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31,275 | # The Age of Reason
## Publishing history {#publishing_history}
In December 1792, Paine\'s *Rights of Man, part II*, was declared seditious in Britain, and he was forced to flee to France to avoid arrest. Dismayed by the French revolution\'s turn toward secularism and atheism, he composed Part I of *The Age of Reason... | 762 | The Age of Reason | 1 |
31,275 | # The Age of Reason
## Structure and major arguments {#structure_and_major_arguments}
*The Age of Reason* is divided into three sections. In Part I, Paine outlines his major arguments and personal creed. In Parts II and III he analyzes specific portions of the Bible to demonstrate that it is not the revealed word of ... | 360 | The Age of Reason | 2 |
31,275 | # The Age of Reason
## Structure and major arguments {#structure_and_major_arguments}
### Reason and revelation {#reason_and_revelation}
Paine begins *The Age of Reason* by attacking revelation. Revelation, he maintains, can be verified only by the individual receivers of the message and so is weak evidence for God\'... | 567 | The Age of Reason | 3 |
31,275 | # The Age of Reason
## Structure and major arguments {#structure_and_major_arguments}
### Church and state {#church_and_state}
Paine also attacks religious institutions, indicting priests for their lust for power and wealth and the Church\'s opposition to scientific investigation. He presents the history of Christian... | 691 | The Age of Reason | 4 |
31,275 | # The Age of Reason
## Rhetoric and style {#rhetoric_and_style}
The most distinctive feature of *The Age of Reason*, like all of Paine\'s works, is its linguistic style. Historian Eric Foner argues that Paine\'s works \"forged a new political language\" designed to bring politics to the people by using a \"clear, sim... | 1,185 | The Age of Reason | 5 |
31,275 | # The Age of Reason
## Rhetoric and style {#rhetoric_and_style}
### Religious influences {#religious_influences}
Paine\'s Quaker upbringing predisposed him to deistic thinking at the same time that it positioned him firmly within the tradition of religious Dissent. Paine acknowledged that he was indebted to his Quake... | 325 | The Age of Reason | 6 |
31,275 | # The Age of Reason
## Reception and legacy {#reception_and_legacy}
*The Age of Reason* provoked a hostile reaction from most readers and critics, although the intensity of that hostility varied by locality. There were four major factors for this animosity: Paine denied that the Bible was a sacred, inspired text; he ... | 939 | The Age of Reason | 7 |
31,275 | # The Age of Reason
## Reception and legacy {#reception_and_legacy}
### United States {#united_states}
In the United States, *The Age of Reason* initially caused a deistic \"revival\". Paine became so reviled that he could still be maligned as a \"filthy little atheist\" by Theodore Roosevelt over one hundred years l... | 1,153 | The Age of Reason | 8 |
31,279 | # Typee
***Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life*** is American writer Herman Melville\'s first book, published in 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is based on Melville\'s experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands i... | 378 | Typee | 0 |
31,279 | # Typee
## Critical response {#critical_response}
*Typee*{{\'}}s narrative expresses a great deal of sympathy for the so-called savages, and even interrogates the use of that word, while focusing the most criticism on European marauders and various missionaries\' attempts to evangelize:
> It may be asserted without ... | 588 | Typee | 1 |
31,279 | # Typee
## Publication history {#publication_history}
*Typee* was published first in London by John Murray on February 26, 1846, and then in New York by Wiley and Putnam on March 17, 1846. It was Melville\'s first book, and made him one of the best-known American authors overnight.
