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419489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Morte%20d%27Arthur | Le Morte d'Arthur | (originally written as ; Anglo-Norman French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table, along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a "complete" stor... |
419490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga%20of%20Ndongo%20and%20Matamba | Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba | Nzinga Ana de Sousa Mbande ( – 17 December 1663) was a Southwest African ruler who ruled as queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo (1624–1663) and Matamba (1631–1663), located in present-day northern Angola. Born into the ruling family of Ndongo, her father Ngola Kilombo Kia Kasenda was the king of Ndongo.
Njinga rec... |
419509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology%20and%20the%20Book%20of%20Mormon | Archaeology and the Book of Mormon | Since the publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830, Mormon archaeologists have attempted to find archaeological evidence to support it. Although historians, archaeologists, and those outside the religion who have examined the topic consider the book to be an anachronistic invention of Joseph Smith, many members of th... |
419549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%20Browne | Sylvia Browne | Sylvia Celeste Browne (née Shoemaker; October 19, 1936 – November 20, 2013) was an American author who claimed to be a medium with psychic abilities. She appeared regularly on television and radio, including on The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live, and hosted an hour-long online radio show on Hay House Radio.
... |
419553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%20in%20politics | 2004 in politics | These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2004.
Events
January
January 1- Adnan Pachachi becomes president of the Iraq Interim Governing Council and will serve for the duration of the month.
January 1 – Joseph Deiss takes office as President of the Confederation in Switzerland, Samuel Schmid as v... |
419557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan%20Pachachi | Adnan Pachachi | Adnan al-Pachachi or Adnan Muzahim Ameen al-Pachachi () (14 May 1923 – 17 November 2019) was a veteran Iraqi and Emirati politician and diplomat. Pachachi was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1959 to 1965 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq from 1965 to 1967, during the Six-Day War with Is... |
419563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan%20ibn%20Ali | Hasan ibn Ali | Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (; ) was a prominent early Islamic figure. He was the eldest son of Ali and Fatima and a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He briefly ruled as caliph from January 661 until August 661. He is considered as the second Imam in Shia Islam, succeeding Ali and preceding hi... |
419570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%20Biggio | Craig Biggio | Craig Alan Biggio (; born December 14, 1965) is an American former baseball second baseman, outfielder and catcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Houston Astros, from 1988 to 2007. A seven-time National League (NL) All-Star often regarded as the greatest all-around player in Astros history, he i... |
419589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20cingulate%20cortex | Anterior cingulate cortex | In the human brain, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the frontal part of the cingulate cortex that resembles a "collar" surrounding the frontal part of the corpus callosum. It consists of Brodmann areas 24, 32, and 33.
It is involved in certain higher-level functions, such as attention allocation, reward anticip... |
419629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eger | Eger | Eger ( , ; ; also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc). A city with county rights. Eger is best known for its medieval castle, thermal baths, baroque buildings, the northernmost Ottoman minaret, and red wines. Its populati... |
419644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20education | Alternative education | Alternative education encompasses many pedagogical approaches differing from mainstream pedagogy. Such alternative learning environments may be found within state, charter, and independent schools as well as home-based learning environments. Many educational alternatives emphasize small class sizes, close relationships... |
419660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%20Customizable%20Card%20Game | Star Trek Customizable Card Game | The Star Trek Customizable Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game based on the Star Trek universe. The name is commonly abbreviated as STCCG or ST:CCG. It was first introduced in 1994 by Decipher, Inc., under the name Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game. The game now has two distinct editi... |
419667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile%20guidance | Missile guidance | Missile guidance refers to a variety of methods of guiding a missile or a guided bomb to its intended target. The missile's target accuracy is a critical factor for its effectiveness. Guidance systems improve missile accuracy by improving its Probability of Guidance (Pg).
These guidance technologies can generally be d... |
419686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy | Pedagogy | Pedagogy (), from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγία (paidagōgía), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as an academic discipline, is the... |
419710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages%20with%20official%20status%20in%20India | Languages with official status in India | There is no national language in India. However, article 343(1) of the Indian constitution specifically mentions that "The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script. The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals," whil... |
419713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Russell%20Jr. | Richard Russell Jr. | Richard Brevard Russell Jr. (November 2, 1897 – January 21, 1971) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 to 1971. Russell was a founder and leader of the conservat... |
419719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Wolfe%20Kahn | Roger Wolfe Kahn | Roger Wolfe Kahn (October 19, 1907 – July 12, 1962) was an American jazz and popular musician, composer, bandleader (Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra) and an aviator.
