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Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher; 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983) was an English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction. Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British indepen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%20Bubbles |
Blackridge is a community in eastern Allegheny County and is a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. This community consists of approximately 650 private homes built from 1920 to 1949. Blackridge Estates was and remains one of the area's largest residential communities.
Blackridge lies in the municipaliti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackridge%2C%20Pennsylvania |
Basic English (a backronym for British American Scientific International and Commercial English) is a controlled language based on standard English, but with a greatly simplified vocabulary and grammar. It was created by the linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20English |
BND may refer to:
Organisations
Federal Intelligence Service (Germany) (), the foreign intelligence agency of Germany
Federal Intelligence Service (disambiguation)
Bank of North Dakota, a state-owned and -run financial institution, based in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
Belleville News-Democrat, a newspaper in Belle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BND |
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones or labrophones, from Latin and Greek elements meaning 'lip' and 'sound'.
There are several factors invo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass%20instrument |
Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic canard which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christian boys in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals. Echoing very old myths of secret cultic practices in many prehistoric societies, the claim, as it is leveled aga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%20libel |
Bagpuss is a British animated children's television series which was made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The series of thirteen episodes was first broadcast from 12 February to 7 May 1974. The title character was "a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams". Altho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpuss |
Naive set theory is any of several theories of sets used in the discussion of the foundations of mathematics.
Unlike axiomatic set theories, which are defined using formal logic, naive set theory is defined informally, in natural language. It describes the aspects of mathematical sets familiar in discrete mathematics (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive%20set%20theory |
Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound. A simple breathy phonation, (not actually a fricative consonant, as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathy%20voice |
In mathematics, Bézout's identity (also called Bézout's lemma), named after Étienne Bézout who proved it for polynomials, is the following theorem:
Here the greatest common divisor of and is taken to be . The integers and are called Bézout coefficients for ; they are not unique. A pair of Bézout coefficients can b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zout%27s%20identity |
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows, but was the only one of them to last beyond its first season.
Premise
P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banacek |
The Blue Angels, formally named the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, are a flight demonstration squadron of the United States Navy. Formed in 1946, the unit is the second oldest formal aerobatic team in the world, after the French formed in 1931. The team, composed of six Navy and one Marine Corps demonstratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Angels |
To be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is distinctly and separately caused by the operation of the Holy Spirit, and it is not cause... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20again |
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It has been nicknamed the "Bone" (from "B-One"). It is one of three strategic bombers serving in the U.S. Air Force fleet along with the B-2 Spirit and the B-52 Stratofortress .
The B-1 was first envisioned i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell%20B-1%20Lancer |
The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The first prayer book, published in 1549 in the reign of King Edward VI of England, was a product of the English Reformation following... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Common%20Prayer |
A bokken (, , "wood", and ken, "sword") (or a bokutō ) is a Japanese wooden sword used for training in kenjutsu. It is usually the size and shape of a katana, but is sometimes shaped like other swords, such as the wakizashi and tantō. Some ornamental bokken are decorated with mother-of-pearl work and elaborate carvings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokken |
BMI may refer to:
Companies and organizations
BMI Foundation, founded by Broadcast Music Incorporated
BMI Healthcare, UK
BMI Film & TV Awards
BMI Research, a research firm
Flybmi airline, formerly BMI Regional and a BMI mainline subsidiary
Bmibaby.com, former airline, BMI subsidiary
British Midland Internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMI |
BSA may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
Basketball South Africa
Bearing Specialists Association, an American trade association
Belarusian Socialist Assembly
Bibliographical Society of America
Birmingham Small Arms Company, UK manufacturer of firearms and vehicles
Black Sky Aerospace, an Australian aerosp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSA |
The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%20Small%20Arms%20Company |
Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick and salty meat extract paste, similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston. It is sold in a distinctive bulbous jar and as cubes and granules. Bovril is owned and distributed by Unilever UK. Its appearance is similar to the British Marmite and its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril |
Benjamin David Santer (born June 3, 1955) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. He also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology from 1987 to 1992. He specializes mainly in statistical analysis of clim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20D.%20Santer |
In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers which occur frequently in analysis. The Bernoulli numbers appear in (and can be defined by) the Taylor series expansions of the tangent and hyperbolic tangent functions, in Faulhaber's formula for the sum of m-th powers of the first n positive in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%20number |
is a 1986 platform game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was distributed in the United States by Romstar, and in Europe by Electrocoin. Players control Bub and Bob, two dragons that set out to save their girlfriends from a world known as the Cave of Monsters. In each level, Bub and Bob must defeat each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20Bobble |
In the partnership card game contract bridge, the Blackwood convention is a bidding convention developed by Easley Blackwood in 1933 and still widely used in the modern game. Its purpose is to enable the partnership to explore its possession of aces, kings and in some variants, the queen of trumps to judge whether a sl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood%20convention |
Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) was an American actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panellist. Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series. He is known for his roles in the CBS sitcom My Favorite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Bixby |
Boers ( ; () are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled Dutch Cape Colony, but the United Kingdom incorporated it into the British Empire in 1806.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boers |
The Bronze Star Medal (BSM) is a United States Armed Forces decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.