The same version was published in ... | 326 | Typee | 2 |
31,282 | # Truncated icosahedron
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In geometry, the **truncated icosahedron** is a polyhedron that can be constructed by trunc... | 524 | Truncated icosahedron | 0 |
31,282 | # Truncated icosahedron
## Appearance
thumb\|upright=1.1\|The truncated icosahedron (left) compared with an association football The balls used in association football and team handball are perhaps the best-known example of a spherical polyhedron analog to the truncated icosahedron, found in everyday life.`{{r|kotsch... | 374 | Truncated icosahedron | 1 |
31,291 | # Thomas Bowdler
**Thomas Bowdler** `{{Post-nominals|country=UK|LRCP|FRS}}`{=mediawiki} (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|aʊ|d|l|ər}}`{=mediawiki}; 11 July 1754 -- 24 February 1825) was an English physician known for publishing *The Family Shakespeare*, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare\'s plays edited by his sister Henriett... | 732 | Thomas Bowdler | 0 |
31,291 | # Thomas Bowdler
## *The Family Shakespeare* {#the_family_shakespeare}
In Bowdler\'s childhood, his father had entertained his family with readings from Shakespeare. Later in life, Bowdler realised his father had been omitting or altering passages he felt unsuitable for the ears of his wife and children. Bowdler felt... | 523 | Thomas Bowdler | 1 |
31,292 | # Treason
thumb\|upright=1.1\|A 17th-century illustration of the leaders of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed assassination attempt against James I of England.`{{Criminal law}}`{=mediawiki} **Treason** is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participati... | 1,414 | Treason | 0 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### Australia
In Australia, there are federal and state laws against treason, specifically in the states of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. Similarly to Treason laws in the United States, citizens of Australia owe allegiance to th... | 450 | Treason | 1 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### Canada
Section 46 of the Criminal Code has two degrees of treason, called \"high treason\" and \"treason\". However, both of these belong to the historical category of high treason, as opposed to petty treason which does not exist in Canadian... | 1,041 | Treason | 2 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### Germany
German law differentiates between two types of treason: \"High treason\" (*Hochverrat*) and \"treason\" (*Landesverrat*). High treason, as defined in Section 81 of the German criminal code is defined as an attempt against the existenc... | 955 | Treason | 3 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### New Zealand {#new_zealand}
New Zealand has treason laws that are stipulated under the Crimes Act 1961. Section 73 of the Crimes Act reads as follows:
> Every one owing allegiance to the Sovereign in right of New Zealand commits treason who, ... | 650 | Treason | 4 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### Sweden
Sweden\'s treason laws are divided into three parts; *Högförräderi* (High treason), *Landsförräderi* (Treason) and *Landssvek* (Treachery).
High treason means crimes committed with the intent to put the Nation, or parts thereof, under... | 599 | Treason | 5 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### Switzerland
There is no single crime of treason in Swiss law; instead, multiple criminal prohibitions apply. Article 265 of the Swiss Criminal Code prohibits \"high treason\" (*Hochverrat/haute trahison*) as follows:
> Whoever commits an act... | 542 | Treason | 6 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### United Kingdom {#united_kingdom}
right\|thumb\|upright=1.15\|Engraving depicting the execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong in 1684 for complicity in the Rye House Plot; he was hanged, drawn and quartered.