Life and career
Roger Wolfe Kahn (originally spelled "Wolff") was born in Morristown, New Jersey, into a wealthy German Jewish banking family. His par... |
419720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20Navy | Continental Navy | The Continental Navy was the navy of the Thirteen Colonies (later the United States) during the American Revolutionary War. Founded on October 13, 1775, the fleet developed into a relatively substantial force throughout the Revolutionary War, owing partially to the substantial efforts of the Continental Navy's patrons ... |
419750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone%20Wolf%20and%20Cub | Lone Wolf and Cub | is a Japanese manga series created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. First published in 1970, the story was adapted into six films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four plays, and a television series starring Kinnosuke Yorozuya, and is widely recognized as an important and influential work.
Lone Wolf and Cu... |
419797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LATAM%20Airlines | LATAM Airlines | LATAM Airlines, formerly LAN Airlines, LAN-Chile and LATAM Chile, is a Chilean multinational airline based in Santiago, Chile and one of the founders of LATAM Airlines Group, the largest airline holding company in Latin America. The main hub is Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, with secondary hub... |
419835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English%20folklore | English folklore | English folklore consists of the myths and legends of England, including the English region's mythical creatures, traditional recipes, urban legends, proverbs, superstitions, and folktales. Its cultural history is rooted in Celtic, Christian, Nordic and Germanic folklore.
During the Renaissance in the 16th century, En... |
419852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimfin | Swimfin | Swimfins, swim fins, diving fins, or flippers are finlike accessories worn on the feet, legs or hands and made from rubber, plastic, carbon fiber or combinations of these materials, to aid movement through the water in water sports activities such as swimming, bodyboarding, bodysurfing, float-tube fishing, kneeboardin... |
419900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent%20control%20in%20the%20United%20States | Rent control in the United States | In the United States, rent control refers to laws or ordinances that set price controls on the rent of residential housing to function as a price ceiling. More loosely, "rent control" describes several types of price control:
"strict price ceilings", also known as "rent freeze" systems, or "absolute" or "first generat... |
419986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoblast | Osteoblast | Osteoblasts (from the Greek combining forms for "bone", ὀστέο-, osteo- and βλαστάνω, blastanō "germinate") are cells with a single nucleus that synthesize bone. However, in the process of bone formation, osteoblasts function in groups of connected cells. Individual cells cannot make bone. A group of organized osteoblas... |
419988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silva | Silva | Silva is a surname in Portuguese-speaking countries, such as Portugal and Brazil. Origin: Latin toponymic
/natural world word , meaning "forest" or "woodland". It is the family name of the House of Silva.
The name is also widespread in Galician-speaking regions of Spain (mostly in Galicia) and even more so in regions ... |
420020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preschool | Preschool | A preschool (sometimes spelled as pre school or pre-school), also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school. It may be publicly or privately... |
420024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20general | Captain general | Captain general (and its literal equivalent in several languages) is a high military rank of general officer grade, and a gubernatorial title.
History
The term "Captain General" started to appear in the 14th century, with the meaning of Commander in Chief of an army (or fleet) in the field, probably the first usage of... |
420030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeb%20Ewbank | Weeb Ewbank | Wilbur Charles "Weeb" Ewbank (May 6, 1907 – November 17, 1998) was an American professional football coach. He led the Baltimore Colts to consecutive NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 and the New York Jets to victory in Super Bowl III in January 1969. He is the only coach to win a championship in both the National Foo... |
420031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Marx%20and%20Company | Louis Marx and Company | Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer in business from 1919 to 1980. They made many types of toys including tin toys, toy soldiers, toy guns, action figures, dolls, toy cars and model trains. Some of their notable toys are Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Big Wheel tricycles, Disney branded dollhouses and play... |
420088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20mobility | Social mobility | Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society. This movement occurs between layers or tiers in an open system of social str... |
420105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Wise | Bob Wise | Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. (born January 6, 1948) is an American politician who served as the 33rd Governor of West Virginia from 2001 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, Wise also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2001. In 2005 Wise became the president of the Alliance for Exc... |
420108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Agnes | Hurricane Agnes | Hurricane Agnes was the costliest hurricane to hit the United States at the time, causing an estimated $2.1 billion in damage. The hurricane's death toll was 128. The effects of Agnes were widespread, from the Caribbean to Canada, with much of the east coast of the United States affected. Damage was heaviest in Pennsyl... |
420119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20commune | People's commune | The people's commune () was the highest of three administrative levels in rural areas of the People's Republic of China during the period from 1958 to 1983, until they were replaced by townships. Communes, the largest collective units, were divided in turn into production brigades and production teams. The communes had... |
420126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie%20Laine | Frankie Laine | Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an American singer and songwriter whose career spanned nearly 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as "America's Number One Song S... |
420128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS | SKS | The SKS (, self-loading carbine of (the) Simonov system, 1945) is a semi-automatic rifle designed by Soviet small arms designer Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov in 1945.