When the medal is awarded by the Army, Air Force, or Space Force for acts of valor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze%20Star%20Medal |
Ballarat ( ) (Wathaurong: balla arat) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Ballarat had a population of 111,973, making it the third largest city in Victoria.
Within months of Victoria separating from the colony of New South Wales in 1851, gold was discovered near Ballarat, sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballarat |
The Battle of Abritus, also known as the Battle of Forum Terebronii, occurred near Abritus (modern Razgrad) in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior in the summer of 251. It was fought between the Romans and a federation of Gothic and Scythian tribesmen under the Gothic king Cniva. The Roman army of three legions was s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Abritus |
The Battle of Berestechko (Ukrainian: Битва під Берестечком, Polish: Bitwa pod Beresteczkiem; 28 June — 10 July, 1651). Was fought between the Zaporozhian Cossacks, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, aided by their Crimean Tatar allies, and a Crown Army under King John II Casimir. It was a battle of a Cossack rebellion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Berestechko |
Bohdan Zynovii Mykhailovych Khmelnytskyi (Ruthenian: Ѕѣнові Богданъ Хмелнiцкiи; modern ; 6 August 1657) was a Ruthenian nobleman and military commander of Ukrainian Cossacks as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, which was then under the suzerainty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He led an uprising against the Commo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan%20Khmelnytsky |
Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, for which he won a Hugo Award six times, and an editorial director of Omni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Bova |
The , codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. The initial invasion of Okinawa on 1 April 1945 was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Okinawa |
There were two battles of El Alamein in World War II, both fought in 1942. The Battles occurred in North Africa, in HIRO, in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein.
First Battle of El Alamein: 1–27 July 1942
Second Battle of El Alamein: 23 October – 4 November 1942
In addition, the Battle o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20El%20Alamein |
The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed that any threat to "socialist rule" in any state of the Soviet Bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to all of them, and therefore, it justified the intervention of fellow socialist states. It was proclaimed in order to justify the Soviet-led o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev%20Doctrine |
A bain-marie (; ), also known as a water bath or double boiler, a type of heated bath, is a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently or to keep materials warm over a period of time. A bain-marie is also used to melt ingredients for cooking.
History
The name comes from the Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain-marie |
Belgian may refer to:
Something of, or related to, Belgium
Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent
Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German
Ancient Belgian language, an extinct language formerly spoken in Gallia Belgica
Belgian Dutch or Flemish, a variant of Du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian |
Ballu tundu or ballu sardu is a traditional Sardinian folk dance which is typically danced in a closed or open circle. The dance was described as early as 1805 by Mameli and by La Marmora in 1825. In northern and central Sardinia, the dance is lively and animated with leaps and agile movements and usually accompanied b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballu%20tundu |
Barbagia (; or ) is a geographical, cultural and natural region of inner Sardinia, contained for the most part in the province of Nuoro and Ogliastra and located alongside the Gennargentu massif.