The British law of treason is entirely s... | 816 | Treason | 7 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### United States {#united_states}
The offense of treason exists at both federal and state levels. The federal crime is defined in the Constitution (and is the only crime defined by it) as either levying war against the United States or adhering ... | 760 | Treason | 8 |
31,292 | # Treason
## In individual jurisdictions {#in_individual_jurisdictions}
### Vietnam
The Constitution of Vietnam proclaims that treason is the most serious crime. It is further regulated in the country\'s 2015 Criminal Code with the 78th article: `{{blockquote|
#Any Vietnamese citizen acting in collusion with a foreig... | 749 | Treason | 9 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
The **three-age system** is the periodization of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, although the concept may also refer to other tripartite divisions of historic time periods. In ... | 306 | Three-age system | 0 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Origin
The concept of dividing pre-historical ages into systems based on metals extends far back in European history, probably originated by Lucretius in the first century BC. But the present archaeological system of the three main ages -- stone, bronze and iron -- originates with the 19th centu... | 407 | Three-age system | 1 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Origin
### The Progress of Lucretius {#the_progress_of_lucretius}
The moral metaphor of the ages of metals continued. Lucretius, however, replaced moral degradation with the concept of progress, which he conceived to be like the growth of an individual human being. The concept is evolutionary:
... | 366 | Three-age system | 2 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Origin
### Early lithic analysis by Michele Mercati {#early_lithic_analysis_by_michele_mercati}
By the 16th century, a tradition had developed based on observational incidents, true or false, that the black objects found widely scattered in large quantities over Europe had fallen from the sky du... | 754 | Three-age system | 3 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Origin
### The three-age system of C. J. Thomsen {#the_three_age_system_of_c._j._thomsen}
upright=1.15\|thumb\|Thomsen explaining the Three-age System to visitors at the Museum of Northern Antiquities, then at the Christiansborg Palace, in Copenhagen, 1846. Drawing by Magnus Petersen, Thomsen\'s... | 882 | Three-age system | 4 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Stone Age subdivisions {#stone_age_subdivisions}
### The savagery and civilization of Sir John Lubbock {#the_savagery_and_civilization_of_sir_john_lubbock}
It was to be a full generation before British archaeology caught up with the Danish. When it did, the leading figure was another multi-tale... | 791 | Three-age system | 5 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Stone Age subdivisions {#stone_age_subdivisions}
### Piette finds the Mesolithic {#piette_finds_the_mesolithic}
In that same year, 1872, Sir John Evans produced a massive work, *The Ancient Stone Implements*, in which he in effect repudiated the Mesolithic, making a point to ignore it, denying i... | 878 | Three-age system | 6 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Stone Age subdivisions {#stone_age_subdivisions}
### The Epipaleolithic and Protoneolithic of Stjerna and Obermaier {#the_epipaleolithic_and_protoneolithic_of_stjerna_and_obermaier}
thumb\|upright=1.15\|right\|Small Magdalenian carving representing a horse Sir John Evans never changed his mind, ... | 604 | Three-age system | 7 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Stone Age subdivisions {#stone_age_subdivisions}
### Lower, middle and upper from Haeckel to Sollas {#lower_middle_and_upper_from_haeckel_to_sollas}
thumb\|upright=1.3\|Haeckel\'s tree growing through the layers. In geology, the tripartite division did not stand the test of time. The post-Darwin... | 1,025 | Three-age system | 8 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Stone Age subdivisions {#stone_age_subdivisions}
### Wallace\'s grand revolution recycled {#wallaces_grand_revolution_recycled}
When Sir John Lubbock was doing the preliminary work for his 1865 *magnum opus*, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were jointly publishing their first papers \"O... | 629 | Three-age system | 9 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Stone Age subdivisions {#stone_age_subdivisions}
### Vere Gordon Childe\'s revolution for the masses {#vere_gordon_childes_revolution_for_the_masses}
In 1936 a champion came forward who would advance the Neolithic Revolution into the mainstream view: Vere Gordon Childe. After giving the Neolithi... | 432 | Three-age system | 10 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Stone Age subdivisions {#stone_age_subdivisions}
### The Pre-pottery Neolithic of Garstang and Kenyon at Jericho {#the_pre_pottery_neolithic_of_garstang_and_kenyon_at_jericho}
Even as Childe was developing this revolution theme the ground was sinking under him. Lubbock did not find any pottery a... | 465 | Three-age system | 11 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Bronze Age subdivisions {#bronze_age_subdivisions}
Danish archaeology took the lead in defining the Bronze Age, with little of the controversy surrounding the Stone Age. British archaeologists patterned their own excavations after those of the Danish, which they followed avidly in the media. Ref... | 377 | Three-age system | 12 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Bronze Age subdivisions {#bronze_age_subdivisions}
### Copper Age or Chalcolithic {#copper_age_or_chalcolithic}
In chapter 1 of his work, Evans proposes for the first time a transitional Copper Age between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. He adduces evidence from far-flung places such as China ... | 384 | Three-age system | 13 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## End of the Iron Age {#end_of_the_iron_age}
The three-age system is a way of dividing prehistory, and the Iron Age is therefore considered to end in a particular culture with either the start of its protohistory, when it begins to be written about by outsiders, or when its own historiography begi... | 269 | Three-age system | 14 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Dating
The question of the dates of the objects and events discovered through archaeology is the prime concern of any system of thought that seeks to summarize history through the formulation of ages or epochs. An age is defined through comparison of contemporaneous events. Increasingly, the ter... | 440 | Three-age system | 15 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Three-age system resumptive table {#three_age_system_resumptive_table}
+---------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------... | 420 | Three-age system | 16 |
31,295 | # Three-age system
## Criticism
The Three-age System has been criticized since at least the 19th century. Every phase of its development has been contested. Some of the arguments that have been presented against it follow.
