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In statistics, a central tendency (or measure of central tendency) is a central or typical value for a probability distribution.
Colloquially, measures of central tendency are often called averages. The term central tendency dates from the late 1920s.
The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20tendency |
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media. An individual may attain a celebrity status from having great wealth, their participation in sports or the entertainment industry, their position as a political figure, or even fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity |
In statistics, cluster sampling is a sampling plan used when mutually homogeneous yet internally heterogeneous groupings are evident in a statistical population. It is often used in marketing research.
In this sampling plan, the total population is divided into these groups (known as clusters) and a simple random sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20sampling |
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
His most famous w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Baudelaire |
"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based on Thayer's college nickname, "Phinney". Featuri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey%20at%20the%20Bat |
The classical guitar, also called Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the modern steel-string acoustic and electric guitars, both of which use metal strings. Classical guit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20guitar |
Clive Staples Lewis, (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20S.%20Lewis |
Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, tien gow, pai gow, tiu u and kap tai shap. In Cantonese they are called (), which literally means "bone tiles"; it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the rules are quite different from the southern Chinese version of tien gow.
History
Min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20dominoes |
The Cenozoic ( ; ) is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history. It is characterised by the dominance of mammals, birds and flowering plants. It is the latest of three geological eras, preceded by the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. The Cenozoic started with the Cretaceous–Paleoge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenozoic |
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, (humanistic or rationalistic) religion, theory of government, or way of life. Confucianism developed from what was later called the Hundred Schools... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism |
Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, during a period known as the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments. Although much of Chinese philosophy begun in the Warring States period, elements of Chinese p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20philosophy |
Kong Fuzi (), more usually Kongzi (; , – ), commonly Latinized as Confucius, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy underpin East Asian culture and society, and remain influential across China and East... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius |
In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted , called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation ; every complex number can be expressed in the form , where and are real numbers. Because no real number satisfies the above equation,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20number |
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe. Cryp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology |
Craig Joseph Charles (born 11 July 1964) is an English actor, comedian, DJ, and television and radio presenter. He is best known for his roles as Dave Lister in the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in the soap opera Coronation Street (2005–2015). He presented the gladiator-style game show Robot Wars ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Charles |
County Mayo (; ) is a county in Ireland. In the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, it is named after the village of Mayo, now generally known as Mayo Abbey. Mayo County Council is the local authority. The population was 137,231 at the 2022 census. The boundaries of the county, which was formed in 1585, refle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Mayo |
County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of six counties of Northern Ireland
The county covers an area of 1,691 km2 (653 sq mi) and had a population of 63,585 as of 2021. Enniskillen is the county town and largest in both size and population.
Ferm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Fermanagh |
Christian most often refers to:
Christians, people who follow or adhere to Christianity
pertaining to Christianity
Christian or The Christian may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film
Christian (1939 film), a Czech comedy film
Christian (1989 film), a Danish drama film
The Christian (1911 film), an Austra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20%28disambiguation%29 |
The Republic of Colombia is situated largely in the north-west of South America, with some territories falling within the boundaries of Central America. It is bordered to the north-west by Panama; to the east by Brazil and Venezuela; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; and it shares maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20Colombia |
The politics of Colombia take place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Colombia is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is carried out by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Colombia |
The economy of Colombia is the fourth largest in Latin America as measured by gross domestic product and the third-largest economic power in South America. Colombia has experienced a historic economic boom over the last decade. Throughout most of the 20th century, Colombia was Latin America's 4th and 3rd largest econom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Colombia |
Since being liberalized in 1991, the Colombian telecommunications sector has added new services, expanded coverage, improved efficiency, and lowered costs. The sector has had the second largest (after energy) investment in infrastructure (54 percent) since 1997. However, the economic downturn between 1999 and 2002 adve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%20in%20Colombia |
Transport in Colombia is regulated by the Ministry of Transport.
Road travel is the main means of transport; 69 percent of cargo is transported by road, as compared with 27 percent by railroad, 3 percent by internal waterways, and 1 percent by air.