The name comes from Cicero, who described the land as inhabited by barbarians; Roman domination over this part of the isla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbagia |
Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by Australian driver Jack Brabham and British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four Drivers' and two Constructors' World Championships in its 30-year Formula One... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham |
The Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress' is an American four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Fast and high-flying for a bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%20B-17%20Flying%20Fortress |
Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed. The mission was the final goal for Project Nekton, a series of dives conducted by the United States N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste%20%28bathyscaphe%29 |
The Battle of Bouvines was fought on 27 July 1214 near the town of Bouvines in the County of Flanders. It was the concluding battle of the Anglo-French War of 1213–1214. Although estimates on the number of troops vary considerably among modern historians, at Bouvines, a French army commanded by King Philip Augustus rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Bouvines |
The Battle of Actium was a naval battle fought between Octavian's maritime fleet, led by Marcus Agrippa, and the combined fleets of both Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII Philopator. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC in the Ionian Sea, near the former Roman colony of Actium, Greece, and was the climax of over a de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Actium |
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae) of the order Cypriniformes. Native to India and South Asia, it is a popular aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio (and thus often called a "tropical fish" although both tropical and subtropical). It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebrafish |
Balance may refer to:
Common meanings
Balance (ability) in biomechanics
Balance (accounting)
Balance or weighing scale
Balance, as in equality (mathematics) or equilibrium
Arts and entertainment
Film
Balance (1983 film), a Bulgarian film
Balance (1989 film), a short animated film
La Balance, a 1982 French fil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance |
The Battle of Adwa (; ; , also spelled Adowa) was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force on Sunday 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa. The decisive victory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Adwa |
In a dynamical system, bistability means the system has two stable equilibrium states. A bistable structure can be resting in either of two states. An example of a mechanical device which is bistable is a light switch. The switch lever is designed to rest in the "on" or "off" position, but not between the two. Bista... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistability |
Bjørn Lomborg (; born 6 January 1965) is a Danish author and the president of the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center. He is the former director of the Danish government's Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn%20Lomborg |
The Banda Islands () are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java, and constitute an administrative district (kecamatan) within the Central Maluku Regency in the Indonesian province of Maluku. The islands rise out of deep ocean and have a tot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda%20Islands |
The Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Football Club Ltd., commonly referred to as the Broncos, is an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos currently compete in the National Rugby League (NRL). The club has won seven premierships, including two N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane%20Broncos |
The Brisbane Lions are a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.
The Lions came into existence in 1996 when the AFL expansion club the Brisbane Bears, established in 1987, absorbed the AFL operations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane%20Lions |
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his inj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody%20Sunday%20%281972%29 |
Bruno of Querfurt ( 974 – 14 February or 9/14 March 1009), also known as Brun, was a Christian missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania for trying to spread Christianity. He is also called the second "Apostle of the Prussians".
Biography
Early life
Bruno was from a n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20of%20Querfurt |
Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists, including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%20Diddley |
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), known professionally as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian–American actor, best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 horror classic Dracula, Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela%20Lugosi |
Bride of the Monster is a 1955 American science fiction horror film, co-written, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood Jr., and starring Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson with a supporting cast featuring Tony McCoy and Loretta King.
The film is considered to have Wood's biggest budget ($70,000). Production commenced in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride%20of%20the%20Monster |
The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a phrase with fifty-seven letters).
Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867–1928), a junior librarian at Oxford's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry%20paradox |
This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in biathlon.
Medalists in military patrol, a precursor to biathlon, are listed separately.
Men
The numbers in brackets denotes biathletes who won gold medal in corresponding disciplines more than one time. Bold numbers denotes record number of victories in certain discip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Olympic%20medalists%20in%20biathlon |
The first Biathlon World Championships (BWCH) was held in 1958, with individual and team contests for men. The number of events has grown significantly over the years. Beginning in 1984, women biathletes had their own World Championships, and finally, from 1989, both genders have been participating in joint Biathlon Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon%20World%20Championships |
Inedia (Latin for 'fasting') or breatharianism () is the claimed ability for a person to live without consuming food, and in some cases water. It is a pseudoscientific practice, and several adherents of these practices have died from starvation or dehydration due to not having followed security guidelines (especially f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia |
Bihar is a state in India.
Bihar may also refer to:
Places
India
Bihar Province, former colonial province in British India
Bihar Subah, a Bihar-based Mughal imperial province
Bihar Sharif, headquarters of Nalanda district, Bihar, India
Bihar River, a border river of Palamu district, Jharkhand, India
Bihar, Unna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Belfast ( , ; from , meaning "mouth of the sand-bank ford") is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 10th-largest primary urban area in the United Kingdom and the second-largest city in the island of Ireland. Belfast City had a populati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast |
Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula . It is primarily a solid-solution series between the iron-endmember annite, and the magnesium-endmember phlogopite; more aluminous end-members include siderophyllite and eastonite. Biotite was regarded as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotite |
Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as church president, Young led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigham%20Young |
A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), the author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January, known as Burns Night (; ) also called Robert Burns Day or Rabbie Burns Day (or Robbie Burns Day in Cana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns%20supper |
William McGuire Bryson (; born 8 December 1951) is an American–British journalist and author. Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the U.S. bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Bryson |
Big Audio Dynamite (later known as Big Audio Dynamite II and Big Audio, and often abbreviated BAD) were an English band, formed in London in 1984 by Mick Jones, former lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the Clash. The band mixed various musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip hop, regg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Audio%20Dynamite |
Bentley Motors Limited is a British designer, manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs. Headquartered in Crewe, England, the company was founded by W. O. Bentley (1888–1971) in 1919 in Cricklewood, North London, and became widely known for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1924, 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930. Ben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley |
A chordate ( ) is a deuterostomic animal belonging to the phylum Chordata ( ). All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa. These five synapomorphies are a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate |
Charlize Theron ( ; ; born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Theron ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlize%20Theron |
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as (Chinese chess) and (Japanese chess). The recorded hist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess |
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%20Chaplin |
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the Government Publishing Office. The Factbook is available in the form of a w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20Factbook |
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, while the country of Wales is a component of a multi-part sovereign state, the United Ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country |
Copenhagen ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of around 650,000 in the municipality and 1.4 million in the urban area. The city is on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen |
Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many applications ranging from logic to statistical physics and from evolutionary biol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics |
Calculus is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape, and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations.