### Unsound epochalism {#unsound_epochalism}
In some cases criticism resulted in other, paral... | 685 | Three-age system | 17 |
31,296 | # Tachyon
A **tachyon** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|æ|k|i|ɒ|n}}`{=mediawiki}) or **tachyonic particle** is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Physicists posit that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are inconsistent with the known laws of physics. If such particles did exist they per... | 459 | Tachyon | 0 |
31,296 | # Tachyon
## Special relativity {#special_relativity}
In special relativity, a faster-than-light particle would have spacelike four-momentum, unlike ordinary particles that have time-like four-momentum. While some theories suggest the mass of tachyons is imaginary, modern formulations often consider their mass to be ... | 446 | Tachyon | 1 |
31,296 | # Tachyon
## Special relativity {#special_relativity}
### Superluminal information {#superluminal_information}
thumb\|upright=1\|Spacetime diagram showing that moving faster than light implies time travel in the context of special relativity. A spaceship departs from Earth from A to C slower than light. At B, Earth e... | 603 | Tachyon | 2 |
31,296 | # Tachyon
## Fundamental models {#fundamental_models}
In modern physics, all fundamental particles are regarded as excitations of quantum fields. There are several distinct ways in which tachyonic particles could be embedded into a field theory.
### Fields with imaginary mass {#fields_with_imaginary_mass}
In the pa... | 407 | Tachyon | 3 |
31,296 | # Tachyon
## In fiction {#in_fiction}
Tachyons have appeared in many works of fiction. They have been used as a standby mechanism upon which many science fiction authors rely to establish faster-than-light communication, with or without reference to causality issues. The word *tachyon* has become widely recognized to... | 79 | Tachyon | 4 |
31,298 | # The Starlost
***The Starlost*** is a Canadian-produced science fiction television series created by writer Harlan Ellison and broadcast in 1973 on CTV in Canada and syndicated to local stations in the United States. The show\'s setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called *Earthship Ark*, which following ... | 610 | The Starlost | 0 |
31,298 | # The Starlost
## Development and production {#development_and_production}
20th Century Fox was involved in the project with Douglas Trumbull as executive producer. The science fiction writer and editor Ben Bova was brought in as science advisor.
