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29,641 | # Sound change
In historical linguistics, a **sound change** is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called **phonetic change**) or a more general change to the speech sounds that... | 508 | Sound change | 0 |
29,641 | # Sound change
## Principles
The following statements are used as heuristics in formulating sound changes as understood within the Neogrammarian model. However, for modern linguistics, they are not taken as inviolable rules but are seen as guidelines.
**Sound change has no memory**: Sound change does not discriminat... | 312 | Sound change | 1 |
29,641 | # Sound change
## Formal notation {#formal_notation}
A statement of the form
:
:
is to be read as \"Sound A changes into (or is replaced by, is reflected as, etc.) sound B\". Therefore, A belongs to an older stage of the language in question, and B belongs to a more recent stage. The symbol \"\>\" can be... | 442 | Sound change | 2 |
29,641 | # Sound change
## Terms for changes in pronunciation {#terms_for_changes_in_pronunciation}
In historical linguistics, a number of traditional terms designate types of phonetic change, either by nature or result. A number of such types are often (or usually) sporadic, that is, more or less accidents that happen to a s... | 1,003 | Sound change | 3 |
29,644 | # Sulpicius Severus
Servius Sulpicius Galba}} `{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}`{=mediawiki}
**Sulpicius Severus** (`{{IPAc-en|s|ʌ|l|ˈ|p|ɪ|ʃ|ə|s|_|ˈ|s|ɛ|v|ər|ə|s}}`{=mediawiki}; c. 363 -- c. 425) was a Christian writer and native of Aquitania in modern-day France. He is known for his chronicle of sacred history, as ... | 394 | Sulpicius Severus | 0 |
29,644 | # Sulpicius Severus
## Works
### *Chronicle*
The chief work of Severus is the *Chronicle* (*Chronica*, *Chronicorum Libri duo* or *Historia sacra*, c. 403), a summary of sacred history from the beginning of the world to his own times, with the omission of the events recorded in the Gospels and the Acts, \"lest the f... | 860 | Sulpicius Severus | 1 |
29,644 | # Sulpicius Severus
## Works
### *Life of St. Martin*, dialogues, and letters {#life_of_st._martin_dialogues_and_letters}
More popular during the Middle Ages was Severus\' *Life of St. Martin*, as were also the dialogues and letters which relate to the same subject. These works did much to establish the great reputat... | 381 | Sulpicius Severus | 2 |
29,644 | # Sulpicius Severus
## Works
### Spurious attributions {#spurious_attributions}
Beside the above-mentioned three letters, seven others have been attributed to Severus. These are rejected as spurious by some critics, whilst the genuineness of the first two is admitted, rightly it would seem, by others. The *World Chro... | 71 | Sulpicius Severus | 3 |
29,645 | # Scared to Death (1947 film)
***Scared to Death*** is a 1947 American gothic thriller film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton and Molly Lamont. The picture was filmed in Cinecolor. The film is historically important as the only color film in which Bela Lugosi has a starr... | 451 | Scared to Death (1947 film) | 0 |
29,652 | # Senary
A **senary** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|iː|n|ər|i|,_|ˈ|s|ɛ|n|ər|i}}`{=mediawiki}) numeral system (also known as **base-6**, **heximal**, or **seximal**) has six as its base. It has been adopted independently by a small number of cultures. Like the decimal base 10, the base is a semiprime, though it is unique as the prod... | 714 | Senary | 0 |
29,652 | # Senary
## Fractions
Because six is the product of the first two prime numbers and is adjacent to the next two prime numbers, many senary fractions have simple representations:
+:--------------------------------------------:+:-------------------:+
| **Decimal base**\ | ... | 275 | Senary | 1 |
29,652 | # Senary
## Finger counting {#finger_counting}
Each regular human hand may be said to have six unambiguous positions; a fist, one finger extended, two, three, four, and then all five fingers extended.
