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406609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20Us%2C%20the%20Living | For Us, the Living | For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was written in 1938 and published for the first time in 2003. Heinlein admirer and science fiction author Spider Robinson titled his introductory essay "RAH DNA", as he believes this first, unpublished novel f... |
406624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20series | Time series | In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Examples of time series are heights of ocean tides, counts of sunspots, and t... |
406634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20in%20Islam | Joseph in Islam | Yusuf (, ) is a prophet mentioned in the Quran and corresponds to Joseph, a person from the Hebrew and Christian Bible who was said to have lived in Egypt before the New Kingdom. Of Jacob's children, Joseph reportedly had the gift of prophecy. Although the narratives of other prophets are presented in a number of surah... |
406662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses%20in%20Islam | Moses in Islam | Mūsā ibn ʿImrān (, ) is an important prophet and messenger of God and is the most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, with his name being mentioned 136 times and his life being narrated and recounted more than that of any other prophet. He is one of the most important prophets and messengers of Islam.
Accord... |
406664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout%20cod | Trout cod | The trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis) or bluenose cod, is a large predatory freshwater fish of the genus Maccullochella and the family Percichthyidae, closely related to the Murray cod. It was originally widespread in the south-east corner of the Murray-Darling river system in Australia, but is now an endangered... |
406723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk%20County%2C%20Ontario | Norfolk County, Ontario | Norfolk County () is a rural single-tier municipality on the north shore of Lake Erie in Southwestern Ontario, Canada with a 2016 population of 67,490. Despite its name, it is no longer a county by definition, as all municipal services are handled by a single level of government. The largest community in Norfolk County... |
406726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-free%20telephone%20number | Toll-free telephone number | A toll-free telephone number or freephone number is a telephone number that is billed for all arriving calls. For the calling party, a call to a toll-free number from a landline is free of charge. A toll-free number is identified by a dialing prefix similar to an area code. The specific service access varies by country... |
406748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%20805 | Interstate 805 | Interstate 805 (I-805) is a major north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California. It is a bypass auxiliary route of I-5, running roughly through the center of the Greater San Diego region from San Ysidro (part of the city of San Diego) near the Mexico–U.S. border to near Del Mar. The southern terminus ... |
406752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist%20symbolism | Buddhist symbolism | Buddhist symbolism is the use of symbols (Sanskrit: pratīka) to represent certain aspects of the Buddha's Dharma (teaching). Early Buddhist symbols which remain important today include the Dharma wheel, the Indian lotus, the three jewels and the Bodhi tree.
Buddhism symbolism is intended to represent the key values of... |
406754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%20182 | Interstate 182 | Interstate 182 (I-182) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Washington. It serves as a connector from I-82 to the Tri-Cities region that crosses the Columbia River on the Interstate 182 Bridge between Richland and Pasco. I-182 is long and entirely concurrent with U.S. Route 12 (US 12); it ... |
406756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Police | New Zealand Police | The New Zealand Police () is the national police service and principal law enforcement agency of New Zealand, responsible for preventing crime, enhancing public safety, bringing offenders to justice, and maintaining public order. With about 13,000 personnel, it is the largest law enforcement agency in New Zealand and, ... |
406764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-capped%20chickadee | Black-capped chickadee | The black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family, the Paridae. It is the state bird of Massachusetts and Maine in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada. ... |
406800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld%20Lang%20Syne | Auld Lang Syne | "Auld Lang Syne" (; note rather than ) is a popular song, particularly in the English-speaking world. Traditionally, it is sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve/Hogmanay. By extension, it is also often heard at funerals, graduations, and as a farewell or ending to other occas... |
406804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexploded%20ordnance | Unexploded ordnance | Unexploded ordnance (UXO, sometimes abbreviated as UO), unexploded bombs (UXBs), and explosive remnants of war (ERW or ERoW) are explosive weapons (bombs, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines, cluster munition, and other munitions) that did not explode when they were employed and still pose a risk of detonation, s... |
406810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20to%20Hobart%20Yacht%20Race | Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race | The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is an annual event hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, starting in Sydney, New South Wales, on Boxing Day and finishing in Hobart, Tasmania. The race distance is approximately . The race is run in conjunction with the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, and is widely considered ... |
406859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20United%20States%20presidential%20election | 2008 United States presidential election | The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona,... |
406877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Winkler | Henry Winkler | Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, author, producer, and director. After rising to fame as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the American television series Happy Days, Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles on stage and screen. Winkler's accolades includ... |
