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396639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20Man | Invisible Man | Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison's first novel, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early 20th century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. ... |
396698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing%E2%80%93Sikorsky%20RAH-66%20Comanche | Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche | The Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche is an American stealth armed reconnaissance and attack helicopter designed for the United States Army. Following decades of development, the RAH-66 program was canceled in 2004 before mass production began, by which point nearly US$7 billion had been spent on the program.
During the... |
396724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid | Amyloid | Amyloids are aggregates of proteins characterised by a fibrillar morphology of typically 7–13 nm in diameter, a β-sheet secondary structure (known as cross-β) and ability to be stained by particular dyes, such as Congo red. In the human body, amyloids have been linked to the development of various diseases. Pathogenic ... |
396727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Quebec | History of Quebec | Quebec was first called Canada between 1534 and 1763. It was the most developed colony of New France as well as New France's centre, responsible for a variety of dependencies (ex. Acadia, Plaisance, Louisiana, and the Pays d'en Haut). Common themes in Quebec's early history as Canada include the fur trade -because it w... |
396736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Nassau%20de%20Zuylestein%2C%204th%20Earl%20of%20Rochford | William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford | William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, KG, PC (17 September 1717 O.S. – 29 September 1781) was a British courtier, diplomat and statesman of Anglo-Dutch descent. He occupied senior ambassadorial posts at Madrid and Paris, and served as Secretary of State in both the Northern and Southern Departments.... |
396757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montego%20Bay | Montego Bay | Montego Bay is the capital of the parish of St. James in Jamaica. The city is the fourth-largest urban area in the country by population, after Kingston, Spanish Town, and Portmore, all of which form the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area, home to over half a million people. As a result, Montego Bay is the second-large... |
396803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Nowitzki | Dirk Nowitzki | Dirk Werner Nowitzki (, ; born June 19, 1978) is a German former professional basketball player who is a special advisor for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Listed at , he is widely regarded as one of the greatest power forwards of all time and is considered by many to be the greatest... |
396839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Mallory | Stephen Mallory | Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) was a Democratic senator from Florida from 1851 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs. It was a time of rapid naval reform, and he insisted that the ships... |
396903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Harley%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Oxford%20and%20Earl%20Mortimer | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English statesman and peer of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory ministry. He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Betwee... |
396957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalawag | Scalawag | In United States history, the term scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
As with the term carpetbagger, the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates... |
396968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20capture | Motion capture | Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, medical applications, and for validation of computer vision and robots. In filmmaking and video game development, it refers to recording actions... |
396996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Deathstrike | Lady Deathstrike | Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama), occasionally spelled Deathstryke, is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a foe of the X-Men, especially Wolverine.
Her father Lord Dark Wind created the adamantium-bonding process that was forced on Wolverine by Weapon X. A self-styled wa... |
397007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaneous%20squamous-cell%20carcinoma | Cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma | Cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma (cSCC), or squamous-cell carcinoma of the skin, also known as squamous-cell skin cancer, is, with basal-cell carcinoma and melanoma, one of the three principal types of skin cancer. cSCC typically presents as a hard lump with a scaly top layer, but it may instead form an ulcer. Onset o... |
397025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace%20of%20Base | Ace of Base | Ace of Base is a Swedish pop group, formed in 1990, originally consisting of siblings Jonas, Linn, and Jenny Berggren, with Ulf Ekberg.
They achieved worldwide success following the release of their debut album, Happy Nation in 1992. Later re-issued as The Sign, it was certified nine times platinum in the United State... |
397028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20Red | Omega Red | Omega Red is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. In 2009, Omega Red was ranked as IGN's 95th-greatest comic book villain of all time.
Publication history
Omega Red first appeared in X-Men #4 (vol. 2, January 1992), and was cr... |
397064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics%20%28Aristotle%29 | Poetics (Aristotle) | Aristotle's Poetics ( Peri poietikês; ; ) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In this text Aristotle offers an account of , which refers to poetry and more literally "the poetic art," deriving from the term for "poet; author; m... |
397066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery%20in%20Canada | Slavery in Canada | Slavery in Canada includes historical practices of enslavement practiced by both the First Nations during the pre-Columbian era, and by colonists during the period of European colonization.