If the right hand is used to represent a unit (0 to 5), and the left to represent the multiples of 6, then it become... | 665 | Senary | 2 |
29,652 | # Senary
## Base 36 as senary compression {#base_36_as_senary_compression}
For some purposes, senary might be too small a base for convenience. This can be worked around by using its square, base 36 (hexatrigesimal), as then conversion is facilitated by simply making the following replacements:
Decimal 0 1 ... | 289 | Senary | 3 |
29,668 | # Sacha Pecaric
**Sacha Pecaric** (born 1965 in Rijeka) is a Croatian-born rabbi.
## Education and scholarship {#education_and_scholarship}
After studies in Prague, Pecaric continued to study at the rabbinic department of the Yeshiva University in New York City, where he obtained rabbinical ordination, and the Depar... | 165 | Sacha Pecaric | 0 |
29,669 | # Sergio Aragonés
**Sergio Aragonés Domenech** (`{{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|r|ə|ˈ|g|oʊ|n|ᵻ|s}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|ARR|ə|GOH|niss}}`{=mediawiki}, `{{IPA|es|ˈseɾxjo aɾaɣoˈnes ðoˈmenek|lang}}`{=mediawiki}; born 6 September 1937 in Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain) is a Spanish-Mexican-American cartoonist and writer best known for hi... | 658 | Sergio Aragonés | 0 |
29,669 | # Sergio Aragonés
## Arrival in the United States {#arrival_in_the_united_states}
According to the artist, he arrived in New York in 1962 with nothing but 20 dollars and his portfolio of drawings. After working odd jobs around the city, Aragonés went to *Mad*\'s offices on Third Avenue hoping to sell some of his cart... | 429 | Sergio Aragonés | 1 |
29,669 | # Sergio Aragonés
## Marginals
Aragonés has a featured section in every issue called \"A *Mad* Look At\...\", typically featuring 4--5 pages of speechless gag strips that are all related to a single subject, such as \"Gambling,\" \"UFOs\" or \"Pizza.\" Aragonés became famous for his wordless \"drawn-out dramas\" or \... | 283 | Sergio Aragonés | 2 |
29,669 | # Sergio Aragonés
## Comic books {#comic_books}
In 1967, he began writing and illustrating full stories for various DC Comics titles, including *The Adventures of Jerry Lewis*, *Angel and the Ape*, *Inferior Five*, *Young Romance*, and for various horror anthologies. He wrote or plotted stories that were illustrated ... | 559 | Sergio Aragonés | 3 |
29,669 | # Sergio Aragonés
## Film and television {#film_and_television}
In 1976, he had an acting role in the film *Norman\... Is That You?* where he played one of the desk clerks at the *Buenos Noches Hotel*.
He appeared in the short-lived 1977 revival of TV\'s *Laugh-In*.
In addition to printed work, Aragonés has worked ... | 366 | Sergio Aragonés | 4 |
29,669 | # Sergio Aragonés
## Awards
Aragonés\'s work has won him numerous awards. He won Shazam Awards for Best Inker (Humor Division) in 1972 for his work on *Mad Magazine* and for Best Humor Story in 1972 for \"The Poster Plague\" from *House of Mystery* No. 202 with Steve Skeates. Aragonés received an Inkpot Award in 1976... | 328 | Sergio Aragonés | 5 |
29,790 | # List of therapies
This is a list of types of medical therapy, including forms of traditional medicine and alternative medicine. For psychotherapies and other behavioral and psychological intervention methods, see list of psychotherapies | 34 | List of therapies | 0 |
29,826 | # Trial de novo
In law, the expression **trial *de novo*** means a \"new trial\" by a different tribunal (*de novo* is a Latin expression meaning \"afresh\", \"anew\", \"beginning again\", hence the literal meaning \"new trial\"). A trial *de novo* is usually ordered by an appellate court when the original trial faile... | 804 | Trial de novo | 0 |
29,837 | # Trombone
The **trombone** (*Posaune*, Italian, French: *trombone*) is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player\'s lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones use a telescoping slide m... | 1,088 | Trombone | 0 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## History
### Romantic period {#romantic_period}
#### 19th-century orchestras {#th_century_orchestras}
Trombones were included in operas, symphonies, and other compositions by Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz, Franz Berwald, Charles Gounod, Franz Liszt, Gioacchino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Robert Schuman... | 1,120 | Trombone | 1 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## History
### Contemporary use {#contemporary_use}
The trombone can be found in symphony orchestras, concert bands, big bands, marching bands, military bands, brass bands, and brass choirs. In chamber music, it is used in brass quintets, quartets, and trios, and also in trombone groups ranging from trios ... | 81 | Trombone | 2 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Construction
+---+-----------------------------+
| | 1. tuning slide |
| | 2. counterweight |
| | 3. mouthpiece |
| | 4. slide lock ring |
| | 5. bell |
| | 6. knob/bumper |
| | 7. water key/spit valve |
| ... | 690 | Trombone | 3 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Construction
### Valve attachments {#valve_attachments}
Modern trombones often have a valve attachment, an extra loop of tubing attached to the bell section and engaged by a valve operated by the left hand by means of a lever or trigger. The valve attachment aids in increasing the lower range of the ins... | 1,105 | Trombone | 4 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Construction
### Slides
Common and popular bore sizes for trombone slides are 0.500 , for tenor trombones, and 0.562 in for bass trombones. The slide may also be built with a *dual-bore* configuration, in which the bore of the second leg of the slide is slightly larger than the bore of the first leg, pr... | 386 | Trombone | 5 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Construction
### Regional variations {#regional_variations}
#### Germany and Austria {#germany_and_austria}
German trombones have been built in a wide variety of bore and bell sizes. The traditional German *Konzertposaune* can differ substantially from American designs in many aspects. The mouthpiece i... | 529 | Trombone | 6 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Types
