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394430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Bruford | Bill Bruford | William Scott Bruford (born 17 May 1949) is an English former drummer and percussionist who first gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. After leaving Yes in 1972, Bruford spent the rest of the 1970s recording and touring with King Crimson (1972–1974), Roy Harper (1975), and U.K. (1978... |
394434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT%20slang | LGBT slang | LGBT slang, LGBT speak, queer slang, or gay slang is a set of English slang lexicon used predominantly among LGBTQ+ people. It has been used in various languages since the early 20th century as a means by which members of the LGBTQ+ community identify themselves and speak in code with brevity and speed to others. The a... |
394436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20Return | Law of Return | The Law of Return (, ḥok ha-shvūt) is an Israeli law, passed on 5 July 1950, which gives Jews, people with one or more Jewish grandparent, and their spouses the right to relocate to Israel and acquire Israeli citizenship. Section 1 of the Law of Return declares that "every Jew has the right to come to this country as a... |
394464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%E2%80%93sulfur%20world%20hypothesis | Iron–sulfur world hypothesis | The iron–sulfur world hypothesis is a set of proposals for the origin of life and the early evolution of life advanced in a series of articles between 1988 and 1992 by Günter Wächtershäuser, a Munich patent lawyer with a degree in chemistry, who had been encouraged and supported by philosopher Karl R. Popper to publish... |
394493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Goldsmith | Jerry Goldsmith | Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Papi... |
394514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shih%20Ming-teh | Shih Ming-teh | Shih Ming-teh (; born 15 January 1941) commonly known as Nori Shih, is a statesman and human rights defender in Taiwan and was once a political prisoner for 25-and-a-half years.
Arrested at the age of 21 in 1962 and charged with creating the "Taiwan Independence League" (a study group) with the intention of overthrowi... |
394524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance%20Markievicz | Constance Markievicz | Constance Georgine Markievicz ( ; Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, and the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament, and was elected Minister for Labour in the First... |
394536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal%20Affairs | Infernal Affairs | Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong action thriller film co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. Jointly written by Mak and Felix Chong, it stars Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen. The film follows an undercover Hong Kong Police Force officer who infiltrates a Triad, and anothe... |
394583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe%20I%2C%20Duke%20of%20Orl%C3%A9ans | Philippe I, Duke of Orléans | Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701), was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His elder brother was the "Sun King", Louis XIV. Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans upon the death of his uncle Gaston in 1660. In 1661, h... |
394589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81vila | Ávila | Ávila ( , , ) is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila.
It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m above sea level, the city is the highest provincial capital in Spain.
Distincti... |
394633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggaeton | Reggaeton | Reggaeton (, ), also known as reggaetón and reguetón (), is a style of popular and electronic music that originated in Panama during the late 1980s. It was later popularized in Puerto Rico.