Britain banned the institution of slavery in present-day Canada (and British colonies) in 1833, though the practice of slavery in... |
397111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/III%20Armored%20Corps | III Armored Corps | III Corps is a corps of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Cavazos, Texas. It is a major formation of the United States Army Forces Command.
Activated in World War I in France, III Corps oversaw US Army divisions as they repelled several major German offensives and led them into Germany. The corps was deacti... |
397114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C5%ABma%20Eli%C5%A1 | Enūma Eliš | (Akkadian Cuneiform: , also spelled "Enuma Elish") Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words). It was recovered by English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq). A form of the myth was first published by English Assyr... |
397161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordhausen%2C%20Thuringia | Nordhausen, Thuringia | Nordhausen () is a city in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Nordhausen district and the urban centre of northern Thuringia and the southern Harz region; its population is 42,000. Nordhausen is located approximately north of Erfurt, west of Halle, south of Braunschweig and east of Göttingen.
Nordhausen ... |
397216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903%20Springfield | M1903 Springfield | The M1903 Springfield, officially the United States Rifle, Caliber .30-06, Model 1903, is an American five-round magazine-fed, bolt-action service repeating rifle, used primarily during the first half of the 20th century.
The M1903 was first used in combat during the Philippine–American War, and it was officially adop... |
397245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeracy | Numeracy | Numeracy is the ability to understand, reason with, and to apply simple numerical concepts. The charity National Numeracy states: "Numeracy means understanding how mathematics is used in the real world and being able to apply it to make the best possible decisions...It’s as much about thinking and reasoning as about 'd... |
397246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%20Lanka%20national%20cricket%20team | Sri Lanka national cricket team | The Sri Lanka men's national cricket team, (; ) nicknamed The Lions, represents Sri Lanka in men's international cricket. It is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International (T20I) status. The team first played international cricket (as Ceylon) in ... |
397263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss | Truss | A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure.
In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". A "two-force member" is a structural comp... |
397266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanath%20Jayasuriya | Sanath Jayasuriya | Deshabandu Sanath Teran Jayasuriya (, ; born 30 June 1969), is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever to play the game. A left arm opening batsman, an orthodox spinner and a dynamic fielder, Jayasuriya together with his opening partner Romesh Kaluwitharana is credi... |
397272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szeged | Szeged | Szeged ( , ; see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary.
The Szeged Open Air (Theatre) Festival ... |
397292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Baudin | Nicolas Baudin | Nicolas Thomas Baudin (; 17 February 175416 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer, most notable for his explorations in Australia and the southern Pacific. He carried a few corms of Gros Michel banana from Southeast Asia, depositing them at a botanical garden on the Caribbean ... |
397295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative%20Party | Co-operative Party | The Co-operative Party () is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom, supporting co-operative values and principles. Established in 1917, the Co-operative Party was founded by co-operative societies to campaign politically for the fairer treatment of co-operative enterprise and to elect 'co-operators' to Pa... |
397310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogville | Dogville | Dogville is a 2003 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating. It is a parable that ... |
397335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Party%20%28Hong%20Kong%29 | Democratic Party (Hong Kong) | The Democratic Party (DP) is a centre-left liberal political party in Hong Kong. Chaired by Lo Kin-hei, it is the flagship party in the pro-democracy camp and currently has seven elected representatives in the District Councils.
The party was established in 1994 in a merger of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and Mee... |
397360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton%20Gang | Dalton Gang | The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 1890–1892. It was also known as The Dalton Brothers because four of its members were brothers. The gang specialized in bank and train robberies. During an attempted double bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, two of the brothers and two othe... |
397390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom%20bracket | Bottom bracket | The bottom bracket on a bicycle connects the crankset (chainset) to the bicycle and allows the crankset to rotate freely. It contains a spindle to which the crankset attaches, and the bearings that allow the spindle and crankset to rotate. The chainrings and pedals attach to the cranks. Bottom bracket bearings fit insi... |
397392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20Trading%20Card%20Game | The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game | The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game (a.k.a. LOTR TCG) is an out-of-print collectible card game produced by Decipher, Inc. Released November 2001, it is based on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and the J. R. R. Tolkien novel on which the films were based. Decipher also had the rights to The Hobbit... |
397405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne%20Kyger | Joanne Kyger | Joanne Kyger (November 19, 1934 – March 22, 2017) was an American poet. The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New York School.
