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An ambush is a surprise attack by people lying in wait in a concealed position. Ambushes have been used consistently throughout history, from ancient to modern warfare. In the 20th century, an ambush might involve thousands of soldiers on a large scale, such as over a choke point such as a mountain pass, or a small ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambush |
An abzyme (from antibody and enzyme), also called catmab (from catalytic monoclonal antibody), and most often called catalytic antibody or sometimes catab, is a monoclonal antibody with catalytic activity. Abzymes are usually raised in lab animals immunized against synthetic haptens, but some natural abzymes can be fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abzyme |
In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, alters biotic interactions or opens new environmental niches. Starting with a single ancesto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20radiation |
Agarose gel electrophoresis is a method of gel electrophoresis used in biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and clinical chemistry to separate a mixed population of macromolecules such as DNA or proteins in a matrix of agarose, one of the two main components of agar. The proteins may be separated by charge and/or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agarose%20gel%20electrophoresis |
An allele is a variation of the same sequence of nucleotides at the same place on a long DNA molecule, as described in leading textbooks on genetics and evolution. The word is a short form of "allelomorph".
"The chromosomal or genomic location of a gene or any other genetic element is called a locus (plural: loci) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allele |
Ampicillin is an antibiotic belonging to the aminopenicillin class of the penicillin family. The drug is used to prevent and treat a number of bacterial infections, such as respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, meningitis, salmonellosis, and endocarditis. It may also be used to prevent group B strepto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampicillin |
Annealing may refer to:
Annealing (biology), in genetics
Annealing (glass), heating a piece of glass to remove stress
Annealing (materials science), a heat treatment that alters the microstructure of a material
Quantum annealing, a method for solving combinatorial optimisation problems and ground states of glassy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing |
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from the effects of antimicrobials (drugs used to treat infections). All classes of microbes can evolve resistance where the drugs are no longer effective. Fungi evolve antifungal resistance. Viruses evolve antiviral resistance. Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial%20resistance |
In immunology, an antigen (Ag) is a molecule, moiety, foreign particulate matter, or an allergen, such as pollen, that can bind to a specific antibody or T-cell receptor. The presence of antigens in the body may trigger an immune response.
Antigens can be proteins, peptides (amino acid chains), polysaccharides (chain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigen |
An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome. The members of an autosome pair in a diploid cell have the same morphology, unlike those in allosomal (sex chromosome) pairs, which may have different structures. The DNA in autosomes is collectively known as atDNA or auDNA.
For example, humans have a diploid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autosome |
Antwerp is a city in Belgium and capital of the Antwerp province.
Antwerp may also refer to:
In Belgium
Antwerp (district)
Antwerp (province)
In the United States
Antwerp, Ohio
Antwerp Township, Michigan
Antwerp, New York
Antwerp (village), New York
In Australia
Antwerp, Victoria
Other
Port of Antwerp
Royal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Aquila may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Aquila, a series of books by S.P. Somtow
Aquila, a 1997 book by Andrew Norriss
Aquila (children's magazine), a UK-based children's magazine
Aquila (journal), an ornithological journal
Aquila (TV series), a BBC TV production for children based on the Norriss bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquila |
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic state known as the Caliphate. Its members are mostly composed of Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda |
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (, ; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro%20Volta |
Argo Navis (the Ship Argo), or simply Argo, is one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, now a grouping of three IAU constellations. It is formerly a single large constellation in the southern sky. The genitive is "Argus Navis", abbreviated "Arg". Flamsteed and other early modern astronomers called it Navis (the Ship), genit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo%20Navis |
In Greek mythology, Andromeda (; or ) is the daughter of Cepheus, the king of Aethiopia, and his wife, Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia boasts that she (or her daughter) is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends the sea monster Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia as divine punishment. Andromeda is chained to a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%20%28mythology%29 |
Antlia (; from Ancient Greek ἀντλία) is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name means "pump" in Latin and Greek; it represents an air pump. Originally Antlia Pneumatica, the constellation was established by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century. Its non-specific (single-word) name, alread... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlia |
Ara (Latin for "the Altar") is a southern constellation between Scorpius, Telescopium, Triangulum Australe, and Norma. It was (as ) one of the Greek bulk (namely 48) described by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations designated by the International Astronomical Union.
T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara%20%28constellation%29 |
Auriga or AURIGA can refer to:
Auriga (constellation), a constellation of stars
Auriga (slave), a Roman charioteer
HMS Auriga (P419), a British submarine launched in 1945
Auriga of Delphi, name of the statue Charioteer of Delphi
USM Auriga, a spaceship in the film Alien Resurrection
Auriga, a fictional planet in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auriga |
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the south-central region of the Southern United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and refe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas |
An atmosphere is a gas layer around a celestial body.
