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Feminism
Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unfairly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11185 |
Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a governmental body of the United States with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation in that nation as well as over its surrounding international waters. Its powers include the construction and operation of airports, air traffic man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11186 |
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies beginning in 1789 and ending in 1799. The Revolution overthrew the monarchy; established a republic; catalyzed violent periods of political turmoil; and finally culminated in a dictatorship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11188 |
Francis Fukuyama
Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (, ; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and writer. Fukuyama is known for his book "The End of History and the Last Man" (1992), which argued that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies and free-market capitalism of the West ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11194 |
Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. These manual alphabets (also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets), have often been used in deaf education, and have subsequently been adopted as a distin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11195 |
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through a number of social occasions as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11223 |
Ferrari
Ferrari (; ) is an Italian-Dutch luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1939 out of Alfa Romeo's race division as "Auto Avio Costruzioni", the company built its first car in 1940. However, the company's inception as an auto manufacturer is usually recognized in 194... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11225 |
Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons that from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
Modern Freemasonry broadly consists of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11227 |
Fulham F.C.
Fulham Football Club is a professional association football club based in Fulham, London, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. Founded in 1879, they are the oldest football club from London to play in the Football League.
The club has spent 26 seasons in Engl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11228 |
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood were a British band formed in Liverpool, England, in the 1980s. The group was fronted by Holly Johnson (vocals), with Paul Rutherford (vocals), Peter Gill (drums, percussion), Mark O'Toole (bass guitar) and Brian Nash (guitar).
The group's 1983 debut single "Relax" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11229 |
Factors of production
In economics, factors of production, resources, or inputs are what is used in the production process to produce output—that is, finished goods and services. The utilized amounts of the various inputs determine the quantity of output according to the relationship called the production function. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11231 |
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Allen County, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. With a population of 253,691 in the 2010 census, it is the second-most populous city in Indiana after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11232 |
Fart (word)
Fart is a word in the English language most commonly used in reference to flatulence that can be used as a noun or a verb. The immediate roots are in the Middle English words "ferten", "feortan" and "farten", kin of the Old High German word "ferzan". Cognates are found in Old Norse, Slavic and also Greek a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11236 |
FA Cup
The FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after The Football Association ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11237 |
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts, near Kenmore Square. Since 1912, it has been the home for the Boston Red Sox, the city's American League baseball team, and since 1953, its only Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. While the stadium was built in 1912, it was rebuilt in 193... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11238 |
Flatulence
Flatulence is defined in the medical literature as "flatus expelled through the anus" or the "quality or state of being flatulent", which is defined in turn as "marked by or affected with gases generated in the intestine or stomach; likely to cause digestive flatulence". The root of these words is from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11240 |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the "Final Fantasy" franchise. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and was the most expensive video game-inspired film until the rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11242 |
Free Methodist Church
The Free Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement. It is evangelical in nature and is Wesleyan-Arminian in theology.
The Free Methodist Church has 77,000 members in the United States and 1,055,000 members worldwide in 82 nations. The "Light & Life Magaz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11244 |
John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogized in a fourth. His significance as a fully developed character is primarily formed in the plays "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Part 2", where he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V of En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11246 |
Floorball
Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. Floorball was included in the World Games for the first time in 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. Sweden were th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11247 |
Edinburgh
Edinburgh (; ; ) is the capital of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.
Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9602 |
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. "Encyclopædia Britannica" considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867).
In earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9603 |
Many-worlds interpretation
The many-worlds interpretation (MWI) is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts that the universal wavefunction is objectively real, and that there is no wavefunction collapse. This implies that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements are physically realized in some "world"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9604 |
E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9611 |
Euler's formula
Euler's formula, named after Leonhard Euler, is a mathematical formula in complex analysis that establishes the fundamental relationship between the trigonometric functions and the complex exponential function. Euler's formula states that for any real number :
where is the base of the natural logarith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9613 |
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, , ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9615 |
Evolutionarily stable strategy
An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy (or set of strategies) which, if adopted by a population in a given environment, is impenetrable, meaning that it cannot be invaded by any alternative strategy (or strategies) that are initially rare. It is relevant in game theory, be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9616 |
Extremophile
An extremophile (from Latin ' meaning "extreme" and Greek ' () meaning "love") is an organism with optimal growth in environmental conditions considered extreme in that it is challenging for a carbon-based life form with water as a solvent, such as all life on Earth, to survive.