Although Kyger is often characterized as a prominent female Beat p... |
397430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Hellenic%20Educational%20Progressive%20Association | American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association | The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA, usually referred to as the Order of AHEPA) is a fraternal organization founded on July 26, 1922, in Atlanta, Georgia. AHEPA was founded to fight for civil rights and against discrimination, bigotry, and hatred felt at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. It is... |
397490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%20Zangwill | Israel Zangwill | Israel Zangwill (14 February 18641 August 1926; birth date sometimes given as 21 January 1864) was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and became the prime thinker behi... |
397525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20and%20technology%20in%20Israel | Science and technology in Israel | Science and technology in Israel is one of the country's most developed sectors. Israel spent 4.3% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on civil research and development in 2015, the highest ratio in the world. In 2019, Israel was ranked the world's fifth most innovative country by the Bloomberg Innovation Index. It ran... |
397559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride%20Fighting%20Championships | Pride Fighting Championships | PRIDE Fighting Championships (Pride or Pride FC, founded as KRS-Pride) was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion company. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. Pride held more than sixty mixed martial arts events, broadcast to about 40 countries worldwide. PRIDE was owned by the holding ... |
397567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku%E2%80%93Tbilisi%E2%80%93Ceyhan%20pipeline | Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline | The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, via Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. It is the sec... |
397574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember%20the%20Titans | Remember the Titans | Remember the Titans is a 2000 American biographical sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. The screenplay, written by Gregory Allen Howard, is based on the true story of coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate the T. C. Williams High School (now Al... |
397586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Blatchford | Robert Blatchford | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford (17 March 1851 – 17 December 1943) was an English socialist campaigner, journalist, and author in the United Kingdom. He was also noted as a prominent atheist, nationalist and opponent of eugenics. In the early 1920s, after the death of his wife, he turned towards spiritualism.
Early l... |
397601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Richard%20Orage | Alfred Richard Orage | Alfred Richard Orage (22 January 1873 – 6 November 1934) was a British influential figure in socialist politics and modernist culture, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age before the First World War. While he was working as a schoolteacher in Leeds he pursued various interests, including Plato, the Indep... |
397689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral%20reasoning | Moral reasoning | Moral reasoning is the study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral rules. It is a subdiscipline of moral psychology that overlaps with moral philosophy, and is the foundation of descriptive ethics.
Description
Starting from a young age, people can make moral decisions about wh... |
397713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darts | Darts | Darts or dart-throwing is a competitive sport in which two or more players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed missiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard.
Points can be scored by hitting specific marked areas of the board, though unlike in sports such as archery, these areas are distributed all... |
397753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Texas%20Chainsaw%20Massacre%202 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (also known as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2) is a 1986 American black comedy slasher film co-composed and directed by Tobe Hooper and written by L. M. Kit Carson. It is the sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and the second installment in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre film se... |
397763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field%20communication | Near-field communication | Near-field communication (NFC) is a set of communication protocols that enables communication between two electronic devices over a distance of 4 cm (1.57 in) or less. NFC offers a low-speed connection through a simple setup that can be used to bootstrap more capable wireless connections. Like other "proximity card" te... |
397789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20%28surname%29 | Gordon (surname) | Gordon is a surname with numerous origins. The masculine given name Gordon is derived from the surname.
Origin of the surname
The Scottish surname Gordon may be derived from several locations. One possibility is from Gordon, in Berwickshire. Another possibility is from a similarly named place in Normandy. The English ... |
397810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20McQueen | Alexander McQueen | Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), a... |
397842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maned%20wolf | Maned wolf | The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is a large canine of South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay, and is almost extinct in Uruguay. Its markings resemble those of foxes, but it is neither a fox nor a wolf. It is the only species in the genus Chrysocyon (meaning "golden dog").
It... |
397917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda%20model | Propaganda model | The propaganda model is a conceptual model in political economy advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky to explain how propaganda and systemic biases function in corporate mass media. The model seeks to explain how populations are manipulated and how consent for economic, social, and political policies, both fore... |
397920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion%20of%20the%20Acadians | Expulsion of the Acadians | The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation, and the Deportation of the Acadians ( or ), was the forced removal, by the British, of inhabitants of parts of a Canadian-American region historically known as Acadia, between 1755 and 1764. The area included t... |
397970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wye%20%28rail%29 | Wye (rail) | In railroad structures, and rail terminology, a wye (like the 'Y' glyph) or triangular junction (often shortened to just triangle) is a triangular joining arrangement of three rail lines with a railroad switch (set of points) at each corner connecting to the incoming lines. A turning wye is a specific case.