The most frequently encountered types of trombone today are the tenor and bass, though as with many other instrument families such as the clarinet, the trombone has been built in sizes from piccolo to contrabass. Although trombones are usually constructed with a slide to change the pitch, valve tr... | 1,277 | Trombone | 7 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Types
### Other variants {#other_variants}
#### Sackbut
*Main article: Sackbut* The term \"sackbut\" refers to the early forms of the trombone commonly used during the Renaissance and Baroque eras, with a characteristically smaller, more cylindrically proportioned bore, and a less-flared bell.
#### Bu... | 167 | Trombone | 8 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Technique
### Basic slide positions {#basic_slide_positions}
The modern system has seven chromatic slide positions on a tenor trombone in B`{{music|b}}`{=mediawiki}. It was first described by Andre Braun circa 1795.
In 1811 Joseph Fröhlich wrote on the differences between the modern system and an old ... | 913 | Trombone | 9 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Technique
### Trills
Trills, though generally simple with valves, are difficult on the slide trombone. Trills tend to be easiest and most effective higher in the harmonic series because the distance between notes is much smaller and slide movement is minimal. For example, a trill on B`{{music|b}}`{=medi... | 635 | Trombone | 10 |
29,837 | # Trombone
## Didactics
Several makers have begun to market compact B`{{music|b}}`{=mediawiki}/C trombones that are especially well suited for young children learning to play the trombone who cannot reach the outer slide positions of full-length instruments. The fundamental note of the unenhanced length is C, but the... | 220 | Trombone | 11 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
***On the Origin of Species**\'\' (or, more completely,***On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life**\'\') is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary... | 571 | On the Origin of Species | 0 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Background
### Developments before Darwin\'s theory {#developments_before_darwins_theory}
In later editions of the book, Darwin traced evolutionary ideas as far back as Aristotle; the text he cites is a summary by Aristotle of the ideas of the earlier Greek philosopher Empedocles. Early... | 581 | On the Origin of Species | 1 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Background
### Inception of Darwin\'s theory {#inception_of_darwins_theory}
Darwin went to Edinburgh University in 1825 to study medicine. In his second year he neglected his medical studies for natural history and spent four months helping Robert Grant\'s research into marine invertebra... | 580 | On the Origin of Species | 2 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Background
### Further development {#further_development}
Darwin continued to research and extensively revise his theory while focusing on his main work of publishing the scientific results of the *Beagle* voyage. He tentatively wrote of his ideas to Lyell in January 1842; then in June h... | 508 | On the Origin of Species | 3 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Publication
### Time taken to publish {#time_taken_to_publish}
In his autobiography, Darwin said he had \"gained much by my delay in publishing from about 1839, when the theory was clearly conceived, to 1859; and I lost nothing by it\". On the first page of his 1859 book he noted that, ... | 928 | On the Origin of Species | 4 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Publication
### Murray as publisher; choice of title {#murray_as_publisher_choice_of_title}
thumb\|upright=1.3\|*On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life*, 2nd edition. By Charles Darwin, John Murray, London, 1... | 578 | On the Origin of Species | 5 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Publication
### Publication and subsequent editions {#publication_and_subsequent_editions}
*On the Origin of Species* was first published on Thursday 24 November 1859, priced at fifteen shillings with a first printing of 1250 copies. The book had been offered to booksellers at Murray\'s ... | 448 | On the Origin of Species | 6 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Publication
### Publication outside Great Britain {#publication_outside_great_britain}
In the United States, botanist Asa Gray, an American colleague of Darwin, negotiated with a Boston publisher for publication of an authorised American version, but learnt that two New York publishing f... | 467 | On the Origin of Species | 7 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Content
### Title pages and introduction {#title_pages_and_introduction}
Page ii contains quotations by William Whewell and Francis Bacon on the theology of natural laws, harmonising science and religion in accordance with Isaac Newton\'s belief in a rational God who established a law-a... | 391 | On the Origin of Species | 8 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Content
### Variation under domestication and under nature {#variation_under_domestication_and_under_nature}
Chapter I covers animal husbandry and plant breeding, going back to ancient Egypt. Darwin discusses contemporary opinions on the origins of different breeds under cultivation to a... | 550 | On the Origin of Species | 9 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Content
### Struggle for existence, natural selection, and divergence {#struggle_for_existence_natural_selection_and_divergence}
In Chapter III, Darwin asks how varieties \"which I have called incipient species\" become distinct species, and in answer introduces the key concept he calls ... | 655 | On the Origin of Species | 10 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Content