History
Indigenous peoples influence
The indigenous peoples in Colo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Colombia |
The Military Forces of Colombia () are the unified armed forces of the Republic of Colombia. They consist of the Colombian Army, the Colombian Navy and the Colombian Aerospace Force. The National Police of Colombia, although technically not part of the military, is controlled and administered by the Ministry of Nationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20Forces%20of%20Colombia |
The history of Colombia includes the settlements and society by indigenous peoples, most notably, the Muisca Confederation, Quimbaya Civilization, and Tairona Chiefdoms; the Spanish arrived in 1492 and initiated a period of annexation and colonization, most noteworthy being Spanish conquest; ultimately creating the Vic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Colombia |
Colombia seeks diplomatic and commercial relations with all countries, regardless of their ideologies or political or economic systems. For this reason, the Colombian economy is quite open, relying on international trade and following guidelines given by international law.
Since 2008, Colombia's Ministry of Trade and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Colombia |
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the north. It consists mostly of low hills and plateaus surrounded along the borders by low mountains. Two areas of lowlands follow the Elbe river and the Morava ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic |
The Czech Republic is a unitary parliamentary republic, in which the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the Government of the Czech Republic, which reports to the Chamber of Deputies. The legislature is exercised by the Parliament. The Czech ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic |
The economy of the Czech Republic is a developed export-oriented social market economy based in services, manufacturing, and innovation that maintains a high-income welfare state and the European social model. The Czech Republic participates in the European Single Market as a member of the European Union, and is there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic |
Telephones - main lines in use:
2.888 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
13.075 million (2007)
Telephone system:
domestic:
86% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber systems now being improved with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20the%20Czech%20Republic |
Transport in the Czech Republic relies on several main modes, including transport by road, rail, water and air.
Railways
The Czech Republic has a total railway length of . The vast majority () is standard gauge. Electrified railways generally have voltages of 3 kV DC or 25 kV AC. of track is narrow gauge. The most p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20the%20Czech%20Republic |
The Army of the Czech Republic (, AČR), also known as the Czech Army, is the military service responsible for the defence of the Czech Republic as part of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic () alongside the Military Office of the President of the Republic and the Castle Guard. The Army consists of the General Staff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic |
The Czech Republic is a Central European country, a member of the European Union, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United Nations (and all of its main specialized agencies an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic |
Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or other parts of the body to ascend a steep topographical object that can range from the world's tallest mountains (e.g. the eight thousanders) to small boulders. Climbing is done for locomotion, sporting recreation, for competition, and is also done in trades that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climbing |
The Continuity Irish Republican Army (Continuity IRA or CIRA), styling itself as the Irish Republican Army (), is an Irish republican paramilitary group that aims to bring about a united Ireland. It claims to be a direct continuation of the original Irish Republican Army and the national army of the Irish Republic that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20Irish%20Republican%20Army |
Congo may refer to:
Congo River, in central Africa
Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the river
Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, sometimes referred to as "Congo-Kinshasa"
Republic of the Congo, the smaller country to the northwest, sometimes referred to as "Congo-Brazzavill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo |
The Copenhagen interpretation is a collection of views about the meaning of quantum mechanics, stemming from the work of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and others. The term "Copenhagen interpretation" was apparently coined by Heisenberg during the 1950s to refer to ideas developed in the 1925–1927 period, glo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen%20interpretation |
A customs union is generally defined as a type of trade bloc which is composed of a free trade area with a common external tariff.
Customs unions are established through trade pacts where the participant countries set up common external trade policy (in some cases they use different import quotas). Common competition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs%20union |
The Council of Europe (CoE; , ) is an international organisation established in the wake of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it brings together 46 member states, with a population of approximately 675 million; it operates with an annual budget of approximat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20Europe |
The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union. It is one of two legislative bodies and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council%20of%20the%20European%20Union |
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent, – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and, by some, simply as the Continent. When Eurasia is regarded as a single continent, Europe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20Europe |
Category theory is a general theory of mathematical structures and their relations that was introduced by Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane in the middle of the 20th century in their foundational work on algebraic topology. Category theory is used in almost all areas of mathematics. In particular, numerous constru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%20theory |
Bradycardia (also sinus bradycardia) is a slow resting heart rate, commonly under 60 beats per minute (BPM) as determined by an electrocardiogram. It is considered to be a normal heart rate during sleep, in young and healthy or elderly adults, and in athletes.