Where two... |
397982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/369th%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28United%20States%29 | 369th Infantry Regiment (United States) | The 369th Infantry Regiment, originally formed as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment before being re-organized as the 369th upon federalization and commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard during World War I and World War II. The regiment consi... |
397986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail%20%28anatomy%29 | Nail (anatomy) | A nail is a protective plate characteristically found at the tip of the digits (fingers and toes) of all primates, corresponding to the claws in other tetrapod animals. Fingernails and toenails are made of a tough rigid protein called alpha-keratin, a polymer also found in the claws, hooves and horns of vertebrates.
S... |
397987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Wilkinson | James Wilkinson | James Wilkinson (March 24, 1757 – December 28, 1825) was an American soldier, politician, and double agent who was associated with several scandals and controversies.
He served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, but he was twice compelled to resign. He was twice the Senior Officer of the U.... |
398027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essaouira | Essaouira | Essaouira ( ; ; , formerly Amegdul), known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It has 77,966 inhabitants as of 2014.
The foundation of the city of Essaouira was the work of the Moroccan 'Alawid sultan Mohammed bin Abdallah, who made an ori... |
398028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20%28memoir%29 | Night (memoir) | Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about his loss of faith and... |
398036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan%20Dalet | Plan Dalet | Plan Dalet (, Tokhnit dalet 'Plan D') was a Zionist military plan executed in the civil war phase of the 1948 Palestine war for the conquest of territory in Mandatory Palestine in preparation for the establishment of a Jewish state. The plan was requested by the Jewish Agency leader David Ben-Gurion and developed by th... |
398081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meknes | Meknes | Meknes (, ; ; ) is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, located in northern central Morocco and the sixth largest city by population in the kingdom. Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became the capital of Morocco under the reign of Sultan Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727), so... |
398124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptional%20regulation | Transcriptional regulation | In molecular biology and genetics, transcriptional regulation is the means by which a cell regulates the conversion of DNA to RNA (transcription), thereby orchestrating gene activity. A single gene can be regulated in a range of ways, from altering the number of copies of RNA that are transcribed, to the temporal contr... |
398165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Shaw%20%28actor%29 | Sebastian Shaw (actor) | Sebastian Lewis Shaw (29 May 1905 – 23 December 1994) was an English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions.
Shaw was born and brought up in Holt, Norfolk, and made his acting debut ... |
398166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Shaw%20%28character%29 | Sebastian Shaw (character) | Sebastian Hiram Shaw is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He has been frequently depicted as an adversary of the X-Men.
A mutant, Shaw possesses the ability to absorb energy and transform it into his own raw strength. He is the leader of the New York branch of the Hellfire Cl... |
398191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20aircraft%20engines | List of aircraft engines | This is an alphabetical list of aircraft engines by manufacturer.
0–9
2si
2si 215
2si 230
2si 430
2si 460
2si 500
2si 540
2si 690
3W
Source: RMV
3W 106iB2
3W-110
3W-112
3W-170
3W-210
3W-220
A
Abadal (Francisco Serramalera Abadal)
Abadal Y-12 350/400 hp
ABC
Source: Lumsden.
ABC 8 hp
ABC 30 hp V-4
ABC ... |
398198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%20T%20Davies | Russell T Davies | Stephen Russell Davies (born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the BBC One science fiction franchise Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Cucumber... |
398230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen%20Rider%20%281971%20TV%20series%29 | Kamen Rider (1971 TV series) | is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series and weekly science fiction manga created by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. The original airing consisted of a total of 98 episodes and were broadcast from April 3, 1971, to February 10, 1973, on Mainichi Broadcasting System and NET (now TV Asahi). The manga adaptati... |
398236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20railway%20history | Timeline of railway history |
Antiquity
– A basic form of the railway, the rutway, – existed in ancient Greek and Roman times, the most important being the ship trackway Diolkos across the Isthmus of Corinth. Measuring between 6 and 8.5 km, remaining in regular and frequent service for at least 650 years, and being open to all on payment, it ... |
398246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood%20Anderson | Sherwood Anderson | Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to aban... |
398277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%20sports | Professional sports | In professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, participants receive payment for their performance. Professionalism in sport has come to the fore through a combination of developments. Mass media and increased leisure have brought larger audiences, so that sports organizations or teams can command large incomes. ... |
398318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20sport | History of sport | The history of sports extends back to the Ancient world in 70,000 BCE. The physical activity that developed into sports had early links with warfare and entertainment.