406878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Citadel | Operation Citadel | Operation Citadel () was the German offensive operation in July 1943 against Soviet forces in the Kursk salient, proposed by Generalfeldmarschall Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein during the Second World War on the Eastern Front that initiated the Battle of Kursk. The deliberate defensive operation that the Soviets... |
406880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds%20ratio | Odds ratio | An odds ratio (OR) is a statistic that quantifies the strength of the association between two events, A and B. The odds ratio is defined as the ratio of the odds of A in the presence of B and the odds of A in the absence of B, or equivalently (due to symmetry), the ratio of the odds of B in the presence of A and the od... |
406910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagan | Yagan | Yagan (; – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after Thomas Smedley, another of Butler's servants, shot at a group of Noongar people ste... |
406983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Reeves | Jim Reeves | James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer and songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville Sound. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death in a plan... |
406992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Quebec | Demographics of Quebec | The demographics of Quebec constitutes a complex and sensitive issue, especially as it relates to the National question. Quebec is the only province in Canada to feature a francophone (French-speaking) majority, and where anglophones (English-speakers) constitute an officially recognized minority group. According to th... |
407018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20history%20of%20Australia%20during%20the%20War%20in%20Afghanistan | Military history of Australia during the War in Afghanistan | The Australian contribution to the war in Afghanistan has been known as Operation Slipper (2001–2014) and Operation Highroad (2015-2021).
Australian Defence Force (ADF) operations and the size of the forces deployed have varied and ADF involvement has included two major areas of activity: Afghanistan and the Persian G... |
407054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Kranz | Gene Kranz | Eugene Francis Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. He directed the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the... |
407073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Kraus%20%28writer%29 | Karl Kraus (writer) | Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
Biography
Early life
Kra... |
407078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Graham | Otto Graham | Otto Everett Graham Jr. (December 6, 1921 – December 17, 2003) was an American professional football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. Graham is regarded by critics as one of the most dominant players of his e... |
407082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Schmitt | Carl Schmitt | Carl Schmitt (; 11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he is noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolita... |
407106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Starlin | Jim Starlin | James P. Starlin (born October 9, 1949) is an American comics artist and writer. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, he is best known for space opera stories, for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock, and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos, Drax the Destroyer... |
407109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-state%20solution | One-state solution | The one-state solution, sometimes also called a bi-national state, is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, according to which one state must be established between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. Proponents of this solution advocate a single state in Israel, the West Bank and the G... |
407127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20the%20Father | God the Father | God the Father is a title given to God in Christianity. In mainstream trinitarian Christianity, God the Father is regarded as the first person of the Trinity, followed by the second person, God the Son Jesus Christ, and the third person, God the Holy Spirit. Since the second century, Christian creeds included affirmati... |
407139 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Sainz%20Sr. | Carlos Sainz Sr. | Carlos Sainz Cenamor (born 12 April 1962) is a Spanish rally driver. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title with Toyota in and , and finished runner-up four times. Constructors' world champions to have benefited from Sainz are Subaru (), Toyota () and Citroën (, and ). In the 2018 season he was one of the... |
407177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Democratic%20Party%20%28Romania%29 | Social Democratic Party (Romania) | The Social Democratic Party (, PSD) is the largest social democratic political party in Romania and also the largest overall political party in the country, aside from European Parliament level, where it is the second largest by total number of political representatives (i.e. MEPs), after the National Liberal Party (PN... |
407233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20dimming | Global dimming | The first systematic measurements of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface began in the 1950s. A decline in irradiance was soon observed, and it was given the name of global dimming. It continued from 1950s until 1980s, with an observed reduction of 4–5% per decade, even though solar activity did not vary mor... |
407246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Qian | Zhang Qian | Zhang Qian (; died c. 114) was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and politician who served as an imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the late 2nd century BC during the Western Han dynasty. He was one of the first official diplomats to bring back valuable information about Central Asia, including the Greco-Bactr... |
407292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophotonics | Biophotonics | The term biophotonics denotes a combination of biology and photonics, with photonics being the science and technology of generation, manipulation, and detection of photons, quantum units of light. Photonics is related to electronics and photons. Photons play a central role in information technologies, such as fiber op... |
407299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20water | Hard water | Hard water is water that has high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water"). Hard water is formed when water percolates through deposits of limestone, chalk or gypsum, which are largely made up of calcium and magnesium carbonates, bicarbonates and sulfates.