In some people, bradycardia below 60 BPM may be associated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradycardia |
Canada Day (, ), formerly known as Dominion Day (), is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, with the passing of the British North America Act, 1867, when the three separate colonies of the United Canadas, Nova Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Day |
The Claudine series consists of four early novels by French authors Colette and Henry Gauthier-Villars, published 1900–1904. Written in diary form, they describe the growth to maturity of a young girl, Claudine. Aged fifteen at the beginning of the first book, Claudine at School, the series describes her education and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine%20%28book%20series%29 |
Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the heart muscle due to build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries of the heart. It is the most common of the cardiovascula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary%20artery%20disease |
Caesium (IUPAC spelling; cesium in American English) is a chemical element with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal with a melting point of , which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at or near room temperature. Caesium has physical and chemical properti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium |
A century is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred. Century is sometimes abbreviated as c.
A centennial or centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century |
Cardiff (; ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of 362,310 in 2021, and forms a principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (). The city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingdom. Located in the south-east of Wales and in the Cardiff Capital Region, Cardiff is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff |
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Dickens |
A carabiner or karabiner (), often shortened to biner or to crab, colloquially known as (climbing) clip, is a specialized type of shackle, a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate used to quickly and reversibly connect components, most notably in safety-critical systems. The word is a shortened form of Karabinerhaken (or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabiner |
In fiction, continuity is the consistency of the characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the audience over some period of time. It is relevant to many genres and forms of storytelling, especially if it is long-running.
Continuity is particularly a concern in the process of film and television prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20%28fiction%29 |
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20punishment |
A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies. Historically, different nations or regions of the world have gone through their own independent sequence of movements in culture, but as world communications hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20movement |
The chalcogens (ore forming) ( ) are the chemical elements in group 16 of the periodic table. This group is also known as the oxygen family. Group 16 consists of the elements oxygen (O), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), tellurium (Te), and the radioactive elements polonium (Po) and livermorium (Lv). Often, oxygen is treated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcogen |
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is made up of molecules that each have one carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms. It is found in the gas state at room temperature, and as the source of available carbon in the carbon cycle, atmospheric is the primary carbon source... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20dioxide |
Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across 11 seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television and was created by the team of James Burrows an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheers |
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more musical lines (or voices) which are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. It has been most commonly identified in the European classical tradition, strongly developing during the Renaissance and in much of the common pra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint |
In chemistry, a cyanide () is a chemical compound that contains a functional group. This group, known as the cyano group, consists of a carbon atom triple-bonded to a nitrogen atom.
In inorganic cyanides, the cyanide group is present as the cyanide anion . This anion is extremely poisonous. Soluble salts such as sodi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide |
A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid (H2CO3), characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula . The word carbonate may also refer to a carbonate ester, an organic compound containing the carbonate group .
The term is also used as a verb, to describe carbonation: the process of r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate |
Catalysis () is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed by the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst recycles quickly, very small amounts of catalyst often suffice; mixing, surface area, and temp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis |
In geometry, the circumference (from Latin circumferens, meaning "carrying around") is the perimeter of a circle or ellipse. The circumference is the arc length of the circle, as if it were opened up and straightened out to a line segment. More generally, the perimeter is the curve length around any closed figure.
Cir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumference |
Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the deformation of and transmission of forces through materials modeled as a continuous medium (also called a continuum) rather than as discrete particles. The French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy was the first to formulate such models in the 19th centu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20mechanics |
Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in federal countries such as the United States and Canada, the relationship betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional%20law |
The Celtic languages ( ) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic%20languages |
Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra and interference. For most humans, colors are perceived ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color |
A computation is any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that is well-defined. Common examples of computations are mathematical equations and computer algorithms.
Mechanical or electronic devices (or, historically, people) that perform computations are known as computers. The study of computation is the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computation |
A clown is a person who performs comedy and arts in a state of open-mindedness using physical comedy, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms. Clowns have a varied tradition with significant variations in costume and performance. The most recognisable clowns are those that commo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown |
Foster Air Force Base (1941–1945, 1952–1959) is a former United States Air Force facility in Texas, located in Victoria County, approximately east-northeast of Victoria.
A flying training airfield during World War II, it was part of Tactical Air Command (TAC) during the early years of the Cold War as a tactical fight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%20Air%20Force%20Base |
Palavela, formerly known as Palazzo delle Mostre and Palazzo a Vela is an indoor arena that is located in Turin, Italy, on the bank of the River Po. It was designed by engineer Franco Levi and architects Annibale and Giorgio Rigotti. The arena is 130 metres in diameter. It has a seating capacity for a maximum 12,200 pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino%20Palavela |
"Mad About the Boy" is a popular song with words and music by actor and playwright Noël Coward. It was introduced in the 1932 revue Words and Music by Joyce Barbour, Steffi Duna, Norah Howard and Doris Hare. The song deals with the theme of unrequited love for a film star. It was written to be sung by female characters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20About%20the%20Boy |
Shayne Breuer (born 10 September 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is notable for kicking Port Adelaide's first goal in the AFL.