### Variation and heredity {#variation_and_heredity}
In Darwin\'s time there was no agreed-upon model of heredity; in Chapter I Darwin admitted, \"The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown.\" He accepted a version of the inheritance of acquired characteristics (which after... | 420 | On the Origin of Species | 11 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Content
### Difficulties for the theory {#difficulties_for_the_theory}
Chapter VI begins by saying the next three chapters will address possible objections to the theory, the first being that often no intermediate forms between closely related species are found, though the theory implies... | 985 | On the Origin of Species | 12 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Content
### Geological record {#geological_record}
Chapter IX deals with the fact that the geological record appears to show forms of life suddenly arising, without the innumerable transitional fossils expected from gradual changes. Darwin borrowed Charles Lyell\'s argument in *Principle... | 472 | On the Origin of Species | 13 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Content
### Geographic distribution {#geographic_distribution}
Chapter XI deals with evidence from biogeography, starting with the observation that differences in flora and fauna from separate regions cannot be explained by environmental differences alone; South America, Africa, and Aust... | 1,044 | On the Origin of Species | 14 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Structure, style, and themes {#structure_style_and_themes}
### Nature and structure of Darwin\'s argument {#nature_and_structure_of_darwins_argument}
Darwin\'s aims were twofold: to show that species had not been separately created, and to show that natural selection had been the chief ... | 598 | On the Origin of Species | 15 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Structure, style, and themes {#structure_style_and_themes}
### Human evolution {#human_evolution}
From his early transmutation notebooks in the late 1830s onwards, Darwin considered human evolution as part of the natural processes he was investigating, and rejected divine intervention. I... | 632 | On the Origin of Species | 16 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Reception
The book aroused international interest and a widespread debate, with no sharp line between scientific issues and ideological, social and religious implications. Much of the initial reaction was hostile, in a large part because very few reviewers actually understood his theory,... | 359 | On the Origin of Species | 17 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Reception
### Impact on the scientific community {#impact_on_the_scientific_community}
Scientific readers were already aware of arguments that species changed through processes that were subject to laws of nature, but the transmutational ideas of Lamarck and the vague \"law of developmen... | 1,027 | On the Origin of Species | 18 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Reception
### Impact on the scientific community {#impact_on_the_scientific_community}
#### Challenges to natural selection {#challenges_to_natural_selection}
There were serious scientific objections to the process of natural selection as the key mechanism of evolution, including Carl Nä... | 490 | On the Origin of Species | 19 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Reception
### Religious attitudes {#religious_attitudes}
The book produced a wide range of religious responses at a time of changing ideas and increasing secularisation. The issues raised were complex and there was a large middle ground. Developments in geology meant that there was littl... | 613 | On the Origin of Species | 20 |
29,932 | # On the Origin of Species
## Modern influence {#modern_influence}
Various alternative evolutionary mechanisms favoured during \"the eclipse of Darwinism\" became untenable as more was learned about inheritance and mutation. The full significance of natural selection was at last accepted in the 1930s and 1940s as par... | 344 | On the Origin of Species | 21 |
29,937 | # Texas Declaration of Independence
The **Texas Declaration of Independence** was the formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in the Texas Revolution. It was adopted at the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, and was formally signed the next day after mistak... | 851 | Texas Declaration of Independence | 0 |
29,937 | # Texas Declaration of Independence
## Signatories
Sixty men signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Three of them were born in Mexico, those being José Antonio Navarro, José Francisco Ruiz, and Lorenzo de Zavala. Fifty-seven of the sixty moved to Texas from the United States,and ten of them had lived in Texas ... | 383 | Texas Declaration of Independence | 1 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
thumb\|upright=1.4\|A trick of four cards. North led the `{{Spades|10}}`{=mediawiki}. Usually all players must *follow suit* and play a spade unless they have none. East does so with the `{{spades|K}}`{=mediawiki}. South does not have a spade, so plays the `{{diamonds|J}}`{=mediawiki}, and West the... | 275 | Trick-taking game | 0 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## History
The earliest card games were trick-taking games, as evidenced by the rank-and-suit structure, originating from China and spreading westwards during the early part of the second millennium. Michael Dummett noted that these games share various features. They were played without trumps, fo... | 741 | Trick-taking game | 1 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Basic structure {#basic_structure}
Certain actions in trick-taking games with three or more players always proceed in the same direction. In games originating in North and West Europe, including England, Russia, and the United States and Canada, the rotation is typically clockwise, i.e., play p... | 858 | Trick-taking game | 2 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Partnerships
In many games such as hearts and oh hell, all players play individually against each other.