Hard drinking water may have moderate health benefits. ... |
407326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20game%20modding | Video game modding | Video game modding (short for "modification") is the process of alteration by players or fans of one or more aspects of a video game, such as how it looks or behaves, and is a sub-discipline of general modding. Mods may range from small changes and tweaks to complete overhauls, and can extend the replay value and inter... |
407332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickmansworth | Rickmansworth | Rickmansworth (), also known as "Ricky", is a town in south-west Hertfordshire, England; it is located about north-west of central London, south-west of Watford and is inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway. The town is mainly to the north of the Grand Union Canal (formerly the Grand Junction Canal) and the River C... |
407351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushmore%20%28film%29 | Rushmore (film) | Rushmore is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Wes Anderson about a teenager named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman in his film debut), his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray), and their shared affection for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). The film was co-written... |
407376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Two%20Ronnies | The Two Ronnies | The Two Ronnies is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from 10 April 1971 to 25 December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo sections, serial stories and musical finales.
Origins
Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett m... |
407392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Connecticut%20Yankee%20in%20King%20Arthur%27s%20Court | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a seve... |
407429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayanad%20district | Wayanad district | Wayanad () is a district in the north-east of the Indian state of Kerala, with administrative headquarters at the municipality of Kalpetta. It is the only plateau in Kerala. The Wayanad Plateau forms a continuation of the Mysore Plateau, the southern portion of Deccan Plateau which links the Western Ghats with the East... |
407483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20Ashmole | Elias Ashmole | Elias Ashmole (; 23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices.
Ashmole was an antiquary with a s... |
407525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich%20von%20Choltitz | Dietrich von Choltitz | Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (; 9 November 1894 – 5 November 1966) was a German general. Sometimes referred to as the Saviour of Paris, he served in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the Royal Saxon Army during World ... |
407530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympe%20de%20Gouges | Olympe de Gouges | Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
Born in southwestern France, Gouges began her prolific career as... |
407591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk%20%28film%29 | Hulk (film) | Hulk is a 2003 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Produced by Universal Pictures in association with Marvel Enterprises, Valhalla Motion Pictures, and Good Machine, and distributed by Universal, it was directed by Ang Lee and written by Jam... |
407628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%20IV%3A%20The%20Quest%20for%20Peace | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is a 1987 superhero film directed by Sidney J. Furie and written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal from a story by Christopher Reeve, Konner, and Rosenthal based on the DC Comics character Superman. The film stars Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Sam Wana... |
407648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic%20Republic%20of%20Georgia | Democratic Republic of Georgia | The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; ) was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to February 1921. Recognized by all major European powers of the time, DRG was created in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which led to the collapse of the Russian Empire and al... |
407672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Aim%20Is%20True | My Aim Is True | My Aim Is True is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, originally released in the United Kingdom on 22July 1977 through Stiff Records. Produced by Stiff artist and musician Nick Lowe, the album was recorded from late 1976 to early 1977 over six four-hour studio sessions at Pathway Studios... |
407686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Newlywed%20Game | The Newlywed Game | The Newlywed Game is an American television game show that puts newly married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know or do not know each other. The program, originally created by Robert "Nick" Nicholson and E. Roger Muir (credited on-screen as Roger E.... |
407705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ether%20Dome | Ether Dome | The Ether Dome is a surgical operating amphitheater in the Bulfinch Building at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. It served as the hospital's operating room from its opening in 1821 until 1867. It was the site of the first public demonstration of the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic on October 16, ... |
407714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Osaka | Siege of Osaka | The was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction. Divided into two stages (winter campaign and summer campaign), and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishm... |