It has evolved from dancehall, with elements of hip hop, Latin American, and Caribbean music. Vocals include toasting/rapping and... |
394670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harju%20County | Harju County | Harju County ( or Harjumaa), is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in Northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the southeast, Rapla County to the south, and Lääne County to the southwest. The capital and largest city o... |
394710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced%20demand | Induced demand | In economics, induced demand – related to latent demand and generated demand – is the phenomenon whereby an increase in supply results in a decline in price and an increase in consumption. In other words, as a good or service becomes more readily available and mass produced, its price goes down and consumers are more l... |
394739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Prentice | Jim Prentice | Peter Eric James Prentice (July 20, 1956 – October 13, 2016) was a Canadian politician who served as the 16th premier of Alberta from 2014 to 2015. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was re-elected in the 2006 federal ele... |
394756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels%20in%20America | Angels in America | Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The two parts of the play, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, may be presented separately. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama De... |
394770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Kahn%20%28architect%29 | Albert Kahn (architect) | Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 – December 8, 1942) was an American industrial architect. He was accredited as being an architect of Detroit and also designed industrial plant complexes such as the Ford River Rouge automobile complex. He designed the construction of Detroit skyscrapers and office buildings as well as mansi... |
394775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20poets | Language poets | The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine of that name) are an avant-garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The poets included: Bernadette Mayer, Leslie Scalapino, Stephen Rodefer, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Barrett Wat... |
394815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced%20species | Introduced species | An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accide... |
394821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock%20University | Brock University | Brock University is a public research university in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is the only university in Canada in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, at the centre of Canada's Niagara Peninsula on the Niagara Escarpment. The university bears the name of Maj.-General Sir Isaac Brock, who was responsible for defending ... |
394889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist%20Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20of%20Latter-Day%20Saints | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) is a religious sect of the fundamentalist Mormon denominations whose members practice polygamy. It is estimated that 6,000 to 10,000 members reside in Hildale, Utah; Rocky Ridge, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona (raided); Eldorado, Texas (rai... |
394901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20University%20of%20New%20York%20at%20Purchase | State University of New York at Purchase | The State University of New York at Purchase, commonly referred to as Purchase College or SUNY Purchase, is a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York. Established in 1967 by Governor Nelson Rockefeller, SUNY Purchase is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
Histo... |
394924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian%20Airlines | Ethiopian Airlines | Ethiopian Airlines (commonly referred to as Ethiopian; ), formerly Ethiopian Air Lines (EAL), is the flag carrier of Ethiopia, and is wholly owned by the country's government. EAL was founded on 21 December 1945 and commenced operations on 8 April 1946, expanding to international flights in 1951. The firm became a shar... |
394938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellarmine%20University | Bellarmine University | {{Infobox university
|name = Bellarmine University
|image = Seal-bellarmine.png
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|former_name = Bellarmine College (1950–2000)
|motto = In Veritatis Amore
|mottoeng = In the Love of Truth
|established =
|type = Private univ... |
394969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil%20Wickremesinghe | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Ranil Wickremesinghe (born March 24, 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the 9th and current President of Sri Lanka. He also holds several ministerial positions, including the Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment.
Wickremesingh... |
394970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Chivington | John Chivington | John Milton Chivington (January 27, 1821 – October 4, 1894) was a Methodist pastor, and Mason who served as a colonel in the United States Volunteers during the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War. He led a rear action against a Confederate supply train in the Battle of Glorieta Pass, and was then appointed a... |
394985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafic%20Hariri | Rafic Hariri | Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005), or Rafiq al-Hariri, was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation on .
Hariri headed five cabinets during his tenure. He was widely credited ... |
394992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim%20leader%20%28Canada%29 | Interim leader (Canada) | An interim leader, in Canadian politics, is a party leader appointed by the party's legislative caucus or the party's executive to temporarily act as leader when a gap occurs between the resignation or death of a party leader and the election of their formal successor. Usually a party leader retains the leadership unti... |
394998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antakya | Antakya | Antakya (; Local Turkish: Anteke), modern form of Antioch (; ; ), is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 703 km2, and its population is 399,045 (2022). It is the capital of Hatay Province, the southernmost province of Turkey. The city is located in a well-watered and fertile valley on the... |
395009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Fenech%20Adami | Eddie Fenech Adami | Edoardo "Eddie" Fenech Adami, (born 7 February 1934) is a Maltese politician and Nationalist politician who served as the prime minister of Malta from 1987 until 1996, and again from 1998 until 2004. Subsequently, he was the seventh president of Malta from 2004 to 2009. He led his party to win four general elections, ... |
395021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think%20Tank%20%28Blur%20album%29 | Think Tank (Blur album) | Think Tank is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Blur, released on 5 May 2003. Continuing the jam-based studio constructions of the group's previous album, 13 (1999), the album expanded on the use of sampled rhythm loops and brooding, heavy electronic sounds. There are also heavy influences from dance mu... |
395095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20libraries | List of libraries | This is an alphabetical list of notable libraries around the world. It includes both notable public lending libraries and research libraries.