In many four-player games such as bridge, euchre and spades, the players sitting opposite to each other form a fixed partnership.
Some games such as pinochle are commonly played with or wi... | 574 | Trick-taking game | 3 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Bidding
In a *contract* game the winning and scoring conditions are not fixed but are chosen by one of the players after seeing their hand. In such games, players make *bids* depending on the number of tricks or card points they believe they can win during play of the hand. One or more of these... | 450 | Trick-taking game | 4 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Trumps
*Trump cards* are a set of one or more cards in the deck that, when played, are of higher value than the suit led. If a trick contains any trump cards, it is won by the highest-value trump card played, not the highest-value card of the suit led.
In most games with trumps, one of the fou... | 475 | Trick-taking game | 5 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Follow suit {#follow_suit}
In many games, *following suit* is the action of playing a card of the same suit as that of the leading suit. A player must follow suit if that player has cards of the leading suit in his hands. There is a large variation of strictness in following suit among games.
... | 981 | Trick-taking game | 6 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Scoring
When all tricks have been played, the winner of the hand and the players\' scores can be determined. The determining factor in plain-trick games, the most popular form of trick-taking games in English-speaking countries, is simply how many tricks each player or partnership has taken. In... | 591 | Trick-taking game | 7 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Special variations {#special_variations}
### Variations to basic rules {#variations_to_basic_rules}
Numerous further variations to the basic rules may occur, and only a few examples can be mentioned here:
- Certain games require the holder of a certain card value to play it as the lead to t... | 441 | Trick-taking game | 8 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Special variations {#special_variations}
### Rules in Austrian and German games {#rules_in_austrian_and_german_games}
In games derived from Austria and Germany, trick-taking is governed by the rules called *Zwänge*. The three main ones are *Farbzwang*, *Stichzwang* and *Trumpfzwang*. Although t... | 460 | Trick-taking game | 9 |
29,947 | # Trick-taking game
## Examples
Trick-taking games may be divided into point-trick games and plain-trick games. Examples of each are as follows:
### Point-trick games {#point_trick_games}
Point-trick game are those in which win or loss is determined by the total value of the \"counters\" in the tricks. The counters... | 288 | Trick-taking game | 10 |
29,950 | # Tile-based game
A **tile-based game** is a game that uses tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play. Traditional tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for gambling or entertainment games. Some board games use tiles to create their board, giving multiple possibilities for board layout, or allowing... | 131 | Tile-based game | 0 |
29,957 | # Troll
*Trolls* (film)}} `{{pp-semi-indef|small=yes}}`{=mediawiki} `{{pp-move-indef}}`{=mediawiki} thumb\|upright=1.3\|*Look at them, troll mother said. Look at my sons! You won\'t find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon.* (1915) by John Bauer
A **troll** is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse my... | 685 | Troll | 0 |
29,957 | # Troll
## Scandinavian folklore {#scandinavian_folklore}
Later in Scandinavian folklore, trolls become defined as a particular type of being. Numerous tales are recorded about trolls in which they are frequently described as being extremely old, very strong, but slow and dim-witted, and are at times described as man... | 667 | Troll | 1 |
29,957 | # Troll
## In popular culture {#in_popular_culture}
Trolls have appeared in many works of modern fiction, most often in the fantasy genre, with classic examples being the portrayal of trolls in works such as in Tolkien\'s Middle-earth or the *Dungeons & Dragons* roleplaying game.