It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus; the former concerns instantaneous rates of change, and the slopes o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus |
Communication is usually understood to be the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not only transmits meaning but also creates it. Models of communication are simplified over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication |
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics also includes Greco-Roman philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics |
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science under natural sciences that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry |
In cell biology, the cytoplasm describes all material within a eukaryotic cell, enclosed by the cell membrane, except for the cell nucleus. The material inside the nucleus and contained within the nuclear membrane is termed the nucleoplasm. The main components of the cytoplasm are the cytosol (a gel-like substance), th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasm |
Christ, used by Christians as both a name and a title, unambiguously refers to Jesus. It is also used as a title, in the reciprocal use "Christ Jesus", meaning "the Messiah Jesus" or "Jesus the Anointed", and independently as "the Christ". The Pauline epistles, the earliest texts of the New Testament, often refer to Je... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ%20%28title%29 |
Capital and its variations may refer to:
Common uses
Capital city, a municipality of primary status
List of national capitals
Capital letter, an upper-case letter
Economics and social sciences
Capital (economics), the durable produced goods used for further production
Capital (Marxism), a central concept in Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital |
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe. The concept of "Central Europe" emerged in Germany and Austria in the 19th century as "Mitteleuropa". Central Europe is known for its cultural diversity; however, countries in this region also share certain histori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Europe |
Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Canada |
Statistics Canada conducts a country-wide census that collects demographic data every five years on the first and sixth year of each decade. The 2021 Canadian census enumerated a total population of 36,991,981, an increase of around 5.2 percent over the 2016 figure, Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Canada |
The politics of Canada function within a framework of parliamentary democracy and a federal system of parliamentary government with strong democratic traditions. Canada is a constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch is head of state. In practice, the executive powers are directed by the Cabinet, a committee of mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Canada |
The economy of Canada is a highly developed mixed economy, with the world's tenth-largest economy , and a nominal GDP of approximately . Canada is one of the world's largest trading nations, with a highly globalized economy. In 2021, Canadian trade in goods and services reached $2.016 trillion. Canada's exports totalle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Canada |
Present-day telecommunications in Canada include telephone, radio, television, and internet usage. In the past, telecommunications included telegraphy available through Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.
History
The history of telegraphy in Canada dates back to the Province of Canada. While the first telegraph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Canada |
Canada, the world's second-largest country in total area, is dedicated to having an efficient, high-capacity multimodal transportation spanning often vast distances between natural resource extraction sites, agricultural and urban areas. Canada's transportation system includes more than of roads, 10 major internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Canada |
Relations between Canada and the United States are extraordinarily positive and extensive. The two countries consider themselves among the "closest [of] allies".
Both countries are culturally a part of the Anglosphere and compose a part of the broader Western World. Starting with the American Revolution, when Loyalis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United%20States%20relations |
Christianity () is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers representing one-third of the global population. Its adherents, known as Christians, are estimated to make up a majority o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity |
Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, engineering, mathematical, technological and social aspects. Major computing d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing |
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling. Casinos are often built near or combined with hotels, resorts, restaurants, retail shops, cruise ships, and other tourist attractions. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertainment, such as stand-up comedy, concerts, and sports.
and usage
Casino is of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino |
Khmer (; , UNGEGN: ) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people, and the official and national language of Cambodia. Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through Hinduism and Buddhism. It is also the earliest recorded and earliest wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer%20language |
A central processing unit (CPU)—also called a central processor or main processor—is the most important processor in a given computer. Its electronic circuitry executes instructions of a computer program, such as arithmetic, logic, controlling, and input/output (I/O) operations. This role contrasts with that of externa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20processing%20unit |
Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans. The order Carnivora is the fifth largest order of mammals, comprising at least 279 species.
Carnivorans live on every major landmass and in a variety of habitats, ranging ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivora |
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country mostly in South America with insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia |
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay. The picture was Welles' first feature film. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. For 50 consecutive years, it stood at number 1 in the British... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen%20Kane |
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