Study of the history of sport can teach lessons about social changes and about the nature of sport itself, as sport seems involved in the development o... |
398338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracie%20Fields | Gracie Fields | Dame Gracie Fields (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 189827 September 1979) was an English actress, singer, comedian and star of cinema and music hall who was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. She was known affectionately as Ou... |
398356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate%20social%20responsibility | Corporate social responsibility | Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in, with, or supporting professional service volunteering through pro bono programs, comm... |
398363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire%20Club%20%28comics%29 | Hellfire Club (comics) | The Hellfire Club is a fictional society appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Hellfire Club often comes into confrontation with the mutant superhero team, the X-Men. Although the Club appears to merely be an international social club for wealthy elites, its clandestine Inner Circle seeks t... |
398397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Naval%20Infantry | Russian Naval Infantry | The Russian Naval Infantry (), often referred to as Russian Marines in the West, operate as the naval infantry of the Russian Navy. Established in 1705, they are capable of conducting amphibious operations as well as operating as more traditional light infantry.
The Naval Infantry also fields the Russian Navy's only s... |
398452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic%20literature | Erotic literature | Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar feelings in readers. This contrasts erotica, which focuses more specifically on sexual feelings. Other common elements are satire and social criticism. Much erotic lit... |
398459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual%20giftedness | Intellectual giftedness | Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is a characteristic of children, variously defined, that motivates differences in school programming. It is thought to persist as a trait into adult life, with various consequences studied in longitudinal studies of giftedness over... |
398478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit%C3%A9%20catholique%20de%20Louvain | Université catholique de Louvain | UCLouvain or Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, which was expressly built to house th... |
398489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism | Sectarianism | Sectarianism is a political, cultural, or religious conflict between two groups. Prejudice, discrimination, exclusion, or hatred can arise in these conflicts, depending on the political status quo and if one group holds more power within the government. Often, not all members of these groups are engaged in the conflict... |
398528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waddesdon%20Manor | Waddesdon Manor | Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. Owned by the National Trust and managed by the Rothschild Foundation, it is one of the National Trust's most visited properties, with over 463,000 visitors in 2019.
The Grade I listed house was built in a mostly Neo-Renaissanc... |
398561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20anaesthesia | General anaesthesia | General anaesthesia (UK) or general anesthesia (US) is a method of medically inducing loss of consciousness that renders a patient unarousable even with painful stimuli. This effect is achieved by administering either intravenous or inhalational general anaesthetic medications, which often act in combination with an an... |
398585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srivijaya | Srivijaya | Srivijaya () was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra (in modern-day Indonesia), which influenced much of Southeast Asia. Srivijaya was an important centre for the expansion of Buddhism from the 7th to the 11th century AD. Srivijaya was the first polity to dominate much of western Maritime So... |
398603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semang | Semang | The Semang are an ethnic-minority group of the Malay Peninsula. They live in mountainous and isolated forest regions of Perak, Pahang, Kelantan and Kedah of Malaysia and the southern provinces of Thailand. The Semang are among the different ethnic groups of Southeast Asia who, based on their dark skin and other perceiv... |
398631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Fantasy%20X-2 | Final Fantasy X-2 | is a 2003 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation 2. Unlike most Final Fantasy games, which use self-contained stories and characters, X-2 continues the story of Final Fantasy X (2001). The story follows Yuna as she searches for Tidus, the main character of the previous game, while... |
398638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeochemical%20cycle | Biogeochemical cycle | A biogeochemical cycle, or more generally a cycle of matter, is the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earth's crust. Major biogeochemical cycles include the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the water cycle. In each cycle, the chemical el... |
398640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel%2C%20Isle%20of%20Man | Peel, Isle of Man | Peel ( – Port of the Island) is a seaside town and small fishing port in the Isle of Man, in the historic parish of German but administered separately. Peel is the third largest town in the island after Douglas and Ramsey but the fourth largest settlement, as Onchan has the second largest population but is classified a... |
398679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanas%20Smetona | Antanas Smetona | Antanas Smetona (; 10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and the first President of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1926 to 1940, before its occupation by the Soviet Union. In the second of these periods, he ruled as a dictator. He was one of the most important Lithuanian... |
398696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20Parliament | Croatian Parliament | The Croatian Parliament () or the Sabor is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Croatia. Under the terms of the Croatian Constitution, the Sabor represents the people and is vested with legislative power. The Sabor is composed of 151 members elected to a four-year term on the basis of direct, universal and equ... |
398710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Nelson%20%28musician%29 | Bill Nelson (musician) | William Nelson (born 18 December 1948) is an English singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician. He rose to prominence as the chief songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the rock group Be-Bop Deluxe, which he formed in 1972. Nelson has been described as "one of the... |
398743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Jackson%20Hooker | William Jackson Hooker | Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botanic garden. At Kew he founded the Herbarium and enlarged the gardens and arboretum.