Beginning in the 1950s, Troll dolls ... | 164 | Troll | 2 |
29,980 | # Time constraint
In law, **time constraints** are placed on certain actions and filings in the interest of speedy justice, and additionally to prevent the evasion of the ends of justice by waiting until a matter is moot. The penalty for violating a legislative or court-imposed time constraint may be anything from a s... | 298 | Time constraint | 0 |
29,988 | # Tenochtitlan
***italic=no***, also known as **Mexico-Tenochtitlan**, was a large Mexican *\[\[altepetl\]\]* in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear, but the date 13 March 1325 was chosen in 1925 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city. The city ... | 604 | Tenochtitlan | 0 |
29,988 | # Tenochtitlan
## City plans {#city_plans}
The city was divided into four zones, or *camps*; each *camp* was divided into 20 districts (*calpullis*, *calpōlli*, `{{IPA|nah|kaɬˈpoːlːi|pron}}`{=mediawiki}, meaning \"large house\"); and each *calpulli*, or \'big house\', was crossed by streets or *tlaxilcalli*. There we... | 477 | Tenochtitlan | 1 |
29,988 | # Tenochtitlan
## Social classes {#social_classes}
thumb\|left\|upright=0.8\|Reconstruction of an Aztec market in Tenochtitlan in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Tenochtitlan can be considered the most complex society in Mesoamerica in regard to social stratification. The complex system involved m... | 304 | Tenochtitlan | 2 |
29,988 | # Tenochtitlan
## History
thumb\|upright=1.0\|A Mexico City monument commemorating the founding of Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Mexican civilization of the Mexica people, founded in 1325. The state religion of the Mexica civilization awaited the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy: the wandering t... | 428 | Tenochtitlan | 3 |
29,988 | # Tenochtitlan
## History
### Conquest
thumb\|upright=1.2\|The Conquest of Tenochtitlan When Cortés and his men invaded *italic=no*, Moctezuma II chose to welcome Cortés as an ambassador rather than risk a war which might quickly be joined by aggrieved indigenous people.
As Cortés approached *italic=no*, the *italic... | 627 | Tenochtitlan | 4 |
29,988 | # Tenochtitlan
## History
### Colonial era {#colonial_era}
Cortés founded the Spanish capital of Mexico City on the ruins of Tenochtitlan. Despite the extensive damage to the built environment, the site retained symbolic power and legitimacy as the capital of the Aztec empire, which Cortés sought to appropriate. For ... | 718 | Tenochtitlan | 5 |
29,990 | # Titanic Thompson
**Alvin Clarence Thomas** (November 30, 1893 -- May 19, 1974), better known as **Titanic Thompson**, was an American gambler, golfer, and hustler, who killed five men but was never charged with a crime.
Thompson traveled the country wagering at cards, dice games, golf, shooting, billiards, horsesho... | 677 | Titanic Thompson | 0 |
29,990 | # Titanic Thompson
## Expert golfer {#expert_golfer}
Gifted with extraordinary eyesight and hand--eye coordination, he was a skilled athlete, crack shot and a golfer good enough to turn professional. Raised in a poor environment far from exclusive golf courses, Thomas did not take up golf seriously until he was in hi... | 335 | Titanic Thompson | 1 |
29,990 | # Titanic Thompson
## Marriages and family {#marriages_and_family}
Married five times, Thompson fathered three children, all boys, with three different wives. He was also romantically linked with many women. Among his alleged trysts were actresses Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow. He typically married a young woman, lived w... | 715 | Titanic Thompson | 2 |
29,990 | # Titanic Thompson
## Later years {#later_years}
Thompson participated in the first World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1970. He lived out his final years in a nursing home near Dallas. Thompson had made gambling trips with eldest son Tommy for many years, but after his father died, Tommy, who also had bec... | 80 | Titanic Thompson | 3 |
30,036 | # Tor Nørretranders
**Tor Nørretranders** (born 20 June 1955) is a Danish author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on light popular science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders\' own advice about how society should integrate new find... | 160 | Tor Nørretranders | 0 |
30,054 | # Qt Group
**Qt Group Plc** (Qt is pronounced \"cute\") is a software company headquartered in Espoo, Finland. It was formed following the acquisition of Qt by Digia, but was later spun off into a separate, publicly traded company.