This is not the same as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9619 |
Education reform
Education Reform in the United States is the name given to the goal of changing public education. Historically, reforms have taken different forms because the motivations of reformers have differed. However, since the 1980s, education reform has been focused on changing the existing system from one fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9620 |
Ellensburg, Washington
Ellensburg is a city in and county seat of Kittitas County, Washington, United States. The population was 21,111 in a July 2019 census estimate. It is located just east of the Cascade Range at the junction of Interstate 90 and Interstate 82.
The city is located along the Yakima River in the Kit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9621 |
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest. It is at the southern end of the verdant Willamette Valley, near the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.
As of the 2010 census, Eugene had a population of 156,185; it is the county ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9623 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett, ; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.
Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9627 |
Enlil
Enlil, later known as Elil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians. Enlil's primary center of worship was the Ekur temple in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9628 |
Ecology
Ecology (from , "house", or "environment"; , "study of") is a branch of biology concerning interactions among organisms and their biophysical environment, which includes both biotic and abiotic components. Topics of interest include the biodiversity, distribution, biomass, and populations of organisms, as well... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 |
Glossary of country dance terms
An alphabetic list of modern country dance terminology:
Active couple - for longways sets, the active couple is the couple nearest the head of the set within each "minor set." There are always exactly as many active couples as "minor sets." If the dance is "duple minor," this works out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9631 |
Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the system through photosynthesis and is incorporated int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9632 |
E (mathematical constant)
The number is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.71828 and is the base of the natural logarithm, that is the unique number whose natural logarithm equals one. It is the limit of as approaches infinity, an expression that arises in the study of compound interest. It can also be c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9633 |
Euler–Maclaurin formula
In mathematics, the Euler–Maclaurin formula is a formula for the difference between an integral and a closely related sum. It can be used to approximate integrals by finite sums, or conversely to evaluate finite sums and infinite series using integrals and the machinery of calculus. For example... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9637 |
Epimenides paradox
The Epimenides paradox reveals a problem with self-reference in logic. It is named after the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos (alive circa 600 BC) who is credited with the original statement. A typical description of the problem is given in the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach", by Douglas Hofstadt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9638 |
Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy. Heat engines, like the internal combustion engine, burn a fuel to create heat which is then used to do work. Electric motors convert electrical energy into mechanical motion, pneumatic motors use compressed air, and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9640 |
European Environment Agency
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides independent information on the environment.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) which provides independent information on the environment.
Its goal is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9644 |
Erlang (programming language)
Erlang ( ) is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language, and a garbage-collected runtime system. The term Erlang is used interchangeably with Erlang/OTP, or Open Telecom Platform (OTP), which consists of the Erlang runtime system, several ready-to-use components (OTP)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9646 |
Euphoria (programming language)
Euphoria is a programming language originally created by Robert Craig of Rapid Deployment Software in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Initially developed (though not publicly released) on the Atari ST, the first commercial release was for the 16-bit DOS platform and was proprietary. In 2006, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9647 |
Energy
In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object. Energy is a conserved quantity; the law of conservation of energy states that energy can be converted in form, but not created or destroyed. The SI unit of energy is the jou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9649 |
Expected value
In probability theory, the expected value of a random variable is a generalization of the weighted average and intuitively is the arithmetic mean of a large number of independent realizations of that variable. The expected value is also known as the expectation, mathematical expectation, mean, average, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9653 |
Electric light
An electric light is a device that produces visible light from electric current. It is the most common form of artificial lighting and is essential to modern society, providing interior lighting for buildings and exterior light for evening and nighttime activities. In technical usage, a replaceable comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9656 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American speculative fiction writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction and fantasy genres. Among his most well-known creations include Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars ("Barsoom" series), and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9657 |
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (; 27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9658 |
Endocarditis
Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. It usually involves the heart valves. Other structures that may be involved include the interventricular septum, the chordae tendineae, the mural endocardium, or the surfaces of intracardiac devices. Endocarditis is characte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9659 |
Euler's sum of powers conjecture
Euler's conjecture is a disproved conjecture in mathematics related to Fermat's last theorem. It was proposed by Leonhard Euler in 1769. It states that for all integers and greater than 1, if the sum of th powers of positive integers is itself a th power, then is greater than or equal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9660 |
Book of Exodus
The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Bible, It describes the Israelites' deliverance from slavery in Egypt through the hand of Yahweh, the revelations at biblical Mount Sinai, and the subsequent "divine indwelling" of God with Israel.
Exodus is traditionally ascribed to Moses, but modern schola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9662 |
Electronics
Electronics comprises the physics, engineering, technology and applications that deal with the emission, flow and control of electrons in vacuum and matter.
It uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification and rectification, which distinguishes it from classical electrical engineering whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9663 |
Erewhon
Erewhon: or, Over the Range () is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. Butler meant the title to be understood as the word "nowhere" backwards even though the letters "h" and "w" are transposed. The book i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9664 |
Entorhinal cortex
The entorhinal cortex (EC) is an area of the brain located in the medial temporal lobe and functions as a hub in a widespread network for memory, navigation and the perception of time. The EC is the main interface between the hippocampus and neocortex. The EC-hippocampus system plays an important rol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9667 |
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist and an influential promoter of the scientific racism that led to murderous results during the 20th century. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany but he embraced a misinterpretati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9668 |
Evolutionism
Evolutionism is a term used (often derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution has progressed. In the 19th century, it was used to describe the belief that organisms deliberately improved themselves through progressive inherited change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9670 |
Entscheidungsproblem
In mathematics and computer science, the (, German for "decision problem") is a challenge posed by David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann in 1928. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9672 |
Einhard
Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart; ; 775 – March 14, 840) was a Frankish scholar and courtier. Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the "Vita Karoli Magni", "one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages."... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9674 |
Ester
In chemistry, an ester is a chemical compound derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which at least one –OH (hydroxyl) group is replaced by an –O–alkyl (alkoxy) group. Usually, esters are derived from a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. Glycerides, which are fatty acid esters of glycerol, are important est... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9675 |
Endosymbiont
An endosymbiont or endobiont is any organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism most often, though not always, in a mutualistic relationship.
(The term endosymbiosis is from the Greek: ἔνδον "endon" "within", σύν "syn" "together" and βίωσις "biosis" "living".) Examples are nitrogen-fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9677 |
Exponential function
In mathematics, an exponential function is a function of the form
where is a positive real number, and in which the argument occurs as an exponent. For real numbers and a function of the form formula_1 is also an exponential function, as it can be rewritten as
As functions of a real variable, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9678 |
Prince Eugene of Savoy
Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy–Carignano (18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736) was a field marshal in the army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty during the 17th and 18th centuries. He was one of the most successful military commanders of his time, and rose to the highest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9679 |
Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best known for his 1851 painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware". He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg, Germany, and was brought to the Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9683 |
Earley parser
In computer science, the Earley parser is an algorithm for parsing strings that belong to a given context-free language, though (depending on the variant) it may suffer problems with certain nullable grammars. The algorithm, named after its inventor, Jay Earley, is a chart parser that uses dynamic progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9685 |
Ethiopian cuisine
Ethiopian cuisine () characteristically consists of vegetable and often very spicy meat dishes. This is usually in the form of "wat," a thick stew, served atop "injera", a large sourdough flatbread, which is about in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour. Ethiopians eat most of the time with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9686 |
Epistle of James
The Epistle of James, the Letter of James, or simply James (), is one of the 21 epistles (didactic letters) in the New Testament.
The author identifies himself as "James, a servant [or slave] of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" who is writing to "the twelve tribes scattered abroad". The epistle is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9688 |
Eusebius Amort
Eusebius Amort (November 15, 1692February 5, 1775) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.
Amort was born at Bibermuhle, near Tolz, in Upper Bavaria. He studied at Munich, and at an early age joined the Canons Regular at Polling, where, shortly after his ordination in 1717, he taught theology and philo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9692 |
Episcopus vagans
The "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church" mentions as the main lines of succession deriving from "" in the 20th century those founded by Arnold Mathew, Joseph René Vilatte and Leon Chechemian. Others that could be added are those derived from Aftimios Ofiesh, Carlos Duarte Costa, Paolo Miraglia-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9693 |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9695 |
Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement). This natural process is ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9696 |
Cnidaria
Cnidaria () is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in freshwater and marine environments: they are predominantly marine.
Their distinguishing feature is cnidocytes, specialized cells that they use mainly for capturing prey. Their bodies consist of mes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6621 |
Conservative Judaism
Conservative Judaism (known as Masorti Judaism outside North America) is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people and the community through the generations, more than from divine revelation. It therefore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6623 |
Common Desktop Environment
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard, and was for a long time the "classic" Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations.
After a long histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6627 |
Children of Dune
Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his "Dune" series of six novels. It was originally serialized in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" in 1976, and was the last "Dune" novel to be serialized before book publication.