Atmosphere may also refer to:
Science
Atmosphere (unit), a unit of pressure
Atmosphere of Earth
Extraterrestrial atmospheres
Stellar atmosphere
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
Groups
Atmosphere (music group), an American hip-hop duo from Minnesota
At... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name means "without feet" in Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in 1598, it was charted on a star atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apus |
Abadan ( Ābādān, ) is a city in the Central District of Abadan County, Khuzestan province, Iran, and serves as both capital of the county and of the district. The city is in the southwest of the county. It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3–19 km or 2–12 miles wide). The island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadan%2C%20Iran |
Attorney may refer to:
Lawyer
Attorney at law, in some jurisdictions
Attorney, one who has power of attorney
The Attorney, a 2013 South Korean film
See also
Attorney general, the principal legal officer of (or advisor to) a government
Attorney's fee, compensation for legal services
Attorney–client privilege... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney |
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Fleming |
Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Carnegie |
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do produce a turbulent airstream, and vowels, which produce no turbulence. This class is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximant |
Astronomer royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the astronomer royal dating from 22 June 1675; the junior is the astronomer royal for Scotland dating from 1834.
The post was created by King Charles II in 1675, at the same time as he founded the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer%20Royal |
The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeless" or "for eternity". It is a Latin transliteration from the ancient Greek ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon |
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and/or freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and operate the same flight. Generally, airline companies are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline |
The Australian Democrats is a centrist political party in Australia. Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, both of which were descended from Liberal Party dissenting splinter groups, it was Australia's largest minor party from its formation in 1977 through to 2004 and freque... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Democrats |
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a federal territory of Australia. Canberra, the capital city of Australia, is located in this territory. It is located in southeastern Australian mainland as an enclave completely within the state of New South Wales. Fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Capital%20Territory |
Aotus (the name is derived from the Ancient Greek words for "earless" in both cases: the monkey is missing external ears, and the pea is missing earlike bracteoles) may refer to:
Aotus (plant), one of the plant genera commonly known as golden peas in the family Fabaceae (bean family)
Aotus (monkey), the genus of nigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotus |
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy drama television series, originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997, to May 20, 2002. Created by David E. Kelley, the series stars Calista Flockhart in the title role as a lawyer working in the Boston law firm Cage and Fish, with other lawyers whose lives and loves are eccent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally%20McBeal |
Andreas Capellanus (Capellanus meaning "chaplain"), also known as Andrew the Chaplain, and occasionally by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain, was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore ("About Love"), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Capellanus |
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920. The organization strives "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". The ACLU works through litigat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Civil%20Liberties%20Union |
Adobe Inc. ( ), formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American multinational computer software company incorporated in Delaware
and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the creation and publication of a wide range of content, including graphics, photography, illust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Inc. |
The Alexander Technique, named after its developer Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869–1955), is a type of alternative therapy based on the idea that poor posture gives rise to a range of health problems. The American National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health classifies it as a "psychological and physica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Technique |
Andrea Alciato (8 May 149212 January 1550), commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus), was an Italian jurist and writer. He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists.
Biography
Alciati was born in Alzate Brianza, near Milan, and settled in France in the early 16th century. He displayed gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Alciato |
Apparent magnitude () is a measure of the brightness of a star or other astronomical object. An object's apparent magnitude depends on its intrinsic luminosity, its distance, and any extinction of the object's light caused by interstellar dust along the line of sight to the observer.
The word magnitude in astronomy, u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent%20magnitude |
In astronomy, absolute magnitude () is a measure of the luminosity of a celestial object on an inverse logarithmic astronomical magnitude scale. An object's absolute magnitude is defined to be equal to the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were viewed from a distance of exactly , without extinction (o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20magnitude |
Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module. The mission never flew; a cabi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%201 |
Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing (Apollo 11, two months later). It was designated an "F"mission, intended to test all spacecraft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2010 |
Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2012 |
Apollo 14 (January 31February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the "H missions", landings at specific sites of scientific interest on the Moon for two-day stays with two lunar extra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2014 |
Apollo 15 (July 26August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to land on the Moon. It was the first J mission, with a longer stay on the Moon and a greater focus on science than earlier landings. Apollo 15 saw the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
The mission b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2015 |
Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon. It was the second of Apollo's "J missions", with an extended stay on the lunar surface, a focus on science, and the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2016 |
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2017 |
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution based on the principles of the American Enlightenment that generally occurred in British America between 1765 and 1789. It created the environment for the American Revolutionary War, which lasted from 1775 to 1783, whereby the Thirteen Colonies secured... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Revolution |
Events
Pre-1600
1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan II.