Harlan Ellison was approached by Robert Kline, a 20th Century Fox tele... | 442 | The Starlost | 1 |
31,298 | # The Starlost
## Reception and impact {#reception_and_impact}
On March 31, 1974, Ellison received a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for the original script (the pilot script as originally written, not the version that was filmed). A novelization of the script by Edward Bryant, *Phoenix Wi... | 621 | The Starlost | 2 |
31,300 | # Tora Bora
**Tora Bora** (*توره بوړه*, \"Black Cave\") is a cave complex, part of the Spin Ghar (White Mountains) mountain range of eastern Afghanistan. It is situated in the Pachir Aw Agam District of Nangarhar, approximately 50 km west of the Khyber Pass and 10 km north of the border of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provi... | 672 | Tora Bora | 0 |
31,304 | # Type II submarine
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31,316 | # Tizoc
**Tizocic** (`{{IPA|nah|tiˈsosik|}}`{=mediawiki}), or **Tizocicatzin** (`{{IPA|nah|tisosiˈkat͡sin̥|-|Tisoktsin.ogg}}`{=mediawiki}), usually known in English as **Tizoc**, was the seventh *tlatoani* of Tenochtitlan. His name means, \"He who makes sacrifices\" or \"He who does penance.\" Either Tizoc or his succ... | 328 | Tizoc | 0 |
31,332 | # International Obfuscated C Code Contest
The **International Obfuscated C Code Contest** (abbreviated **IOCCC**) is a computer programming contest for code written in C that is the most creatively obfuscated. Held semi-annually, it is described as \"celebrating \[C\'s\] syntactical opaqueness\". The winning code for ... | 568 | International Obfuscated C Code Contest | 0 |
31,332 | # International Obfuscated C Code Contest
## Examples
Within the code size limit of only a few kilobytes, contestants have managed to do complicated things -- a 2004 winner turned out an operating system.
### Toledo Nanochess {#toledo_nanochess}
*Toledo Nanochess* is a chess engine created by Mexican software devel... | 928 | International Obfuscated C Code Contest | 1 |
31,335 | # Territorial integrity
**Territorial integrity** is the principle under international law where sovereign states have a right to defend their borders and all territory in them from another state. It is enshrined in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and has been recognized as customary international law. Under this princ... | 610 | Territorial integrity | 0 |
31,335 | # Territorial integrity
## In a changing world {#in_a_changing_world}
The recent (post-World War II) strict application of territorial integrity has given rise to a number of problems and, when faced with reality \"on the ground\", can be seen as too artificial a construct.
At the 2005 World Summit, the world\'s nat... | 291 | Territorial integrity | 1 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
***The Adventures of Tintin*** (*Les Aventures de Tintin* `{{IPA|fr|lez‿avɑ̃tyʁ də tɛ̃tɛ̃|}}`{=mediawiki}) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century... | 285 | The Adventures of Tintin | 0 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## History
### *Le Vingtième Siècle*: 1929--1939 {#section}
Georges Prosper Remi, best known under the pen name Hergé, was employed as an illustrator at *\[\[Le Vingtième Siècle\]\]* (*The Twentieth Century*), a staunchly Roman Catholic, conservative Belgian newspaper based in Hergé\'s nat... | 1,048 | The Adventures of Tintin | 1 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Characters
### Tintin and Snowy {#tintin_and_snowy}
Tintin is a young Belgian reporter and adventurer who becomes involved in dangerous cases in which he takes heroic action to save the day. The *Adventures* may feature Tintin hard at work in his investigative journalism, but seldom is ... | 390 | The Adventures of Tintin | 2 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Characters
### Supporting characters {#supporting_characters}
Hergé\'s supporting characters have been cited as far more developed than the central character, each imbued with strength of character and depth of personality, which has been compared with that of the characters of Charles D... | 543 | The Adventures of Tintin | 3 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Settings
The settings within *Tintin* have also added depth to the strips. Hergé mixes real and fictional lands into his stories. In *King Ottokar\'s Sceptre* (revisited once more in *Destination Moon*, *Explorers on the Moon* and *The Calculus Affair*) Hergé creates two fictional countr... | 608 | The Adventures of Tintin | 4 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Research
Hergé\'s extensive research began with *The Blue Lotus*; Hergé said that \"it was from that time that I undertook research and really interested myself in the people and countries to which I sent Tintin, out of a sense of responsibility to my readers\".
