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1005 | 82432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1005 | August | August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days.
In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere, August falls in summer. In the Southern Hemisphere, the month falls during winter. In man... |
1006 | 39540191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006 | Aaron | According to the Old Testament of the Bible, Aaron ( or ) was an Israelite prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament (Luke, Acts, and Hebrews), and the Quran.
The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike M... |
1014 | 40613867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1014 | Alcohol (chemistry) | In chemistry, an alcohol (), is a type of organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl () functional group bound to a saturated carbon atom. Alcohols range from the simple, like methanol and ethanol, to complex, like sugar alcohols and cholesterol. The presence of an OH group strongly modifies the properties of ... |
1016 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1016 | Achill Island | Achill Island (; ) is an island off the west coast of Ireland in the historical barony of Burrishoole, County Mayo. It is the largest of the Irish isles and has an area of approximately . Achill had a population of 2,345 in the 2022 census. The island, which has been connected to the mainland by a bridge since 1887, is... |
1017 | 13667518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1017 | Allen Ginsberg | Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexua... |
1018 | 1297272526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018 | Algebraically closed field | In mathematics, a field is algebraically closed if every non-constant polynomial with coefficients in has a root in . In other words, a field is algebraically closed if the fundamental theorem of algebra holds for it. For example, the field of real numbers is not algebraically complete because the polynomial formula_1 ... |
1020 | 1844040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1020 | Anatoly Karpov | Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, ; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, a three-time FIDE World Champion (1993, 1996, 1998), twice World Chess champion as a member of the USSR team (1985, ... |
1021 | 1297219106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021 | Aspect ratio | The aspect ratio of a geometric shape is the ratio of its sizes in different dimensions. For example, the aspect ratio of a rectangle is the ratio of its longer side to its shorter side—the ratio of width to height, when the rectangle is oriented as a "landscape".
The aspect ratio is most often expressed as two integer... |
1022 | 44791718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1022 | Auto racing | Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including non-racing disciplines.
Auto racing has existed since the invention of the autom... |
1023 | 609725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1023 | Anarcho-capitalism | Anarcho-capitalism (colloquially: ancap or an-cap) is a political philosophy and economic theory that advocates for the abolition of centralized states in favor of stateless societies, where systems of private property are enforced by private agencies. Anarcho-capitalists argue that society can self-regulate and civili... |
1028 | 42517214 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1028 | Aristophanes | Aristophanes (; ; ) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. The majority of his surviving plays belong to the genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are considered its most valuable examples. Aristophanes' plays were perfo... |
1029 | 2141280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1029 | Albert Schweitzer | Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German and French polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of the historical Jesus as depicted by ... |
1030 | 45908594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1030 | Austrian school of economics | The Austrian school is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result primarily from the motivations and actions of individuals along with their self-interest. Austrian-school theorists hold that economic theory should be ... |
1032 | 27823944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032 | Abscess | An abscess is a collection of pus that has built up within the tissue of the body, usually caused by bacterial infection. Signs and symptoms of abscesses include redness, pain, warmth, and swelling. The swelling may feel fluid-filled when pressed. The area of redness often extends beyond the swelling. Carbuncles and bo... |
1036 | 1827553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1036 | Aalborg Municipality | Ålborg Municipality () is a municipality in North Jutland Region on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality straddles the Limfjord, the waterway which connects the North Sea and the Kattegat east-to-west, and which separates the main body of the Jutland peninsula from the island of Vendsyssel-Thy no... |
1038 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1038 | Aarhus | Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest of Copenhagen.
Dating back to the late 8th century, Aarhus was founded as a harb... |
1043 | 126457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1043 | Northern cavefish | The northern cavefish or northern blindfish (Amblyopsis spelaea) is found in caves through Kentucky and southern Indiana. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as near threatened.
The life cycle of northern cavefish includes a protolarval stage. In this stage, eggs and those that have rec... |
1046 | 44062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1046 | Abatement | Abatement refers generally to a lessening, diminution, reduction, or moderation; specifically, it may refer to: |
1049 | 3222155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1049 | Amateur | An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, self-taught, user-generated, DIY, and hobbyist.
