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39 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo | Albedo | Albedo (; ) is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body. It is measured on a scale from 0 (corresponding to a black body that absorbs all incident radiation) to 1 (corresponding to a body that reflects all incident radiation).
Surface albedo is defined as the ratio of radiosity Je to the irradian... |
290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A | A | A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is a (pronounced ), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives. The up... |
309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20American%20in%20Paris | An American in Paris | An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) for orchestra by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928. It was inspired by the time that Gershwin had spent in Paris and evokes the sights and energy of the French capital during the .
Gershwin scored the piece for the standard... |
316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20Award%20for%20Best%20Production%20Design | Academy Award for Best Production Design | The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. This change resulted from the Art Directors' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scien... |
330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actrius | Actrius | Actresses (Catalan: Actrius) is a 1997 Catalan language Spanish drama film produced and directed by Ventura Pons and based on the award-winning stage play E.R. by Josep Maria Benet i Jornet. The film has no male actors, with all roles played by females. The film was produced in 1996.
Synopsis
In order to prepare hers... |
332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalia%20%28book%29 | Animalia (book) | Animalia is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base. It was originally published in 1986, followed by a tenth anniversary edition in 1996, and a 25th anniversary edition in 2012. Over four million copies have been sold worldwide. A special numbered and signed anniversary edition was also published in 1996, with a... |
334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Atomic%20Time | International Atomic Time | International Atomic Time (abbreviated TAI, from its French name ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid. TAI is a weighted average of the time kept by over 450 atomic clocks in over 80 national laboratories worldwide. It is a continuous scale ... |
340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Connes | Alain Connes | Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 in Draguignan) is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a professor at the , , Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982.
Career
Alain Connes attended high... |
344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Dwan | Allan Dwan | Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Early life
Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan was the younger son of commercial traveler of woolen clothing Joseph Michael Dwan... |
359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atlas%20Shrugged%20characters | List of Atlas Shrugged characters | This is a list of characters in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged.
Major characters
The following are major characters from the novel.
Protagonists
Dagny Taggart
Dagny Taggart is the protagonist of the novel. She is vice-president in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, under her brother, James Tagg... |
572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural%20science | Agricultural science | Agricultural science (or agriscience for short) is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Professionals of the agricultural science are called agricultural scientists or agricul... |
579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien | Alien | Alien primarily refers to:
Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country
Enemy alien, the above in times of war
Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
Specifically, a lifeform with extraterrestrial intelligence
For fictional extraterrestrial life, see Extraterres... |
580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer | Astronomer | An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either observational (by analyzing the data) or theoretical astronomy. Examples of topics... |
590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20%28disambiguation%29 | Austin (disambiguation) | Austin is the capital of Texas in the United States.
Austin may also refer to:
Geographical locations
Australia
Austin, Western Australia
Canada
Austin, Manitoba
Austin, Ontario
Austin, Quebec
Austin Island, Nunavut
France
Saint-Austin, hamlet at la Neuville-Chant-d'Oisel, Normandy
United States
Austin, Ar... |
597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic%20languages | Austroasiatic languages | The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family spoken throughout mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia. These languages are natively spoken by the majority of the population in Vietnam and Cambodia, and by minority populations scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia... |
612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20mean | Arithmetic mean | In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean ( ), arithmetic average, or just the mean or average (when the context is clear) is the sum of a collection of numbers divided by the count of numbers in the collection. The collection is often a set of results from an experiment, an observational study, or a survey. T... |
615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Football%20Conference | American Football Conference | The American Football Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the United States. The AFC and its counterpart, the National Football Conference (NFC), each contain 16 teams with 4 divisions. Both conferences were created... |
628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous%20Huxley | Aldous Huxley | Aldous Leonard Huxley ( ; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergrad... |
630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada | Ada | Ada may refer to:
Places
Africa
Ada Foah, a town in Ghana
Ada (Ghana parliament constituency)
Ada, Osun, a town in Nigeria
Asia
Ada, Urmia, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Ada, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey
Europe
Ada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a village
Ada, Croatia, a village
Ad... |
632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen%20%28disambiguation%29 | Aberdeen (disambiguation) | Aberdeen is a city in Scotland.
Aberdeen may also refer to:
Places
Africa
Aberdeen, Sierra Leone
Aberdeen, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Asia
Hong Kong
Aberdeen, Hong Kong, an area and town on southwest Hong Kong Island
Aberdeen Channel, a channel between Ap Lei Chau (Aberdeen Island) and Nam Long Shan on the H... |
633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae | Algae | Algae (, ; : alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular microalgae, such as Chlorella, Prototheca and the diatoms, to multicellular forms, s... |
640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate%20procedure%20in%20the%20United%20States | Appellate procedure in the United States | United States appellate procedure involves the rules and regulations for filing appeals in state courts and federal courts. The nature of an appeal can vary greatly depending on the type of case and the rules of the court in the jurisdiction where the case was prosecuted. There are many types of standard of review for ... |
642 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer%20%28law%29 | Answer (law) | In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.