The SKS was first produced in the Soviet Union but was later widely exported and manufactured by various nations. Its distinguishing characteristics includ... |
420159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item%20response%20theory | Item response theory | In psychometrics, item response theory (IRT) (also known as latent trait theory, strong true score theory, or modern mental test theory) is a paradigm for the design, analysis, and scoring of tests, questionnaires, and similar instruments measuring abilities, attitudes, or other variables. It is a theory of testing bas... |
420162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAI | RAI | (), commercially styled as Rai since 2000 and known until 1954 as , is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terrestrial and subscription television channels and radio stations. It is one of the biggest broadcasters in Italy, competing with Me... |
420166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Davey | Ed Davey | Sir Edward Jonathan Davey (born 25 December 1965) is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2019. He served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015 and as Deputy Leader to Jo Swinson in 2019. An "Orange Book" liberal, he... |
420183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren%20F1 | McLaren F1 | The McLaren F1 is a sports car designed and manufactured by British automobile manufacturer McLaren Cars, and powered by the BMW S70/2 V12 engine. The original concept was conceived by Gordon Murray, who successfully convinced Ron Dennis to back the project, and hired car designer Peter Stevens to design the exterior a... |
420297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%20%28U2%20album%29 | Pop (U2 album) | Pop is the ninth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Flood, Howie B, and Steve Osborne, and was released on 3 March 1997 on Island Records. The album was a continuation of the band's 1990s musical reinvention, as they incorporated alternative rock, techno, dance, and electronica influences into their... |
420305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20That%20You%20Can%27t%20Leave%20Behind | All That You Can't Leave Behind | All That You Can't Leave Behind is the tenth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and was released on 30October 2000 through Island Records and Interscope Records. Following the band's experimentation with alternative rock and dance music in the 1990s and the mixed recepti... |
420332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Lambert | Daniel Lambert | Daniel Lambert ( 1770 – 1809) was an English gaol keeper and animal breeder from Leicester, famous for his unusually large size. After serving four years as an apprentice at an engraving and die casting works in Birmingham, he returned to Leicester around 1788 and succeeded his father as keeper of Leicester's gaol. He... |
420340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20in%20India | 2000 in India | The following lists events that happened during 2000 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
President of India – K. R. Narayanan
Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Vice President of India – Krishna Kant
Chief Justice of India – Adarsh Sein Anand
Governors
Andhra Pradesh – C. Rangarajan
Arunachal Prade... |
420350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Berkman | Alexander Berkman | Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870June 28, 1936) was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing.
Berkman was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vilna in the Russian Empire (present-day ... |
420352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20in%20India | 2001 in India | Events in the year 2001 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
President of India – K. R. Narayanan
Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Vice President of India – Krishna Kant
Chief Justice of India – Adarsh Sein Anand until 10 January, Sam Piroj Bharucha
Governors
Andhra Pradesh – C. Rangarajan
Arunach... |
420368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibari%20Misora | Hibari Misora | was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon. She received a Medal of Honor for her contributions to music and for improving the welfare of the public, and was the first woman to receive the People's Honour Award, which was conferred posthumously for giving the public hope and encouragement after World War II.
Mis... |
420373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0-calculus | Π-calculus | In theoretical computer science, the -calculus (or pi-calculus) is a process calculus. The -calculus allows channel names to be communicated along the channels themselves, and in this way it is able to describe concurrent computations whose network configuration may change during the computation.