1362 – Kaunas Castle falls to the Teutonic Order after a month-long siege.
1492 – Spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April%2017 |
Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2023, 89 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Ayckbourn |
Alpha Centauri (α Centauri, Alpha Cen, or α Cen) is a triple star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It consists of three stars: Rigil Kentaurus (Alpha Centauri A), Toliman (B) and Proxima Centauri (C). Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun at 4.2465 light-years (1.3020 pc).
Alpha Centauri A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Centauri |
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 16/32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphics and audio compared to previous 8-bit systems. These systems include the Ata... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga |
Absorption may refer to:
Chemistry and biology
Absorption (biology), digestion
Absorption (small intestine)
Absorption (chemistry), diffusion of particles of gas or liquid into liquid or solid materials
Absorption (skin), a route by which substances enter the body through the skin
Absorption (pharmacology), absorption... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption |
The actinophryids are an order of heliozoa, a polyphyletic array of stramenopiles, having a close relationship with pedinellids and Ciliophrys. They are common in fresh water and occasionally found in marine and soil habitats. Actinophryids are unicellular and roughly spherical in shape, with many axopodia that radiate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinophryid |
Abel Janszoon Tasman (; 160310 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
Born in 1603 in Lutjegast, Netherlands, Tasman started his career as a merchant seaman and became a skilled navigator. In 1633, he joined the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%20Tasman |
Events
Pre-1600
AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.
70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished.
642 – Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%205 |
Angula may refer to:
Aṅgula, a measure equal to a finger's breadth
Eel, a biological order of fish
Nahas Angula, former Prime Minister of Namibia
Helmut Angula
See also
Angul (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angula |
ASP may refer to:
Combat
ASP pistol
ASP, Inc., law enforcement weapon manufacturer
A type of extending baton
Ammunition Supply Point, military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives
Computing
Active Server Pages, a web-scripting interface by Microsoft
ASP.NET, a web-application framework by Microso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP |
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which classically studies zeros of multivariate polynomials. Modern algebraic geometry is based on the use of abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, for solving geometrical problems about these sets of zeros.
The fundamental objects of study in alg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20geometry |
Austin ( , ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and most populous city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 10th most populous city in the United States, the 4th most populous city in Texas, and the 2n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%2C%20Texas |
The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God. Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order. Arguments from moral normativity observe some aspect of morality and argue that God is the best or only explanation for this, concluding that God must exist. Arguments from m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument%20from%20morality |
ASL is a common initialism for American Sign Language, the sign language of the United States and Canada (not be confused with Auslan, also called ASL or Asilulu language which has the ISO code ASL), and may also refer to:
Culture
Sport
American Soccer League (disambiguation)
Australia's Surfing Life, surf magazin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASL%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Auschwitz concentration camp (, ; also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Bir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz%20concentration%20camp |
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. The word comes from the Latin arcus, meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity. A person who practices archery is typically called an archer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archery |
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architectu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar%20Aalto |
The English language was introduced to the Americas by British colonisation, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The language also spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonisation and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, included 470–570 mill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20American%20and%20British%20English |
Atomic semantics is a type of guarantee provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together.
Atomic semantics are very strong. An atomic register provides strong guarantees even when there is concurrency and failures.
A read/write register R stor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20semantics |
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica. An alternative name for the ACC is the West Wind Drift. The ACC is the dominant circulation feature of the Southern Ocean and has a mean transport estimated at 100–150 Sver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic%20Circumpolar%20Current |
Arbor Day (or Arbour Day in some countries) is a secular day of observance in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant trees. Today, many countries observe such a holiday. Though usually observed in the spring, the date varies, depending on climate and suitable planting season.
Origins and history
First A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbor%20Day |
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer ( ; 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).
Ayer was educated at Eton College and the Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20J.%20Ayer |
André Weil (; ; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. His influence is due
both to his original contributions to a remarkably broad
spectrum of mathemat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9%20Weil |
The Achaeans or Akhaians (; , "the Achaeans" or "of Achaea") is one of the names in Homer which is used to refer to the Greeks collectively.
The term "Achaean" is believed to be related to the Hittite term Ahhiyawa and the Egyptian term Ekwesh which appear in texts from the Late Bronze Age and are believed to refer to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans%20%28Homer%29 |
Atle Selberg (14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and the theory of automorphic forms, and in particular for bringing them into relation with spectral theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 and an honorary Abel Prize in 2002.