History.
Historically, the amateur was considered to be the ideal balance between pure int... |
1051 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1051 | Alexis Carrel | Alexis Carrel (; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles Lindbergh open... |
1055 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055 | All Souls' Day | All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by Christians on 2 November. In Western Christianity, including Roman Catholicism and certain parts of Lutheranism and Anglicanism, All Souls' Day is the third day of Allhal... |
1057 | 7436027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057 | Anatole France | ' (; born ' ; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant... |
1058 | 1298401554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1058 | André Gide | André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two Wor... |
1063 | 23646674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1063 | Algorithms for calculating variance | Algorithms for calculating variance play a major role in computational statistics. A key difficulty in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.
N... |
1064 | 16080304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064 | Almond | The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis, nom. illeg.) is a species of tree from the genus "Prunus". Along with the peach, it is classified in the subgenus "Amygdalus", distinguished from the other subgenera by corrugations on the shell (endocarp) surrounding the seed.
The fruit of the almond is a drupe, consis... |
1069 | 12971673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1069 | Demographics of Antigua and Barbuda | This article is a demography of the population of Antigua and Barbuda including population density, ethnicity, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Population size and structure.
According to the 2011 census the estimated resident population of Antigua and Barbuda was 86,295.
The estimated popula... |
1070 | 40551159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070 | Politics of Antigua and Barbuda | The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a governor-general to act as vice-regal representative in the nation. A prime minister is appointed by the governor-... |
1072 | 40551159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072 | Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda |
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda are via media in the telecommunications industry.
Telephone.
Telephones – main lines in use: 37,500 (2006)
"country comparison to the world:" 168
Telephones – mobile cellular: 110,200 (2006) (APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel)
"country comparison to the world:" 177
Tel... |
1074 | 40551159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1074 | Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force | The Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force (ABDF) is the armed forces of Antigua and Barbuda. The ABDF has responsibility for several different roles: internal security, prevention of drug smuggling, the protection and support of fishing rights, prevention of marine pollution, search and rescue, ceremonial duties, assistanc... |
1078 | 48093140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1078 | Antisemitism | Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemitic tendencies may be motivated primarily by negative sentiment towards Jews as a... |
1081 | 49117425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1081 | Economy of Azerbaijan | The economy of Azerbaijan is highly dependent on oil and gas exports, in particular since the completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline. The transition to oil production in the late 1990s led to rapid economic growth over the period 1995–2014. Since 2014, GDP growth has slowed down substantially.
Large oil reserve... |
1082 | 46950062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1082 | Geography of Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan is a country in the Caucasus region, situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and West Asia. Three physical features dominate Azerbaijan: the Caspian Sea, whose shoreline forms a natural boundary to the east; the Greater Caucasus mountain range to the north; and the extensive flatlands at the country's cen... |
1087 | 6575218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1087 | Foreign relations of Azerbaijan |
The Republic of Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, the World Health Organization, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the Council of Euro... |
1088 | 1301352204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1088 | Azerbaijani Armed Forces | The Azerbaijani Armed Forces () is the military of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It was re-established according to the country's Law of the Armed Forces on 9 October 1991. The original Azerbaijan Democratic Republic's armed forces were dissolved after Azerbaijan was absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Sovie... |
1091 | 14691013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091 | Geography of Armenia | Armenia is a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region of the Caucasus. The country is geographically located in West Asia, within the Armenian plateau. Armenia is bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran, Azerbaijan's exclave Nakhchivan, and Turkey.
The terrain i... |
1092 | 13791031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1092 | Demographics of Armenia | After registering steady increases during the Soviet period, the population of Armenia declined from its peak value of 3.633 million in 1992 to 3.075 million in 2025.