In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and serve... |
643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate%20court | Appellate court | An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In much of the world, court systems are divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which ... |
649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arraignment | Arraignment | Arraignment is a formal reading of a criminal charging document in the presence of the defendant, to inform them of the charges against them. In response to arraignment, in some jurisdictions, the accused is expected to enter a plea; in other jurisdictions, no plea is required. Acceptable pleas vary among jurisdictions... |
651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%20the%20Beautiful | America the Beautiful | "America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. The two never met.
Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally entitled "Pikes Peak". It was... |
655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus | Abacus | The abacus (: abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a hand-operated calculating tool of unknown origin used since ancient times in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, millennia before the adoption of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.
The abacus consists of a two-dimensional array of slidabl... |
659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20National%20Standards%20Institute | American National Standards Institute | The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that Amer... |
661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument%20%28disambiguation%29 | Argument (disambiguation) | In logic and philosophy, an argument is an attempt to persuade someone of something, or give evidence or reasons for accepting a particular conclusion.
Argument may also refer to:
Mathematics and computer science
Argument (complex analysis), a function which returns the polar angle of a complex number
Command-line ar... |
664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut | Astronaut | An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyon... |
665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Modest%20Proposal | A Modest Proposal | A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
The essay suggests that t... |
670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet | Alphabet | An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written graphemes (called letters) representing phonemes, units of sounds that distinguish words, of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, and logographic systems use characters t... |
673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20number | Atomic number | The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus. For ordinary nuclei composed of protons and neutrons, this is equal to the proton number (np) or the number of protons found in the nucleus of every atom of that element. The atomic number can be used ... |
675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming%20the%20consequent | Affirming the consequent | In propositional logic, affirming the consequent, sometimes called converse error, fallacy of the converse, or confusion of necessity and sufficiency, is a formal fallacy of taking a true conditional statement (e.g., "if the lamp were broken, then the room would be dark") under certain assumptions (there are no other l... |
677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity | Ambiguity | Ambiguity is the type of meaning in which a phrase, statement, or resolution is not explicitly defined, making several interpretations plausible. A common aspect of ambiguity is uncertainty. It is thus an attribute of any idea or statement whose intended meaning cannot be definitively resolved, according to a rule or p... |
678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel | Abel | Abel is a Biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He was the younger brother of Cain, and the younger son of Adam and Eve, the first couple in Biblical history. He was a shepherd who offered his firstborn flock up to God as an offering. God accepted his offering but not his brother's. Cain th... |
679 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20%28disambiguation%29 | Animal (disambiguation) | An animal is a multicellular, eukaryotic organism of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa.
Animal, Animals, or The Animal may also refer to:
People
The Animal (nickname), a list of people nicknamed "The Animal" or "Animal"
Animal Hamaguchi, a ring name of Japanese retired professional wrestler Heigo Hamaguchi (born 1947... |
680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark | Aardvark | The aardvark ( ; Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa. It is the only living species of the order Tubulidentata, although other prehistoric species and genera of Tubulidentata are known. Unlike most other insectivores, it has a long snout, similar to that of a pig, which is ... |
681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardwolf | Aardwolf | The aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) is an insectivorous species of hyena, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called the maanhaar-jackal (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), termite-eating hyena and civet hyena, based on its habit of secreting substances from its a... |
682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe | Adobe | Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for mudbrick. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of earthen construction, or various architectural styles like Pueblo Revival or Territor... |
683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure | Adventure | An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extreme sports. Adventures are often undertaken to create psychological arousal or in ... |
694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Minor%20%28disambiguation%29 | Asia Minor (disambiguation) | Asia Minor is an alternative name for Anatolia, the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.
Asia Minor may also refer to:
Asia Minor (album), an album by Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece
"Asia Minor" (instrumental), a 1961 instrumental recording by Jimmy Wisner (op... |
704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Angola | Demographics of Angola | Demographic features of the population of Angola include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects.
According to 2014 census data, Angola had a population of 25,789,024 inhabitants in 2014.