Alphabetical
A
Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
African Heritage Research Library and Cultural Centre, Adeyipo Village, Ibadan, Nigeria
Alexandria Library, Alexand... |
395130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Slovakia | Education in Slovakia | Education in Slovakia consists of a free education system based on 10 years of compulsory school attendance.
General characteristics
Most schools, especially universities, are owned by the state, though since the 1990s there are also church-owned and private schools (see Statistics section).
Slovakia has 10 years of ... |
395136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20defense%20force | State defense force | In the United States, state defense forces (SDFs) are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government. State defense forces are authorized by state and federal law and are under the command of the governor of each state , , .
State defense forces are distinct from their state's National Guar... |
395145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvar%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez%20Cabeza%20de%20Vaca | Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (; 1488/90/92 after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting w... |
395175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedmen%27s%20Bureau | Freedmen's Bureau | The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was an agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South. It was established on March 3, 1865, and operated briefly as a U.S. government agency, from 1865 to 1872, after the American Civil War, to d... |
395191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20fiction%20convention | Science fiction convention | A science fiction convention is a gathering of fans of science fiction. Historically, science fiction conventions had focused primarily on literature, but the purview of many extends to such other avenues of expression as films, television, comics, animation, and games. The format can vary but will tend to have a few s... |
395207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucows | Tucows | Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of three independent businesses: Tucows Domains, Ting Internet, and Wavelo.
Originally founded in 1993... |
395218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20introduced%20species | List of introduced species | A complete list of introduced species for even quite small areas of the world would be dauntingly long. Humans have introduced more different species to new environments than any single document can record. This list is generally for established species with truly wild populations— not kept domestically—that have been ... |
395237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Simon%20%28politician%29 | Paul Simon (politician) | Paul Martin Simon (November 29, 1928 – December 9, 2003) was an American author and politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and in the United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he unsuccessfully ran for the 1988 Democratic presi... |
395259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing%20invasion%20of%20Joseon | Qing invasion of Joseon | The Qing invasion of Joseon () occurred in the winter of 1636 when the newly established Qing dynasty invaded the Joseon dynasty, establishing the former's status as the hegemon in the Imperial Chinese Tributary System and formally severing Joseon's relationship with the Ming dynasty. The invasion was preceded by the L... |
395272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peja%20Stojakovi%C4%87 | Peja Stojaković | Predrag Stojaković (, ; born 9 June 1977), known by his nickname Peja (Peđa, Пеђа, ), is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player who was most recently the assistant general manager and director of player personnel and development of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA)... |
395299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint%2C%20Brooklyn | Greenpoint, Brooklyn | Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the n... |
395328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine%20Lodge%20Treaty | Medicine Lodge Treaty | The Medicine Lodge Treaty is the overall name for three treaties signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the Federal government of the United States and southern Plains Indian tribes in October 1867, intended to bring peace to the area by relocating the Native Americans to reservations in Indian Territory and away ... |
395365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasi%20lemak | Nasi lemak | Nasi lemak is a dish originating in Malay cuisine that consists of fragrant rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf. It is commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered as the national dish. It is also a native dish in neighbouring areas with significant ethnic Malay populations such as Singapore and Southern ... |
395375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated%20carbon | Activated carbon | Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon commonly used to filter contaminants from water and air, among many other uses. It is processed (activated) to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption (which is not the same as absorption) or chemical reac... |
395427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20National%20Exhibition | Canadian National Exhibition | The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Exhibition or The Ex, is an annual event that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the third Friday of August leading up to and including Labour Day, the first Monday in September. With approximately 1.5 million visitors each year, the... |
395477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise%20physiology | Exercise physiology | Exercise physiology is the physiology of physical exercise. It is one of the allied health professions, and involves the study of the acute responses and chronic adaptations to exercise. Exercise physiologists are the highest qualified exercise professionals and utilise education, lifestyle intervention and specific fo... |
395496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle%20Heights%2C%20Los%20Angeles | Boyle Heights, Los Angeles | Boyle Heights, historically known as Paredón Blanco (Spanish for "White Bluff"), is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located east of the Los Angeles River. It is one of the city's most notable and historic Chicano/Mexican-American communities and is known as a bastion of Chicano culture, hosting cultural land... |
395510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Future | United Future | United Future New Zealand, usually known as United Future, was a centrist political party in New Zealand. The party was in government between 2005 and 2017, first alongside Labour (2005–2008) and then supporting National (2008–2017).
