20%28sheep%29 | Dolly (sheep) | Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female Finnish Dorset sheep and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell. She was cloned by associates of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, using the process of nuclear transfer from a cell taken from a mammary gland. Her cloning proved that a cloned organism cou... |
9156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores%20Fuller | Dolores Fuller | Dolores Agnes Fuller (née Eble; March 10, 1923 – May 9, 2011) was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Ed Wood. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in his Bride of the Monster... |
9160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20jure | De jure | In law and government, de jure ( ; , "by law") describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality. In contrast, ("in fact") describes situations that exist in reality, even if not legally recognized.
Examples
Between 1805 and 1914, the ruling dynasty of Egypt ruled ... |
9163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des%20Moines%2C%20Iowa | Des Moines, Iowa | Des Moines () is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small part of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857. It is located on, and named after... |
9164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Campbell | Donald Campbell | Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record a... |
9165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed%20set | Directed set | In mathematics, a directed set (or a directed preorder or a filtered set) is a nonempty set together with a reflexive and transitive binary relation (that is, a preorder), with the additional property that every pair of elements has an upper bound. In other words, for any and in there must exist in with and A ... |
9209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Bellamy | Edward Bellamy | Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
A... |
9222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E | E | E, or e, is the fifth letter and the second vowel letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is e (pronounced ); plural ees, Es or E's. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvi... |
9223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics | Economics | Economics () is "the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services."
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics is a field which analyzes what's viewed as basic elements in the economy, including indivi... |
9225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20paper | Electronic paper | Electronic paper, also sometimes electronic ink, e-ink or electrophoretic display, are display devices that mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Unlike conventional flat panel displays that emit light, an electronic paper display reflects ambient light like paper. This may make them more comfortable to read, ... |
9228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth | Earth | Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large amounts of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surface is made up of the ocean, dwarfing Earth's polar ice, lakes and rivers. The remaining... |
9230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20Channel | English Channel | The English Channel, also called simply the Channel (), is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France and links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is the busiest shipping area in the world.
It is about long and varies in widt... |
9232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel%20Tower | Eiffel Tower | The Eiffel Tower ( ; ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer" (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the centerpiece of the 1889 Worl... |
9235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical%20egoism | Ethical egoism | Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to act in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims that people can only act in their self-interest. Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds that it is rational to act in one's self-interest... |
9236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution | Evolution | Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes that are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Different characteristics tend to exist within any given population as a result of mutation, gen... |
9238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Mayr | Ernst Mayr | Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary ... |
9239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe | Europe | Europe is a continent, also recognised as part of Eurasia, located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of the continental landmass of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Asia and Africa. It is bordered by the A... |
9240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa | Europa | Europa may refer to:
Places
Europe
Europa (Roman province), a province within the Diocese of Thrace
Europa (Seville Metro), Seville, Spain; a station on the Seville Metro
Europa City, Paris, France; a planned development
Europa Cliffs, Alexander Island, Antarctica
Europa Island, a small island in the Mozambique ... |
9241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euglenozoa | Euglenozoa | The euglenozoa are a large group of flagellate Excavata, a type of protists. They include a variety of common free-living species, as well as a few important parasites, some of which infect humans. There are two main subgroups, the euglenids and kinetoplastids. Euglenozoa are unicellular, mostly around in size, althou... |
9247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology | Epistemology | Epistemology (; ) is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemologists study the nature, origin, scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics... |
9248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto | Esperanto | Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by Polish ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communication, or "the international language" (). Zamenhof first described the language in Dr. E... |
9251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering | Engineering | Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas... |
9252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education | Education | Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, habits, and personal development. Education originated as transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as liberation o... |
9253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia | Encyclopedia | An encyclopedia (American English), encyclopædia (archaic spelling), or encyclopaedia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either from all branches or from a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are often arranged alphabe... |
9256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma%20machine | Enigma machine | The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military. The Enigma machine was considered so secure that it was used ... |
9257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme | Enzyme | Enzymes () are proteins that act as biological catalysts (biocatalysts). Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions. The molecules upon which enzymes may act are called substrates, and the enzyme converts the substrates into different molecules known as products. Almost all metabolic processes in the cell need enzyme cata... |
9258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics | Ethics | Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns matters of value; these fields comprise the branch of philosophy called axiology.
Ethics seeks to resolve questions ... |
9259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20relation | Equivalence relation | In mathematics, an equivalence relation is a binary relation that is reflexive, symmetric and transitive. The relation is equal to is the canonical example of an equivalence relation.
Each equivalence relation provides a partition of the underlying set into disjoint equivalence classes. Two elements of the given set a... |
9260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20class | Equivalence class | In mathematics, when the elements of some set have a notion of equivalence (formalized as an equivalence relation) defined on them, then one may naturally split the set into equivalence classes. These equivalence classes are constructed so that elements and belong to the same equivalence class if, and only if, they... |
9262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment | Entertainment | Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.
Alth... |
9263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ether | Ether | Ethers are a class of organic compounds that contain an ether group—an oxygen atom connected to two alkyl or aryl groups. They have the general formula R–O–R′, where R and R′ represent the alkyl or aryl groups. Ethers can again be classified into two varieties: if the alkyl groups are the same on both sides of the oxy... |
9264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic | Ecliptic | The ecliptic is the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun. From the perspective of an observer on Earth, the Sun's movement around the celestial sphere over the course of a year traces out a path along the ecliptic against the background of stars. The ecliptic is an important reference plane and is the basis of the ecl... |
9269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20sovereign%20states | List of former sovereign states | A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that have ceased to exist as political entities, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.
The mo... |
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