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In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication channel or storage in a storage medium. An early example is an invention of language... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code |
The Cheirogaleidae are the family of strepsirrhine primates containing the various dwarf and mouse lemurs. Like all other lemurs, cheirogaleids live exclusively on the island of Madagascar.
Characteristics
Cheirogaleids are smaller than the other lemurs and, in fact, they are the smallest primates. They have soft, lon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheirogaleidae |
The Callitrichidae (also called Arctopitheci or Hapalidae) are a family of New World monkeys, including marmosets, tamarins, and lion tamarins. At times, this group of animals has been regarded as a subfamily, called the Callitrichinae, of the family Cebidae.
This taxon was traditionally thought to be a primitive line... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callitrichidae |
The Cebidae are one of the five families of New World monkeys now recognised. Extant members are the capuchin and squirrel monkeys. These species are found throughout tropical and subtropical South and Central America.
Characteristics
Cebid monkeys are arboreal animals that only rarely travel on the ground. They are g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebidae |
Chondrichthyes (; ) is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyians, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage. They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fish, which have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. Chondrichthyes are aquatic vertebrates with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrichthyes |
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is render... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Linnaeus |
The coast, also known as the coastline or seashore, is defined as the area where land meets the ocean, or as a line that forms the boundary between the land and the coastline. Shores are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape, as well as by water induced erosion, such as waves. The geological composi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast |
Catatonia is a complex neuropsychiatric behavioral syndrome that is characterized by abnormal movements, immobility, abnormal behaviors, and withdrawal. The onset of catatonia can be acute or subtle and symptoms can wax, wane, or change during episodes. It has historically been related to schizophrenia (catatonic schiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatonia |
In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is encipherment. To encipher or encode is to convert information into cipher or code. In common parlance, "cipher" is synonym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher |
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the Southern and Southwestern United States. First produced in the 1920s, country music primarily focuses on working class Americans and blue-collar American life.
Country music is known for its ballads and dance tunes (also known as "honky-tonk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20music |
The Cold War (1948–1953) is the period within the Cold War from the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council in 1948 to the conclusion of the Korean War in 1953.
The list of world leaders in these years is as follows:
1948–49: Clement Attlee (UK); Harry Truman (US); Vincent Auriol (France); Joseph Stalin (USSR); ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20War%20%281948%E2%80%931953%29 |
Crony capitalism sometimes also called simply cronyism, is a pejorative term used in political discourse to describe a situation in which businesses profit from a close relationship with state power, either through an anti-competitive regulatory environment, direct government largesse, and/or corruption. Examples given... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony%20capitalism |
This is a list of lists of universities and colleges.
Subject of study
Aerospace engineering
Agriculture
Art schools
Business
Chiropractic
Engineering
Forestry
Law
Maritime studies
Medicine
Music
Nanotechnology
Osteopathy
Pharmaceuticals
Social Work
Institution type
Community colleges
For-profit uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20universities%20and%20colleges |
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
When these principles are written down into a single document or set of legal documents, thos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution |
In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.
The defining characteristic of common law is that it arises as precedent. Common law courts look to the past decisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20law |
Civil law may refer to:
Civil law (common law), the part of law that concerns private citizens and legal persons
Civil law (legal system), or continental law, a legal system originating in continental Europe and based on Roman law
Private law, the branch of law in a civil law legal system that concerns relations amo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20law |
A court of appeals is generally an appellate court.
Court of Appeals may refer to:
Israeli Military Court of Appeals
(Italy)
Court of Appeals of the Philippines
High Court of Appeals of Turkey
Court of Appeals (Vatican City)
United States
Courts of appeals
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Court of Appeals for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court%20of%20appeals%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time. According to modern evolutionary biology, all living beings could be descendants of a unique ancestor commonly referred to as the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all life on Ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20descent |
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern Celtic nations). It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic%20music |
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.
The origins of the earliest constellations likely go back to prehistory. People used them to relate stories of their be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation |
Character or Characters may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
Character (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
Characters (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus
Music
Characters (John Abercrombie album), 1977
Character (Dark Tranquilli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character |
A car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers.