407729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet%20Bel%20Air | Chevrolet Bel Air | The Chevrolet Bel Air is a full-size car produced by Chevrolet for the 1950–1981 model years. Initially, only the two-door hardtops in the Chevrolet model range were designated with the Bel Air name from 1950 to 1952. With the 1953 model year, the Bel Air name was changed from a designation for a unique body shape to a... |
407739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Lutheran%20University | California Lutheran University | California Lutheran University (CLU, Cal Lutheran, or Cal Lu) is a private university in Thousand Oaks, California. It was founded in 1959 and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but is nonsectarian. It opened in 1960 as California Lutheran College and was California's first four-year liberal... |
407740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief%20Society | Relief Society | The Relief Society is a philanthropic and educational women's organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was founded in 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois, United States, and has more than 7 million members in over 188 countries and territories. The Relief Society is often referred to by the... |
407754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%20national%20cricket%20team | India national cricket team | The India men's international cricket team represents India in men's international cricket. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.
Cricket was in... |
407755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%27%20rights | States' rights | In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment. The enumerated powers that are listed in the Constitution i... |
407775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Glass%20Menagerie | The Glass Menagerie | The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earl... |
407791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdob%20%C8%99i%20Zdub | Zdob și Zdub | Zdob și Zdub (; , onomatopoeic for the sound of a drum beat) is a Moldovan folk punk band, based in Chișinău. The band represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 21 May 2005, finishing 6th. They also represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 14 ... |
407800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Tell | William Tell | William Tell (, ; ; ; ) is a folk hero of Switzerland.
According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Austrian dukes of the House of Habsburg positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri. Tell's defiance and tyrannic... |
407813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accidents%20and%20incidents%20involving%20airliners%20by%20location | List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by location | This list of accidents and incidents on airliners by location summarizes airline accidents by state location, airline company with flight number, date, and cause. It is also available grouped
by year as List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft;
by airline;
by category.
If the aircraft crashed o... |
407814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene%20hypothesis | Hygiene hypothesis | In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms (such as the gut flora and helminth parasites) protects against allergies by strengthening the immune system. In particular, a lack of such exposure is thought to lead to poor immune tolerance. The time period for expo... |
407843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20China | Education in China | Education in China is primarily managed by the state-run public education system, which falls under the Ministry of Education. All citizens must attend school for a minimum of nine years, known as nine-year compulsory education, which is funded by the government.
Compulsory education includes six years of ele... |
407891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20Bachus | Spencer Bachus | Spencer Thomas Bachus III (born December 28, 1947) is an American politician. He is a former U.S. Representative for the state of Alabama, serving from 1993 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served as ranking member (2007–2011) and chairman (2011–2013) of the House Financial Services Committee. On Septembe... |
407894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Young | Don Young | Donald Edwin Young (June 9, 1933 – March 18, 2022) was an American politician in Alaska. He was the longest-serving Republican in congressional history, having been the U.S. representative for for 49 years, from 1973 until his death in 2022.
Born and raised in California, Young moved to Alaska in 1959 after a stint i... |
407896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Belgrano | Manuel Belgrano | Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He took part in the Argentine Wars of Independence and designed what became the flag of A... |
407897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing%20Commander%20%28franchise%29 | Wing Commander (franchise) | Wing Commander is a media franchise consisting of space combat simulation video games from Origin Systems, Inc., an animated television series, a feature film, a collectible card game, a series of novels, and action figures. The franchise originated in 1990 with the release of video game Wing Commander.
Setting and ga... |
407904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20in%20China | Health in China | Health in China is a complex and multifaceted issue that encompasses a wide range of factors, including public health policy, healthcare infrastructure, environmental factors, lifestyle choices, and socioeconomic conditions.