Hooker was bo... |
398837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren%20Hayes | Darren Hayes | Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is an Australian singer, songwriter, music producer and composer. He was the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden until their disbandment. Their 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at number 1 in Australia, number 2 in the United Kingdom and number 3 in the United States. ... |
398862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Arsenal | Royal Arsenal | The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich is an establishment on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, that was used for the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces. It was originally known as the Woolwich Warren, having begun on... |
398872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCO%20Ercoupe | ERCO Ercoupe | The ERCO Ercoupe is an American low-wing monoplane aircraft that was first flown in 1937. It was originally manufactured by the Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) shortly before World War II; several other manufacturers continued its production after the war. The final model, the Mooney M-10, first flew in 196... |
398883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20%28music%29 | Canon (music) | In music, a canon is a contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g., quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the imitative melody, which is played in a diffe... |
398887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Wilhelm%20von%20Seydlitz | Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz | Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz (3 February 1721 – 8 November 1773) was a Prussian officer, lieutenant general, and among the greatest of the Prussian cavalry generals. He commanded one of the first Hussar squadrons of Frederick the Great's army and is credited with the development of the Prussian cavalry to i... |
398890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujranwala | Gujranwala | Gujranwala (Punjabi/; ) is a city and capital of Gujranwala Division located in Pakistan. It is also known as "City of Wrestlers" and is quite famous for its food. It is the 5th most populous city proper after Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi respectively. Founded in the 18th century, Gujranwala is a relative... |
398904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renovationism | Renovationism | Renovationism (; from 'renovation, renewal') – also called Renovated Church (обновленческая церковь) or by metonymy the Living Church (Живая Церковь) –, officially named Orthodox Russian Church (Православная Российская Церковь), and later Orthodox Church in the USSR (Православная Церковь в СССР), was a religious movem... |
398943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaken%20baby%20syndrome | Shaken baby syndrome | Shaken baby syndrome (SBS), also known as abusive head trauma (AHT), is a medical condition in children younger than five years old, generally caused by blunt trauma, vigorous shaking, or a combination of both. SBS is the leading cause of fatal head injuries in children under two, with a risk of death of about 25%. The... |
398946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20of%20Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie; 10 March 1776 – 19 July 1810) was Queen of Prussia as the wife of King Frederick William III. The couple's happy, though short-lived, marriage produced nine children, including the future monarchs Frederick William IV of Prussia and Wilhelm I, German Empe... |
398953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Seattle%20%281940%E2%80%93present%29 | History of Seattle (1940–present) | History of Seattle, Washington from 1940 to the present
WWII and the Boeing era: 1945–1970
From World War II until 1970, Seattle underwent what amounted to a long, sustained economic boom, although not without occasional reverses. Boeing was hiring, the economy was booming, and while there had been no successful regio... |
398969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Seattle%20before%201900 | History of Seattle before 1900 | Two conflicting perspectives exist for the early history of Seattle. There is the "establishment" view, which favors the centrality of the Denny Party (generally the Denny, Mercer, Terry, and Boren families), and Henry Yesler. A second, less didactic view, advanced particularly by historian Bill Speidel and others such... |
399009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Gyllenhaal | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal (; born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
She began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's fil... |
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