Car(s), CAR(s), or The Car(s) may also refer to:
Computing
C.a.R. (Z.u.L.), geometry software
CAR and CDR, commands in LISP computer programming
Clock with Adaptive Replacement, a page replacement algorithm
Computer-assisted reporting
Computer-as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%20%28disambiguation%29 |
In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a persistent representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer%20%28computing%29 |
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form. Copyright is intended to protect the original expression o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright |
Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of two autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. It is also an official language in Valencia, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20language |
STS-51-F (also known as Spacelab 2) was the 19th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on July 29, 1985, and landed eight days later on August 6, 1985.
While STS-51-F's primary payload was the Spacelab 2 laboratory modu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-F |
The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.
The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music, but a more varying use of musical form, which is, in simpler terms, the rhythm and organization o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20period%20%28music%29 |
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. The numerical values that make up a character encoding are known as "code points" and collectively compri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20encoding |
In computing and telecommunication, a control character or non-printing character (NPC) is a code point in a character set that does not represent a written character or symbol. They are used as in-band signaling to cause effects other than the addition of a symbol to the text. All other characters are mainly graphic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20character |
Carbon () is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent—its atom making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. It belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. Carbon makes up about 0.025 percent of Earth's crust. Three isotopes occur naturally, C and C b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon |
Computer data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers.
The central processing unit (CPU) of a computer is what manipulates data by performing computations. In practice, almost all co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20data%20storage |
Conditional (if then) may refer to:
Causal conditional, if X then Y, where X is a cause of Y
Conditional probability, the probability of an event A given that another event B has occurred
Conditional proof, in logic: a proof that asserts a conditional, and proves that the antecedent leads to the consequent
Strict cond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional |
A cone is a basic geometrical shape.
Cone may also refer to:
Mathematics
Cone (category theory)
Cone (formal languages)
Cone (graph theory), a graph in which one vertex is adjacent to all others
Cone (linear algebra), a subset of vector space
Mapping cone (homological algebra)
Cone (topology)
Conic bundle, a concept ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone%20%28disambiguation%29 |
In a chemical reaction, chemical equilibrium is the state in which both the reactants and products are present in concentrations which have no further tendency to change with time, so that there is no observable change in the properties of the system. This state results when the forward reaction proceeds at the same ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20equilibrium |
In mathematics, a combination is a selection of items from a set that has distinct members, such that the order of selection does not matter (unlike permutations). For example, given three fruits, say an apple, an orange and a pear, there are three combinations of two that can be drawn from this set: an apple and a pea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination |
Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
At the lowest programming level, executable code consists of machine language instructions supported by an individual processor—typically a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software |
Computer programming or coding is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves designing and implementing algorithms, step-by-step specifications of procedures, by writing code in one or more programming languages. Programmers typically use high-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20programming |
On the Consolation of Philosophy (), often titled as The Consolation of Philosophy or simply the Consolation, is a philosophical work by the Roman philosopher Boethius. Written in 523 while he was imprisoned and awaiting execution by the Ostrogothic King Theodoric, it is often described as the last great Western work o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20the%20Consolation%20of%20Philosophy |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 Mandarin-language wuxia martial arts adventure film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung. The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. It is based on the Chinese novel of the same name serial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching%20Tiger%2C%20Hidden%20Dragon |
Charlemagne ( ) or Charles the Great (, Frankish: Karl; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and was crowned as the Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in 800. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of western and ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne |
While Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) has been in use since 1991, HTML 4.0 from December 1997 was the first standardized version where international characters were given reasonably complete treatment. When an HTML document includes special characters outside the range of seven-bit ASCII, two goals are worth consideri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20encodings%20in%20HTML |
A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with a diameter in the nanometer range (nanoscale). They are one of the allotropes of carbon.
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have diameters around 0.5–2.0 nanometers, about 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. They can be idealized as cutouts f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20nanotube |
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of with a mostly tempera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech%20Republic |
Czechoslovakia (; Czech and , Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany, while the country lost further territories to Hungary and Poland (Carpathian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia |
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to applied disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software). Though more often considered an academi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20science |
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
Catalan language, a Romance language
Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
13178 Catalan, asteroid #13178, named "Catalan"
Catalán (crater), a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan |
Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. In its broadest sense, creationism includes a continuum of religious views, which vary in their acceptance or rejection of scientific explanations such as ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism |
Chad (; ), officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Chad |
Chad is one of the 47 landlocked countries in the world and is located in North Central Africa, measuring , nearly twice the size of France and slightly more than three times the size of California. Most of its ethnically and linguistically diverse population lives in the south, with densities ranging from 54 persons p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Chad |
The people of Chad speak more than 100 languages and divide themselves into many ethnic groups. However, language and ethnicity are not the same. Moreover, neither element can be tied to a particular physical type.