Hergé\'s use of research... | 295 | The Adventures of Tintin | 5 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Influences
In his youth, Hergé admired Benjamin Rabier and suggested that a number of images within *Tintin in the Land of the Soviets* reflected his influence, particularly the pictures of animals. René Vincent, the Art Deco designer, also affected early Tintin adventures: \"His influen... | 759 | The Adventures of Tintin | 6 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Translation into English {#translation_into_english}
### Lettering and typography {#lettering_and_typography}
The English-language *Adventures of Tintin* books were originally published with handwritten lettering created by cartographer Neil Hyslop. 1958\'s *The Crab with the Golden Claw... | 147 | The Adventures of Tintin | 7 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Reception
### Awards
On 1 June 2006, the Dalai Lama bestowed the International Campaign for Tibet\'s Light of Truth Award upon the Hergé Foundation, along with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The award was in recognition of Hergé\'s book *Tintin in Tibet*, Hergé\'s most personal ... | 563 | The Adventures of Tintin | 8 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Reception
### Controversy
The earliest stories in *The Adventures of Tintin* have been criticised for animal cruelty; colonialism; violence; and ethnocentric, caricatured portrayals of non-Europeans. While the Hergé Foundation has presented such criticism as naïveté and scholars of Hergé... | 646 | The Adventures of Tintin | 9 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Adaptations and memorabilia {#adaptations_and_memorabilia}
*The Adventures of Tintin* has been adapted in a variety of media besides the original comic strip and its collections. Hergé encouraged adaptations and members of his studio working on the animated films. After Hergé\'s death in... | 1,033 | The Adventures of Tintin | 10 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Adaptations and memorabilia {#adaptations_and_memorabilia}
### Theatre
Hergé himself helped to create two stage plays, collaborating with humourist Jacques Van Melkebeke. *Tintin in the Indies: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond* (1941) covers much of the second half of *Cigars of the Phara... | 754 | The Adventures of Tintin | 11 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Adaptations and memorabilia {#adaptations_and_memorabilia}
### Stamps and coins {#stamps_and_coins}
Tintin\'s image has been used on postage stamps on numerous occasions. The first *Tintin* postage stamp was an eight-franc stamp issued by Belgian Post for the 50th anniversary of the publ... | 462 | The Adventures of Tintin | 12 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Adaptations and memorabilia {#adaptations_and_memorabilia}
### Parody and pastiche {#parody_and_pastiche}
During Hergé\'s lifetime, parodies were produced of the *Adventures of Tintin*, with one of the earliest appearing in Belgian newspaper *La Patrie* after the liberation of the countr... | 584 | The Adventures of Tintin | 13 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Adaptations and memorabilia {#adaptations_and_memorabilia}
### Exhibitions
thumb\|left\|upright=1\|Scenes from the album *Red Rackham\'s Treasure* are being used to illustrate the concept of underwater diving in this exhibition, located in the corridors of the Blocry Sports Centre in Lou... | 439 | The Adventures of Tintin | 14 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## Legacy
Hergé is recognised as one of the leading cartoonists of the twentieth century. Most notably, Hergé\'s *\[\[ligne claire\]\]* style has been influential to creators of other Franco-Belgian comics. Contributors to *Tintin* magazine have employed *ligne claire*, and later artists Ja... | 347 | The Adventures of Tintin | 15 |
31,338 | # The Adventures of Tintin
## List of titles {#list_of_titles}
The following are the twenty-four canonical *Tintin* comic albums, with their English titles. Publication dates are for the original French-language versions.