Whilst the country's population increased steadily during the Soviet Union as a result of periods of repatriation and low emigration rates, it has declin... |
1093 | 49553272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1093 | Politics of Armenia | The politics of Armenia take place in the framework of the parliamentary representative democratic republic of Armenia, whereby the president of Armenia is the head of state and the prime minister of Armenia the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and the Gover... |
1094 | 43933890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094 | Economy of Armenia | The economy of Armenia grew by 5.9% in 2024, according to estimates by the International Monetary Fund, with total output amounting to $25.5 billion. GDP contracted sharply in 2020 by 7.1%, mainly due to the COVID-19 recession and the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War with Azerbaijan. In contrast it grew by 7.6% in 2019, 5.8... |
1096 | 28021428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1096 | Transport in Armenia | This article considers transport in Armenia.
Railways.
Total.
in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
Broad gauge.
850 km of gauge (850 km electrified) (1995)
There is no service south of Yerevan.
City with metro system: Yerevan
International links.
Most of the cross-border lines are currently clo... |
1097 | 37371155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1097 | Armed Forces of Armenia | The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia (, abbreviated ՀՀ ԶՈՒ, "HH ZU"), sometimes referred to as the Armenian Army (), is the national military of Armenia. It consists of personnel branches under the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, which can be divided into two general branches: the Ground Forces, and ... |
1098 | 6134854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1098 | Foreign relations of Armenia | Since its independence, Armenia has maintained a policy of trying to have positive and friendly relations with Iran, Greece, and the West, including the United States and the European Union. It has full membership status in a number of international organizations, such as the Council of Europe and the Eurasian Economic... |
1110 | 141808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1110 | Demographics of American Samoa | Demographics of American Samoa include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects. American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean.
Population.
The statistics from 1900 to 1950 an... |
1111 | 10291250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1111 | Politics of American Samoa |
Politics of American Samoa takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the governor is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, ... |
1112 | 27823944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1112 | Economy of American Samoa | The economy of American Samoa is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned. American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States; economic activity is strongly linked to the main customs zone of the U.S., with which American Samoa conducts the great bulk of it... |
1130 | 40370700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1130 | Avicenna | Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
Often desc... |
1132 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1132 | The Ashes | The Ashes is a Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, "The Sporting Times", immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had... |
1134 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1134 | Analysis |
Analysis (: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 BC), though "analysis" as a formal concept is a relatively recent develop... |
1135 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1135 | Abner Doubleday | Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his fin... |
1136 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1136 | America's National Game | America's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911, that details the early history of the sport of baseball. It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.
Much of the story is told first-hand; since the 1850s, Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a pit... |
1140 | 910180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140 | Amplitude modulation | Amplitude modulation (AM) is a signal modulation technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting messages with a radio wave. In amplitude modulation, the instantaneous amplitude of the wave is varied in proportion to that of the message signal, such as an audio signal. This technique contrast... |
1141 | 252195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1141 | Augustin-Jean Fresnel | Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century. He is perhaps better known for i... |
1143 | 36223267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143 | Abbot | Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from "abba", the Aramaic form of the Hebrew "ab", and means "father". The female equivalent is abbess.
Origins.
The title had its origin in the monasteries of Egypt and Syr... |
1144 | 31737083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1144 | Ardipithecus | Ardipithecus is a genus of an extinct hominine that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene epochs in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Originally described as one of the earliest ancestors of humans after they diverged from the chimpanzees, the relation of this genus to human ancestors and whether it is a homini... |
1146 | 48637525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1146 | Assembly line | An assembly line, often called "progressive assembly", is a manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed. By mechanically moving parts to workstations and transferring the unfinished product f... |
1148 | 6483916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1148 | Adelaide | Adelaide ( , ; ) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym "Adelaidean" is used to denote the city and the residents of A... |
1152 | 20685249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1152 | Alan Garner | Alan Garner (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of t... |
1155 | 44062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1155 | Atlantic (disambiguation) | The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans, that separates the old world from the new world.