The -calculus has few... |
420387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Air%20Lines%20Flight%20123 | Japan Air Lines Flight 123 | Japan Air Lines Flight 123 () was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On August 12, 1985, the Boeing 747 operating the service suffered a severe structural failure and decompression 12 minutes into the flight. After flying under minimal control for a further 32 minutes, the 747 crashed in ... |
420438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Tyler | Steven Tyler | Steven Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948), known professionally as Steven Tyler, is an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, piano and percussion. He has been called the "Demon of Screamin'" due to his high screams and his power... |
420454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall | Ralph Moody Hall (May 3, 1923 – March 7, 2019) was an American politician who served as the United States representative for from 1981 to 2015. He was first elected in 1980, and was the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology from 2011 to 2013. He was also a member of the Committee on Energy a... |
420456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Judith | Book of Judith | The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian gener... |
420471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Don%27t%20Know%20Jack%20%28franchise%29 | You Don't Know Jack (franchise) | You Don't Know Jack is a series of video games developed by Jackbox Games (formerly known as Jellyvision Games) and Berkeley Systems, as well as the title of the first You Don't Know Jack game in the series. You Don't Know Jack, framed as a game show "where high culture and pop culture collide", combines trivia with co... |
420483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai%20Juyi | Bai Juyi | Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; ; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (樂天), was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician during the Tang dynasty. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as governor of three different provinces. He achieved fame as a writer of verse in a l... |
420493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20de%20Miranda | Francisco de Miranda | Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza (28 March 1750 – 14 July 1816), commonly known as Francisco de Miranda (), was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary who fought in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and the Spanish American wars of independence. He is regarded as a prec... |
420502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontage%20road | Frontage road | A frontage road (also known as an access road, outer road, service road, feeder road, or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road. A frontage road is often used to provide access to private driveways, shops, houses, industries or farms. Where parallel high-speed roads are p... |
420521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20W.%20Lanchester | Frederick W. Lanchester | Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research.
Lanchester became a pioneer British motor-car builder, a hobby which ... |
420537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20Granger | Stewart Granger | Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993) was a British film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame through his appearances in the Gainsborough melodramas.
Early life
He was born Ja... |
420538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Goldsmith | James Goldsmith | Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997) was a French-British financier, tycoon and politician who was a member of the Goldsmith family.
His controversial business and finance career led to ongoing clashes with British media, frequently involving litigation or the threat of litigation.
In 1994 he... |
420561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier | Elsevier | Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as The Lancet, Cell, the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, Trends, the Current Opinion series, the online citation database Scopus, the SciVal tool for measuri... |
420576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELX | RELX | RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England. Its businesses provide scientific, technical and medical information and analytics; legal information and analytics; decision-making tools; and organise exhibitions. It operates in 40 countries ... |
420579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Centaur%20%28R06%29 | HMS Centaur (R06) | HMS Centaur was the first of the four light fleet carriers of the Royal Navy. She was the only ship of her class to be completed with the original design configuration of a straight axial flight deck, rather than the newly invented angled flight decks of her three later sister ships. She was laid down in 1944 in Belfa... |
420598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical%20oxygen%20demand | Biochemical oxygen demand | Biochemical oxygen demand (also known as BOD or biological oxygen demand) is an analytical parameter representing the amount of dissolved oxygen (DO) consumed by aerobic bacteria growing on the organic material present in a water sample at a specific temperature over a specific time period. The BOD value is most common... |
420602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%20Young | Graham Young | Graham Frederick Young (7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990), also known as the Teacup Poisoner and the St Albans Poisoner, was an English serial killer who killed his victims via poison.
Obsessed with poisons from an early age, Young started poisoning the food and drink of relatives and school friends. He was caught whe... |
420659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upward%20Bound | Upward Bound | Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States. The program is one of a cluster of programs now referred to as TRiO, all of which owe their existence to the federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (the War on Poverty Program) and the Higher Education Act of 1965. Upward Bound programs... |
420675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Rapallo%20%281920%29 | Treaty of Rapallo (1920) | The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the aftermath of the First World War. It was intended to settle the Adriatic question, i.e. Italian claims over territories promised to the country, in return for its entry into the war, against Austria-... |
420676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education%20in%20Greece | Education in Greece | Education in Greece is centralized and governed by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (Greek: , Υ.ΠΑΙ.Θ.) at all grade levels in elementary and middle school. The Ministry exercises control over public schools, formulates and implements legislation, administers the budget, coordinates national level univer... |
420739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20of%20Mozilla | The Book of Mozilla | The Book of Mozilla is a computer Easter egg found in the Netscape, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Waterfox and Firefox series of web browsers.
It is viewed by directing the browser to .