China has made significant progress in improving public health over the past few decades, with... |
407918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent%20Franks | Trent Franks | Harold Trent Franks (born June 19, 1957) is a former American politician and businessman who served as the U.S. representative for from 2003 to 2017 (numbered as the 2nd district from 2003 to 2013). He is a member of the Republican Party. During his tenure, Franks served as vice chairman of the United States House Arm... |
407919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Renzi | Rick Renzi | Richard George Renzi (born June 11, 1958) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing from 2003 until 2009.
In 2013, he was convicted on federal criminal charges against him for his involvement in a land-swap deal. The charges for personal gain of o... |
407926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Flake | Jeff Flake | Jeffry Lane Flake (born December 31, 1962) is an American politician and diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Turkey. A member of the Republican Party, Flake served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and in the United States Senate from 2013 to 2019, representing Arizona. He was ... |
407936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized%20domain%20name | Internationalized domain name | An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in non-latin script or alphabet or in the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics or ligatures. These writing systems are encoded by computers in multibyte ... |
407942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Strengthening%20Movement | Self-Strengthening Movement | The Self-Strengthening Movement, also known as the Westernization or Western Affairs Movement (–1895), was a period of radical institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following the military disasters of the Opium Wars.
The British and French burning of the Old Summer Palace in 1860 as Tai... |
407950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20England | Kingdom of England | The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 12 July 927, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, and England is now part of the United Kingdom. The Kingdom of England was among the most p... |
407954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Mills | New Mills | New Mills is a town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, south-east of Stockport and from Manchester at the confluence of the River Goyt and Sett. It is close to the border with Cheshire and above the Torrs, a deep gorge cut through carboniferous sandstone, on the north-western edge of the Peak District... |
407957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Quay | Matthew Quay | Matthew Stanley Quay (; September 30, 1833May 28, 1904) was an American politician of the Republican Party who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1887 until 1899 and from 1901 until his death in 1904. Quay's control of the Pennsylvania Republican political machine made him one of the most powerfu... |
407968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Dak%20To | Battle of Dak To | {{Infobox military conflict
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| partof = the Vietnam War
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| caption = Machinegunner of the 173rd Airborne Brigade on guard in preparation for the final assault on Hill 875, ... |
407971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boshin%20War | Boshin War | The , sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a coalition seeking to seize political power in the name of the Imperial Court.
The war stemmed from dissatisfaction among many nobles and young ... |
407982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne | SpaceShipOne | SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to /
using a hybrid rocket motor. The design features a unique "feathering" atmospheric reentry system where the rear half of the wing and the twin tail booms folds 70 degrees upward along a h... |
407992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holderness | Holderness | Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the north-east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. Topographically, Holderness has more in common with the Netherlands than with other parts of Yorkshire. To the north and west ar... |
407995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Cho | Frank Cho | Frank Cho, born Duk Hyun Cho (born 1971), is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book writer and illustrator, known for his series Liberty Meadows, as well as for books such as Shanna the She-Devil, Mighty Avengers and Hulk for Marvel Comics, and Jungle Girl for Dynamite Entertainment. Cho is noted for his figure d... |
407998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20crime%20fiction | History of crime fiction | Crime is a typically 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century genre, dominated by British and American writers. This article explores its historical development as a genre.
Crime fiction in history
Crime Fiction came to be recognised as a distinct literary genre, with specialist writers and a devoted readership, in the 19th cent... |
408026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20Doppler%20effect | Relativistic Doppler effect | The relativistic Doppler effect is the change in frequency, wavelength and amplitude of light, caused by the relative motion of the source and the observer (as in the classical Doppler effect), when taking into account effects described by the special theory of relativity.