Atlantic may also refer to: |
1158 | 39177298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1158 | Algebraic number | In mathematics, an algebraic number is a number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with integer (or, equivalently, rational) coefficients. For example, the golden ratio formula_1 is an algebraic number, because it is a root of the polynomial formula_2, i.e., a solution of the equation formula_3, an... |
1160 | 1299767518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1160 | Automorphism | In mathematics, an automorphism is an isomorphism from a mathematical object to itself. It is, in some sense, a symmetry of the object, and a way of mapping the object to itself while preserving all of its structure. The set of all automorphisms of an object forms a group, called the automorphism group. It is, loosely ... |
1162 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1162 | Accordion | Accordions (from 19th-century German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody s... |
1164 | 6603956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164 | Artificial intelligence | Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable m... |
1166 | 21026030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1166 | Afro Celt Sound System | Afro Celt Sound System are a European and African group who fuse electronic music with traditional Gaelic and West African music. Afro Celt Sound System was formed in 1995 by producer-guitarist Simon Emmerson, and feature a wide range of guest artists. In 2003, they temporarily changed their name to Afrocelts before r... |
1167 | 48608576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1167 | Ancient philosophy | This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history ().
Overview.
Genuine philosophical thought, depending upon original individual insights, arose in many cultures roughly contemporaneously. Karl Jaspers termed the intense period of philosophi... |
1168 | 7770027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168 | Anaximander | Anaximander ( ; "Anaximandros"; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. He succeeded Thales and became the second master of that school, where he counted Anaximenes and, arguab... |
1170 | 712163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170 | Architect | An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that have human occupancy or use as their principal purpose. Etymologically, the ... |
1171 | 30063581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1171 | Abbreviation | An abbreviation () is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis. An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word, usually ended with a trailing period. For example, the term "etc." is the usual abbreviation for the Latin phras... |
1174 | 14965160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1174 | Aphrodite | Aphrodite (, ) is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretised Roman counterpart , desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was la... |
1176 | 13974845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1176 | Antisymmetric relation | In mathematics, a binary relation formula_1 on a set formula_2 is antisymmetric if there is no pair of "distinct" elements of formula_2 each of which is related by formula_1 to the other. More formally, formula_1 is antisymmetric precisely if for all formula_6
formula_7
or equivalently,
formula_8
The definition of anti... |
1177 | 13286072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1177 | Aleister Crowley | Aleister Crowley ( ; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th c... |
1178 | 47512895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1178 | Afterlife | The afterlife or life after death is a postulated existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or sp... |
1181 | 12120664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1181 | Astrometry | Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies. It provides the kinematics and physical origin of the Solar System and this galaxy, the Milky Way.
History.
The history of astrometry is linked to the history of star catalogues, wh... |
1182 | 34669967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1182 | Athena | Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most ... |
1183 | 34957066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1183 | Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game | The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his "Chronicles of Amber". The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions; instead a simple diceless system of comparat... |
1184 | 196446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1184 | Athene (disambiguation) | Athene or Athena is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology.
Athene may also refer to: |
1187 | 1934512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1187 | Alloy | An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described. Metallic alloys often have properties that differ from those of the pure elements from which they are made.
The va... |
1192 | 1300686548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1192 | Artistic revolution | Throughout history, forms of art have gone through periodic abrupt changes called artistic revolutions. Movements have come to an end to be replaced by a new movement markedly different in striking ways.
Scientific and technological.