United Future was formed from the merger of the liberal party United New Zealand and ... |
395513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Oakley | Annie Oakley | Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio. At age 15, she won a shooting contest against an experienced marksman, Frank ... |
395538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair%20BASIC | Sinclair BASIC | Sinclair BASIC is a dialect of the programming language BASIC used in the 8-bit home computers from Sinclair Research, Timex Sinclair and Amstrad. The Sinclair BASIC interpreter was written by Nine Tiles Networks Ltd.
Designed to run in only 1 kB of RAM, the system makes a number of decisions to lower memory usage. Th... |
395544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Benyovszky | Maurice Benyovszky | Count Maurice Benyovszky de Benyó et Urbanó (; ; ; 20 September 1746 – 24 May 1786) was a renowned military officer, adventurer, and writer from the Kingdom of Hungary, who described himself as both a Hungarian and a Pole. He is considered a national hero in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.
Benyovszky was born and raise... |
395562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowen%2C%20Queensland | Bowen, Queensland | Bowen is a coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Bowen had a population of 10,377 people.
The locality contains two other towns:
Heronvale ()
Merinda ().
The Abbot Point coal shipping port is also within the locality ().
Geography
Bowen is located on th... |
395564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax%20noncompliance | Tax noncompliance | Tax noncompliance is a range of activities that are unfavorable to a government's tax system. This may include tax avoidance, which is tax reduction by legal means, and tax evasion which is the non-payment of tax liabilities. The use of the term "noncompliance" is used differently by different authors. Its most general... |
395673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage%20in%20the%20Catholic%20Church | Marriage in the Catholic Church | Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the... |
395674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Kerrey | Bob Kerrey | Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001. Before entering politics, he served in the Vietnam War as a United States Navy SEAL officer and was awarded the Medal of Hon... |
395736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Iommi | Tony Iommi | Anthony Frank Iommi Jr. (, ; born 19 February 1948) is an English-Italian musician. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's guitarist, leader and primary composer and sole continuous member for nearly five decades. Iommi was ranked number 13 in Rolling Stone magazine's 2023 list ... |
395781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%20%28album%29 | Boy (album) | Boy is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Steve Lillywhite and was released on 20 October 1980 by Island Records. Boy contains songs from the band's 40-song repertoire at the time, including two tracks that were re-recorded from their original versions on the group's debut release, the EP ... |
395799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Statesman | New Statesman | The New Statesman is a British political and cultural newsmagazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a foundi... |
395822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Knight%20in%20the%20Panther%27s%20Skin | The Knight in the Panther's Skin | The Knight in the Panther's Skin ( literally "the one with the skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th or 13th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli. A definitive work of the Georgian Golden Age, the poem consists of over 1600 Rustavelian Quatrains and is considered to be a... |
395823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newberry%20Volcano | Newberry Volcano | Newberry Volcano is a large active shield-shaped stratovolcano located about south of Bend, Oregon, United States, east of the major crest of the Cascade Range, within the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. Its highest point is Paulina Peak. The largest volcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, Newberry has an area of ... |
395830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Jefferson%20%28Oregon%29 | Mount Jefferson (Oregon) | Mount Jefferson is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, part of the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. The second highest mountain in Oregon, it is situated within Linn County, Jefferson County, and Marion County and forms part of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. Due to the ruggedness of its surroundings... |
395852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme%20Court%20of%20India | Supreme Court of India | The Supreme Court of India (Hindi: , IAST: Bhārat Kā Uccatam Nyāyālaya) is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India. It is the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India. It also has the power of judicial review. The Supreme Court, which consists of the Chief Ju... |
395877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histamine | Histamine | Histamine is an organic nitrogenous compound involved in local immune responses communication, as well as regulating physiological functions in the gut and acting as a neurotransmitter for the brain, spinal cord, and uterus. Since histamine was discovered in 1910, it has been considered a local hormone (autocoid) becau... |
395885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20algebraic%20group | Linear algebraic group | In mathematics, a linear algebraic group is a subgroup of the group of invertible matrices (under matrix multiplication) that is defined by polynomial equations. An example is the orthogonal group, defined by the relation where is the transpose of .