There is no real book titled The Book of Mozilla. However, apparent quotations hidden in Netscape and Mozilla give this impression by revealing... |
420746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington | Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art. His works are known for depicting the Western United States in the last quarter of the 19th century and featuring such images as cowboys, Am... |
420752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Credit%20Party%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | Social Credit Party (New Zealand) | The New Zealand Social Credit Party (sometimes called "Socred") was a political party that was New Zealand's third party from the 1950s to the 1980s. It was elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives, holding one seat at times between 1966 and 1981, and two seats from 1981 to 1987. It was named the New Zealand... |
420764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management | Integrated pest management (IPM), also known as integrated pest control (IPC) is a broad-based approach that integrates both chemical and non-chemical practices for economic control of pests. IPM aims to suppress pest populations below the economic injury level (EIL). The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization defines ... |
420766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo | Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (24 August 192430 November 1989) was a Cameroonian politician who was the first President of Cameroon, holding the office from 1960 until 1982. Ahidjo played a major role in Cameroon's independence from France as well as reuniting the French and English-speaking parts of the country. During Ahi... |
420787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro%20Tools | Pro Tools | Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture (sound design, audio post-production and mixing) and, more generally, sound recording, editing, and mastering pr... |
420806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie%20Fletcher | Ernie Fletcher | Ernest Lee Fletcher (born November 12, 1952) is an American physician and politician who was the 60th governor of Kentucky from 2003 to 2007. He previously served three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives before resigning after elected governor. A member of the Republican Party, Fletcher was... |
420835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Biting | Operation Biting | Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid on a German coastal radar installation at Bruneval in northern France, during the Second World War, on the night .
Several of these installations were identified from Royal Air Force (RAF) aerial reconnaissance photographs during... |
420853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20IV%20of%20Georgia | David IV of Georgia | David IV, also known as David IV the Builder (, ) (1073–1125), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the 5th king of United Georgia from 1089 until his death in 1125.
Popularly considered to be the greatest and most successful Georgian ruler in history and an original architect of the Georgian Golden Age, he succeeded in dri... |
420881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Air%20Resources%20Board | California Air Resources Board | The California Air Resources Board (CARB or ARB) is an agency of the government of California that aims to reduce air pollution. Established in 1967 when then-governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford-Carrell Act, combining the Bureau of Air Sanitation and the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, CARB is a department... |
420888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Tautog%20%28SS-199%29 | USS Tautog (SS-199) | USS Tautog (SS-199), the second , was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tautog, a small edible sport fish, which is also called a blackfish. She was one of the most successful submarines of World War II. Tautog was credited with sinking 26 Japanese ships, for a total of 72,606 tons, scoring s... |
420910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware%20Valley | Delaware Valley | The Delaware Valley, sometimes referred to as Greater Philadelphia or the Philadelphia metropolitan area, is a metropolitan region in the Northeast on the East Coast of the United States that centers on Philadelphia and spans four U.S. states: southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, northern Delaware, and the n... |
420927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Kabir | Amir Kabir | Mirza Taghi Khan-e Farahani (), better known as Amir Kabir (Persian: , 9 January 1807 – 10 January 1852), also known by the title of Amir-e Nezam or Amir Nezam (), was chief minister to Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (Shah of Persia) for the first three years of his reign. He is widely considered to be "Iran's first reformer... |
420941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai%20Kuraki | Mai Kuraki | (born October 28, 1982) is a Japanese pop and R&B singer-songwriter and record producer. After releasing her US debut single "Baby I Like" in 1999, Kuraki signed with Giza Studio and released her Japanese debut single "Love, Day After Tomorrow" in 1999. In 2000, she released her debut album, Delicious Way, which debute... |
420943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20stability%20control | Electronic stability control | Electronic stability control (ESC), also referred to as electronic stability program (ESP) or dynamic stability control (DSC), is a computerized technology that improves a vehicle's stability by detecting and reducing loss of traction (skidding). When ESC detects loss of steering control, it automatically applies the b... |
420944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire%20squid | Vampire squid | The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. 'vampire squid from hell') is a small cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans in extreme deep sea conditions. The vampire squid uses its bioluminescent organs and its unique oxygen metabolism to thrive in the parts of the ocean with the lowest concent... |
420956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins%20of%20the%20Cold%20War | Origins of the Cold War | The Cold War originated in the breakdown of relations between the two main victors in World War II: United States and the Soviet Union, and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, in the years 1945–1949.