Not all artistic revolutions were political. Sometimes, science and technological inno... |
1193 | 1301172099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1193 | Agrarianism | Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy that advocates for rural development, a rural agricultural lifestyle, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization. Those who adhere to agrarianism tend to value traditional forms of local community over urban modernity. Agrarian politica... |
1196 | 49365161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1196 | Angle | In Euclidean geometry, an angle can refer to a number of concepts relating to the intersection of two straight lines at a point. Formally, an angle is a figure lying in a plane formed by two rays, called the "sides" of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the "vertex" of the angle. More generally angles are als... |
1198 | 1297478067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1198 | Acoustics | Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics technology may be called an... |
1200 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1200 | Atomic physics | Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus. Atomic physics typically refers to the study of atomic structure and the interaction between atoms. It is primarily concerned with the way in which electrons are arranged around the nucleus and
the proces... |
1201 | 7903804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1201 | American Sign Language | American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features. Besides North America, dialects of AS... |
1202 | 16944783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1202 | Applet | In computing, an applet is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a dedicated widget engine or a larger program, often as a plug-in. The term is frequently used to refer to a Java applet, a program written in the Java programming language that is designed to be placed on a w... |
1203 | 1934512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1203 | Alternate history | Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternate history stories propose "wh... |
1206 | 45093283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1206 | Atomic orbital | In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital () is a function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. This function describes an electron's charge distribution around the atom's nucleus, and can be used to calculate the probability of finding an electron in a specific region around the nucl... |
1207 | 1301114348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1207 | Amino acid |
Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups. Although over 500 amino acids exist in nature, by far the most important are the 22 α-amino acids incorporated into proteins. Only these 22 appear in the genetic code of life.
Amino acids can be classified according to th... |
1208 | 35498457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1208 | Alan Turing | Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with t... |
1209 | 2051880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1209 | Area | Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or "plane area" refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while "surface area" refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-dimensional object. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thicknes... |
1210 | 46354005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1210 | Astronomical unit | The astronomical unit (symbol: au or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to . Historically, the astronomical unit was conceived as the average Earth-Sun distance (the average of Earth's aphelion and perihelion), before its modern redefinition in 2012.
The astronomical unit is used primarily for measurin... |
1212 | 45058126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1212 | Artist | An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage in everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only.
However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business to refer to ac... |
1213 | 45317835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1213 | Actaeon | In Greek mythology, Actaeon (; "Aktaiōn") was the son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, and a famous Theban hero. Through his mother he was a member of the ruling House of Cadmus. Like Achilles, in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.
He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis (... |
1214 | 27658600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1214 | Anglicanism | Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, ... |
1216 | 9183907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1216 | Athens | Athens ( ) is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the E... |
1217 | 20611691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1217 | Anguilla | Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. The territory consists of the main island of Anguilla, approximately long by wide at its widest p... |
1223 | 736651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223 | Telecommunications in Anguilla | This article is about communications systems in Anguilla.
Telephone.
Telephones – main lines in use: 6,200 (2002)
"country comparison to the world:" 212
Telephones – mobile cellular: 1,800 (2002)
"country comparison to the world:" 211
Telephone system:
<br>"Domestic:" Modern internal telephone system
<br>"I... |
1227 | 48523215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227 | Ashmore and Cartier Islands | The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an uninhabited Australian external territory consisting of four low-lying tropical islands in two separate reefs (Ashmore and Cartier), as well as the territorial sea generated by the islands. The territory is located in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the contin... |
1234 | 46700732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1234 | Acoustic theory | Acoustic theory is a scientific field that relates to the description of sound waves. It derives from fluid dynamics. See acoustics for the engineering approach.
For sound waves of any magnitude of a disturbance in velocity, pressure, and density we have
formula_1
In the case that the fluctuations in velocity, density... |
1235 | 1005449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1235 | Alexander Mackenzie (politician) | Alexander Mackenzie (January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892) was a Canadian stonemason and politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada from 1873 to 1878.
Mackenzie was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland. He left school at the age of 13, following his father's death, to help his widowed mother, and trai... |
1239 | 42899727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1239 | Ashoka | Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka ( ; , ; – 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha from until his death in 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty. His empire covered a large part of the Indian subcontinent, stretching from present-day Afghanistan in the west to prese... |
1241 | 27823944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1241 | American (word) | The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used. "American" is derived from "America", a term originally denoting all of the Americas (also called the Western Hemisphere), ultimately derived from the name of the Florent... |
1242 | 35498457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1242 | Ada (programming language) | Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages. It has built-in language support for "design by contract" (DbC), extremely strong typing, explicit concurrency, tasks, synchronous message passing, protected objects, and non-d... |
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