Ethnically, there are three main groups, ... |
705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Angola | Politics of Angola | The current political regime in Angola is presidentialism, in which the President of the Republic is also head of state and government; it is advised by a Council of Ministers, which together with the President form the national executive power. Legislative power rests with the 220 parliamentarians elected to the Natio... |
706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20Angola | Economy of Angola | The economy of Angola remains heavily influenced by the effects of four decades of conflict in the last part of the 20th century, the war for independence from Portugal (1961–75) and the subsequent civil war (1975–2002). Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural l... |
708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Angola | Transport in Angola | Transport in Angola comprises:
Roads
Railways
There are three separate railway lines in Angola:
Luanda Railway (CFL) (northern);
Benguela Railway (CFB) (central), operated by the Lobito Atlantic Railway joint venture;
Moçâmedes Railway (CFM) (southern);
Reconstruction of these three lines began in 2005 and they... |
709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan%20Armed%20Forces | Angolan Armed Forces | The Angolan Armed Forces () or FAA is the military of Angola. The FAA consist of the Angolan Army (), the Angolan Navy () and the National Air Force of Angola (). Reported total manpower in 2021 was about 107,000. The FAA is headed by the Chief of the General Staff António Egídio de Sousa Santos since 2018, who report... |
710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Angola | Foreign relations of Angola | The foreign relations of Angola are based on Angola's strong support of U.S. foreign policy as the Angolan economy is dependent on U.S. foreign aid.
From 1975 to 1989, Angola was aligned with the Eastern bloc, in particular the Soviet Union, Libya, and Cuba. Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with We... |
713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20%28robot%29 | Android (robot) | An android is a humanoid robot or other artificial being often made from a flesh-like material. Historically, androids were completely within the domain of science fiction and frequently seen in film and television, but advances in robot technology now allow the design of functional and realistic humanoid robots.
Term... |
728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20anthropologists | List of anthropologists |
A
John Adair
B. R. Ambedkar
Giulio Angioni
Jon Altman
Arjun Appadurai
Talal Asad
Timothy Asch
Scott Atran
Marc Augé
B
Nigel Barley
Fredrik Barth
Vasily Bartold
Keith H. Basso
Daisy Bates
Gregory Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson
Ruth Behar
Ruth Benedict
Dorothy A. Bennett
Carl H. Berendt
Lee Berger
Brent Berlin
Cathe... |
734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinopterygii | Actinopterygii | Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webs of skin supported by radially extended bony spines, as opposed to the bulkier, fleshy l... |
740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah | Allah | Allah (; , , ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means "the god", and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El (Elohim) for God... |
742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms%20%28journal%29 | Algorithms (journal) | Algorithms is a monthly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal of mathematics, covering design, analysis, and experiments on algorithms. The journal is published by MDPI and was established in 2008. The founding editor-in-chief was Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University). From May 2014 to September 2019, the editor-in-chi... |
748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur%20astronomy | Amateur astronomy | Amateur astronomy is a hobby where participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes. Even though scientific research may not be their primary goal, some amateur astronomers make contributions in doing citizen science, such as by monitoring variable st... |
751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido | Aikido | Aikido ( , , , ) is a modern Japanese martial art that is split into many different styles, including Iwama Ryu, Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai, Shodokan Aikido, Yoshinkan, Renshinkai, Aikikai and Ki Aikido. Aikido is now practiced in around 140 countries. It was originally developed by Morihei Ueshiba, as a synthesi... |
764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostida | Agnostida | Agnostida are an order of extinct arthropods which have classically been seen as a group of highly modified trilobites, though some recent research has doubted this placement. Regardless, they appear to be close relatives as part of the Artiopoda. They are present in the Lower Cambrian fossil record along with trilobit... |
766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20%28law%29 | Abstract (law) | In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.
Types of legislation
The abstract of title, used in real estate transactions, is the more common form of abstract. An abstract of title lists all the owners of a piece of land... |
772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere | Ampere | The ampere ( , ; symbol: A), often shortened to amp, is the unit of electric current in the International System of Units (SI). One ampere is equal to 1 coulomb moving past a point in 1 second, or electrons' worth of charge moving past a point in 1 second. It is named after French mathematician and physicist André-M... |
777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual%20plant | Annual plant | An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. The length of growing seasons and period in which they take place vary according to geographical location, and may not correspond to the four traditional seasonal divisions of... |
779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthophyta | Anthophyta | The anthophytes are a paraphyletic grouping of plant taxa bearing flower-like reproductive structures. The group, once thought to be a clade, contained the angiosperms - the extant flowering plants, such as roses and grasses - as well as the Gnetales and the extinct Bennettitales.
Detailed morphological and molecular ... |
780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20%28disambiguation%29 | Atlas (disambiguation) | An atlas is a collection of maps.