AFL career
Geelong (1994–1996)
Breuer started at Geelong and played every game in Geelong's AFL Grand Final years of 1994 and 1995, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayne%20Breuer |
Parantaka Chola I (Tamil: பராந்தக சோழன் I; 873 CE–955 CE) was a Chola emperor who ruled for forty-eight years, annexing Pandya by defeating Rajasimhan II and in the Deccan won the Battle of Vallala against Rashtrakutas which happened before 916 CE. The best part of his reign was marked by increasing success and prosper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parantaka%20I |
Arundel was twice a parliamentary constituency in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The first incarnation strictly comprised the town centre of Arundel and was a borough constituency in Sussex first enfranchised in 1332 and disfranchised in 1868 under the Reform Act 1867. Aru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel%20%28UK%20Parliament%20constituency%29 |
Luis Andrew Martinez (November 15, 1972 – May 18, 2006) was an activist who was known at the University of California, Berkeley as the Naked Guy.
Early attention
Martinez was a high school football player when he attended Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California.
Martinez attended classes at the University of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Martinez |
The Vancouver VooDoo were an inline hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which played in Roller Hockey International (RHI). The VooDoo were one of the original 12 teams to join the league in 1993. Founded and owned by Tiger Williams and Bill McMenamon, the team played in the PNE Agrodome in 1993 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver%20VooDoo |
The Invisible Plane (commonly known as the Invisible Jet) is a plane appearing in DC Comics, commonly used by Wonder Woman as a mode of transport. It was created by William Moulton Marston and first appeared in Sensation Comics #1 (January 1942).
Original history
The Pre-Crisis version of the invisible plane was a nec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20Plane |
Shopping channels (also known in British English as teleshopping) are a type of television program or specialty channel devoted to home shopping. Their formats typically feature live presentations and demonstrations of products, hosted by on-air presenters and other spokespeople who provide a sales pitch for the produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping%20channel |
The Turgay ([torɣai] "Tour-GUY") (also known as Torgai, Torghay or Turgai; , Romanised: Torğai; Romanised: Turgay) is a river in Kazakhstan. It has a length of and a drainage basin of .
The Naurzum Nature Reserve is a protected area located in the river basin.
Course
The river originates at the confluence of the Zh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgay%20%28river%29 |
Turgay is a Turkish given name for males. People named Turgay include:
Turgay Avcı, Turkish Cypriot politician
Turgay Bahadır, Turkish-Austrian footballer
Turgay Gemicibasi, Turkish footballer
Turgay Semercioğlu, Turkish footballer
Turgay Şeren, Turkish football manager
Turgay may also refer to:
Turgay (river),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgay |
Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (Roodt-sur-Eisch, Luxembourg, 25 November 1722 – 18 January 1799, Judenburg, Austria) was a botanist and a physician.
In 1750 he obtained his doctorate of medicine in Vienna, where he was a pupil of Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772). He studied obstetrics in Paris and London. In Paris h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Johann%20Nepomuk%20von%20Crantz |
KUT (90.5 FM) is a listener-supported and corporate-sponsored public radio station based in Austin, Texas. KUT is owned and operated by faculty and staff of the University of Texas at Austin. It is the National Public Radio member station for central Texas. Its studio operations are located on campus at the Belo Cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUT |
Dodge Cove is a small unincorporated community of fewer than 100 people, located on Digby Island, British Columbia, Canada across from the city of Prince Rupert. In April 2015, the community had an estimated total of 29 residents. Dodge Cove does not have paved roads, automobiles or shopping centres, and was named in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge%20Cove |
In linguistics, a triphone is a sequence of three consecutive phonemes. Triphones are useful in models of natural language processing where they are used to establish the various contexts in which a phoneme can occur in a particular natural language.