Many Lie groups can be viewed as linear algebraic groups over the... |
395888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton%20Woods%20system | Bretton Woods system | The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among the United States, Canada, Western European countries, and Australia among 44 other countries after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully negotiated monetary order i... |
395889 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan%20drug | Orphan drug | An orphan drug is a pharmaceutical agent that is developed to treat certain rare medical conditions. An orphan drug would not be profitable to produce without government assistance, due to the small population of patients affected by the conditions. The conditions that orphan drugs are used to treat are referred to as ... |
395906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Californian | SS Californian | SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship. She is thought to have been the only ship to see the Titanic, or at least her rockets, during the sinking, but despite being the closest ship in the area, the crew took no action to assist. The United States Senate inquiry and British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry int... |
395918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Geographical%20Society | Royal Geographical Society | The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 members, with its work reaching the public throug... |
395934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Academy%20of%20Sciences | French Academy of Sciences | The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, an... |
395943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Waldman | Anne Waldman | Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet.
Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outriders Poetry Project experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activist. She has also been connected to the Beat Generation po... |
395973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iligan | Iligan | Iligan, officially the City of Iligan (; Maranao: Bandar a Iligan; ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the region of Northern Mindanao, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 363,115 people.
It is geographically within the province of Lanao del Norte but administered independently fro... |
395976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symon%20Petliura | Symon Petliura | Symon Vasylyovych Petliura (; ; – 25 May 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of Independence, a part of the wider Russian Civil War.
Petliura was born to a family of Cossack ... |
395980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandong%20University | Shandong University | Shandong University (; SDU) is a public university located in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University Plan.
The oldest of Shandong University's precursor institutions, Cheeloo University,... |
396022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%20equations%20%28fluid%20dynamics%29 | Euler equations (fluid dynamics) | In fluid dynamics, the Euler equations are a set of quasilinear partial differential equations governing adiabatic and inviscid flow. They are named after Leonhard Euler. In particular, they correspond to the Navier–Stokes equations with zero viscosity and zero thermal conductivity.
The Euler equations can be applied ... |
396152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev%20Anand | Dev Anand | Dev Anand (born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011) was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema. Anand is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Through a career that spanned over six decades, h... |
396231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tale%20cohomology | Étale cohomology | In mathematics, the étale cohomology groups of an algebraic variety or scheme are algebraic analogues of the usual cohomology groups with finite coefficients of a topological space, introduced by Grothendieck in order to prove the Weil conjectures. Étale cohomology theory can be used to construct ℓ-adic cohomology, whi... |
396241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy | Banksy | Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling techn... |
396249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Plata | La Plata | La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the 2022 census, the Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from the southern shore of the estuary.
La Plata was planned ... |
396275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness | Wilderness | Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural) are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity, or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally referred to terrestrial environments, though growing attention is being placed ... |
396287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Order%20of%20Odd%20Fellows | Independent Order of Odd Fellows | The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political, non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Order of Odd Fellows founded in England during the 18th century, the IOOF was originally charter... |
396306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castletown%2C%20Isle%20of%20Man | Castletown, Isle of Man | Castletown (, pronounced ) is a town in the Isle of Man, geographically within the historical parish of Malew but administered separately. Lying at the south of the island, it was the Manx capital until 1869. The centre of town is dominated by Castle Rushen, a well-preserved medieval castle, originally built for a Vik... |
396320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix%20mechanics | Matrix mechanics | Matrix mechanics is a formulation of quantum mechanics created by Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan in 1925. It was the first conceptually autonomous and logically consistent formulation of quantum mechanics. Its account of quantum jumps supplanted the Bohr model's electron orbits. It did so by interpreti... |
396327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Ireland | Radio in the Republic of Ireland | Licensed radio broadcasting in Ireland is one element of the wider media of Ireland, with 85% of the population listening to a licensed radio broadcasting service on any given day.