Early years
Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atle%20Selberg |
Aeschylus (, ; ; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus |
The Amber Road was an ancient trade route for the transfer of amber from coastal areas of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Prehistoric trade routes between Northern and Southern Europe were defined by the amber trade.
As an important commodity, sometimes dubbed "the gold of the north", amber ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber%20Road |
Crandall University is a Baptist Christian liberal arts university located in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is affiliated with the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada (Canadian Baptist Ministries).
History
The school was founded in 1949 under the name United Baptist Bible Training School (UBBTS), and served as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandall%20University |
Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal by the Royal Society. He w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Wiles |
Ambient or Ambiance or Ambience may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Ambiancé, an unreleased experimental film
Ambient (novel), a novel by Jack Womack
Music and sound
Ambience (sound recording), also known as atmospheres or backgrounds
Ambient music, a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient |
Anne Brontë (, commonly ; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.
Anne Brontë was the daughter of Maria ( Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England. Anne lived most of her life with her family at the par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Bront%C3%AB |
Augustine of Hippo ( , ; ; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine%20of%20Hippo |
Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode.
Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a well-developed imagination, emotional facility, physical expressi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting |
The Delian League, founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.
The League's mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delian%20League |
August Horch (12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.
Beginnings
Horch was born in Winningen, Rhenish Prussia. His initial trade was as a blacksmith, and then was educated at (Mittweida Technical Coll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Horch |
Avionics (a blend of aviation and electronics) are the electronic systems used on aircraft. Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems, and the hundreds of systems that are fitted to aircraft to perform individual functions. These can be as simple as a searchlight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics |
Ares (; , Árēs ) is the Greek god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. The Greeks were generally ambivalent towards him. He embodies the physical valor necessary for success in war but can also personify sheer brutality and bloodlust, in contrast to his sister, the armore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares |
Alexander Grothendieck (; ; ; 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014) was a French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Grothendieck |
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global peer-led mutual aid fellowship begun in the U.S. and dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through their spiritually inclined twelve-step program. Besides stressing anonymity and offering membership to anyone wishing to stop drinking, AA's twelve traditions establ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics%20Anonymous |
In computer graphics, alpha compositing or alpha blending is the process of combining one image with a background to create the appearance of partial or full transparency. It is often useful to render picture elements (pixels) in separate passes or layers and then combine the resulting 2D images into a single, final im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20compositing |
In computer science, an array is a data structure consisting of a collection of elements (values or variables), of same memory size, each identified by at least one array index or key. An array is stored such that the position of each element can be computed from its index tuple by a mathematical formula. The simplest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array%20%28data%20structure%29 |
"Advance Australia Fair" is the national anthem of Australia. Written by Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed as a patriotic song in Australia in 1878. It replaced "God Save the Queen" as the official national anthem in 1974, following a nationwide opinion survey, only for "God Sav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance%20Australia%20Fair |
An automatic number announcement circuit (ANAC) is a component of a central office of a telephone company that provides a service to installation and service technicians to determine the telephone number of a telephone line. The facility has a telephone number that may be called to listen to an automatic announcement t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20number%20announcement%20circuit |
Amerigo Vespucci (; ; 9 March 1451 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.
Between 1497 and 1504, Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery, first on behalf of Spain (14991500) and then for Portu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo%20Vespucci |
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (; December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.
Biography
Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art. After several applications and several years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristide%20Maillol |
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| name = Antonio Canova
| image = Antonio Canova Selfportrait 1792.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Self-portrait, 1792
| birth_name = Antonio Canova
| birth_date = 1 November 1757
| birth_place = Possagno, Republic of Venice
| death_date =
| death_place = Venice, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Canova |
François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste%20Rodin |
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of government of Washtenaw County. The 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851, making it the fifth-largest city in Michigan. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Washtenaw County. Ann ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%20Arbor%2C%20Michigan |
The Act of Settlement is an Act of the Parliament of England that settled the succession to the English and Irish crowns to only Protestants, which passed in 1701. More specifically, anyone who became a Roman Catholic, or who married one, became disqualified to inherit the throne. This had the effect of deposing the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act%20of%20Settlement%201701 |
Aircraft hijacking (also known as airplane hijacking, skyjacking, plane hijacking, plane jacking, air robbery, air piracy, or aircraft piracy, with the last term used within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States) is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group. Dating from the earlie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20hijacking |
The Acropolis of Athens (; ) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The word Acropolis is from the Greek words (akron, "highest poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis%20of%20Athens |
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