See also
Diphone
References
Natural language processing
Phonolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triphone |
Government House of Nova Scotia is the official residence of the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, as well as that in Halifax of the Canadian monarch. It stands in the provincial capital at 1451 Barrington Street; unlike other provincial Government Houses in Canada, this gives Nova Scotia's royal residence a prominen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20House%20%28Nova%20Scotia%29 |
Harry Everett "Bud" Abell (born December 21, 1940) is a former American football linebacker in the American Football League (AFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football at the University of Missouri.
Early years
Abell was born in Kansas City, Missouri and attended Southeast High School. He accepted a f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud%20Abell |
Susette La Flesche, later Susette LaFlesche Tibbles and also called Inshata Theumba, meaning "Bright Eyes" (c. 1854–1903), was a well-known Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter, and artist of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska. La Flesche was a progressive who was a spokesperson for Native American rights. She was of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susette%20La%20Flesche |
The Pomme de Terre River (pronounced pohm de TEHR) is a tributary of the Osage River in southwestern Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Pomme de terre is French for potato, a food Indians harvested in the area. Before the French ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomme%20de%20Terre%20River%20%28Missouri%29 |
The Elizabethan Club is a social club at Yale University named for Queen Elizabeth I and her era. Its profile and members tend toward a literary disposition, and conversation is one of the Club's chief purposes.
The Elizabethan Club's collection of 16th- and 17th-century books and artifacts include Shakespearean folio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan%20Club |
Raymond Lewis Abruzzese Jr. (October 27, 1937 – August 22, 2011) was an American college and professional football player.
Abruzzese was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A defensive back, he played college football at the University of Alabama, and played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Abruzzese |
Holy Family High School in Broomfield, Colorado, is a Roman Catholic college-preparatory high school located in the technology corridor between Denver and Boulder. The school is operated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver.
History
Holy Family High School was established in 1922 as a parish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20Family%20High%20School%20%28Colorado%29 |
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (English: German Development Cooperation (GIZ)), often simply shortened to GIZ, is the main German development agency. It is headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn and provides services in the field of international development cooperation and internati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche%20Gesellschaft%20f%C3%BCr%20Internationale%20Zusammenarbeit |
Kenneth Marshall Adamson (born October 12, 1938) is an American former professional football player who was a guard for the Denver Broncos of the American Football League (AFL) from 1960 through 1962. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Itish. Playing with Denver, he was an AFL All-Star in 1961.
Ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Adamson |
Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet, (13 March 1823 – 22 June 1893) was a Scottish ship-owner and businessman who built up substantial commercial interests in India and East Africa. He established the British-India Steam Navigation Company and the Imperial British East Africa Company.
Biography
Early life
He was born... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20William%20Mackinnon%2C%201st%20Baronet |
The following is a list of the highest-income ZCTAs in the United States. ZCTAs or ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the census equivalent of ZIP codes used for statistical purposes. The reason why regular ZIP codes are not used is because they are defined by routes rather than geographic boundaries. Thus, they have the te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highest-income%20ZIP%20Code%20Tabulation%20Areas%20in%20the%20United%20States |
2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines (2/2) is a light infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Also known as "The Warlords", it consists of approximately 1,300 Marines and sailors and normally falls under the command of the 2nd Marine Regiment and the 2nd ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Battalion%2C%202nd%20Marines |
Benjamin James Agajanian (August 28, 1919 – February 8, 2018), nicknamed "the Toeless Wonder", was an American football player, primarily a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL), the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and American Football League (AFL).
Early life
Born in Santa Ana, California, he grad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Agajanian |
Cola de mono or Colemono (literally, monkey's tail) is a traditional Chilean drink served around Christmas time. It is similar to a White Russian.
Although there are many versions of this drink, it contains mainly aguardiente, milk, sugar, coffee, and cloves. A virgin version can be made simply without the alcohol.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola%20de%20mono |
A weekend warrior is someone who engages in sports or outdoor pursuits at the weekend.
Weekend warrior may also refer to:
Music
Weekend Warrior (album), an album by Biz Markie in 2003
Weekend Warriors (album), an album by Ted Nugent in 1978
"Weekend Warrior", a song by Iron Maiden from Fear of the Dark in 1992
"Weeke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend%20warrior |
A computer fan is any fan inside, or attached to, a computer case used for active cooling. Fans are used to draw cooler air into the case from the outside, expel warm air from inside and move air across a heat sink to cool a particular component. Both axial and sometimes centrifugal (blower/squirrel-cage) fans are used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20fan |
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