History
Ireland As A Radio Pioneer
Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor and the father of long-distance radio transmission, had a sig... |
396334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Russia | United Russia | The All-Russian Political Party "United Russia" () is a conservative political party in Russia. As the largest party in the Russian Federation, it holds 325 (or 72.22%) of the 450 seats in the State Duma , having constituted the majority in the chamber since 2007. The party was formed on 1 December 2001 through a merge... |
396339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan%20Galtung | Johan Galtung | Johan Vincent Galtung (born 24 October 1930) is a Norwegian sociologist who is the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and served as its first director until 1970. He also established the Journal of Peace Research... |
396374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20political%20parties%20in%20Japan | List of political parties in Japan | In Japan, any organization that supports a candidate needs to register itself as a political party. Each of these parties have some local or national influence. This article lists political parties in Japan with representation in the National Diet, either in the House of Representatives (Japan's lower house) or in the ... |
396412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling | Changeling | A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found in folklore throughout Europe. A changeling was believed to be a fairy that had been left in place of a human (typically a child) stolen by other fairies.
Description
A changeling is typically identifiable via several traits, ... |
396443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage%20Islands | Savage Islands | The Savage Islands or Selvagens Islands ( ; also known as the Salvage Islands) are a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Madeira, and north of the Canary Islands. The archipelago includes two major islands, Selvagem Grande and Selvagem Pequena, each surrounded by a cluster of islets an... |
396454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20von%20Laue | Max von Laue | Max Theodor Felix von Laue (; 9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
In addition to his scientific endeavors with contributions in optics, crystallography, quantum theory, superconductivity, and ... |
396459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Henry%20Bragg | William Henry Bragg | Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". The mineral Braggit... |
396462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party%20of%20the%20Democratic%20Revolution | Party of the Democratic Revolution | The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, , ) is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The PRD was formed after the contested general election in 1988, which the PRD's immedia... |
396465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUNY%20Graduate%20Center | CUNY Graduate Center | The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and postgraduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, The CUNY Graduate Center is classi... |
396500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willenhall | Willenhall | Willenhall is a historic market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England, with a population taken at the 2011 census of 28,480. It is situated between Wolverhampton and Walsall, historically in the county of Staffordshire. It lies upon the River Tame, and is part of th... |
396525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philokalia | Philokalia | The Philokalia (, from philia "love" and kallos "beauty") is "a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters" of the mystical hesychast tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They were originally written for the guidance and instruction of monks in "the practice of the contem... |
396530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaullist%20Party | Gaullist Party | In France, the term Gaullist Party is usually used to refer to the largest party professing to be Gaullist. Gaullism claims to transcend the left–right divide in a similar way to populist republican parties elsewhere such as Fianna Fáil in Republic of Ireland, the Justicialist Party in Argentina, and the African Nation... |
396547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzy%20Stradlin | Izzy Stradlin | Jeffrey Dean Isbell (born April 8, 1962), best known as Izzy Stradlin, is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and backing vocalist of the hard rock and heavy metal band Guns N' Roses, which he left at the height of their fame in 1991, and with whom he recorded four stud... |
396572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20pilot | Television pilot | A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge... |
396607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20%281978%20film%29 | The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) | The Lord of the Rings is a 1978 animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi from a screenplay by Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle. It is based on the novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien, adapting from the volumes The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
Set in Middle-earth, the film follows a group o... |
396631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Josephson | Brian Josephson | Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson effect, ma... |
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