Although the possession of a common language shows that its speakers have lived together and have a comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Chad |
The Politics of Chad take place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Chad is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. Chad is one of the most corrupt countries in the world... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Chad |
The economy of Chad suffers from the landlocked country's geographic remoteness, drought, lack of infrastructure, and political turmoil. About 85% of the population depends on agriculture, including the herding of livestock. Of Africa's Francophone countries, Chad benefited least from the 50% devaluation of their curre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Chad |
Telecommunications in Chad include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Radio and television
Radio stations:
state-owned radio network, Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne (RNT), operates national and regional stations; about 10 private radio stations; some stations rebroadcast programs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Chad |
Transport infrastructure within Chad is generally poor, especially in the north and east of the country. River transport is limited to the south-west corner. As of 2011 Chad had no railways though two lines are planned - from the capital to the Sudanese and Cameroonian borders during the wet season, especially in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Chad |
The Chad National Army (; , ANT) consists of the five Defence and Security Forces listed in Article 185 of the Chadian Constitution that came into effect on 4 May 2018. These are the National Army ((including Ground Forces, and Air Force), the National Gendarmerie), the National Police, the National and Nomadic Guard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20National%20Army |
The foreign relations of Chad are significantly influenced by the desire for oil revenue and investment in Chadian oil industry and support for former Chadian President Idriss Déby. Chad is officially non-aligned but has close relations with France, the former colonial power. Relations with neighbouring Libya, and Suda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Chad |
Commentary or commentaries may refer to:
Publications
Commentary (magazine), a U.S. public affairs journal, founded in 1945 and formerly published by the American Jewish Committee
Caesar's Commentaries (disambiguation), a number of works by or attributed to Julius Caesar
Commentaries of Ishodad of Merv, set of nint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary |
A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Some definitions specify that the particles must be dispersed in a liquid, while others extend the definition to include substances like aerosols and gels. The term colloi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloid |
Chinese may refer to:
Something related to China
Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China.
Zhonghua minzu, the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
List of ethnic groups in China, people of various ethn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese |
"Riding shotgun" was a phrase used to describe the bodyguard who rides alongside a stagecoach driver, typically armed with a break-action shotgun, called a coach gun, to ward off bandits or hostile Native Americans. In modern use, it refers to the practice of sitting alongside the driver in a moving vehicle. The coinin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding%20shotgun |
Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking |
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules with interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card%20game |
Cross-stitch is a form of sewing and a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern are used to form a picture. The stitcher counts the threads on a piece of evenweave fabric (such as linen) in each direction so that the stitches are of uniform size and appearance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-stitch |
Games available in most casinos are commonly called casino games. In a casino game, the players gamble cash or casino chips on various possible random outcomes or combinations of outcomes. Casino games are also available in online casinos, where permitted by law. Casino games can also be played outside of casinos for e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino%20game |
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20game |
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized Ꞓ) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Ordovician Period mya. Its subdivisions, and its b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian |
In ontology, the theory of categories concerns itself with the categories of being: the highest genera or kinds of entities according to Amie Thomasson. To investigate the categories of being, or simply categories, is to determine the most fundamental and the broadest classes of entities. A distinction between such cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20categories |
Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures over time. Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and is the most widely used building material. Its usage worldwide, ton for ton, is twice that of steel, wood, plastics, and aluminium com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete |
Coitus interruptus, also known as withdrawal, pulling out or the pull-out method, is a method of birth control during penetrative sexual intercourse, whereby the penis is withdrawn from a vagina prior to ejaculation so that the ejaculate (semen) may be directed away from the vagina in an effort to avoid insemination.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coitus%20interruptus |
A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are both male and female condoms.
The male condom is rolled onto an erect penis before intercourse and works by forming a physical barrier which blocks semen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom |
A country code is a short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas. Its primary use is in data processing and communications. Several identification systems have been developed.