Atlas may also refer to:
Mythology
Atlas (mythology), an Ancient Greek Titanic deity
Atlas, the first legendary king of Atlantis
Atlas of Mauretania, a legendary king
Places
United States
Atlas, California
Atlas, Illinois
Atlas, Texas
Atlas, West Virginia
Atlas, Wisconsin
... |
782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthwash | Mouthwash | Mouthwash, mouth rinse, oral rinse, or mouth bath is a liquid which is held in the mouth passively or swirled around the mouth by contraction of the perioral muscles and/or movement of the head, and may be gargled, where the head is tilted back and the liquid bubbled at the back of the mouth.
Usually mouthwashes are a... |
784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Korzybski | Alfred Korzybski | Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (, ; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American independent scholar who developed a field called general semantics, which he viewed as both distinct from, and more encompassing than, the field of semantics. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the huma... |
785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids%20%28video%20game%29 | Asteroids (video game) | Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy the asteroids a... |
787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alismatales | Alismatales | The Alismatales (alismatids) are an order of flowering plants including about 4,500 species. Plants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic. Some grow in fresh water, some in marine habitats. Perhaps the most important food crop in the order is the corm of the taro plant, Colocasia esculenta.
Description... |
788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiales | Apiales | The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families are those recognized in the APG III system. This is typical of the newer classifications, though there is some slight variation and in particular, the Torriceliaceae may also be divided.
Under this definition, well-known members include carrots, celery, parsle... |
789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterales | Asterales | Asterales () is an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants that includes the large family Asteraceae (or Compositae) known for composite flowers made of florets, and ten families related to the Asteraceae. While asterids in general are characterized by fused petals, composite flowers consisting of many florets create ... |
794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocution | Allocution | An allocution, or allocutus, is a formal statement made to the court by the defendant who has been found guilty prior to being sentenced. It is part of the criminal procedure in some jurisdictions using common law.
Concept
An allocution allows the defendant to explain why the sentence should be lenient. In plea barga... |
795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affidavit | Affidavit | An ( ; Medieval Latin for "he has declared under oath") is a written statement voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law. Such a statement is witnessed as to the authenticity of the affiant's signature by a taker of oaths... |
798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aries%20%28constellation%29 | Aries (constellation) | Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere between Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east. The name Aries is Latin for ram. Its old astronomical symbol is (♈︎). It is one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains ... |
799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius%20%28constellation%29 | Aquarius (constellation) | Aquarius is an equatorial constellation of the zodiac, between Capricornus and Pisces. Its name is Latin for "water-carrier" or "cup-carrier", and its old astronomical symbol is (♒︎), a representation of water. Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac (the Sun's apparent path). I... |
801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism | Asterism | Asterism may refer to:
Asterism (astronomy), a pattern of stars
Asterism (gemology), an optical phenomenon in gemstones
Asterism (typography), (⁂) a moderately rare typographical symbol denoting a break in passages
See also
Aster (disambiguation)
Asterisk (disambiguation) |
809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda | Anaconda | Anacondas or water boas are a group of large snakes of the genus Eunectes. They are found in tropical South America. Four species are currently recognized.
Description
Although the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species, in particular, the common or green anaconda (Eunectes mu... |
825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian%20German | Austrian German | Austrian German (), Austrian Standard German (ASG), Standard Austrian German (), Austrian High German (), or simply just Austrian (), is an official and standard variety of Standard High German written and spoken in Austria and Italian South Tyrol. It has the highest sociolinguistic prestige locally, as it is the varia... |
842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean%20Sea | Aegean Sea | The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn connects to the Black Sea, by the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, ... |
846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20of%20Work | Museum of Work | The Museum of Work (Arbetets museum) is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden. The museum is located in the Strykjärn (Clothes iron), a former weaving mill in the old industrial area on the Motala ström river in the city centre of Norrköping. The former textile factory Holmens Bruk (sv) operated in the building from 1... |
849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft | Aircraft | An aircraft (: aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or, in a few cases, direct downward thrust from its engines. Common examples of aircraft include airplanes, helicopters, airships (in... |
851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Nobel | Alfred Nobel | Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is known for creating dynamite as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. He also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patent... |
857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeenshire | Aberdeenshire | Aberdeenshire (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen, which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area includes all of the area of the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire (except the area making up Aberdeen City coun... |
859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztlan%20Underground | Aztlan Underground | Aztlan Underground is a band from Los Angeles, California that combines Hip-Hop, Punk Rock, Jazz, and electronic music with Chicano and Native American themes, and indigenous instrumentation. They are often cited as progenitors of Chicano rap.