+--------------+-------------------------------------+---------------+-------------+-----------... | 608 | The Adventures of Tintin | 16 |
31,347 | # Trilogy
A **trilogy** is a set of three distinct works that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, and video games. Three-part works that are considered components of a larger work also exist, such as the triptych or the three-... | 415 | Trilogy | 0 |
31,347 | # Trilogy
## In media {#in_media}
### Films
The increase in sequels in recent years means there are a number of franchises that have produced three films, often with *II* and *III* appended to their title as an indication. Less obvious film trilogies include:
- Lars von Trier has occasionally referred to his film... | 362 | Trilogy | 1 |
31,347 | # Trilogy
## In media {#in_media}
### Video games {#video_games}
- The *N. Sane Trilogy*, released between 1996 and 1999, consists of *Crash Bandicoot* (1996), *Cortex Strikes Back* (1997), and *Warped* (1998), which were originally developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation. This resulted to remaster into a coll... | 410 | Trilogy | 2 |
31,364 | # Physiologus
The ***Physiologus*** (*Φυσιολόγος*) is a didactic Christian text written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria. Its composition has been traditionally dated to the 2nd century AD by readers who saw parallels with writings of Clement of Alexandria, who is asserted to have known the text... | 544 | Physiologus | 0 |
31,364 | # Physiologus
## Early history {#early_history}
About the year 400 the *Physiologus* was translated into Latin; from Greek, the original language that it was written in. In the 5th century into Ethiopic \[edited by Fritz Hommel with a German translation (Leipzig, 1877), revised German translation in *Romanische Forsc... | 306 | Physiologus | 1 |
31,364 | # Physiologus
## Translations
The *Physiologus* had an impact on neighboring literatures: medieval translations into Latin, Armenian, Georgian, Slavic, Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic are known.
Translations and adaptations from the Latin introduced the \"Physiologus\" into almost all the languages of Western Europe. A... | 511 | Physiologus | 2 |
31,368 | # T. H. White
**Terence Hanbury** \"**Tim**\" **White** (29 May 1906 -- 17 January 1964) was an English writer. He is best known for his Arthurian novels, which were published together in 1958 as *The Once and Future King*. One of his best known is the first of the series, *The Sword in the Stone*, which was published... | 771 | T. H. White | 0 |
31,368 | # T. H. White
## Death
White died of heart failure on 17 January 1964 aboard ship in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, en route to Alderney from a lecture tour in the United States. He is buried in the First Cemetery of Athens. *The Book of Merlyn* was published posthumously in 1977 as a conclusion to *The Once and Future Kin... | 637 | T. H. White | 1 |
31,373 | # Tor (rock formation)
A **tor**, which is also known by geomorphologists as either a **castle koppie** or **kopje**, is a large, free-standing rock outcrop that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest. In the South West of England, the term is commonly also... | 486 | Tor (rock formation) | 0 |
31,382 | # True BASIC
**True BASIC** is a variant of the BASIC programming language descended from Dartmouth BASIC --- the original BASIC. Both were created by college professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
## History
True BASIC traces its history to an offshoot of Dartmouth BASIC called Structured BASIC, or SBASIC f... | 298 | True BASIC | 0 |
31,382 | # True BASIC
## Features
Being a structured programming implementation of the language, it dispenses with the need for line numbers and `GOTO` statements, although these can still be used.