The term country code frequently refers to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, as well as the telephone country code, which is embo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20code |
Cladistics (; ) is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry. The evidence for hypothesized relationships is typically shared derived characteristics (synapomorphies) that are not present in more distant groups and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladistics |
A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system. A calendar can also mean a list of planne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar |
Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models. A cosmological model, or simply cosmology, provides a description of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the universe and allows study of fundamental questions about its origin, structure, evolution, and ultimate fate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20cosmology |
In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation, is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the early universe. The inflationary epoch is believed to have lasted from seconds to between and seconds after the Big Bang. Following the inflationary period, the universe continued... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation%20%28cosmology%29 |
The candela ( or ; symbol: cd) is the unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI). It measures luminous power per unit solid angle emitted by a light source in a particular direction. Luminous intensity is analogous to radiant intensity, but instead of simply adding up the contributions of ever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candela |
Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the subject deals with condensed phases of matter: systems of many constituents wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed%20matter%20physics |
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20anthropology |
Conversion of units is the conversion between different units of measurement for the same quantity, typically through multiplicative conversion factors which change the measured quantity value without changing its effects. Unit conversion is often easier within the metric or the SI than in others, due to the regular 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion%20of%20units |
A city is a human settlement of a notable size. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City |
Chervil (; Anthriscus cerefolium), sometimes called French parsley or garden chervil (to distinguish it from similar plants also called chervil), is a delicate annual herb related to parsley. It was formerly called myrhis due to its volatile oil with an aroma similar to the resinous substance myrrh. It is commonly used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chervil |
Chives, scientific name Allium schoenoprasum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae that produces edible leaves and flowers. Their close relatives include the common onions, garlic, shallot, leek, scallion, and Chinese onion.
A perennial plant, it is widespread in nature across much of Europe, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chives |
Christopher J. Morris (born 15 June 1962) is an English comedian, radio presenter, actor, and filmmaker. Known for his deadpan, dark humour, surrealism, and controversial subject matter, he has been praised by the British Film Institute for his "uncompromising, moralistic drive".
In the early 1990s, Morris teamed up w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Morris%20%28satirist%29 |
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West sub-region of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is the eighth most extensive and 21st most populous U.S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado |
The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, mya. The name Carboniferous means "coal-bearing", from the Latin ("coal") and ("bear, carry"), and refers to the man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous |
The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The religion of the majority of the population, and the official state religion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoros |
The critical philosophy () movement, attributed to Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), sees the primary task of philosophy as criticism rather than justification of knowledge. Criticism, for Kant, meant judging as to the possibilities of knowledge before advancing to knowledge itself (from the Greek kritike (techne), or "art of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20philosophy |
China (), officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's second-most-populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, tied with Russia as having the most of any country in the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China |
California is a state in the Western United States. With over 38.9million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state, the third-largest U.S. state by area, and the most populated subnational entity in North America. California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California |
The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or ; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect ) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river forms in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20River |
Commelinales is an order of flowering plants. It comprises five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae. All the families combined contain over 885 species in about 70 genera; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae. Plants in the order share a number of synapomor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commelinales |
The Cucurbitales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. This order mostly belongs to tropical areas, with limited presence in subtropical and temperate regions. The order includes shrubs and trees, together with many herbs and climbers. One major characteristic of the Cucurbitale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbitales |
Contra dance (also contradance, contra-dance and other variant spellings) is a form of folk dancing made up of long lines of couples. It has mixed origins from English country dance, Scottish country dance, and French dance styles in the 17th century. Sometimes described as New England folk dance or Appalachian folk da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra%20dance |
Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender.
Coins of interest to collectors often include those that were in circulation for only a brief time, coins with mint errors, and especially beautiful or historically significant pieces. Coin collecting can be differentiated from numismati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin%20collecting |
Crokinole ( ) is a disk-flicking dexterity board game, possibly of Canadian origin, similar to the games of pitchnut, carrom, and pichenotte, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to land their discs in the high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crokinole |
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor. In a marke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism |
Cross ownership is a method of reinforcing business relationships by owning stock in the companies with which a given company does business. Heavy cross ownership is referred to as circular ownership.
In the US, "cross ownership" also refers to a type of investment in different mass-media properties in one market.
Cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross%20ownership |
Cardiology () is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, and electrophysiology. Physici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiology |
is a Japanese video game company. It has created a number of multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, Mega Man, Devil May Cry, Dead Rising, Ace Attorney, and Marvel vs. Capcom. Mega Man himself serves as the official mascot of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capcom |
The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to Indian civilization. Detailed records of a political structure on the territory of what is now Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a polity that encompassed the southernmost part of the Indochinese peninsula ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Cambodia |
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