The origins derive from diplomatic (and occasional military) confrontations stretching bac... |
420974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky%20Colonels | Kentucky Colonels | The Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association (ABA) for all of the league's nine years. The name is derived from the historic Kentucky Colonels. The Colonels won the most games and had the highest winning percentage of any franchise in the league's history, but the team did not join the Na... |
420986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Morse | Wayne Morse | Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing the Democratic Party’s leadership and for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds.
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisc... |
420993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS%20Dresden%20%281907%29 | SMS Dresden (1907) | SMS ("His Majesty's Ship ") was a German light cruiser built for the (Imperial Navy). The lead ship of her class, she was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in 1906, launched in October 1907, and completed in November 1908. Her entrance into service was delayed by accidents during sea trials, including... |
421008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl%20%28poem%29 | Pearl (poem) | Pearl () is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; ... |
421034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Krzyzewski | Mike Krzyzewski | Michael William Krzyzewski ( , ; born February 13, 1947), nicknamed "Coach K", is an American former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at Duke University from 1980 to 2022, during which he led the Blue Devils to five national titles, 13 Final Fours (the most of any coach), 15 ACC tournament champion... |
421047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridiani%20Planum | Meridiani Planum | The Meridiani Planum (alternately Meridiani plain, Meridiani plains, Terra Meridiani, or Terra Meridiani plains) is either a large plain straddling the equator of Mars and covered with a vast number of spherules containing a lot of iron oxide or a region centered on this plain that includes some adjoining land. The pla... |
421049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit%20%28rover%29 | Spirit (rover) | Spirit, also known as MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover – A) or MER-2, is a Mars robotic rover, active from 2004 to 2010. Spirit was operational on Mars for sols or 3.3 Martian years ( days; ). It was one of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Spirit landed s... |
421051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity%20%28rover%29 | Opportunity (rover) | Opportunity, also known as MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover – B) or MER-1, is a robotic rover that was active on Mars from 2004 until 2018. Opportunity was operational on Mars for sols ( on Earth). Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 200... |
421085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraconsistent%20logic | Paraconsistent logic | A paraconsistent logic is an attempt at a logical system to deal with contradictions in a discriminating way. Alternatively, paraconsistent logic is the subfield of logic that is concerned with studying and developing "inconsistency-tolerant" systems of logic which reject the principle of explosion.
Inconsistency-tole... |
421116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert%20Elias | Norbert Elias | Norbert Elias (; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.
Biography
Elias was born on 22 June 1897 in Breslau (today: Wrocław) in Prussia's Silesia Province to Hermann Elias (1860–1940) and So... |
421151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamisese%20Mara | Kamisese Mara | Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, (6 May 1920 – 18 April 2004) was a Fijian politician, who served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992. He subsequently served as President from 1... |
421164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20National%20Movement%20%28Georgia%29 | United National Movement (Georgia) | United National Movement (; UNM) is a liberal and pro-Western political party in Georgia founded by Mikheil Saakashvili, which rose to power following the Rose Revolution. Since the 2012 parliamentary election, it has been the main opposition party.
History
Founding
The 1995 Georgian presidential and parliamentary e... |
421180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakhigarhi | Rakhigarhi | Rakhigarhi or Rakhi Garhi is a village and an archaeological site belonging to the Indus Valley civilisation in Hisar District of the northern Indian state of Haryana, situated about 150 km northwest of Delhi. It was part of the mature phase of the Indus Valley Civilisation, dating to 2600-1900 BCE. It was among the la... |
421246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCPenney | JCPenney | Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is an American department store chain that operates 664 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Men's, Women's, Boys', Girls', Baby, Bedding, Home, Fine Jewelry, Shoes, Lingerie, JCPenney Salon, JCPen... |
421290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20of%20the%20Stone%20%28Hughart%20novel%29 | The Story of the Stone (Hughart novel) | The Story of the Stone () is a novel by Barry Hughart, first published in 1988. It is part of a series set in a version of ancient China that began with Bridge of Birds and continues with Eight Skilled Gentlemen. The story begins on the twelfth day of the seventh moon in the Year of the Snake 3,339 (AD 650).
Plot summ... |
421292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace%20Jones | Grace Jones | Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican-American model, singer and actress. Born in Jamaica, she and her family moved to Syracuse, New York, when she was a teenager. Jones began her modelling career in New York state, then in Paris, working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, and appear... |
421306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Colossus | Operation Colossus | Operation Colossus was the codename given to the first airborne operation undertaken by the British military, which occurred on 10 February 1941 during World War II. The British airborne establishment was formed in June 1940 by the order of the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in response to the successful ai... |
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