True BASIC provides statements for matrix arithmetic, a feature that had been present in Dartmouth BASIC since early times, but ... | 550 | True BASIC | 1 |
31,384 | # Twilight: 2000
***Twilight: 2000*** is a 1984 post-apocalyptic military tabletop role-playing game published by Game Designers\' Workshop (GDW). Set in the aftermath of World War III (the *Twilight War*), the game operates on the premise that the United States/NATO and the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact have fought a leng... | 818 | Twilight: 2000 | 0 |
31,384 | # Twilight: 2000
## Publication history {#publication_history}
### First and Second Editions {#first_and_second_editions}
GDW extended the timeline of *Twilight: 2000* to create the background history for the science fiction game *2300 AD*; by doing so, the depressing post-nuclear environment of *Twilight: 2000* is ... | 648 | Twilight: 2000 | 1 |
31,384 | # Twilight: 2000
## Alternative settings {#alternative_settings}
### Merc 2000 {#merc_2000}
Whereas *Twilight: 2000* was set in the immediate post-World War III era, with characters representing soldiers trying to survive, characters in *Merc: 2000* are mercenaries working for or against government forces in a world... | 289 | Twilight: 2000 | 2 |
31,384 | # Twilight: 2000
## Reception
Rick Swan and Greg Porter reviewed *Twilight: 2000* in *Space Gamer* No. 74. Swan commented that \"Whether or not *Twilight: 2000* becomes a standard remains to be seen, but it certainly fills a niche and does so successfully; I hope it finds an audience with role-players and wargamers a... | 661 | Twilight: 2000 | 3 |
31,386 | # Technical and further education
**Technical and further education** or simply **TAFE** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|eɪ|f}}`{=mediawiki}) is the common name in Australia for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education. TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses. Colloquially also known ... | 488 | Technical and further education | 0 |
31,386 | # Technical and further education
## TAFE colleges by state/territory {#tafe_colleges_by_stateterritory}
In most cases, TAFE campuses are grouped into TAFE institutions or *institutes* along geographic lines. Most TAFEs are given a locally recognised region of the country where they exclusively operate covering a wid... | 640 | Technical and further education | 1 |
31,392 | # Tasmanian devil
The **Tasmanian devil** (***Sarcophilus harrisii***; palawa kani: *purinina*) is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It was formerly present across mainland Australia, but became extinct there around 3,500 years ago; it is now confined to the island of Tasmania. The size of a small dog,... | 429 | Tasmanian devil | 0 |
31,392 | # Tasmanian devil
## Taxonomy
Believing it to be a type of opossum, naturalist George Harris wrote the first published description of the Tasmanian devil in 1807, naming it *Didelphis ursina*, due to its bearlike characteristics such as the round ear. He had earlier made a presentation on the topic at the Zoological ... | 804 | Tasmanian devil | 1 |
31,392 | # Tasmanian devil
## Taxonomy
### Genetics
The Tasmanian devil\'s genome was sequenced in 2010 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Like all dasyurids, the devil has 14 chromosomes. Devils have a low genetic diversity compared to other Australian marsupials and placental carnivores; this is consistent with a found... | 481 | Tasmanian devil | 2 |
31,392 | # Tasmanian devil
## Description
The Tasmanian devil is the largest surviving carnivorous marsupial. It has a squat, thick build, with a large head and a tail which is about half its body length. Unusually for a marsupial, its forelegs are slightly longer than its hind legs, and devils can run up to 13 km/h for short... | 795 | Tasmanian devil | 3 |
31,392 | # Tasmanian devil
## Distribution and habitat {#distribution_and_habitat}
The Tasmanian devil was formerly present across mainland Australia, but became extinct there 3,500 years ago, co-incident with the extinction of the Thylacine from the region. A number of causal factors for the extinction have been proposed, in... | 487 | Tasmanian devil | 4 |
31,392 | # Tasmanian devil
## Ecology and behaviour {#ecology_and_behaviour}
The Tasmanian devil is a keystone species in the ecosystem of Tasmania. It is a nocturnal and crepuscular hunter, spending the days in dense bush or in a hole. It has been speculated that nocturnalism may have been adopted to avoid predation by eagle... | 1,016 | Tasmanian devil | 5 |
31,392 | # Tasmanian devil
## Ecology and behaviour {#ecology_and_behaviour}
### Feeding
Tasmanian devils can take prey up to the size of a small kangaroo, but in practice they are opportunistic and eat carrion more often than they hunt live prey. Although the devil favours wombats because of the ease of predation and high fa... | 1,524 | Tasmanian devil | 6 |
31,392 | # Tasmanian devil
## Ecology and behaviour {#ecology_and_behaviour}
### Reproduction
Females start to breed when they reach sexual maturity, typically in their second year. At this point, they become fertile once a year, producing multiple ova while in heat. As prey is most abundant in spring and early summer, the de... | 1,188 | Tasmanian devil | 7 |
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