Background
The band traces its roots to the late-1980s hardcore scene in t... |
868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alp%20Arslan | Alp Arslan | Alp Arslan, born Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri, was the second sultan of the Seljuk Empire and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty. He greatly expanded the Seljuk territory and consolidated his power, defeating rivals to the south and northwest, and his victory over the Byzantines at the Battle ... |
869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Film%20Institute | American Film Institute | The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees.
Leadership
The institute is composed of leaders from the film, entertainment, b... |
875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20Brothers | Analog Brothers | Analog Brothers were an experimental hip hop band featuring Tracy "Ice-T" Marrow (Ice Oscillator) on keyboards, drums and vocals, Keith "Kool Keith" Thornton (Keith Korg) on bass, strings and vocals, Marc Live (Marc Moog) on drums, violins and vocals, Christopher "Black Silver" Rodgers (Silver Synth) on synthesizer, la... |
876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20neuron%20diseases | Motor neuron diseases | Motor neuron diseases or motor neurone diseases (MNDs) are a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders that selectively affect motor neurons, the cells which control voluntary muscles of the body. They include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progressive bulbar palsy (PBP), pseudobulbar palsy, progressive muscular ... |
877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad | Abjad | An abjad (, ; also abgad) is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader. This contrasts with alphabets, which provide graphemes for both consonants and vowels. The term was introduced in 1990 by Peter T. Daniels. Other terms for the same concept include:... |
878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida | Abugida | An abugida (, from Ge'ez: ), sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, like a diacritical mark. This contrasts with a full alphabet,... |
881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance | Allegiance | An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects or citizens to their state or sovereign.
Etymology
The word allegiance comes from Middle English (see Medieval Latin , "a liegance"). The al- prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeanc... |
885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenberg | Altenberg | Altenberg (German for "old mountain" or "mountain of the old") may refer to:
Places
Austria
Altenberg, a town in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Tulln District
Altenberg bei Linz, in Upper Austria
Altenberg an der Rax, in Styria
Germany
Altenberg (Bergisches Land), an area in Odenthal, North Rhine-Westphalia
Altenberg Abb... |
887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad | MessagePad | The MessagePad is a discontinued series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple Computer for the Newton platform in 1993. Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of Apple's MessagePad devices was undertaken in Japan by Sharp. The devices are based on the ARM 610 RISC processor and all featured... |
888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20E.%20van%20Vogt | A. E. van Vogt | Alfred Elton van Vogt ( ; April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born American science fiction author. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, notably Philip K. Dick. He was one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the mid-twentiet... |
890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Kournikova | Anna Kournikova | Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player and American television personality. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most com... |
892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons%20Maria%20Jakob | Alfons Maria Jakob | Alfons Maria Jakob (2 July 1884 – 17 October 1931) was a German neurologist who worked in the field of neuropathology.
He was born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria and educated in medicine at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in 1908. During the following year, he began clini... |
894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism | Agnosticism | Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that God exists or the belief that God does not exist."
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896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon | Argon | Argon is a chemical element with the symbol Ar and atomic number 18. It is in group 18 of the periodic table and is a noble gas. Argon is the third-most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, at 0.934% (9340 ppmv). It is more than twice as abundant as water vapor (which averages about 4000 ppmv, but varies greatly), 23 ti... |
898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony | Antimony | Antimony is a chemical element with the symbol Sb () and atomic number 51. A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite (Sb2S3). Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were powdered for use as medicine and cosmetics, often known by the Arabic name kohl. The... |
899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinium | Actinium | Actinium is a chemical element with the symbol Ac and atomic number 89. It was first isolated by Friedrich Oskar Giesel in 1902, who gave it the name emanium; the element got its name by being wrongly identified with a substance André-Louis Debierne found in 1899 and called actinium. Actinium gave the name to the actin... |
903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arable%20land | Arable land | Arable land (from the , "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. Alternatively, for the purposes of agricultural statistics, the term often has a more precise definition:
A more concise definition appearing in the Eurostat glossary similarly refers to actual rather than pot... |
905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Chemistry | Advanced Chemistry | Advanced Chemistry is a German hip hop group from Heidelberg, a scenic city in Baden-Württemberg, South Germany. Advanced Chemistry was founded in 1987 by Toni L, Linguist, Gee-One, DJ Mike MD (Mike Dippon) and MC Torch. Each member of the group holds German citizenship, and Toni L, Linguist, and Torch are of Italian, ... |
909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican%20Communion | Anglican Communion | The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion. The traditional origins... |
910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne%20Kaijser | Arne Kaijser | Arne Kaijser (born 1950) is a professor emeritus of history of technology at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a former president of the Society for the History of Technology.
Kaijser has published two books in Swedish: Stadens ljus. Etableringen av de första svenska gasverken and I fädrens spår.... |