The relativistic Doppler effect is different... |
408052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford%20Junction%20railway%20station | Watford Junction railway station | Watford Junction is a railway station that serves Watford, Hertfordshire. The station is on the West Coast Main Line (WCML), 17 miles 34 chains from London Euston and the Abbey Line, a branch line to St Albans. Journeys to London take between 16 and 52 minutes depending on the service used: shorter times on fast non-st... |
408054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley%20Moore%20Capito | Shelley Moore Capito | Shelley Wellons Moore Capito ( ; born November 26, 1953) is an American politician and retired educator serving in her second term as the junior United States senator from West Virginia, a post she has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Capito served seven terms as the U.S. representative from from 200... |
408092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Celeste | Mary Celeste | Mary Celeste (; often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste) was a Canadian built, American-registered merchant brigantine that was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores Islands on December 4, 1872. The Canadian brigantine found her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition under partia... |
408116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union%20ibis | Réunion ibis | The Réunion ibis or Réunion sacred ibis (Threskiornis solitarius) is an extinct species of ibis that was endemic to the volcanic island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The first subfossil remains were found in 1974, and the ibis was first scientifically described in 1987. Its closest relatives are the Malagasy sacred i... |
408120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20France%20Flight%204590 | Air France Flight 4590 | On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27-year operational history.
Whilst taking off from Char... |
408128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Film%20and%20Television%20School | National Film and Television School | The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is a film, television and games school established in 1971 and based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. It is featured in the 2021 ranking by The Hollywood Reporter of the top 15 International film schools.
Its community of students makes a... |
408169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20gray%20squirrel | Eastern gray squirrel | The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), also known, particularly outside of North America, as simply the grey squirrel, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus. It is native to eastern North America, where it is the most prodigious and ecologically essential natural forest regenerator. Widely introduced to ce... |
408186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor%20history%20of%20the%20United%20States | Labor history of the United States | The nature and power of organized labor in the United States is the outcome of historical tensions among counter-acting forces involving workplace rights, wages, working hours, political expression, labor laws, and other working conditions. Organized unions and their umbrella labor federations such as the AFL–CIO and c... |
408192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchet | Watchet | Watchet is a harbour town, civil parish and electoral ward in the county of Somerset, England, with a population in 2011 of 3,785. It is situated West of Bridgwater, north-west of Taunton, and East of Minehead. The town lies at the mouth of the Washford River on Bridgwater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel, and on th... |
408198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20vulture | King vulture | The king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) is a large bird found in Central and South America. It is a member of the New World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. It is the only surviving member of the genus Sarcoramph... |
408205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverkeithing | Inverkeithing | Inverkeithing ( ; ) is a port town and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. A town of ancient origin, Inverkeithing was given royal burgh status during the reign of Malcolm IV in the 12th century. It was an important center of trade during the Middle Ages, and its industrial heritage built on quarrying and... |
408206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist%20Party%20of%20India%20%28Marxist%29 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, beside being one of the national parties of India. The party was founded through a splitting from Communist Party of In... |
408215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist%20Party%20of%20India | Communist Party of India | The Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest communist party in India. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur on 26 December 1925. Currently it has 2 members in Lok Sabha and 2 members in Rajya Sabha. It has the current ECI status of a state party in Tamilnadu, Kerala and Manipur. CPI was the main opposition part... |
408234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golkar | Golkar | The Party of Functional Groups (; ), often known by its abbreviation Golkar, is a political party in Indonesia. It was founded as the Joint Secretariat of Functional Groups (, Sekber Golkar) in 1964, and participated for the first time in national elections in 1971 as Functional Groups. Golkar was not officially a poli... |
408259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20James | Rick James | James Ambrose Johnson Jr. (February 1, 1948 – August 6, 2004), better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, James began his musical career in his teenage years. He was in various bands before entering the U.S. Navy Res... |
408260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20India%20Forward%20Bloc | All India Forward Bloc | The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India. It has its main stronghold in West Bengal. ... |
408264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20Civic%20Union | Radical Civic Union | The Radical Civic Union (, UCR) is a centrist and liberal political party in Argentina. It has been ideologically heterogeneous, ranging from conservatism to social democracy, but since 1995 it has been a member of the Socialist International.
Founded in 1891 by radical liberals, the UCR is the second oldest political... |
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