The company oversees the development of the Qt framework alongside the Qt Project, and... | 463 | Qt Group | 0 |
30,054 | # Qt Group
## History
### Qt Group 2016--current {#qt_group_2016current}
In May 2016, the company went public on NASDAQ Helsinki as QTCOM. In March 2016, Digia Plc\'s Annual General Meeting resolved on the partial demerger of Digia and the demerger was registered in the trade register on May 1. Digia's Qt business wa... | 374 | Qt Group | 1 |
30,054 | # Qt Group
## Products
The company provides a software development framework, tools for software design, development, quality assurance and testing, as well as expert consulting services. Its flagship product is Qt, a multi-platform Graphical User Interface (GUI) framework written in C++. Qt is popular with applicati... | 287 | Qt Group | 2 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
The **Trojan War** was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the twelfth or thirteenth century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans (Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important eve... | 346 | Trojan War | 0 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
Traditionally, the Trojan War arose from a sequence of events beginning with a quarrel between the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Eris, the goddess of discord, was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, and so arrived bearing a gift: a golden apple, inscribed \"for the fairest... | 439 | Trojan War | 1 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### Origins of the war {#origins_of_the_war}
#### Judgement of Paris {#judgement_of_paris}
Zeus came to learn from either Themis or Prometheus, after Heracles had released him from the Caucasus, that, like his father Cronus, he would be overthrown by one of his sons. Another prophecy stated tha... | 595 | Trojan War | 2 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### Origins of the war {#origins_of_the_war}
#### Elopement of Paris and Helen {#elopement_of_paris_and_helen}
The most beautiful woman in the world was Helen, one of the daughters of Tyndareus, King of Sparta. Her mother was Leda, who had been either raped or seduced by Zeus in the form of a s... | 499 | Trojan War | 3 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### Gathering of Achaean forces and the first expedition {#gathering_of_achaean_forces_and_the_first_expedition}
According to Homer, Menelaus and his ally, Odysseus, travelled to Troy, where they unsuccessfully sought to recover Helen by diplomatic means.
Menelaus then asked Agamemnon to help ... | 664 | Trojan War | 4 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### Second gathering {#second_gathering}
thumb\|upright=1.4\|left\|A map of the Troäd (Troas) in modern-day Turkey
Eight years after the storm had scattered them, the fleet of more than a thousand ships was gathered again. When they had all reached Aulis, the winds ceased. The prophet Calchas ... | 428 | Trojan War | 5 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### Nine years of war {#nine_years_of_war}
#### Philoctetes
Philoctetes was Heracles\' friend, and because he lit Heracles\'s funeral pyre when no one else would, he received Heracles\' bow and arrows. He sailed with seven ships full of men to the Trojan War, where he was planning on fighting ... | 1,102 | Trojan War | 6 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### *Iliad*
Chryses, a priest of Apollo and father of Chryseis, came to Agamemnon to ask for the return of his daughter. Agamemnon refused, and insulted Chryses, who prayed to Apollo to avenge his ill-treatment. Enraged, Apollo afflicted the Achaean army with plague. Agamemnon was forced to ret... | 545 | Trojan War | 7 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### After the *Iliad* {#after_the_iliad}
#### Penthesilea and the death of Achilles {#penthesilea_and_the_death_of_achilles}
Shortly after the burial of Hector, Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons, arrived with her warriors. Penthesilea, daughter of Otrera and Ares, had accidentally killed her s... | 1,090 | Trojan War | 8 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### Sack of Troy {#sack_of_troy}
The Achaeans entered the city and killed the sleeping population. A great massacre followed which continued into the day. `{{poemquote|Blood ran in torrents, drenched was all the earth,
As Trojans and their alien helpers died.
Here were men lying quelled by bitt... | 360 | Trojan War | 9 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### Returns
The gods were very angry over the destruction of their temples and other sacrilegious acts by the Achaeans, and decided that most would not return home. A storm fell on the returning fleet off Tenos island. Nauplius, in revenge for the murder of his son Palamedes, set up false light... | 1,269 | Trojan War | 10 |
30,058 | # Trojan War
## Legend
### *Telegony*
The *Telegony* picks up where the *Odyssey* leaves off, beginning with the burial of the dead suitors, and continues until the death of Odysseus. Some years after Odysseus\' return, Telegonus, the son of Odysseus and Circe, came to Ithaca and plundered the island. Odysseus, attem... | 789 | Trojan War | 11 |
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