At the end of "Dune Messiah", Paul Atreid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6628 |
Candide
' ( , ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism""' (1947). It begins with a young man, Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6629 |
Chapterhouse: Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune is a 1985 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the last in his "Dune" series of six novels. It rose to No. 2 on "The New York Times" Best Seller list.
A direct follow-up to "Heretics of Dune", the novel chronicles the continued struggles of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood against... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6630 |
Bus (computing)
In computer architecture, a bus (a contraction of the Latin "omnibus", and historically also called "data highway") is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers. This expression covers all related hardware components (wire, optical fiber, etc.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6631 |
Chinese checkers
Sternhalma, commonly known as Chinese Checkers (US and Canadian spelling) or Chinese Chequers (UK spelling), is a strategy board game of German origin which can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. The game is a modern and simplified variation of the gam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6635 |
Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald is an American financial services firm that was founded in 1945. It specializes in institutional equity, fixed income sales and trading, and serving the middle market with investment banking services, prime brokerage, and commercial real estate financing. It is also active in new bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6639 |
Cane toad
The cane toad ("Rhinella marina"), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia. It is the world's l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6641 |
Croquet
Croquet (; (UK) or (US)) is a sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
The oldest document to bear the word "croquet" with a description of the modern game is the set of rules registered by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6643 |
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice "cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6644 |
Craven Cottage
Craven Cottage is a football stadium located in Fulham, London. It has been the home ground of Fulham F.C. since 1896.
The ground's capacity was 25,700, all-seated, until the closure of the Riverside Stand in the close season of 2019, though the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6645 |
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Cedar Falls is a city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 39,260. It is home to the University of Northern Iowa, a public university.
Cedar Falls was founded in 1845 by William Sturgis. It was originally named Sturgis Falls, for the first family ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6651 |
Cleveland Indians
The Cleveland Indians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. Since , they have played at Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is at Goodyear Ballp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6652 |
Cape Town
Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad ; Xhosa: "iKapa;") is the second most populous city in South Africa after Johannesburg and also the legislative capital of South Africa. Colloquially named the Mother City, it is the largest city of the Western Cape province and forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6653 |
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. The team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, located on the city's North Side. The Cubs are one of two m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6654 |
Coldcut
Coldcut are an English electronic music duo composed of Matt Black and Jonathan More. Credited as pioneers for pop sampling in the 1980s, Coldcut are also considered the first stars of UK electronic dance music due to their innovative style, which featured cut-up samples of hip-hop, soul, funk, spoken word and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6655 |
Cuisine
A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region. Regional food preparation traditions, customs and ingredients often combine to create dishes unique to a particular region.
A cuisine is primari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6656 |
Codec
A codec is a device or computer program which encodes or decodes a digital data stream or signal. "Codec" is a portmanteau of "coder-decoder".
A coder encodes a data stream or a signal for transmission or storage, possibly in encrypted form, and the decoder function reverses the encoding for playback or editing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6660 |
Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt. At the time of discovery, Pluto was considered a planet but was later reclassified as a dwarf planet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6663 |
CPAN
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of over 250,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 39,000 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 12,000 contributors. "CPAN" can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6667 |
Colorado Rockies
The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The team plays its home baseball games at Coors Field, which is located in the Lower Downtown area o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6669 |
Cement
A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together. Cement mixed with fine aggregate produces mortar for masonry, or with sand and gravel, prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6670 |
Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. They were a charter member of the American Association in 1882 and joined the NL in 1890.
The Reds played... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6671 |
Caribbean cuisine
Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of African, Creole, Cajun, Amerindian, European, Latin American, Indian/South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Chinese. These traditions were brought from many different countries when they came to the Caribbean. In addition, the population has created styles that are unique t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6672 |
Central Powers
The Central Powers, also Central Empires (; ; / ; ), consisting of Germany, , the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria – hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance ()—was one of the two main coalitions that fought World War I (1914–18).
It faced and was defeated by the Allied Powers that had formed around the T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6673 |
Conservatism
Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization. The central tenets of conservatism include tradition, organic society, hierarchy, authority, and property rights. Conservatives seek to preserve a range of institutions s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6675 |
Classical liberalism
Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism which advocates civil liberties under the rule of law with an emphasis on economic freedom. Closely related to economic liberalism, it developed in the early 19th century, building on ideas from the previous century as a respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6677 |
Cat
The cat ("Felis catus") is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is often referred to as the domestic cat to distinguish it from the wild members of the family. A cat can either be a house cat, a farm cat or a feral cat; the latter